Chapter 35

"I want to help Mother work." Seeing Dazai said.

"Cold noodles are very simple, you don't need to help, go play." Lin Zhao's eyes and brows were full of smiles.

Seeing Dazai shook his head and insisted, "I won't go, I like working with Mother."

"... Fine." Lin Zhao rubbed his hair, "Are you thirsty? Do you want to drink milk powder, Mother will make it for you."

Milk powder is usually drunk by the twins, Seeing Dazai hadn't tasted it yet, and suddenly hesitation, entanglement, expectation, all kinds of emotions flashed across his face.

Understood.

"Wait, Mother will go make it for you, I'll pour it into the water bottle, you take it out and drink it with Hearing Erzai and Tie Chui." Lin Zhao took the milk powder from the room, mixed cold and hot water, made the milk powder, poured it into the green military water bottle, and handed it to Seeing Dazai.

"The temperature is just right, drink it early, I'll go lie down for a while, and cook in half an hour."

Seeing Dazai asked, "How long is half an hour?"

Lin Zhao remembered that the cubs' father sent a letter, and she hadn't told the cubs yet, so she said immediately, "Your father wrote a letter, remitted money, and sent two coupons. I plan to buy a bicycle and a watch in the next two days. When I have a watch, Mother will teach you how to tell time."

"Bicycle?" The little friend's eyes jumped with excitement, "Mother is going to buy a bicycle? Just like the one at Brigade Commander Uncle's house?!!"

"It's different, I plan to buy a lady's one, the kind without a beam in front, this kind is easy to ride." Lin Zhao explained warmly.

"Whatever Mother decides is fine." Seeing Dazai didn't understand what a lady's bicycle or a bicycle with a beam was; he felt that what Mother liked was the most important.

He stared at his mother's wrist, which was white and clean, and according to his grandma's words, it was whiter and more tender than tofu.

"Mother will definitely look good wearing a watch."

Mother in a dress also looks good; when he grows up, he wants to buy many, many dresses for Mother.

Seeing Dazai's eyes were shining.

Lin Zhao bent her fingers to scrape Seeing Dazai's nose tip, her smile warm, "Wait until I buy it back and wear it for you to see."

She was in a good mood and wanted to spend some money, so she asked Seeing Dazai what he wanted, "Is there anything you want?"

Seeing Dazai couldn't think of what he wanted for a while; he had food and drink, new clothes and shoes to wear, and lacked nothing.

He didn't speak for a long while, so Lin Zhao said, "Think about it slowly, anyway, I go to the county every day, and it's convenient to buy things."

"Mm!"

Outside the Gu family door.

Hearing Erzai and Tie Chui sat cross-legged on the stones eating buns, and passersby looked at them one after another, and even the adults were not lightly tempted.

The two little friends had become the most conspicuous existence.

Bangbang and the others from the old house couldn't help but run over.

"Hearing Erzai, did Third Aunt buy you meat buns again?!!!" The covetousness in Laimei's eyes couldn't be hidden.

"Mm-hmm." Hearing Erzai gnawed on the big meat bun, his little mouth oily, making Laimei, who was on the side, want to cry with envy. Hearing Erzai and the others' days are really good; morning egg custard, noon thick rice porridge that needs a spoon, afternoon meat buns brought back by Third Aunt from the state-run restaurant, woooo, he also wants to be Third Uncle and Third Aunt's child.

Hearing Erzai saw his brothers were really pitiful, hesitated for a moment, raised the half-eaten bun in his hand, turned his face away in pain, and said, "Brother Bangbang, Brother Laimei, you two take a bite each."

"Hearing Erzai, you really are my good brother." Bangbang didn't be polite, lowered his head and took half a bite, only barely tasting the meat flavor before stopping, "Brother will send you sweet fruits when I find them in the future!"

Laimei also took a small bite, sat next to Hearing Erzai and hugged his shoulder, "Hearing Erzai, if anyone bullies you in the future, tell Brother, Brother will take revenge for you!"

Seeing Hearing Erzai share with Brother Bangbang and Brother Laimei, Tie Chui also generously shared with his own brother.

Tie Dan was moved to tears, and took a big bite, biting off more than half.

"It's really fragrant!!" He chewed quickly.

