Chapter 140

Because Yueyue always secretly ate White Rabbit candy, she actually developed cavities.

Lin Tao found it strange. She had always asked Yueyue to brush her teeth every morning and evening, so how could she still have cavities? She asked Yueyue whether she had brushed her teeth well during her time at university, and Yueyue always said she had.

As a result, when Lin Tao was tidying up Yueyue's closet, she took out a lot of White Rabbit milk candies from Yueyue's clothes pockets.

"When did it start?" Lin Tao asked Yueyue.

Yueyue had no choice but to confess the truth. Lin Tao looked at Yueyue, who looked as if she had done something wrong, and then she realized that this little girl had been secretly eating White Rabbit milk candy for so many years right under her nose.

"Mom, I always eat before brushing my teeth, and I don't know why I get cavities." Yueyue said.

"This is what happens when you eat too much sweets," Lin Tao said. "Luckily, the tooth you lost is a deciduous tooth. If it was a permanent tooth, it wouldn't grow back after it was pulled out."

Yueyue was taken to the clinic to have her tooth pulled. When she came out, tears were still streaming from her eyes. It was so painful to have her tooth pulled.

Wang Qingming saw this and said, "I let you eat so much sugar."

Yueyue felt wronged: "I've already cried so much, so you don't need to cry anymore."

Her mouth hurts when she talks, and there is blood in her mouth. Yueyue's speech is unclear. Xingxing asked beside her, "Sister, what are you talking about?"

Wang Qingming said, "Your sister said she was in so much pain and asked me to stop talking about her."

After hearing this, Yueyue nodded hurriedly and echoed: "Woo woo, woo woo woo."

Star:"????"

Wang Qingming continued to translate: "Yes, that's it."

Xingxing suddenly understood and nodded, "Brother Qingming, you really understand my sister."

Wang Qingming laughed and said, "After all, I have known your sister six years earlier than you, so I do know her better than you."

Lin Tao couldn't help but smile as she listened to the children's bickering. She found it very interesting. At the same time, she also felt that time flies. In the blink of an eye, the children have grown up.

In the second half of 1981, the principal found Lin Tao and told her that he was going to retire and return to his hometown to recuperate: "Teacher Lin, I plan to retire from the school. My health is getting worse every year. Before you graduated, I had no choice but to stay in the school. Now that you have graduated, and Teacher Xu, Xiaoying, Jianye and others are all teachers in the school, I feel relieved to hand over the school to you."

The principal's health has actually never been very good. I heard that she fell into the water when she was young, so her health has always been a little weak. Now Lin Tao is over 30 years old, and the principal is 60 years old this year. It is time for her to retire.

The principal is retiring, and Lin Tao will be the next principal. No one has any objection to this arrangement.

On the day the principal left, all the teachers and students in the school went to see her off.

The principal came to the island when he was in his twenties and built the first school on the island - Shengshan Primary School. Later, after the junior high school was built, the school was renamed Shengshan School.

The name Xu Hongying deserves to be remembered by every student who graduates from Shengshan School.

The sea breeze blew over and the boat also approached the shore. Principal Xu waved to the teachers and students and said, "Everyone, go back, go back quickly."

I don’t know who among the students started to sing: “Lights are flashing in the quiet campus, and our teachers are still working hard…”

Then all the students sang along: "In the quiet campus, lights are twinkling. Our teachers are still working hard, leaving smiling eyes on their homework books. Dear teacher, dear teacher, what are you thinking about? What are you thinking about... Looking at each essay, you think of a vivid lesson. Facing the expectations of the motherland, you talk about every mountain and river..."①

Amid the students' loud singing, Principal Xu boarded the ship, stood on the deck, and waved to all the teachers and students until the ship gradually went away and they could no longer see each other.

After Principal Xu left, Lin Tao became the new principal of Shengshan School. Carrying with her teacher Xu's expectations and responsibilities for the school, Lin Tao did not forget to teach while taking on the duties of the principal.

I don't know when Yueyue started to show her amazing talent in cooking. Maybe it was after Lin Tao went to college. Yueyue felt that the food cooked by Lin Changhai and Li Chengxi was too bad. She had no choice but to eat it when she was studying. But on the weekends, she would cook by herself. Unexpectedly, the food she made was quite decent.

Or maybe it was because she made little rabbit rice cakes for the first time when she went to the Miao village at the age of six, and Yueyue has had an inseparable bond with cooking.

Yueyue likes to cook delicious food, and she feels that making these things is a kind of enjoyment.

Now that Lin Tao has returned, Yueyue will also take time to cook some dishes. Basically, she cooks when she wants to eat.

One day, she suddenly wanted to eat the Peking duck that they had eaten in Beijing before, so she rolled up her sleeves and started to work. Unexpectedly, the roast duck she made turned out to be quite tasty.

