With nothing to do during the day, Shuying knits at home. She has to teach on weekdays, so she can only knit more on weekends so that her husband can send packages when he comes back from his mission.
For dinner, there was only her and the child at home. Shuying cut some of the sautéed sausage that her mother-in-law had sent her and steamed it in the rice. It was especially fragrant. She also made a bowl of egg dumplings and a bowl of mixed vegetables. She and the child ate these for dinner.
The egg dumplings are filled with seasoned meat mixed with green onions, which is particularly fragrant.
The meal was ready early. Before the child came back, Shuying went to wash her hair and take a bath. Just after taking a bath, the little boy's baby voice came from far away: "Auntie, I'm back!"
Shuying wrapped his hair with a towel and came out. He saw the child was covered in mud and his pockets were bulging. He didn't know what was in them.
Chen Yi felt a little guilty, and with her big eyes blinking, she reached out to hug Shuying. Shuying was quick to grab the little guy's dirty paws and took the child to wash his hair and take a bath first.
After the Frost Descent, the weather turned noticeably colder, and when I got up in the morning, the fields and the ground were covered with a layer of white frost.
The temperature difference between daytime and morning and evening is particularly large.
Shuying didn't want to let the child take a bath in the backyard anymore, so he took a wooden basin with hot water and let the child sit in the basin to take a bath in the main room.
Chen Yi was very curious about taking a bath in a wooden tub for the first time. She looked around. Her face was flushed by the hot water, and her thick and long eyelashes were wet. Her delicate little face was really beautiful.
After Shuying applied the soap and rubbed out bubbles, Chen Yi was very happy and asked Shuying to smell him. Shuying cooperated and lowered his head to smell him a few times. The little guy immediately grinned and said proudly: "Auntie, don't I smell special? You can hold me to sleep at night!"
"You can play with me in the future, but if you get yourself dirty, auntie won't hold you to sleep!" said Shuying.
This made Chen Yi very anxious. She immediately promised not to play with mud anymore and said anxiously in a baby voice, "I smell so good, little aunt!"
As he said this, he let the shadow of the tree smell it.
The weather was cold, but the little guy was not afraid of the cold. Shuying was still worried that the child would be frozen, so he quickly gave the naked little guy a bath, dried his body, and dressed him. It was cold at night, so Shuying added a warm coat and a pair of autumn pants for the child.
While holding a towel and letting him wipe his head himself, Chen Yi dragged a stool and sat at the door of the main room and wiped it in an efficient manner.
While pouring the bath water, Shuying took out a handful of hawthorns from the child's pocket. Did this kid go to the back mountain today?
No wonder you came back so late!
While the child was drying his hair, Shuying brought the dishes to the table and asked the kid to sit at the door of the main room. It was windy outside, didn't the child feel cold?
Chen Yi didn't feel cold. He was wearing so many clothes that he was very warm. He had a keen sense of smell. When Shuying brought the dishes to the table, the aroma of the dishes filled his nose. Chen Yi, who was drying his hair, paused and quickly climbed onto the table with his short legs.
When Chen Yi saw the dishes on the table, his eyes widened. He had never eaten egg dumplings before. The boy couldn't take his eyes off the egg dumplings. He thought the dish must be delicious. He swallowed his saliva and said, "Auntie, this looks delicious!"
Shuying added more rice to the two of them, took the kid's towel aside, picked up an egg dumpling for him and fed it to his mouth for him to take a bite.
Chen Yi took a bite. The egg dumpling with both egg and meat was particularly fragrant and delicious. The boy ate it with his eyes wide open. With the egg dumpling still in his mouth, he praised: "It's delicious, this is delicious, Auntie!"
"If it tastes good, eat more." Shuying put the egg dumpling that the child had taken a bite of into his bowl.
Today's white rice is also very fragrant. I cut a few slices of bacon and steamed it. It is very fragrant and delicious.
Even Shuying liked the rice after taking a bite, let alone the children.
Chen Yi took a mouthful of rice, his cheeks bulging with food, and tapped the bowl with his chopsticks, pointing at the rice in the bowl and saying, "This is also delicious, I like it, auntie!"
