"Has the neighbor next door come back?" Zhang Chengbei asked casually when he got home.

"Try it, the salted egg yolk baked barbecue pork made by Xiao Qin next door is delicious. Do you think we should buy an oven? I heard from Xiao Qin that she uses an oven to make it, and she can make a lot of delicious things with an oven..." Huang Xinying talked incessantly, she was very interested in the oven next door.

"Oven? That thing, forget it... Those of them who stayed on the boat, haven't they eaten enough toast? It's not delicious, it doesn't suit our appetite, and we would rather eat steamed buns and pickled vegetables when we get down." Many boats are equipped with ovens, and no one likes the bread baked in them. They would rather eat steamed buns and pickled vegetables than bread. It's

okay to eat it once or twice, but it's unbearable to eat it every day.

Huang Xinying said: "That's because your cooking skills are not good. Xiao Qin said that he would bake some croissants in a few days for people to taste."

"Croissants? Croissants? Xiao Qin went to college for a few years and brought some weird things back."

Zhang Chengbei looked at the slices of baked barbecued pork with salted egg yolk on the table. It looked very tempting, and the smell was salty and strong. He couldn't help but pinch a piece with his hand and put it into his mouth. It would have been better if he didn't taste it. After tasting it, he found that the taste was really amazing!

"The neighbor next door is really back." Zhang Chengbei sighed in his heart.

Zhang Chengbei felt mixed emotions when the neighbor Lu family came back. He felt happy and sad at the same time. His mood was so complicated that he couldn't even describe it.

Lu Yan's family was the neighbor who had lived with them the longest. It would be wrong to say that they had no feelings for each other. The return of the whole family meant that the surrounding courtyards were bustling. Zhang Chengbei was inexplicably happy.

But he was also worried. When he thought of the twin girls next door, Zhang Chengbei had a heart attack.

Imagine two fair, tender and cute little girls calling him "Uncle Zhang, Uncle Zhang!" every day.

His heart ached again. Why did they both have daughters? ! ! !

No matter how complicated Zhang Chengbei's emotions were, he could only accept the fact that the couple next door had returned. The

Lu family's yard was quickly cleaned up. Lu Yan and Qin Rou built a new swing and a beautiful thatched shed, and put up a simple flower stand. The passion fruit vines were trimmed clean by her, the ground was renovated, and the seeds were planted. After a few days, the yard became very different.

Qin Rou took the Tian Dou Rong sisters to raise seedlings. They also raised chickens and rabbits in the yard, built a beautiful chicken coop and rabbit nest on the outermost perimeter, and surrounded it with a beautiful wooden fence.

Back to the two-story family house with a yard on the island, the Tian Dou Rong sisters finally had more fun places.

Mom wanted to plant flowers and plants in the yard, and they could also play in the mud happily at home.

Qin Rou: "..."

My daughter loves playing with mud and there is no way to stop her. Qin Rou takes her daughter to play with mud and knead the mud to make small mud figures.

"Mom, look!" Doudou held a lump of black mud and dropped it on the ground with a "pop", splashing her cute little white shoes with mud.

Rongrong is not like this. Children get messy when they play. They rub the mud on their faces and bodies.

In the end, the white and tender little faces turned into black faces.

"Your mother really doesn't want to wash your clothes."

Playing in the mud in a beautiful little skirt, is she still my beautiful little daughter?

Qin Rou pinched her two daughters' faces. Although she felt angry and amused, she comforted herself in her heart that this was a manifestation of the children's closeness to nature. When she was a child, she also liked to play with strange things, such as buying mulberry leaves to raise silkworms, and catching snails with other children on rainy days to compete to see whose snail ran faster...

It was really strange that she was not afraid of many insects when she was a child, but she was afraid of them when she grew up.

Children are stupid and timid!

Qin Rou took them to the tap to wash the mud off their bodies.

"Mom, I want to wash and smell good!"

