Lin Yiyi naturally didn't know what happened to Lin Dajun at school. She was packing things to send to Lin Sanjun tomorrow. Because they were far away, it would take about a week to send by mail, so some things that were not durable could not be sent, and some things that were not available in this era could not be sent either. So Lin Yiyi thought about it for a long time before she thought of sending two things, dried egg shreds and seaweed. These two things are dry, and in this season, they will not go bad even if they are left in the express delivery for a week. Moreover, these two things are convenient to eat, and can be directly added with hot water and a little salt to make soup. The two together taste super good, very suitable for Lin Sanjun to eat in the army. In addition, she also put half a pound of White Rabbit milk candy.
Early the next morning, Lin Yiyi entrusted Xiaoyi to Grandma Xiao and rode her bicycle to the county town. She went to the county post office to mail her things and then went to the department store for a while. Originally, she could have mailed her things directly to the post office in town, but considering that she hadn't been out for a long time, she came to the county town to have a look. The department store was still empty as usual. After wandering around, she went to the old alley again. It had been more than a month since the Chinese New Year, and people always have to come and take a look from time to time.
After looking around the house in the old alley for a while and finding nothing wrong, Lin Yiyi prepared to go home. However, when she was about to go home, she suddenly thought of Lin Dajun. She didn't know how he was doing in school, so she decided to find out. Lin Dajun had been in high school since September last year, but she had never visited him.
She had to bring something when she went to visit her brother at school, so she prepared four apples and three meat buns.
When Lin Dajun heard the guard say that his sister was here, he hurried out of the classroom. From a distance, he saw his sister standing at the school gate: "Sister..." Before the person arrived, Lin Dajun shouted loudly, his voice was really loud.
Lin Yiyi waved at him: "Run slower."
Lin Dajun ran to Lin Yiyi breathlessly and said, "Sister, why are you here?"
Lin Yiyi: "I sent a letter to Sanjun, and went to see the house in the old alley, and came to see you by the way."
Lin Dajun: "I'm fine."
Lin Yiyi: "I'm relieved that you're doing well. This is for you. I'm back."
Lin Dajun looked at the two small packages, one was wrapped in newspaper and the other was wrapped in oil paper. He asked curiously, "What is this? Is this one steamed bun?" It was easy to guess since it was wrapped in oil paper, and it was hot.
Lin Yiyi: "This is a meat bun, this is an apple, I'm leaving now, you should study hard, remember what I said, don't mess around with lesbians, and don't meddle in other people's business."
Lin Dajun: "I remember." He happily held two bags and watched his sister leave. When he could no longer see his sister, he returned to the classroom. By then, the class was over. Cui Liang saw Lin Dajun coming back and ran over. "Why is your sister here?" Everyone heard it when the guard came to look for someone just now. "And what's this? I seem to smell the smell of steamed buns."
Lin Dajun: "This is an apple, and this is my meat bun. My sister brought them to me. Today she went to the post office to mail a letter to my third brother, and then came to see me and brought me some things."
Cui Liang: “I’m really jealous.”
Lin Dajun chuckled, opened the newspaper and took a look at the apples, there were four of them. Lin Yiyi picked the apples that didn't look good. Although they were cheap, apples were a popular fruit in this era, and no one cared about whether they looked good or not. After he looked at them, he wrapped them up, and then he looked at the meat buns. He had no choice, these were things his sister had given him, and he just wanted to take a look.
The classmates sitting around Li Dajun looked at Lin Dajun with envy. Li Wei snorted, but did not dare to speak loudly. After all, Lin Dajun was not an ordinary peasant. Although his family was a dual-worker family, dual-workers were not cadres, while the commune president was a cadre, and the president's assistant was also a cadre. Even employees could not compare to this position.
After school at noon, Lin Dajun went to the cafeteria to eat first. However, he did not eat sweet potatoes today. Instead, he ate the meat buns given by his sister. Three meat buns were just enough for lunch, and he did not even need any vegetables.
Cui Liang was so angry when he saw his friend eating so happily. "Are you going to eat it all at once? Are you not going to leave some for dinner?"
Lin Dajun: "Eat sweet potatoes for dinner." Sweet potatoes are a little sweet, so you don't even need to eat vegetables. Don't eat the buns. They won't taste good by dinner time. Over the past few years, some living habits of the Lin brothers have been brought out by Lin Yiyi, such as not eating overnight dishes.
Cui Liang: “Okay.”
Lin Yiyi returned home and first bought 70 dumplings from the system mall. After the dumplings were cooked, Lin Wudi came back from the nursery. Lin Sijun came back a little later because he had to go to the primary school of Shanglin Production Brigade.
Lin Wudi: "Wow, are we having dumplings for lunch?"
Lin Yiyi: "Yeah, eat first if you're hungry. I'll go to the old house and bring back little Eleven." She also brought a bowl of dumpling soup with 20 dumplings in it.
