Chapter 52 Is there chicken to eat?
"Do you think that the members of the military family compound are all good people and won't be jealous when they see our family eating egg noodles?" Wang Ziru asked back.
"Egg noodles are only the best in the village. When you are in the army, the food in the family compound is even richer than this." Zhai Ximo felt that his wife was unsophisticated and was stunned. "Moreover, most of the people living in the family compound are educated women. If there is a little conflict between neighbors and they can't solve it, the men will step in."
He hasn't moved into the family compound yet, and he heard this from other cadres.
If he decided to bring his wife and children with him, he would have to report to the troops in advance.
"Think about it. If you are accompanying the troops, you need to report in advance."
Bao Er, the clever little boy, quickly got up from his pony, hugged Wang Ziru, and begged, "Mom, will you promise Dad?"
"Alas, I really lost to you two, father and son." Wang Ziru felt sorry for her son's repeated pleading, so she had to nod first.
She also understood that if a boy lacked the important role of a father during his growth period, he would definitely feel regretful when he grew up.
Finally, she shook her head and said, "Mom, please think about it first."
According to her understanding, the military family compound is occupied entirely by the families of cadres.
Wherever there are women, there is the Jianghu. The battlefield has only moved from the village to the family compound.
Seeing that the woman's inner defenses had loosened, Zhai Ximo felt that as long as he continued to describe the advantages of the military family compound to his wife, she would be tempted.
Zhai Ximo dusted himself off and went out to continue his work of carrying bricks.
The eldest brother finally scraped together some money and borrowed money from everywhere to build two brick and tile houses. Tomorrow is a big day when the beams are put up.
We must do everything we can today.
In the afternoon, a new earthen stove in the kitchen was almost ready.
At Zhai Qingsong's suggestion, a group of farmers began to dig latrines and build the first high-end pigpen in the village, which was a fence made of bricks and cement, with a few squatting pits outside and pigs raised inside the fence.
So far, no one in the village has dug this kind of latrine.
So everyone is very motivated. With this experience, every household in the village will gradually dig this new type of latrine, which can be used for raising pigs and as a toilet.
After Wang Ziru finished her egg noodles, she went into the kitchen to wash the dishes and tidy up.
"Baoer, do you want to go dig in the back hills with your mom this afternoon, or stay home and play with your dad?"
Seeing her son's little figure circling around her, Wang Ziru asked.
Baoer played with his favorite windmills, "My mother and I went to the back hill to dig."
My cousins always loved playing in the yard, and it often happened that they would run over and push my dad to the ground when he wasn't paying attention.
The mother and son cleaned up the house for a while.
Wang Ziru found a hoe that no one was using in the workroom. It looked a bit blunt and might not be very sharp for hoeing the ground.
At this time, Zhai Ximo went to the front yard for a while, then came into the kitchen to see what the mother and son were doing.
Seeing Wang Ziru looking for a hoe, "Do you want to go to the back mountain to hoe the land?"
"I have nothing to do, so I went to the forest to collect herbs a few days ago. I don't want to wander around in the woods today, so I'd better go dig up the land behind the mountain and sow some cabbage seeds." Wang Ziru put the hoe at the door, sat down by the fire, and put on a pair of rubber shoes.
If these brand new cloth shoes on my feet get wet, I will have to wear cold rubber shoes at home.
Zhai Ximo also sat down beside him and picked up Bao'er to sit on his lap. "Just dig as much as you want. I'll go to the back mountain the day after tomorrow and finish digging in half a day."
"By the way, have you thought about going with me to the army?"
"Why are you in such a hurry? The holiday doesn't end tomorrow." Wang Ziru sat on the lame chair and sneered with her head turned sideways.
Before yesterday, Wang Ziru was not interested in the man's proposal.
But after experiencing some of the bloody things today, she was secretly showing signs of wavering.
"Do you really want my son and I to go back to the army with you?" Wang Ziru raised her cheeks and looked at the man, a trace of sarcasm crossed her oval face, "The women in the village will definitely gossip about me behind my back, saying that I am lazy and only want to go to the army to enjoy the good life."
"Don't pay attention to what they say. Just remember one thing. When you are in the army, I will take care of everything." The man patted the sword proudly.
It seems that Mom and Dad have already discussed it.
