Lu Jin followed Lu Yilan closely and just as he ran out of the door, he found her squatting in the corner sobbing softly.
"It's cold, let's go back!"
Lu Yilan buried her head in her legs and cried more and more sadly. She knew from a young age that she had no mother, and Aunt Chen was the wife her father married later.
Her family avoided her and never talked about her mother, and she pretended not to know. Once, when she was sleeping with her grandparents, she secretly heard her mother being sent to a stone quarry in the northwest for reform.
She knew what reform was. Her mother must have done something wrong. She wanted her own mother, but she didn't want a mother who was a prisoner.
Whenever she saw her aunt coaxing her cousin, she wished her aunt was her mother.
Lu Yilan raised her eyes and asked, "Dad, why did you divorce my mom?"
"I'll tell you this when you grow up. Your mother and I were not meant to be together in this life, so we didn't stick together in the end."
"My mother is in the Great Northwest, right?"
"Well, if you miss your mother, I'll take you there during the summer vacation, but she has her own family and children now."
Lu Yilan retreated. Her father had Aunt Chen, so her mother must have other uncles and children around her. She shook her head and said, "If I don't go to her, she will abandon me."
Lu Jin pulled Lu Yilan up from the ground and said, "Let's go back. If you continue to be exposed to the wind, you will definitely get sick tomorrow. Dad will take you to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. Dad will buy you whatever you want."
Lu Yilan pursed her lips and whispered, "Dad, I want to buy a new pair of shoes. I don't want the clothes anymore. You can buy them for my sister. It's not good for her to always wear my old clothes."
Lu Jin patted Lu Yilan's little head and said, "Silly child, you're still thinking of your sister. I'll buy each of you a new cotton-padded jacket and shoes for the New Year, and I'll also buy you some silk ribbons to make flowers."
"Thank you, Dad."
"Go back, don't quarrel with Jiaojiao, you are sisters."
Lu Yilan followed Lu Jin closely without saying a word, and went into the room as soon as he entered.
Lu Yiwei didn't say a word after being scolded by Lu Fengnian. She just sat there quietly warming herself by the fire. Only the silly Lu Yihan kept chattering non-stop.
As soon as Lu Fengnian left, Lu Ting accompanied the children to sit by the fire and watch TV, while Su Yan was teaching her daughter to knit gloves.
The little girl is young and only started learning this year. She is not very good at knitting. She either misses stitches or the fingers are larger than the other.
Su Yan didn't laugh at her when she saw it, but praised her for her good knitting. After all, this was her daughter's first time knitting gloves, and not much wool would be wasted.
"Yan Yan, my dad asked if we could move the TV to the courtyard for a few days during the New Year?"
"Move it, even tomorrow. Let Yining and the others do their homework peacefully for a few days. It's best if you finish your homework before the New Year. There will be a lot of guests at home during the New Year, and you won't be able to write a single word then."
Lu Yiming did not refute. After all, he had finished his homework long ago, but his younger brothers and sisters had not finished their homework.
The triplets wailed, the weather was so cold and their mother asked them to pick up pens and do their homework.
"Mom, school doesn't start until the 16th of the first lunar month. Can we write it in a few days?"
"No, you must finish the winter vacation homework assigned by the teacher first. You guys are addicted to watching TV now. If you keep doing this, I will give the TV to your grandparents."
Su Yan was not joking. She could buy a TV for her child, but she didn't want her child to be addicted to the TV program.
Lu Yian knew what his mother said was true and didn't dare to object. Lu Yining and Lu Yirou didn't dare to object either. Lu Yirou said, "Mom, I don't have much homework left. I can finish it in three days."
"Well, our Zhuzhu is well behaved."
"Mom, you call me Rourou. I don't want to call me Zhuzhu. It sounds like calling a pig."
"Okay, from now on, Mommy will call you Rourou. You don't need the nickname Zhuzhu anymore. I'll call you by your full name when you go to school."
