"Da Bao, Xiao Bao".

Ruan Qiushui crouched down closer, looked at the two children's eager expressions, and gently tapped the backs of their hands.

"Mother, I miss you."

When Xiao Bao saw his mother return, his eyes smiled like crescent moons, and he rushed into his mother's arms.

"Mommy, kiss me."

Da Bao leaned close to Ruan Qiushui and kissed his mother's cheek.

"Mom bought you new toys, let's go inside and play."

If we let these two kids catch fish as they please, they'll be soaked to the bone.

"Let's go, Da Bao and Xiao Bao, come inside."

Ruan Qiushui and Gu Xiaoxiao each carried a child into the house.

"Sister-in-law, I'll put the things in the kitchen."

Seeing that the basket was full of grain, Gu Changshu quickly helped to sort and put it away.

"Sister-in-law, Da Bao and Xiao Bao can count from one to ten now."

During this time, Gu Xiaoxiao and Gu Changshu followed the instructions in the book given to them by their third sister-in-law and spent their free time providing early education for the children.

It exercises the body, language, and thinking skills, and can also develop intelligence.

She and her fourth brother only taught them for three days, and Da Bao and Xiao Bao had already memorized everything.

"real?"

Ruan Qiushui was pleasantly surprised.

"Da Bao, Xiao Bao, tell Mommy, how do you count from one to ten?"

Ruan Qiushui looked on with anticipation.

"One, two... ten."

Da Bao was the first to start counting, and he recited it very fluently.

Xiao Bao then finished speaking smoothly.

"My dear baby, you are so amazing."

Ruan Qiushui kissed the two babies' fair and tender little faces.

"How about Mom cooks something delicious for you tonight as a reward?"

Zhang Ma has been taking care of everything during this period.

There weren't many people eating at home today, so Liu Sanmei decided to let Zhang Ma rest for a day and go home to visit relatives.

Zhang Ma's hometown is also in Beijing, in the suburbs, not far away.

"Dumplings, eat."

Upon hearing that there was something delicious to eat, Da Bao quickly revealed his favorite.

After I gave Da Bao dumplings during the Chinese New Year, he couldn't stop thinking about them.

"Meatballs, glutinous rice balls."

Xiao Bao slurped her saliva; her favorite food was, of course, meat-filled glutinous rice balls.

"Okay, Mom will make it for you."

Ruan Qiushui would fulfill any request the children made, as long as it wasn't excessive.

"Xiaoxiao, Changshu, what would you like to eat tonight?"

Gu Changshu came into the house at this moment. Ruan Qiushui thought that the two of them had worked hard taking care of the child during this period, so she made something delicious to reward them.

"Sister-in-law, can I eat instant noodles?"

He ate so much instant noodles on the train that he couldn't get enough and wished he could take the train every day.

"Sister-in-law, I also want to eat instant noodles."

Gu Xiaoxiao felt a little embarrassed.

She's a grown woman now, and it's not that she's deliberately being greedy; she just can't resist.

"Okay, sister-in-law, I'll go do it right away."

None of these are difficult tasks; she'll be able to do them quickly.

Ruan Qiushui handed the rattle to the children and got up to go to the kitchen to cook.

"Since everyone likes to eat it, let's make more."

Ruan Qiushui quietly closed the kitchen door and went straight into the space.

Producing instant noodles in large quantities is time-consuming and labor-intensive; it's much faster to process them directly.

The processing plant can produce instant noodles of the same style and shape as Ruan Qiushui's imagination, and take them out without fear of suspicion from Gu Changshu and Gu Xiaoxiao.

While soaking in the hot spring, Nguyen Thu Thu directed the processing plant remotely.

In less than ten minutes, one hundred servings of instant noodles were ready.

There were also cabbage and pork dumplings, meat dumplings, braised beef, and braised pork intestines for the children.

Ruan Qiushui put the food into the temperature-controlled warehouse to keep it warm, and looked at the warehouse that was full of food with a worried expression.

During this time, she had people around her at all times. Apart from rushing into the space to plant and harvest, she had no time to process the crops.

As a result, the warehouse was filled with more and more items, and it reached the point of overflowing.

Grains and meat make up only a small portion, about one-fifth.

She hasn't grown any crops in a long time since Zhou Yi's black market was disbanded.

This grain will be used exclusively for the family's daily consumption, and it's estimated that it will last for fifty years.

As for the remaining four-fifths, they were all newly planted medicinal herbs.

"If you want to open a pharmaceutical factory, you'll have to wait a while."

Ruan Qiushui is exhausted.

It's easy to open a pharmaceutical factory, but it's hard to explain the source of large quantities of medicinal materials.

She can use the excuse of importing goods from other provinces for a short period of time, but if it goes on for too long, it won't stand up to scrutiny.

The best, most obvious solution is to contract a mountain and establish your own medicinal herb cultivation base.

This solves both the source problem and allows the medicinal herbs in the space to be taken out.

Unfortunately, according to her memories from her previous life, land contracting would not begin until 1983, which was still several years away.

That's why she had Zhou Yi use Snow Skin as the first tool to practice.

…

After dinner, Ruan Shiping and his entourage returned in high spirits.

"Brother, how are you?"

Ruan Qiushui winked and made faces, wanting to hear the good news.

"My wedding with your sister-in-law is set for three days from now."

This timing was the result of his discussion with Wang Xinyue.

He has to go back to the research institute in five days, and he doesn't know when he'll have his next vacation.

He wanted to marry his wife as soon as possible and give her a proper status.

Wang Xinyue felt uncertain, but also wanted to become Ruan's daughter-in-law as soon as possible.

The two parties discussed it and decided to host a banquet for their relatives and friends, hold a simple ceremony, and that would be considered the agreement.

"Brother, are you happy?"

With the connections of the Wang and Ruan families, three days is enough time to organize a very good wedding; at least the banquet need not be a concern.

"I'm happy, but I'm also a little nervous."

"I'm going back to the research institute in five days, and I don't know when I'll be back next time."

Being able to marry the girl you love is naturally a joy.

But with the nature of his job, he might not be able to go home all year round, and he's afraid his wife won't feel safe.

I'm also afraid that if we have children in the future, we'll become estranged from him.

Ruan Shiping entered the research institute entirely out of passion.

However, this profession is clearly not suitable if one wants to balance family life.

His parents are getting old, and as the eldest son in the family, he should take on this responsibility.

He is also confused now and doesn't know what choices he will make in the future.

"Brother, don't worry, just let nature take its course."

Instead of worrying about the future, we should make the most of the present.

There's always a solution; things will work themselves out.

When Shen Yongjun and Liu Sanmei returned home, they called Ruan Hengzhi and He Ruyi into their room.

"Mother, what is it?"

Ruan Hengzhi had drunk quite a bit of wine at dinner and was preparing to go inside to lie down and rest.

"I called you in to discuss the bride price for that girl, Xinyue."

Do you have any ideas?

Liu Sanmei looked at her son and daughter-in-law and asked.

"Didn't the Wang family say they didn't want a bride price?"

Ruan Hengzhi was a little drunk at the moment and asked blankly.

When they were discussing the details of the two children's wedding that afternoon, he remembered that the Wang family had said they didn't want a bride price.

At the time, he was still thinking about the new era style of the Wang family and looked down on these things.