Chapter 75

The child had a shrill voice, and when he started yelling it was loud enough to rupture a person's eardrums. Many people in the house got up and came out to see what was happening.

Jian Lu was talking to her third sister when she heard the shouting of the girl next to her. Her heart sank. How could a trafficker dare to kidnap people here?

As a result, she turned around and saw that there was no one there, but Jian Hualin!

Although she was mentally prepared that she would definitely meet Jian Hualin when she returned this time, Jian Lu did not expect him to come so soon.

"Mom~" Shuangshuang ran to her side with his legs upside down, hugged her thighs tightly, and refused to let go, "Scared~"

"Okay, don't be afraid." Jian Lu patted the lady's back gently, comforting her tenderly, "But we both have to be very vigilant. This is a good thing. We can't let bad people kidnap us."

"Oh, it's Jian Hualin?" The uncles and aunts who came out of the house took a closer look. How could there be any kidnapper? Isn't this Shuangshuang's grandmother? "Are you family members fighting each other? Shuangshuang, this is your grandmother, how can you be a kidnapper?"

Shuangshuang didn't know what a grandpa was, but she didn't like this old coconut. He looked fierce, his face was wrinkled, and he spoke in an impatient tone.

Jian Lu saw the annoyance on Jian Hualin's face at a glance. Children don't understand the grudges between adults, but they can keenly perceive whether you like her or not. Jian Hualin really doesn't even pretend.

"Fourth girl!" Jian Hualin looked at his little daughter whom he hadn't seen for four years. He was in a trance for a moment. The fourth girl was getting more and more beautiful. She no longer looked like a country girl. Even if she said she grew up in the city, people would believe her. "Why don't you come to visit us when you come back? Do I have to come here in person?"

Jian Hualin spoke in a deep voice, neither loud nor soft, and all the villagers in the yard heard it.

Someone immediately started muttering, "What a shame Jian Hualin is! Not only did he not have a good face when his daughter-in-law and son-in-law came back, but he also insulted them in front of everyone."

"He was not very nice to his four girls before, do you still expect him to be nice now?"

"But I should go see my mother's family first."

Logically speaking, there are so many outsiders now, all crowding in the Cheng family, and Jian Hualin, as a relative, should at least be friendly and smile. But he just came up and slandered everyone, and even put the blame on Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu. If this gets out, they will be accused of being unfilial.

When Aunt Wang heard this, she hurried out of the house. She looked down on this relative from the bottom of her heart, but her daughter-in-law was a member of the Jian family after all, and the blood ties could not be severed, so she had to do some face-saving work.

"My dear, look at what you said." Aunt Wang greeted him with a smile, "We just arrived. You don't know, we were exhausted after sitting on the train for several days. We just wanted to go home to put our luggage and clean the house so that we could go to see you and your mother-in-law, but we didn't expect the captain and his men to come. There were so many guests in the house that we didn't even leave."

Pull out the team leader. Aunt Wang deliberately picked someone Jian Hualin couldn't afford to offend. After all, Jian Hualin couldn't say, "Don't entertain the team leader and his men." Just drive them all away.

Jian Hualin originally wanted to teach his little daughter a lesson in front of everyone, telling her not to think that she would no longer care about him after getting married, and to say a few bad words to make her tense. But he didn't expect the relative to come out and try to smooth things over, and even involve the captain.

"That's okay. We are all family, no matter what." Jian Hualin had to be polite to Aunt Wang. After all, she was Cheng Zheng's mother, and he still had things to ask his son-in-law to do.

"That's right." Aunt Wang was satisfied and asked her in-laws to come sit inside. "Shitou is talking to the captain and the others."

Jian Hualin has never met his son-in-law who is the head of the group in person. Although he has deep resentment in his heart, he still wants to show his face. After all, other villagers come to watch the fun, and he is the real father-in-law of Cheng Zheng!

"Let's go and see my son-in-law."

"Dad." Jian Lu watched Jian Hualin's performance and was really shocked by his shamelessness. This man really forgot about how he plotted against her four years ago. Now he actually wanted to meet his son-in-law as if nothing had happened.

"I didn't expect that. I went to the southern island for several years, but I didn't hear from you. You didn't even ask me how I was doing there." Jian Lu said with a slightly sad tone, "I thought you didn't want to see me, so I didn't go there the first time I came back today."

"You!" Jian Hualin blushed when he heard this.

