"Sister, Dabao is tearing up my homework book again!"
Liu Meiyu was cleaning the house when she heard her brother shouting in the yard.
"Then you take care of him!" she shouted back calmly.
Liu Bowen sighed and sternly taught Dabao: "Dabao, you can't tear up the notebook. Return it to me quickly!"
The eldest child pretended not to hear and picked up the homework book with his little hands and flipped through it curiously. When he found a page that was difficult to flip through, he would just pull it out.
"Lu Dabao!"
Liu Bowen snatched it away with a helpless expression: "I'm teaching you how to draw, please don't tear it up."
He has torn up four of his homework books this month. Liu Bowen doesn't want to keep rewriting them, so he takes out a half-finished pencil from his pencil case in frustration, "Dabao, come sit here, I'll teach you how to draw. Don't tear up your homework books in the future, or I won't take you out."
"Uncle, draw." Dabao sat over obediently.
Liu Bowen held Dabao's chubby hand and drew a rooster on the notebook. Dabao was very happy and said, "Meat!"
When I drew a flower, Dabao pouted and said, "There's no flesh!"
Erbao and Xiaobao, who were squatting on the ground playing with ants, heard Dabao excitedly shouting for meat. They thought that their uncle was giving the meat to Dabao and not to them, so they ran over and pounced on Liu Bowen. Xiaobao, on the other hand, tried to snatch the pencil from Dabao's hand without saying a word.
"Xiaobao!"
Liu Bowen was afraid that the pencil would poke his eyes during a fight, so he quickly snatched the pencil from Dabao's hand and put it away.
Who would have thought that this time he had poked a hornet's nest, and Dabao burst into tears.
The second and youngest babies next to them not only didn't get anything, but when they saw the eldest baby crying, they also felt aggrieved and infected the eldest baby.
"Sister!" Liu Bowen didn't know what to do now and called her sister in a headache.
Liu Meiyu came out with a broom and saw that when the triplets saw their mother, they all rushed over to her, crying louder than the other.
"Stop crying!"
Liu Meiyu was annoyed by the noise, but she simply ignored them and started sweeping the yard with a broom.
Recently, the three brothers would have a fight and cry loudly almost every one or two days. At first, Liu Meiyun and Wu's mother would comfort them one by one, but later they found that if they coaxed them too much, the three brothers would just go along with it and cry louder, so they simply ignored them.
Seeing that their mother ignored them, the triplets started crying again. They followed Liu Meiyu's butt with their short legs, grunting and looking aggrieved.
"Sister, Erbao's snot is about to fall into his mouth!" Liu Bowen shouted anxiously. Seeing that her sister looked calm, she ran back to the house and tore some paper to wipe Erbao's nose.
Even without mom's comfort, there's uncle's. Erbao took advantage of the pole and fell into his uncle's arms, with his snot all over his uncle's clothes.
"It's so dirty!" Liu Bowen looked disgusted. After wiping the second baby's nose, he went to check on the eldest and the youngest.
"Sister, why don't you comfort them?"
Crying all the time is too noisy!
"How do you coax her?" Liu Meiyu asked back, "I've coaxed her now, but I have to start again later."
She has nothing to do all day but to appease these three little guys.
Liu Bowen thought about it and felt that what his sister said was correct, so he turned around and sat back on the bench to do his homework.
In the room, Mother Wu saw the triplets crying so hard and wanted to comfort them, but when she saw Liu Meiyu shaking her head at her quietly, she went back to her work.
"Meiyun, your house is so lively!"
Wang Xiuying was holding Niuniu's hand. Before they even reached Liu Meiyu's house, they heard the crying of the triplets from the other end of the path and shouted towards them with a smile.
"Sister Xiuying, what a rare guest." Liu Meiyu put down her broom and went up to greet her.
Seeing Niuniu carefully stepping on the stone potholes on the path, she was not at all timid. She smiled and let someone pick her up and walked towards her home, "Niuniu, have you eaten yet?"
"Niuniu is eating!" Niuniu was held by the beautiful aunt. She was not noisy at all and answered with a sweet smile.
"Then Auntie will find you some candy, okay?"
Niuniu's eyes sparkled as she wanted to nod, but she saw her three younger brothers crying in the yard. She frowned and shook her head, saying in a baby voice, "My younger brother is crying. Give him the candy."
