Chapter 415: Chapter 414: Education in the Team
"Hmm... what’s going on?"
"What do you think?" Han Yi didn’t answer, instead, he asked her back.
Lin Wan obviously understood Han Yi’s meaning, her cheeks instantly flushed, and her eyes lowered as she buried her face in his chest, "Will it hurt the baby?"
"Our child is sturdy, it won’t happen."
While Lin Wan was lazing in bed, she heard a long period of commotion outside.
By the time she came out, it was all quiet outside. She didn’t really mind.
After returning to the house and finishing breakfast, she went to chat with Shi Lan. Only when she got to Shi Lan did she find out that this morning Wang Guihua and the family on her right got into a fight.
"All because of one cabbage?" Lin Wan really couldn’t understand.
"Yanmin’s family said they lost a cabbage from their kitchen, claiming it was taken by Wang Guihua’s daughter Miao Miao."
"This... Wang Guihua’s daughter could really do such a thing."
"Yanmin’s family caught Miao Miao taking the cabbage red-handed. Yanmin’s family just gave her a few words of advice, but unexpectedly the child didn’t listen, cried loudly, couldn’t break free from Yanmin’s family’s hold, and directly bit into their wrist, tsk tsk. I saw it when they were arguing, didn’t expect the child, at such a young age, could bite that fiercely, it drew blood, and left quite obvious teeth marks."
Yanmin’s family, unable to contain their anger, argued with Wang Guihua, who, instead of adopting a better attitude, even retorted, claiming an adult was bullying a child," Shi Lan said as she shook her head, secretly grateful that she didn’t live next door to Wang Guihua.
"Sigh... what a fuss over such a matter," Lin Wan understood how bothersome Wang Guihua and her daughter could be.
In the afternoon, after the incident in the morning, the team held a meeting, believing the family’s ethics and manners needed improvement, requiring families in the courtyard to start attending morning lessons in the team’s large meeting hall every day starting tomorrow.
This was for a week, the large meeting hall was nowhere as warm as the home’s heated kang bed-stove, because of this issue, the families in the courtyard privately complained quite a bit about the two who argued.
That day, Lin Wan and Han Yi got up early together. Han Yi was afraid she might catch cold, so he had her put on an extra set of wool sweater and pants inside.
Originally, she was wearing that set of sheepskin cotton-padded coat and pants, with the additional wool sweater and pants inside, and a military coat over it. Wore a plush hat, wrapped around with a scarf.
Barely exposing a small face, wrapped like a bear, her legs didn’t even bend as she walked.
Lin Wan looked at herself and complained tearfully to Han Yi, "This is too thick, unbearably uncomfortable."
"Be good, the meeting hall is cold, you all will be staying for more than three hours. You might not feel cold at home now, but once you get there, you’ll understand what bone-chilling wind feels like."
Helplessly, Lin Wan had to persist, and when she went out, Shi Lan and Lin Yuan teased her quite a bit.
Once they reached the place, they weren’t gloating anymore either, just as Han Yi said, the large meeting hall, rarely used, was insidiously cold once entered, even with her wearing so thickly, she couldn’t help but shiver vigorously.
They called it education, but it was really just having an instructor tell them some grand truths. The main point was to teach them to treat neighbors with harmony and friendliness, to help each other. To be a good support for the husband at home, not to be a drag in any way.
At first, everyone listened with interest, but later, the warmth in their bodies was invaded by the cold wind, and each Saozi was shivering non-stop from the cold.
Only Lin Wan, the "bear," didn’t get cold. Instead, she leisurely listened to the instructor’s grand truths, not feeling the cold much, though, granted, her feet got a bit cold towards the end.
The instructor above noticed the families couldn’t hold on any longer, so he quickly wrapped up the summary and let them leave.
Shi Lan, spirit depleted from the cold, quickly ran back home to warm herself after parting from Lin Wan.
Yesterday, both Yanmin’s and Wang Guihua’s families were criticized today. It was heard Wang Guihua’s husband also got criticized in a report. Saying he couldn’t even manage his own small family, how could he manage the ideological work of a company.
Such a public criticism was no small matter, mishandling it might lead to a demotion.
When Lin Wan returned home in the evening, she inevitably heard another round of wailing and pleas.
This time, Wang Guihua and Miao Miao were again dragged by her husband to get beaten. The beating wasn’t light, it lasted a full half an hour.
