Grandma Wang immediately asked some simple questions about the duck farm.

"Tell Jiaojiao to save some oil and don't send me oil anymore in the future." Every household doesn't have much oil, so the amount my daughter sent me is at least about one pound.

Wang Meili smiled and said, "She's started saving for her dowry. As for the oil, she traded the ducks from the duck farm with an oil press. This year, every household in our brigade received a lot of oil."

I was so busy last year that I didn’t have much time to go back to my parents’ home.

"It's time to save up for the dowry. Jiaojiao is not young anymore."

Zhao Jiaojiao was talking to Uncle Wang, "Uncle, this is the pen my school gave me. I'll give it to you."

Uncle Wang has a fountain pen, but he has used it for many years and is reluctant to replace it. A fountain pen still costs several dollars, and a good one is even more expensive.

"You can give it to your father."

Accountant Zhao glanced at his uncle and said, "I have some here. It's a reward from the school for Jiaojiao getting first place in the exam. Since Jiaojiao is giving it to you, her uncle, you should keep it. She always gets first place in the midterm and final exams, so she gets rewards."

This can be said to be high-level Versailles.

Zhao Donglai remembered that he also received a pen. His father had one, even Tudan had one, and now his younger sister also prepared one for his uncle.

Speaking of his uncle, Zhao Donglai recalled that when Jiaojiao was sick, his uncles refused to lend him money, so his mother went back to her parents' home to borrow money from his uncle. Now that Jiaojiao did this, there was nothing wrong with it.

As for the little ones like Tudan, they took the children from my uncle's family to eat delicious food together.

"Take it!" Grandpa Wang looked at his son-in-law and knew that it was true and it was really a reward from the school.

Uncle Wang accepted it with a smile. After living for decades, this second pen was actually given to him by his niece.

"I heard that your brigade has set up a duck farm?" Uncle Wang thought that their brigade was relatively poor. Apart from growing crops and relying on the weather for food, they did not run a collective factory.

"Yes, we've opened a duck farm. We should be buying a tractor this year, and the number of workers at the duck farm will increase. Does my uncle also want to open a collective factory?"

Grandpa Wang sighed deeply. "I do want to set up a collective factory. God has been giving us food these past two years, but I'm also worried about accidents. What will happen to the entire team? Your uncle is the team leader, and he's worried about this."

Zhao Jiaojiao was silent for a moment. "Uncle, after lunch, take me around your brigade. I'll help you see what kind of collective factory is suitable for your brigade. Our Zhaojia Village brigade raises ducks because we have a big river."

Uncle Wang felt a little embarrassed to ask his teenage niece to give advice to him, who was about to become a grandfather.

"Okay."

Accountant Zhao did not stop him. Now that their team was living a better life, he still hoped that his brother-in-law would become rich.

"Dad, my second uncle and the others?"

"Your second uncle and your second aunt have gone back to their parents' home." Grandpa Wang answered expressionlessly. As for his youngest son, Grandpa Wang really didn't know what to say. He had always thought that they were partial to each other since he was a child, and after he got married, he treated his parents as strangers.

Except for the reunion day every year, they never come to visit them with their children throughout the year.

Zhao Donglai immediately changed the subject and asked about his eldest cousin.

"I heard that your eldest cousin has a girlfriend over there. When he has a vacation, he will bring his girlfriend back so that we can meet her." Uncle Wang did not block his eldest son's future, nor did he insist that his eldest son must support them in their old age.

The lunch at noon was particularly sumptuous, and Aunt Wang was especially kind to Zhao Jiaojiao and her siblings.