Tired from the journey, he slept soundly that night. When he woke up, it was already dawn, and the light came in from the small window near the corridor.
He Xiaoyun hugged the quilt and sat up, and was in a daze for a few seconds before she gradually regained her consciousness and remembered where she was now.
She looked at the bed next to her. Wei Yuanhang was still soundly asleep, and Wei Jianwei had already woken up and was not in the room. It seemed that she had indeed slept soundly, and the other party's movement did not wake her up.
Just staying there, the door creaked, and Wei Jianwei walked in. He was already dressed, with hot water in one hand and two lunch boxes in the other.
He Xiaoyun was completely awake, and quickly got up to tidy herself up, "Isn't it very late?"
"Not too late." Wei Jianwei said.
In fact, after he got up in the morning, he had already gone to the camp to see how the recruits went out, and then went to the army cafeteria, and came back after breakfast.
He Xiaoyun dug Wei Yuanhang out of the bed, dressed and washed him, and Wei Jianwei laid out the breakfast he brought back.
The child was still a little dazed, without opening his eyes, and said to his mother: "Mom, I dreamed that we went to find Dad..."
He Xiaoyun listened amused, "We have found Dad, are you still awake?"
After washing his face, Wei Yuanhang woke up completely, bouncing back and forth in this new "home", looking here and there.
For breakfast, I ate white porridge and corn buns with some pickles.
Last night, He Xiaoyun got a general understanding of the houses assigned by the army. The bathrooms and toilets are shared. They are at both ends of the corridor, and you can have a party in the house, but it is not like burning firewood like in the countryside. It uses a coal stove, and there are only utensils in the kitchen. Wei Jianwei is well prepared, but there are no ingredients that can be put into the pot.
He Xiaoyun figured that they had to eat the food they kindly provided last night and the army canteen this morning, so they had to cook it by themselves at noon.
"Is there a market nearby?" she asked Wei Jianwei.
"Yes," Wei Jianwei nodded, stood up and took out a few things from the drawer for her, including food books, various tickets and money, "sister-in-law will accompany you later, I have something to do in the camp in the morning."
"You are busy with your business. Don't worry about me." He Xiaoyun flipped through the food books curiously, and then remembered to ask: "Is the sister-in-law you mentioned last night?"
"Yes, her surname is Xu."
He Xiaoyun hurriedly said: "Oh, then I have to hurry up, I can't let people wait too long."
As soon as the words fell, someone knocked on the door outside, "Sister and brother, are you up yet?"
Wei Jianwei went to open the door, and He Xiaoyun also stood up.
"Old Wei is here, I thought you were over there in the camp, and you wanted to call your siblings to my place for breakfast."
The one who came was a woman in her thirties, with neck-length short hair, a smile on her face, and she looked very capable. She saw He Xiaoyun standing by the table at first sight, she let out a yow, walked over a few steps, and praised, " These are the younger siblings, right? They are so beautiful! No wonder Old Wei is so absorbed in his business that no one else would even look at him, so there is such a beautiful daughter-in-law at home!"
He Xiaoyun smiled shyly, "Sister-in-law is overwhelmed, she came too late yesterday, she didn't come to visit, and she ate your meal for nothing."
"Why are you polite?" Xu Lanxiang waved his hand, "Your family's Lao Wei, Lao Wang, and Lao Lin are all like brothers. In the future, our two families will live together again, so we can't be more intimate? You are new here , If you don’t understand anything, just ask me.”
He Xiaoyun nodded, exchanged pleasantries with her, and asked Wei Yuanhang to call someone.
Xu Lanxiang took out a candy from his pocket, "You and Lao Wei are both good-looking, and the baby you gave birth to is also beautiful, right? Xiaohang, right? Come, auntie, here is some candy."
Wei Yuanhang looked at her, then at He Xiaoyun, saw her nodding, and then took it over, "Thank you, Auntie."
"So cute." Xu Lanxiang couldn't help but said, "It's not like those little monkeys in my house."
