On the morning of Laba Festival, the air above the farm was filled with the aroma of Laba porridge. When the team members left their homes to gather, they all sniffed the smell in the air.
Last year's Laba porridge was very bad. Wu Jun later found out that someone in the logistics department had withheld the ingredients for the Laba porridge. He sent the person to a military court, but he could not make up for the regret that happened on Laba Festival.
After Lu Shiyi stood up, Su Jin also woke up. After looking at Hanhan who was sleeping soundly in the crib, she walked out of the bedroom.
"Ayi, I started peeling garlic after breakfast. We are going to pickle Laba garlic today." Su Jin likes to eat Laba garlic. When the Chinese New Year comes, several villages will prepare to catch river fish, and then she can cook more fish.
Lu Shiyi was wearing his training uniform and preparing to leave when he saw her coming up to him in a daze and hugging his waist.
"I'm coming back late today, so don't leave me breakfast." Lu Shiyi looked at the gloomy weather and ordered, "If you have anything to do, wait until I come back and I'll go out with you."
According to his experience, there will definitely be a heavy snowstorm today, and the mountain will probably be closed by the time he returns.
"Ayi, will it snow today?" Su Jin was glad that she had bought New Year's goods in advance as requested by Lu Shiyi, otherwise, the price would have been cut in half.
"It looks like it's going to snow. I'll light up the kang in the guest room today. If it's too cold in the house, we can sleep in the guest room." Lu Shiyi instructed Su Jin, "Just take care of Hanhan now. Don't overwork yourself."
Su Jin pushed Lu Shiyi out the door: "It's almost seven o'clock, you'll be late for training later."
Lu Shiyi reached out and hugged her: "I'm going out!"
Su Jin likes to sleep in in winter. After Lu Shiyi got up and fed Hanhan, he went straight to training. It was the first time she stood at the door to see him off, and she felt warm in her heart.
While he was training, Su Jin took out a piece of iron-gray cloth from the space and prepared to make him a well-fitting Zhongshan suit.
Lu Shiyi rarely wore his own clothes on the farm and always wore training clothes. After she married Lu Shiyi, they put their clothes together. He basically wore military uniforms. Except for the three sets of clothes he got for his wedding, he only had one set of clothes for each season.
She took out her tablet and watched videos of clothing production, which were downloaded from the space.
In modern times, Su Jin also bought ready-made clothes. After coming here, she needed to start from scratch. Even if she could design new styles, she could only make them herself.
Su Jin used the scissors according to Lu Shiyi's size and was extremely careful with every cut, for fear of damaging the cloth.
After cutting the fabric for the clothes, she put the electric sewing machine in the space on the desk and started making clothes. She had made clothes for herself and Hanhan before, but this was the first time she made a Zhongshan suit for Lu Shiyi.
Su Jin was a little nervous, not knowing whether the clothes could be made as she imagined.
She finished making the top of her Mao suit, stretched herself, and went to the small kitchen to heat up breakfast on the stove.
After a quick breakfast, she washed the dishes and went back to the house to make clothes. She thought that after finishing the Zhongshan suit today, he could wear it when he went out to visit relatives during the New Year.
In previous years, Lu Shiyi always wore a relatively new military uniform during the Chinese New Year. Although his family would mail him some food, they never thought of making new clothes for him.
After finishing the Zhongshan suit, Su Jin glanced at the wall clock. It was almost 11 o'clock. She hurriedly put down the work in her hands and pushed Hanhan's stroller to the kitchen.
After she entered the kitchen, she took out the processed ingredients from the space, started cooking in a wok.
After Lu Shiyi finished training and came back from outside, he took off his outer training uniform and warmed himself next to the heater before approaching Su Jin.
"Wife, I'm back." Lu Shiyi took a quick shower in the bathroom, changed into a clean set of sportswear, and walked to the kitchen, hugging Su Jin's waist. "What are we having for dinner today?"
"Dry-pot bullfrog, baby cabbage in soup, and pork with sauerkraut." Lu Shiyi likes to eat pork with sauerkraut, and Su Jin makes it every few days.
Lu Shiyi nodded and picked up Hanhan from the stroller. Seeing the little guy looking at them with his big eyes, Lu Shiyi was moved.
"Hanhan, did you enjoy your meal today?" Lu Shiyi asked his son softly. "Xiaojin, if you want to read during the day, leave Hanhan in the space. There's no one to take care of him."
Lu Shiyi didn't want Su Jin to be too tired. His work prevented him from being by her side all the time. The situation outside was so bad that it was a luxury for him to even find someone to help.
"Ayi, Hanhan is very obedient. I fed him, changed his diaper, and played with him for a while, and then the little guy fell asleep." For the first time, Su Jin felt that her son was easy to take care of. She had heard her classmates complain that relatives' children were often noisy at home, which was a headache for them.
Lu Shiyi looked at her cheerfully: "It doesn't matter whose child she is."
Su Jin rolled her eyes at him because she couldn't stand Lu Shiyi's arrogant look.
"Ayi, when will you stop training?" Su Jin looked at the snowflakes drifting outside the window, concerned about when Lu Shiyi would finish training.
"It should be after the Little New Year," Lu Shiyi explained as he helped Su Jin carry the dishes to the dining room. "From now on, if it snows heavily outside, we will also interrupt training. After all, safety comes first."
Su Jin pointed to the broom by the door and said, "When the snow stops, clean the yard."
He stood behind her and looked at the food in the pot. Su Jin used both stoves. In the larger stove, duck was being braised, and in the other, today's lunch was being prepared.
"Wife, I'll go get the fish later. The Fourth Brigade has already come to notify us to get the fish." Lu Shiyi put his arm around her waist and said, "When we were fishing through the ice, someone tried to steal the fish at night but fell into the ice hole."
Su Jin stopped what she was doing and asked, "Is he okay? This person should be someone we know, right?"
"Well, the old educated youth who are making things difficult for you at the educated youth compound." Lu Shiyi was glad that he didn't let Su Jin live in the educated youth compound.
One of the older male educated youths had been keeping an eye on the new female educated youth because of his age. The older educated youths all knew the nature of the male educated youth. He couldn't even support himself and often flirted with the girls in the village. Under Lu Shiyuan's control and the oppression of the parents, the girls in the village were not succeeded by him.
"He has a bad reputation in the village." Su Jin remembered that on the second day, many female educated youth warned them not to be fooled.
"In the first two years after I went to the countryside, I pretended to be an intellectual in the village. Many girls were attracted to me, but no one in my family agreed." Lu Shiyi recounted what happened in the village in the past two years.
Su Jin sighed helplessly: "I wonder if my elder sister and the others can also get some fish this year."
"Everyone can have two fish. I'll go get some fish and buy a few more." Lu Shiyi knew Su Jin liked to eat Kaijiang fish. "There are many people in the village who don't like to eat fish. They would rather sell fish and go to the county town to buy meat."
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