Chapter 69

After leaving brother Dunzi's house, the two of them walked on the road, jumping around like little hamsters.

"Be careful, don't fall."

Cheng Zheng always felt that the girl was not very stable when running, so he tried to make sure she didn't fall to the ground.

"A few."

Shuangshuang stopped and looked up at her father, "Dad, hug me!"

"Why do you want to hug me again?" Jian Lu wanted her daughter to exercise and walk more. "We will be home soon, just walk by yourself."

"No." Shuangshuang opened her hands, revealing a small embrace, "Sangsang is tired."

Shuangshuang can speak quite a lot now, but her words are often garbled, and she can even come up with several ways to say her own name.

The adults in the family are already used to this.

"Are you tired after walking such a short distance? You need to practice more in the future." Cheng Zheng bent down and picked up the girl. How could his child be so clumsy?

Shuangshuang was held firmly by her father. She turned around and hugged her father's neck, looking at her grandmother and mother behind her. "If I don't practice, my feet will hurt."

"Then you should walk more, or your father will discipline you." Jian Lu used Cheng Zheng to scare the girl, "If your father disciplines you, you will have to walk several kilometers."

Cheng Zheng: "..."

No, do I look like such a cruel father?

Cheng Zheng was about to refute when he was suppressed by his wife's eyes.

"Ah!" Her eyelashes fluttered a few times, as if she was thinking, "Is Ji Gong Ni Sen?"

"It's a very, very long road. Very, very long." Jian Lu gestured with her hands, showing the lady how long it was. "It's longer than the road outside."

Shuangshuang understood, and looked at her father with a frown on her face, pouting and saying, "Daddy is so bad."

Cheng Zheng: "..."

I am innocent!

"Then how about we come down and walk by ourselves?" Jian Lu coaxed the girl to come down. She hadn't walked much today.

"Okay." Shuangshuang is a smart kid and cannot be trained by his father.

"I'm the one who's been blamed." Cheng Zheng was the one who felt aggrieved, looking at his wife helplessly.

"It's okay." Jian Lu patted Comrade Cheng Zheng's arm, "I'll reward you by feeding the young lady some fruit. She'll be happy when she has something to eat."

Sure enough, when they got home and Cheng Zheng showed up with a small bowl of winter berries, Shuangshuang had forgotten that she had accused her father of being bad ten minutes ago. She stared at the red berries with her big eyes and lay on her father's knees automatically, "Dad, eat."

"Dad, do you want to eat it or both?"

The deep red winterberry has a beautiful color. Each fruit looks like a cluster of small red pearls. It is crystal clear and even more attractive with the red color.

"Shuangshuang eats." Shuangshuang pointed at herself with her little finger. Just as she said that, she remembered something and added, "Dad eats too, Mom eats too, and Grandma eats too."

"Eat them all?"

"Um!"

Cheng Zheng fed a winterberry to the lady. The fruit was so sweet that they both enjoyed it so much that they squinted their eyes while chewing it.

"Is my father still a bad person?" Cheng Zheng vowed to clear his name.

Shuangshuang's head shook like a wave drum, with a big smile on his face, "Dad, good! Dad, not bad!"

Cheng Zheng: "..."

She is indeed a fickle lady!

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The next day, the pork that Jian Lu brought back was placed on the chopping board.

The fat, tender and soft pork swayed in an arc as it fell on the chopping board. Aunt Wang heated up the iron pot and Jian Lu put the pork skin side down into the pot. The pork skin rubbed and rotated on the hot bottom of the pot until it turned golden brown. After some operation, the fishy smell of the pork skin was effectively removed, and then it was washed again.

The pork skin roasted in this way has a burnt aroma and is more glutinous.

Put the pork in a pot and blanch it. Add ginger slices into the water and boil. Remove the pork and set aside.

The pork belly is a mixture of fat and lean meat, fatty but not greasy. It is all cut into small pieces half a finger long, with a layer of pork skin, a layer of fat and a layer of lean meat.