Lu Yirou grinned, "Mom, can you give me some more wool? I want to knit a little red scarf myself."
"Sure. Once you finish all your winter vacation homework, I'll give you half a pound of red wool."
Since the child likes it, continue to give her wool to practice. When she grows up, she won’t want to hold bamboo needles and knit sweaters all day long.
After the children fell asleep, Su Yan took Lu Ting to the space to sort out the seafood they got from Jinshi.
In the aerobic fish pond of the space cafeteria, there are fifty kilograms of small octopus, sixty kilograms of lazy shrimp, forty kilograms of green shrimp, two baskets of swimming crabs, one basket each of bamboo clams and clams, a sack of oysters, and five groupers and tiger groupers.
The fish pond has long been filled with seawater and has an oxygen pump. Under normal circumstances, these seafood will not die for two months.
The dead seafood were all frozen in the refrigerator, including 90 kilograms of tiger shrimps, 100 kilograms of giant squids, 200 yellow croakers, and two large baskets of hairtails... These seafoods could be eaten slowly for at least half a year.
If she wanted to eat meat and freshwater fish and shrimp, she had the space to do so. If she wanted to eat seafood, she had to go buy it. She didn't have that many fish tickets, and she didn't want to run around, so she had to go to Jinshi to stock up on more seafood.
She stocked up a lot of fresh seafood and dried seafood, including 30 dried hairtail fish and 30 dried swordfish, 20 kilograms of skinned beef, 50 kilograms of dried shrimp, 100 kilograms of shrimp skin, 30 kilograms of clam meat and scallops, and a large bag of dried kelp and seaweed.
"I'll go see Dad tomorrow and bring them some food and vegetables."
"good."
"Then you can move the TV to your dad tomorrow so the kids can stay home and do their homework peacefully for a few days. I'll give your parents the New Year's gifts in two days."
Anyway, Lu Ting didn't know how much she gave to her parents' home, so he could just give her half to her parents-in-law.
My parents-in-law have so many sons, there is no reason for Lu Ting to be the only one to take care of them.
The others would buy some cigarettes, alcohol, tea, candy, biscuits and other things during the Chinese New Year, and spend another 20 or 30 yuan. This would seem like a lot in the countryside, but their families would have to eat and stay at home for several days, and their parents-in-law would also give each of their children a red envelope of 2 yuan.
At the beginning, there were few children, so the parents-in-law gave five yuan to each of them. Later, the amount increased, and they only gave two yuan to each child.
Su Yan took the New Year's goods and vegetables, so naturally she didn't need to pay extra. Even if she gave them so much money, they wouldn't use it on themselves. She hadn't given money to her parents-in-law for many years.
The next morning, Su Yan got up early and made a big pot of seafood porridge for the children, fried eight dough sticks, boiled six eggs, and made a dish of cold spinach.
After serving breakfast on the table, Su Yan asked her daughter to get up. She didn't need to worry about her sons. Every day when Lu Ting got up, he would force them to get up and go downstairs for a run. Even if the wind was biting cold, they had to get up as long as it didn't snow.
Only Lu Yiru, a girl, was qualified to sleep in. She slept until after seven o'clock, had breakfast, and then went back to bed to take a nap.
She didn't get up from the bed until the other children came to their house to watch TV. Su Yan originally planned to ask her daughter to go downstairs for a run with the sons.
Lu Ting said that he was not planning to let his daughter become a female soldier, so he would let her exercise in the morning in summer but not in winter.
Even if Lu Yian and Lu Yining didn't join the military when they grew up, Lu Ting would still like them to be strong and have excellent physical fitness. Men couldn't be compared to women, and they couldn't be allowed to live too comfortably. They had to exercise well and hone their willpower.
Lu Yiru had just put on her clothes, folded her quilt, washed her face and brushed her teeth when Lu Ting came back from a run with his three sons.
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