Baoer clapped his hands excitedly, "Mom! Dad said that when I join the army, I can go to kindergarten."
"The army also has a kindergarten?"
"Dad, please tell Mom quickly that the army has a kindergarten that specifically accepts children!"
Zhai Ximo's eyes were gentle. "The army doesn't have a kindergarten, but there is a kindergarten in the primary school in the nearby town. There are many children in our army's family compound. Every morning they take the army's logistics vehicle to go to kindergarten."
"That's a good thing! Bao'er will be four years old soon, and he can be sent to kindergarten this fall..."
When Wang Ziru heard that Baoer could be sent to the kindergarten for half a day after arriving at the army, her mood suddenly became bright.
If Baoer goes to school, wouldn't her life be miserable? !
Zhai Ximo took advantage of the victory and pursued the enemy, "I will report to the troops tomorrow."
"Um."
Wang Ziru locked the door of her room with a small wooden stick, picked up the hoe, and led the child out of the main room.
A dozen farmers working in the yard couldn't help but look at the family of three.
Xu Ping was helping the masons who were digging a toilet to carry stones when she suddenly saw her third brother coming out with his wife. She became so jealous that her eyes turned red.
Why does a woman like Wang Ziru, who is lazy and only knows how to pretend, have such a good life?
But she and Liu Xiangqin have to be women and take care of the crops in the fields?
"Third brother! You promised to help big brother with work, why are you always slacking off?" Xu Ping couldn't help but joked.
I deliberately raised my voice so that everyone could hear it.
Zhai Ximo's stern face slightly heated up, and he patted Bao'er gently, "Don't run around everywhere."
"Got it, you too, Dad."
The young man spoke these words in a very convincing manner, and immediately made the men working in the yard laugh.
Everyone was joking.
Wang Ziru carried a small bamboo basket and led her son out of the yard and went straight to the back mountain of the Luo family.
When the family was divided, the two plots of dry land they were allocated were wasteland reclaimed by the villagers themselves, so they were not included in the village land registration book.
In other words, she didn't have to pay any grain levy to the brigade every year for growing these two plots of land.
Other people in the village were allocated terraced rice fields, and they had to pay a levy to the brigade on time every year according to their proportion.
Now it seems that she has made a profit.
So she planned to turn the land over and sow some vegetable seeds in the next few months and eat whatever she could grow.
In the afternoon, carrying the hoe and taking Baoer with her, the mother and son slowly went to the back mountain of the village to hoe the land.
Passing by the gate of Tian Da Kui's house, Han Xiuxiang heard that Wang Ziru was going to the back mountain to plow the land, and generously called Tian Da Kui to help.
Tian Dagui carried a hoe to the top of the slope, which was a field next to the forest. Looking at the field that had been dug into a mess, he said, "Don't worry, sister. I'll help you. It will be dug out in one afternoon."
"Thank you so much, Brother Tian."
"Don't say thank you. If you hadn't gone to the forest to collect herbs every day these days and helped our Xiuxiang treat her illness, you would have turned over this field long ago." Tian Da Kui was a man who knew how to repay his kindness and was also a good worker. He raised the hoe and started to hoe the field.
After a while, there was a sound of hurried footsteps coming down from the forest above.
"Hey, could it be that the fourth son of the Luo family and his men have returned from hunting in the mountains?" Tian Da Kui raised his head and looked toward the lush forest.
Then I saw a few men rushing down from above.
"Did you hit it?"
The one running in the front was Luo Laosi. Seeing Tian Dagui hoeing the field, he said excitedly, "I caught a wild rabbit and a wild pheasant."
Following behind Luo Laosi were two or three young men.
"You are so lucky! Tomorrow I will invite a few men to go there to look for wild rabbits..."
Several young men, carrying hunting rifles, ran out of the forest. Seeing Tian Da Kui and Wang Ziru working on the land together, they immediately understood something.
Luo Laosi smiled and greeted Wang Ziru, "Sister, is this the land allocated to your family?"
"Uh, is it for your wife's health?"
“Hehehe…” Luo Laosi laughed, lowered his head to look at the wild rabbit in his hand, turned back to look at the two pheasants in his companion’s hand, and without saying a word, he directly ordered: “Brother Shan, give the pheasant in your hand to sister Ziru.”
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