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Originally, Mother Lin planned to leave after Zong Ping and Wu Shujuan left, but as soon as there was no boat to go to Yangcheng in the next few days, Mother Lin had to leave with Zong Ping and the two as a supply ship. God, the only way to leave now is to celebrate the festival on the road. Mother Lin thought about it and decided to go back after New Year’s Day.

On New Year’s Day, Zong Shao was also at home. The couple got up early and bought a bunch of vegetables, including chicken, duck, fish, and pork.

Although it’s already January, the temperature on Yazhou Island is still not low, and the vegetarian dishes are fine. Even leafy vegetables can be kept for a day or two without frying, but the meat is not good, at most overnight, and the taste will change after a long time. .

So Lin Wei usually doesn’t buy too much meat, and usually eats one or two meals. Like Beibei Full Moon Wine before, she basically gave away the rest of the meat and vegetables, so she kept some for herself and finished it that night. .

The meat list that Lin Wei and Zong Shao brought back was not too much, but they might not be able to finish two meals together.

Mother Lin, who was taking care of her granddaughter at home, saw it and asked, “Why do you buy so much meat?”

“Eat, you’re going back tomorrow, let’s have a good meal today.”

“Then you don’t need to buy so many vegetables. Don’t you have to spend your days when I go back?” Mother Lin still felt that her daughter-in-law was too wasteful.

Lin Wei said: “This is how much. Our family has a large population now, and there is a lot of seafood supply every month. Even after this meal, we can still eat fish every day.”

This is a bit exaggerated, but it is not too false. Yazhou Island is close to the sea, and each person has a supply of three or four kilograms of seafood per month. The family with a large population can indeed get one fish per day.

From this point of view, Yazhou Island is indeed better than Shicheng. Although it is not as prosperous, it has everything that a supply and marketing cooperative should have. The food is good, and her daughter has gained a lot of weight after her child.

But the last sentence can’t be said in front of her daughter, and Mother Lin doesn’t know what her daughter thinks. Everyone sees people as plump, the better, but she is different. She always felt that she was as thin as a skeleton before. Good-looking, after giving birth to a child, it is difficult to gain weight, but all day long, I want to lose weight.

Fault!

Because Mother Lin was leaving tomorrow, Lin Wei didn’t let her into the kitchen at noon.

After dinner, Lin Wei started to pack up for Mother Lin.

Because only Mother Lin was alone, I was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to bring too many things, so I didn’t pack as much luggage this time. I only bought more dry goods such as abalone and sea cucumber.

In the words of Mother Lin: “The people in our brigade heard that the abalone and sea cucumbers I brought back with your father, their eyes were straight, and people kept coming to our house for half a month to see what the abalone and sea cucumbers looked like. Looks like. Now when the people in our brigade talk about you, they are very envious. They say that you are lucky. There are always people asking me this year, asking if there are any unmarried young guys in Zong Shao’s army, and they want me to introduce them. come.”

Lin Wei recalled the letter she received from her family this year and asked, “Then why haven’t you mentioned this to me?”

“What do I have to tell you! I refused!” Mother Lin was sober, “They only see the good life you are living now, and forget how difficult it was for you in the past. Besides, these soldiers in Zong Shao’s army, their hometown is heaven. There are both in the South and the North, after marriage, the girl can’t follow the army and can only go to her hometown in the south, the old shígG is unfamiliar with the unfamiliar, and the family does not know about it, and it may not be a good thing if it really happens.”

“It’s still Mom, you think clearly.” Lin Wei said flatteringly.

Mother Lin looked complacent: “That’s right, I won’t get any benefit from introducing them to a partner. After getting married, the young couple is doing well. If something happens out of town, the maiden’s family must not hate me. This kind of I don’t do thankless things.”

After Mrs. Lin finished speaking, she began to count the dried seafood to take back.

The dry goods were wrapped in oiled paper according to the type and tied with hemp rope. There were seven packs in total, four of which were bought by Lin Wei for his parents, and the remaining three were taken by Lin’s mother for her second son.

