Since the three brothers got back on track and went to kindergarten on time every day, Liu Meiyun has had more and more free time except for picking them up and dropping them off several times a day.
And sometimes I can't get up in the morning, so I just ask the children's biological father or their aunt to take them to school.
She had nothing to do at home, so she did some housework. In her free time she would make snacks for the children, or write or read newspapers. When she had free time, she asked Lu Changzheng to turn over their private plot in the yard, intending to plant some flowers or something.
They have lived on the island for many years, but their private plot has never been touched.
In the past, because of the triplets, I was so busy every day that I had no time to work on my own land, let alone pull out the weeds.
Lu Changzheng knew that his wife wanted to plant flowers, so he was very diligent and not only turned the soil, but also found some easy-to-grow flowers from the villagers' homes and the back hills on the island and helped transplant them. Lu Wanjun also liked these flowers, and it only took the three of them a few days to transform the bare yard into a new look.
Looking at the vibrant flowers and plants every day makes me feel better.
"Oh, your house is so beautiful."
Liu Meiyu was squatting on the ground shoveling soil. When she looked up, she saw an old lady in a headscarf holding a plate of peanuts. There was a little boy beside her who looked about the same age as their triplets.
"Auntie, who are you?" Liu Meiyu stood up and saw that the two people looked very unfamiliar. She thought they were military dependents from the newly built family compound.
"I am Sun Aiguo's mother." The old lady handed the peanuts to Liu Meiyun and said with a smile, "I just came from the countryside and plan to stay for two days. This is my youngest grandson, from the family of Aiguo's eldest brother. He is now adopted by Aiguo, so I brought him out to meet people. I heard that your triplets are the same age as my son Shenggen. What a coincidence! In the future, we will have someone to play with."
The old lady took her grandson by the hand and stared at the flower garden. She praised the flowers for being beautiful, but in her heart she did not quite like them.
The city wife I married is so troublesome. She doesn't grow vegetables on such a nice private plot, but instead grows those things that look good but are useless.
Her Aiguo daughter-in-law is the same. She lets her private plot of land grow weeds and refuses to plant a few handfuls of green onions. She sits at home doing nothing all day and waits for her son to serve her. The key is that she doesn't even lay an egg, which makes her very angry!
The family of the battalion commander Lu at least gave birth to three boys in one go!
"My three children are still in kindergarten. Please come in and sit down. I'll pour you some water." Liu Meiyu stood up, took off her gloves, brought a stool to the person, and went to the house to pour water. She also grabbed two pieces of fruit candy and gave them to the children.
The child's eyes lit up when he saw the fruit candy. He looked at his grandmother, then took it and put it in his pocket. Without saying thank you, he sat close to his grandmother and reached out to grab the peanuts on the plate to eat.
He threw the peanut shells on the ground like a hamster, and in a short while he had eaten most of the plate of peanuts they brought.
Liu Meiyun didn't say anything when she saw this, she just smiled at the old lady and said, "Auntie, you came to see Deputy Head Sun, so stay for two more days. It's hard to come here from such a long distance."
If the old lady hadn't introduced herself, Liu Meiyu would have almost forgotten Bai Ting's family.
Captain Sun was promoted to deputy regiment commander last year. If it were Bai Ting in his place, she would definitely have to show off in front of him.
I don't know if Bai Ting lost her job or was scared by the last incident with Zhao Lanlan, but since then, she has become a different person. She doesn't interact with anyone on the island every day, and no longer goes around brainwashing people. She acts as if she doesn't know me when she sees me.
"I have to stay for more than two days this time!" Aunt Sun kicked away the peanut shell that had fallen on the toe of her shoe. Just as she was about to chat with Liu Meiyu, she saw him slap his knees and hurriedly stand up.
"Oh, I still have porridge cooking in the pot, I'm afraid it will burn dry!" Liu Meiyu ran back to the kitchen quickly and stirred the porridge in the pot with a big spoon.
