Chapter 156 - Families of satellite cities (1)
Taotao took Xiao Feibai to become a family member in the satellite city.
As the Chinese New Year is approaching, there are always some family members who bring their children here to accompany the men during the Chinese New Year.
As a sign of welcome, the base has specially opened the family area. It is said that this area is not open at ordinary times, and is only open to family members during the winter and summer seasons.
This area is also underground, but away from the factory, there is not so much noise.
There are about a dozen couples rooms with toilets and floor heating. And there are two rooms specially opened for children: one is a room for young dolls to play with, there are rocking horses, carpets, a few plush balls, etc.; the other is a relatively large room. The room where the children stay is actually a library where they can do their homework~www.mtlnovel.com~ Song Zhi said to Taotao, “There are only twelve rooms in the family area. But there are also many people who apply to the unit. , there are twenty or thirty people. I thought about it, but I didn’t report it…”
Tao Tao also felt that it did not matter.
The main thing is that Song Zhi’s single dormitory has been remodeled so that she and Xiao Feibai both feel comfortable and like it very much. If you still apply for a couple’s room, you will have to spend more time, energy and money to change it… Besides, she told her brothers and sisters that she will live in the satellite city for a week or so, and then go back to the scientific research station to see her greenhouse. of.
There’s no need to fuss too much.
So during the day, Taotao and Xiao Feibai went to the family area to play, and at night they went back to Song Zhi’s dormitory to sleep.
This year, there are 27 families with about 40 people in the satellite city for Chinese New Year. There are three or four elderly people, a dozen children, and the rest are all daughters-in-law. The older ones are in their 40s and 50s, and the youngest are in their early twenties. Pregnant woman with a big belly.
The family members of the satellite city’s family group have a higher education level, and they have something to say with Taotao. And the children they bring are also more polite, and Xiao Feibai also prefers to play with these children.
Of course, most of the family members are happy to celebrate the New Year, and some people are not.
XCMG’s wife, Ding Changxiu, came to discuss divorce with him.
There are three reasons: First, she and XCMG have been married for thirteen years without having a child; second, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is tense because she has no children and her mother-in-law is always long-winded; third, she and XCMG have been separated for a long time…
But XCMG is obviously not willing to divorce.
What he meant was that since his wife and mother couldn’t get along, he simply left his hometown and let her stay in the satellite city as a family member.
Ding Changxiu did not do it again, saying that she stayed in her hometown, she still has a job as a kindergarten teacher in an agency, and came here to be a family member? In the satellite city, no family members stay here for a long time.
——The key point is that in such a place, there is no place in front of the village and no shop in the back, and it is full of yellow sand! And 99% of the hundreds of people in the satellite city are all men, so staying here…it’s hard to even find a **** to chat with.
It’s okay to come here to visit relatives for a short time, but if you stay here for a long time, you will be suffocated!
Who wants to stay here? !
But as the Chinese New Year approaches, the people in the satellite cities get busier.
Song Zhi was so busy every day that he wanted to meet his wife and children only at three meals a day. Sometimes he can’t come back until one or two o’clock at night… Sometimes he just fell asleep when he came back, and another assistant came to call him, so he had to leave immediately; sometimes he didn’t even have time to eat, so Tao Tao had to give him a meal. After sending it, you can take the child to take a look at him at the door of the workshop.
XCMG is no exception.
He really wanted to mend the crack with his wife, but… he was always stumped by work, and although the two lived in the same room, it was difficult to even meet!
Ding Changxiu was also furious.
In other words, she came here specifically to divorce him. But after all, they have been married for more than ten years. If she really has no feelings, she doesn’t have to make a special trip.
So it’s true that you want to get divorced, and it’s true that you want to save.
Even if she stayed here all the time, the man didn’t have time to pay attention to her. She was angry and often had a sad face.
So family members often persuade her, comfort her.
On this day, Taotao and her family were sitting in the game room, chatting while watching the young children play.
Tao Tao and several young daughters-in-law were there, Ding Changxiu was there, and three or four old ladies were there.
These old ladies came with their daughter-in-law and grandson. In the past, they came every other year and became familiar with each other. Tao Tao and a young daughter-in-law named Fang Ying were new arrivals this year.
