Chapter 95

On the other hand, Zhou Wen almost ran all the way back home.

He sat on the bed, breathing heavily, and recalled the scene he had just seen. He was originally going to pick up Zhong Jing, who was going to the school to attend a welcome party for new teachers.

But halfway through the journey, I saw Zhong Jing standing and talking with a strange man.

He had always known that Zhong Jing had met a man when she went to Peking University for further studies.

But when he married Zhong Jing, he chose not to dwell on that matter. He knew better than anyone that there was nothing wrong between Zhong Jing and that man, and it was not as bad as people said.

He had never seen that man, but when he saw the man standing with Zhong Jing, he could almost be sure that this man was the man from before. He couldn't explain what he felt in his heart. He felt pain, but it was as if someone pushed him from behind after he had been unable to make up his mind for a long time.

Perhaps, he could take this opportunity...

After hearing the sound of the door opening outside, Zhou Wen lay on the bed without saying a word.

Zhong Jing walked in and saw Zhou Wen sleeping on the bed. She was a little surprised: "You went to bed so early today? Didn't you go to Lao Zhang's place?"

"Well, I was a little too tired today so I came back early." Zhou Wen said.

Zhong Jing asked: "Do you want me to give you a massage?"

Zhou Wen said: "No need, you should also go to bed early."

Zhong Jing didn't say anything else, nodded and went to get some water to wash up. Zhou Wen looked at Zhong Jing's back, with pain flashing in his eyes.

Zhong Jing didn't know about this. After washing up, she went to bed. She opened her mouth and called "Zhou Wen". She wanted to tell Zhou Wen about Xie Cong, but she remembered that Zhou Wen's mood was not very good recently. He was very sensitive and always found inexplicable reasons to quarrel with her. If she told him about Xie Cong, she was afraid that it would make her care about him even though there was nothing wrong.

Zhou Wen has a strong sense of self-esteem. If he knew that Xie Cong came here and knew that he had become a fisherman, Zhou Wen would definitely not be able to bear it.

After thinking about it, Zhong Jing decided to keep this matter secret.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Wen asked.

"It's okay." Zhong Jing said, "Go to sleep."

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When Lin Tao arrived home, Yueyue had already fallen asleep. She washed up and went to bed.

Thinking about Zhong Jing's incident, I couldn't help but say to Li Chengxi, "Chengxi, do you still remember the teacher Xie from Beijing that I told you about? I think Teacher Zhong seemed to know him, but they pretended not to know him in front of everyone."

At this point, she paused and continued, "I don't know why, but I always feel a little worried. I feel like something might happen..."

As she was not sure about this matter, she did not tell Xu Yuting. But unlike Li Chengxi, he was much more mature and stable. With Li Chengxi around, she would feel more relaxed.

Li Chengxi patted Lin Tao on the back, hugged her and said, "Why do I feel that you have become more worried than before since you became the director? In fact, Teacher Zhong's problem may not be something she can't solve by herself. She must have her own reasons for not speaking out. You also said that Teacher Xie is an excellent teacher from Beijing. Such a person, at least in terms of background, should have no problems, otherwise he would not be allowed to enter the island. Since he has no problems, what else can go wrong?"

Lin Tao thought about it and it seemed to be the case.

Everyone has their own story. Maybe Zhong Jing just didn't want to tell them about this, so she pretended not to know Xie Cong.

Things might not go wrong as she thought.

Regarding what Li Chengxi said about becoming a worrier after becoming the director, Lin Taozi thought about it carefully, then wrinkled her nose, feeling that it seemed to be true.

Even though school hasn't started yet these few days, she has already started busying herself with things to do after school starts, such as assigning new classes and meeting new teachers.

"You're right. There are still two days before school starts. During these two days, I will temporarily ignore school matters and spend more time with you and Yueyue." Lin Tao said with a smile.

Lin Tao kept her word. In the last two days of the holiday, she took advantage of the situation and stayed at home with Yueyue.

While the potatoes at home were ripe, Lin Changhai turned them out. This piece of land had been used to grow vegetables for more than two years and was much more fertile than at the beginning. Even the potatoes that were grown were much plumper than in the first year.

Lin Changhai is an expert at farming. After he came, Lin Tao no longer had to worry about the vegetable garden at home. He knew when the crops were ripe and when to plant them.

At this moment, Lin Changhai turned out the potatoes and planted sweet potatoes in the empty field.

