After Ye Zhaozhao and the others planted the corn, they had some free time. Sun Xiuhua called her to go to the village to exchange things.

The two women set off with baskets on their backs. After walking for about half an hour, they arrived at the village and saw a group of children squatting at the village entrance.

When I went over to take a look, I saw that they were roasting sparrows. Although sparrows are small, they are still meat, and they smelled especially good when they were roasted. The children were eating them ravenously.

Sun Xiuhua and Ye Zhaozhao didn't disturb them and continued walking forward. They hadn't been to the village for a long time, and they had almost run out of the food they had at home. She thought she should exchange some more food for themselves today.

Sun Xiuhua clearly thought the same thing. The two of them exchanged glutinous rice, wide rice noodles, red sausage, pickled radish, bean curd sheets, and dried bean curd until their baskets were full before they headed back.

On the way, they met Ye Qianxue, who was extremely thin. Ever since she gave Ye Zhaozhao three hundred yuan, her family had been in dire need of money.

Shen Yihan's allowance not only had to be sent to his ex-wife's family but also had to cover the famine, so his living conditions were much worse than before. In order to please the three children, Ye Zhaozhao saved her own food rations to feed them.

Today, the children were craving meat, so she had to bring her money and coupons to the village to exchange for a chicken. Ye Zhaozhao and Sun Xiuhua ignored her and walked away.

Back home, Ye Zhaozhao put her things away and started making dinner. She wanted to make a dish of wide rice noodles with red sausage. She cooked the wide rice noodles in boiling water and then took them out to set aside.

Prepare a small sauce with scallions, garlic, chili peppers, soy sauce, and sugar. Slice the red sausage and pour the sauce over it along with the wide rice noodles. It smells amazing! Gu Yunduan smelled the aroma as soon as she entered the door.

"Hurry up and wash your hands before eating."

"good."

Gu Yunduan feels that eating is the happiest moment of his day now. He used to not care much about food, thinking that as long as he could fill his stomach, that was enough.

In the past, when he was on missions, he would eat whatever was available, and he even ate raw meat. But ever since he married Ye Zhaozhao, he has started to look forward to meals every day.

On the training field, everyone was used to Gu Yunduan leaving get off work early. To be honest, if they had a wife who could cook as well as Gu Yunduan, they would run faster than Gu Yunduan every day.

Gu Yunduan loved the juicy wide rice noodles so much that she went to the pot for another bowl after finishing one.

Ye Zhaozhao told him to eat more, as she had changed a lot of things today, enough for them to eat for a while.

After dinner, Gu Yunduan took the initiative to wash the dishes, while Ye Zhaozhao took out some cotton; she was going to start making cotton clothes, but she hadn't been working on them for long.

Gu Yunduan leaned closer again. Having spent so much time together, Ye Zhaozhao understood with just a glance from him. Knowing she couldn't escape tonight, Ye Zhaozhao went to take a shower.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

The next day, Ye Zhaozhao woke up at 11 a.m. She quickly got up to eat breakfast. When Sun Xiuhua came, she saw that she had not eaten breakfast yet.

"Zhaozhao, why are you eating so late?"

"Sister-in-law Sun, I overslept, come and sit down."

Sun Xiuhua glanced at her neck, then realized what she meant and said with a smile.

"It's normal for this young man to wake up late."

Seeing Sun Xiuhua like this, Ye Zhaozhao understood everything. Covering her face, she hated Gu Yunduan, that scoundrel, because of him, she couldn't face anyone anymore.

"Zhaozhao, don't be shy. This proves that your Deputy Regiment Commander Gu is capable."

"Sister-in-law Sun, please stop talking."

Knowing that Ye Zhaozhao was shy, Sun Xiuhua stopped talking and got down to business.

"Picking mushrooms?"

"Yes, there must be plenty of mushrooms on this mountain. Let's go pick some and make soup with them; they're really delicious."

As she spoke, Sun Xiuhua swallowed hard. In those days, there wasn't much to eat, and mushrooms were a dish for everyone. Ye Zhaozhao was naturally happy to go along.

With two burlap sacks in hand, Ye Zhaozhao closed the door and set off. There were quite a few people picking mushrooms on the mountain today, including her, Sun Xiuhua, Chen Sufeng, Liu Erfeng, Xie Jianing, and Xu Pandi.

Ye Zhaozhao didn't recognize the woman who came with Xu Pandi, but she heard from Xu Pandi that she was an educated youth from the village who came with her to pick mushrooms.

There were quite a few mushrooms on the mountain, and Ye Zhaozhao quickly filled half a sack. Everyone was amazed at how fast she picked them, especially Xie Jianing. They were both picking mushrooms, so how come she was so much better at it?

"Jia Ning, what brings you to mushroom picking today?"

"School's out for break, and I was really bored, so I came here."

"By the way, is my child behaving well at school?"

Chen Su-fen has a son and a daughter, both of whom are in school. Xie Jianing nodded, saying that the two children are very well-behaved and have excellent academic performance, so she doesn't need to worry about them.

When the topic turned to children, Xie Jianing sighed. But what truly troubled her was someone else entirely. When they asked, they learned it was the three Shen brothers.

These three kids were always fighting at school or stealing from their classmates, which was giving her a lot of trouble. She talked to Ye Qianxue, who said her child was innocent.

"How can a mother be like this? How can she be so biased towards her own child? Isn't that harming the child?"

Liu Erfeng is also a mother, and she was very angry when she heard Ye Qianxue educate the child in this way.

"She's not her own child. How can a stepmother truly treat a child well? I think she's just putting on a good show. Who knows what she's really like behind the scenes?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Pandi couldn't stay any longer, because she was also a stepmother, and to be fair, she had really treated the two children badly.

She was afraid the conversation would turn to her, so she spoke to the woman next to her.

"Li Li, let's come again another time. My foot isn't healed yet, and it's starting to hurt again."

Li Li glanced at everyone. Ye Zhaozhao didn't know why, but she felt that Li Li's attention was always on them, the military wives, and she didn't even pick many mushrooms.

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