Chapter 082

Under the porch, Jenny and Zhong Minfen sat together picking celery leaves.

Zhong Minfen put a few celery stalks in the basket after picking the leaves, and looked at Zhen Zhen and asked, “You’re not going to class today?”

Every time Zhen Zhen goes to class, she greets her, and she remembers that Zhen Zhen seems to have a class at this time.

Zhen Zhen lowered her head and pinched the leaves carefully, “I’m not in the mood, I’m afraid I can’t listen to you even if I sit there, the learning atmosphere in the school is not good right now, missing a few classes doesn’t have much impact, I want to rest at home for a period of time.”

Zhong Minfen knew that Zhen Zhen’s low mood was due to the departure of Dabai.

Big White has been with her for too long, and humane, Zhen Zhen has long treated it as a family member.

The sudden departure of Dabai would leave a void in her heart, like a missing piece.

After a while of silence, Zhong Minfen thought of a solution and said: “Why don’t I go and ask around to see if anyone has an old dog that needs a puppy, and then I’ll get you a big white dog to keep, how about that?”

Of course Zhen Zhen knew that Zhong Min Fen wanted to make her happier.

She smiled slightly, looked at Zhong Minfen and said, “Mother, no, I don’t want to keep it.”

She didn’t lose her mind because she didn’t have a dog anymore, the whole reason she lost her mind was because, that was Dabai.

Moreover, she didn’t want to experience this feeling again after more than ten years.

If she doesn’t keep it, Great White will always be in her heart.

Seeing that Zhen Zhen really didn’t want to keep it, Zhong Minfen didn’t mention it again.

She and Zhen Zhen cleaned the celery leaves and went to the kitchen to chop the pork and celery, mixing the pork and celery with seasonings to make a filling, then mixing the dough, kneading it to make it tough, and rolling it into a round skin to wrap the dumplings.

At noon, when Shihuaoming and the children arrived home, they were served dumplings stuffed with pork and celery.

The dumplings were so flavorful that the children ate them with oil on their mouths and hands, and Shui Huaiming nodded and said they were delicious.

Since the end of the New Year, it seems that Serving Huai Ming’s daily return home is no different from before.

He was originally a cold and hard character, Zhong Minfen and the children might not be able to see anything, but Zhen Zhen knew him very well, especially when they slept together every day, so she could naturally sense the subtle differences in his mood.

Today, while eating dumplings here, Zhen Zhen sensed that he had something on his mind again.

It couldn’t be because of Dabai, could it?

The fact that there is absolute honesty between Zhen Zhen and Shi Huai Ming, so when she returned to her room to rest after dinner, she asked Shi Huai Ming directly, “What’s bothering you at work?”

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It didn’t surprise Servant Huai Ming that Zhen Zhen would ask this.

After so many years as husband and wife, this tacit understanding of the heart was still there.

He pulled Zhen Zhen to sit on the chair in front of him, looked at her and asked, “Didn’t you read today’s newspaper?”

Zhen Zhen’s mood was affected by Dabai’s incident, so she really didn’t read the newspaper today.

When she heard Mr. Huai Ming say this, she naturally went to bring today’s newspaper over immediately.

When she unfolded it, she saw the word “Notice” on the front page.

If there was anything that could affect Shi Huai Ming, Zhen Zhen felt that it should be on the front page.

However, she still asked Squire Huai Ming confirmatively, “This?”

Squire Huai Ming nodded at her.

She picked up the newspaper and looked at it carefully.

After reading the last word, she raised her head to look at Servant Huai Ming, her brows knit deeply.

***

Recently, the weather in Xicheng had been bad, with the look of a summer storm about to roll in.

Dark clouds fell like lead in the middle of the sky, pressing down so low that they seemed to be right on top of people’s heads.

Zhen Zhen was at home and not reading or writing in her room, so Zhong Minfen did not go out to visit her.

The two sat together under the porch to do needlework and chat, Zhong Minfen tilted her head to look at the sky and said: “How many days has the sky been cloudy, how come the rain is still not coming down, it’s quite stuffy.”

It’s quite stuffy, and it’s hard to breathe.

Zhen Zhen pinched the fine needle to make the upper, “Look at this, it should be coming down soon.”

Zhong Minfen said, “It’s good that it’s coming down, it’s also cooler.”

Zhen Zhen was still seriously working on the upper, saying, “If this rain really comes down, I don’t know how long it will take.”

Zhong Minfen thought she was only talking about the weather and continued, “Summer rain comes and goes quickly.”

