Chapter 98

After everyone in the family had picked up their cups, Shang Nanchen slowly said, "Who said I didn't get a promotion?"

"Deputy division commander? That's a great thing!" Although Jing Xian didn't understand, she knew that no one could jump several levels at once.

"It's the teacher."

After Shang Nanchen finished speaking, the room fell silent for a moment.

Jing Xian looked up and glared at him: "Why didn't you say anything just now? Are you deliberately looking at me and making fun of me?"

"You didn't give me a chance." Shang Nanchen saw that Jing Xian's face was not right, and quickly changed his words, "It's mainly my fault. I didn't say it directly, so you misunderstood. I will punish myself with a drink!"

Shang Nanchen took a sip of the wine in the glass, frowned and said, "This wine?"

Jing Xian smiled: "What's wrong?"

"It's not white wine." Shang Nanchen said stiffly.

"And then?"

"To my surprise, it tastes really good." Shang Nanchen lied without changing his expression.

A real man should drink liquor with an alcohol content of 52% or more. This kind of soft-tasting liquor is not suitable for him at all.

"Could this be the wine you brewed?" Shang Nanchen said in surprise.

Jing Xian's mouth twitched: "Do you think I can't see the hypocrisy on your face?"

"Don't you think this wine tastes good? Although I'm not used to it, it's really delicious. It's more suitable for you women." Shang Nanchen took another sip of the wine in the glass and praised, "It's really good."

He looked at Jing Xian sincerely. It was not a lie. The wine she brewed was really suitable for women to drink.

"Invite Song Ning and the others over for dinner tomorrow, and give them some of this to try. They will definitely say it's delicious." Shang Nanchen secretly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Jing Xian's complexion looked much better.

"If you don't like it, I'll give you another drink."

Today is a celebration for Shang Nanchen, we can't let a little wine make him unhappy.

Jing Xian took out a porcelain bottle from the cabinet after searching for a long time. Shang Nanchen saw the bottle and asked in surprise: "Where did you get this?"

He never brought any alcohol into the house.

"Oh, Song Zheng brought it." Song Zheng has no shortage of this kind of wine.

During the previous festival, Song Zheng brought the wine here to have a drink with Shang Nanchen. Shang Nanchen was not at home at the time, so he put the wine down and left without eating here.

Jing Xian put the wine in the cabinet and forgot about it for a while.

If Shang Nanchen didn't like drinking wine, she wouldn't have remembered this wine.

"Compared to sorghum wine, this wine tastes softer." Shang Nanchen said and looked at Jing Xian. Jing Xian was not angry at all, but smiled. He asked tentatively, "Can you make sorghum wine?"

"Yes, but do you have sorghum?"

Shang Nanchen: “…”

“Hahahahahahaha…”

Fusheng couldn't help it and burst out laughing.

Laughter is contagious, especially loud laughter.

Fusheng laughed too, followed by Damao and Xiaomao, and finally Jingxian and Shang Nanchen. The whole family laughed like fools.

"Eat quickly, it will get cold soon."

Jing Xian picked up her chopsticks and started eating first, and then the others continued eating.

It was Jingxian’s first time making garlic pork ribs, and the kids’ eyes were sparkling as they ate them.

Fusheng said, "Mom, shall we make this spareribs again next time?"

"Do you like it?" Jing Xian asked.

Fusheng said: "Yeah, I like it. I like it very much!"

Although the other three children didn't say anything, their eyes were full of anticipation.

How could Jing Xian bear to disappoint these children?

"If you like it, ask your dad to buy some ribs tomorrow and make them for you."

Several children immediately cheered.

After dinner, the children went out to play while Shang Nanchen cleaned the table and washed the dishes. He looked no different from before.

Jingxian went back to the room and looked at the other kids. The two kids were full and sleeping soundly.

"The day before yesterday, Xu Ning came over and helped me buy four bags of milk powder. We have two children, and one bag of milk powder costs 500 yuan.

"10 grams, 3 yuan, only lasts for three days. Four bags of milk powder last less than half a month. If it lasts for a month, it will cost more than 30 yuan."

Jing Xian really wants to go to work now, otherwise it would be too stressful to raise a child with Shang Nanchen's salary alone.