Heat some oil in a pan, add bay leaves, peppercorns, star anise, and cinnamon and stir-fry until fragrant. Pour in the chopped pork belly and stir-fry until the fat comes out. The edges of the meat gradually turn slightly yellow.

The aroma of meat gradually filled the kitchen. Shuangshuang was standing at the kitchen door. She was very small, only half the height of the door frame. Today she was wearing a small floral dress specially prepared by her mother. She was not tall enough to see what was going on in the pot, but she could see the smoke coming out.

“Xiangxiang!”

Aunt Wang was preparing rock sugar. She turned around and looked at her granddaughter and said, "Shuangshuang, are you smelling it?"

"Yes, it smells good." She spread out her five fingers and covered her mouth with them. "It smells so good."

"I'll leave one for you later." Jian Lu turned around and looked at her daughter, telling her to go play outside. "It's too smoky here, let's go play in the yard together."

"Come, I'll take Shuangshuang out." Aunt Wang found some rock sugar and put it aside. There was nothing she could do to help, so she took her granddaughter out.

Jian Lu continued to work hard in the kitchen. She added rock sugar and soy sauce into the pot and kept stir-frying until the pork belly was evenly colored. She saw the pork belly change from white to slightly yellow and then to dark brown. She added clean water to slightly cover the pork belly, and finally added two spoons of rice wine, and prepared to cook it over high heat for an hour.

After finishing her work, Jian Lu just washed her hands with water when she heard the sound of footsteps. A pair of girls trotted into the room, their faces were full of excitement, and their little hands were even more excited, "Mom, Xinxin."

"A letter? Have you received a letter from home?"

"Hmm! Ah!" Shuangshuang pointed outside, "Grandma, look, believe it."

Jian Lu took her daughter out and happened to see Aunt Wang holding a yellow envelope.

Seeing her daughter-in-law coming out, Aunt Wang called Jian Lu to help her take a look, "Lulu, read the letter to me. It's from the third son."

Aunt Wang could roughly recognize her own name and the names of her three sons, but she could hardly understand the rest.

"Is it a letter from Cheng Jun?" Jian Lu took the envelope, opened it and saw a page of letter inside.

"Yes, they also sent a bag of beef jerky for us to eat." Aunt Wang held the bag in her left hand and opened the bag as she walked home.

"Cheng Jun said he would take a family visit leave at the end of this year and wanted to go back to his hometown. He asked us if we would like to go back?" Jian Lu quickly scanned the letter and looked up at her mother-in-law.

"Great!" Aunt Wang was so excited that she clapped her thighs, which scared Shuangshuang who was standing on tiptoe to read the letter. The little girl stepped back and stared at her grandmother, and found that she was smiling.

"I haven't been back for a long time. I miss home so much. I haven't seen the second and third children for several years." Aunt Wang had a good time on the island, but she still missed home. "I'll ask the eldest son when he comes back. Shuangshuang is old enough to take the train."

train?

His eyes were like black pearls, and he put his hands on his mother's thighs and asked curiously, "Mom, what is the train?"

"A train." Jian Lu thought about how to explain to her daughter. The little girl had never been far away and currently only relied on being carried or walking on her own two legs. "It's a car that can take you to far places. When you sit on it, you won't feel any pain in your feet even if you go to far places."

"Wow~" Shuangshuang opened her little mouth wide and let out a big round wow, "Then I want to take the train~"

Jian Lu thought it would be nice to go back. She hadn't seen her three sisters for almost three years and she still missed them a lot. The only one who didn't like her was Jian Hualin.

If she goes back this time, she doesn't want to see this person. Fortunately, she has a family now and doesn't have to have too much to do with her mother's family.

The braised pork was cooked for forty minutes. With mixed feelings about returning to the north, Jian Lu peeled and cut the potatoes into pieces, added them to the braised pork sauce, turned to high heat to reduce the sauce, and only removed the pot and put it into a bowl after the braised pork sauce became thick.

When Cheng Zheng got home, he smelled a rich aroma mixed with the aroma of meat in thick soup. He remembered that his wife had said last night that they wanted to eat braised pork today, and it was already ready.

"Both!"

