The taste of mashed potatoes and chopped boiled eggs mixed together is very special, mainly because the taste of the egg yolk is very delicate. Even many modern kids who are used to eating good food like this taste very much, let alone kids who have never eaten any exotic food in this era
So when Lu Haici took his first bite, his eyes lit up. "Mom, this is delicious." He ate the mashed potatoes in small bites with a spoon, and occasionally when he ate the cucumber, he could make a crisp sound.
Lin Qingqing said, "If you like, I'll make it for you tomorrow." Anyway, it's very convenient to make, and she won't get tired of eating it for two days in a row. If she can buy meat or carrots today, the mashed potatoes she makes tomorrow will be even more delicious.
"I like it." Lu Haici said loudly.
Lin smiled gently.
After lunch, the two worked together, Lin Qingqing washed the dishes, and Lu Haici wiped the table with a rag. Although he was a child, Lu Haici still wiped the table very clean.
After doing all this, Lin Qingqing said, "You should go to kindergarten."
"Ah." Lu Haici's response was a little empty. Although he promised his mother to go to kindergarten, he didn't want to go to kindergarten privately. He preferred to be with his mother rather than going to kindergarten. However, he was a little man. He promised his mother to go to kindergarten and he couldn't go back on his word. Lu Haici returned to the room and put on his little schoolbag. His little schoolbag was a Jiefang bag, which was actually a modern shoulder bag made of canvas. However, his little schoolbag was made by himself, using military green cloth. The Jiefang bags bought from the supply and marketing cooperative or department store were a little big for a kid like him, so his aunt made one for him when Lu Haici was about to go to kindergarten.
The small schoolbag is made exactly like the Jiefang bag, with a red five-pointed star on the front. Inside the small schoolbag is a notebook and an old tin pencil case with a colorful pattern on the front of the pencil case, showing three red pandas playing in a bamboo forest.
After putting on his schoolbag, Lu Haici said reluctantly, "Mom, I'm going to kindergarten." Although he said that, his eyes were fixed on Lin Qingqing, and his face showed that I didn't want to go.
Lin Qingqing stretched out her hand to him: "Come on, I'll take you there." The child hadn't been to school for half a month, and she should talk to the kindergarten teacher. Moreover, Lu Haici mentioned that the children in his uncle's hometown laughed at him for having no parents, and Lin Qingqing could understand the hurt his young heart had suffered. If even the children of relatives laughed at him, what about the children in kindergarten? Regardless of whether there were any, Lin Qingqing wanted to wrap up his heart, at least before she and Lu Cheng separated, she wanted to take good care of this child.
"Send... send me to school?" Lu Haici was stunned, his little mouth opened, and even his voice was stuttering.
"Well, take our little Haici to school." Lin gently took his hand.
"Hey." Lu Haici responded heavily, but his voice was hoarse. Feeling his tears flowing out, he quickly wiped them away with his other hand, then raised the corners of his mouth, revealing his white teeth, and smiled like a little fool. But after a while, tears flowed out again, and he continued to wipe them away.
Lin Qingqing lowered her eyes and looked at him. Seeing him smiling while crying, she felt sad. When she was little, she envied other children who were held and protected by their parents. When she grew up, she envied her second-born sister who could act like a spoiled child to her parents. But now... what happened to her can never be made up, but she can make up for another child. Lin Qingqing felt that this was good.
When I left the yard, I heard Ji Yang's voice from next door: "Lu Haici, are you going to school today?"
Lin Qingqing looked next door and saw Xu Huijuan and Ji Yang just went out.
Lu Haici said proudly: "Well, my mother sent me to school today." His tone was full of pride.
Ji Yang was used to his mother sending him to school, so he couldn't understand his friend's happiness. However, "Lu Haici, you have a mother too." He was also happy for his friend. They both had no mothers before, and they envied others and licked their wounds together. Later, he had a mother, but he was still young and didn't know that his friend was standing behind him, envying him and licking his wounds alone. But he knew one thing, that is, his friend wanted a mother, and now that his friend had a mother, he was of course happy.
Lu Haici held his mother's hand, shaking unconsciously, his little body straight and straight, like a proud little yellow chicken. "My mother made mashed potatoes for me today, it's delicious." The boasting in his voice was quite obvious, as if he wanted everyone to know that he was a child who was loved by his mother.
"What is mashed potatoes?" Ji Yang asked curiously, "Is it potatoes and mud? Can mud be eaten?"
Lu Haici gave him a look that said, "You are really ignorant." "Of course not. Even a three-year-old knows that you can't eat mud."
Ji Yang: "What kind of mashed potatoes is that?"
Lu Haici: “…” He also didn’t know what mashed potatoes were, but, “Mashed potatoes are edible mashed potatoes, with potatoes, eggs, and cucumbers, which is different from inedible mud.”
Listening to their childish conversation, Lin shook her head gently. She greeted Xu Huijuan, "Good morning, Ji Yang's mother."
