"Captain Chu."
When Chu Dai came out of the house, Xu Nian greeted him.
"Sister-in-law." He nodded slightly.
After he walked away, Xu Nian continued to talk to Sun Shufen: "Do you want to tear off the cloth? But there is no place to make clothes here?"
The tailor's shop was probably in the center of the city, and they couldn't find it themselves.
"Why bother? They're just two sets of clothes for the kids. I can just sew them myself." Sun Shufen glanced at the gate and said, "Qingqing and Captain Chu really get along well. They're both lively and have endless things to talk about when they get together."
"This is how life should be for two people." Xu Nian pursed her lips and smiled secretly: "Qingqing and Captain Chu are made for each other. I feel happy just watching them."
"That's right." Sun Shufen saw Yu Tu and Yu Xu running over, holding a bamboo dragonfly in their hands, and was surprised: "Little Rabbit, where did you get this?"
"Uncle Chu gave it to me!" Yutu's little face, as round and as happy as a red apple, smiled, revealing her leaky front teeth: "My brother got one too!"
"Xiao Xu has it, Xiao Xu has it too!" When Yu Xu saw his sister running away, he hurriedly chased after her.
"Captain Chu is so kind to the kids?" Sun Shufen said in amazement, "We are lucky to have found a treasure."
Just at this moment, Gu Qingqing came out wearing new clothes, which were the long gown her mother had taken her to a tailor shop in town to make.
It's very sunny outside, so she should cover herself up, otherwise Goudan will laugh at her for being darker than soy sauce.
"Auntie Anian, what are you laughing at?" Gu Qingqing was a little confused.
"You are so lucky." Sun Shufen was holding a bamboo basket in her hand. It was given to her by Yu Fugui from the cafeteria. She had to return it after using it. "Hurry up, it will be lunchtime soon."
The three of them were chatting and laughing side by side, mainly Gu Qingqing chattering with Sun Shufen, making Sun Shufen laugh out loud, and Xu Nian would occasionally join in with a few words.
When they arrived at the military sentry post, the soldier on duty took one look at the three women and simply raised his hand to let them pass.
They did not choose to go by car. The troops had no procurement mission at the moment, and they did not want to ask for a ride if there was no one available, as it would waste too much fuel.
Sun Shufen glanced at the blazing sun, then looked at Gu Qingqing, who was wearing a straw hat, long gown and trousers, and said with a smile: "Qingqing, we are not going to work in the fields."
Gu Qingqing wanted to cry but had no tears. She complained: "Auntie, my brother thinks I'm dark!"
"Your brother thinks you're fine," Sun Shufen grinned until her crow's feet were exposed, "As long as Captain Chu likes you, that's fine."
Gu Qingqing immediately went around to Xu Nian and took her arm: "Auntie, you are teasing me! I won't talk to you anymore. Sister An Nian is still the best."
Xu Nian chuckled softly: "Captain Chu is also very good."
Gu Qingqing: “…” As expected, women who are nourished by love tend to become much more cheerful.
Doctor Zhao, you have to take care of your wife!
I couldn’t joke around before, but now I even joke around with other people.
The potholes on the road from the Corps to the supply and marketing cooperative and the market had long been filled with gravel by the soldiers. When the wind blew, the sand filled the road again. It felt soft and squishy when you stepped on it, and your shoes sank directly into the dirt.
Sun Shufen found a big rock to sit on and take a break. She took off her cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles, tapped the stone next to her and poured out the sand.
Gu Qingqing also sat down beside her and took off her straw hat to fan herself: "Auntie, can we still go back for lunch today?"
"It's probably past eleven now, I'm afraid it won't work." Sun Shufen pulled Xu Nian over and said, "Xiao Xu, you should sit for a while. Don't rush back. Your military doctor Zhao is busy."
Xu Nian murmured: "No, auntie, I'm not in a hurry to go back."
"That's fine. I thought you were like Qingqing, your heart had already flown back home when you were here, you're already staring longingly after just a short while out. Fortunately, Captain Chu is stationed on the island and wants to take her with him, otherwise she would have become a husband-waiting rock."
"Auntie!" Gu Qingqing threw herself on Sun Shufen and said, "I'm not married yet, don't always pick on me, talk to Sister Anian! I don't care, I'm upset, I want to eat a big meat bun."
"You look like a fool to me." Sun Shufen stretched out her finger and tapped her forehead. "I'll buy some flour and cut some meat and ask your uncle to make it. What kind of meat buns can I buy from the supply and marketing cooperative? Can they be as good as your uncle's?"
