The educated youth was reborn and wanted to disappear, but he was locked into a military marriage.

Seeing that Xia Dongliang didn't say anything, Zhu Xiaomin persuaded him again: "This batch of improved seeds has been planted very well in the research institute, and the success rate is very high. It's worth a try."

Xia Dongliang smiled bitterly: "But we don't have much farmland to begin with, it's a hundred acres."

Zhu Xiaomin immediately tried to ask: "Otherwise, eighty acres?"

Eighty acres is not a small amount.

Xia Dongliang still didn't speak.

Zhu Xiaomin tried again, "Fifty acres?"

Xia Dongliang still didn't speak.

Zhu Xiaomin sighed: "Captain Xia, I know I am a little unreasonable, but I came from the first team. If you can't support my work, how can I do this job in the future?"

Well, she admitted that she was a bit blackmailed.

After hearing this, Xia Dongliang couldn't hold back any longer. He hesitated for a moment and nodded: "Then... then fifty acres..."

As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Zhu Xiaomin slapped the table and praised: "Captain Xia, I knew you were courageous. It's settled. When you have chosen a site, ask Chen Zhiqing to help you make a plan and send it to me."

Ok, deal?

Xia Dongliang was still confused, Zhu Xiaomin had already left.

When several teams brought in various nuts, Zhu Xiaomin had already listed several operating procedures in the office. When the nuts were brought in, he handed them to Chen Danqing and said, "Send a few of our people over here, read this method to the sisters-in-law in the canteen, process these nuts, and then bring them back to the educated youth point for me. I have to go back and rest."

Seeing that she felt uncomfortable working with a bulging belly, Chen Danqing quickly took over and asked two people to accompany Jiang Sao to send her back.

At noon, the sisters-in-law had prepared several kinds of nuts according to her request, and Xie Chengzhi brought them back when he came back.

In the afternoon, Zhu Xiaomin took a break and called Luo Ye back to help. She also asked Mrs. Jiang to light a stove in the yard, prepared the seasonings and started to stir-fry one thing after another.

Miao Shiwen sighed as she looked at him, "You have such a big belly, can't you just take a break?"

Zhu Xiaomin smiled at her: "I'm just adding the ingredients, Luo Ye and Jiang Sao are helping me."

Luo Ye nodded immediately: "Sister Shiwen, I won't let Sister Xiaomin use too much strength."

Miao Shiwen couldn't help laughing when she saw a big basin in front of a little guy like him. Seeing Jiang Sao constantly stirring something in the pot, she came over to look into the pot and asked, "What is this?"

Luo Ye immediately shouted: "It's sugar-roasted chestnuts. I can already smell the fragrance."

Zhu Xiaomin said with a smile: "Among these nuts, chestnuts should be the best-selling ones. I asked the sisters-in-law to help me start the business this morning. I just add some seasonings here and give them back to the supply and marketing cooperative. Just like with the candied haws, they can make them themselves."

"What else?" Miao Shiwen asked, looking at the half-filled bowl of egg liquid in front of her, and she was still beating in eggs, and was a little surprised, "Beating so many eggs."

Starting in the spring of this year, they applied to the team again to raise a few more chickens. Due to the great contributions from the educated youth site in recent years and Zhu Xiaomin being from a higher-level unit, the commune agreed easily. Now there are more than a dozen chickens in the backyard, and the educated youth site no longer has to worry about eating the eggs.

Zhu Xiaomin said "hmm" and smiled at her, "Don't feel bad, it won't be wasted."

Miao Shiwen also smiled: "I'm not worried." Seeing her beat the eggs and stir them, he took them over.

Zhu Xiaomin said helplessly: "This isn't tiring. Besides, you're also pregnant."

Miao Shiwen smiled: "I want to learn from you."

Luo Ye stood up and dragged the basin over: "I can do this."

Miao Shiwen smiled and let go.

Zhu Xiaomin reached out and touched Luo Ye's head, looking at him with a smile. When she saw that it was almost stirred, she started to add sugar.

Miao Shiwen took a few glances and couldn't help but sigh: "These are all the things we have, are you going to waste them all?"

Zhu Xiaomin gave her a sidelong glance and said, "You are so stingy. I will bring more next time I come back."

Miao Shiwen pursed her lips and said, "Then we have to buy good ones. You should buy the ones in bags, not the ones that are weighed."

"Okay!" Zhu Xiaomin smiled, "And there's brown sugar, you'll always need it."

Miao Shiwen smiled and said, "We got a lot of sugar tickets from Xudong and Secretary Yan this year. There are not many left in the team, so most of them were given to us. We won't be short of them."

Zhu Xiaomin also smiled, but said, "You should go to the city before the weather freezes next month. If it snows heavily again, the roads will be difficult to travel on."

Miao Shiwen was stunned for a moment and sighed: "I'm afraid Chengzhi can't leave."

Normally, winter has come and the mountains are frozen, which is the quietest time in the countryside. But now that there is a food factory and literacy classes to run, Xie Chengzhi has become even busier.

Zhu Xiaomin was helpless: "He can't go, so I'll take you there first. This mountain road is covered with snow, so it's easy for him to go down, but it's difficult for you."

Mrs. Jiang has been here for the past few days and has noticed that Zhu Xiaomin is close to the people at the educated youth site. She nodded and said, "Miao Zhiqing told Xie Zhiqing not to worry. I'll be here when we get to the city and I'll take good care of you."

Zhu Xiaomin also smiled: "Mrs. Jiang is very capable and her cooking skills are also good."

Miao Shiwen thought about it and nodded: "I will discuss it with Chengzhi."

Zhu Xiaomin ignored her and said to Jiang Sao: "When we go back in a few days, remember to remind me to get another small bed and put it together with the one over there, otherwise Chengzhi won't be able to live there."

Miao Shiwen sighed: "Ming Zheng will come back soon."

Zhu Xiaomin was helpless: "He can't stay for a few days, I still have to rely on Sister Jiang."

Luo Ye listened to the two people talking, and his good mood just now fell. He whispered: "Sister Shiwen is leaving too."

Feeling the changes in the child, Zhu Xiaomin hugged him and said softly, "Luo Ye, the medical conditions here are too poor. Sister Shiwen only went to the city to give birth to the baby and will come back after the baby is born. Sister Xiaomin will also come back often."

Luo Ye nodded sensibly, and looked at her eagerly: "Sister Xiaomin, will your baby come back? I can teach him to recite poems."

Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help laughing and nodded immediately: "Of course I will come back. You have to help me take care of her when the time comes."

Luo Ye became happy again and nodded immediately. Looking at her belly, he was already a little impatient.

It’s much more fun to recite poems with sister Xiaomin’s baby than to take care of those naughty kids.

Zhu Xiaomin couldn't help laughing when she saw his eyes sparkling, and she touched his head again.

A few people were chatting in a low voice. After the egg liquid with sugar was mixed in the basin, Zhu Xiaomin asked Luo Ye to get another basin, divide the egg liquid into two parts, and start adding flour and water to it again.

Miao Shiwen saw white flour on one side and cornmeal on the other and asked, "Didn't you say that we don't need grain?"

Zhu Xiaomin shook her head: "It's impossible not to use it at all, I just try to use it as little as possible."

Gradually stir the two sides into a thin paste, then divide it into several bowls and put them on the stove, where a low fire was lit.

Miao Shiwen asked: "Is this batter for inspiration?"

Zhu Xiaomin nodded: "Okay, stir in the chopped nuts and steam it."

"It's not difficult, it's just troublesome to deal with the nuts," Miao Shiwen commented.