Jian Lu put away the enamel cup and recognized the person who came as the daughter-in-law and son of Chief of Staff Wu of the Fourth Regiment who lived downstairs from her.

"Sister-in-law Chen."

"Comrade Jian Lu, are you busy?"

"It's okay, I've just arrived."

Jian Lu went into the house to clean up the daily necessities counter that she had been working for the past week, wiped it with a rag, and then took out the bookkeeping book from under the counter.

Every time he sells, he has to write down the amount and quantity of the goods sold, and every day before getting off work, Li Jihong will summarize and count.

Chen Qing was the daughter-in-law of Chief of Staff Wu of the Fourth Regiment, and Chief of Staff Wu was also on the ship on which Zheng went to sea this time.

Now Chen's sister-in-law is leading two little boys into the supply and marketing cooperative, one is named Wu Xiangchen, who is six years old this year, and is the son of Chief of Staff Wu and his ex-wife, and the other is the son of Chen Qing and his ex-husband, named Liu Huayong, who is the same age as Wu Xiangchen.

Two little boys of the same age, but they look very different.

Wu Xiangchen looks good, at first glance he is a handsome little guy, with thick eyebrows, big eyes and a high nose bridge, and he is like Chief of Staff Wu Seven or Eight Points, I heard that he also inherited a few points of his mother's appearance when he died early, that is, he is thin and small.

On the contrary, it was Liu Huayong, who was much more stocky, tiger-headed, and loud in his voice, and the voice of his mother who had just asked his mother to buy canned fruit kept drifting to Jian Lu's ears, and he couldn't ignore it if he wanted to.

Qiu Sifeng's eyes also looked at the only guest in today's supply and marketing cooperative, and muttered to Jian Lu, "It is said that the stepmother is poisonous, look at how well her own son has been raised, and what kind of weight has he lost because he is not his own." ”

"Sister-in-law Chen has a good reputation in our courtyard, and everyone says that she is a good person and child in the stepmother, and she thinks about Chief of Staff Wu's own son first." Jian Lu remembered what everyone had said before.

"Then who knows, who won't say, who won't pretend? Look at this, the gap is here. Qiu Sifeng pursed his lips and insisted on his own view.

"I always tell my children, don't expect your stepmother to be nice to you, if your father dares to find your stepmother, run back to your grandmother's and grandfather's house."

When Li Jihong heard this, he smiled, how could his own mother teach this, "Sifeng, what do you talk nonsense to your child every day, you are here, can your political commissar Hong still find a stepmother for the child?" ”

"What if I die early?" Qiu Sifeng said sincerely, "Man, I still expect him to guard the archway of chastity for me, and I will not marry for the rest of my life?" Yes, I don't expect to be able to raise my child. ”

Jian Lu didn't expect Qiu Sifeng to think so long-term, this person is quite interesting.

At this moment, Chen Qinggang took his two children to pull three feet of cloth at the cloth counter that Sun Qiuyue was in charge of, and then went to the daily necessities counter that Jian Lu was in charge of.

"Sister Jianlu, what's the taste of canned fruit?" Chen Qing is less than thirty, with an easy-going face, looking at a gentle woman, and speaking softly, which makes people feel comfortable to listen to.

"Yellow peaches, oranges, all have." Jian Lu took out two flavored canned fruits and put them on the counter, and saw that the eyes of the two children lit up.

Liu Huayong was excited for a while, and immediately pulled his throat, "Mom, I want oranges!" ”

Jian Lu looked at Wu Xiangchen, the son of Chief of Staff Wu, but his eyes drifted to the yellow peach-flavored can, but he never spoke.

"Chenchen, which flavor do you want to eat?" Chen Qing ignored his own son's stubble, and instead leaned over to ask Wu Xiangchen.

Wu Xiangchen lifted his eyelids and looked at his stepmother, his long eyelashes trembled, and he was just about to open his mouth to hear his stepmother speak again.

"The taste of oranges is okay, my brother wants to eat this, do you want to eat it?"

Jian Lu looked at the skinny little boy and was stunned for a moment, then nodded slightly.

Chen Qing looked at Jian Lu with a gentle and easy-going smile on her face, "Sister Jian Lu, let's buy a canned fruit with orange flavor, Chenchen, this kid loves to eat it." ”

"Mom! I love to eat too! Liu Huayong jumped on his short legs and stood next to his mother.

"Just your greedy mouth, learn from Chenchen!"

