This house was no different from the Australian houses she had seen and lived in in Lingao. The walls were whitewashed with limewash, and there was a gas lamp set on the wall. [Read the latest chapter] The windows are made of bright glass, and the floor is more sophisticated: it is made of bamboo. The ceiling is not high, and the area of the room is even pitifully small.
This house is really smaller than the pigsty I used to have! Although Wang Baoer's family was just a small grain farmer in the past, the courtyard at home was quite large. The threshing floor in front of the door was almost an acre of land. Each of the three large tile-roofed houses facing north was twice as big as this house. The wing rooms for the busy people who do the work are bigger than this one.
My man has always boasted about how rich the "chiefs" are, how well they treat the people, how the people live and work in peace and contentment, and how well they have food and clothing... It sounds like a paradise on earth - just look at how cramped this house is. Qu, it’s nothing more than that…
But after all, Lingao is a peaceful place. There are no insurgents or bandits everywhere. Food is cheap. Not only can you eat fine grains, but you can also eat fish and meat from time to time. In her hometown, let alone famine and military disasters, even in normal times, it was rare for a family like her to eat a few meals of fine grains, let alone fish and meat - eating a piece of tofu was considered an improvement.
It's nice to have such a small place to live, but you know that you and your husband don't even have a house like this. I don’t know when I will have a house of my own. I also had a hard life, not counting the loss of my family and my family, but in the end I was reduced to marrying such a low-ranking, wind-literature-educated, c⊕︾t and other martial artist! Thinking of this, she couldn't help but secretly shed tears. When Zheng Yue'e asked her to put the plate, she quickly wiped it with her sleeves.
Huang Ande called his brothers to sit down. Everyone put the food and wine they brought on the big table. Huang Ande is a bachelor, so naturally he has no one to cook. What he prepared was to buy two roast ducks from Dongmen City: the authentic Nanbao duck sold in the shopping mall and restaurant was oily and crispy. I also prepared a lot of rice beer and fruit wine.
The two female relatives did not dare to be like the legendary female leader. Da Lala sat with the men, but hid in the kitchen preparing food and wine.
"Brother Huang, your gas stove is so easy to use. You can turn it on with a match and light it up."
"It's because the chief is so good that the stove is so sophisticated." Wang Bao'er looked at the stove carefully, "There's gas coming out here. Maybe the chiefs are using methane gas from retting dung."
"It's not biogas, it's coal gas." Zheng Yue'e said well-informed, "The biogas thing comes and goes. It's unreliable to cook with it." She took out a cloth apron and put it on, rolled up her sleeves and started working. stand up. The food and wine are all ready-made. Apart from slicing the cold meat and putting it on the plate, everything else just needs to be reheated.
After everyone sat down, Huang Ande asked everyone to fill up their bowls. After seeing that the wine glasses were all filled, Huang Ande raised the wine glass and said that everyone was his brothers who followed him through life and death. If it weren't for the help of all the brothers, he would lose more than a hundred kilograms of meat. Maybe it was thrown in Dengzhou City. After saying that, he drank the wine in the cup. Everyone sighed and drank the contents of their cups. After finishing the wine, the conversation started and the atmosphere became lively. At this time, remembering the bitter and thinking of the sweet is the easiest time to resonate with everyone.
"Hey. When I was in the Dengzhou camp, I could look forward to having a full meal and it would be worth it to die. I didn't expect that now. I can have a full meal every time. What a pity, Brother Zhang. He is so good at riding horses and has great martial arts skills. Li Li The master of Luzhuang said it would be of great use, but he didn’t expect to go out for reconnaissance and shoot an arrow at the Liao soldiers, so he died like that!”
"Big Li is pitiful. He is usually as strong as an ox, but he fell ill as soon as he arrived in Lingao. He passed within a few days. He didn't enjoy even a single day of happiness. Alas."
"Even if you come to Lingao, you may not necessarily enjoy happiness. Bi Dalu from Shuiying is my cousin. He also came to Lingao and was assigned to the navy. It is a famous place for eating and drinking. I didn't expect that when I went to sea, He followed the master to load coal into the boiler, but the stove exploded and water vapor spurted out, scalding him to death! Speaking of which, he was an only child, and his whole family died in Dengzhou. I thought that arriving in Lingao was just a matter of delaying my aunt's cigarettes. I didn’t expect it to be gone like this!”
Everyone talked about their friends and acquaintances, which caused bursts of sighs.
At this time, Cao Qing laughed and said: "Among our group, apart from Brother Huang, Zhu Laosi is the most capable. He can still pull out his old sweetheart among thousands of troops." In one sentence. The whole table laughed. Zhu Si lowered his head and laughed foolishly. Zheng Yue'e poked her head out from the kitchen and spat: "Cao Qing, I can't change your bad mouth no matter where you go."
Zhu Si said: "This is because Brother Huang is willing to help, otherwise I wouldn't have the ability!"
"Speaking of it, it's still the kindness of the Senate. If Chief Lu hadn't sent me to the human market to buy people, Zhu Si, how could you have met your younger brother and sister? How could I have rescued her?" Huang Ande said with emotion, "It's also the younger brother and sister who don't deserve to die! You deserve this marriage!"
