It took Chen Yun five days to knit a dark blue wool vest with a honey-heart collar. This was the product that took her the shortest time to make. She did not knit the simplest flat stitches or up and down stitches. She learned how to do it specifically from a book, and the pattern is beautiful and compact.

"Brother Liu Qiao, would you like to try it?"

Liu Qiao took off his coat and put a wool vest on his snow-white shirt. Chen Yun helped him to adjust it. As expected, her husband looked good in anything. Liu Qiao also looked at himself in the mirror and said happily, "Yunyun, you did a great job."

Chen Yun smiled and said, "No, I just made it up randomly. It's mainly because Brother Liu Qiao is handsome."

The two of them were bragging and praising each other. They heard some noise next door, someone was talking in the corridor, Chen Yun and Liu Qiao quickly opened the door and went out. It turned out that Zhu Xiaofang on the right was helping Gao's mother back, and Deputy Battalion Commander Gao was behind with a lot of things. Liu Qiao and Chen Yun also went over to help Gao's mother go in, and Deputy Battalion Commander Gao had to go back to the camp. Liu Qiao accompanied her and talked for a few words before going back to the room.

But Chen Yun couldn't leave, so she helped Zhu Xiaofang pack for a long time. Zhu Xiaofang asked her, "Are you going to school tomorrow? I haven't prepared anything yet. I'm so busy that I look like a human being..."

"You're really working hard. It's almost noon. Why don't you come to my place for a meal?" Zhu Xiaofang hasn't been home for several days. He hasn't bought any vegetables and the house is in a mess. He has to light a fire and cook, and he doesn't know when he can eat.

Zhu Xiaofang said, "How can this be so embarrassing?"

"It's okay, it's okay, come over." Chen Yun was not a stingy person, and she really had a family member who had just been discharged from the hospital, so it wouldn't be a big deal for her to help take care of him.

Zhu Xiaofang spoke to Gao's mother in dialect again, and Gao's mother said thank you in broken Mandarin. After Chen Yun returned home, she steamed the rice first. She put more rice in today. She said to Liu Qiao: "I asked the Gao family's sister-in-law and Gao's mother next door to come over for dinner. Their house is very messy and they don't have time to cook."

"That means a lot of people are coming to snatch the dishes cooked by Yunyun from me..." Liu Qiao pretended to be unhappy.

Only after Chen Yun gave him a sweet kiss did he smile happily.

Their family's daily meals were already very good. She stewed Chinese cabbage and bones in the pot, fried green peppers and eggs, braised bacon and bacon, and added soaked radish strips, making a total of five dishes.

When the meal was almost done, Chen Yun went to the next door to call Gao's mother and Zhu Xiaofang to come over. Zhu Xiaofang walked in familiarly, but Gao's mother was shocked. This was obviously the same layout as her son's house, but it gave people the feeling that this was a good house at first glance. She was afraid of dirtying the land when she came in. In comparison, her son's house looked like a pigsty.

"Sister Xiaofang, please take Gao's mother to sit down. I will serve the rice." Chen Yun said with a smile.

Zhu Xiaofang said angrily, "Why are you being so polite to me?"

"You're welcome. It's just one or two bowls of rice. Please sit down." She served the rice and called Liu Qiao over. After Liu Qiao sat down, the four of them started to eat.

Mother Gao looked at the young Captain Liu who had taken her son's place. He was smiling and gentle, not like a soldier at all. Her son was not as strong and sturdy as she was. The young wife was also a spendthrift. She ate the meat on the bones and threw them on the table. Couldn't she use the bones to make soup? She also put so much oil in frying eggs. The bottom of the white plate was all covered with oil. Was it such a waste? How could she live? Fortunately, they were not her son and daughter-in-law, otherwise she would be so angry.

Regardless of what Gao's mother thought, Zhu Xiaofang still ate happily. Eating in the hospital was fine for one or two meals, but after a while, her mouth would become bitter. She also had to take care of patients at night. She never had a good sleep or a full meal, but she couldn't complain because it was her duty to take care of her mother-in-law.

Gao's mother complained in her heart, but she was not polite. A person who had just recovered from a serious illness ate five bowls of white rice. Zhu Xiaofang had to apologize to Chen Yun: "She ate liquid food every day in the hospital, and my mother ate glutinous rice."

Chen Yun smiled and said, "It's okay. I cooked a lot of rice, so eat more."

Knowing that Aunt Gao was here, Chen Dafen from next door brought over a small bowl of pigeon soup, which was stewed for her son to drink. Now she gave it all to Aunt Gao. Xu Lijie from the upper floor brought over a plate of dumplings.

Xu Lijie is much more tactful than Chen Dafen. She came here to chat with Gao Dama and asked Zhu Xiaofang how to take care of the old lady. Although Gao Dama is an illiterate peasant, she is also the wife of the village committee secretary and has some "political" experience. She smiled at the military dependents with a simple and honest smile on her face.

A strong person flatters everyone with her poor Mandarin. After all, everyone has a sense of vanity. If you are nice to others and they thank you sincerely, of course you will feel good.

Only when she returned home did Gao's mother say to Zhu Xiaofang, "Tell me about the backgrounds of these people."

