The mother of the era is reborn to support her cannon fodder children!

Chapter 132 "There is a Sound"

The twins exclaimed in unison, "A radio!!"

No one in the Fengshou brigade had a radio, and the children had never heard of one before; their little faces were filled with confusion.

"What is this?"

"What are you doing?"

"Have not heard."

Yu Bao sat on the big rock in front of his new house, and the other children sat around him in a circle.

"My great-uncle said that you could listen to stories, revolutionary songs, operas, and even weather forecasts on the radio..."

Yu Bao is a generous child, and immediately invited his friends, "We haven't used it yet. After Heng Bao and I listen, you can join us too."

“Okay, let’s listen together,” Hengbao said.

These are all his good friends, and he is willing to let them listen.

When the children heard Yu Bao say that the radio could be used to listen to stories, their eyes lit up.

"Yu Bao, are the stories on the radio the same as those in comic books?" Yuan Bao leaned against Yu Bao and asked curiously.

The twins had lots of comic books, so I lent them some to read. They were really good!

"They're the same, right?" Yu Bao wasn't sure, but he figured a radio was definitely better than a comic book.

"I want to hear it!" Yuanbao said excitedly. "Yubao, when will you listen to it?"

He was afraid of missing out, so he wanted to find out when his friends would be listening.

Yu Bao: "No rush, I don't know how to do it yet. When my parents come back, I'll have them teach me. I'll call you that when I learn."

Tie Niu panicked, "Yu Bao, me too! Me too! I want to hear a story too!!"

“They’ll call you too, you all do,” Yu Bao said.

Not far away, Song Yuncheng saw the twins responding to everyone's calls and were so popular with the children, and he was amazed.

No wonder he's Lin Zhao's son; look at his social skills, they're just like hers!

He called out, "Yu Bao, Heng Bao, I'm going to put something away. Are you coming back?"

Yu Bao snapped out of her daze and said, "Go back."

He stood up, patted his bottom, waved to his friends, and took his younger brother and Little Hammer's hands, heading towards the Gu family home.

After arriving home, the twins directed Song Yuncheng to put the things back in the house.

Song Yuncheng didn't stay long and took his leave.

As soon as he left, Gu's mother called the twins over and asked bluntly, "Yu Bao, Heng Bao, did your mother buy a job? Did you two know?"

The two boys exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with confusion.

"I don't know." They both shook their heads at the same time.

Mother Gu was somewhat disappointed, but she didn't show it on her face. She still smiled at her grandson and asked, "Did you enjoy going to the city today? Are you hungry? Qianbao and Yaobao are with your parents in the back."

I asked several questions.

Yu Bao repeated what he had told his friend to his grandmother.

When Gu's mother heard that they were eating well, she was relieved. It seemed that her third son's wife's maternal uncle had a good impression of Cheng Huai.

That's good!
More than half an hour later, Lin Zhao and Gu Chenghuai finally returned home.

After putting Yao Bao down, Lin Jia Zhao Zhao plopped down on the stool and vigorously swung her arms.

No matter how strong you are, your arms will ache after holding someone for a long time.

"Don't swing so hard, you might hurt your tendons. Let me massage them for you." Gu Chenghuai pulled his wife's arm and massaged her with moderate force.

"Mom, what's wrong?" Yu Bao ran over, his little face full of worry.

"My arms are sore from carrying Yaobao the whole way," Lin Zhao said casually.

She finally realized that Yaobao was very clingy to her, the super clingy kind.

I hope that when I grow up and meet the boy from the original book, he will listen to her too.

Yu Bao glanced at his younger sister, his eyes filled with disapproval, and decided to reason with Yao Bao later.

That's terrible! How could you let your mom carry you the whole way!
He took half a step forward and raised his little fist to massage his mother's back.

"Mom, let me give you a massage."

What a sweet little darling!

"Thank you, baby." Lin Zhao's eyes were gentle.

