Chapter 84: Meeting without knowing each other

Lu Shaotang was tall and had long legs. He walked with big steps and even faster pace. He walked from one end of the intersection to the other in a blink of an eye.

He was in a hurry to go to a comrade's house.

His comrade was injured and retired, and his life was a bit difficult. He wanted to give him some money and then hurried back to Lu's village. He

walked so fast that he didn't even shave his beard, thinking that he would talk on the way home.

He was really eager to go home.

In the blink of an eye, he walked more than ten meters, but heard a baby voice calling: "Uncle, uncle, buy a tea leaf egg for your child."

When he walked through the intersection just now, he felt someone staring at him, but he didn't take it seriously because he saw that it was two children and there was no danger.

Now the baby voice called uncle, and he intuitively felt that it was calling him.

He paused. He had eaten tea leaf eggs in the southeastern coastal areas, but he had no impression that they were not available in his hometown, and his family certainly had never eaten them.

He was tempted and wanted to buy tea leaf eggs for Tianbaoer and Panzier.

Thinking of his two cute children and his sweet and gentle wife, his originally steady heartbeat began to accelerate.

He turned around and strode back.

Tiantian smiled at him with her big eyes curved.

Panpan was disappointed. At first glance, his figure looked very similar to Xiaobai Yangdie, but when he got closer, he didn't look alike at all!

This man's nose was too high!

His eyes were so deep and his pupils were so black, his eyelashes were so long, and his eyebrows were so thick!

He had a hard, short stubble, but his father didn't!

Not at all like him, not at all like the photo.

Seeing the man so tall and handsome, Panzier subconsciously straightened his chubby body and straightened his back.

Lu Shaotang squatted down and looked at the two little kids, five or six years old, fair and tender, handsome, polite, and sensible.

Because he also has two children of the same age, he felt a sense of intimacy in his heart.

Yes, his children will be like this too.

Of course, he didn't have to make his children so pretty and sensible. Children who grew up in the countryside must roll around and play in the mud every day. If they were black loaches... that would be good too, lively and healthy.

He didn't need his children to be so sensible.

His parents are capable, his wife is virtuous, and he can earn money, so naturally he doesn't need his child to sell things to supplement the family income at such a young age.

This is because the family is in a tight spot, and his parents are afraid that it will be inconvenient for the child to go out without the red armband, so they let the child sell it?

1.5 cents an egg, that's quite expensive.

If he put it aside, Lu Shaotang would not even look at it. Want to make money from him?

He has to use his money to support his parents, wife and children.

If the two adults were here to sell eggs for 1.5 cents an egg, he would definitely not buy it.

Now seeing that the two children are so well-behaved and cute, and they are pitiful, he wants to buy it.

Forget it, just think of it as a good deed.

He asked, "How many more? I want them all."

Tiantian smiled brightly, "Uncle, how many kids do you have?"

Lu Shaotang looked at her sweet smile and was a little confused. Why did he feel that this kid looked a bit like his wife?

He quickly gathered his thoughts and said lightly, "Two."

It would be uncertain when he got home. There might be three or four.

Panpan pouted her little mouth, and her competitive factor was automatically triggered. She was always the most popular one in his circle. Today, Tiantian smiled so sweetly when she saw this uncle.

Hum!

He shouted, "What factory do you work in?"

Lu Shaotang's eyes turned slightly. This little thorn looked a little familiar. "A factory you haven't heard of."

Panpan raised her chin, pouted, and pretended to be fierce.

He was sure that this was not his father.

This man is nothing like Dad or Grandpa!

Tiantian had never seen Panpan like this before, so she quickly pulled his clothes to tell him to behave, because they still had to sell tea leaf eggs.

This man didn't respond to them, so he must not be Dad.

Dad had seen them and kissed them.

Seeing that there were eight tea leaf eggs, Lu Shaotang took out a dollar and two cents.

Lu Shaotang looked at them and felt more and more familiar with them, so he asked, "Where are your parents?"

Panpan said, "My mother is staying at home."

Lu Shaotang: "Then where is your father?"

Tiantian: "He is at work."

Lu Shaotang thought their father was a worker in the steel mill. He put the tea eggs into his lunch box, closed it, paid the money and stood up, "Okay, let's go home after selling them."

He didn't say anything more, he was in a hurry to go home.

Looking at Lu Shaotang's tall back as he left, Tiantian whispered, "Why do I feel a little sad?"

Panpan: "I feel a little too. If I had known he was rich, I would have sold him for 20 cents."

Tiantian took out the photo and looked at it. She felt that they looked alike and not alike.

