Zhao Qinglan's first call was to the garment factory, looking for Sui Wenjing.
"Hello, I'm looking for Sui Wenjing, my name is Zhao Qinglan."
Sui Wenjing arrived shortly afterward.
"Hello, Sister Sui, it's me. Yes, we got a phone at home. I just wanted to let you know. Please write down my home phone number..."
Sui Wenjing was happy for her when she learned that they had installed a telephone.
The two chatted for a while before hanging up.
Besides Sui Wenjing, Zhao Qinglan had no one else she could call.
Of course, she also had two other people to notify: one was Grandpa Dou, who was in Beijing, and the other was her mother.
Grandpa Dou, they can just write down that they have a telephone installed at home and the phone number in the letter.
As for her mother, that's simple too. Next time her sister calls, she can just give them the home phone number.
Even when there are no more phone calls to make, the three children still come over and touch each other, and I pick them up to look at and listen to them.
Zhao Qinglan only told them to handle the phone with care and not to break it, and did not stop the children from exploring.
After all, they are still children, so it's normal for them to be curious.
If she hadn't already lived through a technologically advanced future, she would probably have been quite surprised to suddenly have a telephone installed in her home.
On the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhao Qinglan personally made some sesame glutinous rice balls.
Sesame seeds were a rare commodity, and after she finished making them, she also gave some to Wu Mei and Wei Hong.
Wu Mei's family has a large number of members, so they sent more than usual.
However, the glutinous rice balls she made were quite large after cooking, and a few were enough for one person to enjoy.
The children loved the sweet sesame dumplings, and even drank up the juice that spilled into the water.
Seeing how they ate, Zhao Qinglan was reminded of black sesame paste.
To be honest, she actually wanted to eat it.
She's always enjoyed cooking and tasting delicious food, and since becoming pregnant, although she occasionally experiences morning sickness, her appetite has remained quite good. She has quite a few things she wants to eat.
It's fortunate that their family is now well-off; otherwise, with only Li Huai's allowance, they would have had to struggle to make ends meet.
After the Lantern Festival, schools reopened.
According to Zhao Qinglan's plan, her eldest child should also start attending the military primary school this semester.
With the foundation she laid for her eldest child at home, even though the eldest child missed a semester of first grade, he was still able to keep up with his peers and even surpass them.
Before Da Wa started school, Zhao Qinglan sewed a schoolbag for him by hand.
With the aesthetic sense and vision of later generations, the schoolbags that Zhao Qinglan made were much more beautiful than those commonly used today.
The eldest child fell in love with it at first sight.
Erwa and Xiaoduo were also very envious, and they begged their mother to make them new schoolbags as well.
Zhao Qinglan had no choice but to promise the other two children that she would make a nice schoolbag for each of them when they started school.
Now, Erwa and Xiaoduo couldn't wait to go to school right now, just like their brother.
Zhao Qinglan was both amused and exasperated that the children wanted to go to school just for a nice new schoolbag.
If Erwa and Xiaoduo went to school now, they wouldn't fall behind since they had studied at home with Dawa before. But Zhao Qinglan didn't want the children to start school so early.
She wanted them to do the right thing at the right age.
They can still play now, but once they start school, which will last at least ten years, they won't have the chance to play to their heart's content anymore.
My eldest child only started school in the second semester, so it was basically considered a transfer student.
The principal of the military primary school was very responsible; he brought the first-grade first-semester final exam papers for the older child to do.
The eldest child did very well, scoring 100 in math and 98 in Chinese.
I made a mistake in writing a Chinese character because I was careless.
Seeing the eldest child's grades, the principal was very pleased to accept him.
Da Wa has also started his student life.
The two children, Erwa and Xiaoduo, felt a little strange and unaccustomed to the sudden absence of their older brother, Dawa.
They knew where the military primary school was, so they would always go there together, and sometimes they would even secretly listen to the lessons outside the older children's classroom.
The teacher saw them and called them in, letting them sit in the empty seats.
Erwa and Xiaoduo are both very well-behaved. The teacher didn't know their situation and was worried that they wouldn't be able to sit still, but she didn't expect them to be so obedient.
When it came time to teach pinyin, there was a boy who just couldn't learn it no matter what he did, and the teacher suddenly looked at Xiaoduo.
"Little girl, do you know how to fight?"
"I will," Xiaoduo nodded.
"Teacher, I can do it too!" Erwa quickly raised his hand.
"Then you all give it your all."
As a result, both Xiaoduo and Erwa spelled it correctly.
The teacher looked at the boy who just couldn't learn it with a look of utter disappointment.
"Look, all the little brothers and sisters have learned it, and you still can't. Aren't you ashamed?"
Compared to him, the boy was indeed ashamed.
The other children were all looking at them with wide-eyed amazement.
The eldest child exuded pride in how smart his younger siblings were.
If he lived through the future, he would probably say, "Compared to my younger brother and sister, everyone here is trash."
Zhao Qinglan wasn't too worried about Erwa and Xiaoduo running off to play, but she was starting to have some concerns as the children hadn't returned.
When it was lunchtime after school, the eldest child brought his younger siblings back together, and Zhao Qinglan learned about the two children's heroic act.
If the children occasionally go to school to attend classes and learn something, that's fine, since the teachers let them in first, right?
With his younger siblings behaving like this, the older child felt even more obligated to perform well, as he couldn't let his younger siblings outdo him.
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