The three of them went home together.
Knowing that Shen Qingyun had gone to the capital as she wished and the two children had not been taken away, Yin Xiaoman felt much better at the moment.
As soon as Da Mi entered the room, he gave her the key that Zhou Tiancheng had given him, and she put it back into his hand.
"Go open it and have a look yourself. Your uncle isn't avoiding you."
Zhou Tiancheng had spent much more time in the army than Yin Xiaoman, and was in a regiment headquarters with a complex personnel structure.
He seems careless in what he says and does, but he is actually very cautious.
Although he and his wife often brought things to Yin Xiaoman and the others, they always had very legitimate reasons.
Either they bought it on someone else's behalf, or they smuggled it in when resupplying the expert group.
But even with this, every time I give something a little more expensive or private, I will add a small lock.
Just in case there’s someone particularly clueless who insists on opening it and taking a look. When people see a lock, they tend to be more restrained.
Dami also knows about this.
So when he heard what Yin Xiaoman said, he chuckled and didn't refuse. He winked at the little guys and took them back to the house.
Because he comes back so often, even though Da Mi no longer lives at home, there is still no estrangement between him and the younger ones.
Not to mention Dabao and Erniu, Lian Zhihua and Shi Yan are also very close to this big brother.
Although they also know that Da Mi doesn't care about their parents calling him mom and dad, other than that, in their hearts, Da Mi is no different from their biological brother.
Yin Xiaoman returned to the kitchen and quickly prepared today's lunch.
Because when she went to deliver the meal yesterday, she saw that Mr. Hua looked extremely tired, so she put a lot of thought into today's meal.
In the morning, she went to the kitchen and picked out some fresh shrimps from the newly caught seafood.
At this moment, the fresh shrimps had been chopped into paste by her, and then seasonings were added to make them tasty.
She wanted to make some shrimp soup.
In fact, shrimp soup is very easy to make——
Dice a few large tomatoes, then pour the tomatoes into a hot pan with oil and stir-fry until the juice comes out. Then add water, and after the water boils, add the shrimp paste.
When the shrimps float to the surface one by one, they are almost cooked.
At this time, add shredded seaweed and a handful of green vegetables, and add white pepper powder and a little sesame oil before serving, and the taste will become extremely delicious.
After scooping out most of the shrimp soup from the pot into a food box, Yin Xiaoman put the thin noodles he had just rolled out into the remaining soup to cook.
Both Mr. Hua and Mr. Ning are old.
After all, they are all in their early seventies.
Although they are never picky, it is a bit difficult for them to eat the big pot of rice with a lot of food.
Just like the rice that was delivered yesterday, Yin Xiaoman could clearly see that Mr. Hua seemed to have a hard time eating. But in fact, the rice she cooked was not very hard.
She decided to give her parents special care as much as possible in the future. She doesn't care what others think. Anyway, anyone with a conscience should know how much these two old people have contributed to the country, including the people on the island.
Even without talking about contribution, even if there is an elderly person in your family, you should pay more attention to him and feel more sorry for him, right?
Yin Xiaoman rolled the noodles herself. It was pure white noodles, rolled so thin that it was almost transparent. So it matures very quickly.
After making sure the noodles were cooked, she beat in two eggs.
Put shrimp soup, cold cucumber, garlic mashed eggplant and stir-fried spinach with shrimp paste in the food box, and put the steamed buns that had been prepared in advance into the bamboo basket.
Yin Xiaoman shouted into the house.
Soon, Da Mi and his younger siblings all ran out.
Everyone was still chewing, and Zhihua and Shiyan had their hands full of food.
Yin Xiaoman took a look and said, "Did your uncle bring you some shredded tofu again?"
"Hmm, delicious! Mom, eat it!" Zhihua nodded vigorously and came over to put the fried tofu shreds in his hand into Yin Xiaoman's mouth.
"Go away, go away, your stinky little hands, why don't you put them in my mouth? Dirty or not." Yin Xiaoman stretched her body back in disgust.