Not saying the other layer of meaning in her words.

Zhen Zhen looked over at Zhong Minfen and smiled a little, not pulling on something she shouldn’t have said.

She accompanied Zhong Minfen to do needlework until noon, and got up to pick up the children after school.

After picking up the children, she returned with Li Shuang and Wen, still chatting and talking on the way, not much different from the usual.

After picking up the children, the three of them went to the cafeteria to get their meals.

When Mr. Huai Ming came back from work, all the families put down their dishes and sat down to eat.

Just as they sat down to eat a few mouthfuls of food, Zhen Zhen glanced outside and said, “I wonder if the rain will fall this afternoon.”

Servant Huai Ming sniffed and looked at Zhen Zhen, “What do you need to go out for in the afternoon?”

Zhen Zhen said, “Going to class, I’m almost rested.”

Hearing this, Servant Huai Ming’s eating movements suddenly slowed down.

Zhen Zhen naturally felt that he was a bit strange and looked at him and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Servant Huai Ming looked at her and said, “The school has been completely closed.”

Closed?

Zhen Zhen suddenly froze.

She froze and blinked twice, “I just went to pick up Spike and the others, I didn’t hear about it.”

Servant Huai Ming said, “They’re all too young to be considered in school.”

Zhen Zhen wanted to ask again, but before she could get the words out of her mouth, Servant Huai Ming said, “Let’s talk about it after dinner.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t ask any more questions, and when she went to her room after dinner, she asked again, “What’s the situation?”

She stayed at home for a few days and didn’t go out, how did it become like this outside?

Serving Huai Ming pulled her to sit down, told her about the general situation in society now, and finally said the school: “We also just got the exact news, the college entrance examination was stopped, the university will no longer enroll students in the future, and the middle school is also all suspended.”

Zhen Zhen’s gaze slightly reveals doubt, “No classes and no studying, then what for?”

Servant Huai Ming looked at her, “Join the revolution.”

***

Zhen Zhen had a family, there were old people and children at home, unlike those hot-blooded middle school students and college students, she naturally did not go to school to participate in the revolution. Since school was closed, she didn’t go to school again in the afternoon.

Sending the children to the nursery class, Zhen Zhen remained at home with Zhong Minfen doing needlework and talking.

And while doing needlework and talking, she couldn’t help but think of the school and wonder what it was like now.

She hadn’t even gone out these days when she stayed at the military home, and her life hadn’t changed much.

After another day at home, Jen finally couldn’t hold back and rode her bike to the school.

Before she left, she still packed the textbooks she would use in class in her bag, and greeted Zhong Minfen as she pushed her bike out the door.

As before, Zhen Zhen pushed the car out of the alley.

After leaving the hutong, she got on her bike and pedaled out of the military compound.

What was different this time was that when she habitually turned around to say hello to Dabai, she realized that there was no longer Dabai behind her.

The big white dog that had been smiling at her with its tongue out was no longer in her life.

Loss was unconsciously born in her heart.

Zhen Zhen took a deep breath, turned back and pedaled her bicycle, out of the military compound.

And out of the military compound before reaching the school, she saw a different scene on the street.

There were a lot more people coming and going on the street, most of them were students, and they were putting large-character posters on the wall.

This thing, big-character posters, had been dormant for several years.

Now it has suddenly become a trend again, and when you look up, the whole street is full of them.

Especially those slogans, read more than one resounding passion.

Zhen Zhen did not linger, casually look at the street for a while, holding her breath to ride the bike to continue to the school.

When she arrived at the school, she still saw the students in high spirits, and the large-character posters.

She was still a little uncomfortable at first seeing all this, but didn’t show anything.

She went under the carport and parked and locked her car, picked up her bag and slung it over her shoulder and headed straight for the direction of the school building.

When she got to the building, she looked into a few classrooms, which were indeed no longer occupied by students or teachers.

Some classrooms still had quite a few students in them, but what they were gathering to discuss now was no longer academic.

Zhen Zhen took a deep breath and turned around to leave.

As a result, just as she turned around, she ran into Ye Manlin head-on.

Ye Manlin was very enthusiastic to see her and smiled, “You finally came to school?”

Zhen Zhen also smiled at him, “Something happened at home, so I didn’t come.”

After saying that she asked, “Are there no classes in school anymore?”

Ye Manlin said in an agitated tone, “Right now the revolution is the most important thing.”

Zhen Zhen smiled and let out a soft oh, “Then you hurry up and get busy, I’ll go home first.”

