At 3 a.m. on the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, Lu Shiyi changed into his training uniform, left a note on the table, and quietly left home.
The team members were already on the mountain. It would take nearly an hour to get from the foot of the mountain to the training site, so he took Political Commissar Lin with him.
"Commander Lu, let's go into the mountains now and see if we can find any prey during the training." Political Commissar Lin looked at Lu Shiyi and said, "Even if we attend tomorrow, can the team members return to the camp in one day?"
The document issued from above requires that patrols continue during the Spring Festival. They will use the Spring Festival to conduct training because of this document.
"Okay!" Lu Shiyi nodded. "Didn't the Minister say yesterday that all Chinese people celebrate the New Year? It's okay to relax for a day on New Year's Eve and go up the mountain early on the first morning."
The two of them talked as they walked towards the training tent, but the family compound was still very quiet. The children in the compound were on winter vacation and now they didn't have to get up early to go to school. In addition, the temperature in winter was too low, and some families got up later in order to save food at home and only had two meals a day.
When Su Jin opened his eyes again, the clock on the wall showed half past eight. Except for the team members who were on daily guard duty, the rest of the team members had been taken up the mountain.
The team members were on duty at their respective posts. In order to allow their families to have a good rest, Lu Shiyi ordered that there would be no early morning wake-up calls or wake-up calls during the training days, while the other military bugles would continue to sound as usual.
Su Jin rolled around in the quilt, put on her clothes, and got up to wash up.
After washing up, she opened the door and walked into the dining room, where she saw a note under the aluminum lunch box.
"Xiao Jin, I'm going to training starting today. You will eat three meals at home. I will prepare dinner for you and eat with you."
After a quick breakfast, he took out half a pound of brown sugar from the kitchen and grabbed a handful of White Rabbit milk candy from the tray on the coffee table.
Several military wives went to Wu Jun's house today to learn how to make kimchi. Su Jin knew how to make Korean kimchi, but she found that many of the ingredients were incomplete, so she had to settle for the next best thing.
At the door, there was a grocery cart. Lu Shiyi had used his vacation time to make it according to Su Jin's drawings. It was very similar to a modern grocery cart, with a square cart on two big wheels and 6 cabbages in the basket.
Su Jin pulled the car and walked towards Wu Jun's house next door. There were only the old couple at Wu Jun's house, and their son and daughter-in-law were serving in the Northwest Construction Corps. Therefore, Lu Shiyi would often go over to help with things.
Political Commissar Lin's wife, Yunfeng, also came with her little son, and she had a lot of eggs in her hands.
"The wife of Minister Lu?" Yunfeng teaches in the third grade of a junior high school. She is a military wife from the city, and the only thing she is not good at is cooking.
"Yes, I'm Su Jin, Lu Shiyi's wife." Su Jin's lips curled up slightly with a proper smile, and she took out two pieces of White Rabbit candy from her pocket with her right hand. "This is for you, Aunt Su."
Su Jin likes children. She feels very happy when she sees a plump and fair child.
"Yunfeng, Lin Zitao's wife." Yunfeng extended her hand to shake Su Jin's. "This is my third son, Huo Huo. He's three years old this year."
Su Jin looked at Huo Huo smiling at her and reached out to touch his little head.
Yun Feng looked at Huo Huo rubbing Su Jin's hand in surprise. Huo Huo was shy with the military wives and would not be as intimate with them as he was with Su Jin.
"It seems that Madam Lu and Huo Huo are destined to be together!" Yun Feng asked curiously, "Huo Huo rarely lets the sisters-in-law touch her. In the past, she would greet him politely and then play with him by herself."
Su Jin pursed her lips and smiled: "Sister-in-law, just call me Xiao Jin. I heard from Sister-in-law Wu that I am the youngest wife in the military region. There are many things I don’t understand, and I need help from the sisters-in-law."
"You look like an educated person to me, and you speak gently." Yunfeng grew up in the imperial capital, and she speaks and acts with the boldness of a tiger girl from the imperial capital.
"I'm from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and I graduated from high school." Su Jin quickly stepped aside and said, "Let Huo Huo go in first. Don't let the child get cold."
Liu Yunshan heard the voices outside and hurried out of the house.
"You two are in perfect harmony. If you stand here and talk, my little Huo Huo will be in trouble." Liu Yunshan reached out and picked up Huo Huo and carried him into the house. "Come in with me, Huo Huo. Aunt Liu has prepared some delicious food for you. Just sit on the sofa and eat your snacks, okay?"
"Sister-in-law, thank you for your help!" Yunfeng followed in. After hearing that Liu Yunshan had prepared more food, she helped Huo Huo take off his cotton coat and said, "I'll be open to you at noon. Stay at my house for lunch."
Yunfeng put a basket of eggs on the table, and Su Jin took half a pound of brown sugar from the vegetable cart.
"I'm shamelessly eating here too!" Su Jin heard from Lu Shiyi that Liu Yunshan is from the Xian ethnic group and is a great cook. "Ayi also said that if I were at home, I could come to my sister-in-law's house for free meals every now and then."
Liu Yunshan looked at the two of them cheerfully: "If anyone takes anything from now on, I will kick you out and leave only Huo Huo to eat."
"Sister-in-law, this is what Zitao exchanged from the nearby villagers. I'm not very good at cooking, so I'm waiting for you to make eggs for Huo Huo." Yunfeng initially sent Huo Huo to kindergarten. Because he was young, he was often bullied. After Liu Yunshan learned about it, she raised Huo Huo as her own grandson.
"You stayed at home during the daytime during the New Year holidays, and I was worried that Huo Huo would become thinner because of you." Liu Yunshan was helpless with Yunfeng, as her cooking skills were really not good enough.
Su Jin sat obediently beside them, watching that Huo Huo was well educated by Liu Yunshan and Yunfeng. He was not like the children in the village of the Fourth Brigade who would put food in their mouths as soon as they saw it.
"Xiao Jin, how are your cooking skills?" Liu Yunshan looked at Su Jin and asked.
"Sister-in-law, I can only cook home-cooked dishes. I can't do anything else!" Su Jin wanted to cry, "If I can't get the seasonings together, I can't cook."
Phew!
Yunfeng said happily, "He's better than me. I only know how to heat up food. I'm the youngest at home, and my mother and sisters-in-law never let me go into the kitchen. After we got married, Zitao has been here all the time, so I eat at my sister-in-law's house or go to the cafeteria."
Liu Yunshan looked at the two of them and said, "Old Wu is old enough to retire. When he retires, he'll live in a retirement home far from here. You two will have to be self-reliant."
Huo Huo looked up at Liu Yunshan: "Aunt Liu wants to accompany Huo Huo."
"Aunt Liu lives in Courtyard 3, and Huo Huo's school is nearby. You and Political Commissar Lin can eat at her house," Liu Yunshan said with a smile in her eyes. "Today I'll teach you two how to pickle vegetables. The other military wives are preparing food for the New Year, and some of them have guests from their hometowns."
"Sister-in-law, Minister Wu will retire in at least 7 years. Huo Huo will be old enough by then. Maybe with your influence, he can cook." Yun Feng completely gave up on her and Lin Zitao's cooking skills. She couldn't even cook noodles half-cooked.
"You two are counting on the child!" Liu Yunshan glared at Yunfeng. "You're quite promising, Xiaojin. You should learn how to pickle vegetables this time too. Shi Yi will be staying here for a few more years, and we can't do without pickled vegetables in the winter."
"Okay!" Su Jin nodded. She felt that her two sisters-in-law were easy to get along with, and she relaxed completely. "I will definitely study hard."
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