She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 890 - 813: Famine Era 54

Ye Huan never expected Tong Zhan to be so meticulous, and for a moment, she was filled with emotion. In the end, the couple decided together, "Since we have come, we should settle down."

After all, those born in the Fifties and Sixties era are used to hardship. No matter where they go, it’s the same.

Upon arriving in this place, the women did not immediately participate in labor. At most, they cooked. Although it was already close to April, the cold wind was still biting. With insufficient vegetation, the wind and sand were intense, just as Tong Zhan had said, reaching the point where you could eat sand when you opened your mouth.

The water they drank every day was tirelessly transported back by the warriors.

Actually, Ye Huan managed quite well. She would use a watering can to conserve water, for instance, watering twice instead of three times a day, and she would pour the remaining water into a large water tank.

The large water tanks were purchased earlier when they were in the family compound. Later, she lied to Tong Zhan, saying she sold them, when in fact she transferred them into the space.

With the daily amount of water from the watering can, she could at least ensure that the children had water to wash their hands and faces, and for meals.

When Second and Third ate millet porridge, Eldest would eat cornmeal buns, made of fine mixed grains. These were steamed by her, while she and Tong Zhan ate the coarse grain buns made by the farm. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

Each of the three children had one egg, and Tong Zhan got one every two days. She did not eat eggs; she only supplemented her nutrition with fruits and vegetables, since she did not work.

Tong Zhan needed to work and was reluctant to eat eggs, but Ye Huan forced him to, saying if he wrecked his health, their whole family would fall apart.

As for the origin of the eggs, Ye Huan playfully blinked, "It’s a secret. I’ll tell you when I get a chance."

She felt she couldn’t keep her secret any longer because the conditions here were too harsh. Previously, she thought she could at least feed a flock of chickens, even if they couldn’t eat meat, they could at least eat eggs. But now it seemed like a complete fantasy.

The eggs brought from the mainland would eventually be consumed. Although there were towns here, they were not as prosperous as the ones near ordinary rural villages.

As for the way their family consumed, the eggs in the space could last for at least another year.

After a year, to change her family’s nutrition, she would have to find another way.

Compared to other children who got sick upon arriving, suffering from acclimatization and other symptoms, perhaps it was because Ye Huan took good care of them, with food from the space (given to the children, all produced in the space) as nourishment, so the three children had no major issues. Other people’s children weren’t so lucky and fell sick often.

If local remedies could be used to treat them, they would rely on tips from Tibetan Medicine. If they were more severe, they would be sent to the town or city hospitals for treatment.

With Ye Huan’s skills, whether she stayed in the regiment or went to the city in the future, she was capable.

In fact, Tong Zhan even planned to set up a separate medical room for her and others who knew medicine, specifically for treating warriors and children.

The fundamental difference between the regiment and the educated youth sent down was that the former received a salary while the latter didn’t, only earning work points.

The salary base for Ye Huan and her husband had the possibility of being adjusted upwards, with no chance of decreasing. Although they did not earn little, they accepted the hardship as part of the deal.

Of course, the Gobi Desert wasn’t all barren; there were also groves of Baihua Forest and Poplar Forest.

Because there were many children, with plenty of space to play, two children could walk when they were ten months old. Ye Huan, having nothing else to do, just watched over her three children all day.

Fortunately, the earth cave was built within a month, meeting the living standards for everyone. Unmarried individuals were allocated to earth caves based on size, at least one class. Married couples each had one earth cave, and when moving from the farm to the earth cave, Ye Huan and the children initially found it novel, but later felt it was a poor choice because it was poorly ventilated.

Starting in May, the weather gradually warmed, but it was only warm at noon; mornings and evenings were still a bit cold, requiring a jacket.

After warming up, the desert began to sprout fresh grass, and the wind and sand didn’t seem as intense as before. After the earth cave was built, Tong Zhan and the others immediately began drawing personnel from a battalion to build the regiment headquarters. The headquarters included a medical room, an elementary school, and a preschool, among other things. Even if only a twentieth of the people were married, there were still children. Wherever there were children, they needed to be taken care of so that the women could handle other feasible tasks.