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"Make Lin wear this outfit when she goes out tomorrow. Once she gets there, change her into this red one."
Ding Xuewen and Ye Zhiqi had booked Lin Ting to have sex with them in their new bed. Jiang Guiying was worried that they would be in a hurry to leave the next morning and would just find some clothes for Lin Ting to change into, so she took out the clothes in advance and put them away.
Guan Yuehe exclaimed in surprise, "You made her new clothes?"
When she picked up the new clothes, she realized they didn't look like they were made by her mother. Older generations of adults made clothes that were durable and resistant to dirt; at most, they would embroider a small flower on the chest or collar.
The dress in her hand has a star-shaped pocket and a few small fabric flowers hanging on it; it looks like something Gu Yu would wear.
In other words, the clothes look like they were made by her sister.
Sure enough, Jiang Guiying said, "I don't have the patience to do so many fancy things. Only your sister, who loves to dress up, would make such fancy clothes."
Jiang Guiying snorted and said in a strange tone, "It's really hard on her. If she had dressed like this when she was a young woman, she probably wouldn't have saved a single penny of her salary."
Guan Yuehe raised an eyebrow.
That's a huge overestimation of her sister. Back then, fabric was scarce, and cloth coupons were hard to come by. Her sister's clothes were mostly green and blue, with hardly any embellishments; she focused entirely on the design. But that didn't stop her from spending all her salary every month.
When it comes to vanity, her sister is notorious in Ginkgo Hutong.
Since her current workplace doesn't allow for excessive dressing up, she's focused her attention on dressing up for Gu Yu.
Oh, now there's another little girl dressed up like Lin Ting.
Jiang Guiying sighed again, "What's wrong with her? Whenever she has free time, she thinks about making clothes for the kids, saying that the work pressure is too great and she needs to find something else to do? She has a heavy workload, so she should just rest when she gets home."
“What’s so hard to understand?” Guan Yuehe thought it was perfectly normal. “When I’m happy at work, I want to eat something good. When I’m annoyed at work, I also want to eat something good. It’s normal for people to have more things they enjoy doing.”
"You're just a glutton!"
Guan Yuehe was too lazy to argue with her. So what if she was greedy?
Turning my head, I saw Lin Ting lying on the bed, chewing on the colorful little flowers on her new clothes.
"Oh dear, you're such a little glutton! It's good to have a sweet tooth, being able to eat is a blessing." Jiang Guiying put away the clothes, picked up Lin Ting and coaxed her with a smile, "Grandma made dumplings, let's go eat something delicious."
Lin Ting immediately fawned over her grandmother, showering her with kisses and compliments.
Look, the old and the young are all the same; their faces change so quickly.
Guan Yuehe carefully folded the new clothes that had been pulled to the other side and touched the small flowers on them.
Suddenly, I remembered something from the past.
"My sister got into a fight with a colleague when she first started working."
"Really?" Lin Yiku thought for a moment, but he had absolutely no recollection of it.
“You were serving in the army in the south back then, how could you possibly remember?” Guan Yuehe said, “Just because there was a flower on her clothes, someone wanted to report her for being bourgeois, and in the end, a fight broke out.”
Lin Yiku was surprised, "I thought she was only good at arguing."
“That’s true.” Guan Yuehe suddenly smiled. “She’s only good at arguing. It was Xu Xiaomei who rushed in to fight. Otherwise, how could a fight have started?”
"Xu Xiaomei would even fight for her?" Lin Yiku remembered that before she joined the army, Guan Yuehua and Xu Xiaomei couldn't stand each other in the No. 3 courtyard.
Guan Yuehe couldn't figure it out either. Too much time had passed; she'd only heard about it from her sister-in-law during a Sunday dinner at home, and didn't know the specifics. But seeing Lin Ting's new clothes today suddenly reminded her of this incident.
"No wonder Dad said that as people get older, they like to talk about the past."
Guan Yuehe placed her hands and feet on him, accurately touching his face in the darkness, then changed her words, "I think I'm still very young."
"You're already very young, Comrade Guan Yuehe. You're only in your early thirties, which is the perfect age to build your career."
Tsk! That sounds so familiar, almost exactly like what she said when encouraging her dad to expand the barbershop.
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The next day was Sunday, the day Ding Xuewen held his wedding banquet.
