Chapter 86 Visiting Comrades 2

Chen Ming’s wife Xiaohong is a very ordinary-looking peasant woman, about thirty-five or thirty-six years old, with dark skin and plain appearance. She looks very bloated because she is wearing a cotton coat. She wears a patched black and red plaid slanted collar gown outside the cotton coat, which is clean. She greeted Feng Qingxue warmly, "Come in and sit down. Don't be so polite next time."

Chen Ming's two sons were at home. They were a little shy when they saw the guests.

Chen Ming laughed and scolded, "Your Uncle Lu came a few days ago, but you don't recognize him today?"

His eldest son Chen Tianzuo is older and has a better memory. He smiled and called "Uncle Lu", then looked at Feng Qingxue curiously and shouted loudly, "Hello, Aunt Lu!" He pushed his younger brother Chen Tianyou and asked him to shout after him.

Chen Ming and Xiaohong laughed out loud, but Feng Qingxue's face turned red.

When guests came to the house, Xiaohong went to the kitchen to get busy after greeting them.

Other urban residents either live in a large compound with several families living side by side, or live in a tube-shaped building with a small space for a family, and it is common for more than a dozen people to live in 30 or 40 square meters. However, Chen Ming's family is a small courtyard that his father Lu bought for him when he got married. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, no one dared to covet his house because of his class background and merits.

Feng Qingxue handed the things in her hand to the two children and went to help.

"Sister, you are a guest, how can I let you cook." Xiaohong turned around and saw Feng Qingxue, and hurriedly pushed her to the main room to sit and drink tea.

Feng Qingxue smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, I can't interrupt the man's words, so I will help you."

Xiaohong had to give up after hearing this.

Feng Qingxue entered the kitchen and found a stove similar to the one in Lu's house. There were two iron pots, one large and one small, and a coal stove next to it. On the coal stove sat a large copper kettle, with steam coming out of the spout. There were neatly stacked honeycomb coals in the corner, and two broken wooden barrels. There were lush garlic sprouts growing on the soil in the barrels, and a small part of them had been cut off.

Radishes and cabbages are winter vegetables that every household will store. In the kitchen, there were some that were dug out from the cellar in the morning, as well as a pile of potatoes of different sizes. Xiaohong picked up the large copper kettle and poured hot water into the basin, added cold water, and quickly washed seven or eight radishes and a large cabbage. She also cut a large handful of garlic sprouts and washed them, and peeled and washed the potatoes.

Feng Qingxue said she was helping out, but in fact, she washed and cut vegetables like Xiaohong, and she was busy all the time.

After the vegetables were cut, the earth stove and coal stove were put into action together. The latter opened the stove door, and a small iron pot with two ears sat on the stove.

Xiaohong dug a big piece of lard from the oil tank and put it in the pot. It melted immediately after being put into the hot pot, and the aroma filled the house.

Cabbage stewed with vermicelli, stewed radish slices, garlic scrambled eggs, hot and sour potato shreds, each of which was very generous.

"Children are greedy. Old Chen's pork supply was used up at the beginning of the month, so there is no meat at home to entertain you when you come." Even if today's meal consumed the amount of food they eat in three days, Xiaohong still felt very embarrassed.

Feng Qingxue smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be so polite. Who doesn't know that there is a shortage of supplies now? Whether there is meat or not, being able to eat enough is a blessing. Ajiang brought me to visit Brother Chen and Sister-in-law just to let me know Brother Chen and Sister-in-law, so that it would be convenient for me to visit them in the future, so as not to meet them and not recognize them, which would become a joke. If we get angry because we don't have a bite of meat to eat, what kind of people are we?"

Hearing this, Xiaohong's smile on her face never stopped, and she felt particularly comfortable in her heart. No one doesn't like considerate guests.