Lu Cheng is a deputy commander with a great record of military achievements outside, and a cook who carries water and boils water inside. Because Lin Qingqing gets off work a little late from the canteen every day and has to clean up the canteen before leaving get off work, Lu Cheng does some simple housework at home, such as boiling water.
"Lu Cheng..." Lin Qingqing came to the kitchen and saw Lu Cheng filling the water tank.
Lu Cheng stopped what he was doing and said, "Hmm?" He turned his head and looked towards the door.
"Why didn't Lu Haici sleep with me today?" Lin Qingqing asked, "Did something happen when I went to settle the bill with Sister Xiuyao?"
Lu Cheng turned around and continued to drink water: "No, I guess he has grown up."
Lin Qingqing: "..." I guess it's a ghost, but Lin Qingqing didn't ask any more questions. It's quite comfortable to sleep alone occasionally. "By the way, I heard from Squad Leader Qi that there will be performances during the National Day in the army?"
"Well, there are several programs. Do you want to watch any?" Lu Cheng had this suspicion because he thought she might be bored in the army every day. "You can go to the movies when you go out on the weekend."
Lin Qingqing heard that she could go to the movies, but she didn't know what movie theaters were like in this era. However, "It's like this, do you think we can arrange a performance by the kitchen team in the National Day program?"
"The kitchen team's performance?" Lu Cheng didn't expect Lin Qingqing to want to do this, but "If everyone is willing to perform on National Day, the army welcomes it." There is never enough performance, and no one would complain about too many performances. But, "What performance will the kitchen team perform?"
Lin Qingqing smiled slightly: "It's a food competition."
Lu Cheng: "...How do you mean?" He didn't quite understand.
Lin Qingqing: "Squad Leader Qi asked the other cook squad leaders of the independent regiment, and they all wanted to have a food competition during the National Day, that is, a food competition for each company's cook squad. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Lu Cheng listened to her explanation and found it quite interesting. "How did you come up with the idea of the cooking class food competition?"
"That's what I thought of." Lin Qingqing said, "Didn't your independent regiment compete with other regiments for an entire afternoon that day? Then I saw that squad leader Qi and the others were very enthusiastic, so I mentioned the food competition. I was just talking about it at first, but I didn't know that squad leader Qi and the others were really excited. Do you think we can have this competition during the National Day?"
"Of course." Lu Cheng promised him directly, "If the army cannot hold the event, our independent regiment can hold it, but it has to be held at a different time from the army's performance."
"That's no problem. It can be done in the afternoon or morning. It's best to do it in the afternoon because more people are interested in it." Lin Qingqing said.
Lu Cheng: "Then you guys go and arrange it." Speaking of which, there has never been a food competition in the army. If the kitchen team really does this, it will be quite impressive. Lu Cheng is looking forward to it.
Lin Qingqing: "Okay... I'm going to bed first, good night."
"Good...night..." Lu Cheng glanced at her back again, then cleaned up the kitchen and went to bed.
He entered the room and saw Lu Haici still reading his comic strip with his butt raised. Lu Cheng went over and said, "Stop reading, it's time to go to sleep."
Lu Haici packed up his books and put them into his small schoolbag. He got out of bed and put the small schoolbag on the table, then stretched out his hand to his father: "Give me some money."
Lu Cheng raised his eyebrows and looked at his son.
Lu Haici pouted: "You said, if I sleep with you at night, you give me one cent." He also said that if he saved a lot of money, he could buy a gift for his mother as a surprise, and his mother would definitely be happy. But he had no money, and then his father said that as long as he slept with him, he would give him one cent every day.
Lu Haici wanted to buy a gift for his mother. Although he was reluctant to part with his mother, he still endured it because he wanted to see his mother's happy face when she received the gift.
Lu Cheng glanced at him and said, "I'll give it to you tomorrow morning."
"No, give it to me now." Lu Haici no longer trusts his father. He thinks his father will cheat on him because his father even stole his ice cream.
"Now what if you go to sleep with your mother again at night?" Lu Cheng asked.
"I won't go." Lu Haici felt that his father was even worse. How could he doubt him? He knew that children who lied were bad children, and he was a good child.
"That won't work either. I'll give it to you tomorrow morning." Lu Cheng still disagreed. "If you keep nagging me, I won't give it to you. If I don't give it to you, you won't have any money. You won't be able to buy gifts for your mother, and you won't be able to make her happy. Oh..."
Lu Haici pursed his lips and stared at Lu Cheng. After staring for a while, he fell asleep in a bad mood, with his back to his father and his butt against his father's belly. Tell his father that he also has a temper.
Lu Chengcai didn't indulge him and slapped his butt. "Sleep inside."
Lu Haici felt even more aggrieved, and moved his little body inside, then wrinkled his nose and said, "Dad, you are so smelly, you don't even put on facial oil."
Lu Cheng: "What kind of facial oil do men use?"
"I just put on facial oil." Lu Haici felt that he was also a man, but he didn't agree with his father's words, "Mom said that boys also need to dress up... dress up... to look good."
