Hearing his son's babyish voice, Lu Cheng's conflicted feelings suddenly faded away. "Yes, Dad was wrong. Dad should learn from Mom."
"Well, then daddy must keep his word." Lu Haici was very satisfied with his father's ability to correct his mistakes, and then he skipped into the kindergarten.
Lu Cheng watched his son go to kindergarten, and only returned to the army when he could no longer see him. He had already made plans for Lin Qingqing's matter. He was a man, and no matter what he did, he would not stand behind a female comrade. He had to bear his responsibilities, and if there was anything wrong, he would bear the responsibility.
All the little ones are in the kindergarten.
"Lu Haici, come here..." Qin Ming saw Lu Haici, waved at him, and said excitedly, "Lu Haici, look, I have some cookies and cakes for you. My mother bought them from the department store." This afternoon, her mother came back from the county town and brought him a lot of things. He happily shared them with his friends. Qin Ming also liked to share with his friends before, but he would not be as generous as he is now, nor as polite as he is now. He felt that he had eaten a lot of good things from Lu Haici's mother, so he wanted to be especially generous to Lu Haici.
"Thank you, Qin Ming." Lu Haici took a piece of cake and took a small bite. "It's delicious. It tastes just like the sesame paste I drank this morning."
"Sesame paste?" Qin Ming was curious. "What is sesame paste? Is it delicious? I have never eaten it."
Lu Haici said: "It's the sesame paste that my mother gave me. It's delicious and fragrant. I'll go back and ask my mother if she has any sesame paste at home. I'll treat you to some."
Qin Ming: "Okay, okay."
Ji Yang: "Lu Haici, my mother is going to work in the canteen too. Will you go to my mother's canteen to eat in the future?" Today his mother told him and his father the good news, and Ji Yang couldn't wait to share it.
Lu Haici said: "You can go, does Qin Ming want to go too?"
Qin Ming said: "I haven't eaten the food cooked by Ji Yang's mother. Is it delicious? If it's not delicious, I won't go." He is a realistic guy, and only delicious food can make him bow down.
Ji Yang said: "The food my mother cooks is also delicious." Although it is not as delicious as the food cooked by Lu Haici's mother, Ji Yang also likes the food cooked by his mother.
Qin Ming heard this and immediately said, "Then let's go eat tonight, Lu Haici, are you coming?"
Lu Haici: "Okay, I'll talk to my mother first tonight."
Ji Yang: "That's great. By the way, Lu Haici, my mother said she would make me a small hat to celebrate finding a job. She would embroider my favorite little yellow chicken on it. Did your mother make you a small hat after finding a job?" He thought that every mother would use a small hat as a celebration gift after finding out about a job.
Lu Haici shook his head, still not understanding what finding a job had to do with the little girl. However, "My mother made a handkerchief for me." Lu Haici had been hiding it carefully, reluctant to take it out. Now that Ji Yang said so, he took out the handkerchief from his small schoolbag, "Look, there is my name here, Lu Haici, and it was also made by my mother."
Ji Yang and Qin Ming came over to look at Lu Haici's handkerchief, which was just a piece of cotton cloth with words embroidered on it, nothing special. But the kids didn't think so.
"Wow, Lu Haici, your mother is so nice." Qin Ming said. His mother had never made him any handkerchiefs, but he was carefree and followed Master Qin, so he didn't care about it.
After hearing this, Lu Haici puffed out his chest and said proudly, "Well, my mother is the best." He also liked his mother the most.
Ji Yang said: "My mother is the best too."
At this time, Chen Zhou said, "After your mother gives birth to a little brother, will she still be so kind to you?"
Suddenly, everyone looked at Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou shrank his neck: "I... My mother said that your mothers are nice to you now because they don't have a son. When they give birth to their own sons, they will not be nice to you anymore. She also said that they will take away all your things and leave them for their own sons. Money, delicious food, meat, and you will become pitiful creatures by then."
