In the following time, Ye Zhi and the children were responsible for cleaning the house, while Lu Wei was responsible for clearing the weeds in the yard.
The children are now about the same age as when she brought Ye Xiaoding to the island.
Looking at the children cleaning windows and tables and running around everywhere, Ye Zhi recalled that Ye Xiaoding also had to tiptoe to reach the high door.
Time flies, and ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Several children jumped up and down, and soon they came to Ye Zhi with a wet and black rag and said, "Mom, we have cleaned the room!"
Lu Xingyun and Lu Xingzhou carried the dirty water out to the yard and poured it out before returning to the house.
Seeing that they were working hard, Ye Zhi praised them even though their cleaning results were average: "Great! Wash your hands quickly and then go wash some fruit to eat."
The first thing Lu Wei did after returning to the island was to pick some green coconuts. Although Ye Zhenhua didn't have time to come over, he also had someone send a lot of fruits to their house. There are carambolas, mangosteens, peaches, dragon fruits...
And a big watermelon.
The children had been craving for the big watermelon for a long time and were waiting to eat it after the cleaning was completed.
When the children heard this, they jumped up immediately and said, "I want to eat watermelon."
"I want to hold it and eat it with a spoon!"
"I want one too!"
"Brother, hurry up and cut it open with a knife. I'm dying of thirst!"
Ye Zhi saw the children go to the kitchen and get a knife. She helped them cut the watermelon and then ignored them and continued cleaning.
However, several children asked: "Mom, what can we do after eating watermelon?"
"Yeah, we have nothing to do, it's so boring!"
Ye Zhi raised her eyebrows, looked at the children who were full of ideas, and asked, "Just tell me, what do you want to do?"
Lu Xingyun and Lu Xingzhou looked at each other, and then Lu Xingzhou said, "Mom, Niannian and her sister said they wanted to go to the beach!"
Ping Ping and An An immediately snorted when they heard this: "No, it's you who want to go to the beach!"
Ye Zhi chuckled. Not long ago, when she was riding on the bus back to her family compound, the children saw the coastline and were like little monsters with awakened blood. They clamored to go to the beach to play in the sand, and had long forgotten about any sadness of parting.
Ye Zhi thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Li and Aunt Zhang will bring my two brothers and Lele over later. You can go and play with them then. But remember what mom and dad said, you can't go into the water. You can only play on the shore, pick up shells, and dig in the sand, okay?"
Because they had just returned from Guangzhou, Li Weimin and his wife Zhang Guiying said they would come over to see if they needed any help and bring some rice and vegetables, as they had just returned and didn't have anything to eat yet.
When the children heard this, they nodded their heads like pounding garlic and shouted in unison: "Got it, Chief!"
Ye Zhi felt a little uncomfortable with this address. When she was on the boat, Ye Zhi told Lu Wei a lot about the arrangements after returning to Qiongzhou Island. Lu Wei just said a few words, "Yes, Commander!"
Then several children have learned it and are saying this all the time.
Ye Zhi washed the rag in her hand and said, "Okay, throw the watermelon rinds into the trash can later. Be careful when you go out to play."
The children dug up the watermelon in a few bites, and then played together when Li Weimin's children came in, and then swarmed to the beach with shovels and buckets.
Zhang Guiying saw the children of Ye Zhi's family and couldn't help but say, "These children are getting more and more handsome. They are so cute."
Ye Zhi looked at the children rushing out like crazy, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Sorry to have made you laugh, sister-in-law. The children haven't played with sand for a long time. They have been looking forward to it for a long time."
Zhang Guiying looked at Ye Zhi, whom she hadn't seen for a long time, with surprise in her eyes, and said with a smile: "Children love to play with sand, let them do it, so as to avoid causing earthquakes at home."
Then she added, "Well, it's been such a long time since we last met. Comrade Ye, you're still so beautiful, even more beautiful than when we went to Guangzhou!"
It is said that women who have given birth age quickly. Zhang Guiying feels that after she turned 30, she is older than her husband.
However, Ye Zhi didn't change much, and she even became more beautiful. The dress and hairstyle made her look like a female star in Hong Kong, and her whole body was shining.
No wonder when we were walking on the road to the family compound just now, people kept saying that a beautiful woman had come to the family compound. I guess those people saw Ye Zhi.