The little girl was the only one jumping around in the living room. Cheng Zheng called out to the girl who was looking at a bag and asked, "What are you looking at?"

"Dad." Shuangshuang ran to his father with his hands open, holding his military pants with his right hand, "Dad, what can I do?"

"What for?"

"Moo, moo, moo." Shuangshuang tried her best to imitate, opening her little mouth and making strange noises.

"Beef jerky?" Cheng Zheng responded immediately, "Did your uncle send something?"

A few months ago, Jian Lu was eating the beef jerky sent by the third son of the Cheng family. She couldn't stop eating one stick after another. Shuangshuang looked at her curiously. She saw her mother eating it with relish and wanted to try it too. However, she was too young to bite the beef jerky.

Jian Lu didn't give it to her, so Shuangshuang felt aggrieved. It was her mother who took her to teach her what beef and cow were, and only then did she divert her attention.

But since then, she has liked imitating various animals.

It's either moo, cluck, or quack~

The only one who sent beef jerky to the family was his third brother Cheng Jun. He was serving as a soldier in the frontier and heard that the beef and mutton there were delicious.

"Big Boss, the third brother sent some beef jerky and a letter today."

Aunt Wang put the dishes and chopsticks on the table. When she saw her son coming back, she immediately told him about the news in the letter. "The third son wants to go back to his hometown to visit relatives at the end of the year. Let's go back too. You haven't been back for many years."

Cheng Zheng took his daughter to the table and sat down. After a brief thought, he agreed, "Okay, it's a good opportunity to visit the second and third sons. I will take my family leave at the end of the year, so I can go back for the New Year."

Jian Lu brought out a plate of cold wild vegetables and a plate of blanched shrimps. When Cheng Zheng saw his wife coming, he remembered something.

"Lulu, do you want to go back home?"

Jian Lu immediately understood what he was worried about. "Go back. You haven't been back for many years. I miss my third sister and the others a lot. As for the rest, forget about it. We'll just stay at home."

"Okay." Cheng Zheng thought that it really wouldn't work. He would find time to send a gift to the Jian family after he returned. If he didn't have any contact with them, he would be afraid of gossip. Anyway, he would just keep it simple. "Then I will ask the army for a family leave and go back for the New Year!"

"Okay!" Aunt Wang smiled happily and picked up chopsticks to invite everyone to eat.

I was so happy to think about going back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year that I didn’t even mind how cold it was that day.

"Eat! Eat!" Shuangshuang stood on a small stool, waiting for her mother to feed her. "Mom, I want to eat meat."

Both of them stared at the pot of braised pork in the middle of the table.

The braised pork was bright in color, with evenly distributed pieces of fat stained brown, glowing temptingly. They both watched their father pick up a piece of meat. On top was the glutinous pork skin, under the pork skin was the greasy fat, and the lean meat under the fat looked very chewy.

A mouthful of braised pork exudes a rich aroma that has been simmered for more than an hour between your lips and teeth. The first taste will attract you by the soft, glutinous and chewy pork skin, and the slightly burnt aroma from the bottom of the pot is even more delicious. The fat is fatty but not greasy, and the infiltrated soup is fragrant and flavorful. Finally, there is the chewy lean meat underneath. The three layers of meat and three layers of flavor overlap and rise and fall, as if the braised pork is dancing in your mouth, leaving behind bursts of meat aroma.

Shuangshuang's mouth moved as she watched, and she couldn't wait to eat it too.

“Meat!”

Jian Lu had just eaten a piece of braised pork and it tasted so good that she almost swallowed her tongue. She understood her young lady's anxious look.

He picked up a piece of braised pork, rinsed it in a small bowl that had been prepared in advance to remove the excess taste, then used chopsticks to pick out the lean meat for the child, and picked up only a small piece of fat meat to feed the girl.

"Come, eat some meat."

"Ah~" Shuangshuang opened her mouth wide and took a bite of the braised pork. The fat was soft and smooth, and it was especially delicious when chewed. Shuangshuang kept humming while eating, looking intoxicated. She finished it in a short while, "Great!"

