While making dumplings for breakfast, Xu Rongrong kept observing Zhan Yiyang's expression. Strangely, Zhan Yiyang didn't have any unnecessary expression at all.
After dinner, Zhan Yiyang got up and said, "You guys will clean up the kitchen later."
"Yeah." Li Shuanglin agreed after eating, and Zhan Anran simply stopped and looked up at his parents.
Xu Rongrong was also full and said: "I will take care of everything with my children."
"Come on, let's finish cleaning up and go celebrate the New Year." After Zhan Yiyang explained, he took Xu Rongrong away. He didn't have any rest last night, and Zhan Yiyang didn't allow Xu Rongrong to work too hard.
Xu Rongrong was taken back to the room by Zhan Yiyang and forced to lie down.
Zhan Yiyang made him a cup of soothing tea, and Xu Rongrong fell asleep not long after drinking it.
Xu Rongrong fell asleep and Zhan Yiyang got up and went outside. Zhan Anran and Li Shuanglin also packed up. Zhan Yiyang went to the door to check and told the two of them to go to New Year greetings. He went to prepare things to entertain the guests. In fact, he had nothing to prepare.
They are all ready-made, see what is missing.
Zhan Anran went out and didn't come back. He called home to tell her and stayed for dinner.
Zhan Yiyang didn't say anything. He cooked dumplings for lunch. Zhan Anran and Li Shuanglin didn't come back until after noon. Li Shuanglin also drank a little wine.
Zhan Anran said he couldn't do it without drinking, but Zhan Yiyang didn't say anything.
At night, Zhan Yiyang and Li Shuanglin said that he would sleep alone at night, and Zhan Anran and Xu Rongrong would sleep in his room, which was also spacious.
Zhan Yiyang said this, but he had nothing to say. Xu Rongrong felt a little better when she went to bed at night and said she was fine, but as soon as she woke up, she started thinking wildly. The Li family's behavior was indeed a bit irritating.
But Zhan Yiyang was not anxious at all and was always calm and composed.
An Ran and Li Shuanglin started eating door to door on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. They ate until the tenth day of the Lunar New Year before they finished eating. They basically ate at home in the morning and out at noon and evening. They ate as much as An Ran.
He said that his whole body has gained weight.
The same goes for Li Shuanglin, who is a bit greasy.
On November 1st, Xu Rongrong's family hosted a reception, prepared several tables, and invited a lot of people, including men, women and children, and it was very lively to sit and eat together.
While eating, someone asked when Li Shuanglin and Zhan Anran would get married.
Xu Rongrong didn't know what to say. Although the child's heart was here, the family didn't agree. What could she say? It was so embarrassing.
Zhan Yiyang said instead: "I'm not old enough, I have to wait two years."
"It would be fine if it was in the countryside." Someone also said, Zhan Yiyang simply smiled and did not take this matter seriously at all.
After they were sent away with plenty of food and wine, Xu Rongrong began to pack up. His days in the countryside were basically over, so he packed up and prepared to go back.
After eating on November 1, they went back on December 1.
When he got home to fight Yiyang, it was as if nothing had happened. Li Shuanglin went to the army after the 15th, and took advantage of these few days to spend the New Year at Xu Rongrong's house.
As for Yun Yi'ao's side, Xu Rongrong actually went there too, but he was already gone.
Xu Rongrong also felt that they came back a little late, and the child just left. Since he left, Xu Rongrong didn't call him, not for anything else. He still didn't understand this, so how could he call to care about anything else?
matter.
The matter of Zhan Anran seemed to have become a piece of Xu Rongrong's heart. The people of the Li family were hateful in Xu Rongrong's heart.
However, Li Shuanglin is a very good kid. He can cook. He makes pimple soup for Xu Rongrong when he has nothing to do. Xu Rongrong quite likes it.
After fifteen days, Li Shuanglin went to the army, and Xu Rongrong was a little reluctant to leave.
