Chapter 30 little duck

On Sunday morning, Zhou Jianhai’s cousin arrived.

This news was told by Wang Fangli to Lin Wei. This person is keen on gossip. After breakfast and washing the dishes, he saw Zhou Jianhai leading a raw girl into his house, and he started muttering to the neighbors on the left and right.

It’s just that Deng Xiangyun doesn’t have much contact with the surrounding neighbors because of the composition, and everyone doesn’t talk about it.

Because she thought that Lin Wei and Wang Fangli had a good relationship and might know the inside story, so after she was busy with her work, Wang Fangli came over to find out the news.

At that time, Lin Wei was fiddling with the flower pot that was removed from the second floor. It was said to be a flower pot, but it was actually a rusted enamel pot. Because there was a missing piece on the edge, the previous residents filled it with soil and used it as a flower pot.

After the previous tenants moved out, the flowers in the pots were not taken care of and had long since dried up. And although Lin Wei always wanted to make use of the flower pots, but there was no flower old shígG Dujia bird market in Yaxian County, and she didn’t know where to buy flowers, so the matter was shelved.

Until yesterday, I talked to Zhao Li about it, she said: “You said earlier that you wanted to grow flowers. I know a military sister-in-law who has a lot of flowers at home. If you want to keep them, I will ask her if she is willing to share with you. Two.”

Lin Wei said as soon as she heard it, “Sure, then please help me and ask her if she is willing to sell it.”

Zhao Li acted quickly and promised to help Lin Wei in the morning, but in the evening, she brought good news. The other party was not only willing to give Lin Wei two jasmine plants for free.

What Lin Wei has to do now is to free up the enamel pot and fill it with soil suitable for the growth of mandarin duck and jasmine. When the preparatory work is completed, you can go to the other party’s house to transplant the plants.

After hearing Wang Fangli say that Zhou Jianhai brought a young girl back, Lin Wei knew that it was Zhou’s cousin who had arrived.

Seeing that Lin Wei was silent, Wang Fangli asked, “Do you know who this girl is?”

Lin Wei knew that Wang Fangli liked to make irresponsible remarks. If she didn’t say that she was a relative of Zhou Jianhai, she still didn’t know how she would arrange it when she went out. But because she didn’t know what was going on, Lin Wei didn’t say too much, she just said vaguely: “It seems to be the younger sister of Teacher Zhou’s hometown. How old is that girl?”

“I don’t know, but she has two thick braids, and she looks quite young.” Wang Fangli said, thinking, “No, isn’t Instructor Zhou the only child? Where’s your sister?”

Lin Wei asked back, “Cousin, cousin, aren’t they all sisters?”

Wang Fangli thought about it too, but: “Why is she a cousin-in-law suddenly coming here? And I think she came alone, so her family can rest assured?”

Although Lin Wei also felt that Zhou Jianhai’s cousin’s family was big enough, she still said in front of Wang Fangli, “What’s not to worry about, Zhou Jianhai is her brother, who can bully her if she comes here?”

Wang Fangli thought that even if she was her own brother, without her parents to protect her, she still had to live by her sister-in-law’s face? What’s more, it’s not even relative.

But she knew that Lin Wei and Deng Xiangyun were on good terms, so she didn’t say it out of her mouth, she just said, “That’s true, but she’s a half-old girl, so she should talk about other people, right? Do you want to live on the island this time? Find someone?”

“I haven’t heard Xiangyun mention it.” Lin Wei said lightly.

The more Wang Fangli thought about it, the more she felt that this was the case, and said, “It must be the case. Don’t say it’s a really good idea. Anyway, there are not many other things on our island, except for unmarried young people.”

There are many male soldiers and few female soldiers in the Sanlin Base, but both male and female soldiers stay in the army all year round, and they can’t take care of marriage matters. .

It’s just that Lin Wei felt that getting married would be best if you knew the bottom line, not to mention the same commune as the brigade, at least the same county and the same city, anyway, closer to her parents’ home. In this way, if something happens after marriage, the family can also support it.

Although there are many unmarried young people in the base, they come from all over the world, let alone the same city, it is not easy to find the same province.

Family members of soldiers at the rank of deputy battalion and above can accompany the army, and officers of sufficient rank are mostly married, but if she finds someone who is not at the rank, she will have to go to the other party’s hometown alone after marriage. What will happen in the future is really uncertain.

But if you don’t want to look for it on the island, it’s not impossible. The matter of marriage still depends on the person. If you look at it right, it is not impossible to get through the first few years and get better.

