In order to introduce a partner to Song Hongying, Liu Meiyu looked through all of Lu Changzheng's brothers, comrades and childhood friends, and finally felt that his comrade Ding Zhicheng, whom she had met once before, was the most suitable.
The person has a promising career, a harmonious family, his parents are both skilled workers in the factory, he has no difficult sisters-in-law or brothers, and his character and worldly values are all positive. If the two really like each other, there will be no big problems except that distance is an obstacle.
Moreover, Song Hongying's family conditions were similar, so the two of them could be considered a good match.
Of course, Liu Meiyun is just a bridge, the outcome depends entirely on the two of them.
Didn't Ding Zhicheng want to find someone to talk to? So she gave both sides the address and situation and let them write to chat!
She had just mailed a letter at the island post office and was about to go home when she happened to hear the news that Zhao Lanlan's blind date had failed.
Thanks to Wu Guifang's sister-in-law, the two of them made an appointment to go to the post office together. She sent a letter and Wu Guifang stood at the door for a while after getting the money. When she came out, Wu Guifang told her the gossip she had just heard.
"You don't know, I heard that the deputy regiment commander that Teacher Bai introduced to Zhao Lanlan was more than ten years older than Zhao Lanlan. He thought Zhao Lanlan was too young and didn't like him. Guess what happened?" Wu Guifang ate melon seeds and raised her eyebrows. "But Zhao Lanlan was very satisfied with him. They didn't get along after just one meeting, but the next day she went to the dormitory to give him canned food and pears. Many people on the island talked about it. You say that girl is so bold and has no shame. The deputy regiment commander doesn't even dare to go back to the dormitory now. He hides from the army training every day."
The corners of Liu Meiyu's mouth twitched, and she was also a little surprised.
The main reason is that most girls nowadays are shy. Although Zhao Lanlan is not shy, she was still surprised that she could be so brave on the island, and even looked at her with a new respect.
This is either a true pursuit of true love or something like that.
"What does the deputy head of the group look like? Have you met him, Mrs. Wu?" Liu Meiyu was also very curious about how attractive the man was that Zhao Lanlan was willing to fall in love with him without any shame.
"He's not bad." Wu Guifang thought about it carefully. It seemed that she had actually eaten at her house, but she didn't have much impression of him. "He's definitely not as good-looking as your Captain Lu. He's probably about the same age as my Old Song. He's not bad-looking, but I heard that he seems to be quite capable. He went to the capital to study something a few years ago. Anyway, he came back after studying a lot."
Liu Meiyu understood, no wonder.
It was not that she didn't see that Zhao Lanlan had suffered a blow from Lu Changzheng, and had been holding back her energy, wanting to find someone more capable than Lu Changzheng. Now she had finally found him.
Liu Meiyu felt sympathy for the deputy head for three seconds, then turned around and heard the sound of bicycle bells in front of her.
"Hey, Captain Lu, are you here to pick up your wife?" Wu Guifang had sharp eyes and saw from a distance that Lu Changzheng was riding his newly bought bicycle towards them, with his brother-in-law on the back seat.
"Sister-in-law" Lu Changzheng stopped his bicycle and stared at Liu Meiyu, with a smile on his face that was self-evident.
Wu Guifang just felt it was so sweet watching from the side. It seemed like she and her husband, Old Song, had lived together for a lifetime, and they had never been so clingy.
"Then you two can enjoy yourselves, I have to go home and cook!" Wu Guifang said, quickening her pace and heading home.
"Sister! Come home quickly!" Liu Bowen, who was sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, poked his head out from behind Lu Changzheng and howled so loudly that Liu Meiyu thought something had happened to the triplets at home. But she saw that the little guy was laughing so hard that his eyes were almost narrowed into slits.
"What's wrong? Is there any good news?" Liu Meiyu wondered.
Young man Liu Bowen couldn't keep the secret, and just as he was about to speak, he heard his brother-in-law cough and the handlebars of his bicycle tilted. Frightened, he quickly grabbed the man and the smile disappeared. Only then did he remember that his brother-in-law had repeatedly told him on the way to give his sister a surprise.
So, Liu Meiyun saw Liu Bowen covering his mouth with his little hands, squinting his big round eyes, looking at Lu Changzheng, and then shaking his head at her, looking funny and cute.
"What's going on?" Liu Meiyu asked curiously.
This must be a great thing to make the little guy so happy.
Lu Changzheng smiled mysteriously and refused to reveal anything. "You'll know when you get home."
