Chapter 107

It's true. When Yueyue gets angry, she is like Lin Tao, with her cheeks slightly puffed up and her brows wrinkled.

The hospital was not far from the Public Security Bureau. It only took them about ten minutes to walk there. Li Chengxi's wound was not deep, and the bleeding had stopped. After arriving at the hospital, they only needed to simply clean the wound, disinfect it, apply some medicine, and bandage it.

When Lin Tao stood by and watched, her brows were furrowed and it felt painful just looking at it.

But Li Chengxi sat there with an expressionless face, as if the wound was not on his body at all.

Lin Tao was helpless. Thinking of the injuries on his body, she sighed again. Yes, her husband was a soldier who defended his country. She didn't know how many times he had been injured. He really didn't care about these "minor injuries".

"Okay, just be careful not to touch water for the next few days." said the nurse who bandaged Li Chengxi.

While talking, I couldn't help but secretly glance at Lin Tao and Li Chengxi. At first glance, they looked like a couple. They were both very good-looking, and standing here, they looked so well-matched.

But the male officer had a stern face and looked very serious. The young nurse didn't dare to say a word, and she didn't even dare to make a sound while bandaging the wound.

After the wound was bandaged, she smiled at Lin Tao and whispered, "Comrade, you two are a perfect match. You look like a perfect couple when standing together. I have been working in the hospital for two years and have met many people, but this is the first time I have seen people as good-looking as you."

Lin Tao smiled and glanced at Li Chengxi.

Unexpectedly, Li Chengxi was also looking at her, and their eyes met. Li Chengxi didn't know what they were talking about, but as soon as he saw Lin Tao, a smile appeared on his face, a tough guy with a tender heart.

The young nurse saw it and was so excited as if she had seen something extraordinary. She quickly covered her mouth and when she walked outside, she pulled another young nurse and talked about something.

"What are you talking about? You look so happy." Li Chengxi shook his hands and asked Lin Tao.

Lin Tao smiled at Li Chengxi and said, "The little girl complimented you on your good looks."

Li Chengxi frowned: "Who?"

Seeing that he looked like he was about to fight, Lin Tao was both angry and amused, and quickly said, "I'm just kidding you, they just said that we are a good match."

At this moment, Li Chengxi's expression finally returned to normal. He chuckled and said, "The little girl has good taste. Not bad."

Lin Tao snorted. You looked like you were going to eat someone just now, and now you're praising me for my good taste? No wonder people on the island used to call him the 'Living King of Yan'. After seeing his changed expression, Lin Tao finally understood.

Li Chengxi went to pay the fee. There were many people there, all queuing up. Lin Tao simply sat on a chair in the corridor and waited for Li Chengxi.

As a result, when I was in the corridor, I met an acquaintance - Zou Tong.

After leaving the Haidao Health Center, Zou Tong came to work at the city hospital. It was working hours, she was wearing a white coat, and her belly was slightly bulging, it seemed that she was pregnant. Zou Tong did not expect to meet Lin Tao here.

When the two met, there was joy on their faces.

Zou Tong: "Teacher Lin?"

Lin Tao nodded and said with a smile, "Doctor Zou."

"Teacher Lin, why are you here at the hospital? Are you alone?" Zou Tong asked, and then looked around and immediately noticed Li Chengxi, who was queuing at the checkout window. Li Chengxi was wearing a conspicuous white marine uniform, and he was tall and long-legged. Standing there, he could be noticed at a glance.

"Are you here with Captain Li? Could you be pregnant again?" Zou Tong glanced at Lin Tao's flat belly.

Seeing the person she once loved again, Zou Tong no longer felt anything. When she first met Lin Tao on the island, after talking to her, she decided to let go of everything.

Lin Tao shook her head and told her about Li Chengxi catching a human trafficker. She then touched Zou Tong's belly and said, "You must be five or six months pregnant, right?"

"Well, the baby will be born in July or August this year, and we don't know whether it will be a boy or a girl." When Zou Tong saw Lin Tao talking about her child, her face was full of smiles.