Then I looked at the group of members next to me and they started talking again.

"The daughter has been married for four years, and the father never asked about it. Now she is back, and she blames me as soon as she comes to the door."

"How can you be a father like this!"

"Jian Hualin." Some aunties who like to argue for justice immediately spoke up, "You probably heard that someone brought back candy and food, so you want to ask for things right away."

"Bullshit!" Jian Hualin's vision was not that shallow. It was natural for his daughter and son-in-law to come back to offer him food, but he wanted more than that. "I'm here to see my daughter and son-in-law."

"Then why are you here to slander others?"

Jian Lu almost laughed out loud when she heard the ladies besieging Jian Hualin. Did this guy really think that everyone was afraid of him? This was not four years ago, when she could still be controlled by the title of the daughter of the Jian family?

"Dad, please go in and see your son-in-law." Jian Lu looked at him with a smile, but her eyes were full of sarcasm. "If you hadn't wanted to marry me to the He family, I wouldn't have seen through the dirty tricks behind it. I would have made an agreement with my mother-in-law and finally married Brother Cheng. So, I have to thank you for my marriage with Brother Cheng."

Jian Hualin was no fool. He immediately heard the sarcasm in Jian Lu's words. He had been acting like a real father, but suddenly he felt guilty.

At that time, he wanted to marry Jian Lu to He Junhua of Hejiatianyan so as to have a replacement son. However, things encountered some twists and turns and failed to go through. Who would have known that Jian Lu would later find a good marriage on her own and marry the head of the regiment.

Looking at the clothes that Jian Lu and Shuangshuang are wearing now, even if Jian Hualin doesn't know much about goods, he can tell that those clothes are made of good fabrics, the kind of fabrics he can only see on the cadres when he occasionally goes to the county town.

As for Shuangshuang, he doesn't care about this granddaughter. He doesn't even like his own daughter, let alone his granddaughter. If it was a grandson, he would still look at her more. But even such a girl was raised to be plump and white.

It can be seen how good Jian Lu's life became after marrying Cheng Zheng.

Now, when Jian Lu brought up what happened back then, Jian Hualin rarely felt guilty, and he felt that it was indeed he who was a dishonest father.

"How many years have passed since that happened?" Jian Hualin laughed and didn't want to talk more. His expression looked better, and he smiled at Jian Lu, "There is no overnight hatred in this family. Now that I see you and Cheng Zheng living a good life, I feel relieved."

After hearing this, Jian Lu almost rolled her eyes. Jian Hualin really was a man who lied with his eyes open.

Without paying any more attention to him and watching him go into the house, Jian Lu turned around and continued talking to Jian Xin.

After Jian Hualin entered the house, he saw that there were many people crowded in the main hall of the Cheng family, including the team leader Wei Xingde and some respected elders in the production team.

Among the group of middle-aged and elderly people, there was a tall and straight soldier wearing a military coat who stood out.

Jian Hualin could not remember the last time he saw the eldest son of the Cheng family. He guessed that he had joined the army a few years before and came back to join in the fun. At that time, he was envious of other people's promising sons.

When he looked at his four daughters again, his face became even darker.

Now, Cheng Zheng has become his son-in-law, and the team leader has a bright future.

"Cheng Zheng, look, who's here?" Wei Xingde saw Jian Hualin, the Cheng family's father-in-law, walking into the hall from outside. "Your father-in-law is here."

The other uncles in the room also became lively, and they kept asking Jian Hualin to come and sit down and see their son-in-law.

Cheng Zheng stood up and looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was not very tall and had a hunched back. He was looking him up and down. It was not like he was looking at his son-in-law, but rather like he was looking at the goods in a department store, how much they were worth, or in other words, he was weighing how much money there was.

It was this person who almost ruined Lulu's life.

Cheng Zheng didn't have a good impression of his father-in-law, but he had to save face, so he just said with a stiff face, "Dad, sit down quickly."

"Hey!" The team leader called himself dad!

Jian Hualin happily agreed, automatically ignoring the smiling Cheng Zheng, and sat down on the seat that everyone had vacated for him.

"Jian Hualin, you are lucky. Your son-in-law is very promising." While Cheng Zheng was making tea for others, everyone else in the production team congratulated Jian Hualin.

"It's so cool to have a son-in-law who is a group leader."

"You can still go to their place and enjoy the good life in the future, that's great."

