At noon, Shen Xiaobei and Duan Xichuan went to the cafeteria to get food.
She found that there was very little meat and no eggs in the dishes in the cafeteria at noon, and most of them were vegetarian dishes, which were much worse than the dishes Duan Xichuan had ordered in the cafeteria last night.
Duan Xichuan told her that the food in the compound's cafeteria was not very good. Most of the time, they had more vegetables such as cabbage and radish. Meat dishes were only slightly more common at the evening meal, but this also depended on luck, as there were not many meat dishes every night.
Because some leaders and officers sometimes come back for dinner at night.
Only a small number of family members, guards and logistics staff of the compound ate in the cafeteria at noon.
Therefore, many families asked their husbands to build a separate kitchen.
After taking a break after dinner, Duan Xichuan immediately took Shen Xiaobei to build a kitchen. There were some ready-made bricks and tiles in the compound, which were stacked next to the wall. They could just move them themselves.
Cement is also simple to make and can be obtained locally in the compound.
Shen Xiaobei wanted to move bricks with Duan Xichuan, but Duan Xichuan insisted and said that with a grown man like him around, how could she have the chance to do such hard labor.
Shen Xiaobei didn't insist anymore, and stayed by his side, talking to him all the way, watching him move by himself.
After moving all the materials to the kitchen area, Duan Xichuan began to skillfully build the brick wall with a shovel.
Seeing him stacking bricks and laying bricks like a professional bricklayer, Shen Xiaobei stood aside and asked like a curious baby: "Xichuan, how come you can do the work of a bricklayer so skillfully? Have you done it before?"
"Fool, don't you know that many soldiers are all-rounders? Building anything, installing anything, repairing anything, it's all a piece of cake for us!"
"Really? Then if we buy a house in the city in the future, wouldn't you be able to do all the renovations yourself?"
"Of course! But, girl, do you want to buy a house in the city?"
"No, I was just asking casually!"
"Girl, don't worry. If you want to buy a house in the city, we can buy it in the future. You don't have to live in the compound all the time."
"Ah? Really? You've thought about this?"
"Silly boy, on the day we got married, didn't you say we wanted to have at least three children? When we have more children and they grow up, we'll naturally have to buy a bigger house to live in. Of course, I've thought about all this."
"Wow... Xichuan, you're so kind! You've thought so far ahead about our future!"
"Isn't this what a husband and a father should think about?"
Seeing Shen Xiaobei's moved look, Duan Xichuan asked her with a smile while laying bricks.
should?
There are not so many shoulds in this world!
If every man knew how to think this way and was so responsible, there would not be so many unhappy marriages, unhappy children, and unhappy families in modern society.
Shen Xiaobei thought that since she came to join the army, Duan Xichuan would no longer think about any other changes in their future lives and would live in this compound for the rest of their lives.
It turned out that he also thought that he could give her and the children a better life than staying in the compound in the future.
"Xichuan, please get a shovel and a bucket of cement. I want to lay bricks too. I want to help you build our small kitchen!"
"Ah? Girl, you must be kidding. This is not something a girl should do."
"Build your own home, what's the difference between men and women? Go quickly, I'll use the one you have, and you can go get another set for yourself!"
After Shen Xiaobei finished speaking, he immediately snatched the shovel from Duan Xichuan's hand domineeringly.
Then he shoveled some cement from the cement bucket on the ground in an orderly manner, picked up a brick, and started laying it down in the same way Duan Xichuan had just done.
"Girl, I'm really impressed by you. You're really willing to do this with me! Okay, I'll go get another set of tools!"
Seeing that Shen Xiaobei was serious, Duan Xichuan smiled and shook his head, then turned to get the tools.
After getting the tools, the two of them started to build the house, one on the left and one on the right. Although Shen Xiaobei's movements were much slower than Duan Xichuan's, after building for a while, she felt that she had gotten a lot better at it.
I also feel that doing the same job with Duan Xichuan gives me a sense of accomplishment and a strong sense of happiness.
With the joint efforts of two people, a small kitchen was completed in less than two hours.
After the kitchen was built, Duan Xichuan built a simple firewood stove according to Shen Xiaobei's requirements. After the stove was built, he immediately found a piece of wood and built a table to place kitchen utensils.
Then he brought the coal stove, coal, and kitchen utensils he had bought from the county town in the morning, and Shen Xiaobei was busy arranging them one by one.
Their kitchen can be used for cooking and frying, using either a wood stove or a coal stove.
Shen Xiaobei is used to using a wood stove more often, because she finds burning coal a bit troublesome.
However, Duan Xichuan told her that if they used coal, he would just go buy more. If they used a wood stove, she would have to go to the woods far away from the compound to collect and chop firewood, which would be even more troublesome.
But Shen Xiaobei said he was not afraid of the trouble of going out to collect firewood, so Duan Xichuan also built a firewood stove, just for occasional use.
After finishing the kitchen, the two of them immediately went to work on a small vegetable garden. They worked together to pull weeds, loosen the soil, water the crops, and plant some of the vegetable seeds they had bought.
After everything was done, both of them felt a great sense of accomplishment.
Duan Xichuan also felt that Shen Xiaobei was very hardworking and capable. He was truly a man who could handle both the living room and the kitchen, and was good at everything, both civil and military affairs.
I couldn't help but feel a little guilty and self-blame towards her.
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