When he got home, he hung up the Ula grass to dry and brought back the mountain products that had been dried during the day. Gu Tingzhou had already prepared dinner.

He said that Erbao woke up at noon and drank the medicine and was much better.

The family sat at the dining table to eat. Today's dinner was steamed white rice, steamed sweet potatoes, stir-fried shredded potatoes, and spicy stir-fried rabbit cubes.

There was a small plate of diced rabbit without chili peppers placed in front of Dabao. It was probably served before the chili peppers were added.

In front of Li Qingyun was her favorite spicy stir-fried rabbit cubes, with green and red peppers embedded in it. It was flavorful and went well with rice.

I have to admire this man's attentiveness. He knows the tastes of everyone in his family very well.

"You eat first, I'll feed Erbao some sweet potatoes." Gu Tingzhou greeted his wife.

Li Qingyun didn't bother to be polite with him. Ever since his leg was almost healed and he threw away his crutches, the housework had been divided among them. Gu Tingzhou had done everything he could, which really made her life much more relaxed than when she first came.

After the child finished eating, Gu Tingzhou sat down and started eating, looking like a good husband and father.

After dinner, Dabao took the initiative to clean up the dishes, and Gu Tingzhou went to use the small stove to boil medicine for Erbao. Only then did Li Qingyun have time to rest for a while.

After playing with Erbao for a while, feeding him milk and forcing him to drink medicine, he was struggling to coax him to sleep, but he didn't want to drink the bitter medicine, and kept crying, clinging to Li Qingyun for a hug.

Li Qingyun felt very distressed. The child had never cried so hard since coming here.

Finally, he put the baby to sleep and Gu Tingzhou finished checking Dabao's homework. This is the night life of couples with children.

The couple discussed tomorrow's arrangements. Li Qingyun agreed with Caixia that she would go to see her tomorrow. Gu Tingzhou wanted to accompany her, but it would be inconvenient with two children.

Dabao looked at them expectantly but was too embarrassed to speak.

Li Qingyun looked into his sparkling eyes and couldn't bear to let him down, so she said, "Why don't we go together as a family? We haven't taken the children to the commune since you came back, so we can take Dabao out to broaden his horizons. It just so happens that tomorrow is a holiday, and reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles."

For Dabao's short life, Gujialing is his whole world. Although Gu Tingzhou would take him to the market when he returned home to visit relatives during the Chinese New Year, he was too young at that time and had no memory of it.

Dabao looked at Gu Tingzhou expectantly, and when he saw him nod and say yes, Dabao jumped up and down on the kang excitedly.

"Okay, if you want to go to the commune, go to bed early, otherwise cancel it. Also, if you wake up your brother, you have to comfort him yourself." Gu Tingzhou patted his forehead.

Dabao immediately lay down and went to sleep. Tired after a day of sleep, he fell asleep quickly.

After the children fell asleep, the two of them came to the space to deal with the pile of meat that had been killed yesterday, as well as the meat that had been brought back today and had been processed by Gu Tingzhou.

Looking at the piles of meat in the space, the two of them instantly felt a sweet burden.

Most pheasants and hares need to be dried and stored in the cellar. They are very fragrant when stewed in winter. They are also easy to carry and suitable as gifts.

A small portion is kept in the space, and sometimes it is sneaked out to be eaten fresh.

Li Qingyun herself also likes to eat fresh meat. She finds pickled meat delicious when eaten occasionally, but she doesn’t like it if she eats it every day. It can also easily cause getting a sore throat. Children should not eat too much pickled meat either.

Put all the turtledoves in the space and eat them fresh. There is too little meat on them, and there will be nothing left after they are dried.

Leaving a small amount of space for storage, he started to marinate the rest. He smeared the cleaned meat with the marinade he prepared, and then Gu Tingzhou used bamboo strips to prop up the stomachs of the pheasants and rabbits to make it easier to dry them.

After they have marinated all the meats, they hang them on the beams in the house and put them away after they have dried.

The reason why it is not placed in a space is because things in a space will remain in the same state as they are put in. If you put the pickled meat in it, it will not achieve the purpose of pickling and it will not be able to be air-dried.

Then there was the wild boar meat. Its meat was very hard and tough. Li Qingyun decided to take out half of the pig's meat to make bacon and put it outside as a shield, and then store the rest in the space first, and take fresh ones when she wanted to eat them.

The meat from these five pigs, plus the remaining meat from the two pigs she had bought before, and some other miscellaneous meats were more than enough for them to eat every day, to get through the winter, and even until next summer and autumn.

From now on, they only need to ask Aunt Jiang to buy some meat once or even twice a week as a cover, and their family can live a happy life.

Gu Tingzhou completely followed Li Qingyun's arrangements and attacked wherever she told him to. He was just a ruthless meat-curing machine.

She picked out most of the pig's meat, marinated it, and covered it in the corner of the room. Tomorrow, all the meat had to be moved to the cellar. Sister Qiuju often came to her house to look for her, and if she was seen, she would be exposed.

After they finished packing up, they lay down. The clock had already struck eleven. It was another fulfilling day, time to go to sleep.

When she went to the commune today, Li Qingyun got up early and made vegetable porridge and eggs and sweet potatoes to feed her two children.

Erbao's illness has been completely cured, but in order to consolidate his condition, she still continued to give him today's medicine.

After feeding some of the food in with great haste, they packed up and headed towards the village entrance. As usual, Li Qingyun brought her handy big basket with her and would take the food out and hide it in the basket when they got there. It would be too conspicuous to put it in now.

There were already a few people in the car. The couple greeted each other and sat down with their children. Li Qingyun's popularity has improved a lot now, and everyone can exchange a few words when they meet.

Li Qingyun taught Dabao how to take care of people and called them grandpa and grandma.

"Hey, you two are bringing your two kids to the commune today."

"Ah, this little one is smiling at me. He's so white and chubby. What a lovely boy!"

"That's right, your second baby really looks like the lucky doll in the New Year pictures, smiling."

"Dabao looks fatter and stronger than before. You really know how to raise a child."

After exchanging pleasantries along the way, we soon arrived at the commune.

Dabao was dazzled by what he saw along the way. Everything was new to him and he kept asking his mother why everything happened.

He was asked a hundred thousand questions, and Li Qingyun patiently answered them all with what he knew. A child's curiosity and concentration are equally important and must not be destroyed.

Caixia had been waiting for her for a long time. She had no intention of selling goods and her eyes were fixed on the door. When she saw her walking into the supply and marketing cooperative with her child, she immediately and happily gestured for her to go out and talk.

Li Qingyun took out some money and bought a bag of glutinous rice noodles for Dabao, then took the two of them to the old place.

Gu Tingzhou was a little worried about her being alone and insisted on going with her. Although they had discussed it last night, he was still worried that she couldn't handle it alone. It's okay if she didn't make money, but she couldn't get hurt.

As soon as I reached the door, Caixia came over. She knocked on the door as if she knew the place well, and soon the door was opened by a strange man.

He smiled and invited them in to talk.

This person is Caixia’s cousin who works in the black market.