Chapter 114
Dongsheng blinked and denied, “I didn’t say anything!”
Xu Wen didn’t believe her
No matter how she asked Dongsheng, he just wouldn’t say anything
Xu asked casually, but the more he kept his mouth shut, the more Xu really wanted to know
Because Dongsheng was most unable to keep secrets from her, he would usually tell her any secret
Xu Wen’s eyes turned, called out to DouDou, “DouDou! Auntie can I ask you something?”
“Ask auntie and you tell me!”
“Are you tired?”
Doudou nodded honestly, “Tired”
“Then why don’t you go home and insist on working here?”
The little girl was so young that her face was red from the sun
Doudou looked at Dongsheng before answering, “I want to stay with Dongsheng! If he doesn’t go, I won’t go”
Xu asked, “”
She didn’t expect such an answer
She looked at Dongsheng and then at Doudou, gave a sigh of relief, shook her head, and went back to work
In order to take care of the children, they finished work a little early in the evening
Not only is the grass lush in the wasteland, but there are mosquitoes, and the mosquitoes here are particularly ruthless, a bite is a big bag
This time, Xu went home and could not directly to the sofa a lie on the end of the matter, but also had to drag the tired body to Dongsheng put a good bath water
When he finished the bath and changed clothes, but also have to cook for him
After thinking about it, she asked Dongsheng: “Do you still have the strength?”
Being mother and son for almost two years, Dongsheng also quite understand Xu Wen, tilted his head and asked her: “Ma Ma, do you want me to go to the cafeteria to get food?”
Xu Wen: “”
She hesitated for three seconds, torn between doing it herself and letting Dongsheng go to the cafeteria
She actually favored the latter, but as an adult, she couldn’t bear to bully a child
Dongsheng had already let out a long sigh as if he was an adult, “Okay, I’ll go fetch the food! Who made you the only woman in our family? Can’t you take good care of it? You take a rest! I’ll be back in a while”
Said got up, shook his head and walked outside
Xu asked, “”
“Bastard, who did you learn this from?”
After Dongsheng left, Xu Man took a shower and changed into loungewear
When she went downstairs, the food was already on the coffee table
Lu Yuanzheng was also there, looking down and picking out wood thorns for Dongsheng
When Dongsheng was working during the day, he accidentally stuck a thorn in his hand
When Lu Yuanzheng picked out the thorn, Dongsheng repeatedly looked at his little hand, “Hey? It really doesn’t hurt anymore!”
“Why would I lie to you?” Lu Yuanzheng said as he put the needle back on the candle to burn
Xu Wen touched his head, “Hard work!” She then sat down beside Lu Yuanzheng
Lu Yuanzheng stretched out his hand towards Xu Man
Xu Man didn’t understand for a moment and looked at him blankly, “What do you want?”
“It’s your turn! I’m looking at your hand!”
Xu Man let out an oh-so-splendid cry and spread out his palm
Another row of blisters had rubbed up today
Lu Yuanzheng furrowed his brows, opened his mouth, and finally just sighed softly and said nothing
When he didn’t say anything, Xu Wen had something to say and asked him, “What did you say to Dongsheng?”
“What said what?”
“That is, how did you talk those kids into going to work?”
“Didn’t say anything Just a fight”
Xu Man wrinkled his eyebrows, “You used force to coerce the children to work?”
That would be a bit excessive
“How could it be? He secretly asked me if you didn’t pay much attention to him these past few days and didn’t put him to bed at night, did he do something wrong? Or is it that you can’t care about him because you have a little sister in your belly?”
Xu Wen was stunned and subconsciously looked at Dongsheng
Like a child who did something wrong, Dongsheng lowered his head and apologized in a small voice, “Ma Ma, I’m sorry!”
No wonder he asked him in the afternoon and was dead set on not saying anything
She had always thought that she had given Dongsheng enough security, but didn’t realize that he was still so sensitive
“It’s fine” Xu Wen still glared at Lu Yuanzheng, “Then what’s the point of fighting if you just say it properly?”
“Asking such a beaten question definitely requires a fight I’ve already explained to him before, a little bit of coldness is suspicious, so petty which is like a man?”
Xu asked, “”
She shook her head, “What happened afterward?”
