A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 261 A sumptuous dinner

Li Xiang has long been accustomed to collective interests being greater than personal interests.

To him, it is just that the unit that benefits from him has changed from the previous school to the current GZW.

If there were no such benefits, why would everyone compete for you in the first place.

So even though he knew how many of those smiling faces were driven by profit, his attitude remained the same as before.

After exiting the gate and riding away from the unit for a long time, Sun Guoqing finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Although the conditions here are better, I still feel more comfortable staying at the factory."

"Where are you now? Isn't it too early to get used to it now?" Li Xiang replied with a smile.

"Hundreds of pairs of eyes stare at you every day as if they were staring at Tang Monk's flesh. Don't you feel uncomfortable?" Sun Guoqing didn't believe that he was as calm as he appeared.

"What's so uncomfortable? It won't really eat us." Li Xiang didn't care about this.

Seeing that he really thought so, Sun Guoqing had to be convinced.

The two of them chatted all the way, talking about big and small things in Beijing.

The nearly one-hour journey passed quietly while chatting.

They made a lot of noise when they came back. They pushed their bicycles all the way back home and were greeted by neighbors.

It has been snowing lightly since the afternoon, and by this time in the evening, the yard was already covered with a layer of snow.

When he came back, Li Xiang was still thinking that he might not be able to watch TV at night, but it was good, the family could finally have a peaceful dinner.

After putting the car away, Li Xiang and Sun Guoqing entered the house.

Li Xiang was a little surprised by Qiu Fanghua sitting in the room.

It's dark outside, why is she still here at this hour?

That's right, Qiu Fanghua, a smart girl, is here to block him.

Since Li Xiang's unit doesn't allow anyone to enter casually, he will definitely want to go back to that place.

She is now the same as Little Brother Li. She is alone and has a lot of time.

So she would come to visit the Li family every once in a while. Mother Li liked her and naturally welcomed her visit with both hands.

The situation of leaving food is not just once or twice.

Especially today, when she heard from Li's mother that Li Xiang might come back, she made up her mind to wait.

No, she finally waited.

When she got home later, she wanted to ask this "liar", as they agreed to do it every three days.

Li Xiang had to endure the torture in the girl's eyes while also accepting the teasing eyes from his friends.

Not feeling guilty, he touched his nose and could only smile awkwardly.

Fortunately, Li's mother came in from the kitchen with food at this time, which invisibly saved Li Xiang.

"Hey, National Day is here too, so I'll add another dish." Mother Li didn't have the chance to feel the embarrassment in the room. Seeing one more person, her first reaction was to add another dish.

"Auntie, my family is not that particular. You are welcome. These dishes are enough to eat." Sun Guoqing pointed to the four dishes and one soup on the table and said.

Today, I expected my eldest son to come back, and Qiu Fanghua was left to eat.

The dishes prepared by Mother Li were quite tough.

Braised pork trotters, braised vermicelli with pickled cabbage and minced meat, sweet and sour poached eggs, vinegar cabbage, and old hen soup.

So what Sun Guoqing said was not a polite word, but he really felt that it was enough.

Even though Sun Guoqing held her back, Mother Li didn't force her. In fact, there wasn't much food left in the kitchen.

If you really want to add vegetables, you just need to dip some pickles in the oil.

When it was served, you could tell at first glance that it was a waste of money. The food from the family was incomparable to what was on the table. The eldest sister followed from the kitchen carrying dishes and chopsticks, feeling relieved again.

I have to say that Mother Li has always had good luck in being polite.

He always said kind words when the kitchen was running out of food and ammunition, but he was never beaten.

At this time, Li Xiaodi, who was making snowmen with his friends outside, also returned home.

Dinner started accordingly.

Mother Li first served a bowl of chicken soup to each of the children on the table.

It's different from stewing chicken soup in the past. At that time, a quarter of the chicken pieces had to be poured into a pot full of water before it was felt to be wasted.

The chicken soup stewed in this way smelled fragrant, but the taste of meat in the mouth was a bit different. My eldest sister remembered that the old lady still disliked the bland soup.

But today's chicken soup is really fragrant.

There is a layer of chicken fat floating on top, which even makes you feel a little bit drunk when you drink it.

This is an old hen specially collected by my uncle's family in the countryside.

If it weren't for the extra money, people would be reluctant to sell the old hens that were laying eggs.

Originally, the uncle's family wanted to send their adopted baby over, but Mother Li said nothing at this time.

During the New Year, I occasionally give one as a gift to each other, and accept it as it is.

But this family needs a few of them every month, so it would be outrageous to reach out.

Finally, after some hard talking, I managed to get through to the uncle's family and let them help collect one or two.

With this amount, the Li family and the teacher can eat it equally, which can be regarded as a toothpaste every month.

At the dinner table, not only was the chicken soup popular, it also received repeated praise from the children.

Everyone also likes the braised pig's trotters. Pig's trotters are back-door meat, so don't worry about saying hello in advance. You won't be able to buy them.

On weekdays, these are at the vegetable market, and when the pork is being divided at the back, their destinations have already been decided. Pork liver and ribs are sent to hospitals and kindergartens. There are also good meats that are requested by major related households. Once they are divided, the stalls can There is not much meat left to sell.

Except for the slightly plentiful supply of pork during the Chinese New Year, what ordinary people can buy at meat stalls are mostly pork belly, pig intestines and large bones without meat, and pure meat only accounts for a small proportion of them.

Even though Sun Guoqing and Qiu Fanghua are both brothers from the big courtyard.

They might be able to eat meat every two days, but if they weren't injured or sick, they wouldn't have a chance to eat the pig's feet.

That Li's mother could get this was somewhat beyond Li Xiang's expectation.

"Mom, your relationship in Corey is so tight now, you can even get pig's feet."

"What? If our purchasing department had such hard goods, it would be my turn. Your sister brought this back." Mother Li picked up a piece of tender meat from the fish belly and gave it to her eldest sister, smiling. replied.

The eldest sister accepted the inquiries from others and explained calmly: "The meat seller in the vegetable market, his wife gave birth to a baby two days ago. There was some trouble at that time. He is still living in the ward and I have been taking care of him. This is what he insisted on giving this morning, even if I don’t want it.”

"Our eldest sister has become promising." Mother Li added happily after she finished speaking.

Now she finally realized what it felt like to have someone in the hospital.

She said that the food market still depends on her daughter's relationship to make money.

Although the eldest son is not bad, it is a pity that his influence does not reach the market.

It seems that in Li's mother's heart, the place where Li wants to be compared with her sister has dropped a little bit invisibly.

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