Chapter 77: Vinegar

The young doctor looked at him in surprise, as if looking at some freak.

"You are still so young..."

Why think of something so stupid.

Gu Chenghuai interrupted him, "I am the father of four children."

"..." Asked too much!

The young doctor even wanted to slap himself, noticing the soldier comrade's gaze, he put his hand down.

He cleared his throat and answered Gu Chenghuai's question.

"Male comrade sterilization is a small surgery to cut the vas deferens, so there will be no more fertility. The surgery is simple, recovery is fast, and it doesn't affect... um, other functions."

"Our hospital doesn't have this technology, can't do it, suggest going to a big city to do it." The doctor sincerely made a suggestion.

Gu Chenghuai listened carefully, feeling this was more reliable than that IUD thing, his expression remained calm, but a trace of thought flashed in the depths of his eyes.

"Thank you."

After thanking him, he left the room, then went to the pharmacy.

At noon, it was still Song Yunjin who came to the supply and marketing cooperative to deliver food.

When he came, his walking posture was slightly awkward, not as casual and free as yesterday, revealing a stiffness.

"Got beaten?" Lin Zhao's eyes swept over the little cousin's butt, her expression curious.

Song Yunjin put the lunch box on the counter, feeling his sister's gaze was as substantial as reality, wanting to reach out to block his butt, but he endured it.

The teenager shouted resentfully: "Sister!"

Lin Zhao withdrew her gaze and sat down to eat. "Are you okay?"

"Not okay." Song Yunjin bared his teeth, complaining to his sister, "Sister, my father's hand is really painful."

His butt was swollen from being slapped, *wu wu*!

"You were looking for death again, right?" Lin Zhao's gaze had the clarity of seeing through everything. "How did you provoke Uncle?!"

Song Yunjin raised his hand to touch the tip of his nose, his eyes shifting. "Nothing, just yesterday, snatched the errand of delivering food to you, Sister."

"Ah? Was Uncle supposed to deliver food to me? Isn't he very busy?" If she hadn't known Uncle Song was busy spinning around, she would have gone to the door in the morning after work.

"He is busy." Song Yunjin was even more guilty, and didn't dare to lie to his sister, saying: "... Yesterday noon, he finally squeezed out some time."

He snatched it!

Lin Zhao gave him an indescribable look. "This... you deserve it!"

"Sister, you have no conscience!" Song Yunjin shouted in a low voice, yelling.

"Sister, I was delivering food to you, how can you say that about me? There are four cubs, am I no longer your favorite little cousin! You don't miss me at all, am I still your brother!"

The middle-school teenager sometimes turned into a chatterbox, very normal.

"..."

Lin Zhao turned her back silently, not looking at him.

But if he didn't look fresh, this appearance could be described as spicy to the eyes.

Song Yunjin quieted down, and the sister felt a bit distressed. Lin Zhao's hand touched her bag, took out two candies, and stretched her arm backward.

"Chocolate?" Song Yunjin's eyes suddenly lit up, like two small torches, shining brightly. "Sister, where did you get chocolate? My father said only the Friendship Store has it, and it's very hard to buy."

He had only tasted it once, sharing it with his brother, and liked it quite a bit.

"Talk too much." Lin Zhao pretended to be impatient.

Song Yunjin closed his mouth sensibly.

"Your brother-in-law came back yesterday, I'll bring him when I go to your house on Sunday, you go back and tell Uncle and Aunt." Lin Zhao swallowed the food in her mouth and exhorted her little cousin.

She hadn't been to the Song family much in these years, Uncle Song hadn't seen Gu Chenghuai a few times, and had an average impression of him, so she had to pull up the impression points when going on the weekend.

"What?" Song Yunjin stood up with a *ceng*, his eyes wide, as if it were incredible. "He came back?!"

Lin Zhao narrowed her eyes, her expression threatening. "He?"

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law is fine." Song Yunjin instantly became obedient like a quail, couldn't help but mutter aggrievedly: "Sister, you value sex over brother!"