Unable to get any information, Liu Meiyu could only sit on the front bar of the bicycle and go home to take a look.
When I got home, I saw that Lu Wanjun, who had been away for a few days saying she had something to do, suddenly came back and was making milk powder for the child.
"Little Sister"
She walked over and was about to ask, but she saw Lu Wanjun smiling and pointing in the direction of the bedroom behind her, and said softly: "Look who I brought here?"
Liu Meiyu turned her head and saw two familiar figures standing at the bedroom door. She was stunned.
"Dad, Mom? Why are you here?" Liu Meiyu walked over in disbelief and stared at Zhou Huiru and her husband carefully.
After not seeing each other for over a year, both of them naturally had a lot more white hair on their heads, but fortunately, their mental state was much better than when she first came here.
"When you give birth, of course we have to come to see you." Zhou Huiru, who finally saw her daughter, hugged Liu Meiyun into her arms and complained with a choked voice: "You kid, you dared to hide such a big thing as being pregnant with triplets from me and your father, then we were too lazy to tell you when we came to see you."
Seeing that his wife was going to cry for a while, Liu Yongnian explained to his daughter, "It was Dr. Lu who went to Shanghai to pick us up."
"But... you aren't?"
Liu Meiyu's face was full of confusion. Zhou Huiru and her husband's situation was not one that they could just leave. Without a letter of introduction, they couldn't even take the train.
"Your father and I have been transferred to work at a nearby farm. Doctor Lu said he would pick us up early to spend the New Year together, and then report directly to the farm after the New Year." Zhou Huiru wiped away her tears, her voice a little trembling: "From now on, your father and I can be closer to you."
"Really? That's great!" Liu Meiyu felt her head buzzing and looked at Lu Changzheng and Lu Wanjun with joy on her face, her brain was a little slow to react.
Stared at by his wife's sparkling eyes, Lu Changzheng's useless face became hot again. In front of his mother-in-law and father-in-law, he shook his head in embarrassment and did not take credit for it.
Lu Wanjun smiled again, took Liu Meiyun's hand and said, "Meiyun, we all know that you are filial and worried about your mother-in-law and her family. When you were pregnant, Changzheng asked his comrades for help and transferred your parents-in-law to a nearby farm. And don't worry, your parents-in-law applied for the land reclamation and construction themselves. Changzheng just inspected the surrounding farms and chose one with a more stable environment. He did not violate the discipline. After all, people in Shanghai know that our area is remote and the conditions are not very good. It is difficult to pick so many people who are willing to come here."
Besides, working in Liaoning Province to open up wasteland and engage in construction is not necessarily easier than cleaning toilets in Shanghai.
"Why didn't you tell me in advance!" Liu Meiyu's nose felt sore. Looking at the man smiling foolishly beside her, she pinched his arm out of habit and didn't intend to slap Zhou Huiru in the face.
Zhou Huiru said with a sigh, "Why do you always bully Chang Zheng, kid?"
Liu Meiyu curled her lips, glanced at Liu Yongnian who didn't dare to say a word, and thought to herself: Aren't you the same?
"Mom, my sister even asked my brother-in-law to pour out the water for her to wash her feet. She is so lazy!" Liu Bowen usually felt a little sympathetic when he saw his sister always ordering her brother-in-law around. But when he heard Zhou Huiru, he also felt that his sister was wrong. He immediately agreed and complained to Zhou Huiru, "My brother-in-law secretly bought me peach cakes, but he was scolded when he came back. My brother-in-law is so miserable!"
"Liu Bowen, you are such a wallflower. Why don't I see you usually? Poor your brother-in-law!" Liu Meiyun pinched the boy's ear and said to Liu Yongnian, "Dad, since you are here, give Bowen a few more math problems during this period of time, so that he won't play crazy during the New Year and forget everything he has learned."
Liu Bowen: “…”
"Okay, okay, I have a new one in my package. I'll test him tomorrow to see if this kid is as smart as you said." Liu Yongnian was already grinning from ear to ear.
Ever since the daughter got married, the younger son also followed his sister to the island. He is obviously different from his previous life in Shanghai. He has become more lively, speaks more fluently, and is much braver.
As a parent, nothing can make us happier than seeing our children living a good life.
"Mother Wu! Come on, go make some dough so we can make dumplings tonight."
Lu Wanjun was very considerate and made room for Liu Meiyu's family to reunite, and even brought her own son-in-law Lu Changzheng away.