"Yes, yes, auntie is right."
training ground.
Chu Dai was dressed in a neat military uniform, holding a muzzle rifle in his right hand, aiming at a straw target ten meters away.
Gu Qinglie stood beside him with his hands on his hips and said, "This was made by our Border Town Military Factory. How about giving it a try?"
Chu Dai pulled the trigger without hesitation, and after a dull sound, he hit the bull's eye.
"Not bad, it's comparable to imported products." Chu Dai returned the gun with smoke coming out of the muzzle to Gu Qinglie, "It's just that you can't replace the parts, so we need to improve it."
"Come on, don't expect too much from our comrades. They are slowly improving. You have touched many guns since you were young, so I brought this one for you to try." Gu Qinglie put the gun back on his waist and saw that the soldiers were all heading to the cafeteria. He asked him, "Are you going to eat?"
"To the bathroom."
Chu Daitou didn't turn back and walked to the other side.
Gu Qinglie followed.
"No." Chu Dai had just unbuttoned his pants when he saw Gu Qinglie next to him staring at him. He laughed and scolded, "What's wrong with you?"
"Then I have to help my sister check the goods first." Gu Qinglie was carefree and spoke quickly.
He and Chu Daisheng were brothers who had been through thick and thin together, so they had long since become casual about their conversations.
Chu Dai: "...Then let me thank you on behalf of your sister?"
"Why are you being so polite, brother-in-law? We are all family, aren't we?" Gu Qinglie climbed up the pole and grinned, "We are going to have a field training tomorrow. Would you like to come with us and give us some guidance?"
"Let's talk about it later. We need the approval of Military Doctor Zhao." Chu Dai fastened his belt, outlining the man's thin and narrow waist.
Gu Qinglie shook his head. "Every time I see your small body, I feel like I can knock you to the border with one punch."
"Will it cross the line? The country won't allow it." Chu Dai is half a head taller than Gu Qinglie, but thinner than him. Gu Qinglie's muscles are bulging under his military uniform, and it hurts for a long time when he claps his hands.
Gu Qinglie shuddered, fastened his pants and followed him: "Do you know what Qingqing asked me today?"
"Hmm?" The man finally gave him a look.
"She asked me pitifully if your father would dislike her."
Chu Dai was silent for a while, then said firmly: "Don't worry, it won't happen."
Gu Qinglie breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to hit him in the chest. But when he was about to hit him, he remembered that he was injured.
Withdrawing his hand awkwardly, Gu Qinglie laughed dryly: "It won't be the best, huh? I only have this precious sister, we all treat her like our sweetheart, I hope you do the same."
"Yes."
Gu Qinglie followed him and walked side by side to the cafeteria. "Qingqing really cares about you. She even told me that she wanted to learn cooking from Lao Yu and my third uncle, and she will cook for you when we get to the island." There was a hint of schadenfreude in her tone.
Chu Dai: "That's a good feeling."
"Tsk?" Gu Qinglie thought, just keep pretending, you won't be able to keep calm when the time comes.
Gu Qingqing and the others didn't come back until after two in the afternoon. Sun Shufen bought a few feet of cloth and some flour and rice. She wanted to use her meat coupons to buy meat, but Gu Qingqing got there first and kept nagging about it when she came back.
"You two are such a jerk. One of you is buying meat, and the other is buying candy. How can I not afford this little money?" Sun Shufen kept muttering, "It's just right that I can ask your uncle Yu to chop and mix the stuffing for us this afternoon, and then we can go back to the yard to make dumplings."
"Qingqing, Xiaoxu, you guys can do it, right?"
Gu Qingqing was slightly embarrassed: "I'll try."
Xu Nian: "I'll try it too."
Sun Shufen: "...I'll do it myself, but you have to learn. When we get to the island, you have to cook for your men. I heard there are a lot of shrimps and fish on the beach. You can just pick them up with a bucket. You'll be in for a treat."
Gu Qingqing blinked her eyes, "Is there such a good thing?" She really liked eating fish, but every year at the end of the year when the pond was cleaned, she could only get a few big ones. The rest she could only wait for her brothers to go down to the river to catch, especially the small ones.
There aren't a lot of fish in the river. People from two villages share one river, and every family with boys would go fishing in the river to improve their lives and increase their food.
After returning to the military compound, Yu Tu and Yu Xu had already been told by Sun Shufen to have fun at home and to bring food for them when their mother returned.
Seeing Sun Shufen and the others coming back with baskets, they jumped up and ran towards them.
"Mom! Sister! Sister Anian!" Yutu stretched out his little hand, "I want some candy!"