After feeding the girl another piece, Jian Lu stopped, "Okay, you are still young, so don't eat too much, or you won't be able to digest it. When you grow up, mom will give you a lot."

Shuangshuang has heard this reason many times: grow up? When will I grow up?

=

Thinking about going home for the New Year, Jian Lu made some food while the weather in the south was still hot and took it back with her.

Squid, abalone, scallops, sea cucumber, sea bass, prawns... were all being taken care of and dried. Shuangshuang looked at the eggplant and loofah racks in her yard. There were many things placed in strings, with particularly beautiful colors, including yellow, gray, black, and red.

Dad joked to Mom, "When you put the seafood on the shelf, don't let the eggplant and loofah smell like Shanghai."

Jian Lu didn't even turn her head, "Stop talking nonsense, can the flavors be mixed after drying? But it's just right, in the vegetable and seafood soup, you can taste the flavor of abalone when you take a bite of loofah, aren't you lucky?"

Cheng Zheng: “…?”

It seems to make some sense.

While helping his wife to dry the seafood, Cheng Zheng also looked forward to going back to his hometown during the Chinese New Year. He hadn't been back for many years. He was planning to go back the year he got married, but his wife got pregnant again. In addition, Shuangshuang was still young, so his plan to go back was postponed again and again.

Now, it is finally possible.

"Old Cheng!"

The voice of Political Commissar Wei was heard outside the courtyard wall. The door was not closed, so he pushed it open and was suddenly shocked by the seafood filling the courtyard.

"Wow, what are you doing? There are so many sea things hanging?"

"Commissar Wei, we are drying some seafood and storing it for winter."

"Oh, that's good too."

"Old Wei, you can also dry some when you go back. This can be sent away and can be kept for a long time. Just cook it when you want to eat it." Cheng Zheng enthusiastically introduced it to Political Commissar Wei.

Even though he had just teased his wife for drying too much seafood, when he thought about having to take it back to his brothers and sisters on both sides and share some with each family, it really wasn't too much.

"Okay, we'll try it later." Political Commissar Wei looked around and rubbed his hands together. "By the way, do you have any noodles at home? I'll lend you two taels and return it to you next month."

"Yes, Brother Cheng, go in and get it."

"become."

Political Commissar Wei explained to Jian Lu, "My wife wanted to eat noodles today, but unfortunately we didn't have any noodles or flour at home, so we had to borrow some. I went to Lao Liang's house first, but unfortunately he didn't have any either."

"The weather is like this sometimes, I just want to eat some noodles."

Cheng Zheng came out with some noodles. He put more than two taels of noodles in the oil paper bag that his family had used to buy egg cakes, and handed it to Political Commissar Wei, "Here."

"Thank you."

If anyone is short of something at home, they can often borrow from each other. Anyway, they just need to remember to return it later. If they borrow and return, it will not be difficult to borrow again.

After Jian Lu finished arranging the seafood, she turned around to look at Political Commissar Wei. She felt that this man looked tired, as if he had aged several years, and there was even a hint of blue under his eyes.

"Political Commissar Wei, it seems like it's very hard for you to take care of the kids. It must be difficult to take care of two kids at once."

It's visibly exhausting.

"Of course not." Political Commissar Wei has been suffering recently. No, it should be said that he is half happy and half tormented. "It's really not easy to take care of children. Who can bear to have two children feeding in the middle of the night?"

Taking care of two children means double the amount of everything, including eating, drinking, defecating, urinating and sleeping. It takes too much time and energy to do it and it is so difficult.

Political Commissar Wei, his wife, and his mother-in-law were all very tired.

"That's right. It was hard for us to take care of twins. It's hard to take care of one child. You have two at once, so it must be even harder."

Standing between several adults, she understood what her mother said and tugged at her mother's trouser legs with her white fingers, "Sangsang is very obedient. Sangsang never cries~"

She had seen the babies of Aunt Zhou next door. The two babies were lying on the bed, crying together, which scared her.

These two little babies cry so much, unlike me, who never cries.

Jian Lu looked at her daughter, not knowing how to tell her, you are also a little crybaby!

