Sixty years old with the army, the heirless boss loves his fertile wife

Chapter 49 Steamed Crabs

"no!"

Zhan Zeye interrupted Tang Qiyue's guess with certainty.

"He doesn't have the face to trouble you!"

After Tang Qiyue left, someone from the fishing village came to the military camp to find Zhan Zeye and told him about what happened yesterday. However, they did not come to complain, but to apologize.

After all, civilians should not fight against soldiers. The people in the fishing village are not stupid. What's more, the guy Tang Qiuyue beat up was a bastard. Even if the fishing village wants to protect their own people, they cannot confuse right and wrong.

Zhan Zeye knew that Tang Qiyue had not suffered any loss, but he was still disgusted by the domestic violence man. After asking and finding out that people in the fishing village believed in beating their wives was a very normal thing, he looked down on it even though he was a man. He discussed it with Political Commissar Wu and asked Zheng Hongxia, who was in charge of women's work, to take people to the fishing village to do some publicity.

The reason why Tang Qiyue was not allowed to go at this time was purely because I was afraid that Tang Qiyue would run into someone she disliked again and it would be bad if she started fighting again.

Tang Qiyue realized that Zhan Zeye was not just trying to get her to give her a perfunctory answer, so she didn't continue the topic. Instead, she said she would go to Xu Qiuju to discuss what vegetables to grow.

Zhan Zeye left with his lunch box. He still had training tasks to complete and couldn't stay with Tang Qiyue all the time. He just told her not to run around.

Tang Qiyue did not go to find Xu Qiuju immediately. After Zhan Zeye left, she closed the door and checked the system. She no longer had any points, and there were too many things she wanted to redeem, so she had to earn points.

I scanned the crabs and octopuses in the barrel and found that they could be exchanged for points.

Although this thing is a worthless seafood to people on the island, in an era of limited transportation conditions, fresh seafood is a luxury.

With just half a bucket of crabs and octopuses, Tang Qiyue earned fifty points. She wanted to exchange them for vegetable seeds or something, but found that the points were not enough.

In the end times, seeds were very valuable, so she could only settle for the next best thing and exchange them for some seasonings.

After he had almost packed up, he went out to look for Xu Qiuju. As soon as he arrived at the door of Xu Qiuju's house, he saw Xu Qiuju's three children chasing each other in the yard. Xu Qiuju was scolding the children in a headache.

"Sister-in-law, please go into the house quickly and ignore these naughty monkeys. They are making me upset just by looking at them!"

Xu Qiuju invited Tang Qiyue into the house. After all, the island was very safe, so there was no need to worry about anything happening to the children, so she just let them play outside.

After entering Xu Qiuju's room, Tang Qiyue realized that her room was still too tidy.

There is a huge difference between having children at home and not having children. Although Xu Qiuju and Hu Peng are using the main house, and the three children are sleeping in the room next door, the youngest is still young, so Xu Qiuju has to take the child to sleep with him.

The result was that the room was very messy. Xu Qiuju threw the clothes on the chair onto the bed and asked Tang Qiyue to sit down. She was not embarrassed to tidy up the messy bedding and clothes on the bed.

"Sister-in-law, I tell you, raising children is so troublesome. I regret having so many of them. If I wasn't afraid of them starving to death, I wouldn't have come to join the army!"

Xu Qiuju was really troubled. She married Hu Peng early and had been living in her husband's family. Every year when Hu Peng went back for home visit, he would put a baby in Xu Qiuju's belly.

Although pregnancy was hard, fortunately my parents-in-law helped to take care of the baby. However, there were disasters in the past few years and life was difficult for everyone. Hu Peng's brothers also had families. They felt it was unfair to see the old couple helping Hu Peng and his wife take care of the children, so they stuffed all the children on the old couple.

There was no way the family had enough food. Xu Qiuju was angry at her sisters-in-law for being so narrow-minded. It was obvious that it was Hu Peng who mailed back all the allowances and wages so that his parents-in-law could help raise the children.

It was already difficult to support three children and her parents-in-law with that little salary. If she added her nephews and nieces, it would definitely not be enough. There was no other way. After discussing with her parents-in-law, Xu Qiuju gritted her teeth and followed Hu Peng to join the army. Xu Qiuju was very happy that she could have enough food to eat with the army, but the three children were at the age of being naughty, and her energy was limited. Zou Ran was inevitably busy taking care of the children by herself.

Tang Qiyue listened to Xu Qiuju talking about family matters. She felt very sympathetic towards her, but it was not easy to ask Xu Qiuju's parents-in-law to come over. She guessed that the old couple must have thought about it before not coming.

"But I heard from Hu Peng that from now on I can just send these three brats to school and pick them up once a month, and then I won't have to work so hard!"

Xu Qiuju's eyes lit up. She had given birth to only sons and firmly believed that sons should not be spoiled too much, so she was happy to know that she didn't have to keep an eye on her children every day.

"We are going to build a school on our island?"

Tang Qiyue remembered that there were not many family members who came with the army. Even if the technicians were included, there were not many children, right? The key point was that the age difference was too big to form a school.

"How is that possible? There are only a few people on the island. It's the military area where we lived before we came here. There is a school for children of the military, and all the children on the island who are of the right age can be sent there!"

Xu Qiuju folded the clothes and came close to Tang Qiyue: "But there will still be a red education class on the island, mainly to help take care of the children, so that we don't have to hang around the children every day, and we can also do something we like."

This is a good thing and Tang Qiuyue is very optimistic about it.

However, thinking about the situation in the fishing village, I wonder if they can recruit the children there. If possible, it should reduce a lot of pressure on the women in the fishing village.

This matter has not been concluded yet, and Tang Qiyue did not pay much attention to it. When she mentioned the vegetable seeds, Xu Qiuju slapped her thigh and said, "I knew that you didn't prepare any, sister-in-law. I have some here!"

She originally came from the countryside. Before coming here, she thought that she could save a lot of food tickets by growing some by herself, so she brought a lot of seeds with her.

"These are loofah seeds. You can spread them under the fence, saving you the trouble of building a trellis. You can also plant beans and cucumbers!"

Xu Qiuju was a straightforward person. She laid out all the seeds she brought and told Tang Qiyue how to plant them and when to plant the seeds.

Tang Qiyue listened carefully. She had seen people with wood-attributed abilities controlling plants in the apocalypse, but unfortunately she had never seen them grow naturally. This time she made up for this regret.

If the soldier who came to deliver food hadn't called for help, Tang Qiyue and Xu Qiuju could have chatted for another day.

Xu Qiuju was shocked to see Tang Qiyue cooking by herself. She couldn't think straight. She could cook some seafood for the children as a snack, but she would never do it all by herself. That would be too tiring. Anyway, she had the meal ticket, so she could just eat in the cafeteria.

Tang Qiyue did not explain why she had to cook for herself, after all, her situation was special.

After having the food brought into the kitchen, Tang Qiuyue checked the situation and prepared to make some octopus pancakes and steam the three remaining crabs, which would be enough for her to have a meal.

Firewood was also delivered, and Tang Qiuyue lit the fire and started cooking.

She prepared her lunch very quickly and just brought it into the house. Before she started eating, she heard someone calling her at the door.

Crabs are not tasty when they are cold. Tang Qiyue didn’t want to move, but the noise outside sounded wrong, so she had to get up and go out.

(End of this chapter)