When she returned to the small bungalow, Liu Meiyu saw the original owner's father, Liu Yongnian, pacing back and forth at the door with a frown on his face. He was obviously waiting for her and had something to say.

"dad"

Liu Yongnian came back to his senses and glanced behind her. "Sent her away?"

"Yeah," Liu Meiyun nodded and said, "Dad, don't make breakfast tomorrow. Changzheng, buy some buns and come over."

"That will cost a lot of money!" Liu Yongnian objected after hearing this. In the state-owned hotel, a vegetarian bun was 3 cents each, and a meat bun was 4 cents, and a grain coupon was required. There were so many people in their family, how could they afford to eat only buns?

"Dad, don't worry about the money. Changzheng and I are still young and can earn money. Besides, he knows what he is doing, so don't worry about it."

Seeing that Liu's father was still nagging, Liu Meiyun simply interrupted, "Even if you don't eat, you should think about Mom and Bowen. Look at how thin Mom is, and Bowen is growing up. If he doesn't get enough nutrition, he won't grow taller and will have a lot of health problems."

Liu Yongnian was silent. He lowered his head, his tightly furrowed brows became more and more tense, and he looked full of worry at first glance.

"It's all my fault that I'm useless and have implicated you." Liu Yongnian sighed, his hoarse voice giving people an indescribable feeling of sadness.

"Oh, Dad, don't think about those nonsense."

Liu Meiyu originally worked in the army and hadn't realized it yet, but this time, especially after meeting the original owner's parents, she could deeply feel the difficulties of this generation.

"You are the pillar of this family, you have to hold it together. Mom and Bowen are all depending on you. If we run out of money, we can earn more. You can spend the allowance I send back as needed. If you become ill, you will have nothing left."

"Mom is confused, you can't be confused too. Why do you want to prepare a dowry for me? This is a new society. Dad, you are a university teacher after all. Why do you let mom do whatever she wants? Who said that you must prepare a dowry when you get married? If you are afraid of being inferior to others, then we can just not have a dowry and don't ask for a gift."

"Besides, nowadays, we all emphasize gender equality. After Lu Changzheng, he will be your son-in-law. What's wrong with eating a few of his buns? He even said that after we get married, all his allowance will be handed over to me for safekeeping. So you can just think of it as my honor to you in advance."

Liu Meiyu was thankful that she worked in sales in her previous life, which honed her eloquence. When it came to persuading people, not only could she speak without pause, but every word she said was reasonable.

Liu Yongnian is a mathematics teacher who has been dealing with a bunch of formulas and numbers for decades. Let alone his eloquence, apart from mathematics, he feels that even his brain is not as fast as his daughter's.

Anyway, I was completely unable to refute what the girl said, and even the unhappiness in my heart seemed to gradually disappear.

However, as an old father, he was still very happy to hear his daughter say that her son-in-law voluntarily handed over his wages. This shows that his daughter still means a lot to Lu Changzheng.

Thinking of this, Liu Yongnian remembered another thing. He looked at his daughter and asked sternly, "Your mother told me that you would bring Bowen with you when you get married?"

"Yeah." Liu Meiyu nodded and repeated to her father what she had said to Zhou Huiru. After that, she waited for her father's response a little nervously.

Father Liu was silent for a long time. Just when Liu Meiyun thought she would have to work harder to persuade him, he suddenly said, "As long as it doesn't affect your and Lu Changzheng's lives, I agree with this. Your mother agrees as well."

Liu Meiyu was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect things to go so smoothly. She originally thought that she would have to do some more ideological work for a few more days, but now, she doesn't have to waste so much time.

As if he could see the confusion on Liu Meiyun's face, Liu Yongnian smiled and explained to her, "When we were cooking, Lu Changzheng took the initiative to mention this to me. He said that after the Chinese New Year, he would be transferred to a new station on an island near Liaoning Province. A school is being built there. It should have everything from elementary school to high school. There may be a shortage of teachers, but it will be no problem for you to go to high school smoothly."

