Chapter 10 Catching Bugs

Zhang Liansheng was stunned.

Who did he offend this morning?

He walked into the house with a gloomy face. Ma Shufen also got up, but the meal was not ready yet. When she saw him come in, she asked in surprise: "Why are you back so early? I haven't prepared the meal yet. Please wait a moment."

Zhang Liansheng became even more depressed.

In the yard next door.

Jingxian was in a great mood now that she had a stove and a clay pot. She found some green onions and started to grow a few. She also cut two radishes, put them in the clay pot, and started to cook them with broth.

If you don’t have spare ribs, just use bone soup.

Sea cucumber and pork ribs soup turned into sea cucumber soup.

The radish was almost cooked, so Jing Xian put the sea cucumber in. You can't eat too much sea cucumber, so the two children only need one. She and Shang Nanchen each had one.

Jing Xian originally planned to stew some cabbage, but when she saw the soaked pig intestines, she immediately changed her mind.

It is said that eating well in the morning, eating enough at noon, and eating less at night is the key to good health.

But no matter whether she was in her last life, in the end of the world, or in this life, she was always struggling for a bite to eat. Others struggled for a living, but she struggled for survival.

Jing Xian was worried that the two children would not eat pig intestines, so she cut the cabbage and waited for Shang Nanchen to come back to cook some vegetables and then eat.

Just after cutting, Shang Nanchen came back.

When he entered the room, he saw the child had just washed his face and was putting dishes and chopsticks on the table. He walked over to light the fire very consciously.

"We can eat it right away after we fry it."

Jing Xian put some oil in the pot and when the pot was hot, she poured the cabbage in and stir-fried it over high heat.

After scooping out the cabbage and placing it in a bowl, she turned around and asked Shang Nanchen, "Can you eat spicy food?"

"able!"

Jing Xian was surprised: "You can eat spicy food?"

"I ate it for more than half a year during the war, and I'm used to it." Shang Nanchen didn't say much.

The atmosphere was dull for a moment.

"Then I'll add some spiciness." Jing Xian knew that he was thinking about the past and felt bad. She couldn't persuade him.

War is cruel.

Post-war trauma is not easy to heal, and it takes time to heal slowly.

Jingxian didn't understand it before. She hid in the library with the old man for several months in the end times. The books in the library were beyond the imagination of people today. She couldn't understand many books. She only read medical books. Later, she accidentally read a psychology book.

I saw the relevant content.

"OK!"

"You two kids probably can't eat spicy food, so I'll put less and adjust the taste." Otherwise, the smell of the pig intestines would be too overwhelming and they would be impossible to eat.

Pork intestines are also easy to stir-fry.

It will be ready soon.

Shang Nanchen saw that it was covered with a layer of red pig intestines, but he couldn't associate it with pig intestines.

"Let's eat!"

Jing Xian took out the pig tongue, cut it up, put it on a plate, and brought it up to the table and sat on the kang. Suddenly she remembered that she had something important to bring up, so she turned around and went downstairs again.

She came over with the clay pot and placed it on the edge of the kang.

Shang Nanchen came in with a spoon in his hand and said, "Is this porridge? I'll serve it."

"It's soup."

Jing Xian took the bowls of the two children and said, "Children can't eat too much sea cucumber. They only need to eat half a sea cucumber a day. You can eat two, but I suggest you eat one a day."

Shang Nanchen looked at the sea cucumber with a strange look in his eyes: "Is this delicious?"

"Big help!"

"What can this black stuff do?"

"Anti-aging, improve memory, fight tumors and delay arteriosclerosis?" Jing Xian found that her memory was really good and she could still remember everything she had seen in the apocalypse.

Shang Nanchen was half-believing and half-doubting when he saw that she was speaking seriously. Anyway, it was a good thing to eat, but he just had to not eat too much.

"And the abalone?"

Jing Xian paused and said, "Abalone is also good. It can replenish a variety of vitamins in the body. It is also rich in protein. It can improve the body's immunity, promote metabolism, etc. Anyway, my family can't afford eggs.

This is a warm tonic with no side effects. It is okay to eat a little more occasionally."

“So that shrimp?”

"Calcium supplement!"

"seaweed?"

"It's also rich in trace elements. You wouldn't understand even if I told you the details. You just know that eating seaweed is more nutritious than eating Chinese cabbage and is better for the body." Jing Xian looked at Shang Nanchen's thoughtful eyes and asked with inspiration, "Are you letting the army cafeteria eat these too?"

Shang Nanchen: "No one eats this now."

"so?"

"I'll ask a few people to come home, can you cooperate a little?" Shang Nanchen saw that Jing Xian looked unhappy, and threw out bait, "Maybe your work will be solved at the same time."

“It’s okay if you don’t work in a hospital.”

After Jing Xian finished speaking, Shang Nanchen's heart skipped a beat.

She certainly wouldn't leave only one way out for herself.

"What else are you going to do?"

"I brought some medicinal herb seeds, and we can plant them in our backyard. Also, when I looked over the wall, I saw that the mountain there is also suitable for growing medicinal herbs."

Shang Nanchen said solemnly: "The mountains belong to the country."

"Yes, I know. So I plan to find an organization to cooperate with. Medicinal herbs must be scarce, right? Since I have this technology, I can grow some very expensive medicinal herbs. For example, ginseng, astragalus and so on. Although the quality of artificially grown herbs is not as good as wild ones, it is better to have them than not. Moreover, artificially grown herbs can be comparable to wild ones. Do you think there will really be people who will not accept them?"

Shang Nanchen sneered: "So you already had this idea, right?"

