Chapter 117 Chapter 117 Two Updates in One

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The day after Fu Mingze came back, the old man woke up once. Perhaps he was happy to see his eldest grandson come back, and his spirits returned all of a sudden. Every day after that, he stayed awake longer than the day before, and his physical indicators gradually improved.

However, I still spent New Year's Eve in the hospital. Because I was too old, the doctors did not dare to discharge me easily. After the new year, on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the attending physician finally agreed and told me to go home to recuperate and go back to the hospital for a follow-up examination one month later.

Since Fu Mingze came back, he has been running back and forth between home and the hospital. From time to time, he also has to meet with relatives and friends whom he hasn't seen for many years. He is so busy that he falls asleep almost as soon as he closes his eyes every day.

After the old man was discharged from the hospital, the whole family moved back home. Fu Mingze was finally able to relax and unwind, but at the same time he had a terrible headache.

His original plan was to find a suitable day during the period before the Lunar New Year, such as New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, a day when Shen Moer would not turn against him even if she was angry, to confess to his wife.

The situation is different now. His wife, who is so conscious, has changed her mind. When she occasionally mentions it, she no longer uses slogans such as vigilance, resistance, and struggle, but says that we should unite all forces that can be united to carry out socialist construction. Sometimes she even says something that surprises Fu Mingze, such as "Our contradiction with the small landlords is not a class contradiction, but a contradiction among the people."

So Fu Mingze is now confident that his wife will not dislike him.

Besides, his family has been rehabilitated.

The main problem now is that he has kept it a secret for so long, and given his wife's temper, no one knows how she will deal with him.

He had originally planned to take advantage of the New Year period to comfort her and maybe everything would be fine after the New Year, but plans couldn't keep up with changes and he went back to the capital alone.

The school will start on the 18th day of the first lunar month. They had agreed to come on the 16th day of the first lunar month, rest at home for a day and then report to school.

Fu Mingze guessed that Shen Moer would come earlier, but he had not received her telegram. Regardless of whether she came earlier or not, it would only take ten days. When Shen Moer arrived in the capital, he would naturally not be able to hide it anymore, and he would definitely take her home.

Fu Mingze's current mood is that he misses his wife and children and wants to see them as soon as possible, but he is also afraid that after they come, his wife will be angry and ignore him.

"No, isn't our grandpa fine? Why do you still look so worried?"

The person who was speaking was Dai Mingxuan, a childhood friend of Fu Mingze. The two families lived in the same alley, and the elders in their families had a very good relationship. Dai Mingxuan and Fu Mingze were born at about the same time, so they were specifically named with the same character.

The two have been classmates from elementary school to high school, either in the same class or in the class next to each other.

The old man of the Dai family was also a man of calculations. When the news first spread, he moved his family to the Northeast, where Dai Mingxuan's grandparents lived.

The Dai family's background is better than the Fu family's. In addition, the situation in Northeast China has not been very chaotic in recent years. Their family pretends to be an ordinary working-class family there, and the old couple pretends to be ordinary elderly people without jobs. In addition, their in-laws have certain connections in the local area, so his family has lived quite well in recent years.

We waited until the policy changed and my son's job had the opportunity to be transferred to the capital, so the whole family hurried back.

Dai Mingxuan has been working in the logistics department of a state-owned factory in the northeast for the past few years. This time, he passed the college entrance examination and was admitted to the Foreign Languages ​​College. His great-aunt had studied abroad and worked as a translator. She is no longer with us, but she still has some connections, and Dai Mingxuan himself is also interested in this field.

Nowadays, there are fewer people who can speak foreign languages, so the competition for admission is relatively not that fierce.

But I still can't compare with that pervert Fu Mingze, who can go to the best university just by taking any exam.

The key point is that this person actually got married in the countryside and has a child!

The family was reunited, and the old man was fine. Not only had he passed the imperial examination, he also had a wife and children. Dai Mingxuan couldn't understand why this man still looked so bitter and resentful.

Fu Mingze glanced at him calmly: "You don't have a wife or children, you don't understand."

Dai Mingxuan: “…”

It is not very harmful, but it is extremely insulting.

"No, it's okay if you don't have a wife or children. Go out and take a look at how many bachelors there are in this alley! I'm still considered young among them. Those who went to the countryside to work in the fields before you haven't even married yet! Even if you're married, even if you have a daughter, so what? Is that a big deal?!"

Dai Mingxuan cursed and swore. The old lady came out of the house and glanced at them. Dai Mingxuan immediately said, "Grandma, am I right?"

