Dressed up as a Real Mom

Chapter 48.1: Crowded

on March 06, 2022

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After the New Year, the days ran fast, and after the first month, the ice and snow began to melt. The letter from Qingshuihe said that the peach blossoms and apricot blossoms had already bloomed.

After the snow melted, He Xiaoyun would walk downstairs every day. She took a fancy to a vacant lot behind the family building and confirmed to Wei Jianwei that the land had no owner and was useless, so she went to the market to buy it and sowed some vegetable seeds.

A few days later, the first batch of radish seedlings appeared. When the seedlings grew to more than ten centimeters in length, He Xiaoyun cut them off. In addition to eating it at home, she also gave some to the neighbors upstairs and downstairs, and then sprinkled the seeds a second time.

Xu Lanxiang, Huang Lizhen, and the others found her work very interesting. They planted some green onions and celery. Gradually, other people were also driven by this trend. There was a vegetable growing trend in the whole family building. The empty space was all divided by the women.

The day when Wei Jianwei and them would go home(Qingshuihe) from vacation came, He Xiaoyun entrusted the vegetable plot to Xu Lanxiang and asked her out with her to the street to buy something for the Wei family.

"I won't see you for some days, I can't bear with it." Xu Lanxiang said while helping her choose fabrics.

In the past few months, He Xiaoyun has saved some cloth tickets. She plans to buy two pieces of cloth to make a piece of clothing for Wang Chunhua and Li Yuegui.

Hearing Xu Lanxiang's words, He Xiaoyun said: "It's only ten or twenty days, it will pass like a blink of an eye."

Originally, He Xiaoyun didn't join the army together with Jianwei. Wei Jianwei’s annual vacation to visit his spouse and family was 30 days. Now, there's only a vacation to visit his parents. Excluding the time on the way back, there are only 20 days left.

"Since Xiaoyuan will not be there, Rong Rong will definitely annoy me. That kid is so annoying."

He Xiaoyun joked: "If Sister Xu is willing, you can let Rongrong go home with me."

"I can't wait." Xu Lanxiang also smiled.

After choosing two pieces of cloth in colors suitable for the elders and patterns that aren't available in small county towns, the two of them continued to shop in the store for a long time before buying everything they needed.

Last time, He Xiaoyun took Wei Yuanhang out alone, cautious along the way, not daring to get distracted, this time with Wei Jianwei, it was much easier.

When the three arrived in the county, they took the first bus back to Qingshuihe. Although He Xiaoyun didn’t live here for a long time, she still felt something in her heart when returning and looking at the familiar scenery outside the bus window. 

"Are you tired?" Wei Jianwei asked her when they arrived at the commune and got off the car.

He Xiaoyun shook her head, looked at the green scenery all around, took a deep breath of fresh air, and smiled: "I feel full of energy. I can walk back and forth from here to home."

She bowed her head and asked Wei Yuanhang: "We're almost home. Do you still know which way is home?"

The three of them stood at the fork in the way from the commune back to the Qingshuihe brigade. Wei Yuanhang had visited this place several times before, but he was a little younger back then and had not returned home for more than half a year. Right now, he hesitated for a while before pointing away. "Let's go here!"

"Not bad." He Xiaoyun smiled and touched his head.

Wei Jianwei was carrying luggage, while she led the child, and the three of them were walking on the yellow mud road in the county. The roadside was green and the paddy fields on both sides were already filled with water. Not far from the mountains, the azaleas bloomed all over the mountains. In the wind, mixed with the fragrant fragrance of grapefruit flowers, it is completely different scenery from the north in the late spring.

Not long after walking, they met two women who had just finished washing their clothes. When they saw them, they yelled: "Jianwei and Xiaoyun are back? Yo, Xiaoyuan has grown so tall."

Wei Jianwei nodded with them, and He Xiaoyun said with a smile: "You can visit our house to eat sweets in a while."

"We're going to go." The other party also smiled back.

The three of them walked far away, and the two women looked back, one of them said to the other: "Did you see the shoes Xiaoyun was wearing?"

"I saw it, it's leather shoes."

"More than that, I just smelled her body (why are you smelling her sis?!), she had a fragrant smell! Oh, she just went to the city, and now she's different from us, country folks."

The three met a lot of familiar people on the road and greeted everyone. Seeing his yard from a distance, Wei Yuanhang rushed over excitedly, shouting all the way: "Grandpa, grandma, we are back!"

Without shouting a few more times, he saw Wang Chunhua hurriedly greet him out of the room, her face was full of joy, and a few deep folds appeared at the corners of her eyes, she held Wei Yuanhang in her arms, "You're back!"

He Xiaoyun also took a few steps to catch up, "Mom."

"En!" Wang Chunhua answered happily, looked at Wei Jianwei behind her, and said to the three of them, "You've been walking hard on the road. You're all hungry. Come in and have some tea. Does Xiaoyuan miss Grandma?"

Wei Yuanhang nodded and counted with his fingers: "I thought about grandma, grandpa, uncle, auntie... so many times!"

Wang Chunhua smiled straight at him and put her arms around him without letting go.

Feng Qiuyue walked out holding her daughter, "You're back."

"Little sister!" Wei Yuanhang ran to Feng Qiuyue and jumped around her, "Little sister, brother is back!"

When they left, the little baby has just had her full moon, now she was more than seven months old, and she was white and chubby. When she heard Wei Yuanhang's voice, she turned her head and stared at him with sullen eyes.

The boy said straightly: "Call me brother, little sister! Call me brother!"

He Xiaoyun came over and said amused: "Your little sister can't speak yet."

He Xiaoyun called to her sister-in-law, clapped her hands at the little baby, and tried to hug her, the baby's small limp body leaning in her arms, not crying or making trouble, making people feel soft.

Wei Yuanhang hugged her thigh, "Mom, let me see my little sister, let me see!"

He Xiaoyun had to squat down to show him, "Be careful, don't hurt your little sister."

Wei Jianwei also called his mother and sister-in-law, and asked Wang Chunhua: "Where is Dad?"

"Your dad and Jianguo went to see the seedlings in the fields. That stinky boy Jianhua recently ran out every day. I don't know what he was doing. I have to get someone to introduce him to a girl, otherwise, he won't settle down. You and Xiaoyun can take a break first, and I will cook some noodles."

While Wang Chunhua was talking, she walked to the kitchen, and Feng Qiuyue saw her daughter in He Xiaoyun's hands obediently, so she followed up and helped.

Wei Yuanhang looked at his little sister for a while and saw that she couldn't talk, and couldn't play with him, and soon lost interest, so he ran to the next door to find Yanyan.