"It's okay, I will raise your salary." Shang Nanchen turned around and looked at the worried Jing Xian, hugged her in his arms, lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "In the future, your salary may be more than 200. I can get such a high salary, a large part of it is your credit. It's not easy for the higher-ups to commend you for the seed matter, and it's not easy to let it be exposed. For your safety, all the credit belongs to the army. If it weren't for this, I wouldn't be promoted as an exception."

How is it possible that no one has any opinions when he is promoted so quickly?

One reason was because of Jing Xian, and the other was because they had achieved good results in this military exercise.

Among them, the Song family also contributed.

Otherwise, how could the position of commander fall on him?

If he were to be promoted to the position of division commander at a normal pace, it would probably take him more than five years.

He is where he is today because he married a good wife.

"In the future, the military area will be a breeding base. You will be in charge of the land here. You will have special guards, and you will be assigned some assistants in due time. I asked Song Zheng to help buy a baby stroller. When you go out, the child will sit in the stroller. Don't worry about the milk powder, I will ask someone to buy more. In addition, don't worry about Damao's matter. Damao's grandfather has been rehabilitated. He has secretly returned to Beijing a few days ago. However, Damao's grandfather does not plan to take the two children back yet."

"Why?"

Jingxian felt that her grandfather must be missing his grandson. He hadn't seen his child for several years, so why didn't he take the child back?

Shang Nanchen's eyes were dim. "The old man is scared. He can do whatever he wants. The two children were sent here under a disguised name so that they would not be implicated. The situation is still unclear. The old man has returned, but it is hard to say what will happen in the future. I plan to wait and see for a while."

Jing Xian said: "Then let the two children live in our house."

As long as the two children call her "Mom", she will take care of them as if they were her own children.

Damao will officially go to high school next year. We will see what happens after he finishes high school.

If the situation is stable, send Damao to the capital first.

Jing Xian looked at the man sweeping the floor and realized that he had solved all her troubles without saying a word.

Is a reliable man.

He saw her giving birth and worrying about not having a salary, and he kept it in mind. He always calmly resolved her worries. In the end, he would say that everything was her credit.

She is just a little luckier than others. She has supernatural powers that allow her to change the genes of crops.

Make seeds become better quality seeds.

The next evening, Shang Nanchen came back and brought two hundred yuan to Jing Xian.

"This is the bonus given to you by the higher-ups."

Jing Xian was very happy with the prize money. After careful calculation, she realized that it was enough food for the two children for half a year.

The fabrics for the children's clothes were available, but the only thing that cost money was the milk powder. Even the milk bottles were given by Song Ning and Xu Ning, which were enough for the two children to drink until they were two years old.

Half a year later, she was able to go to work.

When the time comes, I'll leave the child with Old Lady Wu next door and give her twenty yuan a month. It's manageable no matter how you calculate it.

Jingxian planned it very well.

When I have nothing to do at home during the day, I read books.

I also bought some sorghum and planted it and other seeds in the yard.

The piece of land in the backyard of her house is her treasure.

Unfortunately, plans didn't change fast enough.

The mission was given from above.

To this end, she could only apply to build a greenhouse.

Greenhouses have been around for several years.

Jing Xian had seen it before, and when she remembered it, she reported it. Shang Nanchen had a greenhouse built for him without saying a word.

The greenhouse is not far from Jingxian's home, on the land behind their house. For this purpose, Jingxian even removed the back wall and left a back door.

The greenhouse is very large, about 100 meters long.

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Every time Jing Xian came back at the right time to feed her baby, she would stay in the greenhouse for the rest of the time.

As the Chinese New Year was approaching, Jing Xian came out of the greenhouse carrying two cabbages. The cabbages were very dense, and each cabbage weighed more than ten kilograms. Compared with the previous cabbages, this cabbage was simply a giant.

"This cabbage is too big!" Zhao Xiuzhi said in shock when she saw the cabbage Jingxian brought over.

Even Mrs. Wu was amazed: "This one cabbage is worth three cabbages in our house."

"This is a new variety. I'll give it to you to try and see if it tastes good." A new variety must not only grow big, it also has to taste good.

Mrs. Wu smiled and said, "Let's eat cabbage for lunch today. Let's make some stir-fried cabbage slices and some cold cabbage hearts."

