It's not easy to think about children, "Okay! I don't need your help here, just go and do your work."

Unlike Qingning, Qingyuan has a lot of friends. The children gather together to play with rolling hoops in the alley, or they lie on the ground, dig a small hole in the ground, and collect the things they pick up from somewhere.

The seeds of the neem tree, which are small green balls, are placed in a small pit, and then they lie on the ground and blow. Whoever can blow the immature green seeds out of the small pit wins. So this child

, they all go out clean, and when they come back they are like coal diggers, there is no clean place when they are dirty.

The little old lady has always been a thrifty person. She used a big iron basin to fill the water in the yard. As soon as the dirty monkey entered the yard, he felt that he had cleaned himself up and washed himself in the basin.

Just dare to come out.

After I came out, I didn't wear good clothes. I only wore short pants with a small triangular panty hanging on the underside, and plastic Zhu Bajie-shaped plastic slippers with a valve on the bottom, which made a squeaking sound when I walked.

As long as this kid is at home, there will be a lot of noise. There will be noise everywhere.

Not only is it noisy, but it also costs money.

The little old lady has been talking about it these days: "How much is the electricity bill this month?"

Waste of electricity!

Why waste electricity?

Because the two children and their friends were eating ice at home and it was wasted.

Lin Yutong doesn't want her children to eat popsicles from outside. She works in food hygiene. No one knows better than herself whether the hygiene conditions of the popsicle factories in the county are up to standard. But the current conditions are not so strict. As people say,

I want to make it clean and hygienic so that no one can eat it without worry. But do we have this condition?

No!

So I have to make do with it!

The popsicle factory makes the cheapest popsicles, the five-cent popsicles, which are made by adding saccharin to tap water and freezing them. Put this sugar water in the mold, and then put in the thin bamboo skewers.

, only cleaned but not sterilized bamboo sticks. Just freeze them and pack them. If some bamboo sticks are not frozen into the popsicles, these popsicles are cheaper and you can buy three for a dime. Children

I especially like this. You spend less and eat more. If you don’t have bamboo skewers, you don’t use bamboo skewers. You just hold the popsicles with your hands and eat them. Everyone who looks at them has a toothache. Besides, the bamboo skewers are thrown away after eating. Many children walk along the road.

You can pick up a handful of dozens or hundreds of bamboo sticks. Children use this kind of bamboo sticks to play games. Once the handle is loosened, they are scattered on the table or on the ground, and then they try to pick them up one by one without asking others.

Move any stick, otherwise you lose. Children call this game picking bamboo sticks.

Of course, the popsicle rink also recycles signatures like this, which cost a hundred sticks a penny. Some people still regard these as scraps and collect them to exchange for money. After the children pick up more, they can exchange them for popsicles.

Do you think you can safely let your children eat this kind of food?

Afraid that they would be greedy, Lin Yutong made it himself. Mix sour plum powder with milk powder and sugar, add some fruit granules, freeze a few templates and it would be enough for the children to eat for a week. But who would have thought that they would bring a house full of children?

, that little thing is not enough.

It doesn't matter if it's not enough.

Qingning watched her mother do it once and felt that she had learned it.

Anyway, just those few things, you can add them as you like. If you add more milk powder, it will be softer, if you add less milk powder, it will be harder, if you add more sugar, it will be dessert, and if you add more sour plum powder, it will be sour. The taste will be the same every time you make it.

There is a difference, but it doesn't affect eating.

Then it freezes when it's gone, and freezes when it's gone. And the refrigerators of this era consume a lot of electricity.

The little old lady said that she had heard the refrigerator buzzing all day long, and that the thing was tired because it had been tortured by the two little ancestors.

Fortunately, the tossing didn't last long, and before Lin Yutong took the time to deal with these two lawless people, it seemed that this problem had a perfect solution.

What can be done?

Go make up a lesson!

That’s right! It’s just a make-up lesson!

Nowadays, the school salary is delayed for more than half a year, and teachers are really living in a tight situation.

During the summer vacation, this teacher and that teacher all started to open supplementary classes. The tuition fee is not expensive, and they only charge ten yuan for twenty days. Moreover, these teachers are too embarrassed to come to the door. They all come from ordinary families and have relatively lively and outgoing children.

, the kind of children who can get along well with their classmates, ask these children to go to their classmates' homes, and go there one by one.

There are also some teachers, such as art teachers and music teachers, who also offer some courses. There is an older art teacher who offers a calligraphy class. Regardless of the appearance of this class, it is also very important. In the county town, you say it is called calligraphy.

When parents spend money to send their children to learn painting, most people think that it is just for fun. What can be achieved by painting? But if you say you offer a calligraphy class, it will be different! Simple concept

Li believes that words are a person’s facade, and this facade should be decorated well.

Lin Yutong did not hesitate and directly signed up for a calligraphy class in his family in Qingyuan. There is no age limit for calligraphy classes, and the students come from a variety of sources. Unlike these classes run by teachers, they only accept children from their own classes.

Qingning paid all the tuition fees, but basically didn’t go. Paying the money was to give the teacher face, and the teacher called her classmates. It would look bad if she didn’t go, and it would waste time if she went. We can only pay after paying.

Just do what you should do.

