Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 181 - 0181 Meeting with the Leader 1_1

However, before seeing Lu Jiang, she had given the rice, flour, red dates, longans, and other items she brought to the kitchen, asking the cook to separately prepare a pot of red date and longan porridge and a few pancakes for Lu Jiang. She would come to collect them in the evening.

The wording remained the same - supplies were scanty and the cafeteria was only providing meals at noon and in the afternoon.

The cook was initially idle. Learning that the meals were for the injured soldier and that the ingredients were provided by Feng Qingxue, not drawing from the cafeteria’s food reserves, he agreed at once without any objections.

Feng Qingxue had a chat with Lu Jiang, and then went to the cafeteria to collect the meals, paying a fee of twenty cents for their preparation.

Two dishes were served in two aluminum lunch boxes. The pancakes could be placed on the tray, but the porridge could not be accommodated. The cook thus suggested: "Miss, if you leave fifty cents here as collateral, you can take the entire pot away. Just return it once you’ve finished eating!"

"Alright then, thank you, master."

Feng Qingxue left fifty cents as collateral and carried the food on the tray back to the ward.

"Did sister-in-law come back? Then I won’t distract you two anymore." Niu Yibao had just helped Lu Jiang with his needs. With a naive smile, he was about to leave, as Ouyang Zijin had ordered before leaving, that they two absolutely shouldn’t be disturbed.

Feng Qingxue placed the tray on the bedside table, hastily asking, "Wait, Comrade Niu, where’s your lunch box?"

Niu Yibao was stunned, not understanding her meaning.

"Go get your lunch box, quickly. I asked the cook to make plenty of food, more than what the two of us can eat. With such hot weather, if left overnight, it’ll definitely go bad by tomorrow morning."

"How could I do that? Sister-in-law? You’ve specially prepared food for the regiment leader, I can’t take advantage."

"Forget this saying about special treatment or not. Everyone here deserves three square meals a day. You guys train hard and should eat well to make up for it. I brought my own food and asked the cook to prepare it. Already accounting for three people’s portion, go get your lunch box quickly."

Niu Yibao stood motionless, as a poor man who had only joined the army because he couldn’t afford to eat, no one understood the preciousness of food more than him.

Although he didn’t know what was in the pot, but the sweet aroma stimulating his nostrils was as if ants were gnawing at his heart.

Seeing Feng Qingxue frowning, Lu Jiang felt extremely distressed, though he could not get off the bed to smooth out her furrowed eyebrows. He ordered, "Niu Yibao, stand at attention, turn around, go fetch your lunch box immediately, that’s an order!"

"Yes!" Niu Yibao reflexively took action. When he returned with his lunch box, he was even startled, seeming somewhat at a loss.

Seeing this, Feng Qingxue couldn’t help but laugh aloud. She scooped several large spoonfuls of porridge into his lunch box, handed him two pancakes as large as a grown man’s face, and was pointing at the dishes in the lunch box on the bedside table. "Eat here, no need to stand on ceremony since we’re all family. When the porridge is finished, I will scoop more for you. I made a whole pot, it’s enough. Let me feed the regiment leader first."

Niu Yibao’s eyes were a bit moist. He murmured, "Thank you, sister-in-law!"

However, while Feng Qingxue was feeding Lu Jiang, he didn’t move his chopsticks. After Lu Jiang had finished eating and the porridge had cooled, only then when Feng Qingxue picked up her chopsticks did he gulp down the porridge and devour the pancakes, paired with the stir-fried black fungus and cold seaweed salad from his lunch box.

Never before had a meal tasted so sweet and delicious to him.