"No candy for crying children." Liu Meiyu was holding Niu Niu. The triplets cried and clung to her legs, trying to be held. Lu Xiaobao even sat on her feet and clung to them like a monkey, making it impossible for Liu Meiyu to move.
"Mommy, hug me!"
"mother!"
"Wow..."
Not to mention Liu Meiyu, even Wang Xiuying was scared when she saw this scene.
"Bo Wen, help me get some candy for Niu Niu." Liu Meiyu looked calm. Since she couldn't walk, she dragged Xiao Bao slowly. Anyway, she would not compromise.
"Oh!" Liu Bowen put down his pencil, ran back to the house and grabbed a handful of fruit candy.
"Come, Niu Niu is the best and most obedient. Auntie will give Niu Niu some candy." Liu Meiyu peeled the candy wrapper for Niu Niu and fed it into her mouth. The little girl first looked at her mother, and when she saw that her mother had no objection, she opened her little mouth and pursed her lips sweetly, her long eyelashes fluttering, looking extremely cute.
The triplets cried and waited eagerly for candy. But when they saw their mother put all the remaining candies into Niuniu's pockets and left no candy for them, they became anxious.
Especially the foodie Xiaobao, who kicked his legs and sat on the ground, crying and protesting, "Bad Mom! Bad Mom!"
Erbao saw Xiaobao sitting on the ground crying, and he followed suit.
Dabao didn't roll on the ground, but he cried the most sadly. He kept pulling with his little arms, trying to pull Niu Niu out of his mother's arms and not allowing her to hold other children.
"Meiyun, please comfort the baby." Wang Xiuying couldn't bear to watch it any longer and wanted to pick up the little baby from the ground. However, she didn't expect that the little guy was so strong that as soon as she picked him up, he just lay on the ground and thrashed around.
The yard of Liu Meiyu's house was not paved with cement, and the ground was covered with dirt. When Xiaobao jumped up and down, his clothes rolled up and were unsightly.
"It's okay, sister-in-law, don't worry about him." Liu Meiyun suppressed the anger in her heart and asked Wang Xiuying: "Sister-in-law, it's rare for you to come to my place, what's the matter?"
Wang Xiuying saw that Liu Meiyu really didn't intend to care and even had the mind to amuse her own daughter, Niu Niu. It was the first time she met such a careless mother. The corners of her mouth twitched, but she had no choice but to tell Liu Meiyu about serious matters amid the crying of the child.
"There are two vacancies in the supply and marketing cooperative. They were temporarily arranged for two military wives to take over. One stayed, but the other was too busy at home, so another vacancy was created. The higher-ups considered it comprehensively. Although you have three children, you have Mother Wu and Doctor Lu to help you take care of them. Besides, the supply and marketing cooperative is not far away, so you can bring your children to work. Didn't Zhao Chunmei do the same before? There is no space in front of the door, so you can put the children in the yard to play, and it won't affect your work. I just came here to help and ask your thoughts."
In fact, everyone is jealous of the position of salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative on the island, but not everyone can do it. If Liu Meiyu had not made great contributions in catching spies some time ago, and had not been smart and outgoing, this vacant position would not have been hers.
Liu Meiyun's eyelids twitched. She glanced at Erbao and Xiaobao rolling on the ground, and Dabao hugging his thigh and howling. She shook her head and said, "Thank you for coming here, sister-in-law. You can see that my three sons and daughters have no job. Besides, Mother Wu is going back to her hometown next year. I will have to look after the house by myself, and I will be even busier."
Wang Xiuying was stunned, "Mother Wu is leaving?"
"Yes," Liu Meiyu nodded, "Grandpa Changzheng is getting old, he can't be alone."
"That won't work for you. It's a pity to miss such a good opportunity." Wang Xiuying felt sorry for Liu Meiyu. This time she got such a good job because of her meritorious service. She didn't know when she would get the next one.
The placement of military wives on the island has always been a difficult problem. There is only one place for every resident, and all that can be placed is already filled.
"Meiyun, are you sure you want to give up?" Wang Xiuying asked again, worried.
If this job fell on someone else, even if they were too busy, they would probably feel entangled and regretful for a while. But seeing that Liu Meiyu didn't hesitate at all and refused so straightforwardly, she felt a little envious.
