Chapter 113

Xu Yuting frowned when she heard Lin Hui's name, and said in a very unlucky tone: "I think it's better not to. I get annoyed when I see her. If she comes, I don't think this farewell party will be so interesting. Besides, Director Yang has scolded her several times, right? Can someone like her who holds grudges send Director Yang off sincerely?"

Lin Tao shook her head, not quite agreeing with what Xu Yuting said.

It’s not that she wanted to speak for Lin Hui, but...

Lin Tao said, "Since it's a farewell party for all the military wives, it's better to tell her. As for whether she comes or not, that's her business. Otherwise, if we notify everyone but not her, it will be our fault. If she tells us about it, I don't know what she will say about us, especially Director Yang. This is a farewell party for Director Yang. If she doesn't go, others may misunderstand that it was Director Yang's intention, which will have a bad impact on Director Yang."

"What Teacher Lin said makes sense. I'd better go and tell her about it," said Chen Shuifen.

After listening to Lin Tao's analysis, Xu Yuting nodded in agreement: "This is something I didn't think of just now. You are right. Lin Hui is capable of doing this kind of thing. It is better for us to do things more thoroughly to avoid being criticized later."

"Yes, that's right. Commander Qi and Director Yang are leaving soon, and we are holding this farewell party to make Director Yang happy, not to upset him, so we have to do it well." Lin Tao said.

Recalling something, Lin Tao instructed Chen Shuifen again: "Oh, big sister, when you notify everyone, you have to make things clear. Tell everyone not to bring anything, such as the melon seeds we eat when we chat together. If you want to bring something, you can bring some, just like the last time our school held a welcome party for new teachers, everyone can bring some snacks. But don't bring any other gifts for Director Yang, otherwise it will have a bad impact on everyone."

In fact, as military wives, everyone should understand that they need to pay attention to the impact, and it is unlikely that they would choose this time to give Director Yang a gift or something.

Everyone knows that someone like Director Yang is a down-to-earth person who gets things done. She has been on the island for more than ten years and has confiscated everyone's things.

For example, if someone sends her a gift of local specialties, Director Yang will consider accepting inexpensive items, such as pickled cabbage or vermicelli. If they are really given, she will accept them, but if they are more than that, such as meat or ham, she will not accept them. And even if she accepts something, she will give back something from her hometown, not taking something from others for nothing.

The nature of this is the same as escorting things between military wives. It means that the relationship is good and it's no big deal.

In fact, a few years ago, a military wife bribed Director Yang for her husband. Lin Tao heard this from Chen Shuifen, because when this happened, Lin Tao had not yet come to the island.

However, it is impossible for someone like Director Yang to accept bribes. When he heard that the man got two American ginseng roots from somewhere, Chen Shuifen's original words were "worth a lot of money". Director Yang's face changed on the spot and he reported this behavior to his superiors.

This kind of corrupt leadership behavior must not exist in an organization.

The final result of this incident was that the man who bribed Director Yang's woman was criticized by the organization and demoted.

Lin Hui had just arrived at the company and she was already thinking of getting close to and corrupting Director Yang by giving him two pieces of bacon, taking advantage of the fact that both Director Yang and she were from Xiangcheng. How ridiculous it was.

Thanks to the fact that Lin Hui only sent two pieces of bacon at that time, the matter was not that serious. Otherwise, Shen Guobin would have been demoted long ago because of Lin Hui's involvement, and would not even be able to serve as the deputy battalion commander now.

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The next day, Logistics Department.

Last time, Lin Hui thought that Shen Guobin would definitely be promoted to battalion commander this time, and she started to spread the news even before she got a definite answer that day. In the end, Shen Guobin was still the deputy battalion commander, and Lin Hui was severely slapped in the face.

She had been spoiled by Old Lady Lin and Zhang Hongying at home since she was a child. She had a very strong personality, but she didn't have the capital to be strong, so she didn't have any good friends in the Logistics Department.

Men of higher status looked down on her, and no matter how much she tried to curry favor with them, they would not pay attention to her. As for men of lower status, Lin Hui looked down on them and felt that they were not qualified to be her friends.

After this incident, several military wives in the logistics department made fun of Lin Hui.