"I like it. Eat more!" Shuying picked some sausage and it tasted very good.
The wind was blowing quite hard outside, and the shadows of the trees blocked the door to the main room.
During dinner, Shuying also got the children to talk and found out that the children had gone to the back hill to catch rabbits, but when they didn't catch any, they came back with a handful of hawthorns.
Shuying really admires this guy for being obsessed with spicy rabbit meat.
After dinner, Shuying washed the dishes. Her husband was not at home, so she had to wash the dishes by herself. Chen Yi followed her like a little tail, chattering and wanting to talk to her.
Shuying talked to the child in a casual manner, saying that he had washed the dishes and put them in the cupboard, and then went back to the house after helping the child brush his teeth.
After the Frost Descent, the weather in the past few days was not as cold as tonight. The temperature dropped sharply tonight. Shuying replaced the thin quilt on the bed with a new quilt cover and used it as a mattress. He also took a thick quilt from the next room and replaced the quilt cover with a new one.
When Shuying was changing the quilt cover, Chen Yi was obediently helping to grab the corners of the quilt and didn't feel bored at all.
With the help of the children, Shuying was able to change the bedding and quilt covers much faster.
After changing into warm bedding and quilts and throwing the dirty quilt cover in the backyard, the little guy had already climbed onto the bed, sat on the soft big bed with his little butt, and exclaimed: "Auntie, our bed has become so soft!"
As Chen Yi spoke, he rolled into the quilt, which was very warm.
The child had just taken a bath and changed into new clothes, so the shadow of the tree made the child roll onto the bed.
The quilt was thick, and Chen Yi didn't lie in it for long before his little face turned red from the heat. Shuying took off the child's coat and trousers, leaving his autumn pants and underwear on the bed.
Chen Yi felt bored staying alone on the bed, so he asked his aunt to upload as well, saying, "I smell so good! Aunt, do you want to hug me?"
Shuying had no choice but to take a textbook and lie on the edge of the bed to teach the child how to count. Last time she taught her to count to 300, this time she taught her to count to 500. After teaching it once, she asked the child to repeat it.
The boy was smart and he actually remembered it.
After teaching counting, she let the child go to bed and continued reading the textbook.
It's still early, how can Chen Yi sleep? He looks energetic with his big round eyes open, making small movements all the time. After sleeping for a while, he gets up and curiously reads the textbook with Shuying.
He couldn't understand anything at all, but he was watching it very seriously. Shuying laughed and asked him if he understood anything.
Chen Yi shook her head in confusion: "It doesn't look good! Auntie, I want to eat the French fries I had this morning!"
The French fries tasted delicious. Chen Yi is salivating just thinking about them.
After eating this morning, she would not give the child any more food at night. Knowing that the little guy was bored, she simply redeemed a children's comic book from the mall and gave it to him to divert his attention.
Comic strips tell interesting stories. Even if children cannot read, they can still understand some of them by reading the illustrations.
really!
As soon as Shuying took out the comic book, Chen Yi was quickly attracted by the colorful illustrations. She didn't even bother to eat. She lay on the bed with her little butt sticking up, staring with eyes wide open curiously at the comic book. She was immediately attracted by the story of the little rooster and the little duck on the first page and read it very seriously.
Shuying felt relieved. She hadn't been to the mall for a long time. She clicked on the mall page and found that she still had quite a few points. As she shopped more and more, she unlocked the makeup and skin care level.
This layer is a bit useless. The packaging of these cosmetics and skin care products is very good, and you can tell at a glance that they are not from this era. In such a severe environment, she dare not take these things out to seek death.
The only benefit is that she can redeem skin care products to apply on her face and body, but since she has Ganlu, these skin care products are not of much use to her.
She thought for a moment and decided to exchange a bottle of good brand lotion from the mall to make room.
Before leaving the mall, she accidentally clicked into the lottery center and found that every time she completed a task, she would have a chance to win a lottery. She had more than a dozen chances to win a lottery that she had not used, which was a big surprise.
