On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the farm returned to its former bustle. Team members began training every morning, and when the weather was good, the elderly went to the activity station to start selecting seeds.
The winter in Northeast Province is longer than in other places, so they have more time to select seeds.
Su Jin will start working on translation today. After Lu Shiyi finishes his training, he asks Zong Li to send the documents home.
"Wife, we will work in the study, and leave the family matters to my aunt and sister-in-law Yunfeng." Lu Shiyi watched Su Jin send Hanhan into the space and opened his mouth to tell her.
"Ayi, I see a lot of family members surrounding the activity center." Su Jin was curious about what the family members were going to do. Last year, each family was allocated a private plot of land, and some people planted food in it. She deliberately planted intercropping, and regardless of the rice that should be harvested, there was still a lot of corn.
There is a lot of food in the vegetable cellar at home, enough for the family of three to eat for the whole year.
During the autumn harvest, the family members kept a close eye on Su Jin's private plot. As she was about to give birth, Lu Shiyi did not let her go to the fields again and took two guards to collect the things.
This year, the family members all want to learn Su Jin's method. Some families have a total of 6 people, and growing crops alone cannot satisfy the family's appetite.
"Wife, it's about the grain. Our harvest was good last year, twice as much as other private plots." Lu Shiyi told Su Jin, "We intercrop half of our plot with corn, and raise fish with the other half."
There is no shortage of rice field fish at home. Many of the cured fish mailed back to the capital are made from rice field fish, which makes many family members jealous. They ask the head of the family to prepare to contact the fish fry and wait for the spring to order the fish fry back.
Su Jin smiled and said, "As long as we have a good harvest, everyone will definitely follow suit. Are you planning to release fish into the fields on the farm as well?"
While talking, Su Jin started to make tea. It was rare to get coffee here. The business of Lao Mo's restaurant in the capital was also much worse, and there was no coffee available for takeout.
"Wife, I asked my childhood friend to buy coffee powder for you. It will be mailed to you after the Lantern Festival." Lu Shiyi asked his childhood friend in the capital to buy coffee. His family works in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, so he has this convenient identity.
"No, I'll just drink strong tea." Su Jin shook his head hurriedly, "There's coffee in it, I'm just too lazy to make it."
Su Jin likes to drink strong canned coffee. She keeps it in the refrigerator to cool in the summer and takes it outside to cool in the winter.
"You!" Lu Shiyi's coffee-making skills were not good, and he was always despised by his childhood friend. "I'll learn from my childhood friend. I'll make coffee for you later."
Su Jin shook her head: "Isn't the tea in our country delicious? It's refreshing!"
The tea in the 1960s was tastier because it was all new tea and hand-roasted, much better than modern tea.
Su Jin had bought a lot of tea sets on Taozi.com, and they were sold at sky-high prices on the black market here.
"Wife, Laojiu from the black market wants ten more sets of glass tea sets. Take advantage of the opportunity when your childhood friend sends something by mail to return the tea sets he wants." Laojiu was a retired soldier from the Excalibur Corps. Because his mother had cancer, he had to go to the black market to make money.
With the help of Lu Shiyi and his comrades, Laojiu has made a name for himself in the black market, specializing in high-end products.
Su Jin gave Lu Bairen a Kung Fu tea set, which made his eyes light up.
"Ayi, I gave it to you the day before yesterday." Su Jin had a lot of stock in his space. With the appearance of the old wine, Su Jin didn't have to take the risk of going to the black market.
Su Jin was drinking tea from a gaiwan teacup, but her eyes were fixed on the translation materials in front of her, which were all about the newly emerged radiation sickness.
There are already quite a few treatment methods from the cases taken from the simulated hospital.
While Lu Shiyi went out to pour water, she took out similar cases from the space and put them aside for use.
Near noon, Su Jin heard Lu Shiyi calling her to eat and stretched lazily in her chair.
"Ayi, what shall we eat?" Su Jin had stewed the beef spine in advance and put carrots, potatoes and onions in it.
Lu Shiyi stir-fried Chinese cabbage and broccoli. Su Jin liked to eat these two vegetables. After taking the seeds from the space, he made a lot of grids to grow vegetables to satisfy her desire to eat vegetables every few days.
"Ayi is so awesome!" Whoever of the young couple has time cooks, and Lu Shiyi's cooking skills are getting better and better.
While the two were having lunch, Lu Shiyi told her that they had dug a lot of traps during training this morning, and after the snow fell, a lot of prey would come out to look for food.
"Wife, we can have wild game to eat tomorrow." Lu Shiyi saw traces of wild boar in the deep mountains and thought that if there were wild boars tomorrow, he could make barbecue.
"It would be great if there were pheasants. I want to eat big plate chicken." Su Jin took out the flour from Dingxi from the space. He used this flour to make leek dumplings during the Spring Festival.
"There will definitely be some!" The two were talking about tomorrow's food when there was a knock on the door.
Lu Shiyi put down his chopsticks and walked to open the door. A family member with blood on his forehead knelt in front of Lu Shiyi.
"Minister Lu, please save me!" A family member's husband was on a mission at the border. Because their child was too young, she had asked her mother-in-law to come over for help. Unexpectedly, her mother-in-law brought her sister-in-law along. "My mother-in-law and sister-in-law teamed up to beat me... Erya is in the clinic now."
Su Jin saw that Lu Shiyi hadn't come in for a long time, so she went out wearing her funeral clothes.
"Sister Wang, who hurt you?" Su Jin asked in surprise, "Didn't Wang Da go on a mission?"
"Teacher Su, my mother-in-law and sister-in-law are here. My sister-in-law insisted on introducing me to the members of the Excalibur team. I felt that my sister-in-law was not worthy and kept refusing the introduction. After she went back to complain, my mother-in-law wanted to strangle Erya, saying that Erya was a money-loser. I went up to stop them and was directly hit by the wall." When Mrs. Wang saw Su Jin, she cried as if she had seen her savior.
"Hurry up and get up. Let's go see Erya first." Su Jin looked at Lu Shiyi. "You stay at home and take care of Hanhan."
Su Jin put away the documents in the study, worried that someone would take the opportunity to cause trouble.
"Go quickly. If you can't handle it, let someone from the clinic come and notify me." Lu Shiyi did not get involved in the disputes in the family compound. If someone took action, he would step in.
Su Jin helped Mrs. Wang up, and the two of them walked quickly towards the clinic.
"Teacher Su, can you let my mother-in-law and sister-in-law leave? Or let Wang Da come forward to see them off." Mrs. Wang thought of her dying little daughter, and her eyes turned red again.
"Sister-in-law, what are you and your wife thinking?" Su Jin was curious about why Sister Wang's mother-in-law suddenly came when she hadn't even come to her for confinement.
"My sister-in-law had an unclear relationship with the educated youth who went to the countryside in the village, and her reputation was completely ruined. My mother-in-law cried in front of Wang Da for two months before he gave in." Mrs. Wang thought her sister-in-law came to seek refuge on her own, but who would have thought that her mother-in-law would come to deal with her.
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