While eating the roast duck with his mouth full of oil, Xingxing asked Li Chengxi why they didn't take him with them when they went to Beijing.

Lin Tao was helpless and amused: "You didn't even exist at that time."

Xingxing was confused: "Why am I not there? Where am I?"

Yueyue said, "You are under the Five Finger Mountain. Didn't you say you are Sun Wukong? Sun Wukong was suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain for five hundred years."

After reading the comic book of Journey to the West, Xingxing also admired Sun Wukong very much and often held a small stick and said it was the golden hoop. Fortunately, Zheng Hongxing has grown up now and is no longer the child who always said that he was Sun Wukong.

Otherwise, I'm afraid the two stars will have to fight over who is the real Sun Wukong.

Xingxing listened to her sister's words and inexplicably felt that they made a lot of sense. She nodded and said, "Then you must take me to Beijing to play next time. I also want to see Tiananmen."

Yueyue nodded and assured: "Okay, don't worry, we will definitely take you there."

Yueyue not only knows how to make roast duck, she can also make roast fish. She uses the iron plate at home, throws some onions on the plate, and roasts the fish that she asked her grandfather to kill on the plate. She also adds some leeks cut from the field in the yard at home. After it is roasted, it tastes especially delicious.

Even Chen Shuifen said, "Teacher Lin, Yueyue's cooking skills are really good. At first I thought she was just busying herself and was afraid that she would burn down the kitchen, but I didn't expect this little girl to cook quite well. Whoever marries Yueyue in the future will be blessed."

After saying that, she sighed again and glanced at her good-for-nothing second son: "If Xiangyang wasn't several years older than Yueyue and Hongxing wasn't such a loser, I really want Yueyue to be our daughter-in-law. Hey, Teacher Lin, I actually think Yueyue and Xiangyang are pretty good, what do you think? Xiangyang is a college student now, and in the future..."

Before she finished speaking, Lin Tao was amused: "Sister, let the children deal with their own affairs, and we should not worry about it too much. Besides, Yueyue is still young, only twelve years old this year, and I haven't thought about her getting married yet."

"Well, that's true. Yueyue is still young, it's too early for her to get married." Chen Shuifen said.

In fact, she was just saying that she thought Yueyue was good and wanted such a girl. She really had no intention of interfering in the child's affairs.

Moreover, the country is promoting family planning and advocating late marriage and late childbearing. I heard that nowadays, people can no longer say they are married when they turn 18 as in the past. At least they have to wait until they are 25 or 26 to get married. In the past, people who were 25 or 26 were considered old maids.

And the incompetent Zheng Hongxing also participated in the pilot recruitment in the spring of 1982. Unexpectedly, he was accepted. He became one of the only two pilots accepted on Shengshan Island and became a glorious air force soldier.

You have to know that the recruitment for pilots is very strict and not everyone can go. Zheng Youde and Chen Shuifen never thought that Zheng Hongxing, who had nothing to do all day and only knew how to run around the mountains with a group of kids, would be accepted.

After Zheng Hongxing came home and told them the news, the couple thought that Zheng Hongxing was bluffing them. Zheng Youde asked, "Do you know why it's dark?"

Zheng Hongxing: “Why?”

Zheng Youde said: "You are just bragging."

Zheng Hongxing was speechless and took out the admission certificate. Chen Shuifen took it, but found that she didn't recognize a few words. She handed it to Zheng Youde to look at. Zheng Youde took a look and thought, wow, this boy is good, he was actually selected.

While Chen Shuifen was filled with great joy, she felt reluctant to leave the next day because her eldest son Zheng Xiangyang had gone to study in another place at university, and her youngest son Zheng Hongxing had to leave too.

Lin Tao persuaded her: "It's a good thing that Hongxing was selected. It's so difficult to be selected as a pilot. There were so many children from Shengshan Island, but only two were selected. Hongxing is one of them. This shows that he is an excellent child. Didn't you always dislike him at home before? Now he is going to be a pilot, but you are unhappy again?"

"I'm not unhappy at all. I am happy, but I feel a little reluctant in my heart. And I was thinking, is being a pilot dangerous? What if something happens to him? He can run on the ground, but on the plane, there is nowhere to run." Chen Shuifen said.

A mother worries when her son travels a thousand miles away. Zheng Hongxing hasn't left yet, but Chen Shuifen, as a mother, has already started to worry.

Zheng Hongxing walked in and said, "Mom, there are equipment on the plane. If the plane crashes, we can use a parachute to land and have a place to run. I went through many trials and tribulations to be selected. Mom, you can't stop me from going."

"If I don't let you, will you listen to me?" Chen Shuifen said.

Zheng Hongxing answered decisively: "No."

