Chapter 42

Zhong Dawa and Zhong Erwa came back after washing their faces. When they saw the four dishes on the Xiaofang table, they opened their mouths in shock and asked in unison, "Is it a new year today?"

"It's not a new year today, but in a few days it will be the Dragon Boat Festival. I'll go back and find someone to exchange some glutinous rice to make dumplings for you." Song Zhaodi said, "The Dragon Boat Festival is just the end of the month, we'll use up the remaining meat tickets, and I'll make one for you. Braised pork."

The big baby and the second baby grinned happily.

Sanwa didn't quite understand what the two older brothers were laughing at, so she couldn't help giggling when they saw them being so happy.

Seeing the children so happy, Song Zhaodi smiled involuntarily: "Eat it now, the meat will be cold later." She looked up and saw Zhong Jianguo brooding deeply, quite surprised, "What do you think if you don't eat?"

"I calculate whether I will be at home at the end of the month." Zhong Jianguo said.

Song Zhaodi helped her forehead, how greedy this man is: "If the plan can't keep up with the changes, you're just fooling around." After a pause, "Are you going to the camp today?"

"Let's go again in the afternoon." Zhong Jianguo asked, "Is there any work?"

Song Zhaodi: "No. I'll make you a pair of slippers. Try to see if they fit."

"Dad, look at my sandals." The big boy stretched out his feet, "Ma Zhenxing envied me very much, he also said—"

Song Zhaodi hurriedly interrupted Dawa: "You won't promise Ma Zhenxing for me again, will I make sandals for him?"

"No, no." The big baby shook his head and followed the rattle, "I told him to tell you himself, Ma Zhenxing didn't dare to tell you, he was afraid of you."

Song Zhaodi was curious: "He hasn't been to our house very much, and he hasn't talked to me very much. Why is he afraid of me?"

"Because you are a teacher." Zhong Dawa said, "Lin Zhong is also afraid of you."

Song Zhaodi hurriedly asked, "You didn't show your shoes to Lin Zhongxian, did you?"

"Lin Zhong asked if my shoes were made by a shoemaker, and I said no, my mother made them for me." Zhong Dawa said, suddenly widened her eyes, and said cautiously, "Mother, I was wrong. ."

Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "It's okay. Your father is too busy at home. I will take the three of you alone. They won't come to me to help make shoes."

The day before the Dragon Boat Festival, on May 30, in the morning, around eleven o'clock, Song Zhaodi had not returned from school for a long time, when Lin Zhong's mother, Sister Chen, came with soles and cloth.

Song Zhaodi was really happy to see what she was holding, and she really couldn't underestimate the face of some people: "Is there something wrong with my sister-in-law?"

"I see that the shoes on Dawa's feet are very good, and I want to ask you to help us make a pair in the forest." Sister-in-law Chen smiled, looking very embarrassed.

Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "It's unfortunate that my sister-in-law came, I have to make steamed buns with noodles later."

"It doesn't matter in the afternoon." Sister Chen blurted out.

Song Zhaodi's expression did not change, she scolded her heart, and smiled, "Making noodles in the morning, and steaming steamed buns in the afternoon." After a pause, "I have already agreed with Aunt Liu, and ask her to take care of Sanwa for me." He opened his mouth and said, "I'm going to get some glutinous rice from the villagers on the island. I have to soak the glutinous rice in the evening, and I have to make zongzi tomorrow. Does my sister-in-law's house not make zongzi?"

Sister-in-law Chen pretended to suddenly realize: "Look at my memory, I forgot to celebrate tomorrow's festival, I'm sorry, Xiao Song."

"It doesn't matter." Song Zhaodi said, "It's me who should be embarrassed." He poured the water from the house into the cucumber field, and silently told Sister-in-law Chen that she still had the vegetable field unwatered and was very busy, "Sister-in-law. If you are in a hurry, ask Dawa to go to your house and take off the shoes. You can do it for Linzhong according to Dawa's shoes."

"That's fine." Sister-in-law Chen's face flashed a trace of unease. She was embarrassed to say that she could do it without looking at it when she saw the baby passing through.

