Chapter 120 This Reward is Too Generous

Old Man Zhang also stood by the stove, watching the brother and sister making egg pancakes.

I admire Wang Ziru very much and was secretly surprised, "I didn't expect that a country girl would have so many tricks."

"Uncle Zhang, you can go to the front and tell everyone to come for breakfast." Seeing that the soy milk in the pot next to them had boiled, Wang Ziru looked up and said to Old Man Zhang.

"Then I'll go and ask them to come over to eat. They have to eat hot food."

Old Man Zhang hurried out to the small building in front to inform everyone that it was time to eat.

After a while, the comrades who had come to the compound to work in the morning swarmed into the small canteen.

Wang Zonghao had already put the dried radish mixed by his sister into two plates and placed them on two tables. He also brought the hot egg pancakes cut into small triangles to the table.

When everyone came in and took a look, their eyes widened, "Is this our breakfast?"

"Yes, the bucket on the small table over there is filled with soy milk. Go get your own rice bowls, make some soy milk, and then come over to eat the egg pancakes. I guarantee that everyone will be full." Wang Zonghao said with a confident look on his face.

Everyone rushed to get their own food from the shelf, and couldn't wait to make soy milk. Then they sat in their old seats, drinking soy milk and eating egg pancakes.

“Wow! So delicious!”

"Why didn't Mr. Zhang think of making breakfast like this for us before?"

"There's also soy milk to drink? And it's mixed with dried radishes?!"

Zou Bu and two other subordinates were walking and chatting about work. When they entered the small canteen, everyone was already sitting around the table, eating breakfast in a hurry.

When I got closer, I saw that there was a golden cake inside the enamel round plate on the table.

Everyone is holding their own rice bowls and drinking soy milk? !

Only then did Wang Ziru react and arranged for his brother to grind soy milk, fry egg pancakes, and mix dried radishes with the rice.

"Sister-in-law, you are really smart! You even thought of making egg biscuits and soy milk for us to eat." Zou Bu's face was full of joy.

Someone had already prepared soy milk for him and put some waffles on a porcelain plate at his seat.

Zou Bu sat down quickly, picked up his own jar on the table, gulped down a few mouthfuls of hot soy milk, and exhaled with great satisfaction, "I am so happy."

After breakfast, Zou Bu also picked his teeth with a toothpick and asked, "Sister-in-law, what vegetables do you want to buy? Just tell the comrades in the logistics department. They will make a list and send it to the supply and marketing cooperative. The next morning, they will deliver the vegetables on the list."

"Okay, stay active. You go and do your work, Zou Bu. We will contact the Logistics Department if there is anything." Wang Zonghao quickly answered for his sister.

He hasn't forgotten that the work here is his.

My sister only took care of him for a few days.

"Okay, if Xiao Wang does a good job, you can pack up and go home, Mr. Zhang."

Old Zhang was indeed waiting to go home to farm. After hearing what Zou Bu said, he hurried over and said, "I see Xiao Wang is very good at it. After breakfast, I will pack up and go home?"

"Okay, I'll sign your attendance record for you, and then you can go to the Finance Department to collect your salary."

“…Thank you, Zou Bu, for taking care of me over the years.” Old Man Zhang lifted up his apron and wiped his eyes, then sent Zou Bu out of the small dining hall and watched his back disappear around the corner. Then he turned around and went back to the hall to prepare for dinner.

The three of them sat at the table, eating the egg pancakes that Wang Ziru had just cooked.

Boss Zhang then told Wang Zonghao the result of his discussion with Zou Bu, "Xiao Wang, after breakfast, I will go pack up and go home. By the way, I will not take the bedding on my bed with me. I will keep it for you to use."

"Ah? You mean the bedding you sleep on? No new labor protection supplies have been distributed?" Wang Zonghao looked at Old Man Zhang in surprise.

"I don't know about that either. You can ask the comrades in the logistics department when the time comes."

After breakfast, Old Man Zhang took Wang Zonghao to take over all the affairs of the canteen.

Then he went back to his home in the countryside with a little luggage.

The supply and marketing cooperative delivered the food for two meals that day that had been purchased by the logistics department.