Fang Ying’s child Liu Mingming is more than two years old this year, half a year older than Xiao Feibai.
Mingming’s character is very domineering, and Xiao Feibai doesn’t want to play with him. But because only the two of them are about the same age, they always get together to play together from time to time.
Fang Ying seems… She is quite good at being a shopkeeper. Ever since she knew that Ding Changxiu was a kindergarten teacher, she often handed over her son Mingming to Ding Changxiu’s care, and ran back to the room to sleep by herself.
Ding Changxiu has a good personality and takes care of Liu Mingming patiently.
At this moment, Taotao had just chatted with a few old ladies, and Xiao Feibai came over with tears in her eyes, holding Taotao’s hand and making a fuss to leave.
Taotao glanced at it – a soft ball that Xiao Feibai likes to play with the most, has been trampled underfoot, and has already deformed. And he looked at Xiao Feibai with provocative eyes.
Xiao Feibai grabbed Taotao’s clothes and pulled her out desperately, “Mom! Look at Yaya!”
——When I first came to the satellite city, Taotao planted a few holly japonicas at the gate of the ground warehouse. So Song Zhi went to pour some water every now and then. Now the row of holly japonica has survived, and even in the snowy weather, they stubbornly kept a few pitiful green leaves.
Every day when the mother and son went to walk and play on the ground, Xiao Feibai always went to see the row of sand holly.
Seeing her son’s tearful appearance, Taotao had to get up and said to the old ladies, “Mother-in-law, I’ll take him out for a walk… This guy can’t stay still!”
The old ladies quickly explained to her—
“You have to put on a large cotton coat when you go outside, the snow hasn’t melted yet, it’s cold!”
“Come back early, it’s cold outside, hot inside, and it’s easy to get sick when it’s cold and hot.”
“Tao Tao, do you want to help you get a seat for lunch later?”
“You have to put on a padded coat yourself! Put on gloves!”
Taotao responded with a smile and left with Xiao Feibai.
Obviously want to chase Xiao Feibai——
He was persuaded by Ding Changxiu.
When she left the game room, Tao Tao heard the sound of howling.
She took her son back to the room first, the mother and son put on thick cotton coats, and then went to the ground.
The mother and son built a small snowman beside a road shoveled by the staff.
Of course, the whole process is full of peaches.
Xiao Feibai did a lot of disservice…but in the end, an ugly little snowman was built.
Until Song Zhi came to find the two of them to go back to dinner.
Xiao Feibai’s nose was frozen red, but he was very excited. He pointed at the little snowman and shouted, “Daddy! Snowman! Head! Eyes! Nose! Mouth…he’s laughing!”
Song zhi stared at the ugly little snowman for a while, and said, “Dad’s room has a pot of vines, and it still has green leaves… Let’s pull a few pieces and make eyes and mouths for the little snowman!”
Tao Tao was startled, “No way!”
Song Zhi and Xiao Feibai were both stunned.
Xiao Feibai said quickly: “Dad doesn’t pull the leaves! All the plants…trees! Grass! Hair! They are all my mother’s sweethearts! Don’t pull the leaves, don’t pull the leaves!”
Song Zhi was even more surprised and looked at his son.
——The child is still so young, he has already realized this?
He thought for a while and said, “Then let’s go to the kitchen after dinner to see if there are any carrots and cabbage moss…”
You can use these colorful ingredients to decorate the little snowman.
Tao Tao’s complexion turned slightly, and she nodded.
So Song Zhi picked up his son and walked towards the dungeon with Taotao, asking, “It’s so cold outside, isn’t it bad to stay in the game room and play with toys?”
Xiao Feibai complained aggrievedly, “Obviously not crooked! Obviously bullying Xiao Feifei! Mingming’s mother is sleeping! Not here! Obviously doing five things, no mother to care! Xiaofeifei doesn’t play with Mingming!”
Song Zhi was taken aback.
Tao Tao said, “You can work with peace of mind, and the child will be watched by me!” Then she said to her son, “It’s useless to ask your father for this kind of thing, it’s up to me!”
Song Zhi didn’t speak for a long time.
