On the other side, Li Cuiying and her group had already returned home.

Gu Zhenxing and several other team leaders went to the team to arrange work for everyone, and the others went back home.

Originally, Li Cuiying wanted to return to the city earlier, but Gu Zhenjiang thought of the money and materials he had wasted on Gu Meilin over the years. If he had known earlier, he would have spent it all on his sister. Everything Gu Meilin had obtained in the Gu family over the years should have belonged to Gu Meifeng.

So the next morning, Gu Zhenjiang rode his bike to the commune and spent all the tickets he had on him. The two of them rode their bikes to Taoyuan Brigade, intending to visit Gu Meifeng.

Due to other delays, the two stayed at home for several days before returning.

Jiang Mengxue was really enlightened. She never expected that relationships between people nowadays could be so chaotic. Her worldview was really shaken.

When they got home, they tacitly changed the subject and did not mention Gu Meilin in front of Gu Zhenjiang.

Xie Sheng took a leave of absence and went home this morning. She has already applied for a dormitory in the hospital. She can just go back and bring all her bedding and move in.

"Second Mother doesn't have to cook for Sister Sheng tonight. She will be back tomorrow morning."

Li Cuiying nodded: "When will your training end? Will you be going back after it's over?"

Jiang Mengxue thought about the time and said, "Yes, it's almost over. Sister Sheng plans to stay in the Second Hospital, so this time she's going back to handle her resignation. I plan to work there at least until the end of the year, and I don't plan to stay in the First Hospital anymore."

Jiang Mengxue had this idea only recently. She originally thought that since she was already working in the hospital, there was no need to resign and change jobs, especially in this era when work is extremely important.

But after a few months, she felt that her current working environment was not what she wanted.

Li Cuiying didn't ask her what her future plans were. At her old age, she felt that life should be lived happily and there was no need to put too much pressure on herself.

If you have to work hard to survive, there is nothing you can do about it, but if your living conditions are decent, then just do what you want and don't think too much.

"When we came back this afternoon, we went to the post office. Your parents sent a letter back. They called your uncle last time and learned that you were pregnant. They were so happy, but they didn't have time to come back, so they could only send you some nourishing things.

There's malted milk and powdered milk, and some dried fruit I exchanged for it somewhere. You might like it. There are also two remittance slips, one of which was sent from the Xiaobei Army."

Li Cuiying wiped her hands and took out an envelope from her bag. There were letters sent back by Gu Zhenhai and Luan Huiying, as well as their salaries.

Jiang Mengxue was extremely embarrassed. She didn't expect that the old couple would actually send her salary back. She also didn't know what Gu Qingbei said.

Li Cuiying naturally knew her sister-in-law's personality. If she was asked to collect something, she might have to wait until the whole family did a thorough cleaning before she could find it.

She always manages to keep things in an absolutely safe place, even in a place where she can't find them. Li Cuiying admires her imagination very much.

Inside the thermos shell, in the interlayer of unworn winter clothes, behind the posters on the wall, on the table mat under the table, in the soil of the flower pot that has not been moved for several years, wrapped tightly and buried directly in the soil.

There are no books on the bookshelf that are ever read, and they are filled with money.

As for how it was found later.

Gu Qingbei was on vacation and had nothing to do to go see them. He was cleaning the house, but he didn't expect that money would fall out wherever he cleaned.

When Gu Zhenhai and Luan Huiying returned home in the evening, they saw a table covered with various cash, passbooks, and deposit certificates.

Gu Qingbei carefully reviewed for the two of them where he found them, and Luan Huiying felt a little familiar.

But every time she and Gu Zhenhai looked for it themselves, she felt that it was impossible for her to keep it in that kind of place, as it looked unsafe.

I didn't expect that she had her hand in the areas that I often denied.

A thorough cleaning saved the family several thousand yuan.

Luan Huiying is a person who is extremely careless in life, but very serious at work.

Jiang Mengxue couldn't imagine how Gu Qingbei, a person who was careless about life, had survived as a child. Could it be that he was forgotten by his mother when he went out once, and only remembered that he had a son when he returned home?

Li Cuiying laughed out loud when she heard this: "She didn't take care of Qingbei for a few days when he was young. Although Qingbei stayed with them when he was young, they were busy with work, so most of the time it was colleagues or fellow villagers around them who helped take care of him. She just went to feed him on time.

When Qingbei and Qingbei were a little older, they both had tasks to do and were reluctant to leave the child with other people. In that era, there were many cases where children were left with others and were never found again.

So the two of them took leave to send Qingbei back to his hometown to be taken care of by his grandmother. At that time, your second uncle and I didn't have any children, so I often brought him with me.

He didn't meet his parents until he joined the army as a teenager, so there's no blood relationship.

Since returning to their hometown from Peking University and Tsinghua University, they have only been able to communicate through letters, and they are often out on missions and cannot be contacted.

But the students from Tsinghua and Peking University became close to them as soon as they met, and they were able to recognize them just like that. It’s really amazing when you think about it.”

It was the first time Jiang Mengxue heard about her parents-in-law's past, and she was quite curious.

"Look what else is in the envelope."

Li Cuiying's tone was particularly mysterious, and Jiang Mengxue couldn't help but become curious.

I've already taken out the letter and the remittance slip, what else could I have?

Jiang Mengxue felt something like a hard shell in the envelope, and when she poured it out, she found that it was actually a photo.

The two people in the photo are strangers, yet vaguely familiar.

"This is?"

The man in the photo has a face shape that is somewhat similar to Gu Zhenjiang's, and you can also see the shadow of Gu Qingbei's face. Based on this photo, you can imagine what Gu Zhenjiang looked like when he was young, because he really looks a bit like him.

But Gu Qingbei's facial features are more like the woman next to him. His facial features are much softer, and he has two pigtails, which makes him look like a college student.

"Look familiar, right? These are photos of your parents-in-law when they were young. Humph, these two are really something. They actually sent photos of their youth. Why can't I look at the current ones?"

Having said that, Li Cuiying was still very happy. They hadn't seen each other for many years. The last time they came back to visit was when their grandmother passed away. They left after staying for only two days.

"This photo should have been taken the year they got married. It's been almost 30 years in the blink of an eye. Time flies."

When Jiang Mengxue saw this black-and-white photo, it was as if she had traveled back to another century and witnessed the successful marriage of a pair of young revolutionary comrades.

"Second Mother, don't you have any photos of you and my second uncle?" Nowadays, people would stick photos on the wall at home, or put all the photos in a larger frame and hang it on the wall.

But she had never seen it at the Gu family, not even a photo of the couple's bathroom.