Chapter 14: Advanced (26)

Whether he got the other look from Shangfeng, Mo Di didn't know, Mo Di was in great joy at this moment, because Zhou Shiming told him that he was already pregnant. The day before yesterday, a person secretly went to Daosheng Hospital to ask the Chinese medicine doctor to take the pulse, and also asked the Western doctor to do a test, and the results were the same, eight weeks pregnant. Clasped his fingers and calculated the time, the day of conception should be after arriving in Guilin. The house in Doumu Lane is very good, quiet in the middle of noisy, quiet in the noisy, beautiful environment, smooth orientation, comfortable to live in, comfortable to sleep in, and easy to conceive. Mo Di was inexplicably excited, clamoring for a treat, and wanted to tell the news to the second sister and fifth brother and other relatives around him. Zhou Shiming smiled and stopped Mo Di, who was happy like a child, and told Mo Di that after two months, when it was stable, he would talk about it, and when the time came, he could use this as an excuse to bring his mother over and live in Guilin for a few days. Mo Di thought about it, so he relied on Zhou Shiming and forced the news down.

Zhou Shiming told Mo Di that he was reluctant to tell others because he was afraid of being taken care of by others, he had a little morning sickness during this time, his appetite was not good, and he was very willing to eat a little Tongcheng-style food. Mo Di was a little worried, thinking that he was not in the city six days a week, so he had to have someone to take care of him, chat together, and relieve his loneliness. Zhou Shiming told Mo Di that arranging his life by himself is simpler than others, he can do whatever he wants to eat, and if he doesn't want to do anything, he will go to the street to eat sour stalls, that thing is good, and he will not have morning sickness if he eats it. As for loneliness, not at all, some time ago, as long as she had time, she went to St. John's Church at the mouth of the alley to help, and met some believers from other places, among which two sisters-in-law are Anhui villagers and have a common hometown complex, so it is easy to talk about them together.

Because he met two sisters-in-law in Anhui, Zhou Shiming's daily living arrangements were slightly adjusted, after getting up in the morning, he cleaned up the house, and then went out to eat a bowl of Guilin rice noodles. The biggest disadvantage of the arcade is that there are no trees, which is suitable for business but not for leisure. Zhou Shiming walked out of the back of the house, accidentally found a good walking road, from Sanduo Road to Rongyin Road, until the high building, and then from the door hole under the high building, it is around the lake pond, the trees on this road are not only huge and there are not many pedestrians, walking in the shade, natural and comfortable. Around the lake, there are tall banyan trees, and on the side of the stone embankment near the water, there are rows of willow trees, and the pond around the lake that decorates part of the ancient moat is like a park. Walk a short distance along the stone embankment, cross the Yang Bridge, is another lake, here is also a part of the ancient moat, and the lake pond in front of the high-rise building is different, here around the lake, all the ancient cedar trees, therefore, the previous section is also called Ronghu, this section is also called Shanhu. Although Shanhu Lake is not as long as Ronghu Lake, it is wider than Ronghu Lake, with a small island in the middle and two dilapidated houses on the island, which is called Xiaoyingzhou. There used to be a wide viewing road on the shore of Shanhu Lake, but due to the increase in foreign population, it has become a haphazard shanty town. Some Christians from other places also gathered on the north side of Shanhu Lake, built a simple wooden hut, and made a Christian meeting place where they talked every day. The two sisters-in-law of Xuancheng, Anhui Province, are one of the Christians from other places, but they are not official members, but only family members of Christians. Their husband, a member of the East China Survey Team of the Church of Christ, is an absolute Christian.

After Zhou Shiming met the two sisters-in-law, he soon became friends, and at the invitation of the two sisters-in-law, Zhou Shiming also became a member of the outsider. The three women cooked lunch for the people at the Christian meeting place together, and after it was ready, Zhou Shiming also ate with him, and after eating lunch, he walked home for a lunch break. Zhou Shiming found out that he was pregnant, and it was also because of the reminders of the two sisters-in-law that there is a big difference between experience and inexperience, and he is still confused, and others have already understood it. Knowing that he had become an expectant mother, Zhou Shiming regarded the two sisters-in-law as consultants, and asked them for advice on big and small matters. Seeing that they had such a small courtyard, the two sisters-in-law were very envious, and when they asked, they knew that Zhou Shiming's husband was an officer, and his official position was not small.

Mo Di unexpectedly asked Zhou Shiming when he became a Christian? Zhou Shiming shook his head and said that he was not religious, but just thought it was fun. Whether he will become a Christian or not depends on him. Puzzled asked: Why do you look at me? Zhou Shiming said with a smile, marry your husband and follow your husband, whatever religion you believe, I will believe in whatever religion I believed, even if I believed in Christianity before, and found out that you were a Buddhist after marrying you, I would not hesitate to change to Buddhism without saying a word, even if I often worship the wrong Bodhisattva. No wonder some believers don't marry infidels, and it seems that it is not easy to change one's faith halfway.

When he came back from Lijia Village, Wu Tingjun went around the area of Huziyan Wharf, and directly bought a bucket of fresh fish from the Li River from the fisherman's boat by the Li River. Wei Zude did not live in Guilin, and after his adjutant came to Guilin, he rented a courtyard in Lijia Village, took his family members from the city, and no longer followed the three of them back and forth every week. However, it is Wei Zude who pays the most money for gasoline, this guy asks Wu Tingjun to park the car in his yard, and it is much more convenient for his own family to go out of the city. Lijia Village because of this military school, a lot of students came, and with the students came a lot of family members, the scale of the village and town has expanded rapidly in recent years, most people are very dissatisfied with the name of Lijia Village, so there is a new market town next to Lijia Village, there is a rather magnificent new name: Qifeng Town. Qifeng Town, worthy of the name, the strange peaks here are staggered, very magnificent, even passing through the village, you will feel the green mountains and green waters, the smoke curls, the peaks reflect the countryside, the clouds are entangled in the mist.

