After getting off work and returning home, the family finished dinner, and the children went to watch TV. Only then did Li Huai give his wife a wink.
Once the two entered the house, Zhao Qinglan became curious. "What's going on? Why are you being so mysterious?"
"I have met Zhu Kexin."
"Oh?" Zhao Qinglan raised an eyebrow, showing some curiosity.
Since Li Huai had already called her in, he naturally wouldn't hide anything from her. Except for not repeating some of the exact words, he told her the general situation.
Hearing that Zhu Kexin had fled in panic once again, Zhao Qinglan couldn't help but laugh.
In this respect, the couple really do look alike.
"Did I do a good job?" Li Huai asked smugly.
"It's alright," Zhao Qinglan said, her smile fading.
"That's it?" Li Huai raised an eyebrow.
"Otherwise what?" Zhao Qinglan glanced at her husband. "You can't just treat your ex-wife like a nobody."
After being silenced, Li Huai sheepishly shut up.
However, when it was time for bed, Zhao Qinglan gave him some unexpected surprises because she was in a good mood.
If they move back to the family quarters, they won't have their own little courtyard anymore.
The eldest brother and his brothers usually spend their time either watching TV and listening to the radio at home or going out for a stroll.
The eldest child is already a teenager. When Zhao Qinglan takes her younger siblings out, she only tells them not to run around and to be careful, but she doesn't restrict their movements.
Children in the family quarters are naturally curious about the older children.
Although Da Wa doesn't talk much, he has a surprisingly good personality. After a few days in the new family area, he became familiar with some of his peers.
Xiao Duo, having made friends with several classmates at school, is considered to have friends in the residential area.
Thanks to Zhao Qinglan's education, Da Wa and the others didn't realize it themselves, but in fact, they had a much broader perspective than children of the same age.
This has played a significant role in their interpersonal relationships.
Zhao Qinglan was naturally happy that the children were able to integrate well into the family area.
They have four children, and the eldest is quite old. People in the residential area don't know that Zhao Qinglan and Li Huai are remarried, and they assume that she gave birth to all four children. Many of them are envious.
After all, three of these four children are boys. Although great men have said that women hold up half the sky, the phenomenon of valuing sons over daughters still exists in various places.
Especially in the last two years, with the family planning policy becoming increasingly strict, people are even more eager to have a boy.
Zhao Qinglan didn't expect that she wouldn't be noticed by the military wives for anything else, but rather because she had many boys in her family, and they asked her if she had any secrets to having a son.
Don't assume that being a military wife makes you open-minded; in fact, many military wives don't have a high level of education.
Besides asking about her secrets to having a boy, some people also asked her how she manages to maintain such a youthful appearance.
Zhao Qinglan has neither secret recipes nor beauty secrets.
However, not saying anything seemed like she was hiding something, so she shared her thoughts on skincare.
She had experienced the flood of information from later generations in her previous life, so she could easily impress people with any experience summarized by experts or enthusiastic netizens.
This also led to her gaining even more popularity in the family quarters.
If she could, Zhao Qinglan would prefer to go back to her own courtyard to live, but thinking of her husband's resentment, she knew that it would be a bit unfair to leave him alone with the children, so she could only suppress her feelings.
However, not going back to live there doesn't mean she can't make other preparations.
For example, buying a house in the provincial capital.
Her fundamental purpose in earning money was to improve her family's living conditions.
Now we have most of the major household items we need, and the dividends we've accumulated from the military-civilian cooperation will only depreciate if we just keep them.
She then considered using her savings to buy a few more houses.
She wouldn't mind buying a few more properties in Beijing, but suitable houses aren't something you can just have whenever you want. When she left Zhang Yu's wedding, she asked Grandpa Dou to help her inquire about properties in various alleys.
She doesn't expect to buy a good apartment in Beijing now. Most of the apartments available now are government-owned housing by various work units. Not only are they difficult to buy, but with her later perspective, there are very few that would satisfy her in terms of layout and size.
She was still eyeing the courtyard houses in various hutongs.
There are no real estate agents around these days, so if you want to find a suitable property, you really have to go out and ask around among the people.
However, Zhao Qinglan was not in a hurry to do this. She treated it as a long-term project and would choose to acquire it as soon as a suitable opportunity arose.
In the provincial capital, buying a house is now a necessity for her.
They are no longer in that remote corner; there are only a few villages around them now.
If you want to buy a house near a military region, you can still find one if you look hard enough.
Although they were with the army, they lived in their own houses outside, and no one said anything.
It's just that her husband can't leave the military region when he's on duty.
Even after buying the house, she doesn't go there to live every day; she only goes there occasionally with her family to change the environment.
Having a house outside means that my mother and sister will have a place to stay if they come to the provincial capital.
Once she made up her mind, she was very proactive and quickly started looking for houses around the military region.
She consulted several military spouses who had lived in the family quarters for a long time.
Of course, her reason for buying a house wasn't just to change her environment occasionally, as that would seem too extravagant. She simply said that she has many children, especially boys, and they will need a place to live after they get married, so she's preparing for the future.
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