Chapter 141 Chapter 141 I gave birth to a child with you...
“Beep!”
As soon as the car drove into the retirement home, I saw my grandparents standing at the intersection waving and happily calling Dudu's name.
Dudu leaned on the window and responded loudly: "Grandma! Grandpa!"
Liang Xin hugged Dudu and stopped her from opening the window. "It's windy outside. It will be even colder if the car is running. Uncle will stop the car soon. Let's go downstairs to find grandpa and grandma."
Zheng Xiaojun laughed and said, "This kid, after not seeing him for such a long time, he's not shy at all!"
Lu Chongfeng touched his daughter's soft and tender face.
As soon as the car stopped, the old couple squeezed to the door, and Liang Xin couldn't open it.
Lu Chongfeng sat in the car and gestured to his father to step back.
Liang Xin smiled as she got out of the car. She saw Chief Lu reaching out to pick up Dudu, who was wrapped up like a little dumpling. "Dad, Dudu is quite heavy now. Be careful not to hurt your waist."
"Not heavy, not heavy at all."
Chief Lu easily picked up Dudu and weighed her twice. "I'm only over 60 years old. How can I not be able to hold my granddaughter?"
"Liang Xin is worried about you." Hu Fenglian said, "You think you are an ordinary person in your sixties. You have suffered many injuries in the wars before. You don't feel it when you are busy, but when you are free, problems arise."
Dudu opened his arms towards Hu Fenglian, "Grandma~"
"Hey! Good boy!"
Hu Fenglian immediately forgot to mention Chief Lu, and held Dudu's little hand with eyes full of love, "Come in quickly, it's too cold outside. Grandma went to buy some strawberry cakes, big cakes and small cakes. Come in and eat. Liangxin, you guys come in quickly too."
Lu Chongfeng: “…”
“I am just a ‘we’ now.”
"Be content."
Zheng Xiaojun helped take the luggage out of the trunk. "I can't even be a member of my family now. I don't even have a child yet, but my parents only have Lu Wei in their eyes."
Liang Xin smiled when she heard this, "Thank you for your hard work."
“This is what I should do.”
Zheng Xiaojun waited for Lu Heping to take the last bag of luggage and closed the trunk cover. "You are our matchmaker. I won't wait until the next life to thank you. In this life, I will be your slave at any time!"
Liang Xin smiled and said, "They are all so sweet-mouthed."
"Can I be your turn to be a cow and a horse?"
Lu Chongfeng said, "Come into the house and have a cup of hot tea before leaving."
"No, I still have to go pick up Lu Wei."
Zheng Xiaojun opened the driver's door and said, "You just came back, reunite with your family first, we will meet again tomorrow."
Before coming back, Liang Xin talked to Lu Wei on the phone. Today she had to rush to organize experimental data with her supervisor to prepare for her application for a doctorate.
"Go quickly, and be careful on the road."
The retirement home where Chief Lu lives is located at the foot of a mountain in a quiet environment. It is still a single-family two-story building. The yard is covered with grape vines and planted with pots of roses.
The layout of the house is similar to that of the military compound, with three bedrooms, two living rooms and a study. The floor is covered with parquet tiles, and there are uniform brown-red solid wood and spring sofas. In front of the sofa is a color TV.
"Liang Xin, this is your seventh aunt, you haven't met her yet."
Hu Fenglian greeted a kind woman who had just come out of the kitchen carrying a clay pot and said, "My cooking may be really unpalatable, so I invited your seventh aunt from her hometown. Lanhua, this is Liangxin."
Liang Xin smiled and called out, "Aunt Qi."
Aunt Qi also laughed and said, "Hey, I read the newspaper at home every day, and everyone in the village is reading it. As soon as the Conscience Instant Noodles arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative in our town, we immediately drove the tractor over to grab some."
"Thank you Aunt Qi and the elders and relatives in my hometown for your support."
Liang Xin went to the kitchen to wash her hands and chatted with Aunt Qi about the elders in her hometown whom she remembered.
"Liang Xin, your seventh aunt specially cooked another pot of chicken soup for you to eat when you get off the bus."
Hu Fenglian couldn't compete with Chief Lu, so when she saw Liang Xin coming in, she started to circle around Liang Xin.
"Dudu wanted to eat strawberry cake, so I went to the Conscience Bakery and bought one large and one small. I didn't tell the people in the store that I was your mother-in-law, for fear that they wouldn't charge me. When I went there, they saw the freshly baked pure sesame oil mung bean cake, so I bought one. Then I went to a newly opened old shop and bought handmade fragrant rice crust and Sanzi. Sanzi and rice crust are both delicious when soaked in chicken soup. If you can't get used to them, I'll cook noodles for you."
