At night, Zhou Yunmeng washed up and went back to the room, sat on the dresser and wiped his face and hands.

Then he reached out and picked up the conspicuous woodcarved hibiscus flower on the table and touched it, and couldn't help but smile between his eyebrows.

This woodcut hibiscus flower was stuffed in an envelope written by Lin Jinping a few days ago and sent it together, saying that he used the evening time to carve it by hand and gave it to her as a birth gift.

I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up with the time, so I'll send it over first.

Husband and wife talk about everything when they get along, Zhou Yunmeng naturally told him that when he was born last year, the longevity noodles cooked by Zhou's mother and the red eggs boiled by Lin's mother.

At that time, Lin Jinping said with a smile that he remembered this day. I didn't catch up last year, and I won't forget it this year.

Hibiscus flowers, it was the first time the couple went to the county seat to watch a movie in the army, and there happened to be a small piece of hibiscus flowers in full bloom on the street, and she casually praised that it was beautiful.

She said she liked hibiscus flowers.

Unexpectedly, Lin Jinping would carve a hibiscus flower out of a piece of wood and give it to her.

The woodcarved hibiscus flower should be small in the palm of the hand, whether it is the overall shape or the petal details, it is lifelike, delicate and small, and beautiful.

What's more, the flower itself carries a different meaning.

Zhou Yunmeng liked this gift very much, and from the moment he received it, it was placed in the most conspicuous place on the dresser countertop.

In this way, you can see when you raise your eyes and lower your eyes, and occasionally reach out and touch it, and your mood is also good, and you will think of Lin Jinping in the army.

During this time, the couple had been exchanging letters.

After not receiving a reply for a while, Zhou Yunmeng knew that he was on a mission.

Later, when she received a reply, even if she didn't mention anything about the mission, her heart settled down, at least she knew that the person had returned safely.

Zhou Yunmeng held the woodcarved hibiscus flower in his hand, sat down on the desk, took out a pen and letter paper from the drawer, wrote with interest about today's events in Zhou's house and Lin's house, and sent it back to Lin Jinping to see.

Rest in bed after writing.

The quilt was just dried today, with a familiar and pleasant smell of the sun, and it was extra comfortable and soft to cover, and it was still warm.

Soon sleepiness welled up and I fell asleep.

A good night's sleep.

As soon as the eleventh month of the lunar calendar passes, it is the wax moon. The wax moon has arrived, and the New Year is not far away.

Throughout the winter, Zhou Yunmeng maintained the same frequency as before, and saved five or six manuscripts in about half a month and took them to the post office to send.

It's just that the manuscript was mailed out and scattered, some were voted for youth stories, some were voted for Xiang Tianzhi, and some were voted for dark green Junhua.

At first, she took it to mail, and when Xu Xiaoying saw the address when she pasted the stamps, she was stunned: "Yunmeng, why did you vote for a magazine so far away?" Each return stamp costs four cents more expensive. ”

After asking, she reacted that the address of this magazine was Yunmeng's husband's.

Zhou Yunmeng explained with a smile: "The last time I went to the county seat in the army, I went to the post office to buy a few magazines, and two of them fit me quite well. As long as it can be received, it is still acceptable for this stamp to be four cents more expensive. ”

Xu Xiaoying knew that Yun Meng had confidence as soon as she heard it, and said with a smile: "Yun Meng, you are so powerful, in this case, it is really nothing to pay four cents." ”

She neatly pasted stamps and postmarks in her hands, and Bian and Zhou Yunmeng recalled that when the two first met, it was also the magazine she recommended.

Zhou Yunmeng has recently saved a lot of manuscript fees.

Youth Story saw her suddenly didn't submit for a month before, and then the number of submissions was less than before, and in a reply she said that the quality of the articles she wrote has been very good, and she is an old author of the magazine, and if she continues to submit, she is willing to receive it with a thousand words and six yuan.

Compared with the previous thousand words and five yuan, it has increased by one.

Zhou Yunmeng didn't expect that he would toss so by mistake, and he actually increased the manuscript fee.

It can also be speculated from this that there may still be a lack of articles of this quality on the part of Youth Stories.

