After walking for a while with a stinky mouth and smelly feet, Liu Meiyun suddenly felt that the air in the car was much cleaner.
She also had an appetite for the food and snacks that Lu Changzheng brought with him.
The snacks of that era were dried dates, peanuts and melon seeds. Liu Meiyu was eating dates and talking to Lu Changzheng when the man who had just moved to the shop above them suddenly came up to them.
"Comrade, thank you so much for what you did just now!" The man looked at Liu Meiyu cautiously, his heart pounding.
"You're welcome," Liu Meiyu said with a smile.
The man blushed immediately after seeing this smile. He had never seen such a pretty girl in his life, with curved eyebrows and eyes, and her smile looked like a crescent moon.
"Hello, my name is Wang Xuebing, and I'm a buyer at Liaoning No. 3 National Cotton Mill..."
In her previous life, Liu Meiyu worked in sales and had the most contact with buyers. After exchanging information with them, she saw Lu Changzheng standing next to her, silent and with an unhappy look on his face.
This was the first time she saw Lu Changzheng with a stern face, his expression was frighteningly serious.
"Is this your comrade-in-arms?" Wang Xuebing also noticed the man in green military uniform next to him. He had a very gloomy face and a terrifying aura.
"Hello, I'm her boyfriend, Lu Changzheng."
Lu Changzheng didn't wait for Liu Meiyu to nod, and directly extended his hand to the man.
"Hello, Comrade Lu." When Wang Xuebing heard the word "target", his heart skipped a beat. The idea that had just emerged in his mind was poured with a basin of cold water before it could even warm up.
He is not young anymore and his family arranges blind dates for him every day. Originally, he went to Shanghai for shopping just to get some fresh air away from the blind dates. He never expected to encounter such a terrible thing and was almost scared to death.
The appearance of Liu Meiyun can be said to be the only thing worth being happy about in this trip.
He originally thought of leaving his address and contacting her later by letter, but when he saw that the other person was so eager to cripple himself just to shake her hand, he had no choice but to back off, exchanged a few words of greeting and went back to bed.
Seeing Lu Changzheng's jealous look, Liu Meiyu just found it funny.
After all, he is just a young man in his twenties and he can be childish sometimes.
She originally wanted to deal with the buyer out of habit and leave a good impression.
They are in sales, so it is not a bad thing to make more friends from all over the world. However, seeing that Lu Changzheng looked more alert than a police dog, she gave up the idea. She couldn't do business in the next few years anyway, and when the environment gets better in the future, who knows where the buyers will be.
The train rumbled along for nearly two days, and only arrived in Shanghai at dusk the next day when it was almost dark.
When leaving the station, Lu Changzheng was still carrying a lot of bags on his back. After Liu Meiyun persuaded him, she picked up two water bottles and put them on her back, and followed Lu Changzheng out of the platform.
Shanghai is a big city after all. Even though it is only 68 years old, Liu Meiyun can still feel the atmosphere of modernity that is closest to later generations after traveling through so long.
The trams, bicycles, buses and the occasional jeep passing by on the street made Liu Meiyu feel dazed.
After getting off the train and taking a car, they finally arrived at their destination - Shanghai Normal University.
The original owner's family originally lived in the faculty and staff dormitory allocated by the school. After the accident, they moved to the street outside the school, to a row of small bungalows near the toilet.
The original owner came back once last year to visit his relatives, and finally returned to the army in tears.
After winding through the alleys, Liu Meiyu finally found a small square only a few hundred meters away from the public toilet based on her memory.
Just by smelling the odor from a distance, Liu Meiyu couldn't imagine how people could survive in this place.
Walking to the dilapidated little bungalow, Liu Meiyu's hands were shaking slightly as she knocked on the door.
She didn't know whether she felt sympathy for the original owner's family or because she was about to face her "new family", but she had never been so nervous when she signed an order worth hundreds of millions in her previous life.
"It's okay. I'm here."
Lu Changzheng gently held her hand, his eyes full of tenderness.
When they first met, she was still using a cane with a bright smile on her face, but now, the girl's hands were cold.
The shabby door opened from the inside, and a little boy in a single layer of clothes looked up and stared at Liu Meiyu and Lu Changzheng for a long time. Suddenly, his eyes widened and he looked at Liu Meiyu, and his childish voice shouted incredulously: "Sister!"
"Bowen!"
Liu Meiyu squatted down, hugged the little boy into her arms, wrapped him tightly with her military coat, and her eyes instantly turned red.
It was such a cold day, and the little boy, who was only 5 years old, had his ears frozen to the point of being rotten. He was only wearing a single piece of clothing, and his cloth shoes had torn pieces. Even if she was not his biological sister, she could not bear to see such a scene.
"Why are you wearing so little?"
Liu Meiyu originally planned to take off her military coat, but Lu Changzheng had already taken a step ahead of her. He simply grabbed her with his arm, picked her up, and wrapped her from head to toe in the military coat, leaving only her round eyes exposed.
Seeing that the child was terrified but didn't dare to struggle, with a pitiful expression as if he was about to cry, Liu Meiyun quickly touched his head and comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, he's not a bad person."
"Bowen, who is it?"
A low and slightly hoarse male voice sounded from inside the room. As soon as Liu Meiyu heard it, she knew it was the original owner's father.
"Dad! It's my sister! My sister is back!" Liu Bowen didn't dare to move in his memory of the Long March, for fear that his muddy cloth shoes would dirty his military coat. He could only wrinkle his little face and shout at the top of his voice.
