"Xinyue, Captain Sheng, you are finally back." Xu Jinling stood at the gate of the courtyard and began waving and shouting from a distance.

"Aunt Xu, why are you here? Come in and sit down first." Zhan Xinyue came over briskly without carrying the bucket, took out the key, opened the iron gate, and invited Xu Jinling to come in and sit for a while.

"No, I have to go back to cook. My husband, Chen, saw that you were new to the island and was worried that you would have nothing to eat, so he asked me to send you some vegetables. They are all grown at home. Tell me when you're done and I'll send you more."

"There are also about twenty oysters that I picked up when I went fishing."

Xu Jinling picked up a large vegetable basket and a small bucket from the ground. In the basket were green peppers, chili peppers, eggplants, beans, cucumbers, water spinach, and Chinese cabbage. The green was tinged with shiny purple, and they looked very fresh.

The small bucket contained oysters and some mantis shrimps.

"How can I do this?" Zhan Xinyue waved her hands.

"What's there to be embarrassed about? The vegetables are grown at home and the oysters are picked. They're free. Take them. Don't be polite with your aunt." Xu Jinling stuffed the basket of vegetables to Zhan Xinyue.

Zhan Xinyue picked up the basket, looked at the vegetables inside, weighed them, and immediately realized that the weight was wrong.

I rummaged inside and saw a piece of bacon and a cured pig's trotter at the bottom of the basket.

"Aunt, we'll take the vegetables and oysters, and you can take the meat and pig's trotters back to eat."

Zhan Xinyue took out the bacon and pig's trotters and wanted to give them to Xu Jinling. Meat was hard to buy these days and you needed a meat ticket. Even the chief of staff couldn't eat meat for every meal.

"I'm from Shuangxi City. I smoked this bacon myself. I brought it here because I know you and Tunan are from Hunan Province. I know you like it too."

Xu Jinling refused to take it and turned to leave, saying as she walked: "My husband Chen has high blood pressure now, and the doctor told him to eat less bacon. My two sons are serving in the army in other places, and it would be a waste if I can't finish it. If I ask you to keep it, just keep it, and don't be polite to your aunt."

The main reason was that Zhan Xinyue was handsome and graceful, and Xu Jinling liked her at first sight.

More importantly, Zhan Xinyue did not despise her at all for being an uneducated rural woman. Most of the wives of soldiers in the army are from the city, some are teachers, some are doctors, and some are from art troupes. They are educated, and they have a common language when they get together and can talk about work and ideals.

Xu Jinling also met with them a few times at the beginning. Although she was talkative and never dulled the mood, it was obvious that the other military wives thought she was uncouth and they could not get along well.

Every time she spoke, everyone just smiled politely and didn't chat in depth.

Zhan Xinyue was different. She also came from the countryside, but she looked fairer than the girls in the city, spoke sweetly, and was sparkling and lovable. Xu Jinling simply liked to give Zhan Xinyue meat.

"Auntie, wait, bring some sea cucumbers and crabs back to eat. We just picked up a lot."

Sheng Tunan poured all the oysters on the ground, put a few big crabs and a dozen sea cucumbers into the empty bucket, and handed it to Xu Jinling.

"Okay, I'll make sea cucumber soup for Lao Chen." Xu Jinling has a cheerful personality and is not being polite. She smiled warmly while carrying the bucket. "Xinyue, are you going to the department store tomorrow? I have a car and can take you there."

Zhan Xinyue nodded: "Then I'll trouble you, Auntie. We need to add some small things to the house."

"Okay, then I'll pick you up at 8:30 tomorrow morning." Xu Jinling and Zhan Xinyue agreed on a time, and strode back humming "The sun sets in the west, the clouds fly, and the soldiers return in glory after shooting."

"Aunt Xu is such a nice person." Zhan Xinyue was carrying a basket of vegetables and meat. After living two lives, she could still tell whether someone was really nice to her.

"Yeah. Simple-minded and straightforward." Sheng Tunan commented, picking up the oysters on the ground one by one and putting them back into the bucket.

