As expected, Fu Hongxing's relaxed expression when he saw that Ning Jing hadn't heard him made Ning Jing feel that she had made the right decision.
After the two people entered the house, the children couldn't help but cheer. Finally, they could start eating!
Ning Jing served Fu Hongxing a large bowl of pumpkin rice, and then served each of the other children a large bowl.
Fu Hongxing smelled the pumpkin rice and found it delicious, but he didn't expect it to taste even better.
With his eyes wide open, he stopped thinking about the troublesome things and focused solely on eating.
Only after the children, big and small, had eaten until their bellies were round and full did they finally put down their chopsticks with satisfaction.
"Honey, are we running out of rice?"
However, Ning Jing's idea to cook old pumpkin with rice was probably because her family was short of food.
So, Fu Hongxing secretly patted his belly and asked Ning Jing, who was clearing the dishes, "What do you mean?"
Unexpectedly, Ning Jing shook her head, thought for a moment, and replied, "It's alright, it should be enough to last until the grain in your ration book comes through."
By the way, we still have some wheat at home. When you have time, go to the village mill and grind some wheat flour.
In that case, I'll make some pancakes for you and the children in the morning. Xiuhua and Tiedan are growing up!
The clothes I made for you last month are already too short.
"We need to make sure we get enough nutrition; we can't eat sweet potato porridge every meal."
Upon hearing this, Fu Hongxing scratched his chin. He couldn't quite recall when his family had ever had wheat.
However, since his wife had said so, he naturally had no choice but to nod in agreement.
Seeing that Fu Hongxing nodded, Ning Jing then focused on wiping the table.
Seeing this, Fu Hongxing stepped forward to help take the bowls and chopsticks that Ning Jing had stacked from her hands, and then went to the kitchen to wash the dishes in a few quick steps.
Ning Jing rubbed her temples, feeling a bit of a headache. She really wanted to reach out to Fu Hongxing like Er Kang and offer to do the dishes and chores; after all, she could get gold coins for it!
Although the gold coins weren't many, even a mosquito's leg is still meat!
She's severely lacking in gold coins right now.
However, since Fu Hongxing was willing to wash the dishes himself, Ning Jing did not insist on taking the housework away from him.
After all, it's only natural that she cooks and Fu Hongxing washes the dishes, if it weren't for the need to earn gold coins.
It's impossible for her to do all the housework by herself; Fu Hongxing can just be a hands-off manager!
Since Fu Hongxing was in charge of washing the dishes, he took over the task.
So, she could only earn the gold coins back from the children.
Ning Jing smiled at the children who were lounging on the kang (a heated brick bed), revealing eight teeth.
Xiuhua was the first to react. She stepped forward, snatched the rag from her sister-in-law's hand, and said, "Sister-in-law, I'll go wash this rag."
After saying that, he dashed out of the house in a flash.
Tie Dan also had a bad feeling, but he was neither as quick-witted as Xiu Hua nor as lucky as her.
"Sister-in-law, I'll go help my second sister carry the bucket of water to wash the rags."
Before he could finish speaking, Ning Jing grabbed him by the back of his collar and around his neck.
"No need to rush, let's learn to recognize a few characters first."
Ning Jing grabbed Tie Dan's collar with one hand, and with the other hand, she pulled out a very thick notebook from somewhere.
With a "thud," it was thrown in front of Tie Dan and Xiu Chun Siya.
"Don't worry, Xiuhua will come in and learn these things after she washes the rags."
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