Yu Bao blushed, but his eyes didn't dodge. "You're welcome. I'm Mom's son, so it's only right that I massage Mom's back."

Since the spotlight couldn't be left entirely to his older brother, Hengbao also stepped forward and diligently pressed down on him.

Qianbao couldn't squeeze in, so she pouted, went to get her dictionary, dragged over a small mat to spread out, and pulled her younger sister to sit next to her mother, mainly to keep her company.

Gu Chenghuai: Quite clever.

While massaging Lin Zhao's back, Hengbao asked, "Mom, do you know how to use a radio?"

Lin Zhao suddenly realized.

No wonder he didn't go out to play with his friends; he was waiting here all along.

"I know, I'll teach you after I rest a bit."

Hengbao was overjoyed.

After a short while, Lin Zhao recovered and said, "Okay, I'll go wash my face and then listen to the radio."

"Mommy, I'll get you some water!" Yu Bao's cheerful little voice rang out. He diligently went back into the house to get a basin, then ran out again to scoop water with a gourd ladle.

"Thank you, Yubao." Seeing that her son's mouth was a little dry, Lin Zhao asked, "Are you thirsty? If you are, ask your father to fetch some mung bean soup from the well. You and your brother can share a small bowl."

Drinking too much will give you diarrhea.

"Hey!" Yu Bao looked at Gu Chenghuai, "Dad, Mom asked you to make us some mung bean soup."

"Okay." Gu Chenghuai went to work, giving one bowl to the twins and one bowl to his wife.

Lin Zhao washed her face, drank a couple of sips of mung bean soup to quench her thirst, took out the cloth bag containing the radio, unzipped it, and saw a radio shaped like a cat, about half the size of her arm, sprayed with black and white paint, and she couldn't smell anything strange.

A very thoughtful gift.

"It's a cat!!" Hengbao shouted.

He gently touched the radio, his eyes shining with an astonishing light.

Yu Bao touched it too, her eyes curving into crescents.

“Yes, it’s a cat.” Lin Zhao found a piece of paper at the bottom of the cloth bag. It had a drawing and some words on it. It was an instruction manual handwritten by Uncle Song.

"Your great-uncle even wrote an instruction manual; he's so thoughtful."

Referring to the instruction manual, she turned on the switch, and a noisy sound rang out, accompanied by hissing noises. She pulled up the power cord, fiddled with it a few times, and then the music started playing.

"There's a sound!" Yu Bao exclaimed excitedly.

"Someone's singing!" Hengbao's eyes lit up. "Mommy, just listen to the song, and I'll sing it for you when I learn it."

Lin Zhao guessed that her son liked this, so she didn't touch it again. "Okay."

He then pointed to the switch, "This is the off position. If you don't want to listen anymore, turn it to the left."

"Mmm," the twins responded, staring at the cat radio with obvious delight.

My great-uncle is so kind.

Xingran and the other children from the Gu family stopped going out to play. Instead, they sat down around the radio, holding up their stools and listening intently to the music.

Anyone who speaks will be glared at by several pairs of eyes.

Lin Zhao stepped forward and turned up the volume. "This is the volume control. You can turn it up or down."

Yu Bao stepped forward and tried it out; the volume of the patriotic songs on the radio kept fluctuating.

The child stared wide-eyed in surprise.

"That's really interesting." He looked at Lin Zhao, his eyes shining. "Mom, Uncle can make radios?!"

Hengbao also looked at his mother, his eyes even brighter than his brother's.

He even coveted the skills of the master photographer, and of course he wanted to learn his great-uncle's techniques too.

The twins were born to Lin Zhaosheng, so of course she knew what the two boys were thinking.

"No, your great-uncle knows people who can do it."

Reaching out, Lin Zhao pinched Hengbao's little mouth, which was about to speak, and smiled, "You all work hard to get into university. University teaches everything, and all of them are top-notch. You can learn all kinds of skills."

Leaving the twins aside for now, the Gu family children completely trust their aunt, Lin Zhao. She says the college entrance exam will be reinstated sooner or later, and they all believe her.