The old lady naturally followed him in and glanced around the room. She didn't find anything very grand. Then she took a look at the porridge in the pot and found that there were not even a few grains of rice.
Isn't it said that Captain Lu's family is well off? With so many mouths to feed, what's the use of just drinking this little bit of porridge?
The old lady stretched her neck to look into the room again, but saw that all the doors were tightly closed and she couldn't see what was inside.
"Why do you keep all the doors closed in broad daylight?" the old lady asked curiously while leaning against the stove.
"Why are you not locking it up when no one is around? If you're not paying attention, a dog could sneak in and poop or pee, and then you'd be too lazy to clean it up."
Liu Meiyun put down the spoon, covered the coal stove, took two eggs from the cupboard, stuffed them into the old lady's hand, and sent her away: "Auntie, I have to go to the kindergarten to pick up the children. Thank you for the peanuts."
There were only a few peanuts left on the plate that was delivered to her, but there were peanut shells all over the floor.
"Here, put all these in Shenggen's pocket and take them back to eat slowly." Liu Meiyu simply put the rest in the pocket of the old lady's grandson and took it away.
"No way, that won't work. This is for you. The peanuts we grow in our hometown are definitely better than the ones you have here." The old lady pretended to be polite but did not stop Liu Meiyu's actions.
"I still have a lot of peanuts at home. My children like to eat them. Eat more." After packing the peanuts, Liu Meiyu gave the plate away.
Without further ado, I just want to send him off as soon as possible.
It’s better to send this old lady back to Bai Ting to deal with her.
Liu Meiyu's intuition told her that although Bai Ting had been much quieter in the past year, there is a saying that goes, either explode in silence or perish in silence.
The old lady followed him to the door, then stopped and asked Liu Meiyun with a smile, "Captain Lu, I heard that you don't plan to have another child?"
"Auntie, what's wrong?" Liu Meiyu asked instead of answering.
I don’t know why this old lady who just arrived is concerned about her stomach.
"Well, I was thinking that if you don't plan to have children, your triplets' clothes when they were little probably won't be of much use. If they are kept in the closet for a long time, they will be easily eaten by worms. It would be a waste. Why don't you send them back to my hometown? I have young grandchildren there. They have a miserable life there. They don't even have cotton clothes to wear in winter. You and Captain Lu are kindhearted. If you are willing, I still have half a bag of peanuts. I will go home and get it for you."
The old lady looked at Liu Meiyu with a smile on her face, her small eyes full of shrewdness and greed.
It was impossible for Liu Meiyu not to admire him.
"Auntie, it's such a pity. My triplets' childhood clothes have already been sent to my parents' home!"
"Ah?" Aunt Sun frowned, and the look she gave Liu Meiyu was not as eager as before. "Isn't your brother grown up? Is there anyone in your family who can be of use?"
"It's useful. Life is not easy over there in my mother's family. Not to mention wearing cotton clothes, they can hardly even have one or two bowls of porridge throughout the year." Liu Meiyu made up the story.
Except for an uncle who is wandering abroad, all other members of Zhou Huiru's family are long gone.
But she would not give the old lady the old clothes of the three brothers in the closet at home at a bargain price.
The materials are all good, and the cotton inside is also good. Even if they are taken apart, they can still be made into two good jackets.
The old lady didn’t know whether her grandson from her mother’s family was living a miserable life or not, but she was not happy to give it to him anyway!
"Oh, is that so?" The old lady failed to achieve her goal and left with her grandson in disappointment.
After seeing the old lady off, Liu Meiyun did not go to the kindergarten to pick up her child. In the past two days, Lu Wanjun or Lu Changzheng went to pick up the child when they came back at noon, and she stayed at home to cook.
Taking a big broom, she began to sweep the yard. Looking at the peanut shells all over the ground, Liu Meiyu felt sorry for the child of that age. He couldn't learn good things from adults. She didn't know what kind of person he would become when he grew up.
