A stunning beauty arrived on the island; she invented everything from childcare to babysitting.

Anning originally thought that the circuit board and the power system were the most difficult parts to complete the helicopter. Once these two things were done, the rest would be simple.

However, Chen Hai said that after putting in so much effort, if the outer shell is made ugly, even if the child is happy, they won't feel that the thing is that precious. It would be better to put some effort into making the appearance better and comparing it with other toys, so that the child can appreciate her hard work.

An Ning thought it made sense, and thinking of the expensive-looking ship Chen Hai had built, she agreed to the suggestion.

Who knew that what looked beautiful was actually very difficult to make?

First, for a helicopter to take off, the quality of the propeller material must be high, and the weight cannot be too great.

Secondly, the fuselage should be as light as possible, but it must also be sturdy enough. Otherwise, the fuselage will fall apart as soon as it takes off, which is unacceptable.

The preferred material would be aerospace-grade material, but it's scarce, and the two of them had nowhere to get their hands on it, so they had to use ordinary materials as a substitute.

They still go to the scrap yard to find suitable materials, but these materials are all taken from other objects. After taking them off, they need to be processed and polished, then cut into the required shapes and assembled together.

Even though the two of them worked together, it still took Anning several days to complete.

Next came test flights, during which various adjustments were made based on the flight attitude.

Finally, a pink and white helicopter took shape.

An Ning originally thought the silver-gray color she had just made was quite good, with a very metallic texture, but Chen Hai was not happy with it.

He felt that gifts for little girls should be in soft, pastel colors, as silver-gray looked too old-fashioned. So he specially found pink and white spray paint and painted the helicopter with the upper half pink and the lower half white.

Song Wenyuan was very satisfied with his work: "This way, as soon as the children see this airplane, they'll know that the owner is a lovely girl!"

An Ning disagreed with Chen Hai's aesthetic sense. If this were modern times, he might be the kind of father who would buy his daughter an extremely extravagant princess dress.

You can only really look at those kinds of things in cartoons; they don't look good on you at all.

After several days of leaving early and returning late, Anning is finally free from the daily four-hour commute and the pain in her butt from cycling.

In fact, Chen Hai had mentioned that he would bring the things to town so that the two of them could make them together there, but An Ning was worried that other military wives in the army would see them, so she stopped him from doing so.

She brought it all on herself!

Fortunately, the item turned out very beautifully, so I'll consider it an early New Year's gift for the child!

"Mom, you're back!"

Shen Changle knew that her mother had been going out every day these past few days to make toys for her, so she had been very well-behaved.

During the day, he went to school with Xu Pengfei. At noon, or when Anning didn't come back in time, he would eat at Aunt Xuemei's house next door.

Today was the last day of completing the remote-controlled helicopter, which inevitably caused some delays. When Anning returned, Shen Changle had already finished eating next door.

I was planning to go out and play for a while after dinner, but as soon as I stepped out the door I saw my mother and rushed over to her.

"Hello Auntie."

Xu Pengfei also greeted An Ning very politely.

"Auntie, my mom left you some food. You can go and eat there! I'm going to play with Shen Changle."

They were also holding walkie-talkies.

It's still early, so the children can play for a while longer. Later, when the streetlights come on, they'll go home.

"Go ahead, be careful not to get hurt. Keep an eye on your little sister for Auntie," Anning said with a smile.

She didn't tell the two children that the helicopter was ready; the paint still needed to air out. She planned to give the little ones a surprise.

"Don't worry, Auntie, with me here, I will definitely not let anyone bully my sister!" Xu Pengfei patted his chest and promised.

He has always done a very good job in this area.

The two children ran off one after the other. Zhao Xuemei, who had come out after hearing the noise, invited Anning to come inside for dinner.

Just as Anning was about to push her bicycle to the backyard, a loud door slammed shut from a house not far away, followed by a woman's shrill voice.

"She doesn't have a job, goes out early every morning and comes back so late, eats meat every meal, buys so many things every few days, and people even deliver big bags and small packages to her home. Who can afford to spend money like this? Who knows what she does outside?"

The one speaking was Aunt Wu; that voice was from when she came out of the house and closed the door.

She appeared to be talking to the people inside through the window, but in reality, houses of that era were not soundproof at all, and this was a single-story house. Her loud voice was simply telling others that Anning was up to no good outside.

Aunt Wu knew that An Ning was not someone to be trifled with. The two military wives who had offended An Ning before had not fared well, and now they couldn't even stay in the army and had left.

But she was envious!

These past few days, she has been unable to eat or drink, and all she can see when she closes her eyes is the big blue crab that Anning caught.

She originally thought that selling it for a few dollars would be nothing, but she never expected that it would sell for ten dollars!

That's ten dollars!

Her son only earns eighty yuan a month, yet this crab sold for ten yuan!

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. Every day she saw Shen Anning riding her bicycle out early in the morning and returning in the evening with food from the state-run restaurant.

Sometimes it's a big meat bun, sometimes it's a takeout braised pork, and sometimes it's another meat dish. In any case, there's never a vegetarian meal, and the rice is always the best white rice.

On the other hand, she herself eats mixed grain rice and cabbage at home every day until her eyes roll back in her head, and can only drool over the aroma of meat from next door and keep eating.

In addition, some people even brought her large and small packages of things!

The time before last it was Commander Li's orderly, and the time before that it was some unfamiliar young soldier. This time, she saw the large cardboard box in Anning's bicycle basket clearly, and her eyes were so red they almost bled.

So Aunt Wu couldn't hold back at all, but she was worried about Anning's revenge, so she could only use talking to her daughter-in-law as a pretext to indirectly criticize her.

In this way, even if Shen Anning is angry, she can't say that she is talking about her unless she admits that she has been doing some shady things outside.

After she finished speaking, she kept glancing at Anning's reaction out of the corner of her eye.

If An Ning frowns, then her goal has been achieved.

However, An Ning didn't even spare her a glance, as if she hadn't heard her, and pushed her bicycle straight into the house.

Aunt Wu felt like a clown in a play, with everyone's mocking eyes focused on her. Her face burned, and she slammed the door and went inside, feeling utterly resentful and as if she were trying to hide something.