Chapter 154 Who says Big Ice Cube can't say sweet words?
Qin Suisui felt that she was too high-class. She really couldn't understand how Sun Ruwen, who was so shy when she was a child, had become so shameless.
But Sun Ruwen had already apologized to her. They were all adults now, no longer like children who would stay angry for a long time over a playmate who suddenly lost contact. They weren't people who had to spend every day together anymore, so she didn't need to hold a grudge.
The terrain around Hongqiding Brigade is indeed much flatter than that of Guangmingding Brigade, and there are more paddy fields. Right now, the rice in the paddy fields is already golden yellow, which is truly delightful. No wonder Mai Defu is always envious of other brigades! In this day and age, food is life!
However, the medicinal herbs they plant should be planted mainly on sloping land, so that they will not encroach on farmland and will be conducive to the growth and development of the medicinal herbs.
Li Haisheng and Sun Ruwen then led them directly to a mountainous area on the edge of the brigade. Qin Suisui estimated that the highest point was less than 200 meters above sea level, which was enough for planting medicinal herbs.
Under the scorching sun, they walked up the slope. This small hill, like the one in Guangmingding Brigade, was basically abandoned because it was impossible to grow crops, and the hill was overgrown with weeds.
Fortunately, team members often come up the mountain to dig for wild vegetables and pick wild fruits, so there are still some paths worn out by people on the mountain, which are not difficult to walk on.
Following the path uphill, they climbed to the top of the mountain and discovered that this slope was actually quite close to the deserted island where Qin Suisui had been trapped. However, because Liu Shao and Liu Yong had hidden supplies on the island, the road to the island was now blocked, and it was unknown when it would be unblocked.
Thinking of the abundance of medicinal herbs and fruits on the deserted island, Qin Suisui felt it was a pity.
Those two brothers are a real menace!
Qin Suisui shook her head, and Li Haisheng followed beside her, secretly anxious. What did Comrade Qin mean by shaking her head? Did she mean that the conditions on their hillside were not good enough? What should they do then? If other villages started growing medicinal herbs and their village didn't, wouldn't they be considered backward?
Being backward means being vulnerable to attack and ridicule!
He winked at Sun Ruwen, but Sun Ruwen didn't budge. He then leaned closer to him, gritted his teeth, and whispered, "Didn't you say Comrade Qin is your sister? Hurry up and say something nice! Our village can't lose this opportunity to grow medicinal herbs! Otherwise, I'll never forgive you!"
Sun Ruwen pursed his lips, walked to a large tree, skillfully lifted a bunch of vines hanging on it, picked a bunch of purplish-red wild grapes, and handed them to Qin Suisui: "Sister Suisui, what's wrong? Is the terrain in our brigade unsuitable?"
Li Haisheng stared wide-eyed at Sun Ruwen's practiced movements and footwork. He craned his neck to look at the vines, then glanced at Sun Ruwen, who had already reached Qin Suisui's side. His face flushed with anger. "That brat! No wonder he's always taking leave from work! He's been in the countryside for two years, and he's not as skilled at working as the new educated youth who came this year. It's obvious he's been taking leave to go fishing and hunting in the mountains!"
Qin Suisui was tilting her head and talking to Su Yunyi when she saw the grapes suddenly handed to her. She paused for a moment, then took them and smiled, "No! Hongqiding Brigade and Guangmingding Brigade are close by, and their terrain and climate conditions are similar. If they can grow them there, they can definitely grow them here too!"
"But there's one thing I need to make clear beforehand: our brigade is closer to the sea, so if a typhoon hits, the damage to our medicinal herb fields will definitely be greater than that of the Bright Peak Brigade."
Hearing Qin Suisui's affirmative answer, Li Haisheng felt a great weight lifted off his shoulders. Hearing her say this, he quickly waved his hand and said, "Comrade Qin, don't worry, we know that. Besides, we still grow crops every year. When a typhoon comes, no one can stop it, but typhoons don't come every day, so we can always have a harvest, right?"
Since Li Haisheng decided to plant medicinal herbs, he had discussed it with the entire brigade. Everyone felt that as long as the economy could be developed, minor difficulties were nothing to worry about. If they worried about this and that before they even started and dared not begin, they would only be poor for the rest of their lives.
Hearing him say that, Qin Suisui couldn't help but laugh. She finally understood why the development of Hongqiding Brigade was among the top in the surrounding brigades. Look at their brigade leader, how positive his thinking is.
However, having made things clear beforehand, she was no longer worried. If others wanted to plant it, she would actively cooperate and help them; it was a good thing for the country and its people either way.
After they had roughly chosen a place to plant the medicinal herbs, it was almost noon. Li Haisheng warmly invited them to stay for lunch, but Qin Suisui politely declined.
These days, not everyone is well-off. If the two of them go out for a meal, the other family might have to skip a meal. It's not worth it.
Upon returning to the Bright Peak Brigade, Qin Suisui went straight to Mai Defu's house. Before setting off that morning, she had asked Mai Defu to help her "exchange" some local specialties such as salted fish, dried shrimp, shrimp skin, and kelp with the brigade members. These were for Xu Shouquan and the others.