Liang Xin took the towel handed over by her mother-in-law and wiped her hands, "Mom, don't worry, I want to go see the roses."
"Tsukki just fell asleep with the baby."
Hu Fenglian took a bag of snacks and put them on the table. "When she wakes up, she will definitely call you first. You guys eat first. Does Dudu want some milk? I'll go make some."
Liang Xin did not stop her mother-in-law, knowing that she was immersed in happiness. She could only see her granddaughter during these few days when she came back throughout the year.
Liang Xin followed Lu Heping upstairs to take a look at the sleeping Yueji and the baby.
"I think the baby looks like a rose."
Liang Xin went downstairs to the restaurant and shared the story with Lu Chongfeng, who was temporarily unable to enter her sister's room.
"Boys generally take after their mothers, and girls generally take after their fathers."
Hu Fenglian took the small bowl and put it on the table. "But I can't say for sure. It looks like this when you are a child, but it will become something else when you grow up."
Lu Chongfeng helped Liang Xin to serve a chicken thigh, and then helped his daughter to pick the meat from the chicken thigh. "You haven't given your daughter a name yet? I think you can give her a name now. We already had a nickname for her when she was born."
"Your father thought of a few words for the young couple to choose from."
Hu Fenglian looked at Lu Heping who was walking down the stairs. "Heping said to follow Dudu's name, An Ning, so we should call her Lu Ning."
Liang Xin nodded after hearing this and said, "Brother Heping, this name sounds nice and has a good meaning."
Lu Heping pulled out a chair and sat down, holding Lu Chongfeng's shoulders. "When Chongfeng was on the battlefield, the whole family was worried. Now the war on the front line is still at a stalemate, so Yueji and I both like the word "Ning", so the nickname is Ningning."
"Ningning also happens to have a Baogai hairstyle." Lu Chongfeng said, "Just like Dudu's An, they look more like siblings."
"What do you mean by more alike? They are siblings."
Hu Fenglian sat down next to Liang Xin. "The master bedroom on the east side of the second floor is reserved for you. The furniture has been moved here intact. I have cleaned it myself. The sheets and quilt covers have been washed and dried. The quilt has also been exposed to the sun for several days. It will definitely be warm when you cover yourself with it at night. It won't be cold at all."
"Thank you, Mom."
Liang Xin picked up the rice crust and put it into the chicken soup. "We also brought a lot of things back. Let's take them after dinner."
"Don't worry, eat first."
Hu Fenglian shouted towards the backyard, "Old Lu! Hurry up and bring Dudu back for dinner. What are you trying to show off for?"
Hearing the footsteps coming back from the backyard, Liang Xin smiled and picked up the soup spoon to eat.
After dinner, we distributed the gifts we brought for our parents. As expected, when Yueji woke up, the first thing she called was "Second sister-in-law".
Liang Xin and Lu Chongfeng brought Dudu to the door.
Lu Chongfeng stayed outside. Dudu ran to the bed first and looked at the baby who was still sleeping in the crib. She raised her two little hands to cover her mouth and didn't say anything. She looked at her little brother in the crib with a pair of curious big eyes, who her mother said looked a bit like her.
"Dudu is so beautiful."
Lu Yueji hadn't seen Dudu for a long time. She kept looking at Dudu and said, "She looks even more delicate and beautiful than my second brother and me!"
Liang Xin took out a velvet gift box, opened the lid, and handed a water ripple chain to Yueji. "Yueji, thank you for your hard work. You are still as radiant as a star on the cover of a magazine when you lie on the bed."
Lu Yueji looked at the necklace in the gift box with surprise, "Second sister-in-law, I just happened to see this new necklace in a magazine, and you bought it for me!"
Liang Xin smiled and opened another small square box, which contained two small round bead earrings. "Is this model updated?"
Lu Yueji's spirit recovered to 80% in an instant!
"Second sister-in-law! This is the small round bead style that has just become popular in Hong Kong!"
Liang Xin put both velvet gift boxes in Lu Yueji's hands and said, "Take good care of yourself first. Don't rush to get out of bed and exercise. Your looks and figure are all here. If you take good care of yourself and then exercise, you will recover quickly."
"Thank you, second sister-in-law."
