Liu Meiyun led the triplets into the military auditorium, which was packed with people, all in green military uniforms.
The family area is at the very edge of the front row, and there are many military wives with children sitting there.
She was led over by Lu Changzheng and immediately saw Wang Xiuying, the wife of Political Commissar Zhou, who had been to their house for dinner before.
"Hey, Meiyun, come and sit here." Wang Xiuying waved to Liu Meiyun enthusiastically.
Liu Meiyun walked over and found her seat just near the stairs leading to the auditorium and next to the aisle, which was much better than being squeezed in the middle. This way, she didn't have to worry about the triplets making noise and disturbing others.
"Sister-in-law, this is your daughter, right?"
Sitting on Wang Xiuying's knees was a pretty little girl with two pigtails on her head. Her eyes were like grapes. She was extremely adorable.
"Yes," Wang Xiuying nodded with a smile, "The two boys at home are very naughty, so it's easier to bring Niuniu here."
Wang Xiuying has three children. The eldest and second are both boys, and the youngest is a concubine. There is no concept of favoring boys over girls in their family. On the contrary, because Niuniu is the youngest, she is favored more at home.
"Hello, Auntie," Niu Niu sat in her mother's arms and called out with a smile on her face.
"So cute." Liu Meiyu touched the little girl's braids with a look of envy on her face.
"Your three are the cutest ones," Wang Xiuying said with a smile, "When they came here just now, everyone was looking at your family with envy. Captain Lu is having a great time today."
Captain Lu, who was being envied, was grabbing the three boys onto chairs.
"Be good and sit here and play with mom. Dad will come to pick you up later. If you don't listen and make mom angry, you will see how I will deal with you when I get back." Lu Changzheng warned with a stern face.
The three brothers were still a little scared when they saw their father's stern face, so they sat down on the bench obediently. Dabao even nodded his head earnestly and promised his father: "Dad, we will be good and not make Mom angry."
"Good, very good." Lu Changzheng rubbed his three sons' heads with a look of satisfaction, gave Liu Meiyu some instructions, and then returned to his seat.
Wang Ying was surprised when she saw this, "These three kids in your family are very obedient."
"He can only listen for five minutes." Liu Meiyu sighed.
To prevent the triplets from running around after the five minutes were up, she took out an elastic rope from her pocket and tied it around the three brothers, holding the end of the rope tightly in her hand.
Wang Xiuying didn't quite believe it at first, but it wasn't even five minutes yet.
Erbao was the first to get restless. He twisted his little butt on the stool and soon put his feet on the ground. He walked over with a curious look on his face, staring at his daughter Niuniu with his big eyes, "Sister!"
"It's sister," Liu Meiyun corrected him, "Sister Niuniu."
Wang Xiuying's daughter Niu Niu is almost four years old. She is taller than the triplets, but she still has the nerve to call them her sister.
"Niuniu!" Erbao ignored her automatically and acted very familiarly, going up to pull the pigtails on Niuniu's head.
"Lu Erbao!" Liu Meiyu slapped his mischievous little hand away. Before she could scold him, she felt the rope on her hand tightened. Turning around, she saw Dabao and Erbao had already run to the side of the aisle, trying to get closer to the warriors who were sitting upright opposite.
"Dabao, Xiaobao, you can't go there!" Liu Meiyu pulled the two brothers back and put them back in their seats.
Turning around to see Lu Erbao next to him, he didn't run around, but he wasn't idle either. He came up to Niuniu, touched the small floral pattern on her skirt with his little finger, and said in a baby voice, "Huahua!"
She looked down to see if there was anything on her clothes, so she grabbed the edge of the person's skirt and tried to pull it off.
Niu Niu was wearing her favorite floral dress when she went out with her mother today. She didn't want her brother to pick at her, so she pulled her skirt back and turned over, leaving only the back of her head exposed to Lu Erbao.
Lu Erbao, who was so tactless, thought that Niuniu was playing with him, and he ran to the other side with his short legs to continue digging...
In the end, Liu Meiyun had to go over and pick the person up, and gave him a piece of biscuit before they calmed down.
The three brothers were able to calm down for a while because of the cookies. Wang Xiuying witnessed the whole process and gave Liu Meiyun a thumbs up in admiration: "You are really good. If I had three of them at once, I would collapse."