"Shuangshuang is such a smart girl." Political Commissar Wei looked at the little girl who could walk, talk and run, and instantly felt a little envious of Cheng Zheng.

When he got home, Political Commissar Wei saw his wife coaxing her child to sleep after feeding him. He raised the noodles in his hand and said excitedly, "Yan'er, I borrowed some noodles."

"Where did you borrow it from?"

Zhou Yan really wanted to eat noodles tonight, but there was no noodles at home, which made her feel really uncomfortable.

"At Old Cheng's house."

While Political Commissar Wei was talking, he went to the kitchen to light a fire and boil water to cook noodles. His cooking skills were so-so, but he had no problem cooking noodles. After boiling the noodles, he went to the yard to pick up scallions and green leaves, returned to the kitchen to rinse them, added the leaves to the noodles, and cut the scallions into sections.

After a while, a bowl of fragrant vegetable noodles is ready.

"Come on, you haven't even had two bites of dinner yet, eat your meal first."

"Right here, Fengfeng just peed, I changed his diaper."

"I'll do it." Political Commissar Wei had just changed the diaper for his daughter Guoguo. Now Guoguo fell asleep after drinking milk, but his son Fengfeng started again. It was really restless. "You go eat noodles first, or they will become clumpy."

My son Fengfeng had just wet the bed, and he was looking aggrieved, with his little face wrinkled and sobbing.

"Okay, man, why are you crying so loudly just because you wet the bed?" Political Commissar Wei changed his son's diaper with ease, wiped his butt, and put on a clean diaper again.

Zhou Yan, who was eating noodles with a satisfied look on her face, laughed, "How old is your son? You've even done something to a man?"

"That's about right. You have to cultivate it from a young age. Otherwise, what will you do if it grows crooked in the future?"

Political Commissar Wei took the two dirty diapers and put them in the basin to wash. As he was washing them, he couldn't help but sigh. As a political commissar, he trained soldiers and did ideological education work in the army during the day, and went home to wash diapers at night. The key point was that it seemed that there were endless diapers to wash, and one came out of the blue.

"Yan'er, tell me, when can we take our kids out for a walk like Lao Cheng next door?"

He saw that Old Cheng often took Shuangshuang to play in the open space outside. The little girl had a good temper. She either talked incoherently or walked crookedly, but now she can even run slowly.

"Just hang in there." Zhou Yan also thought so, but the child is only a few months old now, and there is still a long way to go.

"Oh, I really envy Old Cheng!" Political Commissar Wei quickened the pace of scrubbing the diapers, and as he was scrubbing he suddenly remembered something.

That's not right! At first, I thought I had surpassed Cheng Zheng because I had a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, and a concubine. I was so proud.

Now, why am I beginning to envy Lao Cheng again?

Something is wrong! Something is very wrong!

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In the golden month of September, grain is harvested in abundance everywhere and the autumn harvest is approaching, a busy period that takes more than half a month and a long time.

But the people on the island didn't have so many worries and just continued fishing.

This month, the family compound also had the opportunity to watch an open-air movie.

Jian Lu woke up early in the morning and there was no one beside her. Cheng Zheng went out to work in the army early in the morning, and Jian Lu slept soundly until after eight o'clock.

In this day and age, sleeping in until 8 o'clock is definitely considered lazy.

First, there are no entertainment activities at night, so everyone goes to bed early and naturally wakes up early the next day.

Second, people of this era are used to getting up early. Take my mother-in-law, Auntie Wang, for example. She gets up at 5:00 every day. Jian Lu thinks her biological clock is engraved into her DNA. She and Cheng Zheng have tried to persuade her many times, but she always told them to leave it alone.

Of course, there was another very important factor that contributed to my lazy sleep today: Shuangshuang slept with my mother-in-law last night.

If we were to sleep together as a couple, we would definitely wake up at five or six o'clock to play.

Lying on the bed, Jian Lu enjoyed the rare leisure time. The breeze on the balcony blew the blue curtains wildly, making them dance in various shapes.

The sheets and quilts were soft and comfortable. Jian Lu lay on them and stretched out. She felt her stomach growling. She was really hungry.