Lu Yueji opened the gift box and touched the necklace and earrings like treasures. "I'm not in a hurry. I haven't had a break in the past few years. I've been filming. Even if I take a break for a year, it won't affect me... Where are you going to take the child?"
Lu Heping carefully picked up the child and walked to the door and said, "Chongfeng won't come in. I'll take Ningning out to show her uncle."
Lu Yueji said: "When he is with you, Second Brother is an uncle. If I am present, Second Brother is an uncle!"
Liang Xin laughed out loud.
Lu Yueji heard the laughter and turned to look at Liang Xin. "Second sister-in-law, thanks to you. If you hadn't been so resourceful, I wouldn't be as relaxed as I am now. Maybe we would have been separated and it would be impossible for us to have children."
Liang Xin looked at Lu Yueji's relaxed and happy expression and smile, and her smile deepened, "As long as you are happy."
Although the balcony and floor of the master bedroom on the east side are different, the furniture placement is indeed basically the same as in the original room, and the furniture was moved directly over.
Lu Chongfeng stood in front of the curtain and looked for a long time.
Liang Xin came out of the shower and found him still standing in front of the curtains, "...What are you looking at?"
After Lu Chongfeng finished looking at it, he confirmed: "This curtain is not the curtain in our original room."
Liang Xin lay down on the bed and looked at the face cream Yueji gave her. "You didn't bring the curtains from your first home after joining the army to your new home to use."
"Too."
Lu Chongfeng walked back to the bed, picked up Dudu and sat next to Liang Xin. Before he could say anything, Liang Xin pushed him.
"Put it in the middle. What if it falls down at night?"
"Who are you looking down on? Even if the sky falls, I will stand in front of my daughter. How can I let my daughter fall off the bed when she is sleeping?"
Liang Xin: “…”
"A bunch of crooked ideas."
"truth."
Lu Chongfeng tucked the quilt in for Dudu and lay down next to Liang Xin. "Don't worry, I'll hold my daughter with my hands. If she falls tonight, I will never go to bed again in my life."
Liang Xin stopped talking to him, applied new face cream, and put her palm on his nose, "Does it smell good?"
Lu Chongfeng sniffed it and said, "It doesn't smell as good as before."
Liang Xin patted her face and smeared the remaining cream on the back of her hand. "The original fragrance won't last long. With the reform and opening up, people with a little means have gradually looked down on vanishing cream and started to pursue imported cosmetics."
Lu Chongfeng raised his hand and touched Liang Xin's face, "You don't need it at all."
When Liang Xin heard this disguised compliment, she took off the down jacket draped over her shoulders and slid into the quilt.
Lu Chongfeng's arms had been waiting inside the quilt. As soon as Liang Xin lay down, he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her into his arms.
Looking at the obedient Liang Xin, Lu Chongfeng raised the corner of his mouth, "When winter comes, no matter how I hug you, you will never dislike me as your personal stove."
Liang Xin lay on his shoulder, feeling her body slowly becoming warm, "You're going to school soon."
Lu Chongfeng: “…”
Liang Xin looked at him for a long time without saying anything, then raised her head and met his lowered gaze.
His eyes were filled with reluctance.
Liang Xin laughed again.
"...You didn't feel any reluctance at all, instead you smiled."
"I never saw you like this when I went to school."
"If I had done that back then, wouldn't that have been holding you back?"
"So you should understand how I feel now."
Lu Chongfeng was stunned and his eyes suddenly turned red.
Liang Xin: "...What happened again?"
Lu Chongfeng pressed Liang Xin's face tightly in his arms, "I know how you feel now."
Liang Xin put her arms around his waist and said, "It's okay, it's only one year. I went to university for four years."
"Now that I think about it, we've been picking you up since you went to college."
"What do you mean by send and pick up?"
"Either send it or receive it."
Liang Xin smiled and pushed him away slightly, breathing smoothly, "Fortunately, all in all, we are together more than apart."
Lu Chongfeng said: "This time when I graduate, we can spend more time together and less time apart."
Liang Xin didn't respond.
Lu Chongfeng lowered his head in confusion, "Why don't you speak?"
“I have my retirement plan.”
Lu Chongfeng: “?”
"What retirement plan? How come I've never heard of it? I'm not included in your retirement plan? Are you going to spend less time with me?"
"No."
Liang Xin said, "The tourism industry has recovered, and scenic spots and historical sites in various places are also being restored. The last time I took Dudu to Beijing, she was so happy. I was thinking that when you are assigned this time, if you leave Jiangkou Base, I will retire early and take Dudu out for a trip every once in a while."
