At this time, those who were close to the mission had already brought their people back, while others were still on their way. Huo Haocheng and his group had just picked up their people. Along the way, apart from encountering a few human traffickers, things were relatively peaceful. The only problem was that some of the captains in the local areas seemed to have some connection with the people from the "Number Gang" above. They were intentionally or unintentionally making things difficult for the soldiers who came to them with transfer orders to ask for their people.

If it were inexperienced soldiers who encountered this situation, they might have been genuinely troubled. However, it's possible that Huo Haocheng had extraordinary foresight and hearing when making the arrangements. These locations just happened to be where they were to pick up the people. Faced with the battalion commander's harassment, Bai Sirui and the others were too lazy to waste words with them. They simply grabbed the people who were making things difficult for them, put them in the car, and sent them all to the police station. Afterwards, they took out their officer IDs. After the incident at the last international conference, they had all been promoted one rank. From their original rank of battalion commander, except for Huo Haocheng and Bai Sirui, who should have been promoted to regimental commander, the others were all deputy regimental commanders.

After seeing their military officer IDs and understanding the situation, the police officers assured them that they would severely punish these people. Then, accompanied by the police officers, they took the people away. As for those people, it is said that after receiving a week of education at the police station, they lost their official positions and became civilians.

Grandma Huo and the others arrived in Yuncheng by train on the morning of June 25th. Gu Jinghe was the one who drove to pick them up. Initially, Commander Gu wanted to arrange for a bodyguard to pick them up, but Gu Jinghe, who had returned early, overheard the conversation. He and Fu Mingyi were originally good comrades-in-arms, and now that his comrade-in-arms and in-laws had arrived, Gu Jinghe said he could pick them up. Commander Gu agreed and let him go.

When he set off, Ruan Ruan also went out. Her family had arrived today, and she couldn't sleep in, so she got up early. After finding out that she might be pregnant with twins, she paid close attention to her diet and nutrition. So now she eats two eggs every morning and drinks a cup of malted milk powder. Sometimes she cooks millet porridge with pickled vegetables, and sometimes she makes egg noodles. She does whatever is nutritious.

She rode her bicycle to the supermarket and bought some meat, ribs, and fish, as well as some fruit and snacks.

Since the houses were allocated, families have been moving in one after another. The supermarket officially opened on June 20th. After the opening, the nearby vegetable market was also moved into the supermarket. Every day before dawn, people from the neighborhood would bring their vegetables, which the supermarket staff would buy, weigh, and collect money from. This way, employees could also buy vegetables after get off work without worrying about running out of vegetables or not being able to buy fresh ones.

After shopping, Ruan Ruan immediately returned home, rested for a while, and then began preparing lunch.

The other half, Gu Jinghe, also drove to the train station to wait after sending Dr. Jiang to the hospital. Around nine o'clock, he saw the train from the Northeast arrive at the station. He held up a piece of paper with Fu Mingyi's name written on it, which he had prepared in advance. Ever since the first time they picked someone up like this, they would prepare such a piece of paper whenever they came to the train station to pick someone up. They didn't need to shout in the crowd; as long as the person they were picking up wasn't blind, they could see it.

Inside the car, considering that Grandma was old and it was inconvenient for her to go out and squeeze with the crowd, they waited until everyone got off before taking their things to the back. This meant that as soon as Fu Mingyi stood at the car door, he saw Gu Jinghe holding up a sign with his name on it on the other side of the crowd.

He said to his grandmother and the others, "Grandma, the person who's here to pick us up has arrived. We can go there ourselves. He's a good friend of my older brother and me, and also my sister-in-law's cousin. His name is Gu Jinghe."

After introducing Gu Jinghe to the Huo family, I took my things and headed in his direction.

Gu Jinghe was the same. As soon as they got off the car, he saw the people. At first, he was a little suspicious, but after seeing Fu Mingyi behind him, he was sure. So he put away the papers in his hand, stepped over the crowd, and walked quickly toward them.

"Fu Mingyi, it's been a long time! Huo Haocheng said you married his sister, you're really something!" As soon as they reached each other, Gu Jinghe gave Fu Mingyi a bear hug.

When Fu Mingyi retired due to injury, I was sad for a long time. But this guy went back and won the heart of a beauty. It was all for nothing that I was sad for him.

"Long time no see!" As Gu Jinghe hugged him, he put down what he was holding and hugged his former comrade-in-arms tightly.

"Come, let me introduce you," Fu Mingyi said, leading Gu Jinghe to his grandmother.

"This is Huo Haocheng's grandmother, this is his third aunt, and this is my wife, Comrade Huo Yue. Grandma, Third Aunt, Yueyue, this is Comrade Gu Jinghe, my comrade-in-arms."

"Grandma, hello. My name is Gu Jinghe, and I'm Ruan Ruan's older cousin. Third Aunt, hello. Comrade Huo Yue, hello. Welcome to Yuncheng. Huo Haocheng is still on a mission and hasn't returned yet, and Ruan Ruan isn't really able to come out, so I'm here on her behalf to greet you."

Gu Jinghe held the Huo family in high esteem. Putting aside Grandma Huo, an old revolutionary, they would remember the kindness of raising Ruan Ruan to adulthood. Moreover, they had raised Ruan Ruan so well that everything she did now was thanks to the Ruan and Gu families.

"Little Gu, I'm taking the liberty of calling you that, I hope you don't mind?" Grandma Huo looked at Gu Jinghe who came to pick them up. In previous years, when Huo Haocheng went back, he often mentioned his comrade-in-arms. Now that her grandchildren couldn't come, he came to pick them up, and the old lady was very happy.

"I don't mind, I don't mind. Call me whatever you like." Having never been called Xiao Gu before, Gu Jinghe found it quite novel.

"Thank you for picking us up." Hearing Gu Jinghe say that he didn't mind and seemed quite happy, the old lady felt even more fond of him. She took his hand and thanked him.

"Grandma, no need to thank me. If Huo Haocheng and Ruan Ruan find out you're thanking me now, they definitely won't let me off the hook. They're always the ones taking care of me. Even when assigning tasks, they considered my wife's pregnancy and arranged for me to be in the closest place so I could come back to take care of her as soon as possible. Grandma, the car is parked over there, let's go over there first."

Now that most of the people in the station have left, Gu Jinghe thought that they must be tired from the journey, so they could talk on the train.

After getting everyone into the car, Gu Jinghe, wanting to cheer up the old lady, picked out some funny stories from their daily lives to tell them, making everyone in the car laugh. When the car passed the pharmaceutical factory, he even slowed down to introduce the surrounding buildings to them; when they arrived at the family compound, their smiles hadn't faded yet.

"Grandma, we've arrived at the family compound. The house in the middle is where my parents live. If you walk this way, the house at the very end is where I live. But my wife is pregnant and works at the hospital, so it's inconvenient for her to come home every day. That's why I'm staying with her at my mother-in-law's house. The house at the very end is where Huo Haocheng and his family live. After you've finished settling in, Grandma and Auntie, I'll come back and take you out for a walk. Huo Haoshen and his family are also renovating their house right now, so you can show it to them then."