Jian Hualin really enjoyed the compliment, as it swept away the shadow of the past few decades when people had privately stabbed him in the back and said that his family was doomed.

"It's because Jian Lu is so lucky. I loved her the most in the beginning. Now I feel relieved to see her and her son-in-law living a good life."

Everyone was holding back their laughter as they listened to Jian Hualin's high-sounding words. Everyone knew that Jian Hualin looked down upon his own daughter the most, and now he was talking for the sake of appearances. Didn't he love Jian Lu the most?

The one who loves her the most, is willing to marry her to the son of He Jia Tianyan?

However, today is a good day, and no one can mention those words, as they will affect our mood. We can only say nice things to each other.

Cheng Zheng served tea to his father-in-law and then sat back in his seat to entertain the elderly people in the team.

After Cheng Zheng's father passed away unexpectedly, Aunt Wang had a hard time raising three children alone. There were still many kind people in the team who shared some of their surplus food to help the orphan and widow. Cheng Zheng was a nostalgic person, so he listened to their reminiscing about the past and followed their lead.

The Cheng family's house was bustling with activity. Aunt Wang and Jian Lu gave everyone some candies and cakes, and also distributed some dried seafood without being stingy at all. When it was almost dinner time, everyone busied themselves to disperse.

After everyone left, Jian Hualin finally got the chance to chat with this good son-in-law alone. Just now, there were so many people around that he couldn't say a few words to privately.

"Xiao Cheng, my daughter-in-law..." Jian Hualin was talking when Jian Lu also walked into the main hall. The two looked at each other and Jian Hualin continued, "She was brought up by her family and didn't know how to behave. If she married you, you should tell us if she did something wrong. Don't show us mercy. You have to take good care of your own daughter-in-law."

Cheng Zheng's face darkened when he heard this. He originally wanted to send the person away casually, but now he couldn't help himself. "Lulu is very good. Her family was planning to marry her off, but she was able to save herself. This kind of courage and bravery is not something that ordinary people can have."

"Hey." Jian Hualin was unhappy when he heard this, "How can you talk about your wife like that? Aren't you afraid that she will ride on your head in the future? This is what needs to be managed and disciplined!"

"Dad, you don't have to worry about my family's affairs." Cheng Zheng interrupted him without hesitation.

"Forget it. I won't ask about your business, just ask." Jian Hualin was also a man who knew how to read people's faces. In front of other sons-in-law, he could still put on airs by relying on his status as a father-in-law. But Cheng Zheng was different. He had experience on the battlefield, and the domineering aura that emanated from his body frightened Jian Hualin.

"Well, it's getting late tonight, come to our house." Jian Hualin turned his head and shouted to the yard, "Mother-in-law, come to our house for dinner. My wife has prepared the food and must entertain you."

If someone is diligent and attentive for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief. Both Jian Lu and Cheng Zheng understand this truth.

Cheng Zheng signaled to his wife with his eyes, knowing that she didn't want to have much to do with her parents' home, but it would not sound good if the girl refused to go back to her parents' home. If his wife didn't want to go, he could be the bad guy.

"Okay, let's go." Jian Lu responded with a smile, which was unusual for her.

When Jian Hualin happily walked home to prepare, Jian Lu walked up to Cheng Zheng.

"What? You seem to be in a good mood today. Do you want to go back to your parents' house for dinner?" Cheng Zheng was puzzled.

"We are exhausted after coming back today. It would be a pain to cook for him. Let's eat what's ready. He must have something to ask you to do, so tonight will be a big meal. It would be a waste if you don't eat it. Eat him up first and then we can talk about it."

Jian Lu knew that she couldn't miss her parents' home when she came back, otherwise the rumors outside would be enough to crush her. In that case, she might as well give him a good meal.

After packing up the house, the Cheng family set off for the Jian family.

The Jian family had just put the food on the table. Just as Jian Lu had expected, the food on the table was as sumptuous as that on Chinese New Year.

Jane's mother, Zhang Cuixia, took off her apron and looked at the dishes with a bit of heartache, "Boss, it's not even the New Year yet and you're eating so well?"

According to her, all she needed to do was stew pork with vermicelli, cut a piece of bacon, stir-fry two vegetables, and at most steam a chicken and egg custard, which would be enough for the meal.

As a result, Jian Hualin actually had one of the chickens at home killed, and used half of it to make chicken stewed with mushrooms and the other half to make cold chicken, which really made Zhang Cuixia heartbroken.

