Chapter 90

Shuangshuang listened to a familiar voice and looked at a familiar face. Her mind was spinning and suddenly she remembered something. She stood up abruptly and shouted excitedly.

"Brother Chenchen?"

After not seeing each other for four years, Shuangshuang had almost forgotten about this brother. Now that they see him again, memories of their childhood slowly come back.

"You still have some conscience." Wu Xiangchen, who had grown several heads taller, reached out and rubbed Shuangshuang's head. The little girl's hair had grown a lot longer, it was black, shiny and especially soft, and the top of her head was even more fluffy. Now she could have two long braids that hung above her shoulders.

"Hehe." Shuangshuang remembered that Brother Chenchen often gave her delicious food and red envelopes! She remembered it all! "Brother Chenchen, are you home?"

It was not until later that Shuangshuang realized that Brother Chenchen and Uncle Wu, who used to live next door, had left and returned to their hometown and never came back.

At first, she heard brother Dunzi mention brother Chenchen. Later, she went to primary school, brother Dunzi grew up, went to high school, and was often away from home, so they saw each other less and less, and she seldom heard brother Chenchen's name.

When they saw him again today, Shuangshuang found that Brother Chenchen was very tall. She had to look up to see him, as he seemed to be almost as tall as Brother Dunzi.

"Yes, I went back to my hometown." Wu Xiangchen sat on the chair and looked at the little girl Shuangshuang. She had really grown up. When he first left, the girl was only as tall as his thigh.

After flicking her braids, Wu Xiangchen saw that she immediately protected them with both hands, looking very alert. He smiled and asked, "What grade are you in now?"

He raised his hands and waved two fingers, "It's the second year now."

Then he added, "I'm a big kid now, and I'm really good. I got 100 in Chinese and 95 in math."

We both announced the results of our study in the family compound years ago. Now that I see my brother, even though I haven't seen him for a long time, I still can't forget him.

"Why didn't you get two 100s?" Wu Xiangchen asked her back.

Shuangshuang: "..."

Shouldn't you brag about how great you are?

"It's very difficult to get two 100s." Shuangshuang explained to brother Chenchen seriously, "I'm already very good."

Wu Xiangchen raised the corners of his lips slightly, realizing that this little girl was really serious. He pinched her cheeks, which were not as chubby as before. "Okay, you are already very good."

Glancing at the orange candies on the table, Wu Xiangchen teased her, "Can I have a candy?"

There was still one candy left on the table. Shuangshuang looked at the lonely orange candy, then looked at Brother Chenchen who seemed to be very fond of the orange candy, and nodded reluctantly, "You eat it."

Brother Chenchen just came back, so she still has to be generous.

Watching Brother Chenchen holding a small candy in his big hands, he gently peeled off the candy wrapper. The candy wrapper made some rustling sounds, and a frosty yellow transparent orange candy revealed its true form.

Shuangshuang swallowed their saliva. The orange candy was delicious.

Brother Chenchen pinched the candy between two fingers and slowly brought it to his mouth. He opened his thin lips slightly and stared at her. As she was about to put the candy into her mouth, she also opened her mouth slightly. Oh, I want to eat it so much.

The next second, before Shuangshuang could see clearly, she felt a hand coming quickly in front of her, and then something cool was pressed against her little mouth.

"Open your mouth."

They opened their mouths obediently and felt a round and soft object entering their mouths. They took a sip and it was sweet!

When I looked over again, the candy in Brother Chenchen's hand was gone.

They squinted their eyes due to the sweetness, and their eyebrows were curved like the moon.

"Silly girl." Wu Xiangchen rubbed her furry head again, thinking that Shuangshuang was the cutest sister in the world. "How can I, your brother Chenchen, snatch candy from you?"

"Well..." Shuangshuang smiled even sweeter, "Brother Chenchen is the best!"

"Why? Your brother Chenchen is the best because he just came back?" Dunzi strode into the room. "Isn't it brother Dunzi who is the best? The candy and cake were given to you by me. What does it have to do with your brother Chenchen?"

Both of them were confused. Hey, who is better?

"Hahahahahaha." Dunzi also touched Shuangshuang's little head. His sister was so silly and cute.

