Chapter 119

At this moment, Xu Yuting's voice came over: "A Tao, can this kind of mushroom be eaten?"

She was a little far away from Lin Tao and the others just now, and now she came because she found mushrooms. She was not like Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen, who had been to the mountains before and knew mushrooms and knew which ones were edible and which ones were not. So she specially came over with the mushrooms to ask Lin Tao, and she didn't know that Lin Tao almost fell just now.

After Lin Tao stood still, she looked towards Xu Yuting and said, "The mushrooms you hold are called morels. They are edible and are especially delicious when used to make soup."

"Really? Well, I just found a lot of them. I'll pick them all now." After getting a positive answer, Xu Yuting's eyes lit up and she smiled. She quickly went back to pick mushrooms again.

In fact, when Chen Shuifen first proposed going to the mountain to pick bamboo shoots and mushrooms, Xu Yuting was quite resistant.

She felt that there was only so much time left for the holiday. After the Lantern Festival, school would start again soon. She had to cherish the upcoming holiday and rest more.

Why would you run up the mountain for no reason? It snowed a few days ago and the road is slippery. If you accidentally fall, wouldn't it be even more of a loss? Besides, bamboo shoots are sold in the food factory. Why would you run up the mountain to pick them?

Although she had a lot of thoughts in her mind, but when she saw Lin Tao wanted to go up the mountain and said it was quite fun there, she couldn't help but follow her.

I didn't expect that once I started picking bamboo shoots and looking for mushrooms, I immediately found it interesting.

I'm in a very good mood right now and I really want to find a full bucket.

Seeing Xu Yuting like this, Lin Tao found it a little funny and smiled. Li Chengxi found a stone and asked Lin Tao to sit on it to rest, so that he could check if her foot was sprained.

Although Lin Tao said that it seemed to be only a little painful and should be fine, it is better to check it out in order to be safe.

Lin Tao sat on a rock and took off her shoes for Li Chengxi to check.

Lin Tao was very afraid of the cold in winter. Although she was wearing thick woolen socks that she had specially knitted herself, when Li Chengxi touched Lin Tao's feet through the socks, he still felt that Lin Tao's feet were a little cold. He held Lin Tao's feet with his broad hands and warmed them.

Li Chengxi's hands were very warm, like a hot stove. Lin Tao's feet were much warmer and started to sweat.

Li Chengxi checked Lin Tao's ankle. People who accidentally sprained their ankles like hers usually hurt their ankles. However, Lin Tao's ankle was just slightly red, nothing serious.

Lin Tao quickly put on her shoes. If Chen Shuifen saw her like this, she would probably make fun of her again.

After they became familiar with each other, Chen Shuifen often teased Lin Tao about these things, but they were all good-natured jokes and Lin Tao would sometimes just listen and forget about it.

After putting on her shoes, Lin Tao thought of the dead branch that she had just seen moving, and quickly said to Li Chengxi: "Just now I saw a dead branch that could move, and it jumped towards me, and it scared me a lot."

But at this time the 'dead branch' was gone.

Although Li Chengxi didn't see it with his own eyes, he guessed what it was after hearing Lin Tao's retelling, and explained: "You should be talking about a kind of insect called a stick insect. This kind of insect looks like a branch. It's okay."

This was the first time that Lin Tao had heard of such a thing as a "stick insect". There was a bamboo forest here, so there would be stick insects.

However, Lin Tao was not mentally prepared just now, so she was frightened. Now she is not afraid anymore. She recalled the strange picture that flashed through her mind before, and couldn't help but say: "There is another thing that I think is very strange."

"What's wrong?" Li Chengxi picked a bamboo shoot, threw it into the bucket, and asked Lin Tao.

Lin Tao said: "Just when I was about to fall, you hugged me, and I always felt that I seemed to have experienced this before. In fact, it's not just this one thing, there are some things that I feel a sense of déjà vu."

Lin Tao frowned. This kind of thing has happened several times before.

