Raising Babies in the 70s

by Usui Takumii

not mine, wordrain69. Also at ao3.

2. 21 to 40

"The sister of the Chen family is here, and I heard that she brought a man with her."

"The beautiful sister got married!"

"Yes, to a young officer."

..

When He Chunfang heard these words in the farm, she didn't believe it at all. A few days back, the sisters talked nonsense about the leader introducing her to a young officer. How long did it take for her to get married?!

Shouldn't it be just a talk in order not to lose face? They must have deliberately found someone to play it, right? If a young man put on a military uniform, couldn't he pretend to be an officer?

He Chunfang secretly laughed. She had been boasting about going on blind date with someone last time, the chief of staff in his twenties. This sister of the Chen family could really talk big. Could such a man be introduced to her? She would go to Chen's house to see how she boasts.

The cowhide was about to blow into the sky. (brag)

He Chunfang immediately rushed to Chen's house. There were also a group of people watching on the road, chatting all about the Chen family. She passed these people and greeted them one by one. Suddenly, she heard them say, "Zhao Ming has gone to Chen's house."

Zhao Ming was the instructor of the farm.

He Chunfang's eyes moved, the instructor went to Chen's house? Could it be that he went to expose the fake officer? She laughed heartily, assuming that the Chen family had found someone to pretend to be an officer.

She had to go to Chen's house to watch the play.

Arriving at Chen's house, He Chunfang found that many people like her went to the show. Instructor Zhao Ming was also there. He was talking to a young, handsome and tall man, and he seemed to be chatting with him very harmoniously.

He Chunfang was puzzled. This was completely different from what she had imagined. Who was the instructor talking to?

The smile on her face froze, and she stepped forward and asked, "Instructor Zhao, who are you talking to?"

Zhao Ming smiled and patted the man next to him on the shoulder, "The brother-in-law of the Chen family, Lu Yan, he was my college alumni back then!"

"I didn't expect to see you at the farm today, I almost didn't dare to recognize you…"

Lu Yan chatted with Zhao Ming. He was in the naval academy in Bincheng. When he returned to his alma mater for further studies, he met a lot of people in Bencheng, but didn't expect to meet one there.

In fact, Lu Yan didn't know Zhao Ming, but Zhao Ming recognized him.

Lu Yan was an important figure in the academy back then, and everyone knew him. Even if they had never seen him, everyone had heard of his name.

He still left behind a lot of legendary deeds.

Zhao Ming was two years older than Lu Yan. After so many years, seeing the original legend and former alumni again, he really felt a little emotional and sighed. When he saw Lu Yan, a famous celebrity in the past, he couldn't help but come forward and chat enthusiastically about what happened at the academy.

He didn't go on the ship, but became an instructor there. He always felt a little regretful so he was particularly willing to recall what happened in the academy.

As for Lu Yan, he touched his nose as he was reluctant to talk about it.

It was okay to chat, but he couldn't chat in front of the Qin sisters. There were things that he didn't want to let Qin Rou hear.

He was just "newly married" and went to meet his wife's relatives. At present, he was very down-to-earth. Sister Qin Rou regarded him as a motivated and good young man. How could he talk about the absurdity of what he did in the academy at that critical moment?

Fortunately, Qin Mian thoughtfully let the men talk about things, and dragged her sister to buy vegetables and meat, otherwise he really didn't want to chat with Zhao Ming.

—The hero did not mention the bravery of the year.

Speaking of which, nothing happened back then. Lu Yan was clever, playful, and had a stubborn personality. Under the pressure of his father, he was thrown into the military academy early for training.

As for him, he grew up in the academy. He had been in the military since he was a child, and he was like a fish in water when he entered the military academy. Lu Yan was good-looking, popular, bold, and loyal. With a big frame and a good height, he fooled a group of students who were a few years older than him to call him "Brother Lu".

When Lu Yan was in his teens, he was really a cheap and poisonous boy who didn't know how high the sky was.

When he first entered the academy, the instructors trained him strictly. Lu Yan, Brother Lu, was targeted. People just wanted to tame him, fighting wit and courage.

On the contrary, they forced his potential out. Lu Yan's comprehensive strength was excellent, and his physical fitness was beyond ordinary people. He could survive no matter how he was trained. The instructors admired him, but Lu Yan was holding his stomach full of fire. He quarrelled with the old man.

The old man taught him to do things with a set of sarcastic words, and Lu Yan immediately became possessed, "Man, I don't think you're too old, let me worship you as my teacher."

It turned out that the old man was the principal.

So he became a legendary freshman who almost got obsessed with the principal.

Lu Yan closed his eyes, thinking that even if he just remembered the beginning, just the beginning would sound very bad.

He was now twenty-five years old, not fifteen years old. After graduation, his temperament had become much calmer. When he recalled the past, he only felt that the past was unbearable.

He didn't want to mention the past in front of his own woman.

"…Academy, alumni?" He Chunfang was stunned. Instructor Zhao and this person were alumni, and he was the brother-in-law of the Chen family?

Chen's brother-in-law? Qin Rou's marriage partner?! Qin Mian's brother-in-law?

Of course, she was well-informed and knew of Instructor Zhao's academy back then. Qin Mian's brother-in-law was an alumnus of his, so he must be a young naval office.

"I really didn't expect to see you here. You married the sister-in-law of the Chen family. This sister-in-law of the Chen family used to be a literary artist in the art troupe, did you meet by chance?" Zhao Ming was surprised to see Lu Yan. He used to think that Lu Yan would marry the daughter of the chief, but he did not expect that he would marry Qin Rou.

"She was introduced by the organization."

…

He Chunfang couldn't stay at the Chen's house any longer. Qin Rou's leader, really introduced her to a young and promising naval officer.

Her husband was drinking tea and reading the newspaper.

"Such a good cabbage was devoured by Qin Rou, the pig!" He Chunfang secretly scolded Qin Rou for being a sl*t. How many days had it been?

(A pig devouring a cabbage" refers to a man who is dating a woman he does not deserve)

She just talked about the introduction a few days ago, and she got married so quickly. It would take a few months for other girls to date, right?

Was she married fast for fear that someone else would steal her man?!

Sister Qin Mian also felt that the pig was the one she had worked so hard to raise.

She entertained Lu Yan very warmly and thoughtfully. Although they all said that the soldiers were a little tempered, in her eyes, Lu Yan was a harmless little cabbage, a little cabbage brought back by her own pig.

She had to help her sister to support the cabbage.

Qin Mian was busy for a long time, cooking a table of good dishes. She called the family out to eat, and asked Juanjuan and Jinghua to call Lu Yan "little uncle".

Juanjuan and Jinghua were very happy. After a long time, their mother cooked a large table of good dishes. There were even two large pots of pork stewed noodles. There was more pork in it than any other time, and their mouth was full of saliva.

Qin Rou's brother-in-law accompanied Lu Yan to drink two glasses of wine.

Lu Yan drank and ate food, and observed how Qin Rou's sister and her husband got along with each other. It was also that he dug a hole and buried himself. When an old senior shared it enthusiastically, Lu Yan said with arrogant appearance, "I'm very tough, I won't get married, so there is no need to listen to some bullsh*t husband and wife experience."

At the moment, if he lowered his head to seek experience, it would be a very slap in the face. But he really didn't know how to deal with a woman.

He had been in the military since he was a child, and when he grew up, he entered the military academy and the army. He rarely got along with women, let alone when he was at sea, the mice he saw were not necessarily female.

And several marriages in his family were not suitable for experience. His mother, a female old military doctor, when she got angry, a man who was 1.9 meters tall would cry in front of her; his second sister-in-law, also from Jiaodao, looked like a man with short neat and tidy hair. When the second brother just brought her home, the neighbor next door thought they had a young and handsome young man and wanted to introduce a girl to "her", but Lu Yan's parents exclaimed: God, it turns out that my son likes men. No wonder you didn't get married in your 30s…

And his third sister was the same as his second sister-in-law. The two had a good relationship.

Lu Yan had three elder brothers and one elder sister. The eldest brother was gone, only the second elder brother and the third elder sister were married, and he also got married, the fourth brother was left as a bachelor.

Also as a man from the Lu family, Lu Yan originally thought that he would be like the second brother and the fourth brother. Maybe he would have to wait until thirty to find a woman to marry.

Who knew that there was an accident in the middle, and he was trapped in the hands of a delicate and soft little fox.

She was charming and pretty, had long hair, wore beautiful dresses, and cried hard while watching a movie.

In the dim light, Lu Yan looked at Qin Rou beside him. She was holding half a steamed sweet potato in her hand and ate it in small bites. Upturned again, the beautiful fox eyes were extraordinarily beautiful, and the small nose underneath was even more flattering, it let him involuntarily be able to see into the Gods.

'Damn it,' Lu Yan thought that he wouldn't dare to say a single swear word in front of her.

Her sister's family was also eating together. In the future, the husband and wife would eat with each other.

As long as he thought of that picture, he felt a heat wave in his heart, and even the hardest heart was soft.

– This was his wife.

Lu Yan needed to learn to be a good husband.

His heart was full of passion, not only aroused a strong sense of responsibility, but also a strong desire to learn.

Lu Yan carefully observed Qin Rou's sister and brother-in-law. Her sister Qin Mian looked like Qin Rou and had a gentle personality. His brother-in-law, Chen Mian, seemed very silent and didn't talk much.

His reticence before seemed like the right move.

Chapter 23

After a night's rest, Lu Yan hurried back to the academy the next day, Qin Rou stayed at her sister and brother-in-law's house. Her sister Qin Mian looked more satisfied when she saw her, as if she was watching a slaughtered pig.

Since the two sisters slept together the previous night, Qin Mian had been looking at her with that kind of eyes, making Qin Rou horrified.

She hugged Xiao Jingyi in her arms, picked up his hand and waved to his mother, "Sister, don't look at me, look at your son."

Jinghua and Juanjuan were not free at their age. She didn't know where they went to play. Her brother-in-law went to work, and the two sisters stayed in the house. Her sister Qin Mian was going out soon.

Qin Mian smiled and glanced at her with anger, "Sister is going out, you help me take care of Jingyi."

Qin Rou was discharged from the army at home, and she would have to wait a week or two to go to Qiongzhou Island. After Lu Yan went to deal with the academy, she stayed at her sister and brother-in-law's house to help take care of the children.

"Sister, don't worry."

Qin Rou graduated from pre-school education and specialized in raising children.

When her sister Qin Mian left, Qin Rou was left with her little nephew…

Qin Rou looked at the quiet little guy in her arms. He could be a little mushroom in the corner.

"Jingyi, be good, look at Auntie's eyes."

Chen Jingyi was very quiet all day long. Adults may feel relaxed taking care of such a child of his age, because he just needed to be dressed and fed with delicious food, and he would be quiet and not noisy at all the rest of the time.

