Chapter 216: Birthday
As the weather slowly warms up, it's time to plant vegetables in the field, and it's time for every family to raise poultry, so the people in the compound are slowly getting busy.
Xie Xiaonian's family also divided a small vegetable plot and a vacant land leaning into the west wall to put sundries, but Xie Xiaonian saw that many people in the courtyard raised chickens and ducks in the place where they put sundries, so he decided to raise a few of them himself, so that it would be convenient to eat eggs in the future.
On the 2nd day of the first month of March, Xu Zhongjun said after eating at noon: "Daughter-in-law, don't cook at night, wait for me to come back and cook!" ”
"Why, how are you so good, suddenly thinking about cooking!" Xie Xiaonian's puzzled Q&A.
"Don't ask, just listen to me!" Xu Zhongjun kept it secret.
Seeing that he was so mysterious, Xie Xiaonian didn't ask anymore, she would know sooner or later anyway, and she didn't let herself cook, so she saved trouble.
When Xu Zhongjun came back that night, Xie Xiaonian was going to help cook, but Xu Zhongjun was kicked out of the kitchen.
"What, so mysterious!" Xie Xiaonian complained and walked to the bedroom.
When she came out again, she saw two bowls of noodles and a few egg pancakes with green onions that she liked to eat.
"What the hell is today, you are so diligent, and you make me noodles and pancakes!" Xie Xiaonian really couldn't think of anything special today.
"Fool, it's your birthday!" Xu Zhongjun replied as he brought out two boiled eggs from the house.
"Oh, yes, today is the 2nd day of March, how did I forget! It's been a stupid three years of pregnancy! Xie Xiaonian patted his head and said in hindsight.
"Thank you, Zhongjun, you have been so busy with work recently, and you still remember my birthday!" Xie Xiaonian said movingly.
"What's polite to me, remember that your birthday is not what it should be!" Xu Zhongjun said after touching the top of Xie Xiaonian's soft hair.
This touching the head to kill is the most effective for Xie Xiaonian.
"Hee-hee, today I am the birthday star, you hold the pancakes, I want to eat longevity noodles and eggs." After Xie Xiaonian handed the pancakes in his arms to the loyal army, he happily sat down at the table and ate them.
Xu Zhongjun's birthday is October 23, which happens to be the day after their wedding anniversary, Xie Xiaonian has never given him before, so he secretly decided at this time that when Xu Zhongjun celebrates his birthday again this year, he must give him a surprise and make up for everything he didn't have before.
After eating and putting the pancakes to sleep, Xu Zhongjun just lay down on the bed, Xie Xiaonian pounced, touched Xu Zhongjun's face, and said with a smile: "You behaved very well today, the master is very satisfied, let me love you well!" Hahaha"
After finishing speaking, Xie Xiaonian learned from Xu Zhongjun's previous appearance and kissed him.
However, her own ability is not good, and in the end she can only become the one who is hurt, and let Xu Zhongjun toss.
In the afternoon of the next day, when Xie Xiaonian went to the head of the regiment's house, after chatting for a while, he asked Wu Shuqin: "Sister-in-law, I see that someone in the compound is raising chickens in the place where the sundries are kept, do you have one at home?" ”
"Raise it, my family raises it every year, but in the winter there is nothing to feed, so they are all killed, do you want to raise it too?"
"Well, in a few months, the pancakes will be able to eat eggs, so I'm thinking about raising a few and adding some nutrition to the pancakes when the time comes, where are you all going to get chickens?" Xie Xiaonian asked again.
"Sometimes I will use food or tickets to go to the surrounding villagers' houses to exchange, sometimes I will go to the farmers' market to buy them, you want a few, and when I get them in a few days, I will give you some, and you will run back and forth to save it."
"That's great, thank you sister-in-law, I'm going to raise 10, and when the time comes, how many can be raised, as long as it's enough for pancakes and eggs." Not all chickens can be raised, so Xie Xiaonian didn't buy much.
As for how many Xie Xiaonian can feed in the end, it depends on her ability, there is space, Xie Xiaoyou are confident that she can feed them all.
"Okay, then I'll bring you 10 of them." Wu Shuqin replied with a full mouth.
On the 5th day of the first month of March, Xu Zhongjun was resting, so Xie Xiaonian and the two went out with farm tools early in the morning.
Because the army is not allowed to raise free-range poultry, if you want to raise chickens, you must fence off the ground against the wall.
So the two went to the vegetable field together, loosened one-fifth of the land, and let Xie Xiaonian raise vegetable seedlings, Xu Zhongjun went up the mountain with a machete to cut bamboo, circle chicken pens, and weave cages.
Xie Xiaonian knew in advance that the army could grow vegetables, so when he came, he brought a lot of different kinds of vegetable seeds, although each type was not too much, but the types were complete, if they grew well, it would be enough for their family of 3 to eat.
And Xie Xiaonian doesn't pursue quantity now, as long as the style is similar to the vegetables in the space.
After all, if the amount is small, you can take it from the space, but if you take out the vegetables that she didn't grow at all, it will be suspicious.
After 2 days, Wu Shuqin bought the chickens back, which she bought at the farmers' market, for 4 cents a piece.
Because the chickens are still small, Xie Xiaonian first raised the chickens at the staircase with a chicken coop, and prepared to raise them in the chicken pen when they grow up.
In this way, in the next time, Xie Xiaonian raised seedlings and poultry like other families, and he was very busy.