For example, when she saw Shen Guobin for the first time, she felt an inexplicable fear and disgust towards him, even though she didn't know Shen Guobin before.

And when she was with Xu Yuting, she actually felt very comfortable.

However, Lin Tao did not tell Li Chengxi about these things, because she herself could not explain this feeling.

They happened to meet today, and Li Chengxi was there too, so she expressed her doubts to him.

Li Chengxi saw Lin Tao's thoughtful look and said, "Do you think it's possible that this happened in your previous life? We knew each other in our previous life, and we also came to this forest to pick bamboo shoots. You happened to fall, and I saved you just like now?"

Lin Tao blinked her eyes. She just felt it was strange, but she didn't think about anything in her past or present life.

But when Li Chengxi mentioned this, her expression turned serious and she asked in a low voice: "Chengxi, do you think people have past lives and present lives?"

Unexpectedly, Li Chengxi, who seemed to be taking the matter seriously, chuckled, reached out and rubbed Lin Tao's head, and said, "I said that to tease you on purpose. How can a person have a past life or a present life? As a soldier, we are against feudal superstition. I have never believed in these monsters and ghosts. You said you felt that this incident seemed to have happened before. In fact, the most scientific explanation is that you may have been to a similar place before, and the scene overlapped with the present, so you felt that this incident had happened."

"A Tao, it's enough for me to live a good life with you." Li Chengxi said.

Lin Tao had taken it seriously at first, but she didn't expect that Li Chengxi was just teasing her. She glared at him angrily, but when she heard his next words, she couldn't help but feel moved.

Yes, don’t think about past and present lives, they just need to live this life well.

"Me too." Lin Tao smiled at Li Chengxi and held Li Chengxi's broad palm.

At this time, Chen Shuifen had already picked a bucket full of bamboo shoots. The bamboo shoots were big and there were many of them here, so she picked them quite quickly. She came over with the bucket and was going to help Lin Tao and Xu Yuting pick some, but she saw Lin Tao and Li Chengxi holding hands.

"Oh my god, Teacher Lin, Captain Li, you two shouldn't show enough love to each other at home. Why are you still holding hands in the mountains? It looks so embarrassing." Chen Shuifen said with a smile.

Lin Tao pulled her hand away embarrassedly. It was a very cold day, but her face was burning.

Li Chengxi said, "A Tao accidentally got scratched on her hand by a branch. I'll help her."

Chen Shuifen gave her an expression that said "I understand" and went to help Xu Yuting pick mushrooms with a smile.

They had not been on the mountain for long when they picked a lot of bamboo shoots and mushrooms. Xu Yuting's bucket contained mushrooms, while Lin Tao and Chen Shuifen's buckets contained bamboo shoots.

After we got down the mountain and arrived at Lin Tao's house, the three families divided up today's harvest. The bamboo shoots and mushrooms were divided into three portions, and the mushrooms accounted for half a bucket. However, after the three families divided it, the total amount was not much, and it was enough to stir-fry for two days.

There are too many bamboo shoots to eat all at once, but as long as you don't peel off the bamboo shoots and put them in the cellar, they can be preserved for a long time and will not spoil easily.

Yueyue and the other children are very well behaved at home. They play with the building blocks that Yueyue brought back from Shanghai.

The living room of the new house was bigger than the previous one. Lin Tao suggested building a kang in the living room because she was not used to sleeping on the kang, but she felt it was cold in winter. It would be nice if she could sit on the kang.

Now that the kang is heated, it's a great place for the children to play on it.

Zheng Hongxing brought all his picture books over and read them with Yueyue and Xiao Qingming. As a teacher, Lin Tao would also teach Yueyue to recognize words when she was free.

Yueyue has become very smart and learns very quickly. Now she can recognize quite a few words, including simple words like 人, 大, 小, 足, 多, 少...

She could read the comic book by herself, but she didn't recognize many of the words. But she could see the pictures. When she saw Lin Tao coming back, Yueyue picked up the comic book of Sanmao's Wanderings and showed it to her: "Mom, Sanmao!"