Since classes were suspended, the relaxed and averse-to-study atmosphere hasn't yet reached the Gu family.

"We will!"

"Go to university and learn new skills!"

After shouting the slogans, they continued to listen to the music with complete focus.

Lin Zhao sat back down to continue drinking her mung bean soup. Gu's mother called her, and she was taken aback. Just as she was about to get up, Gu Chenghuai pressed her shoulder down, saying, "You sit down, I'll go."

He knew what his mother wanted to ask, and worried that it would hurt their relationship, so he thought it was better for him to step in.

Lin Zhao seemed to be deep in thought.

Gu Chenghuai entered the main house and immediately asked, "Mother, you want to ask about work, right?"

"You know?" Gu's mother blurted out.

"I know." Gu Chenghuai nodded. "Originally, Zhaozhao wanted to give the job to her eldest sister, but I said it wasn't appropriate and told her to give it to her brother-in-law."

After a moment of stunned silence, Gu's mother raised her hand to pat her son's arm, but with less force as she did so.

The third child is a soldier, braving wind and rain, and gets injured from time to time, which breaks his mother's heart.

"You..." Gu's mother was so angry that she didn't know what to say.

Gu Chenghuai said, "Mom, that's a job my wife found herself. Giving it to my eldest sister would cause trouble, and it's not suitable for our family..."

He's not the type to hoard his wife's things for himself.

Mother Gu knew she was causing trouble for Achan; her eldest and second sons' wives were going to make a scene, but…

There was nothing she couldn't say in front of her own son: "Qingzhou doesn't have a job either."

Gu Chenghuai was surprised, "Qingzhou hasn't graduated yet?"

"I haven't graduated yet, but I'll be soon..."

"He doesn't plan to go to high school?" Gu Chenghuai frowned, interrupting his mother.

Mother Gu's face was somewhat unpleasant. She said, "Xing'er said some unpleasant things. Qingzhou said he won't continue his studies. He will find a temporary job after graduating from junior high school. If he can't find one, he will come back to earn work points."

"Qingzhou is stubborn, and no matter how your father and I try to persuade her, it's no use."

Gu Chenghuai's brows furrowed even more, a cold, sharp light flashing in his eyes. "What did Gu Xing'er say? What right does she have to talk about Qingzhou!"

Gu's mother didn't want to mention it, "Anyway, it's not a good thing to hear. You know your brother's personality, he's very sensitive, and he absolutely refuses to study anymore."

"I'll pick him up from my uncle's house tomorrow and try to persuade him on the way." Gu Chenghuai wanted Qingzhou to go to high school; in the army, people with higher education always have better career prospects than those without.

"Yes!" Mother Gu replied happily, "Qingzhou listens to you, he will definitely listen to what you say."

Gu's father, who had been silent all along, also said, "High school is only two years and it won't cost much. Let him finish high school at least. After he graduates, your mother and I won't stop him from doing whatever he wants."

Getting into junior high school is not easy.

Unlike Xing'er, who always fails her exams, Qingzhou always gets first place. It would be such a waste if she didn't go to high school.

Gu Chenghuai agreed, looked at his parents, and said, "Father, Mother, whether Qingzhou gets on or not, I will not abandon him."

The year he joined the army, Qingzhou smashed her piggy bank, gave him all the money she had painstakingly saved, and cried as she told him to take good care of himself.

That money...

— Nine dollars and eighty-five cents.

Gu Chenghuai remembered these numbers clearly.

My younger brother is educated, smart, and reliable; of course, he wouldn't let him rot away in the daily grind.

He had already decided to find Qingzhou a job when he was about to graduate from high school.

Hearing this from their most capable third son, the elderly couple felt relieved.

Seeing that Cheng Huai was dawdling and not leaving immediately, Gu's mother knew what he was thinking. She smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will persuade your sister-in-law and not let them talk nonsense in front of your wife and make her unhappy. Go and do your thing."

