Xia Jinnian: "Commander Cheng, if the higher-ups really want to do that, what can I do? I'm not as high-ranking as them."

"Besides, even if something happens, there are tall people to take care of it. Commander Cheng, you are at the forefront, so what do I have to be afraid of?"

Commander Cheng: "You little brat, stop smiling at me. Don't think you'll be alright just because I'm in front of you."

"Is your life too easy if you don't tease me for a day? I think you should just go back and stop getting in my way. Get as far away as possible. Why are you becoming more and more unpleasant?"

Xia Jinnian: "Commander Cheng, how could you treat someone like that? If you can't win the argument, just tell them to get out."

"It seems like you don't need me anymore. I'll tell my wife not to modify your equipment anymore, lululu."

Commander Cheng picked up the book on the table and threw it at him. Xia Jinnian dodged it by turning sideways, and the book fell directly to the ground. This brat only knew how to irritate him. Fortunately, the book was not from his family, otherwise he would have fainted from anger sooner or later.

When Li Qiuju heard that a girl had come to Tang Shiyan's house, she immediately came over to chat, because she had been busy planting vegetables because it had been raining for the past few days and had no time.

I usually go to the mountains to pick medicinal herbs, and I happened to have nothing to do this afternoon, so I took some time to come over and chat with us.

Although they are very tired and have little time to rest, the military wives have something to look forward to and are smiling every day.

Since they have their own things to do, their husbands no longer treat them differently, and their mothers-in-law no longer look down on them and take the initiative to help with housework.

Under normal circumstances, as soon as the husband comes home, he will complain that they don’t do their housework well, don’t take good care of the children, and don’t cook tasty meals.

The mother-in-law would also say that they were lazy, did not help with anything during the day, and only knew how to spend the money her son earned. Some mothers-in-law even disliked their daughters-in-law for not being able to give birth to a son.

Since they got married, they have never bought themselves a new piece of clothing. They wear clothes with patches on top of patches every day. Even the money they spend is used to support the whole family.

In the end, they are still looked down upon and told that they don't know how to live and have to spend so much money every month.

Now they finally don’t have to rely on others, they can earn money to support themselves and help share some of the burden at home.

When Li Qiuju passed by, she casually called Jiang Muyan along. The two of them came to the door of Tang Shiyan's house and shouted, "Little Tang sister, are you home?"

Tang Shiyan immediately stood up and opened the door when she heard the voice. "Two sisters-in-law, you are here. Come in and sit down."

Li Qiuju: "We just heard that a girl came to your house, so we thought we'd come over to chat with you. Did we bother you?"

"Isn't it raining these past two days, which is good for growing vegetables? So we, the military wives, have been busy growing vegetables these past two days, otherwise we would have come here a long time ago."

Tang Shiyan: "Sister-in-law Li, what are you talking about? It doesn't matter if you're disturbing us or not. We welcome you to come and chat with us. We're very happy."

Every time they came, Tang Shiyan was very generous. She still made brown sugar water for the adults and malted milk for the children.

They also took out cakes, melon seeds and candies for everyone to eat. As soon as the children said they came to Tang Shiyan's house.

They all jumped for joy because every time they came to her house there would be delicious food for them to eat.

Li Qiuju: "Little Tang sister, you are so kind. You taught us how to make money and gave us so many delicious foods. We don't know how to thank you enough."

"Luckily, you joined the army, otherwise we would have only been taking care of the children, cooking, washing clothes, and doing housework all day long."

Tang Shiyan: "Sister-in-law Li, please don't be so polite to me. Since we know each other, we are friends. There is no need to be so polite between friends."

"We haven't gotten together in such a long time. Why don't you cook dinner at my house later and make hot pot? Anyway, now that the weather is getting cooler, it's the perfect time to eat hot pot."

"As for the political commissar and the deputy battalion commander, just ask them to come over and eat together. After all, hot pot is more fun when there are more people around."

Li Qiuju: "Little Tang sister, how can we do this with so many people? How much of your food will be eaten up if we really have to eat together?"

"I'll go back and get some food from my house. I feel bad for always eating yours."

Jiang Muyan: "Then I'll go back and get some too. It's really embarrassing to eat Tang Mei's food for free. Tang Mei, you've been so kind to me, so we can just take some of the vegetables we grow ourselves. Please don't refuse."

Tang Shiyan: "Well, thank you for taking the trouble to make this trip. It would be awkward if I refused again."

Li Qiuju and Jiang Muyan came over quickly with the things. They were too lazy to go back, so they left a note for their boss, asking them to come directly to Tang Shiyan's house for dinner after they came back.

Tang Shiyan prepared the soup for the hot pot, while Li Qiuju and Jiang Muyan were responsible for washing and cutting the vegetables. The three of them worked quickly and soon the ingredients for the hot pot were ready.

Tang Shiyan looked at the time and saw that it was still early, so the three of them sat down again, eating melon seeds and chatting. The time spent chatting passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye it was time for dinner.

When the political commissar and the deputy battalion commander returned home from get off work, they saw that no one was at home and no one was cooking. They thought, "It's almost dark outside. Where have my wife and children gone?"

It was not until I saw the note left on the table that I realized that they had gone to Captain Xia's house to chat with his wife again.

I really don’t know how to have the nerve to have dinner at their house and even invite them to go with us.

However, when I thought about the food cooked by Captain Xia’s wife, I started drooling. It was so delicious. No matter what, I just ate it first.

The two of them quickly arrived at Tang Shiyan's house and knocked twice. Xia Jinnian knew that it was the political commissar and the deputy battalion commander, so he immediately opened the door and invited them in.

Political Commissar: "Xia boy, you guys are spending money again today. You don't mind so many of us coming to your house for dinner, do you?"

Xia Jinnian: "Political Commissar, how could that be? My sister-in-law and the others brought some materials. My wife said we haven't gotten together in a while."

"It just so happens that my sister-in-law and the others are free this afternoon, so we can all get together and have some hot pot. Hot pot is only fun when there are a lot of people around."

The deputy battalion commander said, "Xia boy, what is hot pot? I've never even heard of it, let alone eaten it. Your wife is really capable and can cook all kinds of dishes."

Xia Jinnian: "Deputy Battalion Commander, you'll know once you try it. My wife can cook a lot of dishes you've never even heard of."

"When you have time, ask her to make it for you to try. I guarantee you'll want to eat more after having it."