Chapter 45 Shen Xue helps Zhou Jingchen cook
As a mother, she naturally understood her daughter and knew that she must be looking for Zhou Zhiqing when she went to the Zhiqing site.
But she couldn't say that. Her daughter was a girl, and it would not sound good if she took the initiative to get close to him.
"I won't tell you anymore. I have to go find a barefoot doctor to see how many months pregnant I am. Mom, remember to cook egg custard for your grandson."
Old Lady Shen: “…………”
The meals at the educated youth center were prepared by the educated youth in turns, in groups of two, except for Zhou Jingchen. As soon as he arrived at the educated youth center, he complained about all kinds of things. He complained that the meals they cooked were not tasty, that his roommates snored, and that the old educated youths were dirty.
He despised others, and others despised him too. When the new and old educated youth reunited to cook together, no one was willing to be in the same group with him.
Zhou Jingchen felt that he was isolated, so he went to find the team leader. It would have been fine if he hadn't found him, but once he found the team leader, other educated youths started to complain.
"Captain, Zhou Zhiqing doesn't unite the group at all."
"Captain, Zhou Zhiqing wasted food."
"Captain, Zhou the educated youth has destroyed collective property and has broken all the stools in our educated youth camp..."
Instead of waiting for the captain to make a decision for him, he was lectured by the captain. Zhou Jingchen felt so aggrieved.
No one would cook with him, so he could only do it by himself. He didn't know how to cook. Although he was not favored at home, he was a city dweller and a grown man after all, so it was never his turn to cook at home.
He was asked to cook but he didn't know how to use the stove. He couldn't light the fire for a long time and got himself covered in dust.
Some female educated youth couldn't stand it and came to teach him how to do it, but he just handed the work over to them. After a few times, no one helped him anymore.
It was Zhou Jingchen's turn to cook tonight, but he still couldn't light a fire. Everyone was exhausted after a day's work, so they just waited for dinner and went back to bed early.
Seeing that he was busy but couldn't even light a fire, the hot-tempered Wu Youquan scolded him directly, "Is your brain hanging on your head just for show? I've taught you so many times, but you can't even light a fire."
Zhou Jingchen was also anxious. He was also hungry and wanted to eat early.
"What's the point of scolding me? If you have time to scold me, you might as well come and help me cook." Knowing that he can't cook, he was still left in a group by himself. He deserved it if he didn't have any food.
"you……"
"Wu Zhiqing, don't bother with Jingchen. I'll cook, I'll cook." As soon as Shen Xue arrived at the Zhiqing point, she heard Wu Youquan scolding Zhou Jingchen. She felt so distressed that she quickly said she would cook.
"Jingchen, go wash your face and just sit next to me."
As soon as Shen Xue arrived at the educated youth point, she followed him home, quickly went into the kitchen, lit a fire, washed the pot, and put the kneaded steamed bread into the pot to steam.
After all the busy work, she felt very happy. She was so virtuous, Jing Chen should have a good impression of her.
She smiled slightly, "Jingchen, you can eat it in a while."
Zhou Jingchen looked very grateful, "Xiaoxue, thank goodness you helped me, otherwise I don't know how long it would take to have dinner."
"Next time it's your turn to cook, just tell me and I'll come and help you." Love grows over time. As long as she keeps in contact with Jing Chen often, he will definitely be attracted to her.
"Xiaoxue, you are such a kind-hearted girl. I will have to trouble you again in the future." It would be a waste not to use the free labor.
The female educated youth were all sitting in the dormitory chatting. Zhou Li glanced at the kitchen and clicked her tongue several times, "Chunhua, aren't you interested in Zhou Zhiqing?
Zhou Zhiqing and Shen Xue are in the kitchen, and you still have the mind to braid your hair? "
Zhao Chunhua sneered, very disdainful, "How can you be so nagging? Zhou Zhiqing's eyes when he looked at Shen Xue clearly showed disdain.
People like Zhou Zhiqing would look down on Shen Xue, a country girl, but out of pity for her, he gave her a chance to cook for us."
To put it bluntly, she is no different from a free girl, so she won't be jealous.
Zhou Taozi asked with an attitude of watching a good show, "Chunhua, you are obviously interested in Zhou Zhiqing, why don't you cook with him?"
"I'm not stupid. Zhou Zhiqing doesn't know anything. If I were to work with him, wouldn't I have to do more work?"
Working is tiring enough, so she is not willing to do more work. Now it is good to have free labor, which makes Zhou Zhiqing feel more relaxed.
The steamed bread was cooked, Shen Xue called the other educated youth to come out to eat, and she was reluctant to leave the educated youth camp.
"Jingchen, I'm going back. If you need any help, just tell me. If there's any heavy work that you can't do, you can ask my three brothers for help. They're very helpful."
"I won't be polite with you, Xiaoxue, why don't you stay here and eat before leaving."
"I don't want to eat anymore. I'm going home to eat." There is a fixed amount of steamed corn bread, and other people would not give up their own rations. If she ate here, Jing Chen would have to share his steamed corn bread with her. Shen Xue couldn't bear to let him go hungry, so she turned around and went home.
Zhang Cuicui was sewing clothes for Gu Jiandong in the yard. She looked up and saw Shen Xue. "Oh, you still remember to come back? Auntie thought you were going to live in the educated youth camp permanently."
"Aunt, this is my home." She didn't want to go back, but she was not married, not married to Jing Chen, and she had no place to live except going home.
Li Caixia was a little happy, and hurried to the kitchen to help her mother-in-law get the rolling pin, "Mom, Shen Xue is back, please come out and educate this naughty girl,
Coming back so late is too outrageous. Xiaoqiu just came back and said that this girl was helping Zhou Zhiqing cook at the Zhiqing site.
Oh, I have never seen such a girl. She is not someone else's wife, but she is so eager to cook for others. "
In order to add fuel to the fire, Li Caixia even called her daughter to go to the educated youth center to see what Shen Xue was doing.
Old Lady Shen came out of the house with a gloomy face and took the rolling pin. "Shen Xue, is what your second aunt said true? Did you really cook for the educated youth?"
"Grandma, Jingchen doesn't know how to cook, so I just helped him." Shen Xue didn't think she had done anything wrong.
Li Caixia exclaimed several times, "How shameless! You call me Jingchen so affectionately all the time."
Gu Jiandong also imitated Li Caixia's tone and shouted, "How shameless, calling me Jingchen so affectionately all the time."
Shen Xue glared at Gu Jiandong. This idiot was really infuriating.
"I am Jing Chen's savior. We hit it off right away. Why should I be embarrassed to call him by his name?" The damn old woman and Li Caixia just wanted to find an excuse to beat and scold her.
She rushed to the young man and cooked for him, calling him affectionately and proudly. The rolling pin in the hand of old lady Shen fell directly on her back.
He hit her several times before he stopped. He was too lazy to reason with her. "You like cooking so much, right? You will be the one to cook for us from now on."