Si Ya recovered her breath, stood up and walked to Xin Xin's side, touching the hem of Xin Xin's skirt with envy, "Is this a new model from the clothing store?"

Xinxin: "Well, I chose it. Does it look good?"

Si Ya nodded, "It looks good, it really looks good. You have fair skin, and this color looks beautiful on you..."

Xinxin smiled and took out a skirt of the same style but different color from the bag she was holding beside her and handed it to her.

"Here, I picked this for you."

Si Ya stared at the red floral dress Xinxin was wearing, blinked, then reacted and looked at Xinxin in surprise.

"Xinxin, you, you..."

Xinxin felt that Si Ya's reaction was wrong and was very puzzled. "What's wrong? Don't you like this color of skirt? But, didn't I remember you said you liked red?"

Si Ya shook her head. She looked at Xin Xin with a puzzled expression and leaned close to her to ask in a low voice, "Xin Xin, did you get this skirt from the store? Hurry and return it before my aunt knows... I can tell my dad later and ask him to buy it for me from my aunt's store..."

Xinxin was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. Under Si Ya's confused gaze, she stuffed the skirt into her arms and said, "Oh, Si Ya, you think too much. I didn't steal this! My mother gave it to you. Not only do you have it, but Sister Daya and Xiao Ni also have it. It's just that the university is on vacation now, otherwise I would have taken it all."

Si Ya looked skeptical, "Really?"

Xinxin smiled and nodded, "Of course it's true. Taking something without asking is stealing. My father has always told us that we should ask for what we want and not take anything without the consent of an adult, no matter if it's from our own home or outside..."

Si Ya believed it after hearing this. She stretched out her skirt with joy and said, "I, then I'll try..."

Xinxin nodded and followed her back to her bedroom. "Just put it on. Afterwards, let's go to the Xinda Family Compound to find Grandma Qi, right?"

"OK."

Si Ya put on the skirt, turned around and asked Xinxin to help her zip it up, then turned around in place.

"Does it look good?"

Xinxin looked her up and down and said, "It looks good. But it would look even better if you tied your hair up and didn't wear those cloth shoes!"

Si Ya thought about it, took out a pair of red plastic sandals that Yao Xiujuan had given her earlier from under the bed, changed her black cloth shoes, combed her hair, braided it into two neat pigtails, and looked at Xinxin again.

"How about it?"

Xinxin smiled and nodded, "Yes, sure."

Upon hearing this, Si Ya turned around, took out her English homework book from the desk, put it in her schoolbag, and looked at Xin Xin, "Let's go..."

The two of them walked through the hand-pulled meat shop owned by Zhang Ping on the first floor. As they passed Zhang Ping, Xinxin called out, "Second Auntie."

Si Ya shouted loudly, "Mom, Xinxin and I are going to find Teacher Qi..." and then she pulled Xinxin out.

Zhang Ping was taking a large bone out of the pot for a customer. She was stunned when she heard the words. Before she could react, she saw two figures, one yellow and one red, flying past her. She looked around but didn't see anyone. She looked curiously at her second son who was squatting in front of the road and burning a fire.

"Second brother, why did I feel like I heard the voices of Xinxin and your sister just now?"

Chu Sanzhu raised his head and glanced at his mother. "Mom, you're not wrong. Xinxin and Si Ya went out just now."

Zhang Ping brought the large bones to the waiting customers and said with a smile, "Eat slowly..."

Then he turned around and walked to the pot, wondering, "But, I saw them running over there in skirts..."

"Forget about Xinxin. She has endless new clothes at home. But Si Ya doesn't have any skirts?"

Chu Sanzhu said calmly, "What's there to be confused about? My aunt and the others just came back yesterday. It must be my aunt who asked Xinxin to give it to Si Ya."

Zhang Ping said "Oh", "Then when your father comes back, don't forget to tell him."

Chu Sanzhu rolled his eyes and said speechlessly, "What's the big deal? It's just a skirt!"

"My uncle's family doesn't need the money for that skirt! It's just you and my dad who are afraid of spending my uncle's money every day..."

"I heard from my classmates that my uncle's shop can earn at least one or two thousand yuan per month. How much is this skirt?"

"If you ask me, my dad is just stupid. He's clearly invested so much in that company, and he always gets drunk with those factory managers. Why does he only get such a small profit every year? I..."

Listening to Chu Sanzhu's mumbling, Zhang Ping's grip on the big soup spoon slowly tightened, and finally, unable to bear it any longer, she hit him on the back with the spoon.

"ah!"

Chu Sanzhu suddenly jumped up and shouted in dissatisfaction, "Mom, what are you doing?"

Zhang Ping was so angry that she pointed a large soup spoon at him and said, "I'll beat you to death, you evil son! How could you think like that?"

Chu Sanzhu retorted as he walked towards the door, "What did I say wrong? My uncle is so rich, why should we be so polite? Besides, I see my uncle is always happy to give us things, only you and my father are embarrassed to accept them. We are brothers, so why should we be embarrassed?"

Zhang Ping's hands were shaking with anger. She pointed at Chu Sanzhu as he walked out of the store and shouted, "If you have the guts, don't come back. Otherwise, you'll see how your father will deal with you when he gets back..."

On this side, Chu Min didn't know that his second son and daughter-in-law had a quarrel. He was sitting opposite Captain Ma with Chu Tian and Zuo Zhuang. Chu Tian asked with a smile.

"Captain Ma, which style do you choose? Once you've chosen, we can start digging the foundation today..."

Captain Ma looked at all five drawings, then raised his head and scanned the faces of Chu Tian and the other two. "Can we only choose from these five drawings?"

Zuo Zhuang continued, "Uncle Ma, this was chosen by Commander Ge. He required that it be chosen from these five drawings."

After a pause, he continued, "The other corps mostly chose the first three. I suggest that our corps choose the fifth."

Captain Ma laughed. "Why? What's the difference with the fifth one? Why does the fifth one look simpler to me?"

Zuo Zhuang glanced at Chu Tian and Chu Min, and seeing that they were both looking at him with a smile, he continued, "Although the design of this blueprint is simple, it is only simple in appearance. The design inside is better than the other blueprints."

"With the same budget, the headquarters building designed with this blueprint has one to three more offices per floor than the other four designs, and also..."

Captain Ma narrowed his eyes and asked, "Then why don't you introduce this blueprint to other regiments?"

Zuo Zhuang chuckled, "After all, we are from the Red Flag Corps, so we definitely want to leave the best and most unique things to our Red Flag Corps."

Upon hearing this, Captain Ma immediately burst into laughter. "Haha, okay, okay, then choose this one."

"Why!"