Chapter 84: Wen Chun Changing Teeth
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were walking around in the utility room.
Wen Chun reached out and pulled the thatched curtain, then leaned on the windowsill to look out at the green hills and lake in the distance. Wen Xuan pulled out the drawer and pushed it in again, pulling and pushing, not knowing what fun it was.
"My drawers are full." Wen Xuan turned to Wen Jiajia who was making the bed and said, and then smiled at Wei Dai who came into the room with a quilt that had just been dried, "Uncle-in-law, can you make me a desk?"
Wei Dai didn't answer, so Wen Jiajia spoke up: "Even if I give you ten desks, they should be full."
Wen Xuan loves picking up stones and brings back a basket of pebbles from the river every year.
Wen Jiajia let her do what she wanted at first, but who knew that her hobby was "sustainable"? Every summer, she would bring back three or four baskets of pebbles. That would have been fine, but every now and then, she would bring some big stones home, which made the mild-tempered Wen Chun very angry, and he gave his sister a good lecture.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia used her pebbles to tidy up the yard some time ago, and she used at least four-fifths of them. She only kept her favorite ones, and finally cleared out a lot of her stock, and Wen Chun was no longer angry.
Wen Xuan pouted: "No way. And I only need one, I can use it to put books."
At this point, she paused and suddenly asked, "Aunt, when do we go to school?"
Wen Jiajia laid out the straw mat and placed the straw mat on top of it: "You can start tomorrow. Don't go to the Yuhong class tomorrow. Just go directly to the primary school."
There is no need for parents to accompany them. The Yuhong class is adjacent to the primary school. Sometimes the primary school teachers will go to the Yuhong class to help look after the children. They know the children in the Yuhong class very well and naturally know whose children Wen Chun and Wen Xuan are.
In fact, school should have started at the beginning of the month, but who knew that there would be continuous heavy rains in late August. The wall of the elementary school classroom suddenly cracked in half, and the room instantly became a dangerous building. Fortunately, it was a holiday at that time, otherwise something would have happened.
Many people in the army's logistics department were criticized for this. Fortunately, the classroom was demolished and rebuilt from late August to late September, and was completed two days ago.
Wen Jiajia once again felt the ease of education at this time. It turned out that the start date of school could be postponed.
In the evening, the thin quilt that had been exposed to the sun all afternoon was brought in and laid out, and the room was tidied up.
The lights were turned on and the room looked particularly warm.
Wen Jiajia walked around the room, checked to make sure nothing was missing, and then left the room and closed the door.
The next day was the first day of school for the two children.
Wen Jiajia braided their hair into ponytails, and the two of them went to school with their new backpacks and ponytails swinging.
"Do you have anything to do this morning?" Wen Jiajia asked Wei Dai.
Wei Dai shook his head and got in the car: "It's okay, come in, I'll take you there."
Wen Jiajia smiled. She put her bag on the front basket of the bicycle, locked the door and got on the back seat.
As the months went by, Wei Dai would take her to work as long as he had nothing to do in the morning.
On the way.
Wei Dai said to Wen Jiajia, "Li Sunming came to ask me yesterday whether you and his wife are related."
Wen Jiajia poked him on the back: "What's your reply?"
"I said I didn't know, and that you didn't grow up at home, and when you returned home, everyone in your family had died."
Wen Jiajia understood. They had never been in contact, and even if they were relatives, they became much more distant after the death of the previous generation.
Wei Dai added: "I think he hasn't told his wife about this yet. The name of the mother-in-law is very common, almost in every commune. I guess he is not sure either."
That's right, how can we be sure if there is only a name but no photo? Wen Jiajia didn't think much about it. She took a nonchalant attitude towards the matter, and didn't care whether he admitted it or not.
At exactly eight o'clock, Wei Dai sent her to the factory.
She has been a little busy recently, and she didn't have time to talk to Lin Yunfei when she came to talk to her. Instead, she asked Lin Yunfei to help her organize the information.
There was no other way. After Director Gao left, her job fell into her hands and she had to grit her teeth and do it.
Fortunately, she is not a bald commander and has soldiers under her. Those errands that require running around are taken care of by others, so she is mostly just tired and has a swollen head.
Just when Wen Jiajia was thankful that she didn't have to run around, someone knocked on the office door: "Team leader, the director just called and said that the batch of goods will arrive around 11 o'clock today."
Wen Jiajia covered her forehead with her hands and almost forgot about the goods.