But Zhihua didn't care at all, and he became even more enthusiastic in flirting with her: "It's not dirty, big brother said that you can't eat if you don't wash your hands. I washed them, look, mom, they are so white."
Unable to cope with her son's clinging, Yin Xiaoman had no choice but to eat a piece of tofu shred with his little hand.
Then he said to Dabao, "You and Erniu take the food to the expert group. The food in the small lunch box over there is for Grandpa Hua and Grandpa Ning.
If they ask, just say that I just rolled some noodles and didn't add anything else, and reassure them that the food is the same as everyone else and the food expenses are not over the limit. ”
Hearing her say this, Dami started laughing.
"Why are you still so stubborn after all these years? They are so old, isn't it your duty to take care of them?"
"That's what they should do, but they have to be happy about it!"
Yin Xiaoman said, glancing at Da Mi: "If you have the guts, tell them you're old and see if the two old men will beat you up."
After saying this, Da Mi started laughing again.
"I wouldn't dare."
As he spoke, he walked over and picked up the food box.
"I'll go with them. I haven't seen Grandpa Hua and the others for a long time. I miss them a lot."
After asking clearly that Da Mi could stay at home until two o'clock this time, Yin Xiaoman waved his hand and asked the three of them to leave together.
Then he turned around and took the two little ones into the house.
She hadn't even had time to see what her cousin and sister-in-law brought this time!
Now that they have the help of Zhou Tiancheng and his wife in Ningcheng, not only Yin Xiaoman's family, but also Qiao Mai and Li Fang are living much better than before.
In the past, although the supply ships also brought things to the people on the island every month, the amount was limited after all. That is, when people purchased in large quantities, they could buy a little more for you.
If you want to order something individually, that's impossible because no one has the time to buy it for you.
But now it's different.
Every time a ship came, whether it was a supply ship or any other ship, Xiaoman and the others would make a list of what they needed, along with money, tickets, etc., and ask someone to give it to Zhou Tiancheng to take back.
He will also take the time to prepare it and find an opportunity to bring it to the island.
Even if there are some women's products that are not convenient for him to buy, he can entrust them to his sister-in-law Lu Li.
This has brought a qualitative leap in their living standards.
In addition, because of their previous friendship, Qiao Mai and Li Fang, the sister-in-law, now also began to ask Lu Li to help make some clothes, beddings and the like.
At the beginning, Yin Xiaoman didn’t know.
When she was still born, Lü Li brought a large bag of bellybands, small jackets, bibs, and small mattresses to the little guy...
Holding those things, Yin Xiaoman felt more and more familiar with them, and then suddenly realized that these were almost the same as those that Xiaodao from Qiao Mai's family used when he was just born.
It's obvious at first glance that they were created by the same person.
Under her questioning, Qiao Mai confessed embarrassedly.
She and her mother are not good at needlework, let alone Li Fang. My son is about to be born, but I haven’t prepared anything yet.
I really had no other choice, so I thought of asking Lu Li for help.
I didn't expect Lu Li to agree so readily.
From then on, because they had a clear path forward with Yin Xiaoman, Qiao Mai and Li Fang became even more fearless. Many times, they even asked Dami to help them bring notes to the group.
On another occasion, Yin Xiaoman saw them drawing pictures on notes and asking Lu Li to follow them.
Miraculously, Lu Li was able to complete the task according to their requirements every time, and in a way that was very much to their liking.
This made her start to feel a little moved.
Especially later, there was a time when Lichun asked her embarrassedly if he could make her another piece of underwear like the one he had given her before? It's the one made of very soft cloth.
She said it was soft and thin, and more comfortable to wear in the imperial kitchen in the summer than silk or satin.
And he solemnly promised that he would only wear it himself and would not let it be leaked or seen by anyone.
Before this, Yin Xiaoman had used her free time to make two similar underwear for Lichun based on the one Lu Li made for her, using the cloth she had stored in her own cabin.
But after making it, she found that although the cloth she had saved was of better quality, the fabric was very thick and the finished product was not as light and soft as the one Lu Li gave her.
