Finally, Lin Wei compromised and gave the brothers a stronger soapy water that would produce more bubbles, and only then did she coax Mingming into silence.
But he was clearly a little dizzy. When Lin's mother used hot water to scald the fluff off the chicken's body, he leaned over and blew a lot of bubbles. The bubbles floated away with the wind, and many of them fell into the hot water.
Although there is not much soapy water in the bubbles, free-range chickens need to be washed several times after being plucked, but they are food to be eaten after all, so what will happen if they get stained with soapy water!
Mother Lin took the chicken out and said sullenly, "Come on, come on, if you want to blow bubbles, go outside and stop getting in my way. If you blow so many bubbles, what if the soapy water gets on the food?"
After scolding the two children, he started to talk about Lin Wei and Zong Shao: "You two, why don't you give them any toys instead of making them blow bubbles with soapy water? I have to pour out the basin of water! Take them away quickly!"
Seeing her mother getting angry, Lin Wei quickly took the two children to the backyard to play.
As soon as I arrived at the backyard, I ran into Little Stone coming out of the house. I saw them blowing bubbles. The little guy ran out of the house and joined the children. Seeing them playing, Lin Wei went to the bathroom to wash her face and brush her teeth.
After brushing her teeth and washing her face, Lin Wei went into the kitchen and got a bowl of noodles.
Because she got up late, the noodles took a little longer to simmer in the pot. They melted in her mouth, and she finished the bowl of noodles very quickly. Just after putting down the bowl after eating, she heard crying from upstairs, and Lin Wei hurried upstairs to see her daughter.
After entering the room and sitting on the edge of the bed, Lin Wei habitually reached out to touch the diaper first. Feeling that it was a little wet, she picked her up and took off the diaper.
As soon as I took off my diaper, Zong Shao came in and asked, "Did you poop?"
"I peed." Lin Wei said.
Zong Shao took the diaper from her and said, "I'll go get a basin of water."
Lin Wei responded, and after he left, she stood up with her daughter in her arms, closed the door, walked to the bed, unbuttoned her shirt, opened her underwear and fed the child.
The little guy was crying with his mouth open one second ago, but the next second he stopped crying when he tasted breast milk and started drinking it in big gulps.
Zong Shao came up with warm water and saw it. He put the basin on the single bed, took out a handkerchief and a clean diaper from the drawer, and sat by the bed waiting.
After about ten minutes, Lin Wei covered herself with her clothes, turned her head and asked him for a handkerchief. He handed her the handkerchief, watched her wipe her daughter's mouth, and said, "Give me the baby."
Lin Wei said "oh" and turned sideways to hand the child to him.
Zong Shao held his daughter in his arms and sat down beside the single bed to wipe her. The smell of child's urine was not strong, so he had no taboos when wiping and his movements were quite skilled. After a short while, he wiped his daughter clean, went back to the bed, picked up the diaper and put it on her.
While he was doing this, Lin Wei was already dressed. She turned around and sat cross-legged on the bed, watching his movements and smiled, "Not bad, you're getting more and more skilled."
If it were someone else, they would be more modest and humble at this time, but Zong Shao was not one to be praised, and said, "I will be more skilled in the future."
"You're quite confident." Lin Wei smiled and sat over, tilting her head to look at her daughter who was biting her fingers.
At first, she was the only one looking at the little guy, but gradually the little guy also saw her, stretched out his hands and waved, and giggled.
"She is smiling at me." Lin Wei's eyes curved.
Zong Shao nodded, holding his daughter close to Lin Wei, and the mother and daughter looked at each other from close range.
As she watched, Lin Wei sighed: "My daughter is so pretty."
"If the mother is pretty, then of course the daughter will be pretty too," Zong Shao said.
Lin Wei looked up at Zong Shao and said, "It's also thanks to my father."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Wei was slapped by her daughter. It didn't hurt, but she still pinched her daughter's face angrily: "Zong Beibei, little friend, you think you are good-looking, and the credit is all due to mom. Mom is very pleased, but even if you don't agree with mom, please be a little more tactful and don't deny mom in such a rude way, okay?"