"Wife, can I eat all the oysters tonight?"

"Eat if you want. I don't like the taste of oysters, but you can eat them all." Zhan Xinyue said indifferently. She could make a dish of fried bacon with chili peppers in the evening. As soon as she left Hunan Province, she began to miss the taste of her hometown.

"No, wife, I mean I want to eat all the oysters at night. Yes, eat oysters." Sheng Tunan emphasized the word "oysters".

Zhan Xinyue is a Chinese medicine practitioner. He knows that oysters are rich in protein, zinc, taurine, etc., which can promote the secretion of male hormones and play a role in nourishing the kidneys and strengthening the sun.

Zhan Xinyue's face turned red as she couldn't help but recall her wedding night. This damn man was so strong even without eating oysters, what would happen if he ate oysters?

She coughed twice and pretended to be calm, "Don't eat too much of anything. Eat three today and eat the rest in the next two days."

"Okay." Sheng Tunan smiled, "I also like the long-term, long-term future."

A man who endured for two lifetimes before having sex, after tasting the sweetness, wants to have it every day.

For dinner, Sheng Tunan cooked and made fried bacon with chili peppers, steamed egg with sea cucumber, vermicelli with oysters and garlic, and steamed swimming crabs. He then separated the stems and leaves of the water spinach and stir-fried the leaves, and also stir-fried the water spinach stems with fermented black beans and chili peppers.

There were six dishes, which looked like a lot, but in fact, except for the fried bacon with peppers and water spinach stems, they were all light and not enough to eat with rice. Sheng Tunan had a big appetite and finished all six dishes. He started the "Clean Plate" campaign.

After dinner, they went for a walk. Zhan Xinyue and Sheng Tunan decided to plant flowers in the yard first, and then she would go to the town to find a storefront to open a small clinic.

In 1977, the authorities were already preparing for reform and opening up, and the proposal was approved, but they had not yet decided where to start the pilot.

The country is too big, and policy changes need to be made with extreme caution.

However, the military district people must know about this policy. Besides, the island is somewhat isolated from the world. After the military wives came to the island, some of them became teachers and medical staff, while others who couldn't stay idle would go to the town to do some small business. Some set up stalls to sell tea eggs, breakfast, and some did tailoring.

Brigade Commander Li would not care about the fact that it could boost the island's economy on a small scale. He knew that the policy would definitely be implemented in more than a year. Instead, he took care of the business of the military wives several times.

"Sure, I fully support my wife's career." The town is not far from the military area, so I can go home every day. Besides, there are soldiers checking in and out of the island, so it is relatively safe. Generally, no bad guys will come in.

"We don't need a medical license yet, but it shouldn't be a problem to get one." Zhan Xinyue's plan is to open a clinic in the next two years, and then start a company in 1979. She wants to build a world-class pharmaceutical company to benefit terminally ill patients.

In her previous life, traditional Chinese medicine was suppressed everywhere, and the cancer drugs and critical illness drugs developed by Western pharmaceutical companies were extremely expensive. Before she died, she lived in the hospital, looking at the desperate eyes of cancer patients and the guilty cries of their relatives because they had no money, and she felt very uncomfortable.

In her previous life, when she died, the country's military strength was not strong. The most fundamental reason was the problem of money. Equipment requires money, consumables require money, training good scientific and technological personnel requires money, and retaining scientific and technological talents requires even more money.

Some scientific and technological talents are very patriotic. They give up the favorable treatment and living environment abroad for the sake of the country, and are willing to return to China to make contributions despite all the difficulties. These people are great.

There are also some ordinary people who, after studying abroad, are tempted by the high salaries in developed countries and never come back.

Zhan Xinyue had business experience in her previous life, and she was sure that she could make a lot of money in this life. She wanted to run a school and do scientific research. Now that she had the opportunity to be reborn, in addition to enjoying love and life, she also wanted to make some contributions to the country and the people.

A country is truly prosperous and its people are strong when its military is strong, it is not invaded by other countries, its people do not have to worry about expensive medicine when they are sick, and they can live and work in peace and contentment.

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