Fifth brother Lin: "Wait for sister to eat together."
When Lin Yiyi went to the old house, she met Qi Bocai and Liang. It was time to get off work, and everyone went home for lunch. Liang and Qi Bocai! Bocai didn't stay together on purpose, but they went to work in the same place and took the same road after work, so it seemed that they came back together, but in fact, the two families rarely met. When Lin Sanjun sold his job to the third room, Qi Bocai was upset, and Liang was not happy either, as if the first room wanted to snatch away any good thing from their third room.
Liang: "Second sister-in-law, are you back from the county town?"
Lin Yiyi: "After I came back, I sent a letter to Sanjun and took a look at the house in the county town. I hadn't lived there for more than a month, so I was worried that something might happen."
Liang said, "That's right. I feel uneasy if no one lives here."
When we got to the old house, everyone went into their own courtyards. Because of the wall, the original Xiao family courtyard was now the Xiao family courtyard. But it was okay, the half of the courtyard belonging to the elderly was still quite large, and the other half was divided into the main room and the third room, so that half was a bit small.
As soon as Lin Yiyi walked into the yard, she saw Grandma Xiao playing with Xiaoyi in the stroller. "Grandma, I'm back. Thank you for your hard work today."
Grandma Xiao: "Why are you working so hard? Our little Eleven is very well behaved. It's just that he didn't see you, so he kept calling out everywhere." Everyone knows that the person little Eleven is calling out for is Lin Yiyi.
Lin Yiyi: "Yeah, luckily this boy has a conscience and recognizes his mother."
Lin Yiyi handed the bowl to Grandma Xiao: "This is for you." Then she looked at her son with innocent eyes, "Little Eleven, Mom is back."
As a result, those innocent big eyes were filled with tears and they burst into tears.
Lin Yiyi is not the kind of person who gets startled or distressed when she sees her child fall or cry. She took her son out of the stroller and coaxed him gently, "It's mommy's fault. Next time, I'll take Little Eleven with me wherever I go." As she spoke, she kissed her son's little face. She was trying to steal his fragrance.
Little Eleven cried for a while and then stopped crying. He looked at his mother with tears in his eyes, as if he was thinking about the truth of her words. Seeing this, Lin Yiyi was very happy and couldn't help but kiss him a few times: "My dear son, you are so cute."
Little Eleven looked at his mother's bright smile and said, "Yeah..."
Lin Yiyi: "Mom is here, can we go home in the car?"
Little Eleven: "One..."
Lin Yiyi: “Eleven.”
Little Eleven: "One..."
Lin Yiyi: "Little Eleven."
In a blink of an eye, it was the end of May.
Lin Yiyi was packing her things, and Xiao Yu was walking in the yard with Xiao Shiyi in his arms. They were going to the island tomorrow.
Xiao Shiyi was a stranger to Xiao Yu, but he was not afraid of strangers and liked Xiao Yu very much because Xiao Yu would lift him up by his armpits, which was something Lin Yiyi was unable to do with her arm strength.
Xiao Shiyi can't speak yet, but he can make a few sounds, such as now: "Gao... Gao Gao..." and then giggle. But after raising his head for a while, Xiao Yu stopped. Xiao Shiyi blinked and looked at his father in confusion: "Gao... Gao Gao..."
Xiao Shiyi: "High..."
Xiao-Woo: "Dad."
Xiao Shiyi: "High..."
Xiao Yu: "Be obedient, call daddy and lift your head high, call daddy, call daddy."
Little Eleven's eyes turned red, and he struggled in Xiao Yu's arms, then stretched out his hands behind Xiao Yu: "One by one..." Compared to when he was 5 months old, now at 8 months old he can already shout out the word "one by one".
Lin Yiyi had packed her things long ago and was watching them at the door. Little Eleven's eyes were shining. When he saw his mother, he no longer wanted his father, not even Li Gaogao.
Xiao Yu spanked his little butt: "Call me mom, not Yi Yi."
Little Eleven twisted his little butt: "Yiyi... Yiyi..." His little hands kept reaching out to Lin Yiyi, hoping that she would hug him.
Lin Yiyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She finally went over and hugged her son when blisters appeared on his eyes again.
Xiao Yu: "You can't pamper him like this. He needs a lesson."
Lin Yiyi: "...I'll ask grandma someday if you also needed a lesson when you were 8 months old."
Xiao-Woo: "...I have been a good boy since I was little."
Lin Yiyi: “…”
Little Eleven didn't understand what his parents were talking about. He buried his head in his mother's neck and shouted in his little mouth: "Yi Yi..."
When Xiao Yu heard this, he felt even more that he needed a lesson.
When it was almost time for dinner, Lin Dajun, Lin Zhen, and Lin Sijun arrived, carrying backpacks filled with large and small bags of things.