Ye Zhi smiled and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law, you are very beautiful too. By the way, I brought back a lot of skirts and high heels from Yangcheng. I will take you to try them on later to see which ones you like."
In recent years, Ye Zhi would send some dresses back to Yangcheng, most of which were given to a few military wives she was close to in the family compound.
Zhang Guiying's family also has several skirts, but sometimes she doesn't like to wear them. Compared with the openness of Guangzhou, the family compound on Qiongzhou Island has not kept up. Even if I dress nicely in daily life, there are still some people who like to point fingers at me.
But now seeing Ye Zhi dressed so beautifully, Zhang Guiying became eager to try. No matter what others think, as long as she is in a good mood, it matters!
After they finished cleaning and chatting, they closed the door and tried on clothes.
Li Weimin was holding a hoe and wearing a hat, weeding in the yard with Lu Weiyi.
Compared with the two lesbians who were having so much fun, Li Weimin here felt a little uncomfortable.
Lu Wei came back not long ago, but he didn't say the exact time of his return to the island. Li Weimin had been thinking of cleaning for them in advance, but before they could prepare, Lu Wei and his family came back first.
Knowing that they had returned from Yangcheng, he brought them some food.
Who would have thought that Li Weimin, who had just entered the door, had not even had time to sit down when he was pulled by Lu Wei to help clean the weeds in the yard.
Li Weimin, who was unhappy at the moment, said to Lu Wei, "Brother, you are too unreliable. You are now the deputy chief of staff after all! You can ask a few new recruits to help with the cleaning. It will be done in a short time, but you insist on doing it yourself."
"Are you bored?"
Lu Wei's habit of not liking to trouble others has never changed. No matter he was the head of the regiment or the deputy chief of staff now, he always did things by himself.
Not knowing whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, Li Weimin was convinced.
However, compared to his unchanged habits, Lu Wei, who is over 30 years old, does not seem to have changed much in appearance. He is still so handsome that the female soldiers in the Art Department can't help but take a few more glances.
It's really frustrating to compare yourself with others. In recent years, his wife has disliked him as an old man, and the crow's feet around his eyes are big enough to kill a mosquito.
Lu Wei looked at the yard that had been mostly cleaned up, pursed his lips and said, "What do you know? This is more meaningful."
A family requires the efforts of the entire family. Although it is impossible to do everything perfectly, being able to participate is also considered as contributing to the family, which makes people feel more fulfilled.
Moreover, Lu Wei didn't feel tired. Instead, while weeding, he recalled many things from the past, especially when he had just gotten married.
Even though ten years have passed, Lu Wei still feels secretly happy about his original decision——
Marrying Ye Zhi was the best thing he had ever done in his life.
Li Weimin sneered: "Meaning? What's the meaning? You must have been stupid in the big city. You want to experience the meaning of heatstroke."
Lu Wei smiled without saying anything, threw a pot of water to Li Weimin, and motioned him to drink some water and rest for a while.
In the afternoon, Li Guoliang, Li Xianghong, Zhang Dazhi and Lin Xiaoqin came over to join in the fun after they knew they had returned, and helped clean the house inside and out.
Ye Zhi looked at her yard, which finally looked like it was back in shape, and she was very happy.
Just like that, a busy day passed. Because the family hadn't cooked yet and the firewood hadn't been chopped yet, they all took their children to the cafeteria and had a quick meal. They would wait for Ye Zhi and Lu Wei to get ready tomorrow and then go to their house for a meal.
After dinner, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening when they returned to their yard. The children had been playing on the beach for the whole day. After returning to the yard, they asked Ye Zhi to take a bath and wash the sand off their bodies.
A shower head has been installed in the bathroom. In the afternoon, Lu Wei also had two bottles of liquefied gas delivered, one for the bathroom and one for the kitchen. Now there is no need to fetch water or boil water. Even though it is summer, Ye Zhi still turns on warm water for them to wash.
After the children finished taking a bath, Ye Zhi also took a bath.
It was the hottest time of the year in July and August. Ye Zhi had been cleaning all day. The sweat on her body kept getting wet and dry, and she always felt sticky.
After taking a shower, the children turned on the large ceiling fan in the living room, and then squeezed on the sofa in the living room one by one, drowsy. Ye Zhi wiped her hair and said, "Don't sleep on the sofa, go to your room and sleep."