Wang Ziru took a look and saw a chopped pig's foot, a piece of pork belly, and some vegetables, including cabbage, radish, potatoes, and sweet potatoes.

"Sister, how do I eat pig's trotters?" Wang Zonghao looked at these vegetables and felt his scalp tingling again. He had no idea what to do.

"Zonghao, take out your notebook and I'll write you a weekly recipe."

The brother and sister then moved to the small dining room and sat down to write the menu.

I wrote down for him all the common cooking methods for chicken, duck, fish and meat.

The weekly menu took up half a booklet. Wang Ziru pointed at the dishes on the chopping board in the kitchen and said, "Save the pork belly for stir-frying in the evening. It's good with rice. At noon, braise the pig's feet with peanuts, stir-fry some hot and sour cabbage, and mix it with dried radish..."

Save the potatoes and sweet potatoes for dinner.

"Oh, by the way, there are bean curd dregs in the morning. Cut some cabbage and cook two bowls of bean curd dregs vegetables at noon."

…

Workers in the city have already started work, but many young children in the countryside have just woken up at this time.

The side room behind Zhai’s house.

Baoer woke up and opened his eyes, then sat up from the quilt. He rubbed his eyes and looked around, but still didn't see his mother. He was not happy at all.

"Dad, why hasn't Mom come home yet?" The boy's face was tense, tears welled up in his eyes, and he choked up and said, "Does Mom not want us anymore?"

Zhai Ximo was speechless, but felt sorry for the child not having his mother to take care of him personally.

He hugged the frail little boy tightly and comforted him gently: "After breakfast, Dad will take you to find Mom."

Hearing that he could go find his mother, the little guy burst into laughter and said excitedly, "Mom will definitely miss us! Dad, we will never be apart again after we go to the army, right?"

"Yeah." Zhai Ximo was also in a very bad mood.

Last night, his wife was not around, so he couldn't sleep all night. It was so hard.

He couldn't sleep after tossing and turning. He figured out one thing: he couldn't let his wife leave him. It was a very unwise decision to let his wife go to the city alone. If she met someone from the Han family...

Zhai Ximo shuddered at the thought of such a possibility. He skillfully dressed the child and put socks on the child's little feet.

I took the child to the kitchen, filled a porcelain basin with hot water, and helped the child wash his face and brush his teeth.

"Baby, brush your little teeth like dad does," the father and son squatted on the grass next to the chicken coop behind the house, and the young father patiently taught his son the correct way to brush his teeth.

Before I finished brushing my teeth, I heard some noise outside the main room.

Yesterday afternoon, eldest sister-in-law Liu Xiangqin called her brother and sister-in-law from her natal family over and had a quarrel with eldest brother for a long time.

In the end, they got divorced. Today, Liu Xiangqin must have brought people to take away her dowry and other items from her wedding.

Liu Xiangqin not only wanted to take away all the dowry she brought with her marriage, but also took away her adopted daughter Zhaodi.

"Bao Er! Come brush your teeth, let's go out and take a look..."

"Oh, it must be Sister Zhaodi and Auntie who are back again." Although Baoer is young, he understands how things are going.

Yesterday afternoon, several police officers from the police station came over and allowed my eldest brother and his wife to divorce. Liu Xiangqin insisted on taking her adopted daughter Zhaodi away, and this was also allowed.

Zhai Ximo knew that watching the child he had raised for seven years being taken away from him must have been the most difficult and cruel act to accept for his eldest brother Zhai Qingsong.

After washing their faces, the father and son walked out of the main room hand in hand, and sure enough, they saw a lot of men coming into the yard.

They were all unfamiliar faces, holding ropes and wooden poles in their hands.

But his niece Zhai Zhaodi did not follow him back to Zhai's home.

Liu Xiangqin acted like a commander and ordered the men to go to the west chamber and take out all the dowry she had brought with her.

"Dad, what are they going to do? Carry a dowry?" Baoer suddenly asked.

Zhai Ximo nodded, and then he saw his elder brother Zhai Qingsong standing at the door of the newly built brick and tile house with an unclear expression.

He wanted to go over and talk to his eldest brother, but a few men had already carried out some red-painted and new wooden furniture from his eldest brother's room.

Zhai Ximo could recognize that they were all dowry that Liu Xiangqin brought from her parents' home when she got married.