When going to the dining hall for lunch, Fang Ying and her son Liu Mingming were sitting at the table next to Song Zhi’s family. So Song Zhi saw with his own eyes… how Liu Mingming bullied his son.
——I saw Fang Ying holding a magazine and eating while reading the magazine, completely ignoring Mingming. Mingming grabbed the food in the lunch box and threw it towards Xiao Feibai.
The children didn’t have much energy, and all the food was thrown on the table, on the chair, and on the aisle.
Xiao Feibai’s attention was clearly attracted. He looked at Mingming, very unhappy, and didn’t even bother to eat.
But Fang Ying didn’t even raise her head.
Song Zhi was angry and wanted to stand up and call Fang Ying to let her take care of the child.
Taotao held Song Rank down, first turned her head and smiled at Mingming, then lowered her voice and said to her son, “Xiao Feifei, pick a vegetable from your bowl and pretend to put it on your mother’s head.”
Xiao Feibai was stunned.
——Mother never allowed him to have fun while eating, let alone wasting food.
Put meals on mom’s head?
Xiao Feibai looked embarrassed.
“Hurry up!” Taotao urged, “…However, only this time is allowed by my mother. You can do this, but not in the future.”
Xiao Feibai hesitated for a moment, then picked up a… chicken bone that he had just eaten, and placed it on top of his mother’s head.
Of course, Tao Tao wouldn’t really let the child put the oily chicken bone on his head, so he grabbed the chicken bone with his hands and took the initiative to put it on his head.
Of course, she didn’t really let it go, she blocked it with her hands.
——Then, Taotao turned her head and glanced at Mingming again, showing an arrogant and provocative smile at Liu Mingming.
Sure enough, Liu Mingming was not convinced.
He directly picked up the lunch box and fell on top of his mother Fang Ying’s head…
Then Liu Mingming also showed the same arrogant and provocative expression towards Tao Tao.
In an instant, all the rice grains and vegetable leaves in the lunch box were piled on top of Fang Ying’s head, like a hill. The oily soup even trickled down her hair slowly, dripping all over her neck and collar.
Taotao happily gave Liu Mingming a thumbs up.
Song Zhi was the first to laugh out loud.
Fang Ying: …
She took a deep breath, raised her eyes to look at her son, her eyes burst with anger, and she slapped directly!
But Fang Ying’s slap failed to hit Liu Mingming, and she was pulled by Taotao on the way, “Fang Ying, the child is still young, if you do something wrong, teach him well, there is no need to do it.”
Fang Ying looked at Taotao coldly, and her eyes finally fell on Taotao’s wrist – Taotao’s delicate and snow-white wrist was wearing a small and exquisite Shanghai brand women’s watch.
This was bought when Taotao and Song zhi got married. After wearing it for so many years, the metal watchband was still as white as new, almost glowing with a soft white light, making her hands more delicate and clean.
Fang Ying stared at Tao Tao’s watch for a long time without saying a word.
Then stand up-
Tao Tao naturally let go.
Fang Ying directly picked up Liu Mingming and walked towards the dormitory angrily.
Liu Mingming struggled desperately, “I don’t want you! I don’t want you! I want my dad! I want my dad woohoo…”
Tao Tao and Song Zhi looked at each other.
In the afternoon, Liu Mingming did not come out to play.
So Fei Bai stayed in the playroom and had a good time with the other kids.
During dinner, Tao Tao finally saw Fang Ying, her husband Liu Xiaoxuan, and their child Liu Mingming. Liu Mingming was obviously slumped, half of his cheeks were red and swollen, his energy was not very good, and he had no intention to eat.
Fang Ying was still reading this magazine.
Liu Xiaoxuan is very concerned about his son. Seeing that his son will not eat this or that, he is a little anxious, and even wants to feed him…
Fang Ying drank lowly, “Why do you care about him? He wants to eat, but he doesn’t want to be pulled down!”
Liu Xiaoxuan embarrassed, “After all, the child is still young…it needs to grow up.”
Fang Ying rolled her eyes at her husband.
Liu Mingming ignored his father, lying on the table tilted his head to look at Xiao Feibai.
Xiaofeibai was sitting upright and eating seriously.
