Chapter 358

"He will. My uncle is still nursing his injury and won't go to work every day. He only needs to go to the factory occasionally to provide guidance. He plans to study washing machines, and his arm hasn't healed well, so it's just right for you to be an assistant." Lin Zhao said.

She would beg her uncle, and it shouldn't be a big problem.

"Perform well. If you can really become my uncle's apprentice, you won't have to worry about work."

Gu Qingzhou's mind was full of the ecstasy of learning by Song Gong's side, and his eyes were bright.

"I will!" His volume was much higher than usual.

A gust of cold wind poured into his mouth, but it couldn't blow out the heat in his heart.

Lin Zhao smiled. It was rare to see Qingzhou so excited.

"I'll go talk to my uncle tomorrow first."

"Thank you, third sister-in-law!" Gu Qingzhou clenched his hands and said gratefully, "I will study hard."

"I believe you." Lin Zhao said.

Gu Qingzhou respected Lin Zhao, his third sister-in-law, very much. Hearing her words full of trust, he was very excited, thinking he must be a good assistant to Song Gong.

While talking, the bicycle arrived at the Harvest Brigade.

It was very cold today, and there weren't many people walking outside. Lin Zhao sent Gu Qingzhou to the old house and called Yubao and Hengbao.

The four cubs were in their grandparents' room. Yubao and Hengbao each held half a sweet potato, and Seeing Qian Bao and Yaobao held small milk bottles drinking milk. Hearing their mother's voice, they ran out of the door with a "deng deng deng."

Mother Gu grabbed a small scarf and chased after them, "Oh, little ancestors, the scarf, the scarf isn't worn. If the wind pours into your mouth, you'll cough cough cough."

She held the shoulders of the twins with small short legs, put on their scarves, and blocked their little faces tightly.

The two cubs saw that they were one step slower than their brother, their little brows wrinkled, they said thank you obediently and softly, and ran toward the door.

"Mom, Mom..." The one whose emotions were so outgoing was Yaobao.

Seeing Qian Bao held his sister's hand, paying attention to the ground to ensure that he and his sister wouldn't fall.

Lin Zhao looked at the twins holding milk bottles, her eyes full of gentle smiles.

"Are you drinking milk? There's still some left in the bottle. Hurry and drink it all, or it will be cold later."

The two cubs were stunned for a moment, put the milk bottle into their mouths, finished it with a "gudong gudong," shook their little hands lightly, and their little milk voices sounded, "It's gone."

"Very obedient, go home."

Lin Zhao walked toward home, and the four cubs followed obediently hand in hand.

"Mom, do you eat sweet potatoes? They are very hot. Mine is for you." Yubao looked up at Lin Zhao.

"You eat it yourself. I'll cook when I get home."

Hengbao heard this, ate the roasted sweet potato in his hand in big mouthfuls, his mouth didn't stop, and he asked vaguely, "Mom, you are so late today."

"You're even managing me." Lin Zhao squinted at him, explaining in a soft voice, "I went to your great-uncle's house and came back without much delay."

"My great-uncle is back?" Hengbao felt the roasted sweet potato in his hand wasn't fragrant anymore, and looked at his mother with resentful eyes, "And you didn't take us."

"One bicycle, four cubs, how can I take you?" Lin Zhao replied.

Thinking really beautifully.

Every time she took the children out, she had to worry 120 percent. It wasn't an exaggeration to say that she didn't even dare to blink, for fear that the children would be snatched away in front of her.

Lin Zhao's eyes flashed with complexity. It wasn't good to have too many children. Who could have thought she had only given birth to two pregnancies.

Hengbao's brain turned quickly, "Little uncle can take us."

"Your little uncle is going to learn skills. You want him to take the children? Thinking really beautifully." Lin Zhao's eyes were disapproving.

"Then... we can stay at the supply and marketing cooperative. Brother Ding will manage us." Hengbao said again.

He was talking about Ding Shun, the accountant of the supply and marketing cooperative, the male comrade who wanted to send a thank-you gift to Lin Zhao before the New Year last year but didn't catch up.

Ding Shun later sent it to Lin Zhao again. Lin Zhao had a deep impression of the old man who sold eggs who received her for the first time. His family conditions weren't very good, so she couldn't accept it, so she only accepted two eggs symbolically, let him take the others back, and gave a thank-you gift, which was a chicken cake bought from the supply and marketing cooperative, which older people could eat.

She was always soft-hearted to people who knew how to repay kindness.

Ding Shun declined, but couldn't push past Lin Zhao, so he had to take it back. Seeing the chicken cake, Old Man Ding had an indescribable feeling in his heart, only saying repeatedly, she was a good comrade, a kind-hearted female comrade, and said, Shunzi, you must remember Comrade Lin's help...

Ding Shun kept it deeply in his heart. Every time the four cubs of the Gu family came to the supply and marketing cooperative, he took the initiative to take them to play and share food brought from home with them.

Yubao and Hengbao were both children with very good personalities. Every time they thanked him sincerely and praised people, making people feel happy, which made Ding Shun like the four cubs of the Gu family very much.