"We only have three chickens at home, and we were just waiting for them to lay eggs, so we killed one..."

"It's said that you women have long hair but short knowledge!" Jian Hualin looked down on his wife's petty nature. It was ok to entertain others, but could she be stingy when entertaining Cheng Zheng who came to visit for the first time?

"That's the head of the group, you know what the head of the group means? The salary is high, you didn't see it, the clothes that the fourth girl is wearing now, the material is obviously good, I wonder how much Cheng Zheng pays her a month, if he pays thirty or forty, it would be several hundred a year."

"Mom." A young man limped into the main room, looked at the rich food on the table and swallowed, "Dad is right, my brother-in-law is the head of the group, we can't be stingy."

The lame young man was none other than He Junhong, the fifth son of the He family who was adopted by Jian Hualin. He had now changed his name to Jian Junhong.

"Junhong, your brother-in-law will be here soon. Be sweet-talking. You are almost old enough to join the army. If you can become a soldier, you can be promoted to a platoon leader or battalion commander, or even a regiment commander like your brother-in-law. Dad will be proud of it."

The feeling is very different when the son-in-law is the head of the group and when the son is the head of the group.

If my son-in-law is the head of the group, I as the father-in-law can only benefit from it. But if my son is the head of the group, then it will bring honor to the family!

"I know." Jian Junhong sat on a bench, crossed his legs, reached out and took a piece of chicken from the cold chicken and started to eat it, "I will definitely have a good relationship with my brother-in-law."

As they were talking, there was movement at the door of the Jian family's house. Jian Hualin called his wife and son out and welcomed the people into the house.

Zhang Cuixia hadn't seen her little daughter for four years. Ever since Jian Lu boarded the train to the southern island, she had never come back. She sometimes wondered what had happened to her little daughter. But she was far away and couldn't see her. No matter how her life went, it was her own fate.

Today, seeing several people suddenly appearing in front of her house, Zhang Cuixia immediately spotted a young woman wearing a red cotton jacket with red lips and white teeth.

She was so frightened that she almost couldn't recognize him.

"Lulu?" Zhang Cuixia asked hesitantly. She didn't expect that someone would become even more handsome after marrying a man and having a baby.

Thinking of what the head of the household had just said, wondering what kind of good life the daughter of the family was leading, Zhang Cuixia believed it this time.

"Mom." Jian Lu's feelings towards her original mother were somewhat complicated. She wasn't too bad, but she was obedient to Jian Hualin's bad behavior.

So sad.

"Mother-in-law." Aunt Wang spoke to Zhang Cuixia affectionately and asked Shuangshuang to call her grandma.

Zhang Cuixia had never seen a little girl with such a beautiful jade bracelet. She really didn't know how this child was raised and didn't dare to reach out to hug her.

"Come, come, Xiao Cheng, Lulu, come and see your brother." Jian Hualin was only thinking about his son, and he hurriedly introduced him, "This is the fifth child of our Jian family, Jian Junhong. Junhong, call you Fourth Sister and Fourth Brother-in-law."

Jian Junhong is seventeen years old this year. He has a decent appearance, but his slightly immature face shows a hint of shrewdness, especially his white eyes, which lack the clarity that should be possessed by a child of this age.

"Sister, brother-in-law!" Jian Jun called them without even mentioning their ranking. In his heart, his three older sisters and brother-in-law combined were no match for these two.

However, his enthusiasm did not get the response he had expected, and Jian Lu spoke with a serious face.

"Dad, when did our family have a boy this big? I've been away from home for four years, and he looks like he's already 17 or 18 years old."

"Lulu, you don't know." Jian Hualin stepped forward and explained in a low voice, "This is from the He family, the fifth son of the He family. He has been adopted by me as my son, so he is your fifth brother!"

Jian Lu sneered, her tone even colder, and she looked at Jian Hualin with a chill in her eyes, "The He family?"

Jian Hualin suddenly recalled the unpleasantness of the past and thought to himself that he should not have mentioned it.

"Hey, let's not talk about it anymore. Come in quickly, your mother has cooked a table full of dishes. I also had a chicken killed. This is better than the New Year's meal."

When Jian Lu entered the house, she saw that she had made a real profit today, with pork and chicken. Jian Hualin really spent a lot of money on this cheap son. He was really generous.

