Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 34 Little Spy

Wei Jingyuan replayed the events of noon over and over in his mind, finally grasping a few key points: the mountains, the marriage, the separation of the family, the lack of medical skills but knowledge of pharmacology, great strength, agility, courage, understanding of law, and the ability to write documents.

To sum up, her identity came to light: a spy.

Sending a small spy to him, the enemy spy organization must be targeting something in the deep mountains.

Wei Jingyuan was very depressed. He had married a spy without knowing it, and inadvertently became the spy's umbrella. Now it was useless to say anything. His fourth uncle had already written the marriage certificate for him and Tao Qiuyi, and it was stamped with the brigade seal.

The established facts are known to everyone and there is no room for regret.

The spies are too cunning and hard to guard against.

Tao Qiuyi was also silent.

She was thinking about finding an excuse to sneak into the ring space, and quickly make the medicinal herbs she found in the mountains in the afternoon into pills for body conditioning, and also make more healing medicine for Wei Jingyuan.

At this time, the twins, a boy and a girl, walked in. Xiao Huai walked in front holding a large aluminum basin in his hands. Steam was coming out of the basin, and the rich fragrance filled the whole room. Li Zi followed behind with chopsticks and a bowl in her hands.

"Brother, sister-in-law, did you two have a fight?" Li Zi asked worriedly, automatically assuming that their silence was a cold war after the quarrel.

"No."

"No."

The two people answered in unison.

Putting the aluminum basin on the stone, Xiao Huai looked at the two of them without saying anything.

"It smells so good! Our pear soup is really good." Tao Qiuyi bent down and fished the pheasant out of the aluminum basin. He violently tore off a chicken leg and placed it in the bowl held by Pear. He took the bowl, filled it with mushrooms and soup, and passed it to Wei Jingyuan. "Eat it while it's hot. It won't taste good if it's cold."

Looking at her in surprise, Wei Jingyuan did not reach out to take the bowl.

"Hold the bowl! What are you standing there for?" Tao Qiuyi looked at him strangely.

"My sister-in-law taught me well." Li Zi's cheeks flushed at the praise. "My sister-in-law said chicken soup is the best way to nourish the body. Big brother, hurry up and grab a bowl and eat. The chicken soup smells delicious, and it will definitely taste even better."

Taking the bowl, Wei Jingyuan stared at the chicken leg in the bowl in a daze.

Just now, his attitude towards Tao Qiuyi was not very nice, but she gave him the best chicken leg, which made him feel guilty for no reason, a sense of guilt towards a spy.

Wei Jingyuan felt that he might be abnormal.

"You can eat the meal first when it's ready. You don't have to wait for me." Wei Jingyuan said. He never liked to trouble others before, and he didn't want to trouble others even more after his leg became disabled.

"I didn't wait for you. The longer the pheasant soup is stewed, the more flavorful it becomes, the tastier it is, and the more nutritious it is." Turning back and seeing that he didn't move, Tao Qiuyi urged him again, "Eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold."

After saying that, I felt like he might be worried about not having enough chicken soup, so I added, "Today I stewed two pheasants and lots of mushrooms, enough for the four of us. The corn cakes that my uncle and aunt gave me will have to be saved for tomorrow."

He pulled off another chicken leg and gave it to Li Zi. Li Zi quickly said that the chicken leg was for her elder brother and sister-in-law, and she could only eat the chicken wings. Tao Qiuyi glanced at her and put the chicken leg in her bowl.

Li Zi didn't dare to say anything else and just lowered her head to eat. Tao Qiuyi asked her if it tasted good, and Li Zi nodded rapidly, saying it was delicious. She had never eaten chicken legs before and was so moved that she cried.

"Eat slowly. I said I would raise you to be plump and white, and I will never go back on my word." The poor child was so moved that he cried after eating a chicken leg. Tao Qiuyi was not good at comforting people. She turned around and saw Xiao Huai looking at her. She was about to move when Xiao Huai tore off a chicken wing and started chewing it.

Tao Qiuyi was stunned for a moment, then smiled with satisfaction and tore off another chicken wing to eat.

Listening to what she said and looking at the chicken leg in his hand, Wei Jingyuan felt mixed emotions. Being cared for so much by a spy, he really... He looked at the three people who were eating happily.

Forget it, let’s fill my stomach first. Wei Jingyuan lowered his head silently and started eating.

There was no more talking in the room.

No one noticed a figure tiptoeing away from the door.

On the other side, in the big house.

"It smells so good! We've stewed pheasant with mushrooms before, but it didn't smell as good as this? There must be more than one pheasant being stewed." Boss Wei sat on the kang, smoking a bamboo pipe in his hand.

The kitchen was given to the second room. At noon, the whole family ate some cornmeal cakes left over from the morning. They worked for an entire afternoon to build the kitchen at the back of the house. It was almost dark when the toilet was not even built.

There was no kitchen to cook in the evening, so his mother asked the couple to make their own dinner. He and his wife went back to the house and made some peach cakes to get by for the night. Now, smelling the aroma of mushroom chicken soup, he was so hungry!

I’m so hungry!
"Two. I heard with my own ears that little guy said to kill both pheasants and stew them, and save the hare for tomorrow's meal." Zhou Mei was applying ice to her face with a handkerchief soaked in cold water.

I was busy setting up the kitchen in the afternoon and didn't pay attention to my face, so I was in pain all afternoon.

"Two pheasants?" Upon hearing the two pheasants, Boss Wei's eyes lit up. He swallowed hard and exclaimed, "That's a lot of meat! And a hare. Tao Qiuyi looks so skinny and weak that a gust of wind could blow her away. How did she manage to catch both the pheasant and the hare?"

Pheasants and hares are not stupid. They will not wait to be caught. On the contrary, they will run very fast as long as someone approaches.

"She must have been lucky, a blind cat catching a dead mouse. However, from what I heard from her conversation with the old branch secretary, she went deep into the mountains." Zhou Mei applied ice to the other side of her face and told what she had overheard.

"There are so many treasures in the mountains. It's not uncommon for a little girl to catch pheasants and rabbits. But you didn't see how many mushrooms and fungus she dumped out of her backpack. I've never picked up so many mushrooms and fungus in my life."

"If we sell it, it will definitely fetch a lot of money. Even if we don't sell it, we can dry it and keep it for our whole family to eat for a long time."

"You didn't see it. When the old Party Secretary left, she packed a big bag for him. He was so happy that he even had the energy to walk."

"When the fourth child left, she gave him another bag and asked Xiao Huai to take it to his family. There were so many mushrooms and black fungus, but Xiao Qianren didn't give us any. She didn't treat us as her elders at all. It really pissed me off at the time."

Speaking of this, Zhou Mei felt like there was a blockage in her chest, and she felt uncomfortable and her face also hurt.

In winter, there are not many vegetables to eat, and mushrooms and fungus are rare. Tao Qiuyi gave one bag to the old branch secretary and one to the fourth brother. Tao Qiuyi is quite good at handling things. Boss Wei began to suspect that Tao Qiuyi knew his wife was watching in secret and did this on purpose to annoy them.

"Are you sure the old branch secretary was telling her to be careful, not forbidding her to go into the mountains again?" The old branch secretary knew best how dangerous it was in the mountains, but he didn't stop Tao Qiuyi from going into the mountains. Boss Wei was a little skeptical.

"That's what the old branch secretary said." Zhou Mei didn't think too much about it.

(End of this chapter)