"It's okay. My allowance will start coming out soon this month. If I need it, I can exchange the tickets we don't need with my comrades." Seeing that his wife hesitated before buying something, Gu Mingze said seriously, "Wife, we don't lack anything at home. Just buy whatever you want without hesitation."

"I know that, but I just think that now I need tickets to buy anything, so I'd better save some. If I need to buy something useful, it would be bad if I don't have tickets." Lu Qingyan also knew that her family was not short of money, but the tickets were really a bit scarce.

If she hadn't been thinking that what if her family needed to buy something useful someday and couldn't afford the ticket, she wouldn't have hesitated.

"It's okay. If there really is no ticket at home, I can go out and change it. Don't worry." Gu Mingze smiled and said, then told his wife to lock the door and he would go out to buy things and come back as soon as possible.

Otherwise, he would feel very uneasy about leaving his wife and children in the guesthouse.

"It's okay, I'll lock the door. If anything happens, I'll call you. You don't have to worry about us." Lu Qingyan said, and quickly locked the door after Gu Mingze left.

Afterwards, she placed their things on a stool in the room, changed her clothes, took off her shoes, and lay on the bed next to her two sons.

She didn't dare close her eyes, for fear that she would fall asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

Gu Mingze could probably guess what his wife was thinking, so he quickly ran to the department store, bought an enamel basin and ran back.

"Knock, knock, knock, my wife, open the door, I'm back." Gu Mingze came back and stood at the door, knocking on the door while stretching out his hand.

"Here I am." Lu Qingyan didn't expect her husband to come back so soon. She got up, picked up her shoes, opened the door, and said with a raised eyebrow: "Don't tell me you ran there."

"I really ran there. I was afraid I would walk too slowly." Gu Mingze put the enamel basin on the ground and said with a smile.

"Okay." Hearing this, Lu Qingyan nodded helplessly and said, "There's nothing to do now. You can go to bed and sleep with us for a while. We can go out for a walk after you wake up."

"Okay." Gu Mingze agreed, took the basin and went out to fetch water to wash his face and hands before going back to sleep.

When the two children woke up, they looked at their parents who were still sleeping, and continued to lie there without saying a word.

But I don’t know how long they lay there, and I saw his parents were still sleeping.

Gu Qiming couldn't help but reach out and push his parents and said, "Mom, my brother and I are awake, shall we go out for a walk?"

"Okay, let's go out after we wake up." Gu Mingze didn't expect that he slept so soundly that his two sons didn't even notice him when they woke up.

When he heard his son's words, he opened his eyes and replied in a hoarse voice.

"I'll get up right away." Lu Qingyan heard the conversation between the man and his son, opened her eyes, stretched and said

"Don't worry, if I can't go out today, it will be the same if I go out tomorrow." Gu Mingze thought that he would have to stay for another day tomorrow anyway, so even if he couldn't go out for a walk today, it would be the same if he went out tomorrow.

"It's okay. I'll go out for a walk and come back to sleep at night." Lu Qingyan shook her head, sat up, and asked her two sons to turn their heads away.

He changed his clothes and asked his two sons to put on their clothes. Then the family locked the door and went out for a walk.

But they had always imagined a beautiful future. After walking around for a while, they all went to the department store with depressed faces to buy some paper, pens and erasers, and then returned to the guesthouse.

Because it was the 1970s, there was no scenery at all.

Even if there were any, they were badly destroyed.

So they should just stay in the guesthouse.

"Since we have nowhere to go, let's just write for the next two days." Lu Qingyan returned to the guesthouse, put the paper, pen and eraser in her hand on the table, and said to her two sons.

"Okay." The two children nodded listlessly after hearing what their mother said.

In this way, during the two days they stayed in the guesthouse, except for wandering around when going out to eat, they returned to the guesthouse to write and sleep.

Section 108

Over at the Dongfeng Brigade, Lu's mother went with her son and daughter-in-law to see the matchmaker Xie with their belongings.

He sat in the yard and called his two grandchildren over, saying to them: "Grandpa and grandma will be gone tomorrow, you should listen to your parents at home. If they treat you badly in the future, go find your second uncle, understand?"

"What are you talking about in front of the children? How can Dashan be so bad to the two children?" Father Lu heard the old woman's words and said unhappily with his eyes wide open.

"I'm also afraid that after we leave, Liu Fang's attitude will change and she will be bad to the two children." After saying this, Mother Lu turned to her two grandsons and said, "Grandma is not saying that your mother is bad. After all, she just married into our family and we need to observe her for a while."

"Grandma, don't worry. If she treats me and my brother well, we will treat her well too. But if she treats us badly, we will ask my second uncle to send a telegram to you and my aunt." Gangzi is already over ten years old and understands everything. After hearing what his grandma said, he patted his chest and said,

"Okay, if she doesn't treat you well in the future, let your second uncle send a telegram to grandma and your aunt, and we will come back to pick you up when the time comes." Seeing that her eldest grandson was so sensible, Mother Lu touched their heads and said, "Your aunt also said that you should stay at home with your mother, and when the winter vacation comes, she will come back to pick you up to stay in the army."

"Okay, then you and grandpa should take good care of yourselves. When we have winter vacation, we will go to my aunt's house to see you." Gangzi nodded, and then stayed with Lu's father and mother for the whole afternoon, and did not go anywhere else.

Before dawn the next morning, Lu Qingshan went to the brigade to borrow an ox cart and took his parents to the commune to take a passenger bus.

"You've just married a new wife, and I feel relieved. But I want to say this: Don't just have two children now that you have a new wife, okay?" When Lu's mother arrived at the commune and was about to get on the bus, she took the opportunity to tell her eldest son

"Mom, who do you think I am? Am I the kind of person who doesn't want a son now that I have a wife?" Lu Qingshan heard his mother's words and said with a smile: "Don't worry, my sons are my own. If I don't treat them well, who else can I treat well? After all, when I am old, they will have to take care of me in my old age."

"It's good that you think so. Go back. Your father and I will get in the car and leave now." Mother Lu sighed and said

"You and my dad get on the bus. I'll leave after you guys leave." Lu Qingshan felt a little reluctant to see his parents leave, so he stood there, waiting for them to get on the bus and walk away, before he drove the ox cart back to the brigade.

Mother Lu and Father Lu traveled all the way to the city. As soon as they got off the bus, they saw Gu Mingze waiting there.

"Dad, Mom, I guessed you would be able to come today, so I waited here early."