"Then you guys hurry up and cook. I'll go home and cook too."

When Jing Xian returned home, several children gathered around the cabbage and looked at it: "Mom, did you plant this cabbage?"

"Yes." Jing Xian tore off the outer layer of cabbage and said, "Use the broken chopping board outside to chop it up and feed it to the chickens."

Tiedan immediately took the cabbage and went away. He squatted at the door and chopped it a few times with skillful chop. Then he put the vegetables in a broken bowl, grabbed two handfuls of wheat bran and put them in it. After stirring, he poured the mixture into the chicken trough.

Feeding chickens at home is all done by Tiedan.

Now, Tiedan is also responsible for making milk powder for my younger brothers and sisters.

Tiedan looks cool, but he is actually very careful.

Da Mao is introverted and seems gentle, but he is actually very stubborn. Fu Sheng is a bit of an optimist, while Xiao Mao rarely smiles and talks, but he is very fierce.

One strike will kill that kind of ferocity.

They are very well behaved and Jingxian hardly has to worry about them.

When the new variety of cabbage came down, Jingxian cooked for herself, which was rare for her, and the children all cheered.

"Will it be very busy in the future?" As the New Year is approaching, Jing Xian is much busier than others.

Jing Xian said as she cooked, "We need to get this batch of cabbage seeds out early, and try another batch in the spring. That will be just in time for planting cabbages in August next year. By then, we will also need to find a test field for breeding."

"Is everything going well?" Shang Nanchen asked her, "Just let me know if you need help."

"Not yet. For now, we just need to see if the cabbage tastes good. If it doesn't taste good, it won't matter how high the production is."

Jingxian is very confident in the cabbage she grows, knowing that the taste will not be bad. But when others come to grow cabbage, they have to consider factors such as the local planting environment and soil.

Even if it is a piece of land, the things grown there will taste different.

When the meal was served, Jing Xian thought the cabbage was okay, so she mixed it with some cold sauce and it tasted pretty good.

She finished eating and waited for Shang Nanchen's reaction. Shang Nanchen gave her a thumbs up: "I think you can leave more seeds."

Jing Xian suddenly laughed.

"That's fine."

The next step is to seed the cabbage.

Cabbage will not start to grow and flower until it has gone through the low temperature of winter. Pollination is more important after flowering. Pollination is more troublesome. In the wild, animals are needed for pollination. But now that there are no insects, artificial pollination is needed.

Artificial pollination is also a technical job.

But Jingxian is very familiar.

Jing Xian handed over this technology to the technicians assigned by the army. There were several technicians. One of them was named Lin Shuisheng. Lin Shuisheng graduated from Agricultural University and was later assigned to work in the seed company.

After Song Zheng learned about Jing Xian's situation, he specially arranged for someone to come and learn from Jing Xian.

There were many people studying, not just Lin Shuisheng. Lin Shuisheng was the most educated among them.

At first, these people thought Jing Xian was a big shot in some school, but who knew that Jing Xian looked younger than them and was just a young wife with a good background.

When those people found out that Jing Xian was their teacher's lover, they all looked down on her to some extent.

There is a little girl named Fang Xinyue. Fang Xinyue is a very proud person. She graduated from the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University. Her family used their connections to send her here for gold plating.

Fang Xinyue hates Lin Shuisheng the most

He follows Jing Xian around every day and does whatever Jing Xian asks him to do.

She talked to Lin Shuisheng for a few words, but Lin Shuisheng didn't respond. He even said, "If you have this time, you might as well observe the growth process and habits of crops."

Fang Xinyue was so angry that she stomped her feet.

This Lin Shuisheng really doesn’t understand romantic ideas!

"Do you understand? You will be the next one to operate."

Jing Xian was very serious when she was working. She wore a white coat and her hair was neatly tied behind her head. She stood up and let Lin Shuisheng perform artificial pollination.

It was Lin Shuisheng’s first time operating the machine and his movements were unfamiliar, but he became more and more proficient and did not make any mistakes throughout the entire process.

"Good, keep going."

Jing Xian finished speaking and looked at the others behind her, "Do you understand? If you do, try it now."

Fang Xinyue pursed her lips and stood back. She hadn't learned that.

Others also stammered.