The canteen provides family meals for family members and children, and each person can choose a chicken leg or a chicken wing.
Of course, workers can also eat chicken, but only chicken nuggets.
Xiao Feibai ate a round of chicken thighs, and found that only the outer edge had a salty taste, and the inside was not tasty, so he pouted.
Song Zhi took the chicken thigh, poked it with chopsticks and cut it apart, dipped it in the gravy and piled it in his son’s rice bowl.
Xiao Feibai eats deliciously.
Liu Mingming couldn’t help licking his lips and said to Liu Xiaoxuan, “Dad, daddy will cut the chicken thighs for me!”
Liu Xiaoxuan followed his son’s line of sight and glanced at the interaction between Song zhi and his son, and then he also followed the same pattern and took apart the chicken thighs.
Fang Ying frowned and said, “Just get used to him!”
Liu Mingming lowered his head.
Liu Xiaoxuan lowered his voice, “The child is still young…”
Fang Ying was so annoyed, she stood up and took the magazine and left, before leaving, she said, “Looking upset! You can take care of it if you like!”
Liu Mingming looked at the back of his mother leaving, and wanted to cry.
Liu Xiaoxuan sighed, and quickly dismantled the chicken thighs and piled them all in his son’s bowl. Then she closed the lid of Fang Ying’s untouched meal, stood up, and said to her son, “Mingming, sit here and eat, Dad will send this box of lunch to Mom, and come back right away, okay?”
Liu Mingming pouted and said, “Yeah”, and imitated Xiao Feibai’s way of cooking rice seriously.
Liu Xiaoxuan originally wanted to ask Song zhi to help him watch his son, but just happened to see Ding Changxiu coming over. Thinking that Ding Changxiu would be more suitable, he asked her for his son, and hurriedly went to the dormitory with the lunch box.
Ding Changxiu watched Liu Mingming eat.
Song Zhi said to Taotao, “The unit has issued movie tickets, and we will go to the city tomorrow!”
Tao Tao thought it was strange, “You still have time to watch a movie? Isn’t that time-consuming!”
Song Zhi said with a smile: “This is a special benefit for employees who have their family members to visit their relatives. Thinking about the family members coming all the way, we all worked overtime… I was afraid that there would be problems in the relationship between husband and wife, so we gave them two days off. We went to the county town to play. There are shuttles to and from the hotel, the guest house is also arranged uniformly, and a dinner at a state-run restaurant is also arranged…”
Tao Tao was happy, “So we can live for a day!”
It would be nice to not have to rush back and forth in a hurry!
Xiao Feibai asked suspiciously, “Mom watching a movie? Watching a movie?” He hasn’t seen a movie yet!
Tao Tao explained to her son what a movie is.
Song Zhi smiled.
After dinner, the family of three went back to the dormitory to put on heavy cotton coats, then went to the ground to watch the sunset, take a walk, and then return to the underground city…
It was still Ding Changxiu who accompanied Liu Mingming.
Fang Ying and Liu Xiaoxuan did not see a shadow at all.
When Taotao and Song zhi fell asleep at night, Taotao couldn’t help but said: “Why does Fang Ying bring her children so much peace of mind, this is too much, her children did not study well, she is definitely the main responsibility… She also Too cold blooded!”
Song Zhi and Liu Xiaoxuan were in different departments and were not familiar with each other, so they were not good at commenting, so they hugged Taotao and said in a low voice, “What do you care about her? You care about me…”
After a long while, Tao Tao was so angry that she bit him.
Song Zhi sneered.
Early the next morning, all the family members put on bright and tidy clothes, and happily went to the gate of the satellite city to gather, and then boarded a shuttle bus that was specially rented from the satellite city to the county guest house, and the seats were all covered with soft cushions. .
Xiao Feibai was still young, so Song Zhi’s family of three were assigned to double seats.
It was the first time for Xiao Feibai to sit in a car with such a soft cushion, and crawled around curiously on the seat.
Fortunately, Taotao and Song Zhi were not fat, so the two of them sat on both sides as much as possible, and also made room for Xiao Feibai to crawl around.
Liu Mingming’s family also sat in double seats, but they were separated from Xiao Feibai by a few rows. He also wanted to step on the soft cushion out of curiosity… but was reprimanded by his mother Fang Ying.