As soon as Lin Hui arrived, a military wife named Li deliberately came over and said, "Hey, Lin Hui, didn't you say your husband was going to be promoted to battalion commander? How come it's been so long? He still hasn't been promoted? Why is he still deputy? I heard that your deputy battalion commander Shen is not on the list this time!"

Lin Hui's face was very ugly, and she glared at her. The fact that the two of them were not getting along was known to the entire logistics department, and now they were deliberately embarrassing her.

The other two military wives who were on good terms with Li Jun's wife also chimed in, "That's right, Lin Hui, you're bragging again, aren't you? Your family is really generous. At first glance, you can see that your family is full of impressive things, and they're all just your boasts—"

"Hahahahahaha——" everyone burst into laughter.

Lin Hui was so angry that her face turned green. She threw the gloves on the ground and said, "Li Xiaojuan, what's wrong with my husband being the deputy battalion commander? Your husband is just a company commander. Who do you think you are? Do you need to say that?"

Li Xiaojuan snorted, "My husband is a company commander, so what? I didn't say he was going to be promoted. I know what he is capable of, and he's only in his early twenties. He's nothing like your battalion commander, who I heard retires at the age of 40. You won't be in the army for many years, right? When you go back, will you have to farm?"

"Li Xiaojuan, say it again!" Lin Hui looked like she wanted to fight.

Li Xiaojuan was not afraid of her and continued, "Well, I think it's better to be in the army. People like us who don't have much education can still have jobs and get paid. If I go back to my hometown, the commune will only charge a few cents per cent. How much money will I make in a month? And it's exhausting."

"I let you speak!" Lin Hui threw the gloves at Li Xiaojuan's face.

Li Xiaojuan grabbed Lin Hui's hair and said, "I'm talking about my own things, it's none of your business! You just studied for a few years, do you really think you're so great? You look down on this and that, I've disliked you for a long time, you like to fight, right? Come on!"

Although Li Xiaojuan's name contains the word "small", she is not small at all and is quite sturdy. She is very good at fighting. With just one pull, Lin Hui was unable to move.

Chen Shuifen happened to walk in and saw them like this. She said with a serious face: "Li Xiaojuan, Lin Hui, what are you doing during working hours?"

Li Xiaojuan let go of Lin Hui when she saw Chen Shuifen. She smiled and said, "Sister Shuifen, some people are deliberately looking for trouble. We can't get used to it, right?"

"This is the military, not your hometown in the countryside. If you want to fight, then fight. If you want to quarrel, then quarrel. How can you be so unruly?" Chen Shuifen said.

She was promoted to team leader of the logistics department some time ago, and now she really looks like a team leader.

Li Xiaojuan and Chen Shuifen were from the same hometown, so she was more likely to listen to her and quickly admitted her mistake: "Yes, yes, Sister Shuifen, I understand."

Lin Hui rolled her eyes at her, and Chen Shuifen saw it. Chen Shuifen said, "Lin Hui, don't be unconvinced. If you continue like this, the logistics team won't want you to work."

After that, Chen Shuifen began to talk about the purpose of this trip: "I have something to inform everyone. Director Yang will be leaving soon, right? So we discussed it and decided that all the military wives should hold a farewell party to send Director Yang off."

Li Xiaojuan and the other two military wives patted their chests and agreed immediately: "Okay, we will all go when the time comes. Director Yang is such a good person, and it's really hard to let him go so suddenly."

Li Xiaojuan agreed with everyone and went to Lin Hui.

Chen Shuifen remembered what Lin Tao said, so she asked again: "Lin Hui, what about you? Are you going?"

Lin Hui snorted and said, "I'm busy." She turned and walked away, muttering to herself, "Yang Ai Dang, she wanted to leave as soon as possible, why did she go to such a farewell party? Is she crazy?"

As soon as Yang Ai Dang left, she wanted to applaud and leave as soon as possible. The sooner the better.

Seeing Lin Hui's expression, Chen Shuifen thought it was just right that you didn't go. If they weren't afraid that they wouldn't ask you what you were doing, who would be happy to invite you? Then she told Li Xiaojuan and the others not to bring anything else on the day of the visit, but they could bring home-cooked food like pumpkin seeds and roasted sweet potatoes, which were not expensive, and share the meal with everyone.

