Bai Tao nodded, "If you don't understand something, just come and ask me. After all, I have a child. My Xiaoyang still has some old clothes. If you don't mind, I can send them to you later." She really treated Gu Qingqing as a close friend.

Gu Qingqing smiled and shook her head: "You are still pregnant, so leave Xiaoyang's clothes to her brothers and sisters. When I am really pregnant, I will write a letter to my mother and ask her to send me some small clothes for the supply ship to bring over."

"Okay." Bai Tao didn't force it. She had kept Xiaoyang's clothes before because she intended to leave them for his younger brothers and sisters. Now it would take a lot of cloth coupons to make clothes, and on the island only rice, flour, oil and salt did not require coupons.

Most children have never worn new clothes. These are either their parents' old clothes that have been altered, or they are passed down from relatives.

Bai Tao finished her chive pancake, drank two sips of water, stood up and said, "Qingqing, I'm sorry to bother you again. I feel much better after talking to you."

"Don't be so polite, we are good friends." Gu Qingqing saw that she was about to leave and handed her the enamel cup: "Take this back and eat it. I will get the cup when the time comes or ask Xiaota to run errands and bring it to me."

"No, keep it for yourself." Bai Tao smiled and shook her head, touching her belly: "I don't know what's wrong with me recently, I just love eating dates. This baby is most likely a girl. Xiaoyang happened to be asking for a sister, so this can be considered to have fulfilled his dream of having a brother."

"Is the saying about sour boys and spicy girls reliable?" Gu Qingqing couldn't help but stare at her belly. Her belly wasn't very noticeable in her thin blue gown.

"It's hard to say. Some say a round belly means a daughter, and a pointed belly means a son. They won't match when they are born." Bai Tao saw that she was a little confused, and said enviously, "Whether you give birth to a daughter or a son, Captain Chu will love you and your mother well. My family gets 80 yuan in Yucheng allowance, but we don't have to send it home now. I have to find a way to manage the money."

"Your Captain Chu should have about a hundred yuan. The conditions on our island are harsh, and the allowance is higher than that of ordinary military districts."

Gu Qingqing suddenly realized, "When he was a company commander in the Construction Corps, he seemed to be seventy-eight? I don't remember exactly, but the allowances in the Construction Corps were higher than those in the inland areas."

"I understand. Soldiers who work on the edge of a sword should have higher allowances." Although Bai Tao had been with the man in the southern military region, she had also heard of the name of the Construction Corps.

Gu Qingqing smiled and said, "Yes, there are about a hundred yuan now, I didn't pay much attention to it." There was no place to spend money on the island, not even a supply and marketing cooperative. Generally, Chu Dai received his allowance and her teacher's allowance was also received, so the two of them put their money together.

There is no need to think about the house, and she will not go out to buy a house in the future. After leaving the island, she will either go to another place with Chu Dai, or go back with him to live in the military compound of the Southern Military Region.

There was nothing else to buy. This marriage made her realize a problem: if she was really pregnant with twins, she must save enough money to buy dowries for the children in the future.

"You guys are doing well this way. You can save your own money and don't have to send it back." Bai Tao envied Gu Qingqing's simple family relationships more than once. She sighed and said, "I want to go home. There will be a typhoon in the next few days. The school will probably be closed. It's a good time to rest for a while."

"Yeah, I can sleep in for a few more days too." Gu Qingqing sent her to the gate of the courtyard, and waited until her back disappeared around the corner of the white house at the end of the path before closing the gate again.

Seeing her enter the house, Chu Dai glanced at her casually: "She left?"

"Yeah." Gu Qingqing sat on a chair in the living room and watched him nailing the wooden window: "Brother, don't nail it all in, it will be difficult to remove it later."

After hearing this, Chu Dai left a part of the nail tail outside and took another nail.

Gu Qingqing smiled, her eyes always following the man's figure.

Chu Dai was busy for the whole afternoon, nailing all the windows on the first and second floors and reinforcing the doors. He then packed up his things and went to the quartermaster department.

When he came back, Gu Qingqing had fallen asleep on the bed. Chu Dai unbuttoned his shirt and sat on a chair beside the bed to take a deep breath.

Gu Qingqing hugged the quilt with a frown on her face, not knowing what she was thinking. He stared at her sleeping face for about ten minutes and raised his wrist to check the time.

Half past four.

He relaxed his brows, leaned back in the chair, placed the back of his hands on his eyes, and closed his eyes to rest.

When Gu Qingqing woke up, she found the man asleep on the chair. She got up quietly, slowly opened the closet, took out a thin sheet, folded it in half, and covered him with it.

I haven't looked at him carefully for a long time. This man is thinner than before, with sharp features and a smooth and strong jawline.

I hadn't noticed it before, but now I see there's a tiny cut on his chin. It must have been caused by the flying rocks.

She couldn't help but reach out to touch him, but seeing that he was sleeping soundly, she withdrew her hand and sat on the chair beside him, leaning her head on the table with her hands and looking at him.

This man is really good-looking. The most common thing she has heard since she was a child is: "Qingqing, what does your eldest brother look like? Why is he so handsome? You and your second brother are not like him."

But Gousheng is really good-looking too. When the three siblings stand together, others will only think that she and Gu Qinglie are siblings.

But she herself refused to admit it and always held Gu Canyang's arm and said that she was more like the eldest brother and not the second brother, which often made Gu Qinglie very angry.

