"I know, Mom." The two children were comforted by their mother's gentle words, so they let go of their grandparents' hands, leaned on the window with excitement, looked outside, and whispered to each other.

"Mom and Dad, you two can stay downstairs with the two children tonight. Xiaoyan and I will stay upstairs." After Gu Mingze put away all his things, he looked at his father-in-law and mother-in-law and said.

"Okay." Father and Mother Lu were both too old to get on the upper bunk, so they nodded and agreed.

"Are you hungry? Do you want to eat something?" Gu Mingze asked his wife, who was packing up.

"I'm not hungry yet, but you should fill up the kettles with water, otherwise it will be inconvenient to go back and forth when there are too many people around." Lu Qingyan shook her head and handed the two military kettles in her hand to Gu Mingze, asking him to get some water and put them back to dry, so as to avoid the inconvenience of going back and forth when there are too many people around.

"Okay, then you look after the two sons for a while. I'll be back soon." Gu Mingze took the kettle handed over by his wife, gave her a few instructions, and then went to get some water.

"Mom and Dad, if you two are tired, just take a rest." Lu Qingyan packed up everything and looked at her tired parents, asking them to take a rest and not sit there stiffly.

"Then let's take a nap, so that we can be alert at night." Father Lu nodded and went to sleep in the bedroom opposite.

"Mom, you should take a nap too. I'll take care of the two children." Seeing that her mother was still sitting there, Lu Qingyan asked her to take a rest while she could take care of the two children.

"It's okay, I won't sleep. If I sleep now, I won't be able to sleep at night." Mother Lu knew that she wanted to watch this thing at night, and her son-in-law wouldn't let her, so she didn't sleep now to avoid being unable to sleep at night.

"We haven't sent any letters or telegrams home. If we go back unexpectedly, won't my eldest, second, and third brothers be scared?" Seeing that her mother was not asleep, Lu Qingyan sat next to her mother and chatted with her.

"That's not good. We haven't been back for several years. If we go back suddenly, they will be scared." When Mother Lu thought about their sons' scared faces when they went back, they laughed out loud.

"Time flies by so fast. In a blink of an eye, the two children have grown up so fast." Seeing her mother smile, Lu Qingyan looked at her two sons who were whispering to each other and said with emotion.

"Indeed, the children are already over three years old, and we haven't been back to our hometown for four years. I don't know if it has changed." Mother Lu heard her daughter sighing and echoed.

"What could have changed? The brigade is still the same, going to work and earning work points every day." Lu Qingyan thought that it was only 1973, and there were still many years before the real liberation, so the brigade had basically not changed much.

To say that there is no change, it has indeed changed a little.

That’s because I read books in my previous life and knew that now there would be educated youth going to the countryside in every place.

Even their brigade will not be an exception, so these educated youth who go to the countryside will bring changes to the brigade.

"Yes, it's more severe now than before, and there are so many children who don't go to school and go to the countryside. I don't know when this will end." When Mother Lu and the wives of the soldiers in the army have nothing to do, they will follow the logistics department's car to the city.

I have also seen those tragic things and some children who did not go to school went to the countryside.

So from then on, she would not go out easily unless necessary.

Because it was too scary, she was afraid that if anything happened to her son-in-law, her daughter would be implicated.

"I don't know. Let's just wait." Lu Qingyan and the others didn't feel that kind of oppression in the army at all, so when they returned to the brigade, the scenes they saw were simply heartbreaking.

Gu Mingze came back with two kettles and sat aside listening to his wife and mother-in-law chatting.

After dinner in the evening, he let the two children go to bed and he and his wife went to the upper bunk to rest.

The next day, several people woke up early, had their meal, and waited for the afternoon train to arrive. They all breathed a sigh of relief after getting off the train.

"Dad, when can we get to our hometown?" Gu Jingming and Gu Qiming were quite excited when they first got on the train, but they felt a little depressed when they woke up the next day. As soon as they got off the train, they pulled their father's arm and asked

"We'll be there in a while after we take the bus." After saying this, Gu Mingze led a few people to the bus station to take the bus. After a long time, they finally arrived at the Dongfeng Brigade before dark.

When they arrived at the brigade, it was time to get off work.

So the people in the team stood there and watched for a long time before they recognized Lu's father and mother.

Now that was good, a group of people gathered around and started talking to Mr. and Mrs. Lu.

When the educated youth standing aside saw this scene, they all looked at each other.

Some of the female educated youth had been working in the countryside for two or three years. When they saw the family surrounded, they whispered, "Who is this family? We have been working in the countryside for almost three years, and we have never seen this family before."

"Yeah, I haven't seen it either, but that soldier looks really energetic." A pretty young woman who has been sent to the countryside for four years has had enough of it.

But she had not found the person of her dreams, so she had not married. Now, when she saw a tall and mighty soldier, it was no exaggeration to say that her eyes were shining.

"What's the point of being in a bad mood? Didn't you see the woman next to him? And the two children next to them? They look like a family. Don't have any bad intentions. If you implicate the people at the educated youth site, we won't let you go." A beautiful, fair-skinned female educated youth said angrily when she heard her words.

"Yeah, forget it, let's go back to the educated youth camp to cook." Upon hearing this, the pretty female educated youth nodded in frustration and urged them to go back to the educated youth camp to cook and then rest.

But there was a male educated youth who was thin and wore glasses, which made him look gentle and refined.

At this moment, looking at the young, beautiful and elegant women who were surrounded, he became interested.

He thought to himself that as long as he could catch this woman, he would be able to leave this damn place.

So he turned around and asked an old man who had been working in the countryside for several years, who were this family and why did they come to their brigade.

"I don't know either. Although we have been working in the countryside for several years, we still don't know who this family is."

"Oh." Lin Zhiwei was still disappointed when he heard this, but he quickly cheered up and decided to find out the details of this woman in the next two days before he could take action himself.

Gu Mingze didn't know that someone was trying to steal his girl. He was dragging his wife and two children, saying hello to his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and heading home.