Looking at the three kids sleeping soundly on the kang, Zhou Huiru and Liu Yongnian were reluctant to take their eyes off them. They stared at them for a long time until Liu Meiyun said, "Dad, Mom, didn't you come to see me?"
Liu Yongnian pretended not to hear and kept his eyes on the three kids.
Zhou Huiru smiled and finally sat up, her face full of relief: "Changzheng is so good to you. In order to make you happy, he went to great lengths to get me and your father nearby, and didn't even let us tell you, saying that he would give you a surprise after you finished your confinement. Where can you find such a good man? And the Lu family, I see they all feel sorry for you. Look at how well you have been doing during this confinement period. You look better than before you gave birth, and your face has become plump."
Liu Meiyun had nothing to refute.
The Lu family really felt sorry for her, and she was also really surprised by Lu Changzheng's surprise.
Having lived for two lifetimes, she had received many surprises from her friends and subordinates when she was a senior executive in a company. She was tired of hearing all kinds of surprises, no matter they were fake or sincere, or they were genuine. But this one surprise was something she would never forget for two lifetimes.
However, Liu Meiyun, who is not used to such sentimental scenes, still said stubbornly: "I even risked my life to give birth to three children for him. He is the father of the children, so he shouldn't be nice to me!"
"You are such a rude person!" Zhou Huiru rolled her eyes at her. "You are always saying nice things to please others, but you are just being too arrogant to Chang Zheng. You are just relying on him to pamper you."
Zhou Huiru scolded him, but she couldn't stop smiling. Her daughter married a good man and lived such a happy life. How could she not be happy as a mother?
"It is this time that we have caused trouble for the Long March again." Liu Yongnian looked at his little grandson and sighed softly.
Liu Meiyun: "Dad, you are talking nonsense again!"
Zhou Huiru nodded in agreement: "Your father is right, our family owes a lot to the Long March."
At first, Zhou Huiru was afraid of causing trouble for her son-in-law, so she would rather sweep toilets on the streets of Shanghai for the rest of her life than come here. As long as her daughter, son-in-law, and son could live a good life, she and her husband would be content.
But later, Lu Changzheng found his comrade-in-arms and came to his house every few days to do ideological work. In the end, Liu Yongnian slapped his knees and comforted her with a look of understanding: "Forget it, we are already this age, and we can still live for decades. Since my son-in-law is willing, he also said that we are following the formal procedures and are not afraid of investigation. Since it will not cause trouble for him, then let's go. We can see our children and grandchildren more throughout the year, and the life will not be in vain! Besides, we are going there to engage in construction and land reclamation. As long as we work hard and do our job actively, and don't give people a chance to talk about us, it will be fine!"
Liu Meiyu knew that Liu Yongnian and his wife were cautious and afraid of causing trouble to others, and this nature would probably never change in their lifetime.
Since she had occupied the original owner's body, she had the obligation to take good care of her parents. However, given the current environment, it seemed that there was very little she could do except say some comforting words to reassure them. Fortunately, Lu Changzheng had silently done a lot for her.
After eating the dumplings and chatting for a while, it was time to wash up and get on the kang.
Since giving birth, Liu Meiyu's biological clock has to follow the three children. She has to wash up early every day and go to bed to rest for a while, otherwise she has to get up in the middle of the night to feed the children, and she doesn't get enough sleep in the day.
After washing his feet, Lu Changzheng quickly poured out the water. As soon as he got on the kang, a warm body threw itself into his arms.
Liu Meiyun hooked her arm around the man's neck, her eyes full of tenderness: "Why don't you tell me anything?"
Lu Changzheng's heart was pounding, and he pulled the man into his arms, his voice low and hoarse: "How can it be considered a surprise?
Liu Meiyun had no way to refute. Seeing the love in the man's eyes that was about to overflow, she had no choice but to give herself to him...
It was a rare occasion when his wife took the initiative, and Lu Changzheng acted like a little schoolboy, with a silly expression.
Just as I was closing my eyes and immersed in it, there was a "wow" sound from the side, and the deafening wails began.
Liu Meiyun woke up in time, pushed the man away, and looked to the side, "Dabao is crying."
Lu Changzheng panted and said irritably, "He must be hungry. It's always him who cries when he's hungry."
He doesn't know how to be considerate and caring to his father at all!
Liu Meiyu glanced at him and said, "Nonsense, a child this old doesn't cry when he's hungry, then you should cry!"
After bringing Dabao over and feeding him carefully, Liu Meiyun touched his diaper and said, "He peed again. Go and change his diaper quickly."
