Chapter 318

Seeing Xiang Yubao fall, Amber was stunned for a moment, biting his clothes, wanting to drag its little master up.

A tooth hole appeared in Xiang Yubao's clothes.

"!!" Xiang Yubao widened his eyes, accusing, "Bad Amber, you bit a hole in my clothes! I'm going to be angry!!"

Amber knew how to read faces, knowing its little master was angry, shrinking its head back timidly, sitting on the yellowed dry grass, looking at Xiang Yubao obediently.

"Woof..." The bark was soft, with a hint of acting spoiled.

Lin Zhao smiled lightly.

The dog looked at Xiang Yubao cautiously, stood up, and rushed toward Lin Zhao. This time it didn't pounce on her, wagging its tail and circling her, its head rubbing against her legs, the enthusiastic look making it unbearable not to pet it.

Lin Zhao rubbed the dogs' heads one by one and called the twins to go home.

The group didn't delay any further and continued on their way.

Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao ran toward the village full of energy, shouting and laughing, letting Da Huang and Amber chase them.

The two dogs were extremely human-like; every time they ran to the front, they would stop and wait for their little masters, panting, their front paws excitedly digging the ground, making ready-to-jump movements, their eyes shining, their dog faces excited.

Seeing this, Lin Shichang spoke up, "Da Huang and Amber are so excited; I don't know what reaction Qian Bao and Seeing Yaobao will have when they see you back."

Lin Zhao didn't dare to think.

She couldn't think of the reaction of the three cubs, but she could think of Seeing Yaobao's; she would definitely cry loudly, the kind that would cry until she was out of breath.

While speaking, several people entered the brigade.

The twins and Da Huang and Amber were chasing each other, with a strong sense of presence, and the people chatting in the village saw them at a glance.

"Xiang Yubao? Gu Hangbao!! You're back, when did you get back?" Wang Chunhua stood up and asked happily, "Da Zhuang has been asking when you two would be back."

Xiang Yubao replied politely: "Just got back, got off the train and came straight back to the brigade, didn't go anywhere else."

"We've been away from home for so long, we've missed home for a long time!" Gu Hangbao grabbed Da Huang's tail, and after returning to the village, he began to let himself go, his bright smile comparable to the sun.

Chang Sheng's mother looked at the twins, "Did these two gain weight??"

The twins giggled.

The Captain's wife said: "Not only gained weight, but seem to have grown taller too!"

She asked Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao, "The food in the military is good, right?"

She had asked Gu Chenghuai and Lu Yizhou this before, but both were colder than the other, and the answers they gave didn't satisfy her. Later, she asked the Lu family, and that family was full of nonsense, saying they ate meat every meal, and didn't need money to eat or ride in cars... it sounded like it was made up.

Hmph, she didn't believe it.

Xiang Yubao said truthfully: "About the same as the food at home, also sorghum rice, cornmeal buns, don't eat meat often, the environment is hard."

Gu Hangbao's eyes rolled, and he followed up: "That's right, that's right, we only ate meat once when we went to the military, but I sprained my ankle, and my mom stewed pig's trotters, hehe."

Pig's trotters were hard to get; not many people in the brigade had eaten them. Hearing that he ate pig's trotters in the military, everyone looked at him with complex eyes.

Lin Shichang looked at Lin Zhao, frowned and asked: "Gu Hangbao sprained his ankle? How did he sprain it?!"

He hadn't heard a word about this.

"Jumped down from a tree, splat, sprained his ankle." Lin Zhao said.

Lin Shichang felt that this behavior couldn't be tolerated and said with a serious expression: "Have you beaten him? You have to beat him in this situation."

"If Gu Hangbao heard you say that, he would stare and wail." Lin Zhao said with a smile.

"He stares?! I stare too! If you dare to climb a tree, you have to be beaten." Lin Shichang doted on children, but didn't spoil them. Back then, Da Dan climbed a tree and sprained his ankle, and the situation was more serious, directly fracturing it. He didn't have an outburst when he found out, but after the boy recovered, he gave him a lesson he would never forget for the rest of his life.

Don't say it wasn't really useful.

At least later Da Dan didn't make similar mistakes again, and Er Dan didn't either.

Lin Zhao said: "Gu Chenghuai and I have already taught him a lesson; he doesn't dare anymore!"

Hearing this, Lin Shichang's brow relaxed.

Before the villagers could ask about the pig's trotters, Gu Mu, who heard that her grandsons were back, hurried over.

As soon as she arrived, she heard Gu Hangbao's words about spraining his ankle, walked to the second cub in two or three steps, grabbed his shoulders, and looked him up and down, front and back, carefully.

"Gu Hangbao, how did you sprain your ankle, does it still hurt?!" She spoke very fast, and without waiting for Gu Hangbao to reply, she said again: "How did you get back? Why didn't you send a telegram before coming back? I would have let your eldest uncle and the others pick you up..."

Xiang Yubao looked up at Gu Mu, "We only came back after Gu Hangbao's ankle was healed, the younger brother is fine, Grandma don't worry! We walked back, sat in the car for too long, our heads were dizzy, we wanted to walk, walked very slowly, didn't get tired. Grandma, my eldest uncle picked us up."