It's not the son's fault.

The photo is in black and white, and the front portrait is flat and not three-dimensional,

which is somewhat distorted compared to the real person. The key is that the photo is too small, only two inches in size, and the sawtooth edges have to be planed off, and Lu Shaotang is too tall. In order to fully appear in the small photo, the head is naturally not big, and the face is only the size of a bean.

The two boys can't equate the bean-sized picture with the real person, they can only compare it with their grandfather's face.

Old Man Lu and Lu Shaotang don't look much alike. Old Man Lu is elegant and refined, and his facial features are not so three-dimensional. His skin becomes loose with age, while Lu Shaotang's facial features are three-dimensional, his eyes are deep, and his aura is majestic. The feeling is completely different.

The two boys returned to the family compound, and Lin Shu came down to have dinner with them.

"Mom, we saw an uncle who looks a bit like Grandpa."

They had been looking around the city these days and saw two people who looked a bit like Grandpa, but their faces were different.

The one they saw today looked the most like Grandpa.

Lin Shu didn't take it seriously. In this world, there are many people who look a bit alike.

The two kids couldn't help asking Lin Shu, "Mom, when will Dad come back?"

Lin Shu: "Didn't he say it was during the Chinese New Year?"

Pan Pan said sadly, "If it's during the Chinese New Year, won't I be one year older?"

Lin Xia's wound didn't hurt anymore, and she couldn't help laughing, "Pan Pan, it's okay, it's a good thing for children to be one year older."

Tian Tian: "Hu Zi cried when he heard that he was going to school one year older, which shows that it's not all good."

Lin Shu: "..."

Day after day, you are teaching each other nonsense.

At midnight, Lu Shaotang finally arrived at Lujiazhuang.

He took a coal truck and a truck on the way back, and walked for a while.

When he arrived at the village, all the chickens and dogs were asleep.

In order not to alarm the neighbors, he even used stealth skills and climbed over the courtyard wall silently.

He had excellent eyesight. Although he could not see in the dark, he could still distinguish the large vegetable garden in the courtyard by the starlight.

Wow, when did his mother become so particular about vegetables that she planted such a large vegetable garden.

The door of the main house was closed, so he directly used wire to open the bolt and turned on the flashlight to enter the main room.

He knocked on the door of the old couple's room in the east.

Fang Dihua was alert and woke up immediately, "Who is it?"

Lu Shaotang: "Mom, your Saner is back."

Fang Dihua: "!!!"

She sat up, feeling dizzy and dazed, and immediately pushed Lu Laodi: "Old man, Saner is back."

Lu Laodi was dreaming about his youth, and was still a little confused after being woken up by the sudden push, "Saner wet the bed?"

Fang Dihua smiled and said: "Your Saner is back, hurry up!"

Lu Laodi woke up in a second, quickly got dressed and lit the oil lamp.

Fang Dihua got down and opened the door, whispering: "Saner, you... came back secretly?"

It was the middle of the night, and there was no movement at all. Fang Dihua felt that her son must have come back secretly.

Lu Shaotang didn't want to alarm his brothers, so he nodded, hugged Fang Dihua, lifted her up and shook her, "The old lady's meal is not bad, and the portions are heavy."

Fang Dihua laughed and hit him, "Put it down, that's not right."

Lu Shaotang shook hands with Old Man Lu again, "Dad, how come you look younger? You look exactly the same as when I left."

Old Man Lu laughed and whispered, "Isn't it because there's no one at home to make me angry?"

Lu Shaotang Lu Shaotang gave them tea leaf eggs to eat, "I'll go check on the kids."

Fang Dihua: "Don't check."

Lu Shaotang had already walked to the door of the west room, thinking his mother was making fun of him for rushing to see his wife after returning, so he said: "I'll just check."

Fang Dihua: "They haven't abandoned their home yet."

Lu Shaotang paused and shone the flashlight into the west room. The quilts on the kang were neatly stacked, and it was really... There was no wife or children on the bare kang.

Lu Shaotang was so disappointed, "Did they... go to my grandmother's house?"

I'll pick them up tomorrow morning.

Fang Dihua and Lu's father smelled the incense and couldn't help but share a tea leaf egg. San'er bought it, so of course they had to eat it.

Fang Dihua: "I went to my second aunt's house at the steel mill in the city. Her second aunt had an operation, and your wife took Tiantian and Panpan to accompany her."

Lu Shaotang: "!!!"

He raised his hand and hit himself on the head.

He said that the two children looked so familiar and friendly. If he hadn't blindly believed that the children and his wife were at home in the countryside, he would have recognized them on the spot.