Gu Canyang has a handsome appearance, but he has a cold personality and has never liked to talk to people since he was a child.

Chu Dai was also very handsome, even more handsome than her elder brother in her opinion. Maybe it was his usual nonchalant and carefree spirit that attracted her, or maybe it was his ferocious, hawk-like eyes when he was in military uniform. She was not afraid of him, but she liked him very much, especially.

She was probably attracted to this handsome man with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes when she first saw him. Now she just hopes that her child will look like him, or like her uncle Gousheng.

It is said that nephews look like their uncles, but they must not look like Goudan.

There is really not much difference between these two siblings.

Being stared at by her scorching gaze, Chu Daihun felt uncomfortable and opened his eyes.

Meeting her expectant eyes, the man became completely sober.

"Let's have dinner first?" He rubbed his nose and chuckled, "The night is long, there's no rush."

Gu Qingqing directly reached out and pinched his waist, with a guilty look in her eyes: "What are you thinking about? I'm just wondering why you don't go to bed. Are you afraid of what I will do to you?"

Chu Dai was speechless and choked up. He lowered his eyes and asked her to look at his clothes: "You are covered in dust from head to toe. Why... huh?"

"Oh, that's all right." Gu Qingqing pulled him up, "You go take a shower, I'll go to the kitchen to make dinner, let's save time and get this over with quickly?"

Chu Dai was dragged by her hand to the bathroom. The man followed her obediently without trying: "There's no need to be so anxious. It's only five o'clock. There's still a night left."

"I'm in a hurry." Gu Qingqing stuffed him into the bathroom directly: "I'll go get the hot water bottle and clothes, wait a moment."

Chu Dai supported the door with one hand, stood at the door of the bathroom and watched her run back to the bedroom. The man couldn't help laughing.

Gu Qingqing took out a set of white cotton and linen pajamas from the closet. Then she saw several unused small cardboard boxes underneath and covered them with the man's army green shirt without changing her expression.

She snorted and said viciously, "I won't need you anymore!"

After saying that, she carried the man's clothes to the bathroom, gave him a plastic bucket from the kitchen, scooped a few buckets of cold water from another bucket, poured some hot water from the thermos, reached out to check the temperature, and made sure it was about enough before bringing him to the bathroom.

She raised her chin and said, "Wash it!"

Chu Dai slowly untied the hem of his shirt and said leisurely, "You remind me of Lao Zhu from our Corps' pig farm. He also took good care of the pigs when they were mating."

The man's voice was lazy and clear: "Wife, I now feel like I am that pig."

"How could that be?" Gu Qingqing stood on tiptoe, held his face and kissed him, and said seriously: "I have seen all the pigs in the pig farm, but there is no breeding pig as handsome as you."

The man looked at her with a smile, which made Gu Qingqing feel guilty. She let go of her hand and her eyes wandered: "By the way, next time the supply ship comes, we have to write to Uncle Zhang at the Military Supplies Department of the Corps." Before returning from the Corps. , she had promised Zhang Chao.

"You don't want to write for Lao Yu?" The man smiled and glanced at her: "Lao Yu treats you well and often gives you a small stove."

"Isn't that also from your and Goudan's allowances..." Gu Qingqing said righteously, "Uncle Zhang said that we can just send him a letter. He is the only educated person in the Corps besides Political Commissar Xu. He can read it to Uncle Yu and Uncle Zhu when the time comes."

The man rubbed her head and said, "Okay, I remember. It's time to write to my elder and second brothers, and also to go home. You go cook first, and my brother needs to take a shower."

Seeing that he was concerned about his family, Gu Qingqing was touched, "Okay, just wash it well, don't worry."

When she went out, she remembered to close the bathroom door. Chu Dai felt that this was going to be a fight and he probably wouldn't be able to sleep tonight.

Gu Qingqing took a small basket and went to the backyard to pick vegetables. The setting sun had just sunk below the sea level, and the sky was as red as fire.

Looking at the weather right now, I can't believe a typhoon is about to hit.

She squatted beside the vegetable patch and picked a dozen green peppers to use for scrambled eggs. She also pulled up two young Chinese cabbages, shook off the dirt on the roots, and pulled out a few scallions.

The two of us couldn't eat much food, and we had some crabs sent by our nephew, which were just right for steaming.

Although the man can eat spicy food now, I still have to make something lighter for him. After all, he has been used to eating this since he was a child, and it is not difficult to make.

She peeled off the yellow leaves on the cabbage and threw them on the ground for the pheasants that were circling around and pecking at everything. In her heart, she was thinking about locking the two chickens indoors, otherwise they would be blown away by the typhoon.

She carried the basket back to the kitchen to wash and cut vegetables, planning to tell Chu Dai later that although these two pheasants were tamed, they were still different from domestic chickens and she couldn't catch them even if she tried all day.

She stir-fried some Chinese cabbage, steamed some shrimps, and made scrambled eggs with green peppers. She took the pressure cooker with cooked rice out and placed all the food and dishes on the wooden table in the living room.

Chu Dai just came out of the bathroom with a plastic bucket containing washed clothes. Gu Qingqing had more clothes, and he only had two or three pieces.

"I'll go upstairs to hang the clothes first." The man said as he walked, holding a plastic bucket in his left hand and a towel in his right hand to wipe his hair.