They turned to look at Wu Xiangchen, and several of them had excited expressions on their faces, and they bumped into him when they stepped forward.

Several young men of similar age were hugging each other excitedly.

"You still remember to come back and see us!"

"You traitor, you've been gone for four years and you haven't come back. We told you that if you don't come back, we'll kick you out of our Tiger Force!"

Tiger Force, the name this group of kids used every time they went into battle, basically following the roles they were assigned when they were kids.

"I came back to see you." Wu Xiangchen arrived on the island with his father this afternoon. Wu Feng was coming back to visit an old friend, and he finally made some time to take his son on a two-day green train trip.

"I am still your Chief of Staff Wu." Wu Xiangchen has been gone for several years, but the ones he misses most in his heart are his childhood friends.

"Tsk." Dunzi couldn't hide the smile on his face, but his words were rude, "I'm Political Commissar Liang, please move aside."

Heng Heng patted his chest and said, "I, Captain Xu, haven't said anything yet."

Dong Dong came over, and when Zhang wanted to say that he was the company commander, he was pushed away by the other three people, saying, "You are not qualified to be the company commander."

"Hey, on what basis?!" Dongdong felt so wronged. He was young and ignorant back then, and didn't get any good roles. As a result, he had been playing the role of company commander all the time, and hadn't been promoted for so many years.

Shuangshuang watched his brothers pushing and shoving each other, and ran over, with his hands on his hips, looking very proud, "But I'm the leader!"

Several people looked down at Shuangshuang and laughed, "Okay, you are the leader and you are the best."

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Wu Feng brought Wu Xiangchen back to stay for a few days and moved directly into Liang Haisheng's house. The Liang family was small, and the house where Wu Xiangchen lived in the past is still there.

Liang Haisheng almost regarded Wu Xiangchen as his half son. After not seeing him for a few years, he patted Wu Xiangchen's shoulder again and pinched his arm to look at him. "Good boy, you have grown stronger."

Wu Xiangchen smiled and said, "Uncle Wu, he is about the same as Dunzi."

"It's taller than a pier."

Dunzi was not convinced. He looked with his naked eyes and saw that he was almost the same height as Wu Xiangchen!

Several old comrades got together again and had a drink. The Liang family set up two tables of food, one for adults and one for children.

"Old Wu, look at you now. You are really different from when you were in the army, Deputy Director!" Liang Haisheng slapped Wu Feng on the back.

"Well, there's no difference. It's all the same. But now there's an advantage. I can stay at home all the time."

Xu Lang knew that he had not had an easy life before, "It's fine as long as you two live a good life now."

"It's pretty good. Chenchen is studying in the middle school run by the factory now, and he gets along well with the kids there."

Cheng Zheng and Wu Feng clinked their glasses and asked, "What are you mainly doing in the factory now?"

Wu Feng spoke eloquently, and it was obvious that he was very concerned about his current job.

......

Wu Xiangchen watched his father talking to several uncles, while he was comparing his height with Dunzi on the other side.

Although he was one year younger than Dunzi, he grew taller faster. When he first walked, he was a little shorter than Dunzi, but after a few years, he had surpassed him.

Dunzi was not convinced and felt that something was wrong, so he shouted that both of them should take off their shoes and neither of them could stand on tiptoes to compete again.

Hengheng and Dongdong were excited and acted as referees. "Come on, let us show you."

The two took off their cloth shoes and stood barefoot on the ground, back to back. Each of them tried to straighten their backs, and it seemed that their hair was trying to curl up.

"Let me see..." Hengheng stretched out his hand and pressed down. Chenchen was indeed a little taller than Dunzi. "Chenchen is taller."

"Xu Chaoheng, did you see clearly?" Dunzi was unwilling to accept it. How could he be shorter than Wu Xiangchen? He was the elder brother! "Try to compare again!"

Seeing that Dunzi was not giving up, Hengheng still stretched out his hand for the two of them to gesture. As they gestured, the two of them came closer.

The little girl stood next to Brother Chenchen, straightened her back, and looked at Brother Hengheng with a smile, "Brother Hengheng, do you think I'm tall?"

Hengheng looked over and saw that Dunzi was about the same height as Chenchen. He looked down and down and down again and saw a little girl standing there. She was trying hard to stand on tiptoe and stretch her neck, trying to compare her height with her two brothers.

