Li Lanzhen prepared dinner, and the meal mainly featured seafood.

Tonight's dinner was attended by only Han Mingjiang's family of five and Li Lanzhen.

Braised fish, steamed fish, sweet and sour fish, deep-fried salted fish, and grilled fish...

Shrimp and crab can be cooked in many ways.

Fresh and smooth steamed clam eggs, crispy oyster pancakes...

A pot of seafood fried rice with rice grains full of the freshness of seafood.

After the food was served, Han Mingjiang came in holding two small black jars.

He put the jar on the dining table and said to Li Lanzhen with a smile.

"Mom, have some rice wine.

Today we had mostly seafood and a little wine. The rice wine here is mellow and not too sweet.

You will definitely like it. When you leave, your son will buy a few more jars for you to take home and drink slowly."

Xue Nizi, who was wearing a headband and long trousers and long sleeves, glared at him.

"What are you talking about? Mom has only been here for a few days and you're asking her to leave."

Li Lanzhen ignored the bickering between the young couple and focused on peeling shrimps and picking fish bones for her two grandsons.

He kept reminding her, "Yibai, eat slowly and don't let the fish bone get stuck in your throat or eyes."

Han Yibai nodded his little head, "Grandma, I know, I know, I will eat fish.

Grandma, do you remember that Xiaohua was eating fish in a hurry one time and a fish bone got stuck in her throat. She cried loudly in pain, and finally, Doctor Uncle Bai took out the bone for her.

There was blood in Xiaohua's saliva. We were really scared that time.

We all said in school that we should not eat fish anymore because fish bones stuck in the throat could be fatal.

Later, it was Master Xu who told us that everything has two sides, and we should not stop eating fish just because a fish bone gets stuck in our throat.

This is called not throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

He also encouraged us to train slowly to see who can eat fish better without getting it stuck in the throat.

So now I eat fish very well.

Grandma, you can eat some too, these fish are better than the fish in our Taohuayuan River."

Han Yibai changed the subject, and Xue Nizi and Han Mingjiang ended their bickering.

Two people sat at the table and lowered their heads to eat.

After the two children had eaten, they went to play with their sister.

Li Lanzhen then asked Han Mingjiang, "Second brother, are you still going to fight at sea?"

Han Mingjiang took a sip of rice wine, squinting his eyes and smacking his lips, feeling very happy. When he heard his mother's question, he was also confused for a moment.

"No, mother, we fought on land, not in the sea.

We are not landlubbers, but we are not sailors.”

Li Lanzhen came back from the market and saw so many fresh seafood. She also heard from Han Yisong that if she went further south from the county town, she would find the sea.

She thought Han Mingjiang and his men would continue to fight at sea.

I was very worried and wanted to ask clearly. Now I heard from Han Mingjiang that they were only fighting the enemy on land and guarding the border.

Her heart was relieved.

After drinking a bowl of rice wine and eating seafood that she had not eaten for a long time, Li Lanzhen was in a very good mood.

Although there are fish and shrimps in the big river in Taohuayuan, the taste is still not as good as the seafood caught from the seaside.

Xue Nizi was holding a bowl of chicken noodle soup, looking at the table full of dishes with eager eyes, drooling greedily.

Li Lanzhen laughed, "Nizi, you are in confinement, you must not eat the food that you are not allowed to eat, you must not damage your body.

When you are out of confinement, mother will make you a good meal."

Xue Nizi was happy again and nodded continuously, "Okay, mother, when I am out of confinement, I must cook a table full of seafood, like the food we have today, it makes me so hungry just by looking at it."

After Xue Nizi and her friends came, they devoted themselves to growing sweet potatoes and potatoes, so they often had only one meal per day.

Han Mingjiang felt sorry for her, so he hired a cook who could cook local dishes.

She usually eats a lot of seafood, but she feels that Li Lanzhen’s cooking is better.

The next morning, after breakfast, Li Lanzhen said she was going out for a walk.

Coaxing Han Yibai to stay at home with his mother and sister.

Li Lanzhen did not drive the donkey cart, but led the donkey out.

After getting on the official road, she put a small cotton pad on the donkey and rode the donkey directly to the fruit market she had been to yesterday.

I found the owner of the durian shop and followed the people he arranged to their village in the mountains.

As he said yesterday, the place would be just over a small hill. Li Lanzhen rode a donkey and followed the man leading the way. It took them more than an hour to reach the top of the hill. Then they saw the village in the valley.

Just as he said, the mountains surrounding the village are all covered with fruit trees.

As she walked along the way, she felt as if she was immersed in the sweet and sticky taste.

Without further ado, we went straight to the fruit forest.

The biggest obstacle was that they couldn't understand what she said, and she also couldn't understand what the local people said.

They were talking in a different language and after talking and gesturing for a long time, Li Lanzhen pointed to the fruits she liked with her hands one by one.

Tell him that I want these fruits, all kinds of fruits, weighing a total of two tons, and it only cost me one hundred taels of silver.

Just tell the man who brought her here to transport them all to the top of the hill.

Then she looked for fruit trees, any that didn't fit in the space, and bought two of each.

Some are fruit tree seedlings, and some are mature fruit trees.

These cost another ten taels of silver.

After finishing all these, lunch was long gone and the sun was about to set.

The villagers were very enthusiastic and grateful to her, thinking she was the Goddess of Wealth who came to give them silver.

Be sure to invite her to try their fruit rice.

Li Lanzhen looked at the pineapple rice and fruit salad that were similar to the ones she had eaten before.

The only difference is that the fruit soup is thicker and has a soft rice porridge.

Li Lanzhen felt it was very delicious.

The original fruits and white rice must have a good taste. After the meal, Li Lanzhen said goodbye to them in a hurry.

It was the same man who took her all the way to the top of the hill.

The top of the mountain was filled with baskets of fruit and fruit trees.

The man explained it in strokes, and Li Lanzhen understood it. He asked her how to take it back.

Li Lanzhen also gestured to tell him that someone would come and take him home soon, so he should go home quickly.

The man walked down the mountain, looking back every few steps, and headed towards his village.

Li Lanzhen waited for another quarter of an hour and saw that there was no one around. She waved her hand and all the fruits and fruit tree seedlings were packed into the space.

Leading the donkey, she hurried down the mountain. She was unfamiliar with the place, so she had to hurry home before dark.

Until they got on the official road home, Li Lanzhen had already taken out two baskets of various fruits, tied the baskets with ropes, and put them on the back of the donkey.

From a distance, she saw Han Yisong riding a horse, with Han Yibai in front, running towards her.

"Grandma, you're back. My brother and I are here to pick you up."

There is no doubt that today's fruit after dinner means you can eat whatever you want and achieve fruit freedom.

The construction in the military camp was very fast. In less than ten days, the vermicelli processing plant was built according to the requirements of the vermicelli processing plant plan given by Li Lanzhen.

Han Mingjiang told her that he would take her to the vermicelli processing factory tomorrow.

Although the factory belonged to the Southwestern Frontier Defense Force, it was located on the bank of a river close to farmland.

All the machines in the vermicelli processing factory are mostly made of wood, some are made of bamboo, and a small amount is made of iron.

Li Lanzhen saw that these machines were more advanced than those in the vermicelli processing factory in Taohuayuan.

After all, it was produced by the equipment factory in the military camp.

Because they are already very familiar with the process of making vermicelli.

During the actual operation, Li Lanzhen emphasized the precautions for each process.

She focused on instructing them on how to make vermicelli from the settled sweet potato flour or potato flour.

After three days of familiarization, the vermicelli processing factory in the southwestern border military camp officially started operations.

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