Zong Shao: “…I’m listening.”
Lin Wei nodded and continued to teach her daughter: "Even if you must deny your mother's words in such a rude way, please choose to do it when the person concerned is not around next time, okay? If you do this, Dad will be so sad!"
The answer she got was from Zong Beibei: "ZZZ~"
"Mom tried her best to reason with you, but you still fell asleep!" Lin Wei couldn't believe it and said to Zong Shao, "Watch out for your daughter!"
Zong Shao readily admitted his incompetence: "I can't control it."
Lin Wei said helplessly: "Okay, remember this first, and I will teach you a lesson when you grow up."
Lin Wei looked at her daughter who had fallen asleep with sympathy and said, "Okay."
…
Although the banquet started at twelve o'clock, guests started arriving after ten o'clock.
At the beginning, those who came were all close relatives. Those who came from Zong Shao's side were comrades in the camp, and the first group of people who came from Lin Wei's side were Deng Xiangyun, Liu Dan and others.
The men were basically received downstairs by Zong Shao, while the women went to the master bedroom to see Lin Wei and the children. As for the children, Mingming and Ruirui took them out to play.
As soon as she entered the master bedroom, Zhao Li said, "Why do I feel like your room is crowded again?"
Liu Dan didn't feel anything and asked, "Is it crowded? Why do I feel like the last time I came here is about the same as this time?"
"How can it be almost done? There weren't so many things the last time I came outside." Zhao Li looked around and said, "Especially this bed. There was a place to sit before, but now it's all piled up."
There are indeed a lot of things on the single bed. At first, there were only bedding, the baby's milk bottle, milk powder, and water bottle, etc.
But during Lin Wei's confinement period, people often came to visit her. Among them, close relatives like Liu Dan never came empty-handed. Some brought fruits to eat, and others brought toys.
The fruits were eaten one after another, but the biscuits and malted milk were not finished and were piled on the bed with the toys. In addition, with the birth of the child, the wardrobe space in the master bedroom became increasingly limited due to the excessive amount of clothes and milk powder stored. Many things had to be put outside and piled directly on the single bed.
As a result, the outside naturally became more and more chaotic, and looked more and more crowded.
After hearing what Zhao Li said, Liu Dan also remembered and said, "This is how the baby is when it is born. When the baby grows up, it will gradually become less crowded."
It would have been fine if Liu Dan hadn't said anything. As soon as he said it, Lin Wei felt dizzy: "That will take several more years. Besides, when the child grows up, he will definitely have to sleep in a separate room. By then, there may not be enough rooms at home."
"Your house is big, so it should be easy to partition off a room downstairs," said Yang Yi.
Zhao Li nodded. "That's right. When your daughter is three or four years old, you can let your eldest and second oldest son sleep with her. It's okay to separate them after she's five or six years old. There must be other houses available in the family quarters in the past few years. Maybe your family will move to a new house before your child reaches the age to sleep separately."
Deng Xiangyun said: "In fact, the house next door to yours is not bad either. It's big and can be renovated to be very comfortable to live in."
"Their house has been empty for a long time. The cost of repairing it will probably not be cheap," said Zhao Li.
The Zhao family lived next door. Strangely enough, several new families moved into the staff quarters this year, but no one chose the Zhao family’s house, so the house next door has remained empty.
There is a big difference between an occupied house and an empty house. For example, the last large-scale renovation of Deng Xiangyun's house was when she had just married Zhou Jianhai and came to the island to join the army. It has been seven or eight years now, and only minor repairs have been made during this period. The house looks pretty good now.
The Zhao family's house was renovated after Gao Xiu Lian came to join the army. It has only been three or four years since then. It was fine in the first few years, but since they moved out last year, the house has become visibly old, and it looks even worse than the Zhou family's house.
They talked about the house next door, and Liu Dan remembered something: "I think someone is going to live next door."
Zhao Li loves gossip, so she asked immediately after hearing this: "Who is it? Why are you joining the army at this time?" Army wives rarely join the army at the end of the year. Usually, many of them will wait another two months after the end of the year. After all, it is not easy to go back after coming here.
