Chapter 199 Chapter 199 Encounter

Lin Yue thought of something and couldn't help asking, "Don't they know that Captain Chen is going to retire?"

"Chen Deyuan has been in the army for so many years, he must have his own channels, he should know something, it's impossible that he doesn't know anything."

Lin Yue felt puzzled. "Then why does He Aini still have time to pester me all day? Does she think you have the ability to interfere with the job placement?"

Zhang Yuandong couldn't help but laugh, "Then she should look for Captain Li, or at the very least Ma Fangdong. What's the point of looking for me? I'm not his captain!"

He Aini is such a strange person. She is usually quiet and doesn't interact with others much, but she will go crazy from time to time. When she goes crazy, she dares to provoke anyone, as if she is sure that others dare not do anything to her. She doesn't even take the wives of several leaders seriously.

If we talk about who she is afraid of, it would probably be Sun Xilai. Ma Fangdong is Chen Deyuan's direct superior, and the two families are neighbors, but He Aini used to quarrel the most fiercely with Sun Xilai.

Later, Auntie Hua couldn't stand it anymore and instigated Sun Xilai to fight with her. Sun Xilai didn't care about anything else and scolded He Aini so much that she couldn't talk back. He almost bruised her face. He Aini was hurt by the facial injury and didn't dare to go out for many days. She was afraid of her.

Anyway, Lin Yue felt that this person looked difficult to mess with, but in fact, she was the type who bullied the weak and feared the strong. The more nice others were to her, the less she would take you seriously. Once she knew that you were a powerful person, she would not dare to mess with you.

Lin Yue hesitated for a while and asked uncertainly: "How about if I treat her better, will she look down on me and stop bothering me?"

Zhang Yuandong smiled helplessly, "Why don't you give it a try?"

Lin Yue just said that, there was no way he would really do it. "I won't try. She will be gone soon, I don't want to make trouble. But I always feel that he and his wife have some ulterior motives, I still don't feel at ease with the children."

Zhang Yuandong thought about it and his tone became serious: "I will talk to them about this matter."

The two of them rarely interfere with their children's friendships unless the friend really has a problem.

The children in He Aini's family were brought up a little crooked. Lin Yue and Zhang Yuandong did not stop them from playing together because of this. After all, they will meet people with all kinds of personalities when they grow up. Instead of preventing them from coming into contact with them now, it is better to cultivate the children's values.

But now it’s different. They don’t know what the couple’s intentions are, and they need to make it clear to their children to avoid being taken advantage of by the couple.

While the two were talking quietly, the children had already brought the food to the table. Lingling brought a basket full of corn cakes and urged, "Dad, Mom, it's time to eat!"

They played outside for the whole morning and also trained with the soldiers for a while. They didn't feel anything while playing, but now they felt very hungry.

Seeing that his parents had been talking nonstop, Little Mushroom couldn't help it anymore. He picked up a corn cake with each hand and put it into his mouth in big mouthfuls without even bothering to eat the vegetables. After a while, he had finished both cakes.

This is why Lin Yue always has to cook a lot of food. Almost all of her family members are gluttons, and they are all eating more than one person. Now is not the time of famine, and she still grows a lot of food in her space, because the adults and children in her family are so greedy. If she hadn't used the space to secretly supplement, her family might really not be able to make ends meet.

When Lingling and Wanli started kindergarten, the teacher came to their home within a week because the two children ate so much that the canteen could hardly supply them. Since then, Lin Yue would send food for the children to the canteen every month.

However, Sisi is the only child in the family who has a normal appetite, and now there may be another child, Xixi, who is still young.

Seeing Sisi drinking a bowl of soup, she suddenly thought of something and asked, "Did you guys not drink any water this morning?"

Lingling looked at Wanli, who picked up some food while answering decisively, "I drank it!"

"What did you drink? You didn't even take a water bottle with you when you went out!"

The little mushroom rushed and said, "Mom, we are not thirsty at all. We ate a lot of snow, and Uncle Chen even broke some ice cream for us to eat!"

Lin Yue was startled. She knew how much these kids ate, so she quickly asked, "How much did you eat? Did you feel upset?"

Wanli and Lingling wanted to cover the mushroom's mouth, but they were too late. Wanli said hurriedly: "Mom, we only pick clean ones to eat, really!"

There was no child who had not eaten these things in winter. Lin Yue had given them snow mixed with sugar and ice cream dipped in sugar before. She was afraid that they would eat too much and freeze their stomachs. She pointed at a few children and stood up to make them a bowl of ginger sugar water.

The ginger and sugar water took a long time to cook and was ready just in time for dinner. Lin Yue gave each of them a bowl, even Sisi was not left out.

Children are afraid of spicy food, so even if there is a lot of brown sugar in it, this bowl of ginger sugar water has no appeal to them. After a few children took a sip, their faces wrinkled. Just as they were about to put down their bowls, Zhang Yuandong gave them a glare, and they immediately picked up the bowls again.

After drinking a bowl of ginger sugar water, Little Mushroom took deep gulps of air and said in a hazy voice, "Mom, mom, my mouth is on fire!"

