"Mrs. Liu, are you free today? Could you accompany me to town?"

The road here is very winding and twisty. It was night time when she came here, and she had no memory of the road she took from the town. She only noticed that it was pitch black all around, and there were weeds in some places, which was similar to the road she took when she went to the Taoist temple to trade.

There is no navigation and no way to contact others. If you don’t meet anyone on the road, there is no one to ask for directions.

If it's lost, it's really lost and it'll take a long time to find it.

"I'm free. Wait a minute while I finish hanging the rest of the clothes."

"You're here just in time. I just wanted to go to town. Tiantian starts school tomorrow, and she has always wanted a schoolbag with patterns, but the supply and marketing cooperative here only has plain cloth, and the little girl doesn't like it."

"Mom, I don't dislike you, but you promised me that if I got full marks in the final exam last semester, you would reward me with a schoolbag with flowers on it."

"You and Dad both said that no matter adults or children, they should not break their promises."

"Okay! If you promise, your father and I will do it and won't lie to you!"

"I will go to the supply and marketing cooperative in town with your Aunt Yan and buy you a piece of beautiful floral cloth."

"Thank you, mom~"

Before going out, Liu Aihua applied some moisturizing cream on her hands.

In order to start work as soon as possible, she now strictly follows what Song Fuyu taught her.

In addition to applying cold cream on my hands several times a day, which I used to be reluctant to use on my face, I try to wear rubber gloves when doing housework and wool gloves when going out to keep my hands warm.

Now I have stopped making matchboxes, and I will learn embroidery when my hands are better.

"Is it far from here to town?"

"It's a bit far, and it will take more than two hours even if you walk fast."

"Today we can only get there by bicycle. Can you ride? If not, I'll give you a ride."

"No, I can ride."

"Is there no other means of transportation to town?"

"Every Tuesday and Saturday morning at 7 o'clock, there will be a car to take everyone there, two cents per person, and children are free. Sometimes if you are lucky, you can meet a transport truck, and they will stop and take everyone there when they see you."

It was already one o'clock and there was no hope of taking a bus, so Song Fuyu had to push his bicycle out of the house.

The whole person is fully armed and wrapped tightly to prevent cold.

"You knitted this scarf very beautifully."

She was still wearing all black today, with only her scarf being off-white.

Apart from the scarf, Liu Aihua felt that there was not a single piece of clothing that Song Fuyu wore that was ugly.

Although they were all making clothes, she could only imitate the given patterns bit by bit, but Fu Yu was able to add some new patterns, making the originally plain clothes look very unique.

"Thank you~"

"It's actually not difficult to do it. Just keep alternating between forward and reverse needles."

"When I get back, I will dismantle Tiantian's scarf and knit it again. In the past, the first thing that came to my mind was plain stitch, and I never thought that I could come up with something different."

Although the two of them were chatting all the way, they did not relax at all and pedaled hard. After riding for ten minutes or so, their whole bodies became warm.

"Su Huiwen is back with the child."

Liu Aihua said, pointing with one hand at the car coming towards them in the distance.

"She always goes back to her parents' home as soon as school is on holiday, and she will never come back until the afternoon before school starts again."

"Is her family's home far from here?"

"What's so far about it? I'm a local in Lu City, and it only takes two hours to get to town by bus."

"She'll be back for two months, didn't Deputy Commander Tang tell you that?"

This was something she couldn't understand. Her parents' home wasn't far away, but she left for two months without coming back. What was she doing? Was the relationship between the couple not good?

"Her father is a brigade commander, her parents' conditions are good, and she doesn't have to work. She is used to having everything done for her at home, so wouldn't she be willing to go back to her parents' home?"

"But it's hard to say about them as a couple."

"Basically, we have a big fight every three days and a small fight every two days. Sometimes the fights are so bad that we have one or two fights every day. You will know very quickly."

"In fact, we are quite happy that she is going to live with her parents. At least she can enjoy two months of quiet time."

"Two people arguing so loudly? Aren't there children at home?"

"Ah... the child is quite pitiful."

"When her parents quarreled, she would usually go to the sandbox over there, squatting on the ground and playing with the sand by herself, ignoring everyone."

"I can't remember the last time I heard her speak."

Often when parents quarrel in front of their children, the children are always the ones who get hurt the most.

Adults usually think that children are still young and don’t understand many things. However, children are actually much smarter than they think. Not only can they understand many things, but they are also very sensitive. Even if they don’t speak, they can sometimes feel that something is wrong between their parents.

Soon, the car passed them by.

Both of them were wrapped tightly, and Su Huiwen, who was sitting in the car, didn't pay attention to who was outside the car.

"Mom, I don't want to go home."

"I want to stay at my grandma's house. Can we ask my uncle to drive the car back to my grandma's house?"

"Meimei, don't be willful."

"Dad is still at home waiting for us to come home. He loves you so much. We haven't seen each other for two months. If he knew that you didn't want to go home, he would definitely be very sad."

"Dad doesn't even..."

Before Tang Meimei could finish her words, Su Huiwen covered her mouth in time, preventing her from continuing to speak.

She glanced at the driver in front of her and was relieved to see that he was not paying attention to the situation of her and her daughter.

The car drove all the way to the front door of the Tang family and stopped.

"Comrade Su, we're here."

"Thank you, Comrade Wu. Please take some time to give us a ride."

"It's no trouble, it's my duty."

After moving all the luggage out of the car, Su Huiwen glanced at the yard of the Yan family next door.

There were clothes hanging in the yard, it seemed that Yan Ziyuan's wife had arrived.