Stepmother

    Self-reliance didn't know what was going on, so she rushed to the top and shouted: "Da baby, Da baby, come down."

    "What are you doing?" Zhong Dawa opened the window, "It's a soul."

    Song Zhaodi said solemnly: "Come down!"

    The eldest child shuddered: "Immediately, immediately!" She hurriedly ran down, "What's the matter? Mother."

    Song Zhaodi: "Your father is now the head of the regiment, and if nothing else happens, the future is bright. Your grandma definitely doesn't want to lose our relative. But we want to cut off contact with the Bai family. A wise man will make people stop by, walk around, and connect with feelings."

    "Grandma can't come." Zhong Dawa said, "You said it, Dad said it too."

    Song Zhaodi: "Your uncle, your aunt is a worker and a proletariat. Your grandma and your grandfather don't have much problem, they should not be implicated. Shencheng is not far from here, if they want to come , two days off is enough."

    "My aunt, my uncle?" Zhong Dawa frowned, "I forgot what they looked like. What are they doing here?"

    Self-reliance surprised: "Can your uncle forget it?"

    "The big baby was only three years old when he moved here. His mother led them and it was inconvenient to go back to her mother's house." Song Zhaodi said, "His uncle and his aunt have never been here. , Dawa didn't remember things at that time, and it's normal to forget."

    Zhong Dawa didn't bother to care what his aunt and uncle looked like: "Mother means they will come?"

    "There is a 70% chance." Song Zhaodi said, "If they come, how will I entertain them? Last time your grandma came over, it was your grandma who drove out."

    I don't understand anymore: "Isn't his grandma very bad?"

    "Go back and tell Dawa to tell you, he remembers." Song Zhaodi said, "Your uncle really came to the door, if you don't know, I will say I don't know, he is a liar, and he is not allowed to come in , can you? Big baby."

    Zhong Dawa was a little disappointed: "I still want to beat him out with a broom."

    Self-reliance and rehabilitation are jaw-dropping.

    Song Zhaodi was not surprised at all: "Last time his grandmother came, he still wanted to kill. Since you don't want to admit it, then do as I said, and that's the decision."

    In the afternoon, Song Zhaodi smeared the duck with salt and hung it up, pulled out the large square table, and made cotton-padded clothes for the self-reliance and the rejuvenation on the table.

    Sister Duan came to help. However, after a while, Song Zhaodi finished cutting the fabric. Sister-in-law Duan was so frightened that she quickly said, "Little Song, let's take your time and make it before dark."

    "I'm not in a hurry." Song Zhaodi put down the scissors, looked up and saw that Mrs. Duan's expression was very complicated, and asked with concern, "What's wrong with Auntie?"

    Sister Duan doesn't like to be a nosy, but she thinks she is Song Zhaodi's elder, so she said: "I know you are good at craftsmanship, I still think you can be more careful when you make clothes, let's do it all at once, Self-reliance and rehabilitation can be replaced tomorrow.”

    "Auntie is afraid that I have to dismantle it and re-sew it if it doesn't fit?" Song Zhaodi asked with a smile.

    Sister Duan waved her hand: "I didn't mean that."

    Song Zhaodi thought to herself, that's what you mean, "Auntie doesn't know something, I sew all the clothes in our house. To put it an exaggeration, I can't sew wrong with my eyes closed."

    Children's clothes are nothing fancy. Two pieces of cloth are sewn together to form one trouser leg. Sister-in-law Duan sews cotton-padded jackets, and Song Zhaodi makes cotton-padded trousers. Sister Duan's cotton-padded jacket was half finished, and Song Zhaodi finished the whole cotton-padded trousers.

     Immediately, Song Zhaodi called Rehabilitation: "Try it on."

    "Thank you, Auntie." Gengsheng pursed his lips and smiled, very happy.

    Sister Duan blinked: "All done?"

    "Okay." Regen was still wearing underwear, and the upstairs was not as warm as the downstairs, so Song Zhaodi did not let him go upstairs to change.

    Reborn put on new cotton pants, and suddenly realized that something was wrong: "Auntie, where is there no belt?"

