"I know. Yingfang said with a smile, "So I don't have much to do with her, but in the end, I live next door, and it's always hard to say so much." It's been a bad thing for Brother Gangzi. ”

Fang Zhouzhen heard her say this, and sighed: "Speaking of which, Xiao Xiang's current level is still too low, and he has to find a way to move up." ”

Thinking about my father-in-law's conversation with the division commander of 713 today, I don't know if I will help Xiang Gang say a few words, how to say that he is also his niece and son-in-law, so he should be promoted, right?

Yingfang felt that the man's promotion was fast enough, and at the beginning of the year, he turned positive, and he heard a lot of sour words.

Besides, she didn't think that Xiang Ganghui liked to be promoted for no reason, he said early on that he liked to rely on strength to fight.

So he persuaded Fang Zhouzhen in turn: "Sister Fang, we understand your kindness, but I think it's better to leave a man's career to him on his own." No matter what he thinks or does, as long as the general direction is right, I support him. ”

"Okay, I'll just mumble this, and you contradict me a lot. Okay, you two will discuss and tell me if you need my help one day. Anyway, you're still calling me sister after all this time?"

"Sister-in-law. Ying Fang reluctantly and amusedly changed her words.

"That's right!" Fang Zhouzhen pursed her lips and smiled, took her arm and said, "Let's go, give my cousin Che Xiaoyi!"

When Li Shuangying was carrying a basket to deliver vegetables to Yingfang, the two women were sitting in front of the sewing machine, and two complete monk clothes had already been cared out.

"Xiao Shu, this is picked from your vegetable field, I see that they are all cooked, and I will not pick them anymore. Here are a few bud rice sticks for you to eat. This is the last crop this year, and you haven't thought about what to plant next, do you have any good ideas?"

In addition to helping Yingfang pick some vegetables, Li Shuangying also gave her four corns.

The corn stalks in the field have also been pulled up, but they haven't thought about what to plant next.

"Turnips, potatoes, and sweet potatoes are all fine. Yingfang helped her come up with an idea, her own vegetable field, when the peppers are harvested, she also plans to plant these, "There are also garlic seedlings, planted this day, you can eat them after autumn, and you can eat them until winter." I remember that the head of the regiment liked this dish a lot. ”

"He likes to eat garlic sprouts, he likes to eat shredded meat from your garlic sprouts. Li Shuangying said funny, "But potatoes and sweet potatoes are really good, and they can be used as both vegetables and staple foods." Okay, I'll ask Lao Chen to get some seeds, and I'll get more if you want. I didn't plant these last year, and I really can't get these two things at home. ”

"Sister-in-law, don't be busy, I have potatoes and sweet potatoes, I asked my relatives in my hometown to send them, I just want to wait for the peppers and eggplants to be planted after they are raised, and I will share some with you." Yingfang took Li Shuangying's basket and went into the West House to load a few potatoes and sweet potatoes that had been left behind, all of which were big and plump. When it was over, he cut half a watermelon and asked Li Shuangying to take it to the child to eat.

"You're just too polite, you have to give me something every time you come back. If I do this again, I'll be embarrassed to come to the door next time. Li Shuangying said embarrassedly.

Ying Fang smiled and said, "My sister-in-law also said that I am, every time you come, don't you also bring me something?" It's just some food, if you don't accept it, I'm embarrassed to ask you for help next time. ”

Li Shuangying smiled and nodded at her: "I can see it, we are the most clever people, and I have nothing to say if I don't reply." ”

Ying Fang laughed twice and sent her to the staircase.

When she returned to the house, she saw Fang Zhouzhen staring at the vegetables on the table in a daze, and Yingfang asked puzzledly, "Sister-in-law, what are you looking at?"

Fang Zhouzhen came back to her senses and sighed faintly: "I can't believe it. ”

Xiaojin, the daughter of the dignified Xiao family, has to grow her own vegetables when she eats them. was seen by my aunt, and I didn't know how sad I should be.

Ying Fang didn't understand, and wanted to ask again, Fang Zhouzhen changed the topic and said: "Where did you just go? Yes! Milk powder! I'll save you some milk powder tickets when I go back, whether there is milk or not, be prepared with both hands." ”

Yingfang said, "Won't it be too troublesome?"

Milk powder is more rare than malt milk essence. After all, there is only one Red Star milk powder factory in the country, and it is a special military supply, and the annual output is really limited.

In the south, not to mention a small county like Ninghe, there is no stock in even the provincial department store, and you have to wait in line if you have tickets.

