Fast-forward to the era of cannon fodder

"Then you can stay at my parents' house for a while, and then move out when your house is built." The team leader approved another piece of land for her to build a house.

Worried that she would not be safe living there as a woman and that someone with bad intentions in the village would plot against her, the team leader specially approved a site for her to live next to his house, which happened to be a large piece of wasteland.

The team leader's parents had four sons. After the youngest son got married last year, the team leader's mother separated all four sons so that the family could raise more chickens and pigs, leaving the two old people in a separate household.

The four brothers of the team leader applied for the housing plots at the same time. In order not to separate them, they applied together. The plot is at the foot of the mountain. This place is right at the entrance of the village. It is a good location and is close to going up the mountain and down the fields.

"Thank you, Captain."

Yuanchun thanked him.

The captain's parents were a very open-minded and kind old couple. When Yuanchun moved into their home, the two old people welcomed her very much. They also sympathized with the hardships Yuanchun had to endure and did not let her work, allowing her to rest well.

"God has pity on you, you are so thin, you should take a good rest for a while, and then go back to work in the fields after you are well. Anyway, with the compensation from that beast, you will have enough food and money to spend, and your health is important."

Yuanchun did not tell the captain about the compensation given by Liu Fusheng, but told the two elderly people.

After all, they were going to live and eat together. Yuanchun didn't want to take advantage of the two old people, so she spent some money to buy some good food to eat, as a way of repaying the two old people for taking her in.

So, the next day after returning to the village, Yuanchun went out for a walk and not only bought all the materials for building the house, but also brought back two pounds of meat, an old hen, fifty eggs, and half a bag of rice.

The Yunqiao Brigade is located in the south, with paddy fields and two rice crops a year. Every household has enough rice to eat, but it is not possible to eat rice every meal.

Sweet potatoes are mixed into rice and eaten as sweet potato rice.

When Grandma Yang saw the half bag of rice, she frowned and said, "I still need a few days' food for a girl like you. You can keep this half bag of rice for yourself. When your house is built, you can take it and eat it yourself."

How could she take what Yuanchun had brought? She was about to refuse, but then she heard Grandma Yang say, "The early rice harvest will be in half a month, and your house is almost finished. You will need food when the double harvest comes."

"And this meat, it can't be preserved in the hot summer, I'll pickle it for you and save it for you to eat slowly."

"Grandma Yang, it's so hot that if we pickle it, maggots will grow on it. Let's just eat it. Let's eat something fresh." Yuanchun wanted to eat steamed pork with rice flour.

She also took out a packet of steamed meat powder.

Grandma Yang was also worried that the meat would go bad. As she was slicing the meat, she muttered distressedly, "Although you have money now, you can't spend it lavishly. It's meat and chicken, how can you make up so much at once?"

"You won't have much left after building the house with that little money you have. You'll have to get married in the future, so you need to buy yourself a dowry and save some money for a safe. When we women marry into our husband's family, we feel more confident if we have some private money..."

After the meat was steamed, Yuanchun filled a large bowl with it and sent it to the captain's house away from others.

The captain had only a youngest daughter at home, so Yuanchun put the food in her hand and left. In the evening, the captain's wife brought a bowl of shrimps for her and her parents-in-law to eat.

"This is what Dalinzi got up early in the morning to fish out from the ditch. He fished out quite a lot, but we've run out of chili powder at home, so it's not very spicy. You guys should just eat it."

Grandma Yang: "I have some dried chili peppers here. You can take some back. Fish won't taste good without chili peppers to cover the fishy smell. I'll put some in the pot and cook it again."

In the evening, Yuanchun had a meal of spicy fish and shrimp that was so spicy that it made her sweat.