Qiongzhou Island.

When I woke up this morning, there was a strong wind on the island. It looked like a typhoon was about to land.

Thinking that there would be continuous rainfall for several days after the typhoon made landfall, Ye Zhi planned to buy more vegetables as a preparation.

Ye Zhi had just finished buying vegetables when the violent wind blew up a cloud of dust all over the sky, and it looked like a rainstorm was about to come at any moment.

There were people rushing home along the way. Ye Zhi thought of the clothes and dried vegetables hanging out to dry at home, so she quickened her pace and rode her bike as fast as she could to get home.

I had just returned to the yard when the raindrops as big as beans poured down from the sky, hitting my arms and feeling a little painful.

Ye Zhi saw that all the clothes and dried vegetables in the yard were gone, and guessed that Sister He had helped collect them.

I just heard from others at the supply and marketing cooperative that a typhoon is coming, and many people have returned home early.

The supply and marketing cooperative also closed at nine o'clock this morning and will probably not reopen until after the typhoon passes.

After all, after the typhoon, we don’t know if there will be anything to eat.

Ye Zhi pushed the bicycle towards the kitchen door in the rain. Because she pushed it too hastily, a lot of vegetables in the basket fell out.

The strong wind at this moment blew all the mud and sand outside the yard into the kitchen, making Ye Zhi unable to open her eyes.

After finally parking the bicycle, Ye Zhi hurriedly walked out of the kitchen and looked at the chicken coop. The three chicks and two ducks in the chicken coop were gone. They must have been taken back home by Ye Xiaoding.

Ye Zhi hurried into the house, closed the kitchen door, and without caring about her messy hair, she immediately picked up the vegetables that had fallen on the ground, and then put the bicycle in place.

Just as I finished tidying up, Ye Xiaoding ran over from the living room and said in a panic, "Aunt, I almost thought you couldn't make it back in time."

If he doesn't come back, Ye Xiaoding is going to go out and look for him.

Ye Zhi was soaked all over, and then asked, "Are the doors and windows closed?"

Ye Xiaoding said, "Everything has been locked up, the clothes and dried vegetables have been put away, and the chickens and ducks have been brought into the house."

"Is Sister He back?" Ye Zhi asked, wiping the rain off her face.

Ye Zhi knew that Sister He had returned to the supply and marketing cooperative to work early this morning, but she did not see her when she was shopping at the supply and marketing cooperative just now.

I don't know if I can get back in time.

If she hadn't come back yet, there would be only a few children left at home, and Ye Zhi would have to take them over first.

Ye Xiaoding said, "I'm back. It's my aunt who came to help us collect the clothes."

Ye Zhi breathed a sigh of relief: "Did you thank Auntie?"

Ye Xiaoding nodded, "Yes."

Just as he finished speaking, a window in the living room suddenly slammed, and a gust of wind mixed with raindrops came in.

Ye Zhi walked towards the window without thinking. There happened to be a window in the living room that faced south. The window was pushed outwards and faced the sea. The strong wind and rain blew directly in, and many things in the house were blown down and fell to the ground.

The wind and rain were getting stronger now, much stronger than before. Ye Zhi couldn't open her eyes because of the rain, and she couldn't even close the window.

Ye Xiaoding on the side wanted to help, but he couldn't reach the window at all.

Just when Ye Zhi was enjoying the coolness of the water, a sour bean tree outside the yard was blown with a "crack" and its branches broke. Ye Zhi was so scared that her legs went weak, thinking that a window had fallen down.

Whoosh whoosh——

Bang, bang, bang——

No idea what was broken or what was blown away. The torrential rain and strong winds came straight at her. Ye Zhi closed her eyes and opened the two windows. Several times, the windows that were about to be closed were blown open again.

The chairs and stools in the house were covered with water and dust. Ye Zhi's eyes were stinging, and she didn't know if it was the sand or the rain that got in her eyes. The rain made her feel a little cold.

