Chapter 83

Are the corn seeds so good this year?

Shang Nanchen felt that this was not his illusion, he seemed to have never seen such big corn before.

If it were just the few corns outside, it would be understandable, perhaps it was the result of Jing Xian's careful care. But the densely packed corns inside, with two on each stalk, were all quite large.

It's really pleasing to look at.

Shang Nanchen had never seen corn before, nor had he paid much attention to it.

He went to the battlefield right after he graduated from military school. When the war ended, he was wounded and assigned to be the battalion commander here. He spent most of his time in the hospital. When he was almost healed and came out of the hospital, the first thing he did was to go home and pick up his wife and children.

Then, something like this happened.

He had to file a report to find someone to marry, and all the political review procedures were given the green light.

It was for this reason that when he suspected that Jing Xian's identity was unusual, he specifically told his leader to investigate Jing Xian thoroughly.

Jing Xian's identity was fine, and no one would attack her or hurt him because of it, so he felt relieved.

By the time he and Jingxian got married and moved here, it was already winter.

The corn in the field had been harvested long ago.

"Do all corns look like this?" Shang Nanchen had never paid attention to the crops on the roadside before, and now he couldn't tell what was wrong. He just thought that this corn was really big.

His wife is indeed an expert at farming.

"What do you want to cook?" Shang Nanchen asked Jing Xian.

Jing Xian said, "Potato chips! Break two green peppers and stir-fry them together. The kids can't eat it if it's too spicy. This green pepper is a little spicy, just right."

"OK."

Shang Nanchen wanted to find potatoes, so he went to the compartment.

Jingxian had tidied up the annex. The east annex had three rooms, one for peanuts and one for firewood. They were also in a rather run-down state. The east annex was better, with a locked door.

There are vegetables, rice, noodles and so on in it.

Shang Nanchen pushed open the door and tried to find potatoes, but he saw potatoes piled up in half the room, each one twice as big as the biggest potato he had ever had. In the past, the biggest potatoes were only the size of an adult, but now they looked like stones.

"Can potatoes grow this big?" Shang Nanchen had never seen corn, but he had seen potatoes.

He still clearly remembered that when Jing Xian came this year, the potatoes on the floor of their west room were very small. There were few adult potatoes that were big, and all of them were the size of a child's fist.

He originally came with a basket to pick potatoes, but when he saw the potatoes were so big, he just picked up two and thought they were enough.

Then just stir-fry some other dishes and it will be enough to eat.

Shang Nanchen came back with two potatoes. Jing Xian was sitting on a small stool, staring at him with resentful eyes.

In fact, Jing Xian was waiting for him here on purpose, wanting to see how he would react when he saw the potatoes were so big.

"Why are you out? Why don't you lie on the kang for a while longer?" Shang Nanchen put the potatoes in a basin and squeezed water to wash them.

He still has the nerve to say that.

Jing Xian said with a wooden face: "When the children come back and see me lying on the kang, they will definitely think too much."

"What can they think? They don't understand." Shang Nanchen felt that she was just thinking too much.

Jing Xian felt that some of the men's ideas were really simple: "They don't understand now, but they will understand when they grow up, right? Do you plan to be laughed at by children behind your back when you are older?"

She is not capable of such a thing.

She has shame.

"They must have forgotten it long ago."

"What if?"

"Nothing can happen."

Jing Xian burst out laughing.

With Shang Nanchen at home, and without him at home, it was really a completely different feeling. She felt much more relaxed, as if a huge stone had been lifted off her body and mind.

When Shang Nanchen was not at home, she was still subconsciously worried that something might happen to the children.

If the children were really injured, when Shang Nanchen came back,

I don't think she did it on purpose.

One side in front of people and the other side behind their backs?

In short, there are many factors that put Jingxian under a lot of pressure.

She has superpowers and she has experienced the end of the world, but so what? No one requires her to be powerful.

She also wants to be cared for and loved.

When the children came home from school and saw someone cooking at home, they immediately ran over screaming.

"dad!"

"Dad, you're back!"

"Dad, you're finally back!"

"dad!"

Several children looked at each other and talked to each other, surrounding Shang Nanchen and chattering non-stop.

Jing Xian was watching from the side and found this scene very heartwarming.

After dinner, the children didn’t want to go out to play, but when someone called out from outside, they couldn’t sit still and couldn’t resist the temptation, so they ran out to play with their friends.

There were only two of them left at home, and Shang Nanchen asked her, "Why are our potatoes so big?"

"Maybe the reclaimed land is more fertile. In our hometown, it's called "cutting the stubble." Jing Xian saw Shang Nanchen frowning, and explained to him very understandingly, "It is said that cutting the stubble is like eating manure. Rotating crops can restore the fertility of the field and make crops grow better. For example, if soybeans are planted on this land now, potatoes will be planted next time. Don't plant the same crop continuously on the same piece of land. This is also the reason why farmers plow the furrows and dig new furrows every year."

