"It's delicious! The meat is delicious!" Mingming ate the meat and jumped on the bed happily.
Zhang Cuifen, who was sitting on a small stool, finally couldn't hold it in anymore when she saw Ming Ming's happy look. With a tight face, she couldn't help laughing. She stood up with a smile, came over and pulled Ming Ming and said: "No.
Come on, sit down and eat."
The condensed atmosphere suddenly dissolved. Zhang Cuifen looked at the dishes in the bowl and said gently to Ling Xiaowei: "Save these for tomorrow! Just give Mingming a piece of braised pork."
"Yeah!" Ling Xiaowei responded.
After finishing her work, Zhang Cuifen sat by the bed and continued knitting a sweater. This one was a light blue sweater, probably knitted for Mingming.
Ling Xiaowei took her homework book and sat at the desk next to her bed to do her homework. She had finished copying that part of her homework, and she started to write her winter vacation homework.
This winter vacation homework consists of several test papers. There is no unified winter vacation homework in this era. The teachers copy the questions themselves and send them to the printing house. The printed test papers have slightly scrawled handwriting and a strong smell of ink.
There are five test papers for Chinese and five test papers for Mathematics.
Ling Xiaowei set a goal for herself today. Today she will write a Chinese test paper and a mathematics test paper.
After reading the content of the test paper, I found that it was not too difficult. Soon I had written more than half of the Chinese text, and many of the contents were copied. Just take out the textbook and copy it.
Not long after, Ling Chunxia and Qin Lili arrived in a hurry. They brought their schoolbags and entered the room. They shouted in unison: "It's so warm!"
Of course the house is warm with a coal stove.
"You go outside to move the stools, and we will do our homework in this room!" Ling Xiaowei said to Ling Chunxia and Qin Lili.
The two immediately moved the stools to the opposite side of Ling Xiaowei. Ling Xiaowei gave them the notebook. They all knew how to copy it without her having to say anything.
The room fell into silence again for a while. Ling Chunxia and Qin Lili were copying questions very hard. They wanted to earn pocket money. With two yuan, they could buy a flower, a headband, or something during the Chinese New Year.
A beautiful scarf, they all look forward to using their pocket money to go to the town market to buy what they like.
Mingming saw them doing their homework and was curious to do it. She kept holding Ling Xiaowei's hand, asking for pens and paper. Ling Xiaowei had no choice but to take an old notebook and a pencil stub for Mingming to draw and play with.
Ling Guoqiang, who was sitting on the bed reading the newspaper, finally put down the newspaper. He looked at the children doing homework in front of him and Ming Ming who was having a great time. He felt inexplicably peaceful and a thought flashed through his mind.
.
He doesn't know why, but he always wants to find something to do recently. Everyone in the family has something to do, Xiaowei has homework to do, Cuifen has clothes to knit, and even Mingming is playing with pencils and drawing.
It's really inappropriate for him to lie down like this anymore.
Ling Guoqiang picked up the two crutches placed on the bedside and tried his best to support his body with the two wooden crutches.
"Dad, do you want to get up?" As soon as Ling Xiaowei heard the noise, she immediately stood up and stretched out her hand to Ling Guoqiang, as if to help him.
"No, you go do your homework." Ling Guoqiang said to Ling Xiaowei, and then said to Zhang Cuifen: "Cuifen, come here and help me."
Zhang Cuifen came over, helped Ling Guoqiang up, and then carried Ling Guoqiang out of the room.
Outside the room, Zhang Cuifen said to Ling Guoqiang: "Do you want to go to the toilet? I'll go outside and get the bucket back."
"No, help me to the west room." Ling Guoqiang pointed to the west room with the door closed.
Zhang Cuifen looked puzzled, wondering what she was going to do in the west room. This girl Ling Xiaowei had tidied up this room. After tidying up, she closed the door. She didn't go in to see what it was like.
Pushing open the door of the west room, I saw that the room was empty. There was a bed made in the corner, and the others were some baskets and a sewing machine covered with cloth!
Ling Guoqiang pointed to the sewing machine and said, "Cui Fen, help me move a stool and put it in front of the sewing machine."
Zhang Cuifen had a puzzled look on her face, and her heart was full of doubts. Why did he want a stool? But she did as he was told, moved the stool, and placed it in front of the sewing machine. As soon as Ling Guoqiang sat in front of the sewing machine, a familiar feeling came to her heart.
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He wiped the sewing machine in front of him with some excitement and expectation. The sewing machine was carefully wiped. Ling Guoqiang took the cloth away, and a black sewing machine with golden peonies painted on it appeared in front of him.
"What...are you doing here?" Zhang Cuifen asked puzzledly, feeling a little impatient, thinking that she already had no legs, and she still wanted to step on the sewing machine.
Ling Guoqiang had tears in his eyes and was a little excited. After hearing Zhang Cuifen's words, he suppressed the urge to cry. He coughed lightly and said to Zhang Cuifen: "Don't Xiaowei want to be covered? I'll make one for her."
"Make a quilt cover? Can you do it?" Zhang Cuifen blurted out without thinking, her tone full of disbelief.
Ling Guoqiang heard her tone, but he was not angry. Instead, he aroused the fighting spirit in his heart and said with great ambition: "I can do it, of course I can do it!" After saying that, he started to play with the sewing machine.
Zhang Cuifen doesn't know how to use a sewing machine, but she can sew clothes by hand. The Zhang family cannot afford a sewing machine. Today, after seeing this sewing machine from the Ling family, I feel that the conditions of the Ling family are still good. Thinking of this, I feel inexplicably happy again.
"If you want anything else, I'll get it for you!" Zhang Cuifen said.
"Help me find a stick, it doesn't need to be too long, and bring me some scissors!" Ling Guoqiang said without raising his head. He was taking out the thread from the drawer of the sewing machine, putting it on the sewing machine skillfully, and then putting the thread on the sewing machine.
Thread it onto the needle head of the machine needle.
When everything was ready, he turned the wheel on the side of the sewing machine.
The needle of the sewing machine moved up and down. The sewing machine was fine and could still be used! Ling Guoqiang breathed a sigh of relief. Now he just needs to be able to step on the pedal below.
Both of his feet are gone, but he still has legs. His legs can move. He just needs to fix them with wooden bars and he should be able to pedal.
After a while, Zhang Cuifen came in with a wooden stick and scissors, "Here are you."
"Okay, go ahead and do it! I can do it myself!" Ling Guoqiang took the things and continued working.
Zhang Cuifen didn't want to stay yet! At this time, someone in the east room called her, so she stopped staying and went back to the east room.
In the room, Ling Xiaowei has already written a Chinese paper. Dad has been out for so long, why hasn't he come back yet?
"Hey, Ling Xiaowei, is your stepmother good to you?" Qin Lili asked curiously.
Everyone said that stepmothers are not good, but when she saw it today, Ling Xiaowei's stepmother looked pretty good.