The old lady smiled and looked at Dai Mingxuan: "That's really amazing. Our Mingze can find a wife for himself and even gave birth to a daughter. Isn't that amazing? Oh, little Mingxuan, let me tell you, Mingze's wife is very pretty and smart. She and Mingze were admitted to Capital University together and are about to come to the capital. Fu Mingze has been good at this since he was a child. Little Mingxuan, you better hurry up, otherwise by the time your child is born, our Xiaoliangliang will be too busy to help out."

Dai Mingxuan: “………………”

He just asked unnecessary questions.

After the old man got better, the old lady was no longer worried. These days, she just kept asking when her eldest grandson's wife would come, and when her youngest great-granddaughter would come. Her ears were almost callused from her constant chatter.

Moreover, he has just been admitted to university. When he graduates, gets married and has children, Xiao Liangliang will not only not be able to play a supporting role, but may even be able to go to elementary school.

When you think about it this way, having a wife and children is pretty amazing, right?

Fu Mingze stood up from the rattan chair: "Let's go out for a walk."

Dai Mingxuan looked puzzled: "No, it's so cold, where are we going to go shopping?"

Fu Mingze: "Department store, friendly discussion, go shopping and buy some new clothes for my wife."

Dai Mingxuan: “Ah?!”

The old lady heard this and interrupted, "It's better to have clothes custom-made from Lao Xiao. They're tailored to your measurements and comfortable to wear."

Fu Mingze: "Well, buy two sets first, and then go to Grandpa Xiao to order them when they arrive."

The main thing is that it will be too late to wait for custom orders, so he has to buy some first and keep them at home as gifts of apology, right?

At the same time, in the provincial capital of Nan Province, Shen Moer and others boarded the train.

Chen Jiahua helped buy four sleeper tickets, two lower berths and two middle berths. When Shen Moer and the others entered the carriage, the other two had already arrived. One was sitting on the upper berth on the left, buried in a book. He was a young man in his twenties wearing glasses. The other was sitting on the lower berth on the right, eating with her legs crossed. Biscuit crumbs were all over the bed. She was a round-faced girl in her twenties.

When Liu Yinshuang saw it, she immediately got angry: "Your ticket is for the upper berth, right? Hurry and go back to your upper berth! What the hell are you, ruining other people's berths like this!"

The round-faced girl had just finished her last bite and looked up at them. There were men and women, young and old, and some were holding children. She subconsciously felt that they were definitely not together.

She was not afraid at all, instead, she was confident: "It's broad daylight and you're not sleeping. It's convenient to sit on the lower berth. What's wrong with lending it to me for a while? How can you be so unkind? It's just a seat for a while, why are you so mean? Look at this brother, he's holding his child. It's just that I didn't buy the ticket for the lower berth, otherwise I would definitely change with him, not to mention sitting there. It's so inconvenient to go out with a child. We must help him if we can."

"Same reason. You bought the ticket for the lower berth, so you should help everyone out, don't you think so, brother?"

Shen Shaoyuan didn't expect that this person would use him as a raft. He smiled and said, "I bought the lower berth, so I don't need your help. It's inconvenient for me to take care of the child. You are young and you don't have any missing limbs. I don't think you need any help from others."

The young man on the upper bunk opposite put down his book at some point and looked at the people below curiously. When he heard what Shen Shaoyuan said, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The round-faced girl blushed immediately: "You, how could you do this? I'm thinking about you, and you still say this to me!"

Liu Yinshuang threw her stuff onto the middle bunk, stood in front of her with her hands on her hips, and stared at her: "Stop talking and get back to your own bunk, or I'll beat you up!"

The round-faced girl: "You, aren't you in the middle bunk?"

Liu Yinshuang smiled coldly: "The middle bunk and the lower bunk are all ours. We are not kind, we don't want to help others, and we don't want to let our bunks be covered with dirt, so I will count to three. If you don't get out, I will beat you! One!"

The round-faced girl then realized that they were all together. Without Liu Yinshuang counting them, she quickly packed her things and climbed to the upper bunk.

She originally thought that these people didn't look like they were in the same group. If she started arguing with this vicious woman, others would definitely not get involved if they didn't want to cause trouble. In a one-on-one fight, she didn't think she would suffer any loss.

But now that she knew they were together, she immediately became timid. There were two male comrades among them, and if they really started quarreling, she would definitely be the one who suffered.

Chen Moer put her things on the middle bunk opposite and said, "Yinshuang, you can sleep on the lower bunk, and let Zhou Ping'an sleep on the middle bunk. My father and I can take turns sleeping on the middle bunk."

Shen Moer was afraid that Liu Yinshuang and that girl would sleep on the upper and lower bunks because they were afraid that they would fight in their sleep.

After they were settled, they sat down. The young man on the upper bunk looked down curiously and said with a smile, "This child is so pretty and well behaved. She didn't cry or make a fuss. I thought she was asleep just now."

