Chapter 334: Visiting the Son, This One Can Be Eliminated

It's mid-November in a blink of an eye.

The packages sent by my aunt and brothers have arrived. My aunt made several pairs of layer-soled shoes for Jiang Zhizhi and Lu Xingchen, which are comfortable to wear.

Jiang Zhizhi's eyes were shining with gold, and she eagerly called Lu Xingchen to come over and try on the shoes.

Lu Xingchen had never worn shoes made by anyone other than his own family. He tried them on curiously, put on the shoes with thousand-layer soles, walked around the house, and was reluctant to take them off.

Lu's mother Xu Mingzhu looked over and saw Lