Just when Su Ting was racking her brains for a gift to give He Dongchuan, He Yan brought back good news.

The military district primary school is preparing to hold a party on Children's Day, inviting parents and military leaders to attend as spectators, and the performers will be the children, with each class having to perform two programs.

He Yan's class, Grade 1, Class 2, has scheduled two programs: solo dance and chorus.

The solo dancer is a girl named Feng Li. Her mother was a member of the city's art troupe before she joined the army. Although she could not do her original job after joining the army, her dancing skills are still there. Feng Li started learning dancing with her mother when she was four years old. It has been three years since then. Although there is no place to take the test these days, her skills are not bad. It is not difficult for her to complete a difficult dance independently.

Compared to dancing, the requirements for selecting chorus members are much lower. Two main things to look at are good looks and the ability to open their mouths.

It is said that dancing is 30% talent and 70% sweat. No matter how good your talent is, your body will become stiff if you don't practice for a long time. Singing is different. Talent accounts for a larger proportion. Whether your voice is good or not can often determine everything.

Of course, this is just an elementary school party, so the requirements for the children's voices are not that high. Basically, they just need to have a clear voice, be able to sing and not have a voice that is too abrupt.

Also, because the chorus is a standing singing style, the teacher will look at the appearance when selecting people.

Therefore, He Yan, who had a clear voice and could sing, was naturally selected into the choir, and because of his good looks, he became the lead singer standing in the middle.

The little guy was very proud, his tail was about to wag, but he insisted on pretending that he had no interest in singing and only went because the teacher asked him to.

Su Ting couldn't help but reach out and rub his hair heavily, and said with a smile: "Okay, hurry up and eat, great singer!"

He Yan uttered an "oh" and ate a few mouthfuls of rice. Then he remembered something very important and asked while eating, "Will you come to watch me sing that day?"

Because there was something in his mouth, his voice was a little unclear, but Su Ting and He Dongchuan both understood it.

Su Ting agreed immediately, and He Dongchuan asked, "Which day is June 1st?"

"I don't know." Su Ting stood up and walked to the closet. She reached out to flip the calendar on the wall, quickly turned to the Children's Day page, turned around and said, "It's Saturday."

Because the army requires that there must be a leader in the camp during holidays, He Dongchuan takes turns on duty one Sunday every month, and the rest time is adjusted to Saturday accordingly.

As for which Saturday they have a day off, that depends on the schedule, but the schedule is not completely fixed and the leaders of the several camps can make adjustments among themselves.

It was only the middle of the month and the shift schedule had not yet been released. He Dongchuan said, "I'll check at the end of the month and go if there's no problem."

He Yan took it as his father's agreement and said, "You must come, otherwise I will be very, very sad!" This was the first time in his life that he performed on stage.

He Dongchuan's lips twitched slightly: "I'll try my best."

…

"Hey, Commander Su, are you guys going to the city to play again?"

They agreed to buy gifts, so after breakfast on Sunday, Su Ting, He Dongchuan and He Yan prepared to take a boat to the city.

On the way to the monastery, people kept greeting them and asking if they were going to the city to play. When they answered in the affirmative, they either expressed envy or said something like, "Tsk tsk, tsk tsk, tsk tsk!", saying that they were living a carefree life.

The word "carefree" in the mouths of these people is not a compliment. Although they say this, in their hearts they probably think that they go to the city to play every now and then and do not know how to live.

But Su Ting's ears have a built-in filtering system. When people praise her, she accepts it all. But when people criticize her, she selectively listens.

Just like now, she seemed to have not heard the deeper meaning behind their words at all, and she smiled and agreed, "It's OK, mainly because Lao He is willing to accompany us."

The above is said to women. If the man is being weird, she will add: "Don't you ever accompany your wife and children to go out to play?" After saying this, she will click her tongue twice with a look of disgust on her face.

So if you want to find something to make them unhappy, you will either be flattered or be rejected to the point of questioning your life.

Seeing that they were unhappy, Su Ting became happy. She was still restrained in the courtyard, but when she went out and saw that there were fewer people on the road, she stopped controlling her expression and asked with a laugh: "Did you see their expressions just now? Wasn't it funny?"

He Dongchuan curled his lips and said, "Yeah."

"Humph, they still want to point fingers at me. I'll make them mad!" Su Ting muttered, then she remembered the identities of those people and felt a little regretful. "Did I say too much just now? Will I offend anyone? Will they cause trouble to you in the future?"

He Dongchuan was very calm: "You didn't say anything, they wouldn't be that petty, and they were the ones who started the trouble in the first place."

