Chapter 39 : If the tiger doesn’t show its power..

“Ahem, sister-in-law, thank you for your compliment, but I am indeed a very frugal person.”

Lu Fangfang was not shy and accepted all the compliments from her sister-in-law.

“You… you bought it? Not from the group?”

Long-faced sister-in-law Li Shulan looked at Lu Fangfang in disbelief.

So, she praised the wrong person?

“Um.”

Lu Fangfang nodded quickly.

Seeing the expression on her long-faced, Lu Fangfang felt very happy.

This person had said weird things to her time and again, and this time she finally got humiliated.

“Since sister-in-law likes to chew bones, come to my house tomorrow morning, and I’ll get a big bone for you to chew.”

In front of all the military wives, Lu Fangfang appeared very generous.

“What are you talking about? Bah, who wants to gnaw on your stinky bones? There’s not even a bit of meat on them.”

Li Shulan’s face changed, and she spat.

Turning her head and taking another look at the cow’s spine, she curled her lips. Even a dog would shake its head when seeing such a clean bone.

“It’s okay if you don’t like it.”

Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes. She was just being polite. If she really wanted to give the bones to the long-faced sister-in-law, she would be reluctant to do so. After all, the purchasing station only charged three cents for a pound of bones.

Seeing that the sisters-in-law in the car were watching the fun, she smiled and said:

“Sisters-in-law, I can’t finish all these beef bones, livers, and tripes by myself. If you don’t mind, come to my house tomorrow morning to get some beef bone soup.”

After the bones are used to boil down the butter, they can be added with beef liver and tripe to make a pot of beef offal soup.

It’s getting hot now, and the holiday won’t last long, so Lu Fangfang plans to share some of the food with her sisters-in-law in the staff quarters.

She will live in the staff housing estate from now on, so she has to maintain good relationships with the family.

Well, she didn’t expect anything else, she just hoped her sisters-in-law would talk less about her.

“Comrade Lu, really? Then I have to go and try it tomorrow morning.”

“Comrade Lu, I won’t cook tomorrow morning. I’ll just wait to drink your beef bone soup.”

“Fangfang, you are thoughtful.”

Most of the sisters-in-law in the military vehicle were very interested and talked about it with a smile.

In their opinion, it doesn’t matter whether there is meat on the bones or not, as long as they can cook a pot of soup with oil, it’s fine. At worst, they can take the meat home and eat it with noodles.

“You really are from a small town. What’s so good about beef bone soup? If you really want to be thoughtful, you should treat your sisters-in-law to meat.”

Lu Fangfang frowned slightly and turned to look at Li Shulan, “Sister-in-law, I didn’t invite you. So you can’t drink it anyway.”

“you……”

Without waiting for the long-faced sister-in-law to speak, Lu Fangfang continued with a fake smile “A thoughtful person like you must have invited the sisters-in-law in the family compound to eat meat several times. I have to learn from you.”

“Oh, you bought a lot of beef this time when you came to the county town. Are you planning to treat your sisters-in-law to have some?”

“Puff.”

The sisters-in-law around couldn’t help themselves and all laughed.

“Yes, Shulan, is this piece of beef you bought for us to eat?”

“Shulan, why don’t you just give the meat to Comrade Lu? It will be perfect for cooking with the beef bone soup.”

Listening to the teasing from the people around her, Li Shulan’s face turned green.

“Go, go, go, this meat has no share for you.”

Li Shulan waved her hand and quickly found a corner with fewer people and sat down.

Seeing that the people in the car were still looking at her, she really wanted to find something to cover her face. This time, she was truly embarrassed.

“Don’t be angry, sister-in-law. We were all joking. You must come to drink the beef bone soup tomorrow morning.”

Lu Fangfang really laughed this time.

Seeing Li Shulan’s look, she felt very happy.

“You bought a bunch of beef bones to treat our guests. Who do you think you are? You’re treating us? You’re such a spendthrift. You don’t know how to live. You’ll be too poor to eat…”

The long-faced sister-in-law sat in the corner and started mumbling strange things again.

Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes.

This person’s mouth is really never idle. Not wanting to pay attention to her anymore, Lu Fangfang held her cow spine and started thinking secretly.

This time, I’m treating my sisters-in-law to beef bone soup, so I can take this opportunity to ask about quail eggs.

There are sisters-in-law from all over the country who came to join the army, so maybe someone knows about them.

By the way, she also has to ask Sister Shufen about the goose eggs and duck eggs. Sister Shufen has helped her so much, she has to remember Sister Shufen’s kindness.

As for vegetable seeds, she could also ask her sisters-in-law. If there were any that were not bought today, she could ask them for some.

When Lu Fangfang thought about it, she realized that she had done the right thing by treating the guests this time.

If you have a good relationship with your sisters-in-law, it will be convenient to share what you have in the future.

“Sisters-in-law, are all the people back?”

The driver held onto the edge of the military vehicle, counted the sisters-in-law in the vehicle, and found that there were not enough people.

“Comrade Liu, Sister Chunhua and Sister Guilan haven’t come back yet.”

“That’s fine, sisters-in-law, wait a little longer. I’m going to the department store and will be back soon.”

As there weren’t many people there, the driver planned to take advantage of the time and go to the department store to buy some things.

After waiting for another half an hour, it was almost half past one when the two sisters-in-law, Chunhua and Guilan, came back with fashionable hairstyles. The people in the military vehicle complained.

“Comrade Liu, everyone is here, let’s drive quickly.”

“Okay.”

The driver responded and the car slowly started moving.

Another half an hour later, everyone finally returned to the family compound.

There were so many things she bought that Lu Fangfang had to make two trips back and forth to move everything home, and she needed help from her sister Shufen.

Looking at the pile of beef bones, she decided to cook them quickly.

It takes a long time to boil the bones to extract the butter.

She had to tell her sisters-in-law that they would drink beef bone soup tomorrow morning, and there could be no delay.