Seeing her mysterious look, Xiao Yu opened the box and asked, "A watch?" He was a little confused at first why his wife gave him a watch. Isn't this a festival? In Xiao Yu's mind, the Lantern Festival is certainly not a special festival. But suddenly he remembered that his watch was broken. "Thank you, wife."

Lin Yiyi originally planned to give it to him during the Chinese New Year, but then she forgot about it, so she left it for the Lantern Festival. However, from today onwards, Xiao Yu will start to attach importance to the Lantern Festival.

Lin Yiyi: "You're welcome. Please accept my gift. I'll have to work harder to earn money in the future." Actually, Xiao Yu's annual salary plus bonuses is about 2,000. In this era, as long as one is not a bribe-taker, his salary is considered a lot.

Xiao Yu: "Yeah." However, he probably can't make money as fast as his wife, and now he is a bit like a gigolo. But he is also happy with this gigolo.

At dawn the next day, Mrs. Bei brought Li Wanda to find Lin Yiyi, and then Lin Yiyi went to the pier with them. They were going to the Shanglin Production Brigade today to rent a house first, and then Mrs. Bei would live there with her two children.

Lin Yiyi, Bei, and Li Wanda took the ox cart of the Bainiwan Production Brigade to the Shanglin Production Brigade. It was about 7:30, which happened to be the time for the villagers to go to work. So when the carriage arrived at the brigade, many people were walking on the road, and everyone was looking at them.

Zhang Xiaojun: "Big sister." Lin Yiyi brought a lot of glutinous rice balls that day. They ate them in the past two days and they tasted very good. Zhang Xiaojun also went to work at this time. When he saw Lin Yiyi, he walked over and asked, "Big sister, haven't you joined the army yet?"

Lin Yiyi: "I went there the day before yesterday. I came back today for something. Did you see the captain?"

Zhang Xiaojun: "In front of the village committee office, everyone is collecting hoes, he is in charge."

Lin Yiyi nodded: "Then let's go there."

Zhang Xiaojun saw that it was still early to go to work, and since he was a teacher, he didn't have to go to work today, so he said, "I'll go with you."

Lin Yiyi didn't care.

Arriving in front of the village committee office, Lin Yiyi said, "Captain."

Captain Lin was shouting at everyone to hurry up and register to get their hoes. It was the beginning of the year and the busy farming season. Some people had become lazy after the New Year and needed the supervision of the captain. When he saw Lin Yiyi, Captain Lin remembered Lin Xiu's incident and was a little scared for a moment, wanting to run away.

But it was just a thought. He smiled kindly, "Why are you here, Yiyi?"

Lin Yiyi: "Captain, I want to discuss something with you."

Captain Lin: "Then go to my office."

Lin Yiyi nodded, and she took Bei and Li Wanda to the office. After entering the office, Lin Yiyi said directly: "Captain, this is the case. This is a military wife in the army. Her surname is Bei, and her husband's surname is Li, a battalion commander. She is not in good health and cannot live in the army to enjoy the sea breeze, but she does not want to go back to her hometown, which is too far from the army, so she thought of renting a house in a nearby village. Thinking that she is familiar with me, I recommended our brigade. Do you think it's okay?" This was an excuse they had discussed. They could not tell Li Wanda's affairs to avoid psychological pressure on the children, so they found this excuse. Some people are not in good health and cannot enjoy the sea breeze. This is also true, and the army can enjoy the sea breeze every day.

Captain Lin said, "I have no objection to this." Since the wife of a soldier can rent a house here, and it is the battalion commander's family, Captain Lin cannot refuse. Besides, helping the wife of a soldier is a good thing. "So where do you plan to rent?"

Lin Yiyi: "Are there any elderly people living alone in our team? We can share a room. Of course, if there is a whole empty yard, that would be good, after all, Captain Li will come here often. But if it is somewhere else, I'm afraid it's not very convenient and it will easily attract gossip."

Captain Lin thought, isn't Lin Sanjun's house empty? Of course, he didn't say it. Lin Yiyi would not rent out Lin Sanjun's house. This is Lin Sanjun's house. Although she can make the decision, if it is her own house, she will not be happy to rent it to others. This has not been a day or two. Although the Bei family will not make a mess, when Lin Sanjun talks about marriage in the future, his wife will definitely hope that the house is clean and has not been lived in. Moreover, Lin Sanjun is not short of money. So she will not rent out Lin Sanjun's house.

It is impossible for Lin Dajun, Lin Sijun is only 17 years old, and Bei is not very old either, so it is even more inconvenient.

Captain Lin thought for a moment and said, "There are houses for elderly people living alone, but they are a bit run-down. How about I take you there to have a look?"

Lin Yiyi: “Sure.”

So Captain Lin took them to the house of the elderly man who lived alone.

The house of the elderly living alone is very shabby, but fortunately it is a small courtyard with its own entrance. The elderly is over 60 years old this year. She is old and has no relatives. When she was hungry, she picked up a girl who was thrown away by someone else and raised her. Now she is six years old. When she heard that someone wanted to rent her house, she said, "This house is a bit shabby. There are still two rooms, but it leaks when it rains and cannot be lived in. However, if you rent it, I can repair the house."