Fang Dihua and Lu Laodie were shocked, "What's the matter?"

Lu Shaotang didn't want to say that he encountered an embarrassing incident that his children didn't know, which would make them laugh for the rest of their lives.

He immediately said: "Dad, Mom, then I'll go first, I only have three days off."

He was carrying a light backpack, and now he put it on and rushed into the night, not going out through the main door but climbing over the wall.

Fang Dihua and Lu Laodie looked at each other.

Fang Dihua: "Is our third son back?"

Father Lu: "Yes, he brought tea eggs?"

Fang Dihua: "Do you think our family will have another baby?" Father

Lu smiled and said, "That's great. Tiantian and Panpan have a brother and sister, and the family will be more lively."

Tonight, Lin Shu found that the two children were not in a good mood. She

asked them what was wrong.

Tiantian: "Mom, I really miss you."

Lin Xia: "No, if I laugh again, I'm afraid the wound will open."

Panpan: "Mom, we are thinking about it again, that uncle may be my father."

Lin Shu heard the two children mumbling before, but she didn't take it to heart at all, thinking that they were waiting for their father just like they did during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Listening to their description, the man's figure, appearance, height, and deep three-dimensional facial features are really similar to Lu Shaotang.

Lin Shu testified that Lu Shaotang really doesn't look like the photo. The photo shows a youthful look and a slightly thin figure. In addition, the black and white photo has serious distortion of the portrait, and the facial features are flattened and not that three-dimensional.

The real Lu Shaotang has three-dimensional facial features, deep eyes, a high nose bridge, and dark eyes with a sense of power that strikes the heart.

It's very oppressive, making people almost dare not look him in the eye.

These photos can't be taken, and when you see the real person, you often ignore his other features.

If it really is Lu Shaotang, then... it's not the kid's fault.

Didn't Lu Shaotang also not recognize his kid?

We all don't know each other, so no one should make fun of each other.

Lin Shu thought it was quite funny, and told Lin Xia after the two kids fell asleep.

Lin Xia: "...I really can't laugh anymore, please understand that I'm a patient who just had surgery."

The next day, Lin Shu got up early and poked open the beehive coal to cook porridge.

In the past few days, because my second sister had surgery and needed to recuperate, the hot water at home could not be cut off, and the beehive coal was never extinguished. At night, it hardly burned when the damper was closed. During the day, the damper was opened, the coal balls were poked open, and the wind basically burned directly.

Lin Xia had never rested for so long since she was a child, and she was not used to it. She didn't sleep deeply unless she was tired, and she woke up early in the morning.

The two sisters talked about everything these days, and their relationship was much closer than before.

Lin Xia said, "If the person the child met yesterday was really his biological father, he would have come to see you today."

Lin Shu: "Not necessarily, he is very busy, and every time we meet, he is in a hurry and can't say more than a few words."

Lin Xia showed an ambiguous smile.

Tiantian and Panpan woke up, and the two children rolled on the bed and sighed.

The 101st discussion about whether the man yesterday was the father.

Panpan: "I don't think so. This man is very fierce, not as good as our father and grandfather."

Tiantian: "But I dreamed last night that my father hugged me and kissed my hands, just like this."

The father I dreamed of before always looked like my grandfather, but the father last night looked like that uncle.

Oh, the two kids are missing each other.

They couldn't eat a tea leaf egg for breakfast.

They took the comic book downstairs to play.

Lin Shu: "Don't go to the gate again."

Panpan: "Oh."

Tiantian: "Oh, I left home when I was young and returned when I was old. My accent has not changed, but my hair has turned gray..."

Lin Shu: "..."

This is not appropriate, kid, don't read it, your father will cry if he hears it.

Tiantian and Panpan went downstairs to play hand in hand, and the comic book in their hands was no longer fragrant.

They went to play in the square of the steel mill. There were basketball courts, table tennis tables, and badminton courts. It was very spacious.

Many elderly people came here to play with their children.

Tong Xiaojun ran over and said rudely, "Read to me!"

Tiantian ignored him, and Panpan rolled her eyes at him.

They had already blacklisted Tong Xiaojun and his gang, and didn't want to say a word to them.

Tong Xiaojun heard his uncle go home and mutter to his grandmother last night, saying that Sister Lin Xia's husband didn't come home for several years but died. The government has issued a pension and the newspapers have reported it, but everyone doesn't read the PLA newspaper, so they don't know. He

also said that Aunt Jiang went to the Qian family all day long, actually wanting to marry Sister Lin Xia to Director Jiang as a second wife.

