Chapter 043.

Although she loved the baby doll, Zhen Zhen still held it for a while and then put it down.

She put the child back to Li Shuang and asked Li Shuang, “Sister-in-law, have you named him yet?”

Li Shuang glanced at the child and softly said, “Yes, I did, and told Auntie, our name is He Zi Yan.”

Zhen Zhen laughed a little, and then whispered to the baby doll, “He Zi Yan.”

Li Shuang and Zhen Zhen teased He Zi Yan for a while, but suddenly they heard He Shuo say at the door of the room, “Sister-in-law Wu is here to see you.”

Hearing this, Li Shuang and Zhen Zhen turned their heads together to look over, only to see Wu Dafeng standing outside the room door.

Listening to the voices outside, Old Zhou also came over.

Wu Dafeng and Li Shuang ignored each other after they had a fight at the beginning of their acquaintance, and well water did not interfere with river water. Later, with the passage of time, the two neighbors have eased their relationship by not seeing each other every day, and they are able to greet each other briefly when they see each other.

No matter what happened between Wu Dafeng and Li Shuang, the relationship between Lao Zhou and He Shuo was not affected, so it was normal for Lao Zhou to bring Wu Dafeng over to see Li Shuang and the child.

Seeing Wu Dafeng come in, Li Shuang looked at her and politely called out, “Mrs. Wu.”

Wu Dafeng was also very polite and said with a smile, “I heard you came back from the hospital, I came to take a look at you.”

Walking to the bedside, she asked with a smile, “You’ve given birth to another son, haven’t you?”

Having just given birth, Li Shuang’s tone of voice was much gentler than usual, “Yes, I wanted to give birth to a daughter but didn’t get one.”

Wu Dafeng knows that Li Shuang has never been able to look at her, and she only came over to give face to Lao Zhou, so she didn’t sit down or touch the child, and only stood by the bedside and looked at the child and said, “It’s good to have a son, and the more sons you have, the more blessed you will be.”

Li Shuang smiled and said, “What’s so lucky about having a son? If I say, the more you have, the less fortunate you will be ……”.

She said that this is her heart really think, but Zhen Zhen grabbed her arm gently shook twice, she noticed that the face of the big phoenix has changed, busy and changed the tone of voice, said: “sister-in-law you don’t worry about it ah, I’m talking about my own.”

The more she said don’t be concerned, the more uncomfortable she felt in her heart.

But before Wu Dafeng could say anything else, Mother He happened to come in with the finished monthly meal.

Just take this opportunity, Wu Dafeng busy with Li Shuang said: “Then you hurry to eat first, I will not bother.”

Li Shuang didn’t stay with her and directly said, “Sister-in-law, then you take care of yourself.”

Wu Dafeng answered and went out, greeted He Shuo again, and called on Lao Zhou to go home.

After leaving the door of Li Shuang’s house, Lao Zhou asked her, “How come you’re so fast?”

Wu Dafeng said: “I talk to her has never had a chance to talk, not quickly go there can stay out of what good?”

Old Zhou looked keenly at Wu Dafeng, “What’s wrong again?”

Wu Dafeng said, “She deliberately disgusted me again, saying that the more sons you have, the less fortunate you are. I have four sons, who in the village did not hold their heads high? Who wouldn’t say that I, Wu Dafeng, am capable of giving birth to sons when they see my four dolls? It’s the first time I’ve heard that the more sons you have, the less fortunate you are. What do you think this means?”

Old Zhou was annoyed, “Forget it, you’d better not talk to her.”

Wu Dafeng: “I don’t want to talk to her more.”

***

Li Shuang wants to eat, so Zhen Zhen doesn’t stay much longer.

Wu Dafeng and Lao Zhou left for a while, so she also went out and called on Squire Huai Ming to go home.

Arriving home to freshen up and go to bed.

The two sat on the end of the bed, the service Huai Ming put Zhen Zhen in his arms, holding a book in his hands to read her a story.

After listening for a while, Zhen Zhen suddenly turned her head to look at Servant Huai Ming and said, “The newborn baby is so cute.”

Servant Huai Ming stopped reading at his words and also looked at her, “You want it too?”

Zhen Zhen looked into his eyes for a moment in silence before nodding her head, “Uh, want it.”

Hearing this, Servant Huai Ming decisively closed the book and put it to the side, then tugged on the covers while saying, “Come on.”

This is not at all the same thing as what she said ah, Zhen Zhen pushed him back, “It was agreed that it would be once every three days.”

The agreement was not kept the night before!

Servant Huai Ming looked at her and said seriously, “You have to work harder if you want a child, you can’t be so lazy.”