Just when Ye Zhi was about to lose her strength, a dark shadow ran in from outside the yard. Soon, a tall and warm body appeared behind Ye Zhi.

Lu Wei raised his voice and shouted: "Go back first, I'll take this place!"

When Ye Zhi heard Lu Wei's voice, she grabbed a window on the right with both hands and did not let go. The two of them worked together to quickly close the window.

The first thing Lu Wei asked her was: "Wife, are you okay?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Ye Zhi was soaked, with thin cloth sticking to her body and her face was pale.

Ye Zhi shook her head. Her legs felt weak and her throat felt full of sand and dust. She couldn't speak.

Lu Wei shouted to Ye Xiaoding, "Go, bring out a sheet."

Ye Xiaoding ran towards the room and quickly took out a sheet. Lu Wei wrapped her tightly with it. The sheet was very big, so Lu Wei easily wrapped Ye Xiaoding up as well.

Then he said, "I'm going to boil some water now, you two sit here."

Soon, there was a noise coming from the kitchen, and Ye Zhi was shivering wrapped in the sheets.

It’s not like I haven’t experienced typhoons before, but I never thought that typhoons at the seaside would be stronger and more terrifying.

Wind was still blowing in from the window that had just been closed tightly, and a piece of the glass was cracked.

Not long after, Lu Wei came over, loosened the sheet on Ye Zhi, then picked Ye Zhi up horizontally, walked to the bathroom, and said, "Go take a shower first."

Ye Zhi's feet were in the air, and she exclaimed softly: "I can walk by myself." But she still subconsciously hugged Lu Wei tightly, as if she was grabbing a piece of driftwood.

Lu Wei took two steps and carried Ye Zhi into the bathroom, saying, "I've found clothes for you, wash them quickly."

Ye Zhi nodded, and not only the clothes but also the oil lamp were lit.

Even though my body was shivering with cold, my heart was warm.

After taking a bath, Ye Zhi finally came back to life.

I wanted to ask Ye Xiaoding to take a shower as well, but I found that Lu Wei had already given him a quick rinse in the sink and had changed into dry clothes.

Ye Zhi looked at Lu Wei's equally wet body, who was now wiping the tables and chairs that had just been wet by the rain with a rag, and said, "Lu Wei, you should also wash yourself quickly, or you will catch a cold."

Lu Wei originally wanted to wipe the tables and chairs before taking a shower, but Ye Zhi had already walked over to him, took the rag from his hand, and said again: "Go wash it quickly."

Lu Wei met Ye Zhi's eyes, then agreed and said, "Well, I'll go take a shower and change clothes."

When he came out, he found that Ye Zhi had already wiped the tables and chairs that were covered with rain and dust.

I'm drinking hot tea right now.

Lu Wei wiped his wet hair, walked towards Ye Zhi, and said, "I just went to the post office to pick up the package sent by my parents, so I came back late."

If it weren't for this, Ye Zhi wouldn't have been soaked.

Hearing this, Ye Zhi's eyes lit up, and she paused while making tea, and asked, "Did my parents reply to the letter?"

Lu Wei raised his chin towards the wooden sofa on the other side and said, "The package on the chair looks like my parents may have sent something else."

Ye Zhi couldn't wait to unpack the package. The outer packaging had been soaked by the heavy rain, but fortunately it was wrapped in several layers and the things inside were not wet.

——It was a radio and a large bag of dried mushrooms and dried shredded vegetables.

Lu took a look at the radio and asked, "Why did mom and dad send the radio?"

If I remember correctly, this should be the betrothal gift he gave to Ye Zhi at that time.

Ye Zhi had already opened the letter and was reading it. She responded to Lu Wei, saying, "There's no electricity at home."

Oh, Lu Wei didn’t think of this at the time.

Hearing that there was a letter, Ye Xiaoding sat next to Ye Yezhi with great anticipation, and asked anxiously, "Aunt, did Grandpa and Grandma mention me? Did they ask me?"

