41. Women

Yu Junyan said goodbye to Su Yuheng, walked along the path alone and pondered how to deal with the gang of water thieves in his mind, and unconsciously walked to the kitchen, now that lunch time has passed, but it is not yet time to have dinner, it stands to reason that there should be no one in the kitchen at this time, but Yu Junyan clearly heard some movement inside, out of the vigilance of a soldier, Yu Junyan tiptoed over, and secretly looked into the kitchen through the gap in the window, it turned out to be Gu Liang's wife Sun moving the kitchen utensils in front of the stove, Finally, a bowl was taken out of the cupboard, and strangely enough, the bowl that came out of the cupboard was not empty, but contained something black that I don't know what it was.

Yu Junyan felt strange, and looked at the past, some of the black things in the bowl seemed to be red, and some were green, and then looked carefully, Yu Junyan knew that the bowl was filled with vegetables, a bowl of burnt vegetables.

It turns out that Sun is also a scholarly lady since childhood, although the family is not how wealthy, but also ten fingers do not touch the spring water, by the service of the next person to grow up, if you say piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, embroidery female workers, she thinks that although her ability is not very outstanding, but absolutely handy, but if you say that washing vegetables and cooking such heavy work, she is really a big girl on the sedan chair - the first time.

She came to Hongye Village with her husband to fight against bandits, and the cook was injured, so she thought that she was a woman, and she had no power to go into battle to kill the enemy to share her husband's worries, but some trivial things could still do her best, so when she learned that the cook was injured, she offered to cook for the soldiers. What Red Leaf Village lacks most now is manpower, and as soon as she said this, Gu Liang naturally agreed.

Mrs. Gu has been praised for being smart and clever since she was a child, and she thinks that although she has never done the thing of stir-frying and cooking, she should also be very studious. It's a pity that she forgot a key point, the cooks in the county government only cook for dozens of people in the house, but the cooks here have to cook for tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, and the pot used for stir-frying alone is several times larger than what she sees at home. I'm going to keep it for myself to eat,

Mrs. Gu picked up the chopsticks, pulled the black mass in the bowl and couldn't tell what it was, her eyebrows twisted into a dead pimple, and after several struggles in her heart, she finally put a black dish with chopsticks into her mouth, and swallowed the jujube without chewing twice.

At this moment, Yu Junyan heard footsteps coming more and more clearly, and his steps were frivolous, sounding like a person who didn't know martial arts. Yu Junyan watched the changes and hid behind the window without making a sound.

"Lady? Lady, are you there? It turned out that Gu Liang walked into the kitchen with a bowl, "Lady, I heard Xiaoxue say that you are in the kitchen, it turns out that you are really here." ”

Mrs. Gu was startled by the visitor, hurriedly turned her back to the stove, and hid the bowl with the burnt vegetables behind her.

"What are you doing?" Gu Liang wondered Mrs. Madama's panicked expression, "What is hiding behind you?" ”

"No, nothing." Mrs. Gu said with little confidence, "Xianggong, why are you here, is there anything wrong with me and me?" ”

"What's behind Madame? Show it to me. ”

"It's just...... It's just a bowl, nothing to see. ”

Gu Liang almost stood close to Mrs. Gu, and with his height advantage of being nearly a head taller than Mrs. Gu, he could easily see the burnt vegetables in the bowl behind her.

Gu Liang's face became very ugly for a moment, and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times before slowly squeezing out a few words from his mouth: "You...... Just eat this? ”

Mrs. Gu lowered her head, and said in a non-positive manner: "Those are all fried by me, I know that there is a shortage of food now, and it would be a pity to throw them away, so, so ......"

Gu conscience is sour, he and Mrs. Gu are childhood sweethearts who grew up together, and when they married her, they knelt in front of her mother's grave and swore that they would gain fame and fame, enter the court as an official, and let her live a good life. But when he really raised people to the court as officials in high school, Gu Liang found that being an official was far from being as simple as he imagined to be an official and to be honest and petition for the people. Because he was unwilling to form a party with the officials of the DPRK and China, he was squeezed out, and because he refused to be wooed by the powerful, he was inexplicably demoted and assigned to the remote and impoverished Chobei County to be a small magistrate, and his wife and Zhen themselves can be said to have not lived a good life for a few days. And now she has to let her slender hands, who have never done heavy work, cook and stir-fry, not to mention, and secretly hide in the kitchen to eat these burnt meals. Tears swirled back and forth in the seven-foot man's eyes, and he tried his best to endure it so that he barely stayed.

Mrs. Gu looked at Gu Liang's reddened eyes, and comforted softly: "It's okay, although this dish is mushy, it can be eaten, and the medical book says that eating burnt vegetables can nourish the stomach, isn't it just right for me." ”

Gu Liang raised the corners of his mouth, showed a very reluctant smile, put the bowl in his hand into Mrs. Gu's hand, picked up the bowl hidden behind her, and said, "It's just right, let's nourish our stomachs together." ”

After speaking, he took the chopsticks and pulled a large mouthful of the black things in the bowl and put them in his mouth.

Mrs. Gu looked down at the bowl in her hand, there was mushroom cabbage in it, which was her favorite dish, thinking that Gu Liang had left it for herself, her heart was warm, and her eyes were red, and she pulled Gu Liang to the low table next to the stove, and said, "Come on, don't stand, let's sit down and eat." ”

Yu Junyan watched Gu Liang and his wife huddle in front of a small table from a distance, feeding each other dishes one by one, "Xianggong you eat" and "Lady you eat", feeling that he should disappear silently not to destroy this warm atmosphere, but just after he turned around and took a few steps, he suddenly heard a rush of footsteps, the sound was very soft, not like the footsteps of adults, but like children, but the speed was extremely fast, children would never have such light achievements, just when Yu Junyan felt confused, only to hear Mrs. Gu in the kitchen scream in horror, The bowl was shattered on the floor. Yu Junyan hurriedly turned around and went back, only to see a gray wolf standing at the door of the kitchen, staring at Gu Liang and his wife in front of him motionlessly with a pair of blue eyes. Mrs. Gu was so frightened that she hid behind Gu Liang, Gu Liang picked up a kitchen knife with both hands, trembling across his chest, with a desperate posture with the wolf, Yu Junyan could no longer sit idly by, and rushed over with an arrow step, blocking in front of Gu Liang and his wife.