The lucky Lin Wei was in a good mood. She went back and opened the coconut with a knife. She poured half a bowl of coconut juice for each of the two children. The remaining juice at the bottom of the coconut was hers, and they tasted it too.
Hmm... To be honest, this coconut juice is not bad to drink and it smells quite nice.
But Lin Wei didn't think it was delicious because it wasn't sweet enough and tasted a bit bland.
But both children like it very much. Although their personalities are very different, their tastes in food are similar. After drinking half a bowl of coconut juice, he still felt it was not enough and stared at the unopened coconut.
Lin Wei was studying how to eat coconut meat. She cut some with a knife and tasted it. It had a strong fragrance and a light sweetness. She even had foam in her mouth after eating it. But she felt it was a pity to just throw away the coconut meat with the shell, after all, she had paid for it.
Before she could figure out what to do, Lin Wei noticed the look in the brothers' eyes and quickly put away the unopened coconuts: "This is for your dad."
Although Zong Shao has been stationed on the island for many years and may not be keen on drinking coconut juice, they are family after all, so if they have it, they all have it, and if they don’t, they don’t have it.
"Okay." Mingming sighed, but the next second he turned his gaze to the mango next to him, "Then can we eat it?"
Lin Wei bought mangoes mainly to make sure that her family members did not have allergies, so that she would know clearly which fruits could and could not be bought in the future.
However, although the salesperson said that allergies depended on physical constitution, Lin Wei was still a little worried that the three of them might get infected, so she decided to wait for Zong Shao to come back before eating. This way, if someone is really allergic, it can be dealt with in time.
So this time, Lin Wei's answer was still: "I only bought one mango, I will eat it when my dad comes back."
Mingming had been thinking about Mango for a long time, but he looked disappointed when he heard this and couldn't help asking, "When will Dad come back?"
"In the evening."
Mingming let out a long sigh: "Okay then."
"Although you can't eat mangoes, you can eat lychees first." Lin Wei said, taking out two lychees from the bag and handing them to the children, "Do you know how to eat them?"
For children in inland areas, lychees are a rare commodity. Fresh ones are not available at all in the supply and marketing cooperatives, but canned lychees will be shipped in a couple of boxes during festivals.
But when it comes to eating, people always learn it by themselves. Without Lin Wei saying much, Mingming peeled the lychee, revealing the crystal clear flesh inside. The sweet juice flowed down the shell onto his hand, making him unable to help but lean over to take a sip.
"sweet!"
The little guy already had a look of satisfaction on his face before he even ate the flesh. Ruirui couldn't help but peel the lychee shell and bite into the soft and tender flesh.
The next second, Ruirui's eyes widened and he nodded continuously: "Delicious!" and swallowed the remaining flesh.
Seeing the two children enjoying the meal, Lin Wei threw the coconut shell aside, took out a lychee, peeled it and tasted it.
In terms of taste, it is actually similar to the canned lychees she had eaten before, but after all, they are fresh lychees, so they taste sweeter and fresher. In two words, delicious.
After eating lychees, the mother and her two children tried rambutan and kumquat respectively.
Rambutan looks strange on the outside, but its flesh is very similar to lychee and is also very delicious. As for the yellow-skinned one, Lin Wei didn’t like it very much because its sour and sweet taste was too much for her teeth to tolerate, but the two brothers still liked it very much.
After tasting these fruits, Lin Wei discovered that when it came to food, her son clearly accepted everything!
No matter whether it's sour, sweet or tasteless, they like it.
But no matter how much you like the fruit, you can't eat it without restraint. So after tasting it, Lin Wei locked all the fruits in the cupboard.
The two brothers ran out of food and finally remembered the friend they had just met. They said goodbye to their mother and went to the back to play with Xiao Shitou.
Lin Wei stayed at home and cleaned the house inside and out. She put away what needed to be packed and made a list of items that needed to be purchased, preparing to buy them after her household registration was approved.
They were all small chores and didn't feel like they took much time while they were doing them, but by the time they finished cleaning the sun had risen. Seeing that it was almost time, Lin Wei went into the kitchen to make lunch.
The kitchen was mostly fully stocked with a stove, pots, and kitchen knives, and most of the oil, salt, sauce, and vinegar borrowed from the Zhou family were left.