As compensation to her elder brother, Liu Xiangqin reluctantly paid 30 yuan.

Later in the evening, after everyone had left, Zhai Ximo learned from his eldest brother that his family originally had more than 100 yuan in total, in addition to the 60 yuan he got from the division of the family property.

In addition, he earned several dozen dollars as a bricklayer building houses for others, all of which went to Liu Xiangqin.

Inside the house, Mrs. Liu also heard the loud noise coming from the yard outside and quickly opened the door and came out.

I saw that it was Liu Xiangqin who brought people from her parents' family to move the dowry. I had quarreled with Liu Xiangqin yesterday until my voice was hoarse.

At this moment, he just swore a few words, turned around and went back to the house.

Soon, more than a dozen men led by Liu Xiangqin carried five or six dowries out of the Zhai family yard. This scene attracted many people in the village to stand on the side of the road and whisper.

After watching his eldest brother's house being emptied, Zhai Ximo took a while to reach the door of his eldest brother's stove.

Zhai Qingsong's face was expressionless. He stood silently beside the newly built earthen stove, cooking breakfast for himself. He asked in a muffled voice, "What are you looking at?"

"Oh, I just came to see if Zhaodi will live with her mother in the future?" Zhai Ximo asked knowingly, just to make conversation.

Without waiting for his uncle to answer, Bao Er suddenly asked in a loud voice, "Sister Zhao Di said that she wants to marry another man with my aunt in the future."

“…Baoer, are you still a child?” The young father was speechless.

Zhai Qingsong's nose suddenly felt sore, and two lines of hot tears flowed from his eyes. He sobbed softly, "As long as Zhaodi lives a good life, I am willing to let her live with her mother..."

"Brother, think positively. Now that things have gotten to this point, you should cheer up. I'll ask Bao'er's mother to help you find a new partner after a while."

At this moment, the woman in the city suddenly sneezed.

"Ahhh!"

"Hey, sister-in-law, you're sneezing even though you're wearing a cotton jacket. It must be because my brother is missing you at home." Yang Xitang, Zou Bu's wife, who had just arrived at the courtyard of the Armed Forces Department, smiled as she sat on a stool.

Wang Ziru smiled and made arrangements in the stove room. When she came out, she took off her apron and said, "I'm so sorry for making my sister-in-law and uncle spend money."

"Look at what you are saying. You two siblings helped us a lot yesterday. What's wrong with giving you two sets of clothes?!"

Having said this, Yang Xitang affectionately took Wang Ziru's arm and smiled at Wang Zonghao who was following behind him, "Little Brother Wang, let's go to Ma's tailoring shop then."

"Hey, thank you, sister-in-law."

"You're welcome. Your fiancée isn't here either. Let's pick out some clothes for her later."

Wang Zonghao was laughing so happily.

The Yang family heard that he was going to get married next month, so to express their gratitude, they made a set of summer clothes for Chen Pingping.

When the two men came out from the backyard, they saw Captain Tang driving a jeep and about to go out to do some work.

"Xiao Tang, please take us with you. I'm busy this morning and have to go back to work. You can take us to Ma's tailor shop."

Since the sister-in-law had spoken, Captain Tang did not dare to disobey. He stopped the car immediately and let them get in.

The jeep slowly drove out of the Armed Forces compound, and Wang Ziru chatted with Captain Tang for a while, "Captain Tang seems to be very busy all day long!"

"You guessed it right. I have to notify all the towns immediately and find out about the soldiers who are going home to visit their families..." Captain Tang knew that this matter was of great importance and confidential, so he did not intend to explain in detail.

Yang Xitang knew very well that the nature of the armed forces' work was special, so she was not interested in asking about anything.

When they arrived at Ma's tailor shop, the two women got out of the car. When they were about to enter the shop, Captain Tang rolled down the window and suddenly said loudly: "I might have to go to Hongmei Village to find my brothers later. Should I take them into the city with me?"

Wang Ziru turned around and looked at Captain Tang, smiling, "I'll be home this afternoon, so there's no need."

"That's fine, but sister-in-law, if you have anything to do recently, hurry up and do it. What if, I mean what if, my brother suddenly has to go back to the army, you will be too late."