Chapter 88

In fact, Cheng Zheng has been in a calm mood these days. He sent his mother on a train to the border, and now he is being sent back to the army by Jian Lu.

He, a tough old man who sweated and bled on the battlefield but never shed a tear, how could he be like Shuangshuang, with eyes as red as a rabbit?

After dinner, Cheng Zheng rejected Jian Lu's suggestion to send him and Shuangshuang to the train station, and only said goodbye to his wife at the gate of H University to save her from running back and forth.

Since I got married, I have always left home to go on missions, and my family has been waiting for me at home, but this time is different.

He turned around and was about to leave for the train station. He looked at Jian Lu, her oval face, with a pair of peach blossom eyes full of water, full of reluctance.

Cheng Zheng's heart was filled with an indescribable emotion. His throat was tight. Thinking that he would not be able to see his wife again until next month, his heart seemed to be pulled back and forth. Just when he wanted to say something, he saw two pairs of hands hugging his mother and starting to act coquettishly.

She was acting coquettishly but reluctantly, her little face was all wrinkled.

"Look at daddy, he's doing so well." Jian Lu used Cheng Zheng as a role model for her daughter to follow. "You're a big kid now, you have to be like daddy, right? Look, daddy is so strong."

Cheng Zheng, who was in a bad mood: "..."

How can I be strong? Even tough guys can be tender.

They both nodded, "Okay, even if Dad cries, I won't cry. Mom, you have to come back soon."

"good."

Shuangshuang reminded their daughter to listen to her father at home, and to go to Aunt Xiuhui, Aunt Yuhe and Brother Dunzi if she has any problems. After telling the child, she turned to look at Cheng Zheng.

This person doesn't seem to have anything to worry about. Comrade Cheng Zheng is too independent. Jian Lu is reluctant to let him go. When no one is paying attention, she gently pulls his hand and says, "Take good care of Shuangshuang and wait for me to come back."

Cheng Zheng felt a little sad after hearing these simple words. He nodded and felt his hand being pinched by his wife, so he returned the hand.

......

There were four people in the family who went out, but only two of them returned.

A big and a small got on the green train. With sore eyes, they sat on their father's lap and asked their father in a hoarse voice.

"Dad, when will Mom come back?"

"Dad, when will grandma come back?"

As I spoke, tears began to fall.

Shuangshuang, who had just acted like a big kid in front of her mother, became more and more sad the more she thought about it. Her tears rolled down like crystal clear pearls that had broken off the string. She cried silently for a while, sniffed, and then realized that she was a big kid now and couldn't cry.

"Mom should be back home next month, and grandma should be back in a few months." Cheng Zheng was also very upset. He couldn't suppress the sadness in his heart after such a separation.

I don't know if my wife can adapt to being alone outside? Is she well fed and warmly dressed?

Oh, it’s so depressing.

"How old are you? You can't cry anymore." Cheng Zheng reached out to wipe away the tears on the girl's face. They were no longer like when they were little, when they would cry loudly. Now they cried silently, which made their old father feel even more sad.

The girl is still young, how can he be sad first?

"Didn't your mother just tell you to behave well at home so that you can go to school tomorrow? Can you get up?"

They both nodded, "Yes!"

When her mother is not at home, she will behave well and wait for her mother to praise her!

Thinking of what her mother had told her father before she left, asking him to take good care of himself, the little girl was shocked.

"Dad, don't worry, I will take good care of you!"

Cheng Zheng: “…”

Who of us will take care of whom?

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Jian Lu saw the father and daughter off, and a feeling of discomfort came over her. The family had never been separated for too long. At most, Cheng Zheng would go out to sea or be away on a mission for ten days or half a month, and the rest of the time he was in the army.

Not to mention Shuangshuang, the mother and daughter have never been separated since she was born.

Holding back her longing, Jian Lu turned back to H University, looking at the vibrant campus, the energetic faces, the breeze blowing through the locust trees, the leaves turning from yellow to green, a new look, and a new life in spring, everything is always different.

All the students in Jian Lu's six-person dormitory arrived the day before school started.

Three of them are locals, and with Jian Lu, who married to H City, they can be counted as four.

The oldest is the educated youth Hao Yue, who is 31 years old this year and is from H City. He has been an educated youth in the countryside for eight years and is married with two sons.

The second child is Song Guilan, an educated youth, who is 29 years old this year. She went to City A in Province H from the north. She is married and has a daughter.

