In October, Xiao Tangyuan had become the official squad leader. He took the oath under the five-star red flag, put on a red scarf, sang the national anthem, and became a glorious Young Pioneer.
This group of class leaders all became Young Pioneers, so my brother Guo Bao Rou and Lu Cheng both wore red scarves, and the three kids were very happy.
At that time, the red scarf was just a piece of red cloth, just like a tie, which needed to be folded by yourself and tied outside the collar or around the neck.
"Brother, please help me tie it, you tie it the best." Wearing a red scarf is also a technical job, just like tying a bow. For the same bow, some people tie it neatly and beautifully, while others tie it in a "dragon-like and phoenix-like" way.
Zhan Aiping taught them several ways to tie the red scarf. Sweet and sour pork learned it the best, and he tied it for himself and his sister.
Lu Cheng glanced at it a few times and tied it up himself casually.
Little Tangyuan showed off with a smile: "It looks good, right?"
The little girl is cute and pretty. When she smiles, her eyes are like crescents, and the red circle on her neck makes her look even more outstanding.
"It looks good." Lu Cheng squinted his eyes. He was going to pull her red scarf and bully her.
Who knew that little Tangyuan was faster than him, and he immediately pulled off his red scarf and ran away.
Lu Cheng: “?!”
Even more mischievous than him.
Lu Cheng was chasing her from behind. He had already figured out the route, as little Tangyuan's endurance was not as good as his.
Guo Bao Rou admired these two energetic guys very much. He carried his schoolbag and said, "… Stop chasing and fighting. The teacher said that we can't chase and fight on the road."
Xiao Tangyuan was tired after running for a while. She protected the red scarf around her neck and warned Lu Cheng with her eyes not to pull it. "That's right, people wearing red scarves are not allowed to chase and fight."
Lu Cheng snorted.
Little Tangyuan said, "Brother Chengzi, I asked you to pull it gently."
She said to Guo Bao Rou: "Brother, please help me tie it again later."
Lu Cheng said: "What about me? Mine was torn."
Little Tangyuan said enthusiastically: "I'll tie it for you."
Little Tangyuan helped him tie his red scarf carefully, and it was tied beautifully. She adjusted the badge on Lu Cheng's chest and said shamelessly: "I just helped you pull it off because I thought it looked ugly on you."
After thinking for a while, she tilted her head and still felt that she had gone too far. "I'm sorry... I was just worried that you wanted to pull off my red scarf."
She had a strong sense of crisis.
Lu Cheng said: "Then let me pull it for a while."
Little Tangyuan said cautiously: "Then you can only pull it gently."
Lu Cheng: "No, I want to use more strength."
"Okay." Little Tangyuan said dejectedly.
Lu Cheng smiled and pulled her red scarf. Little Tangyuan jumped up like a cat whose tail was stepped on and hid behind her brother. "Brother, can you help me tie it again? It needs to be more beautiful."
Lu Cheng: “…”
He clearly just pulled it very lightly.
Lu Cheng stared at her. Now he began to feel that the little glutinous rice balls were like the little fat birds that fell on the dry branches in the capital city in winter. They were snow-white, fluffy, and round. They looked cute on the surface, but they were very alert and difficult to catch.
He tried to catch them several times and approached them cautiously, but they flew away every time.
But as soon as he walked away, the annoying little guy ran back and stole the fruit.
Irritable.
Guo Bao Rou said: "You can tie it very nicely yourself."
"But I like the ones my brother wears."
Xiao Tangyuan became a Young Pioneer and was able to participate in the selection and training for the school's guard of honor. She signed up. The school wanted to train her to be a flag-raiser, but Xiao Tangyuan was unwilling to do so because she had a dream of music after all.
Xiao Tangyuan chose to play drums.
Her brother, Sweet and Sour Pork, did not join the honor guard. Instead, he went to the school radio station to be a primary school announcer. Little Tangyuan could hear her brother reading beautiful essays on the school radio every now and then.
Lu Cheng also joined the school's guard of honor and became the flag-raiser.
Both of them have to train in the guard of honor. The training of the flag-raiser is actually a little more difficult. They have to train their walking posture and the flag-raising process. They have to pay attention to coordinating with the national anthem. When the song ends, the red flag rises to the top.
"My daughter is so awesome!" Zhan Aiping knew that her little Tangyuan could finally join the guard of honor, so she waved her hand and bought a brand new drum for little Tangyuan to practice at home.
They are indeed mother and daughter, and they share the same pursuit and interest in music.
"The big red army drum is so majestic! Our Yuanyuan has really good taste!"
