After lunch, the supply ship docked at Sanlin Naval Port.
After walking out of the supply ship holding Mingming in her left hand and Ruirui in her right hand, the first thing Lin Wei saw was not the blue sea and blue sky, but the large warships docked in the distance and the young soldiers training enthusiastically below the dock.
They were submerged in the sea from the waist down, and their bare upper bodies took on a bronze hue under the sunlight.
Yeah, very pleasing to the eyes.
Unfortunately, she only took a few glances before her view was blocked by Zong Shao who came out of nowhere.
And after she slowed down, his walking speed also slowed down. After a few times, Lin Wei looked at Zong Shao.
He still had that expressionless expression, but when he noticed her gaze, he turned his head slightly and said in a light tone: "What's wrong?"
Lin Wei quickly shook her head: "No, nothing." She retracted her gaze and walked forward.
As soon as he walked out of the military port dock, a young soldier in a sailor shirt came up to him and saluted Zong Shao: "Hello, deputy battalion commander."
Zong Shao was promoted to deputy battalion commander for his meritorious service in the naval battle at the beginning of the year. After his rank was raised, he wrote to Lin Wei, asking her to join the army.
However, he had been busy in the first half of the year and had not been able to find time to go back to pick up the three of them. He was also worried about Lin Wei bringing the children alone, firstly because the journey was too long, and secondly because there were too many people on the train and he was worried that she would not be able to take care of them.
So, it was delayed until mid-June.
Zong Shao thought about it, put down his luggage, returned the military salute, and introduced Lin Wei, "This is Comrade Liu Wei, the orderly assigned to me by the army." He pointed at her and said, "Your sister-in-law, Lin Wei."
Lin Wei smiled and greeted, "Hello, Comrade Liu."
Liu Wei quickly said, "No, no, sister-in-law, just call me Xiao Liu." Then he lowered his head, looked at the two brothers and asked, "Deputy Battalion Commander, is this your son? They look so alike!"
Mingming is very outgoing. Without waiting for his father to introduce him, he said, "Hello, Uncle Liu. My name is Mingming, and this is my brother Ruirui. We are twins, so we look alike."
After listening to Mingming's long speech, Liu Wei asked in surprise: "How old is Mingming this year?"
Mingming puffed out his chest and said proudly, "Three years and four months!" My mother said that when a child turns three, he is already a big kid!
The two brothers looked taller than their peers. Liu Wei originally thought they were over four years old, but they turned out to be less than three and a half years old. He couldn't help but exclaim, "Mingming is really amazing!"
His nephew was already four or five years old before he came to join the army, but he remembered that his nephew was not so eloquent and his pronunciation was not so clear at that time.
He is worthy of being the son of the deputy battalion commander!
Facing Liu Wei's admiring eyes, Zong Shao felt a little puzzled, but he didn't say anything. He just picked up his luggage and said, "Let's go."
Liu Wei finally remembered the important business, and hurriedly took the woven bag from Zong Shao and said, "I'll do it, the car is parked over there." Then he walked towards the military jeep parked on the side of the road.
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Although they had taken ferries, trains, and supply ships along the way, the two brothers were very excited when they saw this military jeep, especially Mingming. After getting in the car, he touched it left and right, looked front and back, and couldn't stop.
The road from the dock to the family quarters is not flat, and stones are often hit, forcing the jeep to move forward.
There was a moment when Mingming was kneeling on the back seat with his back to the seat, holding onto the backrest and looking back. The jeep moved forward and he couldn't help leaning back, and the back of his head hit the back of the front seat with a bang.
Fortunately, Lin Wei reacted quickly and grabbed Mingming's clothes and pulled him into her arms. Otherwise, he would not only hit his head, but also fall into the gap between the seats.
Zong Shao, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned his head and asked, "Did you hit your head?"
Mingming rubbed the back of his head and said in a muffled voice, "Hmm." His voice sounded a little pitiful.
However, as a father, Zong Shao didn't feel sorry for him at all, and just said, "It's his fault."
Lin Wei chuckled when she heard that.
I kowtowed but didn't get any comfort from my father. I was already feeling very aggrieved, and now when I heard my mother's gloating laughter, I was so angry that I almost cried.
But he didn't cry after all. He just turned his head and rubbed it in his mother's arms, rubbing the back of his head and said coquettishly: "It hurts, mommy rub it."
Lin Wei snorted softly: "Now I know it hurts."
Having said that, he still reached out and rubbed the back of Mingming's head. There was no bulge, so there shouldn't be any big problem.
Thinking of this, Lin Wei turned around and looked outside.
After looking at her, she felt something was wrong and asked, "Isn't the family quarters by the sea?"
"It's on the beach."
"That……"
Lin Wei stretched her neck to look outside, and all she saw was fields and fields. "Why can't we see the sea from outside? And why do I feel like we're getting further and further in?"
Zong Shao also looked outside and said, "You're wrong. The road we took was parallel to the sea. Do you remember we turned a corner when we just left the dock? We turned from there."
Lin Wei recalled the previous route and suddenly realized: "So that's how it is."
Zong Shao hummed, then leaned over to the young man in the driver's seat and reminded him, "Focus on driving."
Liu Wei, who was listening to their conversation, was startled and stood up and shouted, "Yes! Deputy Battalion Commander!"
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When the family got into the jeep, someone in a house in the family quarters was talking about them.
The first person to mention them was a military wife wearing a floral shirt. She asked while sewing her shoe soles, "I heard that Deputy Battalion Commander Zong has been away for a while. He should be here soon, right?"
The man in the blue jacket sitting next to the man in the floral shirt said, "It should be soon. Deputy Battalion Commander Zong seems to be from Hu Province. He will stay at home for a few days. Half a month will be enough. But why are you asking this?"
The floral-printed shirt said with a smile, "I heard that Deputy Battalion Commander Zong's family has twins. I have never seen twins in my life. I wonder if their children look alike."
The man in the blue coat thought for a moment and said, "I haven't seen one either, but I heard that twins are more handsome than ordinary people."
The military wife in a white shirt sitting opposite the two men heard this and curled her lips and said, "Who says twins must be prettier than ordinary people? Don't they have the same nose and eyes? Can't they grow up the same?"
Then he said to the wife of the soldier in the blue coat, "If you ask me, don't believe everything you hear. A child's appearance depends on heredity. If the parents are not good-looking, it's useless to have triplets or quadruplets. If the parents are good-looking, the children will also be good-looking even if they are not twins. Like the three in my family, they are so handsome!"
The other two military wives: "..."
The military wife who said this was called Gao Xiu Lian. To be fair, she was not really ugly.
Although she is not tall, she is at least 1.6 meters tall. She is not thin, but she is not fat either. Her facial features are not particularly outstanding, but they are not without merit either.
All in all, just an ordinary look.
Her man is similar, neither tall nor short, neither fat nor thin. His appearance is not the worst among all the officers in the family quarters, but he is not at the top either.
Of course, there are also cases where the parents have ordinary looks but the children are exceptionally pretty, but Gao Xiu Lian's children are really not in this category. The three brothers and sisters all have ordinary looks.
In short, the looks of Gao Xiulian's three children have nothing to do with the word "handsome".
Therefore, after Gao Xiulian said this without changing her expression, the two fell silent.
But Gao Xiulian was obviously very confident about her family's appearance and did not think there was anything wrong with what she said. Seeing that the two did not agree, she asked, "Do you think what I said is wrong?"
After hearing this, both of them were speechless.
It’s just that Gao Xiulian’s husband Zhao Feng has a high rank and is the deputy regiment commander. He also happens to be the immediate superior of the husband of the military wife in a blue jacket. So when they usually interacted with each other, the wife of the soldier in the blue jacket would praise Gao Xiu Lian intentionally or unintentionally.
Therefore, although she was speechless in her heart, she still agreed with a sentence on her face: "That's right."
