Chapter 16

Sister Yang slapped Lin Xixi on the arm and said, "Who has no belly scars after giving birth? If your uncle dares to dislike me, I will roll him into a dumpling skin without a rolling pin! You are making a fuss!"

At this time, Yingzi grabbed the wall between the bathroom and the dressing room and yelled, "Mom! What are you doing! Come quickly, there is a dragon head here!"

Sister Yang also yelled, "Come on! You take it first!"

She grabbed the naked Wu Ni'er and rushed in like a war.

Qiao Wei also went in with the basin.

The bathroom was filled with white mist and hot air. The sound of water was gurgling, and people who knew each other were shouting at the top of their lungs. At a glance, there were only human bodies.

Qiao Wei even had her own bathroom in her university dormitory. She had never been to such a traditional bathhouse in her life and found it very novel.

She wandered around but couldn't find Sister Yang and her two daughters. But the people under the faucet changed very quickly, and she found the empty faucet in a short while.

Although she had taken a bath in a tub yesterday, it was not as comfortable as a shower with running water. Qiao Wei raised her head and sobbed.

Lin Xixi followed Qiao Wei.

When she came back from the dead, home water heaters had not yet been popularized in her third-tier city, and people took baths in the factory workers' bathhouse. It was the same as the one in front of her. She was much more familiar with this kind of bathhouse than Qiao Wei, and she found the faucet quickly.

She stared at Qiao Wei while taking a bath through the gaps between people. But there was nothing suspicious about Qiao Wei, she was just taking a normal shower.

Lin Xixi was a little frustrated.

She wanted to wash her hair, but she found that she had no soap. She only brought two slices of soap from her uncle's house, one from her uncle and one from her aunt.

In this disgusting era, there is not even Bee Flower shampoo.

Lin Xixi wiped her face and had to go find Sister Yang. Because there were too many people and it was difficult to find her, she could only shout loudly "Auntie", "Auntie"! She

soon found Sister Yang and asked her for soap slices. Sister Yang said, "Hurry up, bring it back to me after you use it."

Sister Yang had three people, one big and two small, sharing one faucet, and all three had to wash their hair and bodies.

Lin Xixi agreed, took the soap slices back to her own faucet, and suddenly something happened in her mind.

Men take showers quickly, especially men in the army, right?

She washed her hair quickly...

Qiao Wei enjoyed the hot water, but she felt the soap was not good enough.

When she finished, there were fewer people around, and she saw Sister Yang under a faucet in the distance. After she washed Wu Ni'er's hair, she and Yingzi rubbed each other's backs. Wu Ni'er was lying on the ground picking at the mosaics on the floor.

Qiao Wei wrung out a towel, dried her hair and body, and said hello to Sister Yang: "I'm going out first."

Sister Yang glanced at Wu Ni'er and wanted Qiao Wei to help take Wu Ni'er out first. But thinking of Qiao Wei's usual coldness, she moved her lips and stopped, and didn't open her mouth.

But Qiao Wei had lived in the hospital for a long time, and the subtle human nature was most visible in the ward. Although Sister Yang didn't say this, Qiao Wei understood her eyes and expression.

This elder sister has been watching Yan Xiang for several days. Qiao Wei took the initiative to say: "Is Wu Nier done with her shower? Or come with me?"

Sister Yang smiled and hurriedly threw a towel to scrub Wu Nier's back. She squeezed it and wiped Wu Nier dry and pushed her to Qiao Wei: "Just put clothes on her and take her out to her father. Her father will take a shower soon."

Qiao Wei agreed and took Wu Nier out.

Captain Yan's wife has always been a cold person, always with a gloomy face, and doesn't like to talk to people, especially those from the countryside. Yingzi doesn't like her very much and is a little afraid of her.

She complained, "Where is Sister Xixi? Really."

Sister Yang had just finished bathing Wu Ni'er, so she wanted to see if Lin Xixi had finished bathing. After bathing, she asked Lin Xixi to take Wu Ni'er out first. As a result, she didn't find Lin Xixi. She didn't know where she went. She

didn't even say hello after bathing.

Sister Yang was also a little unhappy.

