Chapter 243 Pamper Your Own Partner

"Waaah!"

"No, you must eat vegetables. Only a balanced diet of meat and vegetables will provide nutrition."

Fang Meng pushed the lunchbox towards Fu Gui, looking like a serious and old-fashioned parent who would never allow his child to develop a picky eating habit.

Xiao Fugui looked at his sister pitifully, but unfortunately received no help. Bai Nuo even lowered her head, not daring to challenge Fang Meng on the issue of being picky about food.

Unable to rely on her older sister, Xiao Fugui had no choice but to lower her head, looking as if she had swallowed poison, and chewed a piece of green vegetable with her front teeth, her face full of pain as she swallowed it.

Why would a wolf need a balanced diet of meat and vegetables? It has never seen a wolf in the mountains eat meat with a bunch of greens next to it. It would be a disgrace to wolves if word got out.

"It didn't say it was you, right? Eat it!" Fang Meng picked up the lettuce that the little brat had pushed to the side of the lunchbox and shoved it into Bai Nuo's mouth.

"I don't like this!"

With a mouthful of lettuce in her mouth, Bai Nuo's expression was exactly the same as Fu Gui'er's!

“You have to eat it even if you don’t like it. Garlic lettuce is delicious. I removed all the garlic. Try it. You’re the one who taught Fugui to be a picky eater. Didn’t we agree last time that we need to eat vegetables to grow tall? You don’t like radishes, so we can skip those, but you can’t not eat any green vegetables at all.”

Fang Meng felt that he was going to great lengths to coax this brat to eat more vegetables every day. She had never liked eating vegetables since she was a child. When she was younger, she was not very bright and it was easier to fool her, but now she couldn't be fooled at all and could only be forced.

Bai Nuo swallowed the bite of lettuce with a pained expression; she really didn't like cooked lettuce.

Fang Meng sighed softly, reached out and chuckled as he ruffled the little girl's hair, then picked up a piece of braised pork and fed it to her. Seeing that a smile finally appeared on her little face, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then you tell me what vegetables you want to eat, and I'll go get them. Eating only meat is definitely not enough." We must not let our child develop picky eating habits.

Bai Nuo pouted and thought carefully for a moment before saying a few things she could accept: "I want to eat oyster sauce lettuce, garlic water spinach, blanched bok choy, garland chrysanthemum, and baby bok choy. I also like green beans, cowpeas, and eggplants from Northeast China, since they are all vegetables. Aunt Cui'e's tofu is also quite delicious."

“Okay, I’ll get whatever they don’t have here in the Northeast. As for the tofu, I’ll go to the team leader’s house to get more later.” Fang Meng nodded without the slightest hesitation.

As long as the child doesn't only think about eating meat, he can find a way to get vegetables from abroad.

"Second Brother, I just heard that our commune is going to open a supply and marketing cooperative. Is it true?" Bai Nuo asked Fang Meng curiously while eating her delicious lunch.

Hearing the words "Second Brother," Fang Meng felt a little upset. He put down the lunchbox in his hand and looked at Bai Nuo with a helpless and aggrieved expression: "Niu Niu, can you please stop calling me Second Brother? Please use a different term of address that is appropriate for your partner."

He always felt that if he didn't change the way he addressed her, this little brat might forget at any moment that she had a boyfriend!

"Huh?" Bai Nuo was still thinking about the commune's supply and marketing cooperative when she was suddenly interrupted. But it was just a change in terminology, so she didn't mind.

Her grandmother said that you have to pamper your own man.

"Okay, then I'll call you A-Meng from now on! Oh, and don't forget to tell your older brother and the others."

The news that the commune was going to open a supply and marketing cooperative spread quickly, which brought cheers from the production teams closest to the commune.

In the past, if a family lacked something, they had to go to great lengths to reach the county town. They had to get up very early to catch an oxcart or horse-drawn cart, or walk there, which would take two or three hours and leave them exhausted.

But the commune was much closer; it only took a little over half an hour to walk there from Qishui Brigade, and if you went early, you could even snag some meat.

The key point is that since we're opening a supply and marketing cooperative, we definitely need sales clerks. Lately, everyone's been asking around and trying to find connections to see if they can snag a job at the newly opened cooperative.

After Bai Nuo returned, she behaved herself for two whole days. To outsiders, this meant that the young girl had started to pay attention to her image after getting a boyfriend, and had learned to be gentle and sensible. She no longer flirted around like a country bumpkin, which was annoying to everyone.

Little did she know, she was actually trying to calm herself down, afraid that if she lost control and turned into a mentally unstable woman, she might accidentally kill someone, which would be a hassle to deal with afterwards!

Fang Meng hasn't been going out much these past few days. He's assigned the tasks to a few brothers who are hiding in the county. His most important task now is to guard the Qishui Brigade, which has made it easier for him to find a girlfriend.

Fang Meng adapted quite well to the change in identity, but her little girl didn't seem to have changed much. So, Fang Meng has been particularly proactive and enthusiastic in taking care of her boyfriend these past two days, determined to make the little girl understand that she is different now and that she has a boyfriend.

Not wanting his little girl to go through all that trouble at midday, Fang Meng would finish his work early, then go back to the educated youth compound to cook, and then take the prepared lunch to the animal husbandry team to eat with his little girlfriend.

"I caught a wild duck in the reeds this morning and made some duck soup. Try it and see how it tastes." Fang Meng took out a bucket-shaped, three-layered enamel lunchbox from the basket. The bottom layer was the tallest, and the top two layers were each about three fingers wide, just enough to hold rice.

"There's also sweet and sour pork ribs!" Bai Nuo opened another aluminum lunchbox, and the sweet and sour aroma that wafted out made the little girl smile and take a deep breath.

Fang Meng smiled and nodded, then opened another aluminum lunchbox, which was filled with spicy stir-fried cabbage.

Bai Nuo seemed to really enjoy the food; he ate the entire lunchbox of rice, finishing it all and eventually bursting into burps from being so full.

Seeing the little girl eating with such satisfaction, Fang Meng felt that it would be an incredibly happy thing for him to cook for her for the rest of his life.

"Oh, you two are having dinner!" A middle-aged woman wearing a tattered gray jacket and a headscarf walked over. She had high eyebrows, a thin, dark face, and a mean and sarcastic look. She glanced enviously and jealously at the small pile of bones on the table, then curled her lip and slyly looked at the enamel lunchbox with half a bucket of duck soup left.

She had never seen that green three-layered lunchbox before; it wasn't something that could be bought at the local county's supply and marketing cooperative, so it must have been brought back from the city.

Why should such good stuff be used by a little girl who can't do anything?

The middle-aged woman's eyes darted around, and she made up her mind. Such a good son-in-law, she had to bring him to her own home. She couldn't let this lazy girl waste him, that would be a waste!