Chapter 9 "Imagine Mom"
The eldest and second cubs brought a small pillow, which was also made by Gu’s mother. The fabric was old and there were heavy marks of stitching, but it was already very good.
After all, the country people have no source of income, and there are only so many cloth coupons. Whose clothes aren’t patched up? Many people don’t even have pillows, but the two of them have them because their grandmother favors them.
"Third cub, fourth cub, lie down obediently and don't make trouble for your mother." The eldest cub taught his younger siblings in a serious manner.
The twins smiled sweetly and lay down obediently.
The eldest and second cubs were afraid that their mother would chase them to the next room, so they lay down obediently. Four pairs of eyes looked at Lin Zhao.
"Why are you looking at me? Can't you sleep?" Lin Zhao asked with a smile.
"I feel so full today. My stomach doesn't feel uncomfortable at all." Erzai touched his full stomach, with his short legs crossed together, like a little old man.
Lin Zhao raised her eyes, "Don't you usually eat enough?"
Erzai hugged her waist and cried miserably, "I'm not full! Not full at all! It's all soup, I don't care about being full at all!"
Lin Zhao did not suspect that Gu's mother abused her two children, because the food in the old house was like that. The lunch was okay, but the dinner was so watery that you could reflect your face in it.
"From now on, mom will cook for you so that you can eat your fill and grow tall." Lin Zhao coaxed gently.
Erzai raised his head suddenly and grinned, "I believe it. Mom will keep her word."
The eldest boy looked at his younger brother nestling in his mother's arms, his eyes full of envy.
The third and fourth cubs also sat up and wanted to be held by their mother.
Lin Zhao asked them to sit still, patted Erzai on the shoulder, and said, "Hurry up and let me measure you."
She fetched a tape measure and waved her hand.
"Mom wants to make clothes for me?!" Erzai held down his younger brother and sister who wanted to be hugged by their mother, his eyes bright with incredible brightness.
The eldest was also a little excited.
"Yes, I'll make some clothes for you two brothers." Lin Zhao smiled and said, "I bought the cloth."
Erzai stood up, opened his arms, and under the dim light, his smile was as bright as the sun.
Lin Zhao measured the size swiftly, wrote it down in the notebook beside her, and waved to the eldest son, "Eldest son, it's your turn. Second son, keep an eye on the third and fourth sons."
The second child responded with full energy: "Hey!"
The eldest son walked to the bedside, looked at his mother with admiring eyes, and said, "Thank you, mother."
Lin Zhao measured her body as usual and said with a smile, "I accept your thanks. Go lie down quickly. It's getting late. Children can't stay up late."
After saying that, she took out the cloth from the closet and started cutting.
There is no country girl who doesn't know how to make clothes. Lin Zhao had a strong learning ability since she was young, and she learned it in just half a month.
"Mom, can you make clothes?" The second child, who was lying on the outside, looked at his mother with a smile.
Lin Zhao rolled her eyes at him and said, "I already know how to do it."
"Has mom ever made clothes for me and my brother?" Erzai asked again.
"I haven't done it." Lin Zhao paused, "I can't bear to part with the money."
The second child's face froze.
After a while, he asked anxiously, "Mom, are you willing to give it up now?"
Lin Zhao cut the cloth in her hands by candlelight. She had not made clothes for several years and her skills had not improved.
"I am willing to give it up." She smiled, "I suddenly remembered that you four kids are my precious eggs that I gave birth to with great difficulty. You are too well-behaved. I want to be a good mother."
When the two boys heard their mother say that they were precious babies, they were filled with joy from the bottom of their hearts.
"Mom is also our precious egg."
"..."
Lin Zhao had no choice but to change the subject: "Go to bed quickly. You have to get up early tomorrow morning."
The second child closed his eyes, then opened them again after a while, and asked expectantly, "Will mother cook tomorrow morning?"
"Go ahead." Lin Zhao chuckled. Her jade-white face was beautiful and gentle in the dim light. It left a deep impression on Dazi's heart, and he never forgot it until he had children.
"Didn't I say I would do it from now on?"
The eldest son was worried that his mother would be too tired, so he took the initiative to say, "I can learn to cook, and when I learn, I will cook for you."
Lin Zhao's heart as a mother was numb and soft as a puddle of water. She smiled and agreed, "Okay, you are such a good boy."
The second child was an ambitious boy, and he said immediately, "When I grow up and make a lot of money, I will buy a big restaurant for mom, hire the best chef to cook for mom, and let mom be a mistress."
"!"
Forget the first part, but the second part, are you trying to send your mother to jail?
Lin Zhao frowned.
"Who did you learn this from?"
Erzai was very good at reading people's expressions. He immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing and said obediently, "I heard it from the village lady."
Just guess it.
Lin Zhao looked at him with a serious expression, "From now on, you are not allowed to imitate the way the villagers speak. If I hear you imitate those nonsense again, you will not get any candy in the house."
According to the plot in the book, things will get chaotic right away, and anyone who says words like "young lady" will be in bad luck.