Xiang Tianzhi tried to submit another article before, and the magazine replied that the feedback from the previous article was very good, and she was still received for seven yuan per thousand words, and she was welcome to continue to submit.

On the dark green Junhua side, she also wrote several articles one after another and submitted them to the past.

It was the inspiration that came to her mind when she was in the army before, and it was recorded on the letterhead at that time, and it was all conceived and written by her as a positive story of a military wife this winter.

Most of the details are combined with years of knowledge and experience in reading era literature, and a small amount of materials accumulated when chatting with Fang's sister-in-law and sister-in-law Ye.

They were all selected by the dark green Junhua, and the price was the same as before, six yuan per thousand words.

Of course, Zhou Yunmeng changed the author's name and submitted the manuscript.

The article that wrote about Fang's sister-in-law Ye last time caused such a big response in the army, and it was a study meeting and a name and praise, which shows the influence of dark green Junhua on the military wives.

The military wives on the other side of the army's family building all know that Zhou Zhou is her Zhou Yunmeng, and the Women's Federation Office will read dark green military articles for propaganda every issue, if the name Zhou Zhou is still used, everyone will definitely pay attention to it.

When the time comes, guess which military wife she wrote about, chase after the wind, or wait for her to ask her these things in person when she goes to the army, and it is not easy to answer.

Because they are all fictional characters.

In addition, she can often write articles that are published in the dark green army, and the more times she does, it will become some kind of trouble.

Then she simply changed her pen name and still earned the manuscript fee, which also saved these troubles.

Xiang Tianzhi continued to use the author's name Zhou Zhou.

On the one hand, there are very few people who read this magazine in the family building of the army, and even the Women's Federation Office does not subscribe to this magazine.

If someone sees it, then it will just dispel the doubts of the family members Lou Jun's sisters-in-law, knowing that she is writing articles and submitting articles to make money, and it can also deepen their impression that the daughter-in-law of the head of the Lin regiment is capable.

This winter, Zhou Yunmeng also removed a few cotton clothes filled with cotton from the supermarket's clock and clothing area, and used them as cotton wool to buy them, and completely replaced the quilts that Zhou's mother and Lin's mother had replaced with new quilts last year.

Xu Xiaoying was enthusiastic and took the initiative to ask her if she would like to help buy some defective cloth this year and go back to make new clothes for the New Year.

She had enough winter clothes to wear, and she didn't think about making new clothes, the bright yellow fabric was still in the closet, thinking that she would make new clothes after the spring of next year.

Zhou Yunmeng originally wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he said that he would wait until he went home and asked.

Lin's sister-in-law Lin Er's sister-in-law went to work as a temporary worker in the cement factory because of her man's slack time, and the small family had more inputs, and she was also moved to hear that she could help buy defective cloth.

After all, the most difficult thing to save is the cloth ticket, and the defective cloth is a little more expensive, but don't cloth the ticket. There is a way to buy defective cloth, and they also want to buy some and come back to make new clothes for their children.

So they all rejoiced.

The three sisters-in-law of the Zhou family are similar, they have more money in their hands, they are worried about their children, and they are willing to spend money on them, and they all ask Zhou Yunmeng to help buy some fabrics to make new clothes for the children.

Of course, it can only be made for the eldest child, and the older ones can be worn for younger siblings if they can't wear them for a year or two.

Zhou Yunmeng also took advantage of Xu Xiaoying's help to replace some defective cloth for Lin and Zhou's family.

In winter, I went to Rao Xiaoqing to get meat once in half a month, and there were four or five catties at a time. She gave half a split every time to take back the Lin and Zhou families.

This time, she directly scraped together eight catties of pork from the supermarket and took it back to the Lin family, and asked Lin's mother to make sausages for the New Year like last year.

After the sausage was ready, two were sent back to Zhou's mother.

After that, he didn't help buy meat for the Lin family, except for the meat taken from Rao Xiaoqing, he gave it to the Zhou family, and kept it in the supermarket.

On the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, the New Year is approaching.

The village killed pigs and divided pigs, and the Qinghe production team, which had been silent for a long time, became lively again.

Everyone looks forward to the two oils and water before the autumn harvest and before the Chinese New Year all year round.

Mother Lin and sister-in-law Lin and sister-in-law Lin took the children out early in the morning to join in the fun.