Look at the tree shadows and the prizes around the wheel. If you have better prizes, you will get good luck rewards. The timing is different, but if you have worse prizes, you will get soap or toothbrush rewards.
It is better to have a reward than to have no reward. Shuying is very satisfied.
After closing the shopping mall page, Shuying finished his textbook and typed for two hours. He took out his watch to check the time and it was almost nine o'clock.
Hurry and put the child to bed.
Chen Yi was so attracted by the story in the comic book that she was so energetic that she couldn't bear to sleep. The boy even bargained with her: "Auntie, I want to read for a while longer!"
Shuying agreed to let the child watch for another ten minutes, but after almost fifteen minutes, the little boy still hadn't put down the comic book consciously.
Since her man is not around, she can only play the bad guy and deliberately frown to show that she is angry.
This was the first time Shuying got angry. Chen Yi was still very scared, fearing that Auntie would dislike her. She quickly handed in the comic book and said in a baby voice, "Auntie, the story is so good. The little duck and the little rooster are so cute! Can you show it to me again tomorrow?"
Seeing that the kid was interested, Shuying smiled and took the child into his arms. The sweet and soft kid felt especially comfortable in his arms, and he said, "Okay! I'll show you tomorrow! In our house!"
Chen Yi was so happy lying in his aunt's arms. His aunt smelled so good. Usually his uncle wouldn't let him hold his aunt to sleep, but tonight his uncle was not there. Chen Yi was so contented with his little face buried in his aunt's arms.
Before going to bed, the little guy would tell her a story. No one knew when the two of them fell asleep.
When she woke up the next morning, it was bright and windy outside and she felt cold. It was the weekend, so she simply stayed in bed for half an hour before getting up to make breakfast.
For breakfast, she made some creamy custard buns, fried two eggs, and had a plate of French fries and porridge.
Call the little kid who is reading comics under the quilt to get up.
Chen Yi was obedient this time. When he heard his aunt calling him, he immediately got dressed and went to wash up.
Serve breakfast.
Chen Yi was very happy when he saw a pile of his favorite French fries on the table.
Shuying scooped a bowl of porridge for the child and sat at the table to eat breakfast with the child.
The soft and glutinous custard buns taste very good, and when you take a bite of the sweet fried egg and eat it with porridge, it is simply delicious.
Chen Yike loved it very much when he ate custard buns for the first time. The yellow filling inside was sweet and fragrant. The little guy ate it until his cheeks were bulging. He then took a bite of the sweet fried egg and had his favorite French fries. He was so happy.
She asked the child to eat the French fries later. Shuying asked him to eat the custard buns and fried eggs first, and then he could sit at the door of the main room and eat the French fries as a snack with some dip.
"Auntie, I picked a lot of hawthorns yesterday! Do you want to make candied haws at home?" Chen Yi said.
The few strings of candied haws at home were almost eaten by her and the child, but it was better not to waste the few hawthorns picked by the child.
"There are not enough hawthorns. Let's pick some hawthorns next time!" Shuying replied after swallowing the custard bun in his mouth.
Chen Yi nodded obediently.
There is a market today, and Shuying asks him if he wants to go.
Chen Yi was very happy. He looked at her with shining eyes and immediately nodded and said he would go.
"Okay, let's eat quickly if you want to!"
After breakfast, Shuying took a backpack and went out on her bike. Her child was still young, so she wanted to put the child in the front, but it was uncomfortable for him to stand, and her father was not at home. Otherwise, she could ask her father to put a seat in the front for the child.
Shuying had no choice but to let the child sit in the back seat, and told the child to hold her waist tightly while she rode as slowly as possible.
Only because the child was obedient enough, Shuying dared to let him sit in the back seat. Sitting in the back seat, Chen Yike, who was going to catch up for the first time, was very happy and excited, and kept kicking his legs.
Only after the child was seated firmly did Shuying ride his bike out of the hospital.
She met Mrs. Gao at the door. Seeing that she was with the child, she asked her hurriedly if she was going to catch up.
Shuying nodded: "Sister-in-law, do you want to go to the market? I'll take you!"
Mrs. Gao waved her hand, indicating that she had not been to the market. She didn't have so much spare money to go to the market every day.