After hearing this, Lu Cheng couldn't help but ask, "Really?" The man was still applying facial oil, which showed no manliness at all.
"Really? My aunt used to apply facial oil on me." Lu Haici felt wronged when he thought about it, "But you didn't apply it on me. My face and hands would hurt if I didn't apply facial oil."
"Then why don't you tell me?" He never puts facial oil on, so his face and hands never hurt.
When Lu Haici heard this, he wanted to cry. He saw that his father worked hard, and he didn't want his father to think that he was a little trouble, so he said nothing. "I won't tell you anymore." He told himself to be patient, and when he had enough money to buy a gift for his mother, he would not sleep with his father. His aunt always said that sleeping with his uncle would make him unable to sleep, and now when he slept with his father, he would also be unable to sleep because of anger.
"I care?" Lu Cheng hugged Lu Haici tightly, imitating the way Lin Qingqing held him to sleep, but after just a few seconds, he let him go because it was too hot.
Lu Haici also waved his feet and tried to kick him away.
The next day, before the wakeup call was sounded, Lu Cheng woke up Lu Haici.
Lu Haici's eyes were still swirling, and he lay in bed, refusing to get up.
Lu Cheng: "Exercise can make you taller. When you are taller, you can work for your mother. Do you still want to grow taller?"
Lu Haici's vital point was caught, and he could only get up in a hurry.
So ten minutes later, from the family compound to the troops, I could see Deputy Colonel Lu and his son jogging in the morning. But at this time, not many people saw him.
When the wake-up call sounded, Lin Qingqing got up and saw the father and son sitting and resting, but one had sweat all over his forehead, while the other didn't have even a drop of sweat. She heard them getting up to exercise in the morning, so she knew what they were doing.
“Mom…” Seeing his mother get up, Lu Haici, who had been tired for half an hour, suddenly felt relaxed.
Lin Qingqing said, "Are you tired? Mom will make you some sesame paste first."
"Not tired." Lu Haici said, "Dad cooked eggs." In front of his mother, he had to maintain his manliness, so he would not say he was tired.
"So good? Did you eat the eggs?" Lin asked gently.
Lu Haici shook his head: "No, I want to eat with my mother."
"Then I'll make some sesame paste for you first." Before Lin Qingqing washed up, she used hot water to make two bowls of sesame powder.
I have to say, the taste of sesame powder is really fragrant. Even someone like Lu Cheng who doesn't like to eat it finds it fragrant, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances.
"Would you like a bowl?" Lin asked gently.
"No, I'm going to the army." It's not suitable to eat before exercise, Lu Cheng stood up, "I'm leaving, you guys eat slowly."
After Lin Qingqing washed up, she drank a bowl of sesame powder and ate a boiled egg with Lu Haici, and prepared to go to the canteen of the third company's kitchen. Lu Haici got up early and was in good spirits after exercise, so he followed him.
"Hai Ci, why didn't you sleep with your mother yesterday?" Lin Qingqing asked curiously.
Lu Haici immediately shut his mouth and shook his head. Dad said that he wanted to save money to surprise Mom, so he couldn't tell her. If he told her, it wouldn't be a surprise, and if it wasn't a surprise, Mom would be unhappy.
"Well, it looks like our little man has a secret too." The little man with a secret is even more adorable.
"Mom..." Lu Haici endured and endured, "I won't sleep with you tonight either."
"Oh?" This made Lin Qingqing even more curious. She knew that it must be Lu Cheng's doing. With Lu Haici's personality, he would definitely sleep with her. But how did Lu Cheng convince Lu Haici? Seeing that Lu Haici didn't cry or make a fuss, it meant that he was willing, but Lin Qingqing couldn't figure it out.
"I... I'm grown up now, so I don't sleep with my mother anymore." Lu Haici added. When he saves enough money to buy a gift for his mother, he will become a child again and sleep with his mother again.
"Okay then." Lin Qingqing was sure that Lu Haici's growth would be short.
However, Lin Qingqing did not wait for Lu Haici to turn back into a child, but she did wait for the weekend. The kitchen team only had one day off a week, so Lin Qingqing took Sunday off because she had to go to the county town with two children, and then buy some things for the Lin family and Lu Cheng's aunt, so that the adults of the two families would know that she and Lu Cheng were living well in the army. This is probably doing one's job well.
Early in the morning, the family of three got up together.
It was the first time that Lu Haici went to visit the county town with his parents. They also planned to go to the zoo, and he was very happy. "Mom, let's go by bike. Where should Dad sit?"
There are two seats on the women's bicycle, and Lu Haici couldn't find his father's seat no matter how hard he looked.
Lin Qingqing said, "Your father will go there on foot." She was wearing a sailor shirt and beige trousers today, and she had her hair tied into a bun, which made her look quite fashionable.
"Ah?" Lu Haici was a little skeptical, "Should we wait for Dad?"
"You're so easy to fool." Lin gently rubbed his head, "Your father also went there by bicycle, and borrowed the bicycle from your brother Dawang's house."