Lin Zhao shrugged, not denying it. "Right, I value sex over brother. Gu Chenghuai gives me money to spend, buys me dresses, hats, little leather shoes, why wouldn't I value him."

The words fell.

She stood up, opened her hands slightly, turned around in place, and showed off: "Look at this dress of mine, your brother-in-law brought it specifically for me from Haicheng, is it good-looking?"

Song Yunjin couldn't say it wasn't good-looking, because his sister really looked good in it, good enough that there were no flaws, better-looking than the actresses in the movies.

"... Good-looking."

He was a bit unconvinced. "Sister, you look good, you look good even wearing a sack."

Sister-con Song Xiao Jin didn't like Gu Chenghuai.

When his sister got married, he was only ten years old, cried for two days, his eyes swollen like light bulbs, hating the person who snatched his sister to death in his heart.

Thinking of it now, he was still angry.

And!

In the teenager's heart, the reason his sister and his family became distant in these years was also because of the marriage, and he was angry and annoyed at the Gu family.

"I won't wear a sack, I have a good new dress and I won't wear it, I'll go wear a sack? I'm not stupid." Lin Zhao sat down again, eating slowly.

She wouldn't suffer!

Life is very short, she wants to live brilliantly, live like a flower blooming.

Song Yunjin's shoulders slumped. "I didn't force you to wear a sack, I mean..."

Okay, he didn't know what he meant either, just used to going against his brother-in-law.

*Cough*, of course, it was muttering behind his back.

The teenager who hadn't graduated yet, in front of a real man, was like a star compared to a galaxy, not daring to be presumptuous.

"I know what you mean, it's just that you can't bear to part with me, but I'm a girl, I'll get married sooner or later, marrying into the Gu family is considered good, not suffering, still the eldest in the family, very comfortable." Lin Zhao comforted her brother, telling him not to care anymore.

Song Yunjin straightened his face and said righteously: "Sister, you are the eldest in our family, you must be the eldest after marrying out, you must not suffer, otherwise why get married! To have him not at home all year round, to have him look fierce?"

He highly recognized his sister's supreme status in the Lin and Song families.

Getting married shouldn't be worse than not getting married, otherwise why get married!

Idle?

"Your brother-in-law is good! You haven't seen him a few times and you talk about people, still talking about an active soldier, is it polite?" Lin Zhao shook her head and flicked his forehead.

The hand slipped and failed.

Not even a sound.

She withdrew her hand calmly and concluded: "This is too presumptuous!"

Song Yunjin hissed exaggeratedly, stiffening his neck, still unconvinced, muttering, "It's not that I don't want to see him a few more times, but I have to have the opportunity."

"..." You are picking bones in an egg.

After Lin Zhao finished eating, Song Yunjin tidied up the lunch box neatly, wrapped it around his wrist, and was about to leave.

"Song Xiao Jin."

Before Lin Zhao could speak, Song Yunjin waved his hand. "Know it, know it, I'll go back and tell my father, I guarantee to be well-prepared, not to make brother-in-law uncomfortable."

The two words "brother-in-law" were bitten very hard.

"Thank you, Song Xiao Jin, you are the most reliable!" Lin Zhao praised casually, stuffing a can of meat into him. "Treat yourself."

The clever teenager was instantly coaxed into a silly roe deer, his mouth grinning, hugging the can and going home.

Li Fen sighed. "You and your cousin have a really good relationship."

It was the first time she saw a niece so close to her uncle's family.

"My uncle only has two sons, treating me as his own daughter, treating me especially well since I was little, I came to the city to live every ten days or half a month when I was little." Lin Zhao's expression was soft, her voice slow.

"There are few such uncles." Li Fen's expression was complicated.

Life wasn't easy, their own family lacked food and clothing, which uncle didn't guard against their nephews and nieces, some were even worse, wishing they could peel a layer of skin back, like Lin Zhao's uncle's family...

Few.

One in a million.

At least she hadn't seen it.

"Does your uncle have other nieces?" Idle is idle, Li Fen chatted with Lin Zhao.

Wang Ju also moved her stool, ears standing very high.

"Yes, quite a few." Lin Zhao said.

