At the beginning, the bamboo shoots were taken away by the mythical beast, and the goddess came to t

"Yes, sugar baby heard it!"

Little Sugar Baby nodded, ran to Mr. Xu and stopped. The little guy reached out and tugged at the hem of his clothes.

"Grandpa, if you don't keep your words, your nose will become very long!"

"Like, just like Pitsocchio!"

"It's Pinocchio!"

Shen Luyao looked at the serious little guy and couldn't help but remind him.

"Well, whether it's Piscio or Pinocchio, one should never keep his word!"

"Grandpa, you wouldn't be handsome if you had a long nose!"

In the midst of children's words, Mr. Xu finally accepted the money.

It was getting late, Shen Luyao and Tang Baoer stayed behind to help the old man clean up the stall, while Lu Chen went to the pet hospital to drive the pickup truck over.

"Old man, I will take you back."

When Lu Chen came back, he found that the stalls had been packed up.

He couldn't help but put the old man's tricycle into the carriage, while Shen Luyao took out the baby chair and put it on the back seat.

"Tangbao will sit in the car later while Mom goes to watch the car for Grandpa, okay?"

After putting it on, Shen Luyao knelt down and talked to Sugar Baby.

"Okay, is Sugar Baby sitting with grandpa?"

"Well, you and Grandpa sit in the same row, and Mommy is in the back of the car. You can see Mommy through the glass later, okay?"

"Yeah, sugar baby knows!"

After the cute little guy nodded in agreement, he turned around and pulled Mr. Xu.

"Grandpa, grandpa, let's get in the car quickly!"

"Hey, okay, okay, grandpa, get in the car right now."

He can refuse adults, but he can't refuse little ones.

After driving for more than ten minutes, the pickup truck stopped in front of a courtyard in the town.

The mottled vermilion paint gate and slightly dilapidated door head are full of traces of time and witnesses of downfall.

"This is it, thank you very much."

Mr. Xu got out of the car, unlocked the door, and pushed open the dusty door.

Lu Chen took the tricycle off the pickup truck and pushed it into the yard.

He stretched out his hand to wipe his sweat: "Old man, let's go back first."

"Give me your mobile phone number and I'll leave a phone number for you. If you need help in the future, just contact me."

"It's too late. It's inconvenient for you to drive back. Just sleep here at my place tonight."

Mr. Xu glanced at the sky and began to keep people away.

"I have many rooms. You can choose any one to live in. They are all clean."

"Mom, sleepy~"

Just at this time, the little sugar baby rubbed his eyes, and the little voice also became sleepy.

Lu Chen, who had no intention of staying, changed his mind after seeing this small detail.

But there is still a problem to be solved.

"Old man, do you have two empty rooms at home?"

Mr. Xu glanced at Lu Chen and Shen Luyao strangely.

The young couple didn't look like they were having any conflicts, so why did they sleep in separate rooms?

"I would snore at night because I was afraid of disturbing them, mother and daughter."

Lu Chen saw the old man's appraising eyes and guessed what he was thinking.

The situation between himself and Shen Luyao is a bit complicated.

Who has a kid and only really knows his "wife" for a day or two?

This cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences.

He simply made an excuse casually.

"There are some!"

"I'll take you there."

Mr. Xu didn't think about the reason in detail. He smiled and walked to the front to lead the way.

"Thank you."

When Shen Luyao walked over with Tang Bao'er in his arms, Lu Chen heard a soft voice.

He didn't say anything, just smiled at Shen Luyao.

Isn’t this basic respect what we should have?

Although he and Shen Luyao had Tang Baoer's existence, they were still essentially strangers.

After arranging rooms for Shen Luyao and Tang Baoer, Mr. Xu specially invited Lu Chen to chat.

"Young man, there should be no differences between husband and wife. As the saying goes, if you quarrel at the head of the bed, you will end up at the end of the bed. Don't you get angry with your wife, you know?"

"Uncle, I am not angry with Lu Yao."

Lu Chen said helplessly.

Mr. Xu didn't ask any more questions. After sighing, he took Lu Chen to another room.

When the two walked to the living room, Lu Chen was stunned when he saw the painting hanging behind the master's chair in the living room.

This is an extremely simple ink painting.

The painting is a patchwork bamboo forest.

What shocked Lu Chen was that the signature in the lower right corner turned out to be Lu Minglang.

That was his grandpa's name!

"Old man, this painting is...?"

Mr. Xu followed Lu Chen's line of sight and sighed deeply after seeing the painting.

"This was painted by an old friend of mine. I liked it very much and hung it up."

"what happened?"

"Lu Minglang, this is my grandfather."

"You, you are Chenwazi?!"

Mr. Xu looked at Lu Chen in shock, with a look of disbelief on his face.

"You have grown so big. If Brother Lu sees you now, he will definitely be crazy and happy."

"Alas, he is also a miserable man."

"Well, I'm Lu Chen, are you...?"

Hearing the old man call out his name immediately, Lu Chen understood that the old man in front of him must be his grandfather's old friend.

"I am Xu Donglai, your grandfather's old comrade-in-arms."

"I hugged you when you were little."

"More than ten years ago, my son and daughter-in-law and I went abroad, and the contact with your grandfather was cut off."

"In the past two years, after my son and daughter-in-law had an accident abroad, I came back alone with my grandson."

"When I first came back, I went to Kaoshan Village to find Brother Lu, but I learned that he had already left. Alas."

"After asking people in the village, I found out that you actually took the same path that Brother Lu and I took and joined the army."

"Have you been discharged from the army now?"

"Well, retired."

Lu Chen could feel that Mr. Xu talked a lot more after knowing that he was the grandson of an old friend.

He picked up some unimportant things about his time in the army and talked about them.

Mr. Xu sighed while listening.

"Okay, that's great."

"Brother Lu has raised a good grandson."

What's even more coincidental is that when Mr. Xu took out a photo of his grandson, Lu Chen actually recognized the young man with a bright smile in the photo.

Those were the soldiers he once led.

He was also the comrade-in-arms he once trusted to back him.

So Mr. Xu told Lu Chen a story about his grandfather when he was young.

Lu Chen, on the other hand, told Mr. Xu about his grandson being in the army.

An old man and a young man started chatting because of such a special fate.

We chatted until dawn, then we stopped talking and went to rest.

The next day was a rare sunny day.

Because of the biological clock he had developed in the army, Lu Chen got up on time at 6 a.m. even though he went to bed very late.

And when he opened the door to the room, he realized that he was not the first one to get up.

Someone is already busy in the courtyard.