Qin Mian didn't have much time, so she just raised him wholeheartedly.

Qin Rou knew that she couldn't let the little guy be a mushroom in the corner. She spoke with him patiently, told him to look into her eyes when she spoke, told him stories, taught him how to cut paper and paint, and taught him how to use chopsticks and spoons to exercise his fingers coordination ability.

"Jingyi?…Jingyi? Little Jingyi?"

Chen Jingyi was not very sensitive to other voices, but he liked Qin Rou's voice very much. When other people called him, he usually rarely responded, but when Qin Rou called him at times, he would be stunned for a moment and be released from the mushroom state.

Qin Rou squatted down, called him patiently, and let the little guy look at her. After a day or two, he also cultivated a conditioned reflex. As long as Qin Rou called him, he would look at her.

Two words would pop up, "…Auntie?"

His voice was waxy and vague, and he couldn't speak clearly, but as long as he was willing to speak out, Qin Rou would accompany him to repeat it.

"Jingyi, hug, Auntie…"

"…Auntie…well, Mom?"

Gradually, Chen Jingyi said more and more intermittent words. When Qin Mian heard her son's voice, her eyes were moist. Her child was willing to speak, she couldn't express how happy she was.

"Auntie!"

Qin Rou walked into the room after taking a shower. The little guy who was squatting in the corner of the bed rushed toward her legs like a little duck. Qin Rou smiled and took him into her arms.

Chen Jingyi looked at her very happily, and smiled. His facial features were delicate and gentle, partly like Qin Mian, partly like his elegant and gentle father, with big eyes. He looked cute when he laughed. His pupils were like black gems, without any impurities.

Qin Rou cut his hair in a cute little watermelon way with her own hands a day before. When she combed his hair, he looked like a well-behaved and supple little watermelon.

Pinching his little face, Qin Rou put the little guy on the bed, covered him with a quilt, and laid down beside him.

– This little mushroom had completely adhered to her.

He wanted to sleep with his aunt at night.

"Okay, good Jingyi, let's go to bed."

Chen Jingyi was very sticky to her. When he woke up every morning, he had to see his aunt to feel at ease. Wherever she went, the little mushroom spirit would follow.

It was a wonderful feeling.

Raising children was sometimes like raising pets. In their world, their presence was very important. As long as they were willing to accompany them and play with them, they would be very happy.

When they got along with them, there would be a kind of needed satisfaction.

Qin Rou propped her chin in her hand. After she left the plastic sister flowers like Yingying in the art troupe, and took care of Jingyi for a while, she actually began to miss the days of accompanying the children in kindergarten.

The little devils in her memory had become cute.

Qin Rou thought that she still liked children. If she didn't like kids, she would not choose to be a kindergarten teacher after graduation.

Chen Jingyi's condition was getting better, but he was also sticking to her more. But Qin Rou was about to go to Qiongzhou Island with Lu Yan, and she couldn't go back on the matter, so she had an idea. She told her sister Qin Mian that she wanted to bring Jingyi Yi to Qiongzhou Island together.

Not only that, if she could settle down on Qiongzhou Island, Qin Rou wanted her sister's family to move to Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, these were things for later. Whether they could settle down on Qiongzhou Island or not was still uncertain.

Qin Mian had been taking care of her sick father-in-law Chen Yubai those days. After listening to Qin Rou's words, after hesitating for a while, she finally agreed.

"Jingyi likes you and can't live without you." Qin Mian saw the changes in her younger son during that period of time. She still had to take care of her father-in-law and husband, as well as the two older children. She really had no time to take care of the younger son.

In addition, Qin Mian felt that what happened over the years affected Jingyi, and she was unwilling to let Chen Jingyi continue to stay in the farm environment.

"You want to take Jingyi, what about Xiao Lu?"

"I called him, and he didn't mind."

Qin Rou tried her best to dispel her sister's concerns. She wanted to take Chen Jingyi away partly to take care of him. Part of it was to use it as an opportunity in the future to let her sister's family come to Qiongzhou Island, and the last point was her selfishness.

Lu Yan's body shape and appearance, although he was her style, she felt that such a dragon could only be viewed from a distance and not be played with.

Every time she thought of being alone with Lu Yan, she always felt an inexplicable panic and fear.

If she could have a child next to her, she would feel more secure.

Perhaps it was not security, but courage?

Having a weaker presence beside her would also arouse her courage and desire to protect him. Even now, Qin Rou didn't know why she had the courage to hug the kid the day she was stabbed, maybe it was out of love and protection.

When she was about to leave, Qin Mian dropped her and Jingyi to the train station. Qin Rou didn't bring much, just a suitcase and a burden. It was still summer, so there was no need to bring winter clothes. As for Qiongzhou Island, there was no need for winter clothes.

The journey was long, so they travelled with light weight.

When she got off the train at the train station, Qin Rou saw Lu Yan with a handsome face and a cold temperament, with a small fat kid in his arms.

The kid was a chubby little boy of four or five years old. If Jingyi had thin arms and thin legs, he had fat arms and fat legs. He had two lumps on his small face.

The little chubby kid struggled with his arms and legs.

Qin Rou: "…"

She brought a kid, and he also brought a kid?!

There were two kids?!

Lu Yan said lightly, "This is my nephew Xia Mingxi. I'll take him to my third sister, his mother."

Qin Rou took Chen Jingyi's little hand and introduced, "…This is my nephew Chen Jingyi, Jingyi say hello to uncle."

Chen Jingyi's dark eyes were deep as he said, "Auntie."

Qin Rou: "…" If you can call him out, it will already save me a lot of face, just say the word.

"Little aunt! Little aunt! Little aunt!"

At the gate of the train station, there were a series of calls that were louder than slaughtering pigs.

Originally, Lu Yan and Qin Rou, a beautiful couple, were already attracting attention, but now they were attracting everyone's attention.

"Little aunt! I want my little aunt!"

The little chubby kid who was caught in the trap called out like a caterpillar, struggling and squirming.

If people's anger could be visualized, Lu Yan's forehead was already surging.

He was completely pitted by the fourth brother.

The little chubby was raised by his parents. After the fourth brother Lu Xiao found out that he was married, only he was left as an old bachelor in the family, so he was forced by family to marry.

He bluffed this little fat guy and said that he was going to the South China Sea for a business trip. He should have sent the kid to the third sister on the way, but now he had even kidnapped and sold the child to Lu Yan.

Lu Yan was just newly married, and he wanted to spend some time with his wife while traveling south, but who would have thought that there would be … two little guys out of thin air.

—He really wanted to convict that group of people for sabotaging a military marriage.

"Don't hold the child like this, he's uncomfortable," Qin Rou said.

Lu Yan put down the little kid he was holding.

The fat little kid stood still, turned left and right, looked at Qin Rou and saluted, "Reporting to the leader, I'm here with a mission!"

Qin Rou: "…"

Lu Yan: "…" Who taught this kid?

Chen Jingyi looked at him curiously. Originally, he lowered his head and thought divergent that no one wanted to talk to him except his aunt, but this chubby kid was attractive.

The little chubby kid looked back at his little uncle and asked in a low voice, "Little uncle, do you have any candy?"

Lu Yan clasped his arms and said coldly, "No."

When the kid heard that, he suddenly hissed with a very exaggerated expression on his face, "Tell my aunt that you have a lot of candy, otherwise she won't like you!"

In the eyes of the young Xia Mingxi, only men with candy were full of charm.

Lu Yan: "I don't have any candy."

If it wasn't for the kid being his nephew, he would have thrown the child away long ago.

"How can you marry a wife if you don't have candy?!"

Lu Yan: "…"

No, he had to hold back, he had to be quiet, he couldn't get angry.

Lu Yan and Qin Rou took the two children to the train. It was the departure station. There were not many people on the train. Lu Yan bought a sleeper ticket, two lower bunks that were exactly opposite.

Qin Rou calculated the journey, starting from Bincheng to Guangcheng, anyway, oh… they had to change trains in the middle, in short, it was an extremely long journey.

After getting into the train, Lu Yan put the luggage, Qin Rou carried the two children to the sleeper, one on the left and one on the right. Little Xia Mingxi was not seen at all, sticking to the little aunt he had just met, "Little aunt, you look so beautiful!"

"Little aunt, you have a great voice!"

Xia Mingxi rubbed against Qin Rou's side, as if he had honey in his mouth. He was like a fat caterpillar who spoke sweet words. If he was a silkworm baby, then he only spat out sweet words.

Suddenly, there were more people competing for favor, and even Chen Jingyi, the mushroom essence in the corner, couldn't stand it anymore. He looked at the chubby little guy, and he felt a subtle sense of crisis in his young heart.

Jingyi took the initiative to get into his aunt's arms, hugged her arm, and the little chubby called out, "Auntie!"

"Auntie!"

"Auntie!"

"Auntie!"

"Auntie!"

…

Lu Yan: "…"

#￥%￥%￥… He was afraid that only he himself knew what he was saying.

– This was his wife!

Qin Rou wanted to raise her hand to cover her forehead.

Did these two kids think they were singing a duet?

"Good, let's stop calling, speak softly, and don't disturb other people."

Qin Rou finally coaxed Xia Mingxi to lower his voice.

He suddenly remembered what happened just now, and asked Lu Yan, "Little uncle, how can you find a wife if you don't have any candy?"

"The younger girls I know all like candy."

"The third uncle can't find a wife because he has no candies."

The third uncle was Lu Yan's fourth brother Lu Xiao. In order to prevent him from calling him fourth uncle, he firmly believed that the family was divided into men and women, and he was definitely not the fourth uncle.

Lu Yan chose to ignore him.

The little chubby kid asked another question, "Did you buy a gift for my little aunt?"

"Grandpa Wang next door said that marriage needs three rings now…"

"Have you bought it?"

Lu Yan was on his back, looking at the ceiling. The group of people must be charged with sabotaging military marriages.

Qin Rou thought that the kid was so small, with such a sharp mouth and a machine gun, it was really extraordinary, and he was a bit like a Jincheng native, talking without stopping.

Qin Rou teased him, "Mingxi, do you know what three rings are?"

"I know." Xia Mingxi raised his chubby fingers to count, "It's a ticket, jiji, car, fried jiji …"

Jing Yi couldn't help repeating with his sonorous voice, "… jiji?"

After speaking, Little Fatty turned his head to look at Lu Yan, and said seriously, "Little uncle, you want to raise chickens."

With so much jiji, his uncle had no candy, so he must have chicken.

Qin Rou couldn't help but laugh.

Lu Yan: "…"

He was thinking about it at the moment, he could consider not having children in the future, they were really noisy.

The train was noisy and Qin Rou took a lot of effort to coax the two little kids to sleep. She pulled the suitcase over and blocked it on the edge of the hard bed to prevent the two from falling.

