Chapter 286 Extra: Children in Charge

Because their mother chose to stay in the capital and not take them home for their father, they thought that their parents should make some concessions to them - allowing them to arrange for their grandparents and others to come and stay for a while.

The two children decided to challenge their father's authority and kill first and then report.

Children grow up, and they are always a little rebellious. Even if they are sensible, their brain circuits will sometimes jump out of control.

They think that if they discuss it with their parents, their parents will definitely agree, but they may not let so many people come, after all, this place is not like Qizhou.

But there are too many people they miss, so they must have more people.

So they plan to kill first and report later.

They usually call their grandparents in their hometown regularly, and also call Grandpa Shao and Auntie, as well as Guan Ze, Li Lili and others. Although they haven't seen each other for half a year, they are still familiar with each other.

In the past, Dr. Shao would get off work around 3 pm in order to go home early to play with the children and teach them.

Since the children followed Lu Shaotang and Lin Shu to the capital, Dr. Shao has not been active after work.

Although Hou Wei, Guan Ze and others would play with him, they were just children, and they were not interested in studying medicine, and they were not so open in front of him.

And he didn't have the same feelings for other children as he did for Pan Pan and Tian Tian.

He didn't want to analyze why he was so close to the two children. Maybe it was because they were kind, sincere and enthusiastic, maybe because they were smart and talented, or maybe it was just because they had a good relationship.

It could also be because his own children and daughters had settled down in other places and now had children and grandchildren. For various reasons, they couldn't come back to reunite with him and didn't take the initiative to invite him over, but the two children invited him.

If you don't taste the warmth, you will think you don't care about it. If you taste it, you don't want to lose it.

He missed the two children very much.

It was already 3:10 today. He felt tired and didn't sit in the clinic anymore, nor did he give lectures to the students. He planned to pack up and go home.

After Lin Shu left, he was eating with Sister Lin and her family. Sister Lin took good care of him and was as considerate as Lin Shu.

Doctor Shao was grateful.

At this time, the phone rang.

Doctor Shao picked up the phone and said hello. He thought it was a patient who wanted to make an appointment with him, but he heard Panpan's sweet and happy voice. He was immediately beaming with joy, and his previous boredom was gone.

In the past, the two children would make an appointment to call him, so this was an unexpected surprise.

Tiantian: "Grandpa Shao, we are on holiday."

Doctor Shao laughed, "Are you coming back?"

Panpan: "Grandpa Shao, my parents are busy with work and can't go back for the time being, are you going to take a holiday? My parents want you to come to my house, and brother Lu An, Hou Bo, sister Hou Ying and Hou Wei will definitely be happy to come, so you can bring them with you."

As if they were afraid that Grandpa Shao would have concerns, they continued: "My grandpa and grandma will also come, and my dad will ask someone to help buy the tickets, Grandpa Shao, you don't have to worry."

After he said this, Doctor Shao was deeply moved.

Yes, the students are on holiday, so he should also take a holiday.

He is over 70 years old, who knows how many years he can live? (The old man comforted himself with this sentence, saying that he could rest whenever he wanted, and it comforted him for more than 20 years.)

Thinking of this, he stood up suddenly, not looking old at all, and happily went to ask for leave from the dean.

The dean did not dare to disagree, saying that the old man had to be supported, and that he could take a vacation if he wanted, and come back when he had enough fun.

He reminded the old man, "Why don't you edit a medical book during the vacation?"

There is a shortage of Chinese medicine textbooks all over the country now, and Dr. Shao's lectures are all based on examples, without textbooks.

The hospital and the medical school wanted to invite him to edit a textbook, and the remuneration was very generous.

Dr. Shao had refused before, but now he readily agreed.

He hummed a little tune, put his hands behind his back, and went home to talk to Sister Lin about bringing the children to Beijing.

Now Lu Ping and Zhan Jiali have joined the unit to study with teachers, and Hou Bo, Lu An, Hou Ying and Hou Wei are the only ones who follow Sister Lin.