However, Lin Wei did not follow Wang Fangli’s words, because what she was looking for was just Wang Fangli’s guess, and guesses were often the source of rumors.

And the rumors are said by many people, and slowly they become “facts” in the eyes of people.

For a young girl like Zhou Cousin, it is definitely not a good thing to carry the reputation of traveling thousands of miles to find a partner for no reason.

Lin Wei said with a serious expression: “You can talk about this in front of me, don’t talk nonsense outside, maybe people are just here to visit relatives, if you say this, it will cause some misunderstanding and let the girl carry it back. The reputation of the last person who came all the way to find someone is not good for anyone.”

Although she knew that what Lin Wei said was reasonable, Wang Fangli was a little embarrassed and muttered, “I just said it casually, isn’t it that serious?”

Wang Fangli’s attitude is a typical lice that don’t grow on her body and don’t itch on her body. She doesn’t know how to think in a different position.

If what Wang Fangli said was someone else, or if it wasn’t in front of her, she would be too lazy to care about these things. Anyway, Wang Fangli was responsible for the calamity.

But now, Lin Wei still persuaded: “You just said it casually, but if there are more people, the situation will be different. Isn’t this the truth?”

Wang Fangli graduated from elementary school. Among the military wives in the family area, her education is not the worst, but it is not good either.

In addition, after graduating from primary school, she never picked up a book again, and many words have been forgotten. After joining the army, she now recognized it in order to arrange her work to be more competitive.

And although this idiom that Lin Wei said is not unorthodox, it is not common, and Wang Fangli didn’t understand it very well. It’s just that she wants face, she doesn’t understand and is embarrassed to ask, she vaguely said: “I know, I don’t want to go out and say it.” After speaking, she made an excuse to run away.

When she went out from Lin Wei’s house, Wang Fangli was still thinking, it’s really tiring to talk to people of culture, and she can’t stand the big truth.

…

After dinner at noon, Deng Xiangyun came over with a small stone.

Lin Wei thought it was an accident at first. After watching the three children go out to play, she poured a cup of cold tea for Deng Xiangyun and asked, “Why did you come here?”

“I took the time to make two more hats for Ruirui and Mingming.” Deng Xiangyun said, took out two black hats from his handbag and handed them to Lin Wei, “How about you?”

Lin Wei said as soon as she heard it, “I didn’t pay for the hat you gave me before. Now you are making hats for two children. I can’t take it!”

Deng Xiangyun said: “It’s not a lot of money, the three hats together don’t use much fabric, and they shouldn’t pay you a high tuition fee, let alone you bring us small stones for free. , or I took advantage.”

“I didn’t take much care of Xiao Shi, and if I had to say it, the three of them should take care of each other.” Lin Wei waved her hands and said, “Not to mention the tuition fees. It took almost a month before I taught them the consonants and vowels. If tuition fees are still charged for this progress, then the teacher is also very good.”

“So now, you don’t think you’ve done much, and I don’t think I’ve spent much money. If that’s the case, let’s take a step back and don’t be polite to anyone.” Deng Xiangyun finished his conclusion and opened his folded hat to greet him. Said, “Look at how this hat is, if it’s not good, I’ll take it back and change it.”

Deng Xiangyun said so, Lin Wei had to take a step back and looked down at the hat in her hand.

Seeing this, Lin Wei smiled: “How did you think of it?”

The two new hats made by Deng Xiangyun are similar in style to those for Lin Wei, but because they are for children, she chose a brighter color, goose yellow.

And on the basis of the hat, she embroidered a pair of **** eyes and a flat orange-yellow mouth, which is not very realistic, but it can be seen that these are two little yellow ducks.

Very childish.

Lin Wei fell in love as soon as she saw it, she picked it up, touched her dark eyes, and pinched her mouth: “It’s so cute.”

Seeing that Lin Wei liked it, Deng Xiangyun got up and said, “Then I’ll call Mingming Ruirui and they will come in and have a try.” He went outside and called the three children into the house.

Although the game between the three children had not officially started due to the short time, the sun was shining brightly at this point, the children were sweating on their faces, and their hands were stained with sand.

Therefore, after the children entered the house, Lin Wei first asked them to wash their faces, and after they were wiped clean, she invited the two children to try on the hats.

The hats made by Deng Xiangyun are still very attractive to children. Mingming Ruirui fell in love with them at first sight and shouted to wear them.

Lin Wei pulled off the hat and put it on their heads. The head circumference was slightly larger, but not low enough to cover the eyebrows and eyes. Moreover, the edge of the hat was also fixed with thin wire, which could be adjusted at an angle without affecting walking.

