After four years of marriage, the military officer husband came back

Guo Yumei suspected that she had heard it wrongly and looked outside the fence.

There was a woman in gray standing outside the fence, with a happy look on her face, calling her to go out quickly:

"Yumei, what are you still standing there for? Come out quickly, your daughter Qingning is back."

This time Guo Yumei heard it clearly. The other party was indeed talking about her daughter Qingning's name.

But there was no joy on his face. Instead, he was filled with surprise and panic, and ran out quickly.

"Where is she? Did she come back alone? Did she pick up the suitcase?" Guo Yumei stretched her neck, looked ahead, and anxiously asked the woman in gray clothes beside her as she walked.

"He was with the second son of the He Lu family. I saw he was only carrying one bag." said the woman in gray.

After hearing the words "Lu family's second son", Guo Yumei's footsteps paused noticeably, and the expression on her face relaxed.

"Qingning is really enjoying a good life in the city. When I saw her just now, I couldn't recognize her. Her face is so tender that you could squeeze water out of it." The woman in gray clothes looked envious.

Guo Yumei didn't say anything and walked forward with big strides. When she turned a corner, she saw a couple surrounded by a group of children, slowly walking towards her.

The girl was wearing a blue shirt and a long skirt. She must have walked on the mountain road for too long, and her face was flushed and she looked incredibly cute.

The young man next to me was very tall and handsome. He was wearing a white shirt and carrying an army green bag.

She was a little unrecognizable. Was this really her daughter whom she hadn't seen for three years? How could she be completely different from before?

It was not until the girl came to her side and called her "Mom" softly that she came back to her senses. With tears in her eyes, she nodded vigorously and said:

"Hey, hey."

After agreeing, she quickly stretched out her hand and wanted to hold her daughter, but she stopped halfway and finally took it back.

Her hands were rough and dirty, and she was afraid of dirtying her daughter's hands.

Xia Qingning looked at the woman in front of her. She was wearing patched coarse cloth clothes. Her features were somewhat similar to hers. Due to long-term labor, her back was a little bent. She was very thin, but her eyes were bright. Seeing that she was about to withdraw her hand, Xia Qingning suddenly raised her hand and grabbed her.

This small action made Guo Yumei's eyes moisten again, and she said hurriedly:

"You must be tired, go back to the house and have a rest." He looked at the man next to Xia Qingning and was surprised and delighted to see that it was indeed the second son of the Lu family:

"Jingzhe is here too." As she said that, she was about to help him get the bag.

"It's okay, it won't sink." Lu Jingzhe said in a calm voice.

When they returned home, Guo Yumei hurriedly took out two high stools from the main room and placed them in the yard. She asked Xia Qingning and Lu Jingzhe to sit down, and then said to the woman in gray clothes:

"Aunt Jinhua, please help me call Qingshu and Qingcao, and ask them to come back soon."

"Okay." The woman agreed and was about to go out. Xia Qingning came out of the main room with a cloth bag in her hand. Thinking that she was going back, she hurriedly called her:

"Aunt, wait a moment."

Xia Qingning walked over, raised her hand and took a handful of candy from the cloth bag and gave it to her, smiling and saying:

"Auntie, eat some candy."

The colorful fruit candies looked even more dazzling when illuminated by the sunlight. Aunt Jinhua took the candies and went to call the two brothers of the Xia family happily.

The countryside is different from the city. Fruit candy is a rare thing. The children surrounding it all stared at Xia Qingning's bag with their eyes wide open.

At that time in the countryside, when someone came back from outside, the children would gather around them, hoping to get one or two candies. It was really unheard of to see them give out handfuls of candy at a time.

In everyone's eager eyes, Xia Qingning smiled and grabbed a handful for each child. Seeing a fat aunt standing nearby, she grabbed a handful as well, even though she didn't know who she was.

The fat matchmaker took it immediately, her face full of shock, and her shrewd little eyes kept scanning Xia Qingning and Lu Jingzhe.

Knowing that the two people must not have eaten anything on the way, Guo Yumei met them and asked them to rest first. She immediately went to the kitchen, boiled some water, opened the cabinet where the rice was stored, and saw four eggs on the rice. She took them all out without hesitation.

After distributing the candies, Xia Qingning walked into the kitchen and prepared to help Guo Yumei light the fire.

She felt that now that she had occupied the original body, the original body's family was naturally her own family. She would fulfill all the responsibilities and filial piety she should perform for the original body. So when she saw Guo Yumei for the first time, she did not feel awkward and called her mother directly.

When Xia Qingning entered, Guo Yumei was busy making sugar-water eggs. Seeing that Xia Qingning wanted to help her light the fire, she quickly stopped her and told her not to move, for fear that she would dirty her clothes.

Xia Qingning, who was pushed out, could only stand aside and watch her do it.