Qiao Wei also found that she didn't see Lin Xixi. She asked where Lin Xixi was while dressing Wu Ni'er. Wu Ni'er: "No, no, no..." She

shook her head vigorously while speaking, making her hair fly up and giggle.

Qiao Wei also laughed.

Qiao Wei dressed herself and Wu Ni'er and led her out of the bathhouse.

There were groups of people chatting outside the bathhouse, basically all men.

People who live in the compound go home after taking a shower. Those who are waiting for their families outside the bathhouse are people who live in the old family area. Men take showers faster, so they come out first and wait for their families under the shade of trees or under the wall.

Qiao Wei saw Captain Zhao and Yan Lei at a glance.

Captain Zhao wore a white tank top, and Yan Lei changed into a clean gray-green short-sleeved round-necked shirt, which was obviously a military training uniform.

The chest muscles, back muscles, and biceps filled out the training uniform.

There was a sense of toughness.

Yan Xiang was there too, of course, squatting on the side with his head down as if he was looking at ants. And Lin Xixi, who was nowhere to be found in the bathhouse, was squatting next to Yan Xiang, as if she was playing with Yan Xiang.

Qiao Wei's mouth twitched.

No wonder she couldn't be found in the story, it turns out that she had come out early to get close to Yan Lei.

In the original story, Lin Xixi got the marriage certificate with Yan Lei without any feelings, they got married first and then fell in love, and she slowly opened Yan Lei's heart by taking good care of Yan Xiang.

At this point in the original story, Qiao Wei should have died yesterday, and Yan Lei was in the provincial capital to deal with her funeral and didn't come back at all. Yan Xiang was left at Captain Zhao's house. Knowing Qiao Wei's death, the reborn heroine Lin Xixi took the opportunity to please Yan Xiang in various ways and let Yan Xiang accept her in advance.

The obsession of being a stepmother is really strong, so she came out to establish a "child-loving" personality.

Qiao Wei led Wu Ni'er over. Captain Zhao groaned, "Why did you let your aunt Qiao lead you out?"

He glanced and saw that there was no sign of his wife and eldest daughter behind Qiao Wei.

Qiao Wei smiled and said, "Sister Yang and Yingzi haven't finished washing yet, they are rubbing them."

Captain Zhao bent down and picked up Wu Ni'er, thanking Qiao Wei, "Thank you."

"You're welcome," Qiao Wei said, "Where are the children?"

Captain Zhao has three sons.

Captain Zhao said, "Let's go back first. They can't stay here. If the ones in our family were half as quiet as Yan Xiang, your sister-in-law would be very happy."

As he spoke, Yan Xiang had already stood up and hugged Qiao Wei's legs, happily shouting, "Mom."

Lin Xixi also stood up.

Captain Zhao glanced at his niece.

Young people in later generations don't understand it very well. In fact, in this era and even in the 1980s and 1990s, girls like Lin Xixi who came from the countryside and lived in the homes of relatives in the city were tacitly employed as nannies. If people in the city were looking for a nanny and did not look for relatives from their hometown but hired outsiders, they would also be criticized by their relatives.

When looking for relatives to be nannies, they should first look for close relatives based on blood ties. As the niece of Captain Zhao, Lin Xixi is supposed to do housework and take care of her younger brothers and sisters.

Captain Zhao, like Yingzi, wants to watch Yan Lei from afar and not get close to him. Unexpectedly, Wu Ni'er was brought out first today.

Lin Xixi came out early after taking a shower, ignoring Yingzi and Wu Ni'er, and not letting her aunt help take care of the children. Captain Zhao couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied with his niece.

Lin Xixi, as a middle-aged person, certainly understands these human relationships. But she has the grand ambition of changing people's lives as an official's wife in her heart, and sometimes she can't care about these details.

She turned away and pretended not to see it.

Yan Xiang took out a mosaic from his trouser pocket: "Mom, look!"

"You picked it?" Qiao Wei said with a smile, "Wu Nier also picked one."

Yan Xiang told Qiao Wei: "Brother just helped me pick it, he picked several pieces."

Captain Zhao laughed and scolded: "The whole bathroom floor was picked by these kids."