Mrs. Bei looked at the environment and found that except for the leaking house, everything else was good. Besides, an elderly man living alone with a six-year-old girl would not attract gossip. She looked at Lin Yiyi: "What do you think?"

Lin Yiyi: "That's good. We can take care of each other."

Mr. Bei: "How about these two rooms? How much is the rent?"

Captain Lin thought for a moment and said, "Two rooms, two yuan a month, how about that? One yuan a month for each room."

Naturally, Mr. Bei had no objection.

Lin Yiyi: "Then pay a deposit of 10 yuan first, so that the old man can find someone to repair the house first."

Mr. Bei had no objection to this matter, and the old man was also happy to hear Lin Yiyi say this.

The old man took the money and said, "Wait for me a moment. I'll go ask how many days it will take to repair the two rooms. I'll be back soon."

Lin Yiyi: “Hey.”

The old man went to find a veteran house repairman in the brigade and asked him to look at the house. The veteran house repairman climbed to the roof and looked at the two rooms. There were many holes of different sizes on the roof: "My two sons and I can fix it together in two nights. We will prepare the materials. I will pay you a total of six yuan, but meals are not included."

6 yuan is equivalent to three months' rent. Although the old man was reluctant to give it up, he was willing to do it: "Okay."

An experienced house repairman: "We will come over today at noon and the repairs will be completed the day after tomorrow at noon. I will go back now."

After the other party left, the old man said to Mrs. Bei: "This house will be repaired by noon the day after tomorrow. You can move in any time."

Bei thought for a moment and said, "Then let's move here the day after tomorrow. We can go back to the island tomorrow and come back the day after tomorrow. Wanda will still be able to catch up with her classes this semester."

Lin Yiyi: "That's good. Children can take classes and make new friends."

Mr. Bei: “That’s what I mean.”

That night, they stayed at the Datang Production Brigade, and the next morning, they returned to the army.

Lin Yiyi remembered that every time she went out and returned to the army, Lin Wujun would bring Xiao Shiyi to wait for her at the army gate. At that time, Xiao Shiyi was sitting in a stroller, but not this time.

After entering the family compound, Lin Yiyi saw Lin Wujun taking Xiaoyi and a group of children of the same age playing football. Seeing him come back, Lin Wujun waved: "Sister, you are back."

Xiao Shiyi ran over and said, "Yiyi, you're back."

Looking at the two, one big and one small, neither of them missed her. Lin Yiyi seemed to see them grow up, and for the girl they loved, they no longer wanted her, the mother who raised them. She felt sad. She inexplicably understood the reason for the conflict between the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law. She thought about how she felt when her son, whom she had raised with great effort, rebelled against her for a woman.

Little Eleven saw his mother staring at him with a sad face, and blinked in confusion: "Yi Yi?"

Lin Yiyi: "Nothing, what did you have for breakfast?"

Xiao Shiyi: "Steamed bun."

When Lin Yiyi left yesterday, she left behind a lot of steamed buns, which they could just heat up and eat.

Lin Yiyi: "Go play, and remember to come back for lunch."

Xiao Shiyi: “Hey…” and then happily ran to play football.

Lin Yiyi looked at his back and calculated that he would have to be sent to nursery in the second half of the year.

At noon, Lin Yiyi made stir-fried rice cakes with shredded cabbage and pork. While eating, Lin Yiyi talked about what happened yesterday: "After living outside, Wanda's condition should get better faster."

Xiao-Woo: "Yeah."

Lin Wujun: "Sister, can I go to your house to see Wanda every month?"

Lin Yiyi: "Of course you can, but you can only go on weekends, you can't take leave, understand?" They have classes six days a week, and they can't go back and forth on Sunday, so they can't go. But Li Wanda can come back.

Lin Wujun: "I know. I won't delay my studies."

After the Lantern Festival, it was time for students to go back to school. Lin Wujun went back to school, and Bei moved to Shanglin Production Brigade with her two sons. Lin Yiyi's days suddenly became free, and she didn't even have anyone to chat with.

Speaking of the Bei family, the Jiang family, and the Xu family, she is best friends with the Bei family.

That day, Lin Yiyi took her son and went for a walk in the village with Jiang, and collected some dried seafood. As a result, they met Teacher Zhang's sister Zhang Nian at the gate of the army.

This is called enemies becoming extremely jealous when they meet.

Of course, this is how Zhang Nian sees it. In Lin Yiyi's opinion, she is not taken seriously at all.

Seeing Zhang Nian, Jiang greeted him, "Comrade Zhang." Jiang and his colleagues knew nothing about the political and educational positions in the school.

Zhang Nian also smiled and greeted Jiang: "Sister Jiang." Then he looked at Lin Yiyi, "Who is this?"

Lin Yiyi glanced at her without even reacting. She would not pretend to greet someone who had schemed against her, and she didn't even want to give him face.