The military master pledged his life to the country, and the military wife pledged her life to him.

"It's already very difficult for Xixi to help us get these clothes. How can she send us clothes so frequently?"

"Every household is struggling these days, and these old clothes are so good. I don't know how much effort Xixi and Xiaofu put in to get them. How can we be so ungrateful and expect Xixi to frequently get us old clothes?"

"Baoquan, don't worry, we are not the kind of greedy people. We are already very satisfied that Xixi can help us get these old clothes."

……

Who doesn’t have a few poor relatives these days?

Even if there are old clothes that are not worn at home, people will give priority to giving them to their family members.

Another way is to turn old clothes into children's clothes or shoes. There are very few that can be given away as gifts, not to mention old clothes like this that are not only made of good-looking fabric but also look very new. It is even rarer. If there is no connection, people will never give it away for free.

Of course, the most important thing is that those who come to get the clothes are either on good terms with the Lin family or with Lin Xi.

Like those people in the village who love to pick and choose.

There was no way they would associate with the Lin family, who were so poor that they were barely able to survive.

But when they saw these people coming out of the Lin family with a pile of clothes, they couldn't help but say something sour.

"Hey, where did Lin Xi get these old clothes that others no longer wear?"

"I want you to take care of it!"

"You control everything in the world and you even control what we wear?"

"Don't worry, even if these are old clothes, you won't get any."

"Hey, who is this? He smells sour when he opens his mouth. Are you jealous?"

……

The Lin family didn't even need to ask anything, those who received the clothes immediately gave them back to those who had made sarcastic remarks.

Some smarter ones did not go directly to the Lin family to ask Lin Baoquan and others for clothes, but instead went to the homes of those who received the clothes to inquire about the news.

After learning that these clothes were old clothes that Lin Xi had specially asked her friends to get from the villagers to thank them for the wild mountain products they had given her before, and that they looked new and were made of very nice fabrics and styles, they regretted it so much that they slapped their thighs and wished they could go back to the day when Lin Xi and the others left.

Especially after seeing the children and adults in those families wearing the new clothes that were sent to them, they looked more fashionable than the people in the city.

Unfortunately, all the clothes Lin Xi sent this time were divided up, and even each member of the Lin family only received one piece.

Not only that, these people also spread the news that Lin Xi had asked all of her friends who could get clothes from her this time, so she would no longer be able to send them clothes that people in the city didn't wear. This also made many people who had just wanted to get good news from Lin Baoquan's family feel discouraged again.

Of course Lin Xi didn't know this.

But after winter came, she received a large bag of wild mountain products such as pheasants and rabbits sent by the Lin family.

In the letter, Lin Baoquan told her that these things were saved by him and the families who had received the clothes she sent them over the past six months.

The purpose is to thank her for helping many people in the village have a warm winter this year.

Because of these things, Lin Xi became famous again in the staff quarters.

Of course, these are all things for later.

At this time, Fu Liangdong and Fu Liangchen were sharing their favorite baked potato wedges made by Lin Xi with the new children in the family compound.

"Wow, Dongdong Chenchen, is this baked potato wedge made specially for you by your stepmother?"

"Yes, Lin Xi knows that we like to eat this, so she often makes it for us."

"My mother said that stepmothers are bad. Why is your stepmother so nice to you?"

"Because we saved her life. When she was hospitalized, my uncle and I took care of her for a long time. She decided to marry my father because she liked us and wanted to become a real family with us. She is our stepmother, but also our best friend, so she is not the kind of stepmother you think she is."

"The kind of stepmother you think is bad, we saw it when we were in our hometown."

"Really?"

"Of course it's true. The children in that family were abused so badly by their stepmother that they are all skinny, unlike us who are plump and plump after being fed by Lin Xi."

After saying that, Fu Liangchen patted his chubby little round belly with great pride.

"But I heard from mom that your stepmother often orders you to do work. Even so, you still think she's good?"

"Your mother is talking nonsense. Lin Xi rarely asks us to do work. She usually asks our father to do the work. Moreover, because we are men, our father will ask us to do what we can to help him and Lin Xi share the burden, so that Lin Xi won't have to work too hard to take care of the four of us alone."

Just as Fu Liangchen and his friends were chatting animatedly, Fu Liangdong, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly asked, "When did your mother tell you that stepmothers are all bad, and that Lin Xi often orders us to do things?"

"Since you guys came today!" said a straightforward child without thinking.

Fu Liangdong: “…”

“So your mother started saying bad things about Lin Xi as soon as she arrived and eavesdropped on our family?”

Fu Liangchen, who was sharing food with his friends, suddenly hugged the roasted potato cubes in the bowl and said, "I won't give them to you. It's your mother who said bad things about Lin Xi. Your mother is too mean. We don't want to play with you anymore."

"I'll tell Fourth Brother that your mother is saying bad things about Xixi behind her back."

Several sisters-in-law originally wanted to come and see what their children were doing around the children of the Fu family.

When he heard what Fu Ning and Fu Liangchen said, his eyebrows jumped suddenly.

Just as I was about to say something, Fu Ning and Fu Liangchen pushed away the children surrounding them and turned around and ran home.

While running, he shouted loudly: "Lin Xi, someone said something bad about you!"

"Fourth brother, please come out quickly. Someone is saying bad things about Xixi and is eavesdropping outside our yard!"

The sisters-in-law in the family compound: "!!!"

And the soldiers who were chatting with their weekend comrades: "!!!"

Fu Huaichuan, who was hanging the sheets in the yard, and Lin Xi, who was cooking in the kitchen: "..."

As early as when she heard over the weekend that the sisters-in-law in the family compound and comrades in the army were very curious about what kind of wife Fu Huaichuan had found, Lin Xi guessed that she might be the hot news figure in the family compound today, but she did not expect that her own child would be announced to the world in this way.

I didn't expect the culprit, Fu Liangdong, to stand at the gate of his own compound and shout, "Lin Xi, there are aunts in the family compound saying that you are a vicious stepmother who abuses children. They also said that you often abuse and order us three siblings around behind Dad and Uncle Zhou's backs. Do you want to come out and clarify?"

ps: Fu Liangdong: No one can bully Lin Xi except us!