Chapter 8

Ma Shufen hesitated to speak.

He glanced at Jing Xian with a complicated expression and walked into his own yard.

The fisherman looked at Jing Xian in surprise, and when he saw that she wasn't joking and seemed to really like eating this, he nodded and agreed: "Okay!"

"I want the others too." Jing Xian added this, fearing that he wouldn't take anything else.

"OK."

Anyway, these things are picked up from the sea. There are so many of them now, and no one eats them.

Since this comrade wants it, he can just take it.

When Jing Xian was cleaning the pig's trotters, she remembered that she hadn't eaten the salted offal from last night. Children need iron supplements, and eating more pig's liver is good for their health. She took out the pig's liver, cut it and put it in a basin. Not knowing whether Shang Nanchen would come back, she took out the pig's ear that she had cut yesterday, cut it and put it in the pot together, and put it in the pot to heat it up later.

Tiedan ran over and said, "Mom, let me light a fire for you."

Fusheng was a step behind and stood by, feeling wronged. Jingxian raised the corners of her lips and said deliberately, "Fusheng, go get a basin for Mom."

"good!"

Fusheng said loudly and ran to the bowl rack, opened the door of the lower cabinet, took out a basin from it, and ran over obediently. He looked at Jingxian with a red face.

“Fusheng is awesome!”

Jing Xian rubbed the little guy's head, and Fusheng even stood on tiptoe and rubbed it against her palm, which was so adorable.

Tiedan pursed his lips, his face was tense and serious, but his eyes betrayed his inner desire.

"Tiedan is so awesome. He even knows to help mom light the fire. Fusheng can also sit there with his brother and light the fire together, okay?" Jing Xian didn't need the help of her two children, but she wouldn't stop them from doing anything either.

"good."

Fusheng sat down obediently, and Tiedan brought him a small stool. The two brothers sat side by side, warming themselves by the fire.

Jingxian processed all the shrimps and put them in a basin.

She found a fine sieve and sifted the cornmeal, which made the cornmeal finer and made the dough more delicious. Under limited conditions, she was willing to give her two children the best possible outcome.

Jing Xian cooked a pot of steamed buns, thinking that Shang Nanchen might come back and have nothing to eat. She also went to get a few potatoes.

The potatoes are not very big, and some parts are green, as if they are about to sprout.

Jing Xian was silent, staring at the potatoes in a daze.

She washed the other potatoes and turned to the two children and asked, "Can you two peel potatoes?"

"Can!"

Tiedan not only knows how to do it, but also knows how to find tools.

He went out of the house and came back with two tiles, which he handed to Fusheng. The two brothers sat in front of the basin and peeled the potatoes carefully. Jingxian cut the washed potatoes into pieces and took them to the west room.

She took a potato and activated her supernatural power, and a white and tender sprout emerged from the surface of the potato.

Jing Xian felt that she was able to do it with ease and continued to activate her supernatural powers. The small sprouts visibly turned into green vines, and the leaves grew greener and longer. The potato pieces in her hand gradually disappeared.

Just when the supernatural power in her body disappeared, ten big potatoes appeared before her.

Jing Xian's face turned pale and she almost fell to the ground.

It had been a long time since she had felt her powers being drained away. She felt panic in her heart and her stomach was upset. She forced herself to put the potatoes into the bag and took out the big potatoes that had just been born.

One of the potatoes she grew was as big as seven or eight of the small potatoes she had grown before.

"Fortunately, I'm not starving." At least the potatoes are enough to fill me up.

Jing Xian smiled self-deprecatingly, and looked at the two children who were still trying hard to peel the potatoes. She picked up the kitchen knife, held the potato in one hand, and quickly peeled off the potato skin.

When she finished peeling the potatoes, she looked up and saw the two little guys looking at her in admiration.

Jing Xian curled her lips and smiled: "Do you two want to learn?"

"think!"

The two little guys shouted very loudly and nodded vigorously, as if they were afraid that Jing Xian couldn't see it.

Jing Xian said: "Then eat more and grow taller. When your dad comes back, I will let you

He will find you some small knives and then teach you."

"Um!"

The two children were very happy.

Jing Xian cut the potatoes into pieces and took out the abalone to prepare them. She opened the pot and took out the wolves. The two children looked at them with sparkling eyes, and it was almost written on their faces that they wanted to eat.

"Save your stomach for delicious food."

The young man trusted Jing Xian very much and immediately stopped looking at Wo Wo.

Jingxian covered the nest with gauze, brought it into the house and placed it on the table.

"High heat! It's time to cook."

After Jingxian finished speaking, Tiedan put the firewood into the stove and heated the oil in the pot in minutes. The aroma came out of the pot, and the two children drooled. After Jingxian fried the abalone, she put the potatoes in and continued to stir-fry. When it was almost done, she scooped another ladle of soup and put it in to cook.

She covered the pot, stood up and said, "When your father comes back later, we can have dinner."

What is burning in the stove is wood, and a piece of wood can burn for a long time.

"Okay, don't wait here, go inside and wait."

Jing Xian brought the two children into the house and waited for Shang Nanchen to come back for dinner.

With nothing else to do at the moment, she taught the two children how to add and subtract numbers within ten.

Shang Nanchen walked to the intersection, and Zhang Liansheng just came out of the yard. Seeing Shang Nanchen, he took two steps towards him and said in a low voice: "Captain Shang, your sister-in-law and your wife went to the gathering today, did you know?"

Shang Nanchen had no idea where he was going.

He left in the morning and just came back.

"Captain Zhang, do you have something to tell me?" Shang Nanchen guessed something from the look on Zhang Liansheng's face and asked directly.

