Everyone was busy and thought she was just shy. Even Li Lai Di didn't notice anything wrong.
This family compound has been built for several years. The number of rural military wives and urban military wives is almost the same. Most of the urban military wives have jobs, and there are also military wives who are more elegant than Su Meng. So Li Lai Di only thinks that Su Meng has a good temperament, but there is nothing unusual about him.
Li Pandi has always lived in the countryside, and her parents favor boys over girls.
Qi Mengmeng is about the same age as her. Not only is she educated, but she also has a father who is a group leader, and her husband is the deputy group leader, and he is especially good to her.
Although Su Meng's husband is only the deputy battalion commander, she is a city dweller and has her own job.
Li Pandi couldn't control her sadness. She kept her head down while working. The sadness in her eyes grew more and more, and she was almost crying.
At this time, a few more military wives came over, and Qi Mengmeng stepped forward to greet everyone.
Every military wife brought some things with her, and none of them brought their children.
Nowadays, every household has several children. If you add the grown-up boys, the parents will go bankrupt. If everyone brings their children to the house, the family that invites guests will probably be left with nothing.
Gu Guizhi told Qi Mengmeng about this in advance, so Qi Mengmeng steamed some sugar buns when steaming buns. She wrapped brown sugar with white flour and steamed them into a triangular shape.
Li Laidie was shocked when she saw it. How much white flour and brown sugar were needed?
Qi Mengmeng discussed with Gu Guizhi and decided to give two sugar triangles to each family, and she would steam the ones a little bigger so that she wouldn't be stingy.
She put the sugar triangles and steamed buns separately. A military wife saw it and asked casually. Qi Mengmeng told them her plan. They looked at each other. The city military wife didn't expect Qi Mengmeng to be so thoughtful, while the rural military wife felt that the children at home were in for a treat.
For a moment, everyone was very motivated to work.
When Gu Guizhi and the others got off work, Qi Mengmeng had just finished cooking the last dish.
"It smells so good, sister-in-law, what delicious food did you make?" Li Zhuang was more familiar with Qi Mengmeng. He took a deep breath and asked with a smile.
"They are just some home-cooked dishes. Feel free to take a seat." Qi Mengmeng invited everyone to sit down.
Today we had two tables. The men set up one table in the main house, and the women set up one table in the kitchen. The table was borrowed from Xu Daming's house.
Qi Mengmeng cooks all the dishes in large portions, just enough for two tables.
The women came early and knew about today's meal, but the men looked at the food on the table. Some of them swallowed their saliva and whispered, "After we finish this meal, will Deputy Tuan's family have any food to eat this month?"
Gu Guizhi acted as if he didn't hear anything and asked everyone to sit down and eat.
Qi Mengmeng served each person a bowl of rice, placed a basin of rice next to it, and brought over a blanket of steamed buns. She smiled and told everyone to make sure they ate their fill.
Everyone who came today is on good terms with Gu Guizhi. Only Li Zhuang and Jiang Shan have met Qi Mengmeng. They didn't expect Qi Mengmeng to be so generous. Not only did she prepare so many meat dishes, but she also prepared so much dry food. It seems that everyone can eat to their heart's content today.
Gu Guizhi also greeted everyone: "We are all brothers, don't be polite."
Seeing them start to eat, Qi Mengmeng nodded at them and went back to the kitchen.
Everyone saw Qi Mengmeng coming back and asked her to sit down. After she started eating, everyone started to pick up their food.
At the beginning, everyone was quite reserved, but soon, everyone started picking up food faster. For a while, no one spoke at the table, everyone was just busy picking up food.
Meat tickets were hard to come by at that time, and even the head of the regiment’s family would not eat meat every day. There were so many meat dishes on the table, it was no wonder that everyone just ate and didn’t talk.
Seeing that everyone had almost finished eating, Qi Mengmeng invited everyone to have some soup.
Just now everyone's chopsticks were directed towards the meat and fish, and not many people wanted to drink the fish head and tofu soup. Now everyone has almost finished eating, and everyone was served a bowl of tofu soup.
"This soup tastes good. Tell us how to make it. We'll do the same next time we have fish heads." Sun Cuihua, the wife of the battalion commander of the second battalion, smacked her lips.
Someone asked Qi Mengmeng how she did it, and Qi Mengmeng did not hide it and told them the method.
When everyone heard that the fish head had to be fried in oil and added with wine, they all said that it was no wonder that it tasted so good.
Qi Mengmeng smiled and said that the fish head didn’t have to be fried, but she was afraid that it would have some fishy smell.
This dispelled the thoughts of most people. Tofu is also a good thing. It is not worth it to spoil the tofu just for fish head which is not often eaten.
"Actually, it doesn't have to be that troublesome. When stewing the fish, you can just stew the fish head together with it, and then add some vegetables. It will be easier." Seeing that no one was talking, Sun Cuihua quickly tried to smooth things over.
Qi Mengmeng smiled and said, "Sister-in-law Sun is right. I have a lot of fish heads, so I made a dish."
The others were guests, and they all nodded and said yes when they heard this.
In addition to Qi Mengmeng, Su Meng also met these military wives for the first time. Some of them asked about Su Meng's work curiously, and when they learned that she worked in a department store, their attitude towards her visibly improved.
Everyone was hoping that Su Meng could help them buy some defective products.
No matter what everyone said, Su Meng just smiled and didn't promise anything.
There were many people here today, and everyone wanted to find Su Meng in private, so no one said anything bad openly.
Sun Cuihua looked at Li Pandidi again and signaled Li Laidi with her eyes.
Li Lai Di patted Li Pan Di's shoulder and said with a smile, "This is my sister from my mother's family. She just came back from her hometown. She is very good at housework. This time she came, I wanted to keep her here to accompany me more."
Although she didn't say it explicitly, everyone understood what she meant, which was to ask everyone to find a partner for Li Pandi in the military camp.
Li Pandi blushed, and Sun Cuihua asked with a smile: "Sister Pandi, do you want me to find a partner for you? Do you have any ideas?"
Li Pandi's face turned even redder, and she lowered her head and said embarrassedly, "I, I'll go out for a while."
Li Lai Di waited until Li Pan Di left before she sighed and said, "Although my sister is capable, she also suffered a lot in the past. I just hope that she can live a better life in the future."
Those who are smart enough will know that Li Lai Di wants to find a partner with better conditions for the girl.
But Li Pandi was a rural girl and not particularly pretty, so it was not easy for her to find a partner with better conditions.
Fortunately, Li Lai Di was just letting the topic slip and didn't continue, so everyone changed the topic.
Qi Mengmeng listened to them talking with a smile, and also learned a lot of gossip in the family compound.
The men at the table enjoyed their meal even more, eating up all the dishes, rice and steamed buns.
It was completely dark. The dishes at the women's table were all washed clean before the men's table finished eating.
Qi Mengmeng gave each family two sugar triangles and sent everyone out. The men winked at Gu Guizhi, meaning that he had married a good wife.
While no one was paying attention, Sun Cuihua pulled Li Laidie aside and whispered something to her.
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