When Qin Ming heard this, he thought it made sense, but he said: "Don't worry, if your mother's brother bullies you, I will fight for you and beat your brother until he cries." Crying is the most shameful thing for little kids.
Lu Haici shook his head and said, "If my mother gave birth to a little brother, I would give him all the delicious and fun things, and I would take him out to play. If someone bullied him, I would fight back." Although he said this, there was an undisguised gloom in his voice. Lu Haici thought, if this is the case, his mother would definitely think he is well behaved and would definitely like him.
When Ji Yang heard this, he felt that Lu Haici's words made sense: "Yes, I will also give the money to my little brother, and we will take care of him together."
"But your mother doesn't like you anymore." Chen Zhou said.
"No way." Lu Haici said stubbornly, "As long as I'm good, my mother will definitely like me. I don't like you anymore and I don't want to talk to you." Lu Haici packed up his things, put on his small schoolbag, walked to a corner where Chen Zhou was not, then sat down alone, sulking.
Ji Yang also carried his small schoolbag and ran over. He sat next to Lu Haici. The two looked very lonely, just like before, when they both had no mother, they always sat together and felt sad together.
Chen Zhou looked at them, then at Qin Ming. He felt that he was innocent. It was his mother who said that, not him. However, he seemed to feel that he had done something wrong. However, he was young and didn't know where he had done wrong.
Qin Ming didn't know why they were angry, but he understood one thing, that is... "Chen Zhou, how can you say bad things about Lu Haici's mother? Lu Haici hates it most when people say bad things about his mother." He said that last time, and then he had a fight with Lu Haici.
Chen Zhou pursed his lips, feeling a little aggrieved: "I didn't, this is what my mother said."
Qin Ming: "Then go back and tell your mother to stop saying bad things about Lu Haici's mother. Last time my grandmother said bad things about Lu Haici's mother, I went back and told her, and now Lu Haici and I are friends. If you don't go and tell your mother, we won't be friends with you anymore, and you won't be able to eat the food that Lu Haici's mother cooks."
Chen Zhou thought that the food cooked by Lu Haici's mother was better than that cooked by his own mother, so he also bowed down to the food: "Then I will tell my mother when I go back."
Qin Ming: "Then go and apologize to Lu Haici now and tell him that you will tell your mother. My grandfather said that a real man should be brave enough to take responsibility for his actions."
Chen Zhou said aggrievedly: "Okay." For the sake of delicious food, he would even bark like a puppy.
Qin Ming brought Chen Zhou to the corner where Lu Haici and Ji Yang were sitting. Chen Zhou said pitifully, "Lu Haici, I'm sorry, I was wrong. Those words were said by my mother. I will tell my mother when I go back and ask her not to say bad things about your mother. Can we continue to be friends and continue to eat together?"
Lu Haici was actually still upset. He was not upset because of what Chen Zhou said, but because he was afraid that his mother would not like him anymore after she had a little brother. But in the face of Chen Zhou's apology, he still put away his little emotions. "I forgive you." Lu Haici remembered that his mother said that children's problems should be solved by children themselves, and adults' problems should be solved by adults. Since Chen Zhou apologized, he certainly couldn't be angry. "And Ji Yang, your mother also talked about Ji Yang's mother."
"Yeah." Chen Zhou apologized to Ji Yang again, "Ji Yang, I'm sorry, I was wrong. Those words were said by my mother. I will tell my mother when I go back and ask her not to say bad things about your mother. Can we continue to be friends and continue to eat together?"
If there were adults around, they would be speechless after hearing the exact same words, but there were only children present. Ji Yang saw that his good friend Lu Haici had forgiven Chen Zhou, so of course he also forgave Chen Zhou. In fact, compared with Lu Haici, Ji Yang's personality is relatively lively. Lu Haici's psychology is richer, so he is also more sensitive and careful.
Ji Yang: "I forgive you too."
