Quick Wear: With the cub in hand, the world is mine

After several days of traveling, Hua Ke fell asleep as soon as she got into bed and slept till dawn. The two children were still asleep, as they had not slept well on the train.

After she got up, the bomber also got up, "Mom, I want to pee."

"Put on your own clothes and go out, shh."

Hearing the voice, Hua Boxun put on his coat and knocked on the door. "Girl, are you up? Are you hungry? Dad will make you something to eat."

"Get up, Dad, just open the door."

"Do you want to eat the dumplings?"

"Eat, Dad, how did you sleep last night?"

"pretty good."

After blasting the cannon, he disappeared for a long time. Hua Boxun was so scared that he thought something had happened to him, so he hurried to look for him after making a fire.

"Dad, go look for him next door first. He won't go far." Hua Ke said lightly while tying her daughter's hair when she just woke up.

Hua Boxun rushed to the next room. As expected, his daughter was right. Maybe she was still dazed because of the bombardment, so she ran directly to the cave where her uncle and his uncle lived and continued to sleep.

"Dad, your cooking skills have improved a lot." Hua Ke praised.

"I've learned it through practice. I can also make my own pickled cabbage and dried pickles now. They're in a jar. Can I make some for you guys to have for lunch?"

"Hurrah."

Hua Boxun didn't have to work, so he took a group of children for a stroll nearby. The outgoing Zha Pao even got to know two or three local children and chatted with them in his own dialect.

Wen Nanzhi was rather shy, so he held Hua Ke's hand and watched quietly, not daring to talk to others. Those children were so dark, with red faces, so strange, and different from those in their commune.

"Sister, they said your hair looks nice!"

Wen Chuzhao laughed behind him, "Explosion, how did you understand it?"

"They gestured and I understood."

Hua Ke lowered her head and asked her daughter, "People are praising you, what are you going to say?"

"Grandpa, please help me say thank you for their compliments. They look beautiful when they smile, just like flowers in spring."

After walking for an hour, Wen Nanzhi didn't want to leave anymore and insisted on going back, so Hua Ke took her back to the cave.

Zapao had a lot of fun in the local area and even learned to sing a few old revolutionary songs with his new friends. I heard that these were the songs that the educated youth used to hum every day.

"Mom, sister, can I sing a song for you?" Without waiting for Hua Ke to say yes, he started singing.

"Facing the morning breeze, facing the sunshine, crossing the mountains and rivers to the border. The great motherland, the sky is high and the land is vast, the Chinese people's ambitions are everywhere..."

"The sun is out, shining everywhere!"

"..."

Zha Pao's blood was boiling and he sang four songs before stopping.

Hua Ke applauded, "Zha Pao is really good, his lung capacity is very good, he sings very loudly, and his tune can go very far. He has a lot of room for improvement."

"Mom, you are so good at praising me. I think I am great too." Zhapao said sincerely.

Looking at the innocent Zhapao, Hua Boxun recalled the time when his three children were still children. Xiaoke used to praise Mingli in the same way. Mingli thought that his sister really liked his performance and was complacent. Only Shenxing, who understood the meaning of his sister's words, covered his mouth and laughed. Mingli saw his brother and sister laughing, and he also laughed foolishly.

Wen Nanzhi pouted, opened the comic book that she had read many times, and muttered softly, "My brother doesn't seem very smart."

Hua Boxun cherished the days when the children came. He sat next to Wen Nanzhi and gently stroked her hair with his big hand. "Pumpkin likes reading, right?"

"Yeah! Books are very interesting. I want to be a great writer and write stories for others to read."

"Do you like listening to stories? Grandpa has a lot of stories. Can I tell you some?"

"I like it! Good!"

Hua Boxun's life was very interesting and he could tell stories in an engaging way. Not only the two children, but also Wen Chuzhao and Hua Mingli gathered around Hua Boxun, listening with great interest and asking questions from time to time.

Hua Ke took the children's and Hua Boxun's clothes to wash. As a tasker who had lived for who knows how many years, her story was more exciting and would scare many people when told. Unfortunately, no one would believe her lies and they would definitely be regarded as fairy tales.

Traveling through time and space and being reborn? When did you have this dream? Haha.

……

At the southern tip of the motherland, on an island shaped like a banana leaf, the soldiers finished their morning training, had a simple lunch, and then went straight into the dense forest to cut down trees and build a family area.

"Wen Ying, your sister-in-law really wants to come over? Why? Aren't the conditions in your hometown pretty good?" Chen Chao asked curiously to Wen Chuheng who was moving wood quietly on the side.

"Hahaha, this is what you, Chen Chao, don't understand. There's no need to ask so many whys. A woman misses a man. She hasn't been back to Wenying for almost two years, right? Alas, my wife doesn't want to come here. She says it's too inconvenient here."

Deputy Battalion Commander Li Changning winked at Wen Chuheng, "Captain Wen, am I right?"

"No."

If his wife missed him, she would have come over long ago. Why wait until now?

"Wen Ying has two children, right? You can choose a bigger cabin."

"Yeah," Wen Chuheng responded, and added proudly, "Twins! So cute and good-looking!"

Li Changning raised his index finger, brushed away the caterpillar that had fallen on his shoulder, and blew on his cotton gloves. "Wow, I have two now. I plan to ask my wife for the third and fourth after the island is built."

Li Chao raised his head and sighed, "I don't have any. I don't even have a wife. Alas."

"Wen Ying, how many children do you plan to have?"

Wen Chuheng said without any hesitation: "Look at my wife, if she wants to have a baby, she can give birth. If she doesn't want to, she can not have it. Two are enough." His wife's health is up to her.

"I think two is still too few. My parents gave birth to nine children, so I must have at least five. There are still too few children on our island."

Chen Chao replied, "It's not that there are few, there is none! The oldest child is fifteen years old, and he has bankrupted his father. His family can hardly make ends meet, so he signed up to join the army at an older age. I heard that many family members have come to Changshe Island next door to follow the army, and there are so many children that they can open classes. They also have a ready-made family compound and hundreds of islanders, but we have nothing. We are the same soldiers but different fates. The only thing we can compare with is that our Banana Leaf Island is large in area and has abundant resources."

"If the children from Wenying come here, they will be very popular. But we don't have any other children here. Will they cry and want to go back home after staying for less than a day?"

"It's very likely. I think my sister-in-law will follow the children and go back. Wen Ying will be so happy for nothing, haha."

Wen Chuheng rolled up his sleeves halfway, revealing his tanned skin. The veins on the back of his hands were bulging, and his pair of dark and deep eyes were fixed on the big tree in front of him. If his wife didn't want to live on the island with him, he wouldn't force her.

However, he really missed her and the children. He wondered if the children still remembered him and would be happy to see him.

(Cannonball and Pumpkin pounced on Grandpa, one on each side, whispering intimately. They didn’t even think about their biological father. They could go wherever they wanted. Grandpa was more fun.)