Chapter 72: Severing the Rotten Peach Blossom

All morning, Shen Chuning was learning basic accounting knowledge from Old Peng.

Before learning, she thought accounting was just bookkeeping and calculation.

After learning, she realized that there was so much more to accounting.

When she was studying before, she didn’t finish high school because she was afraid of hardship and fatigue.

After having that dream, she knew how important knowledge and culture were.

After the college entrance examination was restored, if even one person in the family could get into university, it could change the whole family’s destiny.

She had already decided to take the college entrance examination when it was restored.

At this moment, she was like a sponge, frantically absorbing knowledge in the ocean of knowledge.

Regardless of her learning effect, her serious and studious attitude made Old Peng very satisfied.

At lunchtime.

The commune had a canteen.

But many staff members lived in the commune, to save money, they usually went home for lunch.

Many female comrades left work twenty minutes early to go home and cook.

Peng Kaiyuan was alone and used to eating in the canteen.

Shen Chuning naturally couldn’t go home for lunch, so she went to the canteen with Peng Kaiyuan.

The canteen food was usually sorghum rice and corn grits mixed with some rice, occasionally sweet potato rice, with more sweet potatoes and less rice.

Today, the canteen served sweet potato rice.

On the surface, it looked like white rice, but in reality, a spoonful down, except for a few grains of rice on top, the bottom was all sweet potatoes.

Shen Chuning didn’t like eating sweet potatoes, they were not only hard to swallow but also made her fart.

But now she had to overcome it.

Perhaps because there were many vegetables in this season, the canteen had many dishes: eggplant, green peppers, stir-fried lettuce, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and stir-fried cowpea.

All vegetarian dishes, and they looked oily, each dish seemed to be boiled in water.

Of course, there was meat, but it had to be cooked separately, fifty fen a portion, and required meat coupons.

It was expensive, and ordinary people couldn’t afford it.

Shen Chuning didn’t have much appetite looking at the food, but she didn’t dare to be too high-profile as a newcomer, she couldn’t order separately.

She followed Old Peng and got one liang of rice, a portion of tiger skin green pepper, and a portion of stir-fried Chinese cabbage.

The rice in the canteen was two fen per liang, and the vegetables were one fen a portion, hers cost four fen plus one liang of grain coupons.

She saw that Old Peng had taken two liang of rice and three vegetable dishes and was about to pay for the teacher.

Old Peng took out the money and grain coupons before her.

“Ningning, you treated me to dinner last night, today I’ll treat you.”

Shen Chuning didn’t argue with Old Peng.

She readily agreed.

But she decided to make some easy-to-store and convenient meat dishes to bring to the teacher.

The teacher had been eating vegetarian food in the canteen for a long time, and his nutrition couldn’t keep up.

Shen Chuning was thinking when Yin Linjiang came with his lunch box and sat at their table, “Old Peng, Comrade Shen, do you mind if I sit here?”

Shen Chuning smiled friendly, “Not at all.”

Old Peng saw Yin Linjiang looking at Shen Chuning, his eyes rolled, and he deliberately asked Shen Chuning, “Ningning, how long is your husband’s annual leave?”

“Generally, they have a month of leave a year.” This question didn’t involve any secrets, Shen Chuning answered frankly.

Actually, regarding Zhou Yubai’s work, she didn’t know anything about the real secrets.

So far, she only knew the address of the army where Zhou Yubai and her third brother were stationed.

After Shen Chuning answered, Yin Linjiang was shocked and looked at Shen Chuning incredulously, “Comrade Shen, you’re already married?”

“Mm, I’m married. Comrade Yin, is there a problem?”

Shen Chuning noticed Yin Linjiang’s tone and asked.

Yin Linjiang awkwardly waved his hands repeatedly, “No, no, I just think Comrade Shen looks young, I didn’t expect you to be married already.”

Shen Chuning smiled, “I heard that Comrade Yin is from the city. You may not know that we usually get married earlier in the countryside.”

Yin Linjiang also smiled, but there was more sadness in his smile.

When he first saw Shen Chuning in the morning, he thought she was just a beautiful vase, suitable for admiring.

But after spending the morning in the same office.

He found that Shen Chuning was not only beautiful but also very studious and had strong learning ability.

Such a woman was exactly the revolutionary comrade he wanted to spend his life with.

He had already thought about pursuing her, but unexpectedly, Shen Chuning was already married.

Peng Kaiyuan added, “Ningning is not only married, her husband is a soldier.”

Yin Linjiang’s eyes, which had been shining when he looked at Shen Chuning, dimmed obviously.

During the meal, he was quieter and didn’t deliberately find topics to talk to Shen Chuning.

Peng Kaiyuan was very satisfied with this result.

Shen Chuning was oblivious to this, and didn’t notice it at all.

After lunch, Shen Chuning, with Old Peng’s permission, went to the post office to mail a package to Zhou Yubai.