Lu Qingyan looked at the two children, and seeing how happy they were to hear what she said, she said "OK" with a gentle face.

At this time, Lu's mother came out of the kitchen and saw her two grandsons who were shabbily dressed and thin. She couldn't help but shed tears, but she was afraid that the children would see them, so she wiped her tears with her sleeves.

Then she walked over with a smile on her face and shouted, "Gangzi, Shitou, come here quickly so that grandma can see you. I haven't seen you for several years. You must have missed your grandma so much."

"Grandma, we miss you too." When Gangzi and Shitou heard his grandma's words, they ran over, hugged her and said with a smile

"Why have you lost so much weight? Is it because your father doesn't give you food at home?" Mother Lu held her two grandchildren in her arms and reached out to touch them. She felt a handful of bones and her eyes immediately turned red with distress.

"Yes, Daddy made sure we had enough to eat every meal." Gangzi and Shitou shook their heads and said they had eaten enough every meal.

"Then why are you still so thin?" After saying this, Mother Lu suddenly remembered that this was the brigade, and except for the New Year when they slaughtered pigs, they could not eat meat at other times. Thinking of this, she began to feel sorry for her two grandsons again.

So he asked his two grandchildren, "Do you raise chickens?"

"Yes." The two children nodded and said yes.

"Then you two can eat the eggs you lay every day, boil them, or ask your father to fry them for you, this will also help you replenish your body." When Mother Lu heard her grandson talking about raising chickens, she walked to the side and saw that there were really two hens in the chicken coop, so she said to her two grandsons:

"Grandma, we have to take the eggs laid by the chicken to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for things. We can't bear to eat them." Gangzi is already eleven years old. He knows that it is not easy for his father to raise him and his brother, so he saves the eggs laid by the chicken every day and takes them to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange for some oil, salt, etc.

"You are just too sensible." Mother Lu reached out and touched the heads of her two grandsons, feeling unhappy and saying

"Grandma, it's not easy for my dad to raise me and my brother, so we should save as much as we can, so that my dad can have an easier time." Gangzi looked at his grandma and smiled to comfort her. He and his brother were not greedy.

Lu Qingyan heard the conversation between her two nephews and felt so sad that she decided to go to the commune to buy some meat tomorrow to feed the two children.

"Go wash your hands and go play with your two younger brothers. Grandma will continue to cook for you." Seeing that it was getting dark, Mother Lu asked the two children to play with Jingming and the others while she went to the kitchen to cook.

"Go, help your aunt take care of your two younger brothers." Lu Qingyan stepped forward and touched the two children's heads, and said with a smile

"Okay." Gangzi and Shitou nodded and went to wash their hands. Then they took their younger brothers and went to play.

Lu Qingyan looked at her nephew and her son together, and felt particularly uncomfortable because of the obvious difference between them.

But no matter how uncomfortable she felt, he was just her nephew. What could she say or do?

"What are you looking at?" When Gu Mingze came out, he saw his wife sighing in the corner, so he walked over and asked.

"Look at the two children. Take a look at what they have become after not coming back for a few years." Lu Qingyan heard the man's words and nodded with her chin, asking the man to look at the two nephews.

"Aren't they too thin?" Gu Mingze looked in the direction his wife pointed and saw that the two children he hadn't seen for several years were not only thin, but their faces were also slightly yellow. This was obviously caused by lack of nutrition.

"Well, just now mother said that after the chickens lay eggs, they should eat them every day, but guess what they said?" Lu Qingyan said this without expecting the man to answer, she just said: "They said that we should save the eggs, and when we have enough, we can go to the supply and marketing cooperative to exchange them for oil and salt. Tell me, would our adults feel comfortable hearing this?"

"These two children are so sensible. I guess they are so sensible because they see how hard it is for their eldest brother to raise them alone." Gu Mingze just found out in the room that his eldest brother-in-law got divorced two years ago. So the two children saw how hard it was for their eldest brother-in-law to raise them, which is why they are so sensible now.

"Well, it's obvious that these two children love their father. Didn't you see that they go to the foot of the mountain to collect firewood after school?" Lu Qingyan's eyes turned red as she spoke, and she said with a choked voice: "If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have let my parents stay with us in the army. Otherwise, the two children wouldn't have ended up like this."

"Brother is afraid that our parents will worry if they find out, or that he will come back to see the child as you said, so he didn't tell them." Gu Mingze reached out and patted his wife's shoulder, saying to comfort her.

"I know all this, but I just feel uncomfortable." Lu Qingyan also felt that what her husband said was right, but I still felt uncomfortable.

"It's no use for you to feel uncomfortable. You should think about nourishing the two children during this time we are at home." Gu Mingze felt bad seeing his wife like this, but these were other people's children, and he couldn't do anything. He could only think of ways to comfort his wife.

"Well, are you going to visit your parents tomorrow?" Lu Qingyan nodded and asked, "Shall the children and I go with you tomorrow?"

"You don't have to go yet. I'll go back and take a look. I'll come back to pick you up when the time comes." Gu Mingze was afraid that his parents would not like him when he went back, so he didn't plan to bring his wife and son with him tomorrow.

He thought that if his parents were nice to him, it would be the same if he took his wife and children over.

This would save him from having to bring his wife and children over and causing embarrassment, and then making the two children feel bad about their parents, which would be even more difficult to deal with.

"Will this be bad?" Lu Qingyan asked hesitantly after hearing the man's words.

They haven't been back for so many years, and this time the man is going back alone. Wouldn't her parents-in-law make trouble again?

"It's okay. I'll go back tomorrow and come back to pick up your mother and the others." Gu Mingze really didn't want his wife and children to go back first, so when he heard his wife ask this, he still gave the same answer.

"Well, then, when the time comes for our parents to see the children, you should hurry back to pick us up, or have someone pass on the message that it will be the same for our two children." Seeing that the man still refused her statement, Lu Qingyan gave him a few instructions before letting him look after the children while she went to the kitchen to help.

"I don't need your help. Just take the dishes and chopsticks to the main room." When Lu's mother saw her daughter coming in, she asked her to take the dishes and go to the main room quickly, so as not to get in the way here.

"Okay." Lu Qingyan nodded helplessly, glanced at the kitchen, and decided in her heart that she must go to the commune to buy some meat tomorrow. Otherwise, even if the adults could bear it, her two sons probably couldn't stand it.