"Mom, this crispy meat is so delicious."
Liu Meiyu was cooking when she noticed that Lu Erbao beside her had secretly reached out his claws to grab the fried crispy meat from the bowl and put it into a paper bag, pretending to be indifferent.
"Lu Erbao, just eat it. Can you please not take it out?" Liu Meiyu slapped his little paws away.
Erbao pouted and said nothing. As soon as his mother turned her head, he grabbed the plate and put it into the bag again.
"Mom, I'm full and I'm going out to play!"
Erbao ran towards the compound with a bag of crispy meat in his pocket without waiting for Liu Meiyu's response.
When they arrived under the tree they had agreed on, Erbao took out the crispy meat his mother had just fried from his pocket and said, "Tiantian, try this! The crispy meat my mother made is delicious."
"Thank you, Erbao!" Tiantian ate the fragrant crispy meat with a satisfied smile on her face.
Seeing the two small holes on Tiantian's face, Lu Erbao curiously poked them with his fingers, "Tiantian, what's that on your face? Why is it different from mine?"
Erbao touched his face and confirmed that it was different. He didn't have it, and not only him, but his brothers and sisters also didn't have it.
"These are dimples." Tiantian's cheeks were puffed up, and she answered Lu Erbao proudly, "My mother said that only good-looking people have them."
"Yeah, Tiantian, you're pretty!" Lu Erbao nodded without hesitation, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "My mom is pretty, too."
Zhou Tiantian nodded in agreement, "Of course, Aunt Meiyun is the prettiest on the island."
"Hmm!" Erbao smiled happily, and together with Tiantian, they ate a piece of crispy meat one bite at a time and finished it in no time.
Tiantian sucked her fingers and said to Erbao enviously, "Erbao, you have so many delicious foods at home."
Erbao nodded his little head and said, "As long as my brother and I are well behaved, mom will often reward us with delicious food. I will bring you some next time!"
"Well, Erbao, you are so nice!"
When she thought about delicious food, Tiantian was extremely happy. She wished she could live in Erbao's house for a while so that she could eat delicious food every day.
"Haha, look, Lu Erbao is fattening his wife again!" Several children passing by saw Erbao and Zhou Tiantian chattering under the big tree, with some meat scraps on their mouths. They sniffed and smelled the aroma of fried meat.
"Haha, Zhou Tiantian, you are Lu Erbao's fat wife!"
The children circled around the two of them and laughed at them, with the leader even making faces and playing tricks on them.
Lu Erbao didn't know what a young wife was and was still confused. Zhou Tiantian, who was standing next to him, had red eyes and stood with her hands on her hips and shouted angrily: "You are talking nonsense! I am not a fat wife!"
Zhou Tiantian hates it most when people say she is fat, even though her father says she is just chubby and cute, not fat at all!
"You are the fat daughter-in-law. Look at you, you are the fattest among us!" The child made faces and was very proud of himself. He even pulled the little braid on Zhou Tiantian's head.
Tiantian stared with her round eyes and stretched out her claws to chase people.
"Don't bully Tiantian!" Lu Erbao pouted and stood beside Tiantian. The two of them shared the same hatred and shared the same enemy.
The child took one look and covered his gapping front teeth and laughed: "Look! Lu Erbao is protecting his fat wife!"
"Lulululu~Lu Erbao, shame, shame, shame~~"
“Don’t talk about Erbao!” Zhou Tiantian blushed and pushed the person away.
The child was not prepared and was pushed back two steps by her, hitting his head on a tree branch. He was so angry that he pushed Zhou Tiantian hard too.
Zhou Tiantian was pushed to the ground and she was about to cry. Erbao, who was standing next to her, saw that Tiantian was being bullied, so he pushed his head against her chest and punched her.
Among the group of children, Lu Erbao was the youngest, but he was well-nourished and his height was almost the same as the older children. However, they were outnumbered. Lu Erbao butted the people with his head and punched them a few more times before they could react. He then wanted to pull Tiantian and run away, but was stopped by the other two children.
Liu Meiyu was cleaning the house. Dabao and Xiaobao were sitting obediently on the bench, eating fried pork and reading their uncle's picture book.
"Mom! Wow..."
Erbao's crying suddenly came from the yard.
Liu Meiyu put down the broom and went out to see, only to see that Lu Erbao, who had just gone out with a bag of crispy meat to please the sweet Lu, was now running back crying with a look of ferocity on his face.