    "No belt." There are no belts for children on the market. Children on the island use a rope to tie their pants to their waists to prevent them from falling off. Song Zhaodi didn't like it. Last year, she made cotton trousers for the eldest baby and the second baby, so she put three buttons on the cotton trousers.

    The rejuvenated cotton trousers are the same as Dawa's style, "I will tell you how to use the three buttons. When you are hungry, you will buckle the innermost one, and when you are eating, you will buckle the middle one. .If you eat too much and feel the clothes are tight, just buckle the outermost one."

    Sister Duan hooked her head and looked at it. There were indeed three buttons on the pants, and she couldn't help feeling: "Xiao Song, you, you, how do you say that word?"

    "Ingenuity?" asked herself.

    Sister Duan clapped her palms: "Yes, it is ingenuity."

    Song Zhaodi smiled: "When I have nothing to do, I like to ponder."

     "There are a lot of people who think about it blindly, but there are very few people who can figure it out." Sister Duan said.

    Song Zhaodi smiled and said, "Auntie, self-reliant and rejuvenated padded jacket, I plan to use the buckle. There are many buckles I used before, and there are dozens more."

    "I know where it is." Erwa pointed to her padded jacket, "It's the same as mine, in the closet."

    Song Zhaodi: "Then you and Zili go upstairs and take off the buckle for grandma." Turning to Zili, she suddenly saw that his hand was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Zili, are your hands frozen? Swollen?"

    "It's been swollen for several days." Dawa said.

    Song Zhaodi frowned: "Then why didn't you tell me?"

    "I'm not allowed to speak on my own." Dawa said.

    Song Zhaodi hurriedly asked: "When did it freeze?"

     "When I went to bed at night, I felt that the bed was too hot, so I stretched out my hand, and the next day it was swollen." Self-reliance is very embarrassing.

    Song Zhaodi was speechless: "Then you should tell me too." After a pause, "Go upstairs first, you have to get your clothes out today. You have to go up the mountain tomorrow, and there will be no time after that. ."

    The next morning, Song Zhaodi and Sister Duan came back from the mountain. Song Zhaodi fried a pot of winter bamboo shoots and lettuce.

    "Mother, are you taking off your clothes again?" Sanwa grows fast, and the clothes at the beginning of the year can't be worn by the end of the year. Dawa often helps Sanwa get dressed, and knows that Song Zhaodi is holding Sanwa's clothes last year, "Can you make us shoes?"

    Song Zhaodi looked at the cotton shoes on his feet, they were not damaged, "No, I'll make gloves for you. There is a ball of cotton left over from yesterday's cotton-padded clothes and cotton pants, enough to make five pairs of gloves."

    "I didn't do it before. When Brother Zili is here, you can do it." Zhong Erwa pouted, and her face was full of displeasure.

    Song Zhaodi rolled his eyes at him: "Think about it for yourself, have I ever asked you whether your hands are cold before?

    Zhong Erwa turned around and ran out.

    Self-reliance was startled, and the two hurriedly chased after him.

    "Stop." Song Zhaodi said, "Er baby is sorry. He was the one who said it was not cold at the time. Big baby, go and pull him in. What's wrong with each and every one of them, they run out when they're not happy? ."

    Zhong Dawa: "I don't have it. You said Erwa don't take me with you." Then she went out and pulled Erwa in.

    "Mother..." Zhong Erwa asked cautiously, "Are you going to hit me?"

    Song Zhaodi glanced at him: "Why should I hit you? Say it yourself."

    "Mother, I'm sorry." Erwa rolled her eyes, "I forgot."

    Song Zhaodi snorted: "Jealousy makes people ugly. Zhong Erwa, don't you want to be ugly?"

    "I'm not ugly." Zhong Erwa said quickly.

    Song Zhaodi: "There is a saying that the image is born from the heart. What does it mean? You are ugly in your heart, and over time, your little face will become disgusting. "

    "Really?" Erwa asked quickly.

    Song Zhaodi didn't answer: "I didn't say that the appearance is born from the heart, and the face is hateful. These two words have been around since ancient times, and I didn't make them up."

    The second baby turned to the big baby, really?

    Dawa had heard it vaguely, but he was not sure, so he turned to self-reliance who was more than a year older than him.

    "Auntie is right." Zi Li nodded and explained to his younger brothers what "disgusting face" means.

