Chapter 183: Some Worry (Page 1/2)
After giving the children a bath and coaxing them to sleep, Huo Qingci went into the kitchen and cooked two bowls of seafood noodles for midnight snack.
Normally they don't eat midnight snacks at home, except when Lin Man was pregnant and she would get up in the middle of the night to eat snacks because she was hungry. Normally they don't eat midnight snacks at night.
But the food in the car was not tasty these two days, and the hot weather affected their appetite. They didn't eat much during the day, so they just made it when they were hungry.
Lin Man looked at the three large shrimps and two abalones in the bowl and said with a smile: "I'm full with just the shrimps and abalone, and you even made me a bowl of large noodles."
"If you can't finish it, I'll help you eat it."
"Okay, go to your space later and pick some strawberries, mangoes, and lychees. There are a lot of these fruits in Huacheng, and Sijie won't ask."
"We went back and planted two cherry trees and a red date tree in the courtyard. There was a pomegranate tree in the yard, but the fruit didn't grow big, so we cut it down."
"Pomegranates represent fertility and good fortune. Grandpa will definitely scold you if you cut it down. But if you cut down that old variety of pomegranate tree, we can plant a soft-seeded pomegranate in the front yard."
"Okay, let's build two more racks in the middle of the yard to grow grapes and kiwis."
They left in a hurry that year and had no time to tidy up the yard. Now that they are back, they are taking advantage of the few days of rest to tidy up the yard and plant some fruit trees.
Anyway, Huo Qingci has the medicinal spring, and Lin Man has wood-related abilities, so they can keep trees alive even in the middle of winter, not to mention summer.
After the two finished their meal, they returned to Huo Qingci's space and went to
Then he started raising poultry and livestock. Islanders like white-cut chicken, roast duck, and roast goose. His space now has a total of 200 chickens, 80 ducks, and 30 geese.
Because Lin Man likes to eat lamb, Huo Qingci bought eight black goat lambs from somewhere, and five of the eight lambs were female.
Moreover, they were multiparous ewes, capable of giving birth to two litters a year, with each litter producing 2-4 lambs. Huo Qingci's space contained a total of twenty-one black goats, large and small.
Goats in the north are generally white, and it would be difficult for them to buy black goats when they return, so they were reluctant to kill any of these black goats, thinking of waiting for them to reproduce more before eating them.
A slaughtered sheep weighs only a few dozen kilograms. If you roast it whole, it can be eaten by many people in one meal. If you use it for hot pot, it can be eaten by the whole family for two meals.
Lin Man has plenty of space for seafood, Huo Qingci has space for poultry, livestock, vegetables and fruits, and they are not short of money. The couple has everything they need, and the only thing they lack is a little cotton-padded jacket.
After feeding the livestock, the two returned to Lin Man's space, took a bath together, did it once in the bathroom, then moved to the sofa to continue, and after finishing, went back to the bathroom to take another bath, changed into pajamas, returned to bed, and fell asleep.
The next day they slept until half past six and then went to a local teahouse for morning tea and breakfast.
After breakfast, Huo Qingci went to the train station to queue up for train tickets. Lin Man and Liao Sijie took their two children to the local supply and marketing cooperative and bought some local specialties: chicken biscuits, Chinese sausage, tangerine peel, chicken olives...
Huo Qingci bought a direct express train, which departed at 6 pm and would reach Beijing in just 37 hours. He would arrive in Beijing at around 7 am on the third day.
This time, for the sake of his children, he took the initiative to take out his military officer ID and told the ticket seller that they had two children with them. Only then did the ticket seller give him two lower bunks and one upper bunk.
After lunch, the family rested in the guesthouse for the whole afternoon and checked out at 4:30. They arrived at the train station at exactly 5 o'clock, checked their tickets and entered the station. The 6:12 train departed on time.
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As soon as they got on the bus, they first put the two children down from their backs, and then put the luggage away one by one. Huo Qingci sat down to drink some water, and then went to the dining car to buy some food.
Lin Man asked Liao Sijie to watch over the two children and not let them fall. She took out the washed strawberries from the bag, gave two to her eldest son, and then put two in a small wooden bowl and mashed them into a paste with a spoon, and then fed them to her eight-month-old youngest son.
The comrades sleeping on the middle and upper bunks sat down on the bed opposite when they saw it was empty.
Lin Man didn't say anything. As long as they didn't occupy the space when they were sleeping, it would be fine. They couldn't stop those people from coming down to move around, right?
Fortunately, we didn’t encounter any saints who wanted to change bunk beds this time. Seeing that they brought two such young children, they would be too embarrassed to ask to change!
After Lin Man fed her youngest son the strawberry puree, Huo Qingci brought back three meals.
One serving of braised pork, one serving of boiled chicken, and one serving of stir-fried leeks with bean sprouts.
"Manman, the food is back. You and Sijie eat first. I'll look after them."
"Oh well!"
Huo Yining, the big eater, was not full after eating two strawberries. When he saw the braised pork, he started yelling, "Mom, I want to eat some meat."
Lin Man picked up two pieces of lean braised pork and began to feed Huo Yining bite by bite.
Eight-month-old Huo Yian also wanted to eat. He looked at it eagerly, mumbling something in his mouth. Lin Man found it a little funny, "An An, be good. You can eat meat by this time next year."
Seeing his youngest son's aggrieved look, Huo Qingci simply held him and stood up, "Manman, I'll carry An'an for a walk. You two can eat slowly."
"Okay, don't go too far."
Huo Yining finished two pieces of braised pork and wanted more. Lin Man directly picked up a chopstick of bean sprouts and put them in the bowl, "Eat some bean sprouts and rice, and I'll give you another piece of meat later."
Huo Yining didn't dare to resist and chewed the bean sprouts like grass, refusing to swallow them. Lin Man looked at him and didn't urge him, so he just started eating.
She would not coax him. The more she coaxed him, the slower he chewed. Seeing his mother eating meat in big mouthfuls, Huo Yining suddenly became anxious and swallowed the bean sprouts and rice in his mouth without thinking.
Lin Man fed him another big mouthful and said, "You have to eat two more bites before you can eat the meat, otherwise mom will eat it all."
Huo Yining complained: "The vegetables are bad, my mom is mean and won't let me eat meat."
Liao Sijie chuckled, "Bean sprouts aren't bad, Ningning, if you eat any more you'll become fat as a ball, and no one will want to play with you when you go back."
When he was told that he was as fat as a ball, Huo Yining burst into tears, "I'm not a ball."
Seeing the little one crying, Liao Sijie quickly apologized, "Okay, okay, Ningning is not fat as a ball. Cousin is fat as a ball, okay? Ningning, eat more bean sprouts to grow taller."
"Well, look at your lack of ambition. A manly man actually put a piece of meat there. Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if you tell others about it?"
Lin Man picked a piece of lean meat from the lunch box, mixed it with rice and fed it to Huo Yining, "Eat it! After you finish eating, mom will feed milk powder to your brother."
Huo Yining had meat to eat, and he suddenly laughed, gave a thumbs up and praised: "Meat is delicious, I love meat."
Lin Man looked at her son's fleshy body and wondered when he would grow taller. She was really worried.
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