"Yeah, if no one helped me, I would have collapsed long ago."
Everyone who has come here has endless topics to talk about when it comes to children.
It was rare for the third baby to be well behaved at this moment. After Wang Xiuying finished talking about the child, she couldn't help but sigh in Liu Meiyu's ear: "You said that Zhao Chunmei and his wife are really unlucky. They have such a niece. Otherwise, she might be sitting here now."
"It's unlucky." Liu Meiyu nodded.
Because of this spy incident, Zhao Lanlan's uncle was transferred, and she didn't know where he went. The only thing she knew was that Zhao Lanlan was arranged to work on the farm. Not only that, Bai Ting, who had a good relationship with Zhao Lanlan on the island, was also implicated by Zhao Lanlan and was taken away for investigation for a period of time. Although there was nothing wrong after the investigation, she could no longer be a teacher in the school.
I heard that he stayed at home every day for the past few months and never went out. However, he had several quarrels with Captain Sun Aiguo and it seemed that the two of them even came to blows.
"Mom, it's hot!" Dabao couldn't sit still for a while because it was too hot in here.
"Hold on, Dad will be here soon." Liu Meiyu ended her casual chat with Wang Xiuying and turned her attention back to the three brothers, feeding them some water.
The auditorium was crowded and there were no fans, only a few large windows for ventilation. It was very hot right now.
"It's okay, it should start soon," Wang Xiuying comforted her while holding the child. "It seems that your Chang Zheng is the first one to go up to receive the commendation. When it's over, he will be able to come down and help you watch."
"That's good." Liu Meiyu only prayed that the three brothers could hold on until their father's commendation was over.
Fortunately, after a while, the commendation ceremony began with thunderous applause from the soldiers and their families.
The three brothers were quite well behaved at this moment, because it was new to them. They all tilted their heads, curiously watching the strange uncle on the stand talking, and even imitated him by clapping their hands.
But after just a few minutes, Dabao became impatient and was not interested in waiting to see his father at all.
"Mom, it's hot, let's go home." Dabao didn't like feeling sticky and his forehead was sweating. He felt uncomfortable, so he snuggled into Liu Meiyu's arms and asked to go home to cool down.
"It's almost there. Darling, just hold on a little longer and you'll be able to see daddy soon." Liu Meiyu hugged the little guy to her knees, covered him with her hands, and coaxed him with all kinds of persuasion.
Dabao felt hot and started to pull off his clothes, but his mother held his arms to prevent him from moving. He pouted and said aggrievedly, "Mom, even a little bird is hot!"
"Little bird is coming out to cool off!"
"Haha" Wang Xiuying next to her laughed out loud.
The sisters-in-law who were with their children in the front and back seats also laughed when they heard this. One sister-in-law even lent her palm-leaf fan to Liu Meiyun: "You go and fan the children first. My eldest child is playing right now and won't need it."
"Sister-in-law, thank you." Liu Meiyu took the palm-leaf fan and fanned Dabao, treating him like an ancestor. Only then did Dabao calm down and enjoy his mother's service contentedly.
Fortunately, when it was finally Lu Changzheng's turn to receive the award and give a speech, Liu Meiyun had just breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Xiaobao shouting excitedly at the top of his voice: "Dad! Dad!"
The hall was quietest when no one was talking, except for the slight noise of children in the family area.
But her Lu Xiaobao was not only strong, but also had a great voice. When he called out "Dad" twice, the soldiers sitting next to him all looked over, and even the senior leaders sitting in the front row all looked over here. But Lu Xiaobao was not afraid at all when being stared at by so many eyes. Instead, he pointed his little hand toward the auditorium and shouted in a very arrogant voice, "That's my dad!"
Lu Erbao slapped Xiaobao on the arm and argued unhappily: "He's my dad!"
"Xiaobao dad!" Lu Xiaobao slapped him back rudely.
The two brothers immediately turned against each other, calling each other "my dad" and fighting over who was their favorite. They pushed each other and raised their arms to start a fight, but Liu Meiyu quickly got carried away with a headache.