As a father, how could Liu Yongnian not be tempted to let his son grow up healthily and learn knowledge in a safe environment? But he was not a partial person, and such an arrangement would definitely be unfair to his daughter.

If Liu Meiyun came to mention it, his reaction would be similar to that of his wife, but if it were his son-in-law who took the initiative to bring it up and could see that Lu Changzheng was sincerely good to his daughter and wanted to help their family, Liu Yongnian would relent. .

When Lu Changzheng got off the train, he told her that he was going to be transferred to a new unit as a battalion commander. The marriage report and the transfer order were sent together. After they got married, the place where she would follow the army was not the military district of Yu Province, but an island on the edge of Liaoning Province. She had to take a boat to get in and out, and the conditions and facilities were naturally incomparable to those of the military district of Yu Province.

When Lu Changzheng told her this, he felt very guilty. After all, when they were dating, Liu Meiyu also thought that she would follow the army in the Yulin Military Region in the future.

But what Lu Changzheng didn't know was that Liu Meiyu felt a lot more relieved when she heard that she would not have to return to the Yulin Military Region in the future.

After all, the childhood sweetheart who could drive Qin Xiaoyue crazy was still in the Yulin Military Region. She was afraid that even if she married Lu Changzheng, she would not be able to get rid of this evil fate.

Now it’s fine, it’s thrown far away.

She doesn't mind if the conditions are a bit tough, as long as there is less trouble.

"Dad, as long as you and mom agree, it's fine. As I said before, Bowen is my brother. As long as I'm around, I won't let anyone bully him."

"You can't be bullied either." Liu Yongnian looked at his daughter who had suddenly grown up, feeling both relieved and sad.

The sad thing is that the girl is going to get married soon.

The next morning, Lu Changzheng arrived on time on his tricycle.

When Liu Bowen woke up in the morning and heard his sister say there were buns to eat, he waited at the door early. His little face was red from the cold, but he didn't want to leave, so he leaned against the door frame and waited, and finally he waited for her.

When the boy saw the big bag of things in the tricycle, his eyes sparkled and his neck stretched out, but he didn't dare to ask for it, let alone talk to Lu Changzheng, even though this man picked him up with one hand yesterday.

"Sister! Sister!" Liu Bowen didn't dare to talk to Lu Changzheng, but he dared to call him sister.

Liu Meiyu got up early in the morning and had just helped to clean up the house. She was boiling water for the teapot, thinking that she could use it when Lu Changzheng came over. She heard her brother shouting at the door. She thought he was being bullied outside again, so she quickly ran out to see what was going on.

After walking only two steps, I saw Lu Changzheng carrying a bag in one hand and holding Liu Bowen in the other, and he walked into the house with his long legs.

"What are you carrying?"

Liu Meiyun took Liu Bowen and held him in her arms. The five-year-old was far from being big enough for her to hold, and he felt ridiculously light when she held him.

"I went to the department store and bought a few cans of milk powder." Lu Changzheng opened the package and first took out a large bag of hot buns wrapped in oil paper and put it on the table, followed by the milk powder and biscuits.

Department stores in Shanghai are a good place, but for money, even though Liu Meiyu has money in her pocket, she can only go to places like the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a few cans of maltose for her family. With her current financial resources, she doesn't dare to go into a department store and spend money casually.

Just because she doesn't have the financial resources doesn't mean Lu Changzheng doesn't have it either. Although Liu Meiyu knew that Lu Changzheng's family should be well off, she didn't expect that this man could run to a department store and buy so many things without blinking an eye.

She married a rich second-generation!

"Changzheng, why did you buy so much? It must cost so much money. Take it back and return it. Our family can't eat all of it." Zhou Huiru, who was sitting on the bed, saw the table piled with food and felt anxious.

The milk powder and biscuits that Lu Changzheng bought were all high-end products with beautiful packaging. Ordinary people rarely bought them, let alone saw them. Zhou Huiru's family was relatively wealthy before she got married, and she also ate these things. Later, her family got into trouble, and she got married again, and she never touched these things again.