Without Qingyuan and his gang, only Qingning and Yan Yan are left at home. They can't make a fuss even if they want to.

This made Lin Yutong and Fourth Master feel relaxed all of a sudden.

In the past, it was a trip to the provincial capital and county town in their hometown, and they were as tired as the third grandson. But now that Aunt Jin is gone, the fourth master and Lin Yutong have no need to go back unless necessary. The second son and Yingzi occasionally go to the county town.

Come, it's not far away anyway, and it's easy to meet. It's different in the county town than in the provincial capital. If you are in the provincial capital, people in your hometown will feel that the provincial capital is strange, so they have to find an acquaintance to embolden them. But in the county town, who can find one?

There are far fewer people. Unless necessary, no one comes to the door.

The two of them have officially graduated this year. They completed their thesis defense in June and received their diplomas in early July. This is a big deal. When they come back and have academic qualifications, they can explain the situation to the organization department. It will probably be very soon.

It’s time for work adjustments to come down.

Halfway through the summer, good news finally came. According to the news from the court, the third child’s sentence was reduced by two years.

This is the first time a sentence has been commuted.

When there is one, there are two, and there is finally hope for this day.

After the news came down, the Fourth Master didn't say anything. Only he and Lin Yutong knew about it. Soon, the Third Brother knew about it. After letting out a sigh of relief, he wrote letters to He Xiaowan and the Second Brother. He never wrote to the Fourth Brother.

When I wrote the letter, I was afraid that this address would have a bad influence on the fourth child.

He Xiaowan and the second child only learned the news after receiving the letter from the third child.

In reality, the second child and Yingzi came with Qingping Qingan, and then He Xiaowan came with big and small bags, "You have a refrigerator to keep the pumpkin buns that are steamed at home. You can eat them for a long time."

What Qing Ning was most afraid of eating was pumpkin buns. She felt dizzy just looking at the big bun. But she still accepted it, "I'll keep it in the refrigerator. Just defrost it before eating."

In addition to pumpkin buns, there is also a big pumpkin, "the noodles are very sweet, and it is best for making porridge."

The little old lady was happy, "The ones grown at home are still delicious. I have bought them outside several times, and they are all water pumpkins."

"If you need anything, just ask someone to send it back." He Xiaowan rolled up her sleeves and got to work. "We have all kinds of vegetables at home, grown on the ground. I will ask the cars passing by to bring them to you. One load will be enough for you to eat for a week.

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She swept the yard, mopped the floor, and cleaned everything inside and outside the kitchen. She cleaned all the fumes that were difficult to wipe away.

After they left, Qingning asked Lin Yutong secretly: "Why does my third wife look so lively?"

This is the difference between having Auntie Jin and not having Auntie Jin.

With that person here, if the mother comes forward, the fourth master just helps the third child. In the eyes of the mother, he should be punished, and He Xiaowan doesn't need to come forward. But without that person, what is the matter?

It’s the same. A younger brother can be careless with his elder brother, but he also has a wife and children, so he is a step further away. Listen to things like this or that at home, sometimes a person who can help ten times only contributes eight points, how can he suffer a loss?

Do not know at all.

If you are polite and put all the gratitude in your heart into action, how much loss can you suffer?

But in other people's eyes, I think I'm being groveling.

Lin Yutong told the child the truth behind this, "...In the final analysis, it's just four words: closeness and distance..."

It's more like Qing Ning. It's fine to go to the second brother's house and stay either sideways or vertically, but if you ask her to go to her uncle's house or fifth uncle's house, I'm afraid it won't be comfortable either sideways or vertically. People close to her don't need to be polite.

Those who need to be polite must be because they are not close to each other for some reason.

Qingning thought thoughtfully, "Just like when Xiaoyao comes to the Lin family, it's like visiting her own home, and when my sister and I go to the Lin family, it's like being guests."

This is the truth.

Xiaoyao is Lin Yuling's daughter. She returns to Lin's house every Chinese New Year. Xiaoyao seems to be free and easy, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, going up and down. There is no place in the house that she is not familiar with. But Qingping and Qingning just sit there obediently, and when people ask them to look back

, don’t talk if you don’t ask, you have to ask people where the toilet is. You have to eat there and have to eat extra when you come back, and you don’t have enough food in an unfamiliar place. They are all the same grandchildren, and they are all direct relatives in the Lin family.

We are biologically related. But we are not close and have distant contact with each other, so naturally we became polite.

It’s good to understand this truth!

Sometimes the etiquette of communication is etiquette. Whether the etiquette is thoughtful or not has little to do with whether people are close to each other.

Just say it here, no matter how deep it is, children will not be able to understand it.

Lin Yutong talked about other things, "Should I buy new clothes for the start of school? Or should I go to the provincial capital, buy clothes and come back? If there is anything else I need, I bought it this time."

There is really no shortage of new clothes.

Qingning shook her head like a rattle, "I don't need the clothes anymore, buy me a pair of good sneakers."

There were only a few kinds of sports shoes at this time, and there were even fewer sports shoes for children. And some of them smelled bad to the feet. They were really not as comfortable as the cloth shoes made at home.

Lin Yutong told Qingning: "Wear cloth shoes, they are comfortable and breathable."
To be continued...