The mother of the era is reborn to support her cannon fodder children!

Chapter 320 "An Accident, All Accidents"

Seeing Yu Bao fall down, Amber paused for a moment, then bit his clothes, trying to pull her little master up.

Yu Bao's clothes have an extra tooth hole.

"!!" Yu Bao's eyes widened as she accused, "You bad Amber, you tore my clothes! I'm going to get angry!!"

Amber could read faces and knew her little master was angry. She timidly shrank back, squatted on the yellowed hay, and obediently looked at Yu Bao.

"Woof..." The bark was soft and gentle, with a hint of coquetry.

Lin Zhao chuckled softly.

The dog glanced cautiously at Yu Bao, then stood up and rushed towards Lin Zhao. This time, it didn't pounce on her, but wagged its tail and circled around her, rubbing its head against her legs. Its enthusiastic manner made it hard not to pet it.

Lin Zhao patted each dog's head and called the twins home.

The group did not delay any longer and continued on their way.

Yu Bao and Heng Bao ran energetically towards the village, shouting and laughing, while Da Huang Hu Po chased after them.

The two dogs are very intelligent and perceptive. Whenever they run ahead, they stop and wait for their little owner, panting with their tongues out, pawing excitedly at the ground, and preparing to jump up, their eyes bright and their faces full of excitement.

Seeing this, Lin Shichang said, "Dahuang and Hupo are so excited, I wonder how Qianbao and Yaobao will react when they see you come back."

Lin Zhao dared not think about it.

She couldn't imagine Sanzai's reaction. She could only imagine Yaobao crying her eyes out, the kind of crying where she couldn't catch her breath.

As they spoke, the group entered the brigade.

The twins and Big Yellow Amber chased each other, making a strong impression; villagers chatting nearby spotted them immediately.

"Yu Bao? Heng Bao!! You're back! When did you get back?" Wang Chunhua stood up and asked happily, "Da Zhuang has been asking when you two were coming back."

Yu Bao replied politely, "I just got back. I went straight back to the brigade after getting off the train. I didn't go anywhere else."

"We've been away from home for so long, we've been missing home for ages!" Hengbao grabbed Big Yellow's tail and started to let loose as soon as he returned to the village, his smile as bright as the sun.

The older woman looked at the twins and asked, "Have these two gotten fat?"

The twins were all smiles.

The brigade leader's wife said, "He's not only gained weight, he seems to have grown taller too!"

She asked Yu Baohengbao, "The food in the army must be pretty good, right?"

She had asked Gu Chenghuai and Lu Yizhou this question before, but they were both aloof and their answers were not satisfactory to her. Then she asked the Lu family, but they were full of lies, saying that they had meat to eat every meal and that meals and transportation were free... It was obviously made up.

Hmph, she doesn't believe it.

Yu Bao said truthfully, "The food was similar to what we ate at home, sorghum rice and cornbread. We didn't eat meat often, and the environment was harsh."

Hengbao's eyes darted around, and he added, "That's right, that's right. We only ate meat once when we went to the army base, but I sprained my ankle, and my mom stewed pig's trotters for me, hehe."

Pig's trotters are hard to come by, and very few people in the brigade have ever eaten them. When they heard that he had eaten pig's trotters in the army, they all looked at him with complicated expressions.

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

He hadn't heard anything about this.

"I jumped down from the tree, and ouch, I twisted my ankle," Lin Zhao said.

Lin Shichang felt that this behavior could not be tolerated, and said seriously, "Have you beaten him before? In this situation, you have to beat him."

"If Hengbao heard you say that, he'd glare at you and yell," Lin Zhao said with a smile.

"He glared at me?! I glared back! He dared to climb a tree, so I had to give him a beating." Lin Shichang doted on his child, but he didn't spoil him. Years ago, Da Dan sprained his ankle climbing a tree, and the situation was even more serious, resulting in a broken bone. When he found out, he didn't react at the time, but waited for the kid to recover before giving him a lesson he would never forget.

You know what, it’s really useful.

At least Big Egg didn't make a similar mistake again, and Second Egg didn't either.

Lin Zhao said, "Gu Chenghuai and I taught him a lesson, and he won't dare to do it again!"

Upon hearing this, Lin Shichang's brow relaxed.

Before the villagers could even ask about the pig's trotters, Gu's mother, having heard that her grandson had returned, rushed over.

Upon arriving, he heard Hengbao mention that he had sprained his ankle. He rushed over to Erzai, grabbed his shoulders, and carefully examined him from all angles.

"Hengbao, how did you twist your ankle? Does it still hurt?!" She spoke quickly, and before Hengbao could reply, she continued, "How did you get back? Why didn't you send a telegram before you came back? I would have asked your uncle and the others to pick you up..."

Yu Bao looked up at Gu's mother and said, "We came back after Heng Bao's foot healed. My brother is fine, Grandma, don't worry! We walked back. We were dizzy from sitting in the car for too long, so we walked very slowly and didn't get tired. Grandma, my uncle picked us up."