Feeling the "concerned" gazes from his comrades and leaders, Lu Changzheng stood in the auditorium a little awkwardly. After coughing twice, he pretended to be calm and began to speak.
The three brothers were like being controlled when they heard their father talking. The second and the youngest brothers snorted at each other and sat down obediently under their mother's stern expression. The eldest brother looked completely out of his mind. He was unhappy because he felt too hot. In his mother's arms, he whined to express his dissatisfaction as soon as the fan stopped.
Although Liu Meiyu didn't want to take her eyes off the handsome and tough man on the stage for even a second, the three guys around her wouldn't let her do that and kept talking non-stop.
Xiaobao: "Mom, Dad is talking up there."
Erbao: "Mom, why doesn't Dad pay attention to us?"
Dabao: "Mom, it's hot and the wind is too weak!"
"Hmph." Liu Meiyu had no choice but to take out some cookies from her pocket and give them to the three brothers. "Be good, don't bother Dad. Dad is talking. You are making so much noise. It's rude. Dad will beat you when he comes down. Mom doesn't like rude children. I won't stand for you to get beaten."
When Xiaobao got the biscuit, his big eyes were smiling, but his little head was tilted back. He asked in confusion, "Mom, who is the 'rude cat'?"
"You are the one who is rude."
"But I'm Xiaobao!"
“…”
After waiting for a long time for Lu Changzheng to receive the commendation on the stage, he was summoned by the leader. The three brothers Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao all asked her why their father had not come back yet.
Liu Meiyun hoped that Lu Changzheng would arrive earlier than they did.
After a while, Xiaobao finished his biscuits and couldn't sit still anymore, so he got down from the stool. Liu Meiyun thought he wanted more biscuits, but the child squatted on the ground. Liu Meiyun immediately became alert: "Is Xiaobao going to poop?"
Lu Xiaobao nodded, pinching his nose with his little hands and looking innocent: "Mom, Xiaobao is pooping!"
“…”
Liu Meiyun was suddenly overwhelmed. She had just helped the three brothers to poop and pee before going out, and was afraid that they would poop and pee too much, but what was coming still came.
Wang Xiuying was holding Niuniu and was also worried about her: "Meiyun, please take Xiaobao away quickly. I will help you take care of Dabao and Erbao."
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Liu Meiyu took her bag and pulled Xiaobao up from the ground: "Xiaobao, be good and bear with it for a while. Mommy will take you outside. You can't poop here."
"Poop!" Xiaobao was unwillingly pulled up by his mother, his little face wrinkled.
"Dabao, Erbao, Mommy is taking little brother to take care of Xiaoxiao and will be back soon. You two stay here and don't run around." Liu Meiyu forced the two brothers back to their seats, her tone anxious.
Lu Dabao was playing with a palm-leaf fan in his hand and nodded obediently. Seeing his mother's anxiety, Lu Erbao's little brain turned and his body escaped from control like a loach. While his mother was staring at Xiaobao, he ran to the side of the soldiers and shouted to the uncles in green military uniforms: "Lu Changzheng! Your son has pooped!"
"Hahaha……"
Since no one was talking in the auditorium at that moment, Lu Erbao's howl was immediately met with unanimous gazes and laughter.
Liu Meiyun was holding Xiaobao and was about to go poop when Lu Erbao did this to her. With so many eyes staring at her, she couldn't "roar like a lion". Xiaobao in her arms couldn't hold it in any longer and shouted "Mom, the poop is coming out!"
Just when she was overwhelmed, Lu Changzheng, who had been taken away by his leader for a long time, finally showed up. He ran towards the mother and her two children at the fastest speed, not caring about the laughter of his comrades behind him. He rushed over, picked up Lu Erbao and went to the toilet outside.
Liu Meiyun quickly stopped them: "It's your little son who wants to poop!"
Lu Changzheng paused, and the "culprit" Lu Erbao in his arms was still giggling, revealing a row of little milk teeth, which was both annoying and cute.
"Lu Erbao, don't imitate your mother's way of speaking! Daddy is going to take Xiaobao to poop now, I will deal with you when I come back!"
Taking Lu Xiaobao, whose brows were wrinkled like an old man, from his daughter-in-law, he ran out of the auditorium at full speed.
