Chapter 377 Tearing up the IOU

On the highway, you cannot overload.

However, almost no one cares about these things in the county, and even fewer people care about them in the countryside.

Several people squeezed together in the back seat, and Zhang Kun stepped on the accelerator and drove towards the countryside.

On the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, Qin Xiaomin had already had her holiday and had returned with her children to prepare for the New Year.

The progress of Li Yong's farm house was delayed due to a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and the opening ceremony will probably have to be postponed to after the New Year.

Without being in a hurry to open the business, the family won’t be so busy.

When Li Xu and his family came back, the whole family was there.

Li Yong and Li Lei were stacking coal briquettes in the yard. The coal briquettes were probably just unloaded and were placed in a mess in the yard.

Li Lei and Li Yong laid a piece of film from a greenhouse at the corner of the wall, and then stacked the coal briquettes carefully and neatly at the base of the wall.

This greenhouse consumes quite a lot of film.

Every winter, I have to replace it with a new one.

However, Liu Guihua and Li Zhiming were reluctant to throw away the old films.

It comes in handy in occasions like this.

Ji Ziang rolled up his sleeves excitedly and stepped forward to help: "Uncle, second uncle, let me help you!"

Li Yong told him: "Handle it with care and don't break it."

Just as he finished speaking, Ji Ziang stumbled over the film under his feet, and the coal ball in his hand fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Ji Ziang looked at Li Yong awkwardly: "Uncle, I didn't mean it."

Seeing this, Li Yong sighed and comforted him: "It's okay, leave it there, I will mix it with the scum and make it into coal balls again later."

Upon hearing this, Ji Ziang breathed a sigh of relief and carefully helped them with the work.

Sisters Meng Xiaoning and Qin Xiaomin were sitting on the kang doing needlework.

They said they did it together, but in fact it was Meng Xiaoning who did it and Qin Xiaomin watched.

Seeing Li Xu coming in, Qin Xiaomin picked up the small clothes next to her and showed them to her: "Look, sister, these are the new clothes that sister-in-law made for Xiang Xiang and Nian Nian."

Li Xu looked at the two pieces of clothing that were identical except for the size, and nodded with a smile: "Not bad, they look good."

The two children next to them seemed to hear someone calling their names and started babbling.

Ji Zixuan stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Xiangxiang, "Come, brother will hold you!"

Think about it, he is almost one and a half years old, he can’t talk much, but he can already walk.

She was sitting on the kang at this time. When she saw Ji Zixuan's gesture, she stood up by holding the wall, and then moved towards Ji Zixuan step by step.

When she moved to Ji Zixuan's side, she threw herself into Ji Zixuan's arms.

Ji Zixuan hugged her and teased her: "Call me brother!"

Think about grinning, but don't say anything.

Li Miao, standing next to him, also reached out her hand: "Come, let aunt hold you."

Xiang Xiang blinked and clutched Ji Zixuan's collar.

Qin Xiaomin looked at them and pretended to be angry and said, "Everyone is rushing to hug Xiang Xiang, and no one cares about us, Nian Nian, right? Then we will be angry!"

Li Miao smiled and reached out to hug Nian Nian.

Nian Nian was only six months old, and she held her very carefully. "Who said that? Auntie likes both Xiang Xiang and Nian Nian equally."

Qin Xiaomin smiled and asked, "Are you tired from the journey? Come up and have a rest."

"I'm not tired. Why would I be tired from sitting all the time?"

Li Xu and Zhang Kun carried things to the kitchen, while Liu Guihua and Li Zhiming were cleaning up in the kitchen.

Seeing that Li Xu was carrying so many things, Liu Guihua said, "You are wasting money again. Your father and I don't lack anything."

"These are all specialties from City B. Buy some for everyone to try!"

In the yard, Ji Ziang was already bragging to his two uncles.

"The yard at Brother Mu Cheng's house is so big. It's several times as big as our house. There are rockeries, trees, and ponds in the yard..."

"We also went to the top floor of the Oriental Tower, the tallest building in City B, to have dinner. You don't know, looking at the people below from up there is like looking at ants."

"Oh, by the way, we also went to the zoo. The zoo there is so big, there are all kinds of animals."

Listening to his nephew's introduction, Li Yong was very respectful: "City B is so good. When I have money in the future, I will go and have a look."

Speaking of money, Li Yong suddenly remembered something.

He quickly took off the gloves on his hands and called Li Lei: "Brother, come in, I have something to tell you."

As he spoke, he went straight into the house.

"Xiao Min, where is the thing I asked you to get?" Li Yong said.

Qin Xiaomin came to her senses after hearing this and quickly took out her bag from behind.

Li Lei also came in at this time, "What's wrong? What can't be said outside?"

Both of them had dusty hands because they hadn't washed their hands.

Li Yong ordered Qin Xiaomin: "Take out all the money."

Qin Xiaomin unzipped her pants and took out two stacks of money: "Sister, brother, I used your money to buy the house before, and now I'm returning it to you."

Qin Xiaomin used a rubber band to divide the money in her hand into two piles. Upon hearing this, she handed the two piles of money to Meng Xiaoning and Li Xu respectively.

"Don't be so anxious to pay it back." Meng Xiaoning didn't answer. "We both don't have much to spend money on right now, and you still have to pay the mortgage."

Li Xu didn't answer either.

Li Yong said, "It's okay. Xiao Min's company gave her some bonuses during the Chinese New Year, and her maternity allowance has also come in. Together with the money my parents gave me before, it's enough."

Qin Xiaomin pushed the money towards the two people again: "We still have money, you can take it. We feel uncomfortable if we always owe money."

Hearing this, Meng Xiaoning glanced at Li Lei and asked for his opinion.

Seeing this, Li Lei nodded and signaled Meng Xiaoning: "In this case, you can take it!"

Li Xu also handed the money to Zhang Kun: "Put it in the car first."

Zhang Kun nodded, found a black plastic bag, wrapped the money in it, and took it to the car.

"Li Lei, go back and get the IOU." Meng Xiaoning reminded.

Li Lei suddenly remembered this. When borrowing money, Li Yong even wrote an IOU!

He immediately walked out: "Wait for me, I'll go back and get it!"

Li Yong stopped him: "What else do you want? Just tear it up when you go back. Don't I trust you?"

Li Lei didn't stop: "It's only two or three hundred meters. I'll be back in less than five minutes. Wait!"

As he was speaking, he had already walked out, and Li Yong did not try to stop him.

Li Xu said: "I left the IOU you wrote to me at home. I will bring it to you next time."

Li Yong smiled bitterly: "Why bring it? Just tear it off."

Li Xu smiled: "Okay, I'll tear it off when I get back."

Not long after, Li Lei came back.

Holding the IOU written by Li Yong, he handed it to Li Yong and said, "Take a look. Is this written by you?"

Li Yong didn't even look at it. He took the note and tore it into pieces.

(End of this chapter)