"Come on, come on, I declare that Shuangshuang is the tallest." Hengheng picked up Shuangshuang and lifted her directly into the air. In an instant, she was taller than Dunzi and Chenchen.

"Woo woo~" Shuangshuang realized that she had become so tall, taller than her two brothers and was even more excited, "I'm the tallest!"

After finishing her meal, Jian Lu listened to the giggling of her lady and curled the corners of her lips unconsciously.

It’s better to be a child, without any worries.

In the compound, the families had a more lively New Year because Wu Feng and his son came back to visit.

It’s the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and there are only six days left before Jian Lu returns to school. The closer it gets to the end of winter vacation, the more reluctant she becomes, and the last few days seem to pass by very quickly.

Cheng Zheng originally wanted to cherish the last few days before his wife returned to school, so he took advantage of the time to finish his work and wanted to make time to spend more time with his wife.

But I never expected that my wife is even busier than me!

At first, a group of children asked her to take them to the beach to play.

After lunch, while the weather was not too cold, Jian Lu took her daughter to the beach to play, along with a group of children from the yard.

The beach in winter is obviously much quieter, lacking the brightness and splendor of summer. It has a tranquility and silence unique to winter. Even the sea water seems to be hibernating, flowing quietly with a silver-grey hue.

A group of children were picking up shells, playing with sand, and building some weapons and fortifications on the beach, ready to fight at any time.

Jian Lu really didn’t understand why these kids loved fighting so much. Maybe this was the gene of children of military personnel?

Shuangshuang sat down on the ground, not caring whether they were covered in mud or sand, and happily dug for shells. All ten fingers were covered in sand, and even the sand had seeped into the gaps between their nails.

"Wow, so beautiful!" Shuangshuang dug out a yellow shell, carefully scraped off the sand attached to it, admired it carefully, and put it into his own small bucket.

"Shuangshuang, how much have you picked up?" Juanjuan leaned over and saw three shells in her hand.

Shuangshuang said proudly, "Five."

Lu Qing was also there. She picked up four. Since coming to the island, she has been happy every day. This place is different from the communes in the countryside. No one looks down on her family background, and no one laughs at her. On the contrary, there are many delicious and fun things to do.

"Then we can use fishing nets to string these shells together, just like your mother did." Lu Qing had seen the shells strung together by Aunt Lulu, and they were very beautiful.

They both nodded, "Okay! Then we have to pick up more, these are not enough."

Just as he finished speaking, a handful of shells suddenly fell into the small bucket that they were holding with a clang. The sound of the shells colliding with the iron bucket was particularly pleasant.

Shuangshuang looked into the bucket and saw, wow, there were more than ten or twenty shells, colorful and beautiful.

When she looked up again, Shuangshuang saw that the brother Dunzi who had thrown the shell to her had run away again. He just turned back and said to her, "Take it yourself."

Shuangshuang likes shells and she likes to pick them up every time she comes to the beach. Her brothers all know this and they picked some up when they were talking at the beach just now and gave them all to her.

The two excitedly showed the shells to Sister Qingqing and Juanjuan, "That's enough! That's enough now!"

"Chenchen, are you really going to join the army?" Dunzi looked at the boundless sea, which seemed to be able to calm people's hearts.

"Yeah." Wu Xiangchen also looked into the distance, unable to see the end. "My dad has retired from the army. I'm going."

"Then I don't want to go. You should just serve in the army well. If my father wants to have a son who serves in the army in the future, let him adopt you as his godson. This way he will have face." Dunzi thought that this method was good as it would achieve the goal of both.

After that, Dunzi looked at Hengheng again, "Hengheng wants to go to college, Dongdong... Dongdong knows nothing, he hasn't thought anything through."

Dong Dong choked up, "There are only a few options for me, either study or join the army, what else can I do? Otherwise, I can see if I can get a job in a factory as a worker."

"Tsk." Dunzi thought this man had no future. "If you want to be a factory manager, you should dream of being a factory manager. Why do you only dream of being a worker?"

Dongdong thinks Dunzi is too arrogant! Is it possible for just anyone to become a factory director?