Chen Shuifen rolled her eyes at him and said, "That's all, you little brat. You better be careful when you go there. Don't let anything happen to you. Mom is still waiting for you to take care of me when I'm old."

In the following few days, Chen Shuifen seemed like a different person in front of Zheng Hongxing. According to what she told Lin Tao, she wanted to be nice to Zheng Hongxing in the few days before he left. She would be going to such a far place in the future, and she didn't know how long it would take for her to come back. She couldn't let the child think of her scolding when he thought of home.

Who knew that Chen Shuifen had changed? Zheng Hongxing was not used to it. She found Lin Tao and said, "Auntie Lin, can you talk to my mother and ask her to stop being like this, smiling with a fake smile. It's really creepy."

Unexpectedly, Chen Shuifen happened to hear it, so there was no need for Lin Tao to convey it.

Chen Shuifen was so angry that she picked up a rolling pin and was going to hit Zheng Hongxing. Zheng Hongxing ran away while saying that this was what his mother was like.

He stopped running and stood there waiting for Chen Shuifen to hit him: "When I was a kid, I always ran, but you never caught up with me. Now I'm leaving soon, so I won't run anymore. I'll stand here and let you hit me for your own pleasure. Come on, Mom, hit me."

Who knew that Chen Shuifen's eyes suddenly turned red, she hugged Zheng Hongxing and choked up, "You little bastard, do you think mom can't catch up with you? You've grown up now, you run faster, mom can't catch up with you, but when you were little, couldn't I catch up with you? I didn't catch up with you on purpose."

Over the years, Chen Shuifen has said many times to Zheng Hongxing that she wants to beat him up and punish him, but in reality, she was just threatening in words. When it came time to punish him, she knew exactly what she was doing and was reluctant to use heavy hands.

No matter how many troubles Zheng Hongxing got into or how many fights he had, he was ultimately her son.

Zheng Hongxing patted Chen Shuifen on the shoulder and said, "Mom, don't worry, your son will definitely come back alive to take care of you in your old age."

Lin Tao looked at the mother and son, and her eyes became a little moist. Although Xingxing is still young, she couldn't help but think about how Xingxing would feel if she had to serve in another unit in the future.

I will definitely support it, but it is also inevitable to feel uncomfortable.

When Xingxing came back from school that night, Lin Tao asked him what he wanted to do in the future. Xingxing gave her a simple answer: "Help the strong and support the weak, and defend the motherland."

Lin Tao smiled, knowing that it was too early to ask. Xingxing was still young, so she wouldn't get anything out of him even if she asked. Instead, Li Chengxi looked at Xingxing, who only had meat but no vegetables in her bowl, and said with a cold face, "You are such a picky eater, and you still want to defend the motherland?"

Xingxing sighed and could only pick up some vegetables to eat. He was a little afraid of his father, and his sister sometimes didn't eat vegetables either, but his father was not mean to his sister. If he didn't eat, he would be mean to him.

It's so distressing, maybe this is everything that boys have to endure, let the storm come more violently, he, Sun Wukong Shengshan Island, can withstand it all!

On the day Zheng Hongxing passed away, everyone came to see him off. Zheng Hongxing put on a big red flower and told Zheng Youde: "Old Zheng, after I'm gone, you have to be nice to mom."

"You are such a disrespectful boy. You have just been selected as a pilot, yet you dare to talk to your father like that." Zheng Youde patted Zheng Hongxing on the shoulder. Zheng Hongxing was almost as tall as him.

Chen Shuifen kept wiping away tears, and Lin Tao comforted her and told Zheng Hongxing: "Hongxing, when you get there, you must write home often."

Zheng Hongxing nodded: "Aunt Lin, don't worry, I will definitely do it."

Yueyue took out the delicious food she made, which she packed in cans that had been used up, five or six cans in total, with small squids, snails, clams, sea hares, and crab claws. Yueyue cooked all of these in advance and then marinated them with chili peppers.

It tastes very good, and the chili used is not very spicy, mainly used to enhance the flavor.

Yueyue: "Brother Hongxing, save these for the journey."

Xingxing: "Brother Hongxing, I can't bear to leave you."

After the end of the ten-year movement and the convening of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee in 1978, along with the reform and opening up, people who had a thorough understanding of the policies and were active in thinking had already started the business of reselling, which is what we now call "individual business owners."

During the years of the movement, speculation was resolutely cracked down upon, and anyone caught speculating would be sent to jail.

So when the policy was relaxed, some people rushed to the front, while some people did not dare to do so and were still waiting and watching.

Since 1983, the canning factories on the island have been in trouble. Not only the canning factories, but also many state-owned factories have entered a period of decline in recent years. Not only the canning factories, but also the state-owned restaurants and supply and marketing cooperatives have been greatly impacted.