But when I looked down, I saw a pair of beautiful eyes like black grapes.

Shen Shaoyuan looked up at him and said proudly: "That's right, my little Liangliang is the best-looking and most well-behaved."

"That's true. I've never seen a child this small who doesn't cry or make a fuss when awake. This child is really worry-free." The young man asked curiously, "Where's the child's father? Why isn't he with you?"

From their conversation just now, it can be heard that this older brother, who looks young, is actually the child's grandfather, and the other young man is obviously not the child's father.

"Oh, he went to the capital first for something."

"So you are going to meet up with the child's father." The young man smiled and said, "You are from the Second Embroidery Factory, right? I saw that the luggage bag you are carrying has the words "Southern Province Second Embroidery Factory" written on it. My sister is from the Southern Province Embroidery Factory, so we are a brother unit."

The young man started chatting with Shen Shaoyuan. Perhaps because his sister would often talk about things in the factory when she got home, he was quite familiar with the Southern Province Second Embroidery Factory. He even knew that after the Second Embroidery Factory moved to the provincial capital, it now had an empty factory building allocated by the Department of Industry, but could not do any business at all and could only deal in the scraps from the Southern Province Embroidery Factory.

Hearing that Shen Shaoyuan and his team were from the embroidery factory in Jiangbei County, the young man gave a thumbs up: "My sister said that your factory director is young, beautiful and powerful, and the leaders of the Provincial Department of Industry can't do anything about her."

Liu Yinshuang couldn't help but interrupt: "Of course, our Director Shen is the best."

The round-faced girl on the upper bunk sneered and muttered, "What a frog in the well."

Originally, seeing that these people were all dressed quite decently, she thought that they were also from the provincial capital, but it turned out that they were from a small county town at the foot of the mountain below.

The workers in the state-owned factories in the small county town, snort, to put it bluntly, they are just a bunch of country bumpkins, why are they so proud?

"Damn it, if I don't give you a beating today, you're itching for trouble, right?!"

Liu Yinshuang rolled up her sleeves and pointed at the round-faced girl: "Get down here, or I'll tear you to pieces, you shameless bastard!"

The round-faced girl immediately shrank back, looking fierce but weak: "Why are you so fierce? Be careful or I'll ask the train police to arrest you! I didn't mention any names, but you took it for granted. You admitted that you are a frog in a well, what does it have to do with me?! Xu Chengyi, are you dead? Your mother asked you to take care of me, and this is how you take care of me?!"

At this moment, Shen Moer and the others looked at the young man with glasses curiously.

That’s right, he just introduced himself, his name is Xu Chengyi.

No, it turns out these two people know each other!

Shen Moer was a little surprised. After they entered the carriage, the two of them didn't even look at each other, let alone talk. It was impossible to tell that they knew each other? !

Xu Chengyi smiled and said, "Zhang Jiaojiao, my mom was just being polite. She can't tell me to leave you alone in front of you and your parents, right? She has to say something nice and polite. Just listen to it, but don't take it seriously. After all, I'm a single young man with no power. Not to mention that I can't help you, even if I can, I can't help you. What if others misunderstand our relationship? So, can you please continue to ignore and despise me like before?"

Shen Moer couldn't help but look up at Xu Chengyi again. She found that she had really misjudged him just now. She thought he was a warm and cheerful boy, but she didn't expect him to have such a vicious mouth.

Liu Yinshuang was so amused that she couldn't glare at Zhang Jiaojiao anymore. She simply rolled her eyes at her and sat back on the lower bunk.

Zhang Jiaojiao was extremely angry, but there was nothing she could do.

In this carriage, Xu Chengyi is the most likely person to help her. If even Xu Chengyi doesn't help her, she will be truly isolated and helpless.

These country bumpkins, mud-legged people, and frogs in the well, such a smart, wise and outstanding person like her was actually isolated and bullied by these people.

Forget it, she won't bother with them.

They are just passers-by on the journey. In the future, she will reach a height that they cannot reach, and these people will eventually live like dust.

Zhang Jiaojiao glanced at the other people in the car with disdain.

As soon as Shen Moer looked up, she saw her strange expression, but she didn't take it seriously. Instead, she picked up her daughter who was smacking her lips and asking for milk. Shen Shaoyuan took out a piece of dark green cloth from the luggage bag, and Liu Yinshuang came over to help pull up the curtain to make it easier for Shen Moer to feed.

There were people everywhere on the train, and it was very inconvenient for lesbians to breastfeed, so they had considered this in advance and made some preparations.

When Zhang Jiaojiao saw them taking out such a large piece of cloth just to feed the baby, she thought that these country people were just peasants yet they were so arrogant.

She looked at the fabric twice more.

