Chapter 123 Chapter 123 Baiye

Zhang Yuandong was somewhat dumbfounded when she said this, but he quickly replied, "You go take a rest for a while. I'll finish the rest and then go harvest the peanuts."

Lin Yue likes thatched roofs, but Zhang Yuandong doesn't have tiles. After he finishes laying the sorghum stalks, he needs to smooth them with yellow mud. He can only proceed to the next step after the mud is dry, which is just in time for him to harvest peanuts.

Although there is no day or night in this space, Zhang Yuandong has not had a rest for a long time. She is not Zhou Paopi, so it is impossible for her to let him work non-stop.

She pulled Zhang Yuandong's sleeve and walked into the tent, saying with a smile, "There is always work to do, so why not take a rest now?"

Zhang Yuandong was more than happy to do so, but he still went to the stream to take a bath and change into clean clothes before following Lin Yue into the tent.

After Lin Yue brought the children to join the army, Zhang Yuandong had a lot more worries, and he would get up several times unconsciously at night. When he woke up, he found himself sleeping in the space. Thinking of the children outside, he shook Lin Yue and told her that he wanted to go out and see the children.

Lin Yue woke up in a daze, and it took her a while to remember what time it was. She rubbed her eyes and asked, "Is it time for Sisi to drink milk? I have to go and squeeze goat milk for her." The milk she ordered for the children was delivered early every morning. However, Lin Yue was afraid that it would go bad, so she didn't dare to let them drink the milk delivered in the morning at night, so Sisi always drank goat milk at night.

Zhang Yuandong held her down and said, "Don't get up. I'll go."

Sisi was still asleep, Zhang Yuandong heated up the goat milk and put it aside to cool, then went to check on the children. The children were not very well-behaved when they slept, so Zhang Yuandong patted the two older ones, woke them up to go to the toilet, and changed the diaper of the younger one. Sisi might have heard the noise and woke up at this time.

None of his four children used a bottle. Lin Yue had specially visited the bottles of that time before. They looked rather strange, large in the middle and curved on both sides. Both ends were connected, one for feeding and the other for a pacifier. But again, if the technique was not good enough, the pacifier would probably fall off if the child sucked too hard. Moreover, the pacifiers nowadays were not made of latex or silicone, but hard plastic. Lin Yue dared not let his children use them.

Zhang Yuandong always felt that Sisi was much weaker than the other children. Even though Lin Yue fed her spiritual spring water every day, she was still delicate and weak. In addition, he missed the infancy of the previous children, so even though she was not his own child, Zhang Yuandong still had a lot more patience with her.

At this time, he held the child carefully in one hand and held the spoon in the other hand, feeding her milk little by little. Sisi was a slow person. Even if Zhang Yuandong fed her slowly, she would not be in a hurry and would even say "oh oh ah ah" and smile at you. But if he fed her too quickly, she would not open her mouth no matter what you said, and would not open her mouth until she had swallowed all the milk in her mouth.

Zhang Yuandong held such a tiny ball in his arms, and his heart softened. Thinking of the other children, especially Wanli and Lingling, he was not with them when they were young and did not even know of their existence, which led to their almost death that winter. The guilt he felt towards these children was beyond words.

His guilt didn't last long and it was much lessened the next day.

Lin Yue received a large package from his hometown a few days ago. It was sent by the Zhang Shouren brothers, Wang Xiuxiang and Liu Jianyun.

In addition to some local specialties, Wang Xiuxiang also sent calcium milk biscuits to Little Mushroom because his first birthday was coming soon, and Liu Jianyun sewed a red bellyband for the child with a cute little white rabbit on it, which was exactly Little Mushroom's zodiac sign.

Lin Yue also found three small swords carved from wood, two large and one small, in the package. The largest one was only about 20 centimeters long, and the smallest one was about the same length as Lin Yue's hand, just right for the children to play with. Judging from the material, it should be carved from peach wood, and the corners and the tip of the sword were polished very smooth and round, so as not to hurt people. Lin Yue knew at a glance that these were made by two brothers.

The next day was Saturday, which happened to be Zhang Yuandong's day off. She left the four children to Zhang Yuandong with confidence and took the bus to the city.

She had no way to take out the things in her space before, but now that the two places were far apart, it gave her an opportunity. She divided the dried mushrooms and black fungus she had collected during this period into three portions and sent them all back, along with some preserved fruit and the spicy dried mutton she had just made. Dried mutton was meat after all, so she didn't dare to send too much and only sent a small package to each person.

These things were already very valuable, and in this era, they were enough to raise an ungrateful person. If it were someone else, Lin Yue would definitely not send so many things back, but she believed in the character of Zhang Shouren and Wang Xiuxiang and Liu Jianhua. In addition, Liu Jianhua was now divorced and lived in her parents' home with a child. Life must be difficult for her. The things she sent would not make her life much better, but they were enough to support her in her parents' home.

