The days are spent eating, drinking and having fun.
Song Shuxi has lived in the staff housing compound for two months.
Nowadays, Song Shuxi can cook some simple home-cooked dishes. The taste is neither good nor bad, just edible. Going to the beach and collecting mountain products are the regular activities of Song Shuqian and Tian Tiantian. Occasionally, Sister Ding and Sister Feng will join in. Maybe they are lucky and have a good harvest.
I have a lot of dry goods stored at home.
When she is alone at home, Song Shuxi will look through the books in the space. Now she has completely integrated the original owner's memories and learned all her skills. Recently, Song Shuxi has been studying painting, combining Chinese painting and Western oil painting, and trying new painting methods.
Winter comes earlier in Huludao. Now you need to wear a thick coat when going out in the morning and evening. The mountain products are also ripe.
It's a rare morning to wake up early
Song Shuqian rolled into Wei Jianguo's arms skillfully, "When are you going to rest? I want to go up the mountain to pick mountain products. My sisters-in-law said that there are hairy chestnuts and pine nuts on the mountain, which are especially delicious. I can't carry them."
Wei Jianguo kissed the top of his wife's head and said, "Let's take a rest tomorrow. I'll find a few people to help us prepare the firewood for the winter. We can replenish it when the weather gets colder. I'll take half a day off the day after tomorrow and we'll go pick up mountain products together."
"Okay, I also want a small stove where I can make tea, roast chestnuts and peanuts. When it's cold in winter, I'll sit by the stove."
"I'll go buy some coal and make it into honeycomb coal when I come back. It's safer to use honeycomb coal in the stove."
Two people who stay in bed are discussing their future lives.
Song Shuqian was particularly satisfied with Wei Jianguo, as he never let his words fall on the floor. As long as you raise a request, he will give an answer. If he can do it, he will agree to it. If he can't do it, he will give a reason. He never does things perfunctorily.
This kind of cherishment is what Song Shuxi has longed for in both of her lives.
"If I ask someone to help prepare firewood, will I be reported? Is this capitalism?" Recently, a new family member came to the compound, and he really likes to make reports. Together with Qian Lanhua who wants to get ahead through this, the atmosphere in the family compound is now very bad.
"No, we won't give them any money. It's just a favor between comrades. Let them have dinner at our house tomorrow night. I'll go hunt some game and we'll have something juicy to eat."
"I still have meat coupons at home. Tomorrow I will go buy two pounds of meat and then exchange them with my fellow villagers for some fish. Don't go hunting in the mountains recently. If people find out, they will accuse you of fleecing socialism." In the current residential quarters, no one dares to go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables openly, for fear of being accused of belonging to the collective.
Everyone is in danger and the situation is chaotic.
The vegetables planted by Song Shuxi are growing well with the help of the spiritual liquid. She plans to pick them up slowly and dry them into dried vegetables, dried potatoes, dried mushrooms, dried beans, dried sweet potatoes, and various dried seafood stored in the past two months. They should be enough for the winter.
Now every family is allowed to raise two chickens. Song Shuxi also raises some in the yard. They lay two eggs every day, so their family has no shortage of eggs.
We have discussed it and it’s almost time.
Wei Jianguo still has to go for training.
Song Shuqian also had to get up and make winter clothes, and change a few quilts at the same time. The current kang was too hard and she was not comfortable sleeping on it.
This was the first time for Song Shuxi to make a kang mat. The kang in her home was very large, 3 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and it was a bit difficult for her to make it by herself.
"Shu Xi, are you home?"
Tian Tiantian's voice was heard outside. Today, she asked Sister Ding, Sister Feng and the other two to come and help.
"Hey, wait a minute, I'll be right there." Song Shuqian agreed and got off the kang and walked out.
The neighbors nearby do not close the gates during the day. If someone comes to visit, the more polite ones will shout at the door, while the less polite ones will just come in directly.
Song Shuxi doesn't like outsiders invading her territory, nor does she like others coming to chat with her for no reason. In addition, last time Ma Caoya and the other two came to the house to steal things.
Song Shuqian took advantage of the situation and developed a good habit of locking the door.
There were also people in the compound who said bad things about her, making up stories about her doing shameful things at home and saying that she was unwilling to integrate into the group of military wives. Song Shuqian scoffed at this, saying that she didn't need to use such stupid tricks after she turned 7.
Fortunately, most of the people in the family compound are smart, so these rumors did not reach her.
The four people came in and saw the new cabinet made in Song Shuxi's house.
The cabinets in their house are characterized by being tall and spacious, extending directly from the kang to the roof, and divided into many small grids in the middle. There are compartments for summer clothes and for thick quilts. This one is equivalent to seven or eight ordinary kang cabinets.
As soon as Tian Tiantian came in, she looked around and said, "This is the new cabinet you made. It's very convenient and can hold more things."
Sister Ding and Sister Feng were also full of love, touching here and looking there.
"How is it? It's more convenient to live like this, right?" Song Shuxi said proudly. The house has been renovated.
Last month, it rained heavily outside and drizzled inside, and the newspapers and other things on the wall were all stained, which looked very ugly.
While repairing the roof, Wei Jianguo also repainted the walls and made some new furniture.
Two cabinets that Song Shuxi brought from Jinling were mixed in here. They were repainted on the outside and looked like ordinary chests of drawers, but in fact there was a mezzanine inside.
Wei Jianguo also cleaned up their guest room and turned it into a study and workroom.
Song Shuqian is a book lover. She especially likes to curl up in a corner and immerse herself in the world of books.
This arrangement would make Song Shuxi feel at ease.
After visiting the house, Sister Ding and Sister Feng were filled with envy.
"It's really convenient after you cleaned it up like this. After the kang is rebuilt, lengthened and widened, children can live together. Did you also redecorate the windows? It feels brighter."
"No, I just repainted the walls white, and it looks brighter," Song Shuqian explained.
Looking at this big house and yard, Tian Tiantian became even more dissatisfied with her own tube-shaped building.
Song Shuqian asked, "Have you submitted your application?"
"It's paid. As long as there's a vacant house in the courtyard, we can move in. I tell you, it's so lively over there in the tube building. They quarrel from the moment they open their eyes in the morning until they close their eyes at night.
We share a bathroom and can quarrel over the faucet in the morning. Anyone who makes loud noise at night will be scolded. When I cook a meal, there are so many pairs of eyes watching me. As long as there is meat, the children will come and ask for it.
At first, I saw that the child was greedy, so I gave it to him twice out of shame. From then on, whenever my family cooks, a group of people gather around. So annoying. "
Tian Tiantian now runs to Song Shuxi's house as soon as she opens her eyes every day, and returns to her own home after dark. The couple does not cook and eats in the cafeteria every day.
What she couldn't stand the most was the poor sound insulation at night, and she could often hear noises coming from corners of other people's homes.
Although she had received an open sex education in the apocalypse, she was still thin-skinned and could not stand others hearing her noises, so she kept suppressing herself and dared not make a sound.
Even so, the sisters-in-law would still joke about this, saying that they have no marital life at such a young age.
Tian Tiantian was so angry that she wanted to fight with them.
Listening to her complaints, Song Shuxi was particularly glad that they chose the small courtyard that no one wanted at the time.
Those sisters-in-law say whatever they want and she can't get along with them at all.
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