A group of old friends drank, ate and argued. The meal was finished in a friendly atmosphere. On the way back, Zhou Zhou and Dumpling were tired and were carried home by their biological father Lu Yan.

The holiday days slipped away quickly, and Lu Yan and his wife returned with their three children.

"Say goodbye to grandpa and grandma."

On the way back, they took trains and boats alternately. It was already close to the end of September, and it was a bit cool in the morning and evening. An accident happened on the way back. Dumpling caught a cold on the boat and started to have a fever when he returned to the island.

"Mom... feels bad."

They haven't been back for a month or so. Even though Huahua's mother helped to take care of the yard, they still encountered a big typhoon a few days ago. Many vine racks were blown down, and now they are crookedly propped up.

Qin Rou sighed. She couldn't care about anything else. The most important thing was to take care of Xiao Dumpling. She asked Lu Yan to pay attention to his brother Zhou Zhou from time to time, fearing that the two children would infect each other.

"Don't let Dumpling pass the cold to Zhou Zhou."

Children have the highest immunity and resistance, and they are most afraid of infecting each other.

Fortunately, only the younger brother had a fever, and the older brother was not sick.

Xiao Dumpling's face was flushed with fever. Qin Rou took him to the base hospital, and the doctor prescribed a fever-reducing injection. When the doctor gave the injection, Qin Rou held the child and didn't let him see the needle.

But this little guy was very alert to danger. He only felt a chill on his buttocks, and struggled desperately, "No needle... oooooo..."

He was pressed down and given an injection in the buttocks.

"Mom is bad--"

the little guy cried loudly.

"Be good, don't cry..." Qin Rou coaxed him softly for a long time. Dumpling hummed and shed tears, and finally fell asleep in his mother's arms.

After two or three days of torment, Dumpling's fever subsided, and his chubby face seemed to have lost weight. Qin Rou also lost weight.

"Be good, little brother." Zhou Zhou went to his brother's side, patted his back, and coaxed him softly. The brother's tone was particularly gentle. Dumpling still had a cough and runny nose at this time. Qin Rou didn't want Zhou Zhou to get too close to his brother.

But these two little guys who quarreled on weekdays, now they were quarreling again, and they were sticky and unwilling to leave each other.

Dumpling had a fever and felt uncomfortable. His brother Zhou Zhou also felt uncomfortable, but he did not have any fever symptoms. There was a vague mutual induction between the two brothers. Qin Rou asked Ye Mingxiu, who was also a twin. Ye Mingxiu said to her: "Twins have a little bit of this. When one is in pain, the other will feel depressed. I don't know if it is a coincidence. I can't explain it clearly..." "

Does it happen between you and your sister?"

"No, but I heard that other sisters have it. I met a pair of twin sisters when I was in school."

"The probability of meeting twins is quite high." Qin Rou recalled that when she was a child, there was a pair of twin sisters in the neighborhood around her. When she was in elementary school, there was another pair of twin sisters in her class... But strangely, many of the twin sisters she met were identical, but she rarely saw identical twin brothers. She searched her memory but couldn't find them.

Ye Mingxiu smiled: "There are few identical twins, but you will meet one or two."

"Tsk tsk..." Xiao Dumpling's eyes were blurred with tears. No matter whether it was an adult or a child, when a person is sick, they tend to become particularly fragile, and want others to take care of them and act coquettishly with people close to them.

"Dumpling, eat more, you will become stronger and not get sick."

Zhou Zhou hugged him and touched his forehead like his mother. He didn't stop there and tried to put his forehead against that of Dumpling.

The little face that looked exactly like Dumpling looked particularly solemn and serious, like a little adult who could take care of others.

The difference between the two brothers was very obvious at this time, and outsiders could tell who was the older brother and who was the younger brother.

"The two brothers in your family have such a good relationship."

After being sick for a week, Dumpling finally recovered and watered the flowers in the yard with his brother.

Qin Rou smiled and reminded them: "Don't water too much, or Huahua will be drowned."

"You haven't been to kindergarten for a long time, right? Do you miss your friends in kindergarten?"

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling shook their heads: "No."

"Why?"

"I want to play at home." They played freely at home.

"No, you still have to carry your little schoolbags and go to school."

"Dundun from Mr. Huang's family next door and Tiaotiao from Huahua's mother's family are also in kindergarten. You should go to kindergarten with Tiaotiao and Dundun."

When Qin Rou said this, she suddenly felt that the two names Tiaotiao and Dundun sounded like Tiaotiao and Dundun when they were paired together? One jump and one squat, one squat and one jump, just like doing "little frog jumps".