So she simply picked out a slightly smaller one from the ones that Lu Li had made for her when she came back from the island, and left it to her apprentice along with the two she had made.
What she didn't expect was that Lichun immediately fell in love with the one that Lu Li made.
Yin Xiaoman knew that since Qiao Mai and the others asked her sister-in-law to make something for them, they would definitely not let her lose money. And looking at the current situation, my sister-in-law should be willing to take this job.
So, the next time they asked Lu Li to do some work, she asked Qiao Mai to add the things he needed, including the two pieces of underwear that Lichun wanted.
Qiao Mai was a little surprised, but he understood in a flash that Xiaoman was afraid that her sister-in-law would feel embarrassed to accept the money, so she borrowed his hand.
So I agreed readily.
Therefore, among the things Zhou Tiancheng sent here now, in addition to the food and drinks of Yin Xiaoman and his family, there were also many things that Qiao Mai asked Lu Li to buy or make and asked them to bring over.
He sorted the things in the luggage bag, took out Qiao Mai and Li Fang's things, and put them in another cloth bag. Yin Xiaoman handed the bag to Zhihua and asked him to take his brother to deliver it to Qiao Mai.
Then she took out the things she had prepared for Lichun and entered the space.
This time she asked her cousin to make a bag of dried shrimps for Lichun.
This was the kind she first made for Mr. Hua and the others as a snack.
At first, Mr. Hua and his friends liked it very much.
For a long time, I relied on these dried shrimps and dried razor clam meat to get through the days of overtime work every night.
However, no matter how delicious something is, if you eat too much of it, you will lose your appetite. Later, Yin Xiaoman developed some other things.
While recuperating in the hospital, she told her cousin the recipe during a conversation.
Later, when she was doing business with Lichun again, she couldn't find anything suitable, so she took a bag of dried shrimps that she had made before, which Mr. Hua and his friends didn't like to eat, and gave it to Lichun.
Because the quantity was too small, she couldn't take it out to the palace to sell, so she kept it for herself to eat. I became addicted to this one.
Every now and then she would ask Yin Xiaoman to help her do something, after all, it was more convenient to dry seafood here.
But now the seafood on the island is also subject to a distribution system, and there are not many opportunities to get large quantities of fresh shrimp.
Yin Xiaoman simply handed this "task" to his cousin. After all, Ningcheng was also near the sea, and he was in charge of the kitchen team, so it was convenient for him to go to the city to buy vegetables.
It's not difficult to ask him to help share some useful information.
Yin Xiaoman carried the dried shrimps to Lichun's small room.
Then a familiar palpitation came over me again.
Her body swayed, and she quickly held onto the table next to her, then sat down on the chair.
Because of Dabao and the others' problems these days, Yin Xiaoman almost forgot about this problem of his. But at this moment, in addition to the sudden palpitations, there was also a panic from the deepest part of my heart.
She doesn't know what went wrong? This feeling was something she had never experienced before.
He sat on the chair for a long time, until he thought that most of the children were about to come back, then he forced himself to stand up.
After putting the dried shrimps into the cupboard, she hesitated for a moment, then picked up the pen and paper on the table and left a note for Lichun.
"Be careful and stay safe."
When writing this note, Yin Xiaoman was actually a little afraid that his apprentice would worry as well. After all, she didn't really feel anything.
But ever since the great disaster that struck the island that year, which almost caused a major catastrophe due to food shortage, Yin Xiaoman has become more determined to be prepared for a rainy day at any time.
Although after that incident, both the island and the group had made various preparations and protections for this situation, the possibility of food shortage again has become extremely low.
But she still stored as much food as possible in every space she could think of.
Not only was her own little room filled with so much space that her feet could hardly touch the ground, but she also placed several large vats and pottery jars in the kitchen and rooms of her home.
A lot of coarse and fine grains were stored separately.
Anyway, as long as you change it frequently, there is no possibility of the food becoming moldy.
Because the millet she had stored before played a significant role at the most critical moment, the whole family supported her idea of storing food.