"Of course you can use it. You and your uncle both need to replenish your body, and so does Bowen."

Lu Changzheng handed the buns in the oil-paper bag to Bowen. The little guy was drooling, but he didn't dare to reach out to take it. He stared with his big round eyes, hid behind Liu Meiyu, and said nothing.

"Eat it quickly, or it will get cold." Liu Meiyu stuffed the bun into his hand. The boy swallowed his saliva, took it but did not eat it. Instead, he ran to Zhou Huiru and handed the bun to her.

"You and your sister eat. Mom is not hungry." Zhou Huiru saw the buns handed over by her son and did not bother to talk about Lu Changzheng anymore. Her nose felt sore and her eyes were filled with heartache again.

Liu Meiyu couldn't stand seeing this kind of scene. She would rather fight with others than watch such a heart-wrenching scene.

He sighed, took out a large bowl from the cupboard, poured out all the buns, and neatly opened a can of milk powder and biscuits.

"There's still plenty here. Don't go out until you're full today!"

Breakfast consists of big steamed buns, biscuits and milk powder. Under the dominance of Liu Meiyun, even Liu's father has to eat too much.

With her round belly in her arms and her face red after eating and drinking her fill, Liu Bowen followed her sister closely, not leaving her side even for a moment. However, she continued to ignore Lu Changzheng, did not call for help, and even stayed away from him if she saw him.

Lu Changzheng originally wanted to use these things to please his brother-in-law, but now he has finally discovered that he is a greedy ungrateful person who won't admit his mistakes after eating them.

After dinner, Lu Changzheng worked tirelessly again and took Zhou's mother to the hospital for medical treatment. From registration to X-rays, he was extremely diligent and seemed to have endless energy.

Liu Meiyu and her father could only stand by and do some light work. Even the nurses thought that Lu Changzheng was Zhou Huiru's biological son.

The result of the X-ray was within Liu Meiyun's expectations. As long as Zhou's mother had the surgery and rested for a month or so, she would be able to fully recover.

The operation was scheduled for the next day at noon. Zhou Huiru was lying on the hospital bed. She felt very happy when she saw her husband, children, and her future son-in-law who had been busy all morning and made her very satisfied.

"Your father is here with me, it's fine. It's still early, and it's rare for Changzheng to come to Shanghai. You can show him around and come back tomorrow." Zhou Huiru wanted to leave some space for her daughter and son-in-law. She turned around and saw her little son looking anxiously at her. She said, "Take Bowen away too. I find it too noisy to have him here."

Liu Bowen is now so exhausted that he can hardly utter a word, so how could he possibly cause trouble? Zhou Huiru was just thinking about her son living with her daughter and son-in-law in the future, so she wanted to let them foster their relationship in advance.

"Okay," Liu Meiyu agreed readily. Even if she didn't leave now, the nurse would come to pick her up in the evening.

After stuffing money and food coupons into her father's pocket, Liu Meiyun reminded him, "Dad, Mom, the hospital has a cafeteria. Don't be reluctant to spend money. Only if we get enough nutrition can we be discharged from the hospital earlier."

"Don't worry," Liu Yongnian took the money and food coupons and said with a smile, "I just saw that the cafeteria sells noodles. Your mother likes it, so we will have noodles tonight."

If it were the day before, he would not dare to think about such a fine food as noodles, nor would he be willing to spend his daughter's money. But now he saw that Lu Changzheng was wholeheartedly treating his daughter well, spending money and working hard all morning, and was happy without any reluctance. His own daughter was eloquent and could make decisions on everything, so Liu Yongnian felt that he only had to listen to his daughter's arrangements.

Zhou Huiru didn't have this thought. She glared at her husband and said, "What are you eating? You don't do any work, and you still want to eat fine food."

"My lady gave it to me to eat!" Liu Yongnian said angrily.

Seeing that the two still had the energy to quarrel, Liu Meiyu not only did not try to persuade them, but was quite happy. She and Lu Changzheng pulled Liu Bowen out of the ward.