The third oldest person in the dormitory is Jian Lu.

The remaining three people are Li Suihua, a local, 18 years old, a college entrance examination graduate, and Sun Shangmei, also 18 years old, three months younger than Li Suihua, from Southwest Province, also a college entrance examination graduate.

The two were the luckiest. They didn't waste any time and took the college entrance examination right after high school. They were admitted to university in one fell swoop. One of them was active, the other was quiet. They were of similar age, but their personalities were very different.

The last person was the roommate who arrived the latest. Jian Lu didn't see her the day before yesterday. When she came back today, she suddenly saw a young girl sitting in the bunk below her. She immediately realized that this was the last roommate.

After exchanging a few pleasantries with the other roommates, Jian Lu greeted the last roommate.

"Sister Lulu, this is Qiu Cuiping, from the next city." The one who spoke was Sun Shangmei. She was the youngest, three months younger than Li Suihua, but the most lively, and she hurriedly introduced people to Jian Lu.

"Hello, Cuiping."

Jian Lu looked at Qiu Cuiping and saw her looking up. She had a pretty face, but her eyes were a little unruly and her expression was cold and arrogant. Only when she saw Jian Lu did a hint of surprise flash across her eyes.

"Hello, you will be roommates from now on, please take care of each other." While speaking, Qiu Cuiping no longer looked at anyone.

Sun Shangmei came over and chattered, "Sister Lulu, have you been out playing these days?"

As soon as Jian Lu entered the house, she brought half a pound of peach cakes for everyone, and Sun Shangmei was the happiest when eating them.

"Yes, I walked around with my husband and kids."

"This place is really nice. By the way, have you been to the department store? It’s so tall, four floors high..." Sun Shangmei is lively and can chat with anyone she meets. Plus, she is the youngest in the dormitory, so everyone likes to listen to her chatter.

The six people all tidied up their own beds. Jian Lu's bed in the dormitory was covered with the blue and white floral four-piece set she brought from home, and a mosquito net was hung over it, making it look quite presentable.

The accommodation conditions in universities at that time were definitely not as good as those in later generations. Toilets and bathrooms were shared, and dormitories only had beds, desks, and some daily necessities.

On the day of reporting, everyone received an enamel basin and a thermos bottle, and also prepared towels, toothpaste, toothbrushes and enamel cups. As there were many people and many things, there were also many things, so toiletries and other daily necessities were placed in the right front of the six desks.

At this moment, Jian Lu's thermos was filled with water. She asked casually and found out that it was Hao Yue who filled it.

"Sister Hao Yue, thank you."

"It's okay." Hao Yuehun didn't care.

"Go get some food. When you come back, we can eat while talking in the dormitory." Song Guilan took the aluminum lunch box and asked everyone to go out.

"Let's go, let's go."

"Take your lunch box and go."

Several people were ready to go out with their lunch boxes, but Hao Yue was the only one who didn't move. "I'm not going. You guys go ahead."

Jian Lu just returned to the dormitory and asked Sun Shangmei beside her, "Sister Hao Yue doesn't want to eat dinner?"

Sun Shangmei shook her head and said to Jian Lu in a mysterious voice, "No, Sister Hao Yue has been eating the dry food she brought with her these days and said she won't go to the cafeteria for now."

Song Guilan also came over. Although she had only been in the school for two or three days, she had already met many people and learned a lot of information. "It seems that Hao Yue's family is not well-off, and she wants to save some food."

Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei didn't say anything, but they heard Qiu Cuiping sneer at them, "How much money can this save? Doesn't the school cafeteria still have subsidies?"

"I heard that if you don't use up your subsidy each semester, you can exchange it for things you can take away with you." Everyone understood after Song Guilan's explanation.

"Is it a big deal for such a small thing?" Qiu Cuiping walked in front with a lunch box.

College students at H University receive financial aid and meal subsidies, so each meal is quite cheap. If the meal subsidy for each semester is not used up, you can exchange it for some food that can be preserved for a long time and take it away.

After coming back from lunch, everyone sat at the desk in the dormitory, eating and chatting. Hao Yue was chewing on a wild vegetable cake, which she brought from home. It tasted delicious when soaked in hot water.

Jian Lu and Sun Shangmei asked her to try the food in the cafeteria. She reached out, but shook her head to refuse. "I am full with just one pancake. You guys eat yours."

He was contented and didn't care about anything. He just smiled kindly at people.