She also felt a little tired. The opposite side Lu Yan was lying on the hard bed. Qin Rou peeked at him quietly from the corner of the eye, and saw that this big man of about more than 1.8 meters was lying on the hard bed, looking a bit strange.

There was no other way, with his height, he couldn't sit up straight, so he could only lie down to be more comfortable.

Qin Rou tilted her head and raised the corner of her lips slightly upward. For some reason, the scene she saw reminded her of a big curled dog.

She liked dogs. She used to save a lot of pictures of cute dogs on her mobile phone. Of course, she didn't have an actual dog. The husky and Samoyed in the photos were super handsome and cute, but in reality they were not so cute anymore.

Qin Rou once passed by a pet store, and there were two grown-up Alaskans who circled around her very lively. Qin Rou's feeling at the time was… she was scared to death.

These two Alaskans were raised by their owners to be good-looking. The place that should be white was snow-white and very clean, but the "body" was too burly. When running around her, she felt the ground vibrate, and they could easily knock her down.

When she looked at the photos, she felt they were so good-looking and liked them, but when she saw them, she was really scared…

This was probably like Lord Ye who liked dragons.

Qin Rou couldn't help but glance at the man opposite her. Compared with Alaska, which was raised to be smooth and white, Lu Yan was only a little less fluffy.

It would be very eye-catching if he was turned into a photo!

It was a pity that the only photo she had of Lu Yan was the photo on the marriage certificate. Although it was an old-fashioned black and white photo, Qin Rou had peeked at it at her sister's house several times. Dazzling, she was fascinated several times, and once was caught by her sister Qin Mian.

Qin Mian winked, "Seeing you like this, sister, I can finally rest assured."

Qin Rou looked embarrassed, and reluctantly retorted, "Sister, you have misunderstood."

Only Qin Rou knew that it was a real misunderstanding!

Lu Yan in the photo was really handsome and she liked him.

In reality, Lu Yan was so burly and she was scared.

Qin Rou sighed in her heart.

She looked at the scenery that kept receding outside the window. That day, she resolutely agreed to sign in front of Director Sun. Did she really want to go to Qiongzhou Island with him? Perhaps a large part of the reason was:

—Everyone had a love for beauty. It was not easy to find such a handsome and good-looking husband. If she missed it, it would be difficult to get the chance again.

People's aesthetics were different, she didn't know what others thought, but Lu Yan grew in her aesthetics.

Qin Rou's self-criticism: I'm so superficial!

To say that there was no regret in agreeing hastily that day, Qin Rou was just a little worried. She had also heard that Lu Yan was not very good-tempered. He sneered at others and made people cry. She was afraid that it would be difficult to get along with him.

But from the past few times, she felt that Lu Yan was very considerate in dealing with people. When he went to her sister's house that time, he was very polite, the farm instructor was his alumni, and the farm manager was his fellow villager. He got along well with people.

Unlike the fiery man that everyone hated, Lu Yan's popularity was very good.

Recalling the state when she got along with him, Qin Rou felt that the two of them were also very good, and they respected each other.

However, Qin Rou always felt that something was not right. Lu Yan was too quiet. He didn't talk much in front of her, and always kept his words concise.

Qin Rou couldn't help peeking at him again, but she didn't dare to look at him too much, for fear that Lu Yan would notice her gaze.

Like the two children, Lu Yan seemed to be asleep.

Qin Rou breathed a sigh of relief. She fixedly looked at Lu Yan. Seeing that he was lying asleep with nothing on him, she found a green military jacket and put it on him.

After doing that, as if enchanted, Qin Rou's cheeks turned red.

—This must be due to the professionalism of the kindergarten teacher. She couldn't bear seeing the children nap without covering them.

Qin Rou put a piece of clothes on him like a thief with a guilty conscience, leaned against something, closed her eyes and forced herself to fall asleep.

When the train was running, the sound of banging was continuous, the windows were half open, and the refreshing wind blew in, blowing away the sultry heat of summer, making people feel comfortable and lazy. Not only the children, but also the adults got sleepy.

Qin Rou originally thought it would be difficult for her to fall asleep, but who knew she would lose consciousness quickly and her breathing became steady.

Lu Yan, who was lying across from her, opened his eyes at that moment, picked up the green military jacket on his waist, and smiled youthfully.

After smelling so much stinky sweat, it was the first time he smelled the fragrance.

—He was really happy to be married to such a wife!

After wandering around for three or four days, and transferring trains halfway through, Qin Rou stayed at the guest house for one night during the transfer, and she, who finally arrived at Guangcheng Railway Station early on the fourth day, felt that her old life would continue.

Within a year, she didn't want to take long-distance trains anymore. She really wanted the roads to be built first, and solving traffic problems was the most important thing. It was really inconvenient to travel from south to north.

The two children were also listless. If Qin Rou was the big eggplant from the frost, the two young ones were the small eggplants, even the talkative little chubby kid didn't want to talk.

After getting off the train, they recovered a little bit of energy.

At seven or eight o'clock in the night two days later, they had to take a ferry to Qiongzhou Island. In the era, it took about 24 to 30 hours to go from Guangcheng to Qiongzhou Island.

That meant spending a day at sea.

Although Qin Rou grew up in the small fishing village in Shencheng, she has never sailed by boat. At most, she experiences gathering on the beach during holidays.

The scenery of the seaside was beautiful, but when there were more people, the flow of people would meander on the beach like a string of ants, which would detract from the scenery.

Thinking of it, Qin Rou once went out to sea fishing for an hour. On the small fishing boat, she did not get seasick very much. As a result, after a woman started to vomit, one after another, the whole boat was affected and vomited, and finally most of them vomited.

She didn't know if she would be seasick or not, she just felt dizzy thinking about it.

It seemed that if she wanted to seek more happiness, she would feel more secure with a small bucket by her side.

Lu Yan first asked a friend he knew to help move some luggage to the dock for storage, and took Qin Rou and the two eggplants to stay at the Guangcheng Guest House. Qin Rou and the two children took a bath and slept on the bed like dead fish.

After a comfortable sleep, she took the two children to a state-run restaurant for breakfast, where Qin Rou ate old-fashioned rice rolls.

The first thought in her mind at that time was: — She wanted to get a divorce, she didn't want to leave.

Back then, a bowl of fresh and smooth rice rolls with rich sauce was the motivation for her to get up early to go to kindergarten to face the bear kids.

The rice rolls eaten in state-run restaurants were simple in ingredients, they didn't have the bells and whistles of later generations. They were just simple rice milk, eggs, minced pork, and taro. The prepared sausage rolls were topped with a fragrant and delicious secret sauce. The powder was moderately thick and the sauce was slightly viscous, making it extra tempting to eat.

The minced pork sandwiched in the rice roll was very sweet and chewy, and the taro shreds were a little more glutinous in it, and the flavor was even better after absorbing the sauce.

She couldn't say anything else, but she only knew that the rice rolls made from this simple ingredient were all just right.

Perhaps marrying a state-run chef was the right choice for the era.

Qin Rou added a small spoonful of chili sauce to the rice rolls, and found that the secret chili sauce was more in line with her liking. Although this chili sauce looked red and bright, it was actually not spicy at all, and a little sweet.

She liked this kind of spicy chili sauce with a touch of sweetness.

Qin Rou was satisfied, and the two little kids next to her also ate a stack of rice rolls, but for Lu Yan, a stack of rice rolls was really not enough to fill his stomach. When Qin Rou was eating rice rolls, he drank two bowls of seafood porridge, plus steamed buns.

Seeing that Qin Rou added chili sauce to the plate again, Lu Yan guessed in his heart that the chili sauce was not spicy enough.

He must let her try Lao Wang's chili sauce later.

The boat would not set off until the day after, so they could stay in Guangcheng for a period of time, which was also what Qin Rou deliberately requested. There was another option to go to Qiongzhou Island, and that was to go by bus from Guangcheng to Xu County, and then it only would take four or five hours to go to Qiongzhou Island by boat.

And Qin Rou wanted to stay in Guangcheng for two days, so… if they were going to the sea for a day, then she wanted to stay there for a while.

Qin Rou had studied at university there, and the city in front of her was both familiar and unfamiliar to her. Lu Yan bought a map of Guangcheng and said he would take her and the two children around.

"If you have anything to buy, buy it here. I'll ask someone to send it to the pier. When we get to the island later, there are some things that we can't buy."

Qin Rou nodded. What she wanted to buy most was a camera, but naturally, her own savings of one or two hundred yuan could not buy it. To buy it, she would need to use Lu Yan's money.

What Lu Yan gave her that day, in addition to the scattered pieces of unity and industrial tickets, also had a passbook of 6,000 yuan.

Compared with her, Lu Yan had saved a lot of money over the years.

He was the youngest in the family, his parents, siblings had jobs and all received wages, so he basically had no burden at home, and he did not need to send money to his family. There was basically no living expenses such as for food, housing and clothing in the army.

For him, the biggest expense at the end of the year was probably buying gifts for his parents, relatives and friends to travel around during the festivals.

In addition to wages, their navy generally had subsidies for sailing, island subsidies, frontier subsidies, etc. Although Qin Rou didn't know how much, she knew that the future sea subsidies would be calculated based on hourly wages. The conditions were difficult, so it shouldn't be too little.

Therefore, his monthly salary and subsidies should not be less than 150, and it was likely to reach 200, which was enough to support a family of four.

—Seriously, the golden tortoise-in-law of the era.

So he gave her all the money, but for him, without money, it didn't have much impact, and money was bearish.

Now that Qin Rou had so much money in her hand, she really wanted to buy a camera. She could do that, but Qin Rou felt embarrassed to use Lu Yan's money.

Although Lu Yan gave her the money, she couldn't spend it indiscriminately, let alone spending other people's money, it always felt weird. Qin Rou couldn't spend Lu Yan's money with peace of mind for the time being.

If she really wanted to spend his money, she had to ask him beforehand. The two of them had agreed to live together before, and they should spend the money on life. If she wanted to buy a camera at the beginning of a relationship, would a man like Lu Yan, who was a bit macho in the 1970s, dislike her actions?

Qin Rou: "…"

After thinking about it for a while, Qin Rou suddenly found out that as a wife, it was actually not good for a husband to take the initiative to hand over his salary. After all, it was still his money, and he could cancel her housekeeping rights at any time.

In the future, she would have to ask him about the expenses, and there would be no freedom to spend money. Maybe after being busy for most of the day, she had to be housekeeper seriously, but he may complain that she wasted money.

No wonder it was said that marriage was the grave of love, and the firewood, rice, oil and salt after marriage were trivialities in one place.

Before marriage, one was willing to spend all kinds of money to give gifts to chase his girlfriend.

It was okay for people with emotional foundations, not to mention that the two of them had no emotional foundation for marriage.

Qin Rou thought of the passbook as a hot potato. She wanted to return the hot potato to him. It was up to him to manage the money.

It was better to find a job as soon as possible, and then find a way to make more money.

