Chapter 93 Summer Daily Life

When Wen Jiajia came back, she didn't even take off her backpack and went straight into the house.

I missed my daughter so much when I was away from home for a few days that I even wished I could grow wings and fly back when I was on the road just now.

"It's hot outside, right? Come and see my little sister. She has been crying every night these days." Zhong Huisheng said hurriedly.

Wen Xiaomei is currently lying in the crib in the living room. Zhong Huisheng's net-buckle flower stand is in the corner of the living room. For her convenience, she usually puts the crib next to it.

The moment Wen Jiajia saw the young lady, she wanted to hold her in her arms and kiss her many times. She missed her so much!

The little girl had her eyes closed, her eyelashes long and fluttering, and her hands clenched into fists in a gesture of surrender.

If Wen Jiajia wasn't afraid of waking her up, she would have picked her up.

Wen Jiajia stood up and said, "Aunt, I'm going to take a shower first. I couldn't take a shower on the train, and I was sweating all over when I rode back. I must be smelling terrible now."

She herself can smell the smell.

Zhong Huisheng nodded: "The water in the pot should still be a little hot, you can scoop it out to wash it."

Wen Jiajia chuckled: "It's such a hot day, and the water in the tap is hot."

The troops were laying iron pipes, which were left exposed to the outside for the convenience of maintenance. They were already very hot after being exposed to the scorching sun for a whole morning.

Wen Jiajia put down her backpack, went out, filled two buckets of warm water and took them to the bathroom, then went to the room, took out the casual clothes she usually wore at home and started taking a shower.

“It’s comfortable—”

The moment she took off her clothes and the warm water splashed on her skin, Wen Jiajia sighed with comfort.

I hadn't taken a shower for two or three days, so my body was sticky and itchy. Wen Jiajia had to rub it with soap twice before it was done.

She felt that this was not enough, so she boiled some herbal water for bathing at night.

If you have honeysuckle and mulberry branches at home, you can boil honeysuckle and mulberry branches water, and add some perilla and mint. It can clear away heat, remove dampness, and relax muscles and tendons while taking a bath. It is most suitable for this kind of weather.

After taking a shower, I washed my clothes.

Including the set of clothes I changed out of in the capital, which was so smelly that it was unbearable to smell.

After washing, Wen Jiajia was sweating again, and her pure white short-sleeved shirt was slightly soaked with sweat.

But it doesn’t matter, you still have to take a shower at night.

Considering the hot weather, I decided to wash my hair. It was convenient to wash hair when there were people at home. Wen Jiajia sat on the bench with her back bent, while her cousin poured water with a ladle.

After using more than half a bucket of water, the hair was washed clean.

Wen Jiajia used two cotton towels to wipe it carefully until it was half dry, and then sat in the junction of shade and sunlight to bask in the sun.

As the sunlight gradually moved away from the front yard, Wen Jiajia's hair slowly dried up.

Half an hour later, a humming sound came from the room. It was Wen Xiaomei who woke up.

Wen Jiajia immediately stood up, tied her hair casually and ran into the house.

At this moment, Wen Xiaomei had already grabbed the railings next to the crib and sat up with the help of her aunt.

She heard the sound and looked towards the door, and saw Wen Jiajia was stunned.

Wen Jiajia opened her arms towards her and called out, "Little sister! Darling, do you still remember mommy?"

Wen Xiaomei just stared at her, then looked at her cousin's mother-in-law next to her. After a few seconds, she seemed to be frightened or angry. Her mouth pursed, her eyes slowly turned red, and then she let out a loud "wow" sound, a sound that was very piercing.

She cried and turned her body to ask her aunt to hold her, but she couldn't help turning back to look at Wen Jiajia.

Wen Jiajia felt so distressed that she went over and held the little girl in her arms. The little girl struggled for a while and then stopped. She just hugged Wen Jiajia's neck tightly with her two little hands and leaned her face against her neck, pressing hard against it.

She stroked the little girl's back slowly: "I'm sorry to leave home for so many days, but there's nothing I can do. This is work, right?"

The child didn't understand these words. She only knew that her mother, whom she hadn't seen for several days and had almost forgotten, had come back.

So she stopped crying after a short while, staring at Wen Jiajia with her red face and big watery eyes, and then she laughed out loud, revealing her newly emerged tiny teeth.

