Mingming was a little dazed when he woke up in the morning. It was not until Lin Wei put on a short-sleeved shirt for him that he came to his senses and asked, "Mom, why am I in your room?"
While asking, his mind had already started to have wild ideas. He rolled his eyes and asked, "Can I teleport? Can I move from that room to this room when I sleep?" The more he spoke, the more excited he looked.
Lin Wei hit him coldly: "Don't think too much. Your father carried you here when you were asleep."
The little guy's face fell immediately, and he said "oh" in a long voice. After a while, he asked again: "Why did Daddy hold me to sleep here? Is it because you, Mommy and Dad, don't dare to sleep alone?"
As he spoke, his expression became conflicted. Although he was willing to sleep in the same room with his mother, he had his own room. He was already a grown-up boy, and it would be so embarrassing to sleep with his mother!
But... the little guy stole a glance at his mother's expression, thinking that if his mother was very scared... he patted his chest and said, "If you are scared, I am still willing to continue sleeping with you." After looking left and right, he leaned close to Lin Wei's ear and lowered his voice, "But you have to keep my room for me. If others ask, you can't tell them that I sleep with you."
Outside, he gets to be a big kid!
Lin Wei was so amused by Mingming's imagination that she pulled up his pants, patted his butt and said, "Go downstairs and brush your teeth and eat!"
Mingming said "oh" and then asked, "Where's your brother?"
"He woke up a long time ago and is already down there." Lin Wei said as she folded up the thin blanket that she had used last night and placed it at the end of the bed. Then she pulled the sheets, put the pillow back in place, and walked out with Mingming.
As soon as he reached the stairs, Mingming cried out and said to Lin Wei in a coquettish manner, "Mom, my legs are numb." As he spoke, he bent down and pretended to rub his legs twice.
He was clearly a child with little patience. He was unwilling to walk down the stairs one step at a time, but insisted on taking two steps at a time, as if that would allow him to go down faster.
Although the staircase in the new house is a flat rectangular block with two levels and is not steep, it is easy for children to walk up it, but it is a bit dangerous for Mingming to walk up two steps at a time. It would be terrible if he missed a step and fell.
When Zong Shao saw it yesterday, his face darkened.
Some people teach their children to cook by stir-frying bamboo shoots with meat, while others do so by persuading them with earnest words of reason, but Zong Shao is neither of those people. He neither tells Mingming how dangerous it is, nor does he lift a finger at him. He just lets him go up and down the stairs repeatedly, taking two steps at a time.
Mingming thought it was fun at first, but later he got tired and refused to move. However, Zong Shao wouldn't let him leave the stairs unless he moved. The father and son just stood there staring at each other.
Zong Shao had been in the army for so many years, and standing at attention was as easy for him as eating and drinking. Mingming could not endure it, and soon he started crying for his mother.
But crying and calling for his mother was of no use. Although Lin Wei loved her child, she did not spoil him endlessly. If Zong Shao did not care, she would have to reason with Mingming earnestly. Well, Lin Wei taught her children to focus on the former and only resort to violence when they are really angry.
In short, if Zong Shao wanted to take care of it, she agreed wholeheartedly. How could she possibly hinder him? So she didn't agree.
Unable to call his mother, Mingming cried even more sadly, but after being sad, he also faced the reality and began to admit his mistakes.
The acknowledgment that Zong Shao wanted was not just the three words "I was wrong". Not to mention an 800-word essay, at least 100 or 200 words were needed, and his attitude had to be sincere.
After Mingming admitted his mistake, Zong Shao said, "Next time I see you stepping on two steps at once, you will do this a hundred times. Got it?"
Mingming cried and said, "I know."
Zong Shao was not satisfied and said, "Louder!"
Mingming had to shout "I know" at the top of his voice before he was allowed to come down the stairs. At this point he didn't dare to be lazy and walked up the stairs one step at a time, firmly and steadily.
But after escaping from his father's clutches, Mingming threw himself into Lin Wei's arms to complain, and didn't say a word to Zong Shao until he went to bed. But he didn't know that after he fell asleep, Zong Shao carried him to the master bedroom, and the father and son still slept next to each other at night.
In general, the lesson Zong Shao taught me yesterday was still very useful. At least even though I wanted to be lazy, I didn't dare to go down the stairs two steps at a time. Instead, I acted like a spoiled child with Lin Wei.
Lin Wei: “…Go down by yourself.”
The little guy pouted: "But my legs are numb and I can't go down."
Lin Wei thought to herself, I can’t cure you yet, so she walked downstairs and said, “Rui Rui and I will go out after breakfast, if you don’t want to come down, just stay at home.”
When Mingming heard that they were going out, he could not stand still and followed Lin Wei downstairs.
But he was not carried down by his mother as he wished, and he was very unhappy. His mouth was pouted when he went down the stairs.
But his temper always came and went quickly. As soon as he walked out of the living room, he became happy. Seeing his brother squatting in the corner, he went over and asked, "What are you looking at?"
“Shh!” Rarity held up her finger and whispered, “I’m looking at the giant ant.”
I was thinking, aren’t they all little ants? He looked down at the ground and exclaimed, "Are there really big ants?"
In fact, the ants on the island were not very big. Their bodies were not even as thick as his little finger, but they were still much bigger than the ants at home. Mingming found it curious, so he started watching it with his brother. He was so focused that he didn't even hear his mother calling him to brush his teeth.