Ye Zhi smiled and said, "Yes, Grandpa and Grandma miss you very much." Then Ye Zhi told him the contents of the letter regarding Ye Xiaoding.

Ye Xiaoding could not read, but he kept standing beside Ye Zhi and reading what she said. Ye Zhi would point to the words and read them to him one by one.

Until she saw a line of words in the letter, Ye Zhi's eyes changed, and Lu Wei asked: "What's wrong?"

He had just been sitting next to her, watching Ye Zhi read the letter.

She had a smile on her face all the time, but I don’t know what she saw, but she suddenly frowned.

Ye Zhi thought about it and felt that couples should be more honest with each other, so she said, "My cousin married Gao Wenbo. That's the friend you met when you went to Xitang Town."

But Ye Zhi was too embarrassed to say the rest of the content.

The letter said that Ye Hongying got into Gao Wenbo's bed before she married him, and now everyone in Xitang Town knew about it.

Moreover, I heard that Gao Wenbo's children were particularly bad. Not only did they ruin Ye Hongying's reputation everywhere, they also beat Li Ermei and Ye Hongying.

It seems that Ye Hongying's life is not so smooth.

Hearing this, Lu Wei said "Oh" lightly, thought about it, and added: "He and I are not friends."

I can only say, I know you.

Ye Zhi looked towards Lu Wei and suddenly remembered that before they got married, Li Ermei had specifically told Lu Wei something about her and Gao Wenbo. Afterwards, she wanted to explain to Lu Wei, but Lu Wei said it was unnecessary.

Thinking about how Lu Wei seemed to have said that he had gone to see him the night before, maybe Lu Wei saw something that night.

After thinking about it, Ye Zhi couldn't help but ask: "Did you know this a long time ago?"

Lu Wei met Ye Zhi's questioning eyes and nodded: "Yeah."

No wonder.

No wonder Lu Wei trusted her so much when Li Ermei told him about her and Gao Wenbo.

Probably bumped into.

Before Ye Zhi could speak, Lu Wei said, "I went to visit Gao Wenbo's house that night and happened to run into your cousin."

really.

But why did Ye Hongying do this?

After all, the three kids in Gao Wenbo's family are really naughty.

Ye Zhi didn't read the whole book at that time, she only read the chapter where the original owner died.

Because it was so terrible, after the original owner moved into Gao Wenbo's yard, he had to fight wits and courage with a few naughty kids every day. At the beginning, the original owner was not liked by those naughty kids. The dishes and meals she cooked were often either ruined or they were criticized for this or that, and they loved to complain to Gao Wenbo.

The original owner endured for two or three years, playing the role of both father and mother, before those naughty kids slowly accepted her.

Although they got along fairly well later on and seemed to be a harmonious family on the surface, the children never truly regarded the original owner as their mother, otherwise they would not have watched the original owner being kicked out of the house without saying a word.

What was Ye Hongying doing?

Could it be that it was really for Gao Wenbo's monthly salary of a few dozen dollars?

Suddenly, something was blown down outside the window, and the sound of "click" interrupted Ye Zhi's thoughts.

Wind blew in through the broken window. Ye Zhi couldn't help but hug her arms and sweep them away. The temperature dropped as the typhoon came, and it was a bit cold.

Lu Wei took out a thin coat, handed it to her, and suddenly asked: "Will you blame me for not telling you at the time?"

Ye Zhi wrapped her coat around her and said with a smile, "We have no right to dictate other people's lives. We just need to live our own lives well."

They had just gotten married at that time, and with Lu Wei's personality, it was impossible for him to gossip about others behind their backs.

Besides, it’s useless to say it. Can I stop Ye Hongying from getting married?

This is obviously impossible, because the letter said that it was Ye Hongying who took the initiative to find Gao Wenbo.

If she went to persuade them, wouldn't her family think she was jealous of Ye Hongying for marrying an engineer?