The Yanghe ginger grown at home is ready to be eaten again. Lin Changhai picked a small basket of it. In the evening, Lin Tao planned to stir-fry Yanghe ginger shreds and braised potatoes. After thinking about it, she bought some mashed potatoes for Yueyue.

After the potatoes are steamed, use a spoon to mash them into a paste. They taste crispy and soft. Yueyue really likes it and enjoys it very much.

During these two days, one of them happened to be a rest day, so Li Chengxi rested at home and did not need to go to the group.

On every weekend, Lin Changhai would go fishing with Zheng Youde in the morning, and in the afternoon, he would go to Zheng Youde's house to play chess. He arranged everything very well, leaving the house to the three of them.

The sun was shining brightly today, so Lin Tao took advantage of the sun to give Yueyue a bath in the yard. If she had given Yueyue a bath too early, she would have been too restless and sweaty in the evening, so the bath would have been in vain.

So Lin Tao usually gives Yueyue a bath after dinner when the weather is warm. When the weather gets cold, she will either light a stove and bathe Yueyue beside the stove, or just wipe her body directly.

In the afternoon like this, there are not many times when I give Yueyue a bath directly in the yard.

The little guy especially likes taking a bath like this. He sits in the tub, so happy that he doesn't even want to get up. He pats the water with his chubby little hands and giggles.

Finally, Lin Tao was afraid that she would get cold if she stayed in the water for too long, so she picked her up, wrapped her in a towel, wiped off the water on her body, and quickly put on her clothes.

The little guy was still reluctant, and when he saw his father coming over, he tried to act coquettishly to him. However, Li Chengxi was very smart and looked away, not looking at Yueyue. In this situation, they must not look at each other, because if they did, Yueyue would cry.

Finally, Lin Tao helped Yueyue put on her clothes and rewarded her with a dried sweet potato, which finally appeased her. She took the dried sweet potato and put it in her mouth to chew. Although her teeth were small, they were quite useful and she was able to chew the dried sweet potato into pits.

"Okay, you take her, I'll go wash the clothes." Lin Tao handed Yueyue to Li Chengxi.

Li Chengxi held Yueyue in his arms and sat beside her, watching as Lin Tao threw Yueyue's dirty clothes into the basin she had just used to take a bath. The basin contained her bath water. The child's bath water was not dirty and could be used to wash clothes.

Yueyue is a little older now, and sometimes she even cries in advance when she wants to pee. If Lin Tao knows, she will hold her and help her pee, so she doesn’t use diapers as much as before.

I still remember that when I was in the confinement period, the little guy peed and pooped all the time, and I had to change at least a dozen diapers a day.

At that time, the thing that was exposed to the sun the most in the yard was Yueyue's diaper, which was a spectacular sight.

After washing the clothes, Li Chengxi put Yueyue in a special chair for children and let her sit by herself. He went to help Lin Tao hang the clothes and then emptied the water in the bathtub.

Lin Tao sat beside Yueyue for a while. Seeing that the grapes on the vine had turned completely purple from half purple before, she picked one, peeled it and planned to try it to see if it was sweet and whether it was edible.

However, just as she picked the grapes, Yueyue spotted her. Before she even put the peeled grapes into her mouth, Yueyue opened her mouth and waited.

Lin Tao took the grapes and put them into Yueyue's mouth. She didn't really give them to her, but just let her touch them with her tongue to taste them.

However, these grapes must be quite sour. As soon as the little girl ate one, she immediately wrinkled her face, clenched her hands into fists, and shook her head, as if she was really disgusted by the sour taste.

This look was so funny and cute that Lin Tao couldn't help but laughed out loud. Seeing that Li Chengxi had finished his work, Lin Tao asked Li Chengxi to come and see Yueyue's look.

Lin Tao put the grapes into her mouth and ate them. She found that although the grapes were not sweet, they were not as sour as she had imagined. She thought they were very sour when Yueyue made that expression just now. It seems that this little girl, like her father Li Chengxi, has a poor tolerance for sour food.

The grapes are not sweet enough, so Lin Tao doesn't plan to eat them.

After thinking about it, she decided to make wine. It was a memory from when she was in Xiangcheng before. When she and Lin Manman went to the mountains together, they found a lot of wild grapes. They wrapped them in clothes and made a big bag to take home.

There were so many wild grapes that they could not be eaten all, so Aunt Fang decided to make them into wine.

It is called wine, but it does not need to be stored for a long time. It just needs sugar. However, the conditions at home were not very good at that time. Aunt Fang searched all over the house but could not find much sugar, so she put in less sugar.

