As soon as Wu Guilan finished speaking, she hurriedly explained: "In the past few years, he helped our family a lot. Mom doesn't like to owe favors to others, so she wants to..."
Chen Jiao saw Wu Guilan's embarrassment and anxiety, and said with a smile: "Mom, Yangyang and Nannan both told me about what Uncle Niu gave them to eat before."
"I packed an extra copy specifically for Uncle Niu!"
Wu Guilan looked slightly embarrassed, and held Chen Jiao gratefully and said, "Jiaojiao, you are thoughtful."
Lu Zhengxu took the initiative to go to the kitchen to pick up another meal that Shen Jiao had packed, "Mom, I'll send it to your Uncle Niu."
Lu Zhengxu brought the New Year’s Eve dinner to the cowshed.
When Chen Haoyu and Zhang Fangfang were punished to the cowshed, they lived in a small hut next to the cowshed.
But Niu Yizhou, a genuine down-trodden element, did not receive such treatment. He really lived in a cowshed and slept on a pile of hay.
A small pot was set up outside the cowshed for cooking.
When Lu Zhengxu arrived, he had just cooked a pot of wild vegetable soup for himself.
There are not many wild vegetables on the mountain at this season, and the green stuff in his dumpling soup is more like weeds than wild vegetables.
"Uncle Niu." Lu Zhengxu shouted.
Niu Yizhou instinctively looked around vigilantly.
He didn't even care about the freshly cooked dumpling soup and quickly pulled Lu Zhengxu into the cowshed.
He scolded, "Xu boy, why are you here? Didn't I tell you to pretend you don't know me?"
The fact that Niu Yizhou was once led by Lu Zhengxu's father Lu Wentao was unknown to anyone except Lu Zhengxu and his family of three.
Lu Zhengxu put the food he brought on the small table in the corner of the cowshed. "You asked us to pretend not to know you, so you should also pretend not to know us. If that's the case, why did you give my family two meals before?"
Everyone had a hard time these days. People like Niu Yizhou who were sent to the cowshed had to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, but could only get the lowest work points and rations.
If he gave Yangyang and Nannan two wild fruits, he might go hungry for a day.
If he is given one steamed bun, he may have to save up three days' worth of food.
Niu Yizhou was speechless for a moment, and then he sighed and said, "You don't know, your mother had a hard time raising you two children in the past few years!"
Niu Yizhou did not continue speaking.
He was paying attention to Lu Zhengxu's family, so he naturally knew that Chen Jiao had become a better person now. If he continued to talk about those things, it would be a bit like trying to sow discord between the couple.
He changed the subject and said, "I heard from them that you are going back to the army after the New Year? And you are going to bring your family with you?"
"Yeah." Lu Zhengxu nodded and responded.
Niu Yizhou patted Lu Zhengxu's shoulders with his dry hands and said, "This is a good thing. If you work hard, our country will get better and better."
Lu Zhengxu had heard and said this sentence countless times before, but when he heard the old revolutionary who was in this environment say this sentence, he felt mixed emotions.
These old revolutionaries spent the first half of their lives fighting, shedding blood and sacrificing their lives for the country and the people, and in the second half of their lives they were sent down to suffer.
And when the country gave them suffering, they still had such faith...
Lu Zhengxu patted Niu Yizhou's hand on his shoulder and said, "Well, it will be fine."
"Uncle Niu, my wife and my mother asked me to bring you a New Year's Eve dinner. Let's have a drink together."
Whether it was the one sent to the old lady and Mr. Xu, or the one prepared for Niu Yizhou, Chen Jiao prepared a bottle of wine.
The bottle of wine is inconspicuous, but the wine inside is ginseng wine brewed by Chen Jiao using Maotai.
Niu Yizhou was a little shocked when he saw the food that Lu Zhengxu had laid out. He originally wanted to refuse, but when he smelled the aroma of the wine that Lu Zhengxu poured.
In the end, he couldn't bear to do it.
The days in the bullpen were really hard. The physical suffering was secondary. The most important thing was the psychological torture.
He knew that many old friends like him had not survived over the years.
He almost couldn't bear it once, but at that time Lu Zhengxu had just disappeared, so he thought he had to hold on.
If Lu Zhengxu really couldn't come back, he would risk his life to save his two children and leave a bloodline for Lu Wentao's family.
Niu Yizhou had been living in the cowshed for the past few years, having a hard life with no one to talk to. This was the first proper New Year's Eve dinner he had had in all these years.
After two glasses of wine, he couldn't help but open up and asked Lu Zhengxu a lot of non-confidential things in the army.
Lu Zhengxu answered all the questions he could and also drank a lot with him.
Niu Yizhou hadn't drunk alcohol for a long time and his alcohol tolerance was not good. After Lu Zhengxu helped him to sleep on the straw, he helped him clean up the cowshed before going back.
At home, the incandescent lamps were still dimly lit, and his mother, wife and children were still waiting for him.
Seeing Lu Zhengxu coming back, Chen Jiao and Wu Guilan quickly put their own New Year's Eve dinner on the table, and the two little ones also followed suit diligently and skillfully to set the table.
The smiles on the two little ones' faces added a bit of joy to the family.
On such a festive day, it is necessary to have a drink.
Chen Jiao not only took out some wine and poured it for herself, her husband, and her mother-in-law, she also prepared sour and sweet apple juice for the two children in the space.
The whole family raised their glasses to welcome the new year of happy life.
Chen Jiao can drink a little, but not much.
She was so happy today that she couldn't help but drink a few more glasses and became a little drunk afterward.
His body was staggering uncontrollably, and even Lu Zhengxu had to help him wash.
After Lu Zhengxu helped her to bed, her excited mind suddenly flashed through images of heroines riding horses that she had watched on TV before.
She didn't know what she was thinking. She turned over and sat on Lu Zhengxu, looking at him with her watery black eyes. "Lu Zhengxu, I want to ride a horse."
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