"Aunt, you're here."

"Oh, my Xiao Ting is back from the mission. Okay, auntie won't disturb you two anymore. I'll go for a walk downstairs." Hua Jing tactfully left the room.

Seeing his aunt go out, Lu Ting hugged Su Yan and said, "Yan Yan, are you okay recently? Is the child not making a fuss?"

"It's all fine, but I tend to have insomnia at night, leg cramps often, and sometimes sciatica."

"Where does Yanyan hurt? Do you want to see a doctor now?"

"These are all normal reactions in late pregnancy. They will subside after the baby is born, so don't worry too much. Lu Ting, are you doing well on your mission out there?"

"It's okay, I'm fine, and the mission was successfully completed. Guess what gift I brought you?"

"Local specialties from Northeast China?"

Lu Ting smiled but didn't answer. He went to the living room and brought over the luggage bag and woven bag. Su Yan opened the woven bag and exclaimed, "A tiger skin? How much is this processed tiger skin?"

“It’s not much, just a few dozen yuan.”

Fortunately, this was in the 1960s. In later times, buying and selling tiger skins would be illegal.

"Why did you buy tiger skin? You don't want to make a coat for me, do you?" Su Yan looked at Lu Ting with a smile.

"The tiger is the king of all beasts. Putting this tiger skin in our son's cradle can ward off evil spirits."

"I've sent the cradle to your mother. It's too cold in the winter, so let your son sleep with us adults. I'm worried about leaving him alone in the cradle."

"good."

Lu Ting put down the woven bag and took out a bag of ginseng from his luggage bag, which contained at least seven or eight ginsengs.

"Lu Ting, why did you buy so much ginseng?"

"One of the ginsengs was accidentally dug up by me while on a mission, and the other few I bought from local villagers. Keep these for now and use them to make chicken soup after the baby is born."

If I hadn't heard from Lu Yiming that he was ambushed, I would have believed his lies and thought that he had dug up the ginseng by accident.

The bastard only reported good news and not bad news, which made her worry until now. Fortunately, he is back safely now, and there is someone to accompany her in the delivery room.

Lu Ting asked Su Yan what she wanted to eat for lunch. Su Yan jokingly said she wanted to eat barbecue. Lu Ting took out the big grill without saying a word.

Fortunately, my aunt went shopping in the morning and bought two pounds of pork ribs and a piece of pork belly. This was the meat and vegetables for their family for the day, but it was not enough to eat just these.

Su Yan took out all the remaining sausages stored in the space, peeled a few potatoes and two sweet potatoes, and cut them into thick slices.

There was only so much meat at home today, so Su Yan naturally couldn't invite her parents-in-law over for barbecue.

She was worried that Lu Ting and her aunt wouldn't have enough to eat, so she fried several more kimchi pancakes and made noodles with vegetables and eggs.

The pork belly on the grill was sizzling and smelling delicious. Hua Jing's mouth was watering at the aroma. This was her first time eating barbecue, and she didn't expect it to be so delicious.

There wasn't much left from the roasted pork belly, and Hua Jing felt it wasn't enough for her nephew and his wife. She ate two slices and didn't dare to pick up her chopsticks anymore.

"Auntie, eat some spareribs."

"No, I'll just have kimchi pancake and noodles. Xiaoyan, you like to eat more meat. I think it's a boy, and boys really like to eat meat."

Lu Yiming felt a little wronged. It was clearly Boss Su who wanted to eat meat, so why was he being blamed? In his previous life, he clearly loved eating seafood.

[Boss Su, I didn't eat much pork before. I like beef and seafood.]

Su Yan, who was enjoying her meal, was taken aback. "Haha, so you don't like pork that much? I told you that it's difficult to eat meat here, and you still dislike it."

Pigs these days are no longer fed with feed and clenbuterol; native pigs these days are quite delicious.

The brat has meat to eat but still complains that the meat is not tasty. If she didn't have the space to raise pigs herself, how many meals of meat could she eat in a month with just the meat coupons given by Lu Ting?

As soon as the child was born, she asked Lu Jin to kill the pig.

[Boss Su, you love eating meat so much, and you only have a few pigs in your space. Don't you want to raise more?]

"During the Lunar New Year, your father will go to Jinshi and buy another litter of piglets to raise. The sheep on the mountain can be eaten during the Lunar New Year, but the cattle need to be raised for another year before being slaughtered."

[You must not kill those two cows. They will be pregnant next spring.]

The cow is about to get pregnant, so it definitely can’t be killed. It’s not like she has to eat the cow.

"Yan Yan, let's go out for a walk this afternoon and see if there's anything else we can buy."

"Okay, by the way, ask Mom and Dad to come over for dinner tonight. Aunt, go to the farm this afternoon and ask Zhenzhen to come over for dinner tonight."

"How can this be possible?"

"Why not? Zhenzhen has been on the farm for so long, and we haven't treated her to a meal yet. Let's have hot pot tonight! Lu Ting and I will go buy groceries later."

Su Yan had decided to have soft-shelled turtle and mushroom soup hotpot tonight. When her aunt came, she would use the chicken innards in the refrigerator as bait, go to the pond and catch a few soft-shelled turtles to keep in a water tank.

"With the good food you guys have, I doubt I'll gain seven or eight pounds in less than a month."

When I visited my nephew's house for a few days, I was served chicken, pig's trotters, fish and meat all the time. After each meal, my nephew's wife would peel a plate of apples for her to eat. It was like living in heaven.

She hopes that her children will study hard and get a good job in the future. Being a farmer is hard. Even if you go out to work early and come back late every day, you may not be able to feed your family.

Hua Jing went out in the afternoon, so Su Yan pulled Lu Ting into the space, put the thawed chicken gizzards and chicken intestines into a cage, and threw them into the pond. In a few minutes, they caught a turtle.

"Lu Ting, how about we get a few more soft-shelled turtles and send them to the big tank at your mother's house to keep them there first?"

"Okay, this way you can drink turtle soup every day after you give birth."

Su Yan caught six soft-shelled turtles, three grass carps, and a bighead carp. She also caught several rabbits in a bag, as the rabbits were infested on the mountain. She didn't eat them, but her family could. She was short on chickens, so she saved them for her children.

Lu Ting hadn't been with Su Yan for a long time and planned to take her to the department store in the city in the afternoon.

As soon as the car drove past the gate of the military compound, Luo Yanyan stopped it and said, "Captain Lu, my uncle asked me to borrow your car to go to the city. Can you give me a ride?"

Lu Ting refused outright: "No!"

Luo Yanyan looked at the woman sitting in the passenger seat. It turned out to be her. "Captain Lu, aren't you afraid that I will tell my uncle?"

Upon hearing this, Su Yan immediately rolled down the window. "Comrade Luo, you're a single lesbian, how dare you stop our Lu Ting's car? You're already old, don't you know how to avoid suspicion? Where's your sense of shame?"

She heard from Lu Yiming that this woman wanted to seduce her man, how could she tolerate this.

"Yan Yan, sit tight and hold on tight."