In this case, Director Jiang will definitely support Qian Lisheng to be the workshop director.

Tong's mother was very angry and cursed several times, and Tong Xiaojun heard it.

He gave orders several times, but Tiantian and Panpan ignored him, so he was very angry.

"Country bumpkin! Bumpkin!" He stamped his feet and shouted.

Tiantian: "Like a crow, he can really make a lot of noise."

Panpan: "He eats food that country bumpkins grow with dung. He grows up eating dung."

Tong Xiaojun didn't know how dung was made. He hated it. He couldn't accept anyone who told him that food was grown with dung.

He was extremely angry, "Nonsense, you grew up eating shit."

Panpan: "Your mouth stinks, you must have grown up eating shit."

Tong Xiaojun: "Your father died a long time ago!"

Panpan and Tiantian's faces changed, and Panpan's face was tense.

The last two people who said his father was dead, Chang Xiaogang and Zhang Xiaoliang, were beaten a lot.

Tiantian took his little hand and told him not to bother with the fool who grew up eating shit, his father was fine.

Panpan tried to bear it.

He missed his father so much these days that his heart was tense, and he was not in the mood to play with Tong Xiaojun.

Tong Xiaojun deliberately provoked them and continued to scold: "Your mother is shameless, she came to the city to hook up with your stepfather."

Panpan couldn't bear it anymore!

Although the steel mill is not Lu's village, he has no place to deal with people, and Tong Xiaojun has a group of little followers, so he might suffer in a fight.

But he couldn't bear it anymore. If anyone dared to curse his parents, he would fight back!

Panpan rushed forward with a horse stance and a right punch, and "bang" a fist hit Tong Xiaojun's nose hard.

The genes of the Lu family are that they are tall and strong. With the bonus of Fang Dihua, Panpan and Tiantian eat better than their peers, so they naturally develop better and have more strength.

Dad Lu usually practices fitness boxing, and he and Tiantian also practice it.

Although it's a fancy trick, Tong Xiaojun is still a child and can't resist a beating.

"Wow--"

Tong Xiaojun fell to the ground, crying and cursing, and wanted to get up and fight.

Panpan thought, since we've already started fighting, his grandmother will come to complain if he hits him again, so why not hit him a few more times?

So he jumped on Tong Xiaojun and pushed him down again, "bang bang" with left hooks and right hooks.

Tong Xiaojun naturally refused to be beaten and struggled hard, so Tiantian went over and held his legs and pinched the flesh on his legs.

Tong Xiaojun screamed in pain and cursed like his grandmother.

Soon, several old people and children came running to watch the excitement.

Someone shouted, "Tong Xiaojun is going to be beaten to death by Lu Panpan."

"I heard that the father of those two kids is dead. Tsk, tsk, how pitiful."

"Dead? Their mother is so happy. You can't tell at all that her husband is gone."

"Of course she is. Look at her coquettish look. She must be like her sister and wants to come to the city to pick up men."

Originally, these people praised Lin Shu for her beauty, diligence, and delicious cooking. When they heard that her husband was gone, they immediately changed their tune and began to sympathize and slander her.

It seemed that because her husband was gone, she was inferior to them and allowed them to comment at will.

Soon Tong's mother hurried over, "Who hit my child?"

She stepped forward and pushed Panpan and Tiantian, cursing, "You bastard who needs no family discipline, why did you hit our child? There is no good thing about these bad country bastards!" When

Panpan was pushed by her, Tong Xiaojun wanted to take the opportunity to pin Panpan under him and beat him back.

Tiantian imitated the tricks of the old ladies on the street to beat their children, and pinched Tong Xiaojun's thigh hard.

"Ouch——" Tong Xiaojun howled in pain.

Tong's mother wanted to beat Tiantian again.

At this time, Mrs. Jiang came over quickly, "What are you doing! Bullying the children!" Mrs.

Jiang slapped Tong's mother hard on the arm as she was trying to grab Panpan and Tiantian, protecting the two children.

Tong Xiaojun jumped up and cursed: "Your father is dead, dead, dead, you fatherless bad boy! Your mother will find you a stepfather!"

Panpan's eyes were red, and she wanted to rush up to beat him.

Mrs. Jiang hugged the two children distressedly, "Don't quarrel with a fool, it's not worth it."

Lu Shaotang entered the steel rolling mill and asked the guard about the location of Lin Xia's house.

He read his daughter-in-law's political review materials and memorized the family information in one go.

He walked quickly to the family compound in the back and heard the screams of a child and the scolding of an old lady on the way. There was

a faint child's voice that was familiar yet unfamiliar.