If he wasn't confident and had no worries about money, how could he be so carefree?
"Sister-in-law, I'm really too busy. Let's leave this opportunity to someone else. But I'm very grateful to the organization for taking care of me. If it weren't for these three guys, I would definitely go!"
She could still accept taking care of one child and working in the supply and marketing cooperative, but taking care of three children, especially these three little ones in her family, that was not working in the supply and marketing cooperative, that was simplistically tearing down the supply and marketing cooperative!
"Okay, then I'll report your answer to my superiors, and the position will be passed to someone else." After getting the exact answer, Wang Xiuying didn't stay any longer. She took the little girl from Liu Meiyu's arms and went home.
"Goodbye, beautiful auntie!" Niu Niu played with the colorful candy wrappers and waved goodbye to Liu Meiyu in a baby voice.
"Goodbye Niuniu, come to Auntie's house again next time!"
Looking at the cute little girl, and then looking at her own home, she saw the second and third babies, who had stopped crying but were still rolling on the ground and refusing to get up, and the eldest baby, who was sobbing beside them. She really wanted to exchange her children with someone else!
"Mom, don't let Niuniu!" Dabao pouted, tears hanging on his eyelashes, and cried very aggrievedly.
Liu Meiyun wiped his tears, picked him up, and deliberately sang the opposite tune: "But Niuniu is very good."
"Dabao is so good!" Dabao buried his head in his mother's arms and hugged his mother's neck tightly with his little arms.
"But you're not a good kid when you tear up your uncle's homework."
Dabao sobbed and said nothing.
Liu Meiyun asked softly, "Will you tear it up again next time?"
"I won't tear it anymore." Dabao shook his little head and answered in a baby voice.
"This is a good child." Liu Meiyu kissed the little guy and wiped his face with a handkerchief.
After coaxing one of them, I looked at the other two on the ground. They were no longer crying, but were still rolling around and sulking.
Erbao rolled on the ground for a long time, and when he saw that his mother didn't come to hug him or comfort him, but only hugged his brother, he got angry for a while, but unwillingly got up from the ground again, and sadly went to Liu Meiyun: "Mom! Hug me!"
"Don't cry anymore?" Liu Meiyu asked.
Erbao nodded.
"Will you roll on the ground next time?"
Erbao shook his head.
"You are too dirty. Mommy won't hug you." Liu Meiyu said in disgust.
Erbao pouted and was about to cry again. Liu Bowen couldn't bear to watch it anymore, so he quickly came over and brushed the dirt off Erbao's body.
Liu Bowen: "Sister, why are you different from other mothers?"
"What's different?"
"Hmm..." Liu Bowen thought about it, but didn't know how to describe it.
Anyway, he saw other mothers raising children on the island, and they were not like his sister, who just let their children roll on the ground.
"Go and pull Xiaobao over to me." Liu Meiyu wiped Erbao's face and saw that Xiaobao was rolling towards the path like a caterpillar. She quickly asked Bowen to help catch him.
"Xiaobao!" Liu Bowen ran over, and Boss Fei vigorously picked him up from the ground.
"No, no, no!" Xiao Bao struggled with all his might, holding his breath, kicking his legs, swinging his arms, and shouting, "I want Daddy! Daddy!"
Among the three brothers, Xiaobao was the most obedient and the least troublesome when he was young. As long as he was full, he would play by himself and would smile at adults from time to time. However, as he grew up, he became the one with the most stubborn temper among the three brothers.
"Okay, Lu Xiaobao, your dad is back! From now on, you should live with your dad and don't look for your mom anymore!" When Liu Meiyu saw the army green figure on the path, she ignored Xiaobao.
She takes care of the three brothers 24 hours a day, but she is still not as good as Lu Changzheng who only comes back to play with them for a few hours a day!
"Lu Xiaobao, your butt is about to burst, roll on the ground again!"
Lu Changzheng has already lost count of how many times this has happened this month. Except for Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao have been addicted to rolling on the ground recently. Their clothes are torn every other day, and Mother Wu never comes to mend them. Moreover, he has to wash the dirty clothes at night.
I used to wash diapers every day. Now I finally taught the three brothers to poop and pee on their own, but now I have to wash clothes every day.