After a brief silence, a thin middle-aged man came out of the house. His skin was a little pale and he had a few white hairs on his temples. He walked very unsteadily even though it was just a few steps. When he saw the figure at the door, the man swayed and the sounds coming out of his throat were hoarse.
"Beautiful Cloud"
"Dad." Liu Meiyu stepped forward and saw the thin man in front of her. He had many more white hairs than in the original owner's memory. She couldn't hold back her tears.
"Meiyun, it's really you!"
"Why are you back?"
Liu Yongnian never thought that his daughter would suddenly show up at his doorstep. He was very happy, but he couldn't help but worry: "Did something happen?"
"Dad, it's okay, I've applied for discharge!"
When Liu Yongnian heard his daughter say that everything was fine, he felt relieved for a moment, but when he heard that he was discharged from the army, the feeling of relief did not last long.
"Let's go in first. Your mother is still in there."
Even though he had a lot to say, Liu Yongnian did not forget his wife who was still lying in bed.
Liu Meiyu walked into the house and saw that it was exactly the same as in her memory, a small bungalow with only one room, which was divided into two small rooms with a bed board. The original owner's parents lived in one side and Liu Bowen lived in the other. When the original owner came back to visit his relatives last year, he slept in the same bed with his mother.
The original owner's mother, Zhou Huiru, was leaning on the bed, staring at the door with red eyes. As soon as she saw her, tears burst out.
"Meiyun!"
"Mom"
Liu Meiyu walked quickly to the bedside, pulled the woman into her arms, and felt her thin body under her clothes, her nose feeling sour.
"Let mom see if you have lost weight."
Zhou Huiru was indescribably happy to see her daughter. Her daughter joined the art troupe at the age of eleven and only came back once every few years. The longing and worrying about her day and night had become an indelible habit in her body.
"Why are you back now?"
"Who is he?"
Zhou Huiru couldn't move her waist, so she held her daughter's hand, feeling anxious.
The army only has home leave once every few years. Her daughter came back last year, and she came back suddenly this time. She hasn't written home in the past one or two months. She was so worried that her throat was about to burst into flames.
"Mom, my leg was injured and I can't dance anymore, so I applied for discharge. This is the person our group leader introduced to me. We filed a marriage report and are getting ready to get married."
Liu Meiyu knew that her parents were worried, so she explained everything briefly and introduced Lu Changzheng to them as well.
"Meiyun, tell me the truth, did you really retire voluntarily? Wasn't it because your father and I got you into trouble?"
Zhou Huiru asked the question that Liu Yongnian had wanted to ask since the moment he learned that his daughter had been discharged from the army.
Their family can actually get by in the current situation, and it doesn't matter if they suffer a little, but they are afraid of bringing trouble to their daughter.
"Dad, Mom, I really want to retire from the army."
On the way back, Liu Meiyu had already prepared an excuse, and after she finished her patient explanation, the heavy stone in the hearts of Liu Yongnian and his wife finally fell to the ground.
"You have grown up and become sensible."
Zhou Huiru touched her daughter's head with relief and disappointment. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, her daughter had grown up.
"Meiyun, stay with your mother. I'll go cook for you."
Liu Yongnian felt relieved when he found out that nothing had happened to his daughter in the army, her leg injury had almost healed, it was her own idea to retire, and she had found a partner who looked quite decent.
However, he still needs to consider what this object is like.
"Young man, can you cook?" Liu Yongnian asked Lu Changzheng with a stern face, with his hands behind his back.
"Uncle, I know how to cook. You can take a break and talk to Meiyun and Auntie. I'll do it."
Who is Lu Changzheng? He grew up in a compound and later joined the army. As soon as Liu Yongnian opened his mouth, he knew that it was time for him to perform.
He learned how to light a fire and cook within two years of joining the army.
"I'll go with you." Liu Yongnian waved his hands to refuse, then turned around and grabbed his son's collar, "Bo Wen, you don't have to sit around either, dry your own jacket!"
Liu Yongnian walked out of the house reluctantly. Although he wanted to talk to his daughter for a while, he knew that his wife would definitely be more attached to their daughter, so he simply left the space to the mother and daughter.
Seeing her brother being dragged out by his father unwillingly, Liu Meiyun asked Zhou Huiru, "Mom, what happened to Bowen's clothes? It's so cold, why is he wearing so little?"
"It's all my fault," Zhou Huiru sighed. She had not intended to talk about these bad things, but she couldn't help herself when she saw her daughter talking. She said, "My waist can't move, and your father has to clean the toilet. I asked him to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a box of matches at noon, but he fell into a puddle on the way. He is tall now, and he can only wear such a thick piece of clothing."
"Mom, tell me the truth. Even if I grow taller, I can still grow bigger by removing the cotton wool. How can I be left with only one thick piece of clothing?"
If this was the original owner, she would definitely believe whatever Zhou Huiru said, but now she doesn't.
In the original owner's memory, Liu Yongnian and Zhou Huiru were both formal employees of the university. Their living conditions and salaries were not low. Although their families fell into poverty later, their salaries were stopped and they were kicked out of the staff dormitory, they still brought their original clothes with them.
Especially when the original owner returned home last year, the clothes worn by this family were at least resistant to cold. But now, not only is Liu Bowen wearing thin clothes, but the clothes worn by Liu Yongnian and his wife do not even have more than two taels of cotton.
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