This was to prevent theft, but Cheng Qing refused. She took a fancy to a toy deer, the same 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 Xiao Lu 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 didn't 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 decided to buy it for his wife. Although Cheng Qing scolded him verbally, she was still very 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 get 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.
After staying at the Bai family for a while, giving away the tangram and saying goodbye, Cheng Qing went back with the child.
When little Bai Luochuan was carried to the door, he didn't notice anything yet, because Mi Yang was still within his sight. They were often held by adults to communicate with each other. But when he saw Mi Yang being carried away and out of sight, he kicked his legs anxiously to look for him, shouting "Yeah". Mrs. Bai gave him a biscuit to coax him, but he threw it to the ground with a sullen face.
Mrs. Bai didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She poked him on the forehead and said, "You have such a bad temper. I really don't know who you resemble!"
Political Commissar Bai had just returned with his guards. He looked unhappy and frowned, unable to relax. Madam Bai asked him, "What's wrong?"
Political Commissar Bai sat down and drank a glass of water. After a long while, he sighed and said, "Who else could it be? Dad insisted on coming here. He said he wanted to see the results of the training in the field area this year."
Mrs. Bai smiled and said, "That's great, are we going to the division headquarters?"
Political Commissar Bai shook his head and said, "No, he wants to come here."
Mrs. Bai looked at him in surprise and asked, "Dad is coming? When did you say that? When will he arrive?"
Political Commissar Bai said with a headache: "Just now, someone called me on the internal line and said that the people were halfway there and they wanted to conduct a surprise inspection."
Mrs. Bai smiled and said, "That's perfect. I see that Captain Mi is well prepared. Besides, when has the Second Artillery Force ever lost face? Sometimes when Cheng Qing and I are knitting in the room, we can hear you guys doing shooting drills on the mountain!"
Political Commissar Bai said, "But Dad, it's not in accordance with the rules to not even say hello like this."
Madam Bai said, "He is the one who makes the rules. You should stop worrying about it and give Captain Mi a chance to show his abilities."
Political Commissar Bai sighed, nodded and said nothing more. He reached out to tease his son, but Bai Luochuan was in a bad mood because his "toy" had been taken away. He didn't even smile. After being poked in the stomach twice, he ruthlessly reached out to pry open his father's hand and shouted out one word in a crisp and clear voice: "No! No no!"
Political Commissar Bai didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Who did you learn this from? Your pronunciation is quite standard."
He finally picked up his son, shook him in his hands, and said, "You've gotten fatter."
Xiaobai Luochuan stared at him with his eyes wide open, his little eyebrows raised, expressing his anger very vividly.
Political Commissar Bai had a subtle look on his face. He held his son in his arms and suddenly thought of the term "inheritance". It turned out that his son really had the same temper as his father, and he was extremely explosive.
On the other side, Mi Yang was taken back to his home.
He turned over in bed and watched his mother pack her luggage, feeling a little excited.
This time when he goes back, he will be able to see his grandma.
In his previous life, Mi Yang spent the rest of his childhood at his grandmother's house, except for a few months every year in the military camp. He was raised by the old lady and had a deep relationship with her. The old lady would keep any good things she received for him to eat when he came back, from a piece of ice cream and a few snacks when he was a child to the money Mi Yang gave her during festivals. The old lady rarely went out and didn't spend money. She saved all the money in a passbook, and when she saved an integer, she would give it to Mi Yang with a smile, so that he could use it to buy a house.
Mi Yang thought of his grandma and his eyes became red. He came back suddenly and the old lady couldn't find him and must be worried. She had a bad heart and he didn't know if she had any medicine with her.
In the evening, Mi Zehai and his wife made a big mistake.
Thinking about leaving, Cheng Qing wanted to cook for Mi Zehai and made his favorite white bread buns with pork and cabbage. The skin of each bun was white, tender and soft, with meatballs specially put inside. It was oily and particularly fragrant when you took a bite.
Mi Zehai ate six in one go, and Cheng Qing ate two himself. Seeing his son smacking his lips greedily beside him, Mi Zehai secretly fed Mi Yang half of the bun filling.
Mi Yang rarely cheats and is very cooperative.
But at night, Mi Yang burst into tears.
There is no other reason, the filling of the buns was too salty, his parents forgot to give him water, and he was thirsty!
But the new parents were at a panic. They took out various children's cough syrups and hawthorn digestive tablets and tried to feed them to Mi Yang, but the child pushed them away. The more Mi Yang couldn't drink the water, the harder he struggled. The worst thing was that he hadn't learned the word "water" from Bai Luochuan, so he couldn't say it out loud. He was really holding it in.
Cheng Qing rarely saw his son cry, so he thought too much and almost cried himself: "It's all your fault! It must be because of the orange soda during the day. I told you not to give it to Yangyang, but you didn't listen!"
Yonezawa Hai was also in a panic, and said: "Maybe it's not this, it's... Is he sick?"
Cheng Qing was so frightened that his hands and feet were shaking. He said, "I heard that eating unclean things can easily make you sick. Could it be appendicitis?"