A group of children were picking up shells, a group of older children were already thinking about the future, and the adults were just relaxing and enjoying their leisure time.

"Lulu, are you going back to school?" Cheng Hehua glanced at the girl Juanjuan next to her from time to time, and felt relieved to see that she was having fun.

"Well, he'll be gone in a few days."

"Hey, it's not easy for you to come back now, so you have more time during the winter and summer vacations." Feng Xiuhui has been a little sad since Jian Lu went to school, as she has one less person to talk to.

"You know what, I'm already looking forward to summer vacation." Winter vacation hasn't ended yet, but I'm already looking forward to summer vacation. This is probably what students are like.

"Then let's knit together in a couple of days, since you're still here!"

"Okay, I have to learn from you guys again. I almost forgot it."

......

Today is a rare warm sunny day in winter, and many people went swimming in the winter. There were some figures with arms moving in the shallow water.

After playing with the shells for a while, Shuangshuang ran to find his parents and said, "I want to swim, too."

There is no child who grows up by the sea who can't swim. Even Shuangshuang has learned to swim since childhood. Now he is seven years old and can swim well. Especially in the summer, he likes to play in the shallow water.

However, the adults at home have a rule that we must go into the water under their supervision.

Shuangshuang originally wanted to go swimming in the winter, but her parents disagreed, saying that the water was too cold and she, a child, couldn't stand it.

Because of this, Shuangshuang pouted her little mouth again.

She got even angrier when she saw the older brothers were allowed to go swimming.

"The water is too cold now. Let's wait until the weather warms up."

"Mom, but Brother Dunzi and the others are going swimming too." Shuangshuang looked at a group of people splashing in the shallow water, among whom were several of her brothers.

Cheng Zheng made up an excuse, "Your brother Dunzi and his friends are thick-skinned and not afraid of freezing, but you are different."

Shuangshuang: "..."

"Really? Brother Dunzi, do they have thick skin?" Both thumbs and index fingers pinched the skin of their arms, eh, it hurts.

Look at them again, oh, forget it, I am not thick-skinned enough and will be frozen to death!

"Then I'll go watch them swim!"

Shuangshuang was about to run away, and Jian Lu was about to stop her when she saw Lu Qing following them. The girl, who was in her teens, was quite mature and stable. Jian Lu always felt sorry for this girl, as she had suffered a lot in the past few years. Perhaps that was why she was much more stable than other girls of the same age.

"Aunt Lulu, I'll take care of Shuangshuang, don't worry."

"Okay, thank you for your help."

Jian Lu looked at Lu Qinghe and walked hand in hand on the beach far away in the shallow water, but she felt relieved when she saw that they did not go over.

"Dunzi and the others are really happy. They are different now that Chenchen is back." Cheng Zheng knew that these kids had a good relationship.

"That's not the case. When Chenchen left, Dunzi and the others were very bored for a while and didn't even want to play."

Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng were standing by the sea and talking, glancing at the lady from time to time. Not long after, they saw the lady running towards them in a hurry.

After running all the way and panting, they rushed to their mother's side and kissed each other with tongues, "Mom...Mom..."

"What's wrong? Why are you so anxious?"

"Water, it fell into the water."

"Who fell into the water?" Jian Lu immediately had a bad guess in her mind, "Someone fell into the water?"

Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng both looked into the distance and found that the group of children in the shallow water area had disappeared.

"Where are the people?"

"What happened to your brother Dunzi and the others?" Cheng Zheng strode over there.

"No...someone said someone fell into the water, so brother Dunzi and the others went over and jumped into the water as well." Shuangshuang was so anxious that she blurted out words one by one.

Lu Qing arrived shortly after and finally explained the situation clearly, "Uncle Cheng, Aunt Lulu, just now everyone was saying that someone jumped into the sea, and then... Dunzi and the others immediately swam over. I wonder how they are doing now!"

Thinking of that scene, Lu Qing still felt a little scared. She hadn't lived on the island for the past ten years and had never been able to swim. She was really scared when she saw someone splashing in the sea.

Just now Dunzi and Chenchen swam the fastest and went to rescue people.

"I'll go take a look!" Cheng Zheng said with a serious face, striding towards where the crowd was gathered.

Jian Lu was worried, but since the two children were here, she could only ask her mother-in-law to take them away because the children were timid.