“Then I told him that you are busy because you can not take care of him, to him to cover the school! And told him that if he had time for Door to make a little fuss over there he might as well do some work for you! He left in a huff I didn’t think he’d actually go to work!”
When Lu Yuanzheng picked the blisters on Xu Wen’s palm one by one, she squatted in front of Dongsheng, who kept his head down, and hugged him, “Dongsheng, in the future, if you’re unhappy or can’t figure it out, you can ask me directly In addition, I have always said that you are my son! No matter what others say, no matter if there will be more little brothers or sisters in the family, you are my eldest son It’s my negligence that I’ve been busy these past few days and didn’t take care of you, but I’m just like dad and I want you to trust us a little more”
Dongsheng threw his arms around her neck and apologized with a small cry, “I’m sorry, Ma Ma!”
“You don’t need to apologize And you did exceptionally well today! In the future, let’s work together and trust each other a little more, okay?”
“Good! Woohoo!”
On the third day of covering the school, there were still some sisters-in-law who had taken leave, but those who had taken leave before had also come back, making up almost fifty or so people
Scouts, however, no less than one all arrived, decent take a small shovel or something in the hands of the house, work is not much, things are quite complete
On the way to the school wasteland, Xu asked Dongsheng, “You are not at home in the morning screaming all over the body pain? Why are you here again?”
“Dad told Uncle Shi Lei that building a house is a man’s job! In our family, dad and I are men and you are women, dad is busy, I come to work with you!”
Putting aside the words “man” and “woman”, Xu Man was still very touched, and touched Dongsheng’s head, “You’re still too young!”
Dongsheng sighed like a young adult, “That’s right! It is too small to say ‘help’ you, I want to grow up, I’ll do it, you wait on the side of the milk tea!”
Xu asked, “”
I’m not that lazy!
A sister-in-law next to him heard and complimented Dongsheng: “This kid really knows what he’s doing!”
“Yes! Sister-in-law Xu Wen taught him well”
As they chatted and walked, they soon arrived at the place where the school was to be built
Dozens of sisters-in-law were silenced at the same time, you looked at me and I looked at you, all looking confused
Some of them reacted fast enough to come back to their senses and point at the empty wasteland and ask Xu Wen, “Sister-in-law, what’s the situation here?”
Yesterday, at the close of business, at least half of the weeds here had not been cleaned up
Overnight all the weeds at the gate had disappeared, leaving only clean land
Xu Man didn’t know either and guessed, “It should be those officers and soldiers who did this!”
Xu Man went to bed early and didn’t really know what time Lu Yuanzheng went home
But, to clean up the weeds so cleanly, and even do the aftermath work meticulously, apart from Lu Yuanzheng and the others, Xu Man couldn’t think of who else could be there
Song Baoying said naively, “But lately, Old Shi and the others have been really busy, sometimes they can’t even take care of their meals, and they can’t even sleep for a few hours, so how did they do it?”
“I also think it’s them Last night I got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom, it was two in the morning, and the one at my house hadn’t come back yet This morning I saw fallen mud and grass on the floor of my house and thought I hadn’t cleaned up yesterday”
Xu Wen didn’t say anything
She had come home two days in a row with blisters on both hands and a blood blister
Lu Yuanzheng was heartbroken!
Xu Man’s nose was a little sour, this man was always like this, his favor and kindness never showed on his lips
Xu Wen blinked away the astringency in her eyes and spoke, ”That should be them! They came to help us after working so hard, so it’s all the more reason for us to work a little harder! Since we don’t need to do the cleanup, let’s divide up the work today Part of my sister-in-law stays behind to level the land, and part of my sister-in-law goes to cut down the trees for building the house”
There was no need to draw lots to decide this either, felling trees and transporting wood were all heavy work, and Wang Lingling led a team of sister-in-laws who volunteered to go
Xu Man led the rest of the sisters-in-law to level the land
The large area was uneven, and the soil from the high ground needed to be transported to the low ground
This job was slightly easier than clearing the weeds
Because some of those weeds are too high, in which it is not good to walk, but also stuck, stuffy and hot and mosquitoes and insects
After the weeds are not cleaned out, only need to move a little force to move the soil, Ken Kai a little easier, just to sell energy
As usual, Mrs Li came around nine thirty to deliver the summer soup
“This is a change of flavor for everyone! I made sour plum soup! Come and try it!”