Hou Jianwen's job was also transferred back to Qizhou, working in the Qizhou Industrial Bureau and the Machinery Factory.

Because of his contributions to improving agricultural machinery and solar energy research projects in the countryside, Hou Jianwen is now a popular person in the unit. He was promoted when he came back, and his salary also increased by two levels, from technician to engineer.

However, he is not very interested in being an official, so he mainly goes to the machinery factory to continue to transform and research various agricultural machinery.

He often goes on business trips, and the family mainly relies on Sister Lin.

Sister Lin has Wei Ling, Xue Hanshan and Ye Xu to help her. She can complete all the work she takes at home. She doesn't need to go to the unit every day, so she has a lot of free time and can take care of the children at home.

The children are all sensible. They can not only take care of themselves but also help Sister Lin with housework.

Hou Ying takes the brothers and sisters to arrange the daily purchase of food, supplementary food, vegetables, etc. The boys are responsible for the hygiene at home, and everyone washes clothes together.

Sister Lin doesn't have to work hard and lives a comfortable life.

The family is financially well-off and has no shortage of money. The children are obedient, and the couple works together without obvious internal friction, so they live a comfortable life.

After hearing what Doctor Shao said, Sister Lin hesitated and said, "Uncle, are all the children going with you?"

Doctor Shao smiled and said, "Why not? The children are grown up and should go out to see the world. You don't have to worry about the tickets. I'll pay for it."

As long as there is money to buy tickets, it doesn't matter if you tighten your belt and go out hungry.

Sister Lin hurriedly said, "It's not that. The ticket money is not a problem. I'm just afraid that if they go too many times, there will be no room for my third sister."

She certainly has enough money to let the children take the train to the capital. She and Hou Jianwen have good salaries, and her father-in-law also gives her subsidies. After the exhibition, she sold several of her paintings. Now people come to her to order paintings, and the income is considerable.

She is not afraid that the children will affect Lu Shaotang and Lin Shu's work. After all, the children are sensible and have lived together before.

I just don't know the situation in the capital, and I'm afraid that there won't be enough room or that it's not good for so many people to go to the military area, so I have to ask my sister first.

Mr. Shao told her not to worry, since Panpan Tiantian said so, it must be Lin Shu who asked them to go.

When Lu An and Hou Bo came back, they were all excited when they heard that Panpan Tiantian asked them to go to the capital, "Go, of course!"

Hou Wei jumped up and almost cried, "Mom, I want to go, I miss my third aunt and Panpan Tiantian."

Sister Lin asked Lu An if he wanted to go back to his hometown, after all, if he went to the capital, he would probably have to stay there for a month.

Lu An didn't miss home at all. At his age, he was passionate and adventurous. He liked to run around and play everywhere, and didn't miss home at all.

Only children miss home.

Seeing that they were all eager to try, Mr. Shao took them out shopping. He knew a lot of people now, and as long as he had money, he could buy things even without tickets.

Lu's Manor.

Fang Dihua was tending to the vegetable garden and Lin Shu's flowers and plants at home. Grandma Fang was walking around the flowerbed with a palm-leaf fan, smelling the rich fragrance of flowers.

Grandma Fang: "Hua'er, it's time for the children to have summer vacation, right?"

Country children don't have summer vacation, but the children have lived in Qizhou for a long time, and the elderly at home are used to remembering the holidays in the city.

Fang Dihua: "Lin Shu said she would bring the children back for summer vacation."

Grandma Fang: "Panpan and Tiantian are growing up now, they will definitely grow taller."

Fang Dihua also missed them very much.

Old Man Lu came back from outside. He went to the county to make black plaster with Doctor Yan two days ago, and he came back today with a jar of plaster.

The few of them chatted for a while, and the phone rang in the house.

Fang Dihua went to answer the phone, but she didn't expect it was Panpan Tiantian calling.

In the past, they would call after dinner and make an appointment for the next time, usually once a week.

Today, she called in the afternoon, it seemed like there was something good, probably telling them to go home!