Although there is no shortage of meat at home, and half a pot of dried sausages is piled up in the kitchen, the good thing of dividing meat in the village still has to be done early to get good meat.

Zhou Yunmeng still didn't go to join in the fun, nested in a room warmer than the outside, listened to the joyful excitement outside the window, and wrote the manuscript leisurely.

While thinking that Lin Jinping should be back soon.

When Mother Lin came back with the two catties of pork belly they had received, the family was also happy for a while, and the meat was to be kept for the New Year.

In the afternoon, Mother Lin went out to find someone to chat, and when she came back, she asked Zhou Yunmeng with a happy face: "Third daughter-in-law, guess who I saw just now?" ”

Without waiting for Zhou Yunmeng to ask, she couldn't wait to say, "Han Chuan and his daughter-in-law are back with a package!" I guess the third child should come back in the next two days! ”

Chapter 63: Exposure

Han's mother and her daughter, who happened to be resting, went to the brigade to receive the pork.

At the end of the year, the pork in the village was distributed according to the number of people. Their family members do not have an advantage, but fortunately, they went early and got a pound of beautiful pork belly.

The pork belly is good, it can be stir-fried to make lard, cut into slices and fried everything.

Mother and daughter went home happily.

When Han Chuan and Shen Baozhu went home with their packages in the afternoon, Han's mother was even happier.

Since going to join the army, the eldest and the eldest daughter-in-law have not come back, and they only send letters back every month to report their safety, and there are five yuan and a pound of meat tickets in the envelope.

Mother Han saw that their complexion was better than before, and the boss was even a little stronger, so she knew that the couple had a really good life in the army, and Baozhu took good care of the boss.

She was happy in her heart, and with a smile on her face, she said, "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." ”

"Boss Baozhu, you're tired when you come back from the car, come into the house and rest. It just so happened that the village divided the meat today, and our family got a pound of pork belly, and I will cut half of it tonight to make braised pork for you to eat. ”

Han Li greeted her eldest brother and affectionately held Shen Baozhu's arm.

"Sister-in-law, you don't know, my mother got the meat home this morning and said that she would fry the pork belly in lard, and cut the rest into slices and fry them for the New Year. As soon as you came back, she said that she was going to make braised pork tonight. ”

She herself and Shen Baozhu, the sister-in-law, got along, because she got a job in the supply and marketing cooperative, thinking that Shen Baozhu was good, even if she didn't see her for a few months, it would be very close.

Mother Han listened to her daughter's words and said with a smile: "You girl is used to demolishing the stage, isn't this your eldest brother and sister-in-law happy to come back?" If you have the ability, don't eat braised pork tonight. ”

Han Li: "That's not good! That is, when my eldest brother and sister-in-law come back, you are willing to make braised pork, I have to eat it! ”

Han Chuan hadn't seen his mother and little sister for a long time, and he was happy to see them talking and laughing like this.

Even Shen Baozhu couldn't help but laugh when she heard these words, she was naturally happy that her mother-in-law and sister-in-law could welcome them back like this.

She patted Han Li's hand and said, "We didn't expect to divide pork in the village today, what a coincidence." Our family hasn't eaten together for a long time, and I'll go to the kitchen to help my mother after I clean up, and the braised pork made by my mother is the best. ”

"This time, we also saved three catties of meat tickets to bring back, Xiaoli, you will help buy meat when you go to work these days, and you will have a good year this year."

Mother Han listened happily: "Baozhu, you are tired when you come back from the car, you will clean up and rest and wait for dinner, my mother knows that you have a heart, it is enough to have Xiaoli come to the kitchen to help me." ”

Han Li nodded: "Yes, sister-in-law, you have a good rest, I'll help my mother over there." ”

Shen Baozhu also responded: "Okay, then I'll rest." You have to accept the three catties of meat tickets, let Xiaoli help buy the meat back, and everyone will eat happily this time during the New Year. ”

Han's mother responded, and said: "During this time, there are the pounds of meat tickets you send back every month, plus the meat tickets issued by Xiaoli's monthly supply and marketing cooperative, and we have enough oil and water in our stomachs." ”

Han Chuan was happy to hear his mother say this, his father and mother were doing well, and he was also relieved.