Hearing Hengbao's words, Lin Zhao was speechless, "Comrade Ding works at the supply and marketing cooperative, not at the nursery. You think really beautifully!"

"I want to see great-uncle." Hengbao pouted.

"You want to get a slap." Lin Zhao scared him.

"... No, I don't want to get a slap." Hengbao emphasized seriously.

"If you don't want to get a slap, don't make trouble." Lin Zhao said, "It's freezing to death. You stay at home obediently."

She parked the bicycle, took out the key to open the door, pushed the bicycle into the yard, and couldn't help but complain, "Little guys who don't know they are blessed."

In the middle of winter, how comfortable it is to lie on the bed, just wanting to lie down all day.

"Mom doesn't want to go to work anymore?" Yubao noticed the inconspicuous envy in his mother's words and said.

"Yeah, I don't want to go to work anymore. It's too cold." It's all because she's too rich and has no pressure, so she has no motivation.

"Ah?" Yubao scratched his face and said seriously, "Then don't go. Stay at home, and Hengbao and I will pick herbs to support Mom."

Picking herbs was a new way they discovered to make money. Before it got cold, they earned a small piece!

"Forget it, there's nothing to do at home." Lin Zhao said. Having something to do makes time pass quickly.

"Okay." Yubao answered reluctantly.

Lin Zhao held her son's face, rubbed it a few times, and smiled, "Why do you look so reluctant?"

"I don't want Mom to be unhappy." Yubao said.

Lin Zhao covered her chest, her heart almost melted, "No, with you by my side, I will never be unhappy."

She couldn't help but hug Yubao and kissed her son's cold little face.

Suddenly, Yubao's face exploded red, instantly burning hot.

"Mom..." The child's voice was full of shyness.

Hengbao squeezed his brother, stood on tiptoe, pointed to his face, "I want a kiss too, Mom, you can't be biased."

Hearing his second brother say this, Seeing Qian Bao also walked over quietly, his little face had no expression, but he looked up at Lin Zhao obediently.

Yaobao was the only baby girl in the family, raised delicately, knew how to fight for favor, and squeezed into Lin Zhao's arms, using her little milk voice, softly acting like a spoiled child, "Want a kiss, want a kiss."

Lin Zhao lowered her head and kissed them one by one. It was milky and milky. One kiss and all illnesses were gone.

"Kiss, all kiss."

After kissing them one by one, she said to Yubao and Hengbao, "It's cold outside, take your younger brother and sister back to the room, and I'll call you when the meal is ready."

"Hengbao, you take your younger brother and sister, I'll go help Mom burn the fire." Yubao said with a small face.

Hengbao also wanted to help Mom burn the fire, but his brother grabbed it first. The expression on his face became reluctant, he sighed, and obediently took his younger brother and sister back to the room.

Next time, next time I must say it first!

Kitchen.

Yubao put dry straw into the stove, drew a match lightly, threw the flame in, saw the fire burning, put small dry wood inside, and then put big ones.

He was small, sitting on a small stool, his brows and eyes were serious. After lighting the fire, he looked at Lin Zhao, "Mom, it's done."

"My big cub is really capable." Lin Zhao praised gently. The child's face under the firelight slowly warmed up.

"Children in the village all know how to burn fire." He whispered.

"My family's cub burns the best." Lin Zhao's eyes were calm, soaked in the gentle moonlight.

Yubao's hands and feet were light. He liked being alone with Mom, and Mom would praise him.

"Mom, what else can I help you with?"

Lin Zhao was cutting cabbage, planning to make cabbage meat dumplings. Hearing Yubao's question, she answered in a soft voice, "Just watch the fire. There isn't much hot water in the thermos. It will be used tonight and tomorrow morning, so it must be filled."

"Okay." Yubao responded.

Put bigger firewood into the stove to make the fire burn more vigorously.

"Be careful with your hands." Lin Zhao reminded.

The small wound on her hand was scratched by firewood when she was burning fire before.

Since then, as long as she came to the kitchen, Yubao and Hengbao always had one to be with her, and no matter how she persuaded, it was useless.

"I know."

Yubao worked hard to stuff firewood, and the hot water was soon boiled.

Lin Zhao paid attention to this, and seeing the water boil, she said to Yubao, "Yubao, go get the hot water bag, warm the bed first."

Yubao got up, walked out of the kitchen, and came back with two hot water bags after a while.

It was that kind of very ordinary rubber hot water bag, simple red, not good-looking, but very warm, especially suitable for warming feet.

The cold water inside had been used up, and it was empty at this time.

Lin Zhao used a gourd ladle to hit hot water and poured it slowly into the hot water bag.

Yubao watched, not daring to breathe, for fear that the breathing would be too loud, startling Mom and making her hands shake, causing her to burn her hands.

Lin Zhao poured one, and Yubao breathed a sigh of relief, wiping the sweat on his forehead.

"Mom, pour slowly, be careful, don't burn your hands. It hurts a lot to burn your hands." Yubao said worriedly.

