Chapter 204: Prosperity 204: What are you doing?
"Ah?" Aunt Chu was obviously surprised. Her son Chu Zhao had a good relationship with Gu Canyang, but she had never mentioned that his brother was also in the army.
It may also be that I mentioned it to her but she forgot.
"That's good," she said.
Looking at the two little boys with similar looks in front of her, Aunt Chu couldn't help but praise them in her heart for being lucky.
In fact, not only the aunties in the military region, but even she thought that Bai Rong was a better choice than Gu Qingqing. Not to mention her father's status in the army, even the daughter of another army commander would be more suitable to marry into the Chu family.
Aunt Chu didn't see any benefit or help to the Chu family from marrying Gu Qingqing. She only felt it was okay because Chu Yuan was very satisfied with this daughter-in-law and Chu Dai treated her like a treasure.
But this is the Chu family's family affair. As long as the Chu family members like it, outsiders like them can just talk behind their backs or keep their opinions to themselves.
"Auntie, my brother is here, let's go first." Gu Qingqing spoke first.
Aunt Chu looked back and saw a tall, thin, pale-skinned boy coming over with a basket of vegetables.
Noticing the other party's gaze, Shen Sui remained calm and nodded slightly in greeting.
Aunt Chu also smiled and nodded to him.
After walking for a distance, Shen Sui spoke up: "It seems that this lady came to your house and talked to you a few times before."
"That's because your brother-in-law greeted someone." Gu Qingqing put Xiao Tuan Tuan down and let him walk around by himself.
Shen Sui held the basket in his left hand and held his little nephew in his right hand. His arms were thin but strong.
He thought thoughtfully: "This Aunt Chu is very polite to you."
"We're just not close. We can chat about trivial things, but we can't open our hearts." Gu Qingqing didn't care. They were not of the same age.
Shen Sui also saw it, "If it was Sister Xu Nian you just met, you would have asked her to go shopping with you in the market."
"You are quite smart, little brother. Use your intelligence on studying in the future. When the time comes, I will leave the homework of your two nephews to you. I plan to retire early." Gu Qingqing smiled and rubbed his head.
The 14-year-old boy's hair was messed up by her. He looked helpless, but there was a hint of smile in his eyes: "Okay."
The brother and sister chatted and laughed as they arrived at the market. Now that the weather was warmer, there were more stalls and almost all the nearby production teams had come. They lived by the sea and as long as they did not get close to the restricted area of the Southern Military District, no one cared how much fish they caught.
All sales are done in the name of the brigade and as a collective economy; there is no such thing as individual speculation.
They can sell with confidence, and the people can buy with confidence.
There were quite a lot of military wives who came. The military compound where Gu Qingqing and her friends lived had at least a regimental commander level. The children of these aunties were about the same age as Chu Dai and Chu Zhao, and almost all of them had joined the army.
The men and children eat three meals a day in the cafeteria, and they are too lazy to cook. However, there are some people like Aunt Chu who occasionally feel like cooking a few meals.
Several other sisters-in-law in the military compound have several children at home. It’s okay for the men to eat in the canteen, but they can’t afford to bring their children to the canteen. The prices here are also cheaper, so they might as well use the men’s allowance to buy food and cook for themselves.
Seeing that she was so young and had two children, some of her sisters-in-law came up to talk to her.
I still get along better with people of the same age.
"Are you Commander Chu's daughter-in-law?" a military wife suddenly spoke up.
"Hmm?" Gu Qingqing asked doubtfully, "Have we met the sister-in-law?"
"My husband is a paratrooper in an elite company of the Air Force, and your brother is the company commander of my husband." The sister-in-law was much more enthusiastic. She said frankly, "My husband saw the company commander before and he had a photo of him carrying around with him. He asked if he could see it, and he gave it to me."
"My photo?"
"Your wedding photo with Deputy Headmaster Chu." said the sister-in-law.
"Oh? Oh." Gu Qingqing didn't expect this to happen. When she got married, she made four copies of the photos, one for her eldest brother, one for her second brother, and one to be sent back to Datunzi Village. The last copy was on the bedside table in their bedroom.
Her nose felt sore; she had never expected that her elder brother would always carry it with him.
I made up my mind that when Goudan comes over, I will take a family photo.
After all, her elder brother will continue to be good-looking, but the same cannot be said for Goudan. She should record his appearance quickly while she can still watch him in the next two years, in case she loses her youth in the future.
"Ms. Gu, what are you buying?"
“Buy some sea fish and shrimp.”
"The fish and shrimp here are all shipped back from the dock early in the morning. You can pick whatever you want, they are all very fresh. If you have time, you can come to the Air Force Military Academy to visit me. My name is Pei Zhu."
"Okay, my name is Gu Qingqing, I will definitely come to see you when I have time."
They chatted for a while, and Gu Qingqing picked some sea fish and shrimps. She didn't buy too much because she was afraid that Shen Sui couldn't carry them. She wanted to go back and try them after drying them to see if they were edible.
If possible, leave the child with the dad next time and wait until the man is on vacation before going out.
After picking some vegetables, they left the market.
Because the two little guys looked so cute, the stall owner gave two small tomatoes to Tuantuan and Niannian. They held the tomatoes in their hands and nibbled on them until their mouths were full of the red flesh. They walked slowly without asking for a hug.
On the way back, I bought ten eggs at the supply and marketing cooperative. We already had rice, flour and oil at home, so there was nothing else we needed.
