Naturally, Lin Yiyi did not exaggerate in taking Lin Wudi to the hospital in the county town. It would take a long time to go back and forth to the island. Moreover, she had carefully asked Lin Wudi, and they did not hit their heads in the fight, so Lin Yiyi only took Lin Wudi to the army clinic for a check-up. After the military doctor's examination, he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with him.

In fact, even in the modern world, children who fight like this usually don't exaggerate and say they need to go to the hospital. Lin Yiyi was just trying to scare Xu's mother before. She didn't want people to think that her brother was easy to bully. For Lin Wudi, who has no parents, the protection of her sister is very important. Otherwise, a child who grows up by looking at other people's faces will be very inferior and cowardly in character.

When Xu came, Lin Yiyi was doing yoga in the room, and Lin Wudi took Xiaoyi to play in the hall. There was a mat in the hall, and they were throwing a cloth ball around.

Xu said from outside, "Is Miss Lin here?"

Although the door was closed, Lin Yiyi could still hear Xu's voice. She immediately changed into a set of cotton pants and a long T-shirt in the room, and then went out in slippers.

Lin Yiyi: "Sister Xu, I'm here, come in."

Xu walked into the house and saw two children playing with an electric fan blowing next to them. Lin Yiyi had just come out of the room.

Lin Yiyi poured a glass of cold water for Xu: "Mrs. Xu, please have some tea."

Xu: "How is Xiaowu's injury? Has he seen a doctor?"

Lin Yiyi said: "Don't worry, the army doctor checked and it's fine."

Xu heaved a sigh of relief: "I'm glad you're okay. I'm really sorry."

Lin Yiyi: "Mrs. Xu, don't feel sorry. This has nothing to do with you. It's just a fight between kids. It's not a big deal."

Xu sighed: "Sister Lin may not know about my family's situation. It is said that every family has its own problems, but other families' problems are not as difficult as the Xu family's."

Lin Yiyi thought to herself that she had known it for a long time, but she couldn't say it. After all, it was Mrs. Bei who reminded her of this, and if she said it, she would be sorry to Mrs. Bei.

Lin Yiyi pretended not to know and asked, "What happened to Sister Xu?"

Xu: "The story of the Xu family... Later, Xiaosheng went to the army. He was only 18 years old when he went to the army. We were going to get married that year, but because he was going to the army, the date was tight, so the marriage was postponed. It was not until four years later, when he was 22 years old and came home to visit his family, that we got married. In the six years after marriage, he rarely came home. All military wives know that soldiers can

One holiday was not easy. In the past six years, I have been pregnant twice, but both times I lost the baby..."

Lin Yiyi: "Why didn't you join the army earlier?"

Mrs. Xu: "I also wanted to join the army early, but my mother-in-law said, if I join the army, who will take care of the family? She said that Xiaosheng's sister-in-law is a widow and cannot show up for many things, which will cause gossip. She is old and cannot handle some things, so she asked me to stay. Now I think about it, how can she ask me to stay? It is clear that she wants to separate Xiaosheng from me and prevent me from having children."

Lin Yiyi: "Is your mother-in-law so biased? Captain Xu is also her son. She wouldn't stop Captain Xu from having a son, right?"

Xu: "It's not that she is partial. She wouldn't stop us from having children. It must be Xiaosheng's sister-in-law who instigated it. My mother-in-law has no opinion. She listens to Xiaosheng's sister-in-law in everything except being harsh." Regarding the child, Xu was sure that her mother-in-law would not harm the child. And she didn't see the true face of that woman at first. Seeing that her husband was in the army and had the relationship with the first wife, she also took good care of them. But she didn't know that she would make her lose two children.

After all, it is hard to predict people's minds. Who would have thought that the seemingly virtuous woman would be so vicious and use children to plot against the child in her belly. When the first child died, Xu Xiaobao was only five years old, and when the second child died, Xu Xiaobao was only eight years old. And the woman used the children like this without any guilt at all. Especially when the first child died, the woman killed chicken soup with her own hands to replenish her body. She was very moved at the time.

Now thinking about it, I was so stupid at that time. Who knows how that woman was laughing at me behind my back.

Lin Yiyi also learned something from Xu's words. Although it was not clear whether Xu's words were true or not, it was indeed pitiful that the two children were hit. Lin Yiyi had read many novels and knew that there were many kinds of extreme and vicious people in novels, so she tolerated Qi Bocai because Qi Bocai's small problems could not be compared with those truly vicious and extreme people.

There is a kind of person whose calculations are clearly visible on his face. Such people are so stupid that they are amusing to others. There is a kind of person who smiles like a bodhisattva on the surface, but is actually as evil as a venomous snake. Such people are truly terrifying.

Fortunately, the Lin family has no relatives, and the Xiao family has no such people.

Xu chatted with Lin Yiyi for a while and then went back. When she got home, she saw that Xu's mother had already packed her things.

