Chapter 123

Lin Manyun staggered as she carried a load of soil. The weight of more than 100 kilograms crushed her back and rubbed her shoulders. Both shoulders were bloody and painful. The shoulder pole pressed on them and it hurt.

Even at her mother’s house, she had never done such hard physical work. These days of carrying soil tortured her to the point of death. She didn’t know how she survived.

Seeing her two sons from a distance, Lin Manyun was stunned for a few seconds, then immediately put down the load and ran over with tears in her eyes.

“Jiefang, Yuanchao, you are finally here!”

Her son will definitely take her back to the city.

The mother and the three of them hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Lu Ye and Ruan Qiqi stood aside with disgusted expressions.

Lu Desheng also came over, his face was not very good. Seeing his two sons and their mothers whining and not doing well, he couldn’t control his temper and wanted to beat them up!

“Mom, why have you aged so much?”

Lu Jiefang looked at his mother distressed. In less than a month, his mother had aged by more than ten years. It was so pitiful.

“You look the same age as dad now, which is good.”

Lu Yuanchao was afraid that his mother would feel bad, so he comforted her.

Lin Manyun, with tears in her eyes, froze with a sad expression on her face. She had not had the energy to look in the mirror these days, and she didn’t know what she had become. She touched her face in a panic, rubbing the rough skin on her fingertips, which had a rustling feel, which was completely different from the smooth and delicate feel in the past.

“Do you have a mirror? Look at mom!”

Lin Manyun looked for a mirror in the pockets of her brothers’ clothes, wanting to see what she looked like now.

“Here!”

Lu Jiefang took out a small mirror from his trouser pocket and held it in front of Lin Manyun.

“Hehehe…”

Lu Desheng clenched his fists, and his knuckles made a crackling sound. If there were no outsiders around, he would definitely take action!

A grown man actually carried a mirror on his body, which was more effeminate than a woman. How could he, Lu Desheng, a hero all his life, have such a useless son?

“Why is my face like this, Jiefang, Yuanchao, is mom ugly now?”

Looking at the dark and old woman in the mirror, Lin Manyun was going crazy. She looked like a rural aunt now. She married Lu Desheng, who was 20 years older than her, and endured his bad habits and bad temper, not to live such a hard life.

The two brothers Lu Jiefang were silent.

They really couldn’t go against their conscience and praise their mother. Their mother was indeed old and ugly now.

“Mom, don’t feel bad. In fact, you were not that pretty before!”

Lu Yuanchao thought about it and comforted his mother sincerely. What he said was also what he thought in his heart.

The children in their compound ranked their mothers. Among the top ten beautiful mothers, Yuan Huilan was on the list, but his mother was not on the list.

So, she was not pretty to begin with, and she would not be too ugly now.

Lu Jiefang kicked his stupid brother’s calf hard, and warned him with his eyes not to talk anymore.

If the stupid brother continued to talk, his mother and father would really go crazy!

Lin Manyun looked at her youngest son with gritted teeth. He was not smart since he was young, and he became even dumber when he grew up. He couldn’t speak and was as unpleasant as Lu Desheng.

Ruan Qiqi almost laughed out loud. She thought Lu Jiefang was stupid enough, but she didn’t expect Lu Yuanchao to be even more stupid.

Sure enough, there must be a phoenix chick beside the sleeping dragon!

“Okay, let’s talk inside!”

Lu Yuanchao shouted.

Seeing the narrow and simple room, the Lu Jiefang brothers’ eyes turned red again. This house was more shabby than a pigsty, and their parents had a hard life.

“Did you receive the notice?”

Lu Desheng asked in a deep voice.

“I got it, Dad, I…”

Lu Jiefang mustered up the courage and wanted to say that he didn’t want to go to the border, but when he met Lu Desheng’s sharp eyes, his courage disappeared and he swallowed his words back.

He quietly tugged at the corner of his stupid brother’s clothes, tugged it three times, and then lowered his head to think about his hometown.

After receiving his brother’s order, Lu Yuanchao said without thinking: “Dad, my brother and I don’t want to go to the border. If we go, we will hinder the troops and embarrass you. Let’s stay in Jiangcheng!”

These words were discussed by the brothers on the way. The old man cares about his face the most. If they go to the border, they will definitely embarrass him. This should be effective.

“What border? Old Lu, how can you send Jiefang Yuanchao to the border? Don’t you know it’s chaotic there? What if something goes wrong?”

Lin Manyun’s face changed. Recently, the border has been uneasy, with frequent conflicts and bloodshed. How can his son go there?

“The chaos can temper them. Other people’s sons can go, and my son Lu Desheng can go too. Other people’s sons can sacrifice, so why should my son be treated specially!”

Lu Desheng’s tone was very cold. Since he dared to send his son to the border, he was prepared for his son to sacrifice.

The duty of a soldier is to defend his country, and his son Lu Desheng must not be treated preferentially!

The faces of the two brothers Lu Jiefang turned pale. They originally thought that the border was just hardship, but they didn’t expect that people would die. They were afraid of both hardship and death, and they really didn’t want to go!

“Old Lu, Jiefang and Yuanchao are your own sons. How can you be so hard-hearted and send your sons to die?”

Lin Manyun’s voice was extremely sharp and piercing with anxiety. She still had some sincerity towards her son. After all, he was her flesh and blood.

She took great pains to plan for her sons, hoping that they could rely on Lu Desheng’s momentum to have a smooth career. She never thought of letting her son earn a future by shedding blood and sacrificing.

That is the path that sons from ordinary families should take. Her son does not need to suffer this.

“Who says going to the border will definitely lead to death? I have fought for decades, running through gunfire and rain of bullets, and I am still alive and well. And Xiaoye has carried out so many life-threatening missions, and he is still fine. Your son is no more precious than others, why can’t he go to the border!”

Lu Desheng snorted coldly, and became more determined to train his son. If these two bastards were allowed to stay in Jiangcheng, they would be ruined by Lin Manyun sooner or later.

Lin Manyun wanted to say more, but when she met Lu Desheng’s cold eyes, she finally shut up and shed tears.

She cried for herself and her son. The three of them were too pitiful.

The Lu Jiefang brothers also cried. With their useless materials, going to the border would definitely mean death. In other words, their lives have entered the countdown!

The two brothers are very self-aware and know that they are useless. Going to the border is not only a luxury, but also a luxury to stay alive.

“Cry, cry, cry your mother’s heart out! There’s no war on the border, just a little conflict, what’s there to be afraid of? I tell you clearly, the more you are afraid of death on the battlefield, the faster you will die, so put away your worthless tears, or I’ll beat you to death!”

Lu Desheng roared angrily. They were just going to the border, but they cried like their mothers had died. These two bastards were too useless.

“Dad, beat us to death, anyway, we’ll die at the border, it’s better to die under your fist, and at least we can keep a whole body!”

Lu Jiefang knelt at Lu Desheng’s feet and cried like a rotten meat worm.

He was going to die anyway, he might as well die decently, let me beat him to death!

Lu Yuanchao knelt down without hesitation and hugged Lu Desheng’s other leg.