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Chapter 10: Tangram puzzle

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Yonezawa Kai said: "You should buy yourself two sets of clothes. You haven't bought yourself anything since you came here."

Cheng Qing didn't give in, and said angrily: "We still have to save money for the trip!"

Yonezawa Kaido: "It's enough. You can buy yourself some new clothes."

Cheng Qing refused. She took a fancy to a toy deer, a style she had seen at Xiaobai Luochuan's place. It was an expensive and exquisite toy. She liked it so much that she wanted to buy it for Mi Yang.

Mi Yang didn't want Xiaolu and pushed her away several times, looking completely uninterested.

Only then did Cheng Qing give up.

Mi Zehai smiled and said, "Look, you two have the same stubborn temper."

When they were in the women's clothing area, Mi Yang pointed at a red sweater behind the counter and said "yeah" twice, refusing to leave. This style is beautiful and the color is bright, especially suitable for his mother.

Cheng Qing tried to coax him but he would not listen. The salesperson looked at Mi Zehai in his military uniform and was quite polite to them. He stood behind the counter and said to them, "These are new clothes shipped from the south this spring. They are selling very well! It's just that we can't try them on here. Your wife is pretty, so they will definitely fit you well."

Mi Zehai took the initiative to buy it for his wife. Although Cheng Qing verbally scolded him, she was still happy when she got the new clothes.

Finally, Cheng Qing did not forget to give Mi Yang a gift. She bought him two colorful jigsaw puzzles.

Yonezawa Kaido: "Why did you buy two of the same?"

Cheng Qing said, "There's also Sister Luo's child. He and Luo Chuan each got one. Sister Luo never forgets Yang Yang. It's rare for me to come out, so how can I only buy for Yang Yang?"

Mi Zehai touched his head and laughed. He was used to being a rough man and had never expected this.

The couple drank a bottle of iced orange soda each at the entrance of the department store. Mi Yang looked at the orange-yellow soda with small bubbles and couldn't help feeling a little greedy. He reached out and touched the bottle. Mi Zehai only gave him a little with a straw. Mi Yang smacked his lips, really missing the taste of orange-flavored cold drinks.

Cheng Qing said worriedly: "Don't give it to him, it's too cold, what if he gets sick?"

Mi Zehai said nonchalantly, "It's okay, just one drop."

After returning from the old city, Mi Yang was taken to the Bai family again.

Xiaobai Luochuan is eating. He can now have a lot of complementary foods. He is wearing a small bib and eating vegetable porridge with half an egg yolk and a few cod liver oil pills next to it.

The young master was eating enthusiastically at first, but when he saw Mi Yang being brought in, he immediately became excited. He refused to eat even when the spoon was put to his mouth. He stretched out his hands to ask the adults to take him up from the child chair and insisted on going out to play.

Mrs. Bai had no choice but to wipe his hands and face clean and let him go to play with Mi Yang.

This time they brought a new toy, the tangram, and Xiaobai Luochuan was having a lot of fun playing with it. Mi Yang tried his best to play a supporting role and imitated the other person as best as he could to be a qualified baby.

Xiaobai Luochuan tried hard to break off a pink round piece, shook it in his hand, and practiced speaking: "Eat...eat eat..."

Mi Yang was much more straightforward than him, spouting out the single word he was most familiar with: "No."

It was not known whether Xiaobai Luochuan understood or not, but whenever there was any noise coming from Mi Yang's side, he would laugh for half a day.

Cheng Qing and Mrs. Bai were talking about going back to their hometown, and Cheng Qing said to her, "It's a good time to go back in the spring. The weather is neither too cold nor too hot, and it won't be painful to take a few days of train ride."

Mrs. Bai asked about her hometown. She had only heard Cheng Qing say that she was from Lu Province. There were many soldiers from Lu Province, so she didn't care at first. But when Cheng Qing mentioned the name of Shanhai Town, she couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Oh, we have known each other for so long. Are our hometowns in the same place?"

