As Qiao Baozhu walked to the gate, she saw Shen Xiao coming out with a flashlight.
"Are you back?"
Shen Xiao saw Qiao Baozhu walking back by herself, and frowned: "Didn't you say you would be busy until nine o'clock? I was going to pick you up."
The farm headquarters is just across the road from the family compound, not far at all.
"I've already told you that you don't have to pick me up after get off work. Usually, there are a lot of people outside when I get off work. Today is an exception."
Qiao Baozhu smiled, took Shen Xiao's arm, and walked into the house intimately.
"You also know that today is an exception?"
Shen Xiao had a gloomy face. It was not peaceful outside right now, and he was worried that Qiao Baozhu would run into drunken troublemakers on her way home from get off work.
Qiao Baozhu knew she was in the wrong and did not bring up the topic again.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw the sweater on the radiator, pursed her lips and took off her cold cotton jacket, then her white sweater and put on the sweater that Shen Xiao had warmed up on the heater.
"Mmm, it feels so good."
"Why didn't I think of such a good idea before, Shen Xiao, you are so smart."
Qiao Baozhu leaned against the door frame, looking at Shen Xiao who was serving rice, and said in a soft and coquettish voice: "Thank you, husband, husband is so nice."
Shen Xiao's ears turned red instantly, visibly.
He walked into the house with a rice bowl in one hand and a plate of food in the other, still with a stern face.
Passing by Qiao Baozhu, she saw that Shen Xiao's ears were red. His ears, face and neck were all red with shame.
There was a smile on his lips that he couldn't suppress at all.
"Wow, three dishes and a soup. What a wonderful day! Such a sumptuous meal."
Braised hairtail, pork with mashed garlic, stir-fried cabbage with black fungus, and a sauerkraut potato soup.
They were all Qiao Baozhu's favorite dishes, especially the dry-fried chili peppers on the sauerkraut potato soup, which made her drool.
"Finally, we can eat our pickled cabbage. I'm so greedy."
After Qiao Baozhu returned to the city, she divided the sauerkraut in the jar into two parts, taking half back to her parents' home and giving the other half to Wu Meili and Ji Hehua.
After she and Shen Xiao moved back, she brought back a dozen pickled cabbages from her mother's home.
"This is what Sister Wu sent this morning. She sent ten and I kept five. I returned the rest when I got home from get off work in the evening."
There are no fresh vegetables in the Great Northern Wilderness in winter, so we have to stock up on some vegetables starting in September. Dry various vegetables, such as cabbage, radish, potato and squash of various shapes.
Ordinary people live like this, and even dual-income families live frugally with their supply budget.
But Qiao Baozhu is different. She has money and connections in the supply and marketing cooperative, so she doesn’t have to worry about seasonal vegetables.
What's more, she had money in her hands, so no matter how much she spent or if there were any more expensive things in the house, Shen Xiao didn't care.
"Before I went back to my parents' home, I gave her some of our pickled cabbage. She thought we had no vegetables to eat, so she quickly returned it. But I also told Sister Wu today that we have enough vegetables to eat, and asked her not to worry about us."
Wu Meili had no doubt about this. The combined salary of Qiao Baozhu and Shen Xiao was more than 120 yuan per month.
The food in the farm canteen and the corps canteen alternates. Whichever canteen has better dishes, the couple will order an extra portion.
Everyone in the staff compound knew that her family was the most willing to spend money on food.
"Well, her family has many children, and Captain Jiang's relatives like to go there to beg for money in the winter. For us, those dozen cabbages don't affect our quality of life, but for her family, they are five or six days' worth of food."
Shen Xiao didn't want to keep the pickled vegetables, but he couldn't resist Wu Meili's insistence. After get off work in the evening, I sent half of it back.
Qiao Baozhu lowered her head and took a sip of the sauerkraut soup, squinting her eyes comfortably. The sour and spicy taste was very appetizing.
The colder the weather, the more you want to eat hot food. Shen Xiao is a very good cook and every dish he makes is very delicious.
While eating, Qiao Baozhu remembered something: "By the way, when you went to deliver the things, did you run into Captain Jiang?"
Shen Xiao shook his head and said without thinking: "I didn't see him. I guess he went to someone's house to drink."
Qiao Baozhu was speechless: "Does he like drinking? When he got off work, Sister Wu left very quickly, saying that she was afraid that he would get drunk and go crazy at home."
Shen Xiao paused for a moment while picking up the food, then put down his chopsticks and sighed.
"Jiang Sen is useless."
Seeing Shen Xiao in low spirits, Qiao Baozhu knew that Shen Xiao really wanted to keep Jiang Sen. It's a pity that this guy is a weakling who can't be helped. Shen Xiao's protectiveness towards him is in vain.
"It's going to rain, and my mother is going to remarry. This is Captain Jiang's fate. We have tried our best, but he is just not doing his best."
Qiao Baozhu picked up a piece of braised hairtail and put it in Shen Xiao's bowl, trying to change the subject in a very awkward way.
"Seeing this hairtail fish reminded me of something. My mom and dad's canteens both cooked hairtail fish, but because it wasn't properly processed, it tasted fishy and no one liked it. Later, I asked them to help buy some from the canteen at a low price, and then sold it and made a lot of money."
As he spoke, Qiao Baozhu stood up and took out a passbook from his suitcase.
"This is the passbook you gave me before. I took out some money to open the store, and deposited it again after making some money. After withdrawing and depositing it several times, there are now two thousand more dollars in it than before."
If it weren't for the materials for the two new products, the lucky bag and the headband, Qiao Baozhu would still have a savings of 4,000 yuan.
Shen Xiao glanced at the passbook and raised his hand to push it back.
"You are in charge of the money at home, you can spend it however you want."
After thinking for a while, he said, "I'm not at home, so it's inconvenient for you to withdraw money, right? After the New Year, I will be away from home for several months to build a new camp. It's inconvenient for you to use the money. The day after tomorrow, I will take a day off. Let's go to the city and withdraw the money here and put it in your own passbook."
Qiao Baozhu widened her eyes and asked Chen Xiao seriously, "Most of the money here is from your family."
Shen Xiao said without even thinking: "Well, what's the matter?"
Qiao Baozhu whispered, "What if I lose all my business, won't you blame me?"
"It's not normal to make money all the time in business. If you lose it all, then so be it. Anyway, I get paid every month, and I'm still young and can continue to make progress. It won't be a problem to support you."
Speaking of this, Shen Xiao slapped his forehead.
"How come you forgot about this?"
Shen Xiao slapped his forehead, as if he remembered something important.
Qiao Baozhu saw him drop his chopsticks, get off the kang, open the cellar and crawl in.
"We only have a few potatoes in our cellar. What are you doing down there?"
Not long after, Shen Xiao jumped up with a wooden box.
As Qiao Baozhu looked at the strange box, an incredible thought flashed through her mind.
Shen Xiao placed the box on the kang, turned around and left the room without saying a word. Not long after, Qiao Baozhu found Shen Xiao standing outside the window, hanging all the wooden boards to keep out the cold on the window.
Seeing Shen Xiao returning to the house, Qiao Baozhu couldn't help but lower her voice: "What treasure is in here that you have to seal the windows before you can tell me?"
Shen Xiao put the wooden box in his hand, his tone was teasing but his expression was very serious.
"This is the inheritance left by my grandfather, and it is also the treasure that my father and stepmother have been looking for."
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