As soon as Miao Hong left, Li Jinfeng picked up her pen to write a letter to Xiaobao. In fact, if you calculate the date, Xiaobao may not have left Tianjin at that time, but when the letter arrived at his workplace, he must have already returned.

Thinking about how anxious Xiaobao was to leave, and that he was going to Tianjin, she couldn't prepare anything for him.

Li Jinfeng simply prepared a package for him, put some dried bacon, sausage, and some dried seafood in the package, and took it to the post office to send it out together with the letter.

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On the other side, Xiaobao and Zhou Cheng went to look for their relatives. Along the way, they not only had company, but also could talk about their life experiences.

Xiaobao was raised by his grandmother and had always been looked down upon and bullied. The situation only improved after he met Li Jinfeng.

Thanks to Li Jinfeng's guidance and help, he went from being a poor guy bullied by everyone to being able to earn work points on his own to support himself and his grandmother.

As for Zhou Cheng, his mother has been taking care of him and his sister since he was old enough to understand.

My father has never fulfilled his responsibilities as a father. Even for the living expenses for him and his sister, he only reluctantly sent a few dollars after my mother urged him to do so.

Compared with his salary in Jiangbei and his daily squandering, the money Zhou Cheng and his friends got from Zhou Cheng's father can only be described as a drop in the bucket.

So later he went to Jiangbei and almost had to beg for food.

Zhou Cheng and Xiaobao have similar life experiences. They had hard childhoods and were both helped by Li Jinfeng and her husband. Therefore, both of them are clear about their future life goals and want to make a name for themselves in the future and repay Li Jinfeng and Lu Jianguo.

What Zhang Xiaobao was most grateful for was that he had listened to Li Jinfeng's advice and went to Tianjin with Zhou Cheng. With him around, he wouldn't be like a headless fly, rushing around in Tianjin.

This is still a special period, but it is much better than in previous years.

Zhou Cheng took Xiaobao back to the brigade where Zhou Cheng and Zhou Yu lived.

The captain over there has been replaced. Compared to when Zhou Cheng was still there, the captain is more capable and manages the entire team in an orderly manner.

Zhou Cheng gave some things to the team leader and asked the old people in the team about his mother.

According to Li Jinfeng, Zhou Cheng and Xiaobao have a close relationship.

For no other reason than that during the famine, a man named Zhang Lianfeng borrowed 15 kilograms of dried sweet potatoes and 2 kilograms of millet from his mother.

According to Li Jinfeng, if Zhang Lianfeng was just being kind, there would be no need to write a promissory note, he could just lend the money directly.

In that era, if someone was willing to lend something and write an IOU, it meant that they knew each other and had a good relationship. It was obvious that Zhou Cheng's mother didn't want the other party to suffer any loss.

While they were still on the road, Xiaobao took out the white jade seal given to him by Li Jinfeng and showed it to Zhou Cheng.

Zhou Cheng also took out the IOU that he had kept for many years and showed it to Xiaobao.

Both of them analyzed the seal on the IOU. Although it was not the same seal, it was very similar and could be confirmed to be owned by the same person.

It's just a matter of time.

After inquiring, Zhou Cheng learned the truth which he had never known before.

Zhou Cheng's father, Zhou Yuansheng, came from a family of poor peasants for generations. It's not that they were exploited badly, but that the family was lazy and there had never been a great man in their family from generation to generation.

By the time Zhou Yuansheng came of age, it was all thanks to Zhou Cheng's mother, Yu Caihong.

Everyone said that when Yu Caihong married Zhou Yuansheng, she brought a lot of dowry.