At the beginning of the year, because the second brother’s unit led his son’s marriage, he added two abalones to the gift. Because of its small size, this thing is not rare in Yazhou Island, but it is very expensive in Shicheng.

After his leader opened the gift, he almost didn’t dare to accept it. He talked to the second brother Lin Wei the next day. When he learned that the abalone was bought by his parents when they visited relatives on Yazhou Island, he was relieved to accept the abalone.

After that, Lin Wei’s second brother’s leaders treated him a lot more affectionately.

Therefore, this time, Lin’s mother was going to take care of Lin Wei’s army, so Lin Wei’s second brother asked his mother to bring him some abalone and sea cucumber alone, which he planned to use as a gift in the future.

And he also told the news to the leader, and if he wanted it, he asked his mother to ask, and if he could buy more, he would bring some to the leader.

In fact, dried abalone is just like that. It is fresh, but if it is a delicacy in the world, no other food can match it. In inland cities, its name is even more reputable. The saying “My family eats abalone today” is very grand, and it is also very decent to take abalone as a gift.

Therefore, when the second brother Lin Wei said that he might help with it, the leader agreed in a hurry, and he was going to give the second brother Lin Wei money. .

It was related to her son’s work. Mother Lin was very interested in this matter. After she came to the island, she mentioned it to Lin Wei.

Of course, she didn’t ask her daughter to save her seafood supply ticket to buy abalone and sea cucumber for her son. She only said that she could bring some, not empty-handed.

However, Lin Wei is very supportive of the second brother’s progress. Although she is willing to support her parents, Lin’s parents and Lin’s mother are old-fashioned, and they are more willing to follow their sons. But even if they change their minds one day and are willing to live with Lin Wei, it is definitely better for their son to be promising than not.

Therefore, after discussing with Zong Shao, Lin Wei saved three catties of seafood every month, bought a total of four catties of abalone and two catties of sea cucumber, half of which were given to Lin Wei’s second brother. .

I bought a lot of abalone and sea cucumber, but Lin Wei didn’t buy much other seafood, but I bought a lot of coconut candy and dried mango. Anyway, I don’t need a ticket and the price is cheap.

The mother and daughter slept in the same room at night, with Mingming Ruirui. The reason is very simple, in Mingming’s words: “Grandma will be leaving soon, and we also want to talk to grandma more.”

In the end, only Zong Shao and Bei Bei slept in the second bedroom, because it was inconvenient for one of them to sleep in the same room with Mother Lin, and the other couldn’t speak, and the master bedroom bed was just right for four people, and it would be a bit crowded if there were more. The little guy who could express his opinion was squeezed out of the master bedroom with his father.

Because he pushed Dad out, he was obviously very proud. After he went to bed, he kept jumping, so that no one else could sleep. He didn’t calm down until Lin Wei became angry.

It was not early, and Ruirui clearly fell asleep soon after closing her eyes. The mother and daughter chatted until the middle of the night before going to bed, so that Lin Wei had two huge dark circles under her eyes when she went to school the next day.

Lin’s mother was on the boat in the afternoon, and it happened that Lin Wei was not in class, while Zong Shao took a leave of absence and applied for a jeep to drive back and take his family to see his mother-in-law.

Although she knew that her son-in-law’s move was due to filial piety, Mother Lin couldn’t help but mutter a few words, but only a few words, and when they arrived at the pier, the sadness of parting welled up in her heart.

However, the overall atmosphere was much stronger than at the beginning of the year. At that time, Mother Lin knew that Lin Wei had something hidden in her heart, so she felt a little uneasy when she left. Lin Wei didn’t know if she had a future, and whether she could meet her parents again, so she couldn’t help crying.

But now Lin Wei has no worries about life and death. She knows that there will be a day when she and her parents will be reunited again, so she was full of hope when she sent Mother Lin away, and she was not too sad.

