Chapter 473 Hong Ling

"Really?" Fan Xiaoxiao asked enviously, "Gu Yanyan, your mother is so nice."

Gu Yanyan: "My mother is the best mother in the world!"

Liu Yinyin: “…”

After eating snacks, Zhou Xiaomei came back. She had just gone to a nearby village to buy eggs.

The two sons will be back tomorrow. She will buy some eggs and ask them to take them to school to eat.

Studying is very taxing on the brain, so you need to eat something good to supplement it.

Liu Yinyin didn't ask Zhou Xiaomei to bring anything this time, as there was still pork at home.

After Gu Cheng comes back, we will go to Dongpo Mountain to buy a chicken or duck to eat.

Liu Yinyin packed ten brown sugar glutinous rice cakes for Zhou Xiaomei.

Just now, Gu Yanyan and Fan Xiaoxiao each ate one.

There were eight glutinous rice cakes left at home. Liu Yinyin didn’t eat snacks much, so eight of them were enough for Gu Yanyan alone.

Zhou Xiaomei said shyly, "How can I be so embarrassed?"

I received two packages of dried seafood from Liu Yinyin yesterday, and today I received brown sugar glutinous rice cakes.

Food is a precious commodity these days.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "I feed it to the children."

Thinking of her children, Zhou Xiaomei no longer said no.

Winter is approaching, and Liu Yinyin replaced all the quilts at home with thicker ones.

After a busy day, the new curtains were sewn.

The next morning, Liu Yinyin rinsed several newly made curtains with water and replaced them after they were dried.

While I was busy, I heard a noise coming from next door. It was Zhou Xiaomei's house.

The walls of the family compound are not high, so you can see everything that happens next door.

It was Zhou Xiaomei's two sons who came home.

Not only Zhou Xiaomei's two sons, but also other children in the family compound.

On Sundays, the family compound is busier than usual.

Another neighbor of Liu Yinyin's house, the hostess, also returned to her family compound with her son and daughter.

This is the lover of Captain Lei who works in the food factory as mentioned by Zhou Xiaomei.

Today I also brought my son and daughter back home.

Captain Lei’s wife was quite surprised to see someone living next door, but she had heard from Captain Lei before that someone would move in next door.

Captain Lei’s wife is quite young, and looks to be only four or five years older than Liu Yinyin.

The son and daughter are not very old. The son is about six or seven years old, and the daughter is about the same age as Gu Yanyan.

Captain Lei's wife stepped forward and asked, "Are you the new family member?"

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Hello, my name is Liu Yinyin."

"My name is Hong Ling, and you are really fair."

Hong Ling has dark skin, and when she saw Liu Yinyin's fair and tender skin, she couldn't help but compliment her.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "It's natural. I won't get tanned by the sun."

Hong Ling said enviously, "That's great. I'll go back and clean up first, and we can chat later."

Liu Yinyin smiled and nodded.

The two adults were not familiar with each other yet, but the children started playing first.

There were many children in the family compound today. Gu Yanyan and Fan Xiaoxiao ran out to play, along with Hong Ling's two children.

It was not until the afternoon that Hong Ling brought her two children to the house.

Like Zhou Xiaomei, Hong Ling was also extremely surprised to see the triplets from Liu Yinyin's family.

"You are amazing."

Not everyone can give birth to triplets.

Liu Yinyin poured her a cup of hot tea and arranged a large fruit plate for the children.

There were a lot of snacks in it, including peanut seeds, White Rabbit candy, almonds, candied fruits, and a few apples.

Hong Ling handed the two bags of snacks in her hand to Liu Yinyin.

"I brought it back from the factory. Let me give it to you to try."

Liu Yinyin accepted the snack and said, "I heard from Mrs. Zhou that you work in a food factory?"

"Yes, it's a snack factory." Hong Ling said simply, "I'm a local, my parents live in the town, and when I go to work, I leave my child at my mother's house."

The children are still young, and she can't go to work unless she leaves them at her parents' home.

Hong Ling continued, "I have to go to work on weekdays and can only go back to the family compound on Sundays."

Liu Yinyin saw a lot of people returning to the family compound today, both adults and children.

"Sister Hong Ling, there are many people in the family compound working in the food factory? Are they all locals?"

Hong Ling shook her head: "No, most of them are from other places to follow the army. The food factory sometimes recruits workers, and people from the family courtyard can take the exam and go to work only if they are selected."

"If you are interested, I will let you know if the food factory needs someone later."

Liu Yinyin had no intention of going to work: "Forget it. I have to take care of the children for the next two years."

Hong Ling nodded: "That's right, you have so many sons that you don't have time to work. If you want to buy some snacks later, just let me know."

"I'll buy it for you. The price is the same as at the supply and marketing cooperative, but you don't need a ticket."

Liu Yinyin didn't rush to refuse: "Okay, if there is any need, I will definitely tell you."

Hong Ling changed the subject and said, "Your house is really clean."

The furnishings in Liu Yinyin's house are completely different from those of others. In the main room, the first thing you see when you enter the door is a shoe cabinet.

A little further inside is a large sofa with a thick, soft cushion on top.

There is a tea table, two small stools and two five-drawer cabinets next to it.

There is a small dining table at the innermost part of the main room.

The furnishings in the room look simple, but there is an indescribable feeling.

Clean and pleasing to the eye.

Liu Yinyin: "I don't have anything else to do at home, so I just clean the house when I'm free."

Hong Ling couldn't help but say: "I'll decorate my home like this sometime..."

That being said, she is busy at work and comes home in a hurry on Sundays to cook and clean the house, so she doesn't have much time to deal with these things.

So, after sitting at Liu Yinyin's house for a while, Hong Ling had to go back to cook dinner and rush to the town tomorrow morning.

If her husband wasn't in the army, Hong Ling actually didn't want to come back.

After leaving, Liu Yinyin gave her two bags of dried seafood.

Just like Zhou Xiaomei’s house, they gave us a bag of dried shrimps and a bag of dried scallops.

What a coincidence, Liu Yinyin had just replaced the quilts and curtains at home with thicker ones.

That night, the weather outside changed.

The wind blew hard all night and it rained.

By the next day, the temperature had dropped several degrees.

Liu Yinyin put thick clothes on the children, while thinking about something else.

The firewood is burned here, and the troops are also provided with coal, but the quantity is not much.

Liu Yinyin likes to boil food and heat water. When winter comes, she wants to have a fireplace.

Therefore, the consumption of firewood at home is very high, so we need to stock up more firewood.

The family had just moved in and there was not much firewood in the kitchen.

There are mountains nearby, and the thing that is most abundant in the mountains is wood.

However, with several children at home, Liu Yinyin didn't have time to go to the mountains to chop firewood...

While Zhou Xiaomei was delivering vegetables, Liu Yinyin asked her, "Sister-in-law, do you know anyone who sells firewood?"

Zhou Xiaomei was slightly surprised. She had never bought firewood before, but there was plenty of it in the mountains.