Cheng Qing was surprised and asked: "Why, you too?"

Mrs. Bai smiled and shook her head, saying, "I'm not. I'm from the south, but Old Bai's family is."

Cheng Qing said: "But I heard that Political Commissar Bai joined the army in the old Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia area?"

"Yes, my grandfather was born in the military region over there. He has been there for a long time and has a deep affection for the place. That's where Old Bai joined the army. Look at the name Luochuan, it was given to him by my grandfather because he had won a battle there!" Mrs. Bai said, "But my grandfather was in Shanhai Town before he joined the army. My mother-in-law's hometown is also there. She went back there a few years ago."

After a while, Mrs. Bai explained in a low voice, "We went to pay respects. The old man married my mother-in-law. My mother-in-law's family was well off in the early years, but then they encountered those movements and suffered a lot. She was in poor health and died early, and the old house was sealed off."

Cheng Qing was a little at a loss, she had no intention of prying into other people's private affairs.

Mrs. Bai waved her hand and said gently, "It's okay. I just want to tell you. After 1978, the case was rehabilitated and the authorities sent someone to return those old items. My father-in-law didn't ask for anything else and donated everything except a house and land in his hometown." She sighed and said, "He was also thinking of what my mother-in-law said before she passed away, that she wanted to return to her roots. The old man personally carried the coffin back to attend the funeral."

Cheng Qing also sighed for a while.

Mrs. Bai smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. It's all old news from a few years ago."

Mi Yang was listening with his ears perked up.

He had heard some people mention it before, but the rumors were out of control, and there were all kinds of rumors. Mrs. Bai said it was normal, but Mi Yang knew how much land the Bai family's old house enclosed. He had always thought that it was bought by the Bai family through business, but he didn't expect it to be an ancestral property, worthy of being a great family business passed down for many years.

The Bai family's old house has been taken care of for so many years, and they go there whenever they want to worship their ancestors. Now it seems that the old man is worried about his wife.

Xiaobai Luochuan, who was standing next to him, was a little unhappy when he saw him turning his head to look at the adults, and wanted to get his attention.

Mi Yang turned his head to look at him. The young master glared at him, probably because he felt that he was not getting enough attention and he became angry at any moment.

Mi Yang felt that he would soon leave the military camp, and he would have to wait for several years before meeting Bai Luochuan again, at least after he finished his studies. With this in mind, he cooperated with him generously and even gave him several big smiles.

Master Xiaobai's temper came and went quickly. In his eyes, Mi Yang was just a beloved toy that moved when he poked it. Now the toy "moved" by itself and smiled beautifully, and the young master was immediately satisfied. The two babies giggled at each other, and even the adults beside them laughed unconsciously, and their mood improved a lot.

Mrs. Bai sighed, "I really can't bear to leave Yangyang."

Cheng Qing said, "I can't bear to leave you, but my family leave is about to end, so I have to go back. I'll bring Yangyang here to celebrate the New Year this winter, and by then Luochuan will be able to run away, right?"

Mrs. Bai thought for a moment, nodded and smiled, "That should be it. He has started crawling now, twisting his body and trying to go anywhere."

Cheng Qing praised: "It's great, lively!"

Mrs. Bai smiled and shook her head, saying, "You don't know how bad his temper is. I was afraid of him for a while."

Cheng Qing said: "Yangyang usually looks honest, but he is actually very stubborn. He has his own ideas in his mind, and I can never get the better of him."

Mi Yang blinked. Is he stubborn

Little Bai Luochuan next to him started touching his bottle again. Mi Yang almost immediately hugged his bottle with his little arms and subconsciously put the nipple into his mouth. He only reacted when he drank the milk. It seems like he is a little stubborn

No, this is the baby's instinctive reaction to protect the food. Mi Yang comforted himself in his heart and continued to drink hard.