The Female General Dominates All After Transmigration-Chapter 117 - 116: Shattering False Hope, Ling Chengyan Throws Down the Thunder
Ling Chengyan came many times, had already gotten familiar with the people at the seafood shop, just out of the pot, steaming hot crabs were directly loaded into a basket and brought over. She lifted the lid, the orange-yellow roe was plump and spilling out, snapped off a piece and popped it into her mouth, full of fresh sweetness, truly the best flavor in the world.
Faced with such good crabs, she wasn’t shy, directly ordered ten baskets. Such big crabs, open invoice for purchase, only twelve cents per pound!
After loading the fish needed for the cafeteria, Ling Chengyan bought crabs, and bought some more fish and shrimp. On the way back through Fucheng County, she called Liu San to unload half of her fish, shrimp, and crabs.
Such good products, struggling with insufficient vehicles for transport, lacking good preservation methods, poor sales channels, the price sold was miserably low. Yet outside people wanted to eat, but it was hard to buy.
Seeing such big crabs, Liu San’s eyes lit up immediately: "Such good crabs, you should sell them for thirty-five cents."
Thirty-five cents, can’t even buy half a pound of pork, it’s really cheap!
Went back directly to the cafeteria to unload, fresh shrimp and big crabs, the cafeteria naturally also kept a portion. However, such good stuff, there wasn’t any in the cafeteria’s big pot meals; they were sent to the guesthouse for serving guests, or taken to the military supplies department, to improve the lives of cadres and their families.
Approaching evening, a rich aroma of fish wafted outside the cafeteria. Sure enough, fish was stewed at lunch, large chunks of sea fish, tender and delicious, pleasantly surprised the cadres and soldiers.
Ling Family.
Can’t finish the shrimp, laid out on a sieve to dry into dried shrimp.
Long shrimps over a foot long, crabs weighing over a pound loaded into a basin and placed on the table, the whole family had a feast.
Crab is cold-natured, should be paired with warm ginger wine to dispel cold, but the children are too young to drink wine, so Ling Chengyan used dried ginger, fresh ginger, and perilla to make a drink, then added brown sugar, giving it to the children to pair with the meal to ward off cold.
Wang Liansheng wasn’t one to indulge in alcohol, but today with so many delicious seafood, not having a drink seemed unreasonable. As it was dinner, he took out a jar of Jiangnan old wine that Ling Chengyan brought back from West Lake. Adding fresh ginger and osmanthus, warmed it up nice and warm, drinking and savoring crab, lived like a god.
Ling Chengyan also drank two cups of hot wine, the old wine with osmanthus not only dispelled cold but also neutralized fishiness...
Children ate quickly, after eating their fill, Xiaoyu went to night school, while Xiaoxing went back to her room to do homework and practice big characters.
Little Shi Tou got a round little crab with a hard shell, commonly known as the thousand squeezes, had a great time playing with it, lowered his head, couldn’t be bothered to wipe the drool dripping down. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺
Wang Liansheng, used to taking care of the kids, saw the child drooling and wiped him with a cloth.
Turned back and saw Ling Chengyan drinking wine, Wang Liansheng picked up the wine pot, waited for Ling Chengyan to place her cup down, and promptly refilled it for her.
"It’s rare to have such good crabs, have a few more drinks." Wang Liansheng raised his cup to toast Ling Chengyan, "Many thanks to Comrade Ling Chengyan, we’re able to enjoy so much good stuff."
Ling Chengyan glanced at him, a slight smile on her lips, raised her cup and drank it all.
Wang Liansheng put down his own cup and refilled hers again.
Ling Chengyan peeled a crab claw, fed the plump crab meat into Little Shi Tou’s mouth, said quietly, "I heard a piece of news today when passing through the county..."
Wang Liansheng suddenly felt a chill down his spine, hurriedly asked, "What news?"
"Gao Zhijian has been sentenced, neglect of duty combined with intentional homicide, life imprisonment."
"Neglect of duty, intentional homicide?" Wang Liansheng instinctively asked, then suddenly his complexion turned pale.
His lips trembled before he regained his voice: "You mean... the river project accident was caused by him?"
Ling Chengyan glanced at him, too lazy to answer.
Wang Liansheng wasn’t stupid, he just held on to false hope, unwilling to admit he’d been thoroughly betrayed by his so-called nearest and dearest.
Ling Chengyan dropped a bombshell and left it there.
After drinking two more cups of hot yellow wine, hugged the full Little Shi Tou, cleaned up, and went out for a walk.
Before leaving, she casually said, "I gave away the TV raffle ticket."
Wang Liansheng, stunned, agreed, not sure if he heard clearly.
Morning and evening exercises are a new project recently added by Ling Chengyan, for no other reason, Little Shi Tou’s nutrition was a bit over the top, he was fat when he couldn’t walk, everyone said when he started learning to walk, with more activity, he’d slim down.
As it turned out, after Wang Liansheng came home, conditions improved somewhat, with Wang Liansheng’s attentive care, fresh milk, milk powder, eggs, and other nutritious products fed, the little guy was on his feet every day but never seemed to slim down; instead, he had a trend of getting fatter.
Originally big eyes were squeezed small by the chubby cheeks, almost becoming squinty eyes.
Ling Chengyan saw this trend wasn’t good, poor nutrition in children wasn’t right, but over-nourishing, raising a fat, chunky kid is something Ling Chengyan could not accept.
Hence, when the weather turned warm, she made a fitness plan, two trips every day, morning trips to the playground with Little Shi Tou. After dinner, took Little Shi Tou for a walk around the courtyard to aid digestion, also controlled the amount of food given to the child, just enough to feel full, no more unrestricted feeding.
Little Shi Tou didn’t know anything about his mother’s plans and thoughts, happily followed his mother for a stroll, little hand holding big hand, heading straight for the bustling square in front of the supply department.
There were two new ping-pong tables installed there, and two basketball hoops, brightened by tall street lamps. Attracting many people to leisure and exercise.
Boys divided into groups, some playing ping-pong, some basketball; little girls jumping rubber bands, playing shuttlecock, tossing sandbags; and a circle of retired old men playing chess...
Little Shi Tou wasn’t interested in ball games, but was particularly interested in the girls kicking shuttlecock, tugged on Ling Chengyan’s hand to run over there from a distance.
When he got closer, the girls were engrossed in play, no one cared about the little chubby Shi Tou, and he could only watch, drooling.
Suddenly, a basketball flew towards the girls playing shuttlecock, causing a whole bunch of screams.
Ling Chengyan swiftly turned her head, released Little Shi Tou’s hand, jumped up two steps, and lunged sideways, grabbing the flying basketball mid-air, with a spin, without looking, she tossed the ball back to the group of half-grown boys.
The basketball traced a perfect arc, over the group of stunned boys, and, surprisingly, landed directly into the hoop!
From that far... casually tossed, direct basketball shot!
The silly boys were startled, then shocked.
The people present hadn’t reacted yet, somewhere from a corner, Staff Officer Xing walked over quickly, his face smiling almost like a blooming chrysanthemum: "Comrade Ling Chengyan, we are planning to form a basketball team in the district, to participate in the all-army sports meeting, how about joining us?"
The notification for forming a basketball team had been issued to the company a few days ago; Ling Chengyan had seen it and even conveyed it to the third platoon.
Faced with Staff Officer Xing’s smiling face, Ling Chengyan asked coolly, "Isn’t it a men’s basketball competition?"