Chen Qing left with his two sons after shopping, and in the supply and marketing cooperative, Li Jihong raised his chin at Qiu Sifeng, "Do you look at it?" The queen mother is still good to the child, and she is not biological first. ”

Qiu Sifeng pursed her lips, still unconvinced, "Come on, she asked that, can Wu Xiangchen still say that he wants a yellow peach?" I think she's just pretending to be confused! ”

Jian Lu was holding the notebook, and when she heard the words, she felt that Qiu Sifeng made sense this time, and Wu Xiangchen obviously wanted to eat yellow peach.

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When she returned home from a day of work, Jian Lu rode her bicycle to the family home, and was about to go upstairs on her bicycle, but she was confronted by Cui Yuhe holding her second son, and Chief of Staff Xu taking Hengheng and a family of four out.

"Lulu, just got off work?"

"Yes, sister-in-law Yuhe, where are your family going?"

"When I went back to my mother's house, my dad broke his leg, so go over and take a look." Cui Yuhe saw Jian Lu half-lifting and half-holding the two-eight bar, and said to his man, "Lao Xu, you can carry the bicycle for Lulu, we will wait for you here." ”

"No..." Before Jian Lu could say anything, Chief of Staff Xu snatched the bicycle from her hand and left like a wind, as if a kung fu man had returned in the blink of an eye.

"I'll put it on your doorstep." Chief of Staff Xu, his daughter-in-law, and children were about to leave, but before leaving, they revealed, "Lao Cheng is coming back soon, and it's just a matter of two or three days." ”

"Thank you, Chief of Staff Xu!" When Jian Lu heard Cheng Zheng's return date, she was overjoyed.

When she got home, Jian Lu cleaned up the house, she was not very hungry, she washed and washed the house, and rested to prepare a simple steamed sweet potato to eat.

But when the sweet potato is steamed, people can't eat it anymore, and they always feel that the sweet potato looks white and has no appetite.

When I looked around the house, I couldn't find anyone I wanted to eat.

Jian Lu felt bored in her heart, as if she was not too hungry and greedy, but she didn't want to eat anything, so she lay on the bed with her head upside down, and there was not even anyone around her who could quarrel!

"Comrade Cheng Zheng, when are you coming back~" Jian Lu pursed her lips and muttered to herself into the night sky outside the window.

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Cheng Zheng, who had perfectly completed the task of patrolling the coast, was on his way back at this time, and the vast and boundless sea was bottomless in the night, and the clear blue sea was like a puddle of ink at the moment, and it was impossible to distinguish the color.

There was silence on the sea, only the snoring of his comrades-in-arms one after another, and some people were talking in their dreams, and in their dreams they were either daughters-in-law or meat.

It's all the things I miss the most on weekdays.

Cheng Zheng couldn't sleep, so he got up and walked to the deck, looking at the silent night sky, and his mind was full of Jian Lu's appearance.

Before leaving, she hugged herself from behind, very reluctant, and even with the always neat and neat head of the regiment, Cheng was also reluctant.

The separation was always full of sorrow, but the thought of being reunited in two days turned out to be a long journey back to home.

"Lao Cheng."

Wu Feng, chief of staff, who was on duty tonight, saw a familiar figure in the night, and slowly approached, "Can't sleep?" ”

He knew that Cheng Zheng had married a beautiful daughter-in-law, and there was a chance that Cheng Zheng would not be able to sleep when he came out to perform a mission, and would get up in the middle of the night to blow a cold wind. Nine is to miss the daughter-in-law.

"I can't sleep, come out and stand for a while."

After staying at sea for a long time, people tend to get bored and become silent, and everywhere they look is the boundless sea water, hoping to return to the shore, and watching people come and go seems friendly.

In the past, Wu Feng and his comrades-in-arms defended the island for two years, and the island was a military outpost, and it was deserted for four weeks.

It is precisely because of this that he did not even see the last time his daughter-in-law died.

"I'm going back soon, there's two days left." Wu Feng took out the crumpled cigarette box on his body, and there was still one left in it, and lit it with a match.

In the smoke, Cheng Zheng remembered that when Wu Feng rushed back to see his daughter-in-law who had died of illness, he happened to be on the boat.

"Do you miss your son?"

"What's there to think about ? He wasn't close to me. Wu Feng swallowed the clouds and spit fog, and he didn't know what he was thinking, "This kid has always thought that I was late to go back, and he didn't see his mother, and he didn't like to take care of me." ”

When Wu Feng guarded the island for two years under very difficult conditions, and when the news came that his daughter-in-law was seriously ill, people were discovering suspicious outsiders.

On one side is the family, and on the other side is the country.

Wu Feng reported to the command headquarters and cooperated with the fighters who came to support him to repel the suspicious foreign ships and catch them, but because of this, he also delayed the time to return home.

I didn't see my daughter-in-law for the last time.