Old Man Lu was also very excited, "Baoer, which day do you want to buy the tickets? When will we be home?"

But the child's lost voice came from the microphone, "Grandma, my parents are very busy with work recently, and they don't have time to send us back to our hometown."

Old Man Lu subconsciously said, "Then let your uncle pick you up."

Panpan: "Grandpa, but we want you to come to the capital to play and feel what the capital is like."

Tiantian: "Yes, the capital is fun. My great-grandmother has never seen it at her age. You can bring her here."

Old Man Lu: "Did your parents say that? Can your house accommodate it?"

The previous phone call said that their home is not as big as No. 8 Courtyard.

Panpan: "Grandpa, don't you want us to come? Are you reluctant to leave that infirmary? Hey, are Tiantian and I less important to you than a infirmary?"

The child knows to reason with his parents, but he never needs to reason with his grandpa, just act coquettishly.

The commune clinic is good now, and doesn't we have Zhang Peijin? He has learned from his grandpa for a few years, and it should be of some use.

If it is still useless, then when grandpa retires, this brigade infirmary should be closed as soon as possible.

Panpan will not delay his reunion with his grandpa because of the brigade infirmary.

In his opinion, grandpa has done a lot and his medical skills are not bad, but those three melons and two dates are the ones who make the most money, which is nothing compared to the doctors in the city.

Mainly, he doesn't want grandpa to be burdened. Compared with grandpa Shao, the workload of grandpa in the countryside is really far different.

Granny Fang also shouted: "What are you thinking about? Don't you know who is more important?"

Old man Lu immediately said: "Okay, then let's go to the capital to live for a few days and see Tiantian and Panpan."

He really misses the two children.

The older he gets, the more he misses the two children, because he raised them with his own hands.

When Panpan and Tiantian were young, it was really old man Lu who did the most work. He also got up to hold their diapers at night when they went to sleep. When the children were a little older, he was the one who helped them learn to read. The relationship is naturally different.

Granny Fang asked her daughter and son-in-law to go, but she herself did not want to burden the children. She was old, but she also did not want to waste money on the children.

The train tickets were expensive.

She said, "Don't worry about me. I can stay here with Cuicui or go back to your eldest brother's house."

Now Gaoliang and Hongdou are working in the Lujiazhuang Brigade to earn money. This year, two of her great-grandsons are working in the incense factory. Her three daughters-in-law all look at Huaer's face, and no one dares to treat her, an old woman, badly.

Panpan Tiantian, however, called on the phone to let her great-grandmother go as well. She must take her to visit the capital, to travel to Tiananmen Square, and to eat snacks from Daoxiang Village.

Granny Fang didn't hear clearly, so Fang Dihua was responsible for conveying it to her, which made the old lady very happy.

Fang Dihua also wanted to take her mother to have a look. After all, her family had money, and no matter how expensive the ticket was, they would only go this once.

The old lady was old and she didn't know how many days she could live, and this was probably the only time she would go to the capital.

Seeing that the children didn't mind her and took the initiative to invite her to go, Granny Fang happily began to pack her bag. She was fine

if the lady didn't take her, and she was happy if the lady took her.

She was already old, who knew how many days she could live, and she didn't expect to be able to go to the capital to open her eyes. Oh, it was so wonderful.

The daughter-in-law and sons must be jealous, because they didn't take her with them.

Since my parents are going to take my grandmother to the capital, my second brother Lu has to help prepare.

Bring all the salted and bacon at home, and also the smoked rabbits that we made before.

Fang Dihua regularly makes bacon and smoked rabbits for delivery to Qizhou. She also sent them to the post office after Lin Shu and the others went to the capital, but the postage was too expensive!

With that money, it seems that they can buy food in the capital.

Now that I have to go by myself, I naturally have to bring more.

In addition, I have to bring some pills, ointments and the like.

These are made by Father Lu under the guidance of Doctor Shao and Doctor Yan according to secret prescriptions, and are divided into men, women and children.