"Mom, just look after them. Don't go over there. I'll go take a look."

"Okay." Aunt Wang looked at the two children and told her to go ahead without worry.

While jogging, through the gaps in the crowd, Jian Lu saw a female comrade lying on the beach. Her face was blue and her lips were purple, and it was obvious that she had fallen into the water.

Next to her were Dunzi and Chenchen, who were the first to discover her and worked with several fishermen to rescue her. They were both extremely exhausted and sat paralyzed on the beach, gasping for breath.

"It's over, it's over, is he dead?"

The fishermen nearby had their stomachs pressed and water squeezed out. They go out to sea all year round and have seen this kind of situation many times, but they still did not move.

"I'm afraid she can't be saved. How did she fall into the water?"

"I saw her walk in by herself!"

"Ah? You don't want to live anymore?"

Jian Lu was anxious, worried that someone was in danger, so she immediately squeezed through the crowded crowd and shouted, "Let me try!"

Worried that others would not believe him, he quickly brought out the excuse from college, "I learned first aid knowledge in college."

Upon hearing this, everyone reacted immediately and felt hopeful, thinking that there must be no problem with the university's teaching.

Jian Lu had learned first aid in her previous life and even passed the first aid certificate exam, so her movements were still familiar to her. Fortunately, the woman was rescued soon after she fell into the water. After some first aid, she finally came out of the water and gradually regained consciousness.

"Ouch, it's alive!"

“I’m really awake!”

“University teaching is different.”

Everyone was whispering to each other. Jian Lu was trying to calm the female comrade who had fallen into the water when she heard a wailing sound not far away.

"My Yufeng! Why are you so pessimistic?"

A couple who looked to be in their sixties rushed over and started crying while hugging the woman who had just woken up.

Jian Lu was worried that there might be something wrong with her health. "Grandpa and Mama, it's best to send her to the hospital for a checkup. Don't let her develop any underlying illness."

"Okay, okay! Thank you!"

A group of people came to help carry the man away. Jian Lu was busy for a while and her hands were still shaking. After all, it was just a life and luckily he was saved.

Cheng Zheng was watching from the side. The fisherman did not respond when he tried to rescue the man. He was about to speak when his wife spoke first. He did not expect that the first aid knowledge taught in the university was so useful. Cheng Zheng thought, "Teach me the first aid knowledge you just taught me, and I will practice it with the soldiers later."

"Okay." Jian Lu looked at the direction where everyone was leaving, "Does that person really not want to live anymore and wants to jump into the sea?"

Next to them, Dunzi and Chenchen, who finally breathed a sigh of relief, spoke.

"Yes, we were swimming when we saw the man walking into the sea by himself."

Lu Qing muttered, "Why doesn't she want to live?"

At this time, someone who was still watching the excitement had not left and interrupted the discussion, saying, "Her husband must have run away and she doesn't want to live anymore."

"Who is her man?"

"An educated youth sneaked away a few days ago, saying that his family had arranged a job for him and he could return to the city. He didn't even want his wife anymore! How pitiful he is."

The educated youth returned to the city? Jian Lu thought that this seemed to be the peak period for the educated youth to return to the city.

"Luckily you two kids have sharp eyes, otherwise if there were a few more waves, this guy would definitely be gone."

Cheng Zheng patted the two children on the shoulders, all wet, and said, "Good boys, you two should go back and take a good bath and rest."

People who had just witnessed a big event went back to their homes after talking about it. Jian Lu felt a little depressed seeing that some people had just been to the gates of hell, so she told Dunzi and Chenchen to go back quickly to take a shower and rest, and then she held their hands and walked back.

Dunzi and Chenchen walked towards Liang's house on the wet footprints. They had just competed in holding their breath for two rounds in the shallow water, and they won and lost. When they were about to compete in the third round, they realized something was wrong and hurried to rescue people. Fortunately, there were a few fishermen on the shore, and they worked together to rescue the people. At this time, Dunzi spoke.

"We'll compete again next time."

"become."

Liang Haisheng and his wife and Wu Feng heard about their sons helping to rescue people, and hurried them to take a shower.

