Lu Ting has been very busy recently. He has to go to work during the day, and whenever he gets home he goes into the space to chop wood and make charcoal, deseed the seed cotton, and go back to the city to buy coal briquettes.
Su Yan was also busy. She had to knit a set of thick sweaters and trousers for each child, and also make cotton coats and trousers for the triplets and Lu Yiming.
The cotton-padded jackets the triplets wore when they were a few months old definitely cannot be worn this year. Each of the three children needs at least two sets of cotton-padded jackets and pants to change into.
Lu Yiming is growing fast, and the clothes he wore last year are indeed a bit short this year. If I have time, I will make him two sets. If not, I will only make him one. If last year's clothes were short, let them be shorter and wear them first. If Lu Ting is free, I will let him take the child to the department store to buy a new cotton-padded jacket.
For the next month, Su Yan knitted sweaters while taking care of the children during the day. At night, after the children fell asleep, she put the sewing machine into the space and sewed new cotton-padded jackets for them.
Su Yan took some time to look at the calendar. New Year's Day was coming soon. It was Yiming's seventh birthday. She was hesitating whether to invite people to dinner that day. Her mother came with her eldest brother's youngest son on her back.
"Mom, why do you have time to come here? Don't you have to take care of my second sister-in-law?"
"Your second sister-in-law brought her little girl back to her parents' home and came to see you and the triplets."
"Mom, do you have something to say to me?"
Jiang Lingling sighed, "I can't hide anything from you. Aren't your sister-in-law and your brother living separately? Your brother's boss was taken away for investigation, and your brother was also detained for a few days last month. After he was released, he went to Jinshi to look for your sister-in-law. Who would have thought he would see your sister-in-law flirting with a gay man?"
Is Wang Yan cheating? It doesn't look like it! They say distance creates beauty, but what they are doing is not creating beauty but creating estrangement!
"Is my sister-in-law cheating on her?"
"It's hard to say. Your eldest brother is in a cold war with Wang Yan right now. When Wang Yan came back, she accused your brother of making up stories and said that if your brother didn't believe her, she could quit her job and go home to take care of the kids."
"What does my brother think?"
"He must be feeling uncomfortable. Since he and his wife live apart, he naturally has some doubts about your sister-in-law. Because it's the National Day holiday, your sister-in-law didn't come back."
"So what do they do now?"
"Your brother said he should bear it for the sake of the child. After all, he didn't catch them in bed. They won't divorce for the time being. But now your eldest brother's job is about to be lost, and he may get into trouble.
The high-ranking official he relied on has been demoted, and those people will definitely come after your eldest brother next. Your eldest brother is so anxious every day that his hair has started to fall out.
Su Yan could only feel anxious after listening to this. They had no idea how those people were going to deal with her elder brother, let alone how to deal with it.
Even those capable leaders couldn't handle it, so how could her brother avoid it? Now he could only try his best to do his job well and not let anyone catch him.
When Su Yan heard the news, she naturally had no mood to treat anyone to a meal to celebrate her son's birthday.
However, on New Year's Day, she still made a few of Lu Yiming's favorite dishes to celebrate his birthday.
After dinner, Lu Yiming ran out to play, and Chen Yuhe came to find Su Yan holding her daughter Lu Yiman.
"Sister-in-law, is your daughter Zhuzhu still wearing the sweater she couldn't wear last year?"
"My mom came two days ago and took away all the sweaters that Zhuzhu couldn't wear. Huanle and Lele have already taken apart most of the small sweaters. Isn't there enough sweaters for Manman? Lele still has a set of sweaters left to take apart."
Su Yan returned to her room and took out a small blue sweater and handed it to Chen Yuhe. "See if Manman can wear it. If so, take it!"
Chen Yuhe put one arm around Lu Yiman and held the sweater against her body with the other, "It should be wearable, thank you, sister-in-law. It's cold, and the laundry takes a long time to dry. I put the sweater on the drying rack, and it got severely deformed. I had to take it apart and re-knit it."
When Jiang Lingling came, Su Yan asked her to pick out some sweaters that her second brother's little daughter could wear, and to tear the rest into yarn, and asked her mother to take it back to knit woolen pants for her brothers' children.
The reason why she left a sweater for Chen Yuhe's daughter was because Chen Yuhe helped take care of her children during the half year she lived in the Lu family.
It started snowing heavily a few days after New Year's Day and the school was closed early. Not only did the naughty boy Lu Yiming go downstairs to play in the snow, he also brought up a bucket of snow to make a snowman, saying that he would give it to his younger brothers and sisters to play with.
Seeing her eldest son's fingers swollen like carrots, Su Yan felt both distressed and angry.
"Lu Yiming, come over here and warm yourself by the fire. Look at your hands. They're all frostbitten."
"Mom, Li Li's mother made him a hand warmer with charcoal inside and a cloth cover on the outside, so he didn't get frostbite.
Yang Bing's mother asked him to bring a hot water bottle to school every day, and he didn't get frostbite..."
Wow, this kid got frostbite while playing in the snow and blamed her for not preparing a hand warmer for him.
"I knitted two pairs of woolen gloves for you. Who can I blame for you not wearing them often?"
"Mom, ask Dad to make me an iron barrel for warming fire. Dongzi can pass a piece of wire through an iron can, put some charcoal in it, and then shake the can a few times to make the charcoal inside burn. We can play in the snow for a while and then use his little iron barrel to warm fire."
"No, you can stay at home and warm yourself by the fire. If you're bored, practice calligraphy."
These naughty kids couldn't sit still at all, so they took their homemade "little stoves" and went downstairs to play in the snow and have more fun.
Su Yan didn't want Lu Yiming to come down to play in the snow every day. What if he got a fever? He couldn't ride a bike on a snowy day. If the child was sick, she couldn't take him to the hospital.
"Mom, as long as Dad makes me a small stove, I promise to practice calligraphy well."
Lu Ting rushed home against the wind and snow. Just as he opened the door with his key, he heard his son say that he wanted to practice his calligraphy. He smiled and said, "You should practice your poor handwriting. You're already in second grade."
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