Chapter 83 Huo Jingchen's Birthday

After a busy night, I didn't fall asleep until almost three in the morning.

In a daze, Xia Mi forced herself to curse, "You've indulged in excessive sexual activity, aren't you afraid of kidney damage?"

These past few days, because of the pirate incident, Huo Jingchen had been leaving early and coming back late, sometimes even not coming back at all.

Xia Mi had to attend classes while arranging admissions for junior high school. Both husband and wife were very busy.

"Sister Xia Mi, this is the speech draft for the three of us. Do you think it's okay?"

Qiao Jing put the written manuscript on Xia Mi's desk.

Xia Mi picked it up and read through it quickly one by one. The key points she had mentioned before were all written down in the speech.

She nodded in agreement. As a proposer, the draft had passed the test.

"No problem, just leave it here with me and I'll show it to the principal later."

"Well, give it to me as soon as possible after the final draft is completed, so that I can help Teacher Liang and Gao Zhilei finish their work as soon as possible."

The speeches of the three people were all within 800 words, and each person had four or five minutes. The rest was Principal Wang's own speech, which was completed together with Zhou Fang and Xia Mi.

The commune has already been contacted, and the venue is a large dam for watching movies. No decoration is needed, an impromptu speech and a loudspeaker will be enough.

Xia Mi delivered the speech to Principal Wang's office.

Knock knock knock——

"Principal, this is the speech. I will be giving the speech the day after tomorrow. Please take a look at it."

Xia Mi put the manuscripts together and placed them on the table. "The top one is yours, and the three below are for Teacher Qiao and his colleagues. There are names on the upper left corners of each."

"Okay, I'll take a look right away." Principal Wang put down what he was doing.

The manuscript only had problems with details. The words used in a few places were too elegant, and the members might not be able to understand the meaning at first. Principal Wang circled them in pencil, and the manuscript was finalized after the revisions.

"You don't need to show me the revised version. Just let the teachers prepare the manuscript."

Principal Wang placed the manuscript on the table and then asked about the progress of the newspaper, "Have you found all the newspapers?"

"I found them. I found Guangming Daily and People's Daily, and also a local newspaper. There were five newspapers in total. Two of them were borrowed from the commune, and the other three were borrowed from the army."

The island is isolated from information and even the most basic newspapers are not widely available.

I could only borrow the money from here and there, but luckily I managed to borrow it in the end.

"The teachers have circulated the newspaper. Principal, do you want to take a look?"

"Have you finished reading it? If you have, can I take a look?" Every time he read a newspaper, he would go to the commune to ask the secretary to borrow one. The last time he did so was about a month ago.

Xia Mi nodded, took the speech on the table, and prepared to leave, "Then I'll go get it now."

Newspapers were distributed separately, with those from the army and the commune divided into two parts, and the teachers were very careful when reading them.

After delivering the newspapers, Xia Mi briefly discussed the issues raised by Principal Wang with the three people, and her work behind the scenes was done.

Zhou Fang asked Xia Mi, "Xiao Xia, you have such a sharp mind, why don't you go up and give a speech? You are so pretty."

"I'm good at brains but not at talking. Besides, this is a speech recruitment contest, not a beauty pageant. My looks have nothing to do with it."

Xia Mi packed her things and prepared to go home.

Since she started preparing for enrollment, she has been working overtime for an hour every day before leaving the school. Lin Qianyue can only come to the office to do homework, and she lives in fear every day.

Seeing Xia Mi start to pack up, he quickly jumped off the bench and collected the homework quickly.

"That's true. It seems like when there are a lot of people around, you become less talkative." Zhou Fang thought about it and agreed.

Before Xia Mi even left the office, Lin Qianyue, carrying a schoolbag, rushed out like a mouse, making the teachers in the office laugh.

"This kid has made the office look like a den of wolves and tigers."

"That's right. He is a naughty boy in the class. No matter how you enforce discipline, he never behaves. But when people come to the office, they behave themselves." Qiao Jing shook her head helplessly. She is Lin Qianyue's homeroom teacher.

Xia Mi also heard the laughter behind her. She looked up at Lin Qianyue who was running to the front, and a beautiful curve appeared at the corner of her lips.

When she got home, Xia Mi saw Shi Daqiang standing at her door.

"Sister-in-law!" Shi Daqiang was holding a piece of meat in one hand and a lot of vegetables in the other. His net bag was heavy with a few apples.

Xia Mi pushed the cart up the hill, "What is this?"

"These are the vegetables and meat I bought for Captain Huo's birthday. Sister-in-law, don't you know that today is Captain Huo's birthday?"

Xia Mi's clear and bright eyes were startled at first, and then embarrassment appeared on her delicate and exquisite face. She smiled and pretended to be calm.

"Now I know. He didn't tell me."

Xia Mi parked the car and opened the door for Shi Daqiang. Looking at the meat in his hand, it should be about half a pound.

Shi Daqiang smiled innocently, not thinking it was anything strange. Instead, he gave Xia Mi an idea, "It's not too late for sister-in-law to know now. The eldest brother doesn't like to celebrate his birthday. I thought it would be different this year since sister-in-law is here."

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She and Huo Jingchen have been very busy in the past week, including the dinner they had last time at Mrs. Jiang's house and the spare ribs sent by Fan Chunhua.

These are all human feelings.

Xia Mi planned to call more people, including the instructor and Captain Jiang's family, to have a meal, as well as a few soldiers who had a good relationship with Huo Jingchen.

There are at least two tables of people here.

Xia Mi opened the cupboard and planned the menu for tonight and counted the leftover food at home.

"Daqiang, is there anything else going on in your unit?"

Shi Daqiang shook his head. "I was on duty last night. I just came back from patrol in the afternoon. I can rest early, so I came to help my sister-in-law."

Xia Mi has already drawn up the menu in her mind.

"Please go to the supply and marketing cooperative and buy me another pound of meat, ten eggs, and some clams..." Xia Mi told her what she wanted to buy, which included five or six things in total.

After saying that, she went in and took out a reunion ticket and the necessary tickets, and helped Shi Daqiang buy some things.

Shi Daqiang was afraid that he would not be able to remember it. "Sister-in-law, why don't you write it down for me? I don't trust my memory. If I have a list to remember, I won't be afraid of missing anything."

"Okay, wait for me then."

Xia Mi thought about it and took out a small notebook and pen from her bag and quickly wrote down what she wanted to buy.

"Daqiang, when you go out, say hello to my two sisters-in-law. You don't have to cook dinner. Let them all come to my house for dinner."

"Okay, sister-in-law!"

Shi Daqiang took the list and money and rode his bike to buy vegetables.

Xia Mi planned to make three dishes and one soup, namely braised clams, shredded pork with fish flavor, stir-fried cabbage, and kelp and pork ribs soup.

Fortunately, she got off work early today, so she had enough time to do all this.

When Shi Daqiang came back, Xia Mi had already steamed the rice.

The first thing she made was kelp and pork ribs soup. She blanched the ribs first, then put them into the pot with ginger slices and scallion segments and stir-fried them. After they were fragrant, she transferred them to a small pot and poured in boiling water to prepare for stewing.

There were three pots on the stove, one of which was a big pot. Under Xia Mi's arrangement, Shi Daqiang took two approaches at the same time.

The clams spit out the sand very quickly when soaked in warm water. There is still time, so Xia Mi starts by making shredded pork with fish flavor.

The kitchen knife was cutting on the chopping board. Xia Mi was skilled in knife skills and the sound of "thump thump" could be heard from the kitchen.