Wen Jiajia touched her face and said, "Wow! How come I can see your teeth after just a few days of not seeing you?"

Wen Xiaomei was so happy that she waved her hands in the air and kept moaning “Ahhh”.

Wen Jiajia asked her aunt, "Has your aunt had a fever recently? I heard that some children get a fever when they have teeth."

Zhong Huisheng: "Fever? That's not the theory. But my little sister doesn't have a fever, she just cries a lot, probably because of the discomfort of teething."

Wen Jiajia felt relieved as long as she didn't have a fever.

I carried my youngest daughter around the house and checked the amount of toffee, biscuits and fried dough twists left in the cupboard. By the time I had spoiled the child enough, my hands were sore.

“…”

Wen Jiajia discussed with her daughter: "Shall we sit down?"

Wen Xiaomei refused with an “ah ah”, but she started making a fuss as soon as Wen Jiajia sat down.

Wen Jiajia had no choice but to lift her up from under her armpits and let her step on her legs.

That’s why they say taking care of a child is actually a physically demanding job. Taking care of a child for half an hour is more tiring than working for two hours.

evening.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan came back, and the moment they saw the bicycle in the yard they knew that their aunt had also come back.

So the two sisters immediately opened their throats and howled: "Aunt, Aunt!"

Wen Jiajia poked her head out of the window and said, "Stop shouting. I've bought back all the badges you wanted."

"Ah——" Another round of howling, the two of them jumped happily into the room.

Wen Jiajia took out the badges from her bag and gave them to them, as well as hair ties and flowers.

There weren't many styles of headbands available at that time, but the headband I bought this time was really out of stock at Linhe.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were delighted. They took the hairpins and ran to the mirror to try them on.

Wen Xuan, the nosy girl, came in again after trying it out: "Aunt, why is mine purple and yours red?"

Wen Jiajia took out two pairs of hairpins from her bag and said, "Don't worry, we have red ones if you want them. I bought two pairs of the same."

The two sisters are obviously not twins, but they are very stubborn and insist on having exactly the same clothes, school bags, and other things.

Wen Xuan smiled brightly, holding a red hairpin and gesturing on her braid: "I just like red... and purple!"

Wen Jiajia: Come on, which of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue and purple would you not like?

The two sisters were in high spirits. They combed each other's hair and stuck close to Wen Jiajia. In short, neither of them noticed the Daoxiangcun in the cabinet.

Wen Jiajia didn't remind him, it doesn't matter when to eat.

The sky was dark and the wind outside was finally a little cooler. The leaves and flowers that had been wilting seemed to stretch out more, longing for the arrival of water.

Wen Jiajia was watering the flowers in the yard while holding Wen Xiaomei, who refused to get off her. Every time they watered a flower, Wen Xiaomei, who was lying on her, would let out an "oh" and reach out her hands to grab it.

When she saw a withered flower, Wen Jiajia would pick it up and give it to her, but she would throw it away again after a while and look at the next flower.

Wen Jiajia said to her: "Don't be like this. You can't fall in love with everyone you meet."

How can a six or seven month old baby understand this? He will take what he wants and throw what he wants. Anyway, his hands will be covered with the juice of the petals, which smells pretty good.

Wei Dai, who was outside the courtyard, had already heard the mother and daughter's voices. He was delighted and shouted, "Jia Jia!"

"Hey!" Wen Jiajia responded to him.

Wei Dai hurried into the yard: "How was your journey? Did you encounter any problems? Is your work going well?"

Wen Jiajia wanted to hug him, but couldn't, so she could only say, "Everything went well, and there was nothing to worry about on the way. Our factory has received a few more orders when we return, so we will be busy again next time."

Wei Dai looked at his clothes and wanted to hug his wife but held back: "More orders are better. More orders will make the factory bigger and bigger. I heard the news that the dormitory in your factory will be completed soon. I heard that they are repairing the road next to it."

Wen Jiajia was surprised: "No way! We'll only be away for five or six days, not five or six months." Before she left, the buildings had not even been topped out!

As he spoke, he felt a little annoyed. When he came back in the afternoon, he just rode his bike without even turning back to look at the construction site.

"It's almost roofed, so it's going to be completed soon, isn't it?" Wei Dai washed his hands, pinched the girl's cheek and said, "I think we can move in by the end of the year at the latest."

