◎Third update◎

Before Liang Baozhen could react, she was brought into the house by her aunt, pushed onto a stool, and served tea.

Fang Yuehe was not at all aware of being in someone else's house. Instead, she urged Liang Baozhen, "Baozhen, drink some water quickly. I heard that you have entered the state-owned factory to work. You are really capable and promising."

"Xiao Xu, come and sit down. You all have jobs and you just got off work, right? I've helped your grandma cook, and we can eat soon."

How did my uncle and his family come to the city? And they even found my home.

Liang Baozhen pushed the enamel cup away and spoke first, "Aunt, why are you here?"

Liang Zhiqing didn't argue with his niece. She didn't even call him when she entered the room. He didn't know how Liang Zhigao taught her. But since his family needed help, he naturally couldn't care too much. "We came here specially to see you."

Looking at me? Liang Baozhen couldn't help but roll her eyes, maybe he had bad intentions.

"We brought some things with us, all of which are dried vegetables that we picked ourselves. It must be hard to buy vegetables in your city." Fang Yuehe opened a package that contained some dried vegetables. Liang Baozhen took a look and realized that it was like the sun rising from the west. How strange!

"Uncle, aunt, you followed the team into the city, right? It's already so late. If you don't leave now, you won't be able to catch the bus back home."

Fang Yuehe sat down and said with a smile, "I'm not going back today. I'll stay in the city."

"Not going back?" Liang Baozhen pondered. This family didn't know anyone in the city. Would they stay in a guesthouse? Would they be willing to spend the money?

"We'll talk to Grandma Zhou and lay out the floor in this room."

Liang Baozhen almost couldn't hold her breath. Did they sound like human beings? She finally understood that this family came prepared. She didn't know what they were planning.

Zhou Yun didn't know about the intricacies of Liang Baozhen's family and Liang Zhiqing's family. Seeing that they had come from far away and were all smiling, he naturally thought that they were real relatives and must be treated well. He even borrowed meat from the Fang family next door and made a dish of roast pork with radish.

Liang Zhiqing's family was not polite either. They hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so they put their chopsticks straight into the bowl. They were so fast, accurate and ruthless that none of the Xu family members could get their chopsticks in.

Xu Shengwei thought he would be very happy to eat meat today, but in the end he couldn't beat them.

However, when he heard his grandmother say that these were relatives from his sister-in-law's family, he secretly wondered why there was such a big gap between them and his sister-in-law. Look at the three of them eating so voraciously with oil dripping from their mouths. It was really annoying!

The Xu family was not in a position to say anything, but Liang Baozhen had to step out and say, "Uncle, if you guys eat like this, how can others eat?"

She was holding her breath. If it were in Damian Village, this family couldn't even sit at their own table. But now that her grandmother was here and they were in Xu's house, it was really hard for her to lose her temper.

"Oh, you guys, you guys eat too, don't be polite!" Fang Yuehe asked everyone to pick up their chopsticks and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. "We are from the countryside and don't understand these things. Grandma Zhou, you won't dislike us, right?"

After hearing this, what else could Zhou Yun do? She also had relatives in the village, such as Lai Fengxia. But Lai Fengxia was not like this, she was a very kind person. She shook her head while holding the chopsticks and said politely, "Everyone who comes here is a guest, you should eat more."

No matter what, he is Baozhen's uncle, and as a member of her husband's family, I definitely cannot be stingy.

Liang Baozhen glanced at Xu Shengjie. As the son-in-law of the Liang family, he had no right to speak to his father-in-law's eldest brother's family. If he was not careful, he would give people a chance to talk.

"Xiaowei, Xiaoya, you can't get any food." Liang Baozhen brought the plate of roasted radish and meat in front of the two children and said, "Eat quickly. You are still growing."

Xu Shengya received the look from her sister-in-law and immediately understood that this was an annoying relative, just like her third uncle. Seeing the look from her sister-in-law and aunt, she spoke softly, "Auntie, my brother and I are both children, we don't know much, and we want to eat meat. You won't blame us, will you?"

After saying this, he blinked his big, soft eyes and looked at Fang Yuehe with an innocent look on his face.

"you!"

"Xiao Ya, how do you talk to the guests?" Zhou Yun had a smile on his face, but he tried hard to hold it back. He couldn't stand the behavior of this family, and he didn't want them to make up stories and tarnish the reputation of Baozhen's in-laws when they returned to the village.