Together they beat drums and gongs in the yard.
Captain Luo listened to them practicing drumming with a gloomy face: "Can you practice somewhere else to make more noise?"
At this time, Zhang Lirong didn't mind the noise. She began to get anxious: "Lao Luo, do you think our Jin Baoer will be able to become a class leader when he is in elementary school?"
"Do you think he should join the honor guard or the radio station? Do you think we should let Jin Baoer learn how to play drums from the guy next door..."
“Let them come to our house to practice drumming.”
Captain Luo: "You must be crazy!"
On a certain day, Zhan Aiping and her husband took their children to the small forest and let Yuanyuan practice her drum to her heart's content.
Little Tangyuan played the drum happily: "Listen, Mom, am I very strong? Is it very loud?"
Zhan Aiping said happily: "It sounds great!"
Little Tangyuan handed the drumstick to her mother, and Zhan Aiping also played the drums happily. No one could understand the incomparable happiness of the mother and daughter.
Guo Bao Rou is responsible for looking after Xiao Mian Hua.
Gu Sheng and Lu Cheng took sickles and military shovels, they went to collect firewood and cut bamboo. Gu Sheng taught him how to make bamboo tube rice.
Gu Sheng discovered that Lu Cheng had a talent for growing vegetables and cooking.
Gu Sheng said: "You have the talent to join the kitchen team!"
Lu Cheng asked curiously: "Uncle Gu, are you also from the kitchen team?"
Gu Sheng: “…”
Lu Cheng said affirmatively: "Uncle Gu, you must have worked in the kitchen!"
"Teach me how to dig a smokeless stove!"
So the two people who were preparing to cook bamboo tube rice started digging an earthen stove in the wild. Gu Sheng had never dug one before, because it was never his turn to do this job. He had dug one when he was young and understood the principle.
When Zhan Aiping saw them digging, she also took her daughter to dig, because digging the hole with an engineering shovel was a bit exciting.
Sweet and sour pork also took his sister Xiaomianhua to pick up a small shovel to dig.
Zhan Aiping: “…”
No gold, silver or jewelry was dug up here, but Gu Sheng casually dug out a colorful poisonous snake near the roots of a tree, which he split into two pieces with a shovel.
After knowing there was a snake, Lu Cheng and Xiao Tangyuan were very excited!
They said happily: "There's a snake! There's a snake!"
Zhan Aiping covered Xiao Mianhua's eyes, fearing that she would be scared, but Xiao Mianhua was also very excited, "Mom, Snake!"
Zhan Aiping: “…” There’s no need to be so excited about discovering a poisonous snake.
Zhan Aiping kicked him and said, "What do you mean? You are just lucky."
Gu Sheng laughed: "I'm lucky. If I keep digging, I might find some treasures."
Zhan Aiping put her hands on her hips and said, "There shouldn't be any treasures here. When we have time, let's go to your second brother's place and go to the Northeast to dig wild ginseng."
When she said this, Zhan Aiping was stunned for a moment, thinking that maybe she really would have a chance to dig ginseng.
Gu Sheng: "Go dig your radishes. Wild ginseng is not that easy to find."
Zhan Aiping said: "Cook first, and bring a pot next time."
The family had a great time playing outdoors and said they would bring a pot for a picnic next time.
"Go to the kitchen and borrow a pot when the time comes."
"Yuanyuan, Youyou, and Xiaocheng, you two or three can take turns carrying the pot."
When you have children at home, you have to make the best use of everything.
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"Sister-in-law, you have so many family members." When Gu Xiangyi came to the house, he happened to catch Xiao Tangyuan and his group having a meeting and doing homework under the climbing trellis and small pavilion outside the yard. They also played house.
This small wooden pavilion was handmade by Zhan Aiping and Gu Sheng, a couple, to provide a convenient place for their children to play in the yard. Small red lanterns are hung on the four corners.
Little Tangyuan knocked on the blackboard: "Quiet! Quiet! Auntie, you have to be quiet too! Listen to my lecture!"
Their playing house today is a simulated classroom. Although Comrade Tangyuan doesn't like studying very much, she really wants to experience the thrill of being a teacher. Similarly, Douzi and the other elementary school dropouts also want to experience the thrill of being a teacher.
So they took turns being the teacher and the student.
Douzi raised his hand: "Teacher, why is one plus one equal to two?"
Little Tangyuan adjusted his glasses and said in a mature tone: "This is a very good question. Now take out two small matches, one plus one..."
Bean and Pumpkin were very supportive and listened attentively.
Guo Bao Rou had a confused expression on his face. He didn't understand why these people were so focused on listening to his sister's class.