Jing Xian frowned: "Watch how Lin Shuisheng does it. I'll give you half an hour to learn it carefully. If you can't learn it, you'll be beaten to death tomorrow."

She doesn't keep waste here.

Jing Xian left with a sullen face. She wanted to go back to breastfeed her baby.

Those people didn't expect Jing Xian to lose her temper. They looked at each other, all pale.

Even Fang Xinyue was shocked.

She didn't expect Jing Xian to be so disrespectful, and she was so angry that she burst into tears: "Why is she so vicious? She just taught us once, and then asked us if we had learned it. When she heard that we hadn't learned it, she started to curse us. It's not the way she teaches people."

Lin Shuisheng didn't say anything and continued to pollinate the remaining cabbages.

Fang Xinyue looked at Lin Shuisheng when she said these words, and she said them for him to hear.

Lin Shuisheng didn't say anything, which made her even angrier.

"Lin Shuisheng, isn't that right?" She asked Lin Shuisheng deliberately.

Lin Shuisheng asked in bewilderment, "What is it?"

"Did you learn from her secretly? Did she teach you in advance?" Fang Xinyue was a bit vicious. She would slander anything she couldn't get.

Lin Shuisheng said with a sullen face, "I am with you all day long, and I see Comrade Jing at the same time as you do. Just now, when Comrade Jing taught us how to do artificial pollination, everyone stood here and watched. If you didn't learn it, it means you didn't try hard. How can it be considered that I asked Comrade Jing to teach me in advance in private if I tried hard?"

When he said this, everyone's expression changed again.

"What do you mean?" Fang Xinyue jumped up in anger.

"I don't mean anything. If you don't want to study hard, you can just leave. No one will stop you." Lin Shuisheng didn't want to offend everyone, so he asked the others, "Do you want to learn? You only have half an hour. I will demonstrate and explain to you now. Come and learn quickly. If you don't understand anything, you can ask me directly."

The others came over without saying a word when they heard it.

Seeing this, Fang Xinyue wanted to go but didn't want to go on her own initiative.

She wanted others to pull her up and give her a way out, but no one spoke.

Fang Xinyue turned around angrily and walked outside.

She walked to the door, then walked back angrily. She squatted in front of Lin Shuisheng angrily and said, "I'll learn it too."

"Oh, then you learn it."

Lin Shuisheng continued to operate without saying a word.

Fang Xinyue was unwilling to give in, so she could only ask herself.

She asked, and Lin Shuisheng spoke.

When Jingxian came over, only Fang Xinyue hadn't learned it yet. She didn't dare to look at Jingxian, and secretly followed Lin Shuisheng to learn, and then tried it herself a few times, letting Lin Shuisheng help watch. Later, she finally learned it and sped up.

Jingxian didn't do anything herself, she just checked all the flowers.

Those that fail to meet the standards shall be repaired immediately.

After the pollination of this batch of seeds was completed, Jingxian took them to see the wheat.

There is only one wheat field, which is not very large and has various markings on it.

Jing Xian took the notebook and checked it.

She could have used her brain, but because other people would also see the data, she wrote it all down in a notebook.

Only in this way can those who take over the work later see it and avoid being in the dark and having to see everything by themselves.

Data is often the most intuitive.

There are all kinds of seeds in the greenhouse.

These are precious treasures.

Jingxian was so busy that she almost forgot about the Chinese New Year.

When she came out of the greenhouse, Shang Nanchen had already dressed the two children, and the other four children were also dressed neatly and looked at Jing Xian. Even so, Jing Xian didn't realize anything, and she still asked Shang Nanchen.

"What's going on? Where are you going dressed so neatly?"

Tiedan sighed: "Mom, we have to go to the tourist market to buy New Year's goods today!"

"Oh, look at my brain, I forgot about it." This is a big deal.

Jing Xian immediately cleaned herself up, changed into clean clothes, took Xiao Liu in her arms, and got in the car first. Tiedan and Damao got in Song Zheng's car. The guard drove a car, and Shang Nanchen held Xiao Liu in his arms and sat in the passenger seat.

Jingxian, Xiaomao and Fusheng were crowded in the back.

Fusheng said worriedly, "Mom, won't this squeeze my sister?"

"No, don't worry."

Jing Xian rubbed Fusheng's little head. She found that the children had grown up very fast in the past few months. When she was busy, she felt like she hadn't been with the children for a long time. It seemed like she hadn't seen them for a long time.

Now at first glance, I find that each child has grown a lot taller.

"I'll buy each of you a set of laundry at the travel market this time. I see your cotton trousers are getting too short. When it gets warmer in the spring, I'll make you a new set after you take off your cotton trousers. Otherwise, you'll have nothing to wear when the weather gets cold next year." She was so busy that she forgot about it.

Shang Nanchen said, "I've asked someone to help me do it, so you don't have to worry about it. Tomorrow the children will have new cotton-padded clothes to wear."

"Ah? When did it happen?" How come she didn't know anything about it?

Jing Xian really blamed herself this time.

"When the first snow fell, I found that the children had grown much faster than before and their clothes could no longer fit. So I asked Aunt Wu next door to alter the children's cotton-padded clothes. I also asked Aunt Wu to make a few new sets of clothes. There were too many clothes and Aunt Wu was slow to make them. They were delivered a few days ago. But it wasn't Chinese New Year yet, so I didn't let them all wear new clothes."

"Thank you so much, ma'am."

Jing Xian felt that she was no longer qualified to be a mother.

Xiao Mao said sensibly, "Mom, you are busy with important matters that benefit the country and the people, and we are just doing small things. Besides, the cotton coat is just a little bit smaller, it's not unwearable. Look, isn't it still fine when I wear it now?"

What's good about it? Half of the wrist is exposed.

Jing Xian's eyes turned red: "Why don't you let the children wear new cotton-padded jackets today? Look at the sleeves of these clothes, they are too short."

"What can I do if they don't want to wear them?" Shang Nanchen felt innocent, but also a little aggrieved. Although his clothes were all issued by the army, his wife did not prepare new clothes for him this year or last year.

He is also a man who needs to be cared for by his wife.

"You haven't made clothes for me for a long time." Shang Nanchen said suddenly.

Jing Xian was dumbfounded and said, "Did you wear the clothes I made for you last time? You go out for a long time, sometimes you don't come back for a week. Do you want to leave the new clothes at home to gather dust?"

"Then I must have some, right?"

"some."

Jing Xian hurriedly ended the topic. She could see the shocked expression on the little warrior's face.

Did Shang Nanchen take the wrong medicine today?

Why are you talking about this out of character?

"I remember when I was making clothes for the children, I made a few new sets of clothes for you. Didn't you wear them?" Jing Xian felt that her brain was not working well after giving birth.

It took her a few days to remember this.

Shang Nanchen said in a deep voice:

"No, you didn't tell me."

The grievance in his tone could be felt even from such a distance.

"That's because I forgot. I'll find it for you when I get back." Jing Xian didn't get enough rest yesterday. She was leaning back in the chair, about to fall asleep in a daze.

Shang Nanchen stopped talking too.

He saw that both children were looking at Jing Xian nervously, afraid that she would drop the baby after falling asleep.

Shang Nanchen whispered: "Mom will not let go."

The two kids obviously didn't believe it and insisted on staring at it.

He was also worried and just watched.

As a result, the road was bumpy.

The two kids were very nervous, but Jing Xian hugged the child tightly.

Shang Nanchen curled his lips.

Fusheng: “…”

Xiao Mao: “…”

After arriving in the city, Shang Nanchen still had things to do.

When they arrived at a military compound, Shang Nanchen got out of the car and followed the guards in.

Jing Xian opened her eyes and saw the car stopped. She realized that Shang Nanchen was not there, and Xiao Liu was held in the arms of the guard. She asked the two children, "Where is your dad?"

Xiao Mao said, "He went in."

"Hmm? He's looking for someone?"

As he was speaking, Shang Nanchen came out from inside, followed by a very handsome man in his forties.

He doesn't look like a soldier, but rather like a rich young man from the past.

Jing Xian always felt that this person looked familiar.

She opened the car door as if possessed by a ghost, walked down with the child in her arms, and stood beside Shang Nanchen. The handsome middle-aged man happened to look over and was stunned when he saw Jing Xian.

Shang Nanchen introduced them to the two enthusiastically, "This is my lover Jing Xian. This is Comrade Jing Feng."

Jing Xian was also stunned when she heard the name.