Accounts can be settled anytime.
If he can even manage a farm, what can't he do?
Having made up his mind, Lu Zhengde left Tianshui Hutong. Not long after they left, Lu Huaijiao and the others also returned home.
They missed each other again, just like Lu Zhengde and the others.
Having been away from home for several days, He Meizhu and the others started tidying up the house as soon as they returned. Lu Huaijiao offered to help, but He Meizhu called her to go next door to play with Huang Tingxiu.
"Xiuxiu should have given birth by now. Take Sanbao over and talk to her."
When they went to Shanghai, Huang Tingxiu's due date was in the last few days, so she should have already given birth.
Lu Huaijiao agreed and, carrying some local specialties she had brought from Shanghai, went next door with Sanbao.
When the mother and her three children went out, they ran into their neighbor, an older woman from the same alley. She was usually very friendly, and her house was right across from Lu Huaijiao's.
Therefore, Lu Huaijiao asked Sanbao to greet the people.
Aunt Wu chuckled, praised Sanbao for being very well-behaved, and then looked up at Lu Huaijiao: "Changzheng's wife, do you have some relatives coming over?"
"Hmm? What makes you say that?"
"Oh, I was working at home just now when I saw a man and a woman standing at your door. They stood there for a while looking at your gate! The man looked a bit like you, so I thought he was a relative of yours."
Aunt Wu was just about to come out and say something to Lu Zhengde and the others when they had already left.
She assumed he was a relative of Lu Huaijiao.
So, after Lu Huaijiao and the others returned, she came over specifically to inform them.
Don't miss the opportunity to visit your relatives.
Lu Huaijiao paused for a moment: "How old is the man?"
"She looked to be in her fifties? That woman looked quite old, so thin she was almost unrecognizable, she looked terrifying."
Aunt Wu couldn't quite describe it, but she glanced at Qin Yanhua and thought she was frighteningly thin.
Lu Huaijiao wondered if the other party was Lu Zhengde and his group.
She thought for a moment, then asked Aunt Wu to come to her home. She had Aunt Wu sit in the yard for a while, and then went inside to retrieve the photo of Lu Zhengde that Grandpa Shu had left behind. She showed it to Aunt Wu so she could help her identify him.
Aunt Wu squinted at it, then slapped her leg.
"That's him, that's him, no doubt about it. Is this your relative, Changzheng's wife? He looks even more like you in the photo."
Lu Zhengde was a bad person, but he was a truly handsome man with fair skin. He was especially good-looking when he was young.
Lu Huaijiao's profile bears some resemblance to Lu Zhengde.
Of course, she looks more like her mother.
However, since Aunt Wu had never met Lu Huaijiao's biological mother, she must have thought that Lu Huaijiao resembled Lu Zhengde.
Lu Huaijiao smiled and said, "This is my father."
"Ah... so it's your dad? No wonder he looked so much like you!" Aunt Wu said, a little ashamed. "If I had known it was your dad, I should have invited them to come in and wait for you to come back. Really..."
She was unaware that Lu Huaijiao and Lu Zhengde had a bad relationship.
I thought their relationship was a normal father-daughter relationship.
Lu Huaijiao smiled and said, "I'm actually grateful that you didn't invite him to your home. I don't have a good relationship with him, and contact with him might cause you unnecessary trouble."
"Oh, is that so?"
Aunt Wu clearly hadn't expected this.
But since Lu Huaijiao had said that, she didn't press her about why she had a bad relationship with her biological father. After all, everyone has some secrets they don't want to talk about, right?
Aunt Wu is an experienced person and knows how to be tactful; she never asks questions she shouldn't.
Lu Huaijiao was very grateful for her help. She took a box of chocolates that were only available in Shanghai from her home and handed it to Aunt Wu so that she could take it back to her grandson.
When Aunt Wu saw it, she knew she couldn't accept such a nice gift. But Lu Huaijiao insisted on giving it to her, so she had no choice but to accept it.
After taking the chocolates home, she soon picked a basket of fresh vegetables and fruits from her own garden as a return gift for Lu Huaijiao and the others.
Lu Huaijiao accepted it with a smile.
After talking with Aunt Wu for a while, she took the three children to the next room again.
Huang Tingxiu gave birth to a son three days ago, making them a family with both a son and a daughter.
She had a natural birth and was able to get out of bed and move around on the day she gave birth. She stayed in the hospital for a day and returned home yesterday.
"Where's Brother Tiezhu?"
When Lu Huaijiao entered the house, she saw Huang Tingxiu taking care of two children all by herself, and she was a little puzzled: "Didn't Brother Tiezhu take care of you?"
"He just went inside the store; it's busy there. I asked him to go check on it."
Huang Tingxiu said she wanted to get off the bed to entertain Lu Huaijiao.
Lu Huaijiao quickly waved her hand, telling her to lie down on the bed obediently.
She glanced at Gu Taotao sleeping on the other side, and the baby sleeping in swaddling clothes, and frowned: "Won't it be too hard for you to take care of two children by yourself?"
"It's okay, the child is well-behaved and doesn't make much noise. I don't get tired of taking care of him."
Huang Tingxiu smiled as she looked at her sleeping son in his swaddling clothes. Her smile was gentle and radiated a strong maternal glow.
Lu Huaijiao felt that Huang Tingxiu was really too strong.
If it were her, and Gu Changzheng wasn't there to take care of her after she gave birth, she might feel incredibly wronged.
But Huang Tingxiu, who is also a lesbian and about the same age, is so strong.
Lu Huaijiao couldn't help but sigh. Sure enough, Xiuxiu was more capable than her!
Sanbao and the others knew that Taotao had a younger brother, and they were all very curious to see what the little brother looked like. Lu Huaijiao gently held the sleeping child in her arms, and Sanbao opened his eyes wide and looked at the little brother who was still a bit red with curiosity.
"My little brother is so small."
"It's as big as the chicks Grandma fed!"
"When will this child grow up?"
Sanbao looked at the baby in the swaddling clothes with great curiosity, and they discussed it in a soft voice, looking very cute.
Honestly, the three brothers' doubts were the same as Lu Huaijiao's when she gave birth to them. Back then, she also looked at the triplets in their swaddling clothes and worried about when they would grow up.
But time flies. It seems like only yesterday that Sanbao was able to run and jump and go to school.
"My little brother will grow up soon. How about we play together then, big brother?"
Huang Tingxiu said with a smile from the side.
Sanbao exchanged a glance, then asked Huang Tingxiu with utmost seriousness, "Auntie, do you favor boys over girls? Did you stop liking Taotao after having a younger brother?"
“There are several children in our class whose mothers only like them and don’t like their older or younger sisters.”
"Yes, if Auntie only likes the younger brother, then we'll like Tao Tao more."
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