Xu Yin didn't feel that life in the Great Northern Wilderness was boring and boring at all.

If some people think, they must have not discovered the beauty of labor.

Inch by inch of land was reclaimed from under his feet, and more and more of the wasteland was planted with crops.

From spring ploughing to summer busyness, and then to autumn harvest, from scratch, from less to more, each crop is finally threshed into precious grains, enriching the granary of the motherland.

This sense of satisfaction and accomplishment is enough to make up for the hardships and fatigue of work.

During the off-season, she and Cheng Shaojin often went to the mountains to wander around, digging wild vegetables, planing fresh bamboo shoots, picking some mushrooms, occasionally hunting pheasants and hares, improving the food, and living a busy and fulfilling life after marriage.

Cheng Shaojin saw that she liked to eat pheasants, so she circled a small yard with a bamboo fence behind the dormitory, built a chicken coop, and raised a few chickens for her.

Pheasant dried and lean meat is less, how can there be domestic chicken fat and fat and thick meat, and it is satisfying to eat?

Chicken food is also convenient, Xu Yin sprinkled a wave of chicken grass in the yard, and the grass seeds of chicken grass are the chickens' favorite food.

Mix them with bran bran and small broken rice once in a while, and it is considered an extra meal.

Well-fed and well-fed chicks run around the yard.

Other people thought it was troublesome to raise chickens at first, and they had to feed the chickens every day, and they had to clean the chicken coop, which was tiring enough, and who didn't want to be lazy to rest on the kang with a little time?

I really want to eat, after the New Year, everyone will get together a bag of rations, and ask the tunmin to exchange half of it, can't you also eat a few bites of chicken?

But when spring went to autumn, the grain was successfully put into the warehouse, and the first snow fell in the Great Northern Wilderness, the chickens raised by Xu Yin and his wife in spring finally grew into the fat and slippery appearance of white-cut chicken, spicy chicken, and yellow stewed chicken served on the table during the New Year, and they couldn't help but salivate.

You don't need to make up rations to eat chickens, and there are not only half of them, but several, and everyone admires them.

"Captain, should we raise a few ** next year? I see that Xu Yin and they haven't taken much care of it this year, so they are kept in the fence yard and let them peck insects to find food by themselves, it doesn't seem to be difficult. ”

Captain Fu glanced at them: "What?" Watching Xiao Xu eat chicken, are you greedy? ”

“……”

Don't tell the truth.

Regardless of whether you raise chickens in the coming year or not, there will be no chance this year anyway.

It's all snowing.

If you list a city across the country who is the first to enter the winter rankings, Beiguan does not have to fight at all, and sits first every year.

Xu Yin remembered that at the beginning of the year, she sent a telegram to her hometown saying that she would go back as soon as the Chinese New Year this year, so she greeted the captain in advance.

The two planned to go back to Yuanshan County first and let their mother-in-law meet their son-in-law.

Spend the New Year at Lao Xu's house, and then set off to visit his parents.

Xu Yin packed some New Year's goods, including the rations she had saved, sun-dried mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots, and smoked preserved chicken.

However, she thought about it, put away half of it, and left five catties of rations, a small package of dried bamboo shoots and mushrooms, and a preserved chicken.

The people who brought too much of the old Xu family thought that she had made a fortune outside, anyway, this was enough to be the rations for her and Comrade Xiao Jin for the New Year.

Before leaving, she brought half a steamed white chopped chicken to visit the captain: "Captain, Shaojin and I will leave tomorrow, and we will see you in the New Year." ”

"Good, good! Stay safe on the road. You didn't go back last year, but if you go back this year, you will stay for a few more days, and you will be able to come back before spring ploughing. ”

Xu Yin took the train back with Cheng Shaojin, and did not occupy the quota of the truck.

The other team members had no money to buy train tickets, so they could only stay here for the New Year if they couldn't catch lots.

Xiao Jing and Huang Xiaohong don't have the good luck of last year this year - they didn't catch lots, and they could still exchange rations for places last year, and this year everyone has rich rations, and they all want to go home to see, yes, watching Xu Yin being picked up by Cheng Shaojin to catch the train, the team members who didn't have the opportunity to go home were so envious that their eyes were about to pop out.

As the leader of the first team, Captain Fu has to stay in the town, but he has half a chicken sent by Xu Yin, roasting the fire on a snowy day, and eating chicken with a little wine, not to mention how comfortable it is, and the others only have to watch it.

This makes them more determined: they will also raise a few chicken cubs in the spring of next year, and how fragrant it will be to eat in the New Year!

……

Moreover, the steam train carried the couple to Yuanshan County.

Coming out of the train station, it was getting late.

Cheng Shaojin was worried that she was tired, so she proposed: "It's better to go to my aunt's house for one night first, borrow a bicycle by the way, and ride you there tomorrow." ”

Xu Yin thought about it, so she took out a smoked hare and a bottle of stupid soju burned by the tun people of Hewozitun with sorghum from the duffel bag, and asked him to carry it as a souvenir to the door.

Cheng Shaojin snatched the duffel bag with a smile: "I'll come here, you can carry the wine and rabbits." ”

The daughter-in-law always seems to like to do manual work, both in the reclamation team and when she is alone with him.

He is not a weak young man who can't pick his shoulders or lift his hands, and he always feels that she has reversed the gender of the two.

So, Xu Yin followed him to his aunt's house with a bottle of wine in his left hand and a smoked rabbit in his right hand.

"My uncle's surname is also Xu, maybe he was the same family with you eight hundred years ago."

"So coincidentally?" Xu Yin smiled happily, "Then I have to ask my uncle-in-law to have a good drink." ”

I didn't expect to go to Xu's house and find something more coincidental-

Cheng Shaojin's cousin turned out to be Xu Wenfa!

"Xu Wenfa?"

"Yes, cousin-in-law, have you heard of me?"

Xu Wenfa asked excitedly.

My aunt wrote to say that my cousin got married in Beiguan, and the marriage news was really sudden.

The siblings talked about this topic for many days, and they were all curious about what kind of woman could take down her cousin so quickly.

Xu Yin smiled but did not speak.

Xu Wenfa has not only heard of this name, but also occupied miles.

If it weren't for the owner of this name, she might not have been able to go to Beiguan and open a wasteland.

turned her head to meet Cheng Shaojin's smiling starry eyes, and she also replied to him with a super sweet smile.

This fate is really wonderful!

After Xu Wenfa welcomed them into the door, he carried the smoked rabbit and soju that Xu Yin handed him, and rushed into the kitchen excitedly: "Mother! Mother! My cousin brought his newlywed daughter-in-law to our house, and brought wine and rabbits over, and it smelled so good! Can you eat it today? ”

Mother Xu took the spatula and made a gesture to hit him: "What are you doing!" Your cousin-in-law came to our house for the first time, you didn't receive it well, what did you do in the kitchen! My mind is full of eating. ”

Xu Wenfa shrunk his neck: "I'll go out to entertain." ”

"Go out empty-handed? The water in the thermos is freshly boiled, and you take it out to make a cup of sugar water for your cousin, and the sugar is in my room. ”

"Mother, do you think if I don't come in, don't you still have to call me in?"

“…… Stinky boy! Underwhelmed! ”

Xu Wenfa stuck out his tongue, took a hot water bottle and walked out of the kitchen, went to Xu's mother's room to get white sugar and tea that his father was reluctant to drink, made tea for his cousin, and made a cup of sugar water for his cousin.

In this era, sugar water can be said to be a very high treatment for hospitality.

(End of chapter)