She had better run another vegetable garden, plant a few fruit trees in front of her house, she must plant jackfruit and longan, and a few mango trees to green the road.

…Imagination was always beautiful, the premise was that it could be planted. In fact, Qin Rou had never really planted anything in the ground before. She had only studied balcony planting in depth. The biggest achievement was to spend thousands of yuan to plant a pot of big red strawberries.

After Qin Rou bought things, she didn't forget to give Lu Yan pocket money, and asked him to pick up some things he needed with the two kids.

After these days, Lu Yan, the army officer, had learned to take care of the kid without pain.

Qin Rou was soft-hearted in the face of one child, and she was easy to suffer in the face of a chubby little slick like Xia Mingxi. After she completely handed over the child to Lu Yan, he perfectly showed what a cold-faced, black-hearted, ruthless little uncle was.

Especially in private, Lu Yan made the little chubby kid speechless. After the child cried, he didn't try to coax him. Instead, he looked at him with a faint look in his eyes.

Little Chubby: "…" It's useless to cry like this!

He wanted his aunt!

"Little aunt!"

Every time he saw Qin Rou, the chubby kid felt like he was seeing a great savior, and he complained to Qin Rou, telling her what happened to him.

Qin Rou nodded to listen to his complaint, smiled and comforted him like a spring breeze, and accompanied him to condemn the big devil Lu Yan.

Apart from that, there was no other action, not even to criticize Lu Yan face to face.

Qin Rou just gave him a hug helplessly, "Listen to your little uncle."

Qin Rou deeply knew what it means to have a face. Since Lu Yan could hold down the bear baby, she should not help the child challenge Lu Yan's authority, otherwise the guy would fight and challenge Lu Yan fearlessly in the future, resulting in more troubles.

When mothers discipline their children, there were grandmothers who supported and helped the children. All of them made the children more unscrupulous, which made it not only difficult to educate kids, but also deepened the contradiction between adults.

When adults educate their children, they should stand on a united front.

Xia Mingxi was dejected, and could only follow Lu Yan honestly. His grandmother and grandfather were not there, his little aunt was "little and weak" and "feminine", so she didn't dare to resist his little uncle.

And Chen Jingyi was staying obediently in his uncle's arms.

When he just left Bincheng, Chen Jingyi was more attached to him, probably because his father's presence was lacking since he was a child. He was always carried by his mother Qin Mian, so this situation satisfied a lot of his longing for his father.

He liked the warm and down-to-earth feeling on Lu Yan's body like the sun.

Lu Yan dragged the two together. The picture of the three of them together was exceptionally harmonious. Qin Rou didn't show it on the surface, but nodded with satisfaction behind his back.

Sure enough, it was better to have more male kindergarten teachers in the kindergarten.

Did all kindergarten teachers like to take care of children?

Nonsense!

Qin Rou thought that she would rather watch others take care of children than to take care of them by herself.

In addition to being a kindergarten teacher, she also had a talent for training kindergarten teachers.

—Encouraging Lu Yan to be a little dad.

"Lu Yan, you have taken good care of the children."

In private, after the two children fell asleep, Qin Rou didn't want to praise him. The charming and beautiful fox's eyes were full of admiration.

One was to relieve the embarrassment when the two were alone, and the other was for her training plan.

If she could let others take care of the children, it would be better to try to let others do it!

"It's nothing," Lu Yan's expression was light, very modest.

He was indeed dizzy by his wife's sweet words. With the look of admiration in her eyes, he felt that he had been able to take care of the bear child perfectly.

But… it was impossible for him to take care of the children in the future!

Lu Yan: "…"

—It was better not to have kids.

Qin Rou also saw the rolling pins that Lu Yan bought. Of course, she did not notice the wooden rolling pin, but looked at the two jade rolling pins curiously. She looked closely and found that one was made by Xiuyu. One of them was actually jade, and the other was made with a kind of material…

Qin Rou: "?!"

What was this?

"I met an old man and bought it for a hundred."

Compared with Qin Rou, Lu Yan was a real prodigal.

The old uncle and grandson were seriously ill and his family had no money, so he bought these things.

Lu Yan carefully looked at the pair, and saw that the two rolling pins were indeed beautiful.

After hearing that story, Qin Rou was really speechless. Such a jade pin was really not worth anything.

The economy had not been liberalized, and even if one had money, they couldn't buy anything. If one wanted to eat meat, they had to ask for a ticket.

Lu Yan could be considered a good person with good deeds.

Qin Rou didn't take it seriously.

Money in the era could be said to be invaluable, but it was very valuable. Qin Rou bought a lot of things sporadically, plus three hundred yuan camera, so all the expenses were less than one thousand.

So she really had used a lot of money.

At seven or eight o'clock in the night, Lu Yan and Qin Rou boarded the ship with the kids. Along with them were a few educated youths who went to the farm on Qiongzhou Island.

There were not many people on the ship this time, and Qin Rou saw that there were still many vegetables shipped on the ship.

She originally thought that vegetables could be grown on Qiongzhou Island all year round, and there should be no shortage of vegetables to eat. Later, she thought that the season was one with intensive typhoons, so it may not be convenient to grow crops.

After she arrived on the island, she wanted to use a large flower pot to grow leeks. Leeks were good, and she could cut leeks and grow them again. She could fry leeks, make leek soup, and scramble eggs with leeks.

She had oyster sauce ready, oyster sauce lettuce was a must-have home-cooked dish in life.

Qin Rou also wanted to eat more kinds of cucumbers. She liked to eat cucumber scrambled eggs very much.

…

She didn't know what was wrong, since she came to Guangcheng, all she had been thinking about was food, and even when she was on the boat, she still had food in her mind.

It was probably because the people took food as their heaven.

Lu Yan took the two children to a cabin. It was a small space with only one bed. It was usually a place for the crew to rest. Qin Rou didn't know how Lu Yan temporarily arranged a room for them to rest.

The ship opened, there were no lights on the deck, the ship traveled in pitch black at night. It was pitch black outside, and she could only feel the quiet sea breeze blowing on her face. Except for the bright moon in the sky and the swaying sea water, nothing could be seen clearly, only in the farther places, the lights were bright and the shadows were chaotic.

The crew on this route were on tight alert, mainly to prevent deliberately jumping into the sea and smuggling.

Qin Rou coaxed the two children to sleep first, but she herself was very tired. Lying on the bed, Qin Rou's head was dizzy. The feeling was extraordinarily strange. Her thinking was clear, not as serious as when she had motion sickness, but it was like the south windy season, and the air mixed with pollen made her head heavy, her chest tight and dizzy.

She was seasick, but the situation was not very serious. She wanted to sleep very much, and her head was groggy like a low-grade fever.

Lu Yan sat beside her.

There was only one bed at the moment, and the two of them and the two children were probably going to sleep on the same bed.

Although they were already husband and wife, they had never slept in the same bed. Because of the two children, they slept on their own on the train. In the place, there were two beds in one room, each sleeping with a child.

It was the first time they shared a bed in such a small old-fashioned ship.

Qin Rou found that she didn't seem to mind Lu Yan anymore. She traveled with him for six or seven days and got along with each other day and night. They had gradually become familiar. She was also used to seeing Lu Yan's existence early. When she saw a man of the opposite sex in the same room when she woke up, she was terrified at first.

Now Qin Rou had been able to openly instruct Lu Yan to raise the kid.

At first, Qin Rou didn't take the initiative to talk to Lu Yan, and thanks to the existence of the children, Qin Rou actively encouraged him to take care of the children.

Throwing a kid was like throwing a pot! (give someone else the blame)

—It was cool to see other people raising kids!

In order to satisfy such a refreshing point, she could be shameless and full of courage, and speak sweet words.

Qin Rou was not afraid of Lu Yan anymore who took care of the two cute kids. Even the fierce and tough guy would be dragged down by the cute kids.

Whether it was watching the bear baby fight against the army officer, or the army officer suppressing the bear baby, it was full of dramatic interest.

"Are you uncomfortable?" In the dark cabin, the man asked with concern.

"A little seasick," Qin Rou raised her hand and rubbed her forehead. She found that Lu Yan was already lying down beside her, so she took the initiative to move to the inside.

Qin Rou felt a huge heat source appear beside her, and the heat radiating from his body could not be ignored. She blinked, feeling that her head was even more dizzy and a little hot.

In order to ease the atmosphere, Qin Rou had nothing to talk to him about, so she asked him, "Can navy guys have seasickness?"

In fact, she was very curious about it

Many people vomit when they board the ship for the first time

" There is no reason not to be seasick while at sea."

Qin Rou heard him tell many stories of seasickness. Lu Yan grew up by the sea. Besides his comrades, he also knew many crew members. If the ship was moving too much, for example, in a typhoon, the sailor also had a bucket next to his leg, and vomited while steering.

Thinking about the pirate ship that she once sat in the amusement park, the feeling of the rolling belly came again.

Qin Rou raised her hand to cover her mouth, thinking why she wanted to talk to him about seasickness when she was seasick.

The sense of substitution was too strong, she was only groggy at first, but at the moment she felt like vomiting.

No, no more talking. Qin Rou fell asleep.

The next day, she was dizzy and half asleep the whole time.

She vaguely heard the voices of Lu Yan and the children. He took the children outside to look at the sea.

Qin Rou was dreaming, marrying a chef in her dream.

The trip was relatively calm, and they arrived at the port around eight or nine o'clock in the night.

At the Yecheng port, the boat docked. Qin Rou was sleepy, she was held down by someone, and since she was not woken up, she simply hugged the doll-like big bear beside her and continued to sleep.

In fact, she had a lot of dreams. Right now, she was dreaming that she was going to Australia to become a koala. She slept well with the tree, but a goblin came to shake the tree, which made her cling to the trunk of the tree to avoid being shaken.

Lu Yan was helplessly pulled by her.

That was the most intimate contact between the two of them except holding hands. The beauty was in his arms, which was really a sweet trouble.

He had to get off the boat with his wife and asked two soldiers to help take the children off the boat.

Lu Yan had a few acquaintances and friends in the Yecheng Coastal Defense Force. Instructor Lin brought a few people to pick him up. Lin Xiang and he were also old schoolmates. When he saw Lu Yan, he was shocked.

There was a person in his arms, and two small ones were dragging behind him.

—Lu Yan brought his family!

"You—have two children?" Lin Xiang was really dumbfounded. His eyes automatically turned green, the same color as the coconuts on the coconut tree, "Hey, let me think, how many years ago have we graduated from here? Really, time is flying like arrows, the sun and the moon are flying by, why are your children four or five years old?"

"Twins?"

After graduation, the man came to the island. He just got married, and had two children?

Lu Yan was speechless and choked, "These are my two nephews."

"I just got married, and my wife is nineteen this year." How could he have two old sons?

