"Hey? Isn't this Guoqing's wife?"

As soon as Lin Xue entered the village, she was stopped by an old woman.

"Aunt Guo, where are you going?"

Seeing someone approaching to talk to her, Lin Xue couldn't pretend she hadn't seen them, so she had to stop her bicycle and greet them.

"I just got back from visiting my daughter. Where did you get this bicycle, Guoqing's wife?"

Didn't they say that the Lin family stole all of Wang Guoqing's money?

How do you still have money to buy a bicycle?

"Oh, I just went to town. This bike was modified from an old bicycle by someone I had Guoqing find!"

"I heard it took a lot of materials to modify this car, and a lot of favors were done!"

"Look, the paint on this car isn't dry yet!"

Lin Xue pointed to several places that had obviously been re-welded by electric welding, and some areas of the car paint that were not yet completely dry, and asked Aunt Guo to take a closer look.

Although everyone here is a simple, unpretentious rural person, most of them have a tendency to admire others for their poverty.

Seeing that you're poor, I'm poor too.

If everyone is poor, there will be no jealousy or feeling of imbalance.

But once someone becomes rich, it attracts the envy of many others.

How should I put it?

Lin Xue didn't know if there were such people in their Qingliu Brigade, but she had to take precautions.

"Hey, it really is newly assembled!"

Aunt Guo carefully ran her fingers over the bicycle. Although it was a second-hand assembly, owning a bicycle was still something to be envied.

"That's great! In our village, only the brigade leader and the accountant have one bicycle each. Guoqing's bicycle is the third one in our entire brigade!"

While she admired him, Aunt Guo wasn't jealous.

It's a good thing that there are more bicycles in the village. If someone has an emergency, they'll have another place to borrow a bike.

Of course, discerning people won't easily borrow other people's bicycles unless they have something urgent to attend to, and others won't lend them out casually either.

However, when there's a real emergency, people won't hide their money and refuse to lend it.

"I believe our brigade will get better and better, and more and more families will own bicycles!"

"Aunt Guo, I spent too much time at the National Day celebration today, and it's getting dark, so I have to hurry back!"

"Would you like to come to my house for a while?"

Lin Xue looked up at the sky. Although it was still early before dark, it didn't stop her from saying that.

"I'm not going. I need to hurry home to cook dinner for my family!"

"Honey, you should go home early for National Day. Your mother-in-law must be worried about you after all this time!"

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two went their separate ways.

Lin Xue rode very fast for the rest of the journey and did not encounter anyone blocking her way.

She rode her bicycle all the way to her doorstep.

"Mom, where did you get this bicycle?"

Which boy doesn't dream of owning a car?

Wang Yating didn't seem to notice anything when she saw the bicycle, but Wang Mancang's eyes lit up.

"Your dad assembled this from an old bicycle. Why don't any of you come up and sit for a bit? I'll show you around."

Lin Xue took the basket off the back of the seat and looked at the two children, asking them a question.

"Hey, third son's wife, where did this car come from?"

Hearing this talk about bicycles, Old Mrs. Wang couldn't sit still in the house any longer and rushed out in a few quick steps.

"It was assembled by finding an old bicycle during the National Day holiday. Do you remember Master Chen? He was the one who welded it on himself!"

Lin Xue pointed again to the areas that had been welded.

Although it has been repainted, you can still see the bulging, reinforced marks.

"Wow, this is a rare find! I didn't expect Guoqing to be so clever!"

"But Master Chen has helped us so much, we can't be ungrateful! I'll go pack some things later, and you can deliver them to Master Chen tomorrow!"

Grandma Wang's eyes were practically glued to the bicycle; you know, a bicycle on the market costs at least 180 or 190 yuan.

Such a precious thing, now even the Wang family has one.

Although the car belongs to the third son's family, they can still ride it if there's any emergency at home.

Grandma Wang was happy, and her eyes were full of smiles.

"Yes, that's what I was thinking too. I'll go up the mountain and hunt a couple of animals before sending them over!"

Lin Xue handed the basket beside her to Old Mrs. Wang: "Mother, I'm taking the two children for a walk. Please tidy up the things in the basket and bring them inside!"

He lifted both children onto the front bar, casually pushed off the pedals a couple of times, and then mounted the bike in one go.

Grandma Wang carried a basket on her back and watched her third daughter-in-law ride away into the distance.

"When did the third son's wife learn to ride a bicycle? Did she learn it on the way to town?"

Good heavens, what kind of talent is this?

It's one thing to learn to read quickly, but nowadays even riding a bicycle is something you can learn as soon as you get your hands on it.

This once again changed Old Mrs. Wang's perception of Lin Xue.

It seems I'll have to treat my third daughter-in-law even better from now on; she looks like she'll amount to something.

Thinking of this, Old Mrs. Wang began cursing the Lin family again.

"Damn the Lin family, what sins have they committed? How could such a talented person be born into their family? If he had been born into her womb, I would have definitely raised him properly!"

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