"What's the trouble here, Dad, the son of a comrade-in-arms, is now in charge of production in the Red Star Milk Powder Factory, say hello in advance, even if you can't get too many tickets, it's okay to get a few cans of quality, but the packaging is a little damaged, and the milk powder can't leave the factory normally. My bear child, when I was a child, I didn't eat less, you look back and you know, children who often drink milk powder and don't drink milk powder, they look different, my family looks strong, and it's good to play a small body......"

Yingfang was moved by what she heard, who doesn't want their children to grow up healthy and strong. He no longer refused his sister-in-law's kindness.

Talking about money hurts feelings, thinking about finding some He Shou Wu or Lao Shan ginseng back one day, and brewing a few jars of wine to send them.

The sun was setting in the west, and Yingfang put down the needle and thread in her hand and prepared to make dinner.

Comrade Pan Xinmiao, who was transferred to the communications company, came to send a message to Yingfang: "Sister-in-law, Xiang Battalion Commander was left to talk by the division commander, and said that there was something to do later, and dinner was eaten in the canteen, so you don't have to wait for him." ”

Ying Fang didn't think much about it, this kind of situation didn't happen before she was called by the leader to talk, talk for two or three hours, and after finishing it, she had to give lessons and meetings to the soldiers under her, and the time for dinner was still squeezed out. Naturally, he was reluctant to let his family and the army run at both ends.

Xiang Gang didn't come, and the two women didn't plan to cook.

"Eat corn. Fang Zhouzhen proposed, "I haven't eaten much tender corn this year, and it's delicious when I look at the glutinous ones." ”

Ying Fang has no opinion: "Okay, let's cook another pimple soup, make it thinner, both as soup and as soup." Corn alone has no taste. ”

"Okay. ”

The two said they would do it, one mixed the batter to cook the sauerkraut gnocchi soup with a large bone broth base, and the other peeled off the skin of the corn, leaving the innermost layer, and steamed it in a pot.

Old Gold swaggered back with the little gold tooth and the golden retriever.

The golden retriever was still carrying a bamboo basket on his shoulder, and when he looked at it, he said, hey, the harvest was great.

There are also bunches of wild grapes, purple, black, purple, black, quite big, and very sweet at first glance.

"Where did you get them, so many wild grapes!" Ying Fang happily stroked the golden retriever's head.

"The golden retriever is amazing! Fang Zhouzhen also smiled and boasted.

When she saw the golden retriever for the first time two days ago, she was also shocked. Listening to Yingfang tell the ins and outs, I couldn't help but sigh: Everything really depends on fate.

Such a scarce golden snub-nosed monkey actually became a pet of his cousin's family, and he was willing to become Yingfang's little porter, pulling all kinds of wild fruits that are difficult for ordinary people to pick from time to time, so that people can say what is good!

The golden retriever was praised, scratched his head and scratched his ears for a while, and finished pointing at the canned malt milk essence that he held in his arms and pulled out the lid as soon as the little golden tooth came back.

"You want to drink this too?"

Ying Fang generously mixed a bowl of wheat milk rice flour paste for each of them.

Lao Jin turned his head away in disgust. Compared to this, it prefers the big bones stewed in the pot until crispy.

Seeing these pets squatting in the corner and snoring for dinner, Fang Zhouzhen said with emotion:

"Seeing these dogs and monkeys in your house so humane and so well-behaved, I also itched to raise them. But when I think of the lion dog in the neighbor's house downstairs that howls all day long, I can't muster up the courage. What else do you say about the precious breed and the ancestors who once gave the emperor's favorite concubine as pets. You don't know how annoying it is, it's still sleeping in the morning, it starts to howl, and when it's okay, it practices its voice on the balcony, and when it comes up to our bedroom, it tastes, tsk! Sometimes I don't know if it's in heat or what, it's hysterical, it can drive people crazy......

Speaking of the supposedly very valuable lion dog downstairs, Fang Zhouzhen looked angry: "That's why I don't take the child myself, but send it to his grandmother's house." First, the two elders like to bring, and secondly, the dog barks too annoyingly. ”

Ying Fang was packing up the bamboo basket from the golden retriever's back, and saw that there were not only wild fruits that the golden retriever often nibbled on, wild flowers that often played on his head, but also a lot of mushrooms and ice grass. I knew that Xiao Jin must have asked him to pick it.

In the past, every time she went up the mountain, she would look for ice grass and pick some mushrooms. Xu is ice grass is the most common green plant in the underground palace, and when you get here, it is like seeing a relative, no matter which mountain you go to, you will involuntarily look for its traces.

Xiao Jin is afraid that she will see it in her eyes and keep it in her heart, but now that she sees that it is inconvenient for her to go up the mountain, she will let the golden retriever pick it on her behalf, what a caring little guy!

King Jin, who was hunting dinner in the valley far away, suddenly sneezed, which frightened a group of wild pheasants and hares around him, and he was even more frightened. I was afraid that King Jin would be unhappy and destroy them collectively.

