Chapter 93: Another Mission
Sometimes when Tang Xiaoxiao was walking the baby in the corridor with a stroller in the morning, he saw Aunt Xu's children a few times.
The children are still young and can't say too much, and when they see that they are all called 'mother', they sometimes can't help but cry.
Zhang Weihong also took the officers of the family committee to carry things and went to Aunt Xu's house to express condolences several times.
Aunt Xu asked them to take their things away every time, saying that Commander Xu had an allowance, Xu Sheng also had a pension, and the children also received child support from the government, and their family had no reason to collect things.
Because of the drought, this summer was particularly hot, and Tang Xiaoxiao changed the belly pockets for the children early.
Because of the lack of water and the hot weather, it is necessary to bathe every day, and every household must reserve the amount of water every day in addition to cooking at noon.
And because there are no booster pumps at this time, when the water is connected at noon, the water pressure of the residents on the high floors will decrease.
Tang Xiaoxiao's family obviously doesn't have to worry about these problems, and Song Jingzhi went on a mission out of town again.
The drought accompanied by the earthquake undoubtedly made the task more difficult.
Because the men were not at home, Tang Xiaoxiao and Li Min were not able to go out with their children, so Yao Li and Cui Jing took on the work of buying vegetables for the residents on the third floor.
In this era, transportation was not so developed, because of the lack of water, although the local area of Jin City was not so serious, but the vegetable harvest was very small.
In the past, Cui Jing could bring some vegetables from her parents' house to share with everyone, but now she also needs to go to the market to buy vegetables.
The harvest is small, and the supply of vegetables will definitely be limited, so when the two go out to buy vegetables, they have to bring several people's military family certificates.
"It's good we went early, otherwise there would have been nothing." When Yao Li and Cui Jing came back, they were both sweating profusely.
The vegetables bought back will be divided into five households, and each family will not be able to share much.
"In the past, you had to rob meat to buy meat, but now you have to grab vegetables." Aunt Xu said with a smile that it was inconvenient for her to bring her grandson, and she also relied on them to bring vegetables back.
"We're okay, how should this farmer live, there is no food change in the next village." Tang Xiaoxiao said.
"Hey, it will pass, and the ten years of famine will pass." Cui Jing said that her mother's home is on the outskirts of Jinshi, and she is still passable.
"Xiaoxiao, how is your in-law's house?" Yao Li asked.
"It's okay, there is still some surplus grain at home, and the harvest in the village was good in the past few years, but it can survive this year." Mother Song wrote a letter a few days ago to tell them not to worry.
"That'll do."
Li Min's child was crying at this time, the milk was freshly fed, and the diaper was not wet.
"What's going on?" Cui Jing watched her hold the child and coax, but it didn't get better.
"It's a rash, isn't it?" Aunt Xu saw the red on the child's chin and asked.
"Yes, it's hot, adults can still bear it, children can't stand it." Li Min took a look at the twins of Tang Xiaoxiao's family, and their bodies were white and tender.
Tang Xiaoxiao felt her gaze, "We have small mattresses on the bed and in the car." ”
"Yes, I can't carry it without a mattress on this day." Yao Li nodded.
"Can the child sleep on a mat?" Li Min asked, she was afraid that it would be too cold for the child to catch a cold.
"Children are much more afraid of heat than adults." Aunt Xu said with a smile, knowing that Li Min had no one to teach her this, she told her these things.
She asked her to take the child to the health center to prescribe an ointment, and at ten o'clock, the sun was getting stronger and stronger, and she couldn't stay in the aisle, so she took the child home with her.
One day in late August, it finally rained heavily, which lasted for three days, and the year's drought finally passed.
The children have been more than 5 months at this time, Tang Xiaoxiao looked at the heavy rain outside, looked at the children playing on the bed, and sighed.
"I don't know when your dad will be back." At this time, Song Jingzhi had been gone for a month.
She found that although Ping Ping was still young, she would let her sister do everything, so she made a small rag doll for each of the two children.
The mediocre is the little tiger, An An is the little rabbit, and the two children like it very much, and they like to sleep in their arms when they sleep.
But sometimes An An will hold the little rabbit and also go to grab Pingping's little tiger, and Pingping will let An An every time.
But Tang Xiaoxiao didn't allow this kind of behavior, and every time he would take the little tiger from An An and return it to Pingping.
"An An, if you do this again, your mother will give your little rabbit to my brother and stop you from playing."
When An An went to pick up Pingping's little tiger again, she patted An An's hand.
The child looked at her with tears in his eyes, and then at his brother, Ping Ping handed the little tiger to An An and babbled at her.
It seemed like she was coaxing her sister, Tang Xiaoxiao couldn't help laughing.
"Brother will play for you, you can play, but you can't rob it." Although she knows that the child still can't understand her words, she knows that education starts from the baby.
Afraid that the children's necks would not be able to support them for too long, she held the children and lay them down.
When Song Jingzhi came back, it was late at night.
She had already fallen asleep with the children, and when she heard the squirming movement, Tang Xiaoxiao didn't say a word, and went up with a kick.
"Wife." Fortunately, he knew his daughter-in-law's vigilance, and he was on guard from the beginning.
"You're back." She pulled down the light cord at the head of the bed and saw the man in the dust.
"Well, it's too late when I came back, didn't scare you, did I?" He smiled and glanced at the children in the crib, who were already asleep and snoring.
"I thought there was a thief stealing the child." She quipped.
"What does the child have to steal, if you want to steal, you will steal the child's mother." He reached out and pinched her little face.
"Have you washed?" She asked.
"Washed, washed in the team." Since three days of rain, the daily supply of tap water has been restored.
Hearing that he had finished washing, Tang Xiaoxiao continued to lie back on the bed.
"Is it serious?" She asked, this time Song Jingzhi has been gone for more than a month.
"By the time we arrived, there had already been several waves of aftershocks." He hugged her waist tightly.
This earthquake was completely different from the impact on Xu Shan, that time he was still single, his mission was disaster relief, he was full of respect for life, and what he thought was that he wanted to save more people.
This time is different, in addition to being the son of his parents, he is also a husband and a father.
When he saw the parents who were desperately digging in the rubble, shouting their children's names, and looking at the children standing on the edge of the rubble, shouting their parents, his mood was completely different.
When they excavated the wives of the rubble, the couples embracing each other, the parents of the children, their bodies stiffened.