Zhang Liansheng rubbed his hands, thinking about what his wife had told him, and said with a stiff face, "Your wife went with our old man Ma to buy a lot of things. She spent a lot of money to buy a lot of things from the sea that no one eats. And yesterday, I heard that your wife also bought a lot of bones and pig offal. This is not how life is, right? She is still young, if she doesn't understand something, why don't you let her ask your sister-in-law?"

Shang Nanchen understood, and thinking about how delicious the pig ear was, he wanted to swallow it along with his tongue.

Outsiders thought Jingxian was wasting money by spending money on rubbish. After all, they had never eaten it, so it was understandable that they had such a misunderstanding.

Shang Nanchen would not take the initiative to speak out, and said seriously: "Our comrade Xiaojing likes to eat messy things. I am sorry to embarrass you and sister-in-law. Xiaojing is probably still waiting for me to eat, so I will go back first!"

Shang Nanchen pushed the door and entered the yard without waiting for Zhang Liansheng to speak.

Ma Shufen had been waiting, and when she saw Zhang Liansheng coming back, she asked, "What did Captain Shang say?"

Zhang Liansheng threw his hat on the kang and said with a sullen face, "What else can I say? He said that Comrade Xiao Jing from his family likes to eat all kinds of messy things, which made us laugh. Then he went back."

"You don't seem to be angry at all?" Ma Shufen asked in disbelief.

"Why would he be angry? I think he is quite happy that Comrade Xiaojing is so poor and miserable." Zhang Liansheng felt that Shang Nanchen was a good commander in battles, but he was not so good at marrying a wife.

The previous daughter-in-law brought the child up like that, and the next one is a spendthrift.

Sooner or later he will regret it.

Zhang Liansheng said with a fierce face: "Don't worry about their family's troubles in the future. Don't be kind and bring trouble upon yourself. They think they are doing well, so why should we worry about it? Just live your life well."

Ma Shufen was still immersed in Shang Nanchen's attitude. After hearing this, she glanced at Zhang Liansheng and said, "I know, I know. I don't care about it anymore. I'll go serve the food and we'll eat."

Before Shang Nanchen entered the house, he heard voices coming from inside.

The two sons followed Jing Xian in counting, asking and answering questions, and both children answered fluently.

Shang Nanchen, a tough guy, had tears in his eyes when he heard this. He took a deep breath, opened the door and walked into the house, where cheers were heard immediately.

"Dad is back!"

Tiedan jumped up and couldn't wait to put on his shoes and get down, but Jingxian quickly pulled him back.

Tiedan turned around and said, "Mom, I'll go get it for you.

Bowls and chopsticks."

"I'm going too!"

Fusheng said hurriedly, fearing that he was too slow.

Jing Xian said, "You two don't need to come. You two just need to wait for dinner today."

They are already five years old, but they are not as tall as three-year-old children. They should be raised well. When they grow taller and don’t want to work, she will hold a stick and drive them to work.

Shang Nanchen entered the house, took off his military coat, hung his hat on the hook behind the door, and came out to see Jing Xian serving potatoes stewed with something. He took it without saying a word and carried it into the house.

He came out and saw Jingxian cleaning the pot and adding firewood to the stove, so he asked, "Let me do it!"

"What are you doing?" Isn't that big bowl enough to eat?

Shang Nanchen didn't ask the following question.

He could see that although Jingxian looked frail, her ideas were quite righteous. How many people had the courage of Jingxian, who said she would marry and sold her job before anything was confirmed.

Jing Xian said, "I bought something else today. I'll make some for the child while it's fresh. It can supplement calcium, so it's better for the child to eat more."

Shang Nanchen was even more speechless after hearing that.

Not much water was added. After the water was boiled, Jing Xian took out a pot of shrimps and poured them directly into the pot.

After cooking for a while, take it out and put it in a bowl.

"Bring it up and eat it first."

Shang Nanchen brought it over and said to the two children, "You two eat first."

He put down his things and came out to light the fire. In fact, there were big woods inside, so there was no need to burn them. When she was working, he felt that he could not help by her side, so he just stayed by her side and helped occasionally.

Jing Xian was in a good mood when she saw him come out.

She took the cleaned pig's trotters and rinsed them in boiling water to remove the foam. She cut a few slices of ginger, threw in some scallions, and threw in a small bag of pre-packaged seasonings, then covered the pot.

"It's OK. Just let it simmer slowly. Come in and eat quickly. Aren't you going to the army this afternoon?"

Jingxian worked efficiently and the whole thing only took her three or two minutes.

"I'm going this afternoon."

"You're not going to eat yet?"

Jing Xian brought the Wo Wo Tou over. She had put the Wo Wo Tou on top of the stewed abalone and potatoes to keep them warm, and it was still hot.

When she entered the house, she saw the two children sitting at the table waiting, without eating at all.

"Eat it quickly! It's getting cold!"

Jing Xian personally peeled a shrimp for each of the two children and put it in their bowls. When the two kids put the shrimp in their mouths, their eyes lit up immediately.

She smiled and asked, "Is it delicious?"

"tasty!"

The two kids said in unison.

After eating one, Tiedan peeled another one himself, but his hand speed was not as fast as Fusheng's, so Fusheng gave it to Jingxian first. He looked at Jingxian and had to give the one he peeled to Shang Nanchen.

Shang Nanchen looked at the white shrimps in the bowl and sighed with satisfaction.

Anyway, the son was given to him.

"You two should eat more, so we can eat it every day in the future." Jing Xian was naturally happy to see that the two children liked it.

Tiedan nodded and quickly peeled the shrimp and put it into his mouth.

Although Fusheng seemed to be eating slowly, he was actually quite fast. After finishing the meal, he smiled and said, "Mom, I have never eaten such delicious food before!"