"Hmm~~~~"

With a long sigh, she stretched her hands towards the ceiling and got up to change her clothes.

I'm going to watch a movie today, so I have to dress better. In the past few years, I have added a lot of clothes to my closet. When I first came to the island, I only had two pitiful sets of old clothes.

After taking out a red plaid lapel long-sleeved shirt and a pair of black waisted skinny pants, Jian Lu stood in front of the mirror. Well, it looked good.

Going down from the second floor, Jian Lu saw the young lady eating in the restaurant.

"Mom!" Shuangshuang looked up when she heard footsteps, waving her hands to greet her mother. There was egg yolk in her little mouth, and her words were a little unclear, "Eat, eat."

24 hours a day, the most important thing for a lady is eating.

Jian Lu smiled, brushed her teeth, washed her face, and sat down. In the kitchen pot was warming the breakfast prepared for her: a bowl of porridge, a mixed-grain steamed bun, and egg whites which Shuangshuang couldn't eat.

"Lulu, you eat while I go to the movie theater to reserve a seat." Aunt Wang was sewing clothes in the yard again. She couldn't rest for a moment.

"Mom, are you leaving so early?"

"Hold on tight, or you'll miss out on a good seat if you're late."

"Okay, Mom, then go slower."

"Know."

"Grandma, you're dreaming of fishing~" Shuangshuang imitated what their mother said and reminded their grandma, which made Aunt Wang and Jian Lu laugh.

"You're still attracting grandma's attention?" Jian Lu watched the girl's cheeks bulging with food.

Today, my mother-in-law put half an egg yolk into Shuangshuang's millet porridge and let her eat it with a spoon. The little girl ate it with gusto.

"Hmm~ah!" Shuangshuang is now very good at using the spoon. She holds the spoon in her little hands and feeds herself millet porridge. Before feeding herself each time, she blows on the spoon first.

"Huff~Huff~Huff~" She pouted her little mouth and blew air, worried that the porridge would burn her. This was what the adults at home taught her, and the little girl remembered it very well.

After breakfast, Jian Lu went to the kitchen to wash two bowls and a plate, and Shuangshuang wiped her mouth with a handkerchief.

The little girl was very clean. She took a fragrant handkerchief and wiped her mouth carefully, fearing that there would be no traces of eating.

After Jian Lu came out from washing the dishes, she saw her daughter "kissing" the handkerchief and said with a smile, "Okay, if I wipe your little mouth again, it will break the skin."

“Okay, okay.” Shuangshuang put the handkerchief into her pants pocket, but the pocket fit tightly against her pants, so she failed the first two times. She fumbled around the edge of her pants, and finally succeeded the third time.

"Let me see." Jian Lu looked carefully at the lady's clothes today. The top was a yellow floral long-sleeved shirt with a doll collar, and the bottom was a pair of thin white cotton pants. "Mom, change your clothes for you."

"Ah?" Shuangshuang felt that she was very beautiful today. What should she change?

"Here, this one. This way Shuangshuang and mom will dress alike, okay?" Jian Lu took out a red plaid shirt of the same color from the lady's small closet. There was only a slight difference in the depth of the color. The lady's one was redder, and had the cleverness and cuteness of a child.

"good!"

After Shuangshuang obediently raised her hands to let her mother take off her original clothes and change into a red plaid shirt, the mother and daughter stood together, looking like a mother and daughter outfit.

Shuangshuang obviously saw it too, and she stood in front of the mirror and giggled.

Look at mom, then look at yourself, "So pretty!"

Piaopiao is beautiful. Jian Lu took Piaopiao's daughter downstairs, filled a military kettle with warm water, put some melon seeds, peanuts, egg cakes and fruits in an oil paper bag, checked that the paper and pen in her shoulder bag were put away, and then went out fully armed.

Jian Lu and Shuangshuang, dressed in mother-daughter outfits, naturally became a focus of the family courtyard. Anyone who saw them would say that both mother and daughter were so beautiful.

"Sister Jianlu, are you and Shuangshuang going to the movies?"