Lin Wei was thinking about the vegetables she bought today, so she fried some shredded potatoes, smashed some cucumbers, and then steamed the white pomfret she had bought. If sea fish is not stored for a long time, it will easily change its taste and become smelly. If it is steamed, it can be kept until the evening.
But Lin Wei didn't have to wait for Zong Shao to come back to touch the fish. There was no need. Just leave half for him.
So when Zong Shao came to the table that night, he saw half of the fish left on the plate and asked in surprise, "Where did the fish come from?"
Lin Wei explained: "We bought it at the seafood supply station this morning. Sister Deng gave us the seafood tickets."
Mingming said beside him: "Dad, this fish is so delicious! It's different from the fish I've eaten before." He couldn't help swallowing his saliva as he said this, he also wanted to eat it.
But mom said that the remaining fish was for dad because he worked very hard.
Therefore, although I was very greedy, I still resisted the urge to pick up my chopsticks. I just stared at my father's hands and couldn't move them away, but... eh?
Mingming opened his eyes wide: "This is the fish meat that mom left for dad." Why did he give it to mom?
But then Mingming saw that not only his mother had some, but he and his brother also had some. He also heard his father say, "Let's eat together."
Lin Wei hummed, looked at her silly eldest son, and said with a smile: "Eat it, we have to finish the fish today."
Mingming asked in surprise: "Can we all eat it?"
"Of course." Lin Wei said.
"We have fish to eat!" Mingming cheered. He stuffed the fish meat his father gave him into his mouth, smacked a few times and said, "It's delicious! Mom, can we have fish tomorrow, too?"
"Can."
Lin Wei raised her eyes to look at Zong Shao and said in a low voice: "Our household registration has not been issued yet."
"It's okay. I went to transfer my food relations today. In addition to the food coupons, I got back the meat coupons and seafood coupons." Zong Shao said as he took out a stack of coupons from his pocket and handed them to Lin Wei.
Lin Wei took the ticket, put down her chopsticks and looked at it.
Of course, the largest number of them were food coupons, which were basically refined grains, such as rice and flour. There were also coarse grains, sweet potatoes and cornmeal, but not much.
Then there were the meat tickets, which were divided into pork, chicken and duck. Pork was the largest, at one and a half kilograms, while chicken and duck meat were less, and together they were less than one kilogram. There are also seafood tickets. Because Yazhou Island is close to the sea, the supply of seafood is relatively loose, and each person can buy three kilograms of seafood per month.
Lin Wei counted the tickets and asked, "Did you convert all the meat tickets into tickets and bring them back?"
“Not all of it.”
"You've brought back most of it." Lin Wei was not so easy to fool. "It's only halfway through this month, if you bring back everything, what are you going to eat at noon in the camp?"
Zong Shao didn't reply, but only asked: "If I get all the tickets back, can I have one less meat meal every day?"
That's definitely not possible. Even if the sea fish doesn't last long, she would definitely leave half for him after steaming it at noon, but...
Zong Shao asked back: "Since my food is indispensable, what's the difference between eating at home and eating in the camp?" He then asked Lin Wei to put away the ticket and eat, otherwise the food would be finished if she didn't move her chopsticks.
Lin Wei had no choice but to put the ticket away and said, "That's it for this month."
Zong Shao hummed and reminded, "Return the ticket that Old Zhou's wife gave you later. It's not easy for them either."
Lin Wei nodded: "I know. I was planning to return the tickets to them once the household registration is approved."
Speaking of household registration, Zong Shao remembered and asked, "How did the household registration go today?"
"That's good. Sister Liu said that she would submit the documents for me today. If there are no problems, the household registration will be issued in two days." Lin Wei explained, "Sister Liu is the staff member who handled my household registration. She is also a military wife."
This is not uncommon. Jobs around the base give priority to military wives. They only recruit outsiders if the job cannot be done or no one is willing to do it.
Zong Shao said, "Who is her husband?"
"She didn't say that, and I didn't ask her about that." Lin Wei shook her head and remembered something else. "Oh, there's something else today."
"What's up?"
"I……"
Lin Wei was just about to speak when she heard a call coming from behind the house. It sounded like a mother calling her child to come home for dinner, and the voice sounded a little familiar.