"Will you be full after eating this?" Qiu Cuiping frowned and glanced at the last two bites of wild vegetable cakes left in Hao Yue's hand, as if she had seen something dirty.

"Yes, there is nothing wrong with eating this. This is good stuff."

Qiu Cuiping pouted and said nothing more.

Six girls who came together from all over the world had their meal and talked about everything from their hometown to their age and the college entrance examination.

After all, they are the first batch of beneficiaries of the resumption of the college entrance examination. They have fought their way out of the huge crowd, which can be said to be impressive.

Sun Shangmei was eating celery and pork shreds, her mouth was full, "How many points did you get in the college entrance examination?"

Now that we have just entered university, it is inevitable that everyone will ask each other about their scores. After everyone told their scores, it turned out that Jian Lu ranked first among the six people, Qiu Cuiping ranked second, Li Suihua ranked last, and the remaining three people had a very small difference in scores.

"Wow, Sister Lulu, you're amazing!" Sun Shangmei looked at Jian Lu with sparkling eyes unconsciously, "Were you brought here by the drug?"

Jian Lu shook her head and said, "I signed up myself."

Sun Shangmei didn't expect this answer. She sighed and said, "I'm here as a transfer. I originally applied for the Chinese Department."

Speaking of the Chinese Department, Jian Lu thought of Dong Jingfang. She had not met her since she came here, but she should have reported it.

Several people were discussing college entrance examination scores and major registration. Just when they were talking excitedly, they saw Qiu Cuiping suddenly stand up, startling everyone else.

Seeing the looks from others, she said impatiently, "I'm full. I'm going to sleep for a while."

However, whether out of arrogance or because she found it boring, Qiu Cuiping had no interest in discussing the college entrance examination results. She quickly finished her meal and lay on her side on the bed facing everyone.

Jian Lu didn't sleep well on her first night in the university dormitory.

She had nightmares all night, mostly about her family members. The dreams were so intertwined that she was still a little confused when she woke up.

The first week of school was mainly spent reporting in, picking up school uniforms, and getting to know classmates. The initial courses were also easy to understand.

Jian Lu's major, foreign trade, is an unpopular major. Except for a few who voluntarily registered, the rest are all students who accepted transfers.

Compared to the bustling majors such as Chinese, history, and mathematics, this place is a bit deserted.

There are three classes in the foreign trade major, with 30 to 40 students in each class. Although most people think this major is not very good, it is exciting enough to go to a university after ten years. The first class was a large class with 113 students in three classes. In the classroom, the teacher first gave a motivational speech that you are all talented people who have fought hard for the college entrance examination, and then introduced H University, and his words were full of pride.

Many students were excited after hearing this, and seemed to be imagining a bright future. After graduating from university in four years, they would be assigned a job, perhaps working in a state-owned factory, sitting in an office, and becoming a respectable person with a high salary.

After the speech, the teacher called on everyone to get to know each other. There were so many students, and they came from all over the world. At this moment, Jian Lu realized more deeply the importance of the college entrance examination.

Among the students, there are those who were born into poverty, those who grew up in cities, those who went to the countryside as educated youth and are now married and have children, and those who just graduated from high school this year. Now, people with very different birth backgrounds and life trajectories sit in the same classroom and are taught by the same teacher.

"Jian Lu."

"Chen Meiying."

"Wang Chunxia"

......

The student who was called stood up and gave a brief self-introduction, and a funny thing happened during the process.

"Song Guilan."

Jian Lu's roommate Song Guilan stood up quickly and said, "Here we are."

In the classroom, two shouts overlapped. The students looked in surprise and saw a female comrade standing up on each side.

The teacher on the podium looked at the audience and asked, "Who among you is Song Guilan?"

"I am."

"I am."

Looking at the list in hand, the teacher searched carefully and found that there were two Song Guilans with the same name and surname.

"You two are quite compatible."

Song Guilan sat down and looked at Song Guilan from another class, and everyone laughed. Later, the students in the department gave the two Song Guilans different names according to their ages. The one in Jianlu's dormitory was called Big Song, and the other one was called Little Song. They kept calling them that for four years.

After getting to know each other, the intense study life began.

Students showed great enthusiasm for learning, reading books and newspapers, hanging out in the library or having academic discussions. The university campus was filled with a positive atmosphere.