"You two are good swimmers. Saving lives is a good deed." Feng Xiuhui made two bowls of ginger soup for the children, the way the older generation does it, because she was worried that they would be too tired from the trip.

"Mom, that's right. Look at where we grew up." Dunzi was very proud. Although he was not very old, he had been swimming for almost ten years and was very good at swimming.

"Don't be mean, do you really think you can create whatever you want in the sea?"

Chenchen picked up the bowl and drank the ginger soup in one gulp, "Aunt Xiuhui, Dunzi is just a tie with me."

"Bullshit, I'm better than you!"

The two had a quarrel, cleaned up, had dinner, and went out to play with the adults at home.

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After Cheng Zheng's family had dinner, they packed up and went out to take a walk in the yard to help digest the food.

Shuangshuang asked their dad to lift them up and fly, and then ran around on the ground, having a lot of fun.

Jian Lu was watching from the side. People in the family compound were still talking about someone jumping into the sea in the afternoon. After all, such a thing involved human life and could not be taken lightly.

As they were talking, Mrs. Liu came back hurriedly from the yard.

"Mrs. Liu, have you eaten? Why are you in such a hurry?" Cui Yuhe asked.

Mrs. Liu seemed to have come back from outside in a hurry. When she saw everyone, she became excited and asked, "Did you hear about it?"

After she said this, several people looked at her. It was obvious that something was wrong.

"What did you hear?"

"Someone jumped into the sea outside!"

"Oh, I know!"

"Dunzi and Chenchen were the first to discover it!"

"Oh, you all know about it? I heard about it on my way back from the county town, so I went to take a look. I just caught up with him as he was coming out of the hospital."

"How are people now?"

"Luckily they were found early and rescued! They are fine now. They said they were scared after being rescued. How scary!" Mrs. Liu would brag about Dunzi and Chenchen until they felt embarrassed.

"Mrs. Liu, do you know what's going on? Why are people jumping into the sea? Is it really because of the educated youth?"

"That's not true!" Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh and said angrily, "It is said that the girl was a member of the commune. Two years ago, she married an educated youth who went to the countryside. Recently, the policy for educated youth to return to the city was relaxed, so the educated youth left, leaving the family orphans and widows. The girl didn't think about it for a while, so she went to the sea."

"Oh, how could this be so sinful?"

"So the educated youth ran away? Isn't this a good deal for him? Didn't he say he couldn't go back after getting married?"

Everyone has heard that the policy for educated youth returning to the city has been relaxed a lot in the past year or so. As long as they are not married to local people, they can return to the city if they find a unit in the city to accept their household registration. However, it is different for married people, and they cannot leave.

Of course, there are also many people who get divorced and return to the city.

"They didn't get a marriage certificate. They just set up two tables of wedding banquets in the countryside. How could people in the city know about it? You can just run away like that. You have no conscience!

However, I listened for a while and heard that the commune secretary wanted to make a decision for him and called to inquire about the situation. How could he just leave like that and not care about his own daughter-in-law and children? This is not how people behave!"

Jian Lu listened and sighed, the problem of educated youth was not just one incident, there were simply countless of them.

However, this incident inexplicably caused some parents in the community to start nagging their children not to go into the sea casually, as they were worried that their children would fall into the water and not be able to get out.

Holding grandma's hand, Shuangshuang listened to the idea of ​​going into the water and nodded seriously, "I won't go in casually. I have thin skin and can't stand the cold."

Dunzi was amused when he heard this, "Shuangshuang, why are you so thin-skinned?"

"Yes." Shuangshuang raised her head, "Brother Dunzi, you have a thick skin! You can resist freezing!"

Dunzi: "..."

Chenchen laughed twice and slapped Dunzi on the shoulder, "Shuangshuang has good taste, your brother Dunzi is thick-skinned!"

Dunzi glanced at Bai Chenchen and heard Shuangshuang speak again.

"Brother Chenchen, you are also thick-skinned." This is what Dad said, and Shuangshuang remembers it clearly.

“Hahahahahahahaha.” Dunzi laughed even louder and gave Shuangshuang a thumbs up, “You’re right!”

"Both!"

Juanjuan and Luqing walked hand in hand to the other end of the courtyard and heard everyone discussing swimming.

Juanjuan immediately became proud, "I'm also good at swimming."

