Chapter 163: Are you coming, my wife?
Gu Qingqing understood after a little thought. She couldn't have a say in these matters, so she nodded and sat next to Chu Dai.
While we were talking, Yang Xin went back home. Shen Sui came back from Bai Tao's house and brought some jujube cakes. "Sister, Bai Tao gave me three red envelopes, two of which are for Tuan Tuan and Niannian."
He handed all the red envelopes to Gu Qingqing.
Gu Qingqing only took two, "You keep the rest for yourself. These five are given to you by the brothers in the Corps, and these two are New Year's money given to you by your elder sister and brother-in-law."
She returned the red envelope to the boy and said with a smile, "Our Ah Sui has grown up and needs to save some money."
"This is from Brother Zhao and your sister Xu Nian." Zhao Ze also stuffed a red envelope into Shen Sui's pocket. Seeing him looking at Gu Qingqing at a loss, he raised his hand and ruffled his hair: "Given the relationship between our family and yours, if it's given to you, just keep it. You don't need to look at your sister."
Shen Sui waited until Gu Qingqing smiled and nodded at him before he put it away.
The two families gave each other red envelopes for their children and sat together to celebrate the New Year.
Tuan Tuan in Chu Dai's arms and Nian Nian in Gu Qinglie's arms also calmed down and listened to the adults chatting.
The fire was warm, and outside, the sound of firecrackers gradually rang out. Gu Qingqing raised her hand to check the time, then took her eldest son from the man and said, "It's time to set off firecrackers."
Chu Dai got up and went to the storage room at the back to get a long pack of firecrackers. Zhao Ze also handed his son to his wife and went out with his brothers to set off the firecrackers.
In the past, people in the village would hang a long string of firecrackers on bamboo poles at the door. Now they put the firecrackers on the ground, and two people start lighting them from both ends.
Gu Qingqing and her friends didn't go out to watch because they didn't want to disturb their children. "It's really lively this year. There are many people in the North District, and living conditions at home have improved. There are firecrackers everywhere."
"Yes, men have higher allowances." Xu Nian replied, "Today, Zhang Ta and his friends came over, and each of them had matches and cannons on them. When I was a kid, I couldn't even afford matches. My family used flint fires that we picked up from the mountains."
Xiao Yuer was picked up by her and stepped on her legs, giggling. Her only hope now was that her son would grow up quickly.
Gu Qingqing also thought about her childhood. In fact, she was similar to Xu Nian. There was not enough rice at home and they had to eat wild vegetable porridge every day. However, her father and mother had a good attitude.
When my father and uncles went to the mountains to work, they would always pick wild fruits for her. In the past, there was no cloth, so they would cut the adults' clothes into small pieces for her to wear. My mother was skillful and could always make beautiful clothes out of them.
Shen Sui, who was standing next to them, listened to what Sister A and Sister Xu Nian said, his eyes darkened.
He didn't want to think about the past at all. Now was the happiest moment for him, being with his sister, husband, brother and two little nephews.
When Gu Qingqing saw him lowering his head and staring at his toes, she knew what the child was thinking.
She reached out and took a White Rabbit candy from the enamel plate, put it in the boy's hand, and said softly, "Have some candy, Ah Sui."
"Thank you, sister." Shen Sui held the candy in his hand, and there was a hint of warmth in his eyes. He heard the sound of firecrackers outside, put the candy in his pocket and stood up: "I'm going to find my brother-in-law."
Gu Qinglie grinned beside him: "I want you to hold the baby for a while so I can take care of him."
Gu Qingqing patted his arm and said, "You are so grown up, but you act like a child."
"Go ahead." Gu Qinglie sighed, touched the bald head of the little kid in his arms, and said to Shen Sui, "Help the second brother to fire a cannon too."
At one or two o'clock, Xiao Yu'er was too tired to move. He lay on his mother, yawning continuously, and his eyes could not open.
Xu Nian poked Zhao Ze, who was playing chess with Chu Dai nearby, and said, "It's time to go back."
