Yu Xiaoqiang was pulled back by his mother before he could run out.
The yard erupted into chaos once again.
The Zhou family, who lived not far from them, naturally heard the commotion as well.
At this moment,
The Zhou family was also eating. Although their meals weren’t as lavish as those at Battalion Commander Li’s house, they weren’t much worse.
Aunt Zhou has life experience, and she can even make vegetarian dishes taste all kinds of different.
Besides, both of them earn money, and their salaries are high. Their family is much better off than Battalion Commander Yu’s family.
Although there wasn’t much meat or fish, there was meat on the table every day.
Now that Tian Tian is here, there must be more meat on the table. My son and grandson can skip it, but my little girl can’t.
After their daughter was born, the Zhou family prospered. While others could only hunt pheasants in the back mountains, Zhou Wu and his sister encountered a wild boar that had fallen into a pit, and they could even pick a Ganoderma lucidum on the way back.
Therefore, Aunt Zhou was particularly fond of this girl.
Zhou Wu also doted on his younger sister since she was a child. His son, Da Bao, had only been with him for five years, but his sister had been by his side for more than ten years, so their relationship was naturally different.
Zhou Wu took all the pork from the dish and gave it to his sister, and then gave his son a piece of pork cracklings.
“Tian Tian, why are you frowning while eating? Is something on your mind?”
Zhou Tian slowly raised her head. “I heard from people at the health center that Battalion Commander Li is going to build toilets in the yard!”
Hearing this, Aunt Zhou also whispered to her son,
“I saw it today. Battalion Commander Li’s wife got tiles and gravel from the logistics department. Wasn’t that the regimental commander’s house before? Didn’t it have a toilet?”
Zhou Wu shook his head, “Ours is the same as theirs, it has a toilet!”
Aunt Zhou scoffed.
“That must be some kind of trouble caused by that lousy stuff again. But son, our roof’s been leaking lately, how about we fix it together?”
Roof repair?
Zhou Tian, realizing that Li Wenzhu’s biological father might fall while repairing the roof, cried out in alarm.
“Don’t fix it!”
Aunt Zhou was puzzled. “Why can’t we repair it? Last year’s heavy snow caused many roofs to collapse. Our house was already a bit tilted last year, so we need to inspect it today!”
According to the timeline in my book, it should start raining after the autumn harvest.
This rain will last for half a month, and it was this storm that destroyed many mud-brick houses in Qingshan Farm.
As for the family compound where I, as the protagonist, lived, nothing happened to me because of the halo effect.
She worried that if the story didn’t follow the plot, it might create a butterfly effect in the book, preventing the things that were supposed to happen from happening.
Then she wouldn’t be able to get close to Li Wenzhu!
Zhou Tian knew perfectly well that Li Wenzhu, as the only male protagonist in this book, had climbed to his position by stepping on everyone else.
Therefore, she must attract the male lead’s attention in order to have the last laugh.
If necessary, the Zhou family can be sacrificed.
Meeting Aunt Zhou’s puzzled gaze, Zhou Tian explained, “It’s not that we can’t repair the roof, but we have to wait two more days. I ran into Sister Guihua today, and she looked so angry. She’s probably going to report Battalion Commander Li’s family for exploiting the organization. If we repair it together, we don’t want to get implicated.”
“real?”
When Aunt Zhou heard that Battalion Commander Li was going to be reported, her eyes lit up. If Battalion Commander Li was reported, wouldn’t her son be able to become the deputy regimental commander without any problem?
The thought of becoming the mother of a regimental commander filled Aunt Zhou with excitement.
“Okay, we’ll listen to Tian Tian.”
My daughter always speaks with absolute certainty. If she says that Commander Li’s family is going to have bad luck, then they definitely will. At that point, their family won’t even bother to worry about it!
Zhou Wu glanced at the drafty roof and hesitated.
“Tian Tian, did you really hear that Sister Guihua is going to report us? I look at the weather, it’s probably going to rain in the next couple of days, and our roof might leak then…”
He had already spoken to the logistics department this morning, and they just need to wait for the tiles to be delivered tomorrow so they can be inspected.
At this point, the girl said it couldn’t be fixed. Zhou Wu felt a pang of sympathy, as the most drafty parts of the house were Da Bao’s and the kitchen where the grain was stored.
In case it starts to rain.
Da Bao’s room was too small to live in. There was also a kitchen where they stored food for the winter, including more than ten kilograms of wheat flour, corn grits, soybeans, peanuts, and various other things.
Zhou Wu tentatively asked, “How about I fix it myself, brother?”
I can borrow a ladder from the logistics department, bring the tiles home, and finish the job during my lunch break.
“Brother, is it really necessary to fix this roof?”
Zhou Tian was a little angry. No matter how she tried to reason with her, she couldn’t get through to her. What if she fell off the roof? Who would be responsible?
“Once Sister Guihua has finished her work, you can fix it however you like. If you think Da Bao’s room is drafty, I’ll move out to the dormitory, and Mom and Da Bao can live in my room.”
There were three rooms in the house. She lived in the best room, the east wing; her eldest brother lived in the west wing; and her mother and eldest son lived in the lower room.
The room that lets in drafts is the lower room.
“Brother, I’m genuinely thinking of you. Look, your Lion Camp lost the competition again. If you’re not good at professional skills, we can only catch up by focusing on character.”
“I heard about it when I was in college in Beijing. There’s going to be a major downsizing this year. The regiment is going to cut all the excess officers and soldiers. Brother, do you want to leave the military?”
She couldn’t let Zhou Wu, this two-dimensional character, ruin her big plans.
So what if Da Bao and her mother’s room is drafty? Even if it’s raining knives, we have to hold on for her.
She couldn’t let the main characters’ family steer the plot astray.
Only by becoming Li Wenzhu’s wife can she elevate this family’s status.
Aunt Zhou exchanged a glance with her son and took the initiative to advise, “That’s right, Zhou Wu, just listen to Tian Tian on this matter. When has she ever been wrong about anything in the past?”
Zhou Wu recalled the girl’s achievements over the years and nodded in agreement.
It was late at night.
Xu Zhizhi lay on the hard kang (a heated brick bed), not daring to move.
She noticed that Li Wenzhu, that scoundrel, was sleeping closer and closer to her, seemingly about to break down the 38th parallel between them.
She quickly closed her eyes, refusing to look at what she shouldn’t see.
A brief silence fell over the room.
Xu Zhizhi knew that some things were bound to happen sooner or later; one was a delicate and fair-skinned beauty, and the other was a passionate and vigorous young man.
The two were still a legally married couple, sharing the same bed; it would be unreasonable if nothing happened between them.
Moreover, she was currently playing the role of a deeply affectionate person. Listening to the increasingly heavy breathing beside her, Xu Zhizhi silently studied her pregnancy stage.
It should be a little over three months now! So it’s okay?
Although she had never given birth in her previous life, various health-related public accounts would often pop up articles like this, and single people would easily become interested in these kinds of relationship topics.
So I also learned a lot of useful knowledge.
“The baby is over three months old!”
Xu Zhizhi turned to the side and looked directly at him, who was only wearing a thin shirt, and said, “Do you want to touch my stomach? It should be fine.”
These words had a great impact on Li Wenzhu, who had difficulty falling asleep at night.
Seeing his ears turn red instantly, Xu Zhizhi thought he must have understood. Soon, the person next to her also turned to the side, and an aggressive gaze fell on her.
Xu Zhizhi felt uneasy, probably because the original owner’s memories were too deep; her brain still retained the impression that this man was very powerful.
What if today…
She didn’t know if she could handle it.