Chapter 086.
Li Shuang came in from outside and sat down, already looking a bit overwhelmed.
She looked like she didn’t know how to behave well, picked up the chopsticks and didn’t know what to clip, and said somewhat incoherently, “Eat …… eat …… hurry up and eat, finish eating and clean up a bit. ”
He Ziran did not say anything, lowered his head and violently ate a large mouthful of rice, stuffed mouth bulging.
See He Zi Ran so eat, He Zi Yan also learn from him, lowered his head and violently stuffed a big mouth.
***
Next to the square dining table, Dan Sui Dantong and Xing Yu are sitting next to each other.
Today is a rare day when Zhen Zhen cooks again, and the food is more plentiful, just smelling the aroma of the food will make their mouths water, so before all the food is served, they sat down at the table and stood guard.
Seeing that Serving Huai Ming had brought another dish up, it was a big bowl of pork belly soup.
Taking a deep breath of the aroma wafting in front of their noses, the three children gulped at the same time.
Dan Sui looked at Shi Huai Ming and asked, “Dad, when will my sister arrive?”
Zhong Minfen happened to come in after Shui Huaiming.
Hearing Dan Sui ask this question, she asked directly back, “What? Can’t wait for you to get hungry?”
Dan Sui, Dan Tong and Xing Yu nodded their heads together like three little chickens pecking at rice.
Just as they finished nodding together, they suddenly heard a voice from outside: “Third Auntie.”
Hearing the sound, the three children and Shui Huaoming Zhong Minfen stretched their heads together to look out, only to see Shui Danling carrying her duffel bag just entering the courtyard gate, while Zhen Zhen just came out of the kitchen.
It’s been a long time.
Zhen Zhen greeted Shui Danling with a smile, “Here we are, just in time, wash up and come eat.”
“Okay, Third Auntie.” Shi Danling smiled and nodded at Zhen Zhen.
Walking inside with Zhen Zhen, she greeted Zhong Minfen, Shui Huaoming, and her three cousins.
They were all family, so there was no need to be polite.
Zhong Minfen said, “Quickly go and put down your luggage, wash up and come eat.”
“Eh.” Servant Danling answered and hurriedly went upstairs.
After putting down her luggage in her room and washing up, she came down to the dining table and sat down to eat.
Seeing the bountiful dishes on the table, she first looked at Zhen Zhen and said with a smile, “Thank you Third Aunt for cooking these dishes.”
Zhen Zhen passes a pair of chopsticks into her hand and also says with a smile, “It’s good that you like it.”
Serving Dan Ling: “I like eating the dishes you made the most.”
Zhen Zhen smiled and said, “Then …… start!”
Hearing the word start, Dan Sui Dan Tong and Xing Yu couldn’t wait to extend their chopsticks to clip the food.
The adults naturally weren’t like their children, they chatted and talked, slowly eating the dishes on the table.
Serving Huai Ming asked Serving Dan Ling, “Also reporting to school tomorrow?”
Servant Danling nodded at him, swallowed the food in her mouth and said, “Uh, reporting for school tomorrow.”
Zhen Zhen looked at her again and said, “Then take a good half day at home today.”
Servant Danling nodded at Zhen Zhen again, “Okay, third aunt.”
Regarding the matter of resuming school, Shui Huaiming and Zhen Zhen did not ask or say more.
Zhong Minfen had the countryside on her mind and asked Shi Danling, “How is the family doing?”
Shi Danling looked at Zhong Minfen and said, “The family is fine, nothing special.”
Zhong Minfen was relieved, nodded and said, “That’s good, I’m not looking for anything else, I’m just looking for peace and quiet.”
After saying this, Zhong Minfen looked at Servant Danling and hesitated for a while, then asked her in a tentative tone, “Lingling, you’re coming back this time, resuming classes and going back to school, or are you going to join the revolution?”
Servant Danling looked at Zhong Minfen, then at Servant Huai Ming and Zhen Zhen.
Lowering her head, for a moment she said in a not-so-loud voice, “Grandma, I’m graduating in half a year, so I’m not going.”
As a university student, she had followed everyone in the revolution and participated in many powerful activities. Later, as the situation changed and she wasn’t a key person in the organization, the activities she could participate in became very limited, and she didn’t have much else to do at school, so she went home.