After sending the package, Lin Yue went to the largest vegetable market here. Maybe people start to have desires when their lives are comfortable. She really wants to eat pickled pepper chicken feet and spicy duck heads. Her purpose today is to see if there are these supplementary foods in the vegetable market.

She walked around the market and didn't find any of these items for sale. In fact, if you think about it, you can understand that there were no broilers at that time, and it would take at least half a year to raise native chickens before they could be released. How could there be so many supplementary foods for sale separately?

However, she happened to come across a meat processing plant slaughtering pigs, so she bought a lot of pig offal, including pig trotters, pig large intestines, pig livers, and even a piece of pig tongue.

These things that had just been processed were actually quite scary. Normally, she would not dare to look directly at them. However, buying things often depends on the atmosphere. A group of people around were scrambling for them, especially the pig offal that did not require a ticket. Even if they did not know how to cook it, they would want to buy it home first. Lin Yue was pushed to the front and bought a lot for the atmosphere. In the end, he even had the mind to ask the butcher where Baiye was.

The butcher saw that Lin Yue was good-looking, and was not angry at such a stupid question. Instead, he laughed and said, "This female comrade is really funny. I have only heard of tripe in the stomachs of cows and sheep. I have been killing pigs for so many years, and I have never heard of that thing in pigs!"

Lin Yue blushed. She had always ordered tripe sheets when she went to a hot pot restaurant before, but she had never thought about where exactly tripe sheets were found on an animal. After hearing what the butcher said, her rusty brain turned for a moment and she asked tentatively, "So, the rumen?"

The butcher held a cigarette in his mouth and cut the meat with the knife in his hand. He said "tsk" and nodded, "That's about right!"

Lin Yue squeezed out of the crowd, still thinking about this matter in his heart. Zhang Yuandong has killed several sheep recently, why haven't I heard him talk about this thing, maybe he doesn't know it either!

Zhang Yuandong really didn't know. In those days, supplies were scarce and some poor families could barely get into the water, let alone study which piece of meat in a sheep's stomach tasted good. Zhang Yuandong was one of them.

But then again, if he followed his own habits, he could cook and eat anything, including goat liver, goat intestines, and goat stomach. But he felt that Lin Yue was different. His wife was so disgusted that she couldn't eat even when she had to wash pig intestines, so how could she stand these? And there were so many delicious foods in front of her, so he couldn't eat these things, so he naturally threw them all away.

Zhang Yuandong didn't know that his fairy wife, who he thought didn't eat animal offal, had bought a lot of pig offal. He was now frowning and venting his coldness at the siblings Wanli and Lingling.

The two kids are getting more and more naughty. They were playing with a group of kids downstairs. They actually took shovels and dug several traps downstairs. They were competing to see whose trap was the most realistic. If it was just that, it would be fine. But the way they competed was to see whose trap could be stepped on by others.

At first, the children were just playing in the dirt downstairs, and none of their parents paid any attention to it, until Captain Lu's mother tripped and almost broke her waist. Captain Lu's five-year-old son was also there, and Grandma Lu couldn't say anything to the other children, so she could only scold her grandson, but the child didn't listen to her at all, and she was so angry that she went home and called her son over.

Today is a rest day and many officers are at home. When they saw Captain Lu being pulled out by his ear by my mother, they all came out laughing to watch the show.

Zhang Yuandong saw that his two older children were also inside, so he quickly took the two younger ones downstairs.

As soon as he went downstairs, he heard a group of old men criticizing a group of young kids. Most of these kids were about five or six years old, weak, and the traps they made were not very technical. It was obvious at a glance that they did not have any killing power except making the road bumpy.

Song Ming, who lived downstairs, was the oldest of the children and was already in primary school. He took the pickaxe at home and dug a large pit about 20 to 30 centimeters deep, covered it with a piece of clothing, and covered the clothing with a lot of dead grass. This was the pit that tripped Grandma Lu. Seeing that his mother was fine, Captain Lu smiled and praised her, "Not bad, you kid, you even learned how to make a disguise, you are a good material for being a soldier!"

Song Ming was afraid of being scolded, but he was praised. His eyes sparkled with excitement. His parents came down. His father, Political Commissar Song, couldn't stand his son's boasting. He slapped him on the head and scolded him, "What are you so happy about? Correct your attitude and apologize to Grandma Lu!"

Song Ming didn't dare to argue with his father, so he pouted and apologized obediently.

The idle officers were still studying, and after searching for a long time, they suddenly found that two were missing. Captain Lu smiled and said, "I think the most obedient children among these children are the two from Captain Zhang's family. Zhang Wanli, uncle wants to ask you, why didn't you two follow these bad boys to set the trap?"