She thought about it and said, "Go ahead and reserve the car. We'll set out at 11 o'clock."
After saying that, he looked at his watch and thought, don't wait until eleven o'clock, it's already ten fifty.
Hearing Jiajia sigh, she went to the toilet first, and then called a boy to go with her.
They took the factory car to the train station, and after more than ten minutes, the batch of machines was unloaded smoothly. Wen Jiajia carefully touched it once, checked it again, and then checked the parts of each part, and then asked the driver and two boys to load it into the car together.
It was quite heavy, and even three grown men couldn't lift it, so they had to get help from people at the train station.
Not only were they heavy, but there were also a lot of things, so the truck had to make three trips back and forth to transport all the machines back to the factory.
As for installation, that was not her business.
Wen Jiajia was extremely hungry at the moment. She didn't have time to go to the cafeteria, and there wasn't much food for her to eat, so she got off the bus and went to the state-owned hotel.
"Jia Jia, you haven't been to the restaurant much lately." Lan Lan was wiping the table. "Oh, you must be very hungry. Your lips are all white."
Wen Jiajia waved her hands: "Don't say anything, give me a bowl of egg soup first."
"Okay, come sit down." Lan Lan shouted to the kitchen, "Uncle He, Jia Jia is here, make her a bowl of egg soup first."
"Do you want lean meat?" Master He asked.
Wen Jiajia said weakly, "Yes."
The egg and lean meat soup is ready quickly and is served in a rice bowl. The portion is not much.
However, the egg soup made by Chef He is delicious. The soup is made with fragrant rice soup. The beaten eggs are extremely smooth when poured into the rice soup. Add the lean meat wrapped in sweet potato flour, and the taste is very good.
After drinking half a bowl of egg soup, Wen Jiajia felt like she was reborn.
"Are you that hungry?" Lan Lan stared at her belly curiously. "It seems that you get hungry easily after having a child. Sha Yue was the same before."
Wen Jiajia began to look at today's menu on the wall: "Isn't it? I am almost catching up with Wei Dai in terms of what I eat every day. I had breakfast at around six this morning and didn't eat anything until just now. I almost passed out from hunger."
After that, he pointed at the wall and asked Lanlan: "Hey, do you have any pork head meat left?"
Lan Lan whispered, "No one else is here, so I'll secretly squeeze some for you. Anyway, it's reserved by someone else, some director or bureau chief... It's better to give it to you than to them."
Wen Jiajia was delighted: "Not too much, just one serving!"
"What are you thinking about? I can't give you more." Lan Lan threw the rag back to the kitchen.
Chef He turned the fire back on and cut the blanched pork head into slices and stir-fried it with garlic sprouts and green peppers.
He knew Wen Jiajia's taste well, so he added some of his own chili sauce and garlic sauce. The smell was so fragrant that people passing by the door couldn't help but stop and breathe in.
The dish is ready. Serve it with the rice.
Wen Jiajia didn't order any other dishes. She just poured the vegetables into the rice and ate it as a topping.
The dish is full of garlic flavor and spicy taste. Chef He is really good at cooking.
After dinner she didn't stay to talk to Lanlan. There was no other way as she had other things to do at the factory.
She returned to the factory and handed over the machines to the people in the workshop. She didn't leave until the machines were installed.
Then she had to go to a meeting. There was a small meeting today, and since Director Gao was not there, she had to go on her behalf. Director Shen was ruthless when it came to disciplining people, and he had very high requirements for the factory. Every time there was a small meeting on Monday, Director Gao was as nervous as if he was going to die, and he wished he could push Wen Jiajia to help her.
Not only Director Gao, but other leaders were like this. They were listless, their feet were weak when they stepped on the stairs, and they no longer had a proper smile on their faces. Wen Jiajia had already walked to the second floor, but they were still chatting on the first floor stairs, which was actually just delaying the time to enter the conference room, treating Director Shen as a scourge.
Wen Jiajia would not be like that. No matter who Director Shen scolded, it would not be her. She was just a small fry and all she needed to do was record the content of the meeting and give it to Director Gao.
Song Jiacheng is the deputy factory director after all. He wouldn't lie there at the stairwell and jog up with documents under his arm.
When he saw Wen Jiajia, he greeted her: "Comrade Wen, your belly is quite big. It looks like you're going to give birth by the end of the year?" His wife had given birth to four children, so she could tell how many months pregnant Wen Jiajia was at a glance.