"Wait until you have played enough before washing." It's useless to wash now and get dirty again.

"Xiao Qin, your Doudou and Rongrong have grown so big." Zhang Chengbei wandered to the gate of Lu's yard. He watched the two little girls next door playing in the mud for a long time from the window sill. These two little girls looked cute and seemed to be two little jumpers.

The two sisters looked exactly the same, with facial features very similar to their mother. They wore beige straw hats with bow ribbons hanging on the brim. They wore light blue skirts with a lot of beautiful white lace on them. At this time, there were already a few black paw prints on the clothes.

Just now, when the two little girls were playing in the mud with their butts sticking out, they were so cute.

Qin Rou was standing next to the two girls in a blue denim overalls. She also wore a sun hat on her head, with her long hair tied inside the hat. A strand of hair hanging down from her temples outlined her pretty face.

The two children stood together. They looked more like a sister with two cute little sisters than a mother and daughter.

The family next door, surnamed Lu, was really blessed. Zhang Chengbei thought to himself that it was me, Old Zhang, who made a mistake ten years ago. I didn't realize that Chief of Staff Lu and his wife were very capable, so I didn't take precautions in advance.

"This is Uncle Zhang from next door. Doudou and Rongrong say hello to Uncle Zhang."

The two sisters Tiandou and Dourong followed and shouted obediently, "Hello, Uncle Zhang."

Zhang Chengbei saw the two short and stocky guys holding down their hats, looking up to reveal a chubby, tender and white face, with dark eyes and clear and lively voices, like the sound of bells ringing in the wind, with a little sweet watermelon fragrance to dispel the summer heat.

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

He tried to move his eyes away to look at the mud puddle on the ground, thinking to himself, I'm not an egg fruit, I'm not jealous.

"The voices of these two girls are pretty nice, like you, Xiaoqin, can you sing?" Zhang Chengbei tried to find his own voice, trying to imagine the shortcomings of the neighbors. The two brothers Zhouzhou Dumpling next door sang out of tune and went to the southeast, northwest, and southeast. I have never seen such bad singing.

Is this true for everyone in their family?

"Yes!" Tian Dou Rong and her sister answered happily.

Zhang Chengbei saw their proud and confident eyes, and he was instantly inspired, thinking that your two brothers were so confident at the beginning.

"Sing for uncle!"

Tian Dou Rong and her sister sang a song "Jasmine Flower" for him. Their tender childish voices were just right for this sweet song.

"Uncle, do you want to hear another song?"

Tian Dou Rong and her sister, like their brothers, also like to show off their singing skills in front of outsiders.

Zhang Chengbei kept silent: "..."

No, uncle didn't want to listen.

"Doudou can sing a lot of songs!"

"Rongrong can sing a lot of songs too!!"

...

After listening, Zhang Chengbei tried to force a smile and said awkwardly: "Xiao Qin, your two daughters really inherited their mother's good voices. They can go to art schools and sing on the big stage in the future!"

Apart from anything else, these two little daughters sing pretty well.

He wanted to sneak one home.

His desire to have a daughter came back to him. Fortunately, family planning was in place at the moment, so he couldn't have one even if he wanted to. He could only guard his three older sons, Chao, Heng and You, for the rest of his life.

Qin Rou asked with a smile: "Do Doudou and Rongrong want to sing on the stage?"

"Rongrong only wants to sing for mom."

"Doudou also only wants to sing for mom!"

When it comes to the ability to say sweet words, the two brothers are no match for the sweet Dourong sisters.

Although they are two leaky little cotton-padded jackets in actual actions, they are definitely two warm-hearted little cotton-padded jackets in words.

Most of the time they speak sweet words to their mother. If they were two little spider spirits, they would like to use sweet words to entice their mother.

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

Just want to sing for mom?

It seems that in the daughter's heart, your father's status is not high, which makes me, Zhang, feel balanced.

Like mom more, don't like dad! !

