After lunch, Zhou Lanqin fed her grandchildren. After they fell asleep again, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law both lay in bed for a nap.
“Knock, knock… knock, knock…”
There was a knock on the door. Zhou Lanqin quickly got up and ran out to open the door.
"Hello, comrade. Is this the Gong family?"
Several unfamiliar faces came, and Zhou Lanqin had never seen them before. She replied to the old man: "Hello, this is the Gong family, who are you?"
"My last name is Shui, and I'm Wan Tang's teacher. We're here to visit Ling Long and the child."
The ones who came were Professor Shui's family, including the two elders, their daughter, and their two grandchildren, all of whom were holding many gifts in their hands.
"So it's Professor Shui. I've heard a lot about you. Nice to meet you."
Zhou Lanqin immediately opened the door and greeted them with a smile, "I am Linglong's mother-in-law. My last name is Zhou. It's cold outside. Please come in."
"Hello, Deputy Director Zhou." The Shui family members greeted him hurriedly.
After inviting the family in, Zhou Lanqin immediately went inside to announce, "Linglong, Professor Shui and his team are here, and they've brought you a lot of nourishing supplements."
"Mom, please invite them in. I'll clean up and come out soon."
When Gong Linglong came out after tidying up, the Shui family was drinking tea in the living room, and Zhou Lanqin was talking to them.
"Linglong (Sister Linglong)." The Shui family members all smiled when they saw her.
"Professor Shui, Grandma Shui, Aunt Shui, Binzi, Jiezi, Happy New Year."
"Happy New Year."
Shui Meirong stood up and helped her sit on the sofa, asking with concern, "Linglong, Wantang called us yesterday to wish us a happy new year. We just learned that the triplets were born safely in the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month. Have you recovered a bit in the past two days?"
"Aunt Shui, I've recovered quite well. Now it's no problem for me to go out and run 800 meters."
The Shui family laughed when they heard this. Old Madam Shui took her hand and smiled lovingly, "Linglong, you are young and in good health, but you still need to be careful. You need to lie down and rest more during the confinement period. You have just given birth and your blood and energy have been greatly depleted. You have three children to feed, so you need to eat more nutritious food and get more rest."
"My mom and the others keep an eye on me every day. I usually just lie in bed and rest."
Gong Linglong took out two lucky money bags from her pocket and gave them to the Shui Hongjie brothers with a smile, "Binzi, Jiezi, Happy New Year."
"Thank you, Sister Linglong."
After the two brothers returned to Kyoto, their spirits and temperaments had obviously improved. They were now wearing clean and tidy new cotton-padded clothes and shoes. They had also grown taller, and their facial features and eyebrows had become more mature.
"Linglong, you stay and talk to Professor Shui and the others. I'll go push the cradle out so that Professor Shui and the others can see the baby." Zhou Lanqin said.
"good."
Shui Meirong stood up again, "Deputy Director Zhou, I'll go with you."
The crib was pushed into the living room, and the triplets were all sleeping soundly. The Shui family surrounded them for a long time and placed a bunch of red envelopes as a gift in the crib.
After seeing the child, Professor Shui told Gong Linglong another piece of good news. "Linglong, I received a letter from my son yesterday afternoon. He and his wife went to Country M five years ago and gave Jie Zi and his family a little sister. They've sent many letters back to China over the years, but those bastards have detained them all and never reached us. I came here today to ask your grandfather and his family for a favor. Please ask them to send a reply letter for me."
"Professor Shui, my second uncle has property in Country M. I heard him say a few days ago that he would go to Country M after the Lantern Festival. He went out with my grandfather to pay New Year's greetings today. You can stay for dinner here. When you meet him later, tell him to take the letter over for you."
Professor Shui nodded happily: "Okay, okay, I'll wait for Cheng Lang to come back."
Gong Linglong talked with them for about ten minutes before being urged by the Shui family to go back to her room and lie down. Zhou Lanqin stayed in the living room to entertain them.
Lu Jingchuan ran around all day today. All the relatives, elders and leaders came to pay New Year's greetings. They all sat for a while, put down the gifts and left.
The news that the Lu family had three newborn babies on New Year's Day had already spread. Gong Linglong was at home in confinement after giving birth and had three babies to take care of, so no one invited him to dinner.
When he came back, Zhou Lanqin was about to go to the kitchen to prepare dinner, and he immediately took over the tasks of taking care of the children and entertaining the guests.
The Gong family came back a little later, arriving home around 5:30.
They came back in a grand procession, and the house instantly became lively. Gong Kaizhou had known the two elders of the Shui family before, and he and his daughter had visited the Shui family after returning to Beijing.
Gong Chenglang agreed without hesitation to the Shui family's request. "Professor Shui, our tentative plan is to return to Gangcheng on the 12th day of the first lunar month. Please prepare the letter during this time. I plan to go to Country M around the 18th day of the first lunar month, and the letter will be delivered to your son by the end of the month at the latest. If he has a reply, I will arrange for someone in Gangcheng to take the letter to Yangcheng for mailing, so as not to delay the journey as much as possible."
"Cheng Lang, there's no rush for this reply. Now that we know they're doing well abroad, we're all relieved. As for their return, there's no rush either. It's been so many years, so waiting another two or three years won't hurt."
"Now that the old woman and Meirong have taken the good medicine prepared by Wan Tang, they are much better. My old bones can still endure it. We can wait until they come back."
Now their reputation has been restored, their jobs have been resumed, their two grandsons are officially in school, their original house has been returned to them, and their wages and subsidies have all been repaid in one lump sum. Their family life has returned to normal.
"I will inform them of your current situation and the domestic situation, and let them make appropriate arrangements based on the circumstances." Gong Chenglang said.
"Okay, Chenglang, I'll leave it to you." Professor Shui expressed his gratitude profusely.
"Professor Shui, you're welcome."
They were talking in the living room, Shui Meirong was helping in the house, holding Dabao and feeding him.
Gong Linglong held Xiaobao in her arms and fed him in bed. She took the initiative to ask about her personal affairs, "Aunt Shui, have you seen your daughter since you returned to Beijing?"
Shui Meirong got married when she was young and gave birth to a daughter, but she injured herself during childbirth and never got pregnant again. Her parents-in-law were very concerned about the inheritance of the family line, and because of this, family conflicts intensified, and the couple's relationship became increasingly distant, eventually ending in divorce.
For two or three years after the divorce, they raised their daughter together. Later, when something happened to the Shui family, in order not to implicate her daughter, she chose to sever ties with her by publishing an announcement in the newspaper.
The child was still young at that time and did not understand her helplessness or her way of protection. In addition, her former in-laws and relatives deliberately alienated her relationship behind her back, so that now that she has been rehabilitated, her daughter does not want to get close to her.
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