As soon as it was light, Lin Yiku and Guan Yuehe squatted at the bathroom door to wash up. The neighbors who got up early to go to the public toilet in the courtyard looked at them and couldn't help but admire them: This couple is full of energy all year round, day and night. They rarely get a day off a week, and they actually got up so early in the morning.
Around nine o'clock in the morning, when the neighbors got up for breakfast, they saw Jiang Guiying and Aunt Fang helping Aunt Hua walk outside. They realized that they were dressed as if they were going to a wedding.
Upon asking, I learned that Ding Laosi was holding his wedding banquet today.
No wonder Yuehe and her husband took their child out early this morning.
When Sister-in-law Ding heard the news, she went out to take a look, only to see the backs of a few old neighbors, and silently returned home.
Whenever the neighbors in the alley met, they would talk about Ding Laosi.
"They even invited Grandpa Li and Grandma Hua?! Oh, and Grandpa Ming and his family were invited too."
"Hey! Who cares who they invite? They can't possibly invite us."
"That Ding Laosi is quite capable, and his old mother..."
On the other side.
At Ding Xuewen's new home, Guan Yuehe and the others were being instructed by their elders to prepare this and that. As soon as it was ten o'clock, they urged Ding Xuewen to hurry up and set off with the wedding party.
"I thought it would just be Yi Ku, Xu Lao Si, and Li Zhong and a few others going, but I didn't expect there to be so many people."
“The others are all his friends,” Lin Sitian said, listing them off. “Ding Xuewen was the class monitor in college, and he also found a group of people to work as tour guides, so he made a lot of friends.”
"That's because I saw you guys often getting together to play whenever you had free time, and I thought you guys were the best at it."
“Of course, it’s just that we’re the closest of friends,” Lin Sitian said with certainty, but added, “Being good friends doesn’t stop us from making other friends.”
They are childhood friends, but they make different friends at different stages of their lives.
“Look at me, I got along well with Wenmin and the others at the hospital, and I also got along well with my classmates during the years I went to Jinshi for further studies. It’s perfectly normal for Ding Xuewen to make friends in college.”
Not only her, but Yuehe and Xu Chengcai also have good friends at their workplaces.
Given Ding Xuewen's temperament and personality, he must have had many close friends.
However, for them, the bond with childhood friends they've known since they can remember is always different.
Sure enough, when the wedding procession returned, Ding Xuewen's friend, who works as a cameraman at the TV station, had taken enough photos of the newlyweds and asked, "Squad leader, why don't you and your wife take some photos with your friends to remember the occasion?"
"Come on, you four, you've been playing in the mud together since you were little, and now you're all married, it's time to take a picture together."
As Xu Cheng straightened his clothes, he muttered under his breath, "There wasn't a group photo like this when I got married. You guys should come to my house and take one sometime."
He got his marriage certificate suddenly, and his wedding banquet was even simpler.
Back then, I was afraid of being plotted against by my family, and because the circumstances at the time did not allow for large banquets, unlike Guan Yuehe and the others, who only held their weddings when the environment was more relaxed and they could have lively celebrations.
"Take pictures, take pictures, I'll come to your house another day and take ten or eight. Stop talking, my face is stiff from smiling."
As soon as they finished taking pictures, Ding Xuewen's group of college friends swarmed around him, all saying they wanted to take a picture with their senior class monitor as well.
When Lin Ting was woken up, she let the adults change her into new clothes like a little puppet. They coaxed her to roll around on the new bed, and the adults in the room groaned and murmured their delight for a while before calling to each other to go to the small restaurant in front to take their seats and prepare for dinner.
"Mom and Dad, these are my childhood friends." Ding Xuewen brought his father-in-law and mother-in-law over to offer toasts, introducing them one by one.
Ye Zhi Qiu's parents shook hands with everyone, and when they heard Guan Yue He's name, they took a few extra glances.
When their daughter was in college, she mentioned several times a graduate student named Guan Yuehe, and they had also learned about this Ms. Guan from the newspapers. Today they finally met her in person.
"I often hear Xuewen mention you. He used to rely entirely on your help. Please come visit us often when you have time."
"Of course."
They were all quite serious in front of their elders. But as soon as they turned their heads, they secretly chuckled, "Ding Xuewen is crying again."
