She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 853 - 794: Famine Era 35 (First Update)

Ma Lu and Liu Meng do not look alike, but those peach blossom eyes are so captivating. People thought that Ma Dongmei ran away with an entertainer back in the day, whose last name was Lu, hence named Ma Lu. Ma Lu’s eyes are particularly like that man’s, and he uses this advantage to fool around all day, flirting with women everywhere. As long as there’s money, he’s willing to do anything, and Ma Dongmei has no control over this son.

Ma Lu shouted several times, but Ma Dongmei ignored him. He snorted coldly, rummaged through the house, couldn’t find anything, cursed under his breath, and left.

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It was rare to visit Beijing, so they couldn’t leave just like that. The couple purposely went to Quanjude to eat duck. At that time, the roast duck tasted very good, unlike the later years when it became increasingly commercialized, and its quality could no longer match its price, to the extent that locals never went to Quanjude, only outsiders did. This is the critical point for its declining reputation.

After eating duck, they took away two more. These were for his comrades.

Then, the two of them went to the department store. Under Tong Zhan’s insistence, they bought Ye Huan clothes from head to toe, including underwear, thermal underwear, sweaters, wool pants, a woolen coat, and a red scarf. Whatever he saw and thought looked nice, he bought.

As for himself, he only bought underwear and socks because he wore a military uniform and work clothes all year round, so he didn’t plan on buying anything for himself.

How could Ye Huan feel okay about only buying for herself?

But Tong Zhan directly half-hugged, half-dragged her out of the department store.

"Honey, I really don’t need it, there’s no occasion to wear them, plus you know the nature of my previous job, haven’t I worn good clothes before? If I want to buy, we can afford it, but we wouldn’t use them at home. You’re different; at your age, you should dress up. If not now, then when, wait until you’re old? So if you want to wear nice clothes, do so; it’s okay, your man can afford it."

Ye Huan felt uneasy listening to him, looking at the big and small bags in their hands, feeling annoyed: "Starting to spoil me now?"

"Isn’t spoiling the wife what it’s all about? Well, we need to hurry up; if we’re late, we’ll miss the logistics car of the army."

"Will buying this many things make us criticized by people in the brigade?"

"Just put them in the bag when we go back, that’ll be enough."

Despite saying so, Ye Huan specifically bought a bag, and the two returned to the guesthouse to tidy up thoroughly.

Later, Tong Zhan carried two, and Ye Huan carried one, transferring on two buses to the suburbs, then took a wagon to the town. Seeing the time, they had already missed the army logistics car, so they asked a local to drive the wagon to take them back to the army.

The mountain road was tough, but they made it to the army before dark. They gave the local five hundred yuan (during times of inflation), and then returned to the army.

Since it was getting late, the couple didn’t announce their return, directly heading home.

Today is the fifth day of the New Year; tomorrow is the sixth. Ye Huan calculated the time.

"I’ll cook tomorrow night; you can invite people over. The roast duck is hanging in the hall, and it won’t spoil in this cold weather. Just heat it later, what do you think?"

"That sounds great, that’s what I was thinking too. Eating mom’s way of making rolled pancakes with dishes was delicious. Can you make it? We have roast duck; we can have it in rolls tomorrow, sounds unique."

"Sure, I can, but this can’t be the main dish, just count it as a dish; I’ll make it when the time comes. As for you, didn’t you buy cigarettes? You should go around to invite everyone, and check who’s around so I can arrange accordingly."

"Okay, I’ll first start the stove."

Since the house was empty, it was unbearably cold, making it impossible to sit, so they needed to start the stove and warm the room.

Tong Zhan started the stove, helped Ye Huan scrub the iron pot clean, poured in clean water, and took out the cigarettes bought in Beijing, not special ones, just ordinary ones, not expensive, but not everyone could afford to smoke them every day.

Since they were hosting a dinner tomorrow, they didn’t mean to give gifts but took a cigarette to visit, which counted for manners.

In the family courtyard, there were a total of ten households. Excluding their house, and Commander Cao who went back home, there were eight left. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

The brigade, in total, had six thousand people, with one regiment having 1500 people, making up four regiments, four regiment leaders, four political commissars, plus the brigade commander and political commissar. As for those qualified to stay with the troops, just these few. There’s no place for others to stay.

Therefore, this military base was far bigger than Ye Huan imagined. However, her range of activity was limited to the logistics department.

These eight households, counting both men and women, with children, summed up to over thirty people. With over thirty people, they would have to prepare for three or four tables, right?

Ye Huan calculated the number and found tomorrow’s task to be quite heavy.

In the evening, Tong Zhan came back, and told her the number. After calculating, they concluded they needed to prepare for the amount for thirty to forty people because soldiers could eat quite a lot.

"Then we need to buy some pork; just duck won’t work. Since we’re inviting them, we shouldn’t let them pick faults. Only it’s just past the New Year, is it easy to buy?"

"No worries, even if we can’t buy it, they won’t say anything. I already talked to the logistics department buyers and asked them to bring some meat and vegetables for us tomorrow, paid them the money, and tomorrow afternoon those sister-in-laws will come to help you."

He hadn’t planned on letting his wife cook for thirty to forty people alone.

The reason for choosing the evening was because they needed to drink. They couldn’t drink at noon since they had to work; drinking at night wouldn’t affect things.

Of course, the ones responsible for duty should not drink.

Although not sure whether they could buy good ingredients just past New Year’s, quantities had to be ensured.

So Ye Huan took advantage of the time cooking millet porridge to write a menu.