"Grandma Lin?" Dong Yue frowned slightly in surprise.

"Yes, that's your grandma," Lin Qingyan said. "You might not know what Grandma Lin did back in Mopan Village. I spent more than half a year with her; we lived together and ate together every day. She didn't know her own name, so she took the same surname as me, Lin, and everyone called her Grandma Lin."

For the past six months or so, I've treated her like my own grandmother. Later, Dr. Xu found her at the village committee office and brought her home. I want to visit her, but I don't know where you live.

"So you know my grandma."

"Yes." Lin Qingyan nodded. "Comrade Dong, can you tell me where your home is? I really want to visit my mother-in-law."

Xu Xinning tried to stop Dong Yue from saying it, but Dong Yue had already blurted out, "Our family is in Beijing."

"Beijing!" Lin Qingyan smiled. "I'm going to Beijing in a couple of days, so I'll be seeing my mother-in-law soon."

Overjoyed, she turned to look at Lu Zhengting and repeated to him, "Zhengting, I'll be able to see my mother-in-law soon."

Looking at his wife's delighted expression, Lu Zhengting nodded with a smile in his eyes.

"Yes, honey, you'll be able to see each other again soon."

"I'll write down our address for you." Dong Yue then took out paper and pen from his pocket, preparing to write down the address for Lin Qingyan, when Xu Xinning called out to him, "Third Brother."

Dong Yue stared at her blankly, his gaze unfocused. "What's wrong?"

At this moment, Lin Qingyan was also looking at Xu Xinning.

Xu Xinning had previously refused to tell him her home address, and now she seemed unwilling to let Dong Yue tell him either. When he came to find them just now, she also seemed unwilling to let him talk to Dong Yue.

Seeing that Dong Yue didn't understand her meaning, Xu Xinning chuckled awkwardly: "It's nothing, I'm just worried that Beijing is so big, even if you write down Dr. Lin's name, you still won't be able to find him."

“Comrade Dong Yue, please write it down. As long as you write it down, I will be able to find it.”

"Okay." Without saying a word, Dong Yue wrote the address on a piece of paper and handed it to Lin Qingyan.

"What are you going to Beijing for in a couple of days? Is your family from Beijing, or is Comrade Lu's family from Beijing?"

“His family is from Beijing, but we’re not going to Beijing to visit relatives; we have other business to attend to.”

"Oh." Dong Yue didn't ask any further questions.

Xu Xinning urged him, "Third Brother, now that you've finished talking, let's go eat quickly, otherwise there won't be any food left in the cafeteria if we're late."

"Okay, okay."

Lin Qingyan also bid them farewell: "You should go now, we need to go home too."

"Okay, goodbye!"

"goodbye!"

Lin Qingyan and Lu Zhengting rode away again. Dong Yue belatedly realized that Xu Xinning seemed to have wanted to remind him of something, and asked Xu Xinning, "Xiao Ning, didn't you want me to tell Comrade Lin our home address? I think Comrade Lin is open and honest, and what she says can't be false."

Xu Xinning lied and said, "I was afraid that if Grandma saw her, she would remember her life in the brigade and want to run away again."

“So that’s what you’re worried about. Not necessarily. Grandma gets quite bored at home. Since she used to live with Dr. Lin, maybe Dr. Lin can keep her company and help her pass the time.”

Xu Xinning was frustrated and disappointed. "Maybe."

When Lu Zhengting and Lin Qingyan returned home, fearing that other people might come over, they didn't go into the space to cook, but instead made egg noodles in the outside kitchen.

During their meal, the two discussed their trip to Beijing.

Lu Zhengting smiled at Lin Qingyan: "You call this going back to your husband's family home with your husband?" Lin Qingyan had also taught him this word, and he said that's how modern people address themselves. "I'll call home later to tell them we're going home, so they can prepare."

Lin Qingyan thought of herself: "Since this is my first time visiting your home, I should bring some gifts for your family. I've already met your parents, and they're easy to talk to. But do you know what your two sisters-in-law like?"

Lu Zhengting shook his head. "I don't know. I don't care about that. Just buy them whatever you can, as long as it conveys the meaning."

Lin Qingyan didn't hear what she was thinking: "It's our first meeting, we can't be too casual."

"I don't understand what you women like."

"I'll think of something myself. By the way, do you know what your sister likes?"

Lu Zhengting thought for a moment, "I'm not too sure, but she likes most of the things that girls like."

"That makes things easier."

After dinner, Lu Zhengting used the phone in the group leader's office to call his father and tell him that he was going to accompany Lin Qingyan to Beijing to receive an award, and asked his mother to prepare a room for them in advance.

When Mr. Lu learned that Lin Qingyan was going to the Great Hall of the People in the capital to receive an award, he felt as if his family's ancestral graves were emitting auspicious smoke.

"Oh dear, what have we done to deserve such a wonderful daughter-in-law? It's all thanks to you, Zhengting."

After hanging up the phone, Mr. Lu found a way to tell Mrs. Lu. Mrs. Lu was so happy when she heard this that she almost fell off her chair.

She exclaimed excitedly, and her assistant quickly helped her up: "Director, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing, it's nothing. My daughter-in-law is coming to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing to receive an award, and I'm so happy."

The assistant's jaw dropped. "Your daughter-in-law is here at the Great Hall of the People in the capital to receive an award! What does she do? How is she so amazing?"

"Yes, yes." Mrs. Lu suppressed her excitement and tried to keep a low profile. "She's just a doctor."

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