There was a table full of dishes. Although Zhang Cuixia's cooking skills were average, they were all meat and couldn't be that bad. Jian Lu just picked the meat and ate it, then said a few words to Jian Hualin.

Fortunately, Jian Hualin's main conversation partner was Cheng Zheng. As he drank more and more liquor, the father-in-law began to act arrogantly and suddenly wanted to inquire about his son-in-law's situation.

"Xiao Cheng, you are very impressive in the army, right? The regiment commander is a high-ranking official."

However, Cheng Zheng was a stubborn person and only said indifferently, "Dad, we are not officials, let alone powerful people. We are landlords in feudal society. What you said is dangerous."

Jian Hualin's mouth clenched and he immediately fell silent.

After a while, Jian Hualin couldn't help but ask about his son-in-law's salary under the influence of alcohol, "Xiao Cheng, as a team leader, your salary and allowances must be very high, right? In our neighboring production team, someone's son is a battalion commander. I heard that his salary is not bad, and he also sends ten yuan home to his parents every month. Wow, how filial he is."

Listening to Jian Hualin's words with obvious hints, Jian Lu almost laughed out loud while eating chicken stewed with mushrooms. His plan was really something that the whole country could hear.

Cheng Zheng replied in a neutral tone, "Dad, these are military secrets and cannot be disclosed."

"What?" Jian Hualin knew that there were many things in the army that could not be said, and he knew all of them, but he had never heard that salaries were military secrets. "Xiao Cheng, don't lie to me, I'm your father-in-law."

"Of course it is true. Salary allowances also involve different levels. They are also military secrets and cannot be disclosed."

Jian Hualin didn't have any soldiers around him, so he had no way to verify it. Looking at his son-in-law's serious face, he certainly didn't seem to be lying, so he had to give up.

During the meal break, Jian Lu came up to Cheng Zheng and praised him with a smile, "Not bad, Captain Cheng~"

This evening, when approaching the door of the Jian family's house, Jian Lu instilled in Cheng Zheng in advance the battle strategy for tonight's dinner - the main theme was to do nothing, not respond to things, and not know.

Just eat and don't agree to anything else.

After the sumptuous meal, Aunt Wang helped Zhang Cuixia wash the dishes, and they both followed their grandmother to the kitchen to play, leaving Jian Hualin, Jian Junhong, Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu to talk in the main room.

Jian Lu knew that it was time to get to the point.

"Xiao Cheng, Lulu, do you like today's meal?"

"The meal was delicious." Jian Lu didn't lie, she was indeed very satisfied with the meal.

Cheng Zheng also nodded.

"This chicken was caught and killed by Jun Hong, and he was the one who boiled the water and permed the feathers." Jian Hualin sighed, looking at the two chickens left in his yard, and couldn't help feeling a little sad. "Lulu, you know that now each family in the production team can only raise three chickens, and there is no more. No family is willing to kill a chicken to eat. It's only because you two are back that Dad is willing to kill the chicken to eat. Just think about how many eggs a chicken can lay."

Jian Hualin was thinking about his own misery and was about to say a few more words when he was suddenly interrupted by Jian Lu.

"Eggs? Dad, do you still want to give us eggs?" Jian Lu walked to the cupboard beside the main room wall with ease, lifted the coarse cloth covering a basket on the cupboard, and saw more than 20 eggs inside. "Are these prepared for us? Thank you, Dad!"

"Ah?" Jian Hualin was stunned for a moment. When did he say he would give eggs? These were the eggs that the family had saved to exchange for New Year's goods.

Seeing the lady walking over with the basket, as if she was going to take it away immediately, Jian Hualin couldn't hold it in any longer, "This..."

"Dad is still very good to us." Cheng Zheng suddenly spoke, interrupting Jian Hualin, and he couldn't say the rest of the words.

"Dad." Jian Junhong saw it all, not caring about the eggs. She just said, "It's rare for my sister and brother-in-law to come back. They should try the eggs we raised at home. They taste good."

"Yes, yes!" Jian Hualin came to his senses and agreed, "Xiao Cheng, you see, Junhong is really thoughtful. The child is almost eighteen years old. I think it's useless to work in the fields to make a living. It's a job that you can predict the end of. I'm like that. I don't want Junhong to follow my path."

Having said that, Jian Hualin paused for a moment, waiting for Cheng Zheng and Jian Hualin to take over.