She found that although Guo Yumei looked older than her peers, her facial features were very well-developed, with big eyes and a straight nose. She inherited 50% to 60% of her features.

In fact, when Guo Yumei was young, she was also a beauty in the area. Many people came to propose marriage to her, and the man she finally married was Xia Gensheng from the same village. The two of them were a good match in appearance, and their two sons and one daughter inherited their good looks.

Originally a happy family of five, who would have thought that Xia Gensheng would die while trying to save Lu Lidong who fell into the water, and that his eldest son became crippled due to an illness. His daughter was in poor health, and his youngest son was still young, so all the burdens fell on her.

Because she always had Xia Gensheng in her heart, she never remarried and raised several children by herself. After so many years of hard work in the wind and sun, she no longer had her former beauty and even looked older than her peers.

Seeing her daughter looking at her, Guo Yumei touched her face a little embarrassedly and asked:

"Mom, you've aged a lot, haven't you?"

Xia Qingning looked at this thin yet strong woman, and felt some pity and admiration in her heart. She shook her head gently and said:

"Thank you for your hard work over the years."

Guo Yumei didn't expect her daughter to say this suddenly, and she couldn't hold back her tears. She quickly raised her hand and touched her face, trying to suppress the tears, but they still flowed down.

"It's not hard, it's not hard. Mom is happy to see you living well."

Xia Qingning saw her crying and hurried forward to pat her back to comfort her. This comfort made Guo Yumei even more emotional. She held Xia Qingning's hand and sobbed, saying:

"Mom misses you, but you don't let me visit you."

When her daughter just left, she was very worried about her daughter, fearing that she had been wronged, so she drove to see her. Seeing that the Lu father and son were very kind to her, and Lu Lidong did not despise her, she returned happily.

She told everyone that Lu Lidong was a good man who had not forgotten his roots, and that her daughter was lucky and would go to the city to enjoy a good life. But not long after, the Lu family sent a message asking her to go to the city quickly.

She thought her daughter was sick or injured, so she hurried there. But when she arrived, she found out that her daughter had actually climbed into Lu Jingzhe's bed.

Her daughter has always been well-behaved and sensible, and very timid. How could she do such a thing? But no matter what she asked, her daughter said she didn't know.

She felt like the sky was falling, but luckily Lu Baichuan was kind and righteous. He didn't say anything harsh and still let her daughter stay in the city.

Later, when her daughter turned 18, Lu Jingzhe filed a report, and the two got their marriage certificate. Only then did she feel relieved.

Her daughter has been living in the city these years, and she also wanted to go see her, but she felt embarrassed to meet the Lu family. Her son Qingshu went there a few times, but he came back saying that Lu Lidong's biological mother had moved in and didn't like them visiting the Lu family anymore.

The last time her daughter came back three years ago, she tactfully said that it was not convenient for them to go to the city, so her daughter did not come back in the past few years and she did not go to see her.

The mother and daughter haven't seen each other for three years. When she saw her daughter today and listened to her sweet words, she felt aggrieved and sad, and for a moment she could not control her emotions.

After hearing what Guo Yumei said, Xia Qingning was also touched. What mother doesn't miss her daughter? She could bear not to see her original body for three years. It wasn't because she didn't miss her daughter, but she just didn't want to cause trouble for her daughter.

"I was wrong before." Xia Qingning hugged her gently:

"You can come whenever you want in the future, and I will come back to see you often."

After hearing this, Guo Yumei's eyes were filled with joy. She was a little worried and asked, "Is it okay? Your uncle Baichuan's ex-wife won't make things difficult for you, right?"

Xia Qingning let her go and said firmly:

"Don't worry, that's the Lu family, not her home. She can't make the decision, and she doesn't dare to embarrass me."

"That's good, that's good." Guo Yumei's moist eyes finally showed a smile.

After the mother and daughter finished talking, the sweet soup was ready. They brought it to the table and were about to call Lu Jingzhe in to eat when they saw a group of people gathered in the yard to watch the fun. They said in unison:

"That doesn't seem to be the eldest son of the Lu family. To me, he looks like the second son of the Lu family."

"Didn't Qing Ning marry the eldest son of the Lu family? Why did she come back with the second son of the Lu family?"

"It's impossible for a brother-in-law to accompany his sister-in-law back to her parents' home, right? That's too much."

"So which of the two brothers did she marry?"

Amid the discussions of a group of women, Lu Jingzhe sat silently, and his face did not look good at all.

Guo Yumei's heart skipped a beat, fearing that Lu Jingzhe might be upset and vent his anger on his daughter, so she hurried out and said to the group of women watching:

"Everyone go back first," then turned to look at Lu Jingzhe and said apologetically:

"Jingzhe, you must be thirsty, come inside and drink some water first."

Lu Jingzhe stood up, with a calm face, and replied in a deep voice:

"Okay, Mom."

His voice was steady and powerful enough for everyone around him to hear clearly.