"Oh!" Lin Xiang calmed down. It turned out that he just got married. He was really a scumbag. Everyone was on the same starting line.

He grinned, "I just got married this year."

He disembarked and introduced Lu Yan to the situation on Qiongzhou Island.

"Shh, keep your voice down, my wife is still sleeping."

Qin Rou was still sleeping soundly in his arms. Lu Yan's correct approach should be to put her on the bed in the guest house on the shore and come back to deal with other things.

However, he was selfish at the moment and was reluctant to let go.

It was the first time he held his wife in his arms!

These days, he hugged the little children for several rounds, and it was the first time that he had hugged hie wife.

"Sister-in-law is ill?" Although Lin Xiang was a few years older than Lu Yan, he was probably impressed by "Brother Lu" back then, so he called Qin Rou 'Sister-in-law'.

Lin Xiang was very curious about the wife that Lu Yan had married, and glanced at her secretly. She had buried her head on Lu Yan's chest.

"Seasick, she fell asleep."

Lin Xiang chatted with the crew, and he heard someone say that Lu Yan's wife slept on the boat for a day.

He thought to himself that Brother Lu, this wife, could really sleep.

It was said that Lu Yan also accompanied his wife in the cabin for a day.

Lin Xiang was also newly married, and he and his wife were glued together for a few days. He scratched the back of his head, suddenly thought of something, and gave Lu Yan a strange look: Looking at your brows and eyes, you must not be a beast, right?

They were all newlyweds. Lin Xiang patted Lu Yan's shoulder and grinned…

Lu Yan didn't bother to pay attention to him, leaving Lin Xiang alone to rub his chin on the spot. Lu Yan was obviously married, so why was his reaction like a wooden pier?

Qin Rou got up early, was off the boat. Maybe Lu Yan carried her down. Thinking of the dream she had the previous night, her ears were all red, and she wanted to look like an ostrich.

Luckily, Lu Yan told her to pack up early, and they were about to set off again.

Qin Rou almost burst into tears when she heard that she was going to take a truck.

It had been a very long journey!

After breakfast, Lu Yan and the two children squeezed into a large military truck. The journey was bumpy for six or seven hours. Qin Rou was no longer interested in seeing the enchanting coconut grove scenery and seascape. When she arrived in Lucheng, her bones were all aching.

"Arrived?" Qin Rou wanted to really cry.

They took the train, boat, truck… How much more transportation?

The trip made her feel like an ancient scholar who went to Beijing to take the exam.

"We are here," Lu Yan gave her an accurate answer.

After driving past the gate of the base at about 3:30 in the afternoon, Lu Yan got off the truck first to do errands, and Qin Rou took the two children to the family home.

The weather was good, the sun was not big, and the comfortable sea breeze blew on the side of the face, which seemed to take away all the fatigue.

There were two rows of tall coconut trees in the distance, the sky was extraordinarily blue, the clouds were extraordinarily beautiful, and the white clouds were clean in color, a whole mass in the air, like a mass of delicate cream.

Qin Rou took a deep breath, fresh air was sucked into her lungs, and all the turbid air was expelled.

–It was a great vacation spot!

Captain Jiang's wife, Yang Yufeng, was very warm-hearted and loved to gossip and watch dramas. Hearing that a new family had arrived, she took the initiative to help.

There were still two people standing guard at the entrance of the family home, and several young soldiers helped unload the luggage and moved it to the small transport car in the family home.

Seeing Qin Rou's face, Yang Yufeng asked curiously, "You are also from the northwest?"

Generally, people who came there from places with sandstorms preferred the air there. The air did not get stuck in the throat and was very comfortable.

Before she came there, she never imagined that there would be such fresh and clean air.

"I came from Bincheng, my hometown is at the junction of Sichuan and Hunan."

"Is that so? No wonder you are so beautiful."

Yang Yufeng thought to herself that the new girl was so beautiful. She was probably a girl from the city. Many people had been transferred to the place, and more colony members had been added.

The wives brought by the officers were all different, squeamish, down-to-earth, and various types, but they could be roughly divided into two categories.

Yang Yufeng judged Qin Rou as squeamish.

Among these two categories, the squeamish new colony members were the most entertaining to watch, they were the most tactful, and in the first few months of their arrival, they always did something new which made everyone have fun to watch.

The down-to-earth type was more able to endure hardship and easily satisfy the existing environment. They didn't do things, like chase the baby, beat the baby, scold the husband, etc., and were more likely to have bitter scenes.

The climate and scenery of Qiongzhou Island were quite strange. Some especially liked it, and couldn't wait to bring their parents from their hometown to enjoy the happiness. While some didn't like it and ran away.

Many of the squeamish colony members were the spouses of young military officers. They had never suffered much and couldn't accept many things.

There were no sandstorms in the place, but there were frequent typhoons. From April to October every year, especially these two years, the locals said that typhoons were the most frequent.

Once the typhoon left many trees, and the telephone pole fell. The previous one even crushed people to death. It was very dangerous, and some colony members couldn't bear to leave their home.

In addition to these, Qiongzhou Island was hot and humid all year round, and the big bugs, centipedes, and big snails were fat, enough for those squeamish girls to suffer.

The conditions of the family home were not bad. Many people liked it when they first arrived, but they have changed from liking to collapsing.

Yang Yufeng didn't show it on her face and wanted to watch the play in secret. She felt that Qin Rou was enchanting, coquettish and squeamish, so she would cause a lot of trouble.

The house Lu Yan was assigned was a small two-story building with white walls and a red roof, with a yard, a small terrace on the second floor, and three tall coconut trees on the side. It was very beautiful, like a small villa. Qin Rou fell in love at first sight.

When the electricity was turned on, the family rooms in the row also received tap water.

There was no need to go outside to fetch water. Qin Rou was very satisfied with it. It was good to have water in her yard.

At that moment, Yang Yufeng pretended hesitantly and said, "Do you want to change the house?"

Qin Rou asked, "What's wrong with this house?"

"No big problem, just… oh, let me tell you the truth. If so, everyone thinks that the luck in this house is not very good."

Qin Rou: "…" Defeat all monsters and demons.

Yang Yufeng covered her mouth and whispered, "It's not that luck, it's another kind of luck, Sister Qin, you know, this house has been replaced by five or six people living here in two years."

Qin Rou: "Why?" She got goosebumps, why so gloomy?

"This house is beautifully built, and a girl like you likes it, but… I don't know what happened. It didn't take long for people to get divorced after moving in. Several couples left."

Qin Rou: "…"

It turned out that it was that kind of luck.

"If you want to change houses, you can change to the other side, but there is no tap water connected to that side. There is a public tap water station not far in front of you."

"Don't think that it is good to have tap water at home. If you are in a hurry, you still have to dig a well. The water for a day is fixed and not much. You have to rush to use it early, and usually you will not get any water at night."

…

"Sister Qin, will you change the house?"

Qin Rou shook her head, "No, I'll stay in this house."

"That's fine."

Yang Yufeng saw more people as tough as Qin Rou, and was not surprised by her choice.

In fact, she also concealed one thing. Zhang Tuan lived next door to the house. His wife was from Sichuan Province. She cooked vegetables deliciously, had quick hands and feet, and was beautiful. She was a model wife in that place.

Those male officers envied Zhang Tuan, who married such a good wife.

With such a pair of good models staying next door, it was hard not to quarrel.

As soon as they quarrelled, they began to dislike their wife, "Why don't you learn from Zhang Tuan's wife?"

"How is his wife at home?"

"Are you comparable to Zhang Tuan's wife?"

It was not easy for Yang Yufeng to tell people about these things, but Xiao Qin lived there, and she would find out later.

– There would be a good show to watch.

"You… have two children?" Yang Yufeng asked suspiciously when she saw the two little boys.

Xia Mingxi's little chubby face was very eye-catching, and it was definitely not an ordinary family who could raise such a chubby.

"No, they are my nephews."

Qin Rou prepared a big bucket and went to the yard to collect water. When the faucet was turned on to the maximum, the water still fell into the bucket in a trickle.

Qin Rou: "…"

The current was really small!

"Sister Yang, look after the water for me. I'll go into the house to tidy up for a while."

"Okay, go ahead," Yang Yufeng stood in the yard to help her wait for the water, and at the same time looked curiously at the luggage Qin Rou brought over. Few young men helped move various objects into the first floor.

She took a closer look and wondered what Qin Rou had brought.

Firewood?

Casserole?

…

Weird…

"Xiao Qin, do you know how to cook?"

"A little."

Yang Yufeng wondered how much was a little. Was it modesty? Or really just a little bit?

Just looking at the appearance of Sister Qin, she really looked like a squeamish young lady who didn't touch cold water with her fingers.

This was a huge difference between being a wife and being a girl at home in the past. To grasp a man's heart, one must first grasp the man's stomach.

After receiving one bucket of water, she helped her to pick up another bucket of water, "Sister Yang, thank you."

"Xiao Qin, did they install the light bulbs for you? Be careful to prepare a few light bulbs, which are good, especially this one. There would be frequent power outages for several months."

"Okay, Sister Yang, I understand, I will pay attention."

Yang Yufeng felt itchy, thinking of why she didn't ask her the reason why the power would go out. She just wanted to introduce her to the typhoon.

It was like Qin Rou was not curious, so she didn't ask.

When Yang Yufeng left, she thought that Xiao Qin was very strange.

When she came out of the yard, she just turned a corner, and a few old friends from weekdays pulled her aside and asked curiously, "What is the situation of the new family?"

"A very young girl, She looks beautiful."

"Is she a teacher, or from the hospital? Or is she from an art troupe?"

"She was in the art troupe where she sang before, and she has some accent, but her voice is nice."

"How beautiful? Prettier than the one in the Zhang family?"

"Is the one from the Zhang family beautiful? She is good at everything, and a model wife."

"Is Xiao Qin someone who can live a good life?"

"I can't guess, this Xiao Qin has thin skin and tender meat, and she doesn't look like someone who knows how to live, but I saw that she brought a lot of pots and pans, and also firewood!"

"Firewood?!"

For her, it was nothing unusual. In the past two years, the residents next door had changed several houses, and each family had not lasted for a long time.

The corners of her mouth curled into a smile.

Finally, someone came again. She heard that she was still a squeamish new wife. She was beautiful, sang in the art troupe, and had a hot temper. She was from Sichuan and Hunan. Her husband Lu Yan was also a famous person. First, these two have no other advantages. In Huang Xinying's opinion, the two of them were mainly together because one was beautiful and the other was handsome.

There must be quarrels under one roof.

There was a good show to watch.

Tsk tsk tsk, these young people.

Huang Xinying sighed twice in her heart, and immediately gave birth to a sense of complacency. What did she plan to serve her husband and children from beginning to end all day long? Naturally, she liked to be praised as a good wife. Which colony members did not say she was excellent? Which man didn't want a wife like her?

No one could compare to her excellence.