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After Mother Lin left, Lin Wei began to take her three children to school. Although Bei Bei would not necessarily get up in the morning, in order to cope with emergencies, she adjusted her wake-up time ten minutes forward.

Raising an extra child is of course not as simple as waking up ten minutes earlier. Although Lin Wei has still taught so many classes after returning to work, she is much busier than before maternity leave because she has to take care of Bei Bei.

When Lin’s mother was there, she also said that she wanted to lose weight. When her mother left, she didn’t need to deliberately lose weight. All the meat she had grown during pregnancy fell back.

Fortunately, after having a little sister, Ruirui is obviously very sensible. When they are at school, they will help take care of the little sister. When they return home, they will also help with some housework within their ability.

In the evening, Lin Wei was completely relaxed, because Zong Shao did everything, so she could just be paralyzed. But this is only limited to when Zong Shao is at home. If he goes out to sea, he may be twice as busy waiting for Lin Wei.

Of course, Lin Wei did not have such an experience for the time being, because the Spring Festival this year came relatively early, and as the New Year was approaching, Zong Shao didn’t have to go out to sea. When the final exam was over and the school was on winter vacation, Lin Wei’s life became more and more relaxed.

Zong Shao rested on the day of dust removal, and Lin Wei cleaned the house upstairs and downstairs with him.

The main thing to clean was the master bedroom. After Mother Lin left, Zong Shao returned the single bed to their head and moved a chest of drawers from downstairs into the master bedroom.

Lin Wei put all the milk powder and wheat milk essence in the drawer. She thought that the room would look more tidy and spacious, but within a week, the master bedroom became messy, and she still felt that there was not enough storage space.

So when cleaning, Lin Wei took Zong Shao and took out all the things in the wardrobe and drawer, intending to find out the main reason why they didn’t have enough things.

When putting back the things she took out, Lin Wei turned to a stack of photos.

It’s a bit exaggerated to say a stack, but there are actually seven or eight photos in total, two of which are single photos of her when she was a student. It looks very young, but she always feels silly. The rest are the photos that she and her mother-in-law took to the photo studio with their children when Mingming Ruirui was full of moon.

Before the birth of the two children, the zongmother said that they would take the family portrait, but the holidays granted by the army were limited, and the distance was long, so nearly half of the time was spent on the road. When they went out to see the wind, the two children had a late night snack. They were afraid that they would report going out to be sick, so they didn’t take a family photo. Only their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took a few pictures with the child in their arms.

At that time, Lin Wei thought that life was very long, and she could take photos when Zong Shao came home next time, but when he returned home, he was already seriously ill.

They never got the chance to take a full family portrait again.

Zong Shao took the photo from Lin Wei’s hand and looked at it carefully.

In the photo, Lin Wei and her mother-in-law are sitting opposite each other on the bench, holding Mingming Ruirui in their arms. In the photo, the smiles of the two of them are not bright, but their eyes are bright, and it can be seen that they are in a good mood.

Lin Wei watched Zong Shao rubbing the photo with her hand, and suddenly said, “Wait for your next room, shall we take the children to take a family photo?”

“Um?”

“Look at other people’s houses, they all took family photos. Sister Deng’s house also washed a big one, hung it in a glass photo frame, and hung it in the living room. We don’t have any at home. I don’t know which one to choose. Zhang.” Lin Wei asked with a smile, “When we take a photo, can we wash a big one and hang it?”

Zong Shao nodded: “Okay.”

“Then it’s settled, when is your next vacation?”

“Twenty-eighth.”

Lin Wei asked in surprise, “You have such an early holiday this year?”

Zong Shao explained: “Twenty-eighth, twenty-nine, and two days, and thirty, I have to be on duty, or take turns on vacation like last year.”

“Well, the photo studio on the 28th shouldn’t have a holiday, right?”

“It should not be released until the end of work on the 29th.” Units that operate externally like this will be released late during the New Year.

Lin Wei said, “Then it’s settled. I’ll take a photo on the 28th.”

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