"What's wrong with you?" Liu Meiyu went up to him, hugged him and wiped his tears.
"Mom!" The second baby threw himself into his mother's arms and cried loudly.
Liu Meiyu hugged him to comfort him and saw several marks on Erbao's arms and his clothes were dirty.
"What's wrong, Erbao? Tell mom quickly, did you fight with someone? Or did you fall?"
Seeing that Erbao's hair was a mess, Liu Meiyu guessed that he had probably had a fight with someone outside.
As expected, as soon as Liu Meiyun finished speaking, Lu Erbao sobbed and hugged her thighs and said aggrievedly: "Mom, Erbao can't beat them, there are too many of them!"
"If you can't win, just run away." Liu Meiyu squatted down, wiped his tears and coaxed him, "Tell mom why you are fighting?"
"They bullied Tiantian and pushed Tiantian." Lu Erbao answered his mother with tears in his eyes.
Liu Meiyun patted her son's back to comfort him, checked if he had any other injuries, and consoled him: "Erbao is really brave, he was able to protect Tiantian, but fighting is wrong, you can't win, if you get hurt, mom will be so distressed, next time you encounter such a thing, tell mom and dad not to fight outside by yourself, understand?"
Lu Erbao cried so hard that he didn't know if he heard what she said or not. But after a while, he asked Liu Meiyun with tears in his eyes, "Mom, what is a little daughter-in-law? They said Tiantian is my little daughter-in-law."
“…”
This question really stumped Liu Meiyu.
She hesitated for a while, then explained to Erbao softly, "This is the person Erbao likes the most, and we can be together forever in the future."
"Then it's mom. Erbao likes mom the most." Lu Erbao looked puzzled.
Liu Meiyun was touched by her second son's sudden confession. She kissed Erbao on the forehead and said, "Apart from his father, mother, and aunt, there is only one girl who is the same age as Erbao."
"Oh, then I like Tiantian the most." Erbao finally understood a little.
But Liu Meiyuyun felt that he didn't understand.
But the person finally stopped crying, and Liu Meiyu didn't want to keep digging into the topic of young wife, not to mention that she didn't know how to explain this to a five-year-old child.
Seeing Erbao crying, Dabao and Xiaobao were very calm. They didn't care about the brotherhood at all. They grabbed the crispy meat from the plate and continued reading the picture book.
Liu Meiyu took Erbao to wash his face and change clothes, and applied some medicine to disinfect the broken skin on his arm.
Liu Meiyun thought this little episode was over.
It is common for children on the island to fight and have conflicts, no matter how old they are. The children are all playing outside, and no one will come to their parents for help every day when they get a minor injury.
At that time, it was popular to raise children in a free-range manner, and children were not as valuable as those in later generations.
But Liu Meiyu never expected that within two days, a parent would actually come to her door with his child.
"Captain Lu's family, I'm not saying this, but the three of you are too overbearing. The three brothers brought the daughter of Political Commissar Zhou to stop my son on the road and beat him up. Look at my son, his nose is bleeding."
A middle-aged woman, with a little boy covered in bruises, stood at the door of Liu Meiyu's house, and she was very angry.
Liu Meiyu didn't understand the situation yet, but she saw that the child was bleeding from the nose, so she quickly said, "Sister-in-law, my three family members haven't come back yet, and I don't know what's going on. The child is still bleeding from the nose. Why don't you take him to the hospital and stop the bleeding first."
After hearing what Liu Meiyu said, the woman snorted coldly and said, "I went to the hospital and the bleeding stopped. What about your family's debtors? Who will pay for the medical expenses? The three of you are so tyrannical. My son is only one year older than them, and look at how he got beaten. Is that how you teach your children?"
Liu Meiyun frowned, seeing that the child's nose was bleeding badly, and his mother grabbed his collar and refused to go to the hospital. Just for a few dollars of medical expenses, she hurriedly said: "Sister-in-law, you should take the child to the hospital first, and wait for me to catch my three boys back. If they really beat him, don't worry, I will definitely not reduce the medical expenses by a penny."
"Humph, Comrade Liu, you said it, don't lie!"
"Don't worry, I'm definitely not bad!"
After getting Liu Meiyu's guarantee, the woman angrily took her son to the hospital.
