Qin Rou came out of the kindergarten and asked if there was a local People's Radio Station nearby. She asked a few passers-by and found the address of Lucheng People's Radio Station by bicycle.
This radio station was also recently split and newly built, so it is recruiting announcers at this time, two announcers at a time.
Qin Rou went to sign up.
If you can pass the exam to become an announcer here, it would be a good job. In this era, announcers are the golden rice bowl jobs that everyone envy. Compared with other physical jobs, it is just broadcasting in the house, which is very easy.
Qin Rou also considered working in the kindergarten, but it was too tiring at the end of the day. She also wanted to manage the vegetable garden at home.
In the first year after moving in, she had to clean up the house and the yard.
Qin Rou rode her bicycle to the nearby village and asked the villagers for a few kilograms of fresh white radish in private. She also asked for some rotten fruits. It was just a few cents, not considered speculation, and no one cared.
She rode back, put the radish down first, and began to prepare to transplant a few seedlings in the yard.
The reason why Qin Rou went to the villagers to buy radishes was to understand the situation here in detail. Of course, because of the local accent and language barrier, they could understand her, but she might not understand her, so they could only communicate reluctantly.
Thanks to her past as a kindergarten teacher, she still had a lot of language talent, and the talent of gesticulation, and she chatted enthusiastically with the aunties in the village.
When the aunt heard that she was a new military dependent who had just got married, she was especially kind and gave her a yellow lantern chili and a few young golden orange seedlings, saying that it seemed like she was wishing her to have a son soon or something, and that they would look very beautiful when grown. Qin Rou didn't understand the details.
As for the chili, it seemed to mean having many children and good fortune.
Qin Rou scratched her head, but she had never seen yellow chili before, so she guessed that it was not very spicy. The redder the chili, the hotter it looked.
Although she had never seen this chili, the aunt pointed to the golden orange planted at her door. She seemed to have seen it before, like a green golden orange. The aunt said that it could bear fruit all year round and looked very beautiful when grown. She also said that it could repel insects and could be put in vegetables...
Anyway, it sounded magical.
Qin Rou had only seen this fruit before when drinking fruit tea. She also found that this fruit looked like the green fruit served with grilled saury. When eating grilled fish, cut the fruit in half and squeeze the juice onto the grilled fish. It was very delicious and a perfect match!
She even suspected that this small fruit was a small green lemon.
Anyway, no matter what it is, plant it first, plant it, plant it!! Plant some, and it will look good as a potted plant even if you don’t eat it.
What’s more, it can repel insects. The sour and sweet fruit can relieve heat and stimulate appetite.
“I have an idea.”
Qin Rou had previously been designing how to plan and design this small yard in front of the house. This yard is neither small nor big. It is currently overgrown with weeds, so it really needs to be cleaned up and planned.
It was a rectangular yard, about seven meters long from the house door to the yard door, and about eleven or twelve meters wide. Qin Rou planned to divide the yard into two, and lay a stone road about one meter and twenty or three meters wide from the middle to the yard door, leading directly to the outside of the yard.
The left side of their yard was mainly used to raise chickens and grow vegetables. The outermost layer was used as a chicken coop. Chickens smelled strong, so it was better to keep it away from the house. A small fence of one meter and five meters wide and two meters long was made to keep the chickens inside. Next to the chicken coop was a vegetable field. Qin Rou did not plan to make a large vegetable field at first, but planned to make a small vegetable field of about fifteen or sixteen square meters, three meters wide and five meters long.
The vegetable plot is a five-row plot, with five rows of plants planted vertically. Three bamboos are tied with ropes and inserted into the plot like a tripod to facilitate the climbing of vines.
The vegetable plot is two or three meters further inward, and it will be close to the house, so Qin Rou plans to plant yellow lantern peppers and green kumquats on the outside of the vegetable plot. Green kumquats have a sweet and sour smell and can also prevent insects and deodorize.
The left yard is planned like this for the time being. Qin Rou does not plan to plant vegetables in the right yard. She plans to sow grass seeds on the plot opposite the vegetable plot. After all, there are children at home. She wants to make a small lawn of 15 square meters for them to play on. She can also plant some potted flowers and plants around, build a flower stand or a pergola, put a lounge chair and a table underneath, and lie down leisurely to watch the children playing on the lawn.
The imagination in the mind is beautiful, but the reality... is still at the first step. All
you have is a desolate and abandoned yard.
Qin Rou: "..."
We must show the spirit of Yugong moving mountains!
Qin Rou decided to take it step by step. First, she had to improve the soil and fertilizer for the vegetable plot, collect more rotten fruits, wood ash, coconut bran, chicken manure, etc.