Now there was another Xiao Qin who acted as a comparison for her. Huang Xinying could already anticipate the quarrels she would hear in their home.

"Xiao Qin, you have to learn from Sister Huang."

"New wives really don't know anything. Look at how well Mrs. Huang manages the house."

"Learn how to serve your man."

There was a new resident next door, not only Huang Xinying was happy, but her husband Zhang Chengbei was also happy. Zhang Chengbei was usually happy. He had no other hobbies, just a good reputation. He liked to show off and make people envious of themselves.

He married a good wife, had a good life. She was literate, was considerate, and could take care of children. She took care of all the housework, cooked good dishes, and served him comfortably.

How could a man from another family live such a comfortable life as him?

Those who married a beautiful, literate person were squeamish, unwilling to do housework, and unwilling to serve men, and the couple would always quarrel; those who married hard-working girls were mostly illiterate, rustic, and not good-looking.

As far as his married wife was concerned, everything was well accounted for.

Which man didn't envy him?

So, he had to make a new friend, and secretly reveal how happy he was to make the man envious of himself.

Qin Rou opened the windows of each room to ventilate. Before moving in, the staff responsible for housekeeping had already cleaned up the dust. There was nothing else to clean.

Qin Rou felt that she didn't need to clean it again.

Outside the house was a yard of about 70 to 80 square meters. Originally, some flowers, plants, melons and fruits were planted, but it had long since collapsed. There were three tall coconut trees standing by the roadside. Qin Rou looked up and saw that there were two thirty meters long coconut trees.

How did people pick coconuts from such a tall coconut tree? Was it difficult to climb a tree to pick coconuts?

The coconut could not be picked for the time being, so Qin Rou entered the house. The two-storey building was not bad. The hall was in the middle, the kitchen was connected to the bathroom on the left, and there were two rooms on the right.

The first floor was damp and it was easy for reptiles to enter. It was not suitable for people to live in. Qin Rou carefully looked at the door frame and felt that the threshold could be raised with cement to prevent the storm water from pouring into the house.

Speaking of worms, Qin Rou felt that raising chickens must be put on the agenda as soon as possible. Chickens were raised in the yard to prevent centipedes and the like from sneaking into the house and laying down centipede larvae in their yard.

Snakes and the like must also be guarded against. When Qin Rou was in Guangcheng, she bought some snake repellent powder. She sprinkled it around the yard. She didn't know how big the mice and cockroaches were in the era so she had prepared herself mentally.

Going to the second floor, there were three rooms on the second floor and a small terrace of ten square meters. Qin Rou liked that terrace very much, but she felt that the terrace needed to be reinforced, so as to avoid typhoons and rainstorms and water accumulation on the terrace.

It was better to build a detachable shed. Qin Rou planned to grow some potted vegetables on the terrace. It was best to cover it with a shed like a greenhouse, with a sunshade.

Qin Rou had countless plans in her mind, full of ambitions. She wanted to grow vegetables!

Not only to grow vegetables, but also to grow them beautifully.

After the water was boiled, Qin Rou took the children to take a bath. The children ran around the room happily, while Qin Rou was paralyzed on the newly made bed and didn't want to move.

She was so tired, her ambitions had to wait for the next day.

Lu Yan came back at that time. He had just reported in, and he was surrounded by old friends and chatted. Lu Yan was reluctant to chat with people. He had been in the army for so many years and was not willing to waste time with people outside.

He wanted to go home to his wife.

Lu Yan went upstairs, opened the door, and saw Qin Rou sitting beside the bed. She had just washed her hair, and her long black and soft hair fell on her shoulders, making her small face look extra gentle and tender. She was beautiful, and when she turned her head to look at him, he seemed to be immersed in a pool of spring water.

Lu Yan couldn't help but want to cough. He touched his nose. The sea breeze from outside the window blew in, and it also softened his eyebrows. The atmosphere was just right at that moment. Just as he was about to say something, there came a scream behind him.

The little chubby kid shouted, "Wow, Jingyi, coconuts!"

All the charming atmosphere was gone.

Lu Yan gritted his teeth secretly, just wishing to throw these two unpleasant little guys into the sea.

Qin Rou asked him, "Did you bring coconuts?"

"Well, I brought some coconuts."

There were not many other coconuts around. There were many coconut trees by the sea, and one coconut tree could produce 100 coconuts a year.

When Lu Yan came back, he dragged a sack of coconuts back along the way. It was given by a friend who had just picked coconuts.

Knocking open three coconuts and inserting bamboo tubes, the two children happily hugged the coconuts and drank coconut juice, and Lu Yan handed one to Qin Rou.

Qin Rou took the coconut and took a sip. The juice was extraordinarily sweet, neither sour or astringent, and the fragrance was overflowing. She couldn't hold back and took several sips.

The sweet coconut water was poured into the stomach, which was refreshing and thirst-quenching.

"So sweet!"

It was not that Qin Rou had never drunk coconut water, but she had never had such a fresh and sweet coconut. In the past, she would only buy one or two coconuts when she went out for fun, but the taste of coconuts in the tourist market was entirely dependent on metaphysics and luck.

Some fresh coconut water was very delicious, and some old ones were too sour, which made a person suspect that the coconut water had deteriorated.

"Is it sweet?" Lu Yan had never drunk coconut water before. Hearing what she said, he became curious. He leaned over, bit the straw, and took a light sip.

His movements were extraordinarily natural, and Qin Rou, who was holding the coconut, looked stunned.

Indirect kissing?

She looked at his handsome side face and was startled. From her perspective, his nose became more straight, and Qin Rou could clearly see his towering nasal bones.

"It's really good."

Qin Rou felt that her face was about to burn again. Even though she was drinking fragrant coconut water, she seemed to be drinking a cocktail, and her cheeks were a little drunk.

Originally, the sea breeze was cool, but now she felt hot, so she subconsciously lowered her head and hugged the coconut and took a sip of the sweet coconut juice.

After she realized what she had done, Qin Rou was surprised.

She studied in a normal school where there were many girls, and some of the girls had a good relationship with each other. They would even taste each other's milk tea when they bought it, and there was even a milk tea shop which introduced a large cup of milk tea and two straws, and the friends drank a cup of big milk tea together.

Qin Rou was very concerned about that kind of thing. She couldn't pass the test in her heart. She wouldn't share a straw with others, and she wouldn't drink a cup of milk tea together.

But now she was drinking coconut juice with Lu Yan, and she found that she didn't feel sick, and she didn't mind his saliva.

After taking two more sips, it seemed to be even sweeter than before.

It must be an illusion.

Seeing her obediently hugging the coconut, the cherry red mouth holding the bamboo tube, Lu Yan couldn't help but have a doting smile in his eyes.

"Wife, what shall we eat in the evening?"

—What shall we eat in the morning?

–What to eat for lunch?

–What to eat for dinner?

These three really mattered to a human being.

The soul problem was suppressed, and Qin Rou was so shocked that she couldn't care about the title of "wife" he called.

She didn't want to cook, she was not in the mood to cook.

For her, cooking rice and vegetables should be a very ceremonial thing. She took a long-distance train and worked so hard for so long, so she should have ordered a takeaway to treat herself.

– Not suitable for cooking.

"Lu Yan, let's have a cafeteria meal on the first day."

If they couldn't order takeout, they could order a cafeteria meal. There must be a cafeteria in the camp.

Qin Rou said cheekily, "Can you go to the cafeteria to get me and the children a meal?"

The delivery man was missing.

The enamel jar, presented as a friendly gift by Director Sun, followed her to Qiongzhou Island for thousands of miles.

Their whole family ate this jar of food, which should be enough.

– Thank you, Director Sun.

Lu Yan's face darkened, "No, I don't want to eat in the cafeteria."

He thought to himself that he had a wife and a family, why did he still have to get food from the cafeteria?

No! Not even a single meal!

Qin Rou: "…"

He had such strong resentment toward the cafeteria meal that he didn't want to eat a meal once in a while.

Qin Rou didn't mind cooking. She had lived alone for many years and had developed a good cooking skill, but she was so tired that she really didn't want to cook.

She was a lazy wife.

She wanted to lie down anyway.

Qin Rou lowered her head and squeezed her eyes, trying to squeeze out some moisture, then raised her wet fox eyes and looked at him pitifully, "I'm a little tired, I want to sleep for a while."

When Lu Yan saw her eyes, his heart softened. He said softly, "Go to sleep."

Qin Rou: "…" The point is, can you solve the problem when I sleep? What will we eat?

"Then who will cook?"

"I'll cook."

Qin Rou hugged the coconut dumbfoundedly. Seeing that the man really went out to cook, she lowered her head, bit the straw, and drank two sips of coconut water to clear her head.

—Oh God, she actually found a handsome husband who could cook and take care of kids!

She took a gamble, and a bicycle became a motorcycle!

At the moment, Qin Rou couldn't help but be overjoyed, and wanted to roll on the bed.

It wasn't that she didn't know that men in the era did not enter the kitchen, and all depended on women at home to control the stove, not to mention the men in the army, unless he had studied cooking.

Qin Rou originally thought that Lu Yan, a man with a bit of a macho tendency, would not enter the kitchen, but she did not expect that he would take the initiative to cook on the first day. Judging by the way he disliked the cafeteria food, maybe he could be a master chef?

Qin Rou took a good sleep and waited for dinner.

However— when Qin Rou saw a steamed bun that was bigger than her face, she found that she was too optimistic

Qin Rou stared at the big steamed bun in her hand. The steamed bun was bigger than her face, and it seemed to be shaped into a flower shape, dyed a little red.

She looked left and right. There were four people in the room, all of them holding big steamed buns, and the steamed bun in her hand was the biggest.

A young child's voice sounded, "Flower pastry."

Xia Mingxi shouted with joy, "Grandma Wang said that you need to eat flower pastry when you get married!"

Qin Rou: "…"

So was it a local custom?

Then she would try it.

Qin Rou lowered her head and took a bite. After chewing it, she found that the steamed bun didn't seem to contain sugar. Did Lu Yan forget to add sugar? It was tasteless, a bit dry after chewing a few bites.

But the big bun was really thick.

When she was biting the steamed bun, the other three pairs of eyes were on her. Lu Yan was holding a steamed bun in his hand and a basket of steamed buns on the side. He originally planned to make some ordinary steamed buns, but his little nephew ran to him and buzzed, "I want to give my little aunt a flower pastry, a big flower pastry…"

So he just kneaded a big one. If it weren't for the current conditions, and the steamer was too small, he could have made a bigger one.

Qin Rou finished a mouthful, took a sip of the seaweed soup next to her, and stopped choking.

"It's delicious, right?" Xia Mingxi happily nibbled at the steamed bun. He had to say that the steamed buns made by my uncle were very delicious.

Qin Rou glanced at her little nephew, Chen Jingyi who was also startled with the big bun.