Liu Meiyu breathed a sigh of relief, hurried back to the house, got the key and went out to look for someone.
When the triplets were found, they saw the three brothers and Zhou Tiantian being trained in the small courtyard downstairs of Political Commissar Zhou's house.
Wang Xiuying was sitting on a low stool nearby, with a basin at her feet, picking beans. When she saw Liu Meiyun, she waved at her, "Are you here to pick up your son?"
"Yes, sister-in-law, did they fight?" Liu Meiyu stepped forward quickly.
The triplets, who were being punished by Uncle Zhou to do the horse stance, had tears on their faces. When they saw their mother, they cried out in grievance, but Liu Meiyu ignored them.
"That's right," Wang Xiuying nodded. "Your three are very capable. Three of them beat one, and the one they beat was a kid two years older than them. One of them grabbed his legs, and the other grabbed his arms. Xiaobao rode on him and punched him. He was so powerful. My old Zhou said that he was exactly like your battalion commander Lu."
“…”
Liu Meiyu didn't know that the child who was beaten today was the one who ran home crying a few days ago and said he had not been beaten.
Wang Xiuying sat there for a long time, and after getting some information from her daughter, she told Liu Meiyun, "Your Erbao is very vindictive. He got beaten up two days ago, and they beat him up alone. He has beaten people before, but today he is looking for his brothers and sisters to block them on the road. My Tiantian is also joining them to have fun."
Wang Xiuying was too embarrassed to say that her daughter Tiantian not only joined in the fun, but also took the opportunity to bite someone's arm.
The four children were united in opposing the outside world, and Wang Xiuying didn't know what to say.
After figuring out the situation, Liu Meiyu went to the hospital to pay the medical expenses, and also bought two cans of food from the supply and marketing cooperative as a gift to apologize.
Fortunately, the leader was not the kind of person who would hold on to things. He held the two cans and was quite satisfied with Liu Meiyu's expression and attitude.
But before leaving, he did not forget to remind, "Comrade Liu, these three kids of yours are only five years old and they already know how to bully the weak with their numbers. When your Battalion Commander Lu comes back, you must teach them a lesson, or else what will happen to them when they grow up?"
"Yes, yes, sister-in-law, I'm so sorry. I will teach them a lesson when I get back." Liu Meiyu has been through the time travel thanks to her three sons, but this is the first time she is not in the right position. She has to pay compensation and apologize.
After bringing the three brats back from Political Commissar Zhou’s house, they were punished one by one to reflect on their mistakes facing the wall.
Cyndi Lau: "Come on, Lu Dabao, Lu Erbao, Lu Xiaobao, tell your mother why you are fighting."
"Mom, I'm hungry." Xiaobao pretended to be stupid and acted coquettishly towards Liu Meiyu.
"Then leave it hungry. Disobedient children have no food to eat."
Lu Erbao pouted. Hearing that he had no food to eat was more uncomfortable than squatting. He immediately rebelled: "Mom, it was Erbao who brought me there!"
"Xiaobao!" Lu Erbao, who was standing next to him, was so angry that he pushed Xiaobao and said angrily, "You traitor!"
Xiaobao pursed his lips, and was so angry at what his brother said that he pushed back directly, making Erbao stagger, and retorted: "Xiaobao is not like that!"
"You are a traitor!"
"Humph, I'm not!"
The two brothers pushed each other, not caring that their mother was there to supervise them and to reflect on their mistakes, and they just hugged each other and started fighting.
Dabao was calm on the other hand. He still remembered that his mother was angry. He stood straight and ignored his two younger brothers.
Erbao and Xiaobao were fighting right in front of their mother, because of a disagreement. Liu Meiyu was sitting on the bench watching them, feeling tired.
"What's going on?" Lu Wanjun came back from the hospital after get off work, holding a basket of vegetables and a big goose, planning to feed your children in the afternoon.
"They've learned to fight." Liu Meiyu sighed, and went over to pull Erbao and Xiaobao apart with great effort.
When Lu Wanjun heard this, she was not surprised. She put the vegetable basket in the kitchen, found a cage to cover the goose, and said to the three children with regret: "I wanted to make you a pot of goose stew this afternoon, but you guys were not well behaved. So forget it. I'll keep this goose for your dad when he comes back and give it to him as a reward."