Jing Xian nodded openly: "Is there anything wrong with having this idea? I know what I am capable of and what I can do. Life is not just about what to eat today. It doesn't matter if there is food tomorrow. You always have to think about what to do if something unexpected happens and you can't live anymore."

Shang Nanchen just lied to her, but he didn't expect Jing Xian to say that. He deliberately looked at Jing Xian for a second. Jing Xian's face was calm. She ate and drank as she should. It was obviously just a meal, but her movements were indescribably beautiful.

He looked away uncomfortably and said in a muffled voice, "They don't eat for free, they give you food coupons. Whether you want to go to the hospital or do some farming in the back hills, you have to ask for permission."

Not to mention the mountain behind, all of them are under the management of the leaders above.

Jing Xian knew the people in the army, and estimated that the soldiers below were similar to Shang Nanchen, and some might even be worse than Shang Nanchen.

"Not these days."

Shang Nanchen asked: "Why not these few days?"

"We still have shrimps, but they are for the two children. They eat a few shrimps at each meal to supplement calcium. There are not enough eggs at home for the children to eat every day, and there is not much meat either. Apart from the meat meal once a week, don't we have to rely on these things to make up for it?"

Jing Xian said this unhappily and glared at Shang Nanchen.

That was his son, but he didn't care at all.

All he had in his mind were his soldiers and his troops, not his children at all.

Shang Nanchen knew he was in the wrong, so he said awkwardly, "You decide on the arrangements."

"The fellow villager should come again next market. I asked him to bring more of these things. When I buy them, you can bring him over."

"What if I can't buy it?" Shang Nanchen received another roll of the eyes, and quickly changed his words, "I can definitely buy it! I can definitely buy it! If I can't buy it, I'll ask someone to go to the village by the sea to buy it, is that okay?"

"Eat your meal, it will get cold soon." Jing Xian ate a piece of pig intestine, turned around and found two children following behind her to pick up food. She immediately reminded the two children, "This thing is spicy, you two..."

Before Jing Xian finished speaking, Tiedan put the pig intestines in his mouth. Not only was he not afraid of the spiciness, but he also liked the taste so much that he opened his eyes wide and chewed faster. He even couldn't wait to pick up the second piece.

Fusheng moved a little slower, without putting the food in his mouth, and said slowly: "Mom, we can eat spicy food! Sun Baoyu told us to eat the chili directly, otherwise he would not give us food."

Shang Nanchen paused, his face turning pale.

Jing Xian sneered.

Without your own children,

How good can it be if you expect others to raise you?

"It's good to be able to eat spicy food. You two should eat more. When you grow taller, you can learn Kung Fu from your father. When we go back, we can also catch Sun Baoyu and make him eat dry chili peppers."

What are you talking about?

Shang Nanchen glared, but Jing Xian was not afraid of him. She even deliberately asked him, "Will you teach these two kids kung fu?"

Shang Nanchen couldn't say no to his son's expectant eyes. He had to admit that what Jing Xian had just said was right.

So he said, "I will teach you when the weather warms up."

"Yeah! We are going to learn Kung Fu, and then we can beat up Sun Baoyu, Sun Gousheng, and Tiechui."

The two children cheered happily.

Jing Xian knocked on the table with a smile in her eyes: "Eat, or it will get cold."

Tiedan sat down: "Eat!"

“I want to eat a lot.”

Fusheng picked up the bowl, ate the sea cucumber, and drank the soup with a smile on his face. He felt very warm. After drinking two sips of the soup, he ate the pig intestines in big mouthfuls.

Jing Xian was very satisfied that there was not a single drop of food left at home.

Fusheng held his belly, leaned against Jingxian, and whined coquettishly, "It would be great if I could eat enough every day in the future!"

Shang Nanchen's hands froze as he was cleaning the dishes.

When Jing Xian saw this, she thought to herself, "You deserve it! I made you leave the child to your ex-mother-in-law. Now you regret it, right? Your ex-wife didn't take good care of the child, let alone your ex-mother-in-law."

For four or five years he didn't notice that his two children were not as good-looking as other children. He is such a failure as a father.

If he had discovered it earlier, the two children could have been saved from suffering sooner.

Some people cleaned the dishes, swept the floor, and tidied the outer room. When Jingxian had nothing to do, she made shoes for the two children. When the children's clothes were torn and could no longer be worn, she used them to make soles.

The soles of winter shoes should be thicker to avoid getting cold.

When I was making cotton-padded clothes for the children, there was still a lot of cotton left, which was perfect for making shoes.

It took a long time to make the soles. She first pasted the cloth on, and then cut it off and sewed the soles after it dried. Jing Xian drew the soles according to their feet, and specially made them one size larger, so that they would fit perfectly when the insoles were put on.

She made the upper first, using the new cloth she had bought earlier, which was very sturdy.

After cutting, put cotton on it.

She was worried that her child's feet would get frozen, so she put a little more space in the shoes and even made the uppers a little higher.

The two children didn't want to go out to play, nor did they make any trouble. They just watched from the side.

Fusheng said slowly, "Mom, are these shoes made for us?"

"yes."

"This is the first time my brother and I have new shoes to wear!"

Jing Xian's nose felt a little sour: "From now on, you will all wear new shoes and clothes."

The two children were very happy.

At this moment, voices were heard outside. Someone had already walked to the door and stood outside shouting, "Is anyone there? Sister Jingxian, are you home?"

"At home!"

Jing Xian hurriedly got off the kang, came out of the room wearing her shoes, and raised her eyebrows when she saw Zhao Xiuzhi.

"Sister-in-law, what's the matter?"

"I heard that you plan to send your two children to school at the beginning of the new year?"

Zhao Xiuzhi was really not shy. After saying this, she walked into the house, looking around, as if she could see through the curtain to see what was in other people's houses.