Wen Jiajia nodded: "Yes."
Song Jiacheng smiled and said, "Okay, remember to give me a red egg when the time comes."
Wen Jiajia was a little confused, but still agreed.
The meeting was over in more than half an hour, but it was full of useful information. After more than half an hour, Wen Jiajia's hands were almost broken from writing. In the end, she wrote five full pages.
After writing it, I sorted it out, copied it once, and put it in the drawer, waiting to give it to Director Gao when she came back.
The sky gradually darkened and the changing colors of the sunset could be seen through the window.
The city was beneath the sunset glow, and the black smoke rising from the chemical plant slowly dissipated in the sky.
Wen Jiajia often worried that the black smoke was poisonous, but since the city government was nearby...she didn't seem to be that worried.
She packed her things and prepared to leave work, locked and closed her drawer, then went downstairs and rode her bike home.
She bought some food at the grain market when she passed by. When the car was halfway there and it was getting dark, she slowed down again. When there was no one around her, she put her hand into her bag and took out a few feet of cloth from the synthesis system.
She had bought a lot of cotton some time ago and had saved a lot of cloth in the synthesis system. Wen Jiajia estimated that there were about seven or eight pieces, and they were all fine cotton cloth.
In this era of three years of new and three years of old, and three years of mending and patching, many people have never worn a piece of brand new cotton cloth in their entire lives, so you can see how astonishing the amount of cloth she has stored is.
Of course, the price was that she spent 30 yuan. She bought her cotton from Master He, who also bought it on the black market. Naturally, the price would be more expensive than the cotton from the supply and marketing cooperative.
Fortunately, overall it is of special value.
She returned home before it was completely dark, a little after seven on early fall evenings.
Wei Dai had already prepared the meal, and the food on the table seemed to be turned over, so Wen Jiajia asked, "Did Chun'er and Xuanxuan eat first?"
He nodded. "The two children were so hungry that they were already home when I came back. They ate all the mung bean cakes in the cupboard."
Later, he was still hungry, but resisted the urge to eat the biscuits. Seeing this, Wei Dai cooked the meal early. After all, the food would not get cold and could be kept warm in the pot.
The two girls came out of the house after hearing the noise. Wen Chun ran to the cupboard and took out two fried dough twists and gave them to Wen Jiajia: "These are the fried dough twists that Principal Guo gave us as a reward! Here are some for you, my aunt. One for you and one for my uncle."
She raised her head with a proud look.
Wen Xuan also nodded heavily, her chest puffed out and a smile on her face.
Wei Dai came out with two bowls of rice and said with a smile, "They are so precious. I'll hide the fried dough twist when I get back."
Wen Jiajia exclaimed, "I knew you two were excellent. Even Principal Guo was conquered by you."
Wen Chun smiled and said, "After class, we helped the teacher move the desks. Principal Guo saw us and gave us fried dough twists as gifts."
Wen Jiajia gave a thumbs up and said, "This is a reward for your willingness to help others and respect your teachers. You must continue to maintain this good character."
"Of course!"
The two girls had finished their dinner and were not ready to eat anymore. While looking at Wen Jiajia's expression, they moved to the radio.
Jianwen Jiajia didn't say anything, so she turned on the radio with confidence, skillfully tuned to the channel she often listened to, and started listening to the story.
Well, I am listening to the story of the Three Kingdoms again.
It just so happened that they were discussing heroes over wine. No wonder the two sisters had to listen to the risk of being scolded again just one week after being scolded.
They had a sudden impulse some time ago and were obsessed with listening to the radio, so they were scolded by Wen Jiajia.
Anyway, since they bought the radio, they would be scolded by Wen Jiajia every now and then. After each scolding, they would usually be able to control themselves for a week or two, unless Wen Jiajia changed from scolding to scolding. If she did scold them, they would probably be able to hold on for three or four weeks without listening to the radio.
Having just finished praising others, Wen Jiajia didn’t want to curse anyone, so she just let them do as they pleased.
Of course, she also wanted to listen more.
No wonder people nowadays have so much to say when talking about Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin. How could they not understand these stories if they grew up listening to storytelling?
After dinner, Wen Jiajia asked Wei Dai: "Will you pick up your aunt tomorrow or should I?"
Wei Dai: "I'll go, you don't know anyone."
Wen Jiajia clicked her tongue and said, "Silly, can't you just hold up a sign if you don't know me?"