Jian Lu was deeply moved when she saw the first batch of college students ten years later, especially Hao Yue, an educated youth in the dormitory. She got married in the fifth year of her work as an educated youth in the countryside. Her family in the city ignored her, but her in-laws supported her in taking the college entrance examination and going to college. Compared with others, she wore patched clothes, read and studied with mixed-grain cakes for three meals a day, and was diligent and frugal, which inspired her two youngest roommates.

"Sister Hao Yue, are you trying to get first place in your grade?"

"How can we catch up with you if you're like this?"

H University has always had a tradition of scholarships. Not only do college students receive a ten-yuan living allowance each semester, but they will also receive scholarships ranging from 5 to 20 yuan based on their grades after the final exam.

Hao Yue smiled and said, "Lulu and Cuiping are in front, it's not easy for me to get it."

Hao Yuesi did not hide her thoughts, but she was also aware of the difficulty.

Jian Lu didn't care about the scholarship. She turned around and looked at Qiu Cuiping who was applying face cream. She seemed even less interested.

More than a month after the start of the school year, most of the college students who had emerged from the vast army of students were studying hard, cherishing the opportunity that they had finally regained after a decade. However, Qiu Cuiping, whose eyes were often on the top of her head, was beyond everyone's expectations.

He was distracted and didn't like to listen in class. He never opened his textbook when he returned to the dormitory. Whenever he had homework, he would copy Sun Shangmei's.

Jian Lu didn’t quite understand. Was this the indulgence that the top students in the 1970s had when they went to college?

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While Jian Lu is adapting to the collective life, Cheng Zheng and Shuangshuang on the island are also trying to adapt to their new life.

Without Jian Lu and Aunt Wang, Cheng Zheng has to live the life of both a father and a mother.

Originally, he thought that taking care of a child was a very simple matter. Basically, he just had to make breakfast for the child, let her go to school with Dunzi and the others, and urge her to go to bed early at night.

Who knows, it's really different!

"Shuangshuang, get up. You'll be late if you don't." Cheng Zheng used to be busy with work. He would eat breakfast and go to the army, and he seldom supervised his daughter to get up and go to school. Now that he was the only adult left at home, he realized how much his daughter could stay in bed.

"Okay." Shuangshuang, who was called by her father twice, opened her eyes dazedly and slowly sat up from the bed.

Cheng Zheng was still busy preparing breakfast in the kitchen. He felt relieved when he saw his daughter was up. He asked her to get dressed and come out to clean up, while he went back to prepare breakfast.

Captain Cheng, who had dealt with all kinds of military theories on the battlefield and training grounds all his life, never imagined that Shuangshuang could strike back.

As soon as I left, she fell asleep again.

After all the trouble, the two little kids were late for their "glory".

After school, the father and daughter had dinner together. Cheng Zheng took three dishes directly from the army canteen and brought them home. They tasted good, but not as good as his wife's cooking.

"What's wrong? How's that little face of yours?" Cheng Zheng noticed that the young lady was very silent tonight, not like her usual chattering self.

"I'm late." Shuangshuang felt so ashamed. She was the only two person in the class who was late, and she was one of them. She was so sad that she didn't even want to eat.

"It's late, so it's no big deal." Cheng Zheng didn't care.

"Oh." The little guy sighed, "Dad, this is the third time I'm late this month! Why didn't you wake me up?"

Is this the third time? Cheng Zheng was stunned.

Jian Lu has been in school for over a month, and Shuangshuang has been attending the first semester of second grade for a month. In such a short period of time, the child has been late three times?

"Dad, you must wake me up next time!" Shuangshuang couldn't be late any longer. If she continued to be late, she would almost be on the same level as Hou Xiaobao. How embarrassing!

Captain Cheng had never realized that the burden on his shoulders was so heavy.

The next day, when Shuangshuang was forcibly pulled out of the quilt by her father and put on his shoulders and put down on the bed, she was so shocked that she lost all her sleepiness.

Dad is so scary! That’s not how my grandma and mom woke me up.

But there is also an advantage. Now we have plenty of time and we can finally have a peaceful breakfast.

"Dad, please braid my hair." Shuangshuang finished her breakfast and still had half a steamed bun in her hand, which she continued to swallow in small bites.

"I don't know how to braid hair." Some time ago, Cheng Zheng asked his daughters to tie their hair on both sides.

"But I haven't braided my hair for a month. My classmates all make fun of me, saying that I don't have a braid!" Shuangshuang endured it for a long time.