As if there was some truth to it, Zhen Zhen looked at him and blinked, and then before she could say anything else, Servant Huai Ming directly pulled up the quilt, swept her underneath him, and lowered his head to kiss her lips.

He kissed her very gently, very patiently sucking and entangling.

Zhen Zhen did not have a moment to get misty-eyed and subconsciously raised her hands to wrap around his neck.

The soft, pure white tank top fell to the side of the pillow.

Feeling cold, Zhen Zhen bit her lip and buried her face deep in front of Servant Huai Ming’s chest.

Her body gradually dissolved into a pool of water, and when it was hard to resist, she red-faced fluttered her eyelashes and bit him on the chest.

In a daze, she remembered something, her voice undulating and intermittent, “You are not at all wanting a child ……”

Serving Huai Ming’s gaze was like a deep pool of fog, looking at her and asking, “Then what is it that you want?”

Zhen Zhen opened her eyes to meet his gaze and immediately closed them again.

Seeing that she avoided him and didn’t say anything, Servant Huai Ming moved a little and asked again, “Then what do I want?”

Zhen Zhen kind of regretted saying that.

She didn’t answer, and for a few moments said with a slight sobbing tone, “I don’t know.”

Servant Huai Ming kissed her lips, entangled for a moment and then fell on her ear.

Pressed against her ear and whispered, “Then I will tell you …….”

What he said later was going to shame Zhen Zhen to death.

Jen bites him several times on the shoulder when she can’t stand it.

***

Waking up in the morning, Jen still goes to work by herself today.

Because there are only three months left before the New Year, Li Shuang is going to sit in the moon to milk her baby, and she doesn’t plan to go to work before the New Year, so for the next few months before the New Year, Zhen Zhen will have to go to work and leave work all by herself.

When she came back from her half-day shift, Zhen Zhen used her lunch break to pickle dried radish and make salted meat with Shui Huai Ming.

She washed the sun-dried radish, then added salt and chili peppers and other condiments and put them into jars to pickle.

The salted meat was already cured.

Now it just needed to be strung up on twine and hung in the sun to dry.

Zhen Zhen hung the salted meat to dry in a windowed area of the house where the sun shone every day.

The weather for the next few days was fine, with plenty of sunshine.

After five or six days in the sun, the salted pork was slightly oily, and it was almost ready.

Zhen Zhen cut the salted meat into small pieces and packed them separately, taking out a small piece of it each time she ate it.

On the evening of the day the salted meat was made, Zhen Zhen went to the vegetable field to pick a large green vegetables, and went home to make salted meat and vegetables rice.

The moment you mix the lard into the rice, you’ll be able to smell it, and you’ll feel like you’re back in your hometown.

Zhen Zhen dug up the lard and put it into the rice and stirred it carefully, Shui Huaiming looked at her face and couldn’t help but think – if he hadn’t gone to the army and fought in the war in the first place, he and Zhen Zhen would have been very happy now.

With such a warm and lovely little daughter-in-law, life would be beautiful no matter how you lived it.

Zhen Zhen finished mixing the lard and raised her head to meet Shui Huaiming’s gaze.

Now that she no longer felt shy about Shi Huai Ming staring at her, she asked him directly, “Am I not beautiful and capable?”

Servant Huai Ming didn’t hold back a small smile and nodded, “Uh-huh.”

Zhen Zhen accepted his praise and added, “Don’t you feel lucky to be able to marry me?”

Servant Huai Ming’s eyes are colored with a light smile as he continues to nod, “Especially blessed.”

Zhen Zhen took a bowl of rice and sent it to him and said with a smile, “Then the first bowl is for you to eat first.”

Servant Huai Ming raised his hand to take the bowl and said at Zhen Zhen, “Thank you wife.”

Servant Huai Ming had never called her his wife.

Because of this wife, Zhen Zhen was embarrassed for a moment.

She lowered her head and continued to serve the second bowl of rice, and went out to sit down with Shui Huaiming to eat.

After dinner, Zhen Zhen went next door to see Li Shuang and He Ziyan as usual.

Ever since Li Shuang came back for her monthly visit, Zhen Zhen would come over every day to check on Li Shuang, tell her about what was happening in the unit, talk with her to relieve her boredom, and of course, hug He Ziyan.

He Ziyan is growing day by day, lying in the swaddling clothes like a doughnut, making cute ah ah sounds or da da sounds from time to time, especially when he smiles, making his heart melt with him.

A newborn baby doll should be the cutest thing in the world.

With Shuo and Mother He taking good care of her, Li Shuang recovered well after giving birth.