Mingming loves to make a fool of himself. After putting on his hat, he put his hands close to his body, but his palms were spread out. He said, “Quack quack, I’m a little duck.”

Rarity couldn’t do such a thing, but after putting on the hat, he kept touching the flat mouth on the hat with his hand and asked Lin Wei, “Mom, is this hat really for me?”

“Well, Aunt Deng made these two hats and gave them to you personally.” Lin Wei nodded and asked again, “What should you say at this time?”

“Thank you, Aunt Deng.” At times like this, the two children’s voices are always the same.

Deng Xiangyun smiled and said, “You’re welcome, you can tell me wherever you feel uncomfortable wearing a hat, and I’ll change it for you.”

Mingming shook his head and said, “It’s very comfortable, no need to change it!”

Rarity turned and asked Little Rock, “Aren’t you wearing a hat?”

Little Stone said nothing, biting his mouth and looking at his mother.

Deng Xiangyun reached out and touched his head and said, “Little Stone’s hat is not ready yet. When it is done, he can wear it with you.”

Rarity opened her mouth wide and asked after a moment, “When will his hat be ready?”

Deng Xiangyun thought about it and said, “Three or four days.”

Rarity let out a long breath, took off her hat, and said, “Then I won’t wear it anymore. When your hat is ready, let’s wear it together.”

Hearing the words, Mingming also took off his hat: “Then I won’t wear it anymore, we will wear it together, then we will be three little ducks, quack quack!”

Seeing Mingming’s funny appearance of learning how to walk a little duck, Xiao Shishi couldn’t help laughing out loud, nodded his head and said, “Okay, let’s wear it together.”

The three of them agreed on this matter, handed the hat to the two adults, and went out again holding hands.

Holding the hat in his hand and looking at the backs of the three children, Deng Xiangyun said with emotion, “Rui Rui is a very careful child, and he is obviously very sensible.”

Lin Wei said, “Little Stone is also very sensible. Old shígG Dujia”

In fact, many children will be possessive, and it is inevitable that there will be troubles between brothers and sisters when you and I do not, not to mention Deng Xiangyun is Xiao Shishi’s biological mother.

It can be seen that Xiao Shi was a little aggrieved when Ruirui tried on the hat. But he didn’t cry or lose his temper, and after Deng Xiangyun said he would make a hat for him, he quickly forgot the unpleasant thing.

Deng Xiangyun was slightly stunned when he heard the words, then thought about what happened just now, and admitted his mistake and said, “This time I didn’t think carefully.”

She always wanted to repay Lin Wei for taking care of her children, so after she made two hats, she immediately sent them over, but she didn’t think about when her son found out that he had three children, but he didn’t have the mood when he didn’t. .

“It doesn’t matter if you don’t think about it once, the idea will be fine in the future.” Lin Wei comforted, picking up the hat and looking, “What do you think it will be like when the three of them wear hats and go out?”

Without waiting for Deng Xiangyun to speak, Lin Wei said, “Other children in the family area must have been envious of them when they saw it.”

Deng Xiangyun pursed his lips and smiled: “How can it be so exaggerated?”

“Why not? Just the hat you gave me before, I have a high rate of turning heads when I wear it. Sister Liu and the others even inquired about me, wanting to know where I bought it, so they can get one back and wear it. Later, I said that you made the hat by yourself, and they also wanted to pay you to make it for you.”

As for why it didn’t work out later, although Lin Wei didn’t say it, Deng Xiangyun could think of it.

Also because she wanted to get it, her heart softened and she said, “I’m working now, so I may not have so much time to pick up and make hats, but if they like it, I can tell them how to do it.”

“Will this… be inappropriate? After all, it’s the style you thought of yourself.”

The hats made by Deng Xiangyun may be nothing in a few decades, or look at the whole world, and you can find similar styles, but in this era, in China, this hat is definitely special.

If time jumps to a few years later, Lin Wei believes that Deng Xiangyun can make a fortune with this hat alone.

But even if there is no leap in time, if she can hide her practice and wait for the reform and opening up, she may not be able to make money with this hat.

On the contrary, she is now teaching the practice, and other military wives in the family area will definitely follow it, and more and more people will wear this hat. In fact, the people in the family area are mobile, and these military wives may be transferred with their husbands at any time. Maybe it will take a few years, and this hat is not special.

Lin Wei didn’t mention reform and opening up, but only said that if the country doesn’t care about doing business one day, Deng Xiangyun may make money with this hat, and the possible consequences of telling others what she is doing now, I hope she can think about it again.

