Lu Chuming followed his gaze and tilted his head, craning his neck to look at the middle-aged man behind him who was about the same height as his father. He said to Cui Siwei, "Is this your father?"
"Uh, yes, my dad." Cui Siwei smiled.
"Why does that curly-haired girl with a bad mouth look nothing like your dad?"
The father and son are quite similar. Lu Chuming also found that there was a sense of familiarity between them, but he couldn't remember where this sense of familiarity came from.
Cui Siwei's smile froze a little. "We are half-siblings from the same mother."
"oh."
Lu Chuming understood, and then he looked at Cui Lanzhi who was approaching, and saw the uncontrollable excitement in Cui Zhiyuan's eyes. He suddenly understood and jumped up.
He guessed it, and Lu Changxiao and Gong Pengze also guessed it. The three pairs of eyes stared straight at Cui Zhiyuan.
Seeing his three grandchildren, Cui Zhiyuan was excited and nervous. His hands were shaking and his steps were a little unsteady. He walked in front of them and slowly squatted down, his lips trembling slightly. "My name is Cui Zhiyuan. You know me, right?"
"I know, the unfaithful man that my uncle mentioned." Gong Pengze continued.
Cui Zhiyuan's heart stagnated and his throat felt sore, but he nodded: "Your uncle was right to scold me. I am a heartless man. I am sorry for your grandmother."
"Didn't we agree to meet in the evening? Why are you looking for us now?" Lu Changxiao spoke again.
"I just passed by and came to see you."
Cui Zhiyuan had just heard his nephew say on the road that these three children were very smart. They were not even two years old yet, but their brains were comparable to those of people in their twenties. They were born to be businessmen.
The three children all looked like their father, and were dressed neatly with words embroidered on their clothes. Cui Zhiyuan tried to speak to them gently, "Could you introduce yourselves?"
"I am Chuming of the Old Continent."
"Lu Changxiao."
"Gong Pengze, I take my mother's surname." Gong Pengze pointed to the word "Peng" on his chest.
Cui Zhiyuan remembered their names and said in a low voice, "Didn't Mom come today?"
"No, I went to work."
Seeing that she was going to work at the candy factory, Cui Zhiyuan pursed his lips and nodded, inviting her: "Come to the restaurant with Mom, Dad, and Grandma tonight, okay?"
"Okay." The triplets nodded in response.
"What do you like to eat?" Cui Zhiyuan wanted to prepare in advance.
“We’re not picky eaters.”
Seeing that the three children were very generous and did not reject or dislike him, Cui Zhiyuan smiled gently: "Do you like cakes and desserts?"
"Can you do it?" Lu Chuming raised his eyebrows.
Cui Zhiyuan noticed their expressions. When they heard about the cake, their eyes lit up and their mood was high: "I can do it. I will make a cake for you this afternoon."
After thinking for a while, I asked them again: "Do grandma and mom like it?"
"like."
"Then I'll make two more."
Seeing that there were many people buying goods nearby, Cui Zhiyuan gently pulled their hands, his eyes full of love: "You guys sell the goods first, we will talk later."
Seeing that Lu Jingchuan and his two sons hadn't driven his uncle away and had even arranged to have dinner together that evening, Cui Wendong breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Uncle, Pan'er and I will go to the credit union first and come back later."
"Okay, go ahead."
Cui Zhiyuan waved at them and said to Cui Lanzhi, her mother and her two children, "Lanzhi, take Xiaolei and the others back too. Go pack your luggage first. I'll call a tractor to help you move later."
Cui Lanzhi had just greeted Lu Jingchuan briefly, and now she nodded to him. Seeing that the triplets were busy selling goods, she didn't speak to them and left with her children first.
Cui Siwei thought his dad was probably going to talk to the triplets' father. Seeing someone shouting to sell popsicles not far away, he took the initiative to find an excuse to leave: "Dad, I'm going to buy some popsicles."
"Buy a few more."
After he left, Cui Zhiyuan walked over to Lu Jingchuan and spoke first without putting on airs as an elder. "I heard something from my younger sister. You are Mr. Lu's grandson. Which of the three Lu brothers is your father?"
"The second child is Lu Nanzheng, and my mother is Zhou Lanqin, the third child of the Zhou family."
Cui Zhiyuan wasn't familiar with them, but he had heard of their names. He looked at his arm in plaster and asked, "Is it broken?"
Lu Jingchuan said "hmm".
Cui Zhiyuan already knew his job. The Lu and Zhou families were military and political families, and their children and grandchildren would basically follow in their father's footsteps and choose these two paths. This son-in-law was as straight as a javelin, with a resolute and iron-blooded temperament. The shadow of Han Ji when he was young was seen in him.
"I heard about Wan Tang and your master's marriage. Is your master free? Can we have dinner together tonight?"
"He will come over in the evening." Lu Jingchuan replied.
Cui Zhiyuan's eyes moved and he nodded slightly: "Okay, I will wait for them at the hotel."
Although he was talking to Lu Jingchuan, his attention was completely on the triplets. Seeing them speaking eloquently and selling goods in their sweet voices, haggling over prices with women, and collecting and giving change quickly, the smile in his eyes grew wider and wider: "These three children are very smart."
"Linglong has been well educated." Lu Jingchuan gave his wife extra points.
Speaking of his daughter, Cui Zhiyuan took the initiative to ask: "When did you get married?"
"Early 1976."
"I heard from my younger sister that the Gong family is now in Gangcheng. Did Linglong also grow up in Gangcheng?"
"No." Lu Jingchuan shook his head and looked him in the eye. "Mom and Linglong have never been to Hong Kong City. If you're interested, talk to them alone about their experiences over the years."
Cui Zhiyuan felt the coldness in his eyes, his heart trembled, and he pursed his lips and nodded: "Okay."
Cui Siwei bought some popsicles and gave one to each of them. He also gave a mung bean popsicle to each of the triplets and squatted down to help them sell the goods.
"Your son is good, but your daughter is not so good." Lu Jingchuan said first.
Cui Zhiyuan nodded, thinking about the conflict they had in Yangcheng. He said, "She and Siwei are half-siblings. Her biological father was a gangster in Country M. She's arrogant, willful, and unreasonable, always causing trouble. If she causes trouble again next time, you'll have to deal with her as you should."
The two of them were talking next to each other, and Cui Siwei was also chatting with the triplets. He gave them some chocolate to eat, and they also gave him some lychees and longans.
After the shoppers left, the four children went to hide under a nearby tree, ate popsicles together, and chatted casually. The triplets took the initiative to ask Cui Siwei about some things in Country M.
Seeing that they were precocious and intelligent, Cui Zhiyuan went over to talk to them after listening for a while, and even took out the paper fan he carried with him to fan them.
The triplets had heard about him from their grandmother a long time ago. Their grandmother had no grudge against him, nor did she stop their mother from meeting and interacting with him. The three of them had seen countless people, and in fact, they only needed one glance to determine that this blood-related grandfather was not a bad person, and his character should be the same as their grandmother described.
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