Chapter 118

Shengshan Island on the other side.

Lin Tao's family celebrated the New Year on the island. On New Year's Eve, at the strong request of Chen Shuifen, the three families had the New Year's Eve dinner together. After the dinner, they agreed to stay up together, but the children fell asleep early.

Lin Tao carried Yueyue home.

Putting it on the crib, the little guy turned over and continued to sleep soundly.

With a stench on her body, Lin Tao washed herself and went to bed. She and Li Chengxi, both adults, were not sleepy at the moment.

It was long past lights-out time, and the room was still lit with a kerosene lamp. The light was dim, but it was bright enough. If it was too bright, Yueyue wouldn't be able to sleep well.

Li Chengxi's slender arms embraced Lin Tao's slender waist. Lin Tao leaned on Li Chengxi's chest and sighed: "Time flies so fast. Another year has passed. How many years have I spent on the island?"

"The third one is that we spent the New Year in Shanghai last year." Li Chengxi continued, "Next time we go to Xiangcheng to spend the New Year and visit Aunt Fang and my grandmother."

"Yeah." Lin Tao nodded. She hadn't been back to Xiangcheng for several years. Although she had many bad memories there, it was her hometown after all and she missed it in her heart.

As for her grandmother, she knew that the 'grandmother' Li Chengxi was referring to was her grandmother. Although her grandmother's family had not been in contact with their family for the past ten years because of her mother's affairs, when she got married, her grandmother and her family came. Later, when Yueyue was born, her grandmother and her family didn't know about it at first, but later they found out and sent things over.

Lin Tao had also sent things to her grandmother and her family, but the Miao village was a bit far away, so the courier would not deliver it there. Instead, it would be delivered to Aunt Fang's home in Taohua Village, and her grandmother and her family had to come and pick it up.

Lin Tao also expressed her feelings about something else. Speaking of the students in the school, after this semester starts, it will be their last semester in the school. After graduation, they will go to the city to attend high school or technical secondary school.

Lin Tao taught them for four years. When she suddenly thought of this, she felt reluctant to let them go.

Li Chengxi saw that she was thinking about this and that and felt more and more uncomfortable. He stretched out his hand and pinched her face, saying, "All good things must come to an end. Parting is not necessarily a bad thing. They have graduated now. When they come back after completing their studies, shouldn't you be happy for them? Don't think too much. Go to sleep."

Lin Tao glanced at the time and found that it was already past one o'clock.

Before they knew it, twelve o'clock had passed, but the legendary mouse wedding had never happened. Although Lin Tao had long known that her father had lied to her.

Sleepiness swept over her and Lin Tao fell asleep quickly.

But not long after, Yueyue on the small bed groaned, climbed up from the bed, rubbed her eyes, then used her hands and feet to climb down from the small bed, climbed onto the big bed, then crawled into the quilt and slept next to Lin Tao.

When I take a breath, my nose is filled with my mother’s scent, and I sleep more peacefully.

The next day, when Li Chengxi got up, he found that Yueyue was missing from the crib. He put on his coat and went outside immediately to ask Lin Changhai, who had already gotten up and was practicing Tai Chi outside, whether Yueyue had gotten up.

He thought Yueyue woke up early and was carried out by Lin Changhai.

As a result, Lin Changhai was also confused when he heard this. He woke up very early and came here to practice Tai Chi as soon as he woke up. This was a habit he developed after returning from Shanghai. What's more, practicing Tai Chi in the morning really made his body feel comfortable and was good for his health.

But he didn’t see Yueyue!

Lin Changhai panicked, and subconsciously thought that he had been kidnapped by a kidnapper. The kidnapper was really brave. This was a military area. Moreover, how did the kidnapper get into the island? After checking again, the door of the house was bolted. Yueyue couldn't have disappeared!

Li Chengxi told Lin Changhai not to worry and he looked for her again. Then he saw Yueyue sleeping next to Lin Tao, with only half of her head showing. She was sleeping soundly.

Because Yueyue was sleeping on the side close to the wall and Lin Tao was sleeping in the middle of the three of them, when Li Chengxi got up he did not notice that Yueyue was also in their bed.

Now that he had found the person, Li Chengxi pulled the quilt down a little, pinched Yueyue's face, and went to make some dumplings to eat.

