Ruirui had been doubting her life for two days, but on the third day, they found that their sister seemed to be a little better looking.
And from that day on, my sister looked prettier every day. After a week, she had become a fair and plump little girl.
Although he couldn't tell whether her facial features were like her father and mother, he was sure that his sister would not be much uglier than him and his brother in the future.
After learning Mingming's thoughts, Lin Wei was silent for a while and asked, "Are you confident about your appearance?"
Mingming held his head high and chest out, quite confidently: "Of course!" He is the most handsome guy in the family area!
Very nice and narcissistic.
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After giving birth, Lin Wei stayed in the hospital for another week and was discharged only after she was fully recovered.
Yazhou Island was not cold at the end of November, with the temperature hovering around 20 degrees. But Lin's mother said that Lin Wei had just given birth and had to be especially careful not to catch a cold. In addition to wearing long sleeves and long pants, she also asked her to wear a slightly thick coat.
Lin Wei bought the coat when she was in Shicheng. Because it doesn't have much cotton, she can only wear it when the weather is good, and she has to wear an autumn shirt and a sweater inside, otherwise she will be cold.
When she was with the army, she thought that even though the winter on Yazhou Island was generally warm, there would always be cold days, and this coat might come in handy, so she brought it with her.
As a result, Lin Wei only wore this dress once during the entire winter last year, and she wore it for the entire morning. When she got home from school, she quickly took off the dress and put it at the bottom of the box until her mother found it after she gave birth.
Lin Wei really didn't want to wear the clothes, but with her mother watching, she didn't dare to resist, and finally put on the clothes reluctantly.
Seeing that Lin Wei was obedient, Lin's mother said with satisfaction: "That's more like it. It's windy outside today. How can you not wear something thicker?"
Lin Wei believed what Lin's mother said, but after she walked out and felt the breeze blowing towards her, she couldn't help but look at her mother with suspicion.
This is called strong wind?
Fortunately, she didn’t have to walk back by herself, otherwise Lin Wei suspected that she would be sweating all over when she got home.
The jeep drove into the family quarters. The road was quite busy with many adults and children, and they all looked over when they saw the car.
Military jeeps are not uncommon near the base. Ordinary officers like Zong Shao travel to and from the barracks on foot, and they have to apply for private cars occasionally. But those at high levels basically take the bus to and from work every day, but they usually don't carry their relatives, and if they do, they have to pay for the gas themselves, otherwise it would be considered using the bus for personal purposes.
In short, there are military vehicles coming in and out of the family area almost every day, but people are always curious, and when they see a car, they can't help but take a look inside to see who is sitting inside.
When they saw Lin Wei sitting in the back row, the military wives gathered in groups on the roadside and started talking: "Lin Wei is discharged from the hospital?"
"It's been almost a week since she gave birth, right? It's time for her to be discharged from the hospital."
"She stayed in the hospital for more than a week. I heard she was admitted a day before her due date, but she gave birth several days after her due date. In total, she stayed in the hospital for at least ten days, and she didn't care about the money." Her tone was sour.
Although the medical expenses and hospitalization expenses can be reimbursed, you cannot claim the reimbursement as you wish. It depends on what the doctor says. Otherwise, those who like to take advantage of others will go to the hospital and stay for seven, eight or even ten days for a minor illness.
Women usually go to the hospital one day in advance to give birth, and some even go to the hospital only when the labor has started. Women stay in the hospital for three or four days after giving birth, and are basically discharged once they are able to walk.
As for Lin Wei, she stayed in the hospital for at least ten days, and the extra time was all money!
There are not many people like Lin Wei who have to stay in the hospital for more than ten days after giving birth in the family quarters, but there are some. There are always people who cherish their lives everywhere.
Among the military wives who were discussing this, there was one who stayed in the hospital for a week before and after giving birth. It was shorter than Lin Wei's, but her husband's was not shorter by a few days. After hearing this, he said, "From what you said, it seems that giving birth is so easy. In my opinion, we women work so hard to give birth to children, but this man doesn't even want you to stay in the hospital for a few more days because he cares about the money. I advise you to kick him out as soon as possible, otherwise you will be the only one who suffers for the rest of your life."
The sour-speaking military wife did not stay in the hospital for a few days after giving birth. It was not because the husband was unhappy, but because the mother-in-law thought it was a waste of money and was unwilling to let her stay longer. Her husband listened to his mother and didn't urge her or object. In the end, she couldn't win over her mother-in-law and was discharged from the hospital as soon as she was able to get out of bed.
For this reason, she often spoke ill of her mother-in-law when chatting with other military wives, and felt that she was very unlucky to have such a mother-in-law.