Captain Zhang and Political Commissar Liu are indeed good partners in the past. Even the nicknames of the children sound particularly coordinated.

Others squat and jump, but they eat porridge and dumplings.

"Has the neighbor next door come back?" Captain Zhang said to Huang Xinying.

Huang Xinying nodded: "Finally he came back, but he was only gone for a month, but I felt that Xiao Qin and his wife had been away with the child for a long time. I was a little uncomfortable before."

"To be honest, I'm not used to it either. Neighbors see each other every day. It feels strange to not see each other for a month or two."

"I saw his dumplings playing in the yard again."

The neighbor next door had been gone for a while, and Captain Zhang and his wife were really uncomfortable. Their child Dun Dun had already gone to kindergarten, but they hadn't had time to let the neighbor know.

"I re-painted a bitter melon picture book, and I haven't shown it to the Qin couple next door yet."

"Look, I also wrote a dialogue between bitter melon and radish..."

Teacher Huang: "..."

Team leader Zhang frowned and looked at her: "The earthworm I drew is not very good-looking, but radish and bitter melon are simple. The dialogue between the two is very educational for children."

"Children can't be picky eaters, don't you think? They should eat both radishes and bitter melons..."

"We also bought a sewing machine at home. Let's make a small dress for our Dun Dun. How about our Dun Dun sew a cute little radish?"

"You can embroider it yourself if you want. I won't do it anyway." Teacher Huang thought that she had to prepare lessons and correct homework, so why should she sew clothes for children? Making clothes would be fine, but she also had to sew a "little carrot" on her chest.

What a boring thing to do.

"I'll do it if I can." This year, Zhang has gradually... gradually come to terms with it.

He has washed clothes outside the yard and has been in the kitchen at home, so can't he do anything else?

Moreover, the sewing machine and the thread basket are all placed in his own home. Teacher Huang is unwilling to operate the sewing machine, so he will do it. They are all former soldiers, who hasn't picked up needles and threads to sew quilts for themselves?

Huang Xinying thought he was joking: "Do you really want to operate the sewing machine?"

"I'm making clothes for our son."

Zhang is really a man of action. When he says he will make clothes, he will not hesitate. He cuts the cloth and makes a small white top and green bottom clothes for his child Dun Dun, and even sews a chubby carrot on the chest.

It's true that Zhang Chengbei's craftsmanship is very good.

Huang Xinying saw the clothes made by her husband and couldn't help but admire him.

Zhang Chengbei was so proud that he boasted: "Other people's dumplings and jumping dumplings have them, why don't we have Dun Dun?"

"Look at this radish, isn't it big?"

"Big, it's really big." Huang Xinying looked at the big radish on the chest of the child's clothes, and really didn't understand her own stubbornness. "Why did you put a big radish on it? Can't you put a cute fat fish like the one next door?"

As soon as Huang Xinying saw the big radish, she could easily think of her son's stinky fart after eating the radish.

"You woman, you don't understand, right? You don't care, do you? If you sew a fish on it, wouldn't that make you a follower, repeating what others say?"

"Our son Dun Dun is the best. Aren't the two brothers Zhou Zhou and Dumpling next door afraid of eating radishes? Our children are afraid of radishes, hehe, just like Dun Dun jumping around, squat down for me! Scare me!"

Like countless parents who hope their children win at the starting line, Zhang Chengbei also hopes that his children will surpass their peers in all aspects.

This is the obsession of parents.

Otherwise, he would not have named his eldest son Zhang Yichao.

When Zhang was at home, his son Dundun was standing by his father's side, watching him make clothes for himself. After he finished, Zhang kissed his son, "You see, your father treats you well? He made clothes for you with his own hands."

"Yeah." Dundun nodded.

Zhang's painting skills were gradually developed. He had previously drawn picture books of earthworms and dialogues between bitter melons and radishes. His level of drawing radishes was improving day by day. He also had some talent for embroidery, and he sewed two or three sets of large radish short sleeves for his own children.

"Yichao, do you want your father to make clothes for you?"

"No." At this age, Zhang Yichao was ashamed. He didn't want to wear the large radish clothes made by his father.

"If you don't want it, forget it."

After washing the new clothes, several children went to kindergarten together. Qin Rou took her own children Zhou Zhou and Dumpling. The two children had little whales on their chests. Hua Hua's mother's child Tiao Tiao was a little shark with huge teeth. Teacher Huang's child Dun Dun was a big radish. Zhou

Zhou and Dumpling stared at the radish on Dun Dun's clothes: "..." They

didn't understand why they had to sew a radish on their clothes.

"Teacher Huang, did you make this dress for your Dun Dun? It's very delicate."