“Hey, hey, right away.” Zhao Ze saw that he was about to lose, so he simply stood up and said, “Come back tomorrow.”
"Okay." Chu Dai slowly put the chess pieces back into the box and said, "You can come back the day after tomorrow. You can't beat me anyway."
"Hey, you're still so arrogant." Zhao Ze hugged his son and kissed his forehead: "Xiao Yu'er, let's go home. Don't play with your uncle Chu Dai before. He will have no friends with his personality."
"Qingqing, we'll go back first and come over to pay New Year's greetings tomorrow." Xu Nian was also a little overwhelmed. She had been busy all day and had been chatting until so late. According to the custom in her hometown, they had to stay up all night to celebrate the New Year. Both of their families had children and they really couldn't endure it.
"Okay, I'll take you there." Gu Qingqing was still cracking melon seeds as she walked them to the gate of the courtyard. "Happy New Year, Sister Anian."
"Happy New Year."
Zhao Ze’s home was just ahead, a little further than Qin’s home, and we arrived home quickly.
Xu Nian turned on the lights in the house and saw that her son had fallen asleep on the man's shoulder. She hurried to the kitchen to get the stove and light the charcoal fire, mumbling to herself, "I used to think the winter in the border town was cold enough, but I didn't expect it to be even colder in the south."
You have to know that two months before the New Year, men were still wearing short sleeves, and she only wore a thin shirt.
While he was talking, his hands were moving quickly. He put some firewood picked up from the mountain into the stove, tore some old newspapers and lit matches, and when the flames started, he added charcoal.
Zhao Ze held his son in his arms and watched her movements at the kitchen door. "This place is close to the sea. In winter, the sea breeze makes my bones cold."
Xu Nian walked past him holding the stove and said, "Hurry up and put Xiaoyuer on the bed to wash up. Then get a basin of hot water so I can wipe his face."
"Oh, okay."
The Chu family also closed the courtyard gate and the living room door tightly. It was now past two o'clock, and Tuan Tuan Nian Nian slept soundly without any trouble.
The two little guys were carried to bed, and Gu Qinglie and Shen Sui cleaned up the living room together.
The floor was covered with melon seed shells. Shen Sui was sweeping it with a broom. Gu Qingqing came out of the bedroom and poured all the snacks in the enamel plate into a plastic bag, tied it up, and put it in the cupboard.
There are a lot of snakes, insects, rats and ants on the island. In summer, Gu Qingqing doesn't dare to go to the backyard for fear of seeing snakes. In autumn and winter, there are rats and cockroaches everywhere. She has gotten used to it.
If the rice, flour and candies at home are not placed properly, they will be taken away and spread all over the floor. It is heartbreaking to see. They have enough food on the island now, but they cannot waste it like this.
After everything was packed up and we had slept in the room for two hours, the three adults sat around the fire and relaxed a little.
Gu Qingqing took four canned fruit bottles from the corner cupboard, then went to the kitchen to get four spoons, and handed them to the other three before sitting down.
Chu Dai opened her can of yellow peaches before opening his own, and he also laughed at her: "A few months ago, someone was not satisfied with canned fruit and was thinking about how to can radishes."
"It's just sour radish. Are you going to make radish syrup?" Gu Qinglie was eating canned oranges. He had dinner early and was really hungry now.
Gu Qingqing drank the yellow peach syrup and said a little embarrassedly: "I don't know what happened when I was pregnant, my taste became very strange, and I only ate the food I didn't like before."
"My two nephews are so ugly because of your weird eating habits." Gu Qinglie tilted the can and scooped out the fruit pulp with a spoon. "I don't know if they will be as good-looking as their uncle when they grow up."
"Well, it's best if you're like big brother. If you're like you, there's no hope." Gu Qingqing snorted.
Chu Dai and Shen Suixi thought they often heard the quarrel between the two siblings. The men ate slowly and neither fast nor slow. Gu Qinglie had finished his meal while he still had most of it left.
"Ah Sui, did Mr. Qin tell you when he would leave the island?"