Xu Wen and the girls put down the work they were doing and gathered around
The weather was too hot, and the amount of sweating was excessive, so every sister-in-law had some physical discomfort in addition to being tired
Their mouths were dry, their chests were stuffy, and they were short of breath, and from time to time, their eyes went black
But on this day there was not a single complaint from any of the sisters-in-law
What else is there to complain about?
The officers and soldiers had sacrificed their sleeping time to help them work
During the day, they had to continue training
Compared to them, this hardship was really nothing
Sister-in-law Li’s sour plum soup was especially well made, adding a lot of rock sugar to take care of Xu Man and the children
The sisters-in-law complimented Mrs Li
Sister-in-law Li looked towards the clean and dry Fang Di, her eyes somewhat complicated, and softly said, ”Old Lu liked to drink it when he was alive! Every time they came back from sea training, I would cook a big pot of it and have him take it to the squad to share a portion with those little comrades”
The little comrades she was talking about were the young officers and soldiers in the squad
Xu Man patted Mrs Li’s arm
Sister-in-law Li shook her head, “I’m fine! Alright, you guys get busy first, I still have to go back to watch the commissary”
Before Mrs Li left, two more helpers came to the field
From afar, they shouted towards Xu Man, “Mrs Xu Man!”
Xu Man put her hand on her forehead and squinted her eyes before she could see them clearly, they were the two young men from the Electricity Bureau who stayed on duty on the island
Xu Man was busy welcoming them forward, “Why are you here? Is there something wrong with the wind power generation?”
“No, no! The two of us just have nothing to do and thought we’d come over to help out!”
Before Xu Man could say anything, a sister-in-law already spoke up, “That won’t do! You’re both technicians and cultured people, how can we let you do this kind of manual labor? No way!”
One of the glasses wearers pointed at Xu Man, “Mrs Xu Man is much more powerful than us, if she can do it, why can’t we? Besides, when this island develops in the future, we at the Electric Power Bureau will definitely increase the number of personnel stationed here By then, in case we settle down here, our children will need to go to school here as well That’s why we want to make a contribution! Don’t worry, we won’t delay our jobs”
Xu Man knew that their job was one of those where the less they worked, the happier their bosses would be
Because once they needed to work overtime, then it was expected that the entire island would have a blackout
“I thank you for the future elementary school students!”
“But aren’t you all still unattached?”
Xu Wen and the other sister-in-law spoke at the same time
The young man with glasses reddened, “It’s true that you don’t have a date But we can’t have one in the future Besides, even if we switch off the island, there are still other coworkers who have to come? It’s hard to be idle all day, so it’s better to work a little and sweat a little!”
Like Lu Yuanzheng, their unit rotates on the island
Those who have families are definitely not willing to go to this lonely island, so they have changed twice, and the ones who have come are young people who have not yet had a date
When they said that, Xu Wen and the girls certainly wouldn’t stop them
With two more strong laborers, the efficiency is more or less higher
At night, Xu Wen tied a thin rope on the door handle behind the bedroom door through the nose of the door and tied it to her hand in case Lu Yuanzheng came back softly without her knowing
When Lu Yuan Zheng pushes the door, the thin rope will pull back, along with pulling Xu Man’s hand, the larger he opens the door, the greater the pull she receives
Lu Yuanzheng lowered his eyes, his hand touched the thin rope stopping in the half-open door, “”
With the security on the island, it wouldn’t come to this, would it?
Xu Wen was pulled awake by the thin rope, rubbed his eyes and sat up, fumbled to pull the light, untied the rope from his wrist, and came down to open the door for Lu Yuanzheng
Lu Yuanzheng understood about this moment and hugged her, “This is for waiting for me?”
Xu Wen mumbled vaguely, her head buried in his arms, smelling an earthy odor, instantly sobering up a few points, twisting her head to look at the alarm clock on the wall
Three in the morning
She looked down, and Lu Yuanzheng, who hadn’t had time to change his clothes, was still covered in a lot of dirt
Xu Wen sighed softly, “It’s really you guys!”
Lu Yuanzheng raised his eyebrows and bent down to pick her up, “The ground is cool You waited for me specifically for this?”