"Isn't it the February Festival? Why did you come so early?" Xu Rongrong was not very happy and felt that the army could not get along with his family.
"I am a main cadre, so I should go back first." Li Shuanglin didn't expect that Xu Rongrong would treat him so differently in these few days. Li Shuanglin couldn't explain why, but there must be a reason.
Xu Rongrong thought for a while and didn't say anything else. Instead, he said, "Then you can come back and live here on weekends so that you don't have to cook alone."
"I know." Li Shuanglin agreed to everything before returning to the army. Who knew that not long after he returned, the army participated in military exercises. He said that he invited some people to watch the military exercises, including Xu Rongrong and Zhan Yiyang. As for Zhan Yiyang,
An Ran, went to school early in the morning.
Xu Rongrong was notified that there were two of her sons and Li Shuanglin.
The two sons were the next best thing. It didn't matter whether they went or not. She couldn't understand Xu Rongrong's thoughts even though her son often practiced them. It was true to go and see Li Shuanglin, so Xu Rongrong agreed.
Zhan Yiyang actually didn't plan to go. Xu Rongrong wanted to go, so he went.
When he got off the car and was about to go in, Zhan Yiyang said in Xu Rongrong's ear: "Those are Mr. and Mrs. Li Shixian."
"Them?" Xu Rongrong knew that Li Shixian was Li Shuanglin's father, and he didn't like it when he heard about it.
I didn’t say hello, and I haven’t met him in person anyway, so I just pretended that I didn’t know him. I don’t know you, and you don’t know me. Aren’t you all cut off from your son? That’s just right, you picked up a son for nothing.
Xu Rongrong decided that instead of raising Li Shuanglin as his son-in-law, he would raise her as his son.
In fact, Li Shixian did not expect that Zhan Yiyang and his wife would come to watch the military exercise. After entering, Li Shixian asked and found out that Zhan Tianning and Shen Rang were also participating in the military exercise this time.
They sat down one after another, Zhan Yiyang and Li Shixian were seated next to each other, with their respective wives on both sides.
After sitting down, Zhan Yiyang looked forward as if he didn't recognize Li Shixian.
Zhan Tianning and Shen Rang were both busy, but Li Jiawen was not. He came over to see his father-in-law and mother-in-law. There happened to be no one around Xu Rongrong, so Li Jiawen sat down.
"Mom, come to my place to eat tonight. I've already bought groceries." Li Jiawen is like this. There is nothing official about him. If I didn't know you, I wouldn't say a word or look at you.
Li Shixian actually knew Li Jiawen, but they didn't have any friendship, so they didn't talk.
Xu Rongrong leaned aside and said, "I don't want to eat anymore. I'm so angry."
Zhan Yiyang glanced at Xu Rongrong, said nothing, and continued to look ahead.
Li Jiawen sounded a little wrong. Her mother-in-law was not in good condition today.
"Mom, who made you angry?" Li Jiawen thought he could help, so he asked more questions.
Xu Rongrong pointed to Li Shuanglin below, but didn't say anything else.
Li Shixian's wise wife is a political commissar. Although she has been working as a political commissar all her life, she is not as high as Li Jiawen, but she is still a political commissar. She feels that Xu Rongrong's rank is not as high as hers and she is not worthy to sit here and watch the exercise.
Xu Rongrong didn't look at them at all, he would be very angry, and he would be even more angry if he didn't look at them.
Li Jiawen looked at it and asked a few questions. Xu Rongrong didn't say anything, so he stopped asking.
"Mom, I'm going down. Come to my place to eat tonight. I'll pick you up." Li Jiawen got up to leave. Xu Rongrong asked her: "Go to Shuanglin, please prepare some more dishes."
"Ah, I understand." Li Jiawen agreed and left without taking it seriously.
Li Shixian on the side frowned, and so did the good wife beside him. He was not very happy, but he didn't show it.