Qin Rou: "…"

"Is there any stuffing?"

Lu Yan: "…Huh?"

Hearing the answer, it must be that there was no stuffing, it was a huge steamed bun.

"The bun is too big, I can't finish it."

"You can finish eating it for me."

It was made by him anyway, so she must give some face, or at least eat a lot.

In addition to the big steamed buns, there was a lot of seafood on the table. For example, a large pot of steamed oysters in a really large pot. Of course, it was estimated that there was not much meat in the pot. Unshelled oysters were steamed directly on the pot with water, and most of them had opened their mouths at the moment.

Another bowl of boiled clams, also known as huajia, and four steamed sea crabs, plus a plate of steamed prawns.

Qin Rou: "…"

Boiled, or steamed directly, with just some green onion, ginger and garlic added to it. Seafood, the fresher it was, the more authentic it got. Lu Yan's method was very authentic, the method of authentic seaside friends. The old fishermen ate like that, and they tasted the original flavor.

Lu Yan's platter was exceptionally beautiful, and the shrimps were exceptionally neatly arranged.

There were also two stacks of dipping sauce in the middle. One plate was probably made of raw soy sauce, vinegar, onion, ginger, and minced garlic, and the other plate was the chili sauce that Qin Rou bought in Guangcheng.

Qin Rou peeled two oysters. The meat of the oysters is thick and sweet, and although it was a bit fishy, it was not heavy. She could eat several oysters directly like that.

It tasted delicious even with some sauce, but Qin Rou ate steamed seafood, and generally didn't like dipping, so eating it directly was the most delicious and full of sweetness.

It was the advantage of being at the seaside. The seafood was really fresh, and it was delicious when it was steamed directly. Adding more ingredients would cover up its own taste. The same was true when one went to the store. If the seafood was not fresh, people would not dare to just boil it.

Lu Yan was quite considerate. He had good technique. Holding a knife, he opened oysters for her and the two children, peeled the shrimps, broke a crab in half, tickled the meat into a bowl, and opened the orange meat.

Qin Rou took a piece of crab meat with some sauce and put it in her mouth. The taste buds seemed to explode in an instant. It was delicious!

The ultimate experience of eating seafood!

Of course, part of it was due to Lu Yan's good steaming technique, part of it was his good way of peeling the shell, and then it was the texture and taste. The crab was slightly sticky and chewy.

Qin Rou pulled a large piece of fresh and sweet snow silk crab leg meat again.

Lu Yan was really good at peeling crabs. He didn't need anything to eat them. He could separate the shell and meat by swiping the legs with a small knife.

She had never eaten crabs and shrimps in such a civilized way.

– Peeling shrimp? Peeling crabs?

The real foodies ate directly.

Qin Rou ate happily with the two children, and did not forget to feed Lu Yan. Anyway, she had already drunk coconut juice, so Qin Rou simply didn't care. She tore off the big steamed bun in her hand, used her own chopsticks to fill it with crab meat, and then simply squeezed the dipping sauce with her hands and fed it to his mouth.

Lu Yan glanced at her with a smile, lowered his head to eat, and then continued to lower his eyes to peel off the shell.

It seemed that her finger was accidentally licked by the tip of his tongue, and the place where it was licked burned. Qin Rou quickly picked up an oyster and placed it in front of the two children.

Xia Mingxi, who was noisy at other times, was very quiet and serious when he ate, not to mention Chen Jingyi, who was beside him.

A light bulb hung above their heads, a bright yellow light bulb that casted dim yellow shadows, shrimps, white crab meat, and orange crab, the children under the lamp licked their fingers and ate. The man cut out a whole piece of snow-white crab meat with a knife…

The picture in front of her had a faint sense of warmth.

With the wind blowing in from the window, Qin Rou felt as if she had returned to her childhood, when her grandmother who grew up in a fishing village told her about the past, and that was exactly what happened.

The meal was quite satisfying.

But without some rice, Qin Rou always felt that something was missing.

Would they spend three hundred and sixty-five days a year eating buns everyday?

Qin Rou looked at Lu Yan, didn't ask, he definitely didn't know how to cook.

Although the seafood was delicious, she couldn't eat too much.

She wanted to eat garlic lettuce, choy sum, fried pork with corn kernels, claypot rice, fried sausages with snow peas, delicious soup, scallop noodles, shrimp slippery, and…

Thinking about it, she got a little hungry again. Qin Rou wondered how she became a foodie, only thinking about eating every day.

Probably in line with the style of the people of the era, everyone was greedy.

Lu Yan was cleaning up the tableware. The tableware was easy to clean up. Table had steamed seafood. He had to just throw away a bunch of waste seafood shells. Thinking that she wanted to grow vegetables, Qin Rou picked out a few more clean and large chunks of seafood shells, to be soaked in water, washed, dried, and used as fertilizer.

She thought with joy that when she was a kindergarten teacher, there was no waste, and she had to buy waste online to teach children how to "use waste". Now she really needed to learn to use existing resources reasonably.

The coconut that she drank would just be smashed and cut into coconut husk the day after. It would not just be used to squeeze coconut oil, but it could also be fed to chickens in the future.

Sleeping at night, the beds in both rooms were made, Lu Yan gave his little nephew a look. The little chubby kid was very polite, and dragged little Jingyi to the other room to sleep.

In the end, Qin Rou and Lu Yan were left alone. Of course, she couldn't go to the children's room with them.

Wasn't it obvious where to sleep?

They were going to share the same room the time only the two of them were left.

Qin Rou took a deep breath and told herself not to panic, what should come was coming.

After getting married, they were already husband and wife. After agreeing to live together, they naturally had to help each other and solve each other's physical needs.

Qiongzhou Island was hot in the daytime, but a little cold at night with the wind blowing. There was no urban heat island effect. It was not comparable to the future. Qin Rou rolled into bed, changed into pajamas, covered herself with a thin quilt, and lit a small orange lamp waiting for him to come.

She clutched the pillow, hoping that he would come to do things quickly, and sleep well after finishing things, but she was uneasy for a while, hoping that she would fall asleep quickly. It was best to sleep before he came, to escape for a day.

But how could she fall asleep at such a time?

Lu Yan finally pushed open the door, lifted the quilt, and laid down beside her. Qin Rou's pancake was almost fried with oil, and it was smoking.

She waited for him to do something, but he helped her squeeze the quilt, and the man said softly, "You are too tired today, go to bed early."

The crisis was resolved.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

Lu Yan hugged her from behind, Qin Rou didn't hide, and was cuddled by him obediently. After listening to what he said, Qin Rou was relieved at the same time, but in retrospect, it was a little unfortunate.

Qin Rou covered her face, what was she regretting?

It must be because of eating too many oysters at night making her cranky.

Maybe she was really tired. Qin Rou, who was thinking wildly, quickly fell asleep, while Lu Yan, who was beside her, gritted his teeth and opened his eyes.

His wife was shy during the day, but not at all at night. She rolled into his arms, which was really a torture.

The oysters should not be eaten.

Thinking of the look in his wife's eyes when she was drinking coconut water, Lu Yan, who originally wanted to do something, finally gave up.

But it didn't matter, they had a long time.

When Qin Rou woke up, it was already bright outside. Qiongzhou Island had always been bright early and dark late, so she might not be up late.

A round retro alarm clock was placed on the bedside table, indicating that it was seven o'clock, and it was still very early. The normal wake-up time for migrant workers, of course, if it was the morning rush hour subway to go to work, maybe it would be late.

It was still the most comfortable way to work from home.

Early in the morning, she used to go to eat rice rolls, drink a cup of freshly ground soy milk, and then went to the kindergarten to face the kids.

Qin Rou stretched her waist. She was still unemployed and had not found a job.

The man beside her was long gone. Qin Rou put on her clothes and walked out of the room. She found that the two little kids had also got up. Hearing her movement, Xia Mingxi said loudly, "Little aunt is up, good morning. The sun is shining!"

Qin Rou looked embarrassed.

He said it as if she was lazy, but it was still early, and it was the normal time for workers to get up.

That morning, Lu Yan consciously prepared breakfast for the three of them, including a large pot of porridge, a dish of pickles that she didn't know where he got it from, four boiled eggs, and a dish of chicken pancakes they bought in Guangcheng and a plate of sausages.

Qin Rou: "?!" My rice, my preserved meat.

It was Lu Yan who made the move first.

Her slender rice was boiled into porridge, and her roast meat was so steamed…

—He didn't have the right to speak if he didn't master the kitchen!

This bad guy!

Why didn't he eat steamed buns in the morning?!

Get out of her kitchen!

The kitchen must be seized, which was a battleground for the military.

Qin Rou ate breakfast silently with tears in her eyes. The stack of sausages made her heart hurt. This, this… It was actually steamed sausages. It would be great if they were steamed on top of rice. The fat of sausages and the fragrance of sausages would all melt into the rice.

Instead of… Savage!

Qin Rou looked at Lu Yan and said coolly, "What do you want for lunch?"

It was time for her to ask the question.

Lu Yan answered, "Let's make dumplings."

He loved dumplings since he was a child, and he had time that day, so he had to make dumplings.

Qin Rou: "I don't know how to make dumplings!"

She rarely cooked dumplings, and usually wanted to eat steamed dumplings and the like. She went to the breakfast shop to buy them early in the morning. Who would make dumplings by themselves? Only when the school and work unit were engaged in team building activities, would they buy some dumplings skin, homemade fillings, and symbolically wrap a few dumplings for comfort.

If one wanted to eat dumplings, the filling was easy to make, but how did they get the dumpling skin?

No one sold dumpling skins in that era.

Lu Yan was startled, "There are still people who don't know how to make dumplings?!"

Qin Rou: "…"

Was it so amazing to know how to make dumplings? Qin Rou took out a rolling pin from the kitchen and wanted to hammer him!

She looked down at the rolling pin in her hand. When was this rolling pin bought?

Before he was almost beaten by her, Lu Yan went out. There were always a lot of things to buy on the first day they moved to their new home. Although they bought a lot in Guangcheng, he still had to buy some belongings as he arrived in Lucheng.

Lu Yan had just arrived at the base, and he still had two days to settle in the house, so he still had two days of vacation.

Qin Rou gave him a few hundred yuan. Lu Yan drove a military transport vehicle and went to the villagers to get a batch of furniture, simple tables, chairs, benches, wardrobes, bookshelves, and he also went to the old carpenter in the village to buy wood.

Qin Rou asked him to make some rectangular wooden troughs and square wooden troughs to grow vegetables on the terrace on the second floor in the future. She explained the size and depth, and Lu Yan said that he would go get some wood in the afternoon to make it himself.

He couldn't handle complex furniture, but he could make simple wooden troughs by himself.

Qin Rou was quite surprised by that.