Wen Jiajia sighed, "It doesn't matter if it's built, I won't get a room anyway."

If she continues to work in the factory, maybe she will be able to get a share in a few years, but she has to take the college entrance examination tomorrow, and she will be suspended from work with pay. If she passes the exam, she will quit this job immediately. How can she get a share?

Wei Dai didn't know the inside story: "We can't divide it this year, but maybe we will have a chance to divide it in five or ten years. By then, we will have many houses."

Wen Jiajia's hands were so sore that she went back to the house. She thought that the first half of your sentence was okay, but the second half was quite correct.

When she went back to the capital this time, she learned from the guesthouse staff about the current housing prices in the capital - it was really a bargain!

Of course, this is only a bargain compared to the price of goods a few decades later. Compared to current wages, it is still a sky-high price.

But reform and opening up will begin soon, and it will be much easier to make money then than it is now.

Wen Jiajia secretly planned in her heart that she had to buy four houses in the capital before 1990, and four houses in Haishi... There was no other way. There were many children in the family, and two houses for each child, plus the house for her and her husband, so four houses would be enough in different places.

Therefore, after graduation, Wen Jiajia would never return to the medical field. She had to start her own business.

Dinner is ready. Because Wen Jiajia has returned, today's dinner is quite sumptuous.

The bacon that had been hanging on the kitchen ceiling for a long time was finally ready to eat. It was cut into thin slices and fried with matsutake mushrooms and garlic sprouts. When it came out of the pot, the aroma made my mouth water.

The Matsutake mushrooms were picked from the nearby mountains. It rained for two days the day before yesterday and the day before yesterday. Although it wasn’t heavy, it was a “trickle” that almost never stopped, which finally alleviated the drought a little.

With the arrival of this rain, many mushrooms in the mountains sprouted.

Zhong Huisheng discovered matsutake mushrooms in a nearby pine forest and picked a lot. He still hasn't eaten all of them to this day.

A few days ago, I just stir-fried it, but today when Wen Jiajia came back, I added bacon as a side dish.

Then there is Wen Jiajia’s favorite eggplant and green beans. The eggplant and green beans fried by Zhong Huisheng are especially delicious. Although not a lot of oil is used, the taste is more fragrant than hers.

Finally, I cooked a bowl of wild vegetable soup.

The mushrooms increased with the rain, as did the wild vegetables. And the vegetables were bitter vegetables, which were especially good at dissipating heat and fire when cooked in soup.

Oh, actually I also boiled an egg for Wen Xiaomei, just a simple hard-boiled egg.

The egg white cannot be eaten for the time being, but the egg yolk can be eaten. She has to eat it every few days now.

It was obvious that this child was also a foodie. She lay in her father's arms, and when she saw other people eating, she had nothing in her mouth, but she was still smacking her lips as if she was eating something.

Wei Dai couldn't bear to see his daughter go hungry, so he simply fed her egg yolk first and then ate his own meal.

After the two sisters finished eating, Wen Jiajia asked them maliciously, "You didn't eat too much snacks while I was out, did you?"

Wen Xuan puffed out her chest and said proudly, "No! If you don't believe me, go check it out and you'll know."

Wen Chun also nodded vigorously and swallowed the last bite of rice in his mouth: "In order not to eat too much, we even asked my uncle to help us hide the snacks."

Wen Jiajia: "Hey, you guys are still going to use this method? Then go to the counter and get some candies or something."

Wen Chun got up to get it, and still had time to retort: ​​"No matter what method, as long as it works, it's a good method."

When she saw the closet door open, she froze and stood there, motionless.

"What's wrong with my sister?" Wen Xuan also ran over.

Wen Chun: “Ah!”

She jumped for joy three times and quickly took out the cakes from the cupboard.

"Daoxiangcun!" Wenchun was familiar with these three words. His aunt said that this was a famous pastry in the capital.

Wen Xuan exclaimed, even more excited than Wen Chun. She ran back and hugged Wen Jiajia's waist with sparkling eyes, and asked expectantly, "Aunt, can I eat this now?"

Wen Jiajia touched her belly and said regretfully, "Do you still have room in your stomach?"

"Of course there is!" Wen Xuan affirmed. Even if there isn't, there must be one.