"Oh, you two look so pretty today, and your clothes are so beautiful."

She has a good figure and a pretty face. Not only does she not look old after being married for several years, but she even looks younger than before. I don’t know how she did it.

The younger one is adorable, lively and active. Whenever he sees someone, he calls them sweetly, "Hello, auntie."

Auntie Wang came at the right time because she arrived early. The movie was originally scheduled to start at 1pm, but many seats were already occupied by now, and the front row was full of benches.

"Lulu, here!"

Aunt Wang waved to her daughter-in-law.

This time the film was screened in an open space in the family compound. It was organized by the Women's Federation, and they invited a key cultural and artistic figure in the army who was also a film projectionist.

"Mom, why are there so many people here at this time?" Jian Lu sat down with her daughter, obviously underestimating everyone's enthusiasm for watching movies.

"Of course not. I just feel that we are late and there are no good seats. It is hard to see if we sit at the back." Aunt Wang was very shrewd and even brought a few large pancakes that she had baked early in the morning. "I have brought lunch. It seems that we can't go back to have lunch and then come back, otherwise the seats will be gone. You can go back after playing for a while, have lunch early and see if you want to take a nap together. I will just stay here and watch over you."

Not only she, but many people in the family compound do the same. They bring dry food and arrive four or five hours in advance to reserve a good seat.

Jian Lu looked at her mother-in-law and admired her deeply. It turned out that old ginger is still wise.

"Let me see. If Shuangshuang doesn't want to take a nap, she can just play here."

Sure enough, Shuangshuang was particularly excited today after seeing so many people. She didn't even want to take a nap. She didn't want to go back!

"Come on, brothers!" Shuangshuang saw several brothers coming and waved her little hands in the air.

Feng Xiuhui and Aunt Wang were sitting in the front and back rows, close to each other.

"Shuangshuang, here are some red fruits for you." Dunzi spread out his hands, sat behind Shuangshuang, and offered her some fruit. "Aunt Lulu, have some red fruits."

"Dunzi, did you pick them yourselves?" Jian Lu tasted one, it was very sweet, "Come and take them, we have melon seeds, peanuts, Beijing fruit, and egg cakes."

The boys each took a Jingguo and said thank you.

Shuangshuang is a person who likes lively occasions. When seeing the huge crowd, she didn't even want to go back for dinner and wanted to stay here.

Around eleven o'clock, everyone took out the dry food they brought with them and started eating.

Aunt Wang left early, so the cakes were cold. Adults could swallow them with hot water, but Shuangshuang couldn't. She went back home with some dry food, and asked Jian Lu to take care of Shuangshuang.

Not long after, the potato and carrot pancakes and loofah and shrimp pancakes steamed at home reappeared, emitting steam.

She held the hot cake in her hands and ate it in small bites. It was fragrant and sweet. She really loved eating cakes.

"Very good." Shuangshuang looked back while eating the pancakes. The brothers in the back row were also having lunch. They were eating leek pancakes, which were green and looked delicious. "Guo Guo, let's switch."

The four brothers looked up at the same time. Who was he calling?

"Come here, Shuangshuang." Dongdong grabbed a large piece of the chive pancake that he hadn't bitten yet and gave it to Shuangshuang. "Here, you can have it."

“Great.” Shuangshuang took the cake. The chive cake was also fragrant and tasted good, but it was a little hard.

Shuangshuang ate two bites and stuffed it into her mother's mouth. Then she pulled a piece of cake from under her own cake and gave it to her brother Dongdong. "Here."

Dongdong looked at the fingernail-sized cookie in his palm and considered whether to use it to fill the gap between his teeth.

Looking at Shuangshuang again, he used force with both hands, and his little face was wrinkled from the effort. He was really trying hard, and he tore out another cake the size of a fingernail and gave it to brother Hengheng, brother Dunzi, and brother Chenchen.

Looking at the lady's actions, Jian Lu really wanted to call her a master of keeping things balanced!

"Here, take this cake and share it among the four of you." Jian Lu handed over a whole large cake and ignored the lady's earnest invitation.

"Thank you, Aunt Lulu."

