Chapter 25

When Tang Wenlan washed her hands and rushed over, she just happened to see Captain Huo carrying his wife out of the car.

She couldn't help but feel jealous in her heart. She didn't expect that Captain Huo was such a loving man towards his wife.

Thinking back to when she first moved in, Old Xing didn't even help her, let alone carry her. She would definitely have a good talk with him when she gets back.

It's not enough that you're not as pretty as others, but your awareness is also low!

But now is not the time to think about these things, Tang Wenlan still remembers her husband's instructions.

She hurriedly squeezed through the crowd and greeted with a smile: "Captain Huo, I've got someone."

Huo Xiao turned around, saw who was coming, nodded at him first, then led his mother and wife forward to introduce the two sides.

Hu Xiu was still a little reserved. After hearing what her son said, she just smiled and said, "Hello, Comrade Xiao Tang."

But Ruiting couldn't be so unfamiliar. Huo Xiao just said that the visitor was his partner's wife, and the two families were neighbors, so his smile was appropriately intimate: "Hello sister-in-law, I'm Ruiting. We just got here, and there are still many things we don't understand. I will inevitably nag you later."

Tang Wenlan used to work in a cultural troupe. Although she couldn't stand the hardship of dancing for only one year and switched to logistics, she was not bad looking and thought she had seen many beauties. However, she was still shocked by the good looks of Captain Huo's wife.

With such appearance and temperament, how could she be from the mountains? She looked more like a city dweller than a real city dweller like her.

Besides, she is too young and doesn't look like she has given birth to a child.

Of course, no matter how much she was wondering and curious, Tang Wenlan would not ask questions when she was not familiar with him, so she smiled and replied, "Why are you nagging? We men are from the same group, and our two families are neighbors, so we should visit each other more often."

As he said this, he looked down at the dragon and phoenix twins and praised them again in his heart: "This is your child, right? He looks so good and is well raised." He is fair, tender and chubby.

Ruting raised her hand and touched Guoguo who was hugging her thigh. She found that she was a little stiff, so she bent down and picked her up, and introduced with a smile: "This is my daughter, Miaomiao, and my mother-in-law is holding a son, whose nickname is Guoguo, and he is four years old." After that, she turned around and looked at the two children: "Miaomiao, Guoguo, call me auntie."

Miaomiao hugged her mother's neck dependently. After hearing this, although she was a little nervous because of the unfamiliar environment, she turned her head to the side and said in a baby voice, "Hello, Auntie."

Guoguo has always been brave. After he shouted "Hello, Auntie" in the same way, he also smiled at people with his little white teeth.

"Hey, so good, right, Lieting? You teach your children so well." Tang Wenlan also has two children, but the older one is 10 years old and the younger one is 7 years old, both are boys, which is the age when people dislike them, so it is inevitable that they would be attracted to the dragon and phoenix twins who are as beautiful as jade beauties.

Ruting stroked the back of the girl in her arms and replied with a smile: "Sister-in-law, you can call me Xiao Ru or Tingting. The children are quite sensible, but my mother-in-law takes care of them more."

She looks charming and cute, but has a straightforward personality. Tang Wenlan felt relieved: "Okay, I'll call you Tingting. I'm older than you, so you can just call me Sister Wenlan."

Ruting's first impression of the other party was not bad, and the two women were willing to get along well, so when Huo Xiao led the attendants to move all the luggage into the house, he found that the two women were already chatting animatedly.

Huo Xiao didn't understand women's friendship, but he was happy that his wife could adapt so quickly.

Worried that she was too tired from traveling all the way, he forced himself to chat with her. After thinking for a while, he stepped forward and said, "Tingting, you don't have to cook tonight. When the car is ready, I'll go to the cafeteria to get food."

Hearing this, before Tingting could say anything, Tang Wenlan said with an annoyed look on her face: "Hey, look at my memory. I was only busy talking to Tingting. Don't go to the cafeteria for dinner. Come to my house. I made a lot of dumplings and am waiting for you to come over and cook them."

Li Ting waved her hands repeatedly: "No, don't bother sister-in-law, it's the same if we eat in the cafeteria."

Tang Wenlan: "Why are you being so polite? We have a long time to live together, and I've already packed everything... We agreed that you can come over after you take a break."

Seeing Wen Lan's wife running away after saying a bunch of words, Li Ting looked at her husband: "...What do you think?"

Huo Xiao comforted him: "Go ahead, Old Xing and his sister-in-law are nice people."

Hearing this, Ruting stopped talking and planned to go into the house first, holding the child: "Then you go and return the car first. Mom and I will wait for you at home and then go together."

But when she turned around, she noticed that the man's shoulder was covered with dust, and she brushed it off subconsciously.

Seeing this, Huo Xiao curled the corners of his lips; he liked his wife's closeness.

"This house is also made of bricks and tiles, with white walls. The area is not smaller than my home, but the furniture is a bit rigid. I think you have poor taste." Hu Xiu, who had already walked around and hid in the house when he saw his daughter-in-law coming in, expressed his satisfaction with the new residence first, and then complained a few words.

"The furniture should be issued by the army. If you don't like it, we can cover it with some tablecloths made from homespun cloth." Ruiting was also somewhat happy. If conditions permitted, who wouldn't want the house to be cleaner and brighter?

However, she was a little tired at the moment and had no energy to tour the new house. She put Miaomiao down from her arms, let her and Guoguo explore the house by themselves, and then sat down on the stool.

Seeing this, Hu Xiu didn't care about anything else and asked with some concern: "Are you tired? How about mom make the bed for you and you take a nap first?" During the whole journey, the daughter-in-law was worried about something happening and didn't sleep much at night. She wanted to take turns with her but she wouldn't let her.