"Okay, okay, okay." Cheng Zheng didn't know what was so funny about not having a braid, a bunch of little brats were quite particular about it.

Divide the lady's hair into two parts, half on each side, and then... "How to braid it?"

Shuangshuang looked at her father in disbelief, "Dad, you don't know how to braid hair?"

Cheng Zheng looked at the young lady's lost and shocked eyes, his throat tightened. Was he being rejected?

"Dad, I thought you knew everything, but it turns out there are things you don't know." Shuangshuang muttered to herself, continued eating her steamed buns, and didn't force him to braid her hair.

Cheng Zheng felt that his image as a tall and great father had somewhat collapsed. How could the father who had always been omnipotent in Shuangshuang's eyes not be able to do anything?

That day, after I went to the army and finished my official duties, I asked about the orderly Xiao Zhao.

"Xiao Zhao, can you braid your hair?"

Xiao Zhao thought the team leader was going to ask about his training results, but who knew he would ask about this, "Lesbian braids?"

"right."

"I can!" Xiao Zhao also became a father and had a daughter. However, his family did not come to accompany the army. He saw her once a year and he specially learned how to braid hair. "I even braided my daughter's hair."

Cheng Zheng felt that he had found the right person, and raised his hand to signal, "Come on, tell me how you edited it, it's still good to look at."

Shuangshuang takes after her mother and likes good-looking things.

The next day, Shuangshuang went out with two beautiful four-strand braids. She touched her braids from time to time, looking very happy.

Cheng Zheng walked behind and smiled as he saw the girl skipping around.

"Old Cheng, let's go." Liang Haisheng had just finished breakfast and went out, inviting Cheng Zheng to go to the army together. "You seem to be in a good mood so early in the morning?"

"Lao Liang, can you braid a braid?" Cheng Zheng looked at Liang Haisheng with a smug look on his face.

"Braiding hair? How can an old man like me do this?" Liang Haisheng didn't understand.

"Make it for the kids!" Cheng Zheng felt a sense of superiority as an old father. They are all fathers, but there are still differences! Look how happy they are! In the morning, a kid brags about how great he is!

Liang Haisheng was confused. Braiding a child’s hair?

I turned around and saw Dunzi coming out of the house. He was a big boy of about 1.70 meters tall with a short haircut. Did I braid Dunzi's hair?

Oh, that's scary!

Dunzi didn't notice his father's strange look. On the way to school, he found Shuangshuang was very happy and her face was full of smiles.

"Shuangshuang, is Aunt Lulu coming back?"

Shuangshuang counted on her fingers, raised three fingers in the air, and looked up at Brother Dunzi, "Three more days!"

She was even happier when she heard that her mother was coming back.

They walked into the classroom early, determined not to be late again. They heard the bell ringing for class. A few minutes later, Hou Xiaobao came running in. He was late again.

After sitting down, Hou Xiaobao looked at Shuangshuang and asked, "Why aren't you late?"

Shuangshuang puffed up her cheeks and said, "I'm a good student, I won't be late!"

Hou Xiaobao was surprised. She had been late three times already.

"Humph!" They both turned their faces away and continued attending the class.

During the break, Hou Xiaobao threw a candy on Shuangshuang's desk and came over with a licking face, "Shuangshuang, when are your big brother and his friends going to fight? Can you take me with you?"

Ever since he was frightened by Dunzi and his gang in the nursery class, Hou Xiaobao, out of fear of the monsters in the sea, turned over a new leaf and became a new man.

In addition, he heard that Dunzi and his friends were good at fighting, and even wanted to become their younger brother.

So, if you want to be Dunzi's younger brother, you have to please his sister first.

They both peeled off the candy wrapper, looked at the orange candy, swallowed their saliva, and licked it with their tongues. It was so sweet.

Then he gulped it down, looked at Hou Xiaobao's expectant eyes, and replied, "I don't know. I don't fight."

Hou Xiaobao: "..."

Lu Qing came down from the fourth grade classroom to look for Shuang Shuang. Hearing her conversation with Hou Xiaobao, he couldn't help but persuade her, "Are your brothers still going to fight?"

She recalled that when she and her mother were in the commune, many teenage boys loved to fool around and fight all day long, just like scoundrels. She once accidentally got hurt by one of them while passing by, and her arm was bleeding.

"They are fighting." Shuangshuang went to watch it and it was very interesting. She also played a role.