She stayed home for two years, and then came back when she learned that the school had resumed classes.
This time she came back and stayed in school for another half a year, and her college career would be over.
And when Zhong Minfen heard her say this, she subconsciously sighed in relief, then looked at her in a slightly relaxed tone and said, “It’s good if you don’t go, if there’s nothing else to do at school, you can come home.”
Servant Danling nodded at her and answered, “Okay, grandma.”
Seeing Shi Danling like this, Zhen Zhen also subconsciously sighed in relief.
She chucked a piece of meat into Servant Danling’s bowl and smiled at her when Servant Danling raised her head.
Servant Danling also returned her smile, uttering, “Thank you third aunt.”
***
Cooking for lunch took a short while.
After eating, Zhen Zhen and Servant Huai Ming immediately left for work.
Servant Danling sent them out the door and then came back to gather the dishes on the table to go brush them in the kitchen.
Zhong Minfen wanted to brush them with her, and she pressed Zhong Minfen back to sit on the bench.
Zhen Zhen went out and was accompanied by Ah Wen Liu Zhi.
When they got out of the alley, they separated again, and Zhen Zhen and Wen walked together.
After a few steps, Wen turned to Zhen Zhen and said: “I heard that the Revolutionary Committee allowed Shuang to visit He Shuo, this afternoon is the first visit, and will have a visit every month, you know?”
Zhen Zhen was busy with family matters at noon and didn’t know.
She shook her head at Shizuku, “I haven’t heard, is it true?”
Shizuku sounded slightly sure, “It should be true.”
Jen thinks for a moment and picks out the key points, “Then He Ziran’s play wasn’t in vain.”
Ah Wen nods and follows, “It is indeed thanks to He Zi Ran for making such a mess.”
Zhen Zhen can’t help but sigh, “What we adults can’t do, what we don’t dare to do, a child has done.”
Shizuku’s tone is equally emotional, “Yes.”
***
The visiting time set by the GRC for Li Shuang was three o’clock in the afternoon.
When the time hadn’t arrived after dinner, she had to wait at home.
He Zi Ran didn’t go out to hang out again after eating, and brought He Zi Yan to wait at home with Li Shuang.
While waiting, Li Shuang cleaned up the house a bit, and then gave He Zi Ran and He Zi Yan a slightly newer outfit to change into. They had played outside for half a day, and had long since lost their clean appearance.
When they were going to meet their father, they had to dress cleanly and spiritually.
After letting He Zi Ran and He Zi Yan change their clothes, Li Shuang himself also changed into clean clothes.
In this collective era, everyone wears almost the same clothes, the style is the most simple and rustic one, the color is either grey or blue and green, there is no good looking and personality to speak of.
But Li Shuang, still wanted to let He Shuo see his best appearance.
After changing her clothes, Li Shuang touched a very small mirror from the box.
The mirror was a small square bare lens that could only be placed in front of her face, illuminating most of her face.
She hadn’t looked in the mirror for a long time, and the moment she picked up the mirror and saw herself, she froze in the mirror for a while.
The woman in the mirror was completely unrecognizable from her former self.
Her face was full of signs of old age, as if she had experienced countless frosts and years, and even between her hair strands many white hairs were revealed, and those white hairs were sandwiched in between the black hairs, making them look particularly harsh.
She raised her hand to gently touch her face, then went back to organizing her hair.
She searched for white hairs in her hair, plucking those white hairs off one by one and placing them all on the box.
Within a few moments, a shimmering mass of white had accumulated on the box.
The white hair behind her could not be seen by herself, so Li Shuang called He Ziran again.
He Ziran stood behind her, reached out and raked at her hair, and said out loud, “It’s a bit much, do you want to pull them all out?”
Li Shuang didn’t hesitate to say, “Well, pluck them all for me.”
He Zi Ran didn’t say anything else and stood behind Li Shuang earnestly plucking her hair.
He Ziyan had nothing to do and came over to stand by the box, reaching out to count the gray hairs.
Li Shuang watched him count.
When he counted to forty or fifty, she opened her mouth and asked, “Has mom aged a lot in the past two years?”
Upon hearing this, He Ziyan turned his head to look at Li Shuang.