Her mother had sisters, she had aunts.

Li Fen curiously asked: "How does your uncle treat them?"

"Also good." Not inviting them to live in the city, meeting usually gives food... that kind of ordinary good.

Among all the nieces, Uncle liked her the most.

She even asked for the reason, Uncle said, liking is liking, what reason is there.

Bias, no reason.

However, Lin Zhao felt, it must be that she was jade-snow cute when she was little, loved by everyone, Uncle just happened to have only two naughty boys, and then treated her as his own daughter.

Lin Zhao didn't say much about these, lest others didn't know the full picture and speculated wildly about Uncle's character in their hearts.

"Zhao Zhao, I've never seen a girl with a better life than you!" Li Fen expressed her envy straightforwardly.

She didn't have any heart, saying whatever she had.

Lin Zhao smiled.

She also felt she had a good life.

"Sister Fen isn't bad either, children are healthy, the one in charge is capable, you can earn money yourself, your waist is straight. And Wang Ju too, family background is so good, still a technical secondary school student, and has a good job..." Lin Zhao felt everyone didn't need to belittle themselves.

It was like saying it casually, but it was sincere.

A few words made both of them smile.

"Yes, not bad." Li Fen laughed and leaned, gently bumping into Lin Zhao's shoulder.

The supply and marketing cooperative was only busy in the morning, and after eating at noon, there were fewer things, just waiting to get off work.

Ten minutes before getting off work, Lin Zhao slipped to the toilet as usual.

Squatting in the pit, her heart moved slightly, calling out the lottery wheel.

Glancing at the points.

435 points, quite abundant.

Draw a 10-point one first.

The wheel stopped slowly, appearing a few words—

Fun Gift Pack.

【Tin Frog × 2】

【Tin Car × 1】

【Chinese Chess × 1 set】

【Black Jump Rope × 1】

【Marbles × 10】

【Feather Shuttlecock × 2】

【Wooden Spinning Top × 2】

【Bamboo Dragonfly × 10】

For what she drew today, Lin Zhao was very satisfied.

Gu Chenghuai neglected the third cub a bit, in terms of bringing gifts.

She wanted to make up for something for her youngest son, originally planned to buy, but seeing the limited choices in the supply and marketing cooperative, she planned to draw a lottery.

Didn't expect the luck to be good.

Lin Zhao washed her hands, returned to the counter, and the pleasant bell for getting off work rang.

"Sister Fen, A Ju, see you tomorrow." Greeting Li Fen and Wang Ju, she left with light steps.

Liu Chunhong almost tore the rag in her hand into strips, her brows furrowed slightly, the corners of her mouth turned down, her face full of displeasure.

"Been working for half a month, don't even know how to greet old employees, no rules!"

Li Fen heard this, laughed, and retorted: "Laugh to death, if you have an opinion, say it to her face, what are you muttering behind her back. Besides, your nostrils are almost turned to the sky, do you have rules?"

"Comrade Lin takes money issued by the country, didn't eat yours or drink yours, what attitude you have, what attitude she has, no problem."

After saying the stinging words, she locked the counter door and pulled Wang Ju away.

Liu Chunhong had a breath stuck in her chest, her head buzzed, and her face was smelly with anger!

"Angry to death! What did I say! I'm an old employee, saying a word has to be retorted, who brought the bad style, I said don't recruit people randomly, look at how chaotic the supply and marketing cooperative has become..." She kept venting.

The person who was on good terms with her said a fair word, "Comrade Lin is quite capable."

Just saying it, she was glared at by Liu Chunhong, using a look of seeing a traitor.

"Look at me, I still want to say it, Comrade Lin is not bad, Comrade Wang is also okay, although shy but listens to advice, and is constantly improving."

"They have all adapted, the work is done well, think about it, if you keep being so calculating, the one who suffers is you."

The words fell.

For the first time, she didn't wait for Liu Chunhong and left alone.

Liu Chunhong's mouth pulled out a cold smile, anger burning in her eyes, her face full of unwillingness, as if she would explode at any time.