"Okay, sister-in-law, I'll go first!" While Shuying was speaking, Chen Yi was also showing off to the three brothers of the Gao family that he was going to the market.
The three Gao brothers were very jealous. Gao Yuan also wanted to go and even approached Shuying to ask if he could go together.
But Shuying was worried about taking care of one child, so how could he dare to take care of two such young children?
Mrs. Gao was also worried, so she asked Shuying to leave quickly.
Before riding away, Mrs. Gao asked how the French fries were made. The truth was that the three brothers couldn't forget the taste of French fries yesterday, and Mrs. Gao heard that they were made of potatoes, so she couldn't bear to give them up, and she had plenty of potatoes at home, so she asked Miss Yang how the French fries were made.
However, after hearing Yang Meizi say that French fries should be fried in oil, Gao Dasao immediately felt distressed. She was reluctant to use cooking oil, so how could she be willing to use oil to fry French fries?
Why are Yang sister's hands so big? She even fried potatoes with oil. Oh my God!
Seeing Mrs. Gao's painful look, Shuying laughed in her heart and told her how to make French fries, saying that they could be fried slowly in oil. Frying in oil also made Mrs. Gao feel painful. Shuying comforted the poor Gao Yuan, then rode away with her children.
As soon as the three Gao brothers saw their mother's painful expression, they knew that she would definitely go back on her word and refuse to make French fries for them.
Gao Zhigao was angry and said to Ke: "Mom, you promised to make French fries for us three brothers last night, can't you go back on your word?"
Mrs. Gao was also angry: "My eldest and second son, why didn't you tell mom that French fries have to be fried in oil?" If she had known that French fries were fried, she would never agree to make French fries for her children.
Gao Yuan was upset because he couldn't catch up. His mother also refused to make French fries for him, so Gao Yuan just threw food all over the floor. Mrs. Gao was so angry that she had a severe headache and hurriedly called her husband to come out and deal with the third child.
Having been to the market several times, Shuying is now very familiar with riding a bike. She dares not ride too fast and keeps asking the little guy to hold her tight.
"Auntie, I'm holding you so tightly!" said Chen Yi.
It took the adult and the child more than half an hour to reach the market. The market was very lively. There was a place to watch cars, which charged one cent each time. Shuying locked the car, paid the money, and took the child's hand to buy things.
It was Chen Yi’s first time to come to the market. The bustling market dazzled him and his eyes sparkled.
Shuying first went to the pork stall and bought five pounds of pork ribs and three pounds of pork belly. As the weather was cold, she bought more and put them in the basket.
She also bought hairtail, kelp, and a lot of seafood shrimps.
When buying seafood shrimps, Shuying thought of crayfish. Both spicy and garlic crayfish are especially delicious. Last year, she actually forgot to let her brothers catch them at home.
Shuying decided that next year when crayfish are in season, she would buy more lobsters. Her husband and children would surely like to eat them.
She still had some vegetables at home, so she didn't buy more. When she passed by the market, she actually saw a small milk station.
Although her mall sells milk, how can the bottled milk be as good as fresh milk?
The fresh milk was still very fresh, Shuying went inside to buy a bag for the child to try. Chen Yi took a sip and stopped drinking, saying in a baby voice: "The milk doesn't taste good, auntie, I don't like it!"
The staff at the milk station were very happy to see people coming in to buy milk. The milk station's business was not good and not many people were willing to buy milk now.
The staff at the milk station kept saying that this was freshly squeezed goat milk, which was especially fresh and nutritious.
Shuying took a sip and found it had a particularly rich milky taste, but it was too fishy and not sweet, so it was normal for a child not to like it.
But this natural, fresh milk is extra nutritious, which is a good thing.
It's not like what happened decades later when merchants added all sorts of weird things to dilute the drink for profit, making it extremely dilute and taste like saccharin.
Shuying immediately asked the staff if this fresh milk could be delivered every day?
The staff at the milk station asked her where she was from. When they learned that she lived in a military area, they immediately said that they could deliver the milk to her. It was only 0.1 cent per bag, and there was no delivery fee. It was really too cheap.
