Framed at the beginning: Female educated youth forced to marry disabled military officer

Among the things given by the villagers, in addition to fruits, there were also dried small fish, scallops, and abalone. Among them, the scallops and abalone were very large. Meng Xiaoman, even an inexperienced person, could tell that they were of good quality.

"Is this too expensive?" Meng Xiaoman asked as she packed her things. It was not easy for fishermen to get these things.

Xiao Xiangdong looked at it and said, "Take it, it's their kindness. If anything happens to them in the future, if we can help, we will lend a hand."

Meng Xiaoman nodded and put away the dried seafood.

He kept some of the remaining fruits to eat, and Meng Xiaoman planned to make a few bottles of canned fruits to eat the other pineapples and mangoes.

There are canned fruits sold in supply and marketing cooperatives, but they require tickets and are relatively expensive. Meng Xiaoman has seen tutorials on homemade canned fruits before and thinks she can make them at home.

First peel and cut the pineapple and mango into pieces, soak them in light salt water for half an hour, put them into a glass can, add sugar, tighten the lid, put them in a pot with water, and steam them for about ten minutes. . It will be ready to eat after two or three days.

Xiao Xiangdong helped her peel the pineapple, and he couldn't believe it when he saw her canned fruit in just a few simple steps.

"Is this good?"

"Okay, how many days will it take to eat?"

"So simple? It won't break?"

"No. Just wait and eat."

"What are you eating? Xiaoman, what delicious food did you make? I want to eat it too." Gu Mengjie came in from outside and said as she walked.

Meng Changqing followed her, holding a pot of chrysanthemums in full bloom.

"Where to put the flowers? There are a few more pots in bloom in the yard. Xiangdong, you can come with me and move them here."

There were too many flowers and plants in the courtyard. After becoming pregnant, Meng Changqing gave some away because he was afraid that Gu Mengjie would be too tired to take care of the flowers and was reluctant to throw them away. Other families in the Military Academy had little interest in these flowers and plants, so most of them were given to Meng Xiaoman.

The two went to move the flowers, while Meng Xiaoman taught Gu Mengjie how to make canned fruits.

After making cans, Meng Xiaoman took some dried fruits and nuts, and the two of them sat in the courtyard, eating while watching the two men busy.

"I think you are better at raising flowers than me. The flowers look much more beautiful at your place than at my house." Gu Mengjie said, looking at the particularly gorgeous roses blooming in the yard.

"You have taken good care of yourself. I am just planting trees for others to enjoy the shade."

"If you didn't have room in your yard, I would have moved them to your house. I sent two pots of flowers to the next door a few days ago. When I passed the door just now, the branches and leaves of the flowers were all wilted. It looked like they hadn't been watered."

"Maybe I didn't take care of it." Many sisters-in-law in family homes have several children to take care of, plus chickens, ducks and other livestock to feed, so they probably don't have time to take care of something as precious as flowers.

"Indeed, Wei Heping's family next door to me has three children, and they make a lot of noise in the yard every day. I'm worried that I will be so noisy when I give birth to a child in the future. Thinking of this gives me a headache. "

Gu Mengjie said, her little face wrinkled. "By the way, can you make children's clothes? Can you teach me how to do it?" Meng Changqing's mother knew that she was pregnant, so she sent a lot of fine cotton cloth and asked her to make clothes for the children, but she was not good at needlework. .

"What do you want to make?" Although Meng Xiaoman has never made children's clothing, the cutting and sewing processes are similar.

"I don't know. This is what we are wearing. Make it smaller?" Gu Mengjie said.

"How about asking Sister Zheng? She is more experienced."

Gu Mengjie thought what she said made sense, so she asked Meng Changqing to invite Zheng Xiumei over.

When Zheng Xiumei came over, she also took a piece of cloth, "Isn't it the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day in a few days? The team is going to hold a party, and we military wives will also participate. I thought, it doesn't matter how we usually are. When I went out to meet people, I couldn't embarrass you, Brother Wang, so I went to pull off a few feet of cloth and asked you to make me a top."

"Are we participating too? There won't be a show, right?" Meng Xiaoman asked. Her memory of the party was the New Year's Day party when she was in school, where each class put on its own show.

Seeing the seriousness on her face, Gu Mengjie couldn't help but laugh. Zheng Xiumei also laughed and said, "Look what you said, we military families can have some talents. We can't dance or sing. The performances are from the art troupe." Live, we just need to watch the excitement and eat and drink well."

"By the way, do we have an art troupe in our army? Why haven't I seen one before?"

"This is not a remote place like ours. During the holidays, it would be nice to have a condolence performance. By the way, I heard that the cultural troupe this time came from the division headquarters in Lu City. The Red Detachment of Women danced very well. . When the time comes, you should go there early, otherwise you won’t be able to get a good seat.”

Zheng Xiumei looked forward to it, so much so that even Meng Xiaoman became interested in it.

On the day of the party, Xiao Xiangdong and the others were going to set up the venue. They went to the military camp early in the morning and even had lunch in the army.

Since the party only started at two o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Xiaoman was not in a hurry. After lunch, he took a nap, then got up to clean himself up, and then went to the camp with Gu Mengjie.

As soon as the two entered the camp, Gu Mengjie saw Meng Changqing.

"Xiaoman, Changqing said that he wants to introduce me to someone. I will come to find you in a while."

"You go ahead and do your work. I'll go shopping by myself first."

After asking Meng Changqing for the general direction, Meng Xiaoman started walking alone.

Meng Xiaoman has good facial features and fair skin, and she took care of herself today, making her look extraordinarily beautiful. It attracted the attention of many soldiers along the way.

However, although the soldiers looked at her, their gazes were restrained. Meng Xiaoman did not feel uncomfortable and smiled at them in a friendly manner.

However, her kindness was so unexpected that the soldiers couldn't help but blush, turned their heads, and some even stepped on the feet of the people in front of them.

Seeing their innocent and cute looks, Meng Xiaoman couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and asked them for directions.

The military camp was quite big. She walked for a while but didn't see any buildings like an auditorium.

"You go forward for a while, and when you see the intersection, turn left, go straight for a while, then turn right, and you'll see it."

Meng Xiaoman followed the route she asked and reached an intersection. When he was hesitating whether to turn left or right, he suddenly heard a voice: "Are you here for a sorority? The auditorium is over here. "

The man's Mandarin was not very standard, and Meng Xiaoman couldn't hear it clearly, but he seemed to mention the party, so he nodded.

Following the man's guidance, Meng Xiaoman entered the auditorium.

The auditorium is not big. There is a long table in the middle with some fruits, peanuts and melon seeds on it. The surrounding area was empty, with many chairs placed against the wall. Only a few chairs were occupied by people, and more were standing in twos and threes, talking and chatting.