The logistics department also had a holiday during the first month of the lunar year. During normal working hours, Chen Shuifen kept muttering about having to go to work, taking care of Zheng Youde and his three children's meals, and doing laundry. Zheng Youde helped her with other things, but she couldn't trust him with these two things.

Others call it cooking, but Zheng Youde calls it poisoning. Even pigs won’t eat cooked rice.

But now that it was a holiday, Chen Shuifen felt bored staying at home and wanted to find something to do. There was nothing to catch fish at the sea, and it was cold, even the fishermen did not go out to sea to fish, so Chen Shuifen decided to go to the hill behind the military area.

If you can’t find it in the sea, then look for it in the mountains!

It’s not like she had not gone to the back mountain to look for things before. There were bamboo shoots and mushrooms on the back mountain. They were all gifts from nature and should be wasted.

So, Chen Shuifen, who was unable to spare any time, came to find Lin Tao and Xu Yuting, and suggested that they go to the back mountain together to look for bamboo shoots.

Chen Shuifen: "It's the time for spring bamboo shoots to grow. Let's go dig them together."

Lin Tao thought that there was nothing to do at home. She felt a little tired after sitting for a long time. She might as well go to the mountains to exercise. When she was in Xiangcheng, she liked to go to the mountains to look for mushrooms and bamboo shoots. She hadn't been to the mountains for a long time and missed that feeling.

Lin Tao decided to go, and Xu Yuting followed her.

In Xiangcheng, people always carry backpacks when they go to the mountains, but there are no backpacks here, so each of them carries a bucket. Li Chengxi also went with them, but Wang Yuanliang didn't go because he had to stay at home to take care of the children. As for Zheng Youde, Chen Shuifen said she didn't need him.

Yueyue was left at home. Anyway, Lin Changhai was watching her, and she was able to play with Xiao Qingming and Zheng Hongxing. Yueyue was so happy that she couldn't wait to see her parents go out. She didn't chase them and just let them come back early.

Lin Tao said that she would roast mushrooms and bamboo shoots for her when she came back. When the little guy heard about the food, he couldn't wait to eat it, so he asked them to bring back some more.

With Li Chengxi following them, the three female comrades were not afraid. It was just that it snowed a few days ago. The snow melted the day before yesterday, and the ground was still a little wet and slippery, so they had to be careful when walking.

Li Chengxi was very experienced. He used a hatchet to chop three wooden sticks and gave one to Lin Tao and the other two, asking them to use them as crutches so that they would not slip easily.

Lin Tao tried it and found it was true. She also didn’t feel as tired when walking, which was great.

Chen Shuifen and Xu Yuting also found it very good after using it.

Chen Shuifen was right. There are bamboo shoots on the mountain, and there are quite a lot of them.

It was probably because the wives of soldiers here rarely came to the mountain to pick bamboo shoots, so they grew well. Not long after arriving, Lin Tao's bucket was already half full. Li Chengxi carried the bucket because he was afraid that Lin Tao couldn't carry it.

There are not only bamboo shoots, but also mushrooms. It's just that there are more bamboos here, so there are more bamboo shoots.

Lin Tao used a stick to turn over the dead grass to see if there were any mushrooms buried underneath. Unexpectedly, she actually found a cluster of mushrooms. They were not the kind of boraginaceae that grew the most on Xiangcheng Mountain, but a kind of mushroom called chicken boraginaceae, which Lin Tao also knew.

She squatted down and was about to pick some chicken mushrooms, but a dead branch on the ground seemed to have legs and jumped into her hand.

This scared Lin Tao. To be honest, she was not that timid, but she still couldn't help feeling scared at such a weird scene. At this moment, Lin Tao accidentally slipped and was about to fall.

Fortunately, Li Chengxi, who was not far from her, was quick to put down the bamboo shoots in his hand, rushed over and supported Lin Tao. Otherwise, if she fell from where Lin Tao was, she would probably have rolled into the thorn bush below.

Lin Tao's face hit Li Chengxi's chest, sticking tightly to him. At this moment, she could only feel the strong and powerful heartbeat of Li Chengxi.

If the two had just met, Lin Tao would probably blush, but now they are an old couple, so Lin Tao is not embarrassed.

"Be careful, are you okay?" Li Chengxi supported Lin Tao and helped her stand steadily.

Lin Tao shook her head. At this moment, a picture suddenly flashed through her mind. In that picture, it seemed that she also accidentally slipped and Li Chengxi saved her...