Mother Lu looked at the old man's back as he walked away, sighed and muttered: "Children are all debts!"

"Mom, I'm not a debt, I'm your sweet little cotton-padded jacket." Lu Qingyan came over holding her belly and heard her mother's words, so she smiled sweetly and said

"Just forget it, it's fine as long as it's not leaking." When Mother Lu heard her daughter's words, she stretched out her hand and tapped her twice in the air, saying unhappily

"Look at what you said. Can I be that little cotton-padded jacket that leaks air?" Lu Qingyan curled her lips and said

"Go out now! Don't block me from working." Seeing her daughter still standing there, Mother Lu waved her hand and chased her out.

Seeing that her mother was almost done cooking, Lu Qingyan slowly returned to the room and called Gu Mingze to get up and prepare to eat.

"Why didn't you sleep a little longer?" Gu Mingze woke up dazedly when he heard his wife calling him. When he opened his eyes, he saw his wife standing on the ground and asked.

"My second brother, second sister-in-law, third brother, and third sister-in-law came over just now. I'm a light sleeper, so I woke up when I heard them talking." Lu Qingyan smiled and said when she heard the man ask her this.

"Then why didn't you wake me up?" Gu Mingze heard his wife say that someone had come to the house just now, so he looked at his wife and asked why she didn't wake him up just now.

"You've finally fallen into such a deep sleep, I can't bear to wake you up." What Lu Qingyan didn't say was that when she woke up, she saw the man frowning while sleeping, and she thought that if she woke him up, the man would definitely feel uncomfortable, so she didn't wake him up and let him sleep a little longer.

"Okay then." Gu Mingze felt speechless, so he got up to put on his shoes and helped his wife out.

"Mingze is awake? That's great. Wash your face and refresh yourself. It'll be time for dinner soon." Mother Lu was sitting on a small stool putting firewood into the stove. She turned around and saw Gu Mingze coming out. She shouted in a loud voice,

"I understand, mother." Gu Mingze nodded, indicating that he understood, then he let go of his wife's hand, went to find a washbasin, and washed his face with water.

"The weather is getting colder now." Lu Qingyan stood in the yard, and the wind blew over her, giving her goose bumps. She turned back to the house and put on a coat. When she came out, she looked at Gu Mingze and said

"Well, it's almost autumn, and the weather will get colder." Gu Mingze said, and when no one was in the yard, he reached out and touched his wife's hand, and let go when he felt the warmth.

He was afraid that his wife's hands would be cold, and it would be troublesome if she felt uncomfortable.

"We're leaving tomorrow. Do you have anyone you want to say hello to?" Lu Qingyan stood there, looked at the man, thought for a moment, and asked.

"No." Gu Mingze has been away from home for many years. He only comes back to visit his parents and brothers. But now their relationship is bad, so there is no one left for him to greet.

"Oh." After hearing what the man said, Lu Qingyan saw a flash of pity in his eyes. Then she thought that since the man had little contact with his parents and relatives, she should treat him better, otherwise he would be so pitiful.

"It's time to eat." After finishing cooking, Mother Lu shouted, "Let's eat." Then she came out with a bowl of rice and said to Lu Qingyan, "Tell your eldest brother to go to your second brother's or third brother's house and ask your father to come back for dinner."

"I know, mother." Without waiting for Lu Qingyan to go find his elder brother, Lu Qingshan left as soon as he heard the noise and came out to agree.

"Gangzi, Shitou, come and wash your hands and eat." Lu Qingyan saw his elder brother go out, and called the two children who were playing in the corner to come and wash their hands and eat.

Chen Juan, who was in the room, saw that her sister-in-law didn't even call her, so she immediately threw the things in her hand onto the kang.

Lu Qingyan only heard her sister-in-law say, "There was a bang, then there was no sound." She curled her lips and pulled the two children to wash their hands.

"Sister-in-law, won't you eat with us?" Gu Mingze heard a noise coming from one of the rooms and guessed who it was. He walked over and asked his wife in a low voice.

"We don't need to worry about it. If we call her sister-in-law, then we should call her father, mother or elder brother soon." Lu Qingyan doesn't care about her sister-in-law's affairs. If she cares about it, it will end up in trouble. It's better not to care about it from the beginning.

When Gu Mingze heard his wife's words, he nodded and stopped asking questions.

"Come and have dinner, don't just stand there." Seeing that they had waited for a long time but their eldest son and the old man didn't come back, Mother Lu called the two standing in the yard to come over for dinner.

"Mom, do you want me to go call my dad and big brother back?" Lu Qingyan thought that since her dad and big brother were not coming back, she should not eat for the time being and wait for a while, or she could go call them.

"If you don't come back now, you must be eating at your second or third brother's house. I'll save some food for them later, and we'll eat our own first." Mother Lu said that, but in her heart she didn't think she could eat at her two sons' houses.

After all, food is scarce in everyone's home now, so they might cook and leave the food there for them to eat.

Look, what Lu's mother said was right. As soon as she finished speaking.

Father Lu and Lu Qingshan walked in.

"Why are you back so late?" Mother Lu looked at the two people who had returned and asked unhappily.

"The second son's wife wanted us to have dinner there, but we didn't agree. We argued for a long time before we came back." Father Lu said as he washed his hands, then came in and sat on a stool. He reached out and touched the heads of his two grandsons and said, "Eat more later. If you want to eat something in the future, ask your father to buy it for you. If he doesn't buy it for you, write to grandpa and grandpa will buy it and mail it back for you."

"Thank you, Grandpa." Gangzi smiled and nodded when he heard this.

"Thank you, Grandpa." Shitou saw his brother speaking and followed his grandfather in thanking him.

"Eat quickly, or the food will get cold if you keep wasting time." Mother Lu looked at the people who were talking nonstop and urged them to eat quickly. She told them to talk later if they had anything to say.

When Chen Juan heard that everyone outside had already eaten, she left and went out to the kitchen to cook. But when she smelled the fragrance in the kitchen, she became angrier and angrier, so she slammed things while cooking.

"If you don't want to cook, go inside. You're going to break all the pots and pans." Lu Qingshan was eating happily, but when he heard the noise in the kitchen, he stood up, walked to the kitchen door, looked at Chen Juan and said,

"Lu Qingshan, do you still have any conscience? Your family is eating good food over there, and you are watching me eating these crap over here. How can you bear to do that?" Chen Juan said, feeling aggrieved. She was afraid that Lu Qingshan would see her crying, so she bent down and lit the fire, tears streaming down her face.

"Tell me, isn't it you who caused the situation between us now?" Seeing Chen Juan like this, Lu Qingshan felt bad, so he sighed and said, "If you are fine in the future, we may still be able to live together, but if you still take things from your mother's house, then we will always be like this."