Chapter 35 Snow Season is Coming
"Huo Jiao should go back to his hometown tomorrow." After arriving home, Huo Jun said to Ge Mei and Huo Jiao.
"Brother, why? I won't go back."
If Huo Jiao doesn't do it, she will have to go to the fields to work when she returns. It's not comfortable at the military area where she only has to help her sister-in-law with housework.
"You have to go back even if you don't want to. Do you know what happens if you ruin a military marriage? Seven years. There are no unmarried officers left in the entire military region who can accompany the army."
"But, mom clearly introduced Cheng Jinghao to me at the beginning." Huo Jiao said loudly.
"Did he agree? He didn't." Huo Jun sent Xiaohu back to his room and let him play by himself.
"Huo Jun, you said that it's great that your sister can find someone in the military district, isn't it?" Ge Mei helped out from the side.
Huo Jun looked at Ge Mei, "Mom, are you doing this for her good? You are harming her. I'm not at home these few days, and you guys are making trouble for a few days. Does anyone care about you?"
"Mom, if you want to go back to your hometown with Huo Jiao, then let's pack up together. I will send the pension money back to my hometown every month."
"I, I still won't go back." Ge Mei shut up. She knew Huo Jun was serious.
"Huo Jiao, go home and find an honest man. When you get married, I, your sister-in-law, will give you a dowry."
Huo Jun has said this much. Even if Huo Jiao doesn't get in the car tomorrow, he will tie her up and get in.
Over at the cafeteria, the purchase of beef and mutton was almost finished.
Because Cheng Jinghao bought a lot, he deliberately waited until later to buy.
"No one wants it, right? If no one wants it, give them all to me." Cheng Jinghao said, pointing at the remaining beef and mutton.
The military dependents who had not left yet all looked at him. Battalion Commander Cheng was so hungry, could he finish eating?
"I'm going to send some back home for them to try," Cheng Jinghao explained.
"Both Captain Cheng and Comrade Lin are filial." The one who spoke was the political commissar's wife. She looked at Cheng Jinghao and smiled.
"My wife said that we can make beef and mutton into jerky and send it back to our elders so that they can have a taste as well." Cheng Jinghao said to the political commissar's wife.
"They are all good children." The political commissar's wife smiled kindly. She liked these children who always thought about their elders.
On the way back, Cheng Jinghao carried a backpack on his chest and back, and held a few cow bones in his hands.
Even Zhao Zhigang was holding a cow bone in one hand.
"I say, what are you two doing with this beef bone? The meat has been shaved off." Sheng Li asked in confusion.
"It can be stewed in soup, and you can also eat it by boiling the pot." Cheng Jinghao explained. "No? Take some home to supplement your child's calcium."
"Are you also using it to make soup for your child to supplement calcium?" Xu Gang looked at Zhao Zhigang.
"Yes, I only have two. You go find Old Cheng." Zhao Zhigang took the cow bone into his arms.
Finally, Sheng Li and Xu Gang went to Cheng Jinghao to share a beef bone.
When Cheng Jinghao got home, Lin Momo had already gotten up and was tending to the lettuce in her pot.
"Wife, when I came back yesterday, you were talking to this pot of lettuce. What did you say?" Cheng Jinghao put down the backpack carrying beef bones and walked over.
"I decided to eat dinner later." Lin Momo stood up.
"......" Cheng Jinghao looked at her and smiled.
"Let's start making beef jerky this afternoon." Lin Momo said.
"Okay, you teach me and I'll do it."
Cheng Jinghao put the mutton and beef bones into Chao's refrigerator. The amount of things they put into Chao will not change.
"Remove all the white tendons and fat."
At noon, the military district canteen would cook mutton and beef offal, and both soldiers and their families could go and get them.
Cheng Jinghao also ordered a portion, and Lin Momo processed it, and the two of them ate it with pancakes, enjoying it very much.
The two of them were busy making beef jerky all afternoon, and the aroma of beef wafted through their house.
Li He smelled the aroma of meat in their house and couldn't help but come over to learn how to make beef jerky from Lin Momo.
The next day, Huo Jun took a day off and personally sent Huo Jiao to the car back home.
A few days later, Lin Momo and Cheng Jinghao prepared the dried meat and the cotton clothes they made for the elders, and sent them back to Beijing together.
On this night, snow began to fall in southern Tibet, and the five-month snow season began.
When Cheng Jinghao got up in the morning, he moved all the potted plants in the yard into the main room.
The coal stove in the main room also started to light up. After finishing everything, Cheng Jinghao went to train.
When Lin Momo got up, the breakfast he had made for her was still warm on the stove in the kitchen.
The first thing Lin Momo does when she wakes up every day is to check the vegetables in the pots.
Potted vegetables, such as easy-to-grow lettuce, may not grow as big as they do in later generations, but they are successful after all.
However, some vegetables that are not suitable for southern Tibet cannot be grown without greenhouses, and even the seedlings cannot grow.
Many of the seeds in the greenhouse have already sprouted.
"Momo." Li He shouted at the door.
"I'm coming." Lin Momo hurried to open the door.
"Sister Li He, Sister Liu Qian." Standing at the door were Li He and Liu Qian.
"Come in and sit down." Lin Momo welcomed the two people in and poured them two cups of hot tea.
"You're still so warm and you're cooking." Liu Qian put down the pickles in her hand with a smile, "I made some pickles, and I wondered if you could make them, so I sent some over to you."
"Your sister Liu Qian makes delicious pickles. She helps make the pickles in our house." Li He said with a smile.
"Why didn't Sister Mei come with us?" Liu Qian's home and Luo Mei's home were not far away, and every time they came over, they would make an appointment to come together.
"Her child had a fever these days and didn't go to school, so she is taking care of him at home." Liu Qian said with a sigh.
"Children are most likely to catch a cold during this season." Li He took a sip of hot water. "It's good that ginger can be grown in southern Tibet. It can also help to keep away the cold during such a long snowy season."
Lin Momo pointed at a potted plant and said, "Failure, I don't know if it can grow in the greenhouse."
"Momo, how is your greenhouse?" Liu Qian asked curiously. She had not visited it yet.
"Let's go and take a look?" Lin Momo asked. Liu Qian and Li He had both grown vegetables before, so maybe they could give her some advice.
"Let's go and take a look."
The 꺘 people came to the greenhouse. Li He had been there before.
"Wow, you've tidied it up so well. It's much more meticulous than our vegetable garden." Liu Qian said with a smile.
Each vegetable plot in the greenhouse is labeled with the name of the vegetable being grown. There are also vegetable racks that have been set up next to the greenhouse, with loofah, cucumber, bitter gourd, etc. labeled on them.
"You've grown quite a few melons." Liu Qian said in surprise.
"Well, get some seeds and try it." Lin Momo nodded.
"When the vines grow taller, I'll come to help you with weeding and other things. Just call me." Li He said to Lin Momo. On the contrary, she had nothing to do at home all day.
"Give it back to me, I'll come and help too." Liu Qian hurriedly added.
"Okay, I'm not familiar with the work in the fields, so I will definitely come to bother you two sisters when the time comes." Lin Momo said with a smile.
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