After eating and sending Uncle Wang and the others away, Li Chu and his brother-in-law sat in the yard on a deck chair.
Li Qin and Ding Qiunan were playing with their family and two children in the living room.
"Brother-in-law, Uncle Wang and I have already told you about you. Just wait for the news."
"I thought I didn't have time to talk today." Wang Ziwen was obviously relieved after hearing Li Chu's words.
"I told Uncle Wang when he came in the morning. Shouldn't this kind of thing happen sooner rather than later? I'm worried that if it's too late, it will be troublesome if the notice is sent out.
Although Uncle Wang didn't say anything, based on my understanding of him, there must be no problem with this matter. The worst thing is that you continue to do it here."
Wang Ziwen nodded: "It's good to continue working here. At least there will be opportunities in the future. If I go to the city bureau to work as a deputy, there will really be no future."
After chatting for a while at Li Chu's house, Wang Ziwen and Li Qin took their daughter back.
On the way back, Wang Ziwen told his wife about this. After hearing this, Li Qin said with emotion: "Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang are really good to my brother."
While riding his bicycle, Wang Ziwen turned around and glanced at his wife in the back seat, only to be slapped on the back: "What are you looking at? Take a good look at the road ahead."
Jiayuan, who was sitting on the front bumper, also raised her head and said, "Dad, you have to concentrate on riding a bicycle and don't look around."
"Okay, okay, daddy, pay attention and don't look around. Xiaoqin, why did I feel a little jealous after hearing what you just said?"
"Jealous? Why should I be jealous?" Li Qin was stunned by what he said and didn't understand what he meant.
"You just said that Uncle Wang is kind to Xiao Chu."
"Hey, am I really jealous? Who Uncle Wang treats well is his own business. And Uncle Wang treats my brother so well. I can't wait to do it."
"It's good if you think so. By the way, Xiaoqin, has Jiadong replied to your letter?"
"I haven't seen him yet. As you know, letters from the army are slow and we don't know when they will leave."
At this time, Jiayuan was crying in front and said: "Mom, I miss my brother."
Li Qin almost cried when her daughter said this.
She sniffed and comforted Jiayuan and said, "Yuanyuan, can you write a letter to your brother when you go back later?"
"Yes." Wang Jiayuan nodded regardless of whether her mother could see it, then raised her hand to wipe her tears: "Dad, ride faster. I will write a letter to my brother when I get back."
"Okay, okay, I'll ride faster. Then you all can sit tight! Let's go..."
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"Qiu Nan, please dress your child warmly. Although it won't rain today, it's very cold outside."
Li Chu said loudly in the courtyard early in the morning.
After saying that, he started to sweep the snow in the yard again, and the snow on the roof had just been cleared.
In two days it will be Chinese New Year, the Spring Festival of 1964.
The heavy snowfall last year lasted for more than a week, and it finally stopped today.
"Dad, dad, snow, snow." Wen Hui, who had already put on clothes, staggered out of the house, dressed like a penguin.
Holding on to the door frame, she slowly crossed the threshold and walked out, followed by the little white one behind her.
Xiaobai and Xiaohua are no longer young now. I don’t know how the two dogs negotiated. Anyway, they divide the work between each other, one with a little master.
As long as the child is at home, a dog will follow him wherever he goes.
Xiao Hei doesn't follow me very much now.
After a while, Ding Qiunan dressed Wenxuan and pulled him out.
"Li Chu, please don't let them play in the snow. I'm going to get some food."
The two children were actually quite obedient. They just sat on the wooden horse under the eaves and played without going into the courtyard.
The two wooden horses were made by Li Chu from a rich man. There are really too few toys for children now.
The reason why Wen Hui and Wen Xuan got up so early is because they have already gone to nursery school.
A few days after the National Day last year, Li Chu and Ding Qiunan agreed to send the child to the hospital's nursery.
It's not a problem to have Aunt Wang look after her all the time. After all, Aunt Wang is getting older, and it will become more and more difficult to take care of her children in the future.
These two children have never cried since the first day they went there, and the aunties at the nursery love them very much.
Today's nurseries are different from future kindergartens.
At this time, nurseries were run by each unit in order to relieve the worries of working parents.
There is no charge to send your child to daycare, no matter how old the child is.
Of course, if the child is not weaned, then you, the mother, must remember the time to come and breastfeed.
After cleaning the yard here, Ding Qiunan's meal is also ready.
"Li Chu, when you went home that day, are my mother and father okay?"
Ding Qiunan asked while feeding Wen Hui.
Li Chu was also feeding his son. He would only eat after the two children were full.
"Okay, I've made an agreement with them and the car will pick them up on New Year's Eve afternoon."
Everyone has agreed to celebrate the New Year this year at Li Chu’s place.
Ding's father and Ding's mother didn't want to come over originally. It was nothing to have New Year's Eve dinner at their son-in-law's house.
But this year, because Ding Jianguo and his team had temporary assignments, they were still on the road during the New Year celebrations. They would not be celebrating the New Year at home, so the only two people left at home were the old couple. It was so deserted.
Li Chu went over and did some ideological work for a long time before he finally made sense. Zhang Meng would drive over to pick them up.
"Why do you think my brother and the others still have to drive out during the Chinese New Year?"
"It's not because there was too much snow this winter, which delayed all the time."
Although Ding Jianguo doesn't like to study, he learns to drive very quickly. Now he is driving. The master who takes him also likes him. He will definitely not let him drive when he goes out, but he should go out to see the world.
After eating and cleaning up, the two of them walked to the hospital with a child in their arms.
On the road, the two children kept talking and chattering.
When the two children are one and a half years old, their personalities have finally changed. Wen Hui has become much quieter now, while Wen Xuan has become more lively than before since going to the nursery.
After arriving at the hospital, they first sent the child to the nursery in the family area, and then the two of them returned to their respective jobs.
"Doctor Li, Dean Yang asked you to go to his office." As soon as Li Chu entered the office, Nurse Su came over to inform him.
"Okay, I'll go there now."
Li Chu came to the administration building. The door of the dean's office was not closed, so he walked in directly.
"Dean, do you have something to do with me?"
"Doctor Li is here, sit down."
After he sat down, Dean Yang said: "That's it, Director Liang came to talk to me two days ago. He said that he is older now and is still doing teaching work at the school, running both ways.
I really can't hold it any longer.
So he wants to retire from the hospital, teach full-time for two years, and recommend you to be the director of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I came to see you today just to see what you think."