He didn’t even ask why Xu asked, it was obviously them
The “Tian Luo Girls” on Rainbow Island
Xu Wen nodded, “You can’t!”
“Hm? What kind?”
“I said you can’t work day and night like this You guys are already tired enough from training during the day, how can you still bring people to help us build the school at night?”
Lu Yuanzheng lost his smile, “That was originally part of our job”
“Not in your plans At this rate, you and the other warriors’ bodies won’t be able to take it”
“It’s fine! The conditions during the war were much tougher than this, but didn’t we get through it?”
“That was different! That was a life-threatening situation If we didn’t fight, not only would we die, but the people behind us would also die Building a school is different, it’s something we do voluntarily, it shouldn’t be forced on you”
Lu Yuanzheng was silent for a while, “I admit, I have selfishness Seeing you so tired every day my heart aches to shed it But I’m not a man of one word, it’s voluntary for everyone to help out at night, I didn’t give any orders”
How many of us, all grown men, would be indifferent to seeing our own mothers-in-law go home exhausted like this?
The young and unattached officers and soldiers were purely infected by Xu Man’s spirit and volunteered to help out
He just didn’t stop them
“So you’re like this, guess if my heart hurts?” Xu Wen raised her hand and gently brushed over the auburn under Lu Yuanzheng’s eyes
He hadn’t been able to rest properly for a long time
Lu Yuanzheng: “”
Fear of her heartache, so he did it secretly
Xu Wen rolled her eyes, “It’s not like I’m stupid It’s such a palm-sized island, if it wasn’t you guys, who else could clear such a large piece of land in one night?!”
Lu Yuanzheng: “”
“Anyway, you guys are not allowed to meddle in this matter anymore The work we did for three days wasn’t as much as you guys did in one night, so what do you say, did you guys build this school or did we?”
“Of course it’s you guys” Lu Yuanzheng and the others didn’t want to steal the work
“It’s you guys who did more work!”
“Two families don’t need to be so clear-cut”
“Two families don’t need to, but this isn’t a matter for the two of us! I’m waiting for you just to say that starting tomorrow night, you guys aren’t allowed to help anymore!”
Lu Yuanzheng didn’t say anything, he knew that Xu Wen wasn’t really doing it for the false reputation of whoever built the house, she was just heartbroken for him But he was the same, he couldn’t bear to see her suffer
“Lu Yuanzheng, I’m not discussing with you! This is something you really can’t do!”
Lu Yuanzheng still didn’t say anything
Tenacious!
Xu Wen slurred, but his voice softened as he tried to reason with him, “You’ve also said that your focus from now on will be on defense and war preparations! Then if you guys are physically exhausted all day long like this, are you not at a disadvantage if you really go to war? Is it worth sacrificing for nothing for the sake of a school?
You’ll be fine for a day or two But the school won’t be finished for another two days, right? We can’t put the cart before the horse
I have blisters on my hands because I don’t do much work I’ve done this kind of work before at our school and I didn’t get blisters on my hands You’ve seen it before
It’s because I haven’t worked since I resumed my college education You’ll get used to it
Besides, you see, we don’t work long hours It’s not our intention to tire everyone out We just work two hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon, just five hours a day, how tired can we be?”
The original six hours was changed to five hours to take care of the children
In the end, Lu Yuanzheng loosely promised not to stay up any longer to help
If he doesn’t let go, Xu Wen won’t go to bed, not only will she not sleep, but she won’t let him sleep either
He has never seen her so persistent, like a Tang monk, chattering, will not stop until the goal is achieved
After Lu Yuanzheng nodded his head, Xu Wen breathed a sigh of relief and lifted her white and tender feet to stomp on Lu Yuanzheng’s knee, “Go get this palace a glass of water! I’m thirsty from educating you!”
Lu Yuanzheng: “”
Dare I say that I still have to be lectured after helping out for two nights, and I still have to serve her after the lecture?
He gets up and brings a cup from his desk and hands it to Xu Man, “Your Highness, please!”
Lu Yuanzheng lowered his eyes to look at her, his gaze traveling up her white, straight legs, his throat rolling, “After you’ve finished educating me, it’s time for me to clean you up! Teach you what it means to be a husband!”