Ying Fang spread the mushrooms and ice grass separately on the rice sieve. Ice grass salad, mushroom stew, can't finish the sun dry.

There are many kinds of wild fruits, so the golden retriever picks some of them for its rations, and the rest is washed and eaten fresh or boiled in jam. A bouquet of wildflowers was arranged, inserted into an empty cup, and placed on the windowsill as a decoration.

Hearing Fang Zhouzhen say this, he couldn't help laughing: "Maybe dogs, like people, also have their own personalities, and both of our families have good personalities." Of course, maybe Lao Jin was specially trained by the army, and Jin Ya followed his temperament. All in all, I'm satisfied. ”

Fang Zhouzhen looked at her sassy look and couldn't help but roll her eyes: "Yes, yes, your old Jin is the king of military dogs who can't pick out one out of 10,000." No dog is its opponent. ”

"Hehe...... Ying Fang realized that she had just sold melons to Wang Po, and smiled and presented the largest wild peach among the wild fruits, a treasure, to Fang Zhouzhen, "Sister-in-law, this is for you to eat, don't look ugly, it tastes good." ”

It should be said that the golden retriever loves to eat, and the taste is generally not bad.

Except for the sour pear, which is slightly sour when eaten raw, the other fruits are sweet and refreshing.

"No wonder you have endless jams at home, and the daring is all due to this little monkey. When will you also help me make two cans, and bring them back to Kyoto to eat steamed buns for the children. I'll come out of the frosting, and I'll send you white sugar tickets and money when I get back. ”

Fang Zhouzhen heard Yingfang say that the method of jam is simple, but the key is that sugar can't be consumed. Most people don't usually have enough to eat, so they are willing to use it to make jam. However, it tastes good to eat steamed buns, sweet and sour, and children must like it.

Yingfang said while picking rotten fruits: "Even if my sister-in-law doesn't say it, I will boil two cans for you, fresh fruits are not tolerant, make them into sauce or preserved fruits, delicious and durable." It's a pity that I don't have a spare wine jar at home, otherwise I can make wine from mountain grapes while they are fresh. ”

"You still use grapes to make wine?" Fang Zhouzhen looked at her with interest.

She still heard her uncle who stayed abroad in her early years talk about wine, saying that she is a yellow-haired, blue-eyed foreigner who likes to drink grapes and make wine. You may be able to see one or two bottles in overseas Chinese stores, but ordinary department stores and supply and marketing cooperatives don't even think about it. The government has always been very strict with foreign products, which are so easy to buy. I didn't expect my cousin to make this kind of foreigner's wine, my wife is amazing! But doesn't this thing need a recipe?

Ying Fang nodded: "I read in a book that grape wine is more convenient than ordinary fruits. After the water is drained, the whole grain is crushed in the jar, some rock sugar is placed, the mouth of the altar is sealed, and it can be drunk in two or three months. ”

I watched "Red Makeup and Dai Mei" before, and it said that grapes are full of treasures.

Grape flesh is nutritious to eat with skin, whole grapes can be crushed and added with a little sugar to make wine, grape juice and meat are ground into a meat paste on the face is said to moisturize the skin, grape seed oil can be used to whiten the face.

However, the latter two are difficult to do at first glance, making mud to cover the face is too luxurious, and grape seed oil is too difficult. What ordinary people can do is not only to eat, but also to make wine.

"Then let's brew it, I'll figure out a way to make the jar. There are friends I know in the local hardware store in the city, and no matter how bad it is, my mother's house must have an idle wine jar, and I can go over and get it at any time. This is my own business, wine is no better than other wines, even if we drink it ourselves, don't make too much noise, be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years. Fang Zhouzhen said this, and her face couldn't hide her excitement. I can't wait to go to the city now.

Ying Fang couldn't cry or laugh: "Sister-in-law, it's almost dark at this time, and the last train is gone." If you really want to make wine, let's not eat these grapes first, tomorrow, you go back to your mother's house to borrow the jar, and I will go to the supply and marketing cooperatives to weigh some rock candy back. Let's make wine together. ”

"Then it's decided!" Fang Zhouzhen happily clapped his hands, "I'll buy rock candy too." You're just teaching me how to make wine. Oh, I'm looking forward to my uncle coming in the morning, so can I borrow his car and use it? ”

Ying Fang was speechless: "Sister-in-law, how many jars do you want to take? This bit of grapes, five catties of wine jar is good to brew one jar." ”

"Oh, this thing is not for food, so it's okay if you don't need to pile up dust at home. You see how inconvenient it is for you to live here and go to the city. Take advantage of this time to help you bring more household belongings. You see, we've known each other until now, and I haven't given you any greeting gifts. ”