Chapter 220 The Children's Contradictions

Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, and Zhang Yuandong's vacation is already halfway through. He has been very busy since he came back. Not only does he have to train, but he also has to go to the border defense camp frequently.

Lin Yue didn't know what the mission of the army was, but she could probably guess that Zhang Yuandong must have returned with a mission since he had been back for so long.

At the weekend, he finally had a day off. Before daybreak, he took Lingling and Wanli out to visit someone unknown. Before leaving, he even cut some fresh honey from Lin Yue's space as a gift.

Lin Yue didn't know who he was going to visit, so he naturally didn't know if it would be too light to carry some honey. Looking at these three mysterious men, he simply ignored them.

Actually, honey is a good thing. It is very expensive in the city, but if you want to know how valuable it is, you can occasionally find it in the wild in the mountains. No one in the village is willing to spend that much money to buy it. Zhang Yuandong took the honey specially, and Lin Yue guessed that he must like it very much.

The winter of the black market was about to come. Before the autumn harvest, Xu Zhijuan organized the soldiers' wives to go into the mountains to cut grass and store fodder for the carriage team and the farm.

The troops usually start preparing fodder for the winter after the beginning of spring and in July and August, because the grass at that time is tenderer and tastes better. The grass now has turned a little yellow, which is a preparation in case there is not enough fodder during the winter.

At this time, any open space is covered with green grass, which is dried and stored, and looks very spectacular.

Little Mushroom and Sisi followed Lin Yue and were busy on the field. A group of adults were spreading grass in front, and the two little guys were rolling around on the grass with the other children.

The three little ones, Xiao Xixi, Sun Xilai's little daughter Momo, and Zhou Aixiang's little son Luyang, were squatting on the ground and rummaging through the grass.

Lu Yang was a young man with strong hands. Lin Yue watched him pick something up from the ground and quickly put it into his mouth. The fork in her hand fell to the ground, and she ran over there, calling Zhou Aixiang to come over and take a look.

When Zhou Aixiang heard her son picking up things from the ground to eat, she didn't care much. She walked over slowly, slapped Lu Yang on the buttocks twice, then pried open the child's mouth with her hands and picked the food out.

She took it in her hand, looked at it, and smiled at Lin Yue: "It's okay, it's just a small stone."

Lin Yue stayed far away from the kids, and when she rushed over, Zhou Aixiang had already picked out the things. From what she heard Zhou Aixiang say, she knew that she didn't take it seriously, so she simply stopped talking.

She was afraid that the children would go to pick up stones to eat again, so she built a small thatched house for them with bundles of grass, which was just big enough for the three children to crawl into. The grass was soft and would not prick the children, so the three kids all liked it very much. As a result, each of them wanted to monopolize it, and soon they almost fought.

It's hard to stop a quarrel between little ones, so Lin Yue picked up the children and tried her best to separate them. However, all three children clung to her, each one looking more aggrieved than the other.

Zhou Aixiang laughed and said, "Well, these three are not giving way to each other. Look, let them get entangled!" She said so, but after she finished speaking, she continued to build the house with Lin Yue.

The two of them built two more huts, and now the three children all had their own huts, and everything was finally peaceful. After settling the children, they soon went back to work. Unexpectedly, new conflicts arose not long after.

Recently, Tang Sisi has been very active in participating in group activities. She went to the mountains to cut grass and also went to the grassland to dry grass. It’s just that she has never done farm work before, so she is not very familiar with it. But at least she is not lazy anymore.

Her stepchildren are all older now. The oldest stepdaughter is Yu Tiantian, who is ten years old this year. She has been coming here even though she doesn't have classes these days. However, she doesn't do any work and only focuses on taking care of her younger brother and sister.

This was the first time that Lin Yue saw the children in her family. He heard that these children rarely went out and almost never played with the children in the compound. They were not even in the school for children of military personnel, but attended a school in the city and seldom came back.

Lin Yue didn't have a very good first impression of Yu Tiantian. She always felt that this child's eyes were scary and mad.

This child was different from the other children. She did not help Tang Sisi with work, nor did she play with other children. She just followed her brother closely, staring at him intently, fearing that her brother would be in danger. There was a kind of morbid stubbornness on her face that made people feel uncomfortable.

This brother was not her biological brother, but Tang Sisi's son Yu Zhiguo who was less than four years old. Her biological brother Yu Xiaobao and sister Yu Xiaoya were not with them. They were standing not far away, arguing about something. Yu Xiaobao got annoyed and knocked the thing in his sister's hand to the ground. He squatted aside and sulked.

The three siblings all have a very repressive aura. They seem to be fine, but they always give people a dull feeling, as if they are holding a lot of anger in their hearts and are about to explode. Yu Zhiguo is different. He is obviously more irritable and will hit someone if he is not satisfied.

In fact, you can tell from the names of these siblings how much they are valued at home. Yu Tiantian and Yu Xiaobao are both older, and their names are their parents' expectations for them. As for Yu Xiaoya, her mother died when she was just born, and she didn't even have time to have a decent name, so she could only be called Xiaoya.