The shuttle starts.
Taotao no longer let Xiao Feibai stand on the seat, but let him sit down.
The seat cushion was soft, and the window was closed… The car was warm and a little stuffy. Taotao’s family had all taken off their cotton-padded clothes. Xiao Feibai slept comfortably in the seat back with his head resting on Taotao’s. On his legs, he was covered with a padded coat with Taotao, while Taotao was next to Song zhi, and his upper body fell into Song zhi’s arms…
The family of three slept together all the way.
So much so that when the shuttle bus took everyone to the guest house in the county seat, the family of three was flushed and in high spirits because they had made up for nearly three hours of sleep.
Chief Ma of the unit’s logistics department is in charge of this event, and he will assign rooms to everyone first.
——The rooms of Song zhi, Liu Xiaoxuan and XCMG are right next to each other. XCMG and his wife live in the middle room, while Song Zhi’s family and Liu Xiaoxuan’s family live next to XCMG’s family.
After the room was divided, Section Chief Ma told everyone: You can have lunch at your own pace. Remember to watch the movie at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. After dinner, everyone will go to the movie. The movie ends at 4 o’clock. Have dinner together. There was no activity on the second day. Breakfast was eaten outside at my own expense. Lunch was arranged by the unit and was eaten in the dining hall of the guest house. After lunch, everyone went back by bus.
Everyone will appreciate:
——From now on until 2:00 pm, you can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy and buy.
——After dinner, you can stroll around the night (black) market.
——Fix the leaks tomorrow morning. If there is anything you haven’t bought the day before, buy them all at this time.
The Tao Tao family took the keys and went to the room to put their luggage first.
As a result, I heard the XCMG couple in the next room arguing——
“I really can’t live this day! Lao Xu, let’s leave!”
“I don’t agree…Changxiu, we’ve been married for thirteen years, plus the time we’ve been in love… We’ve been together for fifteen years, and my, my feelings for you haven’t changed! I also believe you’re towards me… “
“I can’t stand it! You have no idea how your mother treated me!”
“Don’t pay attention to her. You live with me and you don’t live with her… Changxiu, why don’t I report to my superiors and transfer you to Lanxi City?”
“When you transfer me to Lanxi City, doesn’t the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law between me and your mother cease to exist? Your mother has only one son! What’s the use of you transferring me here, wouldn’t she also come along? ?”
“Then what do you say?”
“divorce!”
“Changxiu, I don’t agree, I will never agree to divorce… I understand, my mother is targeting you because we don’t have children, right? Well, then today… No, tomorrow, we will go to the county town early in the morning. Let’s go to the hospital for a checkup! Changxiu, we don’t have any children, it’s not necessarily your problem, it’s probably mine! If it can be proved that I can’t have children, my mother can’t do anything to you, do you think so? ?”
Ding Changxiu cried, “What if it’s my problem?”
XCMG said gently: “It’s not your problem! Changxiu, you have to believe me…it can’t be your problem.”
Ding Changxiu was stunned, “You mean…”
——Even if there is something wrong with her body and it is not suitable for her to conceive a child, is he going to take it all over his head?
Xu Gong said: “Compared to the child, I think you are more important to me. Changxiu, if you really mind… I can also report to the superior and ask us to adopt a child…”
Ding Changxiu was stunned for a while, then weeping, “Your mother is fine everywhere, and I feel very distressed! As long as I cough, she will be in a hurry, stew me brown sugar and **** water, and give me a hot water bottle… But She just thinks I can’t give birth to a child, uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…”
“Children are really not important,” Xu Gong said to his wife, “…Changxiu, you are the most important!”
Hearing this from the corner, Taotao smiled at Song Zhi and whispered, “The sound insulation of the house here is so bad!”
Song Zhi understood what she meant and said in a meaningful way: “Don’t worry, I won’t let others hear your voice.”
Tao Tao’s pretty face was crimson, and she gave him a fierce look.
A family of three is ready to go out.
As soon as the door opened…
I saw Fang Ying and Liu Xiaoxuan take Liu Mingming to knock on XCMG’s door.