Lu Yan came back after pulling a batch of furniture, and brought back a Phoenix bicycle and a dilapidated small freezer. Qin Rou was not surprised to see the bicycle. She had discussed it with Lu Yan before, and she definitely needed a bicycle at home.

Qin Rou also had a driver's license before. Although she had a four-wheel driver's license, she chose to use bicycles and Didi taxis when she traveled.

"This is… a freezer?!"

Qin Rou was surprised when she saw the dilapidated small freezer. Although the small freezer's paint was a little worn out, it was still working!

The small broken freezer was very small, about one-third of the cube. Unlike modern refrigerators, it had no part for refrigeration and preservation, and could only be used for frozen food.

"Well, be careful when you use it. Don't power it on when it's raining or there is a typhoon."

"It used to be filled with medical herbs, and it might still smell like medicine. I asked someone to disinfect it."

The freezer used to store the medical herbs was half obsolete, and Lu Yan bought it from someone with money.

"Yeah," Qin Rou expressed her understanding. It would be nice if it could be used. At least it was a freezer that used to hold medicinal herbs, not a freezer in the forensic room. Nothing strange had ever been frozen.

In the future, if she threw a few salted fish in there, how could it still smell like medicine?

In that era, it was very good to have a freezer. The refrigeration equipment had not yet been popularized for civilian use, and there were no refrigerators. Most of the refrigeration was used in the medical department. After the economic liberalization, it would switch to civilian use and sell refrigerators.

The freezer couldn't be used for a long time, as to be prepared for frequent power outages.

Qin Rou was very curious about how Lu Yan thought of getting a small freezer.

She asked, "Do you have a freezer on board?"

"Yes."

While being at sea for a month, one naturally needed a refrigerator to store some frozen sublimated vegetables.

Qin Rou also unexpectedly learned that some boats had ovens!

Ovens?

How strange!

After thinking about it later, it was also true that when eating and living on board, there was a kitchen on board. Many of them were imitations of Soviet style eating habits who used ovens.

One could eat baked bread with an oven, but steamed bun lovers like Lu Yan definitely didn't like bread.

Seeing that Lu Yan brought back the bicycle and the small freezer, Qin Rou decided to obey him and eat dumplings at noon.

Just dumplings, let him roll the dough by himself, Qin Rou really didn't know how to make dumplings.

While kneading the dough, Lu Yan told her that the base had a special unit responsible for going out to sea to catch fish. Every time it was in large quantities, each team would go to pull supplies, and a small part of them would be for colony members. The price was cheap.

"Pay attention to the time there's a tide. Sooner or later, you can go to the beach with my sister-in-law to catch seafood…"

"By the way, be careful when passing the coconut trees with the children, so as not to be smashed by the fallen coconuts."

There were really people in the world who had been crushed to death by coconuts. Coconut trees grew taller one by one. Coconuts grew on trees. If no one picked them, they would fall off on their own after a long time. If they fell on someone's head, it could be life-threatening.

"Well, I see."

Lu Yan kneaded the dough, while Qin Rou was preparing dumpling fillings. When he brought the freezer back, he brought some seafood on his way. In the place, people relied on the mountains to eat the mountain food and the sea to eat the seafood. People didn't grow vegetables in their homes so they could only eat seafood.

Some time ago, the land was hit by a typhoon, and many vegetables suffered from setbacks and pests. During those days, everyone had nothing to eat.

Qin Rou found the mung beans and was about to grow them into bean sprouts, but found that Lu Yan had soaked soybeans a day before, and it seemed that he was also very experienced.

Just wait a few more days to eat the bean sprouts!

Lu Yan also shared his experience and taught her how to grow bean sprouts. Qin Rou hummed in her heart that when she taught children how to grow bean sprouts, she was monitoring and observing them in real time.

Qin Rou prepared two kinds of fillings, one was tilapia (fish) filling and the other was squid filling. She just added a little oil and pickled ginger and garlic, and finally knocked two eggs into it.

When Lu Yan woke up, he started rolling the dumpling dough. Qin Rou brought the two children over curiously, and the four of them made dumplings together.

Lu Yan gave her a jade rolling pin, but Qin Rou felt it was too heavy, so she replaced it with a wooden one.

Lu Yan: "…" In the end, he used it himself.

Qin Rou saw that he took a small piece of dough, sprinkled some flour, rolled the rolling pin on it, and a dumpling wrapper appeared.

It looked so simple too!

It was Qin Rou's turn to do it herself. With flour on her hands, she picked up the rolling pin and kneaded it on the dough. The final product turned out to be…

It seemed that the rolling pin was not very obedient.

How did it turn into a polygon? It was like an excavator that left countless marks on the muddy road after the rain.

The dumpling dough was not round. She rolled a piece here and rolled a piece there. She was obviously using a rolling pin, why was she not flexible at all when kneading it?

Lu Yan looked up to see her finished product.

It turned out that there were really people in the world who couldn't make dumplings.

Qin Rou: "…"

"Look at my movements."

"Do you want to roll the dumplings wrappers?"

Rolling dough?

Qin Rou imagined herself as a chef who threw dumplings in a hot pot restaurant. She worked hard to rotate and knead it with the rolling pin. After much effort, she finally came out with an oval dough, although its edges and corners were still not perfect, but at least it worked.

It was a bit strange that the middle was thick, and the surrounding area was too thin.

Lu Yan: "…I'll do it."

Qin Rou: "?!"

He actually disliked her work!

Well, it was true that the rolling was not very good, but life couldn't be just dumplings.

Qin Rou gave up, so Lu Yan rolled the dumpling wrappers, and she and the two children made dumplings. Of course, these two children could only be the viewers.

Chen Jingyi had improved a lot after getting along with the optimist Xiao Pang these days, and it was more fun to be with playmates of the same age.

Although Chen Jingyi was often in a daze and was reluctant to speak out. Xia Mingxi was a good social person and couldn't stand loneliness.

These two children were also interesting, one did not like to respond to people, and the other had a social ceiling.

Putting them together, Qin Rou was very relieved, Chen Jingyi couldn't act like he didn't hear even if he wanted to.

The two of them had never quarreled. Chen Jingyi was not someone who could get angry and quarrel with others, but Xia Mingxi, with a big heart, was especially able to explain himself, a boy with no grudges, and happy personality.

One person rolled the dough, and one person made dumplings. The husband and wife made dumplings very fast, and in a short while they made hundreds of big dumplings.

Qin Rou looked at the big dumplings that looked like golden ingots in front of her, and suddenly realized that making dumplings was really a trouble-free job.

It made her a little unaccustomed to Cantonese cuisine.

It was so lively that everyone could come and participate together. Qin Rou had never made dumplings with anyone before, not to mention the people around her were her "family".

It was the first time for Qin Rou, who had lived alone for more than ten years, to have so many family members. She liked the atmosphere of making dumplings collaboratively.

"Are you going to put the dumplings directly in water?"

"Yes."

"Can this dumpling filling be cooked? We should steam the dumpling filling first, otherwise the dumpling dough will be torn, and the filling will not be cooked."

"Add cold water."

" Oh."

It turned out that they had to add cold water in the middle.

Qin Rou watched him cook dumplings from the side, and found that boiling dumplings was quite simple, just adding cold water and keeping the lid open. Anyway, she had never cooked dumplings.

No, she had cooked dumplings in community activities, but they cooked dumplings there in soup.

What Lu Yan cooked turned out to be big dumplings without the dough getting torned!

Of course, there was also her credit for it, after all, she made the dumplings! Although Qin Rou didn't know how to roll the dough, the dumplings she made by herself were very beautiful, and they were just fat dumplings the size of gold ingots.

A total of four pots were cooked. Lu Yan ate a large pot, Qin Rou ate a small pot, and the two children ate two small pots.

Some dumplings were left unfinished, so Qin Rou kept them in the freezer with two stacks of sauce in the middle.

Qin Rou took a large squid-filled dumpling and found that the taste was not bad. The dumpling layer was firm, the eggs were fragrant, so delicious that the tongue danced happily.

She directly took a dumpling.

It was delicious without the sauce. Qin Rou liked to bite the dumpling skin and the delicious soup splashed out. The deliciousness of the fish had long been melted into the soup. It was moist and fresh.

It was not bad to eat dumplings, of course, it was even better if she could eat them in the morning.

She must save the frozen dumplings in the freezer for the next morning!

After resting for a while in the afternoon, two umbrellas were held in the yard. The military umbrellas were very large. One umbrella could hide four people. Two umbrellas were equivalent to two small pergolas. Although the weather in Qiongzhou Island was hot, as long as the sunlight was blocked, the gentle sea breeze blowing on the body was like a natural fan. It was extraordinarily comfortable and did not feel annoying.

Lu Yan helped her make a wooden trough under the umbrella. Qin Rou rode a bicycle and went to buy vegetable seeds, as well as an adult hen and seven or eight chicks from where Sister Yang recommended her.

Qin Rou used bamboo to make them a small home in the yard, and simply built a small bamboo shed for shade. Her hand work was good, and she had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. In addition, she used to be a kindergarten teacher, and was engaged in environmental creation all day long. She couldn't help turning the place into a hobby garden.

She still felt dissatisfied, she was really forced to die of obsessive-compulsive disorder, these bamboos didn't look good when inserted.

Fortunately, there was no shortage of wood on Qiongzhou Island, so Qin Rou drew the design and asked Lu Yan, who was working as a carpenter to make wooden troughs, to help her make the wooden fence.

The wooden fence was not complicated. The vertical fence and two horizontal fences look like countless "井" characters. The small wooden fence couldn't block anything other than chickens.

Qin Rou: "In the future, we can also make a wooden fence outside our house."

How could the creation of the environment not be beautiful! If it was too ugly, it would affect the aesthetic taste of the cute kids at home.

Fortunately, Lu Yan, who was born in the military, also has a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder. He nailed the planks neatly, and the wooden grooves were very beautiful.

Lu Yan: "…" Did he have to learn carpentry in the future?

He found that his wife's carpentry work was also good. The husband and wife made wooden fences together. One handed nails and one stroke the hammer. The two children were playing with chickens in the yard.

The shell of coconut they ate had been cut open, and the white coconut inside was spread out in the yard for drying. After drying, it could be used as fertilizer or be fed to chickens.

Of course, they shouldn't feed the chickens too much coconut, because it was high in fat.

The couple finished the small fence. Qin Rou asked Lu Yan to help her turn over a small piece of land in the yard.

She planned to grow lettuce, leeks, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, ginger and garlic on the patio first.

These were more suitable for planting on the balcony, and they were relatively simple. They were household items. Qin Rou knew how to grow them.

If planted on the terrace on the second floor, if there was a strong wind and heavy rain, it could still be rescued into the house. Qin Rou had considered it very carefully.

Lu Yan picked up the hoe and looked at the ground in front of him and was startled.

He was making a fence and plowing over the ground. How could an army officer ever do such a thing?

—Was this the trouble after having a family?