As the Spring Festival drew closer, the family members became busy. Su Jin forgot about the contract that Lu Shiyi mentioned and occasionally went to the cafeteria to help make wolf meat jerky.
After breakfast, Lu Shiyi went to the Armed Forces Department for a meeting. Su Jin made a list and asked him to buy everything there.
Su Jin began to busy herself with cleaning the house. Although she had not lived there for long, a lot of things had accumulated at home.
Hanhan was sitting in the stroller, being pulled back and forth by Su Jin. When he woke up, his big watery eyes stared at her.
"Hanhan, we are about to celebrate the festival. Mom is cleaning the house here. Can you just go to sleep if you are tired?" Su Jin leaned over and looked at her son and said.
Hanhan seemed to understand and smiled at her.
She looked at Hanhan's pink gums and started cleaning in a very good mood.
While Lu Shiyi was away, Su Jin threw out the sweeping robot in the space and took the Dyson vacuum cleaner to start cleaning the corners.
The windows will be cleaned after Lu Shiyi comes back, and the house inside and outside will be tidied up.
"Wife, I'm back!" Lu Shiyi was carrying a heavy sack on his back, which contained things sent by the elders of the Lu family from the imperial capital.
Lu Shiyi put the sack by the door and took out a document bag from his arms, which contained 3,000 yuan and a contract.
"The chief has agreed to let grandpa sign the contract for you. Please sign this letter of authorization and send it back with the documents here tomorrow." Lu Shiyi handed the file bag to Su Jin. After calming down, he walked to the table and took out a letter of authorization from the file bag.
Su Jin discovered that the power of attorney was printed in two sheets of lead type, signed by the chief and stamped with the official seal, with the signature of the client, Grandpa Lu, on one side, and a blank space below for Su Jin to sign.
"Ayi, this...bonus starts from the end of this year?" Su Jin found a passbook in the file bag.
"The passbook is specifically for paying dividends. To make it easier for you to use the money, Grandpa changed 700 of the 3,000 yuan into small change and the other 300 into various bills." Lu Shiyi explained to Su Jin, "This 200 yuan is given to you by the chief. Last time, Grandpa saw that the chief had a sore waist, so he gave him some ointment out of pity. Later, Grandpa confiscated all the ointments."
When Su Jin heard Lu Shiyi's explanation of the whole story, she couldn't help but feel sad for these veterans. Even at retirement age, they were still working hard for the country.
"I can't take this money. I'll make some more ointment for grandpa and send it back. Do I still have to go to training in the afternoon?" Su Jin planned to ask Lu Shiyi to help make the ointment.
"No!" Lu Shiyi shook his head. Lin Zitao helped him take over. "Old Lin was worried that you would be late for cleaning the house. A lot of things were sent home, some of which were seasonings sent by comrades from Sichuan Province."
Lu Shiyi took a lot of dried wolf meat from home and sent it to several of his comrades in Sichuan Province, asking them to help mail the seasonings.
When those people got the dried meat, they immediately took action. They often went into the mountains during training and often encountered wolf packs. After the wolves were eliminated, no one wanted to take more wolf meat because the taste was really bad.
After they tasted the wolf meat jerky that Lu Shiyi mailed to them, they called to ask Lu Shiyi about the recipe. According to Su Jin's request, Lu Shiyi did not hide anything and directly told them the recipe for the spicy meat jerky.
This small action of Lu Shiyi and Su Jin earned Lu Shiyi praise from many of his comrades, and he also received more help when he was on a mission, allowing him to escape death time and time again. Of course, this is a story for later.
"We're running low on herbs at home. Take 20 yuan and buy some at the clinic." Su Jin planned to make more, so Lu Bairen could take advantage of the New Year's visit to bring some warmth to his old comrades. "The tiger bone wine is ready too. If the documents are sent back, try using some dried meat to send back to Grandpa."
Lu Shiyi reached out and hugged Su Jin: "Wife, can I go to the cafeteria to get lunch at noon?"
Because of the Chinese New Year, many team members got their meals from the cafeteria, and their families were busy preparing New Year's goods.
"I've prepared everything. Today we have your favorite lamb ribs, and I also made a dry pot duck head." Su Jin said helplessly, "Hanhan is drinking milk powder now, so I can finally relax."
"You little brat, you've learned your lesson. I'll help you relax a little." Lu Shiyi later helped take care of his son every night and slowly replaced breast milk with formula.
Lu Shiyi looked at the dark circles under Su Jin's eyes during that period and felt very sorry for his wife.
"If you act like this as a father, Hanhan will dislike you when he grows up." Su Jin glared at Lu Shiyi, "Grandma's pearl cream, Mom's seaweed and pearl masks, and Dad's deerskin gloves."
Su Jin told Lu Shiyi where to put it and asked him to pack up everything first and send it back to the imperial capital together when he applied the ointment.
"Wife, you made every gift yourself?" Lu Shiyi looked at the gifts piled on the table and pouted, "Where's my Spring Festival gift?"
"Your Zhongshan suit and shoes are also unique, as well as your gloves and hat!" Su Jin looked at Lu Shiyi's jealous look and said happily.
When Lu Shiyi heard what Su Jin had prepared, a smile appeared on his face and he took out a watch box from his coat pocket.
"This is a gift for Mom. I picked it out specially for you after you became a mother." Lu Shiyi called home and asked Du Ruo to go to the Friendship Store to buy this imported watch.
When Su Jin was in modern times, she heard her classmates talk about this gift, and she envied her classmate's mother at that time.
She opened the watch box and found inside was an IWC ladies' diamond watch, which would cost more than 500 yuan in the Friendship Store.
"This... is too expensive!" The thing Su Jin gave to Lu Shiyi was made by herself, and the price of this watch was too high.
"My gift to you is to congratulate my little Jin on becoming a mother. You've worked hard for 10 months." Lu Shiyi took it out of the watch box. Du Ruo was worried about trouble, so she even mailed the invoice from the Friendship Store. "With this contract, no matter what expensive things you buy, no one will gossip about you."
Su Jin looked at the letter written by Du Ruo, who told Su Jin that the money for buying the watch was the money Lu Shiyi gave to his family before marriage, so she could wear it with peace of mind.
"Ayi, thank you, I like it very much!" Su Jin liked this watch. She looked at it for a long time at the auction house, but gave up because the price was too high.
Lu Shiyi placed it on her left hand and said, "Wife, you've done well enough. No matter what, those people will still gossip."
Su Jin nodded: "Sister-in-law Yunfeng also said that the older family members in the family compound were gossiping, so she didn't let me tell you about the situation at home."
After listening to Lin Zitao's arrangement, Lu Shiyi called Lu Bairen. The two discussed for a long time and finally agreed to Lin Zitao's arrangement.
"At least, in the past few years, this method is the safest." Lu Shiyi recalled the situation where those sisters-in-law bullied other sisters-in-law. The sisters-in-law who were bullied had lost their natal families due to natural disasters.
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