After she had shown tenderness just now, Liu Meiyu returned to her usual rational and decisive self and called the child's father without any hesitation.
Lu Changzheng pouted, calmed down for a while, and then stood up impatiently. Seeing Dabao working hard in Liu Meiyun's arms, he couldn't help but poke the little boy's chubby face with his finger and said unhappily: "You are really good, you always go against your old man!"
After feeding Dabao and changing his diaper, Lu Changzheng thought he could finally have some peace and quiet. However, just as Liu Meiyu put Dabao back on the kang, the second baby next to him started humming again.
After all the hard work, Liu Meiyu also felt sleepy and yawned, "Go to bed quickly, you have to get up early tomorrow."
"Wife~" Lu Changzheng looked aggrieved, his face full of unwillingness and reluctance. Liu Meiyu pretended not to see it, covered herself with the quilt, and ignored him.
On New Year's Eve, Lu Changzheng and his family went to the post office early in the morning to call their grandfather to wish him a happy new year, and in the evening the family had a reunion dinner together.
Mother Wu closed the door and cooked a table full of sumptuous dishes, which stunned Liu Yongnian and his wife and made them feel nervous.
Later they found that there were not many people on the island that day. Everyone just closed the door and ate in their own rooms. Especially since Liu Meiyu's yard was remote, anyone coming could be seen from far away in the yard. Xiao Hei was also alert, so the couple felt relieved and had a festive look on their faces.
The whole family sat around a simple wooden table with a charcoal brazier burning under the table. The triplets woke up this time but they didn't cry, they just stared at each other in the basket.
Liu Yongnian drank the white wine poured by his son-in-law. His stomach felt burning and his head was dizzy, but he was happy. Looking at the table full of delicious food and wine, as well as his daughter, son-in-law and their family, the fire in the charcoal basin seemed to burn into his heart.
In all these years, he has never felt so happy as he did today.
"Have the triplets been named?" Liu Yongnian drank a glass of wine and looked at the triplets in the basket. The smile lines at the corners of his eyes deepened a lot.
Zhou Huiru kicked him from below, "Grandpa Changzheng will definitely take it away, why are you worrying about it!"
"Dad, Mom," Lu Changzheng said with a smile, "Grandpa asked Meiyun and I to choose one ourselves. We were thinking about it. I thought of several, but Meiyun was not satisfied with any of them."
What Lu Changzheng said was absolutely true. Liu Meiyu was puzzled. Logically, the grandfather was the one with the highest scores in the family, so she must have asked him for the names of the three boys. However, when she called the grandfather, he became embarrassed and just let her and Changzheng choose the names themselves and just tell him when they were done.
Let Lu Wan-chun take it, but she declined.
"Oh?" Liu Yongnian ignored Zhou Huiru and just smiled and asked Lu Changzheng: "What names did you two choose? Let me hear them."
Lu Changzheng first glanced at his wife, then carefully said a few names: "Lu Jianjun, Lu Hongqi, Lu Zhenhua..."
Liu Yongnian took a sip of wine and said, "It's pretty good."
"Dad, the name is good." Liu Meiyu disagreed, "But ask Changzheng, how many Jianjun and Hongqi there are on our island? Even Deputy Battalion Commander Song's youngest son is named Song Jianguo, but there are at least four or five people on the island named Jianguo. Only those who can't name him have been calling him by his nickname Jinbao."
And if he's called Lu Zhenhua, even Liu Meiyun can't do that. She's watched "Love in the Rain" several times, and the "Lu Zhenhua" in the drama had nine wives in a row...
"Yes, it's too inconvenient to have the same name." Lu Wanjun also nodded and looked at Zhou Huiru and her husband: "Why don't you try to give me a name? I've been thinking for a long time, but I can't think of a particularly good one."
As for why the old man was unwilling to give a name, Lu Wanjun knew something about it. Most of the names that Chang Zheng just mentioned were names that the old man came up with after racking his brains, and then he rejected them all in the name of Lu Changzheng.
Lu Wanjun herself also felt that it was inconvenient to call someone with the same name so many times, so it would be better to choose a more unique name.
As for the people sitting in this room, no one can compare to Liu Yongnian in terms of knowledge, but he is someone who can teach college students.
"He's a math teacher, how can he be that cultured?" Zhou Huiru poured cold water on him, but still felt that the triplets should be named after the grandfather.
"Who said I'm uneducated!" Liu Yongnian was drunk at this moment, and felt a little dizzy. He picked up the chopsticks, dipped them in some white wine, and started writing on the table with shaking hands.