But this did not stop her from thinking that others were being hypocritical and didn't know how to save money when she saw others staying in the hospital for more than ten days after giving birth. When her husband was scolded by his fellow military wives, she covered up for him and said, "Actually, my husband is not that bad. After I gave birth, he also advised me to stay in the hospital for a few more days, but I thought it was too wasteful and didn't agree."
After hearing her words, the military wife who was confronting her raised a mocking smile at the corner of her lips: "Oh, then you are really frugal..." Before she finished speaking, the hem of her clothes was pulled by the military wife behind her, so she swallowed the word "idiot" and changed her words to "good wife."
With her compliment, the slightly tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed, and the sour-speaking military wife said proudly: "Yes, it's ok for men not to be frugal, but we women have to know how to live..."
But before she could finish her words, the military wife who had been arguing with her became impatient and found an excuse to leave the team. The rest of the people just responded perfunctorily and listened to her talk about her rich experience of living a "good" life.
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The people in the car were not aware of what happened on the roadside. When Zong Shao parked the car in front of Zhou's house and Lin Wei got out of the car, the neighbors at home all came over, asking Lin Wei how she was feeling, and came to Lin's mother to look at the child.
Adults are always good at finding the good things on babies' faces and enthusiastically giving them all kinds of compliments. Just like now, one person praises the child for his fair skin, another praises the child for his straight nose, in short, the child is good-looking in every way.
Of course, they have not forgotten the child's biological parents and always mention them when praising them, but everyone has different opinions about whose facial features the child looks more like.
Some say she looks more like Lin Wei. Looking at her eyebrows, eyes and chin, she looks exactly like Lin Wei. Some also say that he looks like Zong Shao. His eyes, nose and lips are so similar to his!
Because he was too short, Rui Rui asked puzzledly when he saw his sister: "Isn't my sister sleeping?"
"Just now." Mingming replied.
"Then how did they know that my sister's eyes resembled my father and mother's?"
Mingming shook his head with a heavy expression. This was the biggest confusion in his heart after his sister became beautiful.
In the past few days, almost everyone who went to the hospital to visit Lin Wei and the child talked about the child's eye shape. At first, he didn't think anything of it, but when the elders mentioned it later, he deliberately went in to take a look and found that his sister didn't open her eyes at all.
Seeing that she couldn't get an answer from her brother, Ruirui could only sigh and say, "Adults are amazing."
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The first thing she did when she got home was to take off her clothes. After entering the house, Lin's mother did not stop Lin Wei. After a few words, she began to urge her daughter to go back to the room and lie down, saying that she should not be too tired during the confinement period. The child was also sent back to the room.
Zong Shao carried the child up, and he didn't come down afterwards. He sat beside the bed and talked to his wife, teasing his daughter from time to time.
Ruirui was obviously sitting downstairs feeling bored, so she went upstairs soon.
Although Lin Wei clearly said that she was not interested in brothers and sisters who could not be his younger brothers when she first became pregnant, after her sister was born, he liked to tease her more than Ruirui did.
Of course, because newborns sleep most of the day and open their eyes very rarely, in most cases, Mingming Ruirui was watching her sister chatting.
Occasionally, Mingming would touch his sister's hair and eyebrows, look at how long her eyelashes were, and poke her face.
However, because mom and dad said that his sister was just born and her bones were soft, he didn't dare to touch her too hard, nor did he dare to hold her nose. If he pinched it, he was afraid that she would have difficulty breathing, and if he pressed it, he was afraid that her nose would become flat.
When I first heard my mother say this, I couldn’t help but say, “My sister is so weak.”
Lin Wei said: "Newborn babies are very weak. You were like this when you were born too. It will be fine when she grows up to your size."
"How long will it take for my sister to grow up to be as old as us?" Mingming asked.
Ruirui fainted and said, "We are four and a half years old now. Of course it will take four and a half years for our sister to grow to be as old as us."
"How old will we be then?" Although he could already do addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers, he was only able to do whole numbers. He didn't even understand 4.5 plus 4.5.
Ruirui progressed much faster than her brother and quickly figured out the answer: "Nine years old."
Mingming asked with a surprised look on his face: "Then aren't we big kids now?"
Lin Wei reminded her, "You were nine years old when your sister was four and a half, but you still have to live these four and a half years one year at a time. You can't become a big kid all of a sudden."
He turned around and felt disappointed, but he kept in mind the fact that his sister was very weak.
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Mingming Ruirui had not gone upstairs for a while when Chen Bamei came over with Xiao Shitou.
She had just gone out with Xiao Shitou. When she came back and saw the car parked at the door, she guessed that Lin Wei and the others might have returned, so she came over to ask.
Upon asking, it turned out that Lin Wei had been discharged from the hospital and came up with Xiao Shitou.
After they came up, Lin's mother followed up, and the room suddenly became lively. The three children and the three women started chatting separately. Zong Shao was left alone, so he didn't stay in the room for long and walked to the balcony at the back.