Qiao Wei came out, and Yan Lei said: "Let's go."

The couple said hello to Captain Zhao, and just like when they came, each holding Yan Xiang's hand and going back.

Halfway through the walk, Qiao Wei let go of Yan Xiang's hand several times and swung her arm.

Yan Lei asked, "What's wrong?"

Qiao Wei bared her teeth and said, "My arm hurts."

My arm was so tired from doing laundry in the morning. At that time, it just felt sore, but now it started to hurt. It is different from the sharp pain of a knife cut. It is a sour and uncomfortable pain.

It could be muscle soreness from overexertion.

Not very powerful, but uncomfortable.

She waved her arms and asked Yan Xiang: "Xiangxiang, were you playing with sister Xiaolin just now?"

Yan Xiang said, "I played with the ants and she talked."

Qiao Wei asked Yan Xiang: "Do you like playing with sister Xiaolin?"

Yan Xiang shook his head without hesitation; "No."

Lin Xixi wanted to be Yan Xiang's stepmother, and she would definitely work hard to please Yan Xiang. Yan Xiang said so decisively that she didn't like him. Qiao Wei was a little surprised: "Why?"

Yan Xiang told her seriously: "She keeps talking and is very noisy."

I understand. Lin Xixi has overdone it.

Qiao Wei suppressed her laughter and said: "Mom is always talking."

Yan Xiang said: "Mom doesn't make noise. I like talking to her."

The child's eyes were bright and his smile was cheerful. It is different to be with your biological mother and with others. It can be said that it is an international double standard.

At this moment, Qiao Wei was more determined to continue this marriage for Qiao Weiwei, so that Yan Xiang would not become a child raised by a stepmother, and become a child that others would say is "not a biological child, but a child left by the previous person."

Of course, this is also beneficial to her.

Her understanding of marriage and life and death is different from that of ordinary people. She has no expectations for love. As for sex, if it is icing on the cake, it doesn't matter if it is not.

Instead, the material conditions such as the identity of an organization, a generous income and welfare benefits are more important. After all, she has to survive here.

Who doesn't want to live an easy life? Otherwise, why would Lin Xixi be obsessed with Yan Lei?

When Yan Lei got home, he noticed the clothes on the clothesline: "Did you wash the clothes?"

The traditional concept is that men are responsible for the outside world and women are responsible for the inside world, but men who hold traditional concepts often despise the value of housework.

Qiao Wei has no other job now, housework is her job, and Yan Lei's salary to her is the same as that. Of course, you have to report to your boss after doing a good job, you can't just dedicate yourself silently.

Qiao Wei swung her arms and grimaced: "My arms hurt from washing."

No one forced her to wash. She couldn't wash before, so Yan Lei washed it. Now she actually took the initiative to wash.

Yan Lei snorted, went over to touch it, and frowned: "Why is it still so damp?"

It should have been dried out with the current temperature and sunlight after a day of sun exposure.

Qiao Wei was innocent: "I couldn't move it, so I just hung it out to dry."

Although Yan Lei's face didn't show any expression, Qiao Wei could read the helplessness from his face.

But she had no choice. Although this body was much healthier than her body in another world, it was also thin and skinny. In this era, there were no washing machines, and washing clothes, especially washing a lot of clothes, was really a hard job.

The person who invented the washing machine deserves to be enshrined in the imperial temple!

Yan Lei said nothing, put the bath basin aside, took down the clothes on the clothesline one by one and wrung them again.

He had big hands, and when wringing clothes, he would first shake and smooth the clothes by the collar, wringing them in order from the collar to the hem, squeezing out all the water bit by bit.

Qiao Wei watched and liked the sense of order in his work.

She said, "I'm going to cook." She

also put down the bath basin and went to the kitchen.

Yan Lei glanced at her back. Although she was swinging her arms while walking, her steps were light and she had a youthful vitality. She was not as gloomy as before, as if she was about to drown in her marriage with him.

He put the wrung clothes back on the rope.

So, "when the old her is dead", does she mean to live a good life with him again? Is she

sincere?

Yan Lei couldn't help asking himself repeatedly.