Chapter 127

Hengbao was thinking about going ice skating, rubbing his hands excitedly, his eyes bright, overflowing with thick interest, and asked: "When are we going ice skating?"

"You're so impatient, ask your Mom and Dad, when they say we're leaving, we'll leave," Song Yunjin laughed.

Hengbao looked at Lin Zhao; he knew Dad listened to Mom. Yubao was also very curious about the ice skating sport Uncle mentioned, looking with eager eyes.

"No rush," Lin Zhao drank tea unhurriedly.

The twins should be sleepy; go after they fall asleep, play for an hour and come back, just right.

Yubao and Hengbao were a bit disappointed, but didn't urge, sat on the sofa eating mung bean cakes, listening to the adults talk, leisurely and carefree.

After a while, they whispered to each other again.

"Brother, what do you think of the city?"

Yubao thought about it, his face serious. "The city is very convenient, the toilet doesn't stink, there are electric lights in the house, it's convenient to eat ice cream... it's very good."

Hengbao agreed very much, whispering: "Mm, except there's no courtyard, the house is small, no other problems."

Uncle Song sat next to him and heard it clearly. He looked around the house; he didn't feel the house was small before, but now he felt it.

He reached out and rubbed Hengbao's head.

"It is a bit small. But the houses distributed in the city are all this size, our house is considered big."

Hengbao blinked. "Distributed houses?"

Yubao was also a bit shocked, his mouth opening into a vertical 'O'. "The city also distributes houses?!"

"Great-Uncle, our household registration is also in the city, why don't they distribute houses to us?" Hengbao asked the question loudly, and secretly thought in his heart, was his family's house snatched away by someone? His little expression was vigilant.

Uncle Song saw his thoughts and couldn't stop laughing in his heart. "The prerequisite for distributing houses is having a job, and distributing houses also requires queuing. Some people queue for several years and still can't get a house. There are many people and few houses," he explained patiently.

The factory made a fuss every year because of house distribution; the water inside was deep.

"Oh, need a job." Yubao understood. "My Mom has a job, then can my Mom get a house?"

"Yes, but house distribution also depends on seniority. Seniority is the length of time working, and the length of time working is the time your mother has been working. Those with longer working time are ranked in front," Uncle Song explained patiently.

Song Yuncheng and Song Yunjin sat on small stools, thinking, his dad really had patience for the four cubs.

Yubao supported his hands, his face deformed by squeezing, his tone full of worry. "My Mom's working time is short, she must be ranked last."

"It's fine." Lin Zhao's voice was tinged with a smile. "The distributed houses have small areas, some aren't even ventilated, and the toilets and kitchens are public, which is especially inconvenient. Our family has a house, don't stare at the distributed houses."

Yubao thought his mother was talking about the brigade's courtyard, his smile bright. "Right, our family's house is especially big, and there's a courtyard, and we can grow vegetables."

He remembered one thing, his expression expectant. "Mom, when our house is built, can we raise a chicken?"

Raising chickens can lay eggs, and we can eat meat.

Lin Zhao disliked the smell and didn't really want to raise one. Facing the cubs' bright eyes, she retreated: "Raising is fine, but you have to feed the chicken, you shovel the chicken poop, you can't make the house stinky."

"I can!" Yubao puffed out his chest, very happy.

Hengbao shouted: "I will help Brother!"

"Okay, then raise it," Lin Zhao said.

Raised a dog, said before wanting to raise a tabby cat, now want to raise a chicken, what else will they want to raise in the future?

"The house I just mentioned isn't the brigade's house, it's the house in the county," Lin Zhao steered the topic back, telling the cubs they had a courtyard in the county.

The twins' eyes widened.

Their expressions were full of disbelief.

"Our family has a house in the county?" Hengbao's little voice almost flew out the window.

Yubao couldn't be calm either, excited. "Where is it? Can we go see it?"

"Yes." Lin Zhao smiled at the two cubs, answered Hengbao's question first, and then answered Yubao's. "On East Street, it's messy there now. If you want to see it, it's fine. After we come back from the skating rink, I'll take you there."

"I'll go, I'll go!" The twins said in unison.

While talking, Seeing Qian Bao and Yaobao were curled up in the corner of the sofa, heads leaning against each other, asleep, the empty milk bottle still held in their chubby hands.

Gu Chenghuai lightened his movements to take away the milk bottle. Seeing Yaobao move her mouth, he patted his daughter's back, coaxing her gently.

In a few seconds, the little one slept more soundly.

Song's Aunt lowered her voice. "Zhaozhao, send the children to the room, I just changed the sheets, it's comfortable to sleep on the bed."

She wanted to hold the little cub, but was afraid of waking the two little ones, so she didn't dare to hold them.

Lin Zhao picked up Yaobao and put her in Aunt's arms. "These two sleep soundly, they won't be woken up."

While talking, she picked up Seeing Qian Bao and was about to ask which room to send him to when Song Yunjin took the initiative to say: "Sister, send them to our room, send them to our room."

