As soon as Lu Qingyan finished speaking, her parents came back.

"Hey, Mingze, why did you come back so early today? Put it there quickly, I'll wash my hands and cook." Mother Lu put the basket aside and saw Gu Mingze cooking when she entered the house. She immediately went to the toilet to wash her hands while saying

"It's okay, mom, you do your thing, I'll cook." Gu Mingze hurriedly shouted when he heard this.

"Mom, let Mingze cook today. He has already cooked the dishes, and they will be ready by the time you get there." Lu Qingyan also came out and looked at her mother and said

"Okay, let's take a break today and let our son-in-law cook for us." Seeing her daughter and son-in-law say this, Mother Lu washed her hands and came out, smiling.

"Mom, have you finished planting in the fields?" Gu Mingze asked while cooking in the kitchen.

"No, your father and I were afraid that it would be too cold in a couple of days and the potatoes would freeze to death if they didn't sprout, so we brought the potatoes back and planned to nail some wooden boards and plant potatoes in the house." Mother Lu shook her head and said, "We'll plant some cabbage and rapeseed in the field."

"Then I'll go talk to the logistics department when I pass by it on my way back to work this afternoon." When Gu Mingze heard about nailing some wooden boards, he knew that he had to go to the logistics department to find someone to do these things.

"No need for you. Just go back to work after dinner. Your father and I will go." On the way back, Lu's mother and the old man had already made plans. They would nail some wooden boxes, dig more soil from the fields, and plant potatoes in the house. No matter what, it would be warmer inside the house than outside, and it would not freeze to death.

"That's fine. If you have anything to say, just tell me when I get home from get off work. I can't go to work all day and not do any housework." Gu Mingze nodded and said.

"What kind of work can we do at home all day? You're so tired after working all day. Your father and I will do this little work at home. You are not needed." When Lu's mother heard what her son-in-law said, she waved her hands and said

She and the old man were used to working when they were in the brigade. They suddenly moved to the city and had nothing to do all day. They were so tired that their bones were almost loose.

Now that we can farm, let them keep busy so that they can stay healthy. Otherwise, they will become more and more lazy.

"Then you and my father should be more careful when working. If there is any hard work, just wait until I come back to do it. You two can do some light work." Gu Mingze was still worried that his father-in-law and mother-in-law would be tired, so he gave them a few more instructions.

"Okay, okay, we'll call you if there's any work we can't do." Seeing that her son-in-law cared so much about them, Mother Lu smiled and nodded in agreement.

Then he remembered something and said, "Mingze, when you go back to work, can you help me mail a letter to my family?"

"Okay, ask Xiaoyan to write it later, and I'll take it and mail it directly when I leave." The army has a courier who is responsible for mailing letters. He will take it by the wayside on his way back to work.

"Xiaoyan, do you have paper and pen in your room? Come over and write a letter to your three brothers." When Mother Lu heard her son-in-law say this, she called her daughter to get paper and pen from her room to write a letter to her.

She and the old man have been here for such a long time, but they haven't written home yet, so they don't know what the situation is like at home.

"Here I come." Lu Qingyan went back to the room, found a pen, took it out, put it on the dining table, sat down on the chair slowly, and let her mother say, "I'll write."

"Ask your three brothers how the crops are, whether it will rain, how the children are, whether the house is leaking, and ask them to save some food.

It has been raining for such a long time. We don’t know what will happen in the fall. If we don’t have food, we should make as much as possible. Otherwise, we will be hungry in the winter. "Mother Lu said in one breath and asked the old man to come over and say a few words.

"Tell your eldest brother to take some time to visit your mother-in-law's house and see what she is like. Don't let him go empty-handed. Buy her some things.

One, let them be safe after a while, and repair the roof and other things, so that it won't collapse again when it snows in winter. "Father Lu also finished speaking in one breath, and said nothing else.

"Ask your eldest, second, and third brothers to reply to the letter. Don't just read it and leave it at that. Tell them that your father and I are doing well with you.

The rain has stopped here in the army. Also, you can tell them that we have been allocated land and food in the army, so they don’t need to worry about me and your father. Mother Lu waited for the old man to finish speaking and added a few more words, and that was it.

Lu Qingyan waited for her parents to finish speaking. She was almost done writing as well, so she picked up the paper and read it. After making sure there was nothing else to add, she folded the paper and put it in Gu Mingze's coat pocket.

"Mingze, I put the letter in your coat pocket. Don't forget it when you leave." After Lu Qingyan buttoned up her coat, she looked at Gu Mingze and said

"Got it, let's eat." Gu Mingze nodded, took the dishes out of the pot, put them on the table and said

Father Lu stood up and went to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks. Several people sat down and finished their meal together. Except for Lu Qingyan who stayed at home, everyone else went out to get busy.

After Lu Qingyan and the others left, she locked the door, went back to her room and went to sleep.

Father and Mother Lu took the rapeseed and sacks to the logistics department to borrow a hoe, and went to the field to plant cabbage, rapeseed and some green vegetables, and filled the sacks with soil.

Father Lu first carried a sack of soil back home, and then he and his wife went to the logistics department to make wooden boxes.

Although it is called a wooden box, it is actually not as deep as a wooden box. It is just a little deeper. A long strip will do.

When the people from the logistics department heard this, they immediately stepped forward and made it in a short while.

When Mr. and Mrs. Lu were about to leave, they reminded them to tell him after the potatoes were planted.

If they do the same when the time comes, the troops will have more food.

When Mr. Lu heard him say this, he became more interested in growing potatoes. He went home, poured the soil into a wooden box, and then started planting potatoes.

In this way, Father Lu was very enthusiastic about potatoes. Not only did he squat there to observe every day, but he also collected some urine from time to time, diluted it with water, and carefully sprinkled it on the soil.

Every time at this time, Lu Qingyan would go downstairs to rest and come back after the smell in the house had completely dissipated.

"Look at you, you are just too pretentious. There is no smell in the room. Besides, I used water inside, so how can there be any smell?" Father Lu waited for his daughter to come back and couldn't help but say a few words to his daughter.

"Dad, that's because your nose isn't working well, so you can't smell it. Besides, you said you can just plant it in the house, why are you using that thing? It's a good thing it's summer, if it's autumn or winter, the smell in the house would be unbearable." Lu Qingyan frowned and said with disgust.

"Look at what you've done. Look at what you've done. If you say you grew up in the countryside, no one would believe you." Father Lu pointed at his daughter and said unhappily.

"That's right. Fortunately, we live on the side. If we were in the middle, our neighbors would probably be choked by us." Lu Qingyan said with a pout while sitting on a chair.