He was worried that Lu Shaotang and Chen Yanming would be physically exhausted from working so hard, and thought that they should take proper supplements and conditioning. The same goes for women like Lin Shu, who should take conditioning for two months every year to keep healthy and live longer. As for the children, they should not be neglected either, as they are growing up and are prone to growth pains, endocrine imbalances, etc., so they should pay attention to conditioning.

The ointment is mainly used to treat mosquito bites, allergies, etc.

As for the medicinal wine, he did not bring it with him, as he had already taught the recipes to Tiantian, and Tiantian and Panpan could make it themselves.

Fang Dihua also wanted to ask Brother Lu and his wife to go to Qizhou to see the children, but Brother Lu was busy running business. Now he has brought two more salesmen with him and often travels to other provinces.

Sister Lu is even less free. Now she is the leader of the agricultural machinery group of the commune, responsible for the dispatch of agricultural machinery and farming tasks of the entire commune.

Fang Dihua herself is relaxed.

Now it is still Brother Lu who is in charge of the incense factory, Lu Xiuxiu is in charge of the clothing factory, Zhou Xiulan is in charge of the bag factory, and Sister Lu is in charge of the water mill. Everyone has a clear division of labor.

The incense factory has added six strong laborers, so naturally she is even less needed. She now mainly cooks, feeds chickens, ducks and pigs, and takes care of the vegetable garden.

If she was not at home and left Lu Cuicui in charge of cooking, Xiuxiu would help her.

I have to tell Zhao Meifeng and Lu Changfu to see if they have anything to bring to Lu Shaocai and Uncle Lu.

Although Zhao Meifeng missed Lu Shaocai, she didn't bother going to the capital. After all, she still had to feed pigs. Her job is very important. She is the main reason why the Lujiazhuang team eats pork. Everyone in the team knows her and calls her Commander Pig when they meet.

Lu Changfu also accepted the reality that he could not go to the capital, and he had a good job now. In the past two years, farmers had good harvests, and more surplus grains led to more pigs and sheep. As a veterinarian, he was very busy doing pig and sheep castration for others, and his income was good.

With money in his hands, it seemed that he made more than Lu Jinling, so he didn't think about going to the capital.

However, Zhao Meifeng didn't search for money, and took out the salted meat from her home to send to the capital. She knew that Fang Dihua had brought a lot, and she was not afraid that Fang Dihua would take some of her own money. She only told Lu Shaocai not to give it to Yan Ping.

In the capital, Panpan and Tiantian were playing the game of first killing and then playing.

In the evening, Lin Shu came back in Lu Shaotang's jeep. It was hot, so she sat in the living room to rest. Lu Shaotang took off his military uniform and wanted to fetch water to water the vegetable plots of the two families.

Panpan pulled Lu Shaotang to sit down, and Tiantian brought the tea tray and teapot attentively and poured tea for his parents.

"Mom, I made a summer tea, how about you and dad trying it?"

Tiantian's medicinal tea was different from Lin Shu's. Lin Shu's was a health tea, a popular recipe, usually with hawthorn, chrysanthemum, wolfberry and other ingredients.

Tiantian added a proper amount of licorice tablets to the tea she brewed today, which can replenish qi and spleen, reduce inflammation and fight bacteria. It is also very good to drink some licorice water in the summer when it is hot and humid.

She brought another cup to her father, "Dad, have some tea."

Panpan took a big cattail leaf fan and fanned Lin Shu attentively. They both knew that if they wanted their father to help, they had to please their mother. If their mother said yes , their father would not hesitate.

Seeing the two children so attentive, Lin Shu smiled and said, "Tell me, what do you want to do?"

Tiantian: "Mom, can we ask my grandma, great-grandmother and Grandpa Shao to come and stay for two months?"

Lin Shu smiled and said, "Have you arranged everything?"

Panpan: "We still have two rooms at home, and my godfather's house has three rooms, which can accommodate us, so I asked Brother Lu An and the others to come and play as well."

Lin Shu smiled but said nothing.

The two children were a little nervous. Would they be upset if they called too many people?