Just now, when she was mixing rice porridge, the child secretly reached into the basket of eggs on the cupboard. Liu Meiyu handed the eggs directly to him and put them in her pocket.
When I was a kid, my grandmother saw me stealing eggs and no one cared, but what will happen now that I’ve grown up?
Liu Meiyu just felt it was a pity that such a young child might be abandoned in the future.
At noon, Lu Changzheng returned with his three sons and saw his wife tidying up the house. The kang was piled with old clothes.
"Wife, what are you doing?" Lu Changzheng stepped over the bag with his long legs and walked over.
"Mom! What are you doing?" Erbao stood at the door and spoke in his father's tone.
Liu Meiyun raised her head, with only her son in her eyes, and said softly, "Mom is packing your old clothes. Go wash your hands first, and you can eat soon. Today we will have salted duck eggs with white porridge. When uncle and aunt come back, we will have dinner!"
"Mom, Erbao loves eating salted duck eggs the most!" Lu Erbao happily went to the sink to find his older brother and younger brother to wash their hands.
Lu Changzheng went over and helped to stack the old clothes of his three sons on the kang. He felt a little jealous and said, "Wife, I am a little sad for you to do this."
"What's going on again?" Liu Meiyu didn't stop her hands and glanced at the puzzled man.
"Ever since you got these three, you've forgotten me." Lu Changzheng always liked to be straightforward and ask whatever he wanted to ask.
The resentment is real, and the unhappiness is also real.
After being married for so long, he hasn't changed at all. In his heart, his wife always comes first.
But his wife was obviously biased.
Liu Meiyun looked at the man in front of her who was almost 30 years old and was competing with her son for affection. She picked up Xiaobao's open-crotch pants and hit him on the head, "Captain Lu, are you ashamed? You will be 30 years old after the Chinese New Year, and your son is only a few years old. How dare you say such things!"
Lu Changzheng threw his open-crotch pants aside and said confidently, "I am still your man no matter how old I am. We are the ones who are going to spend our lives together. When our sons grow up, we don't know where they will end up. So shouldn't you pay more attention to me than to them? When you are too old to walk, who will carry you first, me or your three sons?"
Liu Meiyu had almost finished cleaning up. She rubbed her waist and sat down on the kang. The man automatically reached out his hand to help rub it.
While enjoying the man's massage, she did not hold back in her words, "Lu Changzheng, you have a really bad memory. You are six years older than me. If we can't walk, it should be you who can't walk first, okay?"
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"I'm in good health!" Lu Changzheng said firmly.
Liu Meiyun turned over and simply lay on the kang to let the man continue to massage her waist. She held her head with her hands and said in a relaxed tone, "I'm in good health, and you can calculate. When you are sixty, I will only be fifty-four. How can I not be better than you, an old man!"
"Who are you talking about? I'm your man!" Lu Changzheng felt so angry that he pinched Liu Meiyu's waist and pulled her.
Liu Meiyu kicked someone, and Lu Changzheng grabbed the person and "dealt with him".
After the two of them had been arguing for a while, Liu Meiyu ran out of energy. She panted and called for a stop. She grabbed the man by the collar and said, "Okay, I was just teasing you. Now let me tell you something."
"What?" Lu Changzheng was afraid that his wife was lying to him, so he grabbed her by the neck and refused to let go.
Liu Meiyu sat up, hooked her arms around the man's neck, and whispered a few words into his ear.
"Really?" Lu Changzheng's eyes lit up instantly.
"When have I ever lied to you?" Liu Meiyu patted the man's face and urged, "Hurry up, let me go. My aunt and the others will be back soon. It will be bad if they see me."
Lu Changzheng couldn't stop smiling. He hugged his wife and gave her a big kiss on the face before letting her get off the kang.
After putting on her shoes and tidying up her messy clothes, Liu Meiyu pointed to the two large packages on the ground and said to the man, "Please take them to the post office for me this afternoon and send them to my mother's farm. They are useless and take up space at home."