Ye Manlin knew that Zhen Zhen was different from them, so naturally he didn’t keep Zhen Zhen much.

Zhen Zhen left the building and didn’t go home immediately, she went to the girls’ dormitory to look for Servant Danling.

She went to the girls’ dormitory to look for Ms. Danling.

A girl who knew Shi Danling said to Zhen Zhen, “She has an activity this afternoon, now should be in the playground.”

Zhen Zhen didn’t waste any more time asking what the event was.

She very politely said thank you to the girl and turned around to head up to the playground again.

A few steps on the way to the playground and a few runs.

When she arrived at the playground, she only saw a lot of students gathered together.

Not seeing Squire Danling, Zhen Zhen walked over to where the group of students were gathered.

However, just as she reached the outer edge of the crowd, she was stunned by the sight she saw in front of her.

The playground was not only filled with organized groups of students, but also with teachers surrounded by them.

Jen stayed for a while before she found her breath.

This teacher on the stage, whose class she had taken last semester, could be considered her favorite teacher.

Jen’s head was buzzing so hard and her heart was beating so fast that it was about to pop out of her throat.

Her brain was still in the midst of extreme confusion, but her hands had reached out involuntarily.

She fought to peel away the people in front of her, trying to squeeze into the crowd, trying to squeeze her way to the front of the stage.

However, before she could squeeze in much, she was suddenly pulled back by someone holding her wrist.

Zhen Zhen turned around and met Servant Danling’s eyes.

Shui Danling’s brows furrowed, called out “Third Aunt”, and hurriedly pulled Zhen Zhen out of the crowd.

Danling did not give Zhen Zhen too much time to react, directly pulling Zhen Zhen to avoid a deserted place.

When she stood still, she didn’t say anything, but Zhen Zhen reacted first and asked in a heavy voice, “What are you doing?”

Her breathing was still rapid, and her eyes were filled with fear.

Servant Danling explained to Zhen Zhen in a low voice, “When you make a mistake, naturally you will be criticized.”

Zhen Zhen looked at Servant Dan Ling’s face, her eyes reddening little by little.

After a few moments, she squeezed out her voice, “What mistake was made?”

Not wanting to talk about this in detail with Zhen Zhen, this place is also not convenient to say anything more.

Serving Danling was a little anxious, “Third aunt, you don’t care so much, hurry home.”

Zhen Zhen stared at Servant Dan Ling, her eyes getting redder and redder.

The dark clouds in the sky hung lower and lower, her chest was so stuffy that she couldn’t breathe, as if it was filled with lead.

Suddenly a lightning bolt hung down from the sky, thunder exploded, and rain poured down in pots.

Her whole body was instantly drenched by rainwater.

Jen stood motionless in the rain, only blinking her eyes that could no longer see the world.

Rainwater beads up on her eyelashes and crashes down, landing on the ground without a sound.

***

A thunderclap sounded and the rain poured down.

Zhong Minfen, sitting under the porch, was startled.

Rain splash, she was busy picking up the colander, carrying a small bench into the house.

To the house to dust off the body was splashed with water, looked at the rain outside and said: “can be considered down.”

This heavy rain did not affect Zhong Minfen to continue doing her needlework.

She dusted off the watery mess on her body, sat down and picked up the thick soles of her shoes, pinched the needle and scratched it twice on her scalp, and continued to knit the soles of her shoes.

Being alone in the house was always a bit cold.

So while she was nailing the soles of her shoes, from time to time she glanced outside.

One was to observe the changes in the rain outside, and the other was to aim to see if anyone was coming over.

When she had finished the soles of her cloth shoes, she raised her head just in time to catch Zhen Zhen coming back.

When she saw Zhen Zhen pushing her bicycle into the yard, walking in the rain, all wet, she was so shocked that she jumped up, wanted to run out of the house and realized that the rain had not stopped, she was busy going back to get an umbrella, opened it to the yard and hit Zhen Zhen on top of her head.

Seeing Zhen Zhen like this, she was a little anxious to ask: “soaking rain back, you stupid ah?”

Zhen Zhen looked at Zhong Min Fen and said in a calm tone, “Mother, I’m fine, I forgot to bring an umbrella when I went out.”

In fact, even if she had brought an umbrella, she was still not in the mood to fight.

Zhong Minfen didn’t talk to her much, holding the umbrella and pulling her into the house, carrying the warm water pot for her and telling her to hurry and take a bath.

Zhen Zhen’s body was so wet that a step was a water-stained footprint.

