First dish: Jade Hibiscus (rape leaves that can be eaten raw, cut into petal shapes and arranged on a plate)
Second dish: Mother and Son Reunion (stir-fried soybeans and bean sprouts)
Third dish: Green Dragon Lying on Snow (cucumber slices sprinkled with sugar)
Fourth dish: Dark Clouds Covering the Moon (black fungus lying on a poached egg)
Fifth dish: Fried rice with soy sauce
Sixth dish: Vegetable soup
Seventh dish: Beating Pig Bajie to Death with Random Sticks (stir-fried string beans with pork)
After looking at the dishes and listening to the names, Shen Nanchu fell silent.
Without even thinking, Shen Nanchu could easily guess which dish Wang Jianguo and Yu Lanhua would choose.
Sure enough, what Shen Nanchu thought was soon verified.
"Come on, let's have a meal! Village head, Sister Lanhua, try these dishes and see if they suit your taste." Pei's Mother helped to greet them.
Wang Jianguo and Yu Lanhua politely took some of each dish, but in the end, their chopsticks mostly landed on the dish of "Beating Pig Bajie to Death with Random Sticks".
They were also too embarrassed to eat the pork and only picked the string beans.
The string beans stir-fried with meat were actually quite delicious, but the other dishes were really unpalatable for Wang Jianguo and Yu Lanhua.
That so - called "Jade Hibiscus" was like eating grass, and it was such a waste to sprinkle sugar on cucumbers. What's the point of putting a poached egg on stir - fried black fungus?
Pei Zhengnian looked at Shen Nanchu confidently, his eyes full of pride.
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Although Shen Nanchu didn't want to admit it, she really miscalculated.
There was only one meat dish on the table, and the rest were all light and plain. Only a fool wouldn't choose the meat dish.
Moreover, Shen Nanchu just remembered that the Pei family might not be good at cooking, after all, they had Aunt Tian.
In addition, with Pei Zhengnian in the kitchen, wouldn't he guide the Pei family to make some flashy dishes?
In this round of competition with Pei Zhengnian, Shen Nanchu was completely defeated!
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"Xiaochu, eat more." Yu Lanhua saw that Shen Nanchu hadn't moved her chopsticks and thought she had no appetite.
"This stir - fried string beans with pork is good."
"Yes, it's really okay." Wang Jianguo nodded. This stir - fried string beans with meat had a bit of spiciness, which went well with wine.
Shen Nanchu looked at the piece of pork that Yu Lanhua put into her bowl.
Hehe~~~
She couldn't hold it in anymore.
Is it really that delicious?
How delicious could it be? Isn't it just being smart and taking advantage of the situation?
With a look of disdain on her face, Shen Nanchu put a piece of pork into her mouth.
The pork was oily but not greasy, fragrant and chewy.
Then she ate a string bean.
The string bean had absorbed the fragrance of the meat and was soft and waxy.
Well!
It was barely edible. It was not the best but not the worst either.
For the sake of Pei Zhengnian's hard work in the kitchen for so long, Shen Nanchu reluctantly admitted that Pei Zhengnian won this round.
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The next day.
Early in the morning, Pei Zhengnian packed his luggage and prepared to return to the army.
The Daliaoliao Military Region where he was now stationed was about a three - hour drive from Wang Family Village.
After being transferred to the Daliaoliao Military Region, if something happened to his family, Pei Zhengnian could come back in time as long as he got a call.
Even though he was demoted from a promising regimental commander to a company commander, Pei Zhengnian didn't care at all.
This time when he went to the army to report for duty, he didn't know when he would be able to come back.
Amid the reluctant farewells of the Pei family, Pei Zhengnian started the car and left.
Shen Nanchu didn't go to see Pei Zhengnian off.
Isn't it just going to the army?
What's the point of seeing someone off?
There's nothing more important than sleeping.
Anyway, now that she was pregnant, she was the most important person in the Pei family, and she had the final say.
When Shen Nanchu woke up from her sleep, Pei Zhengnian had already arrived at the army.