Song Zhaodi thought she couldn't make sandals, and shouted into the room, "Dad, go to their house with Mother Chen." After a while, "Lead Sanwa over there."

"Okay." When Dawa heard the intention of Sister Chen, she was very afraid that Song Zhaodi would not cook and asked his father to cook. Then I heard that Song Zhaodi rejected Sister Chen, and the eldest child was so happy that she quickly pulled the third child and the second child out of the house.

Sister-in-law Duan was also cleaning up her vegetable garden at the moment. Song Zhaodi's voice was not small, and Sister-in-law Chen didn't lower her voice, so Sister-in-law Duan, who was separating the two fences, could hear it clearly.

Sister Chen returned to her room, and Sister Duan stood up, called Song Zhaodi, and asked in a low voice, "I'm looking for you again?"

"Maybe I think I'm young and thin-skinned, so I'm embarrassed to refuse." Song Zhaodi said, "Jianguo agreed to help her cut clothes last time. If Jianguo didn't agree, I wouldn't be bothered.

"She makes all the clothes for the young and old of the Lin family. The clothes I made for the eldest baby are pretty good-looking, but it's not difficult for a skilled worker like the sister-in-law of the Lin family. After reading it twice, you will know what to do."

"Don't talk about her, an old woman like me knows what to do after just one look." Sister Duan said, "It's a pity that Liu Ping and Liu Wei don't want the children, they say they are children's clothes."

Song Zhaodi: "It's true that children look better in clothes. Liu Wei is about to become a big boy, so he has to dress more maturely. By the way, sister-in-law, your family Liu Ping will graduate in more than a month. Liu Wei should also graduate next year, so get ready. What are you asking them to do?"

"Uncle Liu wants to ask Liu Ping to be a nurse." Sister Duan said, "Liu Ping is a lazy person and doesn't want to, so he has to continue to high school. But we don't have a high school on the island, so we have to go to school outside the island."

Song Zhaodi frowned slightly: "Sister-in-law, what does the high school outside mean?"

"It was all stopped the year before, and recently I heard that there was a high school that started classes after the fall." Sister Duan said, "But I thought that when we went to the city a few days ago, we met a few people walking on the street, and there was still something stinky around our necks. I think it’s impossible to start the class.” After a pause, “The teacher pulls out every day to be criticized, and he doesn’t have the heart to teach. If you waste time in school, it’s better to learn something else.”

Song Zhaodi wanted to nod her head, thinking that Liu Ping didn't like seeing her: "It's useless to press your head if you don't drink water. You should talk to her well. After all, it's her own business. We as parents can't live for the children."

"I can't listen, I'm too lazy to tell her." Sister-in-law Duan sighed, "The girls in the Lin family are half as sensible."

Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "That's what you're used to. By the way, auntie, I'll go to the post office in the afternoon."

"Then I'll give you something later." Sister Duan said, and went back to the house to pick up dried beans and dried eggplant.

When the children went upstairs to sleep in the afternoon, Song Zhaodi went to the post office with half a bag of things. On the way back from the post office, met Ma Zhenxing's mother Zhou Shufen.

Song Zhaodi had a headache when she saw her smiling shyly, but she couldn't pretend she didn't see it, so she asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Zhenxing said that Dawa's shoes are good-looking, so he had to ask me to make him a pair." Zhou Shufen said, "I think your head Zhong is not at home, you are very busy with a few children, how can you take care of them, just think I'll ask you what to do with sandals."

Song Zhaodi: "It's just right, the eldest baby and the second baby are sleeping in the house at the moment, take off their shoes and put them to dry in the yard, you can just follow the eldest baby's shoes."

"I'm causing you trouble, Mr. Song." Zhou Shufen's workmanship is not good, Ma Zhenxing is clamoring for shoes, Zhou Shufen is very angry, she can't help but talk about Song Zhaodi, it's not good to do something when you have nothing to do, what kind of sandals are you going to make for your children? .