He scrutinized Li Shuang for a moment, then nodded at her.
Li Shuang looks at He Ziyan and takes a deep breath, saying in a shallow voice, “It’s good that you guys can grow up safely.”
***
He Zi Ran finishes plucking Li Shuang’s gray hair just about the right time.
Li Shuang takes He Zi Ran and He Zi Yan to organize themselves and head to the leather committee.
When they arrived at the Revolutionary Committee, they found Director Xia.
Director Xia first gave them a routine lecture and gave them an ideological and political lesson.
After the lecture, he took Li Shuang and the two children to the isolation area and said to Li Shuang, “Go on, room number three.”
Li Shuang was nervous when he entered the Revolutionary Committee.
Now when she arrived at the isolation area, she was even more nervous.
Of course, apart from nervousness, there were many other emotions, twisted together in an extremely complicated manner, and she couldn’t sort them out for a while.
She led He Ziran and He Ziyan to the door of room number three.
Pressing down her fierce heartbeat, she walked in, and the moment she met He Shuo’s gaze, both of them froze without moving.
There were millions of emotions mixed together in their hearts that rolled upwards, but neither of them showed it directly on their faces.
They hadn’t learned anything else in the past few years, and what they had learned the most was to hide and hold back.
He Ziran and He Ziyan naturally didn’t have any burdens or concerns.
Seeing He Shuo, they called out in unison to their father and rushed directly to He Shuo.
He Shuo stretched out his hand to embrace one in each hand, looked around and said with a smile, “They’ve all grown up quite a bit.”
He Ziyan tilted his head and looked at He Shuo and asked, “Dad, are you doing well here?”
He Shuo smiled again and said, “Pretty good, there’s food and drink and everything.”
The two children didn’t know if they could see it or not, but Li Shuang could see it anyway.
The smile on He Shuo’s face was fake, and the words in his mouth were also fake.
Hitting the eyes, he looked even older than her.
He Shuo said a few words to He Ziran He Ziyan, then looked at Li Shuang and said, “Why don’t you come in?”
Li Shuang tried to loosen her expression and went inside, sitting down at the table.
She didn’t ask him if he’d been doing well all these years, nor did she ask him how he got through each day, she tried to relax her tone and said to him, “School has resumed, and tomorrow Zi Ran and Zi Yan will be reporting to school.”
He Shuo followed suit and simply said, “Then go to school.”
As a result, He Ziran opened his mouth with the same sentence, “I don’t want to go.”
He Shuo looked at him, “Why?”
He Ziran said, “It doesn’t mean anything, anyway, I just don’t want to go.”
He Shuo thought in his heart, “It’s because he, as a father, dragged He Ziran and He Ziyan down, letting them suffer from other people’s stares and discrimination outside, that’s why He Ziran doesn’t want to go to school.
Thinking like this in his heart, his mouth couldn’t say anything.
Li Shuang opened her mouth and said, “Then what are you talking about that’s interesting? Is it interesting for you to go out all day and be a hooligan?”
He Ziran lowered his head and picked his fingers without speaking.
No one spoke, and the room was quiet for a moment.
He Shuo lowered his eyebrows and spoke out, “Zi Ran, dad is not at home and can’t take care of the family, as the oldest man in the family, you are the backbone of the family ……”
Saying that, he lifted his gaze to look at He Zi Ran, “Listen to mom, go to school properly, bring your younger brother, don’t let mom worry so much ……”
He Ziran looked at He Shuo’s eyes and saw very deep exhaustion and vicissitudes in his eyes.
He in the end did not be stubborn anymore, and for a good moment nodded his head and responded, “Well, good.”
***
Half an hour was really not that long, Li Shuang felt like she didn’t even say a few words to He Shuo before the time was up.
She brought He Ziran and He Ziyan to leave the isolation area, and went to say thank you to Director Xia again.
Leaving the GRC, Li Shuang fell completely silent.
Halfway there, she told He Ziran and He Ziyan to go home first, saying that she had to go to the restroom.
After separating from He Ziran He Ziyan, she headed in the direction of the restroom.
But she didn’t really go to the toilet, instead, she found a deserted place on the way, hid in a corner where no one could see her, clutched her handkerchief and buried her head, muffled her voice and cried hard.