As April approached, the weather gradually warmed up, and Su Jin began to use a sewing machine to make maternity clothes and children's clothes. She took baby cotton cloth from the space. The space store had special baby clothes to prevent outsiders from discovering that the child's clothes were different.
After correcting the homework, Su Jin took out the newborn baby size that she had learned from Yun Feng and started cutting the fabric.
She carefully cut it with scissors, sat down at the sewing machine and started making clothes, and she smashed the seams outside.
Nearing eleven o'clock, Su Jin stretched and looked at the four finished baby onesies.
Su Jin planned to use baby cotton even for diapers. She didn't want her child to use old cloth to make diapers, so she prepared a lot of diapers.
She put down the fabric in her hand, got up and went to the kitchen to make lunch.
She has had a good appetite recently. Su Jin cooks a lot of food every time, and she has gained several pounds.
"Xiao Jin, Shi Yi asked me to exchange some hens for you from a nearby village." Yun Feng took out two hens from a bamboo basket. "I talked to my trusted sister-in-law and asked them to help me exchange them for hens that can be used to make soup."
Su Jin quickly took the hens with their wings tied and put them aside.
"Sister-in-law, please stay here for dinner today. It's a rare day off." Su Jin invited Yunfeng to stay for dinner.
"I'll make lunch in advance and wait for Lao Lin to come back and taste it." Yun Feng hastily refused. "We've agreed to make more and then let the children come back to eat."
Su Jin saw Yun Feng off. She waited for Lu Shiyi to come back and kill the chicken. She took the picked vegetables from the side, washed them, and prepared to stir-fry them.
The rice on the stove was taken down. Su Jin had prepared the rice in advance before making clothes.
Su Jin was cooking in the kitchen and took the ribs out of the space. After the weather turned warmer, she threw all the fresh meat into the refrigerator in the space to prevent the smell of cooking meat from wafting away, and stewed the meat with the appliances in the space.
She used her free time to cook three meals a day, and Lu Shiyi also knew her secret. After she became pregnant, Lu Shiyi was worried that she was not getting enough nutrition, so he reminded her several times to cook for herself.
"Xiao Jin, is the food ready?" Lu Shiyi walked in from outside and saw that Su Jin had already prepared two dishes of vegetables and a stewed pork ribs.
"Ayi, bring the bowls and let's eat." Su Jin heard from her sisters-in-law that some people would have morning sickness and couldn't eat.
Su Jin would eat more while she was still able to, in case she suffered morning sickness and lost weight later.
Lu Shiyi brought the food to the table, and Su Jin made a loofah and egg soup.
"Sister-in-law helped me exchange two chickens. You can kill one tonight and make chicken soup. We can keep the other one in the backyard." Su Jin looked at Lu Shiyi's sallow face and put the loofah and egg soup on the table. "You can't just eat a little bit."
"Everyone doesn't have much food now, and there's even less to eat. Everyone else's face looks bad, but I'm the only one with a rosy complexion. What do you think those people should say?" Lu Shiyi noticed that everyone looked bad, and even secretly left some of his canteen rations in his pocket.
Lu Shiyi knew that the situation was not good. Su Jin was pregnant, so it was normal for her to eat better.
"You met with your sisters-in-law and told them that they only had porridge and whole-grain steamed buns at home, and the food at home was only enough to keep them warm and full." Lu Shiyi told Su Jin a few words. Apart from working two days, she had to live in the courtyard for the rest of the time.
"Ayi, I see the sisters-in-law are buying food rations in the nearby village. Some have bought hundreds of kilograms." Su Jin informed him of the situation in the courtyard. "Should we buy some food?"
"Buy!" Lu Shiyi thought about it and decided to let Su Jin buy food to store. "We don't lack food at home. Buying food is just a cover-up."
After lunch, Lu Shiyi held her in his arms for a nap, with his chin resting on her shoulder.
At 1:45 p.m., the call to go to work rang out. Lu Shiyi quietly got up and went to work. After changing into his training uniform, he tucked her in before leaving.
Lu Shiyi opened the door, and Lin Zitao and Yunfeng came out to work together.
"Is Xiaojin okay?" Yunfeng looked at Lu Shiyi. The three of them talked as they walked. "Come back more often when you have time. When you were pregnant, you loved having your husband by your side."
Lu Shiyi nodded: "Sister-in-law, don't worry."
The three of them said goodbye to each other at the intersection, and Yunfeng walked to school to work.
It was already 3 o'clock in the afternoon when Su Jin woke up. She heard the voices of the sisters-in-law outside the door thanking the team members for their help. Several sisters-in-law had bought food in the village, and the food in their private plots was not enough for them to live together.
Su Jin pushed the door open and walked out. Several military wives were not far away, discussing going to the village again tomorrow.
"Teacher Su, do you want to buy food with us?" Several sisters-in-law asked hurriedly when they saw Su Jin coming out.
Every household had to mail their allowance back home, and the money they had available was not much, so they had to buy food together.
"I want to buy some too. I've had a bigger appetite now, but my rations aren't much. Even Ayi eats less." Su Jin said with a wry smile, "His training is so intense, it would be terrible if he doesn't eat well."
Several military wives understood Su Jin's dilemma, and the amount of food that pregnant women need would increase.
"Teacher Su, each family has bought 400 kilograms of coarse grains, which should last for a year. The situation will be better next year." Several sisters-in-law told Su Jin, "The food rations in this village are the combined food from several villages."
"Sisters-in-law, I also want to buy 400 kilograms of coarse grains. How much do you charge per kilogram?" After Su Jin found out, he prepared to hand the money to the sister-in-law in charge.
"The 400 kilograms of grain have all been shelled, so I bought them at 7 cents per kilogram, according to the black market price." My sister-in-law was also helpless. It was not easy to buy grain.
400 kilograms of food costs 28 yuan, and these sisters-in-law will probably have to save it for several months.
"Okay!" Su Jin took out 30 yuan from his pocket. "You told me not to move for the next few months. I had no choice but to ask my sister-in-law, who is in charge of buying food, to help me buy food."
A sister-in-law in her forties came out and said, "Teacher Su trusts me. Give me the money and food. I'll have the young soldier go to the Lu Department to get the key and send it home."
"Thank you so much, sister-in-law!" Su Jin put the money in her sister-in-law's hand. "Except for Tuesdays and Thursdays when I'm not at home, you can send it directly home on the rest of the days."
"I am Wu Yinghua, the wife of Sun Shun, the company commander of the third company. I can buy the food for you tomorrow." Wu Yinghua assured Su Jin.
"Thank you, sister-in-law!" Su Jin said gratefully.
Several sisters-in-law were talking about things in the courtyard, and Su Jin sat aside and listened. They didn't want their children to go to the county town too often.
"Teacher Su, you work at school. Have you seen any team members with red armbands breaking in?" Wu Yinghua remembered what her child said and had to ask Su Jin.
"I'm not in the office, so I don't know the situation over there." Su Jin shook his head. "The situation in the junior high school is much better. They have the military district to protect them, so they won't be as chaotic as outside."
With Su Jin's assurance, the military wives felt relieved.
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