It was not until Lin Wei came out to catch the man that Mingming reluctantly stood up. When he went into the bathroom, he said to Lin Wei, "Mom, there are big ants outside."
"How old?"
Mingming put down the enamel pot, raised his little finger and said, "It's a little smaller than my finger, but much bigger than an ant at home."
Lin Wei said "oh" and didn't pay much attention to it. She filled the basin on the shelf with warm water, bent down and wet her face with the water. She had been busy all morning and had not had time to wash her face.
But Mingming was eager to talk, and he stood beside her and muttered vaguely while brushing his teeth. Lin Wei didn't understand a word, so she closed her eyes while twisting the towel and asked, "What did you say? Say it again."
Mingming then took out the toothbrush from his mouth and repeated, "Mom, why are the ants in the new home so much bigger than those in the old home? Are the ants in the new home the parents of the ants in the old home?"
Lin Wei: “…”
Sometimes she really didn’t understand the children’s wild imaginations. After thinking for a while, she said, “Our current home is thousands of miles away from our previous home, and there’s also the ocean in between. The ant’s parents probably can’t make it here.”
"Can't they take the train? Or they can take the ship."
"Probably not."
"Why?"
Lin Wei lied: "...They don't have money to buy tickets."
"So that's how it is." Mingming suddenly realized, but soon thought of the original question, "Why are the ants in the new home so much bigger than those in the old home?"
Lin Wei wiped her face and wanted to answer, but when she turned around, she saw Mingming's mouth was full of foam. She didn't know how much she swallowed while she was talking, so she changed her words and said, "I'll tell you after you wash your face."
"All right."
Mingming sighed, quickly brushed his teeth twice, then rinsed his mouth, spit out the water in his mouth and said, "I'm done."
"Did you clean it thoroughly?" Lin Wei expressed her doubt.
Mingming grinned, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, and said confidently: "I've brushed it clean."
Lin Wei squatted in front of him and examined his teeth carefully.
In the early years, people did not pay much attention to brushing their teeth, especially in the countryside. Few people could persist in gargling with salt water. Most of the older generation had bad teeth, and the color was yellowish.
Lin Wei has loved beauty since she was young. When she was four or five years old, she would ask her parents for a toothbrush and she would brush her teeth every day. With her taking the lead, the Lin family members brushed their teeth more frequently and their teeth are in good condition.
Lin Wei was willing to date Zong Shao because he loved cleanliness. She had taken a close look at him during the blind date and found that not only did he have white teeth, but his hands were also clean. His nails were neatly trimmed, and there was not a speck of dirt between his fingers.
Even the educated youth who went to the countryside could only stay clean in the first few days. After a long time, they became lax in their personal hygiene. I can brush my teeth regularly, but I may not wash my clothes every day, let alone the gaps between my nails. I am too busy to take care of them.
After looking around, Lin Wei still thinks Zong Shao is better.
Lin Wei loves cleanliness, so after her two children's teeth grew out, she began to teach them how to brush their teeth. But children are all lazy sometimes, and it is common for them to brush their teeth carelessly or say they have brushed their teeth without brushing them. So as soon as Lin Wei felt something was wrong, she would check the brothers' teeth to see if they had brushed them clean.
He was obviously a little careless today and didn't even brush the gaps between his teeth clean. Lin Wei asked unhappily, "You call this brushing your teeth? I brush my shoes more carefully than you do. Brush again!" She squeezed another round of toothpaste on his toothbrush.
Mingming pouted again, but he also knew that his mother was always difficult to talk to when it came to brushing teeth, so he opened his pouting mouth and started brushing again.
This time he didn't dare to fool around. He brushed every tooth clean and took the initiative to let Lin Wei check: "Look, Mom, I brushed it clean!" He said with his mouth wide open.
Lin Wei bent down to take a look, then hummed and said, "Okay, wash your face."
After Mingming finished washing her face, Lin Wei looked at the time and found that twenty minutes had passed.
Okay, it’s the first day anyway.
…
Breakfast is simple, just a pot of white porridge, a plate of pickles, and a plate of stir-fried vegetables.
The pickles are dried mustard greens, which are easy to carry and can be stored for a long time. Before coming, Lin Wei’s mother specially packed a large jar of them. In addition to mustard greens, Lin Wei's mother also packed a can of dried cowpeas, a large bag of wild delicacies, dried mushrooms, ferns, etc. The former is very fragrant when stewing meat, and the latter can enhance the flavor of soup.
I bought the vegetables at the market yesterday afternoon. It was late, and there wasn't much meat in the market. The seafood supply station was also closed, so there were only some vegetables and cucumbers left. In the end, we had only vegetarian dishes for dinner.
There's nothing wrong with being a vegetarian, as she doesn't eat meat every meal in her hometown, but who doesn't want to eat seafood when coming to an island? Lobster, crab and sea cucumber, I can't help drooling just thinking about it.
But these days seafood is also in limited supply and can only be purchased with a ticket, and one can only get a ticket by showing proof of household registration.
There are also grain books, coal books, and non-staple food books, all of which require a household registration. Since their household registration could not be obtained, the mother and her two children could only eat what Zong Shao provided. However, his supply was limited. If they only relied on his food, the family would run out of food in less than half a month, not to mention lobsters and crabs.
Therefore, after dinner, Lin Wei took her two children out and prepared to go to the Military Family Resettlement Office to inquire about their household registration, and then stop by the seafood supply station.
Even if you can’t buy it today, you can still enjoy the sight in advance and think about the menu later!
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