Chapter 229: Prosperity 229: Now

"Hmm?" The man looked up at her and took his wife's arm: "Sit down and talk."

Little Tuantuan crawled all over his father's body, and finally lay on him, buttoning his coat with her little hands.

Gu Qingqing sat down next to the man, and pinched his open palm with her slender fingers. "Xiao Xiao told me that Xue Xu's wife was injured because she fell into the water and caught a cold. Did you know about this?"

The man let her do what she wanted and shook his head: "I haven't noticed it." The Xue family and his family have never had much contact.

"My grandmother gave me an old recipe during the Chinese New Year. She said it can nourish the body and dispel cold. Do you think I should give it to his wife to try?"

"Give it to them if you want." The man didn't take it seriously. "Give it to them and ask them to find a pharmacy to see a Chinese doctor to see if it's suitable for them to eat."

"I thought so too, but it's not a good idea to give it to him directly. I'll mention it to Pei Zhu when he comes over," said Gu Qingqing.

"Yeah, okay." The man was absent-minded, holding his wife's soft hand with his right hand and patting his son's little butt with his left hand.

In fact, Xue Xu could have come over in the evening and told him about this directly, but it would be a bad idea to do so, as it would be too hurtful.

It would be better to let Pei Zhu start with his wife.

Gu Qingqing felt a little sleepy. She yawned and pulled the man's arm to get him up: "Take Xiao Tuantuan to bed and let her sleep for a while. Do you want to take a rest?"

Chu Dai held his son's butt with his left hand and stood up obediently with her: "Okay, I'll sleep with you two for a while."

"What do you mean by accompanying us? Aren't you tired after driving for so long?" Gu Qingqing held his hand and walked upstairs, and the man followed slowly behind her.

Xiao Tuantuan had fallen asleep and opened his eyes again. The man bent down and kissed him on the forehead, and the boy closed his eyes again.

I don't know how Xiao Niannian fell asleep, she rolled to the innermost position, next to the wall. She just lifted the quilt to let the man put Xiao Tuan Tuan down, and the two brothers fell asleep next to each other.

Gu Qingqing found two sets of pajamas from the closet and threw one to the man: "I'll go to the bathroom to change, you change here."

Chu Dai casually picked up the clothes and looked at her with a smile: "You don't have to be so restrained at home, daughter-in-law."

Gu Qingqing cleared her throat and said, "The children are here, please be careful."

After saying that, she hurried to the bathroom, as if something was chasing her.

The man took a look, chuckled, slowly took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair, then began to unbutton his shirt with his slender white fingers.

Gu Qingqing came in after changing her clothes. The man was already lying on the bed, with his head supported by one hand, looking at his two sons who were sleeping beside him.

The curtains were not drawn, and the afternoon sun shone in, half of it reflected on the military green quilt.

Gu Qingqing looked at the warm scene in front of her and her heart softened.

She lifted the quilt and lay down directly on the outside, and the man slept in the middle.

After I leaned against his arms twice, he said, "Stop moving."

She nestled in his arms obediently, her back facing him, her eyes fixed on the photo on the bedside table.

She reached out and took the wooden frame, looking carefully at the person on it.

After a long while, she said, "Tomorrow you should send a telegram to the Construction Corps to ask how my second brother is doing."

"Yeah." The man's thin wrist was placed on her waist, and his wrist bone felt a little uncomfortable.

Gu Qingqing put the photo back and turned to look at him: "Chu Dai."

"Hmm?" Hearing her call his name, the man subconsciously tensed up.

"Did I not give you food?" Gu Qingqing's eyebrows were knitted into knots: "Why are you getting thinner and thinner?"

The man was amused: "I've been busy lately. Have you lost weight? Not really."

"No?" Gu Qingqing reached into his clothes and touched his waistline: "I can't even pinch the flesh."

When she touched the scar, the man's eyes darkened and he leaned over to whisper in her ear, "Do you want to give Tuantuan and Nian Nian another brother or sister?"

Gu Qingqing hooked her fingers around his pants, looked straight at him with her big watery eyes, and then said two words: "No."

Chu Dai was not annoyed. He gently stroked her waist with his big hand as if to soothe her: "Why? Don't you want to have a baby or don't have the energy to take care of it."

"Both." Gu nestled in his arms, her fingers roaming freely. Above her head was the sound of the man's light breathing. She said, "Tuantuan is still young, and you are so busy. Ah Sui has to go to school. If it weren't for Goudan on the island before, you wouldn't have known I gave birth."

Fortunately, Gu Qinglie was there that time and carried her all the way to the island’s health center, otherwise I really couldn’t imagine what would have happened.

The man rested his chin on the top of her head, with guilt in his eyes: "It's my fault." He rarely accompanied his family, and to be honest, he was not much better than Chu Yuan.

I didn't really want her to have a baby just now, I just wanted to do something that I hadn't done for a long time. I didn't expect that this little woman had so many things in her heart.

He kissed her forehead lovingly and held the woman tightly in his arms: "I'm sorry for making my wife suffer."

Gu Qingqing leaned in his arms, listening to the man's strong heartbeat, and felt particularly at ease.

"I don't feel wronged," she said.

In the evening, Shen Sui didn't need to go to the flight attendant's stove. Xiao Xu and Qin Lao's orderly came back with dinner following the two old men.