Even if you haven't touched it, you can tell that the material of this cloth is very good.

After feeding, the little one fell asleep, and Shen Moer simply lay outside her daughter with her clothes on to sleep with her. The others also leaned on their bunks, reading or resting.

Zhou Ping'an went out twice during the trip, filled other people's kettles with hot water, asked Shen Shaoyuan a few questions quietly, and then leaned back on his bed to read.

Xu Chengyi glanced at his book and asked curiously, "Hey, buddy, what book are you reading?"

Zhou Pingan hesitated for a moment, handed the book to him, and said, "This is not a book, it is the painting experience written by my master himself."

Xu Chengyi took it and looked at it, and exclaimed: "This handwriting is too good!"

Zhou Pingan immediately felt proud: "My master wrote this. My master's handwriting is beautiful, and his paintings are even better."

Xu Chengyi already knew that Shen Shaoyuan was his master, and immediately cast a respectful look at Shen Shaoyuan who was resting, and whispered: "Your master is definitely a master."

The person Zhou Ping'an admired the most was Shen Shaoyuan. After hearing Xu Chengyi's praise, the kid immediately regarded Xu Chengyi as a close friend, and the two of them quickly started chatting.

The journey was boring, but Shen Moer, who was with her daughter, didn't feel that way at all. This little kid needed to sleep, eat, and play with her, and she needed you to talk to her and play with her. Just taking care of the child was enough to keep her busy.

When you have nothing to do, just look out the window. Just looking at the scenery outside the window along the way, you can feel the vastness of China.

Their Nan Province is a little south of the central part of the country. Even in the middle of winter, the trees outside the window are green. As you move north, the sky and the earth become higher and farther away, but there is less and less green, giving a feeling of desolation.

A few hours before leaving the capital, Shen Moer went out to get hot water and came back to see an old lady with a kind face talking to Zhang Jiaojiao. She didn't deliberately listen, but she had practiced martial arts and had sharper ears and eyes than ordinary people. Although the two people didn't speak loudly, she could still hear clearly.

"...This is fate between us. Look, my son is a professor at Capital University, and you are a student at Capital University. Oh, what a coincidence. I think you are a good daughter, beautiful and kind-hearted. The country should select people like you to be college students!" said the old lady with a smile.

"Auntie, which department is your son from?"

Zhang Jiaojiao's eyes lit up. Who could be as lucky as her? She could meet the mother of a school professor while riding a train. If she could establish a good relationship with her, maybe she could get some care from her in school in the future.

The old lady's eyes flickered slightly, and she asked back, "Which department are you from?"

Zhang Jiaojiao: "I'm from the Department of Economics."

The old lady showed a surprised expression and covered her mouth for a moment, then grabbed Zhang Jiaojiao's wrist, with a look of surprise, and said: "Oh, my girl, what did I say, our department is really destined! Do you know that my youngest son is from the Department of Economics! Oh my, I'm afraid no one will believe it if I tell others, what a coincidence, it was Qiaoer's mother who opened the door for Qiaoer, it's really a coincidence!"

Zhang Jiaojiao was also very surprised: "What? Your son is a professor in the economics department. Oh my god, what a coincidence!"

She was so happy that she could be a professor in the department, so there would be many people who could take care of her.

The old lady held Zhang Jiaojiao's hand tightly and said with a smile: "My daughter, let's go to the car where I sit and have a good chat. You see, this is really a fate that brings us together. When I saw you, I felt that you were a child that I liked. Let's get off the car together later. My son will come to pick me up. I will introduce you to each other then."

Zhang Jiaojiao was so happy that she followed them happily.

Shen Moer stood in a blind spot not far from them and listened to the conversation between the two.

Originally, she was too lazy to listen carefully, but it was too obvious that this old lady had problems, and Zhang Jiaojiao was too obviously stupid, so after listening, Shen Moer thought about it and quietly followed.

The two of them walked all the way to the front carriage. The old lady pulled Zhang Jiaojiao tightly, but Zhang Jiaojiao didn't react at all and was still chatting and joking with the old lady.

Shen Moer didn't dare to follow too closely. She saw from a distance that the two of them went into the bathroom together. When they came out, the old lady supported Zhang Jiaojiao. Then another woman appeared from nowhere and walked over with a smile: "Mom, my little sister is carsick again. Oh, this motion sickness medicine is too strong. It happens every time I take it."

The old lady also smiled and said, "That's right. After taking the motion sickness medicine, I feel sleepy easily and can't even hold on. It's okay. If she's not feeling well, we can just support her a little."

Shen Moer was looking from afar and saw them helping Zhang Jiaojiao to a hard seat compartment and sitting down.

At this time, there are only seven minutes left to the next stop.