"Whether it's a boy or a girl, it's all good. As long as it's your own child, you won't feel sad enough." Lin Tao said.

From Zou Tong's expression, we can tell that she is living a happy life now and everything is fine.

The two chatted for a while, and then someone called Zou Tong: "Doctor Zou, the director wants you to come over."

As soon as Zou Tong left, Li Chengxi came over and asked, "Who were you talking to just now?"

Lin Tao said, "I'm talking to Doctor Zou."

"Doctor Zou?" Li Chengxi frowned, as if he was seriously thinking about who this 'Doctor Zou' was, but he couldn't figure it out. "Which Doctor Zou?"

Lin Tao was speechless and said, "It's the doctor Zou who went on a blind date with you."

Li Chengxi frowned, still couldn't remember.

Lin Tao was helpless and simply stopped bothering him about this matter. Li Chengxi was like this. He could remember things he wanted to remember clearly after a long time, but he could forget things he didn't want to remember in a blink of an eye. It was estimated that he went to meet Dr. Zou because he was forced to meet him because of the organization's introduction. He didn't feel embarrassed to refuse. He probably didn't even know who the other person was or what his last name was at that time.

Fortunately, Dr. Zou was able to let go of things, otherwise, Lin Tao would have felt sorry for Dr. Zou.

But to be honest, as Li Chengxi's cousin, this is a good thing. Anyway, Lin Tao is not worried at all that Li Chengxi will have problems with relationships between men and women.

After the two came out of the city hospital, they went directly to the train station.

In the waiting room, Yueyue had already woken up and was sitting in Lin Changhai's arms without making any noise. Before Lin Tao and Li Chengxi arrived, he asked, "Waidong, where are Dad and Mom?"

Lin Changhai said, "Mom and Dad went to catch the bad guys."

So when Lin Tao and Li Chengxi arrived, Yueyue was very excited. When Lin Tao held her in her arms, she asked in a baby voice, "Dad, catch the bad guys!"

"Yes, Dad just went to catch the bad guys. Dad is so great. He is a hero." Lin Tao stretched out her hand and pinched Yueyue's nose, saying with a smile.

The family took the bus and then went to the pier to take a boat.

Today's weather is pretty good, although it's winter and very cold, but fortunately there are no waves on the sea today. Otherwise, with Lin Tao's physique, if she had just taken such a long train and then took a boat, it would be fine if the sea was calm and the boat was not shaking. If it was shaking, she would definitely get seasick.

After getting off the boat, Xiao Ning was already waiting there.

Xiao Ning also took a leave to visit his hometown this time. His wife had already given birth to a big fat boy, which made the boy very happy. After returning this time, he finally saw his son. When he saw Lin Tao and the others, he smiled like a flower.

Xiao Ning: "Captain, sister-in-law! Uncle Lin, you are here!"

This powerful formation earned a glare from Li Chengxi.

Xiao Ning chuckled, and Lin Tao said with a smile: "Xiao Ning, why do I feel that you seem to be a little fatter than before after this trip home."

"Really? That could be a wife, children, a warm bed, and a beautiful life for me." Xiao Ning scratched his head embarrassedly and hurried to help with the luggage.

"Are you happy to see your son?" Lin Changhai said.

Xiao Ning: "Happy, of course I am happy, the boy has grown fat now. But he is still too young, I guess I won't be able to hear him call me dad until next year."

"The child is only a few months old, and you want to hear him call daddy? Your leader only started calling daddy when Yueyue was one year old." Lin Tao said with a smile.

After they got in the car, Lin Tao found a bag of things on the back seat that felt particularly cold.

Xiao Ning explained, "Sister-in-law, this is a specialty of our hometown, frozen pears. My mother insisted that I bring it to you. It may not look good, but it tastes pretty good."

Lin Tao was feeling a little uncomfortable and nauseous due to the boat ride. She wanted to eat something to relieve the pain, so she took out a frozen pear.