Li Ting shook her head: "I'll just sit for a while. I have to go to Sister Lan's house for dinner later."

Hu Xiu was surprised: "You're quite reasonable. Then you take a seat first. I'll go find something. It's not good to come empty-handed."

This point is what the radish agrees with: "Get a pickled rabbit."

“Will it be less?” After all, all five members of the family went there.

Ting Ting didn't think it was too little. A rabbit weighed several kilograms of meat. After the rabbit had a good rest, their family would definitely invite them back.

But the mother-in-law didn't like to take advantage, so she followed the other party's wishes and said, "Then you can add one more to make it an even number?"

Hu Xiu really laughed: "That's right, you take a rest, I'll do it myself."

Huo Xiao returned the car and went to Lao Xing's office again, asking people to go back to his compound together.

A few minutes after everyone went home, he brought his mother and wife, who had changed into clean clothes, to visit.

Meanwhile, when Xing Guoqiang met Lao Huo's wife, he finally realized that the compliments she said were not exaggerated.

At the same time, he also mocked his partner with his eyes, laughing at why he was in such a hurry to pick someone up.

Huo Xiao ignored his teasing and kept following his mother and wife with his eyes.

Seeing that the two got along well with their sister-in-law, and the twins were also played by Lao Xing's two children, and no one felt uncomfortable, they slowly relaxed.

Xing Guoqiang, who was sitting next to him, was really surprised by his carefulness. He lowered his voice and asked, "Is it necessary to watch them so closely? The child is already so grown up, and the old couple are still so clingy?"

Hearing this, Huo Xiao was silent for a few moments, but still did not explain that the child was adopted.

In fact, it is very common to adopt orphans of comrades these days, but since he deliberately changed his living environment, he didn't want to take any risks.

Another thing is that the children are growing up, and he doesn't want them to get entangled in issues such as whether they are his biological children or not.

Of course, she was even more reluctant to have others scrutinize or even monitor her stepmother Tingting with a critical eye.

So, in the end, Huo Xiao just said calmly: "You don't understand."

Xing Guoqiang was speechless. Just as he was about to say that he was like a man without a wife, his wife's voice came from the other side of the dining table: "It's time to eat!"

This was the first time Huo Xiao had dinner at someone's house since joining the army.

If it were any other time, Xing Guoqiang would definitely order two taels of wine.

But today, Huo Xiao's family has worked hard at driving for several days and they must want to take a rest.

This is also one of the reasons why he arranged to eat dumplings.

Because it is really fast.

So, by the time the family of five had finished their meal and returned home, only about twenty minutes had passed.

In fact, there is no need to eat so fast. After all, they are treating us, and we can't just eat and run away even if we want to rest.

But adults can bear it, but children can't.

The twins had only eaten half of their meal when they fell asleep in their parents' arms.

So what happened was that I was 'sent home' after dinner.

Both Ruting and Hu Xiu felt a little embarrassed, but they couldn't bear to leave their child, so they went back home.

"I originally wanted to give the two little ones a bath." Hu Xiu first took Guoguo from his son's arms, took off the little guy's clothes, stuffed him into the quilt, and then reached out to take Miaomiao from his daughter-in-law's arms.

Knowing that her mother-in-law was a clean person, she suggested, "Shall I go get some warm water and wipe the children's hands and feet?"

Hu Xiu shook her head: "Forget it, let's change the quilt cover tomorrow."

Children can choose not to take a bath, but adults can’t bear it.

So after settling the twins and asking her son to look after the other children at home, Hu Xiu and her daughter-in-law grabbed the toiletries they had packed long ago and headed straight for the bathroom. They took a quick bath and then hurried back.

This is the realization of having children at home.

By the time she got home, Hu Xiuqi's short hair was dry, so she prepared to go back to her bedroom to sleep.

But before entering the house, she told her son not to touch the luggage in the package, as she wanted to sort it out herself.

Although I like waist-length hair, at times like this, I always envy short hair that dries quickly.

Unlike her, even though her eyelids were fighting with each other, she still had to hold up her hand to wipe her hair.

When Huo Xiao went into the bedroom to get some clothes to change into and was about to take a shower, he saw his wife sitting on the edge of the bed with her long black hair spread out on one side and a half-dry towel in her hand wiping her hair.

Obviously...I'm already yawning.

Huo Xiao wanted to laugh when he saw the pitiful look of the little boy, but he also felt a little distressed.

Just now, his mother whispered to him that Tingting had not slept well for several days in order to take care of her and the children.

Thinking of this, Huo Xiao turned around, got his dry towel, lifted up his wife's long hair and helped wipe it.

Ruiting was extremely sleepy at the moment, and it took her several seconds to react to what her husband was doing.

She had been hugged and embraced, and there was no one else around. She was too tired and too shy to even think about it, so she just let the other person do what he wanted.

It’s just that thick and long hair is really hard to manage without a hair dryer.

She didn't know how long it had been, but finally she couldn't hold on any longer, so she rested her head on the man's waist and abdomen, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

In fact, her mind was still somewhat clear at this moment, but she was too tired to open her eyes.

So, she could feel Huo Xiao's big hand gently and smoothly on her head.

You can also feel the other person gently laying you down and putting you into the quilt.

Well...I even kissed her forehead secretly.

Just as she felt the warmth on her forehead and fell into a deep sleep, the sleepiness in her mind was washed away by the man's words.

"I was planning to tell you right away that Guoguo and Miaomiao are not my children, but now it seems like it will have to be tomorrow... I don't know if you would mind."

What...what?

Her slow brain slowly restarted and after realizing what the man had said, she sat up with a groan, staring at him with a pair of sleepy, bloodshot eyes, without blinking: "What did you just say?"

Huo Xiao...

It seems like... you care a lot?