Deng Xiangyun laughed after hearing it: “You are talking about the capital society. How can we let go of business in our country? And even if there is a day, I may not be able to see it.”

“What if you could see it?” Lin Wei asked.

“Even if I can see it, I shouldn’t regret my current choice. You should have heard others say that I am a capitalist…”

Deng Xiangyun only opened his head and stopped, the smile on his face gradually faded, lowered his head and said softly, “Even if there is a day, I don’t want to make any money, like now, the family is safe and sound, it’s good.”

Lin Wei fell silent, she knew very well why Deng Xiangyun thought this way.

In fact, in the past, she also thought the same way. It is best to have a job, a husband, and children, and a family can live in peace.

But the dream on the way with the army broke her peaceful and stable life, and at the same time, she also knew a lot of things in the future.

Three years later, the college entrance examination will resume.

Four years later, reform and opening up.

Their generation will usher in an era full of opportunities.

They will have many choices in their lives.

But Deng Xiangyun doesn’t know about these, so what she wants now is stability. And after Lin Wei dreamed of the plot of the original work, she had lost the chance to be stable, and she also gave birth to “ambition”.

If she can survive, she wants to go to college, to have a better job, and to make more money.

Because of the change in her thinking, she saw business opportunities in Deng Xiangyun’s hat, so she worried that Deng Xiangyun would suffer from the current choice in the future.

But Lin Wei couldn’t tell Deng Xiangyun directly about the changes in the next few years, she could only vaguely remind: “What if you change your mind in a few years?”

“Even if I change my mind, I shouldn’t regret it.”

And these hats were actually made by Deng Xiangyun based on the patterns she painted before, and she didn’t draw those patterns for anything else, she just liked them.

She learned to paint at the age of five. When she was in junior high school, her family’s situation was not very good. For the sake of safety, her parents stopped painting for her and chose a more stable path for her.

Facts have proved that her parents were right. If she continued to study, went to high school and took the university entrance exam, after the big sports started, she would definitely not be able to run away with a stinky hat. Not as it is now, although it has also been implicated, at least life can go on.

In order to live a stable life now, Deng Xiangyun has not picked up a paintbrush for many years, but she still likes to paint. In order to solve this love, she began to paint flowers.

Whether it’s making clothes or shoes, you have to draw a rough outline, so every family will keep a few flower images these days. Therefore, even if her composition is not good and her paintings are more colorful, it will not be a problem to be turned out.

“Since I can come up with these styles now, I can always come up with other styles in the future. If one day I live to the point where I’m brooding about my current choices, it would be too sad.”

Lin Wei smiled: “That’s what you said. I’ll ask Sister Liu and the others later. If they want to learn, I’ll let them come to you.”

Deng Xiangyun nodded: “Okay.”

After talking about this matter, Lin Wei put away the little yellow duck hats for the two children and pretended to ask casually, “I heard Wang Fangli say that Instructor Zhou’s cousin is here?”

“Listen to Wang Fangli?” Deng Xiangyun asked narrowly.

Lin Wei explained honestly: “She saw your old Zhou pick up her cousin when she was washing the dishes, and came to me to inquire about the situation.” She also shared Wang Fangli’s guess.

Lin Wei said this just to remind Deng Xiangyun that although Wang Fangli said at the time that she knew and would not say it, her tone was very perfunctory when she heard it, and she obviously didn’t take it to heart.

If Wang Fangli thought about it carefully after returning home, it would be best to choose silence in the end, but if she spoke out, Deng Xiangyun knew in advance that she would be able to deal with it. After all, she was a relative.

Unexpectedly, Deng Xiangyun didn’t say anything after hearing this, his expression was very unusual.

Lin Wei had an intuition about what was going on. She thought about what she had just said before she hesitated to ask, “Cousin Zhou, who came here this time, isn’t she really looking for someone?”

Deng Xiangyun remained silent, picked up the enamel cup on the coffee table in front of him, brought it to his mouth and stopped, put it back on the coffee table and said, “I have this idea, but it’s not all for this.”

Wang Fangli actually guessed it right!

Lin Wei was stunned and couldn’t help but say, “Although there are many young men of school age on the island, they are all from all over the world. Are her parents really at ease to let their daughter marry?”

“Forget about her parents, that’s…”

Deng Xiangyun is a gentleman, and she can’t look down on those two people. One of them is also Zhou Jianhai’s own aunt, so she finally sighed and said, “Eighth sister, she is also forced to do nothing.”

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