She originally planned to ask He Xiaoyun to have dinner, but seeing that they were already eating, and she had several children at home, she couldn't live without them, so she made an appointment with He Xiaoyun to go out for a while and go back soon.
After breakfast, Wei Jianwei had to go back to the camp. When he walked to the door, he remembered and asked, "I came back from the cafeteria at noon. What do you want to eat?"
He Xiaoyun walked over and said with a smile: "I was just about to ask you. I will go to the market with my sister-in-law in a while, and I am going to buy something to cook for myself. Can you come back and eat? What do you want to eat?"
"No rest for two days?" Wei Jianwei asked her.
"No," He Xiaoyun shook her head, and stretched her arms and legs with him, "I slept well last night, and now I feel energetic."
Wei Jianwei said: "You can do it by watching. There are few people, so you can do less."
"There are fewer people, but you have a lot of appetite, one is worth two." He Xiaoyun teased.
Wei Jianwei also smiled.
"Then... come back earlier at noon?" He Xiaoyun hesitated, and it was rare that she was reluctant to part with her.
In fact, intellectually, she understands very well that it is not the first time to send him out, and he will come back soon, so there is no need to be sticky, but after all, in a strange place, and there is only one acquaintance in front of her, it is inevitable that she will be a little emotionally dependent. He wanted to leave, but the feeling of reluctance came out.
"Yeah." Wei Jianwei nodded, but didn't step out, "If you're bored, you can take a walk nearby, not too far. There is a bookstore not far from the market, and the department store is next door, and the No. 12 tram goes back and forth—"
Before he could finish his explanation, he was interrupted by a smiling voice: "I've been watching you two for a long time. If you keep talking like this, the sun will be setting. Old Wei, you can go to the camp with peace of mind. My sister-in-law won't leave you alone." Your daughter-in-law lost it."
The two turned their heads at the same time, saw Xu Lanxiang standing at the door of the next room, and heard a lot.
He Xiaoyun's face was a little hot, and she quickly changed the topic with Wei Yuanhang: "Hanghang, say goodbye to Dad."
Wei Yuanhang ran over, raised his head and said, "Goodbye, Dad."
Wei Jianwei hummed, looked at the two of them again, nodded at Xu Lanxiang, and left.
Xu Lanxiang also held a four or five-year-old boy in his hand, walked over and said with a smile, "I've never seen Lao Wei so worried. Today, brother and sister, you opened my sister-in-law's eyes. I will tell Lao Wang at night that he You can't believe it."
He Xiaoyun was slightly embarrassed, saw the boy beside her, and asked, "Is this sister-in-law's youngest child?"
"Yes, he has an older sister and an older brother who have gone to school. In two years' time, I will be sent as well. Xiaorong, why don't you call me?"
While the adults were talking, the two little ones had been looking at each other for a while, and after a while, the older one spoke first, "My name is Wang Derong, who are you?"
"My name is Wei Yuanhang."
"Wei Yuan clam? Your name is really strange."
"It's Wei Yuanhang! Mom said it's Zhi, Zhi... means high ambition! I'll be a promising person in the future!" Wei Yuanhang puffed out his small chest unhappily. Although he doesn't know what it means to be ambitious, and he doesn't know what it means to be successful, it doesn't prevent him from despising others.
"Oh..." Wang Derong scratched his head, but didn't understand, "Then do you have a slingshot?"
"What slingshot?"
Now it was Wang Derong's turn to puff out his chest, "My father made it for me, and my brother knocked the bird down with a swish."
"Can you fight?" Wei Yuanhang hit the nail on the head.
"I, I don't know it yet, but I will soon! I can borrow you to play."
When the little fat man heard this, he immediately put away the disdainful expression just now, and whispered together with his new friend.
He Xiaoyun packed up, and Xu Lanxiang and Xu Lanxiang went out with a child.
As Wei Jianwei said, to get to the market from the family area, you have to take a tram. It was dark yesterday, and I didn't have time to look around, but today I really felt that the excitement and prosperity of the capital is incomparable to the small county towns in my hometown.
After getting out of the car, He Xiaoyun held Wei Yuanhang's hand tightly and told him not to run around.