"Hey, get some paper!" Liu Meiyu hurriedly chased after him, not caring about her image at all.
When the commendation ceremony ended, Liu Meiyu sat paralyzed in a chair, exhausted.
Lu Changzheng took over her shift, with three naughty boys hanging on his body and a helpless look on his face.
"Captain Lu, you have really been in the spotlight today!"
Battalion Commander Lu, who was playing with his three sons, heard the voice of their commander and stood up from his seat and saluted.
Commander Chen nodded, holding the enamel pot in his hand, looking down at the three little carrots with a smile, "Not bad, after your encouragement, I'm afraid that the number of comrades on our island who will ask for leave to go home and get married will increase significantly in the near future!"
"Commander Chen, I'm sorry to have embarrassed you." Lu Changzheng scratched the back of his head, his face full of embarrassment.
He is not trying to show off today, he is trying to make a fool of himself.
If he had known this result earlier, he would have refused to listen to those old bachelors in the army and brought his son out to cause trouble!
"Haha." Commander Chen rubbed the head of Lu Erbao, who had just called him by his father's name, and turned his gaze to Comrade Liu Meiyu who was standing upright next to him: "I heard from Changzheng that Comrade Liu Meiyu also played an indispensable role in catching the spy this time."
The report submitted by Lu Changzheng was written very clearly. After reading it, the superiors were full of praise for the wife Lu Changzheng married.
"Report to the commander, this is what I should do!" Liu Meiyu stood upright and saluted, looking heroic.
She was wearing an old military uniform, looking clean and tidy. Although her clothes had wrinkles from carrying the child, she looked full of energy and spirit, with beautiful and delicate features. She didn't look like a mother who had given birth to three children at all.
Instead, it is just like when I was in the art troupe, full of vitality and sunshine.
Lu Changzheng was watching stupidly at the side, feeling a sense of happiness. Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao saw many people leaving the auditorium, so they couldn't stay there any longer and ran out one by one.
So Lu Changzheng was like an eagle catching chicks, catching one here and one there and holding them all.
Finally, Commander Chen smiled and said, "I don't think they can stay here. You can roast lamb legs in your camp tonight. Changzheng, why don't you bring your family over there to help? There are plenty of people there who are willing to help take care of your kids!"
Liu Meiyu originally thought that she could go home after the commendation meeting, but she didn't expect that Lu Changzheng's group had activities in the evening, so she was actually a little hesitant.
As soon as Commander Chen and the others left, Liu Meiyun said, "Why don't I just take them back?"
With so many people, a bonfire and lamb legs, the three brothers must be in a state of panic.
"Let's go together." Lu Changzheng's eyes sparkled, and he didn't care about Liu Meiyun at all: "When the time comes, leave the three of them in the group, and we'll play on our own."
Liu Meiyun saw the man looking at her eagerly. Although she was afraid of trouble, she still nodded: "Then you should also tell my aunt and the others, right?"
"I'll let someone talk to him." Lu Changzheng smiled contentedly.
In fact, he was not interested in lamb legs or anything like that, but his comrades all wanted to see the triplets, and he wanted to take Liu Meiyun to experience the atmosphere of the campfire and spend a different night with her so that he would have more unique memories when he gets older.
Lu Changzheng wanted romance, but Liu Meiyun was afraid of trouble.
When Liu Meiyu brought the triplets to the camp's large parade ground, she saw that the soldiers had already sat there and started singing songs.
The bonfire was burning slowly, the flames were dancing in the wind, the fat lamb legs were sizzling on the grill, and the atmosphere was lively.
"Captain Lu is here!"
When the soldiers saw Lu Changzheng coming with the triplets, they all whistled.
Lu Changzheng ignored them and took his wife and triplets to find a place for the mother and children under the largest bonfire, and then sat down himself.
Sitting next to Liu Meiyu was another military wife, who looked quite young. After they greeted each other, before they had time to chat about family matters, Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao started to protest and wanted to go out and play by themselves.
"Let them go. There are so many people here, how can they not take good care of the three children?" Lu Changzheng was very generous. He untied the elastic ropes on the three brothers. The three brothers ran in three directions like chicks out of a cage and disappeared in a blink of an eye.