Zhu Si chuckled, as if a fool is blessed. Zheng Yue'e brought out a large plate. The two roast ducks had been re-roasted on the stove. They were all sliced into slices. Each slice had skin and meat, and was served with sweet noodle sauce, green onion segments, cucumber strips and pancakes - all matching. After buying it, Zheng Yue'e now works as a cook in a cooperative restaurant, and her knife skills are not bad.
"It tastes good to you all, but it won't taste good when it's cold!" He wiped his hands on his apron, then turned back to the kitchen to get other food and drinks.
Huang Ande saw Zheng Yue'e talking and laughing freely, regaining her former hot girl look, and couldn't help but raise his glass and smile. Turning his head, he saw his cousin Huang Xiong, eating vegetables by himself. My own wife also hid in the kitchen and only worked silently.
"Brother, we are all brothers here, let's have a drink together." Huang Ande couldn't help but persuade him to drink. Huang Xiong sighed slightly and drank a drink with Huang Ande.
"Brother, why do you look so depressed?"
"To be honest, brother Ander, my brother and I have recently entered the tactical training class of the General Staff. When I entered the class, I saw that most of them joined the army later than me - supposedly we were also the first members of the security group. When Cheng Cheng We didn't catch up with the battle, we really couldn't catch up step by step." He took another sip of wine and sighed heavily.
What Huang Ande knows best about Huang Xiong is that he failed to catch up with the second counter-encirclement and suppression campaign, and did not participate in the subsequent Summer Awakening, so his performance was much worse than that of the same period. It was not easy for him to participate in a big operation like Operation Engine, but as a result, his team was not promoted because he failed to control himself. Instead, he was assigned to Jeju Island as the White Horse Team, and missed the subsequent action against the Zheng family.
However, since each of them has a wife, it is hard to say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing in a world where there are more men than women. Huang Xiong's wife, Wang Baoer, hid in the kitchen and did not dare to respond when her husband mentioned this.
Huang Ande then comforted Huang Xiong: "Brother, didn't you marry a wife? Now that my wife is pregnant, it would be better to have a son tomorrow than to be promoted!"
"Brother Ande, don't forget that I married a daughter-in-law, but I haven't been promoted to the official position, I haven't been allocated a house, and I don't know that I have to wait in line until the end of the year to buy one. Now we still have to sleep in a dormitory. I can say it myself, my daughter-in-law is pregnant. I don't worry about being disliked by others in a dormitory. What should I do after I give birth to a child? I may not continue to live in the dormitory..."
Mr. and Mrs. Huang Xiong are similar to Mr. and Mrs. Zhu Si. They live apart on weekdays and only get together on holidays. After becoming pregnant, living in a dormitory becomes a lot of inconvenience. Because of this, Wang Baoer has been at odds with Huang Xiong recently.
Buying land to build a house by yourself is a no-brainer in Lingao: except for some land owned by the indigenous people in the past, almost all the land belongs to the Senate. The Planning Yuan not only controls the land planning of the county, but also never sells houses to individuals. base, unless there are indigenous people willing to sell them homesteads: the price is simply unaffordable to Huang Xiong.
Wang Qisuo said: "Brother Huang can't apply for a house? Our security battalion has just allocated houses to officers recently. Brother Huang is a veteran of the security group and is longer than the oldest company commander in our battalion."
"We are a field force, how can we be compared with the Yulin Army like you? I applied, but there were too many officers in the battalion to apply. Although I have seniority, I haven't fought many battles, and I have accumulated merit. The points are not enough. I can only wait in line slowly. I heard from Xiao Xie from Lianqin that it won’t be my turn until at least next year.”
"Brother Huang, you are an old man in the security team after all. You were the first to follow the leader to follow the dragon, so you must have some discounts." Wang Qisuo said while eating wine and food.
"Commander, do you still remember us? Nowadays, the Senate has a great business and a strong army..." Huang Xiong drank too much and couldn't help but complain. He recently received training in the General Staff's tactical training class, which was originally a good thing to prepare for promotion. After I went there, I saw that many people who were much younger than me were equal to or even above me in terms of military ranks. Even though I have found a wife, I can't help but feel a little bit unhappy. What's more, because of this wife, she broke the rules and was not allocated a house. Wang Baoer, who came to Lingao, often said: "My family officials can be considered to have made great contributions to the chief. Other families have houses, why don't my family have houses?" .You still have to squeeze in with so many people.”
"Also, there are no enlightened private schools here. How will the children go to school in the future?" Wang Baoer, who had been silent in the kitchen for a long time, joined in after hearing what her husband was saying.
"It's easy to go to school. The chiefs also have schools. Your brother Huang Xiong is an army officer. There is no charge for children to go to school. My younger siblings can rest assured." Huang Ande also knew that the land in Linggao was very expensive and he was nervous about living there, so he didn't dare to take it. Huang Xiong's words followed those of his siblings. But as soon as the conversation started, the brothers Huang Ande brought from Dengzhou began to complain more. (To be continued...)
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