Seeing Xu coming back, Xu's mother said, "I will take the two children with me tomorrow.

I'm leaving, but you have to serve me well before I leave."

Xu: "...Have you figured it out?"

Mother Xu is a person who knows the current affairs. Her youngest son is her pride now. Even if he is no longer her pride, he is still her son. She will not let her youngest son be separated from her. Although she cares about her two grandsons, Dabao and Xiaobao, but... no matter how important grandsons are, they are not as important as her sons. She still understands this truth. It's just that her son was not in front of her before, and he has grown up. Why does he still need her love? Now that the little grandson has offended people as soon as he came, and the little son is so angry that he doesn't want to join the army, she certainly doesn't plan to stay here any longer. Let the little grandson offend people and affect the little son?

More importantly, she took Xu's words to heart. She was worried that her eldest daughter-in-law would cheat on her husband and give the money that belonged to her grandson to the man behind. Not only was she worried, but Xu Dabao was also worried. Xu Xiaobao might be young, but Xu Dabao was not young anymore. He was taught to be selfish by his mother, so after Xu left, he also told his mother that he wanted to go home.

Mother Xu thought that since she and her eldest grandson had the same opinion, she might as well go home.

In fact, there is another point. Xu is her daughter-in-law, and the eldest daughter-in-law is now a widow. In comparison, she certainly trusts Xu more than the eldest daughter-in-law.

Mother Xu rolled her eyes and said, "You have to give your wife some money this time. I am an old woman, and it is exhausting to travel back and forth."

Mrs. Xu: "That's right." After thinking for a while, she said, "Since you are here, there is no need to leave tomorrow. I will take you for a walk. There is a village nearby with some dried seafood. Let's go buy some and bring them back for you to enjoy slowly."

Mother Xu: "We have to leave tomorrow. We can go in the afternoon." If there was no boat in the afternoon, she would have wanted to leave in the afternoon. She couldn't calm down at the moment, and kept thinking about whether her eldest daughter-in-law would cheat on her and give her money to the man behind.

Mrs. Xu: "It's still early now, we can go take a look around." It's not that she doesn't know how to behave. If Mrs. Xu can be a good mother-in-law, then she can be a good daughter-in-law.

Early the next morning, Xu's mother returned to her hometown with dried fish and dried shrimps, looking very aggressive.

Lin Yiyi was sewing cloth to make a larger doll for her son when Mrs. Bei came with her two children: "Sister Lin."

Lin Yiyi: "Hey, is Mrs. Bei here?" As she said that, she got up, went to the kitchen to get a watermelon, and then cut it for the child to eat.

Bei also ate one slice, but then stopped eating. Compared with apples, watermelons are much cheaper, but

No matter how cheap it is, not everyone can afford it. Some people cannot afford it, but have nowhere to buy it.

Mr. Bei: "This watermelon is so sweet. Where did you buy it?"

Lin Yiyi said, "We bought it from the supply and marketing cooperative in our town. Some people in the brigade grow watermelons, peaches and the like. After the harvest, these things will be purchased by the supply and marketing cooperative, and then we can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy them."

Mr. Bei: "You have so many things. I have been with the army for several years, but I have never been outside the island. Every time I leave the island, it is time to go home, but I only go home once or twice."

Lin Yiyi: "That's easy. I'll take you to see it on the next trading day. There's a trading day on the 15th of every month. On trading days, the neighborhood is full of people, and there are many stalls. It's just barter."

Mr. Bayes: "I have heard of this free trade. It was the new policy of opening up rural areas in 1963."

Lin Yiyi said: "Yes, that's it."

Bei: "Then let's go together this month? Invite Miss Jiang and Miss Xu."

Lin Yiyi: "That's fine. We can go in the morning and trade what we need. If there is no return ship that night, you can stay overnight at my house and come back the next morning. It's only one night, so it shouldn't be a problem."

Mr. Bei: "I remember that the 15th of this month seemed to be Sunday."

Lin Yiyi: "What a coincidence, the children are taken care of by gay men."

Bei: "Okay, I'll talk to the Xu family sisters and the Jiang family sisters when the time comes. But I don't have any items to trade, so I have to prepare some for exchange."

Lin Yiyi: "You can go to the nearby village to buy some dried seafood."

Mr. Bei: "Yes, yes, yes, why didn't I think of that."

So, the two women discussed about the trading day. After they had discussed it, they went to ask Jiang and Xu. Jiang and Xu had been in the army for a long time and had never been out like Bei, so they were very interested in Lin Yiyi and Bei's proposal. So, the four of them agreed to go to the village to collect things first.

The only things that can be collected in the village are seafood. They collected dried fish, dried shrimp, and kelp. They each collected a lot and hoped to exchange more things on the trading day.

In the blink of an eye, the trading day of August 15th arrived.

The author has something to say: It’s almost dawn now, don’t wait, you will be able to see it when you wake up tomorrow.