"Don't go!" Lu Qing looked at the delicate little sister, worried that she would get hurt. "Your brother looks scary and likes to fight. Don't let him lead you astray."

As Lu Qing was speaking, he suddenly felt a burning gaze fixed on his face. He turned around and saw Shuangshuang's brother Dunzi standing behind him, looking at him with a serious gaze.

Is there anything more terrifying than saying bad things about someone behind their back and having them hear you?

Lu Qing blushed, didn't dare to look at anyone, and ran away in a hurry.

Dunzi frowned as he watched the new girl leave, then took two steps to Shuangshuang.

"Brother Dunzi, why are you here?"

Shuangshuang had just listened to what Sister Qingqing said, and before she had time to explain to her, she ran away. In the blink of an eye, Brother Dunzi came again.

"I came here to eavesdrop on someone saying something bad about me." Dunzi came to give candy to Shuangshuang. He didn't like candy that much when he grew up, but Shuangshuang loved it. He gave almost all the candy to Shuangshuang. "Here, but you should be careful, or if your teeth get damaged, Aunt Lulu will come after me."

"How many!" Shuangshuang was very happy. They got three candies today!

"Also, don't hang out with that new guy. You can tell at first glance that he's not a good person."

After Dunzi finished speaking, he left, leaving Shuangshuang confused. What happened? Sister Qingqing told her not to play with brother Dunzi, and brother Dunzi didn't let her play with sister Qingqing.

With both hands resting on the desk, her little face looked like a flower, which was very puzzling.

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There are always many things that are hard to figure out during the growth process. Shuangshuang’s secret is to stop thinking about things when you can’t figure them out.

Nothing matters now. What matters is that my mother is coming back!

Early in the morning, Shuangshuang woke up by herself. No one called her and she didn't stay in bed. She got dressed, got out of bed, and walked into the room where her father was sleeping in her slippers, patting the door.

"Dad, Dad, Mom is coming back, why are you still sleeping?"

Cheng Zheng opened the door, looked down at the little girl standing outside the door accusing him, and urged her to go out.

"Come on, let's go pick up mom."

Cheng Zheng looked back out the window. It was just getting light, so it was probably about six o'clock. His wife's train left at nine in the morning, so it would arrive at the station around noon.

"It's still early. Your mother hasn't gotten up yet. Go back to sleep. I'll wake you up when she wakes up."

Rubbing the girl's frizzy hair, Cheng Zheng sighed, this little girl is usually not active in school, but is the most active in picking up her mother.

......

Near noon, Cheng Zheng and his girlfriend met Jian Lu, who had been a college student for more than a month, at the platform.

"mother!!!"

He was about to run over, but was stopped by his father.

She's like a fish jumping around, so exciting.

"Don't run around. There are so many people at the train station. If you get lost, what will your parents do if they can't find you?"

It was rare for Cheng Zheng to be stern. There were many kidnappers at the train station and he couldn't leave the child behind.

Holding his daughter in one hand, Cheng Zheng walked quickly forward to meet his wife.

"Mom!!!!" Shuangshuang stretched out her hands in her father's arms and threw them at her mother. She missed her mother so much!

Jian Lu took the girl in her arms and kissed her. The girl was soft and had a special fragrance. She felt like her heart was melting when she held her in her arms.

"Do you miss your mom? Do you listen to your dad?"

Shuangshuang nodded vigorously, "Mom, I miss you so much! I am very obedient, even more obedient than Dad!"

"Okay, we are both very good."

Before Shuangshuang came, I had already reached a consensus with my father that I should not tell my mother if I was late three times in a month, so as to save my face.

Cheng Zheng watched his daughter and his wife being affectionate with each other, and finally got a word in.

When Cheng Zheng saw his wife again after more than a month, he looked at the smiling Jian Lu and the first thing he asked was, "Have you lost weight?"

Jian Lu put Shuangshuang down and carried her home. She touched her face and said, "I have lost weight in no way."

After returning home, Cheng Zheng went to the army canteen to get some food. It was almost one o'clock and he was too busy to cook.

"Is the food in your school cafeteria good? Why do I always feel that you have lost weight?" Cheng Zheng pinched Jian Lu's chin and looked around, "Have you lost weight on your face?"

"No, not really." Jian Lu was eating the food in the familiar army cafeteria, and now she realized that she missed it a little. "Our school cafeteria is okay, not bad. Besides, let me tell you, the energy consumed by staying at home and studying at school is different. I eat a lot at school."