Tiaotiao from the old Liu family doesn't like her father either, and prefers her mother and Uncle Zhang.

As an uncle who is deeply loved by Tiaotiao, Zhang Chengbei can be regarded as a half-godfather. Having such a goddaughter, Zhang Chengbei is both relieved and sad, because when Tiaotiao hangs out with his son Dundun, he feels more like he has an extra godson.

- Four sons!

Zhang Chengbei smiled and said, "You only sing for mom and not for dad? Will your dad be sad when he hears it?"

"--What are you talking about?"

Zhang Chengbei turned around and saw Lu Yan standing at the gate of his yard. He was wearing a snow-white new military uniform. The color was so white that it reflected the light. When the Tian Dourong sisters saw their father, they immediately ignored everything and ran towards him.

"Dad!!"

"Hold them high!"

Lu Yan held his two daughters in each hand. Behind him stood Old Wang, Wang Yuanzheng. When Wang Yuanzheng saw his two daughters, he immediately smiled: "Lu Yan, your two daughters have grown up a lot."

"Hello, Uncle Wang."

"Hello, Uncle Wang!"

"Old Zhang, you are also at Old Lu's house." Wang Yuanzheng was cheerful. He wore glasses and smiled very politely.

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

Zhang Chengbei didn't expect that he could see two class enemies at the same time.

Wang Yuanzheng only has one daughter, Wang Niannian, who is now seven or eight years old. She is very well-behaved and smart. The couple treats her like a treasure.

Because they only had an older daughter, Wang Yuanzheng's family and Xue Xiaohui's family urged them to have a second child and a younger brother, but Wang Yuanzheng refused to give birth despite the pressure.

Nian Nian's grandmother and grandmother-in-law all disliked his daughter Nian Nian, which made Wang Yuanzheng, who loved his daughter, feel particularly uncomfortable. He was also afraid that Wang Nian Nian would be wronged if he really gave birth to a younger brother, so he thought about not giving birth, responding to the country's call for family planning, and only had an only daughter.

There was only one only daughter in the family, and there were a lot of gossips around, but Wang Yuanzheng didn't take it seriously. Comrade Wang was particularly open-minded. He lived his life by himself, not by others' mouths. He had a wife and a daughter and lived a very comfortable life. Why would he care about what others said?

"A joke? What's so funny about me? I just gave birth to a daughter."

"What's wrong with having another one? Like them? To have a son, have another two... three daughters? Worry every time you have a child? If you really have a son, will you leave your own daughter aside?"

Comrade Lao Wang considered all aspects of the matter very carefully before getting married. When it comes to having a child now, he has also thought about all the possibilities. He thinks it is completely meaningless to have a boy. It is better to raise his own baby daughter Nian Nian and live in harmony with the family.

As for others? Who cares.

"That's really crazy!"

Zhang Chengbei firstly thought that this person had strange ideas, and secondly, he wondered if Lao Wang was implying himself.

Failed to have a son, but for him it was failed to have a daughter, but he couldn't say anything about it, and smiled and proudly said in front of others that he had three big fat boys.

Zhang Chengbei sighed, but he had to say that Wang Yuanzheng was right. If he really had a daughter in the future, he would be afraid that the bowl of water would be unfair, and it would not be good to favor the daughter and treat the son unfairly.

His family now has three sons, except for the lack of a daughter, and they can be said to live in harmony.

However, sometimes he still feels regretful and sad.

Before the Lu Yan family next door came back, Zhang Chengbei was particularly sad for Wang Yuanzheng, but Wang Yuanzheng didn't take gossip seriously at all, and it didn't mean anything if others said it, so he didn't say anything.

The old Wang family, both husband and wife, have jobs, and they are so happy raising a beloved daughter. Wang Niannian is quiet, well-behaved, and obedient to her parents. She is simply the ideal daughter for everyone.

After so many years, the hair on the head of old Wang has not decreased, and his old Zhang already needs to wear a hat to cover up his baldness. His sons are worried about his hair loss.