Ding Changxiu came to open the door.
Seeing that Ding Changxiu’s eyes were so red and swollen, Liu Xiaoxuan froze for a moment and asked, “Sister-in-law, are you…”
Ding Changxiu said quickly, “I’m fine! What’s the matter?”
Liu Xiaoxuan suddenly realized that Ding Changxiu seemed to be here to quarrel with Xugong to discuss divorce?
He hesitated a little, but couldn’t open his mouth.
——The husband and wife have enough troubles, let alone the matter of helping their own children! Besides, he could only see his son once a year, and he wanted to get close to his son.
Here Liu Xiaoxuan is still hesitating, while Fang Ying has already said honestly:
“Sister Ding, that’s what’s going on! Xiaoxuan and I want to go out for a walk, but it’s not suitable to bring Mingming! Since you’re fine, let me see Mingming!”
Ding Changxiu hesitated for a moment, then responded, “Okay!”
Fang Ying pulled Liu Xiaoxuan away.
Liu Mingming looked at the background of his parents and was so aggrieved that he wanted to cry.
And when Fang Ying and his wife passed by the Taotao family, Liu Xiaoxuan greeted Song Zhi, “Are you going out too?”
Song Zhi gave a “hmm” and said, “I finally made a trip to the city, and I’m going to take the children for a good stroll.”
Hearing this, Liu Xiaoxuan looked back at his son with guilt, and said guiltily, “Mingming, Dad came back and bought you a candied haws!”
Fang Ying took Liu Xiaoxuan’s hand and left without looking back.
Liu Mingming wanted to cry even more.
The Tao Tao family also left the guest house.
However, everyone’s ideas are actually the same, so the destination is also amazingly unified.
– Go to the supply and marketing agency first.
Song Zhi has already accumulated a lot of votes. At the moment, Taotao bought soap, toothpaste, shampoo, etc. according to Song zhi’s ticket, and at Song zhi’s request, bought him two men’s handkerchiefs to change.
In fact, yesterday and the day before yesterday stayed in the dormitory with nothing to do. Tao Tao had washed several of his old handkerchiefs, twisted the edges again, and embroidered small flowers on the four corners.
The old veil has long since become a new veil.
But he wanted some new handkerchiefs, what a deal!
After buying a new handkerchief for Song Zhi, Taotao exchanged tickets with several of Song Zhi’s colleagues and family members on the spot. They want industrial tickets and cloth tickets, but Tao Tao wants to buy a pair of leather shoes with cotton lining for each of the family of three…
Several family members pieced together for a while, and finally the exchange was successful.
So everyone in the Taotao family owned a pair of thick fur shoes, weighed two pounds of various cakes, and two pounds of candied dried fruit.
Taotao stuffed a piece of candied apricots in his son’s mouth, and told him that he must not swallow it whole. You have to hold it for a while, until the apricots are not so sweet and soft, and you can swallow them after chewing.
Xiao Feibai nodded again and again, squinting his eyes with sweet and sour apricot preserves, his small mouth was stuffed bulging like a cute raccoon.
Tao Tao took another piece and wanted to stuff it to Song Zhi.
However, when I held the two kilograms of candied dried fruit in my hand, I felt that it was heavy and heavy, but there were only a few pieces…
Song Zhi couldn’t bear it, so he shook his head and said he didn’t want to eat it. In fact, he wanted to save it for the mother and son to eat more.
As a result, Tao Tao Qiang stuffed it into his mouth.
Song Zhi was very helpless, frowning at his wife.
Taotao picked up a honey-stained bayberry and stuffed it into her mouth. After thinking about it, she picked up another raisin and stuffed it into her mouth… and showed an expression of enjoyment.
Song Zhi laughed dumbly, “Is it so delicious?”
“Of course it’s delicious!” Tao Tao said.
Song Zhi thought for a while, “Then I’ll find them to buy some cake tickets later, and then we’ll buy them again.”
Tao Tao nodded desperately.
Liu Xiaoxuan stood aside and waited for Fang Ying to buy something. Seeing the interaction between Song Zhi and Tao Tao, he was very envious. Especially when Tao Tao was shopping with his family members, Song Zhi took his son to hang out and chat. The child is so innocent and cute… If I knew it earlier, it was just waiting. He should have been there. Insist on taking Mingming with you.