After hearing what he said, Su Ting felt relieved. She went around to the other side of He Dongchuan to tease He Yan. The mother and son ran and jumped as they walked forward.

Outside the family area, there were more and more people on the road, including soldiers coming from the military barracks, members from surrounding brigades, and wives and children of soldiers who lived in the family compound like them.

Some of them are going out to play during the holidays, while others are going to the city to do business or visit relatives. The former are basically empty-handed, while the latter are carrying large and small bags.

After getting on the ferry, Su Ting sat together with a military wife, He Dongchuan sat next to her, and further away were He Yan and the military wife's two children, who were kneeling on stools, holding onto the railing with their hands and looking at the sea.

Because it was convenient, after arriving at the city and exiting the pier, the two families continued to move together. They only separated at the post office. The military wife went to mail a letter, while they went to call He Dongchuan's home.

After the call, the three of them went straight to the department store.

After entering the department store, their pace slowed down. He Yan hadn't decided what toy he wanted, and Su Ting hadn't decided what gift to give He Dongchuan either.

The choices of gifts in this era are very limited, not to mention that He Dongchuan is a soldier.

The military jacket, trousers, leather shoes, belt and hat he was wearing were all issued by the army. He had to find someone to make his own shirt, but it was also made with military cloth coupons, which the army would distribute on a quarterly basis.

All in all, he had to buy everything on his body, except for his vest, underwear and trousers.

Well, actually giving underwear as a gift is a good idea. After all, they are husband and wife, and there are no taboos in the gifts they can give. Moreover, choosing such underwear as a gift is also special and intimate enough. She thinks He Dongchuan will be happy.

The problem is that underwear is too private and can easily lead to bad thoughts.

Before they had sex, Su Ting always thought that He Dongchuan was serious and abstinent. Occasionally, she thought that she was impure.

Now Su Ting has a new understanding of him. All his serious abstinence is just an act to scare people. Even in bed, his mind is still full of sexy garbage. He is still full of bad thoughts. Even if he knows that she has no other intentions, he might still tease her.

I can’t do it. I can’t do it.

So Su Ting suppressed the idea of ​​using underwear as a gift and planned to wait until she could not think of a gift.

But if you don't give underwear, there's nothing else to give. In later generations, the gifts you can choose to give to boyfriends and husbands are limited to clothes, shoes, necklaces, watches, and lighters.

These days, except in big cities, there are basically no places selling jewelry. But even in big cities, gold and silver shops have been closed for a long time, so people don’t wear jewelry very much at this time, and necklaces can basically be ignored.

A watch is fine, but it requires a ticket, and her royalties are not enough. Third, He Dongchuan has one, but he was also rejected.

Not to mention lighters. At that time, people in poor areas still used tinder to burn fire, while people in cities used matches. What was a lighter?

Since I have no idea, I can only walk around slowly.

We walked from the entrance of the first floor to the innermost part, but we didn't see what we wanted. However, we did buy a lot of food, including fruits, snacks, and egg cakes. Su Ting also bought a bag of White Rabbit milk candy.

White Rabbit Milk Candy can be said to be a brand that will be popular from now to fifty years later. Even the candy paper used for packaging has not changed much. Su Ting was moved by seeing this and immediately took out money and a ticket to buy a bag.

After buying the candies, Su Ting gave one to each of He Yan and He Dongchuan.

He Dongchuan doesn't want it, he doesn't like sweets very much.

After hearing this, Su Ting didn't try to persuade him. She just peeled off the candy wrapper and put the candy into his mouth: "Do you want to eat it?"

He Dongchuan said nothing, but turned his head and looked around.

Following his movements, Su Ting thought of what happened in Rongshi Park last time and quietly prepared to take back the candy. But she couldn't take her hand back as fast as He Dongchuan lowered his head, and in the blink of an eye, the candy was in his mouth.

Su Ting lowered her hands and rubbed her fingers unconsciously, feeling the scent of his lips and tongue still lingering there. She whispered, "This is outside."

He Dongchuan felt the sweet milky aroma in his mouth and said, "I just looked and no one was looking at us."

Su Ting: “…”

She thought He Dongchuan was looking around to remind her, but it turned out to be for this. She nodded softly, took out another candy, peeled off the candy wrapper, and stuffed it into her mouth.

Before he finished eating the candy, He Yan had already chosen the toy he wanted to buy - a scooter.

Of course, in that era, it was not called a scooter, but a children's car. The handlebar and the stepping board were made of wood, and there were three pulleys installed underneath, one in the front and two in the back.