"Old Wang, where is your Nian Nian?"

"She is learning dance at the Children's Palace. I will stay at Old Lu's house for a while and go back with my daughter."

As they were talking, Lu Weizhou, Lu Weize and Wang Niannian came over. The two brothers Lu Weizhou also went to Lucheng Children's Palace today. Wang Niannian was learning dance there, so they came back together.

Wang Niannian was much shorter than the two Lu brothers, but she was slender and graceful, with a pair of watery almond eyes as charming as her mother Xue Xiaohui. She wore a snow-white, fitted dance outfit with a beautiful lotus-pink skirt around her waist and a little red on her forehead. When she saw her father, she trotted behind Wang Yuanzheng.

She called out shyly,

"Uncle Lu, Aunt Qin, Uncle Zhang..."

When the sisters Tian Dourong saw her, they started to say sweet words to her: "Sister Nian Nian is so beautiful."

"Dou Dou and Rongrong are both pretty."

"Sister Nian Nian's skirt is beautiful!"

"It's a dance skirt."

...

Zhang Chengbei looked at Lu Yan with a fake smile: "Will your Doudou and Rongrong be sent to the Children's Palace to learn singing and dancing in the future?"

"We'll see what they want to learn then." Lu Yan put the two daughters down, and the sisters Tian Dourong went to talk to their brother and sister beside them. He hooked his arm around Wang Yuanzheng's shoulder: "Let's communicate more in the future."

"I never thought that I would have two daughters before. Old Wang, your daughters are so big now. When we are together in the future, tell me more about your experience in raising daughters."

"No problem!" Wang Yuanzheng agreed immediately. He didn't want to talk about anything else. He just liked to talk about his wife and daughters.

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

Although he wanted to communicate, he had no choice but to say that he had no daughter.

Zhang Chengbei complained in his heart: This Lu (Lu) and Wang in front of him like to pretend in front of him. They must be saying these things in front of him to show that they have a daughter.

His eyes stayed on Lu Yan, thinking that it was really hateful, especially you, Old Lu, a Shandong man with thick eyebrows and big eyes. I originally thought that you were an honest and reliable person, but I didn't expect that this kid was so bad and harmed me for ten years.

"The four brothers and sisters in your family have returned to our family compound. You will have many playmates in the future."

"Nian Nian, Tiao Tiao, Dun Dun, they can all play with their younger sister."

Zhang Chengbei looked at the two sweet Dou Rongs and thought: Play with your Tiao Tiao sister more.

"It just so happens that all your kids are here. How about I take some photos of you? I bought the latest imported camera. The photos taken by photographers and journalists may not be as good as mine..."

Zhang Chengbei also has something to show off. He has been practicing photography skills in recent years, bought a lot of books on light and shadow, learned from professional photographers, and bought imported cameras. Whether it is technology or equipment, it is perfect. When can he show off if not now when there are so many people around?

Don't the Lu couple next door also love taking photos? Don't they have photos all over the wall? Don't they have photo albums one after another?

The Zhang family is even better at taking photos! !

"Take a photo? Great! Let's take a photo together!"

As soon as Zhang Chengbei made this suggestion, everyone responded positively. So the Zhang family, the Lu family, the Liu family and the Wang family all came and stood in several rows. Zhang Chengbei took out his imported camera and took several group photos of them.

But...

after taking the photos, Zhang Chengbei found:... what about me?

Should there be another Zhang Chengbei in the picture?

"It's still our old Zhang who has to take the photos. He takes beautiful photos. We can't let others take photos. Old Zhang, you have to watch the lens carefully, don't take bad photos of people!" Teacher Huang directed with a smile.

Their old Zhang showed off his imported camera, and Teacher Huang also wanted to show off her husband's good photography skills.

——He must take the photos!

"Our old Zhang took a lot of beautiful photos for me before, and they are better than those taken by other photo studios. Xiao Qin, if you have time, come to my house and take a look."

