What do you want?
When Zhao Xian heard this, his eyes suddenly became sharp when he looked at Qiao Xuejun. But he quickly softened and said, "Just keep it. You don't have to return the gift. These things are useless to me."
The two chatted briefly, and Qiao Xuejun watched Zhao Xian leave.
After returning to the shelter, Qiao Xuejun placed the red coral that Zhao Xian had given her next to her pillow. She also placed a small bag next to her pillow. This leather bag was used to hold her slingshot and steel balls. The steel balls were almost all used up during that period, and since she had a pistol, she had not used it anymore.
Now in the small leather bag, besides the slingshot, there were also things that Zhao Xian had given her.
After putting the red coral in, the small leather bag, which was not big to begin with, became a little bulging and seemed to be propped up.
Suddenly, Qiao Xuejun remembered something.
She saw her senior sister post on WeChat Moments that she had adopted a cat. The cat liked to go out and play, and when it came home it would often bring something home, sometimes a fish, sometimes a sparrow, or a mouse or snake. She would put it in front of her and share it with her.
The senior sister was distressed and happy at the same time.
Now Qiao Xuejun inexplicably felt that Zhao Xian was like a big cat that went out hunting. When he encountered prey, he would bring some back to share with others.
However, Zhao Xian didn’t want to return the gift, but she couldn’t really not return the gift.
It is not easy for someone to be truly kind to you, including her attitude towards Wang Juanfeng and others. You can't just enjoy without giving anything in return.
For Wang Juanfeng and the others, Qiao Xuejun would usually take on some of the housework they didn't want to do, such as being the first one to get out of bed in the morning and lighting a bright fire in the small compartment so that they could feel warm as soon as they got up.
For example, I would take the initiative to boil water at night and fill everyone's thermos bottles one by one. I support their work and care about their work results.
But she couldn't think of many ways to be nice to Zhao Xian. She could get food for Zhao Xian before, but now the food supply has become her obligation to the First Base, so it doesn't seem appropriate to send food like this.
Take your time to think about it. Anyway, I will be busy with the experimental field in Hongmei Mountain these days.
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The next day, Qiao Xuejun arrived at the experimental field early to continue improving the soil.
Next, we leveled the high places and filled in the low places. This step also took a few days, but fortunately the slope was not high. It only required two steps.
But this day was even more lively.
Yesterday, only the soldiers came to watch, but today, not long after we started working, three or two people gathered on the ridge next to us.
Everyone looked over here with shining eyes.
Jin Yiyun saw someone he knew, smiled, and called out loudly, "Don't just look, come over and help!"
Hearing Jin Yiyun's shout, the others came over immediately: "We heard that there was going to be farming here, so we came to take a look."
"Can it really be grown?" They looked curious.
Jin Yiyun: "Teacher Qiao contracted the land, don't you still believe it?"
If Qiao Xuejun was mentioned, then naturally everyone would believe it. After all, they all ate potatoes now, which were all grown by Qiao Xuejun.
Someone started to roll up his sleeves: "Digging, right? I'll do it. Is there anything special about it?"
Jin Yiyun taught Qiao Xuejun how to dig the ground. Some people understood and started to dig.
With someone's help in improving the soil, the progress became much faster.
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In the past few days, different people have come in groups of three or five to watch.
Qiao Xuejun didn't pay much attention to them. Often, people who came would just watch and help dig the ground. Uncle Zhang and Professor An would also come to watch, and Uncle Zhang would bring them water.
Qiao Xuejun wiped the sweat from his head, put down his hoe, and went to the edge of the field to drink water.
"I can't wait to see the wheat growing in the fields." An older brother, like Qiao Xuejun, went to the edge of the field to drink water and take a short rest. He was a little excited when he saw the field that was almost finished.
Qiao Xuejun: “Yes, there will be.”
Not far away, there were three people coming over here, probably coming to take a look.
After a while, he approached and came to their side.
"Is this where we farm? Right here?"
Qiao Xuejun heard the young man's questioning voice.
Qiao Xuejun raised her eyes and looked over, then replied, "It's here."
Judging from the man's clothing, it was not the common military green cotton coat in the base, nor was it the new rabbit fur coat. He was probably a newcomer to the base.
Tang Qinghao frowned and looked at the ground, then looked at the woman in front of him.
He has been settling down in the past few days. With dozens of people in his family, it takes some time to fully settle in. He only had some free time yesterday.
They came up with supplies and sought refuge, and he felt that their family must be extremely special. However, when he went up the mountain, he met Zhao Xian, but he did not receive any special treatment.
Tang Qinghao was indignant, but he heard that people in the base were discussing the same thing these days: farming.
Alarm bells suddenly rang in his mind.
Farming? No wonder people look down on their compressed biscuits. After all, the biscuits will be eaten up sooner or later, but farming is different. If you plant every year, you can harvest every year.
He heard someone discussing this and asked, "There are actually farms in the First Base?"
The man smiled and said, "What farm? I just opened up a test field in the back hill to try planting!"
Trial planting? Just a trial planting? Does that mean it may not be successful?
Tang Qinghao was relieved: "How can we plant in this weather? Are we playing house?"
The man was not convinced: "My new friend, you may not know our Minister of Agriculture, Expert Qiao! She is very capable and has long since figured out how to grow crops in the fields. Haven't you eaten potatoes these days? They were grown by her!"
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