She didn’t let Zhong Minfen worry too much and took her clothes and went to take a shower.

Zhong Minfen was not idle outside either, going to the kitchen to fan the stove fire and cook a bowl of ginger and brown sugar water.

When Zhen Zhen finished bathing and dried her hair and came out of the restroom, she sent the steaming hot ginger and brown sugar water to Zhen Zhen’s hand, “Hurry up and drink it, don’t catch a cold later.”

“Uh, thank you mother.”

Zhen Zhen’s eyes are hot, holding the bowl and blowing on it to take a sip.

Zhong Minfen looked at her and said, “Look at you, you’re still polite to me.”

After drinking the ginger and brown sugar water, her stomach was warm, but her heart was still cold.

Zhen Zhen hugged the empty bowl for a while, then suddenly returned to her soul, looked at Zhong Minfen and said, “It’s time to go pick up the children.”

Zhong Minfen did not pay much attention to the time.

Zhen Zhen herself looked at the time and said, “It’s time to go pick up the kids.”

Zhen Zhen had just come back from the rain, so Zhong Minfen naturally pulled her back and said, “You take a break, I’ll go pick them up.”

Zhen Zhen smiled a little, reached out and took the umbrella, making Zhong Min Fen stop, “Mother, it’s fine, I’m not tired.”

With that she walked away, going out the door to open the umbrella.

Zhong Min Fen stood under the porch and watched her walk out of the yard.

Her face was covered in confusion and she whispered, “What’s wrong?”

***

Jen walked to the nursery class with her umbrella and the rain had stopped.

When Li Shuang and Shizuku came over, the three of them picked up the children and went home together.

Li Shuang and Shizuku could see that Jen looked poorly, so they asked her, “What’s wrong with you?”

Zhen Zhen smiled and said perfunctorily, “Nothing much, I just miss Dabai.”

Li Shuang and Wen expressed their understanding, and did not mention anything more to make Zhen Zhen sad.

When Shizuku mentioned this, Zhen Zhen naturally thought of what she had seen at school in the afternoon.

She lowered her head and sank back into her thoughts, as if she had been drained of her soul, with no semblance of expression on her face.

She didn’t participate much when Li Shuang and Wen were talking.

When her name was called, she would return to her senses for a moment and briefly strike up a few conversations.

She naturally didn’t say much when she arrived home, she should eat and eat, and she should put the child to bed and put the child to sleep.

Until she finished washing up and returned to her room to lie down, she leaned in Shi Huai Ming’s arms before she told Shi Huai Ming about the things she saw at school today. She spoke very slowly, and her voice trembled as she spoke.

Zhen Zhen slept uneasily this night, waking up from time to time.

Every time she woke up, Shui Huai Ming knew about it, and he gently patted her back to calm her down.

***

Wake up in the morning.

The rain has cleared.

But Zhen Zhen always feel that her heart is still piled up with dark clouds that can not be melted, pattering rain.

For the next few days, Zhen Zhen didn’t go out again except to pick up and drop off her children.

She deliberately shielded herself from the outside world, not reading the newspaper or listening to much talk, mostly staying by herself.

Today she still didn’t go out for anything else.

When it was time in the evening, she put down the book in her hand and got up to go pick up the kids.

Today, when she arrived at the pick-up place, she didn’t see Li Shuang.

Shizuku told her, “Not much later in the afternoon at work, someone came looking for Shuang and called her away.”

Zhen Zhen nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.

When they picked up the children, Wen told the teacher, “Let me pick up He Ziyan too.”

As a result, the teacher told them, “He Ziyan has already let her mom pick her up.”

Shizuku froze slightly, “Oh, okay, thanks.”

Neither Jen nor Shizuku thought much of it.

The two of them took the child with them and slowly made their way back home.

When they reached the entrance of the alley, Arwen said to the children, “Home.”

“Let’s see who gets home first!” Dan Sui stirred up the competition with a single word, and after saying that, she scattered her legs and ran down the alley.

The rest of the dolls naturally wanted to win, and immediately ran after Dan Sui.

Wen and Zhen Zhen yelled at them to slow down, but they ignored them.

Dan Sui was the fastest and ran straight for the door of her house, followed by DouDou, and the remaining four smaller ones ran in slowly on their short legs.

When Wen reached the front door of her house, she was about to open it with her key, when she suddenly noticed two people outside Li Shuang’s house.

She had actually caught a glimpse of them when she entered the alley just now, but she hadn’t taken it seriously.