The kid must have just watched Sanmao's Travels today and was still feeling sad for her. When he saw his mother coming back, he rushed over and said, "Sanmao is so pitiful. He has no food to eat and is so hungry..."

His eyes were red and he looked extremely pitiful, as if he was the one who was hungry.

Lin Tao touched Yueyue's small head and took off the sweater worn outside the cotton jacket. You must wear a sweater when going up the mountain in winter, otherwise the cotton jacket will get dirty. After washing, in this weather, I don't know how long it will take for it to dry.

Lin Tao hugged Yueyue and took her to read the comic book. When she saw something in the book, she would tell her in her own words, so that she could understand what was good behavior and what was bad behavior.

For example, if there were kids bullying Sanmao, Yueyue would take the initiative to say that these people were bad guys and she wanted to beat them up. She even stretched out her little fist and slapped the comic book, humming, "I'll ask Brother Hongxing to beat them up."

A fierce expression appeared on his round face, his brows were furrowed, and he looked particularly angry.

Before Qingming Festival, Xiao Yuting was tired from playing and was put in the inner room to sleep. When Wang Yuanliang saw Xu Yuting coming back, he quickly asked her if she was tired and asked her to sit down and have a rest.

Xu Yuting said, "I'm not tired. We had a great harvest today. Ah Tao said that the morels can be used to make soup. I'll make soup for you two in the evening."

Zheng Hongxing came over and said to Chen Shuifen, "Mom, let me tell you something."

Seeing Zheng Hongxing's expression, Chen Shuifen guessed that something bad must be going on, so she asked, "What's the matter? If you have something to say, just say it now, don't waste time here."

Zheng Hongxing then took out his homework book which was only half eaten by the rabbit and said, "Mom, look at my homework book, it has been eaten by the rabbit. I can't hand in my summer homework when school starts. Mom, I am so sad."

Chen Shuifen looked at the homework book that could no longer be recognized from its original state, and then looked at the fake sad expression on Zheng Hongxing's face, and said, "Who told you that you don't have to hand in your summer homework? Isn't it just eaten by a rabbit? I will buy you a new homework book tomorrow and you can rewrite it."

Zheng Hongxing looked relaxed and said, "But the supply and marketing cooperative didn't have the operating capital to buy, so it was sold out long ago."

Chen Shuifen said, "It's okay. I'll go to the market and buy it for you. I just happened to be going to the market to buy something."

Zheng Hongxing's expression fell, no longer as relaxed as before, and said: "Mom, why don't you not go... Even if you go to buy it, I don't know what questions there are..."

Chen Shuifen said, "It's okay. You can borrow it from your classmates and copy the questions. Your friends are like you, they don't do their homework until the first few days of school, so you can borrow it from them."

Zheng Hongxing almost cried: "Mom, I was wrong..."

Zheng Hongxing was really regretting it now. He had written several pages and thought that he could skip the homework, but he didn't expect... Really, he ended up stealing something and ended up not getting anything done.

Chen Shuifen glanced at him and snorted. This bad boy, the winter vacation has been going on for such a long time, his brother has finished his winter vacation homework, but he has only written a few pages. Now he still has this bad idea. He deliberately gave his homework book to the rabbit to eat, and wanted to pretend that it was eaten by the rabbit accidentally. She would not believe it!

No child was willing to do homework, especially a naughty child like Zheng Hongxing. But Chen Shuifen always managed to discipline him, and at the end of the school year, he still handed in his homework honestly.

After Xiao Qingming woke up, Wang Yuanliang and his family went home with bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

Chen Shuifen also said she was going home to cook.

Lin Tao accompanied Yueyue to read the comic book for a while. Li Chengxi took the initiative to wash the mushrooms. Lin Tao made a mushroom soup tonight. It tasted very delicious. Compared with seafood soup, it had a different flavor.

The bamboo shoots were used to make pickled vegetables. These bamboo shoots were more tender and more delicious than the ones my aunt sent from Shanghai.

