The sunshine on Hailang Island is really great. After working for a whole afternoon, Ning Xue was sweating all over, her cheeks were red from the sun, and her hair was stained with sweat and tied into clumps on her forehead, making her look very unkempt.

Ning Xue finally finished weeding the yard and was about to take a break. As soon as she stood up, she saw Ning Tang coming out of the Shen family and three little kids following closely behind her. So she quickly called Ning Tang, "Ning Tang, where are you going?"

Ning Xue thought to herself that Ning Tang, like her, had just arrived at Hailang Island and was unfamiliar with the place. The security here was so strict, so Ning Tang should not run around and cause trouble, which would only cause trouble for herself.

After all, no matter what, she and Ningtang are cousins ​​and are one family on this island.

Ning Tang wanted to tell the truth and say that she was going to the beach, but when she saw Ning Xue's disapproving expression, she changed her mind and said, "I'm just going out for a walk and will be back soon."

Ning Xue then smiled contentedly, "Well, don't go out and hang around if you have nothing to do."

She glanced at Ning Tang. Ning Tang had stayed in the house all afternoon and looked refreshed. On the contrary, Ning Xue had been working in the yard all afternoon and was sweating profusely and looked very exhausted.

Ning Xue was a little resentful and couldn't help but said, "Ning Tang, I have to say that your yard is too messy. If you have time to hang out, why not do what I do and weed the yard."

The Su and Shen families lived right across from each other, separated only by a small path. The fences were very low, so one could have a clear view of the other's yard by standing on tiptoe.

Hailang Island has plenty of sunshine and rainfall, and the vegetation grows vigorously. The weeds in the Shen family's yard are almost half a person tall, which is really an eyesore.

Ning Xue was upset with Ning Tang, and Ning Tang was speechless towards her.

Xianhui is not that wise. Even if you want to weed, you don't have to wait until now.

The sun on Hailang Island is very strong, especially in the afternoon, which can make people's skin peel off. Anyway, she saw that Ning Xue was about to get sunburned.

But based on Ning Tang's experience of getting along with the heroine's cousin, Ning Xue is opinionated to put it nicely, and stubborn to put it bluntly. She is a person with her own ideas, and it will definitely not work to force her.

If I tell her the truth and say that I don't plan to weed, with Ning Xue's personality, she will definitely carry a hoe to the Shen family and nag her to weed!

Ning Tang could only laugh it off and said, "Okay, okay, I'll be back to weed in a bit."

Ning Xue thought Ning Tang had heard her and nodded repeatedly.

After this incident, Ning Tang lost all interest in enjoying the sea view and had to go back home.

The three children followed her back to the house, looking relieved.

Ning Tang suddenly felt like he was in prison.

Fortunately, Shen Lie came back at seven o'clock.

As soon as Shen Lie entered the room, the eldest child excitedly shouted, "Dad!" The second girl followed him and also called out "Dad" crisply. The third child didn't call anyone, but hugged Shen Lie's thighs.

Compared with the unfamiliar Ning Tang, Shen Lie definitely makes the three children feel safe.

Before Shen Lie came back, he went to the grain and oil station and the vegetable market and bought a lot of rice, flour, grain, oil and vegetables.

He was carrying a lot of bags in his hands, but he didn't know where to start because of the three children surrounding him.

Ning Tang glanced at the three children, stood up and took the things from Shen Lie's hand, "I'll put it in the kitchen for you."

Shen Lie was stunned. He handed the bags to Ning Tang, said thank you, and then bent down to comfort the three children.

Shen Lie coaxed the three children for a while and then went to the kitchen to cook. As soon as he entered the kitchen, he saw the wooden basin placed by the eldest child, in which were soaked the bowls and chopsticks used by the three children.

Shen Lie was stunned for a moment, picked up the wooden basin, washed the dishes in the basin before starting to cook.

There are only two adults and three children in the family, so there is no need to prepare much food, so Shen Lie only made three dishes and one soup.