And because they had not yet started school at that time, the three of them only had nicknames and no real names. After their mother died and their stepmother came into the family, no one thought of giving them a school name. Only the younger brother, who was not yet born, had the name "Yu Zhiguo".

The military families in the family compound all saw it clearly, and probably only Captain Yu thought that Tang Sisi was a competent stepmother and that their family was very happy.

Lin Yue glanced at these children for a few times and stopped paying attention to them. Unexpectedly, not long after, they had a conflict with their own children.

Yu Zhiguo, like his brothers and sisters, didn't like playing with other children, but he was more domineering and wanted to grab anything he liked. When he saw the hut of Xixi and the other two, he immediately became unable to move and grabbed Yu Tiantian's clothes to squeeze in.

Xixi was very protective of her things and blocked the door of the small house, refusing to let anyone in. Yu Zhiguo was not polite at all and pushed the little guy down with just one hand.

But Xixi was stubborn, so he didn't cry. He got up and sat down at the door of the hut, shouting, "No, I just don't want it!"

Yu Zhiguo raised his head and looked at his sister silently. Yu Tiantian pursed her lips and turned back to call out, "Xiaobao, come here!"

Yu Xiaobao heard the call and immediately stood up and ran over. Yu Xiaoya followed behind him.

Although Xixi was small, he was very sensitive. When Yu Tiantian started to call for help, he knew something was wrong and started howling at the top of his lungs. When he started crying, Momo and Luyang started crying too.

Yu Tiantian frowned and said to her brother and sister, "It's too noisy, take it away!"

The two siblings immediately did as they were told, one raised their arms and the other raised their legs, and together they lifted up little Xixi.

When Little Mushroom and Sisi heard their brother crying, they stopped playing, got up from the ground and ran over. By that time, Xixi had already been picked up and no one knew where she was going to be thrown.

When Little Mushroom saw someone bullying his brother, he immediately stopped and ran over and knocked Yu Xiaobao down. Xixi had no one to hold her up, so she was also dragged to the ground.

Yu Tiantian yelled, "You bastard, what are you doing!" She took advantage of her age and grabbed Little Mushroom's clothes, trying to slap him. Little Mushroom didn't want to be beaten, so he struggled to get rid of her hand and yelled, "Who are you and why are you so annoying!"

When Lin Yue rushed over, the two sides were on the verge of a war, the atmosphere was comparable to the situation between the Hua Kingdom and the Su Kingdom, and war was about to break out.

She was used to understanding what happened before making a judgement. As soon as she asked the first question, Tang Sisi came over.

Tang Sisi asked impatiently, "What's going on? Tiantian, tell me!"

Yu Tiantian's expression instantly became obedient. She shrank her neck and whispered, "My brother wants to go in there and play for a while."

Tang Sisi didn't even look back at the huts, nor did she ask what was going on. She just turned around and slapped Yu Zhiguo with such force that the child fell to the ground, with half of his face visibly swollen.

Lin Yue opened his eyes wide, looking at her in disbelief, and was so shocked that he was speechless.

Yu Tiantian ran over and stood in front of the crying Yu Zhiguo, crying, "Mom, don't hit my brother. He didn't do anything wrong. If you are angry, hit me. It's my fault for not taking good care of him!"

Tang Sisi helped her up and wiped her tears gently. "This is none of your business. You are a sensible and good child. Don't worry about it. Your brother is disobedient. If you don't educate him well, he will become a nuisance in the future."

She turned to Lin Yue who was still stunned and said, "My child is wrong in this matter. I apologize on his behalf and on yours."

Lin Yue finally recovered from the shock and frowned, "It's just a little fight between children. If they do something wrong, just give them a scolding. There's no need to do this, and this happened outside."

After she did this, all the wives of soldiers working around looked over here openly or secretly, except Tang Sisi and her children, none of them paid any attention.

"Discipline your son in front of him and educate your wife behind his back. If your child makes a mistake, you must educate him on the spot, otherwise he will not learn his lesson."

Apparently her whole family thought so. Even her three stepchildren looked as if it was a matter of course, looking at their stepmother with admiration.

Lin Yue felt that this family was really sick, so he took Xixi's hand, called his two children, and walked to the other side along with Momo and Luyang.

Although Lin Yue didn't hear the whole story, she could guess that it was all about those little thatched huts. She didn't want to argue with Tang Sisi, so she simply gave up the little thatched huts and took them to another place to play.

But Tang Sisi didn't intend to let them go so easily. She caught up with them, grabbed Sisi's hand and said, "Let the children play together. Except for the little one, the other children in my family are very sensible. Let Sisi and your son stay and play together. I promise that the children in my family will never bully them!"

Sisi didn't want to hold her hand and tried to struggle free but failed. Her little eyes looked at Lin Yue pitifully, waiting for her mother to come and rescue her.

Lin Yue asked casually, "I heard that you always like to go to the blockade area when you go to cut grass. Is the grass there richer? Why don't I go over there and take a look tomorrow?"

After hearing this, Tang Sisi immediately let go of Xiao Sisi's hand and said with an awkward smile: "No, I went to the wrong place!"

Lin Yue ignored her and turned around to take the children away. This time, Tang Sisi did not catch up.