Shang Nanchen seemed to have taken an introductory course in agriculture. He thought it was true and said, "If farmers all knew this, wouldn't our country's grain production increase and people no longer go hungry?"

That's crazy.

Absolutely impossible.

Shang Nanchen had no idea, but Jing Xian knew very well why her land was so good.

It's all because of her supernatural powers.

As soon as her supernatural powers were restored, she would go to her own plot of land and take a walk. The seeds she kept were all nourished with supernatural powers in advance. This way, the seeds were not only resistant to freezing, but also had their genes slightly changed.

This change may not seem big, but it is a very big step forward given the current national conditions.

But Jing Xian didn't have any idea at first, until this moment, she stared at Shang Nanchen in a daze, and couldn't help thinking a lot in her heart.

Because one acre of peanuts in the field can only produce more than 200 kilograms, and there is no guarantee of sufficient supply, basically no one is willing to grow this.

In the small plot of land in my yard, I grow some crops in addition to vegetables.

Every year when the food is delivered, it is a rare time for the family to have enough to eat.

If food production doubles, will people still not have enough to eat?

Jing Xian was not sure if the seeds she had grown with her supernatural powers would still be the same without her supernatural powers. She knew it would not be the same if she thought about it, but what if they were better than before and a little worse than what she had grown?

Thinking of this, she looked at Shang Nanchen with sparkling eyes.

Shang Nanchen felt uneasy when she looked at him, but she didn't say anything, so he had no choice but to ask, "What do you want to do?"

"Let's go for a walk." Jing Xian stood up and put on a small jacket. "There is a piece of land next to our private plot. I asked the people on the farm and they said that if I open up this land, it will be considered as our private plot. I didn't open up a large area, probably less than an acre, or eight mu. They plant millet there. I've been very busy these days and haven't been there to take a look. Let's go and take a look together."

Shang Nanchen followed her out the door, and the two walked side by side towards the foot of the back mountain. The best land for reclamation is the land near the river. The land in the front bay is the most fertile and has the least water shortage. The wheat has grown very well before. The interplanted corn is also growing well now.

Shang Nanchen had excellent eyesight, and the road was only two or three meters away from the field, so he could clearly see that the corn below was not even half the size of the corn in their backyard.

He actually had a feeling that this was how corn was supposed to be.

"This corn is too small!" Shang Nanchen said.

Jingxian turned her head and pretended to see this for the first time.

The corn cobs are so different from ours, how come they look so different when you look at them carefully?

"Maybe the person who cultivated this land didn't take it seriously." Shang Nanchen frowned and continued walking forward with Jing Xian.

Soon, Shang Nanchen discovered that this was not the case.

It's not that the person who was in charge of that piece of corn field was lazy, but that all corns are the same.

Only theirs is different.

Shang Nanchen was not stupid, on the contrary, he was very smart. He thought about the vegetables in his own home, which matured earlier than others and grew better than others, and Jing Xian's obvious problems. How could he not understand who was involved in all this?

"It seems that no one cares much about it. If this were my land, I would definitely take good care of it. The better I take care of it, the better the crops will grow, and when the autumn harvest comes, we will get more food." Jing Xian's words were just unintentional, but to Shang Nanchen's ears, they sounded like thunder.

He looked at Jing Xian with complicated eyes, and asked silently in his heart: "Who are you?"

Obviously everyone knew that this was Jing Xian, who had grown up in the village with her grandmother, and later studied medicine with an old Chinese medicine practitioner in the village. At such a young age, she followed the old Chinese medicine practitioner to travel around the country, and her horizons were not comparable to those of ordinary village girls.

She is courageous, knowledgeable, and has real skills.

The only thing I don’t like is my parents.

But she was very strong and loved that home very much. Even though all her wages were taken away, and after learning that she was about to be sold to a fool as a daughter-in-law by her family, she left home without looking back and without any regrets.

Even after confirming her marriage to him, she sold her job without saying a word and left with her files.

During the political review, even if the green light was given and the process was accelerated, Jingxian was carefully investigated. The possibility of her being replaced like Liu Cailan was extremely small. Even if she had twin sisters, it was impossible.

Because what Jingxian learned is not something that ordinary people can learn.

Thinking of this, Shang Nanchen took a deep breath.

No matter who Jing Xian is, as long as she doesn't do anything that harms the country, he will pretend not to notice. If she attempts to harm the interests of the country, then he will definitely not let her go.

With him around, even if she behaved strangely, he would pretend not to have noticed her secret.

"Then you are really an expert in farming." When Shang Nanchen said this, there was no smile in his eyes.

Jing Xian was walking in front. After hearing this, she said confidently, "Maybe God opened a window for me, allowing me to finally gain a talent after going through so many hardships."