The frozen pears are dark in color and feel a little cold in the hand. According to Xiao Ning, they make frozen pears by burying the pears in the snow and taking them out after they are frozen.

Lin Tao, a native of Xiangcheng, didn't know that pears could be eaten this way, so she took a bite of the frozen pear. The frozen pear had been frozen for so long that it had thawed a lot, so it was best to eat it now. Otherwise, if you eat it right after it's frozen, you're afraid you'll knock out your teeth.

Take a bite, it's full of juice, sweet, and magically has a little bit of wine flavor.

The taste was very good. Most importantly, the icy and sweet taste immediately suppressed the nausea in Lin Tao's chest. The only bad thing was that it felt a bit too cold.

Yueyue sat in Li Chengxi's arms, watching her mother eat frozen pears without blinking, her eyes full of desire. She swallowed her saliva, couldn't help but stretch out her little fleshy hand, and said, "Mom, Yueyue eat..."

Lin Tao took out a glutinous rice noodle from the bag and handed it to Yueyue, saying, "This is too cold. Yueyue's teeth will fall out from the cold. Don't eat it. Yueyue, eat this."

Although Yueyue has been a glutton since she was young, she is also the kind of child who is easy to coax. She wants to eat frozen pears, but if you tell her that she can't eat them and give her a glutinous rice stick, she will accept it.

So Yueyue took the glutinous rice noodles and began to eat them with relish.

After Lin Tao ate a frozen pear, not only her teeth were cold, but also her hands. She rubbed her hands, trying to warm them up, and then put them in her pocket.

He took Li Chengxi's hand and held it in his own warm palm. After a while, the originally cold hand was immediately warmed up.

Still in the car, Xiao Ning and Lin Changhai were sitting in the front. Lin Tao didn't feel comfortable saying anything, so she just let Li Chengxi go.

After arriving home and unloading the luggage from the car, Lin Tao called Xiao Ning: "Xiao Ning, come home for dinner later."

"Okay, thank you, sister-in-law." Xiao Ning said.

The yard was tidied up nicely. The chickens and geese in the house ran away as soon as they saw someone coming in. The rabbits and sheep were full of energy, and it was obvious that they had eaten well. Even the rabbit nest and sheepfold were tidy, and it was obvious that Chen Shuifen had done it.

Lin Tao glanced next door, but couldn't see anything because of the wall. She planned to go to Chen Shuifen's house after she tidied up the house.

As soon as Xiao Ning left, Lin Tao started packing her luggage. As for folding clothes, the family had tacitly agreed that it was Li Chengxi's job, because the clothes he folded were much neater than those folded by Lin Tao, and Lin Tao had to admit that.

Lin Changhai hung the salted meat in the kitchen.

Lin Tao took out the clothes that needed washing and planned to wash them later.

Although there were a lot of things, the three of them worked very efficiently and quickly packed them up. Lin Tao put the cloth next to the sewing machine and planned to give it to Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting later.

The cloth I bought for Chen Shuifen was military green and navy blue because she said she was going to use the cloth to make some clothes for Zheng Xiangyang, Zheng Hongxing and Zheng Youde. The military green cloth was just right for Zheng Xiangyang and Zheng Hongxing, as military green is the favorite color of children. The navy blue cloth was for Zheng Youde.

The cloth I bought for Xu Yuting was the color that Xu Yuting picked herself. The supply and marketing cooperatives on the island had very little cloth, and it was often sold out, so even the inferior fabrics were not available.

There are a lot of fabrics in Shanghai, and the counters selling fabrics are particularly large. Lin Tao picked out several colors.

Lin Tao put the cloth away and went into the room. Li Chengxi had just folded his clothes. Lin Tao walked up to him and kissed him on the face when he bent over.

Li Chengxi was stunned for a moment, and Lin Tao smiled and said, "It's a reward for you when we were in the car."

But this light kiss, like a dragonfly touching the water, disturbed the lake surface. Li Chengxi still felt it was not enough, so he hugged Lin Tao and kissed her soft lips.