Wild grapes are also sour, and the result of not adding enough sugar is that the wine is sour. But Lin Tao and Lin Manman thought it was very delicious at the time, and they would pour a glass from time to time. One day, they were too greedy and drank too much, and they got drunk.

That was the first time they both realized that drinking wine without any added alcohol could make one drunk.

Coming back to her senses, Lin Tao made a bottle of wine using grapes and sugar from her home based on her childhood memories.

She and Li Chengxi both have tickets, and their salaries are not bad. Sugar is expensive, but they have no shortage of it at the moment. This time Lin Tao is willing to add sugar. Although the freshly made wine cannot be drunk immediately, Lin Tao guesses that the wine made this time will be delicious.

After the wine was ready, Lin Tao thought for a while and asked Li Chengxi to use a hoe to dig a hole in the yard and bury the wine in it, saying that she could dig it out and drink it later.

"When do we drink?" Li Chengxi asked.

Lin Tao thought about it and said, "Why don't we wait until you get promoted? By then, won't our family be moving to a new house? Then we can take it out and drink it as a celebration."

Li Chengxi expressed his support for Lin Tao's decision.

The sun was too strong today, so Lin Changhai and Zheng Youde came back not long after they went out fishing.

But there were some gains. Zheng Youde caught a big fish as thick as his arm. When he came back, he was full of energy and said, "Lao Lin, you are really not good this time. You only caught two small fish. The total size of these two fish is not even as big as the tail of my fish. You can't even fill your teeth with them when you take them home, right?"

Zheng Youde and Lin Changhai had been playing together for a long time, and they really became close friends. However, this was only limited to when they were talking to each other. After all, Zheng Youde was too old to be Li Chengxi's uncle, and the two were only a few years apart in age!

To be honest, whenever the two of them went fishing together, it was always Lin Changhai who caught more fish.

But today, no one knew what was going on with these fish. None of them took the bait. Lin Changhai only caught two small fish, and now he was being "ridiculed" by Zheng Youde.

Lin Changhai looked at the big fish in Zheng Youde's bucket and said, "You can show off all you want. Let's play chess later. Whoever wins gets the fish. How about that? If I beat you, you give me the fish."

Zheng Youde asked: "What if I win?"

Lin Changhai said: "Didn't I just tell you that whoever wins the fish will get it? If you win, then the fish belongs to you."

Zheng Youde nodded and agreed immediately: "Okay, that's it, Lao Lin, you should hurry back and pack up, have lunch and then come to my house to play chess together. Or why don't you just come to my house to eat? Shuifen's cakes are pretty good."

Seeing Zheng Youde agreed immediately, Lin Changhai suppressed his smile and said, "I won't eat. My daughters and the others have probably prepared my portion. I'll go home and eat."

He added: "My daughter's cooking skills are not bad either."

"That's right, Mr. Lin's cooking skills are quite good." Zheng Youde responded, and then muttered, "Why do I feel like Mr. Lin is trying to compete with me? He must have not caught a big fish today, so he feels he can't beat me."

When Lin Changhai returned home, Lin Tao and the others had already prepared lunch.

Today, we ate liangpi at home. It tastes very refreshing at this time and can whet your appetite. Mix it with chili peppers, pick a handful of bean sprouts, wash them, blanch them, pick a cucumber from the vegetable garden at home, cut it into cucumber strips, put it in and mix it together. It tastes really good.

When Lin Changhai and Li Chengxi started eating, the food looked so delicious.

Especially since Lin Changhai has been playing with Zheng Youde a lot recently, he has also learned how to eat garlic. As the saying goes, "If you don't eat garlic with noodles, the taste is half the same", Lin Tao had already prepared garlic for him.

Lin Changhai took a bite of liangpi and then a bite of garlic, and said it was delicious.

Lin Tao found it funny. Li Chengxi had been on the island for so many years, but he had not learned the habit of eating noodles with garlic. Lin Changhai had only been on the island for less than half a year, and he had already learned it. However, if her father liked such a small thing, she would definitely not say anything. She would always take the initiative to prepare the garlic.

After Lin Changhai quickly ate his cold noodles, he wiped his clothes and said to Lin Tao and Li Chengxi, "Tao, Chengxi, I'm going to go to Captain Zheng's house first. He caught a big fish as thick as an arm today. If I beat him in chess later, I can take the fish away. You wait, I will definitely win."

The truth is that Zheng Youde is really bad at playing chess. He is one of those people who has poor skills but loves to play.