"Didn't Captain Sun and his wife from the battalion next to Old Xing ask for leave a while ago? It seems his mother passed away, and he went back to attend the funeral. His father passed away a few years ago, and now that his mother is gone, there is no one left in his hometown," Liu Dan speculated, "I guess that's why they came to join the army at this time."
Zhao Li asked: "What is Captain Sun's wife like?"
Liu Dan said helplessly: "I haven't seen it, who should I ask if you ask me?"
"Where is Captain Sun?"
"I heard from Old Xing that he's okay and they're quite familiar with each other, but I don't know much more." Liu Dan said, "It's no use asking so many questions now. No matter how easy Captain Sun is to get along with, how long can he stay in the family quarters every day? It also depends on his wife's personality. Anyway, he's expected to arrive next month, and we'll know then."
Zhao Li thought about it and said: "That's true."
As we were talking, another military wife came upstairs. Because she heard the last part of the conversation, she came in and asked, "What are you talking about? What's your personality like?"
The person who came was the neighbor who lived behind the house. Her surname was Zeng. Because she was older, Lin Wei usually called her Sister Zeng.
Liu Dan and his friends only knew Sister Zeng before, but over the past year or so, because of their good relationship with Lin Wei and Deng Xiangyun, they gradually became familiar with Sister Zeng. In addition, Captain Sun's family was on the way, and everyone would know sooner or later that the new wife was coming to join the army. Liu Dan did not hide it and briefly repeated what they had just talked about. Then everyone started discussing this issue again.
When the discussion was over, Sister Zeng went over to look at the child.
Lin Wei's daughter was not light when she was born, especially her face, which was round and looked plump. After a month of raising her, she has grown a lot and her face has become rounder, which makes people unable to resist touching her.
Sister Zeng did touch the baby twice and said with a smile, "This child is really well raised. His round face is so cute. Have you chosen a name for him?"
Although Sister Zeng had a good relationship with Lin Wei, it was not as good as that of Liu Dan and the others, so she only came to visit her once a few days after Lin Wei came back from the hospital. The child had not been named yet at that time, so she asked this question.
Lin Wei said, "Yes, the full name is Zong Zeyun and the nickname is Beibei."
Sister Zeng praised: "This name sounds nice, and it's a good nickname. Baby, baby, I know you value this child as soon as I hear it."
In fact, Lin Wei didn't think too much when she gave her daughter a nickname. It was just because her daughter's full name could not be decided. Either she felt it was inappropriate, or Zong Shao felt it was not good. When she was discharged from the hospital, her daughter didn't even have a name to call.
She felt that this was not a good idea, so she decided to give her daughter a nickname first, because her mother always called her "little baby" and "little darling", but she felt that "baby" was not formal enough, as many children were not called "baby", their elders would still call them "baby", so she did the opposite and named her daughter "Beibei".
As a result, up to now, their whole family, including Lin Wei herself, still often calls their daughter "little baby" after she was given the full name Zong Zeyun and the nickname Zong Beibei.
The invalid naming is confirmed.
Just as Lin Wei was thinking, Mingming Ruirui brought a group of children into the master bedroom and asked loudly, "Mom, is my sister's name Baobao or Beibei?"
Lin Wei asked angrily: "You don't even know your sister's name?"
"I know," Mingming said confidently, "I said my sister should be called Baobao, but my brother said that was not right and said my sister should be called Beibei. But my father, mother, grandmother and Aunt Lan always call my sister Baobao!"
After hearing what her brother said, Ruirui said loudly: "Although mom and dad call my sister Baobao, my sister is called Beibei!"
Mingming felt that his brother's statement was totally untenable: "My name is Mingming, so mom and dad call me Mingming. Your name is Ruirui, so mom and dad call you Ruirui. If your sister's name is Beibei, then why do mom and dad call your sister Baobao? Mom, do you think I'm right?"
Lin Wei: "...Although what you said makes sense, your sister's nickname is indeed Beibei."
Mingming: “Ah?!!!”
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