In the yard opposite Zhou's house, several soldiers were smoking and chatting. When they saw Zong Shao coming out of the house, someone called him over to talk.
Since they were all acquaintances, Zong Shao responded, went into the house, said something to Lin Wei, and then went out.
As soon as he entered the yard, someone handed Zong Shao a cigarette. He waved his hand and said, "I quit smoking."
"Why do you all quit smoking?" the person who was handing out cigarettes said helplessly.
The young soldier sitting on the wall asked, "Who else is quitting smoking?"
"Several of them. Old Zhang from the Third Regiment quit smoking a long time ago. There's also Xing Dong from the Coastal Defense Force," the man handing out cigarettes said, raising his chin towards the man opposite him. "Old Zhou is the same. When we were chatting yesterday, I gave him a cigarette and he also told me that he wanted to quit smoking."
Someone was well versed in interpersonal relationships and even knew which military wives had a good relationship with which other, so he asked Zong Shao, "Are the wives of these men on good terms with your wife?"
Zong Shao nodded: "Yes."
It would have been fine if he hadn't nodded. Once he nodded, everyone felt fortunate. Fortunately, their wives didn't have much contact with the wives of those guys, otherwise they would not be able to smoke anymore. They all thought that these guys were forced to quit smoking by their wives.
Since Zong Shao didn't smoke, everyone stopped giving him cigarettes for fear of upsetting his wife, who she probably wouldn't be able to handle. Everyone smiled and congratulated Zong Shao on the birth of his daughter. Someone even asked him whether he would hold a banquet to celebrate his daughter's full moon.
As soon as this question was asked, the people around him elbowed the person asking the question, expressing their disdain for his inability to speak.
There are rarely any banquets in the family quarters, mainly because there has to be a reason to hold one, and there are only a few reasons, such as marriages, childbirths, and birthdays.
However, those who can live in the family area must basically meet two conditions: one is that they have a high enough rank or long enough military service, and the other is that they are married and have a wife.
The former is easier to say. Although those who meet the requirements are basically 25 and above, and there are only a handful of unmarried men, it is not impossible to find older unmarried men.
The latter, these soldiers on Yazhou Island, come from all over the world, and they usually go back to their hometowns to get married and hold a wedding banquet there. After their wives follow the troops to the island, they may not necessarily host a banquet again.
Not to mention celebrating a big birthday. Thirty or forty can only be called a birthday, and it’s enough to invite relatives and friends to have fun. To celebrate a birthday, you have to be at least fifty or sixty. However, officers are too old to be promoted and basically retire and return to their hometowns. Those in their fifties and sixties are basically leaders of various divisions. The higher the position, the more cautious they are. They celebrate their birthdays in a low-key manner and almost no one will hold a big one.
As for couples like Zhao Li, there are only a handful of them who host banquets when moving to a new house, maybe only once or twice every three or two years.
The most common reason for holding a banquet in the family quarters is that the daughter-in-law has given birth, and it is usually a son.
The mainstream idea these days is to favor sons over daughters, and these officers in the family quarters are no exception. Most of them are beaming with joy when they have sons, but it depends on the situation when they have daughters. Those who have sons will be happy, but those who don't may just put on a forced smile.
But even if those who already have a son or have given birth to a daughter, they may not necessarily hold a banquet when the daughter is one month old. At most, the family will have a sumptuous meal as a celebration.
Although Zong Shao has been walking with a breeze and smiling since Lin Wei gave birth to a daughter, and has been greeting more frequently people in the family area, both familiar and not so familiar, but who knows if he is willing to hold a wedding banquet?
After all, she's just a girl!
After being elbowed, the person who asked the question figured out the cause and effect of the matter. He realized he had said the wrong thing and tried to change the subject.
But before he could say anything, Zong Shao said, "Do it! Of course we have to do it!"
Because Zong Shao returned to the army before Ruirui was even one month old, so he was unable to attend the full-month banquet for the two children.
In addition, he was indeed very busy during this period. Although he had requested leave from the army, the vacation was limited. He returned to work three days ago. He had been busy these days and had not thought about this matter. It was not until he heard everyone talking about it that Zong Shao remembered that he and Lin Wei had not yet discussed the full moon banquet.
However, in his opinion, the only things that had not been discussed were the time for the full moon banquet and the details such as who should be invited. As for whether to hold it or not, there was no need to think about it. The only thing that mattered was that it must be held.
After hearing Zong Shao's answer, those who wanted to change the subject were stunned for a moment, but the others reacted quickly and said cheerfully, "It's good to have some fun." They then asked if the date had been set.
Zong Shao said, "The date has not been determined yet. I will tell you after I discuss it with my wife."
Everyone laughed and said, "Okay, then we'll be waiting!"
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