"Then why don't you take better care of yourself?" Cheng Zheng always felt that his wife was a little thin and she needed to take better care of herself.

"Mom." The two children sat close to their mother, with two stools touching each other. Their small bodies leaned against their mother, and one of them was eager to pick up food for her.

She heard from her father that the food in school was not as delicious as the food at home. Of course, the food her father cooked was not very good either, far worse than what her mother and grandmother cooked.

"Mom, you eat meat and vegetables." Shuangshuang picked up a piece of bamboo shoots and pork slices, fried cabbage, and scooped a spoonful of egg soup into her bowl. "You also need eggs. Eating eggs will make you smart and good at studying."

These words were said by mother, and Shuangshuang also said them to her.

"Okay, you know a lot." Jian Lu looked at the bowl in front of her with a small peak of water on it. Just as she was about to say something, she saw a piece of fish meat on the peak.

Cheng Zheng took back his chopsticks and said, "You like fish, eat more."

The meat from the fish belly that Cheng Zheng picked up was fresh and tender, without any bones, and it was the essence of the fish.

Jian Lu ate a lot of food after her first meal when she got home. She really wanted to save the reputation of H University cafeteria in front of the men and ladies. The food in the school cafeteria tasted okay, but the father and daughter were always convinced that they suffered from eating in the school cafeteria and insisted that she make it up to them!

Cheng Zheng washed the dishes and came out, shaking the water off his hands, and then continued, "I asked someone to buy a chicken and sent it over this afternoon. I'll kill it and make chicken soup for you to replenish your body."

Jian Lu: “…”

Jian Lu was very worried. Wouldn't she be able to gain 70 to 80 kilograms in the two days since she came back?

After lunch, Feng Xiuhui and Cui Yuhe heard that Jian Lu had returned, so they came over to chat. They stayed for a while and then left so as not to disturb the family reunion.

In the afternoon, Shuangshuang rejected all invitations from other children and decided not to go out to play. Instead, they stuck to their mother and told her how obedient and well-behaved they had been recently.

"Then can you get up every morning? Does your father wake you up on time?"

Shuangshuang was stumped by her mother's question. She just looked at her mother and immediately lowered her eyes, stared at the ground and nodded, "I got up. My dad told me to get up, so I got up."

Jian Lu knew the lady very well, so when she saw her like this, she didn't tell the truth.

In the kitchen, while the couple was busy preparing dinner, Jian Lu asked Cheng Zheng, "Is Shuangshuang having trouble getting up?"

Cheng Zheng felt like he had found a confidant when he heard this. Was it particularly difficult? "I've never seen anyone so difficult to get up. I don't know who Shuangshuang followed."

He is a soldier and can wake up on time every morning. Jian Lu has always felt that Cheng Zheng is like a human alarm clock. He has almost no habit of staying in bed. He can put on his clothes in one minute and go out in two minutes.

Jian Lu pursed her lips, glanced at him, and said angrily, "What? What are you implying? Are you saying that I'm lazy?"

"I wouldn't dare." Cheng Zheng pinched his wife's puffy cheeks, "Shuangshuang became like this on her own, it's not our fault."

"Dad, did you say bad things about me to Mom?" Two little kids appeared with their hands on their hips, puffing up their little faces to supervise their parents while they made dinner.

"You've performed so well, why should I complain to your mother?"

Shuangshuang pondered for a moment and it seemed to make sense.

The family was having a great time, drinking chicken soup and eating soft-cooked chicken. After dinner, they went for a walk on the beach, and Jian Lu finally drank the coconut juice she had been craving for.

However, all the harmony and beauty were broken when night came.

Shuangshuang pulled her mother into her little room, put her hands around her neck, and asked her to sleep with her.

Cheng Zheng stood at the door, looking at his girlfriend and sighed, "Shuangshuang, you are a big kid now, how can you still ask your mother to sleep with you?"

Shuangshuang said confidently, "Dad, you are an adult, how can you still ask mom to sleep with you? I am younger than you, mom should sleep with me."

Cheng Zheng: "..."

She is truly a good daughter, specializing in taking care of her old father!

"Otherwise, I'll just sleep with you tonight." Jian Lu watched the fight between father and daughter with a smile, then turned to Cheng Zheng and said.

Cheng Zheng frowned, "No, Shuangshuang doesn't need someone to sleep with her at her age. Don't spoil her too much. Besides, you're only staying for one night and leaving tomorrow. Why don't you stay with me?"