Who knew that Jian Lu opened her mouth, but what he wanted to hear was not what he wanted to hear, "What's wrong with going to the fields? The great leaders have said that working people are the most glorious, and now they are calling on urban youth to go to the countryside to learn from the poor and lower-middle peasants. Dad, what you said means that you look down on the poor and lower-middle peasants?"

"No... No, that's not it. Where did I say I looked down on them?" Jian Hualin almost stuttered. Who dares to look down on the poor and lower-middle peasants? That's like waiting for the Revolutionary Committee to come and make trouble. "That's not what I meant."

After a quick explanation, Jian Hualin didn't beat around the bush and directly stated his thoughts, "I want Xiao Cheng to do me a favor and put Junhong in the army so that he can also be a soldier."

Jian Lu took a look at Jian Junhong's legs and feet, and asked knowingly, "Dad, if he wants to join the army, can't he just go and sign up? It will be spring in a few months. Can't you take him to get a registration form and fill it out?"

Jian Hualin's face froze, and he pointed at his son's legs and feet, "This situation won't pass the review."

When Jian Junhong was still the fifth son of the He family, he accidentally broke his leg while going up the mountain. He never recovered from the injury, and although it didn't affect his life too much, he still looked limping when he walked. How could he pass the conscription registration like this?

"Dad, this won't pass the review, and Brother Cheng can't do anything about it." Jian Lu seemed to have suddenly realized something, "You want Brother Cheng to falsify it?"

"No, no!" Jian Hualin was dissatisfied with the lady's words. "How can you bring it up as falsehood? Xiao Cheng is a regiment commander after all. It should be okay to arrange for my brother-in-law to serve in the army, right?"

Cheng Zheng listened to his father-in-law speaking lightly, and then looked at Jian Junhong who was looking calculating across from him, with a cold light flashing in his eyes, "Dad, the army is not a vegetable store where you can just come and buy vegetables. Although I am the head of the regiment, I still have to follow the army's conscription regulations. Besides, the conscription standards are the same for everyone. If you can't pass the physical examination, you can't pass the review. No one can cheat. If you can't pass the physical examination, you can still join the army. If you go to the battlefield in the future, not only will you die, but you will also cause your comrades to die. Who can take responsibility for this?"

Cheng Zheng's words were so powerful that they seemed to hit Jian Hualin and Jian Junhong hard. They looked at each other, wondering why he said something so scary when they just wanted him to help them join the army.

"Xiao Cheng, why did you die? It was just an ordinary soldier, not a big deal."

"Being an ordinary soldier?" Cheng Zheng looked at Jian Hualin with a cold face, putting away the last bit of respect for his father-in-law. "The duty of a soldier is to protect the country. Everyone has to tie their heads to their belts. They may encounter danger at any time and be ready to sweat and bleed at any time. You are so frivolous. You are not suitable to be a soldier at all."

After saying this, Cheng Zheng stood up and said to his wife, "Lulu, let's go home."

"Okay!" Jian Lu was excited to hear that, but she also felt that this was a good time to leave, "Then we'll go first."

"Oh!" Jian Hualin didn't know why his son-in-law turned against him and left without saying anything. The matter has not been settled yet.

Zhang Cuixia and Auntie Wang also followed out. When they heard that they were leaving, Auntie Wang held their hands and prepared to leave.

"Lulu, what's wrong with Xiao Cheng? We haven't finished talking yet." Jian Hualin caught Jian Lu talking. Cheng Zheng was standing next to her but didn't dare to step forward. After all, his aunt's face didn't look good and looked scary.

Jian Lu was trying not to smile. For the first time, she realized that her man's serious look was so useful. Even Jian Hualin was afraid of the strong and bullied the weak. But she had to continue to act. "I can't help it, Dad. You just said the wrong thing. Brother Cheng is a soldier. How could he listen to you slandering the military like this? If this kind of talk gets out, you will be beaten. Now he is angry, and I can't persuade him."

"Hey! How did I slander the military? I just wanted him to arrange for Junhong to join the army."

Jian Junhong also explained, "Sister, please persuade your brother-in-law."

"Right, right, Lulu, it wasn't easy for us to give birth to you and raise you. Now you have to repay us. Junhong is your brother, you can't ignore his future."

Jian Lu almost felt sick after hearing this. Is this how human beings speak?

But she still pretended to be embarrassed, "Dad, you saw it too, he was angry, I dare not say anything more."

Jian Hualin knew what was going on. After all, when he was angry, Zhang Cuixia could only swallow her anger and stay away from him.