The children who grew up on this island are more confident than each other and all of them can swim, except Lu Qing.

Dunzi saw that Lu Qing hadn't said anything, so he rolled his eyes and asked, "Lu Qing, don't you know how to swim?"

Lu Qing blushed. What was so strange about her not being able to swim? She was only a little girl when she was sent down with her mother, and she hadn't been back for long.

Shuangshuang was even more shocked when she heard this, "Sister Qingqing, can't you swim?"

Shuangshuang, who had been a good swimmer since childhood, was excited and said, "I'll teach you!"

"No! I don't want to learn." Lu Qing shook her head. Looking at Dunzi like that, she didn't want to learn even more, otherwise this guy might make fun of her.

"Ah?" Shuangshuang didn't quite understand why someone didn't like swimming, but she squeezed Qingqing's hand and said, "If you want to learn swimming in the future, come find me. I'm very good."

Dunzi smiled. He still remembered the time when this person bandaged his wound. "She probably thinks she can't learn it and can't compare to a kid like you."

Lu Qing raised his head slightly and glared at him, "Just learn it!"

Wow!

Dunzi raised his chin and said, "Let's go!"

He wants to see if this person can learn it.

When several adults heard that this group of children wanted to teach Lu Qing how to swim, they hurriedly stopped them.

"Why are we learning swimming in the middle of winter? Do you want Qingqing to be frozen when she learns to swim for the first time?" Jian Lu looked at the group of children, of different heights, all of whom were youthful and unrestrained, and even swimming was like a big deal.

"Then wait until summer comes, it won't be so cold then."

"Okay." Shuangshuang felt a little regretful. She wanted to be a little teacher again. "Sister Qingqing, you should ask me to teach you, not Brother Dunzi."

Lu Qing agreed. How could she ask Dunzi to teach her?

"Tsk, I don't want to teach her~" Dunzi rolled his eyes.

Wu Xiangchen looked around and thought that Dunzi was actually angry with a girl, so he asked him in confusion, "What's wrong with you? Do you have a grudge against a girl?"

Dunzi finally had a place to vent his grievances. "You don't know, this person is very sinister. She said bad things about me to Shuangshuang behind my back. Luckily, I have watched Shuangshuang grow up. Let's not talk about other things. The relationship between brother and sister will not be provoked by this person. But, tell me, is she going too far?"

Wu Xiangchen: “…?”

"Is that all?" Oh, so childish!

"Is this a small matter?"

Wu Xiangchen pulled the braid of the little girl in front of him, and watched Shuangshuang turn around and look at him with dissatisfaction.

"Brother Chenchen! You pulled my braid again!" Shuangshuang was determined to protect her braid. She punched Wu Xiangchen's thigh, but it was powerless, as if it was itchy. "You are so annoying! I want to end my friendship with you!"

Breaking off a friendship is a big deal, and both of them were very angry.

"Okay, I was wrong!" Wu Xiangchen pulled the corner of his mouth and surrendered immediately. He took out a candy from his pocket, peeled off the candy wrapper and fed it to Shuangshuang, "Do you want to eat it?"

"Eat!" Shuangshuang's expression changed instantly, her little face relaxed, she opened her mouth with an "ah", and smiled again while eating the sweet candy.

"Let me ask you, if one day your brother Dunzi and your sister fell into the water, and neither of them could swim, who would you save first?"

Dunzi: "..."

Lu Qing: "..."

Shuangshuang had never heard such a question before, and there was confusion and puzzlement in her eyes.

"But Brother Dunzi knows how to swim, and Qingqing also wants to learn how to swim."

"What if it doesn't?"

"There's no if." Shuangshuang chewed the candy until her cheeks bulged.

Dunzi immediately felt the desire to win and changed the subject, "Then if I fight with your brother Chenchen, who will you help?"

This question is reasonable.

Shuangshuang frowned, what kind of problem is this? "Then I have to walk farther away, otherwise you will hit me!"

Dunzi & Chenchen: "..."

The two wanted to ask more, but Shuangshuang didn't want to listen. What a disgusting question. She ran to her parents and grabbed one with each hand.

"What? You ran away because of the question?" Cheng Zheng heard what the kids said. Isn't this making things difficult for the young lady? These people are really, what are they thinking!

