The construction site encountered some problems in the past few days. The construction engineer, as well as the teacher Qi and Jiang Lin who were in charge of the project at the provincial university, stayed at the construction site day and night to discuss countermeasures. After a few days, a reasonable solution was finally found, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Su Xingyun and the others were going back to school to rest, while Jiang Lin went home.
When they walked out of the construction site, Su Xingyun caught up with Jiang Lin and said, "Jiang Lin, I think something is wrong. If it continues like this, I'm afraid there will be bigger troubles."
Jiang Lin: "There's nothing wrong. We can only solve problems, not eliminate them."
They were just engineering designers with no decision-making power, and the people with connections were the project leaders. They would cut corners if they wanted to make money. The trouble this time was because they had ordered a new type of reinforced concrete, but a bastard sold that batch of steel and sent another batch of inferior steel to the construction site.
The construction manager of the site checked and quietly told them that the teachers and students of the provincial university firmly disagreed with using this batch of steel bars.
The apartment houses they designed are not ordinary narrow tube buildings. One household may have three bedrooms and a living room. The span of the room is large. If the steel bars are not up to standard, the floor may collapse.
They argued with reason, but the man asked them to use ordinary steel bars for some unimportant buildings and the best ones for important residential buildings.
Finally, Jiang Lin and others were so angry that they tore up the blueprints and said, "Why don't we just go our separate ways and find someone else." Only then did they appease the person with connections and get him to agree to get new, qualified steel bars.
Jiang Lin tore up the drawings just for show, to let him know their attitude and bottom line, and at the same time to warn him indirectly that if he continued like this, they would go to the provincial government to confront them, and then everyone would be in trouble. Finally, the person with connections was forced to make concessions.
He originally planned to use good materials for the provincial government family compound, but he made do with some unimportant supporting surrounding buildings. As a result, he was besieged by teachers and students of the provincial government. Fortunately, they did not complain directly to the higher authorities. He explained that it was his negligence that allowed people to fish in troubled waters and be deceived. He would definitely ask the staff responsible for purchasing steel bars from the steel plant for an explanation. At that time, whether he was fired and apologized, he must satisfy the teachers and students.
Jiang Lin could tell at a glance that he was acting and was too lazy to deal with him, so she just said it would not happen again.
This kind of thing cannot be prevented at all.
Not to mention the provincial government, even the communes are now run by people with connections.
Reform and opening up has started the engine of economic development. People who were used to being poor have now tasted the sweetness and naturally cannot stop the momentum. They always want to rely on their connections to get ahead.
People die for money and birds die for food. This cannot be stopped by one or two people.
All she can do is to make sure that any project she handles follows the standards, otherwise she would rather not do it. Don't try to force her with your power. At worst, she can design civil buildings.
Su Xingyun and the others chatted with her for a while, and then went to find a place to rest.
Jiang Lin went to the bathhouse to take a bath first, and then went straight home.
Cheng Yunzhi was playing chess with some elderly people in the yard, while Yan Runzhi and Baosheng were playing with other children nearby.
There were a few two or three-year-old children in the yard, who had not yet started kindergarten, playing with their grandparents or babysitters. Baosheng did not like playing with children younger than her, but preferred to watch the older children. She found it very novel to watch them running, talking, and even crying.
Especially when there are children crying, she would stare at them with wide eyes, and unconsciously grin and imitate others. In particular, there is a boy named Ningning, who is completely unmanageable by her grandmother. If she disobeys him, he will lie on the ground and start rolling and crying.
I can see it three or four times a day.
When Jiang Lin came, he was crying because he wanted to eat candy, but his grandmother wouldn't let him because he already had cavities and two of his baby teeth had rotted away.
Baosheng squatted there and watched Ningning rolling around with full concentration, as if he was eager to lie down with her.
The grandmother couldn't coax her grandson, and she was so anxious that she kept wiping her sweat, "Little ancestor, hurry up and get up. See if your father will beat you when he comes back."
"I want candy, I want candy! I want ice cream!"
"Okay, okay, get up. Get up and grandma will buy it for you."
Yan Runzhi said to her, "If you do this, won't he control you even more?"
The grandmother was helpless, "What should I do? Let him cry all the time. It's so painful. Alas, there's nothing I can do about it. This child is so naughty."
Yan Runzhi wanted to say that naughty children are spoiled by adults since childhood, but she didn't say it.
Baosheng turned his head and saw Jiang Lin, he reached out to her and called "Dad".
Ningning was coaxed by his grandmother and got up. When he heard Baosheng calling him dad, he said, "That's your mom, not dad, idiot!"