When Xiaobao saw his father coming back, he struggled to break free from his uncle's arms and rushed over, thinking that he was going to be hugged. Instead, what awaited him were two "slap" sounds, the sound of a spanking.
"Lu Xiaobao, you keep rolling on the ground every other day. Do you want to piss off your mom or tire your dad out?"
Xiaobao was beaten and opened his mouth to cry. Lu Changzheng directly lifted him upside down and put him on his shoulder as if to throw him out. "Are you still crying?"
"Dad! Feifei!"
The little baby lay on his father's shoulder, feeling dizzy. He forgot why he was crying and excitedly raised his little arms to fly.
With Lu Changzheng returning to take over, Liu Meiyun was happy to have some free time. She went back to the room to change clothes for Dabao and Erbao, and then left the care of Xiaobao to him, since he didn't care about her as a mother anyway!
Even during dinner, Xiaobao stayed in his father's arms, calling him "Dad" all the time, as if to deliberately annoy Liu Meiyun.
But I can't sleep at night.
After preparing milk powder for the triplets, Liu Meiyun didn't want to take care of the children because she was on her period. She lay there with a hot water bag on her body, and left the task of washing the children's faces and feet to Lu Changzheng alone.
Usually the three brothers are taken care of by their parents, but without their mother's command and supervision, their father became clumsy. He forgot to wash the eldest baby's butt, touched the second baby's head, and made the youngest baby's eyes wet. After a long time of hard work, the three brothers finally lay on the kang with their bottles of milk.
Xiao Bao went to Liu Meiyun with a wronged look on his face, "Mommy, hug me!"
Lu Changzheng was brought back by someone, "Your mother is feeling unwell, don't bother her, just drink your milk and go to sleep!"
"Mommy, hold me!" Xiaobao insisted with his lips pouted, his eyes filled with tears.
"I told you your mom is not feeling well." Lu Changzheng frowned and was about to slap him on the butt. Liu Meiyun said weakly, "Put me next to you and sleep. Stop making me cry. It'll give you a headache at night."
Liu Meiyun was in a bad mood during the past two days when her period came. She was not as patient as usual. She opened her arms, picked up Xiaobao, and patted him to coax him. Seeing this, Dabao and Erbao beside her also threw themselves on Liu Meiyun as if they were occupying their territory.
Now I have three small stoves hanging on my body and there is no need for hot water bottles.
"Meiyun, you've worked hard." Lu Changzheng felt more and more distressed about his wife having to serve three little children at home every day.
He and his sister-in-law can only come back to take turns to help take care of the children at three fixed times in the morning, noon and evening. Mother Wu is old and cannot keep up with the three young children. She can help with cooking at home, but when Mother Wu returns to Beijing next year, most of the housework will have to be managed by Liu Meiyu alone. Lu Changzheng feels very guilty.
"Don't worry about it. Next year, when the three guys are three years old, they will be able to understand things and listen to what I say. It will definitely be less of a worry for us."
Liu Meiyu thinks that at least we can start to explain things to them slowly.
It’s not like now, where one side says something and the other side forgets, and we’ll have to do whatever happens next time!
"Besides, it's been so long, the three brothers need to be brought to the old man for a look."
So they planned to take the triplets with them when they sent Mother Wu back to the capital next year.
"Well, grandpa must be happy." Lu Changzheng also missed his grandfather a little.
"Let's go visit our parents at the farm some time. Bring them some New Year's goods, some warm winter clothes, and I've asked my comrades to get some medicine."
The man was thoughtful, and Liu Meiyu was of course happy. She raised her lips and patted him lightly on the face, praising him and saying, "Well done, Captain Lu is getting better and better at being a son-in-law!"
"That depends on whose son-in-law you are!" The man looked proud.
Liu Meiyu smiled: "Oh, who else do you want to be your son-in-law?"
Lu Changzheng: "It belongs to our parents!"
Lu Erbao was lying in his mother's arms with a bottle in his arms, not paying attention to his feeding. Seeing his mother slapping his father's face, he also took action and slapped his father's face without hesitation, saying with his pacifier in his mouth: "Hit Daddy!"
Manxin only had his daughter-in-law in his mind, Lu Changzheng, and for once his vigilance failed, and he was slapped hard by his second son.