At this moment, Yueyue pushed open the door that was not closed tightly. Yueyue looked at her parents and said in a baby voice, "I want a kiss too!"

Li Chengxi: “…”

Lin Tao: “…”

The next moment, the two of them separated quickly. Li Chengxi coughed lightly, closed the closet door, and said, "Mom just got something in her eyes and couldn't open them. Dad is blowing in her eyes."

Lin Tao glanced at Li Chengxi. This guy wouldn't even blush when telling lies.

Lin Tao turned away a little embarrassedly, then squatted down and kissed Yueyue's chubby little face: "Okay, where's Grandpa?"

Yueyue pointed to the yard. It turned out that the rope used to hang clothes in the yard was broken. Lin Changhai took a new rope and was tying it. Li Chengxi saw it and hurried to help.

After finishing this, it was already noon, and the family was hungry, so Lin Tao cooked some sweet potato noodles, went to the yard to pick up a handful of green onions, and put a spoonful of chili oil in it, which smelled particularly fragrant. Add a little vinegar, and it tasted sour and spicy, and tasted great.

They had been in Shanghai for half a month, and had mostly eaten Shanghainese food. Although Shanghainese food tasted pretty good, my aunt and her friends were afraid that Lin Tao would not be used to it, so they kept cooking the dishes she liked. They would make the dishes she liked the most.

But in the past half month, Lin Tao hasn't eaten much spicy food, and she really feels that there is no taste in her mouth, it's too bland.

Lin Changhai was no exception. Even Li Chengxi, who was used to eating chili peppers like them, began to feel that the Shanghai cuisine he had eaten for more than a decade as a child was too bland.

Now it’s time to eat the sweet potato noodles. When I see the layer of red oil floating in the bowl, my mouth can’t help but secrete saliva.

It tastes sour and spicy when you take a bite. The sweet potato noodles still have some toughness after being cooked. They are springy and refreshing.

It takes a long time to make fish balls, and now it’s too late, and there’s no fish at home, so I have to go to the food factory to buy some. So Lin Tao planned to make a shrimp and potato mash for Yueyue at noon. Anyway, there were a lot of potatoes at home, so she took one, peeled it, cut it into slices, boiled it in water, and then pressed it into a paste with a spoon.

Yueyue is now over one year old. She is no longer as easy to fool as when she first started to eat complementary food. At that time, after drinking milk for a few months, everything she ate tasted delicious, even without adding any salt. But now that she is a little older, she knows that she needs to eat things with flavor.

Lin Tao added some salt to it, and it tasted better than without salt. Yueyue ate a bowl, and after eating, she must have felt sleepy, so she climbed into bed and fell asleep soon.

Lin Tao helped her cover herself with the quilt and returned to continue eating sweet potato noodles.

She ate a small bowl, while Lin Changhai and Li Chengxi ate a large bowl. They were obviously hungry. As the cook, the most satisfying thing for her was to see her family eat up all the food she cooked. Especially after seeing Lin Changhai drink a sip of soup, Lin Tao smiled.

After lunch, Lin Changhai went to take a nap as he was tired from taking the train.

Li Chengxi also needed to rest, as he would have to go back to work in the group tomorrow. Lin Tao lay with him for a while, then got up. She was not very sleepy, as she had slept well on the train last night.

Lin Tao lifted the quilt and got out of bed, put on her cotton jacket, and took a look at the two sleeping on the bed. She couldn't help but smile. She would never get tired of such a simple and happy life. Every time she saw the father and daughter, she couldn't help but smile.

Lin Tao closed the door quietly, then went to get the cloth she had brought for Chen Shuifen, and also packed a bag of glutinous rice noodles, which were specially for their children.

Just as she was about to go to Chen Shuifen's house, she saw Xu Yuting coming from a distance as soon as she reached the gate. Lin Tao stood there waiting for a while, and when she saw Xu Yuting coming to the side, she smiled and said, "When did you come back?"

