Chapter 61: Refrigerator and Rice Cooker

Time passed quickly, and it was almost noon. It was time to eat. Wu Xiuxiu’s lips had completely subsided and returned to normal.

“Xiuxiu, I’ll take you to eat.” Jiang Yunhan said.

“Where should we eat?” Wu Xiuxiu asked.

“The compound has a canteen, you can eat at the canteen, or you can go to the state-owned restaurant outside.” Jiang Yunhan replied.

“Eating at the canteen and the state-owned restaurant both cost money. I’ll go to the kitchen and see if there’s any rice and vegetables. If there is, I’ll cook and we’ll eat at home, that way we won’t have to spend a dime.” Wu Xiuxiu said.

She thought of the delicious food she had hoarded in her space. She wanted to take it out and eat it.

She hadn’t had the chance to take it out before, and she had been wanting to eat the food in her space every day. Now she finally had the chance.

Even if the kitchen didn’t have rice and vegetables, she would say that it did, then stay in the kitchen for a while, not letting her husband in, and then bring out the food from her space, saying that she had cooked it.

She was so clever, hehe!

“Hehe, my wife is really thrifty. On the first day you married me, you’re already thinking about my wallet and helping me save money. You must be a good housekeeper, I’ve struck gold.” Jiang Yunhan laughed.

“You know you’ve struck gold, so cherish it!” Wu Xiuxiu playfully glared at him, extending her finger to gently poke his chest.

That little gesture made Jiang Yunhan’s heart itch. He reached out and grabbed the little hand on his chest, pulled it up to his lips and kissed it, gazing at her with affection,

“Don’t worry, I will cherish you, this treasure, more than my own life, like I told you before.”

Wu Xiuxiu curled her lips, smiling with sweetness and happiness.

“Come on, I’ll take you to the kitchen. There must be rice and vegetables in the kitchen, because the army sends a lot of rice and vegetables every month, and we can’t finish it all. There should still be a lot of rice now, and there should be a lot of vegetables too.”

Jiang Yunhan pulled Wu Xiuxiu’s beautiful, snow-white, soft hand and went to the kitchen.

“The rice is here.”

After entering the kitchen, Wu Xiuxiu first looked for rice. She quickly found a large rice jar. She lifted the lid of the rice jar, and saw that it was half-full of rice. The rice looked like the best kind.

“Look at this rice, there must be a hundred pounds or so, enough for us to eat.” Jiang Yunhan leaned over to the rice jar and looked at the rice inside.

“Yeah.” Wu Xiuxiu nodded.

“Where are the vegetables?” She looked around, searching for vegetables. She soon saw several beautiful cabinets and immediately went over to open them. She quickly found potatoes and other vegetables that could be stored for a long time.

She also saw a large refrigerator. She had noticed this large refrigerator when she came to the kitchen to take a look before.

They already had a refrigerator at this time. Only families who could afford a refrigerator had one. It was very rare to see a refrigerator in ordinary families outside.

Let’s see what’s in the refrigerator.

Thinking this, Wu Xiuxiu came to the refrigerator and found that it had a brand name – Snowflake.

Snowflake refrigerator was a domestic brand. The first domestic refrigerator in China was the Snowflake refrigerator.

She remembered hearing people say that Snowflake refrigerators were very good, and they were even exported to foreign countries in the 1960s.

Wu Xiuxiu opened the refrigerator door and found that it was full of food. There were many fruits and many vegetables.

She looked around and found pork and chicken.

“So many vegetables, I feel like we can hold a banquet.” Wu Xiuxiu laughed.

“If we’re having a feast, we’re still missing fish. Don’t banquets usually have fish? … But we do have fish. There are fish in the pond outside, big and fat ones. If you want to eat fish, I’ll go catch one.” Jiang Yunhan said.

“Okay, hearing you mention fish, I actually want to eat some.” Wu Xiuxiu nodded with a smile, thinking to herself that she had many fish dishes ready in her space. She could just take out a cooked fish and eat.

Thinking of the fish dishes in her space made her mouth water. There was braised fish, steamed fish, sweet and sour fish, tomato fish, pickled fish, boiled fish, pan-fried pomfret, scallion-baked sea bass, and spicy hot pot fish…

When her husband went to catch a fish, she would shoo him out of the kitchen, then put the fish into her space and take out a cooked one. She would pretend it was her own cooking.

Jiang Yunhan immediately went out to catch fish. Wu Xiuxiu didn’t idle either. She saw the electric rice cooker and went to open it, taking out the inner pot. After scooping out and cleaning the rice, she went to the water pipe to wash it.

They had electric rice cookers now, but like refrigerators, few people could afford them.

In the 1960s, China could already produce electric rice cookers.

It was considered new at the time, but in modern times it was old-fashioned. She didn’t know how well the cooking function was, it definitely wouldn’t be as good as modern ones.

Hopefully, the cooking function was still decent and usable.

Although she had cooked rice in her space, and because of the space’s preservation function, it was still warm, this was the Jiang family. If her husband went into the kitchen after she left and found the rice cooker unused, he would be suspicious.

So she decided to cook rice using the Jiang family’s rice cooker.

As for the dishes, she didn’t have to worry. She would pretend to use the pot, wash it clean, and that would be it.

However, after taking out the dishes, she had to use the Jiang family’s bowls and plates. She was afraid that the bowls and plates from her space would be different from the Jiang family’s, and her husband would be suspicious if he saw them. So she had to use the Jiang family’s bowls and plates.

Jiang Yunhan soon returned with a beautiful red koi. Seeing such a beautiful and expensive fish, Wu Xiuxiu was a little reluctant to eat it, but she couldn’t say it out loud.

She could only say she would kill the fish herself when Jiang Yunhan offered to help.

“You want to kill it yourself? Can you do that?” Jiang Yunhan looked at his little wife with some doubt.

“What do you mean by that? Are you underestimating me? You’re really underestimating me! It’s just killing a fish, how could I not…

I’ve killed fish before, and let me tell you, I’m pretty good at it.”

Wu Xiuxiu was a little unhappy, her cherry-like lips pouted as she retorted.

“Your task is done, you’re not needed here. You don’t need to be here, get out quickly and don’t hinder me from cooking.” Wu Xiuxiu waved her hand, shooing him away.

“Don’t you need any help?” Jiang Yunhan wanted to stay.

“Help? Do you know how to cook?” Wu Xiuxiu raised an eyebrow and snorted.

Someone like him, who never went into the kitchen, obviously didn’t know how to cook.

Jiang Yunhan shook his head, and Wu Xiuxiu hummed: “Then how can you help? Don’t stay here, you’ll just get in the way. Go quickly… I’ll call you when the food is ready, you can come and carry it. Don’t enter the kitchen before then, you’ll just cause trouble.”

Before he could finish his sentence, she reached out and pushed him out of the kitchen, closing the door and locking it. This way, she was sure he wouldn’t disobey and suddenly barge in.

Wu Xiuxiu went into her space to get the dishes she was going to eat.

Wu Xiuxiu thought that today, she and her husband had gotten their marriage certificate and become husband and wife. They should celebrate and have a good meal. She planned to take out a dozen dishes.

Thinking of the dozen delicious dishes she was going to eat, Wu Xiuxiu’s mouth watered again…