Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 88 - 0088: Visiting War Comrade 4_1

Chapter 88: Chapter 0088: Visiting War Comrade 4_1

After visiting local and city friends, as well as comrades in neighboring counties, and picking up their photos from the photo studio, Lu Jiang’s twenty-day leave was coming to an end.

Protecting the nation was a soldier’s duty. No matter how much he wanted to stay, Lu Jiang could not linger at home.

As he was busily packing and saying goodbye to his friends and family, Feng Qingxue was also preparing her gifts for him.

She had occasionally spent time with Lu Jiang, cultivating their feelings, visiting nearby comrades and friends, but most of the time, she stayed at home, working overtime to knit him sweaters and trousers. The wool she used was the blue yarn that Lu Jiang had bought for her.

Lu Jiang was tall and sturdy, and four pounds of wool were not enough for him.

Feng Qingxue stealthily rummaged through the space and finally found almost identical wool in terms of color and texture. She added another pound.

Apart from the sweaters and trousers, considering that soldiers were often exposed to sun and wind during training, she also made him a sheepskin shoulder pad, two pairs of sheepskin knee pads, and two pairs of sheepskin wristbands. The surface was military green khaki cloth. She didn’t have enough time to make the cotton shoes and would have to send them once she finished. Lu Jiang had already given her his contact address.

She remembered Wang Zhengguo mentioning that Lu Jiang would need ten days just to take the train. Even though military personnel had priority and better treatment, Feng Qingxue still worried about his meals on the road and started preparations three days before his departure.

She pretended to go out in front of her sister and brought back many items. Using the coarse flour she brought back, she made a large basin of dough. She used the small crucian carp, white bait and other small fish she brought back and kept in space after processing. She washed them clean, marinated them with salt and five-spice powder, then coated them with dough. She borrowed an iron griddle and iron pot from the production team and quietly fried pancakes and fish.

The fried pancakes were stacked and wrapped in a clean white cotton cloth, and the fried small fish were put into two cleaned Malt essence jars.

Feng Qingxue left a few pancakes and a bowl of fried fish for her sister. "I’m giving the rest to Brother Lu to eat on the road. Later, I’ll get an iron pot and we can fry and eat it fresh. Is that okay?"

"Sister, just give them all to Brother Lu. We have so many delicious things at home that I can’t finish eating." Feng Qingyun said sensibly.

"That’s okay, keep them and eat slowly."

Feng Qingxue used almost half the pot of soybean oil to deep fry the small salty fish until they turned golden and were wonderfully crispy. It was a mouthful of fragrance when eaten wrapped in the fried pancake, a true delicacy.

Feng Qingyun thought it tasted much better than the Malt essence cake.

The only regret was that it was not stored in a sealed jar. By the next day, it had softened and did not taste as good as fresh out the pot.

Before dawn on the day of departure, Feng Qingxue cooked twenty chicken eggs and thirty salted duck eggs, peanuts and broad beans each filled two cloth bags. With other readily carried foods, she packed a large parcel of food and another large parcel of clothing. When Wang Zhengguo came to pick her up to see off Lu Jiang, he could not help blinking at the weighty parcels.

Even though he didn’t know what was in the parcels, he could tell they were heavily packed.

Feng Qingyun also came along. When she saw Lu Jiang and his father, she raised an innocent smile. "Brother-in-law, sister has made you lots of delicious food and clothes!"

Lu Jiang’s father and Lu Jiang could clearly see that. The former felt happy for his son, and the latter gave Feng Qingxue a gentle look.

"Qingxue, you’ve put in a lot of effort."

Feng Qingxue felt a little embarrassed, "It wasn’t much trouble. All the food is in the parcel. Don’t neglect yourself on the road, eat the perishable food first, and add clothes when it’s cold."