Chapter 11(1/2)
"Dad taught me before."
Dabao explained in a low voice.
Yin Xiaoman nodded, not feeling too surprised.
Shen Qingyun was selected by the army to go to military academy before. She was a well-educated person, and she always knew this.
Therefore, it is expected that he can teach Dabao to recognize words.
"Where is the second girl?"
“Don’t know.”
Before Dabao could speak, Erniu answered first.
"Um."
Yin Xiaoman reached out to touch her head, but looked at Dabao: "Teaching my sister."
After saying that, she thought about it again and added: "Just teach three words a day."
Erniu is still young, so you don’t have to be so tired of learning.
After assigning the task, Yin Xiaoman did not pay attention to how surprised Dabao was or how happy Erniu was, but instead put his attention back to the booklet.
She turned the page again, pointed at the words on it, looked at Dabao, and ordered: "Read."
"foot."
"Eye."
"hand."
...
It was not until the booklet was almost halfway through, that Dabao finally got stuck on the word "Yi".
Yin Xiaoman wrote the words he didn't recognize in a homework book with blank pages. He didn't write much, only five.
After she took Dabao to recite it several times, she stuffed the pen into his hand and ordered in a low voice: "Write each word ten times.
Teach my sister what they do today.”
After saying that, he left them behind and went to work on his own affairs.
Looking at her leaving behind, Dabao was a little dazed for a moment.
He seemed to feel the interweaving of time and space, and returned to when his father was alive.
He couldn't help but hold the pen tightly, swallowed the tears that poured into his nose, and wrote the first stroke on the paper with an extremely pious attitude.
As the former aunt in charge, Yin Xiaoman still adhered to the habit of not taking care of the tasks after dispatching them, and left his two children and went to the outer room by himself.
She has too much to do now.
When she gave the rabbit skin to Zhang Jinfeng in the morning, she suddenly realized that maybe she needed a set of such knee pads, while the two children each needed a set of leather handpieces.
Others don’t know that Yin Xiaoman grew up by the beach since childhood, and she knows how pissy the sea water in winter is.
Even though Shen Qingyun's location is said to be much warmer than here, it is always better to wear thicker when rushing to the sea.
At least it can prevent moisture from entering the bones.
This time, Yin Xiaoman did not dare to go directly into the house as he did in the morning, but sat in the main hall, half-closed his eyes and searched the house with his mind halfway.
After turning over the things under the box, Yin Xiaoman was very satisfied with the gains.
She found a piece of snow-white rabbit skin without any color, and a dense and thick raccoon skin.
The rabbit skin looks quite small, and it is enough to add a little cotton wool and make a handguard for each of the two children.
But the quality of this raccoon skin is really good, not like an ordinary person can afford it...
Yin Xiaoman was confused for a moment and decided to turn the fur inside and wrap the outside in coarse cloth.
Anyway, if you wear it yourself, no one will go to check it out for no reason.
Time flies fast.
These days, Yin Xiaoman sewed clothes, cooked food at home every day, and stared at her two children to read and read.
Except for following Dabao out to fetch firewood several times and asking him to give food to the two old men of the Shen family that was not very attractive but tasted good, he almost never went out.
So in the blink of an eye, Nian Gener was coming, and the village started to kill pigs and share meat. She didn't even know.
It was still morning, and before dawn, Zhang Jinfeng knocked on the yard door again and brought them a piece of fat meat weighing a pound.
Looking at the piece of meat, Yin Xiaoman felt a little complicated.
"Mom, please take this meat back. We will leave in the past few days, so there is no need for this."
Two days ago, Gao Chong came here and told Yin Xiaoman that he had already made a phone call with their battalion commander that the procedures for accompanying the army had been submitted. After approval in the past few days, he would help them buy tickets.
Yin Xiaoman has already started packing his luggage.
When Zhang Jinfeng heard the second daughter-in-law talk about the incident of following the army, she fooled her heart.
I can't tell whether I can't bear to give up or be more happy.
Er'er works alone in the army, and she doesn't even have anyone to care for her.
How can you feel sorry for your parents?
After finally getting married, he returned to the army before he even had time to get married.
This was like a hurdle that could not be overcome in the old couple, and they were always worried, fearing that something would happen again.
After learning that the second daughter-in-law was willing to take her two children to accompany the army, the two old men were very happy, as if a stone had finally fallen to the ground.
I don’t know how to express my excitement, and even turned against my eldest daughter-in-law. Regardless of her various devastations, I sent all the good things I could think of and found in my family to this yard.
But as the day of leaving gets closer, the previous little joy began to fade slowly.
These days, when I think that the three of them are leaving, I don’t know how long it will take to meet next time...
The old lady couldn't control her nose and wanted to feel sore.
Perhaps because people get older, their eyes become shallower and they can't stand things.
It may also be because of the time she spent together these days that made her feel more and more good as her second daughter-in-law.
He looks cold and cold, and is not close to anyone, but he is a kind-hearted person.
Not only did the two children grow flesh on their faces by her, but even the old men and women who were about to be buried were getting a lot of money.
Not to mention the delicious food they made in different ways, the fur and the thick fabric they have never used in the past years.
The more I thought about it, the more reluctant Zhang Jinfeng became.
"If you leave, don't eat meat?"
She suppressed the sourness in her heart and glared at Yin Xiaoman with a angrily look.
"You won't marinate it with salt, pack it up and take it to eat on the way?"
How many days and nights will be on the way? What should you do if you don’t prepare to eat and drink?
Without an adult, tell me, how can I feel relieved if you let me go?
!”
The blue veins on Yin Xiaoman's forehead jumped.
She tried hard to restrain herself and did not reach out to rub her.
She thought that she might have been getting too close to the old couple recently. For some reason, she left the old lady with an illusion that she was so close to her.
Not only did she let go, but she would occasionally act like a mother-in-law when speaking and doing things.
This made Yin Xiaoman, who always neglected to communicate with others, very uncomfortable.
She knew that the old man had no malice and did so just because he had a good impression of her.
So no matter how awkward he was, he could only grit his teeth and accept this kindness with his teeth.
But she still couldn't help but feel a little worried when there was no one.
I don’t know how to pay off this debt that seems to be owed more and more?
Or, remove the bed curtain in the room and sew her a satin quilt?
But when Yin Xiaoman thought of the flower branches and birds embroidered by himself on the bed curtain, he gave up his thoughts again.
Even if she was willing to do so, she could not leave any disaster to these two old people.
We should try our best to stay away from them in the future.
Yin Xiaoman made another serious decision in his heart.
Maybe it’s because I think about it on a day and dream about it on a night.
Maybe when I was awake, I kept thinking about why I paid back the favor from the old couple, so Yin Xiaoman dreamed again that night.
In the dream, she finally returned to the imperial kitchen where she had been thinking about for a long time.
To be continued...