Wen Jiajia said, "Each person can only eat one piece of cake, and then send half a box to Teacher Shen next door, and give the remaining half to Aunt Bao."

Wen Chun raised his hand: "Can I share it with my sister? Then we can have both kinds of snacks."

Wen Jiajia spread her hands: "You make your own decisions."

Wen Xuanju drew inferences: "Then you guys can eat some too, aunt. Let's divide a piece of cake into five portions, and everyone can have five different flavors of cake."

Wen Jiajia looked at her in surprise: "It seems that you are doing well in math."

This girl is obviously not as good at math as her sister Wen Chunlai. Wen Chunlai can solve ten math problems in one minute, but she needs three minutes.

Wen Xuan was proud again: "That's eating!"

Wen Jiajia was speechless: "Okay, you divide it."

Anyway, pastries won’t taste good if they are left for too long.

Smell the dawn of spring, smell the farewell of spring.

Mr. and Mrs. Shen from next door came over specially to thank Jiajia for the cake. Xie Yang stuffed it into his mouth immediately and said with emotion: "I have been in the army for so many years and have not been home for a long time. I haven't eaten Daoxiangcun for seven... Oh no, it's been eight years. The taste of the cake seems to have not changed much, but also seems to have changed a lot." He didn't know whether it was the cake that changed or his tongue.

Teacher Shen also said: "There is a Daoxiangcun store near my home. When I had nothing to do, I would sit in front of the store and smell the food. At that time, if you gave me any cake and let me smell it, I would know what it was."

Wen Jiajia was surprised: "I thought the only difference between them was the ingredients of the fillings, how could you tell by smell?"

"Of course not! I really could when I was young. Now, my sense of smell has probably deteriorated." She shook her head and asked Wen Jiajia, "Did you buy this at Qianmen?"

Wen Jiajia nodded.

Teacher Shen smiled and said, "My home is nearby. Maybe you passed by my home while you were walking around."

Wen Jiajia wanted to give a thumbs up, it was so amazing, that piece of land was very close to the square.

Not long after Mr. and Mrs. Shen left, Sister Bao arrived.

Sister Bao asked: "Jia Jia, when did you come back?"

Wen Jiajia: "I went to the factory this morning and came back in the afternoon. It was just after two o'clock."

"Oh, it was so hot then. Are you going to the capital? Tell me what the capital looks like. Did you go to the square? Did you go to the Great Wall?" Sister Bao pulled a bench and sat in front of her.

Well, how should I put it? Wen Jiajia said seriously: "No, I haven't even been close to these two places."

Sister Bao was surprised: "No way! If I go to the capital and don't visit these two places, won't it be a waste of my trip?"

Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "I didn't stay in the capital for long. In the past two days, I worked and went out for dinner. I didn't have time to go out. Besides, the capital is very big. It's not like Linhe where you can ride a bicycle from the east to the west. In the capital, if you ride a bicycle from the east to the west, you will break your legs. Besides, the Great Wall is at Badaling."

I still remember that when she went there last time, she had to buy a high-speed rail ticket from the Capital Railway Station and take the high-speed rail.

Sister Bao said with some regret: "I also wanted to ask you if these two places are really like what they said on the radio."

Wen Jiajia said, "You'll find out when you have time to go there. You can stay there for a week and visit all the major attractions."

Bao Jie didn't find this strange, but Wei Dai, who was holding the baby, found it strange. Because Jia Jia said it as if she had been there herself.

However, this strange feeling happened more than once. I used to hide it in front of him, but now, even if I let it slip, I don't feel embarrassed or nervous, and just pretend nothing happened.

I guess she herself doesn't care. In Wen Jiajia's words, it's "rotten". She doesn't know where all these weird words come from.

night.

Wen Xiaomei was so attached to her that she could only fall asleep peacefully in her arms.

Wen Jiajia was filled with maternal love, and with a little bit of guilt, she responded to her requests without hesitation. She waited until the child fell asleep before she carried her to the crib.

Then, the couple spent a particularly passionate night.

In this hot weather where you can sweat just by turning over, the couple still has the energy to do exercises before going to bed. This can be said to be true love.

——

July passed slowly and August arrived as expected.

In August, there are many mushrooms in the mountains, and many fruits have grown. Some of the fruits are green, while others are already ripe.