"Hmm!" They stomped their feet, "How disgusting!"

......

A few days passed in a flash, and Wu Feng and Wu Xiangchen stayed on the island for five days and prepared to leave by ferry.

This time, when everyone was seeing him off, there was less sadness. Instead, they were joking and asking Wu Xiangchen not to go with his father and to stay a few more days by himself.

Liang Haisheng patted his son and looked at Wu Xiangchen, "Chenchen, let your dad go back alone, and you can play with Dunzi and the others for a few more days, then Uncle Liang will send you off."

Wu Xiangchen knew that Uncle Liang was joking, so he agreed directly, "Okay, Uncle Liang, I'll stay at your house for a few more days."

"Eat as much as you want! You guys combined don't eat as much as I do!"

Everyone laughed a few times and told the father and son to be careful on the road.

Cheng Zheng was holding Shuangshuang and asked her to wave goodbye to Uncle Wu and Brother Chenchen.

Shuangshuang was puzzled as to why Brother Chenchen and the others were leaving so soon, but they still waved obediently, "Goodbye Uncle Wu, goodbye Brother Chenchen."

Wu Xiangchen looked at everyone and felt reluctant to leave. He went back to school in a new place and made new friends and classmates, but these childhood friends would always occupy a more important position in his life.

The pair of little hands waved the hardest, almost creating double images.

Chenchen looked at Shuangshuang, opened his hands, and teased her, "Shuangshuang, come on, go out and play with us, okay?"

Shuangshuang immediately withdrew her hands and hugged her father tightly, her head almost shaking like a toad. She knew that brother Chenchen's home was far away. "No~ I want to stay at home."

Seeing this, Xu Lang laughed out loud, "Shuangshuang really misses home, you can't coax them away!"

"That's right!" Dunzi touched Shuangshuang's hair, "Your brother Chenchen's house is not fun, why don't you come to my house to play?"

"Okay!" Shuangshuang cutely went to play at the house of brother Dunzi next door.

Everyone laughed when they saw them. Everyone liked to tease children and thought they were very clever.

Wu Xiangchen withdrew his hand, looked at everyone, then said goodbye and left.

As the ferry sailed further away, Wu Xiangchen looked at his friends on the shore with a look of nostalgia in his eyes. He then looked at his old father, who had white hair on his temples, and said, "Dad, why don't you find a companion? I'm too old now."

He is no longer the kid who gets bullied.

Wu Feng shook his head, "You little brat, why are you still worrying about me? Just prepare well for the military academy entrance exam. Since you have decided to join the army, don't embarrass me. Otherwise, I will be embarrassed if others tell others about it in the future."

Wu Xiangchen pursed his lips and nodded, "I know."

——

After seeing off Wu Feng and his son, Jian Lu was busy giving Dunzi and the others tutoring to prepare for the college entrance examination.

From time to time, I would go to the supply and marketing cooperative or department store with my sisters-in-law Xiuhui, Yuhe, and Chenghehua to buy things, and go with my mother-in-law to buy cloth and discuss making clothes. My daily schedule was full.

In the blink of an eye, a few days later, Jian Lu would also leave home and return to school.

Cheng Zheng sensed something was wrong. Although his wife was on winter vacation, why didn't he take up much of her time?

She was very busy every day. Either this neighbor or that sister-in-law was looking for her, and she also had to give tutoring to Dunzi and Hengheng. A group of children also liked to learn how to make snacks from her, snacks that were both beautiful and delicious. It was not easy to have some free time, so Cheng Zheng spoke.

"You're leaving soon, so you have to spend time with...Shuangshuang." Cheng Zheng swallowed the original me back and replaced it with the lady.

Jian Lu knew what he was thinking, so she smiled and sat on the sofa, leaning on his shoulder, "Shuangshuang has already gone out to play, it seems that they don't need me as a mother to accompany them."

During the holiday, Shuangshuang is like a wild horse that has broken free from its reins, playing outside every day.

Cheng Zheng curled his lips and smiled, "Then you can accompany Shuangshuang's father."

Before Jian Lu could say a word of praise, someone else came to the house. It was Cai Xiujuan, carrying a package.

Cheng Zheng: "..."

These people are not done yet!