"Okay, looking at your old Zhang's attitude, he must have practiced good skills."

"We must let him take the photos himself!"

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

He stared at his teacher Huang, thinking that he didn't want this daughter-in-law anymore!!! What kind of person is this? ! Is there anyone who sells her husband like this? Shouldn't she take the initiative to think that her husband should also go in and take a photo?

Zhang Chengbei took great pains to take photos of this group of people. Although he was full of complaints, he didn't take photos casually.

He had to show his skills and take good photos! !

"Xiao Qin, we have known each other for almost ten years, right?"

"Yes, it's almost ten years."

Ten years ago, Qin Rou followed Lu Yan to Qiongzhou Island. In the blink of an eye, ten years have passed.

Their tenth wedding anniversary is also in these few days.

Although Qin Rou did not mention this matter on the surface, she still cares about it in her heart. After all, this is a special day. Ten years ago, on such an inexplicable day, she and Lu Yan met for the second time, and they got married in a flash.

Recalling that day again, Qin Rou thought that their marriage was casual enough, but now on the tenth wedding anniversary, shouldn't they be so casual?

After all, this is the tenth anniversary.

The day before the wedding anniversary, Lu Yan came home with a big box. Although he didn't say anything, Qin Rou knew intuitively that it must be a gift for her.

She was curious about what this man Lu Yan would give her as a gift for their tenth wedding anniversary.

Qin Rou stood beside the box, hesitating. It was a huge cardboard box, like the kind that holds home appliances. She didn't know what was inside.

"Curious?" Lu Yan smiled and raised his eyebrows as he looked at his wife.

Qin Rou nodded. She was indeed very curious in her heart, but she was more ceremonial. She knew that such a gift would only be meaningful if it was opened on the wedding anniversary.

Chief of Staff Lu really doesn't know how to do things. The gift given tomorrow should be brought back tomorrow.

"Give me a kiss." Lu Yan pointed to his cheek. Qin Rou came over, stood on tiptoe and kissed his face, and smiled: "Tell me after you give me a kiss?"

Lu Yan blinked, twitched his chin, and gestured: "Open it yourself."

Qin Rou: "???"

Open it today? Isn't it a gift that should be given tomorrow?

Qin Rou was suspicious: "Open it today? Did you remember the wrong date? Is this a gift for me?"

Who would give a gift a day in advance.

"You will know after you open it."

"Then I really opened it?"

"Open it."

Qin Rou really took a knife to open the gift when she said open it. She was too curious about what gift Lu Yan would give her.

Under Lu Yan's doting smile, Qin Rou opened the huge cardboard box, and then she found that it was not something else inside...

——It turned out to be a snow-white wedding dress! !!!

It was a white and complicated floor-length wedding dress with a very large hem. The overlapping patterns were exquisite and gorgeous, and the sparkling sequins shone with countless brilliance in the sun.

Qin Rou was stunned. Lu Yan smiled and hugged her face and said, "Let's wear this to take pictures on the beach tomorrow."

"I asked a foreign sailor to buy it from abroad. Do you like it?" I like

it! ! ! ! !

Is there any need to answer this?

Qin Rou excitedly threw herself into the arms of the man in front of her. The huge force almost knocked Lu Yan down. Lu Yan hugged his wife in front of him steadily, and countless joy overflowed from his heart.

"Lu Yan, I love you so much!" It was rare for Qin Rou to express her love so directly.

"Me too."

Lu Yan smiled and whispered in her ear: "Do you want to try it on?"

"Let's change it tomorrow." Qin Rou smiled shyly and blushed. She went back to the room, took out the things she had prepared long ago, and pushed them in front of Lu Yan shyly.

"I also prepared a gift for you. I wanted to give it to you tomorrow."

"Then give it to me tomorrow."

"Just... today." Qin Rou originally wanted to wait until tomorrow, but now she felt that she was in the right mood and she couldn't wait until tomorrow. She wanted to tell Lu Yan those words now.

