Chapter 75

The army was very lively before the New Year. Even though some soldiers were still on missions, the military compound was also very lively, with lights and decorations everywhere.

Those who can afford it buy fresh meat, those who can’t eat cured meat, and the poorer ones can just eat until they are 70% full. Every household has shed the gray and dusty appearance of the famine and greeted each other with a smile.

Qiao Yu made dumplings.

In addition to dumplings, they also made fried meatballs, pickled vegetables, bacon, cured rabbit meat, and various sweets. Sweet potato cakes, taro cakes, and melted toffee can be made into toffee popsicles.

After eating the oily mouthfuls, the children would wander around with toffee popsicles in their mouths, set off firecrackers, and roll bamboo hoops…

In the past, they rolled iron hoops, which were made of strong iron. But after the Great Leap Forward, iron products became scarce, so the children’s rolling of iron hoops was replaced by rolling bamboo hoops made by their fathers.

The girls played shuttlecock and skipped rope.

Qiao Yu was reading a book in the yard. When he heard some noise in the main house, he poured him a glass of water.

After putting the enamel pot down, I was about to go back to the yard, but then I heard another cough.

Qiao Yu was puzzled: “Are you feeling uncomfortable in your throat?”

“I have something to tell you.”

“Oh…” Qiao Yu pulled a stool and sat down, looking well-behaved and obedient.

Zhou Ze’an: …

I really don’t know how to start.

After a while, seeing that she was impatient, he said, “Do you want a child?”

Huh?

Aren’t there five children in the family?

Didn’t he also promise not to adopt any more children?

Go back on your word?

Qiao Yu questioned his character: “You want to adopt a child again?”

“No…”

“What is that? Adopt the child, but don’t transfer the name to your name?” Qiao Yu thought of this possibility and said, “No! Since you have adopted the child, you must transfer the name! Otherwise, it’s the same as raising it in vain!”

“No…”

“What is that?”

Seeing that her eyes were clear, without any distracting thoughts.

The old man, whose heart was filled with ripples, lost his temper.

The girl either didn’t understand or didn’t want to be with him. She just wanted to live with him and be a nominal couple…

She had been married before, so how could she not understand?

It must be the latter.

Zhou Ze’an felt bitter.

When they first met, he was willing to marry her, give her a status, and accept two strange children. Wasn’t he thinking of living together?

How come I was fully prepared at the beginning, but today, obscurity keeps creeping in, and I feel that my thoughts at that time were stupid and too naive?

Is he reaping the fruits of his own actions?

“…Nothing, let’s talk about it after you get into university.”

Qiao Yu muttered in his heart: You’re crazy.

I disturbed her reading.

Qiao Yu didn’t notice the man’s lonely expression and went back to the yard…

Well, if I can’t concentrate on reading, I’ll just do some exercises.

The children came back and saw Qiao Yu working hard on his homework from a distance through the gate. Not only did the children stop talking, but their steps also slowed down.

Seeing that she was obsessed with doing the exercises, Zhou Jun took Zhou Wen and Zhou Wu to the kitchen quietly and started cooking.

Qiao Yu felt hungry in her stomach and a fragrance wafted into her nose. Only then did she reluctantly look up from the paper.

The kitchen door was open.

During the Chinese New Year, every household has more or less meat, so there is no need to hide it.

Qiao Yu saw Zhou Jun busy among them.

She quickly collected the test papers and shouted, “Junwa, let me help you!”

Neighbor: …

an adult helping a child? !

Food was in short supply during the famine years, and with the supervision of the adults at home, the children were sensible enough not to visit anyone else. Even if there are a few ignorant people in the family, they still keep their children at home because of their son/lover’s future.

After the New Year, the newspaper sent a reply to Qiao Yu.

The fee is not much, just five dollars.

After all, this is my first submission.

However, in the eyes of other sisters-in-law in the military compound, it was worthy of admiration.

That’s five dollars!

Mrs. Zhou did not hide it: “I asked Sister Qiao, and she spent three days to finish writing it.”

Three days!

Isn’t that more cost-effective than the jobs they find?

“It takes a scholar with brains to make money just by lying at home with a pen.”

“Qiao Mei is not lying down. She has been reading books and doing exercises.”

“What is doing exercises?”

“It means doing the college entrance examination papers of previous years.”

“Oh, oh, oh.”

“She is worthy of being the wife that Zhou Tuan has chosen. She is much more capable than the previous one.”

“Who said she wasn’t? One of them submitted a manuscript to a newspaper and was taken away for questioning by the superiors, while the other one with only a junior high school diploma got her manuscript accepted and received royalties.”

“Didn’t Xiaoyu say that she will get a high school diploma this year?”

“That will take place in the summer. “

“Xiaoyu will definitely get a high school diploma. I know a lot of high school students. It’s good enough if one out of a hundred people who submit manuscripts gets accepted.”

“Is it that difficult?”

“It’s not difficult. Didn’t everyone see the consequences of Dayu?”

Lu’s mother passed by carrying dried seafood after just landing on the island. She felt embarrassed when she heard this and hurried away from the place of trouble.

When I got home, I saw that the door of the master bedroom was open. Bai Yu was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring out the window in a daze, no one knew what she was thinking about, and the child was lying on the bed crying loudly.

Mother Lu quickly picked up the child, and while cradleing the child, she scolded Bai Yu: “Look at him, he also submitted an article for the first time, and his first article was accepted, and he’s still a junior high school student. Look at you, if I asked you to help out in the canteen kitchen, you could pick up some food and bring it back every day, and you would get paid,

which is better than what you have now. You stay at home every day and do nothing, and it all depends on my son…”

“Junior high school student? You passed the first time you submitted it to a newspaper? Old lady, don’t brag.”

Knowing the old lady’s character, if she couldn’t stand me, could I stand her?

When Lu Hongjun was away, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law found every opportunity to quarrel with each other and neither of them would give in.

Mother Lu doesn’t know yet that her son can’t even go to military school because of marrying Bai Yu.

Lu Hongjun also wanted to keep it a secret, otherwise the relationship between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would only get worse.

For the sake of her precious grandson, Mother Lu was relatively restrained towards Bai Yu.

“Who is bragging! I heard on the way back that some of the military dependents called her Qiao Mei, and some called her Xiao Yu.”

It’s Qiao Yu again!

Bai Yu quietly clenched his fists.

Why is she everywhere!

Marrying Qiao Yu is the variable for Zhou Ze’an!

Bai Yu stiffened his back and said, “So what? What does it mean?”

“What does it mean? People make five dollars in three days! Thirty days a month means fifty dollars! This is almost as much as the salary of a fourth-level clerk! People will go to college in the future!

College! Jobs are guaranteed after graduation!”

“This is impossible! How is it possible that he only has an elementary school diploma and grew up in the countryside, and he got junior high school and high school diplomas in less than a year after coming here?! And he can even get into college…”

Unless, unless.

Is Qiao Yu the same as me?

Bai Yu figured it out all of a sudden.

She asked why everything went wrong, and it turned out that Qiao Yu was also reborn.

So, it was no coincidence that Qiao Yu revealed her life story?

Bai Yu felt it necessary to test the other party.

Since we have all been reborn…

and are all lucky people blessed by God, can we shake hands and make peace?

They are on different tracks, is it necessary to oppose them everywhere?

Bai Yu dressed neatly and took out a few ounces of brown sugar that she had left over from her confinement period and prepared to go out.

“Where are you going?!”

“I’m going out to check on the house.”

“Come back! How am I going to cook if you leave? Take the child with you!”

Taking the child with you when going out… is so inconvenient.

Bai Yu pretended not to hear and quickened his pace.