Lin Hui only heard a little bit, then stood still and looked at Chen Shuifen...

Just now Chen Shuifen asked everyone to bring something to the farewell party. What does that mean?

Could it be that...

Lin Hui's eyes rolled around and she began to think about this matter in her mind.

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Yueyue’s birthday came not long after school started. Yueyue was already two years old.

She ate fish and shrimp every day, so she had a well-rounded diet and grew quite tall. At the age of two, she looked as tall as the three-year-old children in Taohua Village.

Since the Chinese New Year, Yueyue's hair has grown a lot longer. When Lin Changhai wanted to cut her hair again, the little guy refused.

When she saw Lin Changhai coming over with a pair of scissors, she pouted and snorted: "Yueyue doesn't want to cut her hair, Yueyue wants to keep her hair as long as her mother's!"

Chen Shuifen joked: "Yueyue has grown into a little girl. She knows how to be beautiful and wants to grow her hair long."

Yueyue blinked her eyes, took out two red rubber bands from her pocket, and said, "Mom, use these to tie Yueyue's hair."

Yueyue's hair quality is very good, just like Lin Tao's, her hair is smooth and black, and it doesn't matter if she doesn't cut it.

Lin Tao would tie her hair with rubber bands every day. Yueyue's hair in front was too long and was blocking her eyes, so Lin Tao cut her bangs into a straight fringe. This made Yueyue's black eyes look bigger, and her black eyeballs were as tempting as grapes.

A funny thing happened on Yueyue's birthday. When Yueyue was sleeping, she probably dreamed of eating chicken legs. Xiao Qingming and Zheng Hongxing happened to come to see Yueyue. The two stood by and watched. Xiao Qingming's hand was grabbed by Yueyue who was sleeping, and she thought she bit it.

Little Qingming was bitten and started crying on the spot, saying that he never wanted to play with Yueyue again.

Yueyue, who had just woken up, was still confused. She didn't know what had happened. Why did Brother Qingming suddenly start crying?

Lin Tao was so angry with Yueyue. This little girl was so greedy that she even dreamed of eating chicken legs. It was not like she didn't get food at home. She ate much better than other children, but she just couldn't change her greedy habit.

In the past, when Yueyue's teeth had not yet grown out, she had already bitten Xiao Qingming. At that time, Xu Yuting said it was not a big deal. Lin Tao also thought that Yueyue was too young at that time and she probably wouldn't understand if she scolded her, so she just let it go.

But this time, Lin Tao wouldn't listen to her no matter what she said and gave her a good scolding.

Yueyue was so angry that she pouted. She actually felt quite aggrieved in her heart. She didn't know what she had done wrong. She just remembered that she had a dream. In the dream, there was a very delicious chicken drumstick placed next to her mouth.

She was so drooling that she remembered her mother telling her not to wipe her saliva with her sleeves. She was very obedient and took out her own handkerchief from her pocket to wipe her saliva. She was obviously so obedient, why did brother Qingming cry as soon as she woke up, and her mother also scolded her...

After listening to my mother's words, I finally understood that when she was sleeping, she mistook Qingming's hand for a chicken leg...

She pursed her lips and said to her mother, "Mom, I was wrong."

The little girl had a very good attitude in admitting her mistakes, and today was her birthday, so Lin Tao was reluctant to hurt her when she saw her like this. However, she still asked, "Then what should you do? What should you say to Brother Qingming next time you see him?"

Yueyue thought for a moment and said crisply, "Mom, I want to apologize to Brother Qingming. I didn't mean it."

"So good." Li Chengxi came over and touched Yueyue's head.

Lin Tao glanced at him and knew that when she was educating Yueyue just now, Li Chengxi saw that Yueyue's eyes were red and it looked like she was about to cry, so he began to feel reluctant to let her go.

People say that Li Chengxi looks serious, but in fact, when it comes to children, it is Lin Tao who is more strict, and Li Chengxi is reluctant to let go of Yueyue. However, one good thing is that Lin Tao and Li Chengxi are very clear about raising children. Even if Li Chengxi is reluctant, he cannot interfere in Lin Tao's education of the child.