The food was served on the table, Ning Tang took a quick look. There were steamed clams, stir-fried vegetables, fried small yellow croaker, and a sauerkraut dumpling soup. The menu was simple, but Shen Lie was a good cook, and every dish was delicious.

Although the bones of the small yellow croaker are soft, Shen Lie was still afraid that the three children would get the bones stuck in their throats, so he put the small yellow croaker into his own bowl, carefully picked out the bones before sharing them with the three children.

Ning Tang didn't have to take care of three children like him, so she just picked up her bowl and started to eat.

She only had a bowl of noodle soup for lunch, and by now she was extremely hungry.

Shen Lie looked at Ning Tang while finding faults, and said hesitantly, "Well, let's discuss something."

Ning Tang put down his chopsticks and said, "You go ahead."

Shen Lie said, "Let's divide the housework between the two of us."

Ning Tang said readily, "Sure."

After all, they are living together as partners, so it is necessary to allocate housework. She will definitely not shirk her part.

Shen Lie carefully observed Ning Tang's expression and considered his words carefully. "You should cook for me from now on. I have to go to the army every day and the training is very tiring. I can't cook like this every day."

Ning Tang said bluntly, "Then I'll be honest with you. You can ask me to wash the dishes, but you can't ask me to cook."

"Why?" Shen Lie wondered, which woman doesn't cook?

Ning Tang glanced at Shen Lie and guessed what he was thinking, "Have you ever seen me cook when I was in Shangang Village?"

Shen Lie thought carefully and remembered that it was Ning Xue who cooked for him when he was in Shangang Village.

Ningtang, I haven’t even been to the kitchen!

Shen Lie was dumbfounded. No wonder he felt something was wrong in Shangang Village, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

He was stunned and said, "You can't cook, or you don't want to cook."

Ning Tang: “Both.”

In her previous life, she never knew how to cook, and even after she started working, she still ate takeout every day.

After wearing this, I don’t want to cook anymore.

In the era when she lived, technology was advanced and cooking was done by just pressing a few buttons on a rice cooker. But after traveling through time here, cooking is not called cooking, it is called torture.

Yesterday, when Shen Lie was cooking, she took some time to watch. Frying a dish requires burning firewood, and adjusting the heat depends on adding or reducing the amount of firewood. It is very troublesome. Moreover, the weather is hot, and staying in the kitchen is like being in a steamer.

Shen Lie glanced at Ning Tang's expression and found that she was serious.

Shen Lie thought for a moment and advised, "In fact, we only cook two meals a day, one at noon and one at night. I came home late today, at seven o'clock. I usually come home at five thirty or six o'clock. I can cook the evening meal, but what about the lunch meal?"

Without waiting for Ning Tang to reply, Shen Lie said, "You can't ask me to rush back from the army to cook for you at noon. Even if I am willing, our division commander and political commissar will not agree."

This is indeed the case. Let's not talk about anything else, just take the pot of noodle soup that Shen Lie cooked for them this morning. It was cooked early in the morning, and it had already clumped by the time they ate it.

Shen Lie noticed that Ning Tang's expression had relaxed a little, and continued, "So, you will be the one to cook lunch."

Ning Tang rolled her eyes and said, "It's not that I don't want to do it, it's just that my cooking skills are just average."

Seeing the disbelief on Shen Lie's face, Ning Tang reiterated, "It's really average, even unpalatable. Otherwise, think about it, my cousin and I are both ladies in the family, why does she have to go into the kitchen and I don't? It's because my cooking is unpalatable, very unpalatable, and you don't want to have diarrhea after eating it, right?"

Shen Lie said, "You don't need to cook, you can boil it, just like boiling water. We have a lot of seafood on our island, for example, there are always fish, shrimps and crabs for sale in the vegetable market. You can buy them and steam them and eat them. It doesn't take much effort."

Ning Tang was about to refuse, but Shen Lie quickly said, "You can arrange my salary. You only need to go to the market at 10 o'clock in the morning, buy some fish, shrimp and crabs, steam them and make a lunch. I will cook dinner for you."