"Good morning." Xu Huijuan has been looking at Lin Qingqing since just now. Yesterday, she once thought that Lin Qingqing was pretending, but seeing Lin Qingqing now, she overturned yesterday's idea. Lin Qingqing is very different from the Lin Qingqing in her previous life. In her previous life, she and Lin Qingqing were good friends for several years until Lin Qingqing and Lu Cheng divorced, so she still understood Lin Qingqing's personality. She is not like this at all. What mashed potatoes... Oh, and last night's meal, Lin Qingqing in her previous life was a master of cooking.
Suddenly, Xu Huijuan had an idea. Could it be that Lin Qingqing was also reborn like her
Thinking about it this way, she felt that it was entirely possible. If she could be reborn, why couldn't others
Therefore, the reason why Lin Qingqing can cook now must be that she learned it because her life was not going as she wished after her divorce from Lu Cheng. She seems to be very nice to Lu Haici now, which must be because she regretted her unhappy life after her divorce from Lu Cheng in her previous life, so she didn't want to divorce Lu Cheng in this life, so she was nice to Lu Haici.
If that was the case, she would have to be careful in front of Lin Qingqing, lest she discover that she was also reborn. There was one more thing. Originally, she was going to wait for Lu Cheng to come back and remind him about Lin Qingqing's bullying of Lu Haici, which would be considered saving Lu Haici. But now, if Lin Qingqing stopped bullying Lu Haici for the sake of her marriage with Lu Cheng, then she wouldn't remind him.
Anyway, let's take another look.
But there is one thing she must pay attention to, that is, she must not expose herself in front of Lin Qingqing. If she doesn't want to expose herself in front of Lin Qingqing, she must keep a distance from Lin Qingqing. But their two families are neighbors, how can they keep a distance
When Lao Ji comes back, she has to convince him to move to another place. However, to convince Lao Ji, she needs a reason, and she has to think about it carefully.
Lin Qingqing had no idea what Xu Huijuan was imagining, but because Xu Huijuan was silent, she and Xu Huijuan only greeted each other at the beginning and then stopped talking.
The kindergarten was located in the staff quarters, so it only took a few minutes to get there.
"Mom, I'm going in." After Lu Haici said goodbye to Lin Qingqing, he and Ji Yang couldn't wait to run in. He wanted to go in and tell the children that he had a mother, and it was his mother who sent him to school today.
Lin Qingqing worries that other children may fall when she sees them running fast: “Don’t run too fast, be careful not to fall.” You know, she also liked to run when she was a child, and she often fell, especially on her knees. There was a faint scar on her knees when she grew up.
"I know." Lu Haici, who was running very fast, slowed down after hearing her words.
Lin Qingqing did not leave, but turned around to find the kindergarten teacher and explained to her that she had been sick for half a month, so Lu Haici did not come to school to take care of her. The teacher was a female comrade in her twenties, who looked very gentle and easy to talk to. Because Lin Qingqing had to go shopping with Yu Xiuyao next, she did not talk to the teacher for much, but she decided to ask the teacher about Lu Haici's situation in the kindergarten when she had time.
After leaving the kindergarten, Lin Qingqing went to Yu Xiuyao's house. Yu Xiuyao was pushing her bicycle and preparing to come out.
After leaving the family compound, the two went to the home of a carpenter that Yu Xiuyao knew. Lin Qingqing took out the blueprint and ordered three chests of drawers at a price of five yuan each, then a shoe cabinet at a price of two yuan, and a wardrobe at a price of ten yuan. Of course, this price included the materials.
Then, Yu Xiuyao took Lin Qingqing to familiarize herself with the county town. They went to the supply and marketing cooperative, the department store, and the vegetable market. They only went to three places, and the whole morning was over. When she came back, Lin Qingqing bought ten kilograms of rice, two kilograms of Fuqiang flour, ten kilograms of potatoes, ten kilograms of sweet potatoes, and also bought milk candies and biscuits. Lu Cheng gave the original owner a lot of tickets before the mission, so even after buying these things, Lin Qingqing still had a lot of food tickets, candy tickets, and snack tickets left. This is the advantage of the tickets in the army. There is no expiration date and they will not expire. If it is a ticket outside, it is a ticket for the current month.
What made Lin Qingqing most happy was that there were a lot of vegetables in the county market. Not to mention that there was no shortage of condiments such as star anise that she wanted to buy, there were even carrots.
In fact, few people buy food ingredients and condiments in this era, and few people buy side dishes like carrots.
But because we went there late, we didn't see any meat, fish, or eggs, but we did have tofu, and we also bought Chinese cabbage, fried tofu, and kelp. Lin Qingqing didn't buy much, she liked to buy fresh food.
It was already half past ten when Lin Qingqing returned to the family compound. She was preparing to make lunch when she heard Xu Huijuan's voice coming from next door: "Comrade Lin..."
Lin Qingqing came out from the kitchen: "Hello, Ji Yang's mother."
Xu Huijuan frowned and said, "Comrade Lin, Lu Haici had a fight with some other kids in the kindergarten this morning. The teacher just called the parents, but you were not there."