"It's a big project, don't rush."
"Doing it yourself is the joy of creating something from nothing!"
Qin Rou comforted herself and took her time. After planting the pepper seedlings and two green kumquat seedlings, she also planted a green kumquat in a large wooden trough on the terrace on the second floor. After
dealing with these, Qin Rou went to pickle the white radishes she bought. She washed all the white radishes, cut them into long strips, spread them in the yard to dry, and made pickled radish cubes after drying.
The aunt in the village told her that black fish is delicious and that they would eat it at festivals in their village. Qin Rou remembered the name and planned to ask about it later.
At noon, Qin Rou was alone at home. She found two hairtails from the freezer, thawed them, and fried them with coconut oil. This was also the method introduced by the aunt, who said that fish fried with coconut oil is especially delicious.
She didn't have green onions, so she marinated the hairtail for a while, added ginger and garlic, and fried it directly in the pan.
I don't know if the quality of this coconut oil is not good enough, or if Qin Rou's cooking skills are problematic, but the smoke is really great! !
"It's so uncomfortable without a range hood."
Qin Rou covered her mouth and nose with a towel, thinking that steaming and boiling are the healthiest.
After putting the fried hairtail fish on a plate, Qin Rou washed a few small green kumquats given by her aunt, cut them open, and poured the juice over the fried hairtail fish.
After pouring it on, it smelled sour and had a fishy and burnt aroma.
Qin Rou picked up a piece, and after taking a bite, she felt that the fish meat was very crispy and fragrant. The most wonderful thing was the green kumquat juice poured on it. If eaten alone, the green kumquat juice was too sour, but when poured on the fish meat, it was really sour and sweet and fishy!!
So delicious!!
With this sour taste, even the fried fish didn’t feel so irritating when eaten.
The desire for oranges became a little stronger!!
It was delicious, but it still made me feel irritated after eating it.
I’ll make it next time and let Lu Yan try it.
Qin Rou put the remaining six or seven small green kumquats into the freezer, kept three or four for herself, made a cup of green tea, threw the cut small green kumquats into it, and added a little sugar.
After eating something that makes you get angry, you must drink some fruit tea to cool down.
In the afternoon, Qin Rou sat in front of the house to enjoy the cool air. In her hand, she held an enamel pot filled with green kumquat fruit tea. It was sweet, just like the fruit tea in the milk tea shop, making her feel as if she was back in the commercial square. However, the enamel pot filled with fruit tea immediately reminded her where she was.
The big red flowers on the surface of the enamel pot bloomed festively and gorgeously.
Qin Rou yawned and felt the gentle sea breeze. She thought that everything was ready, except for a lounge chair. It was also because the sun was strong now, otherwise she could go to the beach to sleep.
It was really strange. When I came to the beach, I had no interest in watching the sea.
"Are you a new family member?"
"I saw you this morning when I sent the kids to school!"
"What are you drinking?"
Qin Rou looked outside the yard and saw a young military wife. She looked to be in her twenties, wearing a blue cloth dress and a mushroom-like haircut. She was short and looked a little cute.
Qin Rou invited her in and poured her a cup of fruit tea. The two of them went to the second-floor terrace to enjoy the cool breeze.
They chatted for a few words.
This young sister-in-law's surname was Li. Her voice was completely inconsistent with her appearance. Her voice was very rough and her words smelled like that of a big dregs.
"You were from Bincheng before, so we are quite close!"
Ever since coming to Qiongzhou Island, Li Qinghua felt that their places were quite close.
"I didn't want to go back after I came here, it's too far." Li Qinghua waved her hand, she took a sip of fruit tea and found that the tea was sweet and quite delicious.
She was most afraid of those weird new family members giving her weird things to drink. Last time she accidentally drank coffee, but she didn't vomit to death.
The tea of this new family member was sour and sweet, and it was especially delicious!
She was beautiful and her tea was delicious, Li Qinghua had a good impression of her.
Li Qinghua and her husband Liu Kai were engaged when they were young. They were from the countryside and got married when she was fourteen or fifteen years old. The husband was ten years older than her and they never consummated their marriage. He was always serving in the army outside, leaving her alone in the village to fight with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law.
At the age of twenty, she gave birth to a boy for Liu Kai, and Li Qinghua followed him to the island to join the army.
After coming here, Comrade Qinghua felt that this place was really a paradise.
Oh my god, it's so far anyway, she would never go back!
Her husband is very motivated and hardworking. He is the political commissar of Zhang Chengbei Regiment. When she first came here, she made a lot of jokes and embarrassed their old Liu. Li Qinghua also wanted to be a good daughter-in-law at first, but she couldn't do it.
