The military master pledged his life to the country, and the military wife pledged her life to him.

Early the next morning.

After Zhao Yufen took care of all the household affairs, she went to the Fu family next door. As soon as she arrived, Sang Xiao came with a lot of bags.

As soon as she entered the door, she shouted, "Xixi, look what I brought you?"

"What did you bring?" Lin Xi asked.

"Didn't I tell you that we have everything we need at home? Why are you carrying so many bags? If someone didn't know, I would think you were moving your home to us!"

"Don't tell me, I really have this idea."

Before Sang Xiao could finish her words, she saw Zhao Yufen following Lin Xi.

She said with a smile: "Oh, Sister Zhao is here too!"

Zhao Yufen nodded and said, "What are you carrying? A lot of big and small bags."

"These are the dishes and rice we're going to have for lunch today." Sang Xiao said as she walked towards the kitchen.

"Xixi, I didn't eat enough fish yesterday, so I went to the market early this morning and bought two fish, a few pounds of meat, and some vegetables and fruits!"

"There are plenty of vegetables in my yard. Whatever you want to eat, just pick them from my vegetable garden!" said Zhao Yufen.

Sang Xiao: "That won't work. There are so many of us. How can we all go to your vegetable garden to pick vegetables? We can't get through here either."

"Oh, you bought quite a lot of carp and perch, but you didn't buy any tofu?"

"I bought it."

Sang Xiao skillfully took out a large piece of tofu from a pile of vegetables.

"Then I'll make braised fish and carp tofu soup for lunch? If there's any extra tofu, I'll make some preserved eggs. I've made my own preserved eggs, Sister Zhao, you can take some home later."

Lin Xi instructed Fu Ning to take some pickled eggs out of the jar and give them to Zhao Yufen.

Zhao Yufen quickly declined, "No, no, I can't have this, you keep it for yourself."

"It's okay, I have plenty more!"

These preserved eggs were brought from Old Fu’s house by her.

"Then I can't just take your preserved eggs for nothing," Zhao Yufen paused, "I have some chicken and duck eggs at home, I'll get some for you. If you don't want them, I can give up the preserved eggs."

"Don't worry, I won't turn anyone away."

"Then I'll go home and get you the eggs."

"Then please bring me some duck eggs. I don't need chicken eggs."

"Take some as well!"

"Sister Zhao, I want to make some salted duck eggs."

Eggs are in short supply these days, and Lin Xi really doesn't want any eggs, for fear that Zhao Yufen would give her her own eggs, leaving them with nothing to worry about.

"Then I'll get you all the duck eggs."

"it is good."

Zhao Yufen went back first, carrying the ten or so preserved eggs that Fu Ning gave her.

When he appeared again, he had a basket of duck eggs in his hands.

"Xixi, can you make salted duck eggs?" Zhao Yufen asked.

"Yes, my mother-in-law taught me, and the materials were all brought from my hometown."

Sang Xiao: "Xixi, when are you going to make salted duck eggs? I'll help you."

"These duck eggs are a little insufficient. I'll ask Lao Zhou to buy me some more later. It won't be too late to make it when I have enough eggs."

"Xixi, how many duck eggs do you need? I have more at home!" Zhao Yufen asked.

Lin Xi thought for a moment and said, "At least one hundred."

"So many?" Zhao Yufen was surprised.

Sang Xiao: "Is it a lot? Why do I feel it's not much? But Xixi, I'll pay for half of the duck eggs, and when the salted duck eggs are ready, you can give me some."

Zhao Yufen: "Then I will also provide some duck eggs. When the time comes, Xixi, you can also give me some. If there are not enough, I will go and buy some from other people in the family compound."

"Wouldn't this be too troublesome?" Lin Xi asked.

Zhao Yufen: “No.”

"Then I will buy at the market price and never take advantage of you."

As Lin Xi spoke, she took out the ten yuan that Sang Xiao gave her yesterday from her pocket.

Seeing this, Sang Xiao also took out ten yuan.

Zhao Yufen: “…”

"This is too much money. I can't spend so much!"

Sang Xiao: "Just take it first. It won't be too late to return it to us if there is any left. If it's not enough, you will have to make another trip, which is very troublesome."

"That's right, sister. Take this money first. When you finish buying duck eggs, you can return it to us if you have any extra eggs. If you have extra chicken eggs, please buy some for me." Lin Xi thought for a while and said.

They have a large family and the eggs are consumed very quickly.

Zhao Yufen: "How many eggs do you want to buy?"

Lin Xi: "About fifty. Our family eats at least seven eggs a day, and usually ten eggs as a base. Fifty eggs are enough for our family to eat for about three or four days."

"Your family consumes eggs so quickly?"

Zhao Yufen was shocked.

Fifty eggs are enough for their family to eat for a month.

Lin Xi: "There's nothing we can do. We have a large family and our children are still young."

"In addition to one egg per child every morning, we sometimes have to stew two or three eggs for the children at noon and in the evening."

Zhao Yufen roughly calculated according to what Lin Xi said. It would have been fine if she hadn't calculated it. But when she did, she was shocked.

Although Xiao Fu's family has a lot of income, their expenses are also not small.

"Later, if you ask Lele to buy you two old laying hens, you can save some money this way."

"Wouldn't this be against the rules?"

The family already has two chickens, two ducklings, and two geese. If Lin Xi raises more, he is afraid that someone will get jealous and report him!

Sang Xiao: "It's okay. My family doesn't raise anything yet. I'll go get some laying chickens, ducks and geese. When someone asks about it, you can say that I raised them for you. After all, we eat at your house for three meals a day. Isn't it normal to raise chickens, ducks and geese at your house?"

After the three of them chatted for a while, Zhao Yufen took her basket and went to the family compound to find someone to buy eggs and duck eggs. She also talked about the weekend with Qin Zhengwei and his family, who planned to stay together for a long time.

The news of eating together at Fu Huaichuan's house and Sang Xiao's plan to take their chickens, ducks and geese to Fu's house and let Lin Xi help raise them was also spread.

Of course, this was also what she had discussed with Lin Xi and Sang Xiao before leaving.

It was not until this time that everyone in the family compound knew why Zhao Yufen suddenly wanted to buy so many eggs. It turned out that there were many people eating in Xiao Fu's family, and there were not enough eggs and duck eggs. However, fifty eggs and fifty duck eggs were too many.

Zhao Yufen: "There are six people in Xiao Fu's family, plus Xiao Zhou and Qin Zhengwei's family, there are more than a dozen people in total. It's normal for the chicken and duck eggs to be consumed quickly."

"That's true, but it's not easy for Xiao Fu's wife to cook for more than ten people alone!"

"No wonder I haven't seen her go out these days!"

"Oh, by the way, sister-in-law, I heard from our Goudan that your family Huihui has to go to Xiaofu's wife's place for extra lessons every night?"

……

Zhao Yufen knew they would ask this question.

She nodded and said, "Our old Zhou said that it was too stressful for Xiao Fu to raise so many children by himself. It just so happened that no one was tutoring our children, so we wanted to help Xiao Fu relieve the pressure. So Xiao Zhou took the initiative to take over the tutoring of our three children on behalf of Xiao Fu's wife. But we didn't want Xiao Fu's wife to work for nothing, so after discussing with Commander Liu and Political Commissar Qin, we decided to give Xiao Fu's wife five yuan a month as a hard work fee..."