It's a thankless job.

Lu Wei met Ye Zhi's clear eyes, repeating what she had just said in his heart, and suddenly lowered his head and pecked her lips.

Ye Zhi glared at him: "Xiao Ding is still here!"

Shameless!

Lu Wei smiled ostentatiously: "He didn't see it."

Ye Zhi couldn't help but look and saw that Ye Xiaoding was indeed fiddling with the radio that her parents had sent her.

Thinking that she could listen to the radio in the future, Ye Zhi's mood suddenly became excited. She couldn't help but move closer to Lu Wei, raised her feet, kissed him on the cheek, and said, "Let's listen to the radio tonight!"

After the typhoon passed, it rained for another three days.

Fortunately, I have a radio, so these typhoon days when I have to stay at home aren’t too boring.

The rain stopped on the fourth day. Although the sun didn't come out, it was a cool and cloudy day.

Ye Zhi got up early in the morning and went to check the yard to see if the vegetables and flowers she planted were destroyed by the typhoon.

Fortunately, most of the plants she planted were water spinach, which is water-resistant. Even if it rained for three days, although the plants drooped, they looked like they should still be able to survive.

The other pepper, tomato and pumpkin seedlings were not so tenacious. Two of them had their leaves rotten. It seemed they had to be planted again.

Ye Zhi thought that there were a lot of mung beans at home, so why not just sprout some mung beans to eat.

Ye Zhi was tidying up the yard here, and Lu Wei was not idle after waking up over there. He washed the clothes that had not dried in the past few days.

So when He Jinfeng came to Ye Zhi's yard, she saw the tall and strong Lu Wei washing things by the faucet.

His eyes suddenly widened.

This Lu Wei, he just washed dishes before, but I didn’t expect him to wash clothes today?

How many men in this housing estate are capable of doing such housework?

Before, people in the family compound said that Lu Wei had a bad temper and didn't know how to be gentle with women, but now it seems that he is not like that.

At least I wash the dishes and clothes.

This point makes many men inferior to her.

If the people in the family compound knew that Ye Zhi not only had a good mother-in-law, but also a husband who could lend a hand, wouldn't most of them be envious to death?

Ye Zhi quickly noticed He Jinfeng's arrival and asked, "Sister He, how is your yard? Is it all right?"

When Lu Wei heard the voice, he raised his head and greeted He Jinfeng, then went back to washing clothes.

He Jinfeng walked in with a smile and said, "Oh, don't mention it. The loofah shed has collapsed. I thought I couldn't finish eating all the loofahs, so I brought some over for you."

As she spoke, He Jinfeng placed a few tender-looking loofahs on the stone bench in Ye Zhi's yard.

"Thank you, Sister He. My parents just happened to send me some dried mushrooms. You can take some back with you." After saying that, Ye Zhi went back to the chest of drawers in the living room, took out the dried mushrooms that had been divided into several portions early in the morning, and gave them to He Jinfeng.

On the other side, Lu Wei had already washed the clothes and hung them on the clothesline.

He Jinfeng asked Ye Zhi quietly, "Does your Lu Tuan still do laundry?"

Ye Zhi smiled and said, "The clothes I washed on a rainy day weren't dry yet. Lu Wei said they smelled a bit, so I washed them."

It was very humid at the seaside and it was raining, so there was probably a bit of smell, but she ignored it. Lu Wei got up and took it out to wash it again.

If he wants to wash, let him wash.

He Jinfeng smiled and didn't ask any more questions. She just said, "By the way, isn't school about to start? Is your Xiao Ding also going to school?"

Ye Zhi nodded, "Yes, I've already signed up, and I'll be going to school in four or five days."

He Jinfeng said, "Okay, my kids also need to go to school, so let them go with me when the time comes."

He Jinfeng had to go back to the supply and marketing cooperative very early every day, so she couldn't send her children home in the morning.

