Chen Jianguo, who was far away in the southwest base of the province, was always excited.

His good brother Wang Tiezhu couldn't bear to look at him.

"Old Chen, why did you get transferred?"

Chen Jianguo, who was on patrol, heard what he said but didn't care. In his heart, although he was not in his hometown, he was already very close to home.

"The project here is almost finished. Not only me, but you all have to be transferred. I am just the first batch."

"Why....."

Wang Tiezhu saw that a long railway line had been built in the area covered with yellow sand, and even the road next to it had been opened to traffic.

"Yeah, I didn't expect to be here for 5 days already. It was over in the blink of an eye."

Chen Jianguo didn't say anything either. When he first came, everything was yellow except sand.

For example, he went back when he was 50 and got married, and his ex-wife went back when she gave birth.

They are still a little bit lonely here. They have never been home and have really made their home here.

He patted his brother on the shoulder.

"It won't take us forever to repair the roads. The country is like this, and we have to work wherever we go. Once we have built all the roads, it will be convenient to go anywhere."

Wang Tiezhu couldn't help laughing when he thought of that scene.

"Yeah, we can build roads everywhere. Once our two provinces are connected, we can visit each other."

Chen Jianguo nodded, and the two of them sat on the sand beside them, staring at the railway stretching in the distance.

They all knew that after this separation, it would be difficult to meet again!

Su Xia from her hometown had already prepared herself mentally, and she had already told her two children the good news.

Niuniu was running around, shouting, "My dad is back!"

꺶Bao had never seen him. He had no idea that he had a real father, but he followed his sister and kept running around, shouting along.

Su Xia saw that they were happy, and she also thought it was good that the boy came back.

At least this is a complete family. Besides, it is close to home. She can also take the children to see him. In this way, she doesn't have to travel far and can just treat it as a trip.

In the following days until the twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month, Su Xia brought her two children to make 30 kilograms of bacon and three bacon chickens.

The villagers were also busy shopping and celebrating the festival.

My housework now consists of feeding the chickens and geese and cleaning the shed once a week.

Su Xia just prepared a basin of food for the geese, which was bean dregs, pig grass stored in the space, and some rotten beans and sweet potatoes mixed in.

The three geese welcomed the host and called "goose, goose!" and soon all the food was eaten.

Why....

Su Xia looked at the three of them, and now she understood why no one in the village raised dogs. They ate too much dogs, had to go out to eat grass by themselves in summer, and had to be fed by dogs in winter.

Fortunately, there was some tattered pig grass in the space, and there were plenty of vegetables.

She had already chopped up pig grass, vegetable leaves, broken beans, sweet potatoes, and seedlings in a plastic bucket, added water and some brown sugar, and fermented it the old-fashioned way.

This way, every time you feed the baby, just mix in some bean dregs and corn bran.

In fact, it is best to process corn cobs directly and feed them directly, which also saves food.

Su Xia thought about it and decided to ask the villagers if they could buy some tomorrow during the autumn harvest.

Otherwise, just buy the sticks.

When Su Xia returned home, she first glanced at the living room, where two children were playing and fighting.

Seeing the two having fun, she went straight to the kitchen to cook.

The backstage pig should be handed over to the task pig. It is the village that killed Su Xia pig as a pig, and it is the village that handed it over.

The team leader gave her the feed, meat coupons, and extra weight converted into money from the purchasing station.

Su Xia calculated and sent it to the purchasing station. That was all, so she didn't care.

The happiest people are the villagers. Although they have to pay a small amount of compensation, it is shared equally by all families, so each family only gets a little.

But they got more meat than before, and they had eaten this pork before. It was much better than the pork in your village and had more fat and water.

All in all, they still have the advantage.

One party felt that they had not lost anything, while the other party felt that they had gained an advantage, so the captain and his team happily decided to exchange the two.

Su Xia is preparing to make the fillings. Today is a small day in the north, a day for making dumplings.

Take out the meat grinder, and there is a pot of pork stuffing, and the same pot of grease residue from before.

Take out 3 pounds of beef and 3 pounds of mutton from the space and mix them into stuffing.

There are two kinds of pork, one is pork with sauerkraut, the other is pork with cabbage.

The oil residue is filled with sauerkraut. Not only does she like it, but the two children also like it.

Just put radish in the beef.

As for mutton, onions and carrots are usually used.

Once all the fillings are mixed evenly, set aside.

I took out another bowl of flour and prepared to wrap the pork, cabbage, and two kinds of pickled cabbage with oil residue, which would be enough for today.

Just wrap the remaining fillings slowly before the holiday, freeze them outside, and cook them when you want to eat them. It's very convenient.

Before lunch, Su Xia had already wrapped a pack of dumplings and stewed a casserole of chicken soup on the coal stove.

Lunch was dumplings, chicken soup, and the chicken was served separately.

Niu Niu and Bao Bao tried two kinds of dumplings. They still like the fried ones with butter, which are crunchy and delicious, but children like this one.

First, let them drink a small bowl of chicken soup with wolfberry and jujube in it, which is good for the body.

Give them a chicken leg each and let them eat it themselves.

Then it was Su Xia's own lunch time. The chicken soup was delicious, and the dumplings were fragrant and sour. They were not greasy but rather appetizing.

Finally, I ate a few more pieces of chicken, and this lunch was perfectly solved.

Niu Niu saw that Su Xia didn't eat and just sat there drinking soup. At such a young age, she knew that her mother had a very small appetite and didn't eat as much as she did.

Turning to look at my younger brother next to me, um-

His face was covered with grease after eating, and he pouted in disgust.

"Mom, when will Dad come back?"

Su Xia calculated the date and it should be a few days later.

"Come on, what do you miss about your dad?"

Niuniu thought about it and nodded.

"Mom, has Dad seen his brother?"

"How come I haven't seen him? When Baobao was born, didn't your father hold him in his arms every day?"

Xiao Bao turned to look at Su Xia, "Mom, is this true?"

Niuniu thought about it and it seemed so.

"Brother, it's true. At that time, you did nothing but eat and sleep. It was not fun at all!"

"snort---

You're not fun!"

"You're not fun, not fun, just not fun--"

Niuniu kept yelling at 꺶bao.

꺶 Bao looked at Su Xia and pouted with grievance.

"Mom, am I funny?"

The corner of Su Xia's mouth twitched -

"Yes, you are the funniest.

You too, why do you keep teasing him? If he cries, will you comfort him yourself? "

Niuniu thought about her brother's crying, which made him cry so loud that she was scared and just shut up.

Seeing that the two girls stopped arguing, Su Xia started to clean up.

She has so much stuffing to prepare for dumplings and buns, which is quite a job.

No time to be their judge!