He spoke reasonably and well-founded, his tone unhurried, with the magic to soothe the irritability in people's hearts.

Gu Mu was influenced by his stable emotions and calmed down.

Hugging Gu Hangbao, her face full of heartache, "It's good that you're fine, why did you sprain your ankle, only went for a month and sprained your ankle, really going to follow the army, how worrying."

Gu Hangbao blinked, "Accident, it was all an accident."

Afraid his grandma would say something about not following the army, he hurriedly made a joke, "Grandma, the military is so fun, my brother and I learned boxing from Dad, and also met many new friends, Hei Dan, Yin Dou Dou, Xiao Juan'er... Mao Dan'er is also there, he is a big friend who skipped grades, my brother and I have to work hard, otherwise we will be left behind!"

At first, he wanted to change the subject, but as he spoke, he simply shared it.

Gu Mu listened carefully, asking a question from time to time, and the villagers also pricked up their ears to listen.

The twins had good expressive abilities, and listening to them speak gave people a sense of beauty of being on the scene, as if... they had seen the world with them.

The twins were also children who loved to share, planning to sit down and talk slowly.

Lin Zhao couldn't help but speak, "At least go home and wash up first, sitting in the car for several days, aren't you two uncomfortable? Didn't you say you missed your younger brother and sister, is this how you miss them..."

With her reminder, Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao pulled away from their exuberant desire to tell, and belatedly felt itchy all over, itchy heads, itchy backs, itchy arms...

"Almost forgot, go home first, let's go home first." Xiang Yubao hurriedly answered Lin Zhao's words.

And smiled apologetically at the villagers, saying: "Auntie, Aunt, Gu Hangbao and I will go home and rest first, wait until we rest well and come back to answer your questions."

Gu Hangbao pulled him, "Brother, why say so much, go home, I miss Qian Bao and Seeing Yaobao, let's go see them quickly."

In his heart, asking them to talk about the military family compound was something the villagers begged them for, and when to talk depended on their time.

It was indeed as Gu Hangbao thought; although the villagers still wanted to listen, they didn't make a scene for them to talk now, but instead let them go very easily, only telling them not to forget to come over in the afternoon.

The twins followed Gu Mu back to the old house, and Lin Zhao took her maiden brother home to tidy up.

"Grandma, where is Li Bao, why didn't he come to pick us up?" Gu Hangbao remembered his good brother and said depressedly.

Gu Mu sighed, "Li Bao's grandfather is sick, he and your eldest aunt went to see his grandfather."

"Ah?" Gu Hangbao's expression changed slightly, his thick black eyebrows wrinkled into a ball, his tone full of worry, "Did you go to the hospital?"

Gu Mu was amused by her grandson's tone and shook her head, "Going to the hospital costs money, how can they be willing, they called a barefoot doctor."

"If you are sick, you have to go to the hospital, otherwise how can you get better!" Gu Hangbao said bitterly.

He thought of his own grandfather, "When my grandfather was sick before, Grandma and Uncle would take him to the hospital."

"Your grandma can earn money." Gu Mu said.

The Huang family wasn't even as good as their own, and couldn't compare to the Lin family. A trip to the hospital costs dozens; who in their generation is willing to spend this money.

She sighed: "The hospital is not a place for country people to go. If I have something, I will go into the mountains and wait for death, absolutely not go to the hospital, not add trouble to my children."

Her son-in-law went to the hospital before, and the family owed hundreds in debt. If it weren't for the family Xiang Dong saved having a conscience and paying back the medical expenses, A Chan's small family wouldn't know how many years it would take to recover.

She discovered that poor people really don't dare to get sick.

"Grandma! Don't say that!!" Xiang Yubao said angrily.

Gu Hangbao also stared at his grandma like a little adult, his cheeks bulging, his anger so great that his face was dyed crimson, "Grandma, you can't be like this! If you go into the mountains, we will go up the mountain to find you, encounter big bugs and man-eating wolves, if something happens, don't feel sorry!"

Gu Mu's mind flashed through various pictures, scared not lightly, "Oh my, go up the mountain, I won't go into the mountains, you are not allowed to go up the mountain either! I will definitely be fine, live to be a hundred years old, Grandma still has to raise children for you."

Gu Hangbao wanted to say he didn't want children; children would fight with him for candy.

Xiang Yubao held his younger brother's hand, shook his head at him, and then responded to Gu Mu's words, "Mm-hmm, Grandma must live a long life and always take care of us."

Gu Mu beamed, "Good, good, Grandma will always take care of you."

Her eyes always fell on the twins, never seeing enough, and she really missed her grandsons!

The grandmother and the two grandsons returned to the Gu family old house.

The courtyard hadn't changed much, still so simple, making people feel close.

"Wow, finally home." Gu Hangbao found a stool and sat down, shouting at Gu Mu, "Grandma, I want to take a bath!"

Gu Mu: "I'll go boil hot water for you two."

After speaking, she entered the kitchen to boil water.

At this time, Gu Fu and Gu Yucheng just came back.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, we're back." Gu Hangbao jumped up, rushed toward Gu Fu, and opened his arms to hug him.

