It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when we were waiting for the bus to arrive at the military area.
The outermost part of the military zone is the living area, and the outermost part of the living area is the family compound where the battalion-level, deputy battalion-level and veterans' families live.
There are many battalion-level and deputy battalion-level cadres in the military region, and even more veterans with more than 15 years of service, so there are also many family members of this group. The family compound is in the form of a tube-shaped building like the family compound in a towel factory.
When Lu Zhengxu introduced them, Chen Jiao asked naturally, "Which house is ours?"
Liu Haibo couldn't help but answer again: "Sister-in-law, our battalion commander is not an ordinary battalion commander. The house allocated to you is not in this area, but in the cadre family compound further inside."
After Liu Haibo finished speaking, he once again felt a chill on the back of his head.
He felt a chill in his heart and looked at Lu Zhengxu in the rearview mirror with an embarrassed smile. Why didn't he learn his lesson and talk too much again?
Entering from the family quarters outside, you will first see the military hospital, school, supply and marketing cooperative, grain station, food station and military factory.
After passing through this area, you will reach the courtyard where the cadres’ families live.
The family compounds for cadres are different from those outside. They are not tube-shaped buildings, but small courtyards.
There is a two-story building in each courtyard. Although each courtyard is not spacious, it is much more comfortable to live in than a tube-shaped building.
Liu Haibo drove the car to the last small courtyard in the first row and stopped, saying, "Battalion Commander, sister-in-law, this is the house the army has allocated to you. We have already cleaned it once, sister-in-law, please take a look. If there is anything you are not satisfied with, just let me know and I will bring a few new recruits to clean it up again."
Chen Jiao quickly thanked Liu Haibo, "Comrade Haibo, thank you. This has been cleaned very cleanly. If I were to do it myself, I wouldn't be able to make it so clean."
Chen Jiao's words were not entirely polite.
Soldiers are meticulous in their work, and their homes are kept spotless and tidy. This is indeed a level that Chen Jiao could not achieve even if she did it herself.
Chen Jiao originally wanted to give Liu Haibo something small to take back to the soldiers as a thank-you gift, but she found that there was no suitable thank-you gift in her luggage.
I said, "After we have cleaned up our house in a couple of days, I will cook and treat you and the soldiers to a meal so that your battalion commander can thank you properly."
Liu Haibo glanced at Lu Zhengxu's cold face out of the corner of his eye and shuddered in his heart. Looking at the battalion commander's cold face, no matter how greedy he was, he dared not to be tempted by the battalion commander's family's food.
He was about to refuse when he heard his battalion commander say without questioning: "Your sister-in-law invited you to come, so you can ask them to come along when the time comes. Why are you being so pretentious?"
Liu Haibo immediately responded: "Okay! Then I would like to thank my sister-in-law first."
As Liu Haibo spoke, he helped Lu Zhengxu move the luggage into the house.
The sheets, quilts and other items that were mailed had already arrived before them. After Liu Haibo helped them pick them up, he placed them in the living room.
Lu Zhengxu carried the sheets and quilts upstairs to pack them up.
Shen Jiao was observing the layout of the house.
There is a front yard in front of the house. The ground is not hardened and you can grow some vegetables for your own consumption.
When Shen Jiao came in, she found that vegetables had already been planted in their yard.
Wancheng is also in the south. It is not frozen like in the north at this season. The vegetables, lettuce and garlic sprouts in the yard are all growing green.
The cabbage and lotus white are also tightly wrapped together, like fat dolls.
It looks quite pleasing.
I just don't know which neighbor planted it.
There is a small backyard at the back, which is hardened and connected to a faucet, and can be used for washing clothes and drying quilts.
There is a toilet in the corner of the backyard.
As for the inside of the house, downstairs is the living room, kitchen and a small room.
Upstairs are three bedrooms.
If there are few people in the family, they can all live upstairs and use the small room downstairs as a storage room.
If there are too many people and the room upstairs is not big enough, the small room downstairs can be converted into a bedroom. However, there are only four people in their family, so there is no need to convert the small room into a bedroom.
Chen Jiao went into the kitchen and took a look. Sure enough, all the pots, pans, and other utensils were already prepared.
What surprised her most was that the military district actually used natural gas.
Although the gas of this era was not natural gas but artificial gas, there would often be insufficient gas and insufficient fire during use, so that the food cooked was not as sweet and delicious as that cooked with firewood, but gas was convenient and clean!
This way she can save a lot of time for reading and studying!
Lu Zhengxu was making the bed and tidying up.
Chen Jiao packed up the ingredients from her luggage and prepared a simple dinner.
The rice, flour, grain and oil were just bought at Wancheng Grain Station.
But she didn't buy any vegetables today. Although there were vegetables planted in her yard, they were not grown by her, so Shen Jiao had no intention of moving them.
In their luggage, Wu Guilan packed a lot of mountain products such as dried mushrooms, dried black fungus, dried chrysanthemums, as well as pickled vegetables such as pickled mustard greens and kohlrabi.
Chen Jiao soaked dried mushrooms and dried day lilies to stir-fry some bacon, and then made some kohlrabi and pork stir-fried with pork. After the fungus is soaked, she can make a spicy and sour fungus salad and a steamed egg.
The family will have a simple meal in the evening, and she will go to find out how to buy vegetables in the military district tomorrow.
Then she would ask who grew the vegetables in her yard, and discuss with them that after they had harvested the vegetables, she would take back the land and grow her own.
Although there is not much land in the yard, it is enough for the family to eat if we grow seasonal vegetables on it.
Chen Jiao was able to awaken the wood-related ability at the end of the world because she had some farming genes in her.
During the long and lonely time in the apocalypse, she relied on farming in the space to regulate her emotions and calm her mind.
She was not depressed because of loneliness.
Chen Jiao was busy preparing in the kitchen when she heard some noise in the yard outside.
Chen Jiao heard the noise and went out, and saw a slightly plump woman pulling lettuce in the vegetable garden.
Chen Jiao smiled naturally and greeted with a smile, "Sister-in-law, hello, did you grow these vegetables?"
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