She turned to face Shang Nanchen, looked up at him and said seriously: "Do you want to do a multiple-choice question?"

"What?"

Shang Nanchen intuitively felt that this was a very important issue.

He didn't know what it was, but looked at Jing Xian carefully.

His attitude made Jingxian feel respected.

It was clearly a casual conversation, but he answered so seriously because she asked.

She is very happy.

"If you are not only good at farming, maybe the seeds you researched can change the lives of many people. And you are also very good at medicine. Many difficult and complicated diseases are just small problems for you. But now you are facing a choice. You can only choose one of these two talents. What will you choose?"

He knew that her problem was not an ordinary one.

Shang Nanchen sighed in his heart, but asked her: "If you choose to be a doctor, can you still farm?"

"Of course."

"And vice versa?"

"Yes."

"Then why can't we have both?" Shang Nanchen said to Jing Xian seriously, "You are an adult. When facing a choice, you can be more confident."

She did want to.

However, once she decides to focus on seeds, she will use all her supernatural powers to grow seeds and conduct continuous experiments.

Her greatest advantage is the ability to quickly confirm the results of a seed.

Others have to wait several months.

And she only needs a few minutes.

If she becomes a doctor, her current medical skills are far from enough.

She might be better at things like conditioning the body.

There is no university now, and if there was, she would choose to enroll and learn to become a better doctor.

"If you try to do both, your research results may be much slower. Plant growth takes time. If you don't devote all your energy, it will take twice as long to complete each research result. If you choose medicine, you need to learn more knowledge to enrich yourself. Otherwise, you will be eliminated by society. Learning never ends. Doctors grow through continuous learning."

He understood what she meant.

Of the two, you can only choose one to be an expert and the other to be mediocre.

"How would you like being a doctor?" he asked.

Jing Xian frowned: "I don't know whether I like it or not. Because this is a skill I learned since I was a child. It allows me to eat, fill my stomach, and get a better job."

"What about farming?"

"For me, farming is just about filling my stomach."

She didn't like it very much, just because that's how life is now.

"Then let's farm!" Shang Nanchen saluted Jing Xian solemnly, "The food you grow is very productive and can fill the stomachs of many people. And your current medical skills are more than enough."

"good."

She did not hesitate.

Perhaps, even though she has seen many lives and deaths in the apocalypse, she will never forget that when a zombie tide comes, those warriors who obviously have no superpowers will stand at the forefront and fight the zombies to the end without hesitation.

Before they were captured and injured, they were still trying their best to kill the zombies. Before they turned into zombies, they asked their teammates to give them a ride.

She couldn't refuse Shang Nanchen's request.

In the eyes of a person with great love in his heart, this country is always more important than themselves.

"Shang Nanchen, you have to help me!"

She said with a smile in the sunset.

The tears in her eyes reflected colorful rays of light. In Shang Nanchen's eyes, this was her most beautiful moment.

"good."

He would cover up all her abnormalities and try his best to get the best conditions for her.

This thought was further confirmed when he stood in front of the sunken land.

Shang Nanchen took Jing Xian's hand and held it tightly.

He was nervous and afraid, afraid that she would suddenly disappear one day.

"Will you not see it?" he asked.

Jing Xian's heart skipped a beat, vaguely realizing that his words were a test, but also meant to get a guarantee.

"As long as I'm alive, I'll always be here." Jing Xian walked back with him side by side. "If one day, I die, don't be sad. That's God's arrangement. Maybe he only allows me to live to that age."

Jing Xian didn't know if she would still die at the age of thirty.

She has never seen the light of this world, nor does she know what the future will be like. She also doesn't know whether her ending will be rewritten.

She wanted to do something for the world before she died.

"You have seen the millet. The yield should be very good. The millet can be harvested in the next few days. You can bring your people here then. Seeing is believing. Letting them see it with their own eyes is more effective than saying a thousand words."

Jing Xian didn't want to bring up sad topics, so she naturally changed the subject and talked about what Shang Nanchen was most interested in.

"Yes, I know."

Shang Nanchen spoke after a long while, "Thank you, Jingxian. Thank you for being so brave and willing to marry me."

He stopped and hugged her while no one was around.

Jing Xian felt his violent heartbeat and whispered, "If it weren't for you, I might still be wasting time with the Jing family. I don't want my life to become different because of them. I want to live a good life, away from disputes, a peaceful and happy life. The life now is what I want."

"I will keep you calm like this." Shang Nanchen hugged Jing Xian tightly.

Jing Xian

In his arms, she suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you. Your ex-wife came here. She came not long after you left. It was as if she knew you were not here, so she came here on purpose. Just like my cousin, she came here inexplicably and found the front door of our house accurately. Although this is a family area, not everyone can come in casually. So I told Zhang Liansheng about this, and then your ex-wife didn't show up again."