"By the way, is Anzi going back to Guangzhou?" Ye Zhi heard some time ago that he seemed to be going back to Guangzhou to study. There happened to be a typhoon these days and the ships stopped sailing, so he should not have returned yet.

Ye Xiaoding has just made a friend, so he will probably cry for a while.

He Jinfeng said, "I'm not sure yet. That idiot Anzi said he doesn't want to go back to Guangzhou. I have to call my sister to talk to her."

Ye Zhi chatted with He Jinfeng for a while about the child, but He Jinfeng was in a hurry to go back to the supply and marketing cooperative, so she didn't say anything more.

Ye Zhi felt bored when she thought about Ye Xiaoding going to school and being left alone at home.

Looking at He Jinfeng's busy back, I suddenly felt a little envious.

However, there are so many family members on the island and only a few jobs, so it is quite difficult to find a job.

Let’s wait and see when Ye Xiaoding goes to school.

A few days later, elementary school started.

Lu Wei and Ye Zhi sent Ye Xiaoding to school on his first day of elementary school. Although he was upset for a while, he became happy when he saw that Chen Zhian did not return to Yangcheng but went to the first grade with him.

The primary school in the staff compound is quite large, and there are two teaching buildings, both of which are two-story red brick and tile buildings.

There are quite a lot of children there, and they start shouting and making a lot of noise as soon as they arrive at school.

I heard that there is a kindergarten behind the primary school. Now people are encouraged to liberate women's labor force, so the kindergarten and primary school are fully equipped.

Ye Zhi sent him to the classroom door and said, "You have to go home after school. Don't run around. Do you understand?"

Ye Xiaoding was carrying a military green shoulder bag that Lu Wei used to wear to school. He was very proud and said, "I know. I will go home with Anzi after school. You don't have to pick me up, aunt."

I heard that elementary school students don’t need to be picked up by adults, only those little kids in kindergarten need to be picked up by adults.

Ye Zhi sounded a little unreliable: "I will pick you up on the first day, you wait for me at the school gate."

Ye Xiaoding cried out, "You don't have to pick up the phone. How can an elementary school student need an adult to pick him up?"

He will be laughed at by his classmates then!

Ye Zhi really wanted to beat him up. In a few decades, elementary school students will have to be picked up and dropped off four times a day, okay?

It’s annoying for parents.

He is so good that he even thinks adults are annoying.

Lu Wei stood aside and said, "I'll pick you up for two days. When you know the way, you can go to and from school by yourself."

After all, Ye Zhi also had to go to work in the textile factory.

Ye Xiaoding lowered his head and said, "Okay."

Then, I walked into the classroom which was as noisy as a vegetable market.

Ye Zhi watched him go back to the classroom, and then said to Lu Wei beside her: "You go back to work."

Lu Wei lowered his eyes to look at Ye Zhi, whose expression was drooping, and asked, "What about you?"

Ye Zhi thought for a moment and said with a smile, "As for me, I will go back to grow vegetables, flowers and drink tea."

It sounds quite pleasant.

Lu Wei said, "Then you should have a good rest at home and call me if you have anything."

When Ye Zhi heard the phone call, she felt a little resistant. It was so strange that the call between them could be heard by the colleagues in the switchboard room.

"Okay, I'll call you if there's anything." Ye Zhi still responded.

Just as Ye Zhi and Lu Wei were leaving the elementary school, the bell rang. Ye Zhi looked back and happened to see Li Shufen walking into the teacher's office in front.

Ye Zhi then asked Lu Wei beside her: "Comrade Li Shufen is an elementary school teacher?"

Ye Zhi had a deep impression of Comrade Li Shufen.

In addition to the first day she made a special visit to the island, she and Tian Qiuyun were publicly criticized by the patrol officer when they went to the sea.

When Lu Wei heard the name, he searched it in his mind and said, "Yes."

Ye Zhi didn't ask any more questions. Li Shufen didn't seem as aggressive as Tian Qiuyun, so she should be a very patient teacher.

