"Don't cry anymore. The third child has always been like that. It hasn't been just one or two days. You're hurting yourself by crying. My daughter and I are worried about you."

Father Lu felt sad when he saw the old woman sitting there wiping her tears, but he still went over to comfort her and stopped her from crying.

"Yes, Mom, don't cry. If you cry and hurt yourself, not only will my dad and I worry about you, but the two children will worry too. Look, the two children are scared when you cry."

When Lu Qingyan heard what her father said, she quickly spoke up and pushed her two sons to her mother.

"My dear grandchild, don't be afraid. Grandma won't cry anymore. I will take care of myself and watch you grow up."

Seeing that her two grandchildren were indeed scared, Mother Lu quickly reached out and hugged them to comfort them.

"Okay, don't think too much. Go wash your face and go back to sleep. We have to go to the commune to buy things tomorrow morning." Father Lu didn't say too many words to comfort people. Seeing that the old woman had stopped crying, he was relieved and asked her to go to bed early.

"Hey, I'll go now." Upon hearing this, Mother Lu readily agreed, stood up, washed her face, and took her two grandchildren back to the house to rest.

"Dad, don't think too much. My third brother is just like that. He is very narrow-minded. He will get better when he gets older." Lu Qingyan watched her mother lead the two children into the house and comforted her father again.

"I'm fine. How could I not know what your third brother is like?" Father Lu shook his head and laughed when he heard his daughter say that.

"Okay, I'll go back to my room to rest first. You should go to bed early too." After Lu Qingyan finished speaking, she went to wash up, went to her mother's room to get a quilt, and went back to sleep.

Her room was heated by her father's stove, and there were not many quilts, so she didn't use one. She just wiped the kang clean, spread a bed sheet, lay down on it, and fell into a sweet sleep.

The next morning, she was woken up by her mother before dawn.

She said that her cousin took them to the Majia Brigade in a ox cart before they went to work, and then took Lu's mother and others to the commune on the way, and then came back to work.

When Lu Qingyan heard this, she immediately called her two sons to get up, wash up, and not even eat breakfast.

He put some biscuits in his pocket for the two children, carried a military kettle filled with hot water, and took a ox cart to the Majia Brigade.

Lu Qingyan, sitting on the ox cart, protected her two children while responding to her cousin's words.

We chatted idly like this and before we knew it, the ox cart arrived at the entrance of the Majia Brigade village.

"Uncle, let's stop here. I'll take the two children over there. You guys hurry to the commune and be careful on the road." When Lu Qingyan saw the Majia Brigade, she hurriedly asked Lu Haiming to stop the ox cart and took the children off the cart.

"Xiaoyan, when we get there, we can talk nicely. If you can't stay, come back early, don't force yourself." Mother Lu knew that the Gu family looked down on her daughter, so she worriedly told her daughter on the ox cart.

"Don't worry, mom. I'll have the two children kowtow to their grandparents, and then I'll settle the bill and go back. It won't take long."

After Lu Qingyan said this, she said hello to a few people and led the two children into the Ma family team.

"The story of Gu Laosan is well-known in the surrounding villages. I wonder if the two brothers of the Gu family will bully our Xiaoyan when they see that their niece's husband is not here?" Lu Haiming looked at his niece walking into the team and said to his cousin and his wife worriedly.

"No, it's broad daylight, how can they force Xiaoyan to do anything?"

When Mother Lu heard what Lu Haiming said, she pouted and said, "On the one hand, the matter of Gu Lao San is something that ordinary people can't solve. They all went to Xiaoyan's family, but they didn't see how capable Xiaoyan and her family are. They really thought Mingze was so powerful just because he was a soldier."

"No matter what, the Gu family only has a capable niece-in-law. If we ignore him, there will be gossip in the future." Lu Haiming was afraid that his niece's family would be ruined by gossip, so he reminded them.

"It's okay. Xiaoyan's family won't be living in the brigade in the future anyway. Whoever wants to say anything can say it." Mother Lu didn't care about these things, as long as her daughter was not bullied.

Upon hearing this, Lu Haiming glanced at his cousin who had been silent. Seeing that they really didn't care, he shut his mouth and said no more.

On the other hand, when Lu Qingyan brought her two children to Gu Minghai's house, she was greeted with a cold stare from Gu Mingtao.

Lu Qingyan didn't care. She found Gu Minghai and told him that she would take the child to kowtow to her parents-in-law.

"Okay, but there's a saying in our family that women can't go to the cemetery. I have to take the two children with me, and you can't follow." Gu Minghai was afraid that if he said this, Lu Qingyan would be worried, so he hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will definitely bring the two children back safely."

"Brother, how about this? I'll go up the mountain with you guys, but I won't go up the mountain. I'll just wait at the bottom of the mountain, okay?" Lu Qingyan said worriedly after hearing what Gu Minghai said.

"No, it's not right for women in our family to go to the graves. You can either wait at the second son's house today, or take the children away." Gu Mingtao seemed to be deliberately going against Lu Qingyan. Before Gu Minghai could say anything, he interrupted and said

"Second brother, what do you think?" Lu Qingyan ignored Gu Mingtao and looked at Gu Minghai and asked

"Fourth brother's wife, why don't you just listen to your eldest brother? We don't have that kind of saying in our family." This time, Gu Minghai listened to his eldest brother and did not agree with Lu Qingyan's proposal.

"Then we'll go back first, second brother. When Mingze comes back, I'll ask him to bring the two children over to kowtow to their parents." Lu Qingyan hesitated for a moment when she heard Gu Minghai say so. She was still worried about leaving the two children in their hands, so she said with an apologetic look on her face, then took the two children and left.

"Look at her, she really doesn't take us seriously. They are just two children, and they are our nephews. How can I sell them to her?" Gu Mingtao looked at Lu Qingyan who was leading the children out, and shouted at Gu Minghai unhappily from behind.

"The children of my fourth brother's wife are different from our rural children. She is worried about them. This time they are gone, and next time when the fourth brother comes back, he will bring them here to kowtow."

Gu Minghai didn't take to heart the fact that Lu Qingyan was worried about leaving the two children in his hands. After saying this, he told his wife to go to work and let his elder brother do as he pleased.

Gu Mingtao looked at himself and found himself the only one left in the yard. He stared outside with a serious expression, not knowing what he was thinking.

After waiting for a long time, he rubbed the stack of bills in his pocket in a disappointed manner, turned around and walked out.