Chapter 156: Asking for Meat, Actually a Probe

Hearing this, Li Xinyue laughed.

“Who in the modern world doesn’t know how to make ice? Anyone who has studied chemistry knows how to do it, right?”

“With saltpeter, you can make it.”

“You wait for me!”

With that, Chen Mingchuan rushed out the door like a gust of wind.

Li Xinyue: “…”

He wouldn’t be going back to town, would he?

After about ten minutes, Chen Mingchuan returned, looking like he hadn’t gone into town.

“Here!”

A brown paper package, about half a pound.

“Where did you get this?”

“From the military hospital.”

Well, okay!

Li Xinyue took the saltpeter and put it away in the kitchen. Xiao Nan wouldn’t be leaving until tomorrow morning.

Burning, washing, scraping, cutting, Chen Mingchuan took care of everything.

As the meat went into the pot, he started cutting potatoes.

“Report!”

Someone came to the door.

Chen Mingchuan replied, “Come in.”

Squad Leader Xiao Wu, with two soldiers, carried a bundle of things and entered, “Battalion Commander, this is the wire mesh you wanted.”

Chen Mingchuan immediately put down the potatoes in his hand: “Put it up on the rack in the backyard.”

“Yes!”

Seeing the wire mesh, Li Xinyue blinked: “…”

He can even get this?

This man is very resourceful!

Just as Xiao Wu and the soldiers went inside, someone came to the door: “Is anyone home at Battalion Commander Chen’s?”

More people came.

Li Xinyue quickly went out.

But when she saw the woman in front of her, she frowned: “Do you have something for me?”

Liu Guilian had a charming smile on her face: “Hello, hello, my name is Liu Guilian, my husband is from the security department.”

“I heard you have meat for sale at your house. My child hasn’t eaten meat for days, and I wanted to buy some from you. Would you sell me some?”

Buy meat?

Li Xinyue frowned even more tightly: “Sister Liu, who said my house has meat for sale? Are you mistaken?”

Seeing that Li Xinyue didn’t admit it, Liu Guilian became a little unhappy.

“Battalion Commander Chen’s wife, I heard you got a wild boar. I just want to buy a pound or two of meat, you wouldn’t be so stingy, would you?”

What kind of person is this?

Trying to force a sale?

Li Xinyue hated this kind of person the most, and Qian Sanni had already told her about this person’s character.

“Sorry, I’m very, very stingy. The meat has already been divided, I don’t have even half a pound left.”

As soon as she said this, Liu Guilian was really unhappy: This woman is very, very unreasonable!

“Battalion Commander Chen’s wife, we are all military wives from the countryside, right?”

Li Xinyue had already been briefed by Qian Sanni, and she nodded: “Yes! What about military wives from the countryside?”

“Are we inferior?”

Liu Guilian’s face fell. “That’s not what I meant. I mean, since we are all military wives from the countryside, we should support each other!”

Come on!

Selling meat to you, no, giving you meat, is support, right?

Li Xinyue’s face sank: “Sister Liu, your thinking is wrong!”

“Whether we are from the countryside or the city, we all have a common name: military wives!”

“The military and the people are one family, are there any differences between military wives from different places?”

“You are creating division and sabotage!”

“Don’t say such things in front of me in the future. We military wives should be aware of our responsibilities, we should unite and support our husbands’ careers!”

“Alright, I’ll pretend I didn’t hear anything today. I have something to do at home, so I won’t keep you for tea. Please leave!”

She’s creating division and sabotage?

Liu Guilian was so angry that she gritted her teeth, and glared at Li Xinyue: “Okay, you have awareness, you have good thoughts, alright?”

“Just because you’re from the countryside, don’t think you’re something special!”

What kind of person is this!

Li Xinyue was angry: “I’m not a special person, if you want to be a special person, go ahead! Goodbye, I won’t see you off!”

Liu Guilian, her face flushed, left the Chen’s house and walked back home, her eyes filled with hatred.

“Oh, Sister Liu, where are you coming from? Who made you so angry?”

Liu Guilian and Wang Lijuan usually didn’t interact, and there was resentment between them: last year, Wang Lijuan took Liu Guilian’s cardboard factory quota!

“Nowhere, just passing by.”

Passing by?

Wang Lijuan scoffed: Clearly coming out of the Chen’s house, yet claiming to be passing by?

Don’t believe you!

If Wang Lijuan hadn’t seen Liu Guilian coming out of the Chen’s house, she wouldn’t have bothered with her. They had a fight over this job.

According to the time of joining the army, this job should have been given to Liu Guilian.

But Wang Lijuan had a job in the local area, she came with a quota, and the army prioritized those with existing jobs.

Therefore, the quota was gone.

Losing the job she had been waiting for two years, Liu Guilian hated Wang Lijuan to the heavens.

After shaking off Wang Lijuan, she returned home and happened to meet Secretary Xu, coming back.

“What’s wrong? Who made you angry?”

Liu Guilian didn’t have much education, only a primary school diploma, but she was indeed quite attractive.

Coupled with her family’s influence, Secretary Xu, was quite satisfied with her, except for the fact that she couldn’t give birth to a son…

“That Chen, the battalion commander’s wife, is not a good person!”

Chen, the battalion commander?

Chen Mingchuan ?

Secretary Xu, blinked: “How did you get involved with her?”

Liu Guilian snorted: “If it weren’t for the fact that we both came from the countryside, I wouldn’t even bother with her!”

“But she, she’s ungrateful!”

“Qi Xiufang said that their wild boar meat was allocated by the army, and the wild boar was hunted by Chen, the battalion commander, and his wife while cutting firewood in the mountains.”

“She said that Instructor Lin felt embarrassed to ask for more, so he sent the entire wild boar to the Chen’s house.”

“A whole wild boar, how much meat is that?”

“I went to her, wanting to buy a pound or two of meat for the kids to try, but she refused!”

“She refused, and she even said I was causing division and sabotage!”

Secretary Xu, knew that his wife only liked to associate with military wives from the countryside because the military wives from the city were all arrogant.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Is it causing division and sabotage to like military wives from the countryside?

His eyes flashed, and Secretary Xu’s, face darkened: “Since that’s the case, don’t help her anymore.”

“Who would help her? Humph, such an ungrateful person, I wouldn’t even bother with her!”

The disgust on Liu Guilian’s face deepened…

After Li Xinyue went back to the kitchen, Chen Mingchuan came out from the backyard.

“Who?”

“Sanni said her husband is a secretary in the security department, her name is Liu Guilian, she’s from Hongxing Commune in this Duyang Town.”

Chen Mingchuan didn’t really know the military wives.

But he knew Secretary Xu.

“This couple are not good people, keep your distance from them!”

Li Xinyue rolled her eyes: “I wouldn’t associate with such people, always dividing people into groups, she’s causing division!”

Exactly.

Military wives are the wives of soldiers, where is there such a thing as city wives and country wives?

“The potato slices are starting to dry, go and see if they’re okay, I’ll go and get the settled potato starch.”

The potato starch had settled, it needed to be dried before it could be stored.

Li Xinyue nodded: “Okay, I’ll go and have a look.”

Coming out of the backyard, Li Xinyue prepared to make dinner.

Xiao Nan needed to eat noodles at night, she thought for a moment and decided to make him a bowl of minced meat noodles.

Minced meat noodles are all about the sauce.

If there’s meat sauce, there’s no need for a separate sauce, just make a clear soup… But what kind of clear soup?