Chapter 95

With her plan to buy a car dashed, Wen Rou focused on the tasks right in front of her. She cooked dinner herself that evening, buying some baby bok choy—tender greens that could be eaten simply by dipping them briefly into soup. She also bought two pounds of beef, some chili peppers, garlic cloves, and ginger. In this lifetime, Wen Rou had developed a particular fondness for beef, and she loved mutton too, though she had no idea when she had started eating very little pork. Perhaps in her past life she had gradually phased it out as well. In her past life, when she rented her own place and cooked, she usually ate Chinese fast food downstairs during the day or grabbed lunch at the pedestrian street. For dinner, she kept it simple with a single soup and one dish, or sometimes just brewed a pot of soup. She rarely ate meat, except on her days off when she would whip up a few meat dishes. After a tiring week, she wanted to treat herself to something nice, so even when beef at the supermarket cost forty or fifty yuan a catty, she would still buy half a pound.