Siheyuan: Happy life of veteran drivers

Chapter 481 3 Mao: I want to be a soldier, I want to be a soldier!

After dinner, Liang Ladi was washing dishes in the back while Wang Hongtao held the clever and well-behaved Xiu'er in his arms. The three little ones sat around him in a row, listening to his stories about hunting in the mountains.

"Uncle, uncle, did you kill the wild boar later? Such a big wild boar must be very ferocious, right?" Damao asked Wang Hongtao, staring at him.

The children usually made a living by hunting sparrows and catching loaches, so they were particularly interested in the hunting story and listened with great interest.

"Of course he was beaten to death!"

Wang Hongtao narrated with great emotion: "You can imagine that wild boars are fierce and powerful, but we have guns and knives, so we are not afraid of them! They eat our crops, so we have to eliminate them."

Ermao nodded heavily: "Yes! If the jackals, wolves, tigers and leopards come, we will have hunting rifles to welcome them!"

"I want to learn from Uncle Wang in the future!"

"No, Ermao, remember this. If you encounter danger in the future, remember to find an adult first. Don't be stubborn, okay?"

Wang Hongtao clearly remembered Ermao, the unlucky boy. It seemed that he went looking for a lost sheep, but accidentally slipped down the hillside and fell to his death.

Sanmao: "Well, we will all listen to you, Uncle Wang."

"When I grow up, I will join the army and learn skills to protect my family."

Wang Hongtao: ......

What a shame!

When you suppress one problem, another one pops up. After you finally convince one person, another one pops up!

"Well... Sanmao, your elder brother and second brother can both join the army, but you can't!" Wang Hongtao said speechlessly.

"Why?" Sanmao looked puzzled.

"No reason. Your name doesn't make him suitable for military service." Wang Hongtao replied unhappily.

Speaking of it, Liang Ladi's children seemed quite sensible when they were young, but when they grew up, they became more troublesome than the other, which made Liang Ladi so worried that her hair turned white.

Damao was doing well in the army when he suddenly injured his eyes and had to be discharged. His girlfriend also ran away with him. Finally, he met Cui Xiaonan and married into Cui Dake's family.

Ermao chased sheep into the wild and accidentally slipped down the hillside and died.

Sanmao actually had a good ending in the TV series. He opened a French restaurant and had no worries about food and clothing. However, Wang Hongtao was afraid that Sanmao would be influenced by him and stop opening a restaurant and join the army instead, so he said that he was not suitable for being a soldier.

Xiu'er is a really bad girl. She is pregnant before marriage. It's just that she is still young and we can't say anything about it. Maybe she will have to be disciplined when she grows up.

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Liang Ladi happened to hear the last sentence when she came over, and said with a smile: "What are the children talking about with Uncle Wang?"

"What's your name? You're a soldier or something?"

Sanmao drooped her face and said, "Uncle Wang said I'm not suitable for being a soldier."

At that time, joining the army was a good choice. If one person joined the army, the whole family would be honored, the family would have enough to eat, and the government would take care of them. After retirement, they would be assigned a job. It was not something you could become if you wanted to.

Liang Ladi glanced at Wang Hongtao unhappily, "Why didn't I know that you could still be a fortune teller?"

"It's okay, Sanmao. If you don't want to be a scientist, then don't be one. Just study hard and become a scientist when you grow up. You can still serve the country!"

"Ok!"

"Then I want to study how to make guns and cannons!" Sanmao said enthusiastically.

Da Mao: "I build airplanes."

Ermao: "I build tanks."

Looking at the energetic appearance of the children, Liang Ladi couldn't help but feel warm in her heart, thinking that all her past efforts were not in vain.

Seeing Liang Ladi sad, Wang Hongtao thought it was because he ignored her, so he made an excuse: "The factory has been busy these days, recruiting and assessing, and I have no time to go out. The department just said that they would go down for the assessment, and I immediately found our section chief and said I would bring the team down."

Liang Ladi nodded and smiled, "I know. You got married a while ago and had a lot of things to do. It's normal that you can't take care of me."

"How is Qiu Nan doing lately?"

Wang Hongtao nodded: "Okay, why not? How can she be bullied with me here? My colleagues in the department are very caring towards her, and I have chased away those who usually pester her."

"But you are staying alone in the countryside, which is very inconvenient."

Liang Ladi smiled knowingly: "I know what you mean, you feel sorry for me and want to transfer me to your place, right?"

"Of course I want to go, but I have to consider you too, right?"

"You just got married, and Qiu Nan was just transferred there."

"If I'm not mistaken, Qiu Nan's matter has attracted the attention of your leader, right?"

"Qiu Nan is a young lady, so it's fine if you know it. It won't embarrass you. If it gets out and people know that I, a widow with four children, have a connection with you, how can I live? It won't be good for you, either."

"So whether it's for you or for myself, I can't be transferred to the city. Do you understand me?"

"If you really want to, come visit me more often. If you're really busy, I won't blame you, really!"

Wang Hongtao grabbed Liang Ladi's hand and patted it: "What else can I do now that you've said that?"

"how's the work going recently?"

"It went very smoothly!" Liang Ladi was quite proud of her work: "I think I was born to be a welder."

"Didn't I say last time that I took Secretary Jiao from our factory as my master? I was already a first-level worker in four months, and now I'm a second-level worker. If it weren't for the fact that I haven't taken the third-level exam yet, I would have the confidence to pass it now!"

Level one and level two can be assessed by your own master, but for level three and above, you need to take a unified exam held every six months to pass.

Wang Hongtao smiled and nodded: "Do you want to be randomly assigned to a check tomorrow? Let you perform well?"

Liang Ladi pursed her lips and smiled: "Are you stupid?"

"I just told you to cut off all ties with me but you insisted on getting close to me. Are you afraid that others will not suspect us?"

Then Liang Ladi took Wang Hongtao's hand in return and said, "I know you take good care of us mothers, but our life is good enough now. We have food and clothes, and we can even have some meat from time to time. It's much better than when Old Peng was alive. I am already very satisfied."

Wang Hongtao nodded: "I am obsessed with it. I always think that I have neglected you, so I want to be nicer to you so that I can make it up to you."

"That's a good idea. I followed you shamelessly because I wanted you to take care of me. You've done a great job, beyond my expectations." Liang Ladi rolled her eyes and said, "But if you really want to be nice to me, that's fine."

"Do you dare to stay at my place tonight?" Liang Ladi whispered into Wang Hongtao's ear.

"Stay?"

"Then what about the children?" Wang Hongtao widened his eyes and said in disbelief.

"Da Mao has long suspected our relationship. As for Er Mao and the others, they are still young and ignorant, so there is no problem."

"Just tell me whether you are willing or not." Liang Ladi was also willing to give it her all. After all, Wang Hongtao only came once a month, and she would be unwilling not to have a full meal every time. At the end, she added, "Xiu'er hasn't been weaned yet."

Xiu'er is now eight or nine months old. In modern times, many children may need ten months or even a year to be weaned, but in that era, it was rare for them to be weaned for more than six months.

"Then you should put the child to sleep early, and I will come down later!"

The dormitory that the machine repair factory arranged for Wang Hongtao was still the same room as last time, so it was very convenient for him to come to Liang Ladi's place.

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