"Didn't you say before that you would keep it as a souvenir?" Lu Changzheng asked casually.
Liu Meiyu told him about Auntie Sun's visit today. "I didn't want to give it to Auntie Sun, but she reminded me that these things are just a souvenir in our house. Giving them to the children on the farm will make them more useful."
"Yes, wife, you are right!" Lu Changzheng nodded without hesitation.
Sun Aiguo's mother brought her adopted grandson to the island. Everyone knew that she was here to induce labor.
Bai Ting and Sun Aiguo have been married for so many years, and Liu Meiyun's child is already four years old, but there is no movement in her belly. Over time, not only Bai Ting has to be gossiped about, but even Sun Aiguo himself has received care from his old comrades in private.
"Aiguo, I don't care how you two discussed it. If you don't have children, you two will get a divorce and I will go back to my hometown and make a new one for you." Aunt Sun walked around the island and saw so many children running around on the island that her heart ached.
Her son is already in his thirties and still has no child, which makes her very anxious.
I used to be busy with farm work in my hometown and help my eldest son's family, so I couldn't leave. Now I finally had time to come over and found out that it wasn't the couple who couldn't have a baby, but her daughter-in-law from the city who didn't want to have a baby at all!
Sun Aiguo lowered his head and sat in the room without saying a word. Bai Ting threw the book on the table beside him and said angrily, "Old lady, Aiguo and I are in a military marriage. You can't divorce whenever you want. This is not your hometown village. You can do whatever you want. If you instigate Aiguo and me to divorce again, we will go to Leader Aiguo to reason with him!"
"You!" Aunt Sun was so angry that her face turned blue. The Bai Ting in front of her was fierce and aggressive, completely different from the person she was when Aiguo first led people in.
Not getting any good treatment from Bai Ting, the old lady turned her anger towards her own son, "Aiguo! Look at the daughter-in-law you married! She doesn't lay eggs but still occupies the nest, and she won't even call me mother. Is there any daughter-in-law like this in the world? And you don't care!"
"Mom! Don't worry about our affairs." Sun Aiguo looked tired.
"I'm your mother, why should I not do anything?" The old lady was furious when she saw her son being so useless. Then she looked at Bai Ting who was still sitting there reading a book.
"Get up now! Look, you read these crappy books every day, don't care about your husband, and don't have children. Our grandson's family owes you this life! You are torturing our patriotism and bullying an old woman like me!" The old lady tried to snatch the book from Bai Ting's hand fiercely, but Bai Ting held it tightly. Not only did she fail to snatch the book, but she also fell to the ground during the pushing.
"Mom!" Sun Aiguo hurried over to help his mother up, "Mom, are you okay?"
"You bastard, you dare to hit me, an old woman. Come on, let's go find the leader to reason with him!" The old lady sat on the ground, crying and snotting, pointing at Bai Ting's nose and cursing, saying all kinds of dirty words.
Sun Aiguo also frowned and looked at his wife with an angry face, "Bai Ting, what are you doing? My mother is so old, can't you give in to her a little?"
"Sun Aiguo, if you don't have the ability, don't try to smooth things over here!" Bai Ting held a book in her arms and looked at the mother and son on the ground with cold eyes. She was not at all wrong to the crying old lady. "Old lady, don't make a scene in front of me. You said I hit you. Do you have a bump on your head? Go and complain. See if it affects me or your son's future. Who stipulated that you must have children after getting married? What if I don't want to have children? When your son married me, was it to live with me or to continue the family line for you, Sun's family? Ask him yourself? When we got married, did he tell me that we must have children?"
"Bai Ting! Stop talking!" Sun Aiguo looked painful.
When they first got married, he wanted to marry Bai Ting, and didn't listen to my mother and look for someone in his hometown. But when they got married, they didn't say they wouldn't have children.
Sun Aiguo didn't know why this happened to him. Wasn't it natural for him to get married and have children?