"Then wait until he calms down, and then go back and help persuade him. We don't mean that. And about your brother..."

"Okay, I'll go back and see him when he's in a better mood." Jian Lu still looked embarrassed, "But whether this thing will work or not..."

"It's okay. Whether it succeeds or not is another matter. Just worry about your brother." Jian Hualin quickly replied.

It was late at night, and the Cheng family, young and old, walked home on the snow. Cheng Zheng led Jun to illuminate the road ahead with a flashlight. The warm yellow light shining on the white snow had a unique charm.

Jian Lu was still holding the egg basket in her hand and was in a good mood. She was going to give Jian Hualin a good beating today. It was satisfying to see his heartbroken expression.

"Brother Cheng, you look really scary when you're threatening. Look how scared they are."

Cheng Zheng curled his lips, "It's not all fake."

Jian Lu asked him to show off his temper today, otherwise Jian Hualin would think his family was too easy to talk to and would be more dependent on him in the future. Cheng Zheng thought that Jian Hualin wanted him to arrange a lame skinny guy to join the army, which was simply a joke, so his anger just now was indeed half true and half false.

After listening to what her son and daughter-in-law said, Aunt Wang felt even more ashamed of what her in-laws did, saying they were so shameless.

"Forget it, let's just avoid it."

Shuangshuang had fallen asleep in grandma's arms, and when they got home, their mother took off their cotton padded clothes and stuffed them into the quilt without them realizing it.

When I woke up the next day, I looked at the ceiling and felt it looked strange.

Rubbing his eyes with his little hands, Shuangshuang found that he was the only one on the kang, and he began to call for his mother in a sticky voice.

"Mom~~~Mom~~~~"

"I'm here." Jian Lu hurried over from the main room and saw the young lady busy dressing her. "What's wrong? You're so grown up, and you're still crying, right?"

Shuangshuang stopped crying when she saw her mother. She sniffed and still felt a little aggrieved. "Sangsang is not big. Sangsang is very small."

"Okay, you're not that old." Jian Lu led the girl off the kang, "Go brush your teeth and wash your face. I've steamed some egg custard for you."

Jian Lu counted the eggs she had snatched from Jian Hualin last night and found there were twenty-one in total, which was barely enough for her family to eat during their one-month stay here and was just the right thing to do to improve their diet.

"Okay!"

Shuangshuang stood straight under the eaves, looking at the scattered snowflakes falling from the sky with sleepy eyes, her little mouth open, and her mother was brushing her teeth.

"Open your mouth wider."

"Ah~" Shuangshuang screamed out loud, her mind completely focused on the snowflakes. She stretched out her little hand to catch them, and waited for a while until finally a snowflake floated into her little palm, "Ah!"

"Okay, take a sip of water. Don't swallow it. Just rinse your mouth and spit it out."

Shuangshuang did as she was told, and her mother washed their faces with a warm towel. Their fair and tender little faces instantly turned rosy.

"Mom." Shuangshuang, who had regained his freedom from the towel, showed her the snow in her palm. "Look, snow... Hey, why is it not swollen?"

Shuangshuang lowered her head and stared at her palms in confusion. Where was the snow? She had just caught it, but now there was only a little water stain on her palms.

Jian Lu couldn't help laughing, "The snow is melting. The snow is melting very quickly."

"Ah?" Shuangshuang sighed, remembering something important. "The nest needs to be filled with snow so that Chenchen can cook them."

"I know. I'll install it for you when we leave." Jian Lu took her daughter into the house to have breakfast.

"Hmm~~~Hmm~~" Shuangshuang started to act coquettishly, "No, just pretend to be in debt."

Cheng Zheng finished his breakfast first and stuffed the last half of his steamed bun into his mouth. When he heard what his daughter said, he clapped his hands and prepared to take action. "Okay, I'll pack it for you now. You go eat with mom, and dad will pack snow for you."

"Okay."

The two were carried by their mother to a stool and prepared to have breakfast.

As soon as they held the spoon, they realized something was wrong, "Mom, turn on the spoon."

Jian Lu looked at the ordinary spoon in the lady's hand and remembered that she had forgotten to get her a special spoon. This girl was really strict!

It's really hard to fool people at such a young age.

After changing the spoon, Shuangshuang started to eat. While eating, he looked back at his father, who was supervising him to collect snow properly.