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the weather was nice and not too hot, so everyone finally got to watch the movie they were waiting for.

The revolutionary movie appeared on the screen and everyone watched intently, almost holding their breath. They might not be able to watch a movie once a year, so everyone cherished this opportunity especially.

People moved around. At this moment, the square was silent. Even the naughty children were quiet and watched the movie seriously.

Shuangshuang didn't understand many things, and she wanted to ask her mother, "Mom..."

"Hush." ​​Jian Lubi put her finger to her lips and whispered to Shuangshuang, "Everyone is watching a movie, let's try not to talk and disturb everyone. Otherwise, the other ladies will hear what the people in there are saying."

"Oh~" Shuangshuang understood that if they spoke, no one would be able to hear what the person in the big cloth in the front said. "Then I won't say anything more."

Shuangshuang also imitated her mother and made a "slurp" gesture.

The red revolutionary film is passionate and exciting, full of the ability to make people's blood boil.

Shuangshuang was confused, but when she saw someone inside trying to hit another person, she was so scared that she just wanted to remind him to be careful but she shut up.

She was in a dilemma. Should she remind the people in the big cloth to be careful? But if she spoke, she would disturb the aunt next to her.

The whip was swung and hit the tied man with a snap.

"It hurts so much!" Shuangshuang clenched her hands tightly, her eyebrows furrowed. In a blink of an eye, the man was about to swing the whip again. Shuangshuang could no longer bear it and shouted, "Quick...quick...quickly get out of the way!"

Shuangshuang's voice suddenly appeared in the quiet square. Many military families smiled and looked at Shuangshuang with kind eyes.

Many aunties and children in the front row turned around and looked at Shuangshuang. They thought this little girl was so adorable and she was really into the role!

Shuangshuang noticed that many people were looking at them. They were very confused. They turned their eyes around and asked their mother in a low voice, "Mom, why are they looking at the nest?"

Jian Lu touched the child's head and said, "I think you are amazing. You even reminded the people inside to get out of the way."

"That's right!" Shuangshuang was so proud of herself. She said a few words and suddenly remembered that she couldn't talk and disturb others. She immediately poked her mother's arm and said, "Hey, Mom, you can't talk. We can't disturb them."

Jian Lu: “…”

You are quite good at it.

Nodding, Jian Lu and Shuang Shuang continued watching the movie.

Today, the Women's Federation managed to invite a projectionist and borrow projection equipment, and organized two movie screenings. After the first movie ended, there was a ten-minute intermission.

After holding their breath for a long time, Shuangshuang was finally able to breathe deeply and speak loudly.

Everyone went to the toilet, and Shuangshuang was taken there by her mother. When she came back, she heard everyone discussing the plot of a movie enthusiastically.

She sat on her bench and looked at the people around her who were so happy with big smiles on their faces. She was happy too. It was so much fun. She stepped on the crossbar under the bench and swung her body vigorously. The bench also swayed slightly with her movements.

Phew~ It's so fun~

Wu Xiangchen and a few of his friends were discussing the scene of the fight against the Japanese invaders. They were all very enthusiastic, and when they got excited, the children of the soldiers even ran to the other side to demonstrate.

Wu Xiangchen originally wanted to follow, but out of the corner of his eye he noticed the stool in front of him swaying slightly.

Her hands were swaying and her little body was twisting and turning, making people worry that she would fall off the stool.

Shuangshuang was swaying to the back, this time with greater force, her whole body leaning back. Wu Xiangchen stretched out his hand to support her back, but the little girl was smart and swayed back again.

The next time she swayed back, the amplitude was even greater. Wu Xiangchen watched her suddenly lean back and try to catch it with both hands, but she swayed back again.

Finally, one foot stepped onto the crossbar at the back of the double bench, and the bench, which had been shaking slightly just now, was firmly fixed.

Wu Xiangchen was tired.

Huh?

Shuangshuang kept shaking, why did this stool suddenly stop moving?

Shuangshuang put her hands on the bench and shook and twisted it, but it still didn't move! Shuangshuang looked left and right, her big eyes full of confusion.