Gu Fu picked up his grandson and weighed him, smile lines filling the corners of his eyes, "Heavier, heavier."

"..." Gu Yucheng stared at Gu Hangbao, "Didn't see me?!"

His tone was regretful, "Looks like the fresh corn I exchanged will have to be shared with others."

Gu Yucheng knew the twins loved to eat boiled corn, so he specially exchanged it, just to satisfy Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao's cravings.

Hearing this, Gu Hangbao's eyes shone, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle, Second Uncle, I want to eat boiled corn!"

Gu Yucheng pretended to be cold, picked up Xiang Yubao, who was pursing his lips and stealing a smile, threw him up and caught him steadily, and smiled: "It's heavier, looks like you weren't starved, didn't anything happen on the way back?"

"Nothing happened on the way back." Xiang Yubao replied.

Gu Yucheng heard something, raised an eyebrow and asked: "Looking at you, something happened when you went?"

Xiang Yubao hesitated for a moment and said: "Mm, met bad people who trafficked children on the train."

Gu Yucheng's face changed slightly, "Human traffickers!? Human traffickers targeted you two?!"

He felt lingering fear in his heart, "I said you two look good and are smart, easy to be targeted by human traffickers, fortunately nothing happened!"

"You go far away in the future, I will send you there. With me here, let's see who dares to touch a hair on your head!"

"Damn it, bullying you two without a man by your side, what happened to that human trafficker in the end, was he caught?"

His emotions fluctuated greatly, his sturdy chest heaving violently, and his anger was about to erupt in an instant.

"Caught, caught." Xiang Yubao patted his second uncle's back lightly, not afraid of Gu Yucheng getting angry.

Second Uncle wasn't scolding him.

"My mom caught him." Gu Hangbao proudly added, then said indignantly: "That human trafficker even scratched my mom's arm!"

He would be angry whenever he thought of this, afraid he would never forget it in his life!

"What?" Gu Fu's voice raised.

The loud voice alarmed the people in the kitchen.

Gu Mu walked out of the kitchen, "What's wrong, what are you howling for, if you wake up Seeing Yaobao, you coax her yourself!"

"You old woman..." Gu Fu told his wife what he had just learned, and Gu Mu also blurted out a "What," and hurried out the door to find Lin Zhao in the third room!

In the main room, Qian Bao and Seeing Yaobao were awakened by the two noises outside.

"Noisy." Seeing Yaobao rubbed her eyes and complained softly.

Qian Bao was also a bit confused; he had a good temper and no morning grumpiness, helped his sister remove the hair stuck to her cheeks by sweat, and said: "Are you done sleeping? I'm going out to find Little Uncle."

Seeing Yaobao didn't like being alone, so she said: "Find Sister Yu'er."

"Okay." As soon as Qian Bao's voice fell, a familiar clear voice came from outside.

Gu Hangbao was asking Gu Mu where she was going.

Hearing this, Qian Bao's pitch-black bright eyes shone like stars, slid off the bed, and ran toward the door, lifting the bamboo curtain.

"Eh?!!" He made such a sound.

Gu Yucheng laughed, deliberately saying: "Hahahaha, Qian Bao doesn't recognize his own brother?"

Xiang Yubao ran toward his younger brother, hugged Qian Bao's small body, and touched him all over, "Qian Bao, brother is back, did you miss us, I missed you so much, how are you?"

He hugged his younger brother, his arms exerting force, lifting him off the ground, "Heavier, Qian Bao is fat too. Shows you've been eating well, good boy."

Gu Fu & Gu Yucheng: "..."

Qian Bao was blank, not having reacted yet.

After a while, he touched his brother's face; it was hot.

He shifted his gaze, as if looking for something.

"Where's Mom?" The little child's soft voice rang out.

"Mom is back too, at home, will come to pick you up later." Xiang Yubao said.

Qian Bao insisted on going home, urging urgently: "Go back, find Mom."

Without waiting for Xiang Yubao to answer, Seeing Yaobao, whose shoes were on the wrong feet, also lifted the bamboo curtain, revealing her small face with several bamboo mat marks horizontally.

Seeing Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao, she was confused, didn't step forward, as if confirming something.

"Seeing Yaobao, don't recognize us?" Gu Hangbao exclaimed, his tone full of incredulity.

He held his sister's face, nervously saying: "It's brother, I'm your second brother Gu Hangbao, that's your eldest brother Xiang Yubao, do you really recognize us now?!"

Gu Yucheng laughed on the side, watching the show and saying: "Seeing Yaobao is only a few years old, hasn't seen you for more than a month, isn't it normal not to recognize you, letting you leave them behind to be carefree..."

Do you really think everyone is Qian Bao?!

"Second Uncle, don't gloat." Gu Hangbao was shrouded in resentment, and complained to Gu Fu again, "Grandpa, look at my Second Uncle, he's adding fuel to the fire!"

Gu Yucheng knew that the old man who hadn't seen his grandsons for more than a month had no reason to talk to, didn't dare to refute, and dived into the kitchen to watch the fire.