She couldn't tell Erzai directly what was going to happen next, so she could only threaten him with his favorite candy.
Erzai almost jumped up and said, "I won't learn it anymore! I won't learn it again!"
Just kidding, compared to learning gossip, sugar is more important than anything else.
Lin Zhao was not too reassured, so she turned to the eldest son and told him, "Big son, take good care of your brother."
The eldest loves to help his mother, so he nodded solemnly, "Yes."
While they were talking, Lin Zhao had finished cutting the cloth and was ready to sew it the next day. She didn't have a watch, so she had no idea what time it was. She felt a little sleepy, so she put away her things.
"Go to sleep."
The twins, a boy and a girl, fell asleep early, lying on their backs with their bellies rising and falling, their little toes sticking up, and their cheeks rosy.
Lin Zhao adjusted the sleeping positions of the two little ones, covered their bellies with new blankets, and said to the eldest and second children, "Big and second children, lie down. Mother is going to blow out the candles."
"Lie down." said the eldest.
Lin Zhao blew out the lights and lay down. Soon, the two older friends also fell into a deep sleep.
After the children fell asleep, Lin Zhao rubbed her hands and started the lottery.
The red pointer turned and turned, and finally stopped.
Stop at the bath and skin care set section.
【Laundry soap × 2 pieces】
【Shampoo × 1 bottle】
【Rose scented shower gel × 1 bottle】
【Soft and moisturizing conditioner × 1 bottle】
【Baking soda whitening toothpaste × 1 piece】
【Soft-bristled toothbrush × 5 pieces】
【Whitening and moisturizing body lotion × 1 bottle】
【Moisturizing and hydrating face cream × 1 bottle】
[Moisturizing children's face cream × 1 bottle]
【Moisturizing facial soap × 1】
All of them are urgently needed at home.
Lin Zhao got up quietly, silently recited "extract", put the newly drawn things into the cabinet, yawned, and went to bed.
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The old house of the Gu family, where the main room is located.
Tiedan tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, so he asked his brother, "Tiechui, did you really eat eight dumplings today?"
"Hmm." Tiechui lay straight, touching his bulging belly with his right hand, and his thin and dark face was full of satisfaction.
"The dumplings made by Aunt San are as big as a fist. When you bite into them, you can see that they are full of meat. They are made of white flour and taste delicious."
Tiedan was so envious that he wanted to cry.
"Why didn't you leave one for me?" he complained.
Tiechui looked puzzled, "Didn't I say that? Only what you eat belongs to you."
Tiedan wanted to slap himself, because he regretted it.
"If you have something delicious in the future, leave some for me, and I will leave some for you too."
"No." Little Hammer shook his head and refused, "I want to give it to the eldest and second cubs."
"I won't give it to you. You eat too much." He also gave a considerate explanation.
Tiedan seemed to be able to hear the sound of a broken heart, and said in a sad tone: "Tiechui, I am your brother, your biological brother."
What's wrong with leaving some food for your brother?
Tiechui turned over and didn't listen to this, muttering: "Big Cub and Second Cub are also my brothers, the best brothers."
Tiedan was angry and sad, and said, "I washed your diapers for nothing!"
Having said that, he turned over.
Brother washes his diapers?
Little Tiechui couldn't lie still any longer, he moved his body like a bug, stopped beside his mother Huang Xiulan, and whispered, "Mom, has my brother ever washed my diapers?" The little boy looked confused.
Huang Xiulan thought her son's expression was really funny and teased him deliberately: "If it is, what are you going to do? If it is not, what are you going to do?"
Tiechui glanced at his brother's resentful back and had already made a plan in his mind.
"If you have washed my diapers, I will leave good things for you. If you have not washed them, I will leave them for the eldest and second child."
Huang Xiulan originally didn't like her youngest son to be too close to the third son's child. Those two children were too smart, and the third son's wife didn't care about their eating, drinking, defecating or urinating. She was afraid that Tiechui would suffer.
I didn't expect that Lin Zhao would actually invite Tiechui to eat dumplings.
It's strange.
However, since her son benefited from it, the shrewd Mrs. Gu would certainly not say anything.
Tiechui poked Huang Xiulan's arm and asked earnestly, "Mom, has my brother ever washed my diapers?"
The boy behind him stiffened.
Even though I cried because of the stink halfway through washing, it still counts as washing, right? !
Huang Xiulan glanced at Tiedan and said with a smile, "It can be considered washed."
Tiechui was confused, what does it mean to be washed?
"Why do you smell something fragrant to me?" Huang Xiulan had smelled a fragrance on Tiechui a long time ago, but she had never asked. Now that she was closer, the smell was more obvious.
Tiechui smiled innocently, "Aunt San applied some vanishing cream on me, and my eldest and second cubs, as well as the boy and girl twins, are all sweet-smelling little kids."
Huang Xiulan didn't expect Lin Zhao to have changed so much and was full of doubts.
What happened to the third son’s wife?
The next day.
Lin Zhao woke up in a daze, feeling hot and breathless. When she opened her eyes, she saw the twins, a boy and a girl, sleeping on top of her in a strange position.