Liu Meiyun was worried and looked around the crowd, but Lu Changzheng comforted her and stood up to shout to his comrades: "Single brothers in the camp, don't say I'm not generous. Today I'm lending you three brats so you can practice being fathers in advance. Take good care of them. If I can't take care of them, don't ask me to introduce you to a date in the future! You'll all be single for life!"
“…”
Who wants to be single all their life these days?
Especially when they saw the three chubby boys raised by the battalion commander, they were so jealous that they wanted to take them home to report to their mothers.
Liu Meiyun had participated in many outdoor group activities before, but this time she was in the best mood.
Although there were not enough lamb legs for all the soldiers to share, it was good enough if some of them had a little bit of oil flavor, and there were no roasted fruit snacks, but there were loud singing, touching military stories, comradeship and brotherhood, and parents' daily life trivia. Liu Meiyu soon liked this feeling.
The sky was full of stars, and she felt her heart suddenly warm up as she was with these loyal warriors who were guarding the motherland's territory.
One soldier took advantage of the flames and shouted to Lu Changzheng with a smile: "Captain Lu, you are now the role model of our entire battalion. It would be unreasonable if you don't perform a show for us!"
"Yes, yes, yes!"
"Captain Lu! Come on!"
"Come one!"
Lu Changzheng was only engaged in military training, so he had no talent to show, so he refused without even thinking about it.
The result was a sigh from the soldiers below.
"Captain Lu, why are you being so shy? Captain Zhu just performed his unique skills for us. Just do whatever you want!"
Lu Changzheng can do whatever he wants, he can't just go up and fight with him.
"If I tell you to sing, just sing. It's not nice to be shy!"
"Like what, like a grown-up girl!
Captain Lu, who usually looks majestic and awe-inspiring, was now being mercilessly mocked by his subordinates. He scratched the back of his head and just wanted to silence them.
"Don't you know how to play the harmonica?" Liu Meiyu remembered that Lu Changzheng seemed to have an old harmonica in the drawer at home, so she gave him some advice.
"Yes, yes, yes, Captain Lu, we haven't heard you play the harmonica before! Quick, quick, there are ready-made harmonicas here, give one to you!" The young soldier wiped the harmonica casually on his clothes and threw it to Lu Changzheng.
Lu Changzheng took the harmonica, glanced at his wife, and hesitated.
"Oh, I get it. Captain Lu's wife is from the cultural troupe. Captain Lu must be afraid of making a fool of himself in front of his wife. He's terrified! Haha!"
Someone in the crowd shouted something, and Lu Changzheng was laughed at again.
Liu Meiyu couldn't help laughing. Captain Lu, who was usually carefree, actually became shy when performing a talent.
"Let's go together!" She stood up decisively and dragged Lu Changzheng to the center of the crowd.
"Let's give you a show called "The Return of Target Practice"!"
"Good! Sister-in-law is still straightforward!"
Lu Changzheng blushed, and under the expectant look of his wife's eyes, he was forced to start his talent show.
"The sun sets in the west and the clouds are rising..."
When Lu Changzheng's stumbling harmonica accompaniment came out, Liu Meiyun knew why he was so shy, and his playing was really not that good...
But it was okay, she could sing, and not only she could sing, but all the soldiers in the military region could sing, and after just two verses, a chorus broke out naturally.
Although Liu Meiyu can't dance like the original owner, she can sing, especially military songs. She sang them for two months during military training in college and she still remembers them vividly.
"One more! One more!"
Lu Changzheng had never thought that his wife could sing so well. She had a sweet voice and looked gentle, but when she sang, every word was powerful, not at all dragging or soft, which made people's blood boil.
The soldiers below had not expected that Captain Lu played the harmonica so badly. His stuttering affected their enjoyment of the song, so they all coaxed him to go down and only urged Liu Meiyun to play another song.
Liu Meiyun was cheerful and sang two more songs in a row. She also invited a female soldier to join in the chorus with the other soldiers. The atmosphere was so harmonious that it seemed as if she had never taken off her military uniform.
Lu Changzheng sat down below, looking at his wife's pretty face shining beautifully in the reflection of the bonfire. When her bright eyes looked at him, his heart beat uncontrollably again.
It seems that one glance can make him lose his soul...
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