Lin Shu pinched Tiantian and Panpan's cheeks. She still treated the two children as children, but they have grown up.

She said softly, "You are also part of this family, so of course you have a say. You miss grandpa and grandma, and your father and I miss them too. Since you have arranged everything properly, let's do it this way."

The two children happily threw themselves on Lin Shu, kissing her on the left and right, "Mom, you are so kind."

Lu Shaotang took Panpan down, "You are a boy, don't be too nagging when you grow up."

Panpan kissed his father and said affectionately, "Then dad and I will be nagging."

Lu Shaotang: "..."

Panpan: "Dad, then you can find someone to help book the tickets."

Now it is not easy to buy tickets even if you have money, especially to buy so many at once, so you have to ask someone for help.

Buying two or three tickets can be done by uncles and uncles from the Revolutionary Committee, but buying seven or eight tickets and berths is not so easy.

I have to ask dad to help.

Lu Shaotang glanced sideways at his son. Otherwise, corruption comes from family members. When he became the director, he had not asked for many connections before the child took advantage of it.

Fortunately, buying a ticket is not a big deal, and it does not violate discipline. However, he still has to talk to the children about offline issues, which things can be considered according to the situation, and which things should not be thought about at all.

Not only do you have to know what not to do, you also have to know how to refuse other people's requests and temptations.

As his authority grows and he attracts more and more attention, some people who cannot get through his relationship may get in touch with Lin Shu and her children.

Lin Shu is fine, but the child is still young and there is no guarantee that she will be deceived and taken advantage of.

Many of the people who resell the certificates are the children of certain cadres. After being investigated, the cadres were dismissed or even expelled from the party, and the offending children were thrown into prison.

The most important thing in combating speculation is to combat this kind of speculation.

Even combating this kind of large-scale and secret speculation is still the responsibility of Lu Shaotang and his unit, because many people resell military supplies.

The two children are smart. They understand it as soon as they hear it, and they can remember it firmly. They let their father rest assured that they will definitely not do anything illegal.

Lu Shaotang took them to call the stationmaster of Qizhou Railway Station and asked him to help book train tickets for Lu's father, Doctor Shao, and others.

Just buy hard sleepers for many people, arrange lower berths for a few elderly people, and young people can do whatever they want.

When we get to the station, we'll ask someone to take care of us, so that the elderly and children won't get confused.

There are close comrades who have retired, so of course there's no need to say anything.

On the way back from the phone call, Panpan couldn't help but whisper to Tiantian, "It seems that being a soldier is not bad, there are many comrades, and when we retire from active service, there will be people to help us with anything."

Tiantian: "It's good to be a doctor, look at Grandpa Shao, so many people come to him for treatment, and when he wants to do something, people are eager to help him. Don't worry, when I become a famous doctor in the future, just tell me what you need, I will help you."

Panpan: "Tiantian, you're so nice."

Unlike Tiantian, whose first ideal is to be a doctor with superb Chinese and Western medical skills, he has more things in mind, so he hasn't decided what he wants to do when he grows up.

After arranging matters for her grandpa Shao and his friends to come over, Panpan and Tiantian had no worries. She led Zhang Qiang and his gang to look for herbs, swim in the river, catch voles and snakes, catch cicadas, read books, play games, etc., and had a lot of fun.

During this period, the junior high school students from the Second Artillery Academy and the Air Force Academy had a fight with the Army Academy. Because the Second Artillery Academy was more powerful, the Army Academy lost.

But this had nothing to do with Panpan, they were still young, just elementary school students, and they were fighting junior high school students.

Zhang Qiang found out and told Panpan and Tiantian about it, and asked if they needed help.

Panpan looked at Zhang Qiang like an idiot, "Do you like to rush and give yourself away?"

Zhang Qiang: "..."

He still felt that he had made a lot of progress in the recent training with Panpan and Tiantian, and wanted to verify the results of the training.

The junior high school guys were about the same age as him, at most two years older, what's so great about

them? He might not be unable to beat them.

Tiantian was also speechless about his and Li Dashan's idea of ​​not caring about right or wrong, as long as other academies attack our academy, it is not okay.