Huang Xinying nodded and smiled without any guilt, without further explanation.

"Our child loves to eat radishes, so we sewed a radish for him. Radishes are simpler."

Dun Dun looked at the fish on the chests of other children and felt that she was out of place. "Mom, I want a fish..."

Teacher Huang: "..." But your dad only wants to sew a radish for you.

Not only Dun Dun felt out of place, but also Wang Niannian, a child brought by Xue Xiaohui, felt out of place. Several other children had "flowers" on their chests, but she didn't.

Wang Niannian raised her hand and rubbed the clothes on her chest, and looked up at her mother: "Mom, radishes..."

She was afraid of fish and liked big radishes.

"Okay, mom will sew a radish for you when we get home."

Dun Dun stopped making noises after finding out that other children liked her big radish. She just let the radish be.

Five children, three boys and two girls, went to kindergarten together.

In October 1975, Zhao Jianghong and Ye Mingxiu moved into the family compound. Within a month, Ye Mingxiu also found out that she was pregnant. She went for a check-up in December, and the hospital's B-ultrasound showed that she had only one child.

Zhao Jianghong: "..."

He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he had really benefited from the good fortune of the Lu family.

After Ye Mingxiu became pregnant, she did not go out to work again, but temporarily settled down in the family compound and took care of the yard. Qin Rou suggested that she read more books and asked her to buy a set of "One Hundred Thousand Whys".

"When the children just understand a little, they like to ask why. You should read more in advance so that you can deal with the little ones in the future."

Qin Rou didn't know whether Ye Mingxiu would take the college entrance examination or not, but she still recommended books to her. Now she should lay a foundation in advance. When the news of the college entrance examination is released, she can follow the crowd to review the basics of physics and chemistry. She should be able to get a good score in the exam

. "Okay, I will definitely read it carefully." Thinking that she would answer questions for her future children, Ye Mingxiu read books very seriously. She also wrote texts every day, copied poems, love letters and other things.

Even after getting married, she and Zhao Jianghong still maintained the habit of correspondence. Zhao Jianghong didn't come back much, and Ye Mingxiu spent more time hanging out with the sisters-in-law around her.

It was January 1976. The weather on Qiongzhou Island was particularly comfortable, neither too hot nor too cold. The carrots and potatoes planted by Qin Rou at home were growing vigorously, and they would be harvested before New Year's Eve in February.

Passion fruit plants are particularly overbearing. They grow and spread recklessly on the vines and fences. Now they have bloomed and will soon bear fruit.

The roses beside the swing have bloomed. Zhou Zhou and Dumpling are playing on the small swing.

"Mom, Ti Ti..."

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling like to play on the slide in kindergarten, but there are many older children in the kindergarten who occupy the slide and swing. They should take turns to play on the slide, but some unreasonable children occupy the slide and refuse to get off.

"Mom, that's too much!"

"Slides are occupied."

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling complained to their mother when they got home.

There are relatively few public slides and swings in the school, and it takes a long time to get a turn to play. If you meet someone who occupies the slide, it will be even harder to get a chance to play.

Qin Rou thought about making a simple wooden slide for the two children at home, making it shorter and safer than the slides in school. Over the past few years, she and Lu Yan and his wife have made rapid progress in woodworking skills. The two of them hammered and banged to make a detachable wooden folding slide for the two kids.

When the adults are at home, they open the slide and put it on the lawn, letting the two kids climb and play.

Their slide has been liked by many children. Zhang Dundun from the Zhang family next door, Liu Tiaotiao from the Liu family, and Wang Nian Nian from the Wang family all come to their yard to play on the slide.

The age difference of these five little guys is not much. The oldest is Zhou Zhou, and the youngest is Wang Nian Nian. Zhou Zhou is only one year older than Wang Nian Nian. The five little guys, three boys and two girls, are all short and stocky.

Zhou Zhou and Dumpling are slightly taller, followed by Tiao Tiao, then Dun Dun, and the shortest is Wang Niannian.

Qin Rou asked the group of little guys to line up and count, and take turns to play on the slide.

"Start with Zhou Zhou, and say your name to me."

"I'm Lu Zhou Zhou.

" "Lu Dumpling.

" "Zhang Dun Dun."

"Liu Tiao Tiao."

"Wang Niannian..."

After saying his name, Dumpling found that he was the only outlier. He pointed at himself and said, "Mom, why am I not Lu Dumpling?"

Compared with the abb names of others, his name was too special, and Dumpling thought it was not nice.

"I want to be called Lu Dumpling." When playing with a group of friends, Dumpling was most afraid of becoming an outlier, so he decided to change his name.

