Returning to the military family compound after about twenty days, Feng Zhiyi felt as if she had been in another world.
Grandma Feng and her two daughters-in-law prepared a brazier at the door early in the morning. Ma Hongying even went to a nearby village to ask the villagers for some pomelo leaves.
An old saying goes: Boiling pomelo leaves in water for bathing can ward off bad luck.
So as soon as Feng Zhiyi was carried out of the car by Lu Lingxiao, Grandma Feng made her get down and step over the fire basin. It was too cold outside, so Grandma Feng didn't let her granddaughter take a bath, but instead used water boiled with pomelo leaves to wash her hands.
Since Feng Zhiyi had suffered so much, the old lady wanted to cleanse her of bad luck, hoping that Feng Zhiyi would have smooth sailing and be free from disasters and illnesses in the future.
The past few days have been sunny, and all the snow in the yard has melted.
A few days ago, the little ones were happily gathered around her hospital bed, telling her that they had built a big snowman in the yard and that they would show it to her when she was discharged and returned home. But the little ones' wishes were not fulfilled.
"There's no snowman anymore, Mom. We'll build you another one when it snows again," Lu Ziheng said obediently and sensibly, nestled beside Feng Zhiyi.
"Next time it snows, I want to build a beautiful mother!" Lu Xiaoning's eyelids curved into a smile as she nestled against Feng Zhiyi's arm, letting Feng Zhiyi gently stroke her hair.
"Then I'll make a stack for our family of five!"
Lu Zirui had bigger goals. He excitedly thought that if it snowed heavily again, he would build five snowmen: one for himself, one for his older brother and younger sister, one for his parents, one for his grandparents and one for his great-grandfather.
Make everyone in the family look like a snowman!
Jun Zeyi frowned and thought for a moment. He originally wanted to say that he had built it with them, but then he thought that the New Year was coming soon, and he didn't even know if it would snow in Jincheng in the next few days.
Moreover, after the New Year, he will be going back to the capital with his grandfather.
He swallowed back the words that were about to come out.
"You are all very well-behaved and wonderful!"
"During the time Mom was away from home, did you all study and practice diligently?"
Feng Zhiyi ruffled their hair, then ruffled Jun Zeyi's hair and asked, "How about you, Xiao Yi? How's your homework going? Have you finished it?"
Jun Zeyi nodded, "Yes, it's almost finished. I haven't finished the English part yet. I'll finish it in two more mornings."
"Keep it up!" Feng Zhiyi encouraged him, rubbing his head. "After you finish your homework, your aunt will give you a gift as a reward!"
"Really?" Jun Zeyi's face lit up with joy.
"real!"
"Me too! Me too! Mom, I want a present too!"
"Me too, me too..."
"Mom, I've finished all my homework. I'll go get it and show it to you!"
It means that she has completed all the homework she assigned him, so he should also receive a gift.
After Lu Ziheng finished speaking, he hurriedly ran back to his bedroom, then came out with his homework books, jogged over to Feng Zhiyi, and handed the homework books to Feng Zhiyi for inspection.
Feng Zhiyi didn't just do it perfunctorily. Instead, she picked up his homework and carefully checked it. Two minutes later, she raised an eyebrow and asked Lu Ziheng.
"Did someone check your homework?"
Otherwise, the little guy wouldn't have gotten all his homework right.
Although her three children are all very smart, they are not so smart that they will never make a mistake. It is obvious that someone has already checked their work and circled the questions they answered incorrectly, so that Lu Ziheng could correct them.
"It's Brother Zeyi!"
Lu Ziheng pointed to Jun Zeyi sitting to the side. These days, Brother Zeyi has been urging them to study, and he will teach them the parts they don't understand. He is very patient.
"I knew it."
Feng Zhiyi raised an eyebrow and said with a smile, "Alright, wait patiently, I'll go back to my room and get you your gifts!"
After saying that, she stood up and walked into the master bedroom.
He took out four sets of toys from his spatial storage.
Ningning's toys were still dolls and the like, but this time it wasn't Barbie dolls, but a whole set of Hello Kitty dolls. As for the three boys, each of them had a set of Lego bricks.
Then, a set of extracurricular reading books was prepared for each of them.
The little ones received their gifts and were overjoyed, laughing and chattering in the living room. Their pure and bright laughter filled the room and lingered for a long time.
“Little sister, the family members from the residential compound just came by, but I didn’t let them in. I told them to rest in their room if they were tired, and sent them away.”
At this moment, Feng Henghua, the second brother of the Feng family, walked in from outside. In the past few days, he had heard some news from his grandmother and Aunt Lu, and knew that these people had rushed to find Feng Zhiyi because of the recruitment.
So when he ran into him outside the courtyard, he made up an excuse to get rid of him without saying a word.
"Are there many people?"
Feng Zhiyi asked casually.
Feng Henghua thought for a moment and said, "There were about eleven or twelve of them. They kept looking into the yard, probably trying to see if you were there. But since my brother-in-law was in the yard, they didn't dare to come in."
Upon hearing this, Feng Zhiyi raised the corners of her lips.
As expected, Ling Xiao's name really works!
Both the soldiers in the army and the families in the residential compound were quite afraid of him. Almost as soon as Lu Lingxiao stood there, his chilling aura would make these people stop in their tracks.
In the past few days, people have been coming to the hospital under the guise of visiting her to inquire about job openings, but they haven't gotten any information and have been severely scolded by Lu's mother, which is why they dare not come again.
Now that they've seen her discharged from the hospital, they couldn't resist coming to her house again to ask about job openings.
"Zhizhi, I've noticed that the military wives in your family compound are just as cunning as businesswomen. They're all scheming and calculating, and there are really not many people you can really befriend."
Second sister-in-law Luo Yao carried a bowl of bird's nest into the living room. As she walked towards the sofa, she said to Feng Zhiyi, "I just stewed the bird's nest. I'll put it on the coffee table to cool for a few minutes. You can drink it later."
"There's still mutton soup simmering on the stove. The mutton was brought over by Sister He and Sister Liu. We weren't going to accept it, but they just took it into the kitchen, put it on the cutting board, and left. We couldn't stop them even when we called them."
Feng Zhiyi smiled and said, "It's alright, Second Sister-in-law, just accept it. We'll bring some New Year's goods to their families on New Year's Eve."
“Yesterday, Lingxiao went to the village and ordered two goats to roast whole goats on New Year’s Eve. He will also bring two catties of mutton to each family, and that will be about right.”
"Roasted Lamb?"
Luo Yao's eyes lit up when she heard about roasting a whole lamb. "A whole lamb must weigh dozens of kilograms, right? How about this, on New Year's Eve, our whole family can have a barbecue and drink while we eat?"
"Then let's prepare a few more hearty dishes, what do you think?"
"I have no objection!"
"Neither do I!"
Feng Zhiyi and Feng Erge spoke up almost at the same time.
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