Chapter 53: It can’t really be my uncle! (1)

Gu Si spoke sourly, and he felt sour inside as well.

Don’t think he didn’t hear it. When that person said he would treat you all to a meal, he actually only wanted to treat Lingxi.

After Gu Si finished complaining, he picked up the pile of lunch boxes, carried them back to the cave, and rolled up his sleeves to cook.

Gu Si's cooking skills are quite good. He is a quick learner. After leaving the interstellar space and arriving at this planet, Gu Si was first conquered by the delicious food here. His cooking skills have since improved by leaps and bounds.

Lingxi watched her fourth brother cook a dish exactly the same as someone else's, stealing glances at her while cooking.

It’s just cooking!

As if no one can!
Lingxi: “…”

After Lingxi went down the ladder that Gu Si had specially installed for her on the stone platform, she couldn't help laughing out loud.

Her fourth brother is competing with the guy just now!

Hahahaha!

How can he be so cute!

The three brothers Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan were working in the wasteland, weeding, pulling out bushes and turning the soil.

The old Pei family is different from Gu Si and Lingxi. Gu Si and his family were able to infer that Pei Fuzhu was reborn, and the historical books that Lingxi had read before could verify each other, so they could accurately know that the upcoming famine would last for three years.

Uncle Pei and his son only learned from Uncle Pei that there would be a food shortage starting from the second half of next year, but even with just this information, they could infer a lot.

The grain distributed to the village throughout the year is the same, harvested once in summer and once in autumn.

If food shortages really start at the end of the year, there is still half a year before summer harvest and grain distribution!

How much energy can the villagers, who have been hungry for half a year, have to tend to the crops?

It is conceivable that the summer harvest of the second year will not be very good.

By this calculation, the food shortage will last at least less than a year.

After Lingxi's engagement party, except for Second Uncle Pei, the only one in the Pei family who was still keeping an eye on the progress of Lingxi's house construction: Pei Jin, Pei Yu, Pei Xuan, and even Third Uncle Pei Furui, all tried their best to get things into the house.

But these days everything has to be distributed. In the city, if you have a grain ration book, each person can get about 30 kilograms of food per month. In the countryside, based on work points and the number of people, each person can only get 300 to 400 kilograms per year. Private trading is not allowed.

Under such circumstances, it was simply a pipe dream for them to produce enough food in large quantities to feed more than a dozen people for a year.

Therefore, Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan could only work hard in the mountains.

They originally wanted to find a piece of land to grow sweet potatoes, but Gu Si thought it would be a pity to leave the valley alone, so he brought the three brothers of the Pei family here.

The Pei brothers originally just came to take a look casually, wondering what kind of land they could grow. They really didn't expect the land in this valley to be so good!

After the preparation is completed, this crop of winter wheat will be planted and mature in April or May next year. If there is any famine, it will definitely be of great use.

If not...

Nowadays, we have heard that we cannot buy food with banknotes, but we have never heard that food cannot be exchanged for banknotes. Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan are not worried at all.

Seeing Lingxi coming over and hearing that they were going to eat now, the three of them were a little surprised and subconsciously looked up at the sky.

It’s probably at most eleven o’clock now, or even less than eleven o’clock.

All in all, they only worked in the fields for more than an hour.

Lingxi suppressed her smile and didn't mention what Gu Si had done. She only said, "Brother Si has stored some meat in the cave here. You must have spent a lot of effort today. You must eat something good first! It's almost time for lunch."

Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan naturally had no choice but to respond.

The three of them simply washed their hands and faces by the stream, and followed Lingxi into the cave. This was their first time in the cave, and it was a different world inside, tidy and clean, and even a place to live. Especially the bags of mountain products and strips of bacon and dried meat on the shelves in the warehouse surprised them, and they had a clearer understanding of Gu Si's abilities.

Pei Yanning's stack of aluminum lunch boxes actually only contained two dishes: chicken stewed with mushrooms, and stir-fried bacon with green peppers.

He copied the same dish and also cooked for Lingxi the braised fish, braised spareribs and three fresh vegetables that she had wanted to eat earlier. He was very competitive and was unwilling to let Lingxi feel unhappy with the meal.

Gu Si brought the food to the stone table, put the dishes in the aluminum lunch boxes into the same plates and brought them up together, motioning for everyone to take a seat.

The table was full, and Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan looked at each other.

Is this too much?

Why are the portions so big? Some dishes can’t fit on one plate and have to be put on several plates.

Do they look so edible?
Lingxi held back her laughter and started eating. Although Pei Jin, Pei Yu and Pei Xuan didn't understand, they still started eating.

however--

As soon as they ate it, they found something wrong.

This dish is a double portion of chicken stewed with mushrooms and stir-fried green peppers with bacon, and the flavors are different.

Pei Jin looked at Gu Si in confusion.

Gu Si coughed, his face not red and he didn't breathe hard, he said nonsense seriously: "I'm just practicing the recipe, see which one tastes good, and I'll cook that next time."

The three brothers suddenly realized.

That's it!
Pei Jin Pei Xuan pointed at one of the plates and said, "This one tastes better."

Pei Yu also nodded, indicating that the one that tasted better.

Gu Si's eyes lit up, and the corners of his mouth slightly raised, but the next moment, the smile just froze on his face. Pei Yu looked at the remaining plate of pheasant stewed with mushrooms, and said in a surprised tone: "This tastes a bit like what my uncle made."

Pei Yu was a long-distance driver in the transport team. Over the years, when he went to the capital, he was sometimes very lucky and would meet Uncle Pei when he was not on a mission. Pei Yu had a very deep memory of Uncle Pei's craftsmanship.

It is really……

He had never seen a grown man cooking before!
Uncle Pei was the first one, and Gu Si in front of him was the second one.

"Uncle?" Gu Si's tone was a little subtle.

Pei Yu didn't understand why and didn't notice Gu Si's strangeness. He nodded and said, "Yes, uncle."

When Lingxi heard them talking about her uncle, she habitually pretended she heard nothing and continued eating. The ribs, fish and eggplant that her fourth brother specially made for her were so delicious!
Well, they all tasted delicious.

Pei Yu glanced at Lingxi and found that she was eating happily. He continued to secretly speak well of Uncle Pei in front of Lingxi.

"My uncle is very busy. He travels all over the country in the mountains and forests all year round. I heard that sometimes he is not even in the country. He is so busy that I don't see him eight out of ten times when I go to the capital.

I was in his dormitory that time, and he was called away in the middle of the night. When I woke up the next day, I heard from a clerk that he had another mission and left overnight. "

Lingxi quietly pricked up her ears and even slowed down her eating speed.

Gu Si: “…”

!!!

Mountains and forests!

He instantly thought of the group of people on the next hill, and then thought of this man's strange reaction when facing him and Lingxi today.

His eyes fell on the table full of food, and he felt sick all over!
(End of this chapter)