Baosheng immediately realized that someone was criticizing her. Her face suddenly darkened and she rolled her eyes at Ningning. Then she threw herself into Jiang Lin's arms and wanted to call her daddy. Her mouth pursed but she didn't call out. She just buried her face in the crook of Jiang Lin's neck and muttered softly, "Dad."
Jiang Lin felt helpless that such a young child had such a strong self-esteem. She tactfully told the child's grandmother not to speak of Baosheng like that.
The grandmother laughed and said, "Our Ningning was just joking. What does a little kid like that know?"
Jiang Lin: "Auntie, kids know a lot. If they know how to roll over, just listen to them. You will roll over again next time."
She carried her daughter and Yan Runzhi home first, which made the grandmother a little embarrassed. "Ningning, don't call Baosheng a fool. Her mother is not happy about it."
Back home, Jiang Lin played with the children while Yan Runzhi prepared to cook.
Yan Runzhi also knew that she had been extremely busy these days. "Mother Baoer, you came back early today. Are you done with your work?"
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Almost. It will be easier later."
She carried Baosheng into the room and they lay on the bed. She played games with Baosheng, but she was so sleepy that Baosheng kept making noises like "mmmm", "ahhh", "hehe", and "haha", and finally coaxed Jiang Lin to sleep.
These days she is weaning Baosheng and drinking milk-reducing soup, but the effect is not very good, probably because she has a lot of milk, so it is slow to wean, and she has to squeeze milk every day. Because she has been breastfeeding for almost a year, she is used to it, and her body has an instinct. She feels a little lost and uncomfortable when she suddenly stops breastfeeding. She even dreams about Baosheng breastfeeding at night.
At this moment, she was asleep and it started to swell again. She was sleeping soundly and didn't feel anything, but the juice started to overflow. Baosheng, who had been playing next to her, smelled the milky fragrance and immediately arched his head over, humming and groaning, and began to pull at Jiang Lin's collar with his little hands. After playing for a long time, the buttons of the shirt were half-opened, but now Baosheng pulled them open. She leaned over and used her little hands and mouth to arch and pull, and finally she could eat it.
So sweet!
Baosheng ate happily, shaking his little body from side to side as he ate, and he kept rubbing his teeth until he had finished eating both of them.
Yan Runzhi opened the door and saw it. She exclaimed, "Baomei, you've done something bad again."
No wonder this milk-reducing soup doesn't work! It's a wonder it can stop milk production when a little thing like you sneaks in while your mother is asleep.
Cheng Rushan was out for a meeting these days, so Jiang Lin took Baosheng to bed at night. Jiang Lin was so tired that she basically slept until dawn. She was drowsy even when she was changing Baosheng's diaper in the middle of the night, and she went back to sleep after that. Because she was tired, she must have had many dreams. Sometimes she dreamed of breastfeeding or something else, and her milk would increase, which attracted Baosheng to get up dazedly, lift Jiang Lin's vest and get close to her to feed.
Jiang Lin dreamed of Baosheng feeding, and because she was too tired and fell into a deep sleep, she didn't even notice that he was actually feeding.
She was still whispering with Yan Runzhi about why the milk-reducing soup didn't work, so she went to see Doctor Lan and asked for another milk-reducing prescription. Now she's taking this.
Yan Runzhi knew it now.
When Baosheng was discovered by his grandma, he felt a little embarrassed. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and laughed.
Yan Runzhi picked her up and pinched her nose lovingly, "You clever little thing, you will make your mother sick."
Baosheng immediately turned his head to look at Jiang Lin.
Yan Runzhi knew what was going on, so she let Baosheng sleep with her at night, so that Jiang Lin could get back her milk and Baosheng wouldn't eat it again. Baosheng is older now, and he doesn't cling to his parents as much as he did when he was little.
After a few days, her milk supply really stopped, and Jiang Lin felt relieved, no longer having to worry about milk leaking.
The final exam is over in a blink of an eye.
Jiang Lin went to the construction site that day and came back around three in the afternoon. Baosheng had just woken up from a nap, so she took him out to play for a while.
Jiang Lin usually doesn't tell stories to her daughter, because there are a bunch of storytellers at home and she is not needed at all. She just leads her daughter to play and play games, and she can play whatever she wants.
Baosheng liked playing fishing with her. They used a small stick, tied a rope, installed a magnet at the bottom, carved a few fish out of wood, installed the magnets, and used the stick to fish. Baosheng never got tired of playing, and when he couldn't catch anything, he got anxious and just grabbed it with his hands.
Jiang Lin coaxed her to be patient, "Don't be impatient, let's fish slowly, the fish we catch will taste good. Don't catch them with your hands, they will bite your hands."