“…”
"Mom doesn't hit Dad." Liu Meiyun moved her body lightly, signaling Lu Changzheng with her eyes to put Dabao and Xiaobao, who had already finished drinking milk and fell asleep, down. Then she held Erbao in her arms, patted Erbao's face gently, and explained: "Mom is praising Dad. Erbao can't hit Dad either. Hurry up and drink milk and go to sleep. Mommy also needs to go to sleep."
Liu Meiyu kissed the little guy, her voice soft.
The second baby closed his eyes, snuggled in his mother's arms with the bottle in his arms contentedly, smelled the sweet scent of his mother, and finally fell asleep gradually.
After finally waiting for the three children to fall asleep, Lu Changzheng put the three brothers to bed, then he stayed close to his wife and put a hot water bottle on her stomach.
The couple talked quietly for a while at night. When Liu Meiyu was about to fall asleep, she could still feel the man getting out of bed to change the water in the lukewarm hot water bag, and then gently warming her lower abdomen through her clothes.
The corners of Liu Meiyu's mouth curled up, and the tiredness of the day seemed to disappear miraculously.
But the next morning, when Liu Meiyun found that Lu Changzheng had not closed the drawer after finding clothes for the boy, all the tenderness and consideration that the man had shown the night before had turned to ashes in her eyes...
The triplets woke up early and caught up with the Long March. Sometimes they didn't have to do morning exercises, so he would just pick up the three brothers, help them wash and change clothes, and then take them out to play, so Liu Meiyun could also sleep a little longer.
She had slept in for less than a short while that morning but she felt the house was unusually quiet. Normally, even if the three brothers woke up and played outside, they would still be noisy and chattering when Mother Wu and Chang Zheng were watching them.
Liu Meiyu was able to doze off for a while while listening to the noise of the three brothers, but today it was suddenly quiet and she couldn't fall asleep.
I sat up in a daze, opened my eyes, and saw three little heads huddled in front of a large wardrobe opposite the bed, not making any noise or any disturbance.
"Dabao, Erbao, Xiaobao?" she called out.
"mother!"
"mother!"
"mother!"
The three brothers' baby voices, which sounded so well in sync with each other, made Liu Meiyu feel very satisfied. She was in a good mood when suddenly she saw something in the hands of the three brothers, a thin piece of something bright red. She was startled!
Without even bothering to put on her shoes, she jumped out of bed and snatched the things from the triplets' hands.
Seeing their mother like this, the three brothers seemed to realize that they were in trouble, especially Dabao, who was still holding half of the envelope in his hand. He quietly tucked his little hand behind his back and looked at his mother with a helpless look on his face.
"Lu Changzheng!!!"
Lu Changzheng, who was feeding Xiao Hei outside, heard Liu Meiyun's unprecedentedly loud voice calling him and hurried into the house, "Wife, what's wrong?"
Liu Meiyun took a deep breath and shook the remaining half of the "million-dollar stamp" in her hand. She was so angry that she said, "Why don't you close the drawer!!!"
Why! Why! Why!
She treasured her "The Whole Country is Red" four-piece stamp set so much that she hid it in the innermost part of a drawer, between the covers of books. When she woke up, only half of it was left, and it was covered with saliva from who knows which son of hers!
"Meiyun, I'm sorry. Aunt Wu went out to buy groceries. I was just dressing Erbao and he was making a fuss. I was afraid he would wake you up, so I took the clothes and left in a hurry, and forgot to close the door."
It was the first time that Lu Changzheng's wife got angry at him, and it was all over a stamp. He racked his brains but couldn't figure out the reason, but seeing his wife's fierce look, he didn't dare to ask.
"How about I go to the post office now and buy you two more?"
Lu Changzheng couldn't understand why his wife hid a mis-issued stamp in her drawer as if it were a treasure. He asked her about it before, but she told him that it was a hobby and told him not to ask any more questions.
But seeing how precious his wife is, he feels a little guilty now...
Xiaobao was particularly tactless. He spat the stamp fragments he had bitten off from his mouth into his mother's hands with two "Pah".
Liu Meiyu finally knew which son's the saliva on the half-stamp in her hand belonged to!
Her million stamps!
Just like that, on an ordinary morning, he was killed by four father and sons!
Liu Meiyun felt her heart bleeding...
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