That’s true, but Wei Dai still wants to go by himself.
He is now worried every day, fearing that something might happen to Wen Jiajia. He had asked Wen Jiajia to take a leave a long time ago, but Wen Jiajia insisted on staying until July.
After dinner, Wen Jiajia asked Wei Dai to put away the food. She bought 20 kilograms of rice and 5 kilograms of flour, as well as some soybeans and mung beans. The food at home can last for four or five days, but you can't buy food for the elders in the first few days after they come. If you do that, the elders will feel uncomfortable.
"Put the flour in the cupboard, not in the room." Wen Jiajia said, and then asked Wei Dai, "Can you still wear your pajamas?"
"Yes! I've already done three sets, don't do it to me."
Wen Jiajia nodded. She lifted the thatched curtain covering the sewing machine and went back into the house to get those buttons. She planned to use the fabric to make two sets of long-sleeved cardigans.
Who is it for? Of course, it’s for my aunt.
Having someone come to help solved her and Wei Dai's urgent need, and it was no big deal to make two pieces of clothing for her.
After a long period of practice, Wen Jiajia can now not only make clothes with a sewing machine, but also embroider patterns.
The panda on the clothes that Wen Chun and Wen Xuan wore today was embroidered by her. Although it is a bit ugly, it is indeed recognizable as a panda.
There is no way, there are only black and white wires at home.
Because of this pattern, the two sisters became particularly interested in pandas. In their words, they wanted to see this ugly yet cute animal.
Wen Jiajia still felt a little guilty, and she immediately admitted that her skills were not good enough and she made the panda look ugly. In fact, real pandas are only cute, not ugly.
Wen Jiajia finished two long-sleeved cardigans very quickly, spending most of her time on the cutting.
Wei Dai said that her aunt's body shape was similar to her mother's, so Wen Jiajia made it according to her mother-in-law's body shape.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter if this kind of cardigan doesn’t fit you. If it’s too big, it doesn’t matter. If it’s too small, you can keep it for yourself.
Wen Jiajia tried it on and felt that it was too tight for her now, but it would probably be just right after she gave birth.
After the clothes were done, Wei Dai was asked to wash them. Wei Dai was very fast at washing clothes and it only took him a few strokes. Wen Jiajia sometimes suspected that he had not washed them thoroughly, but after careful inspection, she found that they were indeed clean.
After a few times, Wen Jiajia understood: men have an innate advantage in doing housework.
Especially when it comes to physically demanding tasks like sweeping, mopping the floor, and washing clothes, they are very strong and can handle these tasks efficiently.
It can be seen that some men who say they can't do housework do it on purpose and just don't want to do it.
After he hung up the clothes, Wen Jiajia had to take a bath. After entering the late pregnancy, Wei Dai was worried about letting her take a bath alone and wanted to take a bath with her. Wen Jiajia naturally refused in a stern manner.
This guy would move his hands and feet while taking a shower. The weather is still hot now, and Wen Jiajia doesn't want to do anything with him in the stuffy bathroom.
Unfortunately, the flashlight was out of battery as she forgot to buy batteries today, so Wen Jiajia could only wait for him to come along.
Wen Jiajia rushed to him in the bathroom and said, "Let me make this clear first. I'm exhausted today and I'm extremely sleepy right now. Please don't move your hands or feet."
Wei Dai immediately became nervous: "How come you are tired after just one day? What is going on in your factory that requires a pregnant woman like you to be busy for a whole day?"
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes and said, "There are a lot of people in our factory who are still working even though they are about to give birth."
"..." Wei Dai had nothing to say, and said firmly, "I won't be attending this class at the end of the month, I definitely won't be attending!"
Wen Jiajia nodded, “hmm.” She wouldn’t joke about her own body.
After taking a shower, she went to bed and fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow. The power was still on.
When she closed her eyes again, it was already 5:30 in the morning. It was rare for her to sleep so soundly in the past two months.
Today's breakfast was rice noodles. Wei Dai soaked the rice yesterday and got up early this morning to grind it. After grinding, he put the rice in a steamer and steamed it.
When she saw the hot, white and tender rice noodles right after getting up, Wen Jiajia couldn't help but exclaimed, "Made for me?"
Wei Dai: "You are talking nonsense. Who said the day before yesterday that he wanted to eat rice noodles?"
Well, actually it is more accurate to call it rice noodle, because the rice noodle is relatively thick, so it is called rice noodle in my hometown.
