"Hey, okay mom, I'll be right there!"

Zhang Xinxin turned around and replied, then opened the wooden door on one side and asked the two to come in quickly;

"Brother, you two come in first, I'll take the food to the kitchen!"

After saying that, she ran to the kitchen with the basket on her shoulder.

Zhang Sinian was not in a hurry even though he didn't get an answer from Zhang Xinxin. He decided to ask her after dinner.

Seeing his sister running away, Zhang Sinian followed behind and took Tian Kai into the yard.

After closing the courtyard gate, Zhang Sinian and Tian Kai walked into the main room, put the things they bought on the table, and went to the kitchen.

Tian Kai, the follower behind, saw that the boss was about to go out and hurried to follow.

As soon as he stepped out of the door, he met Bai Rong and her daughter who hurried in from the kitchen.

Zhang Xinxin, who returned to the kitchen to deliver food, just told her mother Bai Rong that Zhang Sinian had returned with his men.

Bai Rong was a little excited. She didn't even bother cooking. She put down the spatula and ran out.

"Why didn't you write a letter or send a telegram before you came back?"

Bai Rong wiped her hands on her apron, ran out in a hurry and pretended to be angry and blamed Zhang Sinian.

In fact, she also missed her son.

Over the past three years, the son rarely came back. In order to find his missing husband, the son made a lot of silent sacrifices.

She saw it with her own eyes and felt pain in her heart, but she had no one to talk to, so she could only keep it in her heart, day after day, year after year.

"You've grown taller and thinner! Maybe you didn't eat well? You must have suffered a lot in the army..."

As she spoke, Bai Rong's eyes became red.

Before he was seventeen, her son was the treasure in her hands.

When Bai Rong suddenly heard that he was leaving her to join the army, she was devastated.

Unfortunately, I couldn't overcome his stubborn temper and had to agree.

The child must have had a very hard time in the past few years.

Zhang Sinian frowned even more when he saw her wiping away her tears.

"mom!"

He shouted and wanted to reach out to wipe away the tears from the corners of his mother's eyes.

Zhang Xinxin, who followed behind, was one step faster than him. He took out a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped Bai Rong's tears.

"Mom, my brother finally came back. This is a good thing. Why are you crying?"

"Don't cry, don't cry, mom is happy..."

Wiping away her tears, Bai Rong burst into laughter.

My son has finally come back home, and I can’t let him see my vulnerable side, so as not to make him worry.

Besides, my daughter told me that my son seemed to have brought back a strange boy. Isn’t it ridiculous to be crying like this?

"Look at me, I was so busy crying that I forgot to ask you, who is this person behind you...?"

Bai Rong felt a little embarrassed. After wiping away her tears, she looked at Tian Kai behind Zhang Sinian.

She had never seen her son before, and this was the first time he brought a stranger home. Out of curiosity, she asked.

"Hello, Auntie. I'm Brother Nian's comrade-in-arms. My name is Tian Kai, Tian for fields, Kai for the triumphant return...!"

The talkative Tian Kai didn't dare to expect Zhang Sinian to introduce him.

Knowing that the eldest brother is a man of few words and being too lazy to pay attention to him, it would be more appropriate for him to speak himself.

"Oh, Comrade Tian Kai, you're quite a handsome young man. From now on, I'll call you Xiao Kai!"

Bai Rong looked at Tian Kai, who was about the same age as her son but only a head shorter, and praised him with a smile on her face as if she were seeing her own child.

The young man must have very good qualities since he can be a comrade and friend to his son.

"Okay, Auntie. My family calls me that at home. When you call me that, I feel very close to you. It reminds me of my parents, really..."

Hearing her say this, Tian Kai felt like he had found a soulmate. He said a lot of things, but was afraid that Bai Rong would not believe him, so he made a solemn promise in the end.

"Yeah, then you'll be fine from now on. Just come to my house often with Xiaonian!"

Bai Rong was so pleased with Tian Kai's words that she smiled happily. Before she even left the room, she made an appointment for the future.

"Xiao Nian, stop standing there in a daze. Take everyone to the main room to sit and rest for a while. There's hot water in the room. Drink some to moisten your throats. Dinner will be ready soon!"

Bai Rong winked at Zhang Sinian. How come her son became so slow after serving in the army for several years?

After saying that, Bai Rong turned around and walked towards the kitchen. She hadn't finished cooking the dishes yet!

If her daughter Xinxin hadn't just told her that her son had brought people back, she wouldn't have known what had happened!

I guess they have already prepared the meal and are probably eating it already.

"I'll help you..."

Zhang Sinian stood there for a long time before squeezing out these words.

"Why are you helping? Go and accompany your comrades. It will be done in a moment. We don't need so many people!"

Bai Rong didn't give him a chance to refute. She pushed him and pulled Zhang Xinxin into the kitchen without looking back.

Zhang Sinian couldn't rest either, so he turned around, picked up the axe next to the kitchen, moved a stool to sit down, and started chopping firewood.

Tian Kai had nothing to do, so he stood aside and helped Zhang Sinian stack the chopped firewood.

The two of them cooperated well, and soon the sound of chopping wood could be heard in the yard.

Bai Rong tried to persuade them several times but to no avail, so she could only let them go back to work.

Her son has been hardworking and sensible since he was young. She has long been accustomed to it, but she feels particularly sorry for the child.

Bai Rong entered the kitchen, thought for a moment, and took out fifty cents from her pocket.

"Xinxin, take this fifty cents and go to the village to exchange it for some eggs so I can cook a few more dishes..."

"Okay, Mom!"

Zhang Xinxin took the money and skipped out of the door.

When passing by Zhang Sinian and Tian Kai, he couldn't help but secretly glance at them several times.

Not to mention, the original owner’s biological brother and her biological sister look nothing alike.

Her eyes and mouth are more like Bai Rong, but Zhang Sinian doesn't look like Bai Rong at all. He may look more like his father Zhang Weiguo.

She didn't know the details, because her father had been gone since she was very young, and she had no memory of him at all...

Zhang Sinian had noticed her gaze a long time ago, but he didn't think too much about it.

I just thought it was because I hadn't been back for too long. My little sister has grown up now, and many things are not as comfortable as before when she was at home.

…………….

Yu Lanhua and Lihua had almost taken away all the food and drinks in the house.

There were two strips of bacon and some rice hidden in the cabinet in Bai Rong's bedroom, which she would take out later to add another dish.

With two more people here, we can't just eat the same food as our family normally does! We have to at least cook something decent.

When Zhang Xinxin came back from exchanging eggs, Bai Rong had already cooked two more dishes, one with bacon and garlic sprouts, and the other with stir-fried sour beans.

I used the eggs I exchanged for from Zhang Xinxin and fried them with green peppers to make scrambled eggs with peppers, and also made some tomato and egg soup. Dinner was ready.