Ning Tang thought for a moment and asked, "How much do you make?"

Shen Lie: "75 yuan a month, plus some miscellaneous subsidies, about 80 yuan."

Ning Tang's eyes widened when she saw so much. She didn't expect Shen Lie to be good at making money.

And Shen Lie said that she could arrange the salary. Does that mean she could buy whatever she wanted?

Ning Tang immediately made the decision and said, "Deal."

Shen Lie breathed a sigh of relief, "Oh, and there's still housework to do."

"Housework?" Ning Tang raised his eyebrows.

Shen Lie said, "You didn't wash the bowls from lunch, right? I saw them when I entered the kitchen. I washed the bowls before I cooked."

Ning Tang said, "I washed the bowl I ate from."

Shen Lie choked, "What about the bowls for the eldest, second, and third children?"

"No." Ning Tang said, "You washed the bowls they used for eating."

"I know." Shen Lie said, "Then can you help wash their bowls in the future?"

Ning Tang shook his head, "No."

"Why?" Shen Lie was confused. "We are married and have obtained a marriage certificate. You are their mother. Isn't it your responsibility to help them wash the dishes?"

Ning Tang pointed at herself and said, "I am a stepmother, not my biological mother. They are not my children, so why should I help them wash the dishes? Besides, they treated me badly when I came, and you are their biological father, so it is your duty to help them wash the dishes."

"You can't say that..." Shen Lie was stuck and couldn't explain what he meant.

Ning Tang just explained the reason to him clearly, and did not intend to embarrass him. He proposed a compromise idea, "How about this, I will cook lunch and wash the dishes for lunch, you cook dinner and wash the dishes for dinner, and you take care of the other housework, is that okay?"

Ning Tang and Shen Lie got married, but they had no emotional foundation, let alone love at first sight. To put it bluntly, they just got what they wanted.

Ning Tang just thought of it as a new place to work, treating Shen Lie as a superior and colleague, and assigning tasks to colleagues, isn't that right? Anyway, she didn't think there was anything wrong with assigning housework to Shen Lie.

Shen Lie considered it for a while, gritted his teeth and said, "Deal."

After the discussion, the three children finished their meal.

Shen Lie sighed, resignedly put the dishes away and took them to the kitchen to wash.

Before leaving, he gave Ning Tang a resentful look. Why did it feel like he had married a ancestor?

There are no entertainment activities these days, and everyone goes to bed early.

Ning Tang was not used to it when she first came here, but now she feels sleepy at nine o'clock.

After saying hello to Shen Lie, Ning Tang went to bed.

When Ning Tang was half asleep, she vaguely felt one side of the bed being pressed down. She guessed that Shen Lie went to bed after coaxing the three kids.

Shen Lie goes to bed much later than her. Ning Tang thought, this is how raising a child is, if the child doesn’t sleep, you can’t sleep.

No words were spoken that night.

When Ning Tang woke up the next day, he opened his eyes and found that there was no one beside him. Shen Lie was nowhere to be seen. He must have gotten up early to go to the army.

She turned over and three little faces came into view.

It was none other than Da Wa, Er Niu and San Wa.

The eldest and second daughter were standing at the head of her bed, and the third daughter was lying on her bed, her little head swaying from side to side.

Ning Tang was startled and covered his chest, "What are you three doing?"

The eldest child was speechless, "Stepmother, do you know what time it is now?"

Ning Tang glanced at the sky outside and said, "I don't know, it should still be early." The sun hadn't even set yet.

Erniu put her hands on her hips, like a little teapot, and said in a shrill voice, "It's already eleven o'clock."

"It's only eleven o'clock." Ning Tang turned around and faced the three children, "Then I'll take a nap."

The eldest child was so angry that he almost fell backwards. He stretched out his two little hands to push Ning Tang, "It's already eleven o'clock, go and cook for us."