Li Qinghua has little education and can't find a suitable job, but her husband's salary is okay, and many of his family members don't look for jobs either, so this is nothing.
But her husband often scolds her and asks her to learn from Zhang Tuan's lover, that is, Huang Xinying, saying how good other people's wives are, and how good other people are.
Learn? Learn shit.
Li Qinghua doesn't want to learn from Huang Xinying, and she can't learn it. After a quarrel with her husband, she simply does nothing and becomes more and more lazy.
Since she became lazy, Li Qinghua found that this is really a life like a god!
Anyway, there is a kindergarten and a cafeteria here, and she doesn't do anything every day, and the day goes by like this.
It's great to be lazy as long as you can, and you can live this kind of life day by day.
Huang Xinying is a famous wife of three good deeds in the family compound, and Li Qinghua is a famous lazy daughter-in-law in the family compound. She is lazy to death at home, and she doesn't even help when the oil bottle falls. She has become a joke in the family compound.
As long as she is shameless, Comrade Li Qinghua feels that she is quite happy.
But it is very hard to face her husband who always sighs.
Recently, her husband has been quarreling with her and sleeping in separate beds. It is a sin. She is about to get a divorce.
Divorce is possible, but Li Qinghua does not want to leave Qiongzhou Island. Compared with men, she loves this island more.
Her husband scolded her: "You can't live the same life as before!"
Yes, in order to stay on the island, she has to save herself.
Li Qinghua looked at Qin Rou, this beautiful new family member who also lived next door to Huang Xinying, living in this house with "feng shui", one could imagine what her future would be like.
Seeing this little Qin sister drinking tea leisurely by herself in the cool air, she might be as lazy as she was.
- She estimated that she was about to get divorced.
Li Qinghua followed the political commissar and heard a few revolutionary words. She felt that she might be able to form a divorce front alliance with this new comrade Qin and become a revolutionary comrade.
"Your man can only come back two or three times a week?"
Li Qinghua blurted out: "That's great..."
Her husband was in the shore force, and he went back to the family compound quite frequently. Li Qinghua hoped that this man would come back less often, so that her life would be happier and she would not have to listen to his nagging.
Qin Rou: "..."
You are not right? !
Li Qinghua seemed to realize that she had said something wrong, she covered her mouth, and then thought that she had formed an alliance with Comrade Xiao Qin in front of her, so there was no point in hiding many things from her.
"Xiao Qin, my man is thinking about another woman, what hope do I have in this life."
"I'll tell you this, don't tell anyone else."
Li Qinghua felt that her man was coveting other people's wives, and he liked Xiao Qin's next door neighbor Zhang Tuan's wife Huang Xinying.
Qin Rou: "..."
This is really a big melon.
She has only been here for a few days, and she heard such a melon.
"Okay, okay." But Qin Rou didn't want to eat such a melon at all. She just came and didn't understand anything.
Qin Rou was also reluctant to ask more about other people's family affairs.
Li Qinghua did not say who her man liked, but she was sure that his heart was not with her.
Comrade Qinghua also knew that she had to move forward slowly and slowly get along with her ally Xiao Qin. She hoped that Xiao Qin would fall in love with Qiongzhou Island like she did, and stay here to work after getting divorced.
This little Qin is pretty and looks like a cultured city person. Maybe he can give her some advice on how to find a job on the island.
"This fruit tea is really delicious!"
"Next time you come to my house, I..."
Li Qinghua found that she really had nothing to treat people.
"I'll treat you to a thorn fruit."
"I'll treat you now! I'll take it home!"
With that, Li Qinghua ran away in a hurry.
After a while, she ran back with a "big guy" in her arms. Qin Rou found that the thorn fruit she was talking about was actually... a pineapple honey? ! !
Li Qinghua is very lazy. She hardly takes care of her yard and doesn't plant anything else except a pineapple tree. It has always remained in her yard. However, this pineapple tree is very peculiar and it seems that it does not require any care. Li Qinghua looks at it and waters it when she remembers. It grows very well and bears large fruits.
Li Qinghua said to Qin Rou in a serious tone: "Xiao Qin, you just came here, you don't know, the trees here have their own ideas, its fruits will ripen when they want to, no one can guess when they want to ripen."
"I pick one fruit as soon as it ripens."
"Its leaves are the same, in autumn and winter the leaves will not turn yellow, nor will they fall off, maybe until March of the following year, it will suddenly remember, eh? I seem to have forgotten to fall leaves, I have to shake it off, I have fallen leaves!"