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

When you buy a sewing machine, you need to assemble it yourself. Meng Xiaoman gave this task to Xiao Xiangdong and went to make dinner.

She was too full at lunch, so in the evening Meng Xiaoman cooked some vegetable and seafood porridge, mixed with hot and sour shredded radish.

After dinner, Meng Xiaoman talked about writing letters to Sister Fang and others from the Qinghe Brigade. Ask him if he has anything to write.

"I don't have anything to say. Just give me a few greetings." As for the Xiao family, he had nothing to say. "By the way, write it down and give it to me. I'll take it to the army and send it to you."

Letters sent by their troops must be reviewed.

In the letter, Meng Xiaoman asked about Sister Fang, Zhang Quanliang, and Xiao Xiangmei's recent situation, introduced the situation on the island, and introduced the details of the trip to the sea. I also sent a lot of self-dried seafood, including razor clam meat, conch meat, mussel meat, clam meat, etc. I also packed three kilograms of sun-dried longan and told them to give each of them a kilogram to Sister Fang, Xiang Mei, and Zhang Changming. , used to replenish qi and blood. As for the other seafood and dried kelp, let them give Xiao Tiezhu and Zhang Dongliang a share.

Afraid that they would not know how to eat seafood, Meng Xiaoman wrote several simple methods in the letter. It took five or six pages to write the letter.

The bricks, tiles, cement, lime and other building materials bought by the trustee were bought. When the military camp was resting on Sunday, Xiao Xiangdong made an appointment with the masons and spent a day building the toilets and shower rooms.

The area is not large, only about ten square meters in total. The bathroom is larger, with an area of ​​eight square meters. In addition to showering and bathing, you can also wash clothes.

After the toilet and shower room were built, there was still a lot of open space in the yard. Meng Xiaoman left four to five square meters to grow onions, ginger, and garlic, and planned to use the rest to plant flowers.

She used the flower tea and flower petals for bathing that Gu Mengjie sent last time, and she wanted to grow some of them herself. Moreover, in addition to transplanting them in the yard, she also planned to ask her for various flower seeds to plant in the space. In this way, no matter spring, summer, autumn or winter, she will have a steady supply of flowers to use.

On the same day, when Meng Changqing and his two men came to deliver woody flower branches, Meng Xiaoman and Gu Mengjie wanted to buy some of her flower seeds.

"Why are you so outspoken? A little seed is worthless. If you want to thank me, why don't you let me have a meal at your house?"

Meng Xiaoman saw the greedy look on her face, so he agreed to let her have two meals. Delighted, she immediately went home to look for flower seeds. Not long after, he came over with a bag of flower seeds and said, "Here, these are all the flower seeds I have collected. Many of them are not suitable for growing here, and some are very difficult to grow. Take your pick!"

Meng Xiaoman didn't pick a large quantity, but he picked up all kinds. They grow and reproduce quickly in space, and it won't take long for them to produce new flower seeds.

In the evening, Meng Changqing and the two naturally ate at home, and Meng Xiaoman specially made an innovative dish-sour food. Sour food is a kind of pickled fruit. Meng Xiaoman suddenly remembered how to eat it and bought green mango, green papaya, pineapple and guava to make sour food.

Sour food generally comes in two flavors: hot and sour, and sweet and sour, and Meng Xiaoman made both. Sour food is a way of eating fruit in the southwest. Meng Xiaoman also ate it while traveling in her previous life. She was not used to it at first, but later she fell in love with it.

When she was making it, she was a little worried that Xiao Xiangdong and the other three northerners wouldn't be used to eating it, so she specially made half of it sweet and sour. Unexpectedly, everyone accepted it very well, especially Gu Mengjie, who especially liked spicy and sour food. She ate half a bowl by herself.

In the end, Meng Changqing was afraid that eating too much would be bad for her stomach and wouldn't let her eat, so she reluctantly stopped talking, "I don't know why, but I like eating heavy food lately, especially spicy and sour food."

He does not mean that. Not sure if it was due to the influence of studying medical skills for a period of time, Meng Xiaoman suddenly thought of a possibility. After eating, Xiao Xiangdong and Meng Changqing went to the kitchen to wash dishes. Meng Xiaoman pulled Gu Mengjie into the inner room and asked her if she was pregnant.

When Gu Mengjie heard this, she shook her head repeatedly, "No, but I just had it some time ago. Although the amount was relatively small, my period has never been normal."

"Oh, then maybe I'm overthinking it." I don't know if she watched too many movies and TV shows in her previous life, but when she saw a woman eating hot and sour food, she thought of pregnancy.

At the end of August, in autumn, the temperature on Yushan Island suddenly rose several degrees, and the sunshine was very strong. Meng Xiaoman didn't want to waste such good sunshine. In addition to going to the sea every day to dry seafood, she also went to Old Man Chen to buy a lot of fruits and planned to dry some. Dried fruits.

She had sent all the things she had posted to Sister Fang and the others. Now I plan to dry some and keep them for myself.

Tropical fruits have a high sugar content, so there is no need to add sugar, they are very sweet when exposed to the sun.

Meng Xiaoman prefers to eat mangoes and bought 40 pounds of large mangoes to make dried mangoes.

The mangoes you choose for drying are different from the small mangoes you usually eat. Choose large mangoes with thin skin, thick flesh, and a small core with less fiber.

I bought 30 kilograms of bananas. Cutting them into slices takes a lot of time. Fortunately, Xiao Xiangdong is a good knife maker, so I left everything to him.

Meng Xiaoman thought it was too troublesome to peel the dried longan one by one, so he dried the longan together with the shell. It would be the same if he peeled the longan when he was ready to eat. And when stored in a case, it is relatively clean and not easy to break.

As for jackfruit, Meng Xiaoman directly bought four large ones, each weighing forty or fifty kilograms. Save one for fresh use, and use the other three to dry the jackfruit.

Since Meng Xiaoman gave him the idea, Old Man Chen's fruit stall could not sell one jackfruit a month, but now he can sell one jackfruit a day, which is very popular with these military families.

When Meng Xiaoman went to buy it, he didn't have that much in stock and said he wanted to pick it fresh from the orchard. After hearing that Meng Xiaoman said she wanted a lot of mangoes, bananas, etc., she said she would pick them from the orchard in the afternoon and have someone deliver them to her.

The person who came to deliver fruit in the afternoon was Old Man Chen’s grandson, named Chen Zhen. He was sixteen or seventeen years old. He had the dark and shiny skin unique to the island people. He smiled and showed his big white teeth. He looked very simple at first glance.

When counting money, Meng Xiaoman found that he had less money and gave him the money. He then said that there was a jackfruit among them, which his grandfather had specially asked to give to her as a thank you gift. Thanks for her idea for the fruit stall last time.

She bought fruits, but there was not enough bamboo radish for drying the fruits, so she bought ten more bamboo radish and three wooden shelves for putting bamboo radish.

"Hey, little girl, this dress of yours is very pretty. Did you buy it from Lushi? How much did it cost?" the lady selling bamboo shoots asked her in a low voice after collecting the money.

Meng Xiaoman wore an A-line dress with a doll collar and a slightly waisted waist. Because the fabric she bought was only five feet long, the skirt was slightly slim-fitting and reached the middle and upper part of her calf.

Nowadays, many dresses are long. Meng Xiaoman felt too hot, so she made them shorter, just enough to expose the thinnest part of her calf.