Li Shufen, who was in the teacher's office, had just walked into the door when she heard two other teachers laughing and talking, "So that's Captain Lu's childhood sweetheart? She's so pretty."

"No wonder Captain Lu has looked down on other girls for so many years. It turns out his wife is so beautiful."

"I heard that Captain Lu still washes dishes and clothes at home. He really loves his wife."

"Oh, that woman is so lucky. Not only does her mother-in-law like her and send her so many things, but her husband also loves her. I'm so envious. I'm not greedy, just give me one thing."

"Hey, what are you talking about? Take a look at yourself first to see if you are as pretty as others!"

"Yeah, she's not as pretty as me!"

Li Shufen felt very uncomfortable after hearing this. Most people who had stayed in the family compound for a long time knew that she had previously gone to the political commissar to tell him that she wanted to go on a blind date with Lu Wei, but was rejected by Lu Wei, not to mention that they had never met in person.

Li Shufen once went up to him and tried to talk to him, but Lu Wei didn't even know who she was.

This incident has always bothered her, so when Lu Wei brought back a childhood sweetheart, she had to wait for Lu Wei to be laughed at by the entire family compound.

It's a joke that he married a child and an old girl, but who knew that although Ye Zhi was a little older, she was actually very pretty!

Now it seems that the couple is very sweet and extremely happy.

It’s just a nephew coming to school, and the couple has to send him off together. Which child is happier than him?

Don’t everyone go to and from school by themselves?

I don't know if they did it on purpose to show their affection.

Forget it, forget it, they are newly married, which couple is not like this?

You will understand after a while that all men are of the same character. Once they get something, they will not cherish it.

Li Shufen turned a deaf ear to the matter and went to class with her books with a green face.

As soon as Lu Wei returned to the regiment, he was called to a meeting to discuss the enlistment of new soldiers next spring.

The meeting lasted for a full hour. When it was about to end, Commander Zhang called Lu Wei to a stop.

Commander Zhang: "Captain Lu, wait a moment, I have something to talk to you about."

Lu Wei sat back down, and after everyone left, Commander Zhang asked, "I heard that your wife used to be an employee at a textile factory?"

Lu Weiying: "Yes."

Commander Zhang nodded and said, "You all know the main points of the meeting just now. This batch of new recruits is larger than expected, and the uniforms and beddings needed now are not prepared in sufficient quantities."

"So, you see, can't you mobilize your family members to go to the textile factory to help out?"

The reason why Commander Zhang knew that Lu Wei's family worked at the textile factory was not through their political review materials, but from the mouth of his wife Huang Qiucan.

During the days before the typhoon, Huang Qiuchan found someone to make two sets of clothes for him. He was quite resistant at first because in the army, uniforms and shoes were all matching and he had never worn any other clothes. But he couldn't resist the coercion of his wife.

Unexpectedly, after being forced by my wife to wear it, I found that the workmanship and tailoring were very good.

Huang Qiuchan said, "That's right. Comrade Ye used to be an employee of a textile factory. He makes beautiful clothes."

Commander Zhang took into consideration that Lu Wei and Ye Zhi were newlyweds and didn't know whether they would agree to this.

After all, this job is temporary, and there is no way to give Ye Zhi a regular position.

The Lu family is not short of Ye Zhi's food, so let's ask Lu Wei's opinion first.

Lu Wei said, "I have to go back and ask Comrade Ye about this."

Commander Zhang nodded: "No rush, give me an answer in a week."

That night, Lu Wei went back and told Ye Zhi about this. Unexpectedly, Ye Zhi agreed without even thinking about it.

"Of course!"

Ye Zhi was worried that if Lu Wei went out on a mission and Ye Xiaoding went to school, she would be too idle and bored.

Unexpectedly, she would get the chance right away, and she would definitely not let it go.

Lu Wei said, "Well, go if you like."