Others couldn't see clearly either, they just heard him mumbling in a daze: "The eldest is Lu Yunzhong, the second is Lu Yunhua, the third is Lu Yunsheng!"
"Zhonghuasheng!" Lu Wanjun's eyes lit up, "What a good name!"
It sounds like three brothers, and it’s so meaningful.
Lu Changzheng also liked it, so he turned around and asked his wife for her opinion.
"That's good. Let's call them that." Liu Meiyu made the final decision. She really had no objection to these three names given to the children by their grandfather. When people knew about the three brothers, they could tell that these names were chosen by cultured people!
Just when everyone at the table was praising the triplets' names, Liu Yongnian suddenly fell drunk at the table, muttering to himself, "Zhonghuasheng! Zhonghuasheng..."
The man who had always been gentle and modest, lost his composure at this moment, hot tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes, his face full of endless emotion and helplessness.
"Your father is drunk. I'll help him go back and let him rest first." Zhou Huiru felt a lump in her throat and said to Liu Meiyu in a casual manner.
"Mom, let me do it." Lu Changzheng was very perceptive and quickly took over the job, taking his father-in-law back to the room to lie down.
"You must be so happy to see your three little grandchildren." Lu Wanjun was afraid that Liu Meiyun would feel sad, so she picked some food from her bowl and changed the subject: "Tomorrow you and Changzheng should go and register the children's household registration. And send a telegram to Grandpa to let him know. You can also call him. Didn't the post office on our island just install a telephone? It's a good time to go and try it out."
"Yes, yes, yes, life on the island is becoming more and more convenient now." Mother Wu also sighed with a smile.
"Okay." Liu Meiyu nodded and said nothing.
Seeing Liu Yongnian like this, she felt bad. From the names he gave to the triplets, it was clear that he must have a lot of ambitions in his heart, but there was nothing he could do now...
Wait a minute!
Liu Meiyu sighed deeply, it will be fine in a few years!
The three brothers in the basket next to them were probably bored. When they heard the adults talking, they moved their eyes around but could only see the gray earthen walls and roofs. They became unhappy and started with Dabao, performing a trio. They quickly pulled Liu Meiyu back to reality from her melancholy. She and Wu Ma each held one child in their arms and kept coaxing them.
New Year's Eve in 1970 ended with the crying of the eldest triplets Lu Yunzhong, the second Lu Yunhua, and the third Lu Yunsheng.
Liu Yongnian and his wife only spent the New Year reunion on the island, and asked Lu Changzheng to take them to the farm to report before dawn.
In order to avoid giving others a chance to talk about them, the couple went to the farm early and stayed at home during the few days they were on the island. As a result, no one on the island knew that Liu Meiyu's parents had been there. They just thought that it was Lu Wanjun who brought them to the island and they all thought they were relatives from the Lu family.
As soon as the New Year ended, Liu Meiyun's daily life was spent on feeding and taking care of the baby and losing weight. She didn't need to think about anything else!
After traveling through time for so long, she has gotten married, had a baby, her younger brother is going to school, and the original owner's parents are also settled. Thinking about it this way, it seems that now apart from eating, drinking and taking care of the baby, there is nothing else for her to do.
Besides, she doesn't have to take care of three kids alone.
Sometimes, Mother Wu and Lu Wanjun would be so cruel as to only feed the three brothers milk powder, give them a holiday, and let Lu Changzheng take them out for a walk to relax.
Liu Meiyun was not polite to Lu Wanjun.
She didn't want to stay at home all day breastfeeding her baby, and mainly because she had lost weight again, and she could finally wear the white sweater in the closet to show off.
"Let's go watch a movie. I heard there's a movie showing on the island tonight. Go early and save me a front row seat. I don't like people walking around in the back in front of a crowd." Liu Meiyu looked at herself in the mirror again and again. Her long hair, which had been inconvenient to cut during pregnancy, has now grown longer. She tucks it behind her ears and divides it into a few strands in front of her forehead, giving her a lazy look.
Lu Changzheng was so mesmerized by the sight of his wife that he thought she looked prettier the more he looked at her.
However, beauty requires a price to be paid, and Lu Changzheng has witnessed this in Liu Meiyun.
For several months, I got up with him and did the "slimming exercises" in the yard by myself. Except when it was windy and rainy, I never slacked off for a single day. I had to practice again in the morning and before going to bed. Even when I was breastfeeding, I would hold the baby on the kang and do leg stretches!
This level of self-discipline really makes him admire her.
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