Chapter 14 - 014 Fresh
In the morning, the air in Wucheng is cool and foggy. Several military jeeps drove into the city and returned to the military compound according to the original route. However, when they were driving to the place, they found that there was a traffic jam on the road. You must know that this is a new thing. Son, it used to be rare if there were no traffic accidents.
Obviously there was no traffic accident. Bai Haiyun and Wang Junyi found that there were many small vendors on the street, and there were many passersby buying food in the morning, especially in the center of the street, there was a long queue at the entrance of a restaurant. Looking at this situation, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pass within an hour or two.
As the time in the traffic jam got longer, the pale face of the stern young man sitting in the back seat became more and more anxious, and his face was obviously not obvious, but he counted the days, this time he walked in a hurry, it has been a month and a half. , I don’t know how the three children are living at home during this time, because when I left last time, although I sent a lot of things to the family and wrote letters, I didn’t see their situation after all. Every time Shen Huai came home from a mission, the children were always very thin and weak. He always tried to send some nutritious food home for the children to eat, but he didn’t see any results.
Aunt Zhang said that it was because the physique of the three children was fundamentally damaged. The quality of the children was relatively weak, and it was impossible to make up for it in a short time. It was useless to worry. Little, he also thought that when the children were older, they might become stronger by exercising externally.
There is also the matter of him, Chen Yuan, and I don’t know if she can get along well with the three children. At that time, he was in a hurry and quarreled with her. Shen Huai was afraid that the other party’s temper would spread the fire on the children. This is absolutely intolerable to him, and based on what he knows about Chen Yuan, this woman is obviously not someone who loves children.
Before he married her, he didn’t see that the other party was such a person. She even pretended to be fine the moment before she arrived in Wucheng, but after the last quarrel, she also stated her ultimate goal, and in the In such an urgent situation, I can’t distinguish the priorities, and I only care about my own little thought. .
Moreover, Shen Huai was very uneasy about putting Chen Yuan in Shen’s house, but when time was running out, he couldn’t find a two-way solution to properly handle her affairs, so he could only send her home first.
Now that he was approaching the door of the house, Shen Huai felt uneasy when he didn’t see the children at a glance. transportation.
I just found out that this Guozhi Hotel has recently led to the popularity of jade dumplings. After they launched a look at colorful dumplings, other restaurants, hotels, and food stalls have also started to imitate them. However, this is strange. I learned it from a recipe, but the taste is always the best from the Guozhi Restaurant. Now it has begun to spread. If you want to eat the most authentic jade dumplings, you must go to the Guozhi Restaurant.
The Guozhi Hotel has set the jade dumplings as the treasure of the town store, and it has also given their store a name. If they operate normally in the future, there will be no trouble, and the same style of other stores will not threaten them.
After Bai Haiyun finished inquiring, he hurriedly ran back to the car: “The traffic has already started to clear up, but I asked to understand what happened. It turns out that there is a restaurant in this area that has launched a very famous dumpling, and there are many other places. People come here to eat, and the limited supply of 3,000 copies is in short supply, so every morning, there are many people queuing up here.”
What he thought in his mind was that he didn’t know what kind of dumplings it was. How could it attract so many people? Is it really so delicious? Wait until another day to try it.
Shen Huai nodded and didn’t say anything. What he thought in his heart was that the catering business in Wucheng had developed completely after he had only been gone for more than a month. imagine things.
With the reform and opening up, people’s life is getting better and better, and the tight stomach will naturally relax. This economic development is just the beginning, and the future prospects may be better.
The gate of the Shen family.
“Brother, are you a little nervous? Didn’t Er Aunt let us wait until she comes back from the meeting?” Er Bao saw his brother standing at the door of the yard and kept looking around. Today, because of the parent-teacher meeting, the family had to wait for her to return. There were no students who came to learn Jade Dumplings, so only the three of them were left to look after the house.
He felt that it was the second aunt who went to hold his elder brother’s parent-teacher meeting, so he was so nervous. If it was this afternoon, it would be his turn to be nervous.
Dabao felt that although the parent-teacher meeting was also a major event, it seemed that his hunch was not this, as if something must happen again, and this feeling was very accurate, so he asked with a frown. “Do you think our second uncle is coming back soon?”
Erbao picked his nose and said, “Second uncle came back so soon, and he didn’t hear any news that he was coming back?”
“But I always have a hunch that I’ll be back soon.”
“It must be your delusion, do you miss Uncle Er too much?” Er Bao said very seriously.
Dabao rolled his eyes at him and said, “Don’t you want Uncle Er?”
Erbao sighed: “Of course I think about it, and I don’t know when he will be back.”
Dabao vowed: “I have a hunch, it should be very soon.” Intuition is a very mysterious thing. He is not only accurate in his dreams, but also very accurate in his intuition. He doesn’t know when he started to have this ability, but he has never He didn’t tell anyone, and he kept it a secret because he was afraid that people would say he was a lunatic, and he didn’t even tell Erbao and Aunt Niuniu.
“Brother, your hunch…it seems…it really came true.” Erbao was about to say that his brother was thinking too much, when suddenly he heard a jeep whistle coming from the door, driving slowly. The big head of the army green car entering the small alley made him suddenly stunned and stammered out the second half of the sentence.
Dabao followed Erbao’s stunned gaze and couldn’t wait to look outside. Could it really be his premonition? But he dreamed that the second uncle was injured, a trace of worry flashed in his eyes, and he opened his legs and hurried out.
Erbao also quickly followed behind, wanting to run out to see what happened, but the two children stared at the arrival of the two jeeps.
When I saw the familiar figure getting out of the car, I finally broke the defense, and tears fell without warning.
“Second uncle!”