"Okay, I won't say anything." Bai Ting looked at the old lady on the ground and the child hiding in the doorway with a sarcastic smile. She said impatiently, "Sun Aiguo, send your mother back quickly. I don't want to see any of your eldest brother's child. He is only a few years old, but he is already stealing. There is one less biscuit in the box every day. Do you think I am stupid or blind? You taught him like this, and you still want to send him to me as a son. If you want a son, you can go to the orphanage and adopt one. Anyway, I won't raise any of your relatives. Who will he be when he grows up?"
"And you want to stuff these things made from folk remedies that even pigs wouldn't eat into my stomach. Are you trying to poison me to death? You want to find another one, right?"
Bai Ting easily knocked over a large pot of black stuff that the old lady had boiled in a medicine pot onto the ground, scaring the mother and son as well as the child at the door.
"Bai Ting! Don't go too far!" Sun Aiguo raised his palm with red eyes.
"Sun Aiguo, what's going on? You want to fight again? Try hitting me again!" Bai Ting picked up the fire tongs next to her, not afraid at all.
After just two years of being with the man, Bai Ting has gotten to know Sun Aiguo very well: he is a simple-minded man, lacks decisiveness in doing things, and is hesitant, fearing repercussions.
As expected, there are few responsible good men in the world.
She didn't meet him in her previous life, and when she traveled through time in this life, she met Sun Aiguo, who was also a hesitant person.
But Bai Ting is a pretty girl after all. She is not stupid and knows that if she had divorced Sun Aiguo before 1977, her life would have been difficult.
So I thought about living a good life with the man, or even adopting a child from an orphanage, at least until she took the college entrance examination in 1977 and went to college.
As a result, Sun Aiguo's mother brought her nephew from her hometown over and wanted to adopt him to them. She also forced her to drink some "child-bearing" medicine every day, which was a bit unbearable.
Sun Aiguo looked at his wife with an indifferent face and his old mother crying on the ground. His eyes were red and his hands dropped weakly. He seemed to have aged several years in an instant.
After a moment of silence, he closed his eyes and said in a tired voice: "Bai Ting, let's get a divorce. I agree to all the conditions you proposed before."
Bai Ting was stunned for a moment, standing there, looking at the man in surprise.
"What conditions! Son! What does she want? Let's get a divorce! We can't just give in to her!" When Aunt Sun heard that her son was willing to divorce, she wiped her tears, got up from the ground, and started asking.
"Mom, don't worry about it. Go wash your face first. I'll take you and Shenggen to the station tomorrow. I'll take care of here." Sun Aiguo helped his mother to the other side, poured her some water and wiped her face.
The old lady originally wanted to quarrel with Bai Ting, but when she suddenly saw a few white hairs on her son's head, her heart ached and tears fell silently.
Her son is only in his thirties and has just been promoted to deputy regiment commander. He obviously has a bright future, but he married the wrong wife. He has aged a lot in the past few years and he doesn't even have any children.
"Aiguo, mother won't make trouble. I'll listen to you and go home first. As long as you divorce this woman, I promise to find you a better-looking one." Old Mrs. Sun didn't know what conditions Bai Ting had proposed, but she thought that as long as the two could divorce, it would only be a loss of a hundred or eighty yuan. Her son now had such a lot of monthly allowance. As long as he got rid of the trouble, there was still a long life in the future. The most important thing was to hurry up and marry a new wife and have grandson!
"Son, what about the roots? Mother left this for you."
Sun Aiguo glanced at his nephew and shook his head: "Mom, you should take Shenggen back with you and let Big Brother and Big Sister-in-law teach him well. Petty theft is not allowed."
The old lady frowned, dissatisfied, but she held back and said nothing. She just glared at Bai Ting hatefully, wishing she could go up and scratch that disgusting face!
Sun Aiguo was exhausted after cleaning up the rotten stall at home. Thinking of the divorce conditions Bai Ting had mentioned before, he sighed and walked towards Captain Lu's house helplessly.
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