The children were drowsy and were sent back to their rooms by Ye Zhi to sleep.
Seeing that they had all gone to bed, Ye Zhi turned on the fan for them and tidied up the mosquito net. There were still quite a lot of mosquitoes here, especially when the lights were on at night, which attracted more mosquitoes. Even with mosquito coils lit, there seemed to still be mosquitoes.
After the children fell asleep, Ye Zhi walked out to the yard and saw Lu Wei with his upper body clothes off, chopping wood with sweat pouring down his face. Although there was already liquefied gas, Ye Zhi asked Lu Wei to prepare some firewood as she was going to have a dinner with everyone tomorrow. Since she was going to cook for so many people tomorrow, a big iron pot would be more practical.
The man's solid and hard muscles were shining with sweat. There was not a trace of fat on his body. The undulating muscle lines were firm and powerful, exuding strong male hormones. His high nose bridge, sharp facial features, and slightly pursed lips give him an aura of abstinence and temptation.
Even though ten years had passed, when Ye Zhi suddenly saw this scene, she couldn't help but blush, her heart pounding, and she felt a little upset.
Lu Wei had already noticed that his wife had come out, so he looked over and saw Ye Zhi in her nightgown, revealing her smooth arms and a pair of white feet. Her plump and round figure beneath the thin fabric on her upper body made his Adam's apple roll up and down. "Why did you come out? There are so many mosquitoes outside. Go back."
Ye Zhi smiled, walked in slippers on the cobblestone path, walked towards Lu Wei, then smiled at him and said, "Didn't you light the wormwood fumigation? You look naked and there are no mosquito bites, what are you afraid of?"
As he said that, he took the towel he had used to wipe his hair and wiped the sweat off Lu Wei's forehead.
Lu Wei swallowed, smelled the faint sweet fragrance in the air, and subconsciously leaned to the side: "I'll just take a shower later."
Ye Zhi has always been very clean, and she uses separate towels for washing her face and taking a bath.
However, Ye Zhi still reached out her hand to wipe the sweat off his face. A hint of joy flashed through Lu Wei's heart. It seemed that he was an exception in Ye Zhi's world.
Ye Zhi smiled and said, "Why are you hiding? Go take a shower later and help me wash the towel."
"Yes, Commander!"
Ye Zhi glanced at him and said, "You said that several children are now imitating your way of speaking. If other people in the family compound hear it, they will laugh at me again."
Lu Wei took the towel handed over by Ye Zhi, put it on his shoulders, and said nonchalantly: "You are the head of our family, who cares what others say."
The two stood under the hazy moonlight, chatting casually.
After Ye Zhi yawned twice, Lu Wei put down the tools in his hand and said, "You must be tired, go back. I'll take a shower and sleep with you."
Ye Zhi yawned twice, her eyes were wet. When she heard that Lu Wei was going back to take a shower, she let him pull her back to the house.
While Lu Wei was washing his hands, Ye Zhi went to the room to get him his pajamas. Before she put the clothes into the bathroom, Lu Wei took the clothes from her and said, "Go back to your room and rest first."
Ye Zhi looked at Lu Wei's abdominal muscles and suddenly became alert, but she still nodded and said, "Oh."
As an old couple, Lu Wei understood Ye Zhi's intention at a glance. He said two words in an ambiguous voice: "Wait for me." Then he went to the bathroom.
Ye Zhi covered her face and suddenly understood what Lu Wei meant. She felt extremely ashamed.
Is it true that thirty is like a tiger?
Ye Zhi returned to the room and buried her head in the pillow, too embarrassed to see anyone.
She didn't know how long it had been before she heard Lu Wei tiptoeing back from the next room, probably to see the child.
Ye Zhi didn't want to move, so she could only pretend to be asleep.
The next second, a strong force flipped her over, wrapped her in a warm embrace, but the expected passionate kiss did not come.
After a long while, Lu Wei chuckled and said, "It's great to be back here again."
Ye Zhi slowly opened her eyes, but still couldn't ignore the protruding stone on her thigh. "Do you really like coming back here?"
When celebrating the New Year in Beijing, Lu Wei actually had the opportunity to stay in Beijing.
But he refused.
It was Shen Nanzhen who told her about this.
Lu Wei lowered his head and kissed Ye Zhi on her smooth and white forehead, saying, "Of course, this is our home."