As expected of the team leader, Maidefu is very reliable. In just one morning, he had already bought her more than twenty salted fish, twenty catties of dried shrimp, ten catties of shrimp skin, and ten catties of seaweed.
After Qin Suisui took the items home, she divided them into four equal portions and packed them in advance.
The next morning, I tied the things to my bicycle and took them to the military hospital.
Xu Shouquan and Cai Chong were arranged to stay in the hospital's staff dormitory, while Cai Chen and Chang He stayed with Sun Ruwen. Now that they were going back, the two of them came over as well.
Seeing that Qin Suisui had brought them so many things, Cai Chen scratched his head and said, "Oh, sister, I'm so sorry, you've gone to so much trouble!" He said he was sorry, but in reality, he reached out to take the things very quickly.
They came under the guise of "learning and exchange," and the hospital would arrange a car to take them to the dock, so Qin Suisui didn't need to worry about them.
After returning from the hospital, Qin Suisui immediately kicked off her shoes and lay down on the rocking chair. These past few days had been so tiring! It was a rare treat that Zanzan was back at school, Pei Jiuyan was at work, she had finished her urgent work, and her period was almost over. It felt so good to have nothing to do! She felt much more relaxed.
After dozing off on the recliner for a while, Qin Suisui remembered that she hadn't dealt with the two wild boars she had caught in the wilderness forest before, so she turned around and went back into the space.
It had been a long time since Qin Suisui had seen Dahuang and Dahei. Ever since Qin Suisui trained them to help feed the piglets, she hadn't come in very often.
As soon as the two little ones saw her, they happily jumped on her.
Qin Suisui played with the two little ones for a while, then ran to the slaughterhouse and used the "one-click slaughter" function to kill the two wild boars. The space preservation function was indeed excellent; the two pigs, which had been kept for so long, were still as fresh as when they were slaughtered, with dark red pig blood flowing down.
Qin Suisui collected the pig's blood separately, and then lit a fire in a large iron barrel in an empty factory. Inside the fire were dried lychee branches that she had collected from the wild forest and mountains.
After preparing everything, she followed the method taught by Parman, burning the firewood into charcoal while leaving a little ember before hanging the strips of wild boar meat on wire to smoke.
This factory building is empty and not adjacent to other factories, so there's no risk of causing a fire by smoking wild boar meat here.
After dealing with these things, she ran to see the two piglets.
Good heavens! After just a few days, the two piglets must have grown to 70 or 80 pounds! How many meals does Dahuang and Dahei feed them a day? Luckily, they haven't ruined her medicinal herbs and vegetable garden.
The two piglets were even more excited to see Dahuang and Dahei than they were to see her. They jumped out of their pen and followed Dahuang and Dahei around the cattle and sheep on the grassland. The cattle and sheep were not surprised and were obviously used to it.
Looking at the two piglets frolicking on the grass, Qin Suisui couldn't help but think of three words: "free-range pigs." After thinking about it, she laughed at herself.
With plenty of time to spare, Qin Suisui inspected the medicinal herb garden and fruit trees in her spatial dimension. She then casually used the "one-click slaughter" function to kill a few chickens and ducks. However, since she hadn't been back for a while, the number of chickens and ducks had doubled. So she simply slaughtered a few chickens and stewed them with mushrooms, leaving them there so she could take them out whenever she wanted to eat them.
I'll make a pot of old duck soup, and then braise a few more ducks with beef. We've almost run out of braised food in the space, so today is a good day to replenish it.
There are many more chicken and duck eggs now. Fortunately, under the training of Dahuang and Dahei, the chickens and ducks are used to laying eggs in fixed places, so she doesn't have to look for them deliberately, which saves a lot of trouble. Dahuang and Dahei are really two thoughtful little helpers!
He took out a basket of chicken and duck eggs from his spatial storage, along with some salted duck eggs he had previously pickled. He also took out some fresh pork, sausages, cured meat, and beef and placed them in the kitchen. The cured meat was hung on a rack, and the fresh meat was kept warm in the stream water from his spatial storage, which would keep it from spoiling for several days.
She also picked some fruit from the space and took it out to restock. Since Pei Jiuyan didn't see it, she just said she bought it herself.
When Pei Jiuyan returned home that evening, he was genuinely surprised to see so much stuff in the kitchen. He turned to Qin Suisui, who was dozing in the living room, and asked, "Did you go to town today?"
Qin Suisui nodded: "I went to see Uncle Xu and the others off, and on the way, I went to town to buy some vegetables and also made a pot of pickled radish and old duck soup!"
She actually cooked this soup in her space during the day, making several pots. The radishes were also grown in her space and pickled by herself later.
Seeing her face full of praise, Pei Jiuyan went up and patted her head: "My wife is amazing! I could smell the aroma of the old duck soup from afar even before I entered the house!"
Qin Suisui chuckled. Although the statement was a bit exaggerated, the emotional value it conveyed was undeniable! Who said that the big ice block couldn't say sweet words?
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