The eldest and second cubs also crowded around him.
She picked up the third and fourth cubs, put them aside, sat up, and fanned them with her hands, her eyes still bleary and not fully awake.
It’s so hot.
The eldest and second child were also woken up by the heat. The two children's slightly longer hair was wet, and their faces were covered with marks of the cooling mats, and were red from the heat.
"Mom." The eldest boy's steady voice now has the childish innocence of a child.
Lin Zhao said in a very gentle voice, "Are you still sleepy? If you are, sleep a little longer."
"Where's mom?" The eldest boy rubbed his eyes and became a little more awake.
"I'm not sleepy anymore. It's just too hot. I'll go out and take a shower and make breakfast for you. What do you want to eat?" Lin Zhao asked.
"Whatever mom cooks is delicious." The eldest son thought of the dumplings he had eaten yesterday and swallowed.
Lin Zhao was overjoyed by the compliment. After a moment's hesitation, she said, "I'll make you some egg custard. The three or four kids can eat it. Is that ok?"
"Okay." said the eldest boy happily.
The mother and son got out of bed quietly and came to the yard.
It's windy outside and the temperature hasn't risen yet in the early morning. It's much more comfortable outside than inside.
Lin Zhao opened the window to allow air to circulate in the house.
"Big one, let's wash first." She took out the facial soap and four soft-bristled toothbrushes and introduced them to the big one one by one: "This is the facial soap. You and your brothers and sisters can also use it to wash your hands. This is the toothbrush I bought for you. When the little ones wake up, you will be responsible for distributing them to them."
The eldest boy stretched out his hands to take the things Lin Zhao gave him, carefully placed the three toothbrushes back on the table, and took his own toothbrush to brush his teeth.
It was his first time brushing his teeth and he felt very fresh. He imitated his mother, brushing left, right, up and down. Occasionally, when he met Lin Zhao's smiling eyes, he would also smile with his eyes curved.
Lin Zhao spit out the mouthwash and said to her son, "You can't swallow the toothpaste water. You have to spit it out."
The eldest boy's cheeks were puffy, his mouth was surrounded by white foam, and he nodded.
Lin Zhao tried to wash her face with the facial soap she had drawn. It smelled nice and was very comfortable to use. It did not dry her skin at all and made her skin moisturized and comfortable. However, she was used to applying some cold cream after washing her face.
When I got back to the house, I remembered the face cream I drew last night. Since I didn’t use any vanishing cream, I just applied the one I drew.
Outside the house, the eldest boy washed his face with facial soap for the first time, and the younger boy was so attracted by the smell that he wanted to take a bite of the soap.
Lin Zhao leaned half of her body out of the window and whispered to him, "Big boy, come in after you wash up. I'll put some face cream on you."
Hearing this, the eldest boy washed off the foam on his face, dried his face with a towel, and ran into the house. The moment he stepped through the door, he subconsciously lightened his footsteps.
Lin Zhao's expression softened and she applied facial cream on the eldest boy.
"Smells good, right?" she asked.
"It smells good." The eldest child answered his mother's question in a low voice, with a puzzled tone: "It smells different from last night."
Lin Zhao didn't feel guilty at all, and raised her eyebrows and said, "I don't understand this, right? Lesbians like all kinds of skin care products, and this is still considered a small number."
The eldest son suddenly realized what was going on and said, "When I grow up and become a worker, I will buy a lot of vanishing cream for mom."
Regardless of whether this is true or false, it always warms the heart.
"Okay, I'll wait." Lin Zhao pointed to the bottle of children's face cream and said, "This is for children. You and your brothers and sisters should remember to apply it after washing your face."
The eldest child asked, "Can I be as white as my mother if I apply it?"
Lin Zhao almost laughed out loud, "You want to become white?"
The eldest child looked up at her and smiled shyly, "I want to be like mom."
"Hmm?" Lin Zhao was puzzled.
The eldest boy lowered his eyes and did not answer.
The villagers said that they were too dark to look like women.
Lin Zhao did not question her son, but only said: "You and the second child are tanned because of the sun exposure. Look at the third and fourth children, aren't they fair and tender? After raising them for a while, you and the second child will also become fair and tender children, just like me."
The eldest boy became happy and said seriously, "I will remind my younger brothers and sisters to wipe it."
Lin Zhao put her arm around her son's thin shoulders and led him out of the house.
"Come on, I'll make you some steamed egg custard."
"What else do you want to eat besides egg custard?"
"I'll help mom light the fire." The eldest child said, and then answered her: "Steamed egg custard is enough."
"That's fine. It won't be long before lunch anyway."
The mother and son started busying themselves in the kitchen.
Gu Dazi sat on a small stool to help watch the fire. He looked at his mother from time to time, with a smile on his face all the time.
Soon, an enticing aroma emanated from the pot.
"Mom, it smells so good." The eldest boy sat on a small stool, his nose twitching and he took a deep breath, almost being dizzy by the fragrance.
Mother beat four eggs.
(End of this chapter)
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