The joy of pressing his voice could be clearly transmitted to Lin Zhao's ears.

Milky, milky little cuties, sleeping on his bed for a nap, his bed could be stained with a milky fragrance.

Lin Zhao nodded very politely. "Lead the way."

"Okay!" Song Yunjin rushed forward and opened his room door.

The Song house layout was good, both rooms had windows, the area was okay, not that cramped. At this time, the windows were open, and the sunlight shone on the bed, adding a few soft colors to the whole room.

"Quite clean, doesn't look like your room."

Song's Aunt laughed, it was just cleaned.

She didn't expose it, leaving face for the two boys.

Song Yunjin was very proud, but his voice was pressed. "Must be, knowing you were coming, the house was cleaned inside and out, even the hallway was washed with water, and that toilet, it's very clean, my mom even smoked it with incense."

Every floor of the family building had a public toilet. Every household took turns cleaning the public toilet. Since everyone used it, everyone cleaned it very diligently.

"Even specifically cleaned it," Lin Zhao replied softly.

She put Seeing Qian Bao on the bed, took off his tiger-head shoes, pulled the small blanket to cover his and his sister's little bellies, and walked out of the room with Aunt.

"Uncle, Aunt, if Seeing Qian Bao and Yaobao wake up, please help take care of them for a while, Chenghuai and I will take the twins out to play."

Song's Aunt smiled. "Go, have fun, your Uncle and I will take care of them."

Uncle Song waved his hand. "Watch Yubao and Hengbao, don't let them get hurt."

Yubao's little heart was warm, smiling sweeter than honey. "Great-Uncle, Hengbao and I will be careful, we won't fall."

"Know you two are well-behaved." Uncle Song rubbed his hair, his eyes indulgent.

Song Yunjin couldn't wait, knocked on the door to urge. "Are you going or not, hurry up."

Lin Zhao held the twins and walked out, Gu Chenghuai followed with the camera.

To the hallway, Song Yunjin saw the black bag in Gu Chenghuai's hand, his eyes lit up, excitedly saying: "Brother-in-law, is that a camera in your hand?"

Gu Chenghuai nodded.

Thinking Song Yunjin wanted to take a few photos, "I'll teach you how to use it in a while."

But didn't expect Song Yunjin to blurt out: "Brother-in-law, can I touch the camera?"

Gu Chenghuai understood his wife; she was very close to the Song brothers and treated them as her own younger brothers. If Zhaozhao was holding the camera, let alone letting Yunjin touch it, even if she gave it to him... she wouldn't be reluctant.

"Touch it." He handed the camera over.

Lin Zhao smiled at Gu Chenghuai.

Song Yunjin took the small black bag, looked left and right, his eyes full of excitement.

"Really good, I'm also a person who has touched a camera!"

"Show-off!" Lin Zhao disliked it in her mouth, but her words turned, saying: "Take it out and look."

"Can I?" Song Yuncheng asked, but the moment he asked, his hand was already touching the zipper of the black bag. His fingers exerted force, the zipper opened, and he took out the brand-new black camera, like holding a treasure.

Lin Zhao didn't look.

So was that 'can I' just being polite?

Song Yunjin really has it!

"Wait until we get to the skating rink, let your brother-in-law teach you how to use it!" Lin Zhao spoke.

Their family of four just happened to lack someone to take pictures.

Song Yunjin jumped up and down excitedly. "Okay, Sister, wait until I learn, I'll take group photos for you."

Lin Zhao said impolitely: "Of course you have to take them, you must learn well, take good-looking ones."

Song Yunjin's mouth wasn't usually sweet. "You and Brother-in-law look good, Yubao and Hengbao inherited your strengths, how could the photos taken be ugly."

Thinking of the film his sister asked him to send to the photo studio, he asked one more question: "Sister, did you take the photos?"

"The first batch was taken, the second batch said it would be ready today, we'll take them on the way after playing," Lin Zhao said.

"Great!"

While talking, the group arrived at the skating rink.

Song Yuncheng rented a few pairs of roller skates, led the way with Song Yunjin, and entered the stadium.

"Haven't been here for a few years, the changes here are quite big," Lin Zhao looked around, feeling a bit emotional.

She came here for the first time after watching the 'Ice Sisters' movie filmed in 1959. During that time, she and Yuncheng and Yunjin were crazy about roller skating, spending all their New Year's money just to sneak here to play.

It's a pity.

At the latest next year, this place will definitely be closed.

However...

Being able to come and play one more time before it closes, Lin Zhao was very satisfied.

Song Yuncheng looked around, and seeing no one, said: "It used to be more lively than it is now, and there were people selling soda and sugar figures. After it was closed a few days ago, nothing was left, all scared out of their wits. Let's not care about these, play one more time while we can, so we don't have the chance to play when it's completely closed one day!"

Really, he didn't understand, leaving such a place for everyone to relax when they were free, what's wrong with that? How is this extravagant!