"Xiang Chen is young, and he will understand it in the future."

"I know something, and I don't know anything." Wu Feng smiled bitterly, "I really can't help my mother, I didn't rush back to see her for the last time." ”

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Looking forward to the return of the family, the days seem to be like years, Jian Lu is resting today and is at Feng Xiuhui's house.

Calculating the time, Cheng Zheng will be back tomorrow afternoon.

"Sister-in-law Xiuhui, I'll help you cook!"

She didn't have a good appetite these days, and she felt that she was too lonely to eat alone and couldn't adapt to it, so she simply brought half a pumpkin over and ate it at Feng Xiuhui's house. At home, the two of them ate with Dunzi, and Liang Haisheng solved it in the army.

At noon, I fried pumpkin slices, mixed with kelp and shredded radish, and by the way, I ate the peeled fish that I brought back last time.

Dunzi squatted on the ground, thinking that Aunt Lulu was crazy, and the skin of the fish was very hard to the touch, "Mom, how can you eat this?" ”

Feng Xiuhui also muttered in her heart, and she always felt that she couldn't put her mouth down, until she heard Jian Lu say that she was going to skin the fish and eat it.

"This thing is called skinned fish, that is, the skin of the fish is too hard to eat, so you have to peel the skin of the fish to eat, and the fish meat is still quite tender."

Feng Xiuhui felt that Jian Lu knew a lot, so she helped her take care of it, and when she peeled off the skin of the fish, the fish looked really pleasing to the eye.

Jian Lu put the peeled fish with the skin removed into the oil pan and fried it for a minute, scooped it up for later use, and then stir-fried the minced ginger and garlic prepared in advance, and put it into the most important part of the dish, the tempeh, which was stir-fried with shredded ginger and minced garlic, and the fragrance of the pot instantly filled the entire kitchen.

The tempeh was brought by my mother-in-law last time, and my mother's old craftsmanship was particularly fragrant.

Put the fried fish in the base, cover the pot and simmer for a while, just waiting for it to come out of the pan.

"It smells so good." Feng Xiuhui thinks that this fish is good, the most important thing is that it doesn't cost money, and the fishermen don't want it.

At lunchtime, the three of them ate a skinned fish, the flesh of which was delicate, and the most important thing was that the fish had only one main spine on its body, and no other small spines.

Dunzi eats happily, and you don't have to worry about fish bones stuck in your throat.

"Aunt Lulu, don't you know, I was stuck in my throat by a fish before, and my mother poured vinegar on me before I went down."

Feng Xiuhui felt that her son remembered whether he could eat or not, "I still like to eat fish after being stuck by fish bones." ”

"This fish is good, it has no bones!"

Jian Lu ate fish and felt that things that didn't cost money were more delicious!

The braised peeled fish with tempeh is delicious, and the half bowl of rice with a sweet potato buried under the head is also delicious, and the fish meat is delicious with rice, and I listened to Aunt Lulu and her mother talking about Wu Xiangchen's house downstairs.

"Sister-in-law Xiuhui, how the did Wu Xiangchen go? I heard my sister-in-law Jihong mention it, and she didn't know very well. ”

Hearing this, Feng Xiuhui was clear, "I was watching from the sidelines, she didn't know what kind of illness she had, she often said that her hands hurt and her feet hurt, but none of our farmers had any illness, and everyone didn't take it seriously. The army health center can't be cured, what else can be done. At that time, Chief of Staff Wu was still guarding the island, and told him to come back quickly, but he still didn't catch up. ”

"It's too miserable." Jian Lu felt uncomfortable when she heard it.

"Yes, Wu Xiangchen's child was only three or four years old at the time, and he couldn't cry, or I hugged and coaxed, such a young child still knew how to hold grudges and glared at his father. It's not easy for you to talk about this trouble. ”

"Then when did Chief of Staff Wu remarry?"

"It's been more than half a year since they're gone." Feng Xiuhui still remembers, "You said that a soldier, the child is so young, there is no one in the family to manage it, it is really not good, every time Chief of Staff Wu has a task, he can only put the child in the neighbor's house, and I have taken the child for a few days." ”

"That is, someone introduced me, and I think Sister-in-law Chen also brought a baby to marry."

"Yes, it is said that Chen Qing's life is good, she is in the vicinity, the family is poor, the man fell to his death while walking at night, leaving orphans and widows, it just so happens that her aunt's son is a soldier here, and I heard that Chief of Staff Wu is going to marry again. Moreover, Chief of Staff Wu thought that he would not have children in the future, but even if someone introduced Huanghua's eldest daughter, he did not agree, and he was worried that this mother would not be able to take care of children, and finally married Chen Qing. ”