Lin Zhao only then knew why Yubao had a nervous look just now; it was because he was afraid she would burn herself.

She smiled until her eyes bent, "Don't worry, I've been pouring for many years, I won't burn myself."

There is no air conditioning now, and the countryside doesn't use coal, so heating can only rely on the kang and hot water bags. She pours every year. The first year she let the hot water flow out, but now she is at ease.

Yubao looked at her and whispered, "Mom said the same thing when she was burning fire, but she still scratched her hand."

Lin Zhao: "..."

"That was an accident. How can one not make mistakes in life?" She explained.

Yubao went in one ear and out the other. In short, he was not at ease and had to watch at all times.

Dad said that he was the eldest brother when he was away, and he had to take good care of Mom and his younger brother and sister.

Lin Zhao didn't know Yubao's thoughts, poured the hot water bag, brought it back to the room, stuffed it into the bed, and told Hengbao and the others not to play around before leaving.

Hengbao wasn't so reliable usually. If his brother wasn't by his side, he would be very trustworthy.

The weather was too cold. Lin Zhao was afraid the children would kick the quilt, so she called the cubs to sleep with her. The children were warm, like small stoves. She hugged them and wouldn't be frozen awake every night.

The four cubs were so happy that they even smiled in their dreams.

The next day, early in the morning, Lin Zhao rode her bike to the family quarters of the textile factory.

The Song family had just gotten up not long ago. Aunt Song was cooking breakfast in the public kitchen. Seeing Lin Zhao's figure, she said in surprise, "Zhaozhao, why did you come early in the morning? Have you eaten? Are you frozen? Hurry and come into the room. I'll pour you water, and you warm your body first."

Lin Zhao was dressed thickly. Inside, she was wearing cashmere obtained from the lottery, which was very warm. Her hands and feet were hot.

"Not cold..."

Aunt Song held her hand, felt her hand wasn't cold, and then believed she wasn't cold, "Your hand is quite hot."

She touched Lin Zhao's face, a bit cold, warmed it with hands that had just touched hot water, and pulled her into the room.

"Sit first, I'll go cook." She poured water for Lin Zhao and sent it to her hand, and then Aunt Song went out.

Lin Zhao rode her bike, which was indeed quite tiring, so she didn't refuse and leaned on the sofa to rest her feet.

Uncle Song came out of the room after hearing the sound. Seeing Zhaozhao taking off her coat, he frowned, "Don't be in a hurry to take off your coat. Be careful of catching a cold. The weather changes fast. Yuncheng has a bit of a stuffy nose."

Lin Zhao said softly, "I'm hot. I'm sweating."

"Pay attention." Uncle Song said.

Guessing that Zhaozhao must have something to do, he asked, "You came early in the morning, must have something important, right?"

"Deserving of being my uncle, you are really discerning and insightful." Lin Zhao opened her mouth and flattered.

This rainbow fart had no technique, only emotion. Uncle Song looked at this living treasure and couldn't help laughing.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Lin Zhao leaned closer and said with a smile, "I want to ask Uncle to lead someone."

When talking to people who were good to her, she never knew how to be polite.

Uncle Song said knowingly, "It's the Gu family's child, right?"

"Yes, Gu Chenghuai's little brother, high school graduate, a child with a very correct worldview, wants to learn mechanical maintenance. I asked Yuncheng to help lead him to get started. Yuncheng took him to Master Yan to learn for a period of time... Uncle's injury hasn't fully healed yet, so let him be your assistant, and you can teach him whatever you want." Lin Zhao blinked and looked at her uncle expectantly.

"If I want an assistant, there are plenty of people queuing at the door." Uncle Song deliberately held on and didn't show any expression.

"Uncle~~" Lin Zhao called with a wave in her voice.

Song Yuncheng came out, looked at this scene, and wanted to see how his father would refuse his sister.

Old Song was strict about accepting apprentices. He was afraid his sister would return disappointed.

Thinking of this, his mind began to think about how to coax his sister to come later.

His sister wasn't greedy for his stamp book, so he would give it to her.

"Uncle, best best uncle~~ Qingzhou is quite good. You lead him for a few days." Lin Zhao shook Uncle Song's intact arm, her voice as soft as it could be.

At this time, Aunt Song came in. She heard it at the door. Seeing her husband deliberately making things difficult for Zhaozhao, she smiled and exposed him, "Zhaozhao, don't coax him anymore. Your uncle already agreed long ago. He did it on purpose."

After learning from Yuncheng's mouth that the child Qingzhou was talented, he clearly had the idea of taking the person by his side, but he deliberately teased the child. It was really a bad taste.

Lin Zhao's eyes lit up, "Really?"

Yuncheng widened his eyes, "???" What's the situation? His dad already agreed long ago?!

Uncle Song rubbed Lin Zhao's head, his expression indulgent and doting, "Really. Lin Zhao Bao opened her mouth, how could I not agree."

Yuncheng showed an "oh yo oh yo" expression, having the illusion of being removed from the Song family's household registration.

Good good good, all hiding it from him (￣p￣)-