Now feeling something strange, she stopped and asked Zhen Zhen, “What are they doing?”

Naturally, Zhen Zhen didn’t know, tilting her head slightly as she continued to walk over to the front.

Wen put away her keys and also followed Zhen Zhen over.

When they walked outside the yard of Li Shuang’s house, they saw that the two men were sticking something on the door.

Seeing what was pasted, Shizuku and Zhen Zhen instantly furrowed their brows at the same time.

Their hearts instantly fell into an ice hole.

Shizuku held her breath and asked out loud, “What are you sticking up?”

The two men looked back at Jen and Shizuku.

One of them replied, “A seal, don’t you know the words?”

Of course Shizuku recognized it as a seal, and what she wanted to ask was, in fact, why it was put up.

But she and Zhen Zhen couldn’t ask any of this, and she was so panicked that she couldn’t even feel her own breath.

The two of them finished sealing the door and left.

Shizuku’s legs felt weak and she reached out and grabbed Zhen Zhen’s hand.

Zhen Zhen grabbed her hand to support her, speaking in a shaky voice: “Don’t …… don’t be nervous …… sure to be fine …… ”

It is impossible to say that it is not nervous, Ah Wen is nervous, Zhen Zhen is equally nervous.

It is easy to stand up straight, Wen did not go home, but followed Zhen Zhen into the yard of her house.

Sitting down, she held her breath in silence for several moments.

Finding a voice, Shizuku looked to Jen and asked, “You’ve been home all afternoon, nothing happened next door?”

Zhen Zhen didn’t go out in the house and didn’t hear any movement, so naturally she shook her head.

Zhong Minfen had gone off on a string and didn’t know either.

Flustered, all three stopped talking.

When Shui Huai Ming returned from work, Zhen Zhen hurriedly got up, pulled Shui Huai Ming to the side and asked, “Sister-in-law Li Shuang’s house was sealed off, what’s going on?”

Wen and Zhong Minfen also followed.

Servant Huai Ming looked at the three of them, his voice not avenue, “He Shuo is under quarantine review.”

Hearing this, Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen’s hearts plummeted down again.

Zhen Zhen tried to stabilize her breathing and asked again in a low voice, “Where is sister-in-law Li Shuang?”

Servant Huai Ming said, “She’s fine, she’s been placed in the row of bungalows in the northwest corner of the compound.”

Zhen Zhen and Ah Wen looked at each other, neither able to say anything.

Ah Wen suddenly heard Liu Zhi call out to her again and sniffled back, “Then I’ll go home first.”

After saying that, she called out to DouDouMiMi and XiaoMei and took the three dolls home.

Suddenly, even the simple task of eating and drinking became impossible to get down to.

Of course small children as old as Dan Sui were unaffected by all this and remained happy and cheeky.

Sitting at her writing desk in the evening, Jenny was unmotivated to do anything.

She lowered her head and buried her face in her hands, not making any noise, and remained motionless for a long time like a statue.

Sitting like this for a while, suddenly she remembered something, her face became unusually tense, and she hurriedly put down her hands and pulled open the drawer of the writing table, and took out all the newspapers and magazines that she had collected in it.

She then opened the newspapers and magazines, found her own article, and read it word by word.

Servant Huai Ming came in and caught sight of her flustered face and naturally asked her worriedly, “What’s wrong?”

Zhen Zhen’s heart was beating so hard that she directly shoved the newspaper into Servant Huai Ming’s hand and said in a fast tone, “You quickly come and help me look at it together, every word must be read to see if there are any problems with any of these articles I wrote before.”

As she spoke, she was still shoving newspapers and magazines into Shi Huai Ming’s hands.

Seeing Zhen Zhen like this, Shi Huai Ming put down the newspapers and magazines, raised his hand to hold Zhen Zhen’s shoulders, regardless of the fact that she was still shoving newspapers into his hands, and looked at her as if calling her name in a soothing manner, “Zhen Zhen! Zhen Zhen!”

Zhen Zhen was caught up in her nervousness and panic, and it took her a while to calm down.

She stared at Squire Huaeming for a moment, then buried her head into his arms, burying her entire face.

After burying her face for a while, she said with a slightly choked voice, “Third brother, I’m afraid …… I’m afraid ……”

Things have developed to such a today, the service Huai Ming nerves are also taut, he closed his eyes silent for a moment, and then gently patted Zhen Zhen’s back softly said: “Don’t be afraid of …… the sky collapsing down with me to carry it …… “