Siheyuan: A Cook in the 60s

"Please give me some advice. You said my father has it, but it's almost the same as not having it. It's good to marry a woman from the city, but there will be no one to take care of the family. Although there is a nursery in the factory, it's better to take care of the child at home. It's not that I can't afford to support him. Don't you think this makes sense?"

The old man frowned and thought about it.

Nodded: "If you say so, there's nothing wrong with it."

"Yeah, he also told me that if I find someone with a better body and take good care of her for a year or two, she can be a beauty. I think that's what he meant. Today I saw the bride, she is thin but her eyes are really pretty. If she was a little fatter, she would definitely be more beautiful."

"Go away, kid, the more you talk, the more nonsense it makes. That's someone else's wife."

"Hehehe, don't you know what I mean?" Shazhu laughed.

"That's what I mean. You can't say that. I've told you so many times, don't let your mouth hurt you in the future." The old man said helplessly, "You're right to think so. You can go to the street office to find Director Wang about this matter."

"Director Wang is still in charge of this?"

"You probably don't know this. In the past few years, there were many people fleeing famine. Director Wang told me about this and asked me if there was anyone in our hospital who wanted to get married."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"You didn't like them at that time. You were just thinking about marrying a beautiful wife. Most of the refugees were skinny. Would you like them if they were brought here? Besides, didn't you want to marry a beautiful girl in the city?" The old man glanced at him.

"Hehe...yes, I'll go ask Director Wang then."

"Well, don't go today. Let's go tomorrow. Today is National Day, so Director Wang may not be here."

"That's fine." Sha Zhu stood up and felt more energetic.

The third uncle's house.

The third uncle is feeling emotional right now.

"It's worth mentioning that this cook has a lot of connections."

"Dad, it's just some meat. Look what you said." Yan Jiecheng curled his lips.

"Just some meat." The third uncle glanced at his eldest son and said, "How much can you get if I ask you to? For today's meal, I saw that there are at least five pounds of meat on the table. The key is the ingredients. They are also fried with some meat."

"That's right, the vegetarian dish is delicious!" Yan Jiedi agreed. She liked eating that vegetarian dish. It was different from the boiled vegetables she usually ate. She liked it very much.

"You just eat nonsense. I told you to eat more meat but you didn't." The third aunt scolded her daughter with a bit of heartache.

"I can't get any." Yan Jiedi blinked her eyes and gestured as she spoke: "Aunt Jia is really good at grabbing vegetables."

"This Jia Zhang is the same." The third uncle shook his head: "She just planned to be the wedding banquet, and no one wants to argue with her. The chopsticks are more fierce than the last, and Banggeng's belly is full. However, this meal today is really worth it."

"When I get married, I will also have a big table like this."

"Dream on. You're going to pay for it yourself?" The third uncle glanced at his son.

"I..." Yan Jiecheng was depressed. He knew that the table was full of people. If he didn't have 7 or 8 yuan, he couldn't leave. If he added the tickets, the amount might exceed double digits.

Second uncle's house

"Hey, do you think this Cao Wei has something to do with the leadership?" The second uncle asked the second aunt next to him while shaving his teeth.

"What does it matter? He's just a cook." The second aunt didn't care.

"This is not a normal cook. How can a normal cook get so much meat?" The second uncle shook his head and expressed his guess.

"Then why don't you ask?"

"Ask? He's just a cook. If he's sober, he should try to curry favor with me." The second uncle snorted, expressing his disdain.

A grandfather's house

The old lady didn't eat too much. She was in poor health and didn't dare to eat too much.

"Have you finished cleaning?" Seeing the old man coming back, the aunt poured him a cup of tea with some tea foam in it: "Drink some tea to calm yourself down."

"The guys in the yard are full of energy. Let them toss around and we'll be done. This young Master Cao is a good guy. I took a look at his wife and she should be a good girl. But she's not very smart."

"Go, just take a look and you'll know if a person is smart or not. Besides, being able to live a good life is better than anything else."

"Yes, Master Cao is a good person."

"What? What happened to Master Cao? You're still praising people."

"Just because we want to let the people in the yard eat meat, the people can't be bad. Today's meal must cost a lot of money. Money is a small matter. The meat and vegetables require a lot of favors."

"That's right." The aunt nodded. In those days, the meat coupons were limited every month. Every household didn't have enough. Unless those who were really in trouble would exchange them, they would buy them themselves. Just like Jia Zhang said, without some meat, you couldn't work. If something happened, the whole family would be buried with you.

The Jia family is in the same situation. If the trade union had not stepped in, there would probably be no such family as the Jia family now.

"As a result, Zhuzi also got enlightened."

"Oh? What happened to Zhuzi?" When an old lady heard this, she also sat down.

The old man took a sip of tea and handed the kettle to her.

"He wants to get married, too."

"Hi." The aunt laughed: "He has wanted to get married for a long time."

"It's different this time. He wants to marry someone from the country."

"Hmm?" Auntie pondered for a moment: "Why? Qin Huairu is from the countryside, so he wants to marry someone from the countryside?"

Old man:......

"How could that be possible?" The old man was somewhat speechless: "This Zhu, too, has made Qin Huairu annoyed with him recently."

"If you ask me, I should be annoyed." The aunt also took a sip and said, "Before, I thought Qin Huairu was also interested in Zhuzi. That's why I was thinking about the two of them. Now it seems that Qin Huairu is not interested in Zhuzi. Then we should make a clear decision to avoid the trouble of confusion. Qin Huairu did a good job in this matter."

"We are not talking about the pillars, where did you go wrong?"

"You were the one who twisted it first."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about Zhuzi again." The old man repeated what Sha Zhu said.

The auntie nodded as she listened, "Yes, that's the truth. I didn't expect that Master Cao is such a good cook. He is also very clear about things."

"How do you know it was Master Cao who told him?"

"With Zhuzi's brain, can he think of this?" The aunt was a little speechless: "If he could think of this, would he be single until now? He used to be picky about this and that. If he had figured it out earlier, he wouldn't be so picky."