Just as she was thinking about it, Lin Wei saw a person walking out from outside the courtyard wall. It was Comrade Liu Dan who handled her household registration.
Liu Dan was a little annoyed because he didn't find the person. He frowned and muttered, "Where did this brat go?" He raised his voice and cursed, "If you don't come out, don't go home for dinner. I'll beat you up when the time comes!"
After cursing, she turned around and was about to go back, but before she could even lift her feet, she saw Lin Wei eating in the yard. The anger on her face turned into a smile: "Comrade Lin, do you live here?"
Lin Wei responded with a smile and asked, "Are you looking for a child?"
"Yeah, I don't know where this brat ran off to after school. He didn't even respond when I asked him to come back for dinner. It really pissed me off!" Liu Dan said as he saw the two brothers trying hard to eat at the table. He couldn't help but sigh, "Your kids are really well behaved!"
"Be good at mealtimes." Lin Wei smiled and asked if he wanted her to help find the child.
Liu Dan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about him. He'll come back when he's had enough fun." As he spoke, he looked at Lin Wei's newly built kitchen, the newly replaced doors and windows, and the repaired walls and said, "I've always said that your house is really well decorated. Is that a toilet in the back?"
"Um."
"Will there be any smell if the door opens into the house?"
This was not a secret, and Liu Dan's attitude was quite friendly, so Lin Wei said it directly. Who would have thought that Liu Dan was shocked: "A tiled squat toilet? That must be expensive, right?"
“It’s not cheap.”
"I originally wanted to build a toilet at home if it was convenient, but now..." Liu Dan shook her head. She was reluctant to spend that money.
But she is not like Gao Xiu Lian, who is reluctant to spend money to make her house better, so she can't stand seeing others spend the money and even goes to other people's homes to give orders.
Liu Dan just nodded and said, "It's good to have it done. It will make you live more comfortably. By the way, did Director Chen come to see you today?"
Lin Wei was stunned: "Did you know she was looking for me?"
"No, it's a coincidence. Right after you filled out your information at my place, Director Chen went to the next door and said that the pharmacy was short of workers and the requirements were quite high. There was no suitable one among the military wives who were looking for jobs in the next door list, so she came to me to ask, and then I showed her your information."
Liu Dan winked at Lin Wei: "How was the discussion? Is the job confirmed?"
"Almost."
"Success, success, failure, failure, what do you mean by almost?" Liu Dan was puzzled. "That's not right. I think Director Chen is quite satisfied with you. After reading the information, she said she wanted to talk to you in person. What did you say to her? Why didn't it work out in the end?"
What Lin Wei can't resist the most are enthusiastic people. Seeing that Liu Dan was really worried about her, she told him the situation.
It would have been fine if she hadn't said anything, but once she did, Liu Dan couldn't help but say, "Are you stupid? That's a job in the hospital pharmacy, working from 8am to 6pm, with a break at noon, no exposure to wind or rain, and lunch is provided by the hospital cafeteria! A job that other military wives can't wait for falls on you, and you don't just agree to it, what are you thinking?"
In fact, Lin Wei’s idea was very simple. Although Director Chen said that she could bring her children to work, the pharmacy was a semi-enclosed space. She was an adult and could stay there for a whole day, but what about two children?
Of course she could let the two children go out to play, but she had to go to work and certainly couldn't leave the pharmacy at will. Without her watching, if the two children ran out of the hospital or hit someone, she might not know.
Moreover, since her children were not around, she would inevitably be distracted. Pharmacist was the job that could not allow for distraction, so she had to consider her work carefully.
Liu Dan said, "You have a point, but this job is really hard to come by. I think you should think about it carefully. No matter what, there are always more solutions than problems."
Lin Wei nodded: "Well, I will think it over carefully."
Her expression was so serious that Liu Dan could not help laughing: "Okay, I just couldn't help but say a few more words to you when I saw you. It's getting late, I have to go back and find the kids for dinner." After saying that, she opened her voice and walked into the family area while calling her son's name.
After Liu Dan left, Lin Wei turned around and went back to the dining table.
In addition to them, there was another person who turned around, but that person was not outside, but in the kitchen of the Zhao family, which was across the street from the Zong family.
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