The military wife in the blue jacket had some concerns, but the military wife in the floral shirt didn't care so much. Her husband was not a soldier under Zhao Feng, so she was too lazy to flatter Gao Xiu Lian.
Of course, she wasn't so low in EQ as to tell Gao Xiulian directly that she didn't think her child looked good. She just changed the subject and said, "Even if it's genetics, judging by Deputy Battalion Commander Zong's looks, their child won't look bad."
Zong Shao's appearance is one of the best in the entire Sanlin base.
Even if Gao Xiulian had a deep filter, she couldn't say that Zong Shao was not as good-looking as her man, but she didn't like what she said about the floral shirt, so she snorted and said, "That may not be the case. Who knows what Zong Shao's wife looks like!"
The man in the floral shirt guessed, "Looking at how enthusiastic Deputy Battalion Commander Zong is, his wife shouldn't be too bad looking."
She was talking about Zong Shaoxiu's house repair. Before, when the houses were distributed, everyone just spruced up the place and moved in, so no one thought much of it.
But as Zong Shao's application for the house was approved, seeing him painting the walls, building a kitchen and repairing the toilet, the way the military wives in the family quarters looked at their husbands changed.
We are all men, but why are other husbands so thoughtful and know to clean the house before their wives come, but other men, let alone painting the walls and building the house, even want us to clean the house before we come?
Comparing yourself to others is really frustrating!
Because of Zong Shao's busy work, all the military wives in the family area felt that he must be particularly fond of his wives.
People lived a rough life these days. Women took baths in the room using tubs, while men were even more casual. They would just fetch a basin of water and sit in the yard with their upper bodies naked to take a bath. Therefore, there were no dedicated bathrooms in the houses in the family quarters.
As for toilets, there are some in the newly built houses in the family quarters, but in the earlier built houses, people had to go to the public toilets outside.
They felt that if it wasn't for his wife to live more comfortably, there was no need for Zong Shao to go to such great lengths to build a bathroom and a toilet; painting the walls white and repairing the windows would have been enough.
Zong Shao is handsome and has a bright future. He can find any woman he wants. His wife is so precious to him, so she must be good-looking.
It would have been fine if Zong Shao hadn't mentioned the matter of building a kitchen and repairing a toilet, but as soon as Gao Xiulian mentioned it, her face fell.
Although most of the military wives in the family compound think that the townhouses are in better condition, Gao Xiu Lian is in the minority and she prefers to live in the old house.
First of all, most of the military wives living in the old house have joined the army in the past two years. Most of their husbands are not of high rank, basically at the battalion level or deputy battalion level, while her husband is the deputy regiment commander.
Although the military discipline in the army is strict, she cannot bully other military wives by taking advantage of her husband's high rank, but in normal interactions, most other military wives will be more polite to her for the sake of her husband, and some will even flatter her intentionally or unintentionally like the wife in the blue jacket.
Gao Xiu Lian enjoyed this kind of flattery very much. Every time this happened, she would feel secretly happy and be glad that she came to join the army.
Secondly, although the conditions of the old house are not as good as those of the townhouse, it is large, and they live in the largest one in the old house, which has five rooms in total, and the front and back yards are half the size of other houses!
Not to mention the military wives who lived in townhouses were envious, even those who lived in old houses were envious of the size of her home.
But after Zong Shao's changes, Gao Xiu Lian's family's advantages were no longer so impressive.
Thinking of the envious tone everyone had when talking about the Zong family during this period, Gao Xiulian couldn't help but say, "That may not be the case. Maybe she has poor eyesight! And she's already repairing this and that before she even moves in. She must be very delicate and may not be able to endure coming to our island."
The more Gao Xiulian talked, the more she felt that this was the case, and her tone became even more gloating: "What if Zong Shao took great pains to repair the house, and she couldn't stand it after living there for only two months and wanted to move back? That would be a scene!"
After hearing what Gao Xiulian said, the wife in the blue jacket didn't react much, but the one in the floral shirt covered her teeth.
Sour, very sour!
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