Chapter 14: Gather Our Resources! (1/2)

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By the time she emerged from her room, her grandma, Wen Ruyu, had almost finished washing the clothes and was about to hang them up to dry.

Gu Qingyao said, “Grandma, are you hungry? I’ll cook for you. Brother Beihan bought buns and red braised pork from the state-run restaurant but didn’t finish, so we brought it back.”

Even Grandma Wen Ruyu could not help but look eager when she heard that there was meat. Wen Ruyu had lived well when she was young, but unfortunately had encountered times like this, and had suffered much in recent years.

In these times, commoners only had a taste of meat at the end of the year when they killed the pigs and distributed the meat. Under normal circumstances, one needed both money and coupons to buy meat from the grocery store, and even then, it was not always available.

If not for Eldest, Second and Third Uncle, the Gu family could not possibly afford to eat such things.

Because of the constraints of the times, even though the Gu family could afford it, they still seldom ate meat.

Wen Ruyu immediately smiled when she heard that and said, “Alright, just heat up one bun. I don’t eat much.”

Gu Qingyao entered the kitchen.

In the kitchen was a typical wood-burning clay stove found in villages. By its side was a brazier. But the weather was warm and the brazier was not in use and was just sitting there.

Gu Qingyao added some water to the pot and lit the fire. Then she placed two buns and the red braised pork in the steamer to heat them up.

Knowing that her grandma was still outside, Gu Qingyao looked at the red braised pork she had brought back and seized the opportunity to add another two large spoonfuls from her interspace.

She had lots of cooked food in her interspace. Red braised pork was one of them. It was rare for her family to eat meat, and she wanted to seize the opportunity to let her grandma have a little more.

After that, she took out about half a kilogram of pork ribs and added it to the pork ribs she had bought. She washed and salted them, then went to deal with the fish.