Su Ting was very surprised. She had always thought that scooters were children's toys from 2,000 years later, at least she had never seen one when she was a child. She didn't expect to see one in the 1970s.

But she changed her mind and realized that Chinese people have always been very smart. The reason why there are few toys these days is not because they are unthinkable, but because the market has not been developed and the technology is limited.

Just like the plastic products that are common in later generations, in this era, due to technical limitations, the production of plastic products cannot be increased, so they are still in the limited purchase stage.

This situation will not improve until at least after the reform and opening up.

Having said that, scooters were relatively new toys at the time, and the materials were fine, but just looking at the three pulleys you could tell they were not cheap.

After asking the price, it turned out to be true. The smallest scooter costs thirty-six yuan, and the one suitable for He Yan's height is twenty more yuan, fifty-six yuan.

It’s more than two months’ salary of those military wives who work near their families’ compounds.

If the publishing house had not been generous in paying the royalties and had not said early on that He Yan could have anything he wanted except dangerous toys like slingshots, Su Ting might not have bought him such an expensive scooter.

But she has money now, and Su Ting thinks it is worth it to spend money to buy happiness, so she ignores He Dongchuan's objections and buys the scooter.

He Yan liked the bike so much that he didn't even want his dad to help him get it. He just stepped on it and drove away. Su Ting had no choice but to shout, "If you bump into the counter or fall, I will confiscate your bike. Do you hear me?"

He Yan, who was riding a scooter, said loudly, "I know!"

They had not yet finished buying toys for He Yan, and had not yet bought a gift for He Dongchuan, so Su Ting had no choice but to continue shopping with the two grandfathers.

After walking around for more than half an hour, Su Ting gained nothing. Her brows were tightly wrinkled and she looked very worried.

He Dongchuan took the initiative to say, "I didn't expect it doesn't matter what you buy. Just do as we agreed before."

Su Ting gave a fake smile and said, "You are so beautiful!" and continued shopping.

When they came to the counter selling school supplies, Su Ting suddenly had an idea and asked, "Do you write normally?"

"Want to buy me a pen?" He Dongchuan was very smart. He guessed it immediately and said, "I have a pen."

Su Ting asked: "Who bought it for you?"

"Own."

Su Ting asked confidently, "Is the pen you bought for yourself as significant as the one I bought for you? And I bought you this pen with my first royalties, no, the first money I earned on my own!"

He Dongchuan could tell that she was being unreasonable, but he had to accept her unreasonableness because it was a life-threatening question. If he didn't answer it well, he would have to sleep on the floor for the next half month.

Although their house is small and there is no room for sleeping on the floor in the master bedroom, there is still a bed in the second bedroom.

He Dongchuan said: "Of course not, the pen you gave me means more."

Su Ting was very satisfied with his attitude and asked with a smile: "Are you satisfied with this gift?"

“Satisfied.”

"That's good."

Su Ting raised her chin and walked to the counter with a proud and confident look, her heart filled with the pride of having won a great victory.

At that time, there were many fountain pen brands, including Venus, Yongsheng, Palladio, Hero, etc. However, after the reform and opening up, Hero had the last laugh. Many of the popular brands at that time were acquired by Hero in the 1980s and 1990s.

Su Ting thought that since it was a gift, she must choose a good one, so she didn't consider other brands and decided on the Hero brand.

But even for Hero brand pens, prices vary widely, with the cheapest being two or three dollars and the most expensive being more than twenty dollars.

Su Ting chose the most expensive Hero 100. She had used this fountain pen in her previous life. It was given to her by her father. Because it was easy to use, she used it for several years. Later, she got used to using gel pens and gradually put it aside.

Su Ting stroked the pen with her fingers and fell into memories unconsciously. It was not until He Dongchuan asked what was wrong that she came back to her senses. She looked up, smiled and said, "Nothing."

She just missed her dad.

In fact, after not looking at the photos for the past two years, she has rarely thought of her father.

Although she failed to find a suitable man to form a happy family, she has become strong enough, accustomed to loneliness, and has a career she likes.

She was no longer the innocent little girl who lived under her father's wings, nor would she cry when she thought of her father like she did when he just passed away.

But when she saw the pen and heard its familiar name, memories of the past suddenly appeared in her mind, and she thought of him again.

Su Ting smiled and asked, "Is it a good idea to buy this pen?"

He Dongchuan noticed the change in Su Ting's mood, but he didn't know why. He saw that she didn't want to talk, so he just asked in a low voice: "Do you like this one?"