You are from the Army Academy, you think the Second Artillery Academy is the enemy, but in general, whether it is the Second Artillery, the Air Force, or the Army, aren't they all troops? They

are all troops of our country, do you need to form a small circle here?

If others bully themselves and their friends, the two of them will definitely intervene, but the two of them never pick a fight.

Panpan Tiantian has been educated by Lu Laodi and Fang Dihua to have a broad view since childhood, and has never been ambiguous in the face of major issues.

Zhang Qiang and Li Dashan were about to rush to stand in line when they heard two groups of people fighting, but they thought that junior high school students were adults and that fighting should be handled by the school or the guard battalion.

What kind of presence are they, a group of elementary school students, trying to gain?

No!

Whoever goes, get lost, and stop following him around and saying they are his friends!

Zhang Qiang and Li Dashan saw Pan Pan's cold face, but they still had to smile and say, "Lu Pan, we didn't want to go, we just asked for news and told you."

Li Dashan: "Yes, didn't you say that knowing yourself and knowing your enemy is important?"

Pan Pan then realized that they were hopelessly stupid, and could barely be stupid friends.

Four days later, it was the day when Lu Laodi and his men arrived at the Capital Railway Station.

Pan Pan Tiantian didn't have to bother her parents, and ran to find Tian Suzhen's wife for help.

Tian Suzhen's husband is the head of the logistics department, in charge of the truck dispatch here.

They brought gifts and asked Uncle Zhou to see if there was a free truck to send to the station to help pick up grandma and the others.

The jeep was too small to accommodate so many people, and there was luggage.

Minister Zhou was puzzled and asked about it. Only then did he know that the two children arranged for their grandma from their hometown to come and stay with them for two months.

My goodness, how can these two children be so capable?

If Lu Shaotang and Lin Shu had informed him, it would not be surprising for the two children to come and inform him. The key point is that the couple did not say anything, and it was the two children who took the initiative to come and arrange it.

This made Minister Zhou envious. As a logistics worker, he knew how rare it was to find people who knew how to plan.

Some people's brains are like earthworms, they are single-line and can only do one thing and think about one problem. However, logistics dispatch work actually requires a network brain, which requires the combination of points, lines and surfaces to be competent for the job.

Some people can really make him vomit blood.

These two children are so young that they can plan things in an orderly manner. I really envy him.

"Send, I will send a big truck for you, and let you two go with the truck to pick up the people."

Panpan and Tiantian thanked happily, and then followed to find the driver to help pick up the people.

So when Lu Shaotang called to ask the logistics department to help arrange a car, Minister Zhou happily told him that the two children had already come to arrange it, "Shaotang, you can focus on your work, the two children are very thoughtful." They

even knew to bring a pound of candy. You can see that these two children are really good at handling things.

Panpan not only distributed candy to Minister Zhou's office, but also brought half a pound of candy and two packs of cigarettes to the driver as hard work fees.

Of course, the driver refused to take them, so Panpan said seriously that these were wedding candy and cigarettes. Grandpa was going to Beijing. It was such a big happy event, so it was not too much to share them, right?

The driver was stunned by what he said, and finally had to accept it.

Although he was happy to help even if he didn't give anything, he would naturally be happier if he gave something.

That was the child's heart, wasn't it?

Panpan, Tiantian and the driver were outside the station to pick someone up, because he calculated the arrival time of the train, and the train was often delayed, so he would only arrive early, not late.

After waiting for a long time, everyone else came out, and then they saw a group of old men, old women and teenagers carrying large and small bags on their shoulders and hands coming out of the station.

Wow, it was a spectacular sight!

Just look at Fang Dihua, who was the strongest, carrying a shoulder pole!

Old man Lu also carried a big bag and two handbags.

Old doctor Shao carried one on his back and pulled a small trailer with two bags on it. Lu An and Hou Bo were no exception, each carrying one on his back and one in his hand. Even Hou Wei was carrying something on his back and carrying something in his hand.