And after such a long time, Xie Xiaonian is also familiar with the compound and the surrounding environment, and the person with the best relationship with her is Wu Shuqin, Xu Zhongjun was originally good friends with the regiment leader's family, so now the two families are getting closer to each other.
At the same time, Xie Xiaonian and the three children of the head of the regiment are also very familiar, and the three of them often come to play at home after school or on Sundays, especially Xiaotong, who has a good relationship with Xie Xiaonian now, Wu Shuqin laughed and said that they were more like mother and daughter.
And Xiao Xia will take his son back to live in the county town on Sunday, so Xie Xiaonian doesn't spend so much time with them, although the relationship between the two is still very good, but it is not as close as Wu Shuqin.
On the 8th day of the first month of March, Xie Xiaonian thought that the animals on the mountain should also start to move frequently, so he prepared to make a few rope sleeves and go up the mountain to catch a few prey and come back.
According to Xie Xiaonian's observation, the density of people living here is very small, and the military families on this side of the army do not go up to the mountains to hunt, so this side will definitely be better than Xu Jialing to catch prey.
Regarding Xie Xiaonian's entry into the mountain, Xu Zhongjun disagreed at first, but there was no way to disagree, Xie Xiaonian was stubborn, and there was no room for relaxation at all for what she decided.
In the end, Xu Zhongjun felt that it was better for him to know her whereabouts than to go secretly with Xiao Nian, and it would be better to take care of her more when he had time, so he had no choice but to agree.
On the other hand, the nearby mountains were specially cleaned before the troops were stationed, and there were no dangerous animals on the periphery at all, as long as they didn't go deep into the mountains, there was nothing to do.
After the two of them had dinner in the evening, they were weaving rope sleeves, when they heard a knock on the door, as soon as they heard the sound of talking, Xie Xiaonian knew that it was Xiaotong and their brother and sister who were coming, so he hurriedly got up and opened the door and let them in.
As soon as he entered the door, 10-year-old Guoxing asked: "Auntie, where is Xiaobai, I want to play with it, I miss it if I don't see it for a day." ”
Guoxing likes Xiaobai the most, and the first thing he does every time he comes to the house is to find Xiaobai.
Although Xiaobai ignored him most of the time, he still liked to stick to Xiaobai.
Xie Xiaonian had long been accustomed to looking for Xiaobai as soon as he entered the door, so he smiled and said, "Xiaobai is sleeping on the sofa, you go play with it." ”
Compared with the casual way of getting along with Xie Xiaonian, Guoxing and Guoan were still a little scared of Xu Zhongjun, so after entering the house, they obediently greeted Xu Zhongjun before they dared to sit on the sofa to play.
And after Xie Xiaonian grabbed a handful of walnuts for them, he sat down and continued to weave ropes with Xu Zhongjun.
As soon as Guoan entered the house, he wanted to ask curiously, but he didn't dare to ask Xu Zhongjun, and waited until Xie Xiaonian also sat down and began to make it up, before he said to Xie Xiaonian: "Auntie, what is this?" Is it any use? ”
"This is a rope noose, which is used to lass pheasants and hares." Xie Xiaonian replied patiently.
"Can you really get it, the pheasants and hares in the mountains can run fast, I saw it when I followed my mother up the mountain to collect firewood and pick mushrooms, as soon as they saw people, they immediately ran away, they couldn't catch up at all, and the pheasants could fly." Guoan asked in surprise.
On the other side, Guoxing heard the pheasant and hare, and also looked at it curiously.
"They run because there are people, and when no one is around, don't they run! If you put the noose on the ground and wait for them to run into the snare, you will be able to catch them. Xie Xiaonian explained simply.
And through Guoan's words, she is also more sure that there is prey in the mountains.
"Then if you catch it, won't you have meat to eat, Auntie, you can also teach me whether it's good or not, so that I can eat meat every day." Guoan said excitedly.
Xie Xiaonian listened to his words and said with a smile: "This prey is not something that can be caught every day, and you still have to go to school, how can you hunt." Why don't I teach you how to make a rope noose, and you can do it first when you get home from school these days, and then I'll take it to the mountains on Sunday? But you have to agree to it first. ”
However, Xie Xiaonian didn't think that Wu Shuqin would agree to Guoan going to the mountains to hunt, after all, they were different from the children in their hometown who ran in the mountains all day long.
"Well, okay, I'll go to school now, and then when I get home, I'll talk to my parents." Guoan said happily.
On the other side, Guoxing also rarely let go of Xiaobai, and ran over to learn from it, it seems that eating meat is really attractive to them.
So Xie Xiaonian stuffed a hemp rope into everyone's hands and began to teach them.
Because the rope sleeve is a knot with a complex point, it is not difficult to learn, so after a while, the two of them learned it.
After the practice was mature, the two hurriedly pulled Xiaotong home.
Because several people on this road are very familiar, and there are also people at the gate of the army, it is very safe, so Xie Xiaonian did not send them, so let the three of them go home by themselves as usual.
When they returned home, Guoan and Guoxing saw that their parents were sitting in the living room, so they hurriedly stepped forward and said to their father: "Dad, when I went to Auntie's house today, Auntie and Uncle Zhongjun were weaving rope sleeves for catching pheasants and hares, and Auntie also taught me, saying that if you agree, she can take me and my brother to hunt in the mountains on Sunday." ”
After Guoan finished speaking, he looked at his father with longing in his eyes, although his father usually listens to his mother, but he knows that his father is actually in charge of the family.
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