Without Yang Ying, Yuan Chun felt that the air in the food factory seemed a few degrees fresher, and no one came to trouble the young ones anymore.

Day by day passed, and soon it was the Spring Festival.

Since the Sun family’s parents passed away, for the past two years, the original owner had been brought to the Yun family by Yun Xiaofei to spend New Year’s Eve. Uncle Yun and Aunt Yun would even give her a big red envelope as New Year’s money.

This year, Yun Xiaofei came again to pick her up, but Yuan Chun refused the kindness of the Yun family.

Yuan Chun said, "Ms. Xiao Fei, I’m already married, and even though I’m divorced now, I’m an adult. I’ll just spend New Year’s Eve at home and won’t go anywhere. Please convey my greetings to Grandpa Yun and Grandma Yun."

Then, she packed a bowl of freshly fried meatballs and asked Yun Xiaofei to take them home.

Seeing her stubbornness and her refusal to come, Yun Xiaofei had no choice but to ride her bicycle back home.

When she got home, Yun Xiaoqian saw the empty backseat and asked, "Sis, isn’t Yuan Chun coming to our house for the New Year?"

"She said she’s not coming. She’s spending the New Year at home by herself." Yun Xiaofei parked her bicycle and took the small basket hanging on the handlebars into the house.

After hearing her granddaughter’s reply, Grandma Yun said, "Yuan Chun is sensible and does things with propriety. In those two years, she wasn’t married yet and was still a minor, so it was fine for her to spend the New Year with us. After all, you all got along well, and Yuan Chun is a child we watched grow up."

"But now, as a woman who got married and divorced, how could she have the nerve to come to our house for the New Year? Although we wouldn’t mind those things, seeing that, others might gossip. Yuan Chun doesn’t want to cause trouble for us. This child is so sensible and endearing, it tugs at the heartstrings. You all should help her more in the future, especially Xiao Hu, Xiao Qian, and Xiao Lei. You three owe her a debt of gratitude."

Yun Xiaoqian nodded solemnly, "I understand, Grandma. Even if I didn’t owe her a debt of gratitude, I would still help her. I... I’ve always thought of her as family."

"Mmm, it’s good that you think that way. Our Yun family mustn’t be ungrateful."

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After seeing Yun Xiaofei off, Yuan Chun closed the courtyard door and went to the kitchen. Then she took out a big pot of chopped ribs from the space, preparing to make a large pot of sweet and sour ribs and another big pot of braised ribs.

She also took out a big pot of sliced pork belly.

And some large pieces of sliced preserved meat.

In short, Yuan Chun planned to cook meat dishes all day today, making lots of them to store in space for easy access later.

Usually, she rarely cooks meat dishes, worried that people might suspect something, as workers have a limited amount of meat coupons each month. She only cooked meat once a week.

But today is the New Year, and every household is cooking meat; the entire alley is filled with the aroma of meat. No matter how much meat she cooks, it won’t attract attention.

Yuan Chun took out a large pot with a diameter of one meter from the space, and also took out a matching large stove, with red charcoal beneath. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

A large pot of ribs was directly cooked in one pot.

Then, she took out a large charcoal grill and put more than twenty seasoned chickens into it.

Yuan Chun was busy from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m., making braised pork, Dongpo pork, preserved meat, meatballs, braised ribs, sweet and sour ribs, salt and pepper ribs, crispy pork ribs, crispy pork belly, and various braised flavors, roasted chicken, roasted duck, roasted ribs, etc.

She had specially stored a batch of large stainless steel buckets for food storage in her space. She poured the hot delicious food into the appropriate large buckets, and seeing each bucket filled gave her a full sense of security.

As someone who came from the post-apocalyptic world, Yuan Chun had an obsessive compulsion to store food. Whenever she had the chance, she liked to prepare lots of food to store in the space.

Now, with more than half of her space filled with hot meals, she could lie down and do nothing, and the food prepared in the space would be enough for her to eat for ten years.