The only time in a year that the Lu family gets together to have a reunion dinner is during the Chinese New Year.

The living room was bustling with activity. Gu Ranzhou took a nice hot shower in the room on the second floor. When he was in the research institute, he was so busy with research that he might not even have time to eat, let alone take a shower. Today, he had a rare moment of leisure, so he naturally wanted to relax.

Gu Ranzhou came out of the bathroom, wiped his hair, put on his pajamas and walked to the bed to sit down. He had originally planned to wear a shirt and trousers, but when he was taking a shower he realized that he had taken the wrong clothes. He simply decided to change when he went downstairs to eat. He couldn't go downstairs in pajamas because the whole family was in the living room.

Gu Ranzhou dried his hair, sat on the edge of the bed and casually flipped through the newspaper, his fingers tapping unconsciously on his knees.

An unknown amount of time had passed before Gu Ranzhou felt a little hungry. He raised his wrist to look at his watch. At this time, Lu Zhenchuan pushed the door and walked in.

"Zhou Zhou went downstairs to eat!"

"Okay." Gu Ranzhou responded and then stood up.

"Aren't you asleep?" Lu Zhenchuan walked over, hugged him in his arms, and asked softly in his ear.

Gu Ranzhou shook his head and explained, "No, I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night."

"Um!"

Gu Ranzhou followed Lu Zhenchuan downstairs. There were people gathered around the dining table. When they saw Gu Ranzhou coming down, they immediately stood up and greeted him, and Gu Ranzhou responded one by one.

Everyone happily had a New Year's Eve dinner together. The younger ones were sent back to their rooms to sleep, while the older ones stayed up in the living room drinking tea and chatting to celebrate the New Year. When it was time, everyone went back to their rooms to sleep.

Gu Ranzhou and Lu Zhenchuan lived in the old house with their two children for a while, and Gu Yu'an and Lu Haoyu were sent to Lu Zhenlang by Lu Zhenchuan.

It was already noon when the two of them sent the children away. Gu Ranzhou made a simple meal at home and he and Lu Zhenchuan digested the food in the yard after dinner.

Lu Zhenchuan was resting comfortably in the rocking chair that Gu Ranzhou usually slept in. Gu Ranzhou was fiddling with a green plant. Seeing this, Lu Zhenchuan became interested: "Zhou Zhou, what are you planting?"

"Honeysuckle tree!"

"What? Zhou Zhou's thing has grown?" Lu Zhenchuan asked in surprise. It's not like he hasn't seen that thing before. It's just a piece of broken wood. He didn't expect that his wife could actually grow it.

"Hehe, that thing almost swallowed up my private goods. If it can't be grown, hehe..." Gu Ranzhou couldn't help but sneer.

"How can it grow so big after eating so much?" Lu Zhenchuan looked at the green plant in shock. He knew how many plants his wife had, but it was too much that the broken piece of wood had eaten almost all of them and it only grew this small.

"This is a division. The main plant is useless but it grows well and bears fruit every year. The leaves taste good when dried and used to make tea!" Gu Ranzhou explained as he watered the green plants at hand with some spiritual spring water.

"My wife has such a good eye that she can actually cultivate such a treasure!" Lu Zhenchuan praised sincerely.

Gu Ranzhou remained silent. If it wasn't a treasure, he wouldn't have bothered to do it.

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In the blink of an eye, it was mid-June 1975. Today was Mr. Hai's birthday party. Lu Zhenchuan had just walked out of the training base when he saw his father Lu Baihua's army stop in front of him.

"What's up?"

Lu Baihua was furious when he saw the brat's carefree attitude, but he thought it was not a good time to lose his temper today, so he said calmly: "Today is your uncle Hai's birthday party, remember to go."

Lu Zhenchuan nodded in agreement, picked up his coat and was about to leave: "Okay, I got it!"

Seeing this, Lu Baihua tutted his words and shouted, "Stop! Why are you walking so fast? Are you in a hurry to reincarnate?"

When Lu Zhenchuan heard his grandfather say this, he turned around and asked calmly, "Anything else?"

Lu Baihua then stated the purpose of this trip: "Bring Ranzhou along to identify people." The situation was a bit chaotic before, and it was not convenient for Ranzhou to appear in front of outsiders. Now that the situation is basically under control, there is no need to worry about these problems.

Lu Zhenchuan frowned, but still agreed: "I understand." He didn't want his wife to appear in front of everyone, whether it was because of possessiveness or for safety reasons. Although he knew that basically no one could beat his wife, he just didn't want to.

When Lu Zhenchuan drove back home, Gu Ranzhou was drying the leaves produced by this year's honeysuckle trees. Seeing him come back, Gu Ranzhou said, "You're back?"

Lu Zhenchuan then responded, "Yeah!" and then said, "Zhou Zhou, put the leaves away!"

Gu Ranzhou was spreading out the leaves of the honeysuckle tree and asked in confusion, "The sun is so bright today, why are you taking them back?"

Lu Zhenchuan casually threw his coat on the chair and explained slowly, "Please come with me for a while. Today is my uncle's birthday and I need him to accompany me to a banquet. I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of this leaf later."

Gu Ranzhou frowned and said nothing. He was not very happy about it. He didn't like to participate in this kind of thing.

Lu Zhenchuan had been with Gu Ranzhou for so long, so he naturally knew that his wife was unhappy, and he was also unhappy, but what could he do? The old man had come to him personally and asked for it, so he couldn't not go. The granddaughter of Mr. Hai who was hosting the birthday party had made a great contribution to this situation. If it weren't for Hai Yanyan's information, he would probably have to wait for another year or two.

The situation has now stabilized, and the higher-ups are already proposing it. I believe it will soon enter a new process, and he will eventually have to take his wife out to meet her face.

Lu Zhenchuan thought for a moment, then said, "Zhou Zhou, go out for a walk. If you really don't like it, let's find a quiet corner to sit in. I'll bring you back after a while."

Seeing that the other party had said so, Gu Ranzhou couldn't refuse and nodded in agreement: "Okay!"

After Gu Ranzhou finished speaking, he suddenly remembered the two children and turned to ask Lu Zhenchuan: "By the way, where are Haoyu and An'an?"

Lu Zhenchuan thought for a moment and replied, "My second brother must have taken those two children away."

Gu Ranzhou couldn't help but sigh softly: "Okay, let's go for a walk!"

"Let's go!"

Seeing Lu Zhenchuan about to leave empty-handed, Gu Ranzhou felt a little helpless. He just wanted to walk over, slap him on the forehead, and then point at his nose and ask, but he didn't do it. He stopped Lu Zhenchuan and said, "Wait a minute, you're going to this party empty-handed?"

Lu Zhenchuan stopped and thought that this was indeed inappropriate: "Tsk... That's true. Zhou Zhou, what should we give as a gift?"

Gu Ranzhou held his forehead helplessly and said, "Tea! I happened to have made a lot of tea when I was free. It's in the cupboard."

Lu Zhenchuan responded and walked into the house: "Yeah."

When Gu Ranzhou saw someone enter the house, he quickly and slowly folded up the leaves he had just spread out. After Lu Zhenchuan took out the things, he put them on the table and walked over to help.