Dabao Erbao ran over frantically, the two babies grabbed a seat and hugged Shen Huai’s calf, snot and tears, and said excitedly, of course, excited and excited. If Chen Yuan was there, he would definitely find the children. Crying is happy not sad.
Niuniu ran at the end, not to be outdone, she also took short legs and stumbled over, because she was so anxious that saliva came out: “Book! Book!”
Before she ran to the front, she was picked up by a pair of strong hands and held against her shoulders. Niu Niu’s position suddenly rose, and she was not used to it for a moment, but she was quickly caught by a warm look, and she didn’t feel it. What’s the danger? Instead, it is full of security. Shen Huai is holding the little girl. The feeling of starting is heavy, eh, it seems to be a few pounds heavier.
I didn’t look carefully just now, but now I see that aside from Niuniu looking very good, the physiques of the two children, Dabao and Erbao, seem to have become much stronger. The clothes on their bodies seem to be newly bought, and they are very clean, and their faces have grown a lot. Meat, seeing such a situation, Shen Huai finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the stepmother should take good care of the children according to his instructions on the letter.
Wang Junyi looked at the leader’s movement of holding the child with some worry, fearing that he would open the wound that had just healed and then re-opened after the activity. In fact, the leader is not suitable for strenuous exercise at all. He reminded him hesitantly: “Shen Tuan, your…?”
“It’s okay, it’s okay.” Shen Huai signaled to himself that it didn’t matter. Although their movements were subtle, Dabao could clearly see the two of them winking. Could it be that the second uncle was really injured? Looking at the second uncle’s actions, he seemed to be a little slow, and then concluded his guess.
The big BMW pulled Er Bao away, and quickly said to Niuniu: “Come down quickly, don’t let Er uncle get tired, go back and rest.”
He didn’t know how badly the second uncle was injured, but the top priority was not to aggravate his injury, but he couldn’t say it directly, he could only persuade Niuniu.
Niuniu obediently climbed down from Shen Huai, and as Shen Huai followed the children into the yard, he also found that his house and the outside yard had changed a lot from the outside.
There were some dried vegetables and dried fish outside the yard. There was also a large stone mill, a wooden table and a few wooden benches. This stone mill was not available before. Shen Huai never knew when there was such a thing at home. Everything, including the tables outside, was brand new.
This is because the number of students who came to learn jade dumplings was relatively large. Although they had been divided into odd and even numbers for teaching, they were still crowded after they came, so Chen Yuan purchased a group of small benches to entertain them.
The transparent glass windows were spotlessly wiped, and there was no dust at all, especially the tiles on the floor and walls of the house, which could reflect light from a distance, and the owner of the cleaning seemed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. , Because ordinary people do housework, it is probably simple, clean and tidy, but very few people can make this thing to the extreme, and any thing in the house in front of me seems to form a rule.
Bai Haiyun and the others are soldiers, and they have long been familiar with doing internal work. Of course, they know how much energy and effort it takes to maintain such a perfect “housekeeping”, not only the living room is neat and tidy, but also the kitchen counter, where the cups and bowls are placed. The chopsticks are all pointing in one direction, as if these dead objects will obey orders, and they are arranged in the same order as the square team.
The more they look at it, the more pleasing and comfortable they are. Once the leaders feel it, it will be different. If their own home is so neat and clean, it will be an incomparable enjoyment to be in it, and it will be pleasing to the eye just by looking at it.
Seeing all this in Shen Huai’s eyes, he felt a lot of “freshness” because when he used to go home, the house was usually a mess, and the three children were also dirty and their clothes were crawling up. There was a pile of lice, and there was a sour smell of old sweat. Every time this happened, he would clean the house, take Dabao Erbao to the bathroom, and shave the children’s heads.
Before, it could be seen that the stepmother was not very dedicated to taking care of the children, but Shen Huai had no other choice. He hired a nanny and was chased away by the stepmother who said he was stealing things from the family. If there is no suitable nanny, Zhang Guilan can only take care of it first.
But I didn’t expect to come back this time and surprise myself. Could it be that the sun came out from the west? Shen Huai was puzzled.
Bai Haiyun, Wang Junyi, and several other soldiers looked around the room curiously, and the more they looked, the more they admired their sincere admiration: “Your mother who leads you is really a good family member. With her taking care of three children, You don’t have to worry about it outside, the house is so clean inside and out, our family members are really ashamed.”
As soon as these words came out, Shen Huai hadn’t spoken yet, and the two children were not happy.
What? What are you praising his milk for? The cleaning of the house has nothing to do with the milk in the slightest, and it’s not ashamed that his milk received the credit for no reason.
Dabao’s face turned dark and explained: “This is cleaned by my second aunt, and it has nothing to do with my grandmother.”
Erbao also said: “My mother is lazy, and I don’t clean up the housework once or twice for a month or two. How can I be as diligent and capable as my second aunt, and the parents of the whole class are not half as capable as my second aunt.”
As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, even Shen Huai was surprised: “You said that your second aunt cleaned up?”
“That’s still fake? Of course.” Dabao said very proudly.
Bai Haiyun and the others couldn’t believe their ears, and even wondered if the woman had been out of pocket for more than a month? How could this shrew work so hard? According to the situation at the time, they thought that Chen Yuan was a lazy, selfish woman who only calculated her own little thoughts, and her character was unreliable, but what the children said about the second aunt, If it’s still that person, it’s going to be weird.
It was only at this time that Shen Huai noticed that Chen Yuan was not at home, so he asked the children where she went.
“Auntie, have a parent-teacher meeting for us.”
Hearing this, Shen Huai’s originally expressionless face changed, and she frowned and said badly. According to the grievances between the woman and herself, if she went to a parent-teacher meeting with her temper, wouldn’t she offend the parents and teachers?