The sun had not yet completely set when Yu You got home.
There was only one large iron pot at home, so cooking was naturally much slower. Yu You poured half of the two and a half kilograms of rice into the pot and steamed the rice first.
After the rice is cooked, put it in a bowl and scoop out the rice crust on the side to give to the children as a snack.
Then I added water and put the steamer in. I beat ten eggs into the basin, added water and salt, and steamed a large bowl of egg custard.
After the egg custard is steamed, add chopped wild vegetables and green onions into the pot, then add dumplings, egg liquid and salt, and you will have a big pot of dumpling soup.
Qin Zhiheng also came back from outside and called Wang Youqi over.
Qin Zhiheng usually doesn't ask Wang Youqi to come back for dinner.
But recently, Wang Youqi had eaten all the spring rations he had been given. Qin Zhiheng treated Wang Youqi like his own brother, so he naturally couldn't bear to see him starve. When he came back from the black market, he went to call him.
Wang Youqi was 24 years old, only one year younger than Qin Zhiheng. His father was a direct subordinate of Qin Zhiheng's father. The two families were old friends.
After the Qin family was sent down to the countryside, the Wang family was also sent away for reform. Wang Youqi was able to escape this fate thanks to his father's foresight in sending him to the countryside early.
When Wang Youqi first arrived, he brought plenty of cash. He was also a man of honor, and the Qin family's valuables, including pots, pans, kitchen knives, and other valuable items, were all acquired by Wang Youqi.
But no matter how much money he had, it wouldn't last long and would eventually be spent. Wang Youqi gradually began to live a life where he could only eat half his fill.
The simple table in the yard was filled with rice.
Grandma Zhang Shuying, Qin Wei, Wang Yuerong, four younger generations, plus An An and Ning Ning.
Yu You served nine bowls.
"Brother Qin, there is rice!"
Wang Youqi was close to the Qin family, so Yu You naturally recognized him and had a good impression of him.
"Hey, Youqi is here! Thank you for speaking up for me regarding the incident with Yao Zhiqing earlier."
Wang Youqi scratched his head. Yu You looked down on Qin Zhiheng, and also looked down on Qin Zhiheng's friends.
Whenever he came here in the past, Yu You would never talk to him.
"We are all family, so of course I have to help my sister-in-law."
Qin Zhiheng hadn't expected Yu You to be so generous today. The rice was clearly earned from making mung bean cakes with Yu You and his mother-in-law.
I was afraid that Yu You would be unhappy if I brought someone to eat. I explained, "I thought I was making porridge at home and You Qi was out of food, so I asked him to come over and have a bowl."
Yu You said cheerfully, "Then You Qi is in for a treat. Let's have a good meal today."
As he said this, he went to get another bowl and evenly distributed the rice, making ten bowls.
Qin Zhiheng breathed a sigh of relief.
Yu You is really different from before!
After everyone was seated, Yu You brought over a bowl of egg custard. It was bright yellow, smooth, and tender, and looked very pretty.
Yu You picked up the cooking spoon and scooped a spoonful into everyone's rice bowl.
"There's still some dumpling soup in the pot, but we don't have enough bowls. Help yourself after you finish your rice."
"Also, there's also dumpling soup? Sister-in-law, is it white flour dumplings?"
Qin Zhidong asked uncertainly. He was a teenager and more greedy than others.
"Yeah, white dough, I even put a frangipani in it."
"Thank you, sister-in-law! Grandma Qin, Uncle Qin, Auntie, please eat!"
Wang Youqi urged, his mouth already watering just by watching. Only after the elders had eaten could he, the guest, pick up his chopsticks.
Zhang Shuying smiled and took a mouthful of egg custard and put it in her mouth: "Okay, eat it, eat it quickly!"
It smells so good!
Yu You watched the two children holding the chopsticks steadily and shoveling rice and egg custard into their mouths, and then he began to eat with big mouthfuls.
With its mouth full and cheeks puffed out, it reminds one of a pufferfish in the water.
Qin Zhiheng asked, "Is the profit from mung bean cakes very high? Can you earn so much food?"
Yu You nodded: "It's a planned economy now, so food is in short supply and easy to sell, so it's easy to make a profit from the price difference."
Then he sighed, "I've even heard that some people are taking all their gold and antiques out to exchange for grain. What a shame! These are all valuable things, and even hundreds or thousands of grains of grain might not be enough to buy them back."
Qin Zhiheng asked again: "Do you like gold and antiques?"
Yu You looked at him like a fool. It was all money, who wouldn't like it?
"Who doesn't like gold antiques? I wish I could sleep with a big gold brick every day!"
At the dinner table, they were the only ones chatting away. The rest of the group had already finished their rice and were drinking their dumpling soup.
Qin Zhiheng silently kept it in mind and decided to collect more gold antiques if he had the chance in the future.
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