Xiao Tuantuan and Xiao Niannian were full of energy, running around in the living room, sometimes lying on the coffee table, and suddenly lying on the TV cabinet.

Xue Xu came over just in time for their meal. He had planned to smoke a cigarette outside and wait for them to finish before going in. Gu Qingqing greeted him warmly, "Counselor Xue, have you eaten yet? Come in and sit down. I'll make you a cup of tea."

He had no choice but to put the unlit cigarette back into the box and strode into the living room.

Seeing Chu Yuan, he stood at attention and saluted subconsciously: "Hello, Chief."

Chu Yuan was a little surprised to see him coming. Apart from military and political affairs, his family and the Xue family rarely had any intersection.

He waved his hand: "Please sit down freely. You don't have to be so polite in private."

They are all children from military compounds, just a few years older than his brat, so he has watched them grow up.

He had also heard the tank army commander Lao Xu praise this kid from Xue Bang's family. He was like his father, capable, and did not resort to backdoor tactics. He fought steadily and steadily.

It is rare to find a young person who is not impetuous.

Xue Xu nodded and sat on the sofa.

The two little guys look exactly the same. I didn’t look at them carefully before, but now the more I look at them, the more surprised I am.

Tuantuan was not afraid of strangers. When she saw him staring at her, she looked back at him with her big eyes like black grapes.

Xue Xu couldn't help laughing and reached out to touch his little nose.

"Looks a lot like your father when he was a child."

Chu Dai came over with a bowl of rice and sat down beside him casually with one leg stretched out. "Don't say that in front of my second brother. He thinks these two kids are cut from the same mold as him, just like his uncle."

Xue Xu had never met his second brother-in-law, but he had met another one: "Does he look a lot like Gu Canyang? Then there is nothing wrong with this statement."

If you look closely, the little guy's features look a bit like the ice block in the Air Force Group.

Chu Dai couldn't help laughing, and stirred the rice in the bowl with a spoon twice, then said, "He does want to." The man lowered his voice and gestured to him to look at the woman talking to Old Qin at the table: "My wife looks similar to him."

Xue Xu followed his gaze and looked over there. The woman's eyes were bright, her face was rosy, and her willow-shaped eyebrows made her look even gentler.

Her appearance is not outstanding, just pretty, much inferior to her older brother.

However, after interacting with Gu Qingqing these past two days, I found that her way of dealing with people is very comfortable, like a spring breeze on your face, and I feel subconsciously that she is friendly.

It is difficult for people to feel repulsive and hostile.

However, Xue Xu remained silent for a while, then said, "Your second brother-in-law is quite bold in speaking out."

The man chuckled and felt a gaze looking at him. It was the woman's puzzled look.

The corners of his lips curved up. "In two months, my second uncle will be here. Don't tell him and my wife that they look alike. It will easily lead to a fight."

"I understand." Xue Xu looked at him feeding the little guy, leaning against the sofa, with some envy: "Your family is quite harmonious." Such a happy family is rare.

Especially since the Chu family holds high positions, no one has ever heard of any disturbance in the Chu family compound, such as asking the father-in-law and the men to send their family members to the military area.

This kind of thing is very common in military compounds. A few days ago, his mother wanted to send her nephew to the army and had a quarrel with his father.

Xue Bang has a stubborn temper and sticks to his word, but he doesn't talk much.

The two of them were arguing, and his mother was there, pinching her waist and pointing at his nose and cursing, saying that when he was fighting in the war, it was his eldest brother-in-law who took care of the family and came to visit from time to time, but now he just wanted to join the army to get a leisurely job and get an allowance so that he could marry a wife, but his uncle refused.

Xue Bang stuffed cotton in his ears and remained unmoved, allowing her to scold him.

It seems that the Chu family also stuffed two people from the Gu family into the cafeteria. Some people are paying attention to this matter. However, because the Gu family has the ability to meet the requirements for enlistment, they are diligent and hardworking in the cafeteria, never make mistakes in keeping accounts, and help the troops save food costs. Everyone from the quartermaster to the cook likes them very much.

No one has brought up this matter.

Seeing the scene where Gu Qingqing made Chu Yuan and Qin Zhou laugh at the dinner table, and thinking about how his own family was like Cold War with only the sound of chopsticks hitting the rice bowl, he felt a headache.

"I remember that you and your father were not very close before." Xue Xu tried to be as tactful as possible.

Chu Dai smiled, "We are not close now. The old man is considering his daughter-in-law's face and no longer embarrasses me in public like before."

Since returning from the island with his wife and son, his father has smiled more and more often. He smiles more in one day than he has seen in the past twenty years.

Xue Xu nodded: "I heard from my mother that the wife you married is not that special... well, although her two brothers are in the army, one is the commander of an elite company in the Air Force and the other is the battalion commander of a construction corps, but they are not as good as your family." This is also completely treating him as a brother, and speaking in a casual tone: "The most common adjective I hear about your sister-in-law is ordinary."

"The aunties often compare you to Bai Rong, saying that you are possessed by evil spirits."

"I haven't seen her before, so I can't make a conclusion."

"What about now?" Chu Dai asked lazily, picking up his son who was sitting on the floor and holding him on his lap.