Otherwise, it would be easy for the child to develop the idea that no matter what mistakes he made, he would always have someone to back him up, and he would not take Lin Tao's education seriously.

It was Yueyue's birthday, and Lin Tao bought her an egg cake and made two big chicken legs for her to eat.

Although she couldn't eat the big chicken drumstick in her dream, she could eat it when she woke up, so Yueyue was very happy. But after she finished eating a chicken drumstick, she touched her stomach which could still hold another big chicken drumstick, looked at Lin Tao, and said, "Mom, I want to save this chicken drumstick for Brother Qingming to eat. I will give it to him tomorrow when I apologize to him."

Seeing the sincerity in Yueyue's eyes, Lin Tao smiled and kissed her on the cheek: "What a good child."

Yueyue had just finished eating a chicken leg, and her pink little face was still greasy. Lin Tao kissed her mouth full of grease, but since she was her own child, she would not dislike it.

You know, chicken legs are Yueyue's favorite. Lin Tao really didn't expect that she would take the initiative to save a chicken leg for Xiao Qingming.

The next day, Yueyue really brought the chicken leg to find Xiao Qingming.

Xiao Qingming is older now and usually accompanies Xu Yuting to school. When Xu Yuting is in class, he sometimes sits in the office to play, and sometimes plays on the school playground.

Yueyue sometimes stays at home with her grandpa, and sometimes comes to school. Today, she came to school just to apologize to her brother Qingming for what happened yesterday.

"Brother Qingming..." When Yueyue saw little Qingming, she first showed a flattering smile, and her big eyes narrowed up with laughter, forming a crescent moon in the sky.

Xiao Qingming was still unhappy about what happened yesterday. He snorted, turned his face away and ignored Yueyue.

Xu Yuting saw this and was so angry that she wanted to say to Xiao Qingming: "What's wrong with you, kid?"

But she was stopped by Lin Tao, who pulled her sleeve and whispered, "Don't talk about Qingming. This is something that the children can solve by themselves. We adults should not interfere."

Xu Yuting nodded and continued to prepare for class, but she couldn't help but pay some attention to the children to see how they would solve the problem.

Seeing that Brother Qingming ignored her, Yueyue did not give up, but continued to walk to the side where he turned his face away, and showed him a brilliant smile again: "Brother Qingming, Yueyue was wrong, Yueyue will treat you to a big chicken leg!"

As she spoke, she stood on tiptoe, took the aluminum lunch box from Lin Tao's desk, held it in her arms, and opened the lid of the lunch box with her other hand, revealing a big hot chicken drumstick and two little white rabbit buns inside.

Yueyue handed them to Xiao Qingming like a treasure and said, "Brother Qingming, big chicken legs and little white rabbit buns with bean fillings inside. They are delicious. Yueyue likes them the most."

It is obviously filled with red bean paste, but Yueyue always likes to say it is filled with doudou. Because she saw Lintao make red beans into red bean paste with her own eyes, so she thought it was filled with doudou.

Yueyue looked at Xiao Qingming eagerly. Xiao Qingming finally sighed and said, "Then you have to promise that you won't bite me in the future."

"I definitely won't bite you." Yueyue nodded hurriedly, like a chicken pecking at rice, "Then eat it, it's delicious."

Yueyue's eyes were full of anticipation.

In fact, Xiao Qingming had already eaten it in the morning, but seeing Yueyue’s expectant eyes, I couldn’t help but picked up a little rabbit bun and took a bite. The bun skin was soft and fluffy, and the bean paste filling was sweet. It was really delicious.

Seeing Yueyue's eager eyes, Xiao Qingming handed the chicken leg to Yueyue: "I don't like chicken legs, you should eat it yourself."

Facing the temptation of the chicken drumstick, Yueyue swallowed her saliva but still refused. She shook her head like a rattle and said, "This is a gift from me to you. I won't eat it."

Yueyue noticed that there were two rows of teeth marks on the base of Xiao Qingming's hand holding the bun. She knew it was her masterpiece and her little face blushed.

After Xiao Qingming finished eating the bunny bun in his hand, Yueyue held Xiao Qingming's hand, put her mouth close to it, and blew towards the tooth mark: "Just blow on it, it won't hurt!"