Closing this place, even dating has one less place to go.

Lin Zhao shook her head, her expression serious. "Don't talk about this, don't talk about these in public in the future."

She remembered, in the original book, because Yuncheng couldn't keep his mouth shut, he was backstabbed by someone close to him, and his job as a technician that had just been regularized was lost!

Gu Chenghuai's expression was cold, serious. "Listen to your sister."

Song Yuncheng wanted to say was it necessary, but meeting his sister and brother-in-law's serious and unrefusable gaze, his heart jumped heavily.

"Okay." He truly kept these words in his heart. "I'll remember."

"Remember it," Lin Zhao said.

Yubao and Hengbao were here for the first time, seeing quite a few people sliding quickly, their eyes couldn't be taken back.

"Brother, look, they are so fast." Hengbao pulled Yubao's hand, pointing at the people in the rink, his tone excited.

"They have little wheels on their feet, of course they're fast," Song Yunjin said. "Your mother is very good at ice skating. When she skated before, many people surrounded her to watch, she was very popular."

Also attracted the attention of some bad boys. His dad took them to teach those people a lesson, killing the chicken to warn the monkey, so his sister wouldn't be pestered.

"Wow!" Yubao looked at Lin Zhao worshipfully. "Mom, can you teach me?"

"I want Mom to teach me too!" Hengbao shouted.

Lin Zhao and Gu Chenghuai changed shoes for the twins.

She smiled and agreed. "Okay. Don't stand up yet, be careful of falling, wait for me to change shoes and hold you."

The twins nodded obediently.

The two brothers couldn't help but lift their feet, looking at the strange shoes, very curious.

Lin Zhao changed shoes, held Gu Chenghuai's arm to stand up, slid on the spot, and after getting familiar, let go of her hand, kicked her feet, and her body slid out several meters backward.

Seeing this scene, Yubao and Hengbao clapped hard.

"Mom is so amazing!!" The little voices were full of pride and joy.

Lin Zhao smiled, turned a corner, slid back, and reached out to the two cubs. "Come, I'll teach you."

Seeing Gu Chenghuai wanted to speak, she said: "I'll teach the cubs, you take pictures for us."

Gu Chenghuai smiled helplessly, took half a step back, took out the camera, stood not far away to capture the scene, and took pictures of his wife and children at any time.

Looking closely, one could find his position was wonderful, no matter what, he could protect Lin Zhao and the two children in the first time.

Yubao and Hengbao trusted their mother unconditionally, stretched out their hands, and grabbed Lin Zhao's arms.

As soon as their feet touched the ground, the shoes slid and slid, not under their control at all. Their bodies leaned forward, grabbing their mother's arms in a panic, wanting to stabilize their little bodies, but the more anxious they were, the more they wanted to fall forward.

"Mom, I'm going to fall." Hengbao shouted urgently.

Beside them, a 'ka cha' sound.

Gu Chenghuai recorded the scene of his son making a fool of himself.

Hengbao hung on Lin Zhao's arm, looking at his father in disbelief. "Dad!" His voice almost split, ashamed and wanting to scratch someone.

"Dad, I'm not ready yet!" He emphasized, his appearance angry.

Lin Zhao helped the twins up, let the little brothers stand well, and said softly: "Hengbao, you can't be fierce to Dad. Dad must have... taken the picture because Hengbao's clumsy way of learning to skate was cute."

"Mom also thinks it's cute."

Hengbao was coaxed well instantly, his fair and tender face showing a smile, apologizing to Gu Chenghuai. "Sorry Dad, I shouldn't have been loud."

After apologizing, he requested: "Dad, can you take pictures of me looking better? I want..."

The child thought for a moment and said: "I want the kind that looks very powerful."

Gu Chenghuai: "..." Too difficult!

He couldn't say soft words to coax the child, his cold brows twisted into a ball.

Lin Zhao smiled. "In Mom and Dad's hearts, our own cubs are powerful no matter what."

Hengbao was fooled by his mother, giggled. "Okay, then... Dad, you take them as you see fit!"

Gu Chenghuai raised his hand to pinch his brows.

Is the little guy too easy to fool?

Still have to send them to school early!

Lin Zhao took two cubs alone, Song Yuncheng changed shoes and followed, helping his sister teach Yubao and Hengbao how to skate.

The two children experienced roller skating for the first time and were very happy, their faces laughing until they were sore.

"Hahaha, so fun!" Hengbao was very bold. After adapting to the shoes on his feet, the whole person was like a wild horse that had broken its reins.

"Sister, Hengbao is really like you!" Song Yuncheng praised.

His sister wasn't afraid when she came to skate for the first time, and she was stable after falling twice!

Hengbao's smile was bright.

Lin Zhao didn't forget the eldest cub. "Yubao is also great."

Yubao's eyes were full of light.

Beside them, Song Yunjin learned to take pictures from Gu Chenghuai. After barely learning, he took the camera and followed the sliding Lin Zhao, taking pictures 'ka cha ka cha'.