But the taste was almost the same. Wei Dai also added eggs, vegetables and minced meat to the steamed food and poured soup on it. Xie Yi from next door was so hungry that he almost climbed over the wall.
After Wen Jiajia finished her meal, she found it was still early, so she took a rest in the yard. When Xie Yi poked his head out, she asked, "Why did you get up so early? Chun'er and Xuanxuan are still asleep."
Xie Yi scratched his head: "My brother wet the bed."
After saying this, there was a cry from next door, sometimes saying "Brother is bad" and sometimes saying "I don't have any urine". Xie Yi's face suddenly changed and he said darkly: "Oh no!"
As he spoke, he retracted his head.
Wen Jiajia covered her mouth and laughed. The second son of the Xie family was a cold-faced cool boy. As he grew older, he didn't allow Wen Jiajia to pinch his cheeks, even his mother, Teacher Shen, wouldn't let her pinch him.
He was also very concerned about his reputation. Once he fell down and quickly got up. The first thing he did was to look around. What was he looking at? To see if anyone saw him fall.
He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that there was no one around, but the next second he saw Wen Jiajia coming out from behind the tree with her face red, as red as the pomegranate peel next to her.
Just as Wen Jiajia was laughing at the child next door, there was a sudden "ah" in the room. Before she could react, Wen Chun opened the door and ran out, covering her mouth with her hands, her eyes red and sobbing.
Wen Jiajia asked hurriedly: "What's the matter?"
He touched her head and said, "Are you scared awake? Don't be afraid, it's okay. The two brothers next door are just joking."
Wen Chun didn't say anything. He was silent for two seconds, then burst into tears and cried loudly.
Wen Jiajia was stunned. At this moment, blood seeped out from the sewing work on Wen Chun's hands. She almost fell over.
"Wei Dai——"
Wen Jiajia subconsciously called for help, then pulled Wen Chun's hand down. After seeing the situation clearly, she breathed a sigh of relief, and her tense body instantly relaxed.
"What's the matter?"
Wei Dai was weeding outside the yard. He ran in when he heard the noise. Wen Jiajia looked at Wen Chun who was crying loudly and didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Chun'er lost a tooth."
"Really?" Wei Dai squatted down and pried open her hands to check. "Why are you crying? It's normal to lose teeth. This is the process of replacing teeth."
Wen Chun's tears fell: "Why did I cry first? Xiao Yi didn't cry. He is older than me."
Wen Jiajia explained: "Individuals are different! Xiaoyi will eventually fall, no one can escape."
To be honest, I'm not much older than you.
She looked carefully and saw that Wen Chun had lost the tooth in the middle of the lower row of teeth, called the lower central incisor. Logically speaking, people's lower central incisors should end their work at this time. When the time comes, it is very reasonable for people to retire on time.
Wen Chun was still crying: "But talking is useless...it will leak...it will leak out."
Wen Jiajia wiped her tears and said, "Everyone can do it." And what about the fallen tooth? She looked around and even opened Wen Chun's hand to take a look.
Wei Dai nodded, "Then you can laugh at others. You lose first and grow first. It's fair."
Wen Chun stopped crying, probably because she remembered the scene of her sister and two playmates next door losing teeth. The corners of her mouth opened a little, but when she noticed there was an air hole in her mouth, she quickly closed it again.
Not finding her tooth, she asked, "Where's your tooth? Give it to auntie and I'll help you throw it onto the roof."
Wen Chun was puzzled: "Why throw it on the roof?"
Wen Jiajia thought for a moment and said, "Well, probably to make the teeth grow straight and flat."
I don’t know if there is any dental correction available at this time. If the two sisters’ teeth are not good… I’m afraid they will have to wait until middle age to go to the hospital to have their teeth fixed.
"On the bed." Wen Chun ran into the house to get it as soon as she heard it. She wanted a set of straight teeth.
This child pays special attention to his teeth. He is the one who brushes the longest in the family every day.
Bring the tooth here; there is no blood on it.
Wen Jiajia washed it first, then looked at it in surprise, then stood in the yard and threw the tooth, which was smaller than a piece of gravel, onto the roof.
The teeth are so soft that there is no sound.
Wen Jiajia felt quite emotional as it was time for both sisters to change their teeth.
It is foreseeable that in the days to come, the roof of the house and under the bed will be thrown with teeth every now and then.
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