    Erwa hurriedly covered her face and kept mumbling: "I don't want to be ugly, I don't want to be ugly—"

    "Shut up!" The big boy annoyed him, "Go upstairs and take off the rope, let's skip the rope."

    Stand up independently: "I'll go." After that, the man ran to the stairs.

    Song Zhaodi beckoned to the rejuvenation, and gestured with her hand to make a glove.

    Dawa and Erwa knew that the cloth at home was tense, even if Sapo was clamoring for new clothes, Song Zhaodi and Zhong Jianguo could not do anything. So the little brothers subconsciously think that there is no extra cloth and cotton at home. After all, both of their schoolbags were made by Song Zhaodi with rags.

    The padded jackets Song Zhaodi made for them had long sleeves. When the two children saw that other children had gloves, they never thought of asking Song Zhaodi to make them gloves.

    Now seeing the regenerator with gloves hanging around his neck, he looks very good, a few children stopped jumping rope in the yard, surrounded Song Zhaodi, waiting for their new gloves.

    After seven o'clock in the evening, it was so dark outside that I could not see my fingers, so Song Zhaodi only finished the gloves for the five children.

    Busy for a long time, Song Zhaodi was too tired to cook, so she asked a few children if she went to warm up some buns, and the family could eat buns and drink plain water.

    With new gloves that can go out and show off with friends, the foodie baby has no opinion, and even went to the kitchen to help Song Zhaodi make a fire.

    Seeing this, Song Zhaodi was dumbfounded.

    Speaking of which, Zhong Jianguo said that he could not celebrate the New Year at home this year, and Song Zhaodi also knew that during the New Year, there would be extra meals in the army, so on the morning of the 30th of the New Year, he cooked all the two ducks and did not give them any food. Zhong Jianguo stayed a little longer. Eat one at thirty and one at the first day of the new year.

    Song Zhaodi was willing to buy vegetables and fish, but also changed flowers to make food for her children. On the fifth day of the new year, Zhong Jianguo came back and found that self-reliance and rebirth seemed to gain weight. Thinking that the commander was thinking about the two children, Zhong Jianguo asked, "Self-reliance, rebirth, are you two fat?"

     "It seems a little." Self-reliance is not sure, "I have flesh on my fingers."

    Zhong Jianguo smiled and said, "That means even your fingers are fat. In four or five days, you and Dawa will go out to play."

    "Can we go out?" Zili asked quickly.

    Zhong Jianguo: "Of course you can. However, remember that no matter what others ask you, you can't be guilty, according to what Teacher Song taught you before. The children on the island are very simple, don't you If you leak your mouth, you will be fine. However, you are not allowed to go to Lin Zhong and Ma Zhenxing's house."

    "Why?" Zhong Dawa didn't understand.

    Zhong Jianguo: "Ma Zhenxing's father likes to block me, and the mother in the forest has a lot of heart, I am afraid that they will explode self-reliance and rebirth. The self-reliant and rehabilitated family members were killed by others, but I Don't know who that person is.

    "In case he hides on the island and learns something from Ma Zhonghua and Sister-in-law Chen, self-reliance and rebirth will be very dangerous. They are your older brother and younger brother, you have to protect them."

    "I also don't like the mother in the forest and the father of Ma Zhenxing." Zhong Dawa said, "Then we won't go. However, we are gone, you are not at home, if the uncle insists Breaking in, what will my mother do? My uncle is a man, a woman can't beat a man, and a mother can't beat my uncle."

    Zhong Jianguo didn't understand: "What uncle?"

    The letter was burnt, so Song Zhaodi asked Dawa to tell him.

    Zhong Jianguo couldn't help sighing after hearing this: "It would be nice if we could cut off contact with the Bai family."

    "The Bai family are close relatives. If you want to break it, they don't want to break it. They can't break it in this life unless the Bai family dies." Song Zhaodi said, "It's the same with your father. If it weren't for murder It's illegal, I killed them long ago. They never got a chance to come to the island."

    Self-reliance and rehabilitation look at each other, Teacher Song is really cruel!

    Zhong Jianguo sighed: "Murder is not illegal, and you don't need to shoot."