Zhou Zhou, Dumpling, Dun Dun, Tiao Tiao, and Nian Nian… all sounded neat and tidy.

Liu Tiao Tiao said happily: “Dumpling, feet haha…”

She sat on the small lawn, rubbed her feet, and pointed with her little black hand: “Hehe, Lu Jiao Jiao.”

“You are little feet.”

Dumpling was unhappy again when she saw this, “I am Dumpling!!”

“Mom, I don’t want to be called Lu Jiao Jiao, I am Dumpling!!”

Qin Rou: “…”

Several children played together, Liu Tiao Tiao was the most cheerful and talkative one, she took the initiative to say to several children around her: “I am the daughter of Mama Huahua, I am Hua Duo Duo, Hua Duo Yan, Duo Duo Yan.”

Little girls like their names to be like flowers, colorful and beautiful.

The real name of little girl Liu Tiaotiao is actually Liu Yaoyao. It is said that she secretly calculated her horoscope and it was said that she lacked the element of earth in her destiny, so Li Qinghua and her husband thought about it and decided to call her Yaoyao. Six elements of earth mean that she is not lacking in earth now.

"Call me Hua Duoduo!"

All right, the other children had no objection and all called her "Hua Duoduo".

Wang Niannian was a little envious and said shyly, "I want to be called Hua Yanyan."

Little Wang Niannian is different from other children. Her nickname is her real name, so she is called Wang Niannian.

Qin Rou: "..."

One Hua Duoduo, one Hua Yanyan, the little girl's wish is so simple. Compared with the names of Zixuan, Zixuan, and Zixuan given by their parents, they just want to be called Duoduo and Yanyan.

Knowing that someone changed his name with him, Tiaotiao was very happy. She said to Wang Niannian, "Hello, Hua Yanyan."

"Hua Duoduo."

Zhang Dundun saw the interaction between the two and hurriedly said, "Then I don't want to be called Dundun anymore. I'm Daqiang!!"

"You call me Zhang Daqiang."

Qin Rou almost choked on her own saliva. After Zhang Daqiang finished speaking, the other children looked at him.

Xiao Dumpling blinked and thought that if he changed his name to Daqiang, it would be the same as his Dumpling, not in the abb format, and he had a companion, so Xiao Dumpling happily called him, "Zhang Daqiang!!"

Dumpling called Daqiang, and his brother Zhouzhou followed and called him Daqiang. The other two little girls also followed the crowd, "Hello Daqiang."

"I'm Daqiang!" Zhang Dundun was very proud and puffed out his chest.

His nickname is Dun Dun, and his full name is Zhang Erheng. It is said that when naming him, Zhang Chengbei and his wife racked their brains. The eldest son was named Yichao, and the second son should be named "Daqiang" so that they can sound like brothers and have good meanings.

Zhang Chengbei thought of several names. The eldest son could be named Yichao, and the second son could be named "Daqiang". Both sounded very powerful, but Teacher Huang refused to name his son Zhang Daqiang.

So the two thought about it and named their son Zhang Erheng. Yichao, Erheng, and the second son are more humble to balance.

But Dun Dun was a competitive kid, so he thought "Daqiang" was more powerful.

Daqiang sounds very powerful! !

Just like his brother Yichao.

"Da Qiang!!"

Now that there are Hua Duo Duo, Hua Yan Yan, and Zhang Da Qiang, Qin Rou is curious whether her two sons will follow suit?

The herd effect, will these two little guys also change their names from the crowd?

Qin Rou is very worried that they will say to her: "Mom, I want to be called Cao Shuai Shuai." "I'm Cao Junjun."

...

Hahaha...

Qin Rou just regrets that there is no camera with her at the moment, otherwise she will record the images of these children in front of her and show them to them in twenty years.

"Mom..." Xiao Dumpling called her.

Qin Rou smiled and said, "Why, Dumpling also wants to change his name?"

Dumpling said ambitiously, "I want to be Zhou Zhou!"

Zhou Zhou said, "I am Dumpling."

Qin Rou said, "Okay, okay, whatever you want to do."

The brother and the younger brother are not much different. Anyway, the one who is the most innocent, gullible and impulsive must be Dumpling.

The two children seemed to have grown taller than before.

"Come on, Duoduo, Yanyan, Daqiang, Zhouzhou, and Dumpling, line up. I'll take a picture for you!"

The five little guys lined up from tall to short, a total of three fish and two large radishes.

Qin Rou looked at the row of little guys and smiled.

She went to get a camera to take pictures of them, and planned to write on the back of the pictures after they were developed:

January 1976, Lu Zhouzhou, Lu Dumpling, Zhang Daqiang, Liu Duoduo, Wang Yanyan.