The kids got back together. So when school was over, they went to eat together hand in hand. Because they were going to eat at the place where Ji Yang's mother worked, Lu Haici asked everyone to go first, and he went to the canteen of the third company's kitchen to say hello to his mother.
In the cafeteria of the third company's kitchen team, Lin Qingqing did not eat with Qi Shao and others, because she knew that Lu Haici would finish school at this time, so she waited for Lu Haici to come back to eat together.
Seeing Lu Haici coming back, she started to prepare the meal, but she heard Lu Haici say, "Mom, I'm not eating here today. I'm going to the cafeteria to eat."
Lin Qingqing was a little surprised: "Why do you want to eat in the cafeteria? Is there meat in the cafeteria today?" Well, she admitted that she had been educated by the people here. When she heard that Lu Haici was going to eat in the cafeteria, she subconsciously thought that there was meat in the cafeteria today.
Lu Haici said, "I don't know if there will be meat today. Ji Yang said today that his mother works in the cafeteria, and he said the food his mother cooks is delicious, so the four of us decided to go to the cafeteria to eat."
"So that's how it is. Okay then, go ahead. Be sure to queue up in the cafeteria. If anything happens, come back and tell me." Lin Qingqing didn't give too many instructions. Lu Haici was used to queuing up in the cafeteria to get meals. He was probably the kid who queued up in the cafeteria the most times in the entire staff quarters, so everyone there knew him.
"Okay, I get it. Mom, if I have any meat, I'll make it for you to eat." Lu Haici said filially.
Lin Qingqing did not reject his filial piety, but said: "Then you should also eat a few pieces yourself, don't let your stomach suffer."
Lu Haici chuckled when he heard this.
The meals in the kitchen of the third company were also good. They had noodles in the evening, but because there was not enough noodles for everyone to eat a big bowl of noodles during the week, there were not many noodles, but a lot of ingredients were added to it, such as potatoes and cabbage. Putting these things together with the noodles, the thick soup made from potatoes and the flavor of cabbage made it taste very good.
Even Lin Qingqing added clam meat and dried shrimp to her own meal. Now Lu Haici was going to the cafeteria to eat, so she packed a box for him: "Take these and share with your friends. There are four shrimps in it, one for each of you."
Lu Haici: "Hey, I will share with them." Although he was reluctant, Qin Ming treated him to cakes and Ji Yang was his good friend. When he didn't have a mother, Ji Yang often shared delicious food with him. Chen Zhou also apologized to him today. So, he was willing to share with them.
Lu Haici held his lunch box and took his canteen ration book with him and went to the canteen happily.
Lin Qingqing could only eat seafood noodles alone.
After the people in the canteen finished their meal, the comrades from the third company also came back. It was still a group of people. When they saw the noodles at the window, they all went crazy.
"Give me one quickly."
"And I..."
"I want one too."
Someone saw Lu Cheng and asked curiously, "Squad Leader Qi, what is Deputy Commander Lu going to eat today?"
Although Lu Cheng had made up his mind, he still felt pressured before coming to the canteen of the Third Company's kitchen. He was now facing Lin Qingqing, and his whole body was tense. Like a machine, he wanted to loosen up, but couldn't. However, as soon as he entered the canteen, he couldn't help but look at the window, trying to search for her figure in that window. But, just like before, he didn't see her.
Lin Qingqing is still behind the scenes.
Now hearing the soldier's words, Lu Cheng looked at Qi Shao.
Qi Shao brought out a bowl of noodles from the window: "Deputy Captain Lu, this is what Comrade Lin prepared for you. It's also noodles."
"I saw the prawns in the noodles. Lots of prawns."
"There are other seafood, but I can't name them right now."
"Is it clam head? We have this at home too."
"Sister-in-law is so kind to Deputy Commander Lu."
"That's right, Deputy Captain Lu is so lucky."