"Mother, I don't want to go to the countryside, the countryside is dirty and smelly, there's nothing, heard there are stinky hooligans, I don't want to go to the countryside, you help me..."

"I haven't worked in the fields, if you let me farm, I'll die!"

"Mother, if I go to the countryside, we will never see each other again in this life, can you bear it?"

The daughter's crying and desperate voice rang in her ear.

Liu Chunhong's expression turned fierce, taking out the letter she wrote with her left hand last night from her bag.

She didn't want to, who let... Lin Zhao block her daughter's way, can't blame her.

A mountain chicken should stay in the mountains forever!

Lin Zhao just walked out of the door of the supply and marketing cooperative, and sneezed coldly.

"Why sneeze again, is your body uncomfortable?" Gu Chenghuai touched his wife's forehead with the back of his hand, feeling her body temperature was normal, before his expression eased.

"Nothing, someone must be speaking ill of me behind my back," Lin Zhao said indifferently.

The man's sharp and cold black eyes swept toward the supply and marketing cooperative, a sharp edge flashed in the depths of his eyes, his tone gentle as if chatting.

"Someone looking for trouble with you?"

"Nothing, I can handle it." Lin Zhao's eyes were calm as water, a faint smile hanging on the corners of her mouth.

Liu Chunhong thought she was very clever, not knowing those small actions that couldn't see the light couldn't escape her eyes at all.

If she didn't look for trouble, that was it.

If she dared to dance in front of her, the one who would cry would be her.

Gu Chenghuai raised his hand, flattening the few restless fried hairs on his wife's head, his gaze looking at her gently and focused, his tone earnest and unquestionable: "I haven't let you suffer any grievances, others have even less qualification. If you encounter difficulties you can't solve, you must tell me, I'll come."

He said this with great domineering power, Lin Zhao blinked, hesitated for two seconds, and whispered: "You are a soldier, you have to walk to the rhythm of 'one-two-one', you have to obey the law!"

The words fell.

Gu Chenghuai's expression suddenly became strange, the corners of his mouth twitching slightly.

So, Zhao Zhao thought he would do what?

He shook his head helplessly, a look of indulgence appearing on the corners of his mouth, "Rest assured, I know the rules, but protecting you is also my rule."

Lin Zhao's heart felt like it was soaked in honey, sweet and unable to melt.

Just about to jump on the bike, seeing the straw mat on the back seat of the bicycle, it had become a cotton pad.

"This pad is...?"

"I asked Mother to help make it." Gu Chenghuai's expression was light, not feeling at all that this was something that needed to claim credit.

Zhao Zhao jumped off the bike in the morning, seeming not very comfortable, since he saw it, he couldn't pretend not to know anything.

"Get on, see if it's better than the straw mat."

Lin Zhao grabbed the man's waist, jumped on the bicycle, the touch under her butt was a bit softer.

"Softer than the straw mat," she said.

"That's good." Gu Chenghuai took a long step and pedaled forward.

Lin Zhao discovered this wasn't the way home, poked his waist, and asked suspiciously: "Isn't it home?"

"You're dressed so beautifully today, it's a pity not to take a photo to commemorate it," Gu Chenghuai smiled.

The outstanding eyebrows and eyes faced the bright sun, high-spirited.

Lin Zhao was stunned for a moment, the corners of her lips raised, a bright smile blooming, "There's a camera at home, I bought it."

Gu Chenghuai's movements paused slightly, soon returning to normal.

Didn't feel buying a camera was a big deal, but...

"Who did you buy it from?"

Things like cameras were only sold in a few big cities, he was certain, they didn't have them here.

Then where did it come from?

Or rather.

Who helped buy it?

The name of a male educated youth at the educated youth point appeared in his mind, Gu Chenghuai's eyes hiding emotions that people couldn't understand.

The strength of pinching the handlebars increased continuously, trying hard to suppress the gurgling sourness in his heart, grinding his teeth slowly.

Was he dead, ah!?

Calmed down for two seconds, then opened his mouth without showing any anger, his tone as steady as usual.

"Why didn't you look for me?" ===== CHAPTER 78 =====