"Xu Cheng, how dare you laugh? You used to cry the most."
"Didn't we say we shouldn't bring up old grievances?" Xu Chengcai casually brought up quite a few old grievances between the two of them.
Chen Lizhong, always eager for drama, kept asking, "Is there anything else?"
Lin Sitian picked up a steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth.
This lively event didn't end until evening.
After the guests had all left, Ding Xuewen, who used to see his friends off by himself, now had someone accompany him, and they returned together to their brightly lit home.
Guan Yuehe managed to snag a spot on the bike, Lin Yiku sat behind her, and Lin Ting was sandwiched in the middle, clinging tightly to Guan Yuehe with both hands, excitedly shouting all the way.
I don't know what this little brat is so excited about; he's just grinning like an idiot all day long.
Back in Ginkgo Alley, before Guan Yuehe even got out of the car, she heard Aunt Zhao ask, "So happy? The three of you are grinning from ear to ear."
"Haha, it's a wedding banquet." Guan Yuehe got out of the car and distributed the wedding candies she had brought back to the neighbors she met, "so that everyone can share in the joy."
Even when Ding Laoda and Ding Laosan were passing by, Guan Yuehe stopped them and gave them a handful of fruit candies.
Ding Laoda and Ding Laosan brought the candy home and shared it with the younger children in the family. When asked where it came from, they lowered their heads and said, "It's wedding candy from Lao Si's wedding."
There were five brothers in their family. Except for the youngest who went to jail, the others have all started their own families and are no longer even considered ordinary relatives.
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The adults had their fun for one day, and the next day was Monday, so everyone who had to go to work was busy going to work.
Only Lin Ting started thinking about going to the wedding banquet.
Attending a wedding banquet means wearing nice clothes and eating delicious food, so it's no wonder Lin Ting keeps thinking about it and keeps saying she wants to attend.
But where can you find so many wedding banquets?
It wasn't until August, when the results of another year's college entrance examination were released, that more than a dozen children of employees from the Five Star Automobile Factory were admitted to universities.
A close colleague was hosting a university banquet and invited Mr. Lin and Mrs. Fang, so Lin Tingcai was finally able to drink wedding wine again.
However, Juanjuan spent more than half a month playing in the city during her summer vacation. When it was time for her to go home, Guyu also wanted to find a luggage bag to go back with her.
"Your clothes can all fit in a cloth bag, no need to bring a duffel bag." Guan Yuehua picked out durable and stain-resistant clothes for her to pack, knowing that she would definitely be playing with cats and dogs and catching fish and shrimp when she went back to her hometown, so as not to ruin her good clothes.
I casually stuffed the two new outfits I made for Juanjuan into the box. I was just about to tell her not to be too naughty when she went back to her hometown when I heard Guyu say confidently, "I'll pack my little sister in and take her with me."
Guan Yuehua: "......"
She found it strange that she and Guan Yuehe were sisters, but their relationship was only so-so when they were young. It wasn't like the close relationship between Gu Yu and Lin Ting.
Hearing this, Gu Mannian, who was standing next to him, muttered under his breath, "You guys don't get along well internally, but you don't seem to get along well externally... Hiss, I was wrong."
The next day, Guan Weiguo went into town to deliver fresh vegetables and took Juanjuan and Guyu with him.
Lin Ting waved her hand, laughing, but then she realized her two older sisters were gone. Finally, she couldn't laugh anymore, and she threw her head back and burst into tears.
Taking Lin Ting back is impossible. Lin Ting is not even two years old yet. There is a lot of farm work to do in our hometown during the summer vacation, and we can't spare anyone to take care of a little baby.
"Don't cry, don't cry. Wait for the New Year. Grandma will take you to our hometown for a visit during the New Year."
Before Lin Ting could go back to her hometown to play, people from her hometown were frequently going to the city.
"Your second brother said the apple trees at home have a bumper harvest this year, and he needs to find a market to sell them all. The 'Guazi Wang' family bought a lot and will sell them in their shop. I need to ask around in our alley if anyone else wants some..."
Guan Yuehe counted the time on her fingers. This year is the harvest season. Her second brother contracted the forest land to grow fruit trees. In recent years, he has also been busy delivering agricultural products to the city every day. After working so hard for so long, the harvest season has finally arrived.
Author's Note: I'm a newbie.
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