"Grandma, my uncle and his family must be tired after the trip. They will feel uncomfortable if they eat too much meat and will get sick easily. Let them eat more vegetables."

If Song Chunhua was here, she would have picked up a broom and chased the man out long ago. However, due to the Xu family's status, she couldn't do that, and Liang Baozhen, a young person, couldn't do that either.

"Okay, we've almost finished eating." Liang Zhiqing didn't care about the pieces of meat, and turned to business. "Xiao Jie, this time we went to the city. First, we want to see Bao Zhen. We have to see her to feel at ease after she married in the city. Second, this is Bao Zhen's cousin Bao Gang, my second son. He is very hardworking and has good judgment. See if you can help arrange a job for him in the city."

Liang Zhiqing's family made up their mind to help Liang Baozhen since they heard some time ago that Liang Baozhen had got a job in a state-owned factory in the city and had even transferred his household registration there. Since they are all family and have the same surname, Liang, they can't help but help, right?

Before Xu Shengjie could speak, Liang Baozhen said, "Uncle, it's very difficult to find a job in the city. There aren't so many jobs waiting to be arranged."

"Baozhen, you don't even ask questions, why are you talking like that? Whether it will work out or not is up to the man in the family." Liang Zhiqing took on the airs of an uncle and began to educate his niece, "Your parents are far away, so as your uncle, I have to say a few words to you..."

"Uncle." Xu Shengjie interrupted Liang Zhiqing, "In our family, my wife has the final say. If she says no, then no."

"Hey, Xiao Xu, you can't be like this! How can we men listen to women in everything? What does Baozhen know? She can only read a few words..." Unconsciously, Liang Zhiqing blurted out what was in his mind.

Xu Shengjie spoke in a deep voice, looking at them fiercely, and then he softened a little when he thought that they were members of the Liang family. "Uncle, it's really late today, and it's dark. If you go out now, you'll freeze to death. Tomorrow morning, you should pack up and go home."

"Hey... Hey!" Liang Zhiqing wanted to say a few more words, but Xu Shengjie had already cleared the dishes and went to wash them, ignoring them completely.

That night, Liang Zhiqing and his family slept on the floor in the living room. Before going to bed, they were still thinking about having a good talk the next day. If that didn't work, they would take out the secret weapon they had prepared.

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The next day, Liang Baozhen got up in a rage, and even the noises when she brushed her teeth and washed her face were louder. At around five in the morning, her uncle's family was making so much noise in the living room that she couldn't sleep.

Before leaving the house, Liang Baozhen wanted to frighten people again, but her uncle's family just sat on the stools and refused to move, eating steamed buns one bite at a time, and kept saying that the steamed buns in the city were delicious.

"Okay, you and Xiaojie, go to work quickly, don't delay your work." Although Zhou Yun didn't like Liang Zhiqing's family, he was really close to them, so he couldn't do anything too much. "We'll treat them again today, and then ask them to leave. Don't make a scene, there are a lot of people in the courtyard."

"I know, grandma. You should be careful at home today." Liang Baozhen locked the doors of several bedrooms before leaving the house to prevent her aunt-in-law from entering the house and rummaging through things. She also asked her grandmother to lock up all the tickets in the house. If she had not had to go to work today, she would have stayed at home to send the three of them all the way to the work bus.

Xu Shengjie was waiting at the entrance of the alley on his bicycle. Liang Baozhen had been delayed for some time and ran out in a hurry. It was dawn and students going to school were also running on the road. Xiaolong got up late today and rushed out, almost bumping into Liang Baozhen.

"I'm sorry, Aunt Baozhen." He scratched his head and blushed a little.

"Nothing, why are you here so late tonight? Is your mom out?"

"Yes!" Xiaolong covered his bag with one hand and smiled, "My mother left early today, saying she wanted to pay my salary!"

Pay wages? Liang Baozhen smiled and said, that's a good thing!

Today is indeed a big day for Liu Nianhua, after all, it is her first time to receive salary.

Sitting on the No. 5 bus, Liu Nianhua was overwhelmed with emotion, and he found the huge crowd of passengers much more pleasing to the eye. Thinking about the money, he tried his best to shuttle through the crowd and his pace became much more steady.

With a smile on his face, he became more and more skilled in collecting money and stealing tickets, and was looking forward to getting his salary in the afternoon!