After coming out of the month, the red light is full of tenderness, and the whole body seems to be covered with a layer of shallow light.

***

After the winter, the weather is getting colder by the day.

After New Year’s Day and half a month later, a heavy snow fell on Xicheng.

Goose feather-like snow drifted for two whole days, Xicheng was covered into a white world.

In the morning Zhen Zhen was woken up by the ringing of the alarm clock.

Servant Huai Ming reached out and pressed off the alarm clock and told her, “You sleep a little longer.”

He couldn’t sleep, no matter how cold, hot, windy, rainy or snowy it was, he had to get up at the right time in the morning to go to training.

After Serving Huai Ming got up and left, Zhen Zhen sank under the covers and lay down for a while.

After lying and brewing for a while, she got up from the quilt, put on her clothes and shoes, and went to pull open the curtains in the room.

Once the curtains were pulled open, she only saw that the snow outside had stopped.

There were no snowflakes drifting in the sky, but the ground was still covered with a thick layer of white snow, and there were strings of footprints on the snow.

Zhen Zhen turned to go to the bathroom to wash up, went out to the outside, a glance, suddenly saw the window outside the window sill standing two small snowman. Closer to see, only to see the little snowmen a tall and a short, side by side together.

This is of course someone specially pinched the little snowman.

Zhen Zhen smiled and looked at the two little snowmen for a while before turning around and going to wash up.

Wash good tied hair, she did not go outside, directly grab a handful of millet to cook rice porridge.

After cooking the congee and heating up the buns with the steam drawer, Serving Huai Ming just came back from training.

The two of them sat down to eat the hot breakfast.

Zhen Zhen asked Shi Huai Ming, “Are we going to the big fair in Xiaban today?”

There weren’t many days left before New Year’s Eve, and it was already time to buy New Year’s goods.

Servant Huai Ming didn’t have any family leave this year, so he could only stay in Xicheng to celebrate the New Year, so naturally, he had to do some New Year’s shopping as well.

Servant Huai Ming nodded, “Let’s go by car.”

The snow had just finished falling, so the bicycle would definitely be impossible to ride, or else it would fall into the snow.

With that said, after breakfast, the two of them went out to the market.

Because the family stocked up a lot of food, after arriving at the big fair in Xiewan, they mainly bought fish and meat for New Year’s Eve.

In the morning, they went to the fair to buy things to eat on New Year’s Day, including peanuts, melon seeds, candy and these snacks.

In the afternoon, the two went to the department store to shop around, buy cloth to make new clothes, buy red paper to buy firecrackers to buy fireworks.

They spent the whole day buying all the things they needed for the New Year.

After arriving home, the two did not idle, using the evening time to start making bacon and salted meat.

After a day’s work, lying in bed, this is considered to be idle.

The lights were still on, and Zhen Zhen was lying in Shi Huai Ming’s arms, looking at him and asking, “Are we going to be the only two people celebrating New Year’s Eve this year?”

Servant Huai Ming wrapped her in his arms, his palm resting on her back, “The school cafeteria will also organize dumplings for New Year’s Eve, do you want to go?”

Zhen Zhen thought about it, she doesn’t know anyone else in the school well, and the odds are that the ones with families won’t go, so it must be mostly gay men, so she shook her head, “We’ll just spend it alone.”

Squire Huai Ming laughs a little, “Let’s call Dabai over to spend it together.”

Zhen Zhen smiles at that too, “Sure.”

***

The ten or so days flew by, and in a flash it was just before New Year’s Eve.

Although not many people were able to go home with family vacation, the school also stopped classes and training.

He Shuo Li Shuang’s family didn’t stay at the school for New Year’s Eve, and went to He Shuo’s parents’ house the day before New Year’s Eve.

Old Zhou and Wu Dafeng’s family, like Zhen Zhen Squire Huai Ming, don’t go anywhere, but he has more family members who are more lively.

After He Shuo’s family left.

Old Zhou ran over and asked Shi Huai Ming: “You two are strange and cold, do you want to come to my house tomorrow to celebrate New Year together?”

Shi Huai Ming politely declined and said, “Two more people are a lot of trouble, I’d rather have a world of two with my wife.”

Old Zhou laughed and said, “You’re not afraid of our troubles, you just want a world of two.”

Serving Huai Ming smiled and didn’t say anything, considered as a default.

Old Zhou look at him like this, heart inexplicably a little sour, tone is also a little sour, “you this person is really strange, your daughter-in-law early in the year just came, I see you have been cold to her, as if that is someone else’s daughter-in-law like. Separated for five years just met when not mushy, now how to stick into this?”