His mind is filled with thoughts of his wife; this kid is hopeless!
Gu Chenghuai's brows relaxed. "Thank you, Mother."

He turned and left the house.

When Lin Zhao saw her son's father come out, she asked curiously, "What's up?"

"It's nothing, I'll go to my uncle's house to pick up Qingzhou tomorrow," Gu Chenghuai said.

Gu's mother's family home was extremely far away, and the road was full of potholes and seemed to have no end in sight. Lin Zhao only went there once and never wanted to go again.

What time are you going?

"I'll go straight there after I drop you off."

"There's candy in the cupboard, take what you like," Lin Zhao said readily. "You only go once in a long while, so bring more things. There's a bottle of oil in the corner of the cupboard, take that with you."

Gu Chenghuai's cold and stern expression suddenly softened, and his deep voice tinged with laughter, "You're even willing to spend money on oil, aren't you?"

What's there to be reluctant about?
What's a barrel of oil?

In the original book, when the third child was abducted, many people from Gu's mother's family went to crowded places like train stations and bus stations to help search for him. They held up wooden signs and asked everyone they met, their feet aching from walking so much.

How long did the Gu family search? How long did they search?

"Give me some more White Rabbit milk candy. Don't be stingy, I'll buy more if we run out."

Gu Chenghuai said gently, "Okay."

"There seems to be a sausage in the house, take that too."

"it is good."

……

The twins, having figured out how to use the radio, wanted their friends to listen together, so Yu Bao asked, "Mommy, can we bring the radio to the door?"

"Okay, but don't break it," Lin Zhao said. "This is a gift your great-uncle specially prepared for you. It was quite a lot of work, so please cherish it, okay?"

"Okay!!" Hengbao shouted.

Remembering the photos, Yu Bao asked, "Mom, where are Yuan Bao and the others' photos? Can I give them some?"

"I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. I'll go get it."

Lin Zhao walked into the house while talking.

He took out a paper bag containing photos from his satchel, and as he went out of the house, he picked out the photos of the village children and had the twins deliver them to them.

The twins had just seen their own photos, and both boys beamed with joy.

"This is a photo of me and Iron Hammer!!" Hengbao smiled brightly.

Little Hammer corrected, "Hengbao, I'm not called Hammer anymore, I'm called Libao now."

Heng Baoyi said sternly, "No, you were still Iron Hammer when the photo was taken. You are now Li Bao."

"The people in the photo are Iron Hammer and Erzai, right?" Iron Hammer asked with a goofy smile.

“That’s right!” Hengbao replied, mimicking Lin Zhao and praising his good brother, “Iron Hammer is awesome.”

The child grinned.

The other members of the Gu family were very happy to see their photos, and washed their hands thoroughly twice before touching them to avoid getting them dirty.

“It’s me,” Huang Xiulan said.

When Zhao Liuniang saw her collar turned up in the photo, she was extremely annoyed. "Oh dear, my collar is turned up! I looked in the mirror several times!"

"My hair is blocking my eyes!" Tie Dan wailed.

Lai Mei put her hands on her hips, her tone smug, "I stood really straight, looking like a little soldier! I'm very satisfied, extremely satisfied!!"

Gu Lan had her first photograph. She stared at the photo in her palm, feeling her hands sweating. She quickly put it on the table and wiped her hands on her body three times.

so good.

Mr. and Mrs. Gu were also looking at the photos, their hearts filled with complex emotions.

Living to this age and still having several photos to take, who else is more impressive than them?
"Third son's wife, you took such a good photo," Gu's mother praised.

Lin Zhao smiled and said, "Let's film it again during the New Year."

She felt it was worth the small amount of money.

After the twins finished looking at the photos, they gave them to Lin Zhao and asked her to keep them safe. They then left the Gu family home with the radio and the photos.

As soon as they reached the door, Yuanbao and the others rushed out.

"Yubao!"

"Hengbao!"

"You're finally out!"