Whether it was Xiang Nanrong's embarrassment or her inner dissatisfaction, the person closest to Tanzhou seemed not to notice it at all.

As soon as the four little ones left, the two of them added firewood when they needed to and water when they needed to add water, ignoring the living people in front of them.

Although Yang Taohua and the others not far away did not ignore her, they were busy picking up and eating meatballs and could not pay attention to her for a while.

Xiang Nanrong stood there in embarrassment, biting her lip, and her eyes glanced at Zhou Haoran who was closest to her from time to time.

After a while, she saw that Zhou Haoran was finally done with what he was doing, so she grabbed the corner of her clothes and stepped forward to say hello:

"Hello, I am Xiang Nanrong, an educated youth from Xiahe Village. I am also a health worker at the Peace Brigade Health Clinic. I heard that you are also an educated youth who went to the countryside to support rural construction. I -"

"Lao Zhou, when you bring the food back to your sister-in-law later, take me with you!"

Xiang Nanrong was interrupted again, this time by Tan Zhengping, who had retired after a successful career.

As soon as his stove was taken over and used to stir up trouble, people gathered in front of Zhou Haoran.

"It's enough for me to go back alone."

Zhou Haoran opened the lid of the pot and looked at the pork bone soup inside. Seeing that it was almost done, he shouted to Yang Lihua who was organizing washing and chopping vegetables at the other end of the open space:

"Sister-in-law Lihua, the bone soup is almost done, now it's time to add the tofu!"

When Yang Lihua heard the sound, she stood up and walked over quickly. When she passed by Xiang Nanrong, she rolled her eyes, then walked to Zhou Haoran and looked into the pot.

"Let me see."

She took the large spoon handed by Zhou Haoran and stirred the soup in the pot.

Several long, thick, broken pig bones were turned up from the bottom of the pot, and from time to time, two pieces of knife-head meat could be seen.

"It's almost done. You two go with me to bring the tofu."

Yang Lihua was about to leave as she spoke, but stopped when she saw Xiang Nanrong out of the corner of her eye.

She glanced at the people who came to the village empty-handed to eat, and casually called an aunt who was washing vegetables to come over and guard the stove, and then led Zhou Tan and the two of them to her home.

Knowing that pigs would be killed and eaten with pig vegetables today, the village opened the warehouse door the night before and brought beans to soak.

Before dawn, the tofu grinders were busy at Zhou's house.

Yang Lihua estimated the time, go now, the tofu should be pressed.

Watching the few people leave, and facing Aunt Shou Tang's wary gaze, Xiang Nanrong's face looked ugly.

She never imagined that she, an educated youth who went to the countryside, would be treated like a thief in a small and poor mountain village like Shanjiao Village.

It’s as if she is really greedy for that pot of soup!

At this time, the north wind blows, and the rich and fragrant smell of pork bone soup hits your nostrils.

Xiang Nanrong couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

Although...but this soup is so delicious!

After more than two hours of busy work, near noon, the pig-killing vegetables in Shanjiao Village were finally ready.

Let’s not talk about other dishes. I just made the oil fruit for the first time this year, and it was loved by all the children in the village.

Because it is made with precious glutinous rice flour, rice flour, white sugar, and brown sugar, and it takes a lot of lard to fry, the quantity is not large.

When the food was served, Carambola distributed the oil fruits to everyone present very fairly and impartially.

Shen Shiqi sat on Zhou Haoran's left hand side and received 3 oil fruits.

He only ate one and put the remaining two in his cotton coat pocket.

Zhou Haoran saw it and asked him: "Seventeen, don't you like to eat?"

He saw that Shen August was already taking his second pill, and he was a little curious.

Shen Shiqi shook his head: "Mom and aunt don't have anything to eat at home, so I'll keep it and take it back to them."

Shen August, who was sitting on Zhou Haoran's right hand, had just finished the second one and was about to eat the last one. When he heard his brother's words, he reluctantly put the fruit in his pocket into his pocket.

"I want to keep it in August and feed it to my brother when I go home!"

Zhou Haoran remembered the dishes that Lihua Sister-in-law asked him to bring home before the banquet. He smiled and shook his head, "No need to keep them, you can eat them yourself. My uncle who talked to you at home has already sent them back."

At another table not far away, Xiang Nanrong heard the entire conversation between the three of them.

She was a little absent-minded, and she came to her senses after being pushed by Xu Caixia.

"Xiang Zhiqing, why don't you eat it? Is it not to your taste?" Xu Caixia asked.

Xiang Nanrong felt everyone at the table looking at her, lowered her head and rolled her eyes.

I really don’t know if this Xu Caixia is stupid or bad!

By saying this, aren't you offending people in Shanjiao Village?

She cursed a few times, adjusted her expression, then raised her head and smiled: "No, no, it's so rich. I...I don't even know where to stretch out my chopsticks."

"Oh," Xu Caixia responded, holding the chopsticks in her hands and mouth, and said vaguely: "Eat quickly, you have to divide the meat when you are full!"

"Split the meat?!"

Xiang Nanrong exclaimed. She only came here in July last year and had no idea that educated youths could share meat with commune members.

The old educated youths in the same production team didn't say anything either.

Xu Caixia hummed and said with a satisfied smile:

"Captain Zhou said that since we educated youths have settled in Shanjiao Village, we will become villagers. We will share our meat according to work points later. I hope that we can give more fat to me and Xiao Chang!"

Jealousy flashed across Xiang Nanrong's eyes.

Why! Why! Why!

Over there, Xu Caixia continued to talk: "It would be great if Tan Educated Youth could come with us. With the meat shared by the three of us, we can add a hard dish to this year's New Year's Eve dinner."

Hearing her mention Tan Zhengping, Xiang Nanrong suppressed her dissatisfaction and asked:

"Why, won't Tan Zhiqing join the gang with you two? I don't think he can cook."

The words were said casually, and Xu Caixia thought she was just curious, so she answered loudly:

"Tan Zhiqing goes to Zhou Zhiqing's house to eat most of the time. Zhou Zhiqing always asks people to bring him delicious food, so we don't go together."

"They have such a good relationship..."

"That's not the case! I heard that they grew up in the same compound, but Zhou Zhiqing's family was in good condition - wu wu wu -"

As soon as Xu Caixia started talking, a large piece of stewed radish was stuffed into her mouth.

She finally swallowed it and looked at the instigator with a blushing face.

Under her glare, Chang Ping glanced at Xiang Nanrong meaningfully and said in a low voice: "Stop talking, or you won't be able to eat good food if you don't."

Xu Caixia finally focused on the table, her eyes widening.

Good guy, just say a few words, and all the meat on the table is gone!

She looked under the table, and sure enough—

Except for the three female educated youths, everyone else on the table had a small bowl next to their stool.

There are more or less pieces of meat in each bowl, mostly fatty meat.
Chapter completed!