This was the first house they lived in after their marriage, and several of their children were born here. Many of their memories also took place on this island, where Ye Zhi's favorite seafood and fruits can also be found, so he likes it here.
Ye Zhi smiled, snuggled into Lu Wei's arms, and said with a smile: "Me too."
The two looked at each other, and the fire that had been suppressed for a long time was instantly ignited. Ye Zhi didn't know who took the initiative first. When the temperature rose, the two were already frank with each other.
Lu Wei carefully protected Ye Zhi's head, looked down at her blushing face, and said in a hoarse voice: "I miss you so much, I've been thinking about you all the time."
Ye Zhi bit her lip and said softly, "Me too." After that, she climbed onto the man's broad shoulders.
The nights on Qiongzhou Island are slightly cool, and the gentle sea breeze mixed with a salty and fishy smell brings a touch of freshness to the stuffy room.
The swaying yellow lights reflected the coconut trees outside the window, dancing on the rooftops, making an ordinary night particularly beautiful.
After returning to the island for nearly a month, the children have adapted to life on the island.
During the day, I went to the beach to play with sand, and sometimes I followed the adults to go fishing and picked up a lot of shells. On weekends, I followed Ye Zhi to the county town to send the shells to Ye Xiaoding and Grandpa Lu and Grandma Lu in Beijing.
Sometimes the children would follow Ye Zhi to the farm contracted by Ye Zhenhua to see how fish and shrimp were raised.
Ye Zhenhua and Gong Yuqiong have submitted their applications and obtained their marriage certificates.
After they got married, Ye Zhi guessed that Ye Zhenhua might leave Qiongzhou Island later, but Ye Zhenhua had not mentioned this yet.
The farm already has a mature system, so there is no need to watch it all day long. Ye Zhenhua's job is mostly to be responsible for transportation between Guangzhou and Hong Kong.
If Ye Zhenhua really doesn't plan to stay on the island in the future, she can handle it alone.
Of course, Ye Zhi thinks it is also possible to transfer the farm to local fishermen.
After all, she also has her own factory to manage, and sometimes she really can't take care of breeding matters.
Moreover, July happened to be her and Lu Wei’s tenth wedding anniversary. They had discussed it and planned to take some photos on the beach as a souvenir.
Ye Zhi also asked several children to serve as flower girls. In addition to the wedding photos, they also took family photos together.
Because there were no professional wedding photography teams at that time, Ye Zhi asked someone to find a photographer from Guangzhou to help take the photos.
This photographer has his own art studio. After taking a few photos of Ye Zhi and Lu Wei, he asked, "Comrade Ye, Comrade Lu, can I put your photos in my studio?"
The two of them are simply too pleasing to the eyes. Even though there have been countless photos of handsome men and beautiful women, none of them are as compatible and photogenic as Ye Zhi and Lu Wei.
Especially when paired with the scenery of nature, it is even more eye-catching.
Ye Zhi glanced at Lu Wei and shook her head: "Photographer Zhao, you also know that my husband is a soldier. I want to help you, but I can't."
Zhao Ran smiled helplessly: "What a pity."
Ye Zhi smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. There are thousands of good-looking people. You will meet someone more suitable in the future."
Zhao Ran listened to Ye Zhi's words and smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid it's difficult. I don't always get such a good state, but I also thank you for giving me inspiration. I plan to stay in Qiongzhou Island for a while."
Ye Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, remember to come and play with us when you have time."
Originally, Lu Wei felt a little uncomfortable going out to the beach to take pictures, but after a while, there were suddenly many more young people going to the beach to take wedding photos, and things suddenly became normal.
Lu Wei would occasionally take out their wedding photos taken at the beach, and the more he looked at them, the more he liked them.
So I picked out a few more and kept them as treasures.
Ye Zhi had originally wanted to put two photos of her and Lu Wei on the bedside table, but when she went to look for the photos, she couldn't find them!
After asking Lu Wei, I found out that he had put away some of the photos.
Ye Zhi asked curiously: "Where did you keep the photos? Why haven't I seen them?"
After so many years of marriage, Ye Zhi still didn't know how many photos Lu Wei had collected. She only knew that he had an album, but she had never seen it.
Lu Wei smiled but didn't tell her the answer.