"Yes, I want to buy it." Su Ting nodded affirmatively.

"Then buy it."

After paying and receiving the pen, Su Ting's mood had completely improved. She handed the box containing the pen to He Dongchuan and emphasized with a smile: "This is the first gift I give you. You must use it well."

"good."

He Dongchuan opened the box, took out the pen and put it in his left chest pocket.

Su Ting: “…”

In this era, pinning a pen to one's chest is fashionable and a symbol of culture, but in Su Ting's opinion, it is very old-fashioned.

What if she regrets giving him the pen?

Seeing that Su Ting's expression was not right, He Dongchuan straightened his chest and asked, "How is it?"

Su Ting laughed: "It's good...very dignified, looks mature and stable, very good."

Having slept in the same bed for a while, how could He Dongchuan not be able to tell which of her words were true and which were false, which words could be listened to directly and which could only be listened to in reverse?

Just like now, she said that he was mature and stable, but in her heart she probably thought that he was like the eldest master.

So after leaving the pen counter, He Dongchuan calmly took off the pen pinned to his chest and put it into the pen case.

After using her royalties to buy gifts for He Dongchuan and his son, Su Ting did not forget to reward herself and also bought herself a skirt.

In fact, she had no shortage of clothes. Although her original body bought winter clothes when she got married, she was pampered at home and could make new clothes every year. Winter clothes cost a lot of material and had to be stuffed with cotton, so she usually made summer clothes.

Girls are more careful about what they wear, and I used to be a scorekeeper in the brigade, which is an easy job and clothes don’t get damaged easily, so I was able to find quite a few unpatched clothes among my old clothes.

In addition, when Su Ting bought clothes for He Yan before, she also bought a dress for herself, so she had enough clothes to wear.

But as a woman, there will always be one piece of clothing missing in her closet.

Besides, this was her first royalty payment after traveling through time, so of course she had to buy something that would make her happy, and that something could be nothing more than new clothes.

In fact, Su Ting wanted to buy more than just a dress. She also liked a hat and a pair of leather shoes, but... she didn't have enough tickets, so she could only buy the most important things.

After buying things, the three of them prepared to go home.

Just after leaving the department store, He Dongchuan said that he had dropped something, and asked Su Ting and He Yan to wait at the door while he went back to look for it.

Su Ting asked immediately, "What's missing? Can I go with you to look for it?"

"It's not something important. I'll go back and look for it. If I can't find it, forget it. You must be tired after shopping for so long. Just wait for me here. I'll be back soon." After saying this, He Dongchuan hurried into the department store.

He Dongchuan did come out very quickly, but apart from the large and small bags in his hands, he didn't seem to have much else.

Su Ting asked: "Have you found it? What is it?"

He Dongchuan stretched out his right hand: "The button of my shirt fell off."

"You found it so quickly?" Su Ting was incredulous. The buttons on the military uniform were not much bigger than a fingernail, and the color was not conspicuous. More importantly, the department store was so big, and he had only been inside for a few minutes?

Is there ten minutes?

He Dongchuan said: "I was lucky. It fell where the pens were being sold and I saw it when I passed by."

What he said sounded so real that Su Ting believed it, and the three of them went out of the department store to have dinner.

After dinner, they didn’t go anywhere else, but went home with their things.

On the ferry back, He Yan stole the show. His scooter attracted the attention of all the children on the boat. If He Dongchuan hadn't stopped him, he would have wanted to ride his scooter around the boat for a few laps.

Although he didn't run on the boat, he started running happily after getting off the boat, with one foot on the skateboard and the other foot sliding under it, and he ran very fast.

After entering the family compound, he started running on the scooter, put his foot on the skateboard, held the handle with one hand, raised his hand and shouted: "I'm back!"

Not only the children in the playground, but even the adults sitting on the stone table benches looked at him as if he were a fool.

But He Yan didn't think he was stupid. When he felt that the scooter couldn't move, he held the handle with both hands, lifted his right foot back, and ended his cool appearance with a dragon tail swing. He raised his chin towards the children in the playground with a good feeling about himself.

Su Ting: “…”

It's so stupid.

And this is because He Yan is young and looks cute, otherwise if an adult did the same thing, Su Ting would definitely say to him - I have a good life, not heaven!

Although Su Ting found it unbearable to watch, the children were all dazzled by He Yan.

Whether they were playing on the swings or playing marbles, whether they were boys or girls, they all stopped the games they were playing.

If they had a better vocabulary, they would have shouted, "Cool!"