Today's meal was delicious. Not only did Lin Tao eat more than usual, but Yueyue also ate a lot.

Lin Tao was afraid that she would have food stagnation if she ate too much, so she rubbed her stomach for a while after she finished eating, which helped with digestion.

Adults can eat yeast tablets if they eat too much, but Yueyue is still too young, so Lin Tao won't let her eat these things. It's not good for a child to eat them.

She saw some acupuncture point pictures in the book she read last time, and knew what the acupuncture points were for. She was not a medical student, and she didn't need to know too much, but she pressed the acupuncture points according to what was written in the book, and she really didn't have indigestion or food accumulation.

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Children grow up quickly, and not only do they wear out their clothes, but they also especially wear out their shoes. The shoes that Lin Tao makes for Yueyue can only be worn once in the season and cannot be worn again the following year.

When Chen Shuifen saw these shoes, she felt very sorry for them. She said it was a pity that such good shoes were only worn for such a short time. She also suggested to Lin Tao that she should make them bigger next time so that the children can still wear them next year. However, Lin Tao did not listen to her. If the shoes were made too big, it would be difficult for the children to walk in them and the shoes would fall off easily.

She remembered that when she was little, her father bought her a pair of shoes that were too big, and they always fell off when she walked in them. From then on, her shoes always fit her feet well.

It doesn't matter if you put a few patches on your clothes if they are torn, but your shoes must fit your feet well so that you are comfortable to wear.

However, we can put these shoes that Yueyue has worn away so that the second child can wear them later.

Lin Tao took advantage of the holiday to make shoes for Yueyue to wear in spring. Xu Yuting was the same. Xiao Qingming was one year older than Yueyue. At first, he was not as good as Yueyue in eating. Although he was half a year older than Yueyue, he was the same height as Yueyue.

However, half a year later, after Lin Tao told Xu Yuting about the acupoint massage in the book, she went back and gave Xiao Qingming acupoint massage and found that it was quite effective. Xiao Qingming's appetite improved a lot.

With a better appetite, you eat more and grow faster.

Two people sewed the sole together, and then made the upper after the sole was completed.

Chen Shuifen is fine, as she likes to make her shoes a little bigger. The shoes of the two brothers Zheng Hongxing and Zheng Xiangyang can last for another spring, so they don't need to sew soles anymore, but are peeling beans.

She talked about the recent events on the island: "Hey, Teacher Lin, Teacher Xu, have you heard about what happened in Zhao Bo's family?"

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting shook their heads, saying they had never heard of it.

"What happened to Uncle Zhao?" Lin Tao asked.

Chen Shuifen said, "Hasn't Zhao Bo been looking for his daughter all these years? God has mercy on him, and he finally found her and brought her back. When I first heard about it, I was wondering, how could he find her after so many years? Even if he found her, how could he prove that she was his daughter? What if that person was a liar? As a result, when I went out yesterday, I happened to see her. Not to mention, his daughter looks quite similar to him, and you can't mistake her at first glance. I think Zhao Bo is quite pitiful and has a sense of loyalty. If it were someone else, if his wife ran away, he might have remarried a long time ago. He didn't marry her, and he has been looking for his daughter for so many years. Now he has finally found her, and he can enjoy the happiness in the future."

Zhao Bo was the family from which they usually went to collect dried goods. Zhao Bo was a fisherman. It seemed that more than ten years ago, his wife ran away with someone and sold their daughter. Over the years, he had been inquiring about the whereabouts of his wife. He didn't want to find her and do anything to her, but just wanted to ask her where she sold her daughter to.

It doesn't matter if she ran away, but why did he sell his daughter? How could he live a good life after the child was sold?

As soon as Chen Shuifen finished speaking, Yueyue continued, "Auntie, it's the joy of family. Well... that means... Dad, Mom, Grandpa, and Yueyue are all together. It's so happy!"

Yueyue's babyish words made everyone laugh.