Even though Zhu Xiaofang thought that she was a scheming person, she did not dare to act smart in front of Gao's mother, because her mother-in-law was not an ordinary mother-in-law. Some mothers-in-law were bad and everyone knew it, but her mother-in-law was not an ordinary person.

"The family we went to eat at is the one that the battalion commander of the fifth battalion told you about before. The one who sent the dumplings was the wife of the battalion commander of the fourth battalion. The battalion commander of the fourth battalion was transferred from another unit, and his wife's family is well-off. The one who sent the pigeon soup was the wife of the battalion commander of the second battalion, who is Zhiguo's leader."

Gao's mother asked again, "What about the first and third battalions?"

Zhu Xiaofang shrank her neck and said, "The sister-in-law from the first battalion works in a bank and doesn't come back often. Besides, she rarely interacts with us except for necessary meals. The sister-in-law from the third battalion is out of town and didn't come with us."

"That is to say, the Fourth Battalion was transferred here from other places, and there is no conflict with our Zhiguo. The only one who has put our Guobin under his feet is Liu Qiao next door." Aunt Gao analyzed.

Zhu Xiaofang had no choice but to nod.

**

After the guests left, Chen Yun cleaned up the dishes. Liu Qiao threw away the dishes that Gao's mother had eaten from. Chen Yun asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

Liu Qiao himself has a cleanliness obsession, and he is very tolerant only to Chen Yun. For example, Chen Yun has long hair, and sometimes there is her hair on the bed or on the floor, and Liu Qiao helps to clean it up. But when Gao Dama used her hand that had wiped her nose to touch the bowl again, he felt disgusted when he thought about eating from this bowl in the future.

"This bowl is too dirty. The others need to be disinfected as well."

Chen Yun recalled the way Gao's mother ate and laughed, "Well, it's lost. But if Gao's mother eats like this, the rice bought next door would take only a few days to complete."

She didn't mean to laugh at them, she just thought that this tall lady ate too voraciously. She drank almost all the big bone soup by herself, and ate the scrambled eggs with one big chopstick. Chen Yun herself grew up in the countryside and knew that farmers had big appetites, so when she knew they were coming, she specially fried five eggs, and the whole dish was finished in just two chopsticks.

Liu Qiao shook his head: "Not necessarily. If he were to eat his own food, he wouldn't be so willing to do so." Thinking that he would have to go shooting on an empty stomach today, he felt uncomfortable.

He couldn't stand it when other people were dirty, but he felt comfortable when he saw Yunyun. He hugged Chen Yun and kissed her fiercely. Chen Yun was almost stunned by his kiss.

After the 15th day of the first lunar month, we had to go to school to register. Parents brought their children to register. Chen Yun went into the big office to find Director Lin to make arrangements. Today, the teachers were very busy with registration. The class teachers moved their tables to collect money at the door of the classroom. Hongqi School is divided into the primary school and the secondary school, and the kindergarten is under the management of the primary school.

The primary school has three floors facing each other. The office is on the third floor. Director Lin was also busy here. When he saw Chen Yun, he quickly said to a teacher wearing glasses next to him, "Team Leader Dai, this is the new teacher Chen, who teaches third grade ideology and morality. Please make some arrangements for her."

Then he said to Chen Yun, "This is the third grade leader, Dai."

Newcomers always have to sit on the bench, and they are not important people, but Chen Yun is quite adaptable. Team leader Dai introduced her casually: "We have five classes in the third grade, and the five classes have about two to three ideological and moral education classes a week, so it is still very easy. I will give you the class schedule, and you can come to work when the time comes. Oh, by the way, ideological and moral education also requires preparation. I have taught this course before, you can take a look at my lesson plan."

In addition, a meal ticket for one month was given to Chen Yun. Chen Yun carefully wrote down the class schedule, and the people in Hongqi Primary School were used to it. The hardest working here are substitute teachers and class teachers. Subject teachers just leave after class, and the main subject teachers are still responsible. Assistant subject teachers like Chen Yun basically have no pressure.

Two people share a desk here. Chen Yun works with Ms. Xiao Dai, who teaches both Chinese and music in the first grade. Because she has the same last name as the grade leader, people call her Ms. Xiao Dai. Ms. Xiao Dai is very young, with round eyes, and a bit of a nerd, but she also has a very gentle feeling.

However, she was still quite enthusiastic, "What do you teach?"

Chen Yun smiled and said, "I am a third-grade teacher of ideology and morality."

She whispered, "Is it official?"

Chen Yun nodded, and Teacher Dai felt like one of her own. She said to her, "You should quickly buy a lock and lock the cupboard. There are so many people coming and going here, so be careful of having things stolen. Also, we get more official benefits from the school than substitute teachers, so don't make a fool of yourself, you know..."

"Okay, I'll come and buy one tomorrow. I didn't bring anything today." Chen Yun felt a little warmed by her kindness.

Teacher Dai treated the office like her own. The cushions on the chairs and the desks were decorated with small mirrors, creams, and snacks. Chen Yun was amazed. After a while, she went to the school canteen to buy a lunch box and went to the cafeteria to get lunch. The school had a teacher counter and a student counter. The dishes at the teacher counter were good and affordable.