"Hey? Stop the car! Stop the car!"

Xiao Ting stood in the middle of the road, watching the jeep drive away, and shouted loudly.

But the jeep in the distance ignored her and drove further and further away, and her face turned green.

"Bastards! They're all a bunch of heartless bastards!"

Xiao Ting recognized the car; it was the jeep from the regiment.

Well, her dad just got into the military region's political study class, and now the regiment is turning its back on him. What a bunch of bastards.

"Pah! You're so snobbish! My wife is a battalion commander, you know. Wait until we get back to the regiment, I'll tell everyone about you!"

Xiao Ting gritted her teeth and could only continue walking.

In just one month, she witnessed the coldness and warmth of human relationships. Back when her father was still a division commander, everyone greeted her with smiles.

After her father was suspended from his post and sent to the military region's political study class, everyone who had once smiled at her now avoided her like the plague.

Even her father's old comrades-in-arms were the same; not one of them offered a helping hand.

Most people advised her to go back to the troupe and avoid the situation.

"They're all a bunch of opportunistic scoundrels!"

...

Lu Fangfang sat in the jeep, glanced at the rearview mirror, and inexplicably felt better.

This Xiao Ting reported all the women in the family compound, almost making her take the blame. If she hadn't beaten Zhang Zhiming from the investigation team to prove her innocence, she would have been finished in the family compound.

Fortunately, there was Deputy Commander Wu from the military region; otherwise, she might not have been able to leave the political department so smoothly.

"I wonder how Zhuang's mother is doing?"

Lu Fangfang stroked her chin, still somewhat unwilling. Back then, it was Zhuang's mother who started all that trouble.

...

Beidahuang, Qianjin Reclamation Farm.

Zhou Huairu sat in the wooden house with her hair disheveled, looking completely lost.

Since arriving at this farm, she hasn't been able to eat or sleep properly; she's going crazy.

Inside the room, besides her, there were several other young female educated youth.

The group glanced at Zhuang's mother, then secretly took out the roasted sparrows and began to share them.

What are you eating?

Mrs. Zhuang rushed over.

Seeing the dark objects in their hands, she subconsciously swallowed.

Meat, meat, she really wanted to eat meat.

"These are the 'four pests' we've been fighting."

Several young women immediately protected the sparrows in their hands.

This middle-aged woman has a bad temper, is fussy, and loves to tattle. Everyone else in the house is annoyed by her.

"Give me a little, I want to taste it, I'll pay for it."

Now, Zhuang's mother no longer finds wild animals dirty; she wants meat, she wants to eat meat.

"Auntie, if you want some, you can get it yourself."

Several young women immediately divided it up and stuffed it into their mouths to chew.

The roasted sparrows tasted pretty good; they were very fragrant.

"Hey? Hey? Leave some for me!"

Mrs. Zhuang slapped her thigh, smelled the aroma of meat, and suddenly collapsed into a sitting position.

This Qianjin Farm is newly built, and the food they eat every day is all coarse grains, dry and without any oil. She is going crazy wanting to eat meat.

"Hey, leave some for me! If this were in Beijing, I wouldn't eat this stuff. Jianxun, Jianxun, you're so heartless."

The girls glanced at her, pursed their lips, and left.

They still have to go to work, unlike this old lady who can slack off every day.

After crying and making a fuss for a while, Zhuang's mother thought of the little fox spirit from Qilian Mountain.

She had seen this little vixen make slingshots before, and she knew exactly how she did it.

In order to get a bite of meat, Zhuang's mother immediately became determined.

She quietly went to the place where the GAZ cars were stored on the farm, took a pair of scissors, and secretly cut off two inner tubes. Then she went to a nearby hillside and cut off a tree branch.

Following the fox spirit's instructions, Zhuang's mother made a simple slingshot.

She took the bag and started wandering around the farm.

However, she was not like Lu Fangfang. Having no experience with slingshots, she tried several times but failed to hit the sparrows, instead scaring them away.

Once, twice, three times...

"Ouch! Who's there? Who threw a stone at my head? Come out here!"

In the farmland, a female educated youth who was hoeing the ground suddenly covered her head and burst into tears.

Upon seeing this, Zhuang's mother immediately hid the slingshot and ran away.

"Ahem, comrades, someone is sabotaging our farm! They've cut off our important production tools, the inner tubes of our trucks! Anyone with information, please report to the farm headquarters. We must find this traitor!"

Listening to the loudspeaker broadcasting from the farm, Zhuang's mother looked down at the slingshot in her hand.

"I……"

Zhuang's mother turned around and ran back to the dormitory, where she stuffed the slingshot into the hole in the kang (heated brick bed) under her bunk.

Still feeling a little uneasy, she took out a slingshot from the kang hole and secretly hid it in the kang hole under the opposite bunk.

"Oh dear, it's all that little vixen's fault. How could I have done such a thing?"

Zhuang's mother plopped down on the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed) and started complaining about Lu Fangfang again.

She spent the whole morning trying to catch a single sparrow feather; she really lost out.

...

Achoo!

"Sister-in-law, are you alright?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing, I probably just caught a bit of a cold."

Lu Fangfang sat in the jeep and rubbed her nose.

That's strange. It's the middle of summer, and she didn't even feel any cool breeze. Could someone be cursing her?

Xiao Ting?

She shook her head, too lazy to care anymore. She was busy right now and didn't have time for such trivial matters.

Seeing that the jeep was about to cross the river, she quickly said, "Comrade Liu, after we cross the river, turn south and we'll go to the construction site of the breeding farm again."

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