Tie Chui lowered his head and found that the bun was missing more than half, and the little friend's eyes were sluggish.

After a while, he came back to his senses, rushed home, and complained to his mother, "Mother, my brother bit off half my bun woooo, I couldn't bear to eat it."

Tie Chui, who hadn't cried a few times since he was young, cried aggrievedly because his brother bit off half his bun.

Huang Xiulan was stunned, "Where did the bun come from?"

Tie Chui wiped his tears, his voice choked, "My Third Aunt gave it to me."

"Your Third Aunt is really generous to you." Huang Xiulan had long discovered that the third sister-in-law favored Tie Chui.

Looking at her little son's crying face, she laughed in her heart, but kept a straight face and said, "When your brother comes back, I'll lecture him, how can he even snatch his younger brother's bun, he's really an ignorant one."

At this time, Tie Dan ran in twistedly.

"Tie Chui..."

He called his younger brother.

Tie Chui was still angry, turned his back, and gave him an angry back.

While angry, he gnawed on the bun angrily, and gnawed it clean in a few bites.

In a short time, the five-year-old little friend's life experience +1, that is—good food must be stuffed into the stomach as soon as possible, otherwise it will be snatched!

Huang Xiulan watched her two sons arguing, but didn't persuade them, letting the brothers solve their own conflicts.

The meat bun almost caused the brothers to fight, Lin Zhao didn't know about this for the time being.

She summoned the lottery turntable and saw that multiple tasks in the task bar on the right had been completed.

【Congratulations on completing the work clock-in, gaining a precious life experience, and obtaining 100 points.】

【You mailed letters and packages to your husband, actively deepening the husband-wife relationship, how attentive you are, obtaining 200 points.】

【Wow! Bringing gifts to the children on the first day of work, and they are the meat buns the children like most, a super gentle move, obtaining 3 points.】

There are also some tasks not worth mentioning.

Current total points 393.

Suddenly rich, with so many points, Lin Zhao waved her hand and drew five times directly—

【Dried noodles × 5 bags】

【Cotton × 20 jin】

【Double-eared iron pot × 1】

【Green small satchel with five-pointed star (children's version) × 5】

【Labor cloth work pants (men's style) × 2 pairs】

【Malt extract × 1 can】

【Authentic local chicken eggs × 50】

【Soap × 2 pieces】

【Mercurochrome × 1 bottle】

【Cotton × 30 jin】

【Military green cotton cloth × 10 bolts】

【Soft gloves × 1 pair】

【Pagoda candy × 10】

【Farm local pork × 20 jin】

【Apple × 5 jin】

【Spicy sausage × 2】

【Yellow peach canned fruit × 2 bottles】

【Honey × 1 bottle】

【Braised beef noodles × 2 bags】

The above is all the prizes obtained after spending 50 points.

Some prizes are repeated, such as cotton, but it doesn't affect anything.

Think about it from another angle, things picked up for free, super worth it.

Tomorrow I have things to take to my uncle's house!

Lin Zhao put most of the things into the storage ring, locked some inconspicuous things in the cabinet, and hummed a song to cook.

It was very hot in the morning, the temperature was okay at this moment, but it was still stuffy, eating cold noodles would be very comfortable.

She had just finished preparing the noodles and was planning to cook them when Seeing Dazai ran home.

"Mother, the Brigade Commander is calling you! The thief who stole our bricks and tiles has been caught, hurry and go see."

Hearing this, Lin Zhao walked out of the kitchen quickly, "Who is it?"

"Chang Sheng's mother!" Seeing Dazai said angrily, and repeated again, "It's Chang Sheng's mother! Chang Sheng's mother is a thief, Chang Sheng is a bad guy, their whole family are not good things!"

"Seeing Dazai." Lin Zhao's gentle voice was dyed with some severity for the first time, her brows furrowed slightly, and she said disapprovingly, "You can't scold people randomly, Chang Sheng's mother is definitely wrong, but children can't scold people, others will think you have no upbringing, and will also think Mother and your father don't know how to teach children."

Seeing Dazai admitted his mistake immediately, his expression nervous, "I won't scold people anymore, Mother don't be angry."

