Chapter 281 Four Years Later
Li Chunhua was speechless after being questioned.
Immediately, Li Chunhua covered her face and burst into tears.
Bai Xiaofeng felt sympathetic. As a mother, she could put herself in their shoes. If Liu and Gui joined the army without saying a word, she would cry to death no matter what she said.
Old Yu took a few puffs of his dry cigarette and his face darkened: "Okay, Brother Huai is worthy of being a member of our Yu family, and he is an upright man! Why did he leave just a letter and leave? Isn't it because you, the mother-in-law, are reluctant to let him go! Brother Huai is willing to join the army to defend his home and country, and we can't hold him back!"
The father-in-law, who usually doesn't like to express his opinions, spoke this time. Li Chunhua sobbed, wiped her tears, and responded with a choked voice.
The old Taoist priest returned to the Wuming Taoist temple and sighed with Wei Shiyan that Huai'er had the bones of a tyrant and was making rapid progress in martial arts. In addition, he had been teaching him military tactics for the past six months. If he went to the battlefield, he might be able to carve out a world for himself.
Wei Shiyan didn't say anything, he was just a little absent-minded.
When he and the old Taoist priest left the palace, his three-year-old brother burst into tears and stretched out his chubby arms to block his carriage, refusing to let the carriage carrying his second brother leave at all costs.
Later, he was picked up by his father and spanked severely. The little brat cried until he fell asleep, and that was the end of it.
...Now that Yu Yonghuai has secretly left, Xingxing doesn’t know how sad she will be.
Wei Shiyan pursed his lips, not very happy.
I don’t know whether I am blaming Yu Yonghuai or myself back then.
...We should talk to each other separately.
Fortunately, half a year after Huai Ge'er secretly went to the border to join the army, a letter from home arrived.
Brother Huai picked out a few interesting things about the military camp to write about, and it can be seen that he was trying his best to reassure his family.
He also wrote that one time when they were out of the camp, their team encountered a group of Sidi barbarians. He took the lead and killed four of them, and together with his comrades, they defeated the Sidi barbarians.
Huai wrote in a letter home that it was his first time to kill someone. He vomited for a long time after returning home. Later, he kept vomiting until it became a habit.
Li Chunhua was illiterate. When she heard Boger reading the letter to her and heard the word "spitting", Li Chunhua chuckled and then covered her mouth and started crying.
When Xingxing wrote back to Huai'er at home, she, who was almost six years old, could already write quite a few words.
She tried to write in smaller characters so that she could write more words to Huai'er.
She wrote that her aunt was very worried about him, and she also wrote that she saw her grandparents and uncle secretly wiping away tears, and they were also worried about him.
She wrote that Xingxing was also worried about him and hoped that big brother took care of himself and was doing well.
By the way, Xingxing wrote at the end of the letter that the third aunt had given the family a new seventh brother, named Mian Ge'er. Mian Ge'er was born very handsome, and grandma said that he had inherited the good qualities of the third uncle and the third aunt, and that he would be able to see the new brother when the eldest brother came back.
Xingxing wrote down her deep longing for Huaiger on a piece of thin letter paper.
She asked her brothers for advice on all the words she didn't know how to write, and then copied them out carefully. Then she carefully handed the letter to her third uncle, asking him to put it in the letter to Huai'er.
Yu Sanbao touched Xingxing's soft hair, which was big enough to tie into a bun, and agreed with a smile.
The war has been going on for three months, and a letter from home is worth ten thousand pieces of gold.
More than four years passed after that, and the Yu family only received two or three letters from Huai'er to assure them of their safety.
Perhaps because he was afraid that the letters would fall into the hands of the enemy, Huai'er's letters home were always very simple, with only four words: I hope you are safe and don't worry.
Li Chunhua was both happy and angry. As for the smile, it was because Huai Ge'er was safe and sound; and the anger was because she had asked Bo Ge'er to teach her how to read in order to understand her son's letters, but Huai Ge'er only wrote these four words every time!
During the past four years, Boger stopped going to school and devoted himself to helping his family with business. He had been particularly interested in business since he was a child. After he officially took over the Yu family store, he developed it from a small shop in the county town into a large business spanning the state capital. The Yu family had become a well-known and wealthy businessman in the entire state capital.
Brother Liu studied diligently with Old Lady Liu. Old Lady Liu is still in good health and can eat two large steamed buns for one meal.
Gui Ge'er and Ju Ge'er are still studying, but Gui Ge'er is always elusive. He finishes studying in the morning and disappears in the afternoon.
Bang'er, the son of the second house, has reached the age for enlightenment, but he is very naughty and can't sit still. When asked to read, he will cover his head with the book and fall into a deep sleep, which almost worries Bai Xiaofeng to death. Even if Ju'er was so naughty when he was a child, he would have to admit defeat to Bang'er. Even a six-year-old dog would dislike him.
In the whole family, only Xing Xing can deal with this devil.
In the third year after their marriage, Ah Wu gave birth to a boy, who took Ah Wu's surname Liu, but still followed the Yu family in terms of order, and was the eighth child, named Liu Yongxu. Old Lady Liu kept saying that she could die in peace, and then she still ate two steamed buns for a meal, and after a meal she walked briskly, and it was no problem for her to walk several thousand steps.
Xu'er, the eighth child, and Mian'er, the seventh child born to Su Rou'er, are two years apart in age. The two little guys are probably still young and have not yet reached the age to start making trouble. They seem to be very well-behaved now, and are "sister's boys". They always call Xingxing "sister, sister" all the time.
When others talk about the Yu family, they are all extremely envious.
The family's wealth is growing, and its population is growing. Whenever people see their big and lively family, they become extremely jealous.
The summer noon sun shines hotly into the main courtyard, cicadas chirp, and the grape racks are hung with heavy grapes, crystal clear.
It was now the time for the Yu family to take an afternoon nap, and the maids could also rest for half an hour. The courtyards were all quiet.
On the grape trellis was a naughty boy who looked like a monkey, trying hard to reach the grapes hanging on the branches.
Xingxing woke up from a nap and came out yawning lazily, and saw Bang'er picking grapes in the yard.
The little girl was still somewhat sleepy, but it disappeared in an instant.
Xingxing is 10 years old this year. I don't know how she looks like this, but her skin is so white that it even glows in the sun. Her round almond eyes seem to be full of smiles even if she doesn't talk. Her round nose and cherry lips make her look even more petite and adorable.
When he smiles, his round almond eyes bend slightly, making his face look cute and lively. He is the dream lover that most elders can't resist.
However, at this moment, the grandson Xingxing in the dream opened her eyes wide, but did not dare to shout, for fear of waking up her grandparents who were still taking a nap in the main room.
She walked quickly to the grape trellis, stretched out her hands to protect it, raised her eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "Bang Ge'er, don't you want your butt anymore?!"
——Every gentle and lovely sister is only one naughty brother away from being driven crazy.