Zhou Xiaocao saw that people in the cafeteria could keep accounts, so she ordered some food and asked the staff in the cafeteria to keep accounts as well.

She was secretly delighted, thinking that she would keep a record of the expenses in the future. Since she was the head of the household and was not at home anyway, she could go and collect the allowance when the time came, and she would just deny the debt then.

Little did she know what impact her thoughts would have on her man in the near future.

Now he is holding the lunch box happily.

"My daughter, it's time to eat." Mother Lu brought back some sticky sweet potato porridge, which was made from sweet potatoes and sorghum rice. It was a little sticky and sweet, so it tasted good.

"Mom, I'm not hungry yet, you guys eat." Lu Qingyan was still asleep and didn't want to get up, so she shouted in the room.

"Okay, go to sleep." Mother Lu called the old man to come over to eat.

In this way, every morning and evening, Mother Lu would go to the lunch box with an umbrella to get rice. The porridge she brought back changed from being sticky at the beginning to being so thin that only a few grains could be seen.

That morning, when Lu's mother came back from breakfast and was about to enter the house, she was stopped by Zhou Xiaocao.

"Get out of the way." Mother Lu looked at the person in front of her without even raising her eyelids.

"Auntie, I was wrong before, please don't do the same as me." Zhou Xiaocao stopped Lu's mother and bowed to apologize.

"Get out of the way." Mother Lu put down her umbrella, pushed Zhou Xiaocao aside, and quickly went into the house and closed the door.

Seeing her like this, Zhou Xiaocao gritted her teeth, looked around to make sure there was no one around, then went back to the house, dragged the two girls out, and went to cry at the gate of the Lu family with her.

Only after Lu's mother returned to the house did she breathe a sigh of relief. She put the lunch box on the table and called the two to come over to eat.

"Auntie, I beg you, please lend me some. The children are starving." Zhou Xiaocao knocked on the door and asked the two children to shout

"What's going on?" Lu Qingyan frowned and asked when she heard the voice.

"It's because the porridge in the cafeteria is getting thinner and thinner. This guy can't eat enough, so he's targeting our house again. Don't worry about it. Just eat quickly." Mother Lu said and sighed.

"Auntie, please be so kind as to lend us three some food." Zhou Xiaocao shouted, and then pinched the two girls.

"Grandma, I'm hungry. I'm hungry." The two girls were pinched and cried.

"Didn't I say that we go to the canteen to get food every day, why are you going to Aunt Lu's house to borrow food?

Her sister-in-law is pregnant and in poor health. The food she has is not enough for her. Can you please stop doing this all the time? "Qian Xiaomei heard this person crying with the child next door, so she couldn't help but open the door and said,

"Then big sister, please lend me some, just a little bit. The children are really hungry. Please be kind." When Zhou Xiaocao saw someone open the door, she dragged her daughters to Qian Xiaomei's door and begged.

"No." Seeing her like this, Qian Xiaomei quickly slammed the door shut. But she was afraid that the man would break in, so she locked the door and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Bah, why are you pretending to be a nice person if you don't want to borrow the money?" Zhou Xiaocao looked at the door being closed, spat, and then turned around to knock on Lu Qingyan's door.

When the others and the people upstairs saw Zhou Xiaocao knocking on the door again, they all gathered together to see if she could succeed. If she could borrow it, they would also go.

"What's going on? What are you all doing here?" Gu Mingze came back from a mission, finished his report, and hurried home. But as soon as he got upstairs, the road was blocked.

"Captain Gu, are you back from your mission? Go home and check, someone is blocking your door." Guo Yan was also watching the excitement at the door. When she heard this familiar voice, she shouted

When Gu Mingze heard this, he became anxious. He pushed away the group of people blocking the stairs and ran home quickly.

After seeing a woman with two children knocking on the door and crying, he frowned and asked in a calm voice: "Comrade, why are you crying at my door?"

"Burp... No, it's okay." Zhou Xiaocao turned around and saw a tall man in military uniform. She was so scared that she burped and shook her head repeatedly.

"If you have nothing to do, go back. Don't block my door. Also, if you have any problems, report to the logistics department. It's useless to report to my house." As soon as Gu Mingze finished speaking, he saw the person who appeared at the door. The person became visibly gentler.

"You're back." After hearing Gu Mingze's voice in the room, Lu Qingyan cleaned up the table and went to open the door.

"Well, I'm back. Come in quickly. It's cold outside. Don't catch a cold." Gu Mingze nodded and urged his wife to go in quickly. Then he turned around and glanced coldly at the people watching the excitement not far away, and then he pushed the door and went in.

"Huh, that man is a battalion commander? He's so young. The look he gave me just now made my heart tremble." A woman saw Gu Mingze enter the room and patted her chest and said

"It seems so. I just heard the sister-in-law shouting like that." An old lady next to her nodded.

"That's really promising. My boss is about the same age as him, but he's only a company commander." The woman curled her lips and saw that she couldn't borrow food today, so she turned around and went back to the house.

However, Zhou Xiaocao was frightened by Gu Mingze. It was a while after he entered the house that she came to her senses and hurriedly took her two children back home.

"Mom and Dad, how have you been doing at home these days?" Gu Mingze took off his raincoat and put it aside after entering the house. After changing his shoes, he looked at the two elders and asked.

“We are all fine, but the water supply was cut off after you left.

Then another group of military dependents came. It was raining so hard that they couldn’t buy food and had nothing to eat, so they came to borrow from us.” Mother Lu sighed and said, “You know we can’t lend out food even if we have it, so they teamed up and tried to force their way in a few days ago.”

"Don't worry, our neighbors went to find someone and stopped them. We have arranged for them to eat in the cafeteria every day." Seeing the man clenched his fists, Lu Qingyan hurriedly comforted him.

"Since you go to the cafeteria to eat, why would someone come to our house to borrow food?" Gu Mingze didn't understand when she heard that. Since there was food in the cafeteria, why would anyone come to her house to borrow food?

"The rain started falling when you left and has never stopped. The logistics vehicles can't get out, and the people who go out can't bring back a few bags of food.

The food in the cafeteria is getting thinner and thinner, and it's not enough to fill my stomach. Someone can't help but knock on the door. "Lu Qingyan shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "I told them that I'm pregnant and not in good health, and the remaining food at home is left for me to eat, but some people are so shameless to come and borrow it."

"I'm sorry for troubling you during this period. Now that I'm back, you don't have to worry about it anymore." Gu Mingze really didn't know that such a thing had happened at home after he left. His parents and his wife must have worked so hard.

"It's not a problem, we're all family, why bother talking about this?" When Lu's mother heard her son-in-law say this, she waved her hand and asked, "How many days can you stay this time?"

"I don't know yet. If I don't have a mission, I'll stay at home. But I have to go to work every day and come back at night." Gu Mingze thought about the watery scene he saw all the way back, and his heart couldn't help but sink.

"That's good. Haven't you eaten yet? I'll go cook for you right away." Mother Lu looked at her son-in-law who had lost a lot of weight, locked the door tightly, and went to the kitchen to cook.

Gu Mingze went into the house to get a set of clothes, went to the toilet to scoop some water, took care of himself, changed his clothes, and then came out to whisper to his wife.