Seeing this, Huang Jianguo didn't urge her, but simply held her quietly, letting her vent her emotions.
After crying for a while, Wang Yingxue felt much better. She noticed that Huang Jianguo's clothes were wet from her crying and felt a little embarrassed.
“Your clothes are all wet. Let’s go find your uncle and the others. They’ll find you some clothes to change into later.”
Huang Jianguo looked down and said, "It's fine if I don't need to change. My shoulders are wet, but the sun is strong now, so they'll dry in a bit."
"But we really need to hurry up and go find our uncles and the others, otherwise it will be very late when we get home."
Wang Yingxue nodded, and then began to lead Huang Jianguo toward the vegetable garden.
As she walked, she explained to him, "Wangjia Village allocates vegetable garden plots to each person based on their population. The plots aren't large, but they're generally enough to grow vegetables for our own consumption."
"However, most of the land that can be allocated is wasteland near the foot of the mountain, which is not suitable for growing crops, so it is used to grow vegetables."
Huang Jianguo nodded: "That's similar to where we live. You haven't been to Grandpa's place yet, so I'll take you back to visit him next month."
Previously, the Huang family would go back once a month, but Huang Jianguo was injured last month, and this month they plan to bring Grandpa Huang and the others over, so they haven't been back for more than two months.
“Great, look, that’s Uncle’s vegetable garden.”
"Uncle! Aunt! I'm back!"
Wang Yingxue waved to her uncle and the others from afar and greeted them loudly.
To be honest, since they're so far away, Uncle Wang and the others might not be able to hear it, but those who are closer definitely can.
Sure enough, those who were a little closer also looked up curiously when they heard Wang Yingxue's voice.
"Yingxue? You're back? Is that your husband next to you?"
"It really is Yingxue? Wasn't she said to have been sold by her uncle?!"
"I heard that Yingxue married into a wealthy family and cut ties with her uncle. She hasn't returned home for three days!"
"Really? I heard..."
Listening to what the others said, Wang Yingxue felt very sad, but she still greeted them with a smile.
"Yes, this is my husband, Huang Jianguo."
"Because Jianguo made contributions at the factory, the factory allocated him a large house. He was busy moving recently and hasn't come back."
"We just moved yesterday, and today Jianguo quickly brought me back to my uncle's house. He also said that he would take my uncle and his family to the city for a couple of days for the Mid-Autumn Festival."
Huang Jianguo readily agreed, saying, "Yes, we should have come much earlier."
"But my uncle and Yingxue are both very considerate. They said it would be fine for them to come back whenever they have time. After all, the sentiment is the most important thing, and it doesn't matter when they come back."
"Well, I don't have anything good at home, so I only brought some meat, pastries, candy and pickles."
"It may be a bit shabby, please forgive me, ladies."
Huang Jianguo deliberately showed them the items on the bicycle one by one.
Now everyone else could see that Huang Jianguo was backing Wang Yingxue up.
With so much stuff, how could it be shabby!
Leaving aside that huge piece of meat, the candies and pastries alone must have cost a fortune. Those candies, you can tell at a glance, are much more expensive than the fruit candies they usually eat!
"Hehe, how could it be shabby? There's so much stuff here, hehe."
"Yes, it seems that she has been misunderstood. I knew it. Yingxue and her uncle have such a good relationship, how could they have broken off their relationship?"
"Yes, Yingxue, you're looking for your uncle, right? Go on ahead, we won't bother you, hehe."
From a distance, Aunt Wang called out to Uncle Wang, "Honey, isn't that Yingxue over there?"
"How could Yingxue be here? Are you seeing things?"
Uncle Wang didn't even look up, continuing to pull weeds with great effort.
Aunt Wang walked up to him and excitedly pulled him up: "It really is Yingxue! Look!"
"Really? You're not kidding me, are you?!"
Uncle Wang then stood up and looked in the direction she pointed. Sure enough, he saw Wang Yingxue and Huang Jianguo walking towards them!
He and his aunt quickly brushed the dirt off their hands and then ran towards Wang Yingxue.
Aunt Wang excitedly hugged Wang Yingxue, exclaiming, "Yingxue! You're back!"
She thought she wouldn't see Wang Yingxue for the next two years. Ever since Wang Yingxue got married, the gossip in the village has never stopped.
At first, they just said sourly that Wang Yingxue had hooked up with a rich man because the man had driven over in a car on the day they met.
Later, when they discovered that Wang Yingxue hadn't returned home for the three-day homecoming ceremony, the villagers began to say that Wang Yingxue had forgotten her roots.
After getting married, she disowned them, which angered Aunt Wang so much that she argued with everyone in the village.
Two days later, rumors started circulating in the village again that it wasn't that Wang Yingxue didn't recognize them, but that they had sold her and that she wouldn't be coming back.
Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang were both very angry, but they couldn't reason with them, so they could only keep it to themselves.
So, although the Wang family had enough to eat during that month, they seemed somewhat listless.
Wang Yingxue could tell from the expressions on her aunt and uncle's faces that they must have been unhappy lately.
She deliberately avoided mentioning what had happened before, and instead said loudly, "Yes, we're back!"
"It's all my fault. Because I was thinking about how much my uncle and aunt loved me, I didn't come back to visit you. This caused all the uncles and aunts in the village to misunderstand."
“Jianguo has been busy lately, and I was afraid that if I came back alone, people would misunderstand that I had been kicked out, so I delayed until now.”
After Wang Yingxue finished speaking, Huang Jianguo immediately stepped forward to cooperate, saying, "I also have a responsibility. No matter how busy I am, I shouldn't delay the three-day homecoming ceremony."
"Well, I brought some cheap things with me, and I hope my uncle and aunt won't find them offensive."
Uncle Wang smiled broadly as he looked at the meat Huang Jianguo shoved into his hand: "How could we possibly mind? We'd be happy even if you didn't bring anything back!"
This wasn't just polite talk; Uncle Wang genuinely felt the same way.
He has truly raised Wang Yingxue like a daughter all these years. He thought he wouldn't see her for a long time, but he was content as long as Huang Jianguo was willing to bring her back.
"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's go home first."
Watching Uncle Wang and his family leave so affectionately, everyone else felt a little guilty.
They've been gossiping about Wang Yingxue's uncle behind her back a lot lately, and what Wang Yingxue and Huang Jianguo said just now was probably meant for them.
They were thinking that they should bring some food over later and offer a simple apology, since they had heard that Huang Jianguo had driven over in his car last time.
I bet he's quite capable in the city too!
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