"Mother is not angry, it's fine once you change." Lin Zhao took Seeing Dazai's hand and walked out, asking as she walked, "Where is the excitement you mentioned?"

"Over there at the big banyan tree." Seeing Dazai answered.

The mother and son hurried to the destination.

At this time, the Brigade Commander was lecturing Chang Sheng's mother in a tone of hating iron for not becoming steel, his voice loud, startling the birds on the tree to fly away with a "pu su su".

"What can you do by stealing those few bricks? Huh? What can you do?! You can't use them, and you make your Chang Sheng unable to lift his head in the village, you are really... you are really idle."

Chang Sheng's mother didn't expect that the matter would be exposed, and was full of regret.

"I didn't mean to, I was just angry, Lin Zhao and her few cubs not only made me dig manure, but also copy books, my hands were swollen from copying, I just wanted to teach her a lesson, to show that I'm not someone to be trifled with, I didn't mean to steal."

Chang Sheng was boycotted by the little friends, couldn't lift his head, didn't let his mother touch him, and lowered his head in sulk.

Chang Sheng's mother was heartbroken and regretted it too late.

Lin Zhao walked over, and the melon-eating crowd took the initiative to make way.

"Are you the one who stole my bricks and tiles?" She stopped in front of Chang Sheng's mother, her red lips slightly parted.

There was no expression on the face of the dead rival, but it still made Chang Sheng's mother unable to lift her head; her face looked ugly, and she turned her head away without looking at her.

"Quite arrogant." Lin Zhao's tone was light.

Chang Sheng's mother's eyes were full of anger, and she said loudly, "... What exactly do you want?"

Hey, the thief is so crazy!?

"Why are you so loud." Lin Zhao frowned, took half a step back with Seeing Dazai, to prevent her saliva from spraying on their faces, "What else can I want, pay money, stealing things and still being so arrogant, do you believe I'll report it to the public security."

The Brigade Commander was afraid she would really report it to the public security, so he hurriedly said, "Seeing Dazai's mother, don't report it to the public security. Making a big deal out of it will affect our brigade's evaluation as advanced, this won't do."

"So what?" Lin Zhao remained unmoved, with an arrogant appearance of not being forgiving, "To say something unpleasant, whether the brigade is evaluated as advanced or not has nothing to do with me, letting me suffer a loss... that's impossible."

"..." No, when have you ever suffered a loss!

The Brigade Commander knew Lin Zhao had a bad temper, and appeased her with a good attitude, "That's natural."

"Chang Sheng's mother, say less!" The Brigade Commander was speechless.

"Stealing things is wrong in the first place, have a better attitude, apologize when you should, pay when you should, don't harm the brigade. If the brigade loses its advanced title because of your matter, you will be the sinner of the whole brigade."

Concerning their own interests, the expressions of the people watching the excitement changed, and they persuaded Chang Sheng's mother one after another.

"Chang Sheng's mother, this matter is indeed your fault, just listen to Seeing Dazai's mother, whatever she says goes, hurry and finish the matter, this stalemate won't do, we all have things to do."

"Right, right, you stole the bricks and tiles, you should pay."

"That... evidence, it's the Gu family's bricks, they were all taken out by your Chang Sheng, you can't deny it, if Seeing Dazai's mother really reports it to the public security, you'll be the one suffering."

The more she heard these words, the more panicked Chang Sheng's mother became, and she glared at Lin Zhao angrily, "I'll pay you five mao, no, two mao..."

Lin Zhao raised her eyelids to look at her, that look full of mockery.

"Two mao? I'll give you two mao, go buy a few pieces and try."

Her expression turned cold, "If you are not sincerely apologizing and compensating, I won't waste this time, I'll report it to the public security."

Seeing Lin Zhao was serious, Chang Sheng's father hurriedly jumped out, glared at his wife fiercely, and gave Lin Zhao a smiling face, "Seeing Dazai's mother, we'll pay, we'll pay two yuan, is that enough? Don't report it to the public security, look at it for the sake of the brigade's face, don't report it to the public security."

Two yuan?

More than enough.

"Okay." Lin Zhao agreed.

She didn't care about tearing her face, but after all, she still had to live in the village, so she should be forgiving when she could.

Chang Sheng's mother scratched the man's face, her voice suddenly rose, becoming sharp, "Are you crazy? That's two yuan!!!"

