The Pretty Military Wife

Chapter 146 The joy of harvest

At noon, Zhou Guoliang bought food from the canteen, and Xiao Shun and Gu Sanding also bought food from the canteen.

The three families simply had dinner together.

Xiao Shun looked at Liang Xinyue carefully and said:

"My sister-in-law has lost weight."

Zhou Guoliang smiled and said:

"You didn't lose weight, you gained weight. It's just that you cut your hair and you look smaller, so you think you lost weight."

While helping to set the table, Zou Wenqing said:

"I can't smell the paint. Captain Zhou, please pay attention to this. Pregnant women sometimes just can't stand certain smells."

Zhou Guoliang immediately said:

"You went to see the classroom, right?"

"Yes. But my sister didn't go in. She couldn't stand it if she stood outside and smelled the odor. I went in and took a look. It's not bad."

By the way, he gestured and said to Liang Xinyue:

"The main room is used as a classroom, and the bedroom next to it is used as a library. We also made a few simple bookshelves, a desk, and a few simple stools."

Gu Sanding said:

"That's what Lao Xu said. It can be used as a teacher's office, and it can also be a place for children to read. Teacher Zou, now everything is ready. You have to blow this east wind well."

Zou Wenqing smiled and said:

"Everyone has midterm exams this semester, so I can only take them to look at books and tell them stories to get them interested in reading. Teacher Zhu told me that the first grade will start next semester, so I can enroll Dongdong and Yaya then."

"Dongdong and Yaya are my first batch of students. The others, such as Dayong, Lanlan and Xiaoer, will have to wait for two years."

Liang Xinyue suddenly said:

"Just treat them as a kindergarten. There are only two students, so you will have more free time. We will also help take care of them when we are free. Let them enter a kindergarten class."

Zhou Guoliang asked carelessly:

“What is kindergarten?”

No wonder he didn’t know, there are no kindergartens in the countryside.

In those days, only big cities or some large state-owned enterprises had special kindergartens. Not every child could go to kindergarten.

Xiao Shun didn't know either, so he looked over. Gu Sanding glanced at Liang Xinyue and said:

"It is a place that specifically accepts children aged between two and seven, and is mainly used to take children to play. In the city, adults have to go to work, and no one has time to look after the children, so they are sent to kindergarten."

Some remote county towns don’t even have it, let alone towns and villages.

Zhou Guoliang didn’t know this before because he grew up in the countryside and later served in the army. He was not exposed to these things and he didn’t have any children of his own, so he never paid attention to them.

When Gu Sanding looked at Liang Xinyue, he wondered how his sister-in-law knew that?

Zou Wenqing thought for a moment and said:

"That's fine, but I think we could make some toys, like a seesaw. Or a little wooden slide."

Gu Sanding glanced at Zou Wenqing:

"Do you remember my little wooden horse? After you stole it, you drew a map on it."

Zou Wenqing's face flushed red, and he chased after Gu Sanding who ran away as soon as he said that.

It turns out that when he was a child, Gu Sanding's wooden horse was of natural wood color. Zou Wenqing was still young and insisted on moving it back to his home. He was still young at that time.

Both Gu's father and mother agreed, but Gu Sanding refused and wanted to move it back. Knowing that Gu Sanding was coming to move it away, Zou Wenqing sat on the wooden horse and wouldn't let him. He even wanted to pee but refused to get up, and in the end the wooden horse got wet.

Gu Sanding thought that his little wooden horse had been soiled, and he cried sadly and didn't want it anymore.

Zou Wenqing also didn't want the job because he was seen by Gu Sanding wetting his pants, which hurt his reputation.

The fact that Gu Sanding brought it up again now shows that he remembers it very clearly.

After they had a meal and played around for a while, Zhou Guoliang said:

"Xiao Zou, I don't know what the seesaw looks like. I'll ask soldiers who are carpenters to come over. You tell them how to do it, and then they can do it."

In the afternoon, Liang Xinyue slowly went to the field and saw that the corn seedlings they had planted in the past few days had grown taller, and some had even grown six leaves.

Fu Chunhua took her to the potato field and gently pulled out the well-grown potato vines:

"Xinyue sister, look, see, here, it's all popping out, it's forming."

Sure enough, a small potato popped out from the soil below.

"Cover it with some soil, otherwise the part that pops up will become evergreen."

Fu Chunhua grabbed a handful of soil and covered it up.

The soybeans growing in the ditches of the potato ridges have begun to bear fruit, and there are quite a few pods on each plant.

Fu Chunhua smiled and said:

"I've grown them at home before, but they never grew so well. Sister, your method is the best."

I also went to look at the melon seedlings planted on both sides, and they all began to grow very long vines.

The vines of loofah, winter melon and bitter melon have climbed up the trees or the branches they are tied together, and the cucumbers have small flowers.

Liang Xinyue was watching while pinching off some of the tips and said:

"Sister Fu, look, this kind of melon has several branches on one vine. Pinch the ones that are not growing well here, and pinch the ones that are growing well at the tip. After pinching the tip, new vines will grow out."

Huang Ying's belly is big now, so she is not allowed to come out again.

Today, Sister Yang is responsible for picking up manure to add some fertilizer to these melon vines.

Fu Chunhua also helped. Liang Xinyue looked at the most fertile and best land at the foot of the mountain. It had not been reclaimed yet, but this year it could only be opened up, not planted. It was estimated that in the fall, it would be opened up to see if wheat or rapeseed could be planted.

Unexpectedly, when they turned around, they saw a small piece of land over there. It was the land where they encountered the snake while cutting wood. Because there were no big trees around it, it was not within their scope of reclamation for the time being.

So, what they were growing here at the time were green beans.

Fu Chunhua also said that because Liang Xinyue was away this week, she and Sister Yang Tian Mingfang focused on planting corn and had not come to check on it. She didn't expect that when she came today, she found that the green beans were ready to be picked, and there were a lot of them.

Liang Xinyue hurriedly told Dongdong who had followed her to go back and get the basket and backpack. Then they started picking vegetables.

Dongdong went back and called out Zou Wenqing who was cleaning the books, and then everyone started picking together. After a while, they picked a full basket of green beans.

And less than half of them have been picked.

It grew so well that one part of the branch I cut earlier couldn't bear the weight and broke.

Liang Xinyue immediately decided:

"How about we give this first batch of green beans to the group to eat?"

The other people had no objection. They didn't just grow them here, they also grew them on the other side. I guess there was enough for the whole group to cook.

Liang Xinyue asked Dongdong to go to the regiment gate and tell the guard to ask the quartermaster Lao Liu to bring people to carry it.

And let them bring their own baskets.