Halfway through the meal, a glass jar of snow was served on the table.

They stared at the transparent glass jar and saw a large expanse of pure white snow inside. It was really beautiful.

Ding Dong Ding Dong

There was a sound when the nails knocked on the glass jar, and they were very happy!

"Okay, stop looking. I'll take you to see something more interesting later." Jian Lu cleaned up the dishes and took them to the kitchen. Her mother-in-law was washing the dishes, and she took her daughter to change clothes.

They both looked up, "What's so fun about this?"

"Dad is going to the mountains to dig up some good stuff. Do you want to go?" Jian Lu put on a thick army green cotton jacket for her daughter, a color that was resistant to stains.

"Wow?" Shuangshuang understood good things and also understood the mountains, and nodded vigorously, "I want to go."

"We've even prepared a special car for you."

"Wow?" His eyes lit up even brighter. "A train?"

Jian Lu: “…”

Mom doesn’t have this ability yet!

Jian Lu smiled and said, "It's even better than a train."

The two, fully armed and ready in a military green thick cotton jacket, black cotton pants and brown shoelaces, watched their father come in with a big thing - a backpack.

"Come on, put some straw and some cloth underneath, it should be fine."

Yesterday afternoon, Jian Lu asked her third sister Jian Xin to inform her eldest and second sisters to come home for lunch today so that the three sisters could have a good reunion. Cheng Zheng then said that they would go up the mountain to find something to eat.

The man got up early in the morning and was very enthusiastic about going up the mountain.

Jian Lu didn't want to expose him because she wanted to relive the time when she went up the mountain to forage for food when she was in her teens, so she prepared to go with him. Cheng Zheng's last thought was to take his daughter with him so that the child could go to the mountain to have a look.

The three of them did not plan to go deep into the mountains and forests as the temperature there was too low, so they only looked for good things near the outer edges.

Cheng Zheng cut a piece of bamboo for his wife to use as a trekking pole. The bottom was pointed and could be easily inserted into the snow, making walking effortless. He himself walked steadily with the backpack on his back.

And in the back basket, a little cutie grew out.

It was Shuangshuang’s first time to sit in a backpack. The straw and old cloth underneath her little butt were still soft. She sat inside and felt the backpack swaying as her father walked up the mountain. It was so much fun!

"Hahahahahaha." The child's cheerful laughter echoed in the forest. "It's fun. It's so fun. Woo~~Woo~~"

Jian Lu looked at the little girl emerging from the backpack, half of her body was outside the backpack, she was wearing a tiger-head hat on her head, a gray scarf covering most of her face, her hands were on the backpack, her face was full of surprise, her little face was smiling like a flower, she was extremely excited.

"You like it?"

"Yeah! It's so wet!" Shuangshuang looked at the back of her father's head, "Dad, can we come every day?"

"You can't come here every day. It's cold in the mountains. Just come here once to see the world."

Looking at the dense forests and shrubs all over the mountain, Cheng Zheng recalled the scenes when he was a child going up the mountain with his father to hunt wild roe deer and wild boars.

Cheng's father was a good hunter when he was alive, and his three sons also loved to follow him into the mountains. Their family was just like other families, occasionally hunting some prey and digging some wild vegetables to improve the family's diet.

Cheng Zheng walked up the mountain step by step, feeling memories flooding back.

It was Jian Lu’s first time to go hunting in the mountains, and she was curious about everything she saw. The dense forest seemed to be full of treasures, but also seemed to be full of weeds.

"There are some black fungus here. We can dig some back and eat it cold or make soup." Cheng Zheng found a rotten pine tree with his sharp eyes, picked a black fungus, put down the backpack, and stood inside, watching his father squatting on the ground with a sickle, rustling around.

After a while, there were some small black flowers in the backpack. I touched them with both hands and felt that they were cool.

"There's something good here, it's best used for cooking." However, he went up the mountain today to reminisce about the time when he was more than ten years old, and secondly, to pick other things. He remembered the good things his father used to take them to the mountain to find, and his mind was full of memories.

"What?" Jian Lu became curious. She found that Cheng Zheng who entered the mountain today was very different. He had obviously lost the seriousness and stability of the previous team leader, and instead had some youthful spirit.

"Winter mushrooms." Cheng Zheng smiled, "Let's have a chicken stewed with mushrooms for lunch."

"How do I find this?" Jian Lu looked at the ground covered with snow. How could she find mushrooms?