Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 110 - 0110: Returning to the Black Market2_1

First, she would surely go to Wang Zhenguo’s home.

Wang Zhenguo’s kindness towards his niece remained unchanged. Miao Fengqin, unaware that her daughter had threatened Feng Qingxue, welcomed her warmly.

As for Wang Jiao, because she hadn’t accomplished her goal and was chased out by Feng Qingxue, then scolded by her father, she resented Feng Qingxue very much. When she heard that she had come, she immediately slammed the door and went into her bedroom, refusing to show her face.

"This child!" Miao Fengqin felt somewhat embarrassed.

She thought that her daughter wanted to marry Lu Jiang, so she didn’t put on a pleasant face when she saw Feng Qingxue, who was engaged to Lu Jiang.

Feng Qingxue didn’t care about Wang Jiao’s attitude at all. She handed the meat to Miao Fengqin and laughed, "Sister-in-law, this meat is wild boar meat sent by Ajiang specially for you and Uncle to enjoy for the New Year."

Miao Fengqin paused, "Oh? Sent by Lu Jiang? Why so polite?" In the past, Lu Jiang hadn’t sent any meat to his father.

Looking at this, Lu Jiang really cared for Feng Qingxue.

Wang Zhenguo was very pleased, "Since Lu Jiang sent it to you, you keep it and eat it yourself."

"Uncle, I kept a piece. This one is for you, everyone should try its flavour."

Wang Zhenguo, hearing this, did not decline. He turned to his wife and said, "I’ll go to the cellar to get some radishes and potatoes for Xiaoxue to take home. She and her sister don’t have any winter vegetables."

Miao Fengqin nodded, "Alright, give Xiaoxue two cabbages as well." After all, Feng Qingxue couldn’t carry much on her own.

"I have to take some to my second and third uncles and my aunt." Feng Qingxue quickly declined.

"Well, when you’re back from delivering that, then take it." Wang Zhenguo made the decision.

The return gifts from the homes of the second and third uncles and the aunt were also winter vegetables, if not cabbage and radish, then potatoes, dried garlic greens, sweet potatoes. Her aunt also gave her a jar of pickles. Added all together from the four houses, she had a full four large baskets of vegetables. Wang Zhenguo simply drove the oxcart to send her back.

It was nearly noon by this point, and as soon as Feng Qingxue got home, she took off her military coat, tied on an apron, and began to cook.

Only then, did Wang Zhenguo noticed that this home really looked like a home. The tables, chairs, beds, and cabinets, although not new, were all patched together with good wood and were cleaned spotlessly with no traces of oil stains or dirt. In the eastern bedroom, the bedding was neatly stacked on the bed, and between the north and south walls a hemp rope was stretched to dry clean clothes and socks.

Turning and walking into the west room, Wang Zhenguo found that in addition to the stove and firewood, there was a water vat, a wooden bucket, a cupboard, a washbasin, a metal hot plate leant against the corner of the wall, and on the table a cutting board, a vegetable knife, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar jars. Several small bamboo baskets and bowls contained sliced cabbage, shredded radish, shredded potatoes, garlic greens and ginger, garlic cloves, and chili pieces. Beside there were also two large bowls, one with four or five beaten eggs, and the other with sliced cured meat.

Wang Zhenguo hastened to sit on the cushion in front of the stove and helped out with the cooking, noticing that charcoal was burning at the bottom of the stove.

"Where did the charcoal come from?" Wang Zhenguo asked.

While scooping a piece of lard into the pot, Feng Qingxue replied, "Yunyun and I didn’t prepare firewood in advance, so we asked Ajiang’s comrade-in-arms to get us some coal to survive the winter."

Wang Zhenguo hummed in agreement, without the slightest doubt.

After the lard had melted, Feng Qingxue poured the potato shreds, ginger, and chili pieces into the pot and stir-fried them.

Next in turn were radish shreds, scrambled eggs with garlic greens, and finally cabbage stir-fried with cured meat, which was the wild boar meat cooked the day before.

The meal was sweet potato porridge, and the main food was mixed grain pancakes.