Sisi only drank a little bit, she really couldn't stand the taste, under the pressure of her father, she could only hold the bowl and sip it in small sips. Now when she heard her brother say this, her little face wrinkled into a ball, and she was about to cry.

Lin Yue brought a bowl of water to Little Mushroom, "Drink some water quickly and put out the fire in your mouth!"

Little Xixi sat on a high stool. Seeing that his brother and sister each had a bowl, he stretched out his hand anxiously to get some. Seeing this, Sisi pushed her ginger sugar water in front of him and coaxed him in a low voice: "Brother Xixi, sister's ginger sugar water is for you to drink!"

As soon as Xiao Xixi's hand touched the edge of the bowl, it was scalded and shrank back. In fact, the temperature was not too high. It was a little cool for adults to drink, but a little hot for children. However, Xiao Xixi was too young and her skin was too delicate to bear the heat.

Sisi was afraid that the bowl of ginger sugar water would return to her hands, so she anxiously pushed it towards him again, and then hurriedly said, "Mom, mom, I'm giving my ginger sugar water to my brother, you just give me the water!"

I don't know when it started, but Sisi's language ability is getting stronger and stronger, even surpassing Xiao Mushroom, who is seven or eight months older than her. But sometimes she is still childish and cute. Lin Yue wanted to coax her to drink more, but the child's tears were about to fall, "This spicy water will make my mouth burn, I don't want to drink it!"

She took Little Mushroom's words seriously, and no matter how Lin Yue explained, she didn't believe it. Lin Yue didn't force her anymore, and spent the rest of the afternoon paying close attention to the children, fearing that they might get upset.

Zhang Yuandong advised her: "Children are not that fragile. Even if they have stomach upset, they will be well soon. You don't need to worry so much about them." He was afraid that she would always worry about the children in front of her, so he simply dressed the children in their thickest clothes, and took them out to play, each of them dragging a small sled.

In the following days, there were several heavy snowfalls, and the snow on the roof became thicker day by day. This house is an old one, not as sturdy as a new one. Whenever Zhang Yuandong is free, he will clean the snow off the roof. Even at night, he will get up once to check the roof, fearing that it will collapse under the pressure of snow.

The heavy snow seemed to have sealed off the entire black market. People were trapped at home and it was difficult to go out. Neighbors in the family compound also reduced their movements. The only thing that remained unchanged was that every morning, one could still hear Tang Sisi's voice reading the manuscript from the loudspeaker.

The Yuhong class asked each child to bring some corn cobs from home to school to light the stove. However, it snowed heavily recently and the roads were difficult to travel. Lin Yue was worried about the children, so he took the time to send them to the Yuhong class himself, and he could also pick up the children after school.

When she arrived at the school carrying half a sack of corn cobs, she was surprised to hear that the four children had already left.

According to the time calculation, they should not have reached home yet, but Lin Yue did not see them on the way here. She was worried, handed the sack to the teacher, turned around and left in a hurry.

She walked all the way back, but did not find the children. During this time, she was always suspicious of Zhang Yuhui's identity, which made Lin Yue's heart tense again, fearing that the children were in danger.

She remembered how Lingling used to take a shortcut when she brought meals to Wang Tingting, so she turned around and headed for the abandoned staff dormitory of the military hospital.

When he was still some distance away from the old house, Lin Yue heard faint voices coming from there.

Tang Sisi's iconic voice came over clearly: "Sisi, don't be afraid, Auntie is not a bad person! Do you still remember Auntie? My name is Sisi too, we are so destined!"

Before Xiao Sisi could answer, Lingling said impatiently, "Auntie, you are so old, why are you still lying to children like this? If you say so, there are so many people named Jianguo, Zhiwei, and Hongjun in this military region, and I haven't seen them trying to be relatives!" After saying that, she turned her head and muttered in a low voice, "How shameless, blocking us every day!"

When Lin Yue turned the corner, he saw Tang Sisi with an awkward smile on her face. He reached out to touch Lingling's head, but Lingling dodged him.

"It's good that you, as a sister, know how to protect your sister. But I'm not a bad person. I just like you and want to talk to you. You don't have to be on guard against me every time."

Another voice interrupted, but the voice of the sergeant was strangled: "That's right, how can you talk to an adult like this? It's really rude! We are all from the same compound, you kids are too cautious! Sister Tang is the announcer of our military region, how can she harm you little kids?"

Lin Yue looked in the direction of the voice. The person's body was mostly blocked by Tang Sisi, and she was not as tall as Tang Sisi, so Lin Yue did not see her at first glance.

Lin Yue recognized the voice immediately; it should be the so-called "Zhang Yuhui".

She usually stayed at Zhang Yulan's house and never went out. She would stay away from Lin Yue whenever she saw him. Although Lin Yue had always suspected her, he never had the chance to look at her to confirm his guess.

Meeting him here this time was a great opportunity. Lin Yue didn't care to listen to what they were saying, and rushed over to catch him first. As for how to explain it later, it would not be too late to think about it later.