At this point in time, there were not too many people in the supply and marketing cooperative, and almost all of them were family members of satellite cities.
It is clear to everyone who the family members bought what.
Some people laughed at Tao Tao right now, saying that she was a young man, a new daughter-in-law, and she didn’t know how to be the head of the family.
However, the three pairs of fur shoes that Tao Tao bought are good things! In such a cold day, wearing such thick and warm fur shoes, the whole person is warm. Even buying fur shoes for Xiao Feibai… a bit sloppy. After all, adults’ feet have already been shaped, and a pair of fur shoes can last for three years at least. But Xiao Feibai has grown up year by year. He spent so much money on a pair of fur shoes this year, but he won’t be able to wear them next year. It’s a waste of money.
Tao Tao didn’t say a word, and smiled as she listened to the elders scolding her.
Not for the others, whether she is in the satellite city or in Lingxi, she is really lonely after staying for a long time. Now there are these elders who are nagging and talking about some harmless things, it really doesn’t matter.
When the family members talked about Taotao, they began to talk about Fang Ying.
In the audience, Fang Ying bought a lot of things, and what she bought was all her own: a woolen coat, a silk scarf, a pair of fur shoes, and a spring bud women’s watch.
A family member first praised Fang Ying enviously, “You look so good-looking!”
Fang Ying smiled and seemed to be in a good mood.
The family member asked again, “…What did you buy for your Liu Xiaoxuan and Mingming?”
Fang Ying’s face instantly collapsed.
Tao Tao pretended not to see it, and left the supply and marketing cooperative with her husband and son.
A family of three went to a state-run restaurant for dinner.
Song Zhi ordered three dishes and one soup: braised pork with sauerkraut, steamed egg, stir-fried Chinese cabbage and mushroom chicken soup.
As soon as the dishes were served, Fang Ying and Liu Xiaoxuan also rushed to the state-run restaurant. They were nodded by the waiter and sat at the table next to the Taotao family.
When Liu Xiaoxuan saw that the staple food Song Zhi ordered was rice, he asked, “Is my sister-in-law from the South?”
Song Zhi smiled and said, “She and her children love to eat rice, and it’s rare to eat here usually.”
Fang Ying finally said, “The variety of rice here is not good, and the water quality is not good, the cooked rice is not delicious at all.”
After a pause, he glanced at the dishes on Taotao’s table, and said, “The braised pork here is not authentic… The authentic braised pork should be fried with sugar and colored! Look, it’s dark as if it’s mushy! Yes, when steaming eggs, the ratio of water and egg liquid should be strictly adhered to 1:2… You can see that there is too much water in this bowl of steamed eggs!”
Song Zhi glanced at Fang Ying, and Liu Xiaoxuan looked embarrassed.
Tao Tao didn’t say a word, she scooped a few spoonfuls of steamed eggs and put them in her son’s rice bowl, and then explained to him, “Eat it while it’s hot!”
Xiao Feibai nodded again and again, and sat obediently cooking rice with a spoon.
Liu Xiaoxuan stared at Xiao Feibai for a while, then asked Song Zhi, “This chair your child is sitting on…”
——Xiao Feibai is one year old and eight months old, and still very young. If he sits directly on the chair where the adults are sitting, his eyes are just at the level of the table, and there is no way to eat by himself, unless he is standing on the chair or has to be fed by the adults. He can eat.
But here, Song Zhi added a raised cushion he made himself to the chair in the state-run restaurant.
So the height of the desktop is just right for Xiao Feibai. The little guy sits obediently, eats obediently, and Taotao takes care of the children to eat. She just breaks up the braised pork or fried cabbage and piles them in the child’s bowl, or scoops a few spoons of steamed eggs into the child’s bowl. Song Zhi eats.
Liu Xiaoxuan stared at the raised cushion on which Xiao Feibai was sitting.
——Fang Ying was reluctant to take her children out because she thought they were annoying. But according to the way Song Zhi and his wife brought their children, actually bringing children… It doesn’t seem to be that troublesome.