Yu Xu followed suit: "I want candy!"
Xu Nian shared the candies he bought with the brother and sister. Looking at them walking away happily, he couldn't help but smile, but then felt a little disappointed.
I wish she and Zege could have such a cute baby.
"Auntie." Gu Qingqing carried some things and walked towards the kitchen in the backyard, "Isn't it time to send Xiaotu to school?"
"I only studied in the third grade in my hometown. I was thinking of sending him to the school in the Corps, but I took a look today and it seems a bit far." Sun Shufen looked worried.
The conditions in the Corps were too harsh, and there were almost no family members accompanying the troops, so the leaders had never considered opening a primary school for the soldiers' children.
Yu Tu will be ten years old next year and can recognize only a few words. Both she and Lao Yu are not well educated, so they hope their children can be more successful than them so that their parents can feel relieved.
"Uncle Yu goes to the market early in the morning to do some shopping. You can ask him to take Little Rabbit there. You have nothing to do in the afternoon, so you can walk to pick her up. If that's not possible, you can buy a bicycle."
"Yes, I didn't think of that." Sun Shufen's eyes lit up, "But can you ride a bicycle on this dirt road?"
"You'll know after you try it. Go to the Quartermaster's Office tomorrow and ask if they have any bicycles. Then you'll know if it's easy to ride after you ride it." Gu Qingqing put down her things and said to Sun Shufen with a smile.
"Okay, let's do it this way." Sun Shufen clapped her hands, "You two stay here to mix the dough, Xiao Xu should be able to do it, I'll go return the basket to the cafeteria, and let Lao Yu chop the meat for us."
"Okay, leave it to us. You go ahead, auntie." Gu Qingqing rolled up her sleeves, washed her hands, and was eager to give it a try.
After Sun Shufen left with the bamboo basket, Gu Qingqing came up to Xu Nian and said, "Sister Anian, can I add water to the dough for you?"
"Okay." Xu Nian took out a large wooden basin and poured two kilograms of white flour into it. She originally wanted to mix some cornmeal, but Sun Shufen didn't say anything, so she gave up the idea.
Gu Qingqing took a wooden ladle and, according to Xu Nian's instructions, poured some warm water prepared by Sun Shufen from the kettle on the stove.
She poured some water into the flour and looked at Xu Nian. Seeing that she didn't say anything, she continued adding more.
"Okay." Xu Nian said, "Qingqing, the next step is to knead the dough. Do you want to try it?"
When Sun Shufen went to the cafeteria, she happened to meet Chu Dai and Gu Qinglie. Gu Qinglie was leading the team on patrol, and Chu Dai was walking around to see the shed built by Gu Qingqing.
Throughout the Corps, except for the training grounds and playgrounds, almost all the remaining open space was used to build greenhouses for growing vegetables, and almost all of them had sprouted.
Judging from the size of the vegetable field, when the vegetables grow, not only will the Corps be self-sufficient, but it can even distribute some to the people.
Chu Dai's impression of Gu Qingqing was refreshed again and again. Now when he thought of her, he couldn't help laughing.
That's pretty amazing.
"Captain Chu, Platoon Leader Gu." Sun Shufen greeted them, "Don't eat in the cafeteria tonight, come to the military compound. Qingqing said she wanted to eat big meat buns, so we cut some meat and bought some white flour. The two of them are kneading dough in the kitchen."
Gu Qinglie exclaimed, "Wow!" My sister can knead dough? That's incredible.
Chu Dai nodded: "Okay, I'll go there later."
"Captain Chu, when you go back to the sanitation center to change the dressing, don't forget to tell Doctor Zhao. His wife is looking forward to his return for dinner."
"Okay, don't worry."
After discussing it this way, Sun Shufen walked towards the cafeteria in a happy mood.
At 5:30 in the afternoon, the kitchen of the military compound was filled with aromas. In addition to the meat buns steaming in the steamer on the stove, there was also pork stewed with vermicelli. Gu Qingqing went to the vegetable patch in the backyard to pick some vegetables.
When it’s served, sprinkle some chopped green onions on it to make it so delicious.
At nearly six o'clock, Zhao Ze and Chu Dai came in from the courtyard gate one after the other. Zhao Ze sniffed and boasted to Chu Dai behind him: "My wife's cooking skills are pretty good."
Chu Dai just smiled and said nothing.
Who knows whose daughter-in-law did it.
As soon as the training was over, Gu Qinglie rushed over. Seeing the two people still standing at the door, he opened his arms and welcomed them inside: "Come in, even if you are not hungry, I am hungry."
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