Lu Yan kissed the back of her hand and said with a smile, "Okay, let your brother Lu come and see what gift your wife has prepared."

Lu Yan opened the gift box in his hand, and saw a tiny flash of light before his eyes. The next second, he saw the snow-white pearl in the yellow velvet.

This is a natural pearl from the deep sea. There is no flaw on the surface of the pearl. It can be said to be flawless.

"I got this by accident when I was fishing. I opened a pearl oyster and I didn't expect to find a pearl inside it, let alone a pearl that was so perfect."

Qin Rou looked at the man with a smile in her eyes and continued,

"Lu Yan, you are just like this pearl. You are someone I can only encounter in my life. I am so glad that I met you ten years ago. Marrying you is the most correct thing I have ever done in my life."

The next day, Qin Rou changed into her snow-white wedding dress, snow-white gloves, and long skirt. She turned her head to look at the man beside her, and the pearl under her earlobe shone with a tiny gleam.

The man beside her took off his usual white military uniform and put on a light gray suit. He looked different from the sharp and fierce look in military uniform, and had a bit more tenderness.

Qin Rou held his arm and looked up at his handsome profile. She felt as if her heart was about to jump out of her body.

Lu Yan lowered his head and kissed the corner of her mouth.

"Wow!!!!!"

"Mom is so beautiful!!!"

The four little guys in the family all gathered around and made amazing sounds. The Tian Dou Rong sisters looked at their mother today and thought that their mother in a wedding dress was so beautiful.

"Mom is the most beautiful mother in the world!!"

Ten years ago, they didn't even have a wedding. Ten years later, they could only take their four little kids to the beach to take wedding photos. They

also came with a dedicated photographer, Zhang Chengbei.

Zhang Chengbei saw the couple next door dressed up early in the morning, and his face was about to split.

This bastard Lu Yan had said in advance that he would take some photos for the young couple, and Zhang Chengbei agreed without paying attention.

As a result, he came to take wedding photos for the couple at the beach? ! ! ! !

His fucking tenth anniversary wedding photos.

I have never taken photos

before! ! ! ! Zhang Chengbei felt worse than eating ten sour lemons. He wanted to go back and slap himself. Who told you to be so naive to agree to this old dog Lu? Now you are on a pirate ship taking photos for others and acting as a photographer.

Today was a nice day with great sunshine, light blue sky, white clouds, and the deep blue sea behind them. They walked on the fine sand, the handsome man holding the woman's hand, and the children holding up the gorgeous snow-white skirt.

Lu Yan hugged the woman in front of him and said softly, "You are very beautiful today."

Qin Rou blinked, "You are also handsome!"

Zhang Chengbei looked at the picture in the camera, his face was as green as the jade bitter melon planted in his yard.

Doudou and Rongrong said excitedly: "Uncle Zhang, you have to take a better picture of Mom!!!"

"Uncle Zhang!! Take a picture of Mom and Dad!"

"Brother, give Huahua to Mom."

"Dad, you have to kiss Mom!"

...

Zhang Chengbei: "..."

Their figures walked through the coconut trees on the beach, stepped on the coastal reefs, took pictures of the blue sky and white clouds, and even the gorgeous sunset.

Under the sunset, a woman in a snow-white wedding dress leaned on the man beside her. They looked at the rolling waves in the distance together, and their backs overlapped tightly.

In this picture, the children's childish voices rose and fell.

Zhang Chengbei said numbly: "Let's take a family photo at the end."

At the end of the day, Zhang Chengbei's face was green and his heart was sad, but he still had to take a serious photo of the couple in front of him. If the photo didn't turn out well, wouldn't it be a loss of face for him as a man?

I have known you two for ten years, but not for taking wedding photos for you two! ! ! !

If time could go back, he would like to go back to ten years ago.

Absurd? Why did he take the initiative to talk to Lu Yan ten years ago?