Chapter 99: Rebirth in the Nineties: The Tyrannical Flower, Chapter Ninety-Nine: Craftsmanship

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Protagonist:

Chai Mi

Chai Mi had just finished wrapping dumplings when Zhang Hailan arrived, face alight with excitement, hugging a crate of beer. On top of the beer crate were several sausages, a piece of pig head meat, and a bag of dried tofu. She came back, moving step by step.

Chai Mi smiled and hurried over to help, taking down the sausages, pig head meat, and dried tofu from above, and complained, "I've already brought dishes, and you still buy more? Is money blown in by the wind?"

"Two hard dishes, good for drinking. Besides, you come over to eat and even bring your own food—what's the matter? What, my sister-in-law's dishes aren't delicious?" Zhang Hailan joked with Chai Mi, and the two went into the room.

"Goodness, this beer is dead heavy, it nearly broke my back." Zhang Hailan set down the crate of beer, panting as she spoke.

Beer crates in this era were mostly plastic, the kind holding twenty-four bottles. Plus Black Pine itself was seven hundred milliliters, and there was the weight of the bottles themselves—about forty-something catties in all.

Zhang Hailan also bought other dishes, and it nearly came to fifty catties.

Carrying fifty catties of things and walking two li—of course it was tiring.

"Couldn't you buy a few fewer bottles? I can't drink that much, I'll just drink half a bottle... at most one bottle. The rest are all yours."

"You have to drink more, otherwise it's a waste of me carrying a crate back."

"I don't have that ability."

Chai Mi and Zhang Hailan moved the things into the room. Zhang Hailan had originally wanted to cook herself, but suddenly remembered something.

"Is Third Aunt's husband at home? I'll go call him over to eat together."

"No need." Chai Mi directly refused: "Sister-in-law, you absolutely must not call my father over. My father causes trouble when he drinks..."

These years, Chai Youqing was usually fine, but once he drank he started crying, saying the old master was unfair, that he only had several daughters and no son.

Chai Mi was thoroughly annoyed; he absolutely could not be allowed to come.

"But leaving him alone at home isn't right either. Just don't let him drink." Zhang Hailan felt a bit embarrassed; she couldn't let Chai Youqing eat alone at home.

But Chai Mi firmly opposed, and in the end Zhang Hailan didn't insist anymore.

After a while, Su Jin brought Chai Xiu'er back. The child loved to play; when they reached the door, seeing Su Jin's neighbor's children playing together, she also went over to join them.

Chai Mi cut the pig head meat, stir-fried the dried tofu with some chili peppers, sliced the sausages and plated them, then washed several potatoes she had brought herself, cut them into shreds, and stir-fried potato shreds with chili peppers.

After finishing these, she boiled water to cook the dumplings.

Although Chai Mi had never been a chef, she was still very skilled at making home-style dishes.

From far away, one could smell the aroma of the dishes.

A table was set on the kang, and Chai Mi went out to call Chai Xiu'er, who was playing: "Xiu'er, it's time to eat."

Chai Xiu'er then came back.

While eating, Chai Mi and Zhang Hailan had a few drinks, and Zhang Hailan's chatterbox opened up. She took Chai Mi's hand and started praising her nonstop, saying she had never eaten such delicious dumplings in her life, and that she had been moved to tears.

Su Jin also said with tears and snot running that the dumplings were delicious to death...

Chai Mi had an awkward expression: "......"

"Xiu'er, are these dumplings really as amazing as they say?"

But Chai Xiu'er was busy eating dumplings and completely ignored Chai Mi.

"Chai Mi, I've heard about the matter with your old family home. Those people should be dealt with like that." Zhang Hailan commented: "Evil-doers will meet their own retribution."

Zhang Hailan also said: "Should we help make up some nonsense for Xiao Doubao, saying she was messing around with other people at school or something...?"

This successfully made Chai Mi laugh: "Xiao Doubao looks like that—even if I gave her to you for free, would you want her?"