The child had already been dazzled by seeing it, and he looked like a little country bumpkin. If he hadn't been pulled by her, he would have been rushed there by the crowd.
In the morning, there were many people and there were children, so He Xiaoyun was in no mood to wander around. Under Xu Lanxiang's guidance, she bought all the things she wanted, only grains such as rice and noodles. Because they were too heavy to lift, they only bought enough. Eat for a few days.
Xu Lanxiang also bought some vegetables, and said to her on the way back: "There will be a market the day after tomorrow. Farmers in the suburbs sell vegetables they grow themselves, which are fresher than those on the market. If you are interested, I will call you then."
"Okay, thanks to my sister-in-law's help these two days, I will invite you to come to my house for dinner after the settlement is settled." He Xiaoyun said.
These words are not polite. When she ate the meal delivered by Xu Lanxiang last night, she thought about it for a few days. When she got used to it, she would find a time when everyone was free and invite Wei Jianwei's comrades-in-arms and their families to eat at home. Officially meet everyone.
"Then I'll have a big meal." Xu Lanxiang said with a smile without evasion.
Back home, He Xiaoyun put all the things she bought on the table. She bought a catty of meat, a fish, a few catties of vegetables, twenty eggs, and the essential rice noodles with oil, salt and sugar. It cost a lot of money. A few bucks out.
If you are not in charge, you don’t know that firewood and rice are expensive. Although spending money is fun, heartache is also real pain. In the past, in Qingshuihe, you can’t spend a few cents a month, and the vegetables are grown by yourself, and the firewood is picked up on the mountain. need money.
Of course, she didn't eat much fish or meat when she was at home, and she didn't plan to be so extravagant in the future, she just thought, after all, it was the first meal of the business here, and if she was careful, she would call it Anzao Rice, The meaning is different, so I bought more.
Wei Jianwei gave her in the morning, in addition to various tickets, there were also three Great Unity tickets, and more than half of them had already been spent by now, He Xiaoyun thought to herself, she didn't know how much his salary was, so she had to plan carefully in the future.
After finishing the small accounts in her heart, she rolled up her sleeves and prepared to cook. Wang Derong ran over to play with Wei Yuanhang, and the two little guys wanted to go downstairs.
There are guards standing guard in the family area of the army. He Xiaoyun is not worried about safety issues, but just said as before: "Don't run away, I will ask you to eat later."
Wei Yuanhang responded and ran out, and started running wildly in the corridor. In the past, his playmate was Yanyan, and girls were at least more gentle, but now a boy with the same skin has come, He Xiaoyun can already imagine how the two of them will turn upside down in the future.
With no children stumbling around, she familiarized herself with the kitchen for a while, and fumbled to make two meat and one vegetarian dishes, namely braised pork in brown sauce, stewed fish soup, stir-fried rapeseed, and cooked a pot of rice.
Seeing that the time was almost up, I was thinking whether I should call the child back, when Xu Lanxiang's voice from next door sounded: "Wang Derong—come back for dinner!"
He Xiaoyun listened attentively, and soon two voices came from the stairs, fighting and running, and after a while, Wei Yuanhang appeared in front of her, sweating profusely.
"You're smart, you know when people go back to eat." He Xiaoyun said while wiping his sweat.
I just don’t know the other one. Does Xiao know how to go home for dinner
In the camp, Wei Jianwei was about to leave when Lin Yuefei caught up from behind, "Old Wei, the cafeteria is over there, where are you going?"
Wei Jianwei glanced at him, "Go home and eat."
There was contempt in that glance.
Lin Yuefei was stunned for a moment before realizing that Lao Wei's family members had already arrived, and now they are people who can go home to eat, unlike their kind who can only eat in the cafeteria!
"Hey—" In just a few seconds, Wei Jianwei had already gone far away, so he could only shout from behind, "I'll go to your place for a meal!"
"Didn't cook your meal."
"How could there be no food for me? At worst, I should eat less, just eat three bowls, right? Old Wei? Old Wei!"