As soon as He Yan ran into the yard of Building 66, Wang Lixia stopped him and asked, "Xiao Yan, your father is back. Are you happy?"

“Happy!”

It was because several people said his father was back that he ran all the way back. Without saying anything, he ran back and shouted, "Dad!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a man in a shirt and military pants coming out of the bathroom.

He Yan thought he looked familiar, but he didn't quite recognize him. His father didn't have that much beard before he went out, so his steps were hesitant until he asked, "Are you done with school?"

He Yan was more familiar with He Dongchuan's voice than his appearance, mainly because he had been living with his grandparents in the capital since he was born, and he might not see his father throughout the year. The half month after he came to the island was the longest time they had spent together.

But the phone calls are frequent, about once a week.

He Yan didn't feel strange when he saw He Dongchuan, it was all because they talked on the phone so often, otherwise even if they were father and son, they would have felt strange after not seeing each other for one, two, three or four years.

Therefore, after hearing the voice, He Yan was basically sure that the person in front of him was his father, and blurted out: "Dad, how did you become like this?"

He Dongchuan stopped walking towards his son and asked, "What has become of me?"

He Yan wrinkled his nose and said, "I've grown older and uglier." He liked his father more when he was handsome before.

After stacking the clothes that had been hung out to dry, Su Ting walked out of the master bedroom and burst out laughing. When He Dongchuan looked at her with a dark gaze, she quickly put on her smile and made a zipper-pulling gesture.

He Dongchuan: “…” He has already seen it.

…

Eat in the cafeteria at night.

When he learned about this, He Dongchuan glanced at Su Ting calmly.

Although he looked at her very obscurely, Su Ting was sharp enough to notice his gaze. At that time, she wanted to ask, "What do you think?" But when the words came to her lips, she felt that asking this question was too tense and would not be conducive to their future harmonious coexistence, so she swallowed the words back.

He Dongchuan said nothing. Between eating in the cafeteria and eating Su Ting's cooking, he chose the former.

On the way to the cafeteria, the family of three attracted a lot of attention.

But no one asked who he was. News spread quickly in the family compound, and most people had heard that He Dongchuan had returned from his mission. Then, when they saw the family walking together, even if they didn't recognize him, they could guess his identity after just a quick thought.

After guessing it, everyone couldn't help but look at He Dongchuan a few more times, not because of anything else, but just because of his messy beard.

Judging from everyone's reactions, Su Ting thinks that He Dongchuan probably didn't have a beard before, and either he started growing it recently, or he was too busy on missions to shave it.

But no matter what, Su Ting didn't intend to interrupt.

First of all, they said they were husband and wife, but their relationship was extremely plastic, and it was very likely that the relationship would end with the death of one party, that is, He Dongchuan, or divorce. She felt that she was not in a position to interfere in He Dongchuan's affairs.

Secondly, Su Ting felt that He Dongchuan would not look bad after shaving his beard, and living with a handsome guy would be too stressful, especially since they would have to live under the same roof for at least three years. She really couldn't guarantee that she would not be tempted.

According to the original plot, love is the source of disaster. If the original author had not fallen in love with He Dongchuan, she would not have planned to marry him, nor would she have abused the male protagonist out of love and hate, leading to her eventual imprisonment.

Although she felt that even if she fell in love with He Dongchuan, she would not do something like her original self who abused the child, but no one could guarantee something that had not happened. And even if she could keep her original intention, it would be too painful to love someone but not be able to get him.

She just wanted to live these three years peacefully, and then part ways amicably with the male protagonist and his son. She didn't want to experience the bitterness of love at all.

Therefore, it was good for Su Ting that He Dongchuan had a beard. At least when she saw his untidy beard, Su Ting felt that it was not a big deal for her to have a heartless ending!

…

The canteen chef performed steadily. The dishes tonight were not only delicious, but also very tasty. Su Ting even didn't miss the chili shreds as a side dish and ate them all.

The only problem was that I cooked too much rice and a little bit of it was left.

The portions of dishes in the canteen of the family compound are fixed, and you pay by portion and get a ticket. As for rice, you can order it according to your appetite.

After eating the meals He Yan brought back for two days, Su Ting had a general understanding of the portion sizes of the meals in the cafeteria. Later, when she ate there herself, the dishes were all served as usual, and the rice was only half an ounce.

How much is half a pound of rice?

If you use an aluminum lunch box, half a pound of rice can barely fill one layer.

The first time I heard Su Ting say she wanted half a bowl of rice, I was stunned. These days, cooking uses less oil and water, so people eat more staple foods.

For an adult man, 100 grams of staple food per meal may not be enough, and this is for ordinary workers. If he does heavy labor, the monthly food supply alone may be 40 to 50 kilograms.

Even women need two or three taels of rice for every meal, except for those with big appetites.

Half a catty of rice is not enough for a three-year-old child. For example, He Yan, who is only six years old, eats two catties of rice for every meal.

In fact, Su Ting was not full, but she had no choice. The rice in the cafeteria tasted too bad. She could only swallow it with a big mouthful of vegetables and a mouthful of rice. Half a catty of rice was her limit. Any more was not eating, but suffering.