Dabao even made a special list for this purpose, reminding her to replace the food with a new batch when the time comes.
Yin Xiaoman later told Lichun about this, and repeatedly reminded her of the importance of preparing for a rainy day.
Shen Qingyun returned to the island on the second day of the Chinese New Year. At that time, he had been away from home for more than two months.
When they saw him come back, the whole family was a little bit hesitant to recognize him. They didn't expect that the man who didn't get darker even after basking in the sun every day on Zhongshan Island, became darker and thinner after being away for two months. He was much thinner than before he left.
When she saw him, Yin Xiaoman's tears suddenly fell.
Seeing her crying, several children in the family also started crying, and Shen Qingyun reached out and slapped each of them on the head.
He laughed and scolded, "It's New Year's Day, why are you crying? Your father is fine, go away, go wash your faces. You came all the way back and didn't even give me a smile."
Hearing that he still had the energy to curse, Yin Xiaoman knew that the matter should be almost done, at least it wouldn't be a big trouble.
I felt a lot more relieved immediately.
She drove the children away and dragged the man into the house.
She personally went to get a large basin of water for the man to take a bath, and then came out with his clothes that were so dirty that they were unbearable to look at.
"Mom, I'll go wash it." Dabao, who was guarding the door, grabbed it.
Yin Xiaoman did not fight with him for the clothes. After giving him the clothes, she hurried into the kitchen and made a big bowl of tomato and egg noodles for the man.
At this moment, only the noodles are cooked the fastest.
The noodles had just come out of the pot when Shen Qingyun had already washed himself and walked out, looking refreshed.
Seeing that she and the children were all looking at him eagerly and expectantly, he didn't keep it a secret and nodded at Yin Xiaoman.
Then he raised his hand and stroked Erniu's head, saying to her, "Don't be afraid, girl. Everything has been resolved. No one will come looking for you again, and no one can take you away from your parents."
"Really?" Erniu asked in disbelief.
"Really? When did Dad cheat?"
"Brother!" Erniu was so excited that she screamed and turned around and ran out the door without saying a word.
It was obvious that he was going to tell Dabao, who was washing clothes by the stream, the good news.
The two little guys Zhihua and Shiyan also hurried to follow.
"Brother! Big brother!" They were also screaming and jumping, and each of them looked like they wanted to be more excited than Erniu.
After all the children left, the room finally became quiet.
Knowing that his wife must have a lot of questions to ask, Shen Qingyun explained the whole story to her in detail while eating noodles.
At the beginning, after obtaining the consent of Tuan Lu, Shen Qingyun did not delay at all. He went directly to the capital the next day after receiving the letter of introduction issued by the group.
After arriving in Beijing, he first found the local armed forces department and, through the comrades in the armed forces department, found out the personal information of Dabao's father Du Changyu before he joined the army.
Through that information, we found the place where he first lived.
When we found the place, we realized that there was no one left in the old Du family.
Du Changyu died, and his parents were too old to withstand the torture, and died one after another in the labor camp where they were sent.
My only younger sister also died of illness in the commune in the countryside, and after her death, not even a single relative was notified.
The neighborhood committee handled the household registration cancellation procedures for the entire family.
It can be said that this family, except for Dabao and Erniu, has completely disappeared.
At that time, standing in front of the door of the Du family's old house that had been redistributed to four families, Shen Qingyun couldn't calm down for a long time.
Although he had guessed about these situations before, after all, so many years had passed since he adopted Dabao and Erniu, and no one from the Du family had ever come to look for the children.
When Du Changyu got into trouble, the regiment did send a notice to his family, but none of his relatives attended his memorial service.
But guessing is just guessing. Wait until someone really tells you in person that the entire family is dead, not a single one is left.
That feeling still makes people feel like they can't even breathe.
Shen Qingyun stayed in the neighborhood committee for a long time and looked for everyone he could find, but he still didn't find out any information.
In the minds of the people living on that street, this family no longer exists.
Who would pay attention to things related to people who don't exist?
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