He speaks with reason and evidence, in a calm and measured tone, possessing a magical power to soothe the restlessness in people's hearts.

His mother calmed down, influenced by his stable emotions.

Hugging Hengbao, her face full of heartache, she said, "It's good that you're alright. How did you sprain your ankle? You've only been there for a month and you've already sprained your ankle. If you really go to accompany the army, it will cause so much worry."

Hengbao blinked, "It was an accident, it was all an accident."

Afraid that his grandmother would say she wouldn't let him accompany her to the army, he quickly changed the subject, "Grandma, the army is so much fun! My brother and I learned to box from Dad, and we made a lot of new friends, like Black Egg, Silver Bean, Little Curly... Cat Egg is there too, he's already a big kid who skipped grades. My brother and I have to work hard, or we'll fall behind!"

At first, I wanted to change the subject, but as we talked, we ended up simply sharing.

Mother Gu listened attentively, asking questions every now and then, while the villagers also pricked up their ears to listen.

The twins have excellent communication skills; listening to them speak is like being there in person, as if you're experiencing the world alongside them.

The twins are also children who love to share, and they planned to sit down and talk slowly.

Lin Zhao couldn't help but speak up, "At least go home and wash up first. Aren't you two feeling uncomfortable after sitting in the car for several days? Didn't you say you missed your younger siblings? That's what you two were thinking..."

Her reminder pulled Yu Bao and Heng Bao from their urge to talk, and they belatedly realized that their bodies, heads, backs, and arms were itchy...

"I almost forgot, let's go home first, let's go home first," Yu Bao hurriedly replied to Lin Zhao.

He smiled apologetically at the villagers and said, "Auntie, Auntie, Hengbao and I will go home and rest first. We'll answer your questions after we've rested."

Hengbao pulled him, "Brother, why are you saying so much? Let's go home. I miss Qianbao and Yaobao. Let's go see them."

In his mind, the villagers had begged them to talk about the military family compound, and when they would talk depended on their availability.

Just as Hengbao had expected, although the villagers still wanted to hear more, they didn't pressure them to speak now. Instead, they were very easy to talk to and let them go, only reminding them not to forget to come back in the afternoon.

The twins went back to their mother's old house with Gu, while Lin Zhao brought her eldest brother from her maternal family home to tidy up.

"Grandma, where's Li Bao? Why didn't he come to pick us up?" Heng Bao asked dejectedly, thinking of his good brother.

Gu's mother sighed, "Li Bao's maternal grandfather is sick, and he and your aunt went to see him."

"Huh?" Hengbao's expression changed slightly, his thick dark eyebrows furrowed, and his tone was full of worry, "Did you go to the hospital?"

Mother Gu was amused by her grandson's tone and shook her head, "Going to the hospital costs money, how could I bear to spend that? I called a barefoot doctor instead."

"You have to go to the hospital when you're sick, otherwise you'll get better!" Hengbao said bitterly.

He thought of his maternal grandfather, "When my maternal grandfather was sick, my maternal grandmother and uncle would take him to the hospital."

“Your maternal grandmother can earn money,” said Gu’s mother. The Huang family wasn’t even as well-off as their own, let alone the Lin family. A trip to the hospital cost tens of yuan; who in their generation would be willing to spend that kind of money?

She sighed, "Hospitals are not places for country folk. If something were to happen to me, I would go into the mountains to wait for death. I would never go to a hospital and would not want to trouble my children."

When her son-in-law was hospitalized, the family was several hundred yuan in debt. If it weren't for the family that Xiang Dong helped and paid off the medical expenses, A Chan's family would have been in dire need of many years to recover.

She realized that poor people really dare not get sick.

"Grandma! Don't say that!!" Yu Bao said angrily.

Hengbao stared at his grandma like a little adult, his cheeks puffed out, his face flushed with anger. "Grandma, you can't do this! If you go into the mountains, we'll come looking for you. If we encounter tigers or man-eating wolves and something bad happens to us, don't worry about us!"

Various images flashed through Gu's mother's mind, and she was quite frightened. "Oh dear, why go up the mountain? I won't go up the mountain, and you are not allowed to go up the mountain either! I will definitely be fine and live to be a hundred years old. Grandma will still take care of your children."

Hengbao wanted to say that he didn't want children because they would compete with him for candy.

Yu Bao grabbed her younger brother's hand, shook her head at him, and then responded to Gu's mother's words, "Yes, Grandma, may you live to be a hundred years old and take care of us forever."

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

Her eyes were always on the twins, she couldn't get enough of looking at them, she really missed her grandson!

The three generations of the family returned to the Gu family's old house.

The courtyard hasn't changed much; it's still so simple and welcoming.

"Wow, we're finally home!" Hengbao found a stool to sit on and called out to his mother, "Grandma, I want to take a bath!"

Mother Gu: "I'll go boil some water for you two."

After saying that, he went into the kitchen to boil water.

Just then, Gu's father and Gu Yucheng returned.

