But when he thought about the money his uncle had just spent, his big face scrunched up like a bun.

When Li Qingguo saw Xiaoyue in his office, he smiled mischievously.

And so, Niu Yingcheng accepted the bad documents and left Xiao Fengzhi seventy yuan and ten jin of grain coupons.

"You, Shao Min, have done a great job at the Jiapigou Gold Mine, helping to change the gold refining technology. They're currently submitting a report to remove my hat."

"Secretary Li, you came late, did you prepare anything? I bought some steamed rice cakes, canned goods, and cigarettes at the commune store."

"Secretary Li, I'm here today because I want to ask him for a favor."

Write down your home address for him later, so that when you, Shao Min, come back, we can use that address to pick up the child.

I reckon we won't get home until late at night. I can manage, but the kids will have to put up with it.

Seeing Li Qingguo running over, the driver of the internal combustion engine waved to me, urging me to get off the bus quickly.

"Brother, that matter really fell on the outside of the team."

"When you grow up and forget about your uncle, you'll have to take care of him in his old age," Brother Chen said.

After that, the child was never mentioned again. They wanted to adopt Brother Chen, but Xiao Fengzhi refused.

So the two of them found a place to eat something, went back to the hotel to stay, and on the afternoon of the seventh day, Niu Yingcheng took the child to shop around in several department stores in the provincial capital.

Niu Yingzhi nodded, tears welling in her eyes, and left to pack her son's things and say goodbye.

During the two days that Brother Chen traveled by train with Niu Yingcheng, he gained a lot of experience. Despite being scrutinized by everyone, Brother Chen remained quite calm and showed no sign of panic.

Back when my parents passed away, you really wanted to take this opportunity to re-register Minzhi and her two children's household registration outside our team.

"Secretary Li, is that so? He helped find an uneducated person outside the team to write a document explaining the situation."

There is a way. I can say that it's a friend's child. I've been to the provincial capital before, and I might not have any friends there either. There's a way to explain that.

Li Qingguo did the math: there were no buses back to Houchuan yesterday (the 1st), no buses to Ma'anshan this morning, and buses to Manjiang tomorrow morning. The southern route is too far. Is there a way to get back to Houchuan through the forest?

If you're looking for someone, you should just take them to the police station. But instead, you brought them back.

Niu Yingcheng also wrote down Chen Ruiqing's address and the team's phone number on the document so that they could contact each other.

"Oh my, look at that kid, what is he saying? You already said that he's just staying at your house for a while."

As for how I am a complete stranger, well, that's a bad thing to say. If the rumors spread like wildfire throughout the forest, it would have a bad impact.

“Secretary Li, strictly speaking, that’s their team’s business. It’s not right for you, a local, to interfere,” Li Qingguo said with a smile.

Is this how you feed eight people, one small and two large? Our Chen Ruiqing family is so small, with so little land, do we really need eight people to eat and drink?

At the train station, an internal combustion engine is pulling a platform with a tracked tractor underneath, and it's not yet stopped and waiting.

That was just a temporary measure, a transitional measure. Did you really think I was willing to raise someone else's child for free?

In my next life, that brat will still be my friend. He'll be a troublemaker whenever we meet, and he won't treat me like an elder at all. We'll be more like buddies.

Upon hearing this, Niu Yingcheng exclaimed, "Oh, so that's how it is."

I'm just going through a rough patch right now, but I'll be back soon.

"What a coincidence, their forest farm just sent a tractor for repairs, and it's still at the machine repair shop."

Niu Yingcheng came by later. The young man who guarded the small gate recognized me. When he heard that I was looking for Xiaoyue from the transportation department, he waved his hand and told Li Qingguo to leave.

"Secretary Li, you know he has no difficulties, and you can understand that."

They found a child and delayed their return journey by two days in order to find the child's parents.

We ate something at Hunjiang Station and then continued our journey, arriving at Songjianghe around 1:00 AM.

You're still wondering why he hasn't come back no matter how much you wait. What happened?

Xiao Yue couldn't help but rub her forehead. "My brother is such a wicked person. He's all honest and kind to everyone."

Niu Yingcheng glared at Niu Yingcheng, then picked up the phone under the table and called the forest railway dispatcher to inquire whether any vehicles had gone to Houchuan, Shuguang, and Baicheng forest farms that morning.

There are eight siblings in his family, and his wife is pregnant in a few months. He says he found a child, but how will he raise it?

In that lifetime, I hoped that brat would be utterly useless, otherwise all my running around would have been for nothing.

You're not taking someone else's son away to raise him for a while.

Even if it were a little more, it wouldn't be enough to make life so bad.

Li Qingguo was both amused and exasperated by what he did, and quickly reached out to help Brother Chen up.

Below the team's certificate, Zhao Guangning also stamped it with the team's official seal.

They had already driven away again.