Shang Nanchen: “…”

Her mouth is like a light.

"Don't worry, she won't appear again." Not even in front of her sons.

In the past, he thought that if the woman got old and came to find Tiedan and Fusheng, he would not interfere with their filial piety. But this woman was simply a troublemaker. In this case, he could not forgive her.

This is simply pitting one's own son.

Shang Nanchen sent Jingxian home and rode his bicycle to the army.

The political commissar seemed to be waiting for him.

Seeing him come in, she said straight to the point, "Are you here for Sun Wenxin?"

Shang Nanchen said in a deep voice: "Political Commissar, I'm not here for her. I just want to know who is the person behind her and Jing Hongyu."

"You do it first." The political commissar also poured Shang Nanchen a cup of tea.

Shang Nanchen frowned and had no intention of drinking tea. He sat down and waited for the political commissar's next words.

"Do you know Xu Qingping?" the political commissar asked, leaving Shang Nanchen confused.

Shang Nanchen asked expressionlessly: "Is it a boy or a girl? How do you write the name?"

"The double Xu, the Qing in Qingming, and the Ping in three water drops. It's a woman." The political commissar had been observing Shang Nanchen's reaction and found that Shang Nanchen really would not recognize the person named Xu Qingping.

"According to the descriptions of Jing Hongyu and Sun Wenxin, it was a kind-hearted elder sister named Xu Qingping who made it easy for them to enter our military region. The higher-ups attached great importance to this matter, so they immediately checked the people related to Xu Qingping. In the end, they found that Xu Qingping seemed to be a kind-hearted elder sister on the surface. After hearing about Jing Hongyu's situation, she enthusiastically helped. And she and Sun Wenxin also helped unintentionally."

"There are no such coincidences in the world. If what happened to Jing Hongyu was a coincidence, then what happened to Sun Wen...Sun Wenxin this time was definitely not a coincidence." Shang Nanchen almost forgot his ex-wife's name.

The political commissar was also speechless: "So we have been waiting for you to come back. We haven't found this person yet. This person is hiding very deeply."

"I want to meet both of them." Shang Nanchen said, and the political commissar frowned.

"I don't go to see them alone."

The political commissar did not agree directly: "How about this, you go back first. Let's discuss it with the organization first."

Shang Nanchen had no choice but to leave the army.

After he came back, he went to find Zhang Liansheng and asked, "Did you follow up on this matter?"

"They asked me to avoid suspicion. Although I was the one who reported this matter, the higher-ups were very cautious and let other people take charge." Zhang Liansheng knew exactly what the higher-ups were worried about.

He was not disappointed and would obey all orders from the organization.

Besides, he wanted stability and didn't want to get involved in this kind of thing.

"Okay, thanks."

"Thank you, I didn't help at all."

Shang Nanchen returned home, locked the gate, and walked into the house quietly, only to find that Jing Xian was still awake. He asked in surprise, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

"You haven't come back yet." Jing Xian said as she sat up. "There's water in the pot outside. Take a bath."

"OK."

After a while, Shang Nanchen came in wearing a vest.

He turned off the light and lay on the kang. Jing Xian asked him, "Not going well?"

"I didn't see anyone." Shang Nanchen had been wondering where Xu Qingping came from.

Why are you targeting him?

There really was no such Xu Qingping among the people he knew.

Shang Nanchen thought of his enemies on the battlefield before, but those people were all abroad, and no matter how long their arms were, they couldn't know he was here. At that time, those people didn't know his name either, they were all code names.

already.

When he completed his mission and left, he was so badly injured that those people probably thought he was dead.

It's impossible to find it.

Who is it then?

"Why? Didn't the people in Beihu find out?"

Jing Xian frowned, thinking about how to convince Shang Nanchen to give her a chance to meet Sun Wenxin so that she could get the truth she wanted from Sun Wenxin.

But in this way, the possibility of someone discovering your problem is also very high.

She could say it was hypnotic.

"He mentioned a name."

Jing Xian asked: "Is it convenient to tell me?"

"Xu Qingping."

Shang Nanchen still trusts Jing Xian very much, even though he knows that there are many things about Jing Xian that cannot be explained.

But so far, Jingxian has not done anything that is detrimental to the country.

"Xu Qingping? Do you know her?"

"I don't know her." Shang Nanchen said, "I want to know why this person wanted to frame me. If she wanted to cause trouble for you, there was no need to find Jing Hongyu. It would be better to find someone from your family directly. But she caused trouble for me and found Sun Wenxin accurately. She also chose to come when I was not around. Why did she do that?"

This method may seem unsophisticated, but it is actually very clever.

It's so true and so false that it makes people think it's just a huge coincidence.

Jing Xian suddenly asked, "Excuse me, do you know your stepmother's name?"