"Grandpa, Grandpa, we're back!" Hengbao jumped up and rushed to Gu's father, opening his arms to hug him.

Father Gu picked up his grandson, patted him down, and smiled, his eyes crinkling with laughter. "He's too heavy, too heavy."

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

He said regretfully, "Looks like I'll have to give away the fresh corn I got in exchange."

Gu Yucheng knew that the twins loved boiled corn, so he specially changed the type of corn to satisfy Yu Bao and Heng Bao's craving.

Hearing this, Hengbao's eyes lit up, "Second Uncle, Second Uncle, Second Uncle, I want to eat boiled corn!"

Gu Yucheng pretended to be aloof, picked up Yu Bao who was secretly smiling to himself, tossed him up and caught him steadily, and said with a smile: "You've gotten heavier. Looks like you weren't hungry. Did anything happen on the way back?"

"Nothing happened when I got back," Yu Bao replied.

Gu Yucheng sensed something and raised an eyebrow, asking, "Judging from your expression, did something happen on your way there?"

Yu Bao hesitated for a moment before saying, "Yes, I encountered bad people who trafficked children on the train."

Gu Yucheng's expression changed slightly. "Human traffickers?! Human traffickers have their eyes on you?!"

He felt a lingering fear, "I knew you guys were good-looking and clever, making you easy targets for human traffickers. Luckily, nothing happened!"

"Next time you travel far away, I'll escort you. With me here, I'll see who dares to lay a finger on you!"

"Damn it, they took advantage of the fact that there wasn't a man around. What happened to that human trafficker in the end? Was he caught?"

His emotions were in great turmoil, his muscular chest heaving violently, and he was about to erupt in anger.

"Gotcha, gotcha." Yu Bao gently patted his second uncle's back, not afraid of Gu Yucheng getting angry.

His second uncle wasn't being mean to him.

"My mom caught him," Hengbao added proudly, then added indignantly, "That human trafficker even slashed my mom's arm!"

He gets angry whenever he thinks about it, and he'll probably never forget it in his lifetime!
"What?" Gu's father raised his voice.

The noise was so loud that it alerted the people in the kitchen.

Gu's mother came out of the kitchen. "What's wrong? Why are you yelling like that? If you wake Yaobao up, you can soothe her yourself!"

"You old woman..." Father Gu told his wife what he had just learned, and Mother Gu blurted out a word before hurrying out the door to find Lin Zhao in the third house!

In the main house, Qianbao and Yaobao were awakened by two noises outside.

"Noisy," Yao Bao complained softly, rubbing her eyes.

Qianbao was also a little groggy. He had a good temper and wasn't grumpy when he woke up. He brushed the sweaty hair off his sister's cheeks and said, "Did you sleep well? I'm going out to find Uncle."

Yao Bao didn't like being alone, so she said, "Let's find Sister Fish."

"Okay." Just as Qianbao finished speaking, a familiar, clear voice came from outside.

Hengbao asked Gu's mother where she was going.

Upon hearing this, Qianbao's dark, bright eyes sparkled like stars. He slid off the bed, ran to the door, and lifted the bamboo curtain.

"Huh?!" he exclaimed.

Gu Yucheng burst out laughing and deliberately said, "Hahaha, doesn't Qianbao recognize his own brother?"

Yu Bao ran to his younger brother, hugged Qian Bao's small body, and patted him all over. "Qian Bao, your brother is back. Did you miss us? I missed you so much. How are you?"

He wrapped his arms around his younger brother and lifted him off the ground with all his might. "You've gotten heavier, and Qianbao has gotten fatter too. That means you've been eating well, good boy."

Father Gu & Gu Yucheng: "..."

Qianbao was stunned and hadn't reacted yet.

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

He looked away, as if searching for something.

"Where's Mommy?" the child's soft voice rang out.

"Mom's back too, she's home. She'll come pick you up later," Yu Bao said.

Qianbao insisted on going home, urging urgently, "Go back and find Mommy."

Before Yu Bao could answer, Yao Bao, whose shoes were on the wrong feet, lifted the bamboo curtain, revealing her little face with several bamboo mat marks on it.

Upon seeing Yu Bao and Heng Bao, she looked bewildered and didn't approach, as if trying to confirm something.

"Yaobao, don't you recognize us?" Hengbao exclaimed in surprise, her tone full of disbelief.

He cupped his sister's face in his hands and said nervously, "It's your brother! I'm your second brother, Hengbao, and that's your eldest brother, Yubao. You really recognize us?!"

Gu Yucheng laughed from the side, enjoying the show, and said, "Yaobao is only a few years old. It's normal that she doesn't recognize you after not seeing you for more than a month. You two just left them behind and went off to be carefree..."

Do you really think everyone is Qianbao?!
"Second Uncle, stop gloating." Hengbao, shrouded in resentment, complained to Gu's father, "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 grandson for over a month, was unreasonable and dared not argue, so he went into the kitchen to check on the fire.

(End of this chapter)