Since we started growing flowers and vegetables in the yard, time has flown by.
Grandpa and Grandma had found something to live for. Grandpa watered and fertilized his two orchids every day and went to the library to look up information about growing flowers.
Grandma not only planted the flower seedlings that Yu Yin brought back for her, but also asked her former neighbors for a lot of flower seeds and planted many of them wherever she could find space.
Watching the seedlings sprout little by little, Grandma felt young again.
Ping An An is also very busy, busy catching insects to feed the chickens, busy watering the fruit trees, and busy telling his friends that his chicks have grown combs, and that his vegetables have budded, blossomed, and borne fruit.
Kuai Kuai is very busy; he's everyone's little helper. He helps Grandpa carry water, Grandma pull weeds, and his older siblings catch insects to feed the chickens. In short, he's always running around in circles.
Gradually, she came to enjoy drawing.
She carefully observes and draws her grandfather's orchids, and her grandmother's little flowers also change under her brush. Her older siblings' chicks are also vividly depicted in her drawings. She likes to do quiet things, and she does them very well.
Grandpa felt that Manman had a great talent for painting. With the consent of Yu Yin and Lu Shurui, he planned to send Manman to his friend's house in the second half of the year to try her skills. The friend was a very talented painter.
Lu Shurui and Yu Yin had a fulfilling time at school, studying hard in their major and also auditing some other professional courses.
I achieved excellent results in the midterm exams and my relationship with my classmates has become much closer.
Yu Yin and Su Yixian continued to correspond. They talked about their lives, the stories happening around them, and the funny things their children did.
A-Xiang wrote to say that her husband had been transferred to the Kunming Military Region, and she would soon be going to Kunming with him. She said she would be quite busy for a while and might not be able to contact him again until things stabilized.
Yu Yin was very happy for A Xiang. Kunming was much better than their county in every aspect, and the educational environment for children would be better.
Sister-in-law Yu kept sending letters and packages, as if she had found an outlet for her emotions. She liked to write to Yu Yin about the unpleasant things and the happy things in her life.
Somehow, as they spent more time together, they started to feel like best friends.
Sister-in-law Yu has a cheerful personality and speaks quite directly. From her letter, Yu Yin learned that Yu's mother and Yu Qing were not giving up after repeatedly hitting a wall with Sister-in-law Yu; instead, they became more determined with each setback. Their story could be written into a novel.
Yu Xiaoge and her husband were doing well in Beijing; their twin sons were healthy, though a bit mischievous. With the help of Bai Xiaoyu's family, the young couple's life was going smoothly.
That's basically how it is with the relatives on Yu's side; there haven't been any major upheavals, just occasional minor frictions.
As for Lu Shurui, his grandparents live with them. Lu's third uncle and aunt come over every few days to chat with them. Lu Shuqi and her sister also come over when they are on vacation, and everyone eats together and gets together.
The person who visited Yu Yin's house most frequently was actually Lu's father, because he and Lu's mother had a conflict and the old couple had separated their households.
Mr. Lu eats in the cafeteria by himself and goes home to sleep after get off work. Mrs. Lu helps Mr. and Mrs. Lu take care of their two grandsons, but she is too busy to help them, as the two of them are in college and don't come home during holidays, each living their own lives.
Every weekend, Mr. Lu takes a day off. When he has nothing to do, he will buy some things, visit Grandpa and Grandma Lu, play with the four children for a while, have dinner at Yu Yin's house, and then go home to sleep.
Brother Lu and his family of five occasionally come over for a stroll, but they are too busy with work and rarely have time to rest together.
However, Brother Lu's children really liked Yu Yin's family; they loved their yard, their fruit trees, vegetables, and chicks. The three children were very well-behaved, and Yu Yin liked them very much too.
My second sister is heavily pregnant and will give birth in another month or two, so it's not convenient for her to come over often. But Zhuangzhuang and Duoduo come over to play frequently, and they get along very well with An'an and the others.
Yu Yin and Lu Shurui were also very busy. In the evenings, the two would enter the space to take good care of the crops inside. They harvested some and planted others, making use of all the usable land, unlike before when Yu Yin had left so much land empty, which was a huge waste.
The family can basically produce enough vegetables to be self-sufficient. Occasionally, Yu Yin will smuggle some out from her space and pretend to buy them from small vendors, and no one suspects anything.
Nowadays, you can often see farmers from the suburbs going from street to street selling vegetables and eggs from their own gardens.
The days passed by peacefully and warmly, until a phone call from An'an's homeroom teacher broke the tranquility.
The call was made to Yu Yin's department office. When her class advisor, Teacher Wu, asked Yu Yin to answer the phone, Yu Yin was still a little confused.
At the time, An'an School needed to leave contact information, so Yu Yin left the phone number of their department office. She never expected that she would need it one day.
"Parents of Lu Xiangwan, please come to the school now. Lu Xiangwan had a conflict with a classmate and got into a fight. Both sets of parents need to come and handle the situation." This was the notification from An'an's homeroom teacher when Yu Yin answered the phone again.
Yu Yin thanked Teacher Wu, asked for leave, and hurriedly rode her bicycle to An'an's school.
In Teacher Zhang's office, An'an and another little boy stood side by side in front of the teacher's desk, while Teacher Zhang, the homeroom teacher, sat in a chair. No other parents were seen; they probably hadn't arrived yet. Yu Yin lived closer and arrived quickly.
"Hello, Teacher Zhang, I'm Lu Xiangwan's mother, Yu Yin. Sorry to bother you." Yu Yin quickly greeted Teacher Zhang, calling Lu Xiangwan by her nickname, An'an, instead of An'an at school.
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