The next morning, Xu Zhaodi woke up because she was hungry.
I didn’t eat much last night, and my stomach kept rumbling in the second half of the night. I thought she was dreaming in my sleep.
When I came out of the room, Chen Jianguo was not in the house. He was probably having morning exercises at this time.
On the dining table in the living room, there was a cornmeal bun and a buckwheat bun, and a bowl of clear and warm millet porridge next to them.
Cornmeal is very rough and really irritates your throat when you eat it.
After hesitating for a while, Xu Zhaodi took a bite of the buckwheat bun.
When you take this thing in your mouth, you'll first taste a bitter taste mixed with the smell of earth.
Xu Zhaodi's face wrinkled.
She went into the kitchen and poured herself a cup of hot water, swallowed a buckwheat bun with the hot water, and added a little salt to the millet porridge.
After eating a bowl of millet porridge, my stomach instantly felt much better.
She tried her best to control her appetite and kept telling herself that she must lose weight.
He is 1.5 meters tall and weighs 170 kilograms. His body is not full of fat, but he has a well-proportioned body and looks strong and sturdy.
This figure looks broad-shouldered and thick-waisted, and very retro.
Xu Zhaodi sighed and was glad that this face was not too ugly.
The room has just been cleaned up with great difficulty, and now a new problem has arisen.
There is no food stored at home. What should I do now?
She did have more than ten yuan in her hand, but that was money stolen from Chen Jianguo.
However, having money alone is not enough, you also need tickets.
Xu Zhaodi went into the kitchen and searched around. Apart from a dozen potatoes, the only thing left was a small bag of cornmeal.
Looking at the miserable state in front of her, she couldn't help but sigh and didn't know what to eat for lunch.
As I recall, there was a forest opposite the military district’s family compound, and the weather in March was just the best time to pick wild vegetables.
There are not many vegetables at home, so let’s go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables.
These ten or so dollars might be of great use in the future, so keep them for now.
Xu Zhaodi did as she said. She went out carrying a basket and a small kitchen knife.
They lived on the third floor, and when they went downstairs, they basically didn't meet anyone at this time.
Xu Zhaodi was so busy cleaning the house yesterday that she didn't even have time to look around. This building is five stories high, with several rows in front and back. The layout is two households per floor, and the floor plans of all the houses are exactly the same.
Across the courtyard wall, loud slogans could be heard coming from the training ground not far away.
When Xu Zhaodi went out, she reported her name and registered. After thanking the two sentries, she went straight to the opposite mountain.
The two sentries standing guard at the door also knew Xu Zhaodi's name.
"Is the person who just came out the wife of our Battalion Commander Chen?"
"It seems so, but it also seems not so. Captain Chen's wife will never say thank you to us."
"That's right. Did you hear about the incident yesterday?"
"I'm sure you've heard about it. Shhh... Don't discuss anything else during your guard duty. Just stand still."
The two exchanged glances, knowing each other's intentions.
In March in spring, all kinds of wild vegetables sprout from the soil. Xu Zhaodi got to know many wild vegetables when she was washing dishes in a restaurant.
Who would have thought that her rich social experience would one day allow her to survive in this impoverished era.
In the wheat field in front of her, shepherd's purse was growing green, but she didn't dislike it. Shepherd's purse, dandelions, hollyhocks, willow buds, wild onions, bracken, five-leaf vegetables, etc., as long as they were edible, she put them all into her basket.
I looked over from the gate of the military compound and saw a large woman squatting in the wheat field not far away.
The two sentries saw with their own eyes the figure slowly ascending the mountain.
On the hillside, wild onions grow in clusters and are very tender. However, when they are pulled out, they carry with them the fallen and wilted onion leaves, making it difficult to pick them.
She didn't mind and picked a few nests and put them aside in the basket.
In less than an hour, Xu Zhaodi's basket was full.
When we were about to go down the mountain, we saw piles of ferns sprouting on the hillside.
With so many wild vegetables, why don’t those people in the staff quarters pick them?
It just so happened that no one was picking them, so she picked some more. She blanched the ferns, dried them, and stored them for eating in the winter.
Both of Xu Zhaodi's pockets were filled with wild vegetables. She happily carried the basket down the mountain and did not notice the dry grass at her feet.
Suddenly, a shrill pheasant call broke the silence of the sky, and a pheasant flew past her feet, cackling.
Xu Zhaodi was so scared that she almost had a heart attack. She didn't eat well for two days and felt dizzy.
She put the basket at her feet, but she didn't expect to find a pheasant in the grass.
The pheasant lay there without flying, and made a soft clucking sound.
Xu Zhaodi was delighted and a hint of joy flashed across her face. It would be great if this pheasant could catch a pheasant.
She held her breath and slowly reached out her hand.
A wild animal is a wild animal. Before Xu Zhaodi’s hand touched the hay, the little creature chirped, flapped its wings, drew a line in the air, and landed on a tree more than ten meters away.
When Xu Zhaodi was feeling a little regretful, she saw a few milky white spots on the haystack. She lifted the grass in confusion and saw a nest of pheasant eggs in the haystack in front of her.
One, two, three, four…
Wow, there are twelve of them.
Xu Zhaodi almost cried for joy. You know, this thing is a good thing nowadays.
An egg would cost 1.34 cents in the market without a ticket. Although pheasant eggs are much smaller than chicken eggs, if you eat a dozen of them and add some wild onions, you can make two plates of fry if you save some.
Thinking of fried eggs with wild onions, Xu Zhaodi could hardly hold back her drooling.
She was ecstatic, as if she had found a treasure, she looked around, took out half of the wild vegetables in the basket, picked up the pheasant eggs and placed them carefully among the wild vegetables, then covered them with the wild vegetables before going to eat.
The two sentries at the gate saw Xu Zhaodi returning with a full load and judged that she was going to dig wild vegetables.
It’s just that the wild vegetables in this basket look mixed together in a mess. Can they be eaten?
The sentry at the gate asked, "Sister-in-law, can you eat all these wild vegetables you picked?"
"Of course, these are all things I've eaten before. I'll make them later and ask Chen Jianguo to bring them to you."
The two sentinels were also from rural areas. In those days, rural areas all over the country were very poor. They had eaten wild vegetables before, but the geographical environment was different in the east, west, south and north, and there were differences between the north and the south. Some wild vegetables were something they had never even seen, let alone eaten.
At this moment, they looked very suspicious.
"Sister-in-law, why don't you not eat it? It would be bad if you get an upset stomach."
Xu Zhaodi smiled and said, "No problem, if I serve it to you tomorrow, you can eat it too."
As soon as Xu Zhaodi left, the two of them looked at each other.
"They all say that Captain Chen's wife is a shrew, but why don't I think she is?"
"I don't think so either. He is a bit sturdy, but his behavior is very polite and his words are very courteous. He doesn't look like the kind of person they say he is."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