"Auntie!" When Xiaobao heard that there was meat to eat, he didn't care about Erbao anymore. He ran to the aunt's side, hugged her thighs and acted like a good boy: "Auntie, Xiaobao eats the big goose, Xiaobao won't fight anymore."
Lu Wanjun didn't buy it and washed her hands without paying any attention to the guy.
Erbao was caught by his mother and interrogated. She was angry that Xiaobao betrayed her and felt wronged, with red eyes.
"Erbao, why did you fight this time? Tell mom." Liu Meiyu was waiting to hear the reason.
As a result, Erbao raised his head with an innocent look on his face: "Mom, I didn't hit them last time, so can't I hit them back?"
“…”
"Erbao, we are men. We should be more magnanimous and not hold grudges. We can reason with each other and tell our parents that fighting cannot solve problems. You and your brother and sister have injured others today. His mother must be so worried and distressed. What if he brings older children to beat you and your brother and sister next time? Then your mother will be worried and distressed too." Liu Meiyu was really troubled by the issue of children fighting.
It is definitely wrong not to stop the child, and it doesn't seem to be a good idea to just teach the child to be tolerant.
Erbao sniffed, patted his mother's head, and comforted her: "Mom, don't be afraid, uncle is also a big boy. Next time I ask uncle and brother Jinbao for help!"
Anyway, Lu Erbao just won't suffer any loss. If he gets beaten outside, he will definitely beat back!
“…”
Among the three brothers, Erbao is vengeful and stubborn and doesn't understand why he can't fight back when someone hits him. Dabao thinks there is nothing wrong in helping his younger brother fight, as it was their mother's idea to make them united and friendly. Xiaobao is naive and just does whatever his brothers do.
In order to make the three brothers realize that fighting is wrong, Liu Meiyun tried her best to persuade them, but finally felt that the effect was not significant enough, so she simply cancelled the iron pot stewed goose in the evening, and prohibited them from eating meat for a week, and naturally all kinds of snacks were also cancelled.
Such punishment was undoubtedly harsh for the three brothers.
Dabao has no appetite when he eats meals without meat.
Erbao can’t go to Tiantian to comfort her anymore without any snacks.
The greedy Xiaobao was the one who suffered the most. He kept pestering his mother and aunt, pointing at the big goose in the kitchen and clamoring for food.
Liu Meiyun frowned, pried the little arms off her thighs, and said sternly: "If you don't obey and want to go out and fight, leave the goose for Dad to eat when he comes back. Just drink salted vegetable porridge tonight!"
"Mom, when will Dad come back? I miss him!" Seeing that there was no hope, Lu Xiaobao could only hope that his father would come back soon.
"Mom doesn't know either. You guys just wait. Anyway, whenever Dad comes back, we'll have goose stewed in an iron pot!"
Lu Changzheng had been away on a business trip for a month. The three brothers had not been home for more than a month, except for the first two days when they saw him missing and mentioned a few words, but had forgotten about him afterwards. Suddenly, because of a big goose, the three brothers were thinking about him again. If Lu Changzheng knew about it, he would probably be so angry that he would want to spank them again.
The three sons are heartless and don't miss their father, but Liu Meiyu misses her man very much.
In the past, Lu Changzheng would occasionally go out on missions and would return after ten days or half a month. But this time, he has been away from home for a whole month, and Liu Meiyu misses him every day.
"Don't worry, he will be back soon." Lu Wanjun was busy on the stove. Seeing Liu Meiyu staring in a daze, she guessed that she was missing her child's father.
"Yeah, I think it should be soon." Liu Meiyun nodded, sent the triplets outside to watch the geese, and helped Lu Wanjun cook.
I just don't know why, she always feels a little panic in her heart.
Just as I was feeling upset, Liu Bowen came running back from outside and shouted in the yard, "Sister, Uncle Erzhu is here!"
When Liu Meiyun walked out, she saw Li Erzhu, who was dressed in military uniform, hurried forward with a serious expression on his face: "Sister-in-law, Captain Lu... He is in the hospital."
"What happened? Are you injured? Is it serious?" Liu Meiyu's heart skipped a beat and she grabbed Li Erzhu and asked anxiously.
My mind went blank for a moment and I couldn't hear any sound from the surrounding area. I stared at Li Erzhu, afraid that I would hear bad news from him.