The osmanthus flowers in the yard have also bloomed, and the fragrance of osmanthus is gradually becoming stronger, which deeply touched Wen Jiajia.

Wei Dai brought back a wild beehive from the mountains at the end of last month. The hive was quite large, and the family got more than ten kilograms of wild honey. My cousin said she wanted to make some osmanthus honey to eat.

Look, I am just waiting for the osmanthus flowers to bloom again at the end of this month or next month, and then I will “sharpen my knife to pick the osmanthus flowers” ​​like a child!

Sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan finally have their holiday.

The two-person class lasted until the end of July. How miserable it was. The middle school even had a break earlier than them.

Why? They said that primary school students are young but timid, and the weather is extremely hot this year, so they are afraid that they will run into the river or the lake, so they are detained in the school.

The two sisters came home crying every day, saying they had to go to middle school. Middle school holidays start early!

Wen Jiajia thought that the two were naive. Middle school students still had to go together to harvest rice in August. That was really tiring.

However, when the two girls were in middle school, this traditional activity was almost completely cancelled in all urban schools except for those in the county schools. Anyway, she never heard her mother say that she needed to go to agricultural school when she was a child.

The two sisters let themselves go after the holiday. They stayed at home for several days and listened to the radio.

Then he went down to the river to play, and he kept touching crabs and tadpoles, saying that he would bring them back to show his little sister.

"My little sister is so pitiful. She can't even go out." Wen Xuan felt sorry for her little sister. She thought her aunt was too strict with her.

Wen Jiajia tapped her head and said, "Forget it. It was obviously you who wanted to eat spicy crab."

Wen Xuan smiled, revealing two rows of teeth with one tooth missing.

She followed in her sister's footsteps and also started to change her teeth.

She used to laugh at Wen Chunlai, but recently she has also been laughed at by other children who have not yet grown their teeth.

Those who laugh at others will always be laughed at by others.

Spicy crabs have been a regular guest on the family table recently. Thanks to the two girls, Wen Jiajia can eat two crabs every day to satisfy her craving.

She was still thinking about the big crab.

Not to mention, it is really convenient to eat Dazha crabs here because there is a crab farm here.

Although the crab fields are all in other cities a few hours’ drive away, they are much more convenient than my hometown.

Wei Dai also brought her good news: "There are also villages nearby that are going to develop crab farms. They are centralized and the government will provide subsidies. It will be much more convenient for you to eat Dazha crabs in the future."

Wen Jiajia: "...It will take at least several years for the crab farm to reach a certain scale."

"Yes, so you have to wait for several years."

Wen Jiajia was speechless. This was no different from giving carrots to a donkey for years. And it was good news!

Fortunately, Wei Dai was very helpful. Before the chrysanthemums bloomed, he got a basket of big crabs.

The big crabs were relatively cheap at this time, so he bought them by the basket.

My cousin was so hungry when she saw it: "The last time I ate it, I came with my parents."

When the couple heard this, they felt a little guilty, as if their cousin's scars had been brought up again.

But my aunt is very open-minded: "I am already this age, how can I not see through the separation of life and death? It's okay! Some things are warm when you think about them, so they are not scars."

As he said that, he rolled up his sleeves and started cleaning the big crabs.

The crab was tied up with a straw rope, so there was no need to worry about it pinching anyone. She took it in her hands and brushed it with a brush.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan squatted beside and watched with great interest, and later joined in to help.

Wei Dai went to boil water, while Wen Jiajia sat beside him holding her little sister.

My little sister was indeed an ignorant child. She stared with her big eyes without blinking.

She has been fed with complementary food for the past two months and has indeed grown a lot.

Wen Jiajia is less and less interested in hugging her, as she always feels that her arm muscles are more obvious. It's a pity that there is no camera at home, otherwise she would definitely take a picture, which is the ironclad evidence of mother's love!

“Ahh——” The child can only make simple “ahhh”.

"It's a crab——" Wen Jiajia taught tirelessly.

Wen Jiajia couldn't understand it. In the past two months, she, Wei Dai, and everyone in the family had been teaching her to speak. She could just say "flowers and plants", but why couldn't she call "Mom and Dad"?

Suddenly, Wen Xiaomei leaned forward and said in a clear and melodious voice: "Crab!"