Rather than just opening your mouth to express your surprise.

After exclaiming, they all ran towards He Yan, surrounded him, and asked in unison: "What is this? Is this the new toy your parents bought for you?"

“It looks amazing!”

He Yan, who was surrounded in the middle, was grinning so hard that his teeth were showing, and he completely forgot about his parents who were walking behind him.

Su Ting shrugged and said, "Let him play." Then she went home with He Dongchuan.

…

The first thing I do when I get home is try on clothes.

People at this time dress more conservatively, so clothes are loose-fitting. As long as the size is right, most clothes you buy will fit you.

They don't care too much about the way they dress. They don't care whether the waist is fitted or not, whether the shoulders are broad or not, or whether they make them look fat. As long as they look good, it's fine.

So at that time, no matter whether it was a supply and marketing cooperative or a department store, there were no fitting rooms in the places where clothes were sold. You could still try on your winter coat, but you could basically only rely on your eyes to buy summer clothes.

Su Ting thinks this may be the main reason why few people buy ready-made clothes nowadays. Not only can they not try them on, but they cannot return or exchange the goods within seven days without giving any reason. If the clothes they buy don’t look good on them, they can only blame themselves. It’s her fault…

Well, she still has to buy it, after all, she can’t make it herself.

Fortunately, she studied art and has her own ideas about dressing. She can see what kind of clothes are suitable for her. The two sets of clothes she bought before are quite suitable for her.

The same is true this time.

Su Ting put on her dress, undid the braid she had tied in the morning, used her fingers to untie her hair, and then used a wooden comb to fluff up the roots of her hair to create a big wavy effect.

Then, Su Ting took a few steps back, allowing her upper body to be reflected in the mirror. She looked left and right, and the more she looked, the more beautiful the skirt seemed to her.

Just as she was admiring herself, He Dongchuan came in and looked at her face, which looked even whiter against her black hair: "It's beautiful."

"Yeah, I think this skirt is beautiful too." Su Ting said with a smile.

He Dongchuan lowered his gaze and looked at the skirt on Su Ting.

It was a shirt dress with straight shoulders and a thin belt around the waist, which could be tied to tighten the waist and show the lines. Su Ting tied the belt at this time, outlining her slender waist.

She was right, sometimes men's minds are prone to producing colored waste.

Just like He Dongchuan now, when he sees her slender waist, he thinks of the smooth touch; when he sees her white and straight calves under her skirt, he thinks of the strength of those two legs wrapped around his waist.

He didn't say anything, but his eyes seemed to be burning with fire as he looked at Su Ting. The temperature in the room gradually rose. Su Ting took a half step back and reminded her, "You said you were satisfied with the gift."

Upon hearing this, He Dongchuan laughed.

Some people who don't like to laugh usually look stiff when they laugh, while others look particularly good when they laugh. He Dongchuan is the latter.

His smile was like melting ice and snow; all his coldness and severity faded away, and he looked a little more sunny.

Su Ting had no resistance to He Dongchuan like this, and her heart was pounding. It was not until she was held in his arms that she reminded him not too forcefully, "It's daytime now."

"Our house is at the back." He Dongchuan put one hand on her waist and unbuttoned his military jacket one by one with his left hand.

When he had unbuttoned his shirt until only one button was left, Su Ting looked down and saw his skin underneath his shirt which had loosened because the button had fallen off.

He is not white, but his muscles are muscular and look hard.

Su Ting raised her head and uttered "Hmm?" in a daze, not quite understanding what he said.

He Dongchuan continued, "There are mountains behind us, and no one comes."

He took off his military jacket, untied the belt around his trousers, and pulled the hem of his shirt out of his trousers. The shirt that had been separated by the bulge fell down, and his abdominal muscles disappeared.

Su Ting reached out and touched his abdominal muscles through his clothes, and asked softly, "And then?"

"Then, no one will know what we do at home." He Dongchuan said the last sentence in a low voice, pulling up his shirt to allow her to touch his muscles without any obstruction.

The original owner's hands were not delicate. No matter how pampered she was at home, she still had to help with washing and cooking, and she didn't know how to take care of her hands. When Su Ting first wore it, she always felt that her hands were rough and dry to the touch, so she bought a box of clam oil to wipe her hands.

The effect is significant.

Now her hands were more delicate than the skin on his waist and very soft. She pressed on his tight abdominal muscles from time to time, forcing him to tighten his muscles even more.

Finally, he couldn't hold back any longer, so he carried her to the dressing table, and put his hand under her skirt, groping his way up little by little.