noffsinger Chapter 351 The Counterattack is About to Begin
Chapter 351 The Counterattack is About to Begin
To be fair, it's not just Su Niannian and Gu's mother who have good cooking skills.
Even Zhao Tian's cooking skills are quite good.
There was a pot of chicken soup simmering on the table, containing a whole chicken, as well as shiitake mushrooms, potato and carrot chunks.
A bowl of chicken soup was served, with a layer of oil floating on top.
It looks delicious.
There's also stir-fried beef with garlic shoots, braised pork belly, and stewed eggplant and potatoes.
Stir-fried cabbage and wood ear mushrooms with meat, smashed cucumber, and tomatoes mixed with white sugar.
Gu Ningning was practically beaming with joy, chopsticks clenched in her mouth.
Last year on my birthday, my older brother became disabled, my mother was in poor health and coughed day and night, and I myself was frail and sickly.
My second brother is busy working to earn money, and he also goes hunting in the middle of the night to supplement the family income.
That birthday was rather pitiful, but luckily my second brother remembered and got Ningning a wild rabbit as a treat.
Even the boiled egg for my birthday in the morning was shared between me and my older brother.
However, just one year later, the Gu family underwent a complete transformation.
Now, not only do I get a new dress on my birthday, but I also get so many delicious meals.
Meat!
So much meat!
Moreover, I will be able to go to school soon.
Gu Ningning felt that life had become so wonderful.
It's so beautiful it feels unreal.
How can this be so good? Am I dreaming?
Gu Ningning pinched herself as she thought about it.
pain!
Then it's not a dream.
Gu Nan and Su Niannian just stared at Gu Ningning.
Watching Gu Ningning's performance, observing the changes in her facial expressions, until Gu Ningning pinched herself and winced in pain.
Su Niannian couldn't help but burst out laughing.
As a result, when Su Niannian smiled, everyone laughed along with her.
Gu Ningning, on the other hand, had tears welling up in her eyes.
"Little birthday girl, you can't cry today!" Su Niannian said with a smile, picking up the biggest and prettiest piece of braised pork and putting it into Gu Ningning's bowl.
Gu Ningning looked at Su Niannian and forced back her tears.
"Don't cry! Why cry? I'm so happy on my birthday today."
"Mom, eldest brother and sister-in-law, second brother and sister-in-law, and little Yangyang, I'm so happy to have all of you family members by my side celebrating my birthday!" Gu Ningning said, then looked like she was about to cry again.
As a result, Gu's mother took a dumpling and stuffed it directly into Gu Ningning's mouth.
The dumplings were filled with meat, with only a small amount of cabbage added for flavor. The meat dumplings instantly filled Gu Ningning's mouth.
Gu Ningning didn't care about crying or being moved anymore, and started eating heartily.
"Eat up! The food will get cold soon!" Mother Gu said with a smile, urging everyone to start eating.
Su Niannian smiled and picked up a dumpling for Gu Nan.
"Try it and see if it's good," Su Niannian said with a smile.
Gu Nan picked up a dumpling and ate it. "It's delicious," Gu Nan affirmed.
"It's a pity that I didn't make any of the dumplings. I didn't get a chance to help my mother and sister-in-law make them!" Su Niannian said with a smile.
Gu Nan thought Su Niannian asked him that because she was the one who made the dumplings, but well, it turned out that Su Niannian didn't make a single dumpling.
However, Gu Nan didn't want Su Niannian to do any work, since she was pregnant.
"It's okay, I can make you some whenever you want," Gu Nan said with a smile, picking up a dumpling for Su Niannian as well.
In this day and age, if a family can make a meal of vegetable dumplings for the Lunar New Year, it's considered a very good thing.
If there's even a little meat in the dumplings, then this family lives a pretty good standard of living.
As a result, a bag of dumplings with meat can be enjoyed by one of the children in the family on their birthday.
This is simply such a wonderful thing.
Everyone enjoyed the meal immensely, filled with laughter and cheerful conversation.
Even three-year-old Yangyang ate eight large dumplings at this meal! He also ate a lot of meat.
If he hadn't been stopped for fear of indigestion, Yangyang felt he could have continued eating.
After dinner, Gu's mother and Zhao Tian cleaned up the dishes without asking Su Niannian and Gu Nan to help.
Su Niannian told Gu Nan that she had bought beef today, and Gu's mother had already made braised beef.
The beef has been soaking in the braising liquid for a long time, so it should be flavorful by now.
He asked Gu Nan if he wanted to send some over to Chief Lu that evening.
"Okay." Gu Nan nodded and agreed.
Sending braised beef was one thing, but Gu Nan also wanted to know how Chief Lu's actions were going.
Gu Nan now spends his days at the recruit camp and has no access to any other information.
He was actually a little worried, wondering how things were progressing over there.
Gu Nan was worried about whether Chief Lu's side was really capable of dealing with the other side.
If Gu Nan wasn't mistaken, this operation against Chief Lu was actually quite risky.
They were ruthless; they wanted to kill Chief Lu.
If Commander Lu hadn't been in his position as commander, and if those people hadn't been afraid that the commander's poisoning and subsequent autopsy would have revealed serious problems, Commander Lu might be dead by now.
Although it was not explicitly stated who did it.
However, Gu Nan wasn't entirely without suspicions.
I'll use the meat delivery as an excuse to go and see what's going on.
The two discussed it and decided to go to the military hospital that evening.
Su Niannian added a little bit of spiritual spring water to the braised beef halfway through cooking, mainly to enhance the flavor.
Furthermore, since this meat is for my own family to eat, adding some spiritual spring water to strengthen their bodies is not a problem.
When it comes to braised beef, if you put one pound of raw meat into the pot, after cooking it, you'll only get about six or seven ounces.
Therefore, one sees the unfamiliar but not the familiar.
When Gu's mother heard that the food was going to be sent to Chief Lu, she wished she could pack two lunchboxes of it.
Gu's mother only stopped when Su Niannian said that she didn't need so much.
That's quite a lot cut up, filling a whole big lunchbox.
It contained about three pounds of meat.
At that time, even the largest aluminum lunchbox could hold enough rice for two young men.
It's really quite big.
"Go and come back soon. Niannian is pregnant, so please take good care of her."
“Niannian is pregnant, so please take good care of her.” Gu Ningning said this almost at the same time as her mother.
It is clear that Gu's mother often said this.
Now Su Niannian is all I care about.
When Gu Ningning heard her mimicking her, Gu's mother slapped Gu Ningning's bottom.
"Okay." Gu Nan replied, let Su Niannian sit on the back of the bicycle, and took Su Niannian straight to the military hospital.
Su Niannian still held the flashlight to illuminate Gu Nan's path.
After the two arrived at the military hospital, they locked their bicycles and went upstairs.
The soldiers guarding the gate, seeing that it was the same two as yesterday, nodded and let them pass.
Gu Nan and Su Niannian went directly to Chief Lu's ward on the second floor.
You can hear the conversation inside from outside the door, but it's not very clear.
Gu Nan stood at the door and knocked.
"Come in!" Commander Lu called out from inside, and Gu Nan then pushed open the door and went in.
Once inside, I saw quite a few people, and none of them looked very well.