In the envy of everyone, Lu Cheng calmly carried the seafood noodles away. He looked calm, but his heart was turbulent. In the past, he would think that this bowl of noodles was delicious, really delicious. He would also feel happy, very happy. But today, eating the noodles in the bowl, he felt that it was delicious, but also a little bitter. Because the person who made this bowl of noodles was not his complacent wife.
Lu Cheng ate the bowl of noodles bitterly. He did not leave, nor did he go to the back of the kitchen as he did before. Instead, he sat in his seat for a while, washed the dishes first, and then stood at the kitchen door.
Before Lu Cheng waited for Lin Qingqing to get off work, Lu Haici arrived first.
After Lu Haici finished his meal, he came to look for his mother. He looked sad and ran to the kitchen like a calf, only to see Lu Cheng standing at the door.
"Dad?" Lu Haici called out, "Dad, aren't you going inside to wait for Mom?"
Lu Cheng looked at his son with envy and complexity: "I'm not going, you go in." He did not mention anything about Lin Qingqing to his son. Even if he did, he would not understand.
"Oh." Lu Haici ran inside again.
Lu Haici found his mother in a familiar way and said with grievance, "Mom, I will never go to the cafeteria to eat again."
Lin Qingqing was just about to ask him how his meal in the cafeteria went, but when she heard what Xiaozai said, she thought he was being bullied, so she asked with concern, "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
Lu Haici said: "The food in the cafeteria is not as delicious as my mother's cooking. The food tonight is not as delicious as the noodles my mother made. After eating the shrimp, my friends wanted to eat my noodles. I gave them a little bit, just a little bit, because I wanted to eat too."
Lin Qingqing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Then we won't go tomorrow, let's eat here."
"Yeah." Lu Haici nodded heavily, "Qin Ming told me that he doesn't go to the cafeteria to eat anymore, and he comes to eat at my place instead."
"Commander Qin's aunt came here to get noodles today." Qi Shao and his men came in after finishing their work outside, and happened to hear Lu Haici's words, so they said, "She came here at noon, too. The aunt said that she would come here to get food from now on."
Lin Bao said: "It would be fine if it was just my aunt, but if more people come later, our comrades in the third company won't have enough to eat." After all, the company cafeteria has limited expenses, which are barely enough to cover the expenses of the comrades in the company, let alone adding others.
Qi Shao: "There shouldn't be anyone else, right?"
Lin Bao: "That's not certain. Comrade Lin's meal is delicious. Who knows if other comrades will come again?"
Lin Qingqing: "Why don't we do this? When comrades who are not from the third company come, we will write a notice outside. We will take care of the comrades from the third company first, and then give the extra to other comrades."
Qi Shao nodded: "That's fine."
After we tidy up this place, we can go home from get off work.
Lin Qingqing led Lu Haici away. When she was inside, she wanted to ask Lu Haici where his father was, but because of what happened today, she held back and didn't ask. When she walked out of the door, she saw Lu Cheng leaning against the door.
Lu Cheng was tall, and the posture he was leaning against the door was not as upright and serious as usual, and he looked a little lazy. Under the light, some shadows were cast around him, making people feel unruly.
Lin Qingqing was a little surprised and stunned when she suddenly saw Lu Cheng like this.
Lu Cheng heard the noise and turned around, and saw the mother and son. He stood up again and asked, "Are you off work?" The low voice sounded a little suppressed.
"Yeah." Lin responded softly, "You don't have to wait for me. The way back from here is safe anyway." If it's not safe here, then there is no safe place in the whole country.
"I'm used to it." Lu Cheng said casually. But he was really used to it. It had only been a few days, but he was used to waiting for her to get off work together, and then the three of them would go home together. Getting used to this feeling was really scary.
For a moment, both of them fell silent.
Lu Haici held his father's hand with one hand and his mother's hand with the other. The little cub was too young to feel the atmosphere between his parents. He happily shook their hands and began to talk about what happened in kindergarten today: "Mom, Chen Zhou apologized to me today, and I forgave him."
Lin Qingqing asked curiously: "Did anything happen between you and Chen Zhou?"