"Who are you from Li Shuanglin?" someone asked nearby, and Xu Rongrong said to them: "My son."
The man was quite surprised: "Are you political commissar Su?"
"No, Political Commissar Su is his stepmother, I am his stepmother." Xu Rongrong answered without thinking. Everyone looked at Xu Rongrong, and Xu Rongrong said to the person: "Li Shixian is not his biological father, this is his biological father."
Xu Rongrong pointed at Zhan Yiyang beside him. Zhan Yiyang didn't say anything, knowing that Xu Rongrong was angry.
Li Shixian and Su Qing on the side looked pale and speechless.
The man on the other side was also a straight man, and said, "No wonder, people say that Political Commissar Su treats his eldest son badly. It turns out there is a reason."
As a result, the word spread, and after Xu Rongrong finished the exercise, Su Qing came to find him.
Just as Xu Rongrong was about to go down, Su Qing revealed what was going on at Zhan Yiyang's house, saying that her daughter was so young that she didn't care about it and had seduced her son away.
In fact, Li Shuanglin is not Su Qing's biological child. How ugly would it be if she couldn't say that she wanted to hook up with him?
Xu Rongrong didn't show any weakness. He looked at Su Qing for a while and said, "I admit everything you said. What does that prove?"
Xu Rongrong was too lazy to say anything and turned around to leave. Everyone in the army knew that the Zhan family was upright and they began to pay attention to the matter of Zhan Anran and Li Shuanglin.
The commander of the military region called Zhan Yiyang and Xu Rongrong specifically to talk to them.
When Xu Rongrong went, Li Shixian also went, as well as Su Qing.
When Zhan Yiyang and his wife came in, they were both quiet people. When they met the commander, he said straight to the point: "This is quite interesting. Your family is trying to hollow out the army."
The commander was just joking, Xu Rongrong ignored him, looked at it for a while, and became unhappy: "I said, how can you talk? If you don't say that our family works for you, you say that we poach troops, what do you have?
It is my son and daughter-in-law who arrange jobs for those retired veterans. Our home has almost become a relief camp. Are you sorry?"
Xu Rongrong has been unhappy recently, and he is not happy when he meets anyone.
Zhan Yiyang didn't care. He was sitting aside and being waited on. Compared with Zhan Yiyang, Li Shixian was much worse. At least no one was pouring tea.
The commander also smiled: "Sorry."
"Yeah." Xu Rongrong agreed.
The commander laughed, and then said: "We came to you because of the matter of our two children. If you agree, we can have a military marriage, which will provide a lot of benefits."
"My daughter is not old enough to get married yet, so I haven't thought about it that much. Besides, our family has a house, so you don't need to prepare it. I plan to ask Li Shuanglin to support me in my old age and live together."
Xu Rongrong said this not entirely out of anger, she also thought so in her heart.
Su Qing said: "Li Shuanglin is a child of our Li family."
"Didn't you sever the relationship between father and son? Stop pretending to be so kind in front of me. You are so kind. Why do you treat your son the same way and treat us Shuanglin the same way? I don't want to say it, so don't ask." Xu Rongrong.
After glancing at the commander, Zhan Yiyang didn't care. The commander felt embarrassed.
Li Jiawen came in at this time again. After entering, he made a report, then went to Xu Rongrong and asked Xu Rongrong when he was going to have dinner.
In fact, Xu Rongrong has been at Shen Rang's house these days. The military exercise is not a one-day event. She lives there. Li Jiawen came with nothing else in mind, just to ask when he would go back for dinner.
The commander feels that Li Jiawen is redundant. You came here to find a meal. If you delay things, you are not here at the right time.
Li Jiawen had the final say whether it was time for others to decide. She asked Xu Rongrong. Xu Rongrong got up, said he was hungry, turned around and followed Li Jiawen.
Zhan Yiyang didn't leave, but he lost his temper after Xu Rongrong left. It seemed that it was time to settle accounts.