Chapter 46: Urgent Return to Duty

Hearing the number, Shen Chuning forgot about shyness and shook her head like a rattle drum.

The two were whispering and haggling.

Suddenly, a knock came from outside.

“Is this Zhou Yingchang’s home? Is Zhou Yingchang home?”

Zhou Yubai quickly went to open the door, and Shen Chuning quickly tidied her clothes and followed him out.

“Zhou Yingchang, hello!”

As soon as Zhou Yubai opened the door, the two soldiers outside immediately saluted him.

Then they told him that the military region had called, there was an urgent mission, and he had to return to the army immediately.

He only had half an hour to pack his bags, and then he had to go to the city to catch the train.

Although Shen Chuning had prepared herself for parting with her husband, she didn’t expect it to be so soon.

When they were really about to separate, her reluctance was particularly strong.

But time was pressing, and she didn’t have time to be sentimental.

While the man was packing his bags, she thought about making him something to eat for the journey.

But she found that there wasn’t enough time to do anything. In the end, she only boiled twelve hard-boiled eggs for him, put them in a bag, and let him take them.

She saw him off at the door.

Before the man stepped out of the yard, he suddenly turned back, scooped her into his arms, and hugged her tightly, as if he wanted to melt her into his bones and blood.

“Wife, I’ve already asked Big Brother, when I’m not home, if there’s any heavy work, you can ask Big Brother for help.

I’ll send you my salary every month, don’t go to the fields to earn work points.

Also, the black market is dangerous, don’t go there anymore…”

Before, Zhou Yubai had always been concise and stingy with words.

Now that they were about to separate, he talked a lot more, repeatedly instructing her for a long time.

Only after she had agreed to everything did he hug her even tighter, “Wife, wait for me to come back.”

“Mm, I’ll wait for you to come back.” Shen Chuning nodded obediently, her eyes already red, tears rolling down her cheeks.

No matter how reluctant Zhou Yubai was, he could only let go of her and strode out.

The two soldiers were waiting for him in a military jeep not far away.

Shen Chuning stood at the door until the army green jeep disappeared.

Then she wiped away her tears.

Lin Shulan, hearing that her son had been urgently summoned back to duty, hurried back from the field, but only saw her daughter-in-law standing at the courtyard gate, her eyes red, looking in the direction of the village exit.

She knew that her son had already left.

While feeling reluctant, she also felt sorry for Shen Chuning.

Her daughter-in-law had only been married to her son for three days, and the man had left, and she didn’t know when he would be back next time.

As a woman, she naturally understood the bitterness.

“Ningning, don’t blame Yubai. Soldiers like Yubai are like that, whenever the country needs them, they have to go.” Lin Shulan comforted her daughter-in-law.

Shen Chuning nodded, although her eyes were still a little red, she still smiled, “Mother, my third brother is also a soldier. Don’t worry, I understand.

I don’t blame Brother Yubai, I’m proud of him, with soldiers like them protecting us, our little family can live a peaceful life.”

“Ai, that’s right.”

Hearing Shen Chuning’s words, Lin Shulan gave her a thumbs up, “Ningning, your awareness, this!”

Lin Shulan’s exaggerated expression made Shen Chuning a little embarrassed.

Seeing that Shen Chuning’s thoughts and emotions were fine, Lin Shulan didn’t say much more.

“Ningning, when Yubai is not at home, if you have anything, come to me and your father, or the eldest and second sons can also help you, don’t carry everything by yourself.”

“Mother’s task of harvesting peanuts in the field isn’t finished yet, Mother will go harvest peanuts now!”

After Lin Shulan finished speaking, she hurried away.

After Lin Shulan left, Shen Chuning closed the courtyard gate.

These days, because Zhou Yubai was almost always with her, she hadn’t had a chance to enter her space and didn’t know what the situation in her space was like.

After closing the door, she entered the space.

In just three days, the crops in the field had grown a lot taller, and the rice was about to start heading.

She first irrigated the crops in the space with spiritual spring water.

Then she entered the space warehouse and used her mind to husk the rice, grind the wheat and corn into flour and store them.

After processing, she returned the rice bran and wheat bran to the field as fertilizer, and the rice, flour, and corn flour she obtained still totaled eight hundred jin.

Shen Chuning looked at the few bags of grain in the space.

She fell into thought.

Although the growth rate of crops in the space was fast, the land was limited, and the yield was also limited.

But she remembered that in her dream, the agricultural company opened by Chen Ziyun and Wang Yumeng had an annual grain output of millions of tons.

She remembered a scene in the dream where she saw news reports that the grain yield per mu of Chen Ziyun and Wang Yumeng’s Yu Yun Agricultural Company could reach three tons.

The news used many complimentary words to praise their contributions to agriculture.

Even in the future world of the dream, after the seeds were improved, the grain yield had increased significantly, but this yield was still unbelievable.

Shen Chuning thought that Wang Yumeng in the dream must have used the space to increase the grain yield of her farm, or she had increased the area of the space land or the growth rate of the space crops, increasing the output of the space, and then mixed the grain produced in the space with the grain produced on her farm, resulting in such an astonishing yield per mu.

Shen Chuning thought, she had no idea how to expand the area of the space and further accelerate the growth rate of crops in the space, the only thing she could try was to see if she could use the spiritual spring water in the space to increase the yield of crops outside.

Without further ado, after leaving the space, Shen Chuning took her farming tools and started to turn the soil in the courtyard.

In Ci Hang Village, everyone’s private plots were in their own courtyards or next to them.

So when Zhou Yubai built the house, he also left a piece of private land in the courtyard to grow vegetables.

This piece of land was previously used by Lin Shulan to grow vegetables, and during this period, after their wedding banquet consumed some vegetables, Lin Shulan cut the remaining vegetables and made them into dried vegetables.

The land was now empty.

Shen Chuning had never done farm work before, but she had watched villagers work since she was a child, so she didn’t think weeding and planting was difficult.

She took a hoe, raised it high like the villagers, and dug down.

With this hoe, she felt her arm tremble, but when she looked at the ground, she only dug a small hole as deep as a fingertip.

She couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed. She dug the same way as others, but when others dug, the hoe would deeply embed itself in the ground, and a large chunk of soil would be turned up.

She couldn’t do it.

She gritted her teeth and continued to dig, and soon a sharp pain came from her palm.

She opened her hand to look, hiss, her palm was blistered by the hoe handle.

Looking at the land she had just hoed, it looked like a dog had dug a few holes, and there wasn’t even as much new soil turned up as a dog would dig.

Shen Chuning realized that she was really not cut out for farm work.

As the saying goes, there’s nothing difficult in the world, as long as you’re willing to give up.

Shen Chuning was about to give up when Lin Shulan, returning home from work, passed by the courtyard gate.

Seeing Shen Chuning leaning on the hoe, looking at her palm, pursing her lips, looking like she was about to cry, she was startled and quickly entered the courtyard, “Ningning, what’s wrong?”