During this time, no one went over to stop and persuade them.
Next morning, Shi Lan and Lin Yuan didn’t tease her anymore, each dressed like a bear.
Of course, she also saw Wang Guihua, looking a bit haggard, though her spirits seemed alright.
Instructor Feng also seemed pretty smart, only beating her body, never hitting her face.
"Xiao Wan, last year during New Year you came late, didn’t join in the program. This year you should participate in a program," Sister-in-law Zhang happened to be off today, pulled along to attend the lesson.
"Ah, there’s a program this year too?" She didn’t want to be in the spotlight.
"Every year there is, both Sister-in-law Zhang and I, along with a few other older ones, prepared a poetry reading. You and Xiao Lin, Xiao Lan, you’re young, think of a program yourself, report to me when ready," Sister-in-law Jiang reminded a few of them.
"Oh... we have to report?" Shi Lan said with a troubled face, embarrassingly, "Everyone has to report, after reporting there’s a selection process, not necessarily will you be on stage, don’t worry," Sister-in-law Jiang, perhaps noticing their concerns, smiled.
However, Lin Yuan covered her mouth and smiled, "I won’t be here for New Year, you can exclude me. Think of a program yourselves."
Leaving Lin Wan and Shi Lan looking at each other for a few seconds, feeling quite helpless.
"What can you do?" Shi Lan leaned over, quietly asking Lin Wan.
Without waiting for Lin Wan’s answer, seeing her frequently furrowing, Shi Lan knew Lin Wan didn’t have any talent.
"What about you?" Lin Wan asked back. "I...," now it was Shi Lan’s turn to be stumped.
This entire morning, neither of them heard anything, just sat there worrying. But, they weren’t the only ones concerned, Lin Wan noticed most people asking each other, preparing to team up with someone.
When stepping out at noon, they surprisingly saw Han Yi coming to pick her up.
These days, Han Yi didn’t return home for lunch, eating at the team.
"Coming home for lunch today?"
"No, today we are not cooking at home, I’ll take you to the team to eat," Han Yi approached closely, affectionately holding her hand, whispering near her ear, "The team slaughtered a pig today. I’ll take you to try it."
"We eat meat every day, what’s there to be excited about," Lin Wan said recklessly without even thinking. Luckily, her voice was low, otherwise, many might have been infuriated to death.
"They made blood sausage out of the pig intestines, I know you love eating that," Han Yi fondly pinched Lin Wan’s small face, whispered in her ear.
Only saw Lin Wan’s eyebrows arch in surprise. She nodded eagerly.
Their intimate acts all caught the eyes of the Saozis coming out.
Not a few people praised, saying Captain Han was kind, considerate of his wife. Look, such a distance, still ran over to fetch her.
Not only was Han Yi taking her, but many team families were there too, bringing their wives and children. In the winter scarcity, the team finally managed a feast, bringing their family along to eat a meal, the higher-ups just turned a blind eye.
Both being pregnant, Lin Wan almost had no pregnancy reactions, while Sun Yu’s were quite severe, virtually eating and throwing up everything.
The canteen had meat today, she wanted to bring Sun Yu, but Sun Yu disliked everything she smelled now.
Usually at school, she barely managed, didn’t like eating school meals, buying food outside every day. Didn’t want to take a leave to rest at home for a while, he was really worried. But there was nothing he could do, just getting anxious.
The savings at home were running low, these past two months, he hadn’t sent money back home.
Yang Wei thought about bringing his mom over to look after Sun Yu, but Sun Yu and his mom were naturally incompatible, bickering and arguing as soon as they met.
He barely mentioned it to Sun Yu, and she immediately disagreed, refusing to let his mom come over for anything.
She retorted, saying, look, Han Yi’s wife is pregnant too, doing it all by herself, no family attending. Said, it’s just pregnancy, she can handle it.
Yang Wei felt utterly helpless hearing that, Han Yi’s wife had hardly any pregnancy reactions, endlessly trying out different foods, full of energy every day.
Unlike her, lying in bed every day, completely fatigued and without any spirit, how can she compare?
Han Yi deliberately took her to sit in a corner of the canteen, then queued up to get the meal.
In no time, a bowl full of cabbage and vermicelli underneath, entirely pig blood sausage.