When Xu Yuting spoke, white air came out of her mouth. She said, "We came back two days ago. I really couldn't get used to living there, and there were so many relatives. During the Chinese New Year, there were dozens of people in my family. I didn't know who was who after the Chinese New Year. You don't know either. Usually, I rely on Wang Yuanliang to remind me when I call people, but one time he was not there, and then I called a distant aunt of their family my cousin. It was really embarrassing..."

When Xu Yuting thought of the things that happened in Wang Yuanliang's hometown in Suzhou, she blushed even more, and was speechless. She said, "But how could I have known that she looked no more than 30 years old, but her generation score was so high, and she was actually an old lady..."

"What about you? How are you doing there? It must be fine. I see you seem to have gained a little weight since before the New Year." Xu Yuting looked at Lin Tao while speaking.

Lin Tao touched his face and muttered, "No, I didn't think so..."

"Are you here to get the cloth? Let's go inside and get it. We have all the colors of cloth you mentioned. I also bought you a piece of white cotton cloth, the same kind I bought before. It's very soft and suitable for making small clothes. It's very comfortable to wear." As Lin Tao spoke, she opened the gate and took Xu Yuting into the yard.

There is no Kang in Lin Tao's house, but it is too cold to stand on it. They have a small stove. When they light a fire on the stove, they throw two pieces of charcoal into the mouth of the stove. After the charcoal is burned, they pick it up and put it in the stove, then put a few new pieces of charcoal in. It is quite warm to sit next to the fire.

When cooking sweet potato noodles, Lin Changhai had burned charcoal. But after lunch, Lin Tao buried the charcoal with ash, so that when she came back, she could dig out the ash and the charcoal would still be burning, so she could continue to roast the fire.

Xu Yuting sat down to warm herself by the fire. Lin Tao brought her some snacks she had brought from Shanghai and said, "Try this sweet-scented osmanthus cake and mung bean cake. I think they are both delicious. Sit here first. I'll get you some cloth."

As Lin Tao spoke, she stood up and prepared to get the cloth.

But Xu Yuting stopped her and said, "A Tao, don't worry, I'll sit down first and tell you something about Sister Chen's family."

Lin Tao was stunned, not knowing what happened in Chen Shuifen's home. But when she heard Xu Yuting say this, her heart tightened, fearing that something had happened. But looking at Xu Yuting's expression, she felt that it shouldn't be a big deal.

She sat down and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xu Yuting said, "I just found out when I returned to the island two days ago that Sister Chen's mother-in-law came to the island. Tsk, Sister Chen has told us a lot about her mother-in-law before, right?"

Lin Tao nodded. Sometimes when Chen Shuifen talked about things in her hometown, she couldn't help but mention her mother-in-law. Her mother-in-law was not an easy person to get along with. She was the most aggressive one in the area. When Chen Shuifen first got married, she was in poor health. Her family members did a good job and didn't give her any food. They hid the good dishes and only gave her salted vegetables.

Later, when Zheng Youde was in the army, whenever he sent his allowance home, Chen Shuifen's mother-in-law would take it away. She even said in the village that Chen Shuifen was not a good daughter-in-law, who did not know how to respect her mother-in-law and did not know how to work. She also said that it was because their family had a good conscience that they married such a daughter-in-law with tuberculosis and did not kick her out directly. If it were someone else, they would have kicked her out long ago.

At that time, Chen Shuifen had just recovered from her illness and was still weak. The doctor told her not to do heavy work. Moreover, she was ill, and her mother-in-law wanted her out immediately after she knew about it. If it weren't for Zheng Youde protecting her, I'm afraid Chen Shuifen would not be alive today.

But Mrs. Zheng was so good. Seeing that Chen Shuifen and the others were not going back to their hometown for the New Year, she simply came to the island, saying that she wanted to get money!

Even Xu Yuting couldn't help shaking her head when she mentioned Old Lady Zheng, with a look of disdain on her face, and said, "A Tao, Sister Chen's mother-in-law is really powerful. Even Sister Chen is no match for her."