Jian Lu's heart softened when she heard Cheng Zheng's words. Just when she was about to speak, Shuangshuang leaned on her, whining and acting coquettishly, and even her voice almost sounded like crying. She looked so pitiful.

"Forget it. Look at Shuangshuang. She's about to cry. I'll sleep with her tonight." Seeing that Cheng Zheng seemed to be aggrieved, Jian Lu comforted him, "How old are you? Why are you fighting with a child?"

Cheng Zheng:?

The two of them were happily scratching each other. Mom stuck out her tongue at Dad, her little face full of smiles. "Dad, you should go back to bed. Mom and I are going to bed too."

Cheng Zheng never expected that the wife he had been waiting for for so long would be taken away by his own daughter!

After a long sleepless night, Cheng Zheng tossed and turned in bed, unable to fall asleep. He looked at the time and it was already two o'clock in the morning.

Suddenly there was a sound outside. Cheng Zheng had excellent hearing and recognized that it was the sound of footsteps, not that of a child. With a smile in his eyes, he got out of bed and opened the door.

Jian Lu, who had just returned from the night shift, was startled by the suddenly opened door. She drank a lot of chicken soup tonight and some water before going to bed, so she woke up once in the middle of the night.

Who knew that just as I was about to go back to the room, I saw the bedroom door open and Cheng Zheng leaning against the door.

"You haven't slept yet?" Jian Lu yawned and prepared to go back to the girls' room to sleep, "Go to bed early~ha~"

"Did you two fall asleep?" Cheng Zheng asked her.

"Yeah, you slept soundly." Jian Lu replied casually, wanting to say good night to the man, but before she could open her mouth, Cheng Zheng dragged her into the house.

Once the door was closed, the room became silent again.

"What are you doing?"

The night was as dark as water. Jian Lu was pulled into the house before she could even react. Just as she was about to say a few more words, the man hugged her in his arms again, and the rest of her words were stuck in her throat.

Cheng Zheng held Jian Lu tightly in his arms, feeling the warmth and softness of her in his arms, and felt finally at peace. He hadn't held this soft and fragrant body in his arms for more than a month, and he didn't feel it before, but now that they were separated, he realized how hard it was.

"Since both of them are asleep, why are you going back? You're accompanying the little one, why don't you accompany me, the adult?"

"Are you still arguing with a kid?" Jian Lu put her hands on Cheng Zheng's waist and hugged him back, burying her head in Cheng Zheng's chest, listening to his deep and powerful heartbeat, each sound shaking in her ears.

This familiar and reassuring embrace is also quite nostalgic.

"You should at least treat us equally." Cheng Zheng laughed deeply, and moved his wife away from him. He looked at her pretty face and her watery eyes, which were what he thought about day and night. "Have you missed me for so long?"

In the darkness of night, with no one around, some of the thoughts buried deep in my heart can be expressed out loud.

"I'm going to study. How can I have time to miss you? Don't affect my studies." Jian Lu looked at him with a smile on her face and a curved lip corner.

"Take time to rest, and think about us when you rest."

Jian Lu looked at him with eyes rolling, "Do you miss me?"

Cheng Zheng remained silent.

Later, Cheng Zheng used practical actions to tell Jian Lu whether he missed her and how much he missed her.

.....

The next day, Shuangshuang woke up and found that she was the only one in bed, and her mother was not beside her.

They got up, got out of bed, and walked out of the house in slippers. They looked towards their parents' room and saw that the door was open and no one was there.

I walked downstairs again and finally saw people at the dining table. Mom and Dad were having breakfast.

Cheng Zheng and Jian Lu sat on opposite sides. There were two bowls of peanut porridge and two plates on the table. One plate contained a few steamed buns, and the other contained three eggs and a pile of pickled vegetables.

Rubbing their eyes, they ran to their mother and asked, "Mom, why are you up so early?"

Jian Lu looked at the man opposite her guiltily and touched the girl's head. How could she tell her that she was kidnapped by her father in the middle of the night?

"Mom is hungry, get up and have breakfast. Go brush your teeth and wash your face. Today's breakfast is delicious."

"Okay." Shuangshuang turned around in a daze and ran to squeeze out tooth powder.

Cheng Zheng, feeling refreshed, looked at the angry look from his wife and put the steamed bun into his mouth with a smile.