"Dad, you arrived this morning, so you must have traveled all night long. How could you not be tired?
Since you won't be leaving anymore, we have plenty of time to talk. You can lie down and take a rest first. Don't you have to visit your grandparents tonight?"
Although Qin Zhen is now a division commander, he cannot rape grandma and grandpa openly until they are rehabilitated. He can only wait until after dark.
Qin An Ning insisted that Qin Zhen rest first, and Qin Zhen had no choice but to obey his daughter.
"Dad, don't think about anything, just have a good sleep."
Qin An Ning looked at the scar on his right cheek and felt heartbroken. She touched it again and observed it carefully for a while before leaving.
After returning to his room, Qin An Ning hurried to the space to prepare scar removal cream.
"Hubby, please help me keep an eye on the outside. Dad's scar has been there for too long, and his skin regenerates less well than a child's at his age. The scar-removing ointment I used on Qingqing before didn't work on him. I have to make a new one using all the herbs in the space."
Lu Cheng didn't ask anything and said directly, "Okay, then go and get busy. I'll draw the curtains and say you're asleep."
Qin An Ning entered the space. The medicinal materials were all picked from the oldest years, and the production process was even more meticulous. It took three hours to make a small box of ointment.
Looking at the light green paste with a faint herbal scent in the box, Qin An Ning smiled.
She is confident that her father's scars will heal within half a year.
"Are you tired?" Lu Cheng asked with concern as Qin An Ning left the space.
Qin An Ning shook her head, put her right hand on her left shoulder and kneaded it, saying coquettishly, "I'm a little tired, give me a massage!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Lu Cheng placed his hands on her shoulders and squeezed them with moderate strength. He also asked considerately, "Is this strength okay? Is it too heavy?"
"It's not heavy, very comfortable." Qin An Ning closed his eyes and enjoyed it comfortably.
While massaging, Lu Cheng suggested, "We have to arrange a new room for Dad to live in when we get back.
Normally, as the elder, Dad should live in the main house, but the layout of the house was created by us, so I'm afraid Dad won't agree to live in the main house."
"It's okay, just clean up the east wing and leave it for Dad to come and stay occasionally.
He'll also need a house in the army, so he'll be so busy he won't have much time to come live with us."
After more than ten minutes, Qin An Ning held Lu Cheng's hand and started massaging him.
She said in a delicate voice, "Okay, I'm not tired anymore. But you, are your hands sore from pinching?"
Lu Cheng kissed Qin Anning on the cheek and said with a smile, "Serving my wife is not tiring at all."
Qin An Ning glared at him coquettishly, but it was not convenient for the two of them to hide in the house all the time, so they went out after just a few minutes of being together.
It was already past five o'clock and it was starting to get dark.
But because it was New Year's Day, the villagers did not go to bed so early today, and they could even hear the sound of children playing and fighting. Qin Zhen and Qin An Ning did not dare to go to the east end of the village now.
The custom of celebrating the New Year here is to have a family reunion dinner at noon, and the dumplings in the evening are not eaten until after ten or eleven o'clock. If you eat after twelve o'clock, it means you have eaten one meal for two years.
The meaning is that there will be leftovers every year, which cannot be eaten up throughout the year, which means there will be surplus every year.
If anyone is hungry at five or six in the evening, they can eat some leftovers from lunch.
In fact, children basically don’t feel hungry, because only during the Chinese New Year can they eat melon seeds, peanuts, candies, frozen pears, frozen persimmons and other things that they can’t eat at other times.
Once they start eating, they can’t stop and want to eat everything. Some children even suffer from indigestion.
This year, the children all went to work in the county, and the in-laws were here, so Wang Qiufen took the time to heat up the food and cooked two more dishes so that they could have an extra dinner.
After dinner, Qin Zhen started giving red envelopes to the children. Lu Chang and other adults also received some, which made them feel a little embarrassed.
"Take it, you are all juniors in front of me."
Several people had no choice but to thank them and take it. Qin Anning took it without any hesitation because her father owed her New Year's money for several years.
Qin Zhen also gave a red envelope to the young soldier who came with him. This soldier was sent from the Jinshi Army by Zhou Xinping because he was worried about him driving alone. Qin Zhen would feel uncomfortable asking the soldier to come with him during the New Year's Day without showing some appreciation.
The young soldier widened his eyes and was too scared to take it.
Qin Zhen's face darkened and he said seriously, "This is an order!" His voice was sonorous and powerful, leaving no room for doubt.
Upon hearing this, the young soldier immediately straightened his chest, stood at attention with his feet together, and shouted loudly, "Yes!"
His loud reply echoed in the air, causing the three children present to burst into laughter.
The young soldier then realized that this was the home of the chief's daughter's in-laws. His actions seemed a little funny to them. He blushed, scratched the back of his head, and laughed foolishly.
It was past eight o'clock when almost everyone started preparing to make dumplings, and the children were called home by their parents.
Qin Zhen, Qin An Ning and Lu Cheng took their things and went to the east end of the village.
When grandma and grandpa saw Qin An Ning and Lu Cheng, they immediately showed happy smiles on their faces, but before they could say anything, they caught a glimpse of Qin Zhen who followed closely behind.
In an instant, the two elders were stunned, their eyes widened, their lips trembling, and they were so excited that they couldn't even speak a coherent sentence. "You...you...Xiao Qin, are you okay?"
Without a word, Qin Zhen dropped to his knees in front of the two elderly people and said with a sob, "Mom and Dad, I faked my death to carry out a mission. Now the mission has been successfully completed, so I'm back!"
Grandma wiped the tears from her face and said, "Okay, okay, being safe is better than anything else! The ground is cold, hurry up and get up."
Qin Zhen shook his head and said with a guilty look on his face, "Mom and Dad, I'm sorry. I didn't take good care of Zhilan."
Zhilan died because of him, and he couldn't shirk this responsibility. He should have come and apologized to the two elders a long time ago, but he had no choice but to delay it until now.
When mentioning their deceased daughter, the two elders felt sad, but they were not unreasonable people. They saw how Qin Zhen treated Cheng Zhilan.
When Cheng Zhilan gave birth to Ningning, she almost died of complications during labor, and Qin Zhen said she didn't want a second child at all.
Although Qin Zhen was responsible for Zhilan's situation, it was not something Qin Zhen wanted to happen, and his pain was no less than that of the other two.
"Xiao Qin, get up. Zhilan is gone. She certainly doesn't want us to be immersed in the pain of losing her." Grandpa said as he reached out to help Qin Zhen.
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