Shuying immediately ordered three months' supply of fresh milk, with two bags delivered every day.
Shuying gave her address and name, paid the money promptly, and left with her child. Seeing that this woman had ordered three months' worth of milk and paid promptly, the staff was also very happy. Since there was no need for delivery today, she took two bags and the staff gave her a penny discount.
I ordered milk for three months and took my children to the supply and marketing cooperative.
Chen Yi didn't know why the aunt bought the bad-tasting milk. Shu Ying thought that the milk would be more nutritious in the future and told the child that drinking more milk would make him smarter.
Chen Yi was a little confused. He wanted to become smart, but he didn't want to drink milk.
Seeing the child's troubled face, Shuying said, "If you don't like to drink, auntie won't force you! Give it to your uncle."
Seeing the little guy breathe a sigh of relief, Shuying thought to herself that she would make delicious food with milk in the future, such as milk tea, double skin milk, etc., and she could also freeze it to make milk popsicles when it was cold. It seemed that this child still didn't like drinking milk in the future.
She wasn't worried at all that the boy didn't like milk.
Going to the supply and marketing cooperative, Shuying bought shoe hooks, a few pairs of insoles, and a bag of tomato and strawberry seeds.
While visiting the market, Shuying was still worried about the child's limited energy. However, she was a little tired after visiting the market, but the child didn't feel tired at all. He was still jumping around and even wanted to come back next week. Shuying was impressed. She wiped the child's sweat with a handkerchief, did not respond to the child immediately, and took the child back to the military area.
Riding along the way back to the military area, she met Liu Jiao and a male comrade walking on the road very intimately, talking and laughing, and walking towards the Ye family.
Shuying was quite curious about Liu Jiao, the male educated youth, so he stopped the car, put his feet on the ground, and looked at him a few more times to get a clearer look at the male comrade's appearance.
Wait, isn't this the couple of advanced activists who were sent to the countryside to provide support for the army that she and her husband just met on the train when they were following the army?
At that time, the female comrade not only failed to take advantage of her, but also called her child a bastard and threatened to report her and her child. Shuying remembered the couple very clearly.
Is this gay man Liu Jiao's new partner?
Shuying didn't know what to say.
She didn't think that this male educated youth was a good person. Just last time at the train station, he was hiding behind his partner the whole time, waiting for something good to happen to him. But when he saw his partner humiliated and embarrassed, he immediately became disgusted and wanted to stay away from him. How could such a person be a good and reliable partner?
Liu Jiao brought Zhang Dai back to the Ye family. She was quite satisfied with Zhang Dai. Of course, the reason why she was satisfied with Zhang Dai was related to her dream.
When she met Zhang Dai for the first time, she looked down on him. But when she later learned his name and the name of her current boyfriend, she immediately remembered a very famous and affectionate educated youth named Zhang Dai in her dream.
In the dream, the other party made great contributions in the rural support association, and was then promoted and transferred back to the Kyoto Machinery Factory as a clerk. However, Zhang Daihui relied on his talents and abilities to become the deputy director of the machinery factory within a few years. He was very promising and later made a lot of money by going into business.
Only after Zhang Dai returned to Kyoto was he noticed and promoted to the director of a large factory. He was very promising and later made a lot of money in his own business.
What made her even more satisfied was that Zhang Dai had very deep feelings for his ex-girlfriend. Even after he got married, he did not forget his ex-girlfriend. Not only did he create a brand that cherished his ex-girlfriend, but he also couldn't leave her out of every interview.
How could Liu Jiao be willing to let go of such a loyal and high-quality stock?
She had already thought it through. It would be best if Chen Tuan could divorce that woman Yang Shuying in a few years. She would divorce him immediately. But if they didn't divorce, she would have to find a way out for herself.
Zhang Dai was her way out. Even if she couldn't become the wife of a leader in the future, she could still be a rich lady. At least she wouldn't be as miserable and downtrodden as she had dreamed of. Liu Jiao was distracted by this and said to Liu Shujuan who was coming out of the kitchen, "Aunt, my date is here!"