Lin Tao smiled. It was New Year's Eve, and Lin Changhai was sighing that their family was together and that he was lucky to be able to enjoy the happiness of family. Yueyue asked what the happiness of family meant, and Lin Tao explained it to her.

I didn't expect the little guy to remember it.

Chen Shuifen said, "Yes, yes, that's what Yueyue said. Yueyue is really smart. She can recognize words and even say idioms. Auntie is too stupid. She can't compare to Yueyue."

Yueyue was praised, smiled and said, "Auntie is not stupid."

Xu Yuting looked at Yueyue and couldn't help but sigh: "Yueyue is so cute."

Chen Shuifen followed up by saying, "Who says it's not true? Others say that the first child must be a son, and how good it is to have a son. I think it's better to have a daughter-in-law. Teacher Lin is so lucky to have such a lovely daughter-in-law like Yueyue."

Both of them envied Lin Tao for giving birth to a daughter, but they did not have the courage to have another one for fear that they would give birth to a son, which would be a loss.

As for Yueyue, as a little sister, she is usually spoiled a lot.

Talking about the story of Zhao Bo's daughter, Chen Shuifen continued, "Zhao Bo's daughter was called Zhao Fenfang, and she has the same Chinese character as me. I heard that she was sold to a family as a child bride by her mother. There were too many poor people these days, and they wanted to have a son. The son was grown up, but they had no money to marry him off, so they thought of this way. They spent a little money to buy the little girl, brought her home, but didn't give her enough food, and made her do housework. She was treated like a cow or a horse, and when she grew up, she became a child bride. Oh my, I can't bear to listen to these things, it's so pitiful. Speaking of the past, although the resources on our island are not as much as those outside the island, at least we can make a living. It's close to the sea, and there is no shortage of seafood. Do you know what she eats there? She eats bran and vegetables. She doesn't even get to eat the sweet potatoes at home. I heard that there are people there who have eaten Guanyin soil and died. It's really pitiful..."

"She is already 19 or 20 years old this year. If Zhao Bo hadn't found her in time, she would have really married that man. I heard that man beats people and has known how to bully people since he was a child. If she really married him, she would have to suffer for the rest of her life."

Chen Shuifen said, and then said that when Zhao Bo told her about this matter, he asked her if she could help find a marriage for Zhao Fenfang, no matter what, as long as it would be good for her.

Chen Shuifen is really amazing. She stayed at home almost all year and just went out yesterday. She immediately heard such a thing.

Lin Tao and Xu Yuting were also quite surprised to hear this, and at the same time they felt that Zhao Fenfang was quite pitiful, and it was fortunate that she was found.

"So what do you think? Have you decided who to introduce him to?" Xu Yuting asked.

Chen Shuifen said, "I haven't made up my mind yet. It's impossible to do it so quickly. But there are so many unmarried young men in our army. It's not difficult to introduce one to her. Besides, she has just been found and looks very thin. It's pitiful to see her. It won't be too late to talk about it after she recovers for another two months."

I just mentioned Zhao Fenfang here, but I didn't expect that Zhao Fenfang would actually come.

She came with some fish. She must have been to Chen Shuifen's house next door, but didn't find anyone there. Zheng Hongxing brought her here and called out, "Mom, someone's looking for you."

Zhao Fenfang walked in and saw Lin Tao and Xu Yuting. She felt a little embarrassed, lowered her head, and called out, "Sister Shuifen, my dad asked me to bring you some fish. They were just caught and are quite fresh."

"It's sister Fenfang. Come in quickly. Let me introduce them to you. This is teacher Lin Taolin, and this is teacher Xu Yuting. They are both teachers at our Shengshan School, and they are very nice people." Chen Shuifen quickly called Zhao Fenfang in.

Zhao Fenfang raised her head and smiled shyly at Lin Tao and Xu Yuting.

Xu Yuting asked her to come and sit.

After seeing her appearance, Lin Tao didn't know what was going on, and a strange feeling arose in her heart.