Baosheng continued fishing, but the magnet was not big enough, and it was a bit difficult to aim it at a child like her.
Baosheng got annoyed and refused to fish. He kept calling "Daddy, Daddy" and pointing his little hands outside.
Jiang Lin translated for her and guessed that she wanted to wait for her brother to come back to fish.
This child always likes to ask her brothers to do physical work. If Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao are with her, no matter what she wants, she won't get it herself, but just say "umm" and point with her little hand, and the brothers will bring it to her. Now, she doesn't even need to point, just look at her and say "umm", and the brothers will bring it to her. It's so nice.
Jiang Lin wanted to test her patience, so she coaxed her to continue.
Baosheng began to twist and turn in her arms, humming and humming, and he didn't know where the rhythm came from, but Jiang Lin was humming and groaning. Jiang Lin didn't take a nap at noon, so it was just the right time. After she hummed for a while, she fell asleep and slept soundly.
Baosheng then used his feet to pull all the wooden fish together, and then knocked on them one by one with a stick, mumbling softly.
In the evening, Cheng Rushan came back from a business trip and went upstairs to talk with Yan Runzhi outside.
When Baosheng heard this, he crawled to the end of the bed, sat on the wooden slide, slid down to the ground, and climbed out excitedly, forgetting that he could walk.
Yan Runzhi was stewing soup in the corridor. When she turned around, she saw her crawling out through the crack of the door. "Hey, Baomei, how did you climb up here?"
Cheng Rushan leaned over, picked up his daughter and carried her on his shoulders. He took a shower in the bathroom on the other side of the office building, changed into clean clothes, and looked refreshed.
Baosheng hugged his head excitedly and kissed him, making Cheng Rushan's face drool.
Cheng Rushan told Yan Runzhi that he bought skirts for Baosheng and Jiang Lin, and asked her to help take them out and try them on.
Yan Runzhi said happily, "Come and try it." She was afraid of disturbing Jiang Lin's sleep, so she went to the next room to try it on Baosheng.
Cheng Rushan bought clothes from the import trade area of the Capital Department Store, the kind of soft lace chiffon skirts. Jiang Lin's was soft and smooth, and very fairy-like, while Baosheng's was a little princess dress.
Yan Runzhi studied it for a while before she figured out how to wear it. She helped Baosheng put it on. The pink skirt wrapped around the delicate and exquisite doll, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off it.
Baosheng was very excited. He clapped his hands and pointed at the mirror on the side.
Cheng Rushan took a mirror and looked at her, but it was too small to see her whole body. She then pointed to the next room where Jiang Lin had a half-length dressing mirror that could see her whole body.
Usually she likes to look in the mirror there and kiss herself while doing so.
Cheng Rushan carried her over to take the photo.
Baosheng asked for photos from the front and side, and also wanted to see the back. Her excitement made Cheng Rushan feel that although the skirt was expensive, it was worth buying. Look how happy his daughter was!
Yan Runzhi smiled and said, "It's so beautiful at this size, it's the only one in the whole compound."
Jiang Lin woke up and looked at Cheng Rushan holding his daughter up and taking pictures left and right. She couldn't help laughing, "Hey, who is so conceited?"
Baosheng babbled excitedly, "Daddy!" She pulled at the hem of her skirt, looking very proud.
Jiang Lin: "Call me mom."
Baosheng: “Ah…”
Cheng Rushan walked over and kissed her, and Yan Runzhi went to get the skirt for Jiang Lin to try on.
Jiang Lin touched her skirt and looked at Cheng Rushan in surprise, "Brother Shan, you really dare to buy it."
This material, for children, costs more than 20 yuan, it's so expensive! Hers probably costs several dozen yuan. Some people can't even afford a month's salary.
The key is that Baosheng is still growing up, and I don't know if she can wear such expensive clothes this year. But the skirt is very loose, so I should be able to wear it next year after asking grandma to modify it.
Yan Runzhi smiled and said, "Bao'er mother, this is beautiful. We don't have such fabric. It will look so beautiful when worn."
Cheng Rushan put Baosheng down and let her look in the mirror. He went over to help Jiang Lin put on her skirt. She had a curvy figure, a thin waist and long legs, and looked very beautiful in the skirt.
He zipped up her back, took her hand and spun her around, his eyes unable to hide his amazement, and smiled, "You're more beautiful than I thought."
Yan Runzhi also praised it highly, "Our Baoer's mother is a clothes rack, buy more clothes like this in the future."
Baosheng stood in front of the mirror, his mouth wide open, "Meimei."
