The Pretty Military Wife

The two children in Old Liu's family are indeed well-behaved and very sensible.

The two brothers take care of each other and can cook for themselves when they get home. No one needs to worry about them at all.

After Political Commissar Xu learned that they lived there alone most of the time, he ordered a bus to go to the county town every ten days, and to visit the two children every time.

If you can bring something, then bring it. If you can’t, at least let others know that these two children cannot be bullied at will.

With the help of good neighbors, the two children are no longer a worry to us at all.

Yang Dapan is a good worker.

If you count them carefully, it is true that only Liang Xinyue's work is worse and her physical strength is worse.

But Liang Xinyue uses her brain more often.

They did not have to go to work very early every day. They would just clean up the house, send the men to work, and then take the children with them. Each family would also carry a military water bottle and go to work carrying their gear.

In the fields, the older children took care of the younger children, and the adults just watched and helped them to pee. Anyway, every child grew up playing in the mud, and the worst that happened was that they would get their heads, faces, and hands covered in mud. They would just go home and wash themselves, eat, and sleep as usual.

After a few days, the children were very happy. The older ones knew how to take care of the younger ones, and the younger ones knew not to look for their mother.

And the results of their labor are gratifying.

A piece of land here has been cleared, and Liang Xinyue is very satisfied that there is a natural pit. If not, she would have to dig a pit to ferment fertilizer.

There is a place for composting, so there is no need to worry about irrigation here in the future. I found a place where compost can be fermented. I tried it and found that there should be stones underneath. Water seeps less, so there is still some stagnant water and fallen leaves inside.

Liang Xinyue was afraid that the children would play here, so she reminded Yaya and asked her and Dongdong to watch over them and not let the younger ones run over here.

Still feeling uneasy, Fu Chunhua and I gathered some chopped tree branches and used them to build a circle around the pit as a simple guardrail.

Fortunately, the children are very obedient, and for some reason, both big and small, they all listen to Yaya. As long as Yaya is under control, they will all be obedient.

At noon, they would leave all their tools there, return home with their children, and start cooking. The men from each family would also help.

I can do the laundry, cook, eat and let the kids take a nap.

The adults cleaned up the house and the vegetable garden behind.

With the warm sun every day, the snow melted quickly, and the spring breeze blew, slowly turning some grass green.

The potatoes that Liang Xinyue asked Xiao Wei to buy when he was out driving were also bought.

The first thing she wanted to plant was potatoes. Not only would she plant them in the reclaimed land, but she also planned to plant some in her own backyard and in the backyards of Lao Xiao and Gu Sanding.

After hearing this, Lao Xu took advantage of his free time to clear the weeds in his backyard and handed it over to Liang Xinyue to manage.

That is to say, let her plant whatever she wants.

So, Fu Chunhua also came to help and turned all of them over deeply.

Zhou Guoliang also helped dig the land in his backyard after he came back, but he felt sorry for Liang Xinyue who was pregnant and taking care of Lao Xiao's two children, so he had to work.

So, he tried to help as much as possible when he was free.

But Liang Xinyue made it very clear that no one was allowed to go to the land at the back of the mountain to help, otherwise they would be punished.

Liang Xinyue had listed the charter and rules of their vegetable-growing cooperative in great detail, including how to divide the money, how to divide the work, and what disciplines to follow. All the clauses were clearly written and read to them.

At first, Lao Xu thought they were just doing it for fun, but later he felt more and more that although Liang Xinyue's approach was not something that should be advocated, it could not be said that she was wrong.

Lao Xu thought some of the management methods were good. But some things couldn't be brought to the surface, so they just pretended they didn't know, anyway, it was just a few women's trouble.

In this land, they can still hold up an umbrella for these women and protect them.

Twenty days passed and the land they had reclaimed was quite large. Liang Xinyue was getting anxious. It was already mid-February and some vegetable seeds should have been planted long ago, but she had not received a reply from her brother yet.

Liang Xinyue led a few women to cut potatoes (in that era, they were called potatoes, but the author was lazy and often wrote potatoes, so don’t blame me).

Among these family members, only Tian Mingfang had planted potatoes, but she planted only a small amount. They were planted by the elders in the family, and she only harvested them.

Everyone else listened to Liang Xinyue's instructions.

Liang Xinyue taught them how to cut the potatoes into pieces, ensuring that there were two nests for germination on each piece.

They threw the cut potatoes into the pile of firewood ashes on the side.

It's not just ash, there's some fine sand in the ash.

Since they decided to farm, Liang Xinyue asked everyone to save the ashes from the firewood used for cooking and heating the kang every day.

I also asked Xiao Wei and others to help transport some of the ashes from the cafeteria.

The canteen mostly uses coal, but sometimes firewood is used.

They then mixed some fine sand with the ash, put the cut potatoes in the ash and planted them in the field. First, it can protect the cut surface from rotting, and second, it is a little fertilizer. It can also prevent the possibility of insects.

After throwing a pile of potatoes, they put them into baskets and planted them in the afternoon.

They cut the potatoes in the morning, and in the afternoon they carried two baskets of cut potato pieces to the field.

The soil in the field had been divided into ridges, and Liang Xinyue was instructing everyone on how to plant.

"It's actually very simple to plant potatoes. We have prepared the land. Look at me doing this. I take a potato, put the cut side down, the sprouting part up, and press it down gently. You don't need to cover it with too much soil. Once you press it, just move your fingers and the soil that comes down will be fine."

"Look at the size of the potato cubes in your hand. If they are too small, press two cubes. Then remember to press the second cube one and a half feet apart."

Liang Xinyue showed everyone how to do it while she was talking. This is simple and everyone will be able to do it after one look.

Fu Chunhua said directly:

"You and Huang Ying shouldn't do this. You two can't even bend your waists. Let us do it. You can do something else."

Huang Ying is six months old, and even when she takes off her cotton coat you can see that she has a big belly. But Liang Xinyue is only three months old, and because she is tall and thin, you can't see it.

"I'm fine. I will take care of my health. Sister Huang, please don't plant it."

Liang Xinyue felt that her health was very good now. She didn't seem to have any other feelings about being pregnant with this child. The only feeling was that she ate more. Another benefit was that she no longer had her period.

While they were busy planting potatoes, Xiao Wei ran over and shouted:

"Sister, sister, Sister Xinyue. Come on, your package is here."