"Liu Tiao, are you up?" Cheng Zhenzhu saw the door open and saw Liu Tiao squatting in the corner sorting her bag before walking in. "Get ready to eat. Mom just went outside to borrow a place to fry a few dishes and cook some rice."
"Rice!" Jiu Tiao, with his messy hair, jumped up. "Is it the fragrant, hot, soft and sticky white rice?"
"Jiu Tiao, you have such a rich vocabulary." Ba Tiao also got up, put on his coat and looked for shoes to wear.
Qi Tiao was still sleeping in a daze, but seeing that his brothers were already awake, he didn't ask his mother to wait any longer. He quickly tidied up the room and made the quilt.
"Yes, it's fragrant, hot, soft and glutinous rice. I also have fried loach, two plates of stir-fried meat, and some pumpkin. Let's all go to my room to eat." Cheng Zhenzhu brushed Jiu Tiao Tiao's hair to avoid affecting his handsomeness.
"Mom, are you still making loaches?" Several people paused.
"Yeah. There are a lot of loaches here. I bought some when I saw them."
Cheng Zhenzhu thought the kids were suspicious about the origin of the things, so she explained it to them casually. However, they were concerned about why she didn't ask them for help and how hard it would be for her to do it alone.
Cheng Zhenzhu was touched by the sincere wishes of several people and said with relief, "I know you are worried that your mother will be tired. Don't worry, there will be work for you. It's all done without much effort. Otherwise, it would not be possible to finish it so quickly..."
The others finally nodded and happily went to their mother's room to eat the fragrant steamed rice and hot dishes. Because they were thinking of leaving some for their two brothers, the others ate more restrainedly, and the sixth one only ate half of his usual amount before declaring he was full.
"These are ours. Your brother and his are over there, already packed." Cheng Zhenzhu knew how much Liu Tiao ate, so she put down her chopsticks and pointed to the bags on the cabinet.
Oh! So there's more! Liu Tiao nodded, quickly picked up his chopsticks, and filled a large bowl with rice. "Mom, loach is so delicious! Big brothers will definitely like it. Tomorrow, I'll show them my cooking skills!"
"Okay, then Liu Tiao will come tomorrow. Mom will just take care of the grocery shopping." Cheng Zhenzhu decisively delegated power and felt relieved.
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It was around eleven o'clock when I finished my meal. I packed up and went out. When I arrived at the army station, it was exactly half past eleven.
The mother and her children waited in the guard room for a while, and two handsome young men as tall as green pines came over with light and rhythmic steps.
"Big brother, big brother. Big brother again!" Six eyes lit up and they ran over in two or three seconds.
“Brother, brother…”
“Brother, brother…”
It had been a long time since we last met, so Qi Tiao and Ba Tiao were a little excited, jumping around like two moths. Jiu Tiao seemed even more excited, and the words "Brother, big brother" turned into "kakada kakada kaka..."
"Mom! Six, seven, eight, nine, you are all here!" Yitiao looked at his mother with great joy, and his younger brothers couldn't catch up.
"Aunt Pearl." Fang Ze called out, smiling at his handsome brother who was looking up at him. "Six."
Seeing his brother again, Fang Ze found he wasn't as anxious as before. Perhaps it was because of their correspondence. He told his sister about the letter, and she was delighted...
"Big brother." Liu Tiao called out again, and then he felt a little embarrassed. This big brother in his military uniform looked so majestic! He looked a bit like him, like looking in the mirror. He must be this handsome in the future, hehe...
"Hey. You must be hungry. I brought you some food." Cheng Zhenzhu carried the things on the chair to Yitiao and Fang Ze.
Liu Tiao saw it and immediately pulled the strap of his schoolbag, "I brought it too, I have everything."
......
The children joining the army were quite eye-catching, especially one of them, carrying a schoolbag and trying hard to grab something from the table. His heroic posture was like running a shop at home!
"Big brother, this is for you. Big brother, this is prepared for you..." Liu Tiao also gave Fang Ze a stack of letter paper, "Big brother, the letter you wrote is too short, not good enough to read. I prepared letter paper for you, you have to write more!"
Fang Ze was stunned for a moment, then nodded solemnly. "Well, I'll definitely write longer next time."
The brothers were bonding when instructor Zhou Mingli came over with a bowl of rice. He paused when he saw the young man who looked a bit like their instructor, Xiao Fang.
Didn't Instructor Xiao Fang mention there's a younger brother? They're twins, one fat, one thin. They're easy to tell apart...
"Instructor Zhou." Cheng Zhenzhu still remembered Instructor Zhou and greeted him with a smile.
Instructor! His six ears twitched, and his gaze followed his mother's direction. He had heard what his elder brother had said, that instructor was very caring towards him! Whenever there was a demonstration, it was his elder brother who would do it...
"Instructor, are you sitting down? Why don't you sit down?" Liu Tiao looked at the instructor holding a rice bowl with a smile in his eyes.
He sat down...or maybe he didn't. Why did he feel like the little brother who looked a bit like Instructor Xiao Fang had a rather unfriendly look in his eyes? Even with that in mind, Zhou Mingli was eventually pulled to sit down, and then the enthusiastic family threw a lot of food at him.
"Instructor, you can't bully me, big brother. I'm telling you, I have six younger brothers! They're all as capable as me!"
Liu Tiao waited for Zhou Mingli to finish a few mouthfuls of food before immediately showing off his impressive biceps. He then rolled up his sleeves for Jiu Tiao, who was pinching loaches for food. "Our Jiu Tiao is still young, but he's very capable. He's unbeatable against anyone of his level!"
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