Yan Runzhi casually said, "Call me mom, not sister."
Baosheng: "Meimei!"
Yan Runzhi then realized, "Our little sister also knows that mom is pretty, beautiful, really beautiful."
Jiang Lin smiled and secretly flirted with Cheng Rushan. She wanted to take off her skirt, "I need to wash it before I wear it again."
Baosheng, however, hugged his arms and refused to take them off, insisting on keeping them on, and raised his hands to Cheng Rushan to ask for a hug.
Cheng Rushan lifted her up, and she pulled Cheng Rushan's ear, "Hmm."
Going outside to pick up my brothers.
Jiang Lin: "Call me mom."
Baosheng glanced at her and called out in a clear and melodious voice: "Meimei."
Jiang Lin: "Brother."
Baosheng: "Baby."
When asked to call grandpa, grandma, grandma and the like, she didn't call them properly, but she could already make more sounds.
Cheng Rushan carried his daughter and held Jiang Lin's hand to go out to pick up Dabao and Xiaobao.
The two children joined the school's football class during the summer vacation and played football on weekdays. Xiaobao was actually reluctant to play table tennis and badminton, which seemed less tiring and did not require him to run around like a fool to grab a ball. But Dabao insisted that he go and said that he would play other games with him in the future, so he went reluctantly.
They are playing a game on the playground now.
Dabao and Xiaobao are taller than their peers, and naturally have less strength than those in the older grades, which puts them at a disadvantage over time. Fortunately, they are fast and flexible, which can make up for some of their shortcomings.
Dabao was dribbling the ball but was intercepted by two senior opponents. He was very tired and could hardly hold on.
Suddenly, the two men stared at something and forgot to stop Dabao. Dabao rushed out with the ball easily and kicked it into the opponent's goal.
The goalkeeper looked at it blankly like a fool, shouting: "Fairy sister~~"
Dabao looked back and saw his parents and sister coming over. His father was carrying his sister, and his sister and mother were wearing beautiful new dresses. The hem of the dress was blown by the wind, and the gauze was like mist, and it fluttered like bird wings, making them look like fairies.
Now the ban has been lifted in the literary and art circles, and two movies with fairy elements have been shown. In the movies, fairies are dressed in white and flying in the sky. Both adults and children think they are so beautiful that the children even imitate them by covering themselves with bed sheets.
At this moment they felt like they saw a fairy, it was so beautiful.
Xiao Bao stopped kicking the ball and ran over to look at Jiang Lin and Bao Sheng's skirts, "Wow, they are so beautiful!"
Baosheng sat in Cheng Rushan's arms, swinging his white legs, and pointed at Xiaobao: "Bao."
Xiaobao immediately reached out his hand, "Come, brother will hold you."
Dabao and his classmates also came over. Dabao pulled Xiaobao and said, "You are all sweaty and you have stained your sister's skirt."
Baosheng pointed at Dabao and said, "Bao."
Dabao: "Call me brother."
Baosheng: "Meimei."
After strolling in the playground for a while, they went home together and happened to meet Vincent who had returned from the drama troupe.
Wensheng exclaimed, "Mom, you are so beautiful!"
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Your father just bought it."
Wensheng: "Dad, where did you buy it? I want to buy some for mom and sister too."
Cheng Rushan smiled and said, "No more, only one."
Wensheng: "I'll ask Lu Hang if they can weave this kind of cloth."
The hem of Jiang Lin's skirt was blown up by the wind, and the outermost tulle fluttered. Dabao hooked it with his fingers, twisted it, and asked in surprise: "Is it the window screen we use to paste the windows?"
Xiaobao also pulled it up and looked at it: "It looks like a mosquito net to me."
Wensheng: "Our troupe makes costumes. I'll go check later and I'm sure they have some fabric."
Jiang Lin took Cheng Rushan's arm and smiled at him softly, "Brother Shan, the mosquito net you bought is so expensive."
Cheng Rushan put his big hands on her slender waist and said, "There is also one that looks like a bed sheet, but I didn't buy it."
"Hahaha."
As soon as he got home, Yan Runzhi had already prepared the meal, so Wensheng called out, "Grandma, the crane I brought for my mother last time, please help my mother make a skirt to wear."
The material was so beautiful that Jiang Lin was reluctant to cut it and kept it.
Yan Runzhi smiled and said, "Okay."
Dabao and Xiaobao: "My dad bought this mosquito net skirt for me. How much is it? We will buy some for our mom and sister in the future."
Yan Runzhi: “!!!” You ignorant people, shut up!