"Then what do you say? Who told you to have itchy hands." The man shook off her arm, went home to take two yuan and gave it to Lin Zhao.

Chang Sheng's mother's eyes were about to split, wanting to snatch the money back, but was dragged back.

The couple fought for a while, making a scene until night.

For more than half a month, they became the protagonists of gossip in the village.

After this incident, Chang Sheng's mother, who always liked to gossip, didn't like to go out anymore.

Lin Zhao took her two sons home, and Hearing Erzai said angrily, "I won't play with Chang Sheng brother ever again!"

"We didn't play with him in the first place." Seeing Dazai corrected his younger brother's words; in the past, Chang Sheng always mocked them for having a father who didn't care and a mother who didn't love, so they didn't play with him.

"Not play for a lifetime!" Hearing Erzai was serious and held a grudge.

"Mm-hmm."

Lin Zhao was amused by the two cubs' conversation; five-and-a-half-year-old children talking about a lifetime was too fun.

Remembering that she hadn't seen the twins all day, she instructed Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai, "You two go to the old house to pick up Quiet San Zai and Si Zai, I'll go home to cook, and when you come back, the meal will be ready."

"Okay!"

Before the little brothers could go over, Gu Mu led the short, wobbling human cubs over, sent the children, and left after hiding her merit and fame.

The twins hadn't seen their mother all day, and when they saw Lin Zhao, they started howling, tears the size of beans falling from their eye sockets.

"Bad! Mother bad!" Si Zai hugged her mother's neck tightly, crying very loudly, her tender face pressed against Lin Zhao's neck, and water flowed down her mother's neck, and a milky crying sound rang out, "Mother... don't... take... treasure."

She accused her word by word.

Quiet San Zai howled while hugging her mother's leg.

Lin Zhao had a headache from the howling, so she hurriedly coaxed, "Fine, fine, Mother is bad, Mother is bad, hurry and stop crying, Mother will steam fragrant egg custard for you, put two drops of sesame oil, okay?"

Coaxing was useless, the two little milk balls were still crying.

They had been with their mother every day for the past few days, and had long developed the habit; today they didn't see their mother as soon as they woke up, and the two little milk balls were full of grievances.

"Mother will take candy for you to eat, sweet, do you want it?" Her own biological cubs, she still had to coax them.

Hearing Erzai leaned over and asked eagerly, "Mother, what candy are you giving Quiet San Zai and Si Zai? Is there a share for me and my brother?"

"You two help me coax your younger brother and sister well first." Lin Zhao said.

Hearing this, Hearing Erzai's eyes turned cleverly, took the twins' towels, and wiped their faces and noses one by one.

The twins were stunned and forgot to cry.

They had to brew emotions to cry again, and sure enough, they stopped crying.

Lin Zhao: "..." It really looked like acting.

Quiet San Zai raised his washed eyes and reminded her crisply, "Mother, candy."

"There's no lack of yours." Lin Zhao tapped Quiet San Zai's nose tip and went back to the room to take the candy.

The four cubs followed behind her.

Lin Zhao opened the cabinet, the compartment was full of food, milk powder, malt extract, shrimp crisp candy, rock candy, apples, watermelon, yellow peach canned fruit...

So much food!!

Looking at this food, Seeing Dazai and Hearing Erzai, who had never been full since they were young, were particularly satisfied, their eyes shining like stars.

"Mother, what is that?" Hearing Erzai stood on tiptoe, pointing to the yellow peach canned fruit, his saliva almost dripping to the ground.

"Yellow peach canned fruit, want to eat it?" Lin Zhao smiled.

"Mm-hmm-hmm." Hearing Erzai nodded his little head quickly.

"We're about to eat, eat it tomorrow. I'll put it on the table tomorrow morning, you get up and eat."

"Okay." Seeing Dazai said, "Can younger brother and sister eat it?"

Lin Zhao gave the candy to the four cubs, processed the twins', crushed it, and ensured the children wouldn't choke.

"No, they can eat it when they are older."

Hearing Erzai looked at his younger brother and sister sympathetically, happily eating the shrimp crisp candy.

Fortunately, he wasn't a one-year-old child, he rejoiced in his heart.