At the end of the year, Ye Zhenhua really suggested that he might go to Shenzhen next year, a city just across the Hong Kong River.
Before Ye Zhenhua left, Ye Zhi discussed it with him and put forward her own ideas: "Third brother, I am not good at aquaculture. If you really plan to go to Shenzhen, it is more practical to leave this matter to the local fishermen. There are more and more aquaculture farmers on the island now, and there are also many aquaculture farmers in several coastal cities in the province. If we only supply Guangzhou and Hong Kong, it may be a bit saturated."
Ye Zhenhua turned his head to look at her and asked, "So what do you mean..."
Ye Zhi said directly: "There are more and more farmers, but the transportation on our island is not mature yet. I want to set up a cold chain transportation company to transport seafood from the island to farther places and expand the market."
Compared with coastal areas, there are still many inland cities that cannot eat fresh seafood. Only by developing cold chain transportation can the market be expanded.
Otherwise, if there are more fish farmers, the seafood will not be sold and the people will suffer the loss.
Then Ye Zhenhua’s original intention of leading the fishermen on the island to engage in aquaculture was ruined.
In the past few years of aquaculture, Ye Zhenhua has changed from relying on the government to provide ships. Two years ago, he bought two ships of his own. Now the only problem left is inland transportation.
But this is not difficult to do. Ye Zhenhua has made many contacts in the seafood business over the past few years. In the past two years, many people have expressed their intention to cooperate with him to develop the inland seafood market, but Ye Zhenhua was too busy at that time. It is necessary to not only encourage fishermen to engage in aquaculture, but also travel around.
Now that Ye Zhiyi said it, the timing is right.
Ye Zhi continued: "My ability alone is limited, but with you, we should be able to set up cold chain transportation."
Ye Zhenhua nodded without thinking: "Okay, I'll do it."
Ye Zhi was very confident in Ye Zhenhua's work. He was the one who built up the island's breeding farm single-handedly over the past few years.
By the end of spring in 1983, the company was established. Several inland cold chain routes have also been approved, and cold chain vehicles are ready.
Ye Zhi does not plan to participate in any affairs of the cold chain company, only invest.
However, opening these routes also emptied out her and Ye Zhenhua's savings over the years, and she also asked two assistants of Ye Zhenhua who had been helping her on the island to invest together.
Originally, Gong Yuqiong was going to help, but Ye Zhenhua didn't want her to get involved, so she refused and planned to run the trial run slowly first.
After spring, summer soon arrives. As the temperature rises, the requirements for seafood's refrigerated transportation become higher, and the role of their cold chain transportation is better demonstrated.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1984, they added several more cold chain transportation routes, selling seafood from the islands to more distant places during the joyous days of the Spring Festival.
And Ye Zhi's clothing factory, under the management of Chen Fang, also opened up markets in several large cities. The factory recruited a large number of workers and purchased two sets of automatic equipment. Their garment factory changed from an individual business to a limited liability company. Ye Zhi was the largest shareholder, Chen Fang was the second largest shareholder, and all the first batch of employees working in the garment factory were shareholders of their company.
The business of the two companies was booming, and Ye Zhi was in high spirits. She had a happier New Year than any previous year.
On the first day of the new year, Lu Wei drove them to Lucheng in the south for a tour.
The beach in Lucheng is more beautiful than the beach in their family compound, with finer sand and a more suitable temperature.
Ye Zhi and Lu Wei sat on the beach, watching the children building sand castles and sunbathing, feeling very comfortable.
After a while, Ye Zhi asked tentatively: "This place feels more beautiful than our family compound. Do you think we should build a house here?"
Lu Wei smiled and turned to look at her: "I can still afford to build a house. If you like it, then build it."
With Lu Wei's promise, Ye Zhi became more determined. When land transactions were opened in the future, she would buy a piece of land and build a big villa!
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On the sixth day of the New Year, Lu Wei had to go back to the Corps to be busy. Ye Zhi wanted to take the children to the beach while the weather was good. Just as she walked out of the yard, she ran into the former director of the textile factory.
Ye Zhi smiled and said softly, "Director Li, Happy New Year. Long time no see."
Director Li looked at Ye Zhi's pretty face and suddenly felt a little overwhelmed, but he still asked, "Happy New Year, Comrade Ye, do you have time? I have something I want to talk to you about."
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