Military marriage: After not seeing each other for many years, it was painless to become a mother as soon as we met - Chapter 14

Lu Mengmeng stood there, blinking her pitiful eyes at Gu Qingcheng.

Gu Qingcheng was instantly charmed; she really wanted to take such an adorable child home!

Calm down! She had to calm down!

As a doting parent, Gu Qingcheng had to work very hard to convince herself to leave.

Just as she made up her mind to leave, a childish yet domineering voice rang out.

“What are you doing approaching my sister?”

Gu Qingcheng’s intuition was spot on; judging from the tone of the voice, the owner was at most eight years old, but the tone was extremely decisive.

Two completely different adjectives were somehow combined.

Gu Qingcheng looked in the direction of the voice. She had initially approached with a “let’s see what happens” attitude, thinking maybe some child trafficker had been caught?

But unexpectedly, the owner of the voice was heading straight for her.

The boy in front of her had short, black hair and wore a light green short-sleeved shirt, standing protectively in front of the little girl.

Gu Qingcheng then realized that she had stumbled upon this whole drama.

Fortunately, the boy’s voice wasn’t loud and didn’t attract attention, otherwise Gu Qingcheng would have wanted to disappear into the ground—it was too embarrassing.

Just as she was about to explain, the little girl pulled the boy behind her.

“Brother, the pretty auntie is a good person. She told me to wait for you to come back. Don’t be so mean to her.”

Lu Xinian finally calmed down a bit: “I’m sorry, I misunderstood.”

Gu Qingcheng naturally wouldn’t stoop to a child’s level and waved her hand to indicate she wouldn’t take it to heart.

Lu Mengmeng asked, “Brother, did you get any money from others? How are we going to get back?”

Lu Xinian didn’t reply. He had been out for so long, asking several people for money, but no one would lend him any. He had certainly gotten a lot of candy along the way thanks to his good looks.

Seeing her older brother looking so worried, Lu Mengmeng sighed, “Hey, brother, did you not manage to borrow any money?”

Lu Xinian hugged his sister tightly, “Mengmeng, don’t be afraid, brother will take you home.”

Gu Qingcheng, who had heard everything, asked worriedly, “You got lost from your parents? Do you know where your home address is?”

Lu Mengmeng: “I don’t know, but my brother…”

“Mengmeng!”

Lu Xinian covered Lu Mengmeng’s mouth, looking at Gu Qingcheng with a wary gaze.

Gu Qingcheng instantly felt that this child had the aura of a domineering CEO.

After exchanging glances, Lu Xinian said, “Auntie, we know where our home address is, but we don’t have any money. Could you lend us some money for a taxi ride home?” (A 1970s taxi, resembling a tortoise, was also known as a tortoise taxi.) “When we get home, we’ll have our dad pay you back.”

The two children’s eyes were too innocent. Gu Qingcheng thought for a moment and took out ten yuan from her bag.

“Here’s the money. I think you haven’t eaten yet. You can buy something to eat on the way, and then go home early after you eat. Don’t let your parents worry about you.”

Lu Xinian took the money and thanked her. Lu Mengmeng cheered, “Pretty auntie is so nice~ We can go home now.”

Gu Qingcheng smiled and said, “If there’s nothing else, little ones, see you later!”

She waved to the two children and left the train station.

Gu Qingcheng hadn’t expected anything in return for giving away the ten yuan. Her reasons for lending the money were simple:

1. The two children had fair skin and were dressed formally, clearly from a wealthy family. It was unlikely they would abandon their children at the train station for a few yuan; after all, not everyone was as greedy as Gu Feifei.

2. In her previous life, shortly after graduating from university, she had encountered a similar situation. She didn’t even have enough money for the train fare home. Back then, a kind person lent her a hundred yuan, which she insisted on repaying later.

That person said, “No need for thanks. I’m just doing what I can, and I hope you can lend a helping hand when others are in trouble, passing on this kindness.”

Children are the prosperity of the nation and the future of the people. Gu Qingcheng wasn’t that noble, but she wanted to tell the children that there are still many good people in this world.

…

After leaving the train station, Gu Qingcheng, relying on the original owner’s memories, headed to the scrap yard.

An old man sat at the entrance of the scrap yard, legs crossed, newspaper in hand, reading with slightly squinted eyes. He glanced at Gu Qingcheng approaching, but without any further movement, simply gave her a few instructions:

“Go in and find what you want. Don’t take anything you shouldn’t.”

“You’ll be out in an hour at most, understand?”

Gu Qingcheng nodded slightly: “Understood, thank you, sir.”

Only then did the old man move slightly to let Gu Qingcheng in.

Entering the scrap yard smoothly, Gu Qingcheng was immediately greeted by several large characters: ”

Family Planning is Good, the State Will Provide for Your Retirement.” Family planning was proposed in 1970 and established as a basic national policy in 1982. “Develop Sports and Improve People’s Physical Fitness!”

Gu Qingcheng glanced around. Because it was near the capital, the scrap yard was quite large, with a total of five warehouses.

The first warehouse contained some old furniture.

The second mainly contained old books, mostly Tang and Song dynasty poems and works by literati.

The third contained old ironware.

The fourth and fifth warehouses were quite messy, likely because they were moved to warehouses four and five later when the other warehouses ran out of space.

Gu Qingcheng started searching warehouse one. As a seasoned reader of thousands of historical novels, she naturally knew how the heroines found valuable items.

She bent down slightly and gently tapped the corners of each piece of furniture. A clear, crisp sound meant it was hollow.

Ninety-five percent of the time, hollow items contained good stuff!

This was Gu Qingcheng’s experience; she hadn’t tried it yet, but she was going to give it a shot today!

Gu Qingcheng moved quickly, crawling down and searching rapidly.

And she actually found something!

Inside a square eight-immortal table, Gu Qingcheng clearly heard a crisp sound. She immediately took out the small knife she carried with her and quickly cut open the corner of the table.

Sure enough!

There was indeed an agate bracelet hidden inside!

The white sunlight shone on the bracelet, making it appear crystal clear and of exceptional quality.

Gu Qingcheng quickly placed the agate bracelet into her spatial storage and continued her search.