Zhou Shiming didn't want to smell the fishy smell of the fish, so Mo Di carried the fish to the well in the back of the house to process the fish, returned home, fried slowly over a fine fire, fried until both sides were browned, and then, bought a handful of pickled capers in the Taiping Road market and stewed them in a pot. When Zhou Shiming smelled the sourness, he felt that his appetite was great, and he stewed fish with capers, and even sent two bowls of rice, which surprised him.

Mo Di told her that the pure sourness, rather than the sweet and sour taste in East China, can make people feel the charm of the dishes. If you are from Hunan, you will add sour chili peppers, the taste will be heavier, and people can't stop their mouths, Zhou Shiming thinks so.

The two chatted casually, looking for topics from all over the world, the life of the military academy has been talked about too many times, and the legend of Guilin's landscape Zhou Shiming is also reciting it backwards, and today's topic is the daily food in the Christian gathering place.

Christianity in Guilin has not been around for a long time, and its history of more than 40 years is far behind that of East China. In the eyes of Guangxi people, Christianity and Hong Xiuquan's worship of God are the same thing. Zhou Shiming told Mo Di that the food in the church was very hard, mainly green vegetables, most of which were bought in the market, and occasionally some members of the church would bring some food from home and make a messy hodgepodge. Meat is scarce, but occasionally appears, as a gift from others during the missionary work below. The reason why Zhou Shiming is willing to stay there is not because he wants to eat the food there, but because he likes that kind of occasion, for a foreigner like her, that place has an excellent sense of belonging.

Compared with the church's big pot of rice, Zhou Shiming's food at home is relatively much better, because Mo Di has enough money left. Zhou Shiming's daily breakfast is mostly eaten outside Guilin rice noodles, Chinese food is helped by Christianity, the meal is free, and when he comes home in the evening, he also makes do with it, and steaming a bowl of water and eggs can also be regarded as a meal. She rarely goes to the market to buy vegetables, and only when Mo Di comes home on weekends will she go to the vegetable market with Mo Di. Buying vegetables once, except for her and Mo Enemy to eat on the weekend, the rest is enough for her to deal with for several days, and the remaining days are counted with dried eggs and vegetables. The staple grain rice and oil were sent by Mo Lao Wu, and the sauce, vinegar, salt and sugar were also handled by Mo Di, so Zhou Shiming didn't know much about the market situation. If you don't know that rice, oil, and salt are expensive, and you don't know that eating fresh fish once is not easy for Guilin people at this moment, and outsiders, not to mention fresh fish, salted fish and dried fish are all delicacies. Renting is expensive, food is expensive, and non-staple food is expensive, and if the outsiders who come to Guilin are not state officials or rich people, then it is also quite a sad thing to survive in Guilin.

Guilin's material supply is much worse than Tongcheng's, mainly because there are too many people who have moved from other places, and the previous population base is too small. In Tongcheng, a piece of Guangyang can buy eight catties of pork, in Guilin, you can only buy five catties, if you use fiat currency, one yuan of fiat currency can be exchanged for two catties of lean meat at most. As the price of meat has risen, the price of vegetables has also remained high, and the vegetable vendors have made a lot of money. Vegetable farmers in the suburbs thought that they would make a lot of money by growing vegetables, but they found that what they planted was not vegetables, but a disaster, because before the vegetables were planted, there were groups of vegetable thieves. In the past two years, there have been frequent fights because of vegetable theft, and vegetable farmers have to plant vegetables, prevent theft, and fight, which is unspeakably miserable. After the two battles of Changsha, a large number of Hunan people moved south to Guangxi, and the number of vegetable stealing brawls increased geometrically. Christian missionaries from other places want to live in Guilin with empty mouths and white teeth, but they are afraid that Guilin food is expensive, and it is not easy to live in vain.

"Brother Fu, let's get rid of the wisteria trellis in the yard and grow some vegetables." Accompanied Mo Di to the market, Zhou Shiming said with deep feelings. With the body of an expectant mother, she has the thinking of an expectant mother and begins to think about some problems of raising a family.

"When the wisteria blooms next spring, you'll know how right it is to leave this pergola." Mo Di shook his head and said, "The two of us can't eat much, so we won't toss, even if we have a child, the child is not going to eat immediately." ”

Zhou Shiming glanced at Mo Enemy, this is an ugly thing to say, the child is not an animal, so he has to eat vegetables when he is born. Mo Di is right, after a year, no one knows if he will still stay in Guilin, and maybe he will return to Tongcheng. When the time comes, this house will be sold, and if it is not done well, it will still make a lot of money. Then don't damage the wisteria trellis, this wisteria looks like an old vine that has been raised for many years, and it is not easy to grow like this.

In June, Guilin began to get hot, the flowers on the wisteria trellis have long gone, and it is filled with a thick layer of leaves, the leaves are very dense, the sun can't pass through, and the rattan trellis is slightly gloomy.

Life is simple and repetitive, you can pursue it, or you can have no desires, and you are about to become a father, and you are very satisfied with your current life. In his opinion, God treated him well, although he was not rich, but he could survive in the rain of bullets and bullets, and he could live such a happy life at home, or he should really go to St. John's Church to say thank you to the crucified man.