At noon, it was Shen Sui who went to the cafeteria to bring back lunch. After taking a nap in the afternoon, he put the two little guys on Shen Sui's bed and let them play by themselves. The boy was practicing calligraphy, and Gu Qingqing was checking his homework.
"You know several different fonts." Gu Qingqing couldn't help but sigh as she looked at the notebook that looked like a copybook.
I don't know where Chu Dai bought them from, there are soft paper and hard paper. Shen Sui used the soft paper to practice hard pen calligraphy, and the hard paper was not easy to penetrate ink, so Shen Sui used it to write calligraphy with a brush.
There are many kinds of wolf-hair brushes at home, as well as notebooks, ink, pencils and fountain pens. Chu Dai never lets Shen Sui down when it comes to these things.
"My brother-in-law gave me the calligraphy copybook." Shen Sui took out an old notebook and showed it to her.
Gu Qingqing opened it and saw the golden and silver-stroked characters jumping onto the paper. Every stroke of the handwriting was arrogant and unrestrained, and the force could be seen through the back of the paper.
She couldn't help but smile, her fingertips lightly brushing across the pages, as if she saw the young Chu Dai through this copybook.
He is arrogant and doesn't know how to restrain himself, and thinks everything is within his reach.
Looking at Shen Sui's handwriting again, she said softly, "You are much calmer than your brother-in-law."
Shen Sui nodded: "I think so too."
Gu Qingqing tilted her head to look at him for a long time, then leaned on the desk and laughed. Hearing these calm words from his mouth really made her laugh so hard.
The two confused little guys on the bed heard the laughter and started clapping and laughing. Their little feet were shaking and they finally lay on the bed and slowly moved to the edge, trying to get down.
Gu Qingqing watched from the side. If they could come down, she would not interfere, but if not, she would lend a hand.
"Mom! Mom~" Little Tuantuan was a very active kid. He got down by twisting his little butt, then lay on the wooden floor.
It’s not cold, Gu Qingqing just lets him be.
To her surprise, when Xiao Nian Nian came down, his feet were still on the edge of the bed, and he was about to roll over. She didn't know if the twins had telepathy, but Xiao Tuan Tuan, who was lying on the floor, suddenly arched his back and let his younger brother step on his back to come down. After a while, both brothers were lying on the floor.
With eyes wide open, Xiao Niannian laughed first, then went over and kissed his brother's little face.
"Ding ding! Ding ding ding~" Little Tuantuan was not to be outdone. She arched her little butt, pulled up with the legs of the chair next to her, walked slowly to her brother, suddenly squatted down, and kissed him on the forehead.
This scene left Gu Qingqing dumbfounded.
She turned her head and asked the younger brother next to her stupidly, "These two... are one year old?"
Are all one-year-olds so smart? But she had indeed not seen many other one-year-olds. Xiaoyuer from Sister Anian's family seemed to be quite...smart?
Maybe it was because the window was open, and a gust of wind blew the loose papers to the ground, leaving the ink still wet.
Tuan Tuan grabbed a piece of paper and was about to put it in his mouth, but Shen Sui turned around first, lifted the boy up with his long legs, and picked out a corner of the paper from his soft palm.
Little Tuantuan, who didn't understand what was going on, was shaking her feet in the air, her face full of grievance: "Chirp!"
It looked like his food had been snatched away.
Shen Sui remained unmoved and threw him onto the bed again.
Gu Qingqing supported her head with one hand and watched the scene. Just as she was enjoying it, she heard someone calling her from below.
I thought I had heard it wrong, but this time Shen Sui also said, "Sister, someone is calling you."
"Huh? Then I'll go down and take a look."
Shen Sui nodded, then took Xiao Tuantuan, who had secretly climbed out of bed and wanted to follow his mother out, to one side and closed the door.
The kid howled and pointed his little finger at him, complaining. Shen Sui finally said calmly, "There are White Rabbit candies in the drawer."
The little guy immediately smiled and hugged his legs and laughed “chi chi chi chi”.
Shen Sui was about to take a step forward when he found that he couldn't move.
He lowered his eyes and saw that Xiao Niannian had also been holding onto his legs and refused to let go, with the same fawning look as his brother.
Shen Sui smiled.
Gu Qingqing ran downstairs and saw a heroic girl with short hair standing in the yard, carrying a sniper rifle wrapped with a cloth strip on her back and waving at her.
She was startled: "What are you doing?"
"Ah? Oh." Xiao Xiao took off his hat and fanned himself, then said shyly, "I just came out of the training ground. I heard you guys were back so I came to see you."
Gu Qingqing couldn't help laughing, "Come in, I brought some snacks from home, see if you like them."
"Okay." When Xiao Xiao heard that it was brought from her home, his eyes lit up and he became interested.
She also wanted to taste the food of her hometown, Gu Canyang, so as to adapt herself to the local culture in advance.
Gu Qingqing took out an enamel plate from the living room cabinet and put some dried sweet potatoes, dried pumpkins and crispy fried taro chips on it. The glutinous rice balls were very much to the taste of Chu Yuan, Chu Dai and Shen Sui, and the two guys ate quite a bit, finishing it on the bus before reaching Nanyang.
She packed some red date cakes and water chestnut cakes that her aunt and grandma made for her and walked to the sofa.
She originally wanted to put the plate on the coffee table, but when she saw the sniper rifle with a horizontal blade immediately occupying the entire coffee table, she swallowed subconsciously.
"...Try it." She said softly to Xiao Xiao who was sitting carelessly on the sofa.
It’s better to carry it yourself.
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