Everyone laughed and chatted. After dinner, Baosheng felt sleepy after strolling for a while, so Jiang Lin and Cheng Rushan took her home to sleep.
It was hot in midsummer and the tube-shaped building was like a steamer at night. Cheng Rushan mopped the floor first to make it cooler.
"Do you want to buy a fan?" Fans were still expensive at that time, about forty or fifty yuan, but their family could definitely afford two.
Jiang Lin: "Buy one for my parents."
Cheng Rushan: "They don't dare to brag."
Jiang Lin: "Then blow on Wensheng, Dabao and Xiaobao." She is not that afraid of heat. She takes a shower before going to bed, wears a vest and pants, fanning herself with a palm leaf fan, and opens the window. It is fine at night. When she moves to the apartment, it will be much cooler with north-south ventilation.
After mopping the floor, Cheng Rushan washed Jiang Lin and his daughter's skirts. For fear of losing them, he did not hang them on the public balcony, but outside the window. They were almost dry overnight.
Jiang Lin fanned her daughter with a palm-leaf fan and watched Cheng Rushan busying around. He had broad shoulders and a thin waist, with long and straight legs. He was not strong but definitely not thin either, and was very pleasing to the eye.
They are an old couple, but she still blushes and her heart beats fast every time she secretly looks at him.
After washing the clothes, Cheng Rushan started to fan away the mosquitoes and then put down the mosquito net.
"Brother Shan, our construction company has changed its leader. Do you have anything to say?"
Cheng Rushan turned around and smiled at her, "How is the new leader?"
Jiang Lin: "Quite majestic, far-sighted, and courageous, very good."
Cheng Rushan: "Congratulations, daughter-in-law." He put down the mosquito net, took the fan from her hand, held her in his arms and helped her fan her daughter.
Jiang Lin had taken a nap in the afternoon and was not sleepy at all, so she chatted with Cheng Rushan.
The Provincial Construction Group is a new type of state-owned group. Its structure is quite chaotic, especially the management. It is hard to describe. Their technical department actually sent a person who knows nothing about technology to be the director. He gives blind orders all day long and despises them for being college graduates from the province who come to work and get paid before they graduate. He also despises them for not having fixed working hours and for not giving him complete drawings.
Because of his background, the teachers found it difficult to confront him, and the students naturally avoided him.
He is in his forties and has no special abilities, but he likes to make things difficult for people, especially for pretty female employees who don't flatter him.
Jiang Lin had been bullied by him and even had been hinted at by him for other reasons, so Jiang Lin simply avoided him and refused to see him.
She had not told Cheng Rushan about it. Even if she was upset outside, she would just complain to Su Xingyun and others. Unexpectedly, Cheng Rushan still knew about it.
"If you attack them, you will offend the people behind you."
Cheng Rushan kissed her and said, "I didn't do anything. I just talked to our director, and the director went to have some tea."
Their director is also a senior leader of the Discipline Inspection Commission.
Anyone with some sense of shame would know what was going on, and those who didn't want to cause trouble would also restrain themselves. After all, it had only been a few years since the Cultural Revolution ended, and everyone was still afraid of being accused of being unclean.
The two of them were talking quite seriously at first, but then things went off the track and became more and more nonsensical, and finally they just pushed their daughter to a corner.
A short absence is better than a new marriage.
…
At some point, Cheng Rushan was awakened.
When sleeping, he lay behind Jiang Lin, his arms on her waist, and now his head was in her arms. He raised his body and took a look in the moonlight outside, and saw his daughter sticking her butt up and burying her head in Jiang Lin's arms, secretly sucking her breast.
After weaning, Jiang Lin took some medicine to stop her from producing milk, and she no longer has any milk.
But even though Baosheng is drinking milk powder, he still wants to drink his mother's milk.
After eating for a while and not getting anything to eat, she started to grumble and began to crawl towards Jiang Lin.
Jiang Lin was tired and sleepy, and fell into a deep sleep. She subconsciously turned over and lay between the two of them as she wished.
Baosheng was satisfied and began to move between the two of them.
Cheng Rushan got up to help her urinate, then laid her straight and let her sleep well.
After a while, she started to toss and turn again, with her head resting on Jiang Lin's chin. She hooked Jiang Lin's neck to make her lower her head so that their faces were close together, but she kicked Cheng Rushan with her feet.
One foot stepped on his chest and the other kicked him in the chin.
Cheng Rushan: “…”
In order to prevent his nose from being kicked by her, he turned over and let her sleep however she wanted.
When Jiang Lin woke up, she found that her daughter had lay on her father's chest with her little hand covering Cheng Rushan's mouth.
Jiang Lin: “…”
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