Chapter 461 Want to Join the Army

Gu Cheng pondered and said, "Dr. Zhang in Zhangjiatun is quite good. I will take you there to see him in two days to see if he can give you some Chinese medicine for treatment."

Liu Yinyin was injured when she gave birth to triplets, but a year later, she has recovered quite well.

But... there are still some problems left. First of all, Liu Yinyin can't eat cold things now.

The weather on the island was hot in the past two months, and Liu Yinyin ate an ice lolly.

As a result, she immediately had a stomachache, which lasted for several days before going away. As a result, Liu Yinyin was afraid to eat cold food anymore.

Secondly, Liu Yinyin still suffers from headaches from time to time.

The pain is not severe, just a slight pain, especially when the wind blows, it hurts when the head shakes a little.

Liu Yinyin didn't dare to be careless about something related to her health, so she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go check it out when I have time."

Maybe it was because they moved to a new place, the triplets made noises several times while they were sleeping at night.

The next morning, the children were fast asleep and could not be woken up even when they were called.

While the triplets were sleeping, Liu Yinyin took the time to make breakfast. There were not enough ingredients at home, so she only made porridge, white flour steamed buns, and boiled eggs.

After breakfast, Gu Cheng went to the mountain.

Liu Yinyin was going to the county town to buy something. Before leaving, she asked Jiang Cuihua to help look after the child.

She had a bicycle and quickly arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative.

There is not much change in the supply and marketing cooperative, it is almost the same as before. It may be because the harvest has been good in the past two years, so there are more supplies.

Liu Yinyin walked around and bought a bag of walnut cookies, a bag of glutinous rice sticks, and two canned fruits.

The supply and marketing cooperative also has pork available, but there are many people queuing to buy pork.

Liu Yinyin didn't want to queue, so she didn't buy it.

In addition, I bought a bag of vermicelli and a bag of noodles.

They didn't go anywhere else. On the way back, Liu Yinyin found an opportunity to smuggle out two pieces of pork belly, each weighing two kilograms.

I also bought all the spices like oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, pepper, star anise, cinnamon, etc.

After thinking about it, I bought two bars of soap, a bar of scented soap, a box of shampoo powder, and a box of tooth powder.

I also bought a bag of apples and two packs of instant noodles. These noodles are convenient to eat, so I bought more.

After arriving home, Jiang Cuihua was busy cracking dates with a long wooden stick for her grandchildren to play with and eat.

While Liu Yinyin was moving things, she said to her, "Mom, please take all these dates down. If you can't finish them, dry them in the sun to prevent them from being eaten by birds."

Jiang Cuihua thought the same thing: "I've already eaten a lot, what a pity."

Liu Yinyin beat three eggs and prepared to steam a big bowl of egg custard for the triplets...

Thinking of her two sons, Gu Yanyan and Huang Xiaoyue, Liu Yinyin cracked three more eggs and steamed three small bowls of egg custard.

Having many children at home is quite stressful, as supplies are scarce these days.

People in the countryside don’t have much good stuff except eggs. If there are too many children in the family, the egg has to be shared.

Liu Yinyin's family now has four sons, and each of them has one egg, which means four eggs a day.

I used to raise five old hens, but they only laid three or four eggs a day, which were hardly enough to eat.

This is also the reason why Liu Yinyin insisted on taking the five old hens to the new military area.

If there are no laying hens at home, there will not be enough eggs to eat.

The yield of date trees is quite high. Jiang Cuihua picked a large bucket of dates, estimated to be about 30 to 40 kilograms.

If it hadn't been eaten by the birds, it would have weighed another ten pounds.

Liu Yinyin evenly gave half to Jiang Cuihua.

As for the other half, she and Gu Chengdu don’t really eat snacks.

Just leave two kilograms for Gu Yanyan to eat, and the rest will be dried into red dates.

Not only red dates can be dried, but the sweet potatoes dug up yesterday can also be dried by the sun.

The vegetable patch in the yard was not big, and it only produced more than 100 but less than 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes.

It was almost noon and Jiang Cuihua was going back to make lunch. Liu Yinyin packed a basket of things for her to take back.

There was a piece of pork, two packs of noodles, two packs of snacks, and two cans of fruit.

These things were bought by Liu Yinyin specifically as gifts.

Yesterday, the Liu family sent a lot of food, eggs, and vegetables to our home. They had finally come back, so they had to show their appreciation.

Gu Cheng was not at home, and she couldn't take care of the three children by herself.

Jiang Cuihua could only take it back by herself.

Gu Cheng will definitely not be able to come back for lunch at noon, so the pork will be saved for dinner.

Liu Yinyin simply fried an egg, a cauliflower, and added some leftover steamed buns from the morning, and that was what she had for lunch.

In the afternoon, Liu Yinyin was busy making dried sweet potatoes at home.

While they were busy, the village head's wife, Li Chunfang, came with a wooden barrel in her hands.

There were two live fish in it, they were quite big, each weighing about four or five kilograms.

The fish were sent to her by Li Chunfang's family. Li Chunfang's family sent a lot of fish, so she brought two fish for Liu Yinyin's family to eat.

Li Chunfang smiled and said, "I heard yesterday that you guys were back. How is it going? How long can you stay at home this time?"

Liu Yinyin moved a stool for her to sit on: "About a week or so. The journey back and forth will delay her for a few days."

Li Chunfang sighed: "It's not easy to be out there. If I don't have a long vacation, I can't go back home."

Liu Yinyin agreed with this statement: "That's right."

If the journey wasn't so long, they wouldn't be able to come back even once a year.

Li Chunfang paused, as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Seeing this, Liu Yinyin asked directly: "Auntie, what's the matter?"

"It's like this..." Li Chunfang hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke, "I heard that Gu Cheng got promoted again in the army?"

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "I got promoted and transferred to another military region, so I had time to come back."

Li Chunfang said a little embarrassedly: "Yinyin, it's like this, can you help me ask Gu Cheng to see if the army's recruitment requirements are high?"

Liu Yinyin was slightly stunned: "...Auntie, what do you mean?"

Li Chunfang groaned, "Auntie, I'm telling you the truth. This is my family's business. My eldest grandson is now sixteen years old."

"He graduated from junior high school, but failed to get into high school. Now he is doing farm work with his grandfather in the village. However, his aunt thought that he was still young and it was not a good idea for him to stay in the fields and dig the soil all the time."

"If I can join the army, it will be a way out in the future..."

Li Chunfang paused and continued, "Don't worry, my eldest grandson is very strong. Others say he is suitable for military service."

Liu Changquan is the village chief, so his family conditions are naturally not too bad. Apart from anything else, he can still have enough food to eat.

Li Chunfang's eldest grandson is taller and stronger than other people of the same age in the village.

Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Auntie, I don't know about this either. I'll ask Gu Cheng tonight and ask him to go back and talk to the village chief about it."

"That's good." Li Chunfang said with a smile, "Your uncle is also thinking about talking to Gu Cheng."