Reborn in the 80s: Everyone Falls For Me-Chapter 49 - 48 Finding the Home Door
49: Chapter 48: Finding the Home Door
49 -48: Finding the Home Door
Xu Niannian had become more and more beautiful, a piece of news that didn’t take long to spread through the entire village.
As the great beauty of the surrounding eight villages, she had always been the focus of young men’s attention.
Quite a few people used the excuse of looking for Xu Zhiqiang to run to the Xu Family’s house to see for themselves.
But Xu Niannian had no interest in being ogled; after chatting with Yang Cuihua, she bolted into her room to hide.
When Auntie Wang from next door saw so many people heading to Xu Niannian’s home, she spat in disdain and said to her son,
“Pah, a loss-making good-for-nothing, I don’t know what there is to be proud of.
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No matter how pretty, what use is it if a woman can’t work?
She’ll still end up not getting married; which family would want to support such a big burden for nothing?”
The moment her words fell, she saw her son running out of the courtyard.
She stopped berating Xu Niannian and hurriedly asked, “Son, where are you going?”
Without turning his head, her son simply said, “I’m going to Uncle Dawei’s house.”
“What are you going there for?”
“Uncle Dawei’s foot is bad; I’m going to chop wood for him.”
Auntie Wang didn’t need any further explanation; she snapped, “You get back here to your mother.”
However, her son had already entered Xu Dawei’s yard.
Auntie Wang suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart, feeling that she had raised her son for nothing.
That evening, Xu Zhicheng and Xu Duoyu only returned home late, covered head to toe in dirt.
Yang Cuihua inevitably scolded them, and was even about to resort to hitting them.
In Xu Zhicheng’s basket was a big, fat fish.
He promptly took it out, “Mom, we caught this fish to help sister nourish her body.”
Seeing the big, fat grass carp cradled in his arms, Yang Cuihua stopped scolding.
She held Xu Zhicheng’s face and planted a heavy kiss, “Our Zhicheng is so understanding.”
Glancing over at Xu Duoyu, covered in mud, her eyes widened and Xu Duoyu took a step back, his eyes wet.
Hurriedly, he presented the wild vegetables in his hands, “Sis, sis likes to eat these.”
So, Xu Duoyu also received a heavy kiss from Yang Cuihua, turning his little face red.
Yang Cuihua was happy, “Take it to the kitchen.”
Xu Zhicheng quickly went to the kitchen with the fish while Xu Duoyu followed him, little by little, with the wild vegetables.
Reaching the furthest part of the house, the two of them looked at each other, still in shock.
Xu Zhicheng said with an expression of being favored beyond belief, “Mom kissed me.”
Xu Duoyu shyly puffed out his little belly, “Mom kissed me too.”
No child doesn’t yearn for their mother’s affection.
Having been treated roughly by Yang Cuihua since childhood, the two little ones still longed for their mother’s love.
For dinner, Xu Niannian made a spicy boiled fish slice dish, letting the fish feed in the stream for half an hour beforehand.
She was now cooking almost exclusively with stream water.
Considering her family members weren’t used to very spicy food, Xu Niannian didn’t dare to add too much spice.
She cut the fish slices thinly, sprinkled them with Sichuan pepper powder and sesame oil, and added stir-fried chili oil to the mix.
A simple boiled fish dish turned out to be numbly spicy, the piping hot chili oil sizzling on top, its fragrance spreading immediately, full of that bite and zest.
The wild vegetables were also soaked in stream water for a while before being stir-fried.
Xu Niannian kept the preparation of the wild vegetables simple, but even so, having been soaked in stream water made them incredibly fragrant.
That evening, Xu Niannian cooked rice, rinsing the grains clean with stream water before cooking them in it.
Just lifting the lid of the pot released the rich aroma of the rice, each grain full and glistening with a lustrous sheen.
Rice, for the entire Qingshan Village, was considered a delicacy only to be had during the New Year celebration by most households.
Let alone for the modest Xu Family, considered the poorest in the village.
The family sat around the dinner table, each one of their eyes shining bright.
“Sis, is this rice?” Xu Zhicheng stared eagerly at the bowl of rice, swallowing hard several times.
Even Xu Dawei and Yang Cuihua couldn’t help salivating.
Because Xu Niannian had earned 155 yuan that day, Yang Cuihua refrained from scolding her sons and let them eat their fill.
Xu Duoyu and Xu Zhicheng cheered happily, while Xu Zhiqiang was slightly more composed.
Not only was there rice, but there were also delicious dishes to go with it, and the family ate to their heart’s content.
Seeing the food made with stream water, Xu Niannian’s eyes also brightened.
She hadn’t been wrong; even food items not from recipes, as long as they were prepared with stream water, tasted ten times better than the originals — she couldn’t help but indulge herself.
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On the deserted hillside, Jin Yu arrived at the spot where he had failed his mission and his parachute had dropped him.
With hands on his hips and a blade of grass in his mouth, his narrow, phoenix-like eyes squinted slightly.
This was the place where he had caused trouble for that girl.
To prevent his mother from incessantly pestering him, Jin Yu decided to find the girl sooner rather than later, to put a stop to his mother’s eagerness to set him up on blind dates.
Though he hadn’t gotten a good look at the girl’s face, Jin Yu clearly remembered the sound of her voice.
Crisp and bright.
That kind of sharpness right in the throat, he thought.
If he heard it again, with his memory, he would definitely recognize her.
He remembered the girl had threatened him, saying her family lived in the nearby mountain village.
Looking up, there were at least five or six small villages around the area.
Always one for action, Jin Yu, wearing his thick military boots, headed directly towards the first small village on the left.