"Okay, Dad, you go. If you bring back the fish, we will make sauerkraut fish tonight," said Li Chengxi.

It just so happened that Lin Tao pickled some sauerkraut in the first half of the month, which could be used to make sauerkraut fish.

"Okay, then you guys just wait to eat pickled fish tonight." Lin Changhai nodded and went next door with great confidence.

After a while, the voices of Lin Changhai and Zheng Youde could be heard from next door.

Zheng Youde: "I will kill you without a single piece of armor left today."

Lin Changhai: "Then come on, who is afraid of who?"

Li Chengxi and Lin Tao smiled at each other, and were both very satisfied with Lin Changhai's current state. Lin Tao said, "In the beginning, I was actually worried that Dad would not be able to stay on the island, and that it was boring. After all, when he was at the Xiangcheng Transport Plant, he was accompanied by his colleagues. I didn't expect that he could still play with Captain Zheng."

"This is good. Dad can live happier." Li Chengxi said.

After the two chatted for a while, Li Chengxi went to wash the dishes. There were three dishes in total, and he washed them very quickly.

Yueyue was leaning in Lin Tao's arms at this moment, as if she wanted to fall asleep, and her eyes were slowly closing.

At this moment, the gate of the house was pushed open, and Zheng Hongxing walked in front, shouting, "Sister, I'm here!"

When Yueyue heard the voice, her sleepiness was immediately driven away. She didn't even have time to sleep. She immediately opened her eyes and saw Zheng Hongxing running towards her. She danced with joy, wanting to play with Brother Hongxing.

Lin Tao found it funny and said, "Little girl, you can't even sleep when Brother Hongxing comes. Come on, play with brother for a while and see what book brother has read recently and let him tell you about it."

Chen Shuifen said, "Yueyue is going to sleep now, right? I told the little bastard to wait until later, and come back after Yueyue wakes up, but he refused to listen and said his sister was not asleep."

Lin Tao said, "It's okay. Even if she doesn't sleep now, she will sleep later. Hongxing hasn't come to play for a few days, and Yueyue misses him too, so let them play together."

Even though Hongxing is five years old, Yueyue’s birthday is only next month, and she doesn’t know what fun it will be for these two kids to be together.

But it's also strange that even little Qingming has started to look for other kids to play with and is a little reluctant to play with Yueyue, but Hongxing still loves his younger sister Yueyue as much as before.

"This little bastard is so naughty. Last time he said he was going to school soon, so we let him go out and play. But this brat ran off to the beach with others and got a beating from me when he came back. I won't let him go out for the next two days." Chen Shuifen glared at Zheng Hongxing while speaking.

"Going to the beach? That's too dangerous." Lin Tao also said, "Hongxing, you can't go there again. You are so young. What if the tide rises and something happens?"

Compared to Chen Shuifen, Zheng Hongxing listens to Lin Tao more.

After he was caught that day, Chen Shuifen stripped his pants off and beat him up severely. The boy didn't say a word that he knew he was wrong, but he didn't expect that this time, as soon as Lin Tao said it, he spoke up.

Chen Shuifen glared at Zheng Hongxing, then smiled at Lin Tao: "Teacher Lin, you still have a way. Xiangyang and Hongxing both listen to you."

While the two were chatting here, Zheng Hongxing was teasing Yueyue.

Zheng Hongxing has not read comic books recently, so he has no new stories to tell Yueyue. He is still stuck on the last episode of Nezha's Trouble in the Sea. He wanted to perform Nezha's Trouble in the Sea for Yueyue again, but Li Chengxi was sitting next to him.

Zheng Hongxing, like his brother Zheng Xiangyang, was also somewhat afraid of Li Chengxi.

He didn't dare to show off and perform the Nezha trick in front of Yueyue, and he didn't bring his rags today... Oh no, it was not easy to show off his Hun Tian Ling and Qian Kun Circle without him, so he gave up.

It's strange to say, Li Chengxi has never lost his temper with the brothers Zheng Xiangyang and Zheng Hongxing, but these two brothers are just afraid of him.

So Zheng Hongxing planned to teach Yueyue to speak today, so he taught her to call him "brother."

Zheng Hongxing patiently taught Yueyue: "Sister, call me brother, brother... brother... brother... mom, look, I tell my sister to call me brother."

Chen Shuifen said: "My sister is still young and doesn't know how to call me brother yet."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard Yueyue calling out to Hongxing, "Mom...Mom..."

Zheng Hongxing: “???”