Chen Hong put in a lot of effort to cut off all the formed fruits on the plant with scissors, leaving only the small white flowers and flower spikes.

The harvested fruit weighed about two hundred pounds, which Chen Hong fed to the fish and shrimp.

She felt heartbroken; so many fruits had been crawled over by these little turtles, forced to have their flesh cut off. She would be traumatized if she didn't get rid of them.

This time, she was truly deeply hurt by these turtles! She vowed never to keep turtles again!

Anyone who keeps turtles as pets is a turtle!

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Beijing, a military region

"Knock, knock, knock," came a knock on the door of the regimental commander's office.

"Come in!" The commander put down the documents in his hand, picked up the tea that had gone cold on the table, and took a sip.

Zhou Yi carried two boxes of tea into the room, closed the door, placed the tea on the regimental commander's desk, and gave the commander a military salute.

"Reporting to the commander, Zhou Yi has rejoined the team!"

The battalion commander looked at the two boxes of tea Zhou Yi had brought back for him, nodded in satisfaction, and waved to Zhou Yi.

"You're back? Is your injury healed? How's your recovery going? You called and said you got your marriage certificate. When do you want to have the wedding?"

"Let me tell you, your training isn't finished yet, so it's impossible to approve your marriage leave anytime soon."

Zhou Yi took out the application form from his shirt pocket and handed it to his superior. "Supervisor, my wife and I have discussed it and we're not planning to have a wedding anymore."

This is my application; please approve my wife's request to bring our child to live with me while I am stationed at the military base.

The regimental commander casually took it and put it in the folder. "Okay, I understand. We'll get it done for you as soon as the political commissar comes over this afternoon and we'll sign it."

By the way, if your wife wants to find a class to work with when she comes to accompany you to the military base, just go directly to your sister-in-law.

Tell her to get your wife a job first; her workplace really welcomes housewives.

Zhou Yi: "Thank you in advance, sister-in-law, but my wife doesn't want to go to work."

She has to stay home to take care of the children. By the way, we have a seven-year-old son who is in first grade this year.

Once the application for military dependents is approved and we're allocated housing, we'll still need to arrange a school for our child.

The regimental commander waved his hand dismissively: "That's easy. Our unit has local primary schools that we connect with, so parents don't need to pick them up or drop them off. The unit has shuttle buses, so we don't need to worry about it."

There's a transport plane heading to Guangdong Province this afternoon. After you finish the handover, hurry to the training base. Right now, only Li Guangliang is leading the team, and the political commissar and I are worried about him.

"Leave the matter of your family accompanying you to the military base to me and the political commissar. Don't worry, I'll definitely find you a good house."

Zhou Yi: "Boss, please help us choose a sunny apartment on a good floor. I'll head back now."

After finishing his work, Zhou Yi took a military transport plane to the training base in Guangdong Province in the afternoon.

The next day, Chen Hong drove more than 80 kilometers along the Yellow River and released more than 200 turtles in sections.

In the end, unable to resist the temptation of delicious food, I kept four adult male turtles and kept them in the breeding box in the space.

She plans to stew one for her father every now and then. It's been almost a year since the old man came back from Rongcheng, and he hasn't been able to rest, working non-stop.

Chen Hong was afraid that he would ruin his health again. Sigh! This old man really doesn't listen to advice. No matter what you say, he still insists on earning money for the family.

That's an incredibly strong sense of responsibility!

He doesn't even look at how old he is. Chen Hong really can't do anything with him. She doesn't know whether improving his health is a blessing or a curse.

It seems that, if his physical condition allows, he can keep working until he can't anymore!

Chen Hong spent five days harvesting the second crop of crops in her space, and then took some time to go to the countryside to process them into rice, millet, and wheat flour.

After packing all the grain into large sealed bags and storing them in the space, Chen Hong planted another crop.

While she was busy harvesting honey and space fruit, she finally received a call from a real estate agent who informed her that there was news about the storefront she wanted and told her to go and take a look as soon as possible.

Chen Hong went to take a look. The house was nice, and it was indeed a storefront next to a key middle school.

Chen Hong first saw all the house's documents at the real estate agency and then went to see the house in person with the agent.

The house is still being rented out, and the tenant runs a small food stall. In the morning, they sell steamed buns, fried dough sticks, and porridge, and at noon they sell fast food and stir-fries. Business seems pretty good, and there are quite a few customers.

Chen Hong knew that Jinan was already cracking down on the catering industry, especially roadside stalls and snack shops.

The government does not allow them to discharge cooking fumes indiscriminately, polluting the air. The crackdown on these low-cost food service businesses that failed to comply with regulations has been very strong, forcing many restaurant owners to close down.

Chen Hong had no intention of letting her family sell food. The industry was fraught with problems, hygiene and safety were hard to guarantee, and there were no reliable sources for sourcing ingredients.

Running a small food stall requires getting up early and going to bed late, which is not suitable for her family at all.

It's better to open a stationery store. Most stationery doesn't expire or spoil. Although you don't earn much, the customer traffic increases and the income is quite good.

This storefront is in a great location, next to a top-tier middle school, less than 100 meters from the school gate. If you buy it and renovate it, you'll definitely have no shortage of customers selling stationery.

Nowadays, students not only need to buy various stationery, but also supplementary textbooks, extracurricular reading materials, test papers, workbooks and other learning supplies.

They also buy all sorts of sports equipment, toys, snacks, drinks, and other things unrelated to studying here.

Chen Hong had her eye on the property, but the lease still had two months to run before they could take possession, renovate, and start their business. She didn't think there would be any problems, after all, storefronts in good locations are extremely rare.

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