    Self-reliance and rehabilitation shuddered, and couldn't help holding each other's hands, why are the Zhong family so cruel?

    "What should I do then?" Zhong Dawa thought for a moment, "Mother, why don't you sew a big pocket on your clothes and put the scissors in the pocket."

    Song Zhaodi rejoiced: "This idea is good, I will listen to Dawa's words."

    "Listen to me." Zhong Dawa consciously arranged it. On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, when the weather was clear, I took my brother and brother out to play.

    Zhong Jianguo did not allow Dawa to go to Ma's house, so Zhong Dawa simply took his brothers to the place where the fishermen lived on the island and found the fishermen's children to play with. However, halfway through the road, I heard someone ask Zhong Jianguo how to get there.

    "Who are they?" Zili asked in a low voice.

    Dawa looked along Zili's finger, and saw a middle-aged man and a woman, both of whom were carrying a small bag, think for a moment: "Zili, you told them in the past, always Go south and you will see Zhong Jianguo's home at the end."

    Self-reliance turned around subconsciously, but suddenly thought: "Dad, my aunt passed the training area yesterday when she led us up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, and told us that we couldn't go there. She also said that the warship was parked in the south, The south is a restricted area, and you can’t go there.”

    "I know." Zhong Dawa said, "Last summer we were curious about what the captain of the warship looked like, and we sneaked over there and were trained by Commander Wu. I remember it better than you."

    Self-reliance: "Then you still—" widened his eyes suddenly, "Did you do it on purpose?"

    "Yes." Zhong Dawa responded simply.

    I can't believe it on my own: "That's your aunt and uncle. When you enter the restricted area, the sentry can shoot directly."

    "No." Zhong Dawa said, "The sentinel will shout first, who? Stop!"

    Self-reliance opened her mouth: "...I believe you have been there."

    "Come on, stand on your own, they're going to our house." When Dawa saw that the person suspected of his uncle was approaching the intersection, he quickly said, "Stop messing around."

    Self-reliant panic, hurriedly asked: "How should I go?"

    "Go around and hit them." Zhong Dawa said, "You are more than a year older than me, so I don't need to teach you the rest?"

    I think to myself, even if I am three years older than you, I don't have as much in your stomach: "I asked them where to go?"

    "What do you think?" Dawa asked rhetorically.

    I choked on my own, ran to the middle-aged man and woman in the distance, and hit each other hard. With strength, he stumbled on his own, and said sorry in a conditioned reflex.

    The woman then questioned her self-reliance in Shencheng dialect, why are you walking without looking at the road.

    Ziliang subconsciously wanted to answer in Shencheng dialect, but when the words came to his mouth, he realized that he was now Zhong Zili, the adopted son of the Zhong family, and he said sorry in Mandarin. Afterwards, she asked independently, her accent did not look like a local, if she was visiting relatives.

    Zhong Jianguo was the head of the regiment at a young age and a college student. With such a relative, the woman wished everyone on the island would know about it, so she didn't hide it from her.

    Self-reliance pursed her lips, restrained her smile and told her that they had gone the wrong way, and the Zhong family lived in the south.

    The woman just asked an adult for directions, so she didn't believe what the child said, so she said that someone just told them to go north.

    He took a breath on his own, and then said that his family lived there, and his father was the head of the horse.

    Middle-aged men and women don't know any head horses, but the word "head" reassures them. scolded the adults who showed them the way, and said thank you to self-reliance.

    Self-reliance said no thanks, and ran towards Dawa.

    "Is it from Shencheng?" Dawa asked before she could stand on her own.

    He nodded independently, patted his chest, and let out a sigh of relief: "This is the first time I did this kind of thing, and I almost scared me to death."

    "You won't be afraid if you do it a few more times." The big baby threw out a sentence and waved her small hand, "Let's go."

    How many times do you spit and swallow? just forget it. Seeing where Dawa was going, Zili quickly asked, "Dawa, are we not going back?"

    "Don't go back." Zhong Dawa said, "We're not at home, and my mother doesn't know my uncle, so we can keep them out. Hey, be independent, let's go to the beach."

    Self-reliance: "Is the sea far from here?"

    "It's quite far." Dawa said, "I want to go to the beach to pick up conch and crabs, but my mother is not allowed to go."