Lu Chongfeng secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
I thought my wife didn't want him anymore!
"I'll be back in two or three days at most. When I have a day off, I'll go with you guys."
"You only have so many days off a year."
Liang Xin shook her head, "You should stay here to visit your parents. We will make our own arrangements for Dudu's winter and summer vacations, so don't worry about it."
Lu Chongfeng's arms were getting tighter and tighter.
Liang Xin pinched his arm. The muscles that had been retrained were as hard as iron. She didn't pinch hard, but it was enough for Lu Chongfeng to understand what she meant.
Lu Chongfeng didn't let go, "You've been running around outside for so long, don't think of giving up on me."
Liang Xin was caught off guard by his laughter, "Why do you suddenly sound like a feudal remnant? Marriage is free now, and men and women have equal rights."
Lu Chongfeng continued: "I have a child with you!"
Liang Xin: “….”
Liang Xin was afraid that her laughter would wake her daughter, so she looked up at Dudu and pointed at his arms that were hugging her. "If you put your hands like this, if Dudu falls over, will you be able to hold him in time?"
"You have no idea what your husband is capable of."
Lu Chongfeng raised his chin, "Your husband was a combat hero at the age of 18!"
"Fuck."
Liang Xin saw that there was still a lot of space next to Dudu, and she was actually very relieved about Lu Chongfeng. She lay down again and yawned.
Lu Chongfeng helped Liang Xin adjust to a comfortable sleeping position and covered her with a blanket. "Go to sleep. You didn't get enough sleep when you got home today, and you didn't sleep well on the train either."
Liang Xin nodded, feeling the warmth from his body, and closed her sleepy eyes.
After waking up in the morning, Lu Chongfeng and Liang Xin went to the military region first.
Liang Xin reported to Minister Liang the upcoming purchase of the Jiangjing Bakery storefront. After obtaining the organization's approval, she then reported the matter of the military cards that disclosed weapons and equipment information to the leadership.
At noon, Lu Chongfeng brought the news.
“It can be promoted moderately.”
Lu Chongfeng held the report approved by Minister Liang in his hand. "But we must pay attention to focusing on common sense and value orientation. We must focus on patriotic military pride. We cannot take a neutral attitude to popularize science. When mentioning foreign military weapons and equipment, we must also emphasize the threat."
Liang Xin looked at his expression that said "come and beg me to help you", and followed his instructions, making a "begging" expression, "I can only ask my husband who became a combat hero at the age of 18 to help me with this."
Lu Chongfeng paused, staring at Liang Xin's pitiful face. His Adam's apple moved. He looked up at the sunlight, then at the five-pointed star in the auditorium in the distance. "......Help, I will help you sort out the photos and basic parameters of weapons and equipment from publicly available data sources at home and abroad, avoid sensitive content information, submit them to the higher-ups for review, and then talk to the Art Publishing House about how to highlight the key points that can arouse young people's interest in mechanical power, remind them of the places that need to be blurred, and never give the opponent any loopholes to report."
Liang Xin: “…”
She had just asked for a start, and he made all the promises.
Liang Xin held back her pitiful expression and asked, "Then...what are the fees or conditions?"
Lu Chongfeng was slightly startled. "What fees and conditions are you talking about?"
Liang Xin: “….”
Liang Xin continued to hold back: "You work so hard, will you need me to pay a lot of fees, and also ask me to..."
Lu Chongfeng looked around and found someone coming out of the office building. He grabbed Liang Xin's sleeve and led her to the flower bed next to him. He lowered his voice and said, "Go back and ask again tonight."
Liang Xin looked at his red earlobes and asked, "Once?"
Lu Chongfeng's jaw tightened, "Fairy."
Liang Xin laughed softly, "Let's go."
Lu Chongfeng kept a certain distance from Liang Xin and walked out side by side.
Liang Xin really liked the way he looked serious outside, so she deliberately moved towards him and immediately received a warning look from Lu Chongfeng.
Liang Xin teased Lu Chongfeng all the way, left the familiar military compound, went back to pick up Dudu, and came to Jiangjing Bakery.
Qian Shuyao had already arrived, and Lu Wei and Zheng Xiaojun just happened to meet her at the door.
"Long time no see, Liang Xin."
As soon as they met, Qian Shuyao took out a red envelope and handed it to Dudu. "It's very thin, and it should be about the same as what other elders give. It won't hold you back."
Liang Xin said to Dudu, "Thank you, Aunt Shuyao."