The Pei family had gone to work.
What Shen Nanchu said before made sense, but everything should be done step by step.
It was impossible to just come to Wang Family Village and then say they wouldn't work, right?
Everything had to be done slowly and carefully planned.
After having breakfast, Shen Nanchu put on a straw hat and slowly walked towards the fields.
The task for today was to weed the fields.
...
In the fields.
The villagers were scattered in twos and threes in each paddy field, bending over to pull out the weeds.
Pei's Mother and the others also rolled up their trouser legs and joined the weeding team.
Since Father Pei was sent here during the "Down to the Countryside" movement, even though Wang Jianguo wanted to show favoritism, he couldn't be too obvious.
So, Father Pei was assigned to carry farmyard manure.
This farmyard manure was a fertilizer made from fermented human feces and urine, and the smell was extremely pungent.
The work of carrying and applying manure was always the most disliked by the villagers, especially carrying the manure.
Carrying manure meant scooping up the feces from the cesspool and then carrying it to the fields.
Previously, this job was always assigned as a punishment to lazy villagers.
Now, since there were people sent here during the "Down to the Countryside" movement in Wang Family Village, this job was given to them.
Father Pei, along with two other old men and a middle - aged man who were also sent here, carried the manure.
Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang were in charge of applying the manure.
The two brothers were caught slacking off at work last time.
Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang listlessly carried the manure buckets and poured the manure into the fields spoon by spoon.
At this time, Wang Jianguo was coming over with a group of people carrying three big bags of chemical fertilizers.
These chemical fertilizers were recommended by the technician from the town, who said that putting them in the paddy fields could increase the rice yield.
Wang Jianguo bought three bags back with the attitude of giving it a try. After all, their Wang Family Village had the lowest grain yield every year.
If it worked, their village could get rid of the hat of being a poor village.
Wang Jianguo called Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang over and repeatedly instructed them on how to spread the chemical fertilizers.
"Remember, the technician said that only half of half of this bag should be put in one mu of the field. Do you remember?"
"Remember, village head." Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang nodded repeatedly.
"Such a simple thing, we brothers will definitely do it well."
Wang Jianguo was still a little worried. He stood by the field and watched for a while.
After seeing that Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang really spread the chemical fertilizers according to the amount he said for one mu of the field, Wang Jianguo finally left with confidence.
As soon as Wang Jianguo left, Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang immediately sat down on the ridge of the field.
"The village head is really something. In my opinion, this dirty and tiring job of pouring manure into the fields should be given to those so - called 'Bull - Ghosts and Snake - Spirits'."
"Right, only by doing more work can they correct their ideological mistakes."
The two brothers glanced at each other and then looked at Father Pei who was carrying the manure over with shifty eyes.
"Old man, come here."
Father Pei didn't understand what was going on and walked up to Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang.
"You pour all this manure into the fields." Wang Daming said arrogantly.
"From now on, the job of pouring manure into the fields is all yours." Wang Daqiang pinched his nose and threw the manure spoon in front of Father Pei.
Father Pei didn't say a word. He silently put down the manure buckets and then picked up two empty buckets and was about to go back.
Unexpectedly, Wang Daming grabbed the manure bucket.
"Are you deaf?"
"Hurry up, or I'll tell the village head that you're slacking off."
What kind of person was Father Pei?
How could he not know the little tricks of Wang Daming and Wang Daqiang?
Father Pei ignored them and struggled free from Wang Daming's hand.
"Stinky old man."
Wang Daming flew into a rage and directly pushed Father Pei.
Father Pei staggered and almost lost his balance.
Then Wang Daqiang pushed Father Pei from behind.
This time, Father Pei really couldn't stand steady and fell on the opened bag of fertilizer.
Whoosh~~~
A whole bag of chemical fertilizer was poured into the paddy field.
Soon, the bag of chemical fertilizer began to shrink rapidly in the paddy field.
It's over!
Wang Daming: "It wasn't me."
Wang Daqiang: "Nor was it me."
Simultaneously, they both pointed at Father Pei and said, "It was him."
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