The most important thing is that he and his wife eat well here, but leave the child to his colleagues, and he doesn’t know whether the child eats well or not.
Liu Xiaoxuan felt very guilty.
Song Zhi saw that Liu Xiaoxuan had been staring at the raised mat on which his son was sitting, so he explained: “I put a raised mat for him, which is made of wooden strips and cloth belts. I can give it to you later when he finishes eating. Take a look. You can make one for your son too, it’s very simple, it can be folded, just fold it up and put it in the bag.”
Liu Xiaoxuan nodded and continued to ask, “That child’s bowl and spoon…”
Looking at the style of the bowl and spoon, it was obviously not from a state-run restaurant.
“We brought the bowls and spoons ourselves,” Song Zhi said, “I’m afraid to eat outside and use porcelain bowls. If the child accidentally breaks it, it will be bad. Anyway, his bowls and spoons are small. , does not take up space.”
Fang Ying became irritated for no reason, and rolled her eyes at Liu Xiaoxuan, “Why are you so long-winded! In the end, order or not? Don’t let me eat!”
Liu Xiaoxuan said quickly: “A little bit! What do you want to eat?”
“You don’t know what I want to eat?”
“Is the braised pork good?”
“You! I just said that the braised pork here is not authentic!”
“Oh, how about a hand-caught sheep?”
“Too fishy!”
“Braised pig trotters?”
“Too tired!”
“Fish stew?”
“Think about it with your brain! How can the stewed fish here be delicious?”
At the end, Fang Ying was about to get angry.
Taotao and Song zhi took care of Xiao Feibai’s meal, and they ate quickly too. After a while, the family of three ate all the meals, then packed up and left.
Until then, Fang Ying and Liu Xiaoxuan were still arguing, not deciding what to eat…
The waiter standing by the side looked gloomy like the bottom of a pot.
Guest houses, supply and marketing agencies, state-run restaurants and movie theaters are not far away, all near the train station.
When the Taotao family arrived at the entrance of the movie theater, they were not surprised to see colleagues and family members of Songzhi’s unit.
With movie tickets in their hands, everyone gathered at the entrance of the cinema to chat.
Xugong, Ding Changxiu and Liu Mingming were also there.
Seeing Taotao, Ding Changxiu asked her if she had seen Mingming’s mother.
Xiao Feibai hurriedly said: “Mumming is buying new clothes! New shoes and shoes! Buying a watch! Seven meals… Mingming’s mother said that braised pork is not good! Pig jiojio is not good! Fish and fish are not good… Feifei Love the braised pork! Good seven!”
Ding Changxiu didn’t understand what he said.
But Liu Mingming understood.
Liu Mingming was very sad – he followed Ding Changxiu, and for lunch he ate steamed buns, warm water and an egg in the dining hall of the guest house. But his parents disliked braised pork, pork feet, and fish?
Liu Mingming cried with a “wow”.
Panicked, Ding Changxiu hurriedly coaxed him.
Tao Tao sends Song Zhi to buy fried melon seeds.
Then Song Zhi went to the hawker and weighed two catties of fried melon seeds, and bought four strings of rock candied haws.
The first string of rock candied haws was given to Taotao, then to Ding Changxiu, to Xiaofeibai, and to Liu Mingming for the last string.
Ding Changxiu took it with a smile, thanked Song Zhi, and taught Liu Mingming to also thank Song Zhi.
Liu Mingming looked at this string of candied haws in surprise, and licked the red crispy syrup on the surface like Xiao Feibai, and then smiled sweetly with tears in his eyes.
After a while, the cinema staff began to check tickets and let people in.
The movie playing today is “The Story of Xiangyangyuan”.
Tao Tao likes watching movies very much, but almost all of the several movies she has watched before are war themes. And this movie is not the same as the previous ones. Tao Tao thinks it is quite novel.
But Xiao Feibai was still young after all, that is, when he first entered the movie theater, he drew something fresh and looked at it… He couldn’t understand it, and he had the habit of taking a nap after lunch, so he lay on his father’s arms Fell asleep.
Song Zhi untied his padded coat and hugged his son, and then tied the buttons on the upper and lower trays… His padded coat became a “hammock”, just right to hang his son. Of course