The last bus before lunch is from the city tractor factory to the city library. After finishing this bus, we can have a box lunch and get paid at 2 pm.

"Those who are getting on the bus, please move inside. Don't block the door. Move inside." Liu Nianhua is now much more skilled and is greeting the passengers to get on the bus.

I also squeezed in and asked the passengers who had just boarded where they were going. The distance of each section was different, and the fare was also different. The cheapest was five cents for six stops. Liu Nianhua went home every night to memorize the distance of each stop and how much it was charged. He was even more diligent than Xiaolong in school. Now he knew everything. "I'll charge you one cent and give you five cents. Take your ticket."

After all this, Liu Nianhua leaned against the door pole again, waiting for the next stop to arrive, and shouted at the top of his voice, "We've arrived at Chaohua Street. Those who want to get off, hold on tight, and those who want to get on, walk inside."

Time flies by when I repeat the same work every day.

With only four stops to go, the door opened and a group of people rushed on board. Liu Nianhua went to collect money as usual, but this time countless hands reached out. Liu Nianhua concentrated on collecting money one by one, and when it was finally the turn of a big man, he asked, "Big man, where are you going?"

"What? Where was I? I just gave you the money."

"You didn't give me the money, so I haven't taken it from you yet." Although Liu Nianhua had only been here for a short time, she was very careful and remembered clearly that she had not taken it from him yet.

"Take it! I gave you that six-pointer just now. Speaking of the library."

"No, I just received a six-cent note from that lady."

The master became more and more excited as he spoke, his eyes almost popping out of his head, "How can you, a female comrade, still want to wrongly accuse me? You really have no eyes!"

Liu Nianhua looked at the master's passionate argument and felt a little aggrieved. This man was very powerful and had a loud voice. She wanted to argue but couldn't get a word in. "Master, I really confiscated your..."

"Bullshit! Everyone, come and look at this. What kind of ticket seller is this? I clearly paid the money but he insisted that I didn't! How can such a person be a ticket seller?"

"I..." Liu Nianhua was being scolded and pointed at. There was a lot of noise around her, and everyone was watching the excitement. The master spoke quickly and anxiously. She touched her lips and her eyes reddened. "I really confiscated it."

"You're talking nonsense!" An old lady nearby leaned over and cursed back, "What the hell did you pay? I saw it with my own eyes. You stretched out your empty hands and yelled loudly, but you didn't pay at all! You took advantage of the fact that the conductor was new and you wanted to evade the fare, right?"

"That's right, this guy has evaded the ticket before. I saw him on a bus. He was scolded by the fat conductor all the way and was kicked off the bus!"

Liu Nianhua listened to the people around him denouncing the fare-evader. He blinked back his tears, sniffed hard, and steeled himself, "Pay the fare quickly, or you'll get off the bus."

"You two are teaming up to bully others, right? How shameless!" The eldest master got off the bus at the next stop, swearing.

"Thank you, everyone." Liu Nianhua thanked everyone. Everyone was a person of dignity and was very disgusted with those who evaded the ticket, especially the old lady who spoke first, who even said a few words to Liu Nianhua.

"You're new here, right? I always take bus No. 5, and I've only seen you a few times recently."

"Yes, only been here for a month."

"That's it. The conductor on this train is not so soft-tempered. You have to scold him back next time. The softer you are, the more aggressive he will be!" The eldest mother was kind-hearted and taught Liu Nianhua her experience in quarreling.

After the last bus in the morning, Liu Nianhua ate her meal but she was not very happy. Her good mood today was gone. She had never been scolded in public like this before. The master was particularly rude and did not show any mercy when scolding people.

The food no longer smelled good. Liu Nianhua put the food into his mouth numbly, remembering the experience his aunt had taught him. He knew that he had to be more manly when facing such a person and not be intimidated by his aura. He also needed to practice how to talk back.

She had hardly ever had an argument or a quarrel with anyone in her life, and today she encountered someone like this who pointed at her nose and scolded her, and she was unable to react for a moment.

"Comrade Liu Nianhua, it's time to get your salary!"

Did you get paid? Liu Nianhua put down his lunch box, rubbed his hands and went to the bus company office. Although he had just been scolded, his mood instantly improved when he received his 18.5 yuan salary!

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Liu Nianhua: Money can heal me!

Thanks to the cutie who irrigated the nutrient solution: 10 bottles of Heshu;