But she also knew that the weather was hot, and it was too hot to wear cloth shoes. People who could make sandals on the island would make several pairs of sandals for their children to wear. She also felt that other people had children, and her own children were pitiful without sandals, so Zhou Shufen went to find Song Zhaodi while everyone was resting in the house.

Song Zhaodi didn't do it for Lin Zhong, and naturally she wouldn't do it for Ma Zhenxing, so she took Zhong Jianguo's soles and instructed Zhou Shufen to sew them.

Zhou Shufen was a little surprised when she saw the Jiefang shoes in the corner: "Your head Zhong is back?"

"You don't know?" Song Zhaodi wondered.

Zhou Shufen: "No, our old horse didn't say that Captain Zhong was back."

"I came back last week." Song Zhaodi said, "Probably Captain Ma is too busy to know. By the way, I heard Lao Zhong mention that he came back for another group to go to sea, isn't it your old horse?"

Zhou Shufen shook her head: "It's someone from another teacher." Speaking of this, Zhou Shufen understood, "Our old horse thinks about making meritorious deeds all day long, but this time, Master Liu sent Captain Zhong out, but he didn't send them, so he probably wasn't happy. "

Song Zhaodi: "Our old Zhong is just the opposite of Captain Ma, and we wish we would not have to go to sea from now on."

"You just got married, and Captain Zhong doesn't want to go out." Zhou Shufen sighed, "I'm an old man and an old wife, and if I'm not afraid of your jokes, now he sees a gun more than he sees me kissing. As before, I have a good relationship with him, and it's like three years after he hasn't seen me for one day."

Song Zhaodi smiled and said: "We will be similar to you in the future. How come there is a sentence, no matter how young and snowy love is, it will become the reality of firewood, rice, oil and salt.

"I still remember someone saying that if love doesn't fall into the real life of dressing, eating, sleeping, and counting money, it will not last long. What's more, there is no love between me and Lao Zhong, we are Go directly beyond love and fall into reality. Maybe that day won't last until next year."

"Love?" Zhou Shufen shook her head, "I used to think that love was beautiful. The incident with Teacher Yao made me understand that it's better than anything else to live a peaceful life."

Song Zhaodi nodded: "Yes. There is a sentence called. The most romantic thing I can think of is to grow old with you. However, this is not what I said, it was also said by others."

"That's really good." Zhou Shufen envied. "You went to university because you are different from me. Such words come when you open your mouth."

Song Zhaodi said modestly: "I have a good memory." As soon as the voice fell, she heard crying, and said quickly, "It should be Sanwa who woke up and didn't see me, I'll go take a look."

Zhou Shufen opened her mouth to say go, but Song Zhaodi ran up the stairs before the word "you" came out. When Zhou Shufen saw Ma Zhonghua at night, she couldn't help but tell him, Song Zhaodi is a good person, and Zhong Jianguo is a blessing.

Zhong Jianguo never wore slippers.

No one will do it when you're not married, but Baihua won't do it when you're married. Zhong Jianguo ran to the barracks every day, so he forgot about the slippers.

Now that took a bath at night and put on slippers with five toes exposed, Zhong Jianguo led the three children out for a walk, and by the way showed off their father's shoes with the comrades who brought the children out to play. .

Song Zhaodi hardly ever stopped in her last life, either flying around or busy designing clothes. Originally thought she would not be used to living around the children and the stove all day long.

However, whenever he saw a few children put down the dishes and slumped on the chair with a contented face, Zhong Jianguo asked her what to eat next before she had finished eating, and asked her cautiously for fear that she would be unhappy. Song Zhaodi felt this It's a good day too.

If Zhong Jianguo didn't die, it would be fine to just live his life in a peaceful way.

It's a pity that some people can't see her too comfortable.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Song Zhaodi received a letter, which she thought was sent from Xiao Song Village. Her parents scolded her about sending money to her family. Song Zhaodi had a bad feeling when she got it and saw that she was from Binhai.

Song Zhaodi opened the letter, and when she saw that the title was written by Zhong Jianguo's eldest brother, she relaxed again. But after reading the letter, Song Zhaodi couldn't help but scold Zhong Jianguo's parents.