The military base is almost completed, and it will take no more than a year. Mr. Qin went to the island just to witness the arrival of this moment.
Now the time is almost up, and Mr. Qin has naturally received the notice long ago.
Shen Sui nodded: "The teacher said we will leave the island at the end of next spring."
Today is the beginning of the new year, and by the end of next spring it will be exactly a year. The military base will be completed, all the caves will be put into use, and the missile storage depot will be fully loaded. By then, warships will come to dock every day.
Chu Dai felt that it was time to leave.
He said: "Next spring, we will leave the island with Mr. Qin."
He only told this matter to Gu Qingqing and Gu Qinglie. Shen Sui should have heard something from Old Qin, but he did not ask his brother-in-law.
Now that I have received a definite answer, I am extremely happy.
Although he knew that his sister would not abandon him, he was still a little afraid that he would be left alone on the island.
At half past two, Gu Qingqing took the fire-blocking cylinder on the ground and half-blocked the charcoal stove. "Ah Sui, you can take the stove and go upstairs to sleep. Second brother is strong and healthy, so he doesn't need to get burned."
"Yes, your brother's eyes are full of anger when he hears you talking." Gu Qinglie rubbed his nose, then took out a red envelope from his pocket and gave it to her: "Go to bed early, little brat, you have grown up in the blink of an eye, and I always feel that..."
He didn't finish what he said, but Gu Qingqing understood.
The eldest and second brothers always felt that the girl was still the naughty child she was when she was little, and they were always worried that they had not been around her for the past few years in the army and that she was being neglected.
Before Gu Qinglie went upstairs, she hugged his strong waist and rubbed her round face in his arms: "Brother, when I was a child, I never suffered any grievances because of you. Now you can protect me, and with Chu Dai, I will never suffer any grievances."
Gu Qinglie grinned and touched her head. He was still a little uncomfortable with touching his nephew's bald head. He said, "If you can be less angry with me for a few years and stop calling me a dog egg, I can give you a few more years of New Year's money."
"I try my best, but sometimes I can't help myself." The woman pushed away his arms, made a face at him and ran back to the bedroom.
Gu Qinglie muttered, "You're already a mother, but you don't pay attention. If my little nephew learns from you, I'll be so pissed off that I'll die."
Speaking of Gousheng, his brother Gu Canyang must be very eager to see his two little nephews now. He must have flown to the island a long time ago, but the plane can't come.
Gu Qingqing returned to the room. The man was sitting on the edge of the bed with his left leg on the ground and his right leg on the bed slightly bent. He was reading a book in his hand.
"Did you ask my brother to bring this here too?" She closed the door casually.
"Yeah." Seeing her coming over, the man slowly turned the pages of the book, his eyes fixed on it, and he said, "Wife, are you coming tonight? There are still two boxes left."
Gu Qingqing: "..."
Suddenly I felt that it was a wrong decision to open the closet door.
Unable to help but glance at the bottom shelf of the cabinet, she coughed lightly, took out two sets of pajamas with a guilty conscience, and threw one to the man: "The children are here, change your clothes and go to bed."
Chu Dai casually picked up the black cotton and linen long-sleeved suit she threw to him, and used the brighter fabrics in the house to make clothes for Shen Sui and Gu Qinglie, leaving the black and white ones for him.
The man sat on the bed and unbuttoned his army green shirt slowly, saying meaningfully: "Just keep quiet."
Gu Qingqing went over and twisted the man's thigh, her eyes wide open: "Then why don't you just hold it in for a while, do you think the bed is solid and doesn't make any noise..."
Before she could finish her words, the man grabbed her waist and pulled her into his arms. He leaned over to cover her chattering mouth.
Gu Qingqing struggled for a few times and then let him go. It had been too long and both of them felt like they were on fire. She was panting and lying on the man's neck, gasping for breath. The man rested his chin on the top of her head and his big hands were stroking her waist.
"Are you coming?" The man said lazily, his fingertips tangling her long hair carelessly: "Wife."
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