I went to the Children's Palace to complete some paperwork this morning, and then went to buy fruit after I came back. I was busy all day, and there's still a lot to do.
The weeds in the vegetable garden have grown back, and the chicken coop needs to be swept again. The vegetable garden also needs to be watered tonight; it's a bit dry these past few days since it hasn't rained…
I feel like I don't do much every day, but I'm constantly busy with trivial things, and I don't have much free time unless I don't want to do it.
Bonnie seriously suspected that the group of people who gathered in the family compound every day to gossip must have poorly built homes, otherwise why would they have so much free time to gather together and talk nonsense?
It's not really anyone's fault. Nobody's family is like Bonnie's. Her family washes their clothes several times a day, cleans their house at least once a day, and you can hardly see any dust. Their vegetable garden is neat and tidy, without a single weed. Even the chicken coop is swept several times a day.
Bonnie was used as a role model by Lao Jiang, and many things were ingrained in her bones and could not be changed, even with a different body.
The vegetables in the garden are growing well, and the scallions are over a foot tall; they're ready to eat.
For Shandong people, how can the dinner table be without scallions?
Bonnie moved the pan out and placed it in a shady spot, planning to make pancakes for dinner.
Bonnie cooked a pot of millet porridge early in the morning, so it wouldn't be too hot when it was time to eat.
Mix the cornmeal into a paste, and later make pancakes on a griddle. Tonight, roll the pancakes with scallions and serve with the pickled vegetables that Sister Qu Hong helped make. It will be absolutely delicious.
Bonnie continued working according to her plan and didn't feel tired at all.
When Gu Ye and his two sons returned one after another, Bao Ni had already prepared the meal and made a large stack of pancakes, enough for breakfast the next morning.
"Wow, we're having pancakes for dinner, do you have egg sauce?" Sanqi had egg sauce at Aunt Zhang's place and loved it. This year, Baoni even asked Aunt Zhang to make a small jar of soybean paste for her.
"Then go find your dad and ask him to fry some for you." Bonnie likes to use the sauce from her hometown when making pancakes, and she made a small jar of it, since there are still plenty of soybeans left.
"What do you want me to do?" Gu Ye came over after washing his hands and heard his wife give him a task.
"Your son wants egg sauce, go fry some for him." Bonnie drained the washed vegetables and scallions and set them aside.
"No problem, wait." Gu Ye went back into the kitchen.
"Liu Jiu, come and eat." Liu Jiu, who had just come home from school, discovered that someone lived next door. He put down his schoolbag and curiously peered over the wall. It seemed that there were children in that family as well, more than one.
"Coming!" Liu Jiu waved to the neighbor's child and ran back to prepare for dinner.
"Cao Wenze, slow down!" came a woman's exclamation from next door.
Gu Ye, who was carrying the egg sauce, paused for a moment upon hearing this, then quickly put the egg sauce on the table and walked towards the courtyard wall.
"Brother Wenze, is that you?" Gu Ye asked when he saw a familiar yet unfamiliar figure leaning on a cane in the yard.
"Gu Ye?" Cao Wenze looked up and saw the man on the other side of the wall. He hadn't changed much, just more mature.
Gu Ye didn't even bother to eat; he ran out of his own yard and into the neighbor's yard.
"Brother Wenze, it's been twenty years, hasn't it? We haven't seen each other for twenty years." Gu Ye was very excited, and his hands were trembling.
Cao Wenze, no, he used to be called Yang Wenze, they were from the same compound.
One of Gu Ye's few friends from his youth, although he was three years older than him, they got along very well.
Cao Wenze's father was also a veteran of the Red Army with numerous military achievements. He was a few years older than Gu Xiangdong, but his abilities far surpassed Gu Xiangdong's, making them incomparable.
The only thing that draws criticism is that after achieving success, he abandoned his wife who had shared his hardships, married a cultured and beautiful nurse, and left his wife and children back home behind.
When Wenze came to the compound, he was already ten years old. His mother had passed away from illness, and he had no choice but to take his blind sister to live with his biological father.
At that time, his stepmother had already given birth to two children, so she naturally wouldn't sincerely accept their arrival.
Wenze, with his disabled younger sister, couldn't go out to play with his friends, while Gu Ye, because of his sick mother, also stayed home. The two little boys often hung out together when they weren't in school.
Gu Ye later skipped a grade and was in the same class as Cao Wenze, and the two became even closer.
The year Gu Ye's mother passed away, he and his father almost became enemies. For a long time afterward, Cao Wenze accompanied him and comforted him. His older brother, Gu Ze, was too busy and needed to learn knowledge as soon as possible to take over the resources left by his mother.
Gu Ye was admitted to a military academy at the age of fifteen, while Cao Wenze was admitted to a local university in order to take care of his younger sister.
However, tragedy struck. Not long after the start of the school year, Cao Wenze's younger sister had an accident and could not be saved, passing away forever.
The accident was caused by his stepmother's two children. While playing, they bumped into the girl, who was out of sight, causing her to hit her head on the corner of a table and bleed profusely. The terrified children didn't call for help immediately; instead, they ran away. By the time they were found, it was too late, and she couldn't be saved.
When Cao Wenze received the notification and learned the whole story, he went crazy and wanted the murderer to pay with his life. His stepmother cried and his father tried to stop him, and in the end, the two sides broke off relations.
After transferring his household registration from the Yang family, Cao Wenze changed his name, dropped out of school, and from then on, no one knew where he went.
The two, who hadn't seen each other for twenty years, seemed to have a thousand words to say, yet didn't know where to begin. They were teenagers when they parted, and now they were middle-aged.
"Gu Ye, let me introduce you. This is my wife, Deng Yingzi, who is also a newly transferred staff officer. Yingzi, this is my childhood friend Gu Ye, whom I mentioned before."
Gu Ye and Deng Yingzi shook hands; both were professional soldiers, and their facial expressions were well controlled.
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