Xu Yuting couldn't help laughing when she saw this scene. She met Lin Tao's gaze, and they both smiled and continued to prepare for class.

The two little guys soon reconciled. Yueyue asked to go to the playground to play with stones. Xiao Qingming took Yueyue's hand and said to Xu Yuting and Lin Tao: "Mom, Aunt Lin, I will take sister Yueyue to the playground to play."

"Okay, go ahead, but don't run around," Xu Yuting instructed.

"Okay! We got it." The two kids nodded and ran out of the office hand in hand.

On the playground, Xiao Qingming picked up a lot of round pebbles of similar size, and the two played with the pebbles together.

Just then the bell rang for the end of class. Yueyue stood up and looked over there. She found Zheng Hongxing playing with his classmates and called out to him, "Brother Hongxing!"

Zheng Hongxing saw Yueyue and Xiao Qingming and ran over quickly.

The other two female classmates looked at Yueyue not far away and couldn't help but sigh: "Yueyue is so cute, her eyes are so big, like grapes, and she is as white as Teacher Lin, as if she can't get tanned by the sun."

"I heard that people in Xiangcheng all have fair skin and their skin won't get tanned by the sun."

"No, right? Isn't Shen Jiayi also from Xiangcheng? She got tanned."

Shen Jiayi, who was mentioned by them, gritted her teeth, glared at them, and said unhappily: "What's wrong with being black? No matter how black I am, I am still whiter than you. You are almost as black as charcoal!"

The two female classmates did not argue with her, but retorted: "We are black, we have not denied it, and we are not arguing with you. We just don't understand why you are black when you are all from Xiangcheng. Is there any need for you to be so angry?"

"Forget it, she hates it most when people say she's dark, let's not talk to her anymore, let's go to the bathroom together."

The two female classmates walked away hand in hand.

Shen Jiayi walked towards the playground. At this time, Yueyue was surrounded by several classmates from Zheng Hongxing's class. They were teasing Yueyue and Xiao Qingming together.

Several people really want to have a sister like Yueyue, so every time Yueyue comes to school, they have to come over to play with her.

Shen Jiayi walked behind Yueyue and, when no one was paying attention, pushed Yueyue hard.

"Ah——" Yueyue was pushed down. At this moment, Shen Jiaping, who had been standing aside without saying much, suddenly hugged Yueyue.

But he was only five or six years old, and his strength was too weak. Although he hugged Yueyue, they both fell down together. However, Yueyue fell on him, and Shen Jiaping's back was hurt by the stone.

Zheng Hongxing and his friends quickly pulled Yueyue and Shen Jiaping up. Zheng Hongxing asked, "Why did you fall? Did you trip over a rock? Yueyue, are you hurt?"

Yueyue shook her head: "Brother Hongxing, I'm not hurt. Brother Jiaping, are you hurt? I'll help you!"

Shen Jiaping's palms were scratched and burning, but after hearing Yueyue's words, he hid his hands behind his back and shook his head, saying, "I'm fine."

When Shen Jiayi saw that Yueyue didn't fall, she was so angry that she cursed Shen Jiaping in her heart for being ungrateful. She said she would tell her mother when she got home that night and let her scold him to death. Then she turned around and left.

But her arm was grabbed by someone. It was Xiao Qingming. He frowned and said fiercely: "It was you who pushed Yueyue just now, you bad guy!"

Zheng Hongxing glared, gritted his teeth, and clenched his hands into fists: "Qingming, look carefully, was it really her who pushed Yueyue?"

"Yes!" Xiao Qingming nodded vigorously, "It's her! Last time when Yueyue and I were playing together, she pulled Yueyue's hair!"

Last time, Shen Jiayi said that there were bugs in Yueyue's hair and said she wanted to catch the bugs for Yueyue, but she pulled out several strands of Yueyue's hair. Xiao Qingming didn't think much about it at the time, but later when he saw people pulling hair during a fight, he thought Shen Jiayi was a big bad guy.

"I didn't, don't talk nonsense!" Shen Jiayi's face turned pale, she lowered her head subconsciously, turned around and was about to run.

But he was grabbed by Zheng Hongxing, who was so angry that his eyes turned red.

Yueyue is his most precious sister. If Shen Jiayi dares to bully his sister, he will beat her to death!