Dudu took the red envelope and said, "Thank you Aunt Yaoyao."
Qian Shuyao's heart was almost melted by Dudu's shouting. She held Dudu's little hand tightly and said, "Really? At worst, I can just hand over all the gifts I send to your leaders for review. I really want to give Dudu more gifts!"
Liang Xin smiled and welcomed the person to the second floor.
"Aunt Liang."
A girl with long slender legs ran up, holding a steaming hot roasted sweet potato in her hand. Her eyes lit up when she saw Liang Xin, "Auntie Liang, I finally see you. I knew you were coming, so I went to buy some roasted sweet potatoes."
"Little girl."
Liang Xin smiled. The first few times she came back, Xiao Ya was either in class or taking extra classes, so she rarely saw him. This time, she looked a head taller than before. "She has really grown into a big girl."
Lu Chongfeng also looked at the little girl who was as thin as a bean sprout in surprise, and agreed with what Liang Xin said.
"Aunt Liang, I'm already in high school."
The little girl smiled shyly and handed the roasted sweet potato in her hand to Dudu who was sitting on her father's lap and looking at her curiously, "Dudu, this is for you."
Without waiting for her mother to introduce them, Dudu shouted according to her mother's name: "Thank you, Sister Xiaoya, I really like eating roasted sweet potatoes."
Wang Daya came up with a teapot, "Knowing you were coming, Xiaoya went to the south of the city to queue up to buy roasted sweet potatoes. That store is the best."
Liang Xin prepares New Year’s red envelopes for the children of the bakery employees every year. If she can’t see Xiao Ya, she will give them to Wang Daya, take the red envelope out of her bag and hand it to her.
"Finally I gave it to you in person. I heard from your mother that you are a good student and always rank among the top three in your class. How do you feel about your high school? Do you find studying difficult?"
Xiaoya had long been accustomed to Liangxin's red envelopes, so she took it without refusing, "Thank you, Aunt Liang, it's not hard, I like reading."
Liang Xin felt very relieved when she saw the energetic little girl.
After chatting for a while, Wang Daya called Xiao Ya away and asked them to get back to work.
"I've heard about Director Wang of Jiangjing Bakery."
Qian Shuyao's eyes were filled with smiles and seriousness: "Liang Xin, I feel very lucky to be your friend."
"Fortunately, it was you who wanted to buy a house, not me." Liang Xin said with a smile, "Otherwise, I would have thought you were trying to trick me into selling it to you at a low price."
Qian Shuyao said, "I am very willing to sell it to you at a low price, but unfortunately you have a special status. I have also participated in the cooperation between the family factory and Sanjing. I can't let you get involved because of such a small matter."
Liang Xin nodded, "You are very thoughtful, thank you."
"I have submitted a written application for sale to the Housing Authority, and the Housing Authority has also done a price assessment, which is about the same as your estimate, a total of just over 20,000 yuan."
Qian Shuyao said, "It has been approved, but the contract still needs to be authenticated by the Housing Authority before the transfer can be registered. Unfortunately, I want to round off the price and go with the 20,000 you mentioned, or a little cheaper, but I can't do that. The price must be assessed and approved by the Housing Authority. If I set the price myself, I won't be able to get approval from the Housing Authority."
"As it should be. It is not easy to get approval to sell these prime-location shops to individual buyers. We will follow the national regulations."
Liang Xin introduced Lu Wei next to her, "This is Lu Wei. I heard that you have another shop in the south of the city that you plan to sell. I said I would help you find a buyer. This is your next buyer."
Lu Wei didn't understand why she had to buy a house, but Liang Xin asked her to, so she bought it.
After the deal is done, you need to go to the Housing Authority to authenticate the contract.
Lu Chongfeng carried Dudu from the second floor to the first floor and said, "My dear, this store will be yours from now on. Are you happy?"
Dudu looked at the spiral breads, golden butter buns, and the neatly arranged rows of whipped cream, cream cakes, strawberry cakes, and chocolate cakes on the glass counter. He swallowed and looked at his father with wide eyes, "Is the whole bakery mine?"
Seeing his daughter's surprised face, Lu Chongfeng smiled and said, "Yes, the whole bakery is yours."
Dudu was even more surprised, "Really? Dad, is this true?"
Lu Chongfeng said, "How could what Dad said be false? Really, this store is prepared by your parents for you. From now on, you have the final say on what you want to do."
Dudu's face flushed with excitement as he loudly announced, "I want to eat a strawberry cake and a chocolate cake first, and then a cup of whipped cream!"
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