This is also the reason why she has been going to the supply and marketing cooperative all the time during this period. If she is not full with the staple food, she will have to use snacks.

In the evening, Su Ting ordered half a catty of rice as usual, but for some reason, the amount of rice served by the lady at the window seemed to be nearly two-thirds more than usual.

Su Ting didn't know whether it was because the lady at the window was being particularly generous today or because she was usually less generous than her, but no matter what the reason was, it was an established fact that she couldn't finish the meal.

Su Ting was a little worried.

If she hadn't traveled through time, she wouldn't have worried about such a small matter, and would have just thrown away the food. But she traveled through time to the 1970s when people were short of food and clothing, and even if others didn't say anything, she would feel guilty about wasting food.

He Dongchuan kept looking at Su Ting while she was eating.

It wasn't that he was suddenly fascinated by Su Ting after returning from the mission, although she did look more beautiful than before. It was strange that her facial features had not changed, and her face was still the same, but the feeling she gave was different from before.

From this we can see that He Dongchuan has a sharp eye, but he doesn't quite understand women.

Su Ting's facial features have not changed, but she trimmed her eyebrows and slightly extended the ends of her eyebrows with an eyebrow pencil.

The change is not big, but to know whether a person is gentle or heroic, decadent or energetic, the role of eyebrows is crucial.

After Su Ting drew her eyebrows, she looked more energetic.

But what He Dongchuan cared about at this time was not the change in Su Ting's appearance, but the fact that she only ate half a cup of rice, and now there was still half left.

He Dongchuan can't say that he likes Su Ting.

It's easy to imagine that it's hard for anyone to have a good impression of someone who schemes against his or her own life.

He agreed to marry Su Ting mainly because of his mother's attitude.

His mother has grown old. This was the first thought that came to his mind when he met Cheng Xiaoman this year.

My mother is three years younger than my father and looked younger in the past few years, but my father is still in good health while my mother has gray hair.

He Dongchuan knew that this was because of the illness she had suffered late last year.

In fact, she didn't have a terminal illness, just a common flu. It's just that she had fought in wars everywhere in her early years and her health was too weak. Later, she seemed to have recovered, but in fact, her physical foundation was very poor, and the illness exposed all the problems.

That's why she was so happy when she received the letter from her hometown. When people get old, they will miss the past especially.

This was also the reason why He Dongchuan went back to his hometown with her. His father couldn't leave, and he hadn't had a vacation for two years, so he took more than half a month's leave to go back to his hometown with her to visit relatives.

As a result, the Su Ting incident happened.

But no matter how much he disliked Su Ting, he didn't want anything to happen to her.

Seeing that she was holding the chopsticks without moving, He Dongchuan asked, "Why don't you eat anymore?"

Su Ting hesitated and said, "...I'm full."

He Dongchuan frowned: "You only got half a pound of rice."

"This is definitely more than half an ounce of rice. I usually make half as much rice as today." Su Ting felt that the responsibility for having leftover rice today was not hers.

He Dongchuan did not argue with her about how much half an ounce of rice should be. He just said, "That's only one ounce. You could eat two ounces of rice before."

Su Tinggan smiled and said, "It's a different time now."

He Dongchuan didn't believe it. He was only away on a mission for half a month, not half a year. In such a short time, her food intake had not only shrunk by three quarters, but she also had leftovers. There must be something wrong.

He Dongchuan asked: "Why do you eat so little now?"

Of course it’s because the rice tastes so bad!

But the truth was too inconsistent with the current values ​​of frugality to be spoken out loud, so Su Ting tried to get away with it. But before she could even open her mouth, He Yan, who was sitting next to her, answered: "Mom said that the food in the cafeteria irritates my throat!"

Su Ting: “!!!”

Who says children are all angels? Sometimes they are actually assassins!

Su Ting opened her mouth to deny: "I didn't..." But when she saw He Yan's eyes widened unconsciously because of surprise, she sighed and said, "He is right."

He Dongchuan frowned: "I remember that your family also eats this kind of rice."

This was a euphemism. The fact was that the rice eaten by the Su family was coarser than the rice used in the cafeteria, and every time he went to Su's house before, she kept saying that the rice was not tasty and she couldn't eat it.

Su Ting understood what He Dongchuan meant, and she also knew that there was a huge contrast between her before and after, which was a loophole, but she was unwilling to force herself to keep the same personality as her original self because they were different people.

Although she is an outsider, her original self has disappeared since she came to this world. The next few decades are her life, and she cannot spend her whole life pretending to be someone else.

Even if she only played the role for a year or two, she was unwilling to do it. She didn't dare to eat what she wanted to eat, and had to endure eating what she didn't want to eat. It was too painful.

If traveling through a book is to suffer, she would rather die, maybe she can get lucky and travel back.

Of course, she didn't want to die yet, so she had to find a way to make up for the changes in her body. As for whether to believe it or not, that was He Dongchuan's own business. Anyway, he had no evidence to prove that she was a time traveler.

Thinking of this, Su Ting said, "If I say that I used to eat this kind of rice without irritating my throat, but one day I suddenly felt very uncomfortable while eating it, and I couldn't get used to eating this kind of rice anymore, would you believe it?"

He Dongchuan: “…”