Lu Wanjun came out of the room and saw that Liu Meiyun looked unhappy. She quickly supported her and asked, "Comrade Li Erzhu, what happened to the Long March?"
"The battalion commander was injured during a mission and is undergoing surgery at the city hospital. I came to let you know that you may need to go over and take care of him."
"I'll be right there."
Liu Meiyu was distraught. Without waiting for anyone to finish speaking, she went straight into the house, got the money, packed some clothes, and was about to go out.
Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao also understood that their father was injured, and they were all scared. When they saw their mother was about to leave, they hurried over and hugged her thighs.
Lu Wanjun pulled the three brothers back and said calmly, "Meiyun, go to the hospital to see Changzheng first. I'll take care of him at home."
"Yeah." Liu Meiyu didn't hesitate. She just coaxed Dabao, Erbao and Xiaobao a few words, and then her mind went blank. She followed Li Erzhu to the hospital in a hurry.
When she rushed to the hospital, Liu Meiyu saw several of Lu Changzheng's comrades at the door of the operating room. They all had wounds on their bodies, and their eyeballs were full of red bloodshot. It was obvious that they had not slept for several days and nights.
Liu Meiyu greeted him weakly, then stood at the door of the operating room looking at the light, cold sweat breaking out on her back.
She had never suffered so much in her previous two lives. The agony of feeling like every second felt like an eternity was really like a blunt knife grinding against her flesh.
Fortunately, the operation didn't last long and was over. The moment the doctor took off his mask and told her that Lu Changzheng was fine, she almost wanted to cry.
Several comrades also felt relieved at once, and spoke comforting words to Liu Meiyu.
Liu Meiyu's mind was blank and she couldn't hear anything. She just followed the doctor's footsteps and followed him to the inpatient ward.
"The family members don't need to worry too much. The patient is in good health. We have already treated the injuries in other parts of the body and they are not serious. The leg is more serious. I am afraid it will take two to three months to recover. During this period, just rest well."
The doctor noticed that Liu Meiyun was too nervous and her face was pale. He comforted her and said, "The family members need to take good care of her during this period. Don't be too stressed. The operation was successful. As long as she recovers, there will be no sequelae. She won't have any problems with normal training."
"I understand. Thank you, doctor." Liu Meiyu breathed a sigh of relief, her hands hanging limply at her sides, her fingertips turning white.
After the doctors and nurses left the ward and the comrades returned to their units one by one, Liu Meiyu was the only one left in the room. When everything was completely quiet, looking at the man lying on the bed with a pale face and wounds all over his body, and listening to the nerve-wracking sound of the drip, Liu Meiyu couldn't help but feel a sour nose and tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes.
Liu Meiyun had never seen Lu Changzheng looking so fragile. The corners of his mouth were dry and flaky, and his fingernails were full of mud. In just one month, he had lost a lot of weight, and the edges of his face were clearly visible. He lay quietly in bed, which made people feel distressed and sad.
After Lu Changzheng passed away from the anesthesia, he was dazed for a moment when he woke up. It was only when he saw the white-roofed walls of the hospital and the slowly flowing fluid from the infusion bottle that he came to his senses.
"Are you awake?" Liu Meiyu kept watching him until late at night. When she saw Lu Changzheng wake up, she immediately called a doctor to come and check on him.
Before Lu Changzheng had a chance to talk to his wife, he was questioned by the doctor who rushed over. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with his brain, he couldn't wait to see his wife send the doctor out of the ward. He asked in a hoarse voice: "Meiyun, why are you here? Where are Dabao and the others?"
"You're injured. Where would I be if I wasn't here?" Liu Meiyu closed the door, poured hot water into the basin, and began to clean the mud from the man's nails.
"Dabao and the others are all at home, and my aunt is taking care of them. You don't have to worry about them. Just have a good rest and take care of your health for me." Liu Meiyu carefully wiped the man's rough palms, not leaving out any gaps between his fingers. Looking at the rough and thick silk between the man's fingers, she stroked them gently, with extremely gentle movements.
Lu Changzheng woke up. His wounds were still painful, but his wife's attentive care seemed to be more effective than any analgesic. The small ward was quiet, with only him and his wife. Listening to his wife's gentle whispers, he felt warm and sweet in his heart.
I have sighed in my heart more than ten thousand times that it is better to get married.
When I am sick, my wife feels sorry for me.
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