Serving Huai Ming said, “Relationships get better with time.”

Old Zhou didn’t think so, and laughed a little, “Staying together all day long, aren’t you tired of it?”

Serving Huai Ming: “We spend very little time together every day, how can we get tired?”

Old Zhou subconsciously tsked his mouth and didn’t speak again.

In any case, he and Wu Dafeng are not tired of it, not cross-eyed quarrel is good, there is no need to ask further to find more pain for themselves. So he did not stand and service Huai Ming said more, turned around and went home.

When he arrived home and entered the door, he heard Wu Dafeng ask him, “What did you say? Are you coming over?”

Lao Zhou answered her, “No, the two of them are living on their own.”

Wu Dafeng did not understand: “Two people to celebrate the New Year by themselves, that is not a cold death, how do you think?”

Old Zhou never had much patience with her, “What do you know?”

Wu Dafeng looked at him, “Why don’t I understand? What’s the point of being a couple with no kids?”

Lao Zhou wanted to say – that is you and I have no meaning, not others have no meaning.

But he didn’t say it out, the New Year’s Eve is not a good time for quarrels between two couples, he turned around and went to work on his own.

The opposite side of the room.

Watching the old Zhou left, the service Huai Ming turned back to the home, and Zhen Zhen together steamed buns fried balls.

The two of them worked on the food all day at home, and then started writing spring scrolls in the evening.

Before writing the spring scrolls, Mr. Huai Ming took out a pile of newspapers and taught Zhen Zhen how to write with a brush.

Zhen Zhen had never held a brush before, so naturally she couldn’t write anything decent.

He took her in his arms and held her hand, patiently teaching her to write one stroke at a time.

Of course he couldn’t teach her anything in a short period of time, but he only took Zhen Zhen to familiarize herself with the feeling of using a brush, then he cut out red paper, held her hand, and wrote a large Chinese character for “绂�”(绂�), together with her.

After writing it he looked at the lucky character and said, “This one we’ll post on the front door outside.”

It was written by the two of them together, Zhen Zhen felt quite happy and nodded her head approvingly, “Yes, yes.”

After writing this lucky character with Shi Huai Ming, Zhen Zhen did not try to write anything else.

She helped Shi Huaiming cut the red paper, and after doing so, she let him write the couplet while she watched him write it.

Seeing how Shi Huaiming wrote with extraordinarily dashing style as he held the brush, Zhen Zhen couldn’t help but say, “Third brother, you’re really good.”

After being complimented by her for a few moments, Servant Huai Ming cleared his throat and said, “It can be appropriately less complimentary.”

Zhen Zhen lifted her gaze to look at him, “Why?”

Servant Huai Ming also lifted his gaze.

Locking eyes with Zhen Zhen for a moment, he did not answer, but suddenly moved over and kissed Zhen Zhen on the mouth.

Zhen Zhen instantly understood what he meant, so she hastily covered her mouth and stopped talking.

Servant Huai Ming laughed a little and dropped his gaze to continue writing his couplet.

***

The atmosphere of Chinese New Year is all about busyness and hustle and bustle.

Although Zhen Zhen and Shui Huai Ming weren’t busy enough, they didn’t miss a single thing that needed to be done.

In the morning of New Year’s Eve, after eating breakfast and cooking the dough, the two of them put up spring couplets on all the doors and windows of the house and outside the house.

Zhen Zhen and Shui Huai Ming wrote the Chinese character for good fortune together, and posted it on the outside of the front door upside down.

Of all the red paper Chinese New Year couplets, Zhen Zhen liked this one best.

After putting up the spring scrolls and cleaning up the house, Zhen Zhen went to find Dabai to come over.

Then Dabai stayed at Zhen Zhen’s house, wagging his tail and watching Zhen Zhen and Shihuaiming cook, watching them make dumplings with noodles and chopping stuffing, and then at night he ate the New Year’s Eve dinner together with Zhen Zhen and Shihuaiming.

After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner and watching the New Year’s Eve together, Shui Huai Ming still put Zhen Zhen in his arms and told her how he spent the New Year’s Eve in the war zone. Then he told her about his old home, and the two of them leaned together and talked a lot.

Keeping watch until twelve midnight, the two went out to set off a firecracker, and then went to the playground to set off fireworks with others.

Because of the large number of people, the playground over the sky is occupied by bright fireworks.

Zhen Zhen, wearing a red scarf, stood with Shui Huai Ming, looking up at the sky full of fireworks, and even her eyes were brilliant.

Dabai jumped around and woofed next to her, each string of woofs seemed to be a sentence – Happy New Year!