Chapter 204: Those Years in the Great Northern Wilderness (4)
Chapter 204: Those Years in the Great Northern Wilderness (4)
The inner house is at the back, which is a simple apartment with one bright room and two dark rooms. The yard is relatively large, even taking into account the need to build additional houses when the children grow up.
They will live here for more than ten or twenty years. Anyway, before the college entrance examination is resumed, they have never thought of moving. In the future... let the children live with them.
This yard needs to be tidied up.
Today the island is sparsely populated, and each household has a spacious courtyard, most of which are used as vegetable gardens.
Her yard is also mainly a vegetable garden.
Lingxi has made full use of every piece of land. She knows exactly what vegetables grow in which area and how to intercrop them. So, although her vegetable garden is small, the variety of vegetables is the richest. Any vegetable that can be grown here can be found in her garden as long as you take out the right vegetable seeds.
Sometimes, she would feel a little guilty that she had led Tongzi astray and he now stayed inside the robot every day, studying food, cooking and farming, and was very busy.
But eating the food Lingxi made, Yun Tinglan suddenly felt that those were nothing. Isn't there a food system? Lingxi can be considered one, except that the host is the one who cooks the food.
Not bad at all.
Knowing that they were thinking about fruit trees, Xu Jianmin got them a jujube tree seedling from somewhere, and also a persimmon tree. The chicken heart-shaped persimmons were especially delicious.
He also planted a plum tree and an apricot tree in his yard.
Oh, I forgot to mention that Xu Jianmin’s newly built house is right next to her house, and the original clinic, seed station, and agricultural machinery station have all been moved next to the primary school.
Over there is a newly built adobe house, and it is close to the residential area, so everyone is happy.
The layout of his house was the same. The back door on the yard was facing her back door. When the meal was ready, she would just call out and he would come over in a few moments.
At the beginning of spring, Yun Tinglan's belly became even more shocking. Everyone who saw her said that there must be more than two babies, but no one suggested that she go to work.
Even turning over was terrifying. What else could he do? Just take a break. Even Ling Xi asked for leave and stood by and no one said anything.
Song Jinhan hurried back as soon as it was time for dinner. He felt uneasy without even looking at the mother and son.
As soon as he came back that day, he saw an old lady with bound feet holding something in her arms and surrounding the dairy sheep near his fence.
"Auntie, do you want goat's milk? I'll squeeze some for you."
"Oh, thank you! Thank you!" The old lady with bound feet smiled awkwardly and took out the can from her arms. She kept thanking him, but her eyes were fixed on the dairy sheep.
She said, "Deputy Director Zheng, my daughter-in-law is useless. She has no milk and the baby is crying because of hunger. What do you think? I will help you feed the sheep, and we will return the sheep to you after your wife gives birth."
She heard that the woman was only seven months pregnant and her grandson could drink goat's milk for three months before giving birth.
Song Jinhan just glanced at her, not taking her obvious calculation seriously, and said calmly, "I'm sorry, my daughter is malnourished and pregnant with twins. She needs to drink goat milk every day to supplement her nutrition. I have twenty yuan here, you can take it back and buy milk powder for the children."
Then deduct the money from her son’s salary.
If you borrow money, you have to pay it back. If you borrow a sheep, you just feed it grass and return it in good condition.
But she came to borrow the sheep under the pretext that her grandson had no milk, and people were willing to lend her money to buy milk powder, which was unreasonable.
You can't just say that she wants to take advantage of you for free, right?
The old lady with bound feet wanted to curse in her heart, but she had to take the money with a smile on her face. She went back and told her son and daughter-in-law about it, which made them so angry that they vomited blood. She returned the money under the cover of night.
I heard that a basket of frozen pears was also given to her. The distressed old lady with bound feet wept. Who did she plan for? It was because her daughter-in-law was useless and had little milk, and she was afraid that her grandson would starve.
You are reluctant to scold your son, but you are also reluctant to scold your daughter-in-law?
She scolds him every day, and now her daughter-in-law really has no milk and the child is crying because of hunger.
There was no other way, the man had to beg his neighbors for milk, feeding them from one house and another. But this was not a long-term solution, as the neighbors had their own children who needed milk.
After much persuasion and giving away a lot of things, we finally reached an agreement with a family with sufficient milk. His family was responsible for the mother's diet during the confinement period, and they helped to feed the baby.
"The old lady with bound feet was so distressed that she scolded her daughter-in-law almost three times a day, without missing a meal, and the scolding was so harsh." Qiu Yan was too embarrassed to imitate her, "Her daughter-in-law didn't talk back, she just cried, and cried every day and every meal." No one knew where all those tears came from.
The whole family was in chaos.
Qiu Yan described the situation to Yun Tinglan in such vivid detail that those who didn't know would have thought she was stealing someone's property. Otherwise, how could she be so clear about it?
Why is it so clear?
Their dormitory was just behind that family's home, and there was a wild pear tree next to the fence, so everyone was very happy.
As a result, the young wife climbed up the tree. When her mother-in-law started scolding her, she cried and took her husband's belt, wanting to hang herself.
"That young wife is not a pushover either. She is still in confinement after childbirth. She is not afraid of getting sick just by running out barefoot."
Right in front of their dormitory, they tried to pretend they didn't see it, but it was no use. Xiao Wenshu's male comrades couldn't go forward, so the female comrades had to suffer.
There were many times when I was cooking and there was a demon over there. After I accompanied them through the whole process, the rice in the pot was all burnt!!!
Just tell me whether it’s infuriating or not!
"It's really annoying. Do you want to move to another place?" Then they can only go back to the cabin here. There are still three empty rooms. Song Jinhan said that a group of educated youth will come soon and they will stay here.
This was the second batch of educated youth. In a few years, when the new generation of eldest sons and daughters in China grew up, the movement to go to the countryside to work and study would officially begin.
Nowadays, the young people who come here are voluntary and highly conscious, and the farm is still very welcoming to them.
"No," Qiu Yan asked embarrassedly, "I heard that our elementary school needs two teachers."
Yun Tinglan raised her eyebrows, "Who are you asking for?"
Qiu Yan snapped her fingers shyly, "It's Xiao Wenshu's sister. She is also going to come to the Great Northern Wilderness to support the frontier."
Yun Tinglan remembered that Xiao Wenshu's family was rich peasants.
She had an even worse impression of Xiao Wenshu. He was using Qiu Yan as a pawn. Qiu Yan was happy to defend him. "I came to ask this myself. He said that backdoors were not allowed, but I felt that it would be a waste for his sister, a high school student, not to teach."
Yun Tinglan just said: "A teacher must not only be knowledgeable, but also be able to teach students, have a good temper, be patient and have love. Besides, there are many people eyeing these two places, not only our island, but also the old educated youth at the headquarters are asking?
In terms of qualifications and knowledge, they were all good, and Secretary Xu was in a dilemma, so he asked everyone to vote for the teacher themselves.
Both new and old educated youth can go to school to teach for a week, and parents will definitely choose the one who teaches well. You don’t have to worry, as long as the girl is capable, she will definitely be chosen.”
If she is not selected, it means she is not capable enough.
Then, the person was tricked by Yun Tinglan and went back.
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