The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

After hearing this, Zhou Dajiang felt sorry for Ang'er. The little girl had suffered so much, and now she was finally fine. Her parents were not around, but it was only because Ang'er was strong. If it were his daughter when she was little, she would have cried and wanted to go home a long time ago.

This matter couldn't wait, so Zhou Dajiang immediately got up, put on his shoes, put on a coat, and walked to the window of Lou Ji's room. He knocked on the window, and soon Lou Ji came out with his coat on, "Mr. Zhou."

Zhou Dajiang cut to the chase, briefly explaining that the child had been crying because he missed home during the day, and then asked, "Can you contact the general? Have him come over, or even send a letter."

Lou Ji shook his head. The general hadn't been here for so long, so he might have been out on patrol. Naturally, he couldn't contact him. But he couldn't casually tell anyone about this, so he said carefully, "I'll send a letter to the barracks and ask."

Zhou Dajiang had no other choice but to do this.

No one knew how Lou Ji got there, but early in the morning of the third day, before dawn, Lou Ji handed a letter to Zhou Dajiang.

"The general is on patrol and can't be contacted. This is a letter I just received from the capital, addressed to An Ge'er. It was sent to the barracks, and the soldiers delivered it as fast as they could."

Zhou Dajiang hurriedly took the letter and opened it. It turned out to be written by Anger's brother. The letter explained that because his grandmother was seriously ill, his mother needed to take care of her and could not come to pick him up for the time being. He told him to be obedient and that when his grandmother recovered, he and his mother would take him back home and told him not to worry.

Zhou Dajiang breathed a sigh of relief. Now he could finally give an explanation to his child.

He hurried back to the house and handed the letter to Anger. Anger already knew a lot of words. After reading the letter, he was happy and wiped his tears. It was not that his mother did not want him anymore, but that she could not come to pick him up because of her own situation.

Zhou Dajiang also explained to the children that the general had not come recently because he was on patrol.

Ang'er's mood cleared up and he began to smile. He was no longer so depressed all day.

Time flies, days and months pass by like a shuttle. In the busy life, the days always pass quickly, and more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

In the past month, Zhou Dahe and his family of three moved into a new house, and Xiao Hehua finally had a pink room like her sister.

Zhou Dahai and his family would go to the mountains to catch rabbits on their days off. In the past month, they had run all over the nearby hills and caught thirty or forty rabbits.

They kept the living ones and continued to raise them, and took the dead ones to Zhou Dajiang's house, asking Chen Xiuying to cook them for everyone. There was no other way, the rabbit meat Chen Xiuying made, whether it was spicy rabbit head, dry pot rabbit, or the cold rabbit she made later, was so delicious.

Zhou Dajiang and Chen Xiuying also planted potatoes in the greenhouse. Although not many sprouts have emerged, likely due to pre-plant fertilizer application, the ones they have planted are growing well. Harvest is expected in just over a month. Meanwhile, the pakchoy, leeks, and celery that Chen Xiuying had previously planted are also gradually becoming ready for consumption.

On the side of Zhou's mother and Chen's mother, the business of the puppet workshop is getting better and better. Moreover, since Cheng Fang sent "The Kingdom of Strange Animals" to the capital, as the picture album sold well, they have received a lot of orders for puppets.

Moreover, three issues of "King Kong Calabash Brothers" were released in succession. Although the orders for Calabash Brothers were not as many as those for Animal Kingdom, the total number was nearly a thousand, which kept the two old ladies busy. Not only did they sew the orders themselves, but Chen Xiuying's three sisters-in-law also had to help sew when they had time.

Master Chen was also very busy. Ever since Zhou Dajiang and his wife planted the potatoes, Master Chen had been checking in on the greenhouse every afternoon. He wasn't just checking on the potatoes; he was also looking after the children's radishes. He led them in weeding, thinning out the seedlings, and controlling the pests.

Compared to everyone else, Lou Ji and his friends were relatively free. Aside from taking the children for morning exercises and martial arts practice, they didn't have much else to do. An Ge'er also spent all day in the village. After the greenhouse was built, and the weather turned cold, he rarely went up the mountain. Aside from morning exercises and going to the old house to feed the rabbits, that was the farthest he went out.

Therefore, in order to help the four of them exercise their physical fitness and not neglect their martial arts, Lou Ji specially compiled a duty roster. The four of them were divided into groups of two and took turns going to the mountains every day to hunt, chop wood, and pick stones.

It was Zhou Dajiang who suggested picking up stones. He planned to build a house at the edge of the field after the spring to store farm tools or to take a rest.

Thanks to Lou Ji's arrangement, everyone in the Zhou family had a feast. They could eat pheasants, rabbits, wild boars, roe deer, and other wild game in various ways. Chen Xiuying also made the game that could not be eaten into bacon. After all, the weather was cold, so making more could keep it.

At the factory, production had doubled since the start of the double shift system. But with the album selling like hotcakes in Beijing, orders for wire rings also came in, and they were quite large, with orders for 5,000 at once. Xue Jin accepted the order with both pain and joy. The new factory was almost finished, so he gritted his teeth and worked hard!

Compared to Xue Jin's mixed feelings of pain and joy, Xue Ren's side was filled with nothing but joy. The reason was simple: Wu Chunsheng's team of forty men was truly impressive. If they hadn't been waiting for an auspicious day, they would have already put up the beams within a few days. But it wasn't all bad either. Tomorrow was the day for the beams, and after that, they could work for another three to five days before the Lunar New Year, and another seven or eight days afterward to finish the job. Finally, they could open the business in time for the Lunar New Year, which made all his daily work at the construction site for the past month worthwhile.

Compared to Xue Ren's happiness, the children's happiness was much purer. If for no other reason, the Chinese New Year would be coming in a few days! The children had been looking forward to it every day since Laba, and finally it was the Little New Year.

When the twelfth lunar month came, Zhou Sisi taught them a nursery rhyme. Now the children sing it every day.

Don't be greedy, children, Laba is the new year.

Drink Laba porridge for a few days, it will be the twenty-third.

Twenty-three: sticky sugar melon, twenty-four: sweeping the house,

Twenty-five: make tofu, twenty-six: cook meat,

On the twenty-seventh day, the New Year chicken is killed. On the twenty-eighth day, the dough is fermented.

Steamed buns on the 29th, played all night on the 30th.

Twist and turn on the first day of the new year!

Not only did they sing, they also supervised every day. "Have the sugar melons been made?" they asked. "They want sugar melons on the 23rd." Zhang and Wang were so angry that they wanted to slap their little bastards. "Can't you see the adults are busy? Why are they asking for sugar melons? They're just causing trouble!"

Only Chen Xiuying was a person who spoiled the children. She not only made sugar melons, but also sesame candies and rice cakes, which made the children very happy.

Zhou Sisi was used to eating these every year and didn't think they were anything special. But An Ge'er didn't. This was his first time eating these things. He might have eaten them before at the General's Mansion, but he was too young to remember. An Ge'er just felt so happy right now.

Ever since his brother's last letter, he'd learned that his family didn't abandon him, and that his father hadn't been away because he was guarding the frontier. He'd changed completely, becoming more cheerful and playful. He and his friends, Dabao, Erbao, Chen Nan, and Chen Bei, would play so hard every day that Master Chen's beard would curl up in anger.