Little Cotton sat next to her brother and listened to her sister's class. She was also very interested in what she was hearing.
Little Tangyuan asked: "What is one plus one?"
Little Cotton actively raised his hand: "Me, me, me!"
"Then this student, please get up and come back."
Little Cotton said loudly, "It's equal to two."
Xiao Tangyuan praised: "This student is amazing!!!"
Little Mianhua was excited: "Thank you for the compliment, teacher."
Guo Bao Rou supported his chin with both hands. He couldn't stay any longer.
Lu Cheng stood beside him with a wooden gun in his hand: "Pot-fried pork, pay attention to the class and don't be absent-minded."
"I will kill anyone who doesn't listen to the class."
Lu Cheng had no interest in playing house as a teacher in class, and he didn't understand why Tangyuan and the others were so enthusiastic about attending the class.
Xiao Tangyuan asked him to be the discipline committee member to maintain classroom discipline.
Gu Xiangyi: “…”
Gu Xiangyi listened to their class for a while, but in reality the class was not going to continue. After a few minutes of pretending, a few people started to wander off in groups of two.
Lu Cheng suggested: "Let's play the hostage rescue game."
Sweet and Sour Pork: "Let's go play in a department store, and I'll be the salesperson."
Little Tangyuan: "Ah, none of them are fun. Just listen to me playing the drums."
In the end, they played the game of rock-paper-scissors to rescue hostages, and Gu Xiangyi was the ready-made hostage.
As soon as Zhan Aiping came out, she found Gu Xiangyi surrounded by a group of brats, and she successfully rescued the hostage.
Gu Xiangyi entered the house and said, "Sister-in-law, I have a headache. There are so many children and it's so noisy."
"Everyone is talking at the same time, just like raising a flock of ducks."
Zhan Aiping smiled and said, "Now you know."
Gu Xiangyi: "The child is also very cute."
Zhan Aiping said: "Then you should go to the hospital for a check-up. I think you are pregnant and you are going to be a mother."
"Really? Hey, I think I'm pregnant too." Gu Xiangyi gently touched her belly: "Just now I thought this little guy was making a fuss about wanting to play with his brothers and sisters."
Gu Xiangyi was diagnosed with pregnancy in the hospital, and both families were very happy.
Zhan Aiping said expectantly: "I'm really going to be an aunt!"
Gu Xiangyi said: "She is also my aunt."
Little Tangyuan put her hands on her hips: "I'm the big sister!"
Sweet and sour pork said: "I am the big brother." There was a long list of younger brothers and sisters below him.
Zhan Mingzhao had been communicating with his brother-in-law Gu Sheng for some time, and he had written a whole notebook about his experience in caring for pregnant women. The notebook that Gu Sheng wrote back then was still there, and he had copied a copy a long time ago.
Gu Sheng said: "They are not twins, right?"
"No, there aren't so many twins." Zhan Mingzhao was in a good mood. He would be happy whether it was a daughter or a son.
Gu Ze'an was so happy when he found out his daughter was pregnant, "I'm just waiting to become grandparents with your mom."
Gu Xiangyi said: "Please tell my brothers, there is no need to tell my younger brother, I will go to his house now."
"A lot of uncles, aren't you happy?" Gu Ze'an packed up and called the children, telling them: "Your new bride is getting into the bridal sedan, and she will be an uncle for the first time."
Gu Ze'an is now very satisfied. He called the eldest brother Gu Yao and said a lot of exclamations: "Now that your little sister is married and will have a child, I, who has one foot in the coffin, can rest assured."
Gu Yao: "Why are you so relieved? I'm not even married yet. Am I not the eldest in the family?"
Gu Ze'an said: "Evil son, shouldn't you tell your father that you are still young and you want to live a long life? You just think about your own affairs all day long."
Gu Yao: "Not only am I unmarried, the third and fourth brothers are both single."
Gu Ze'an: "...Don't be such a downer."
Gu Xiangyi is pregnant. This is a bombshell for the Gu family and even more of a bombshell for the Zhan family.
Zhanbo was stunned, "I'm going to be a grandfather, I really am going to be a grandfather!"
This is his first grandson.
"Jiaorong, you are going to be a grandmother!!!" Zhan Bo held Zhu Jiaorong's hand and sighed for a long time. As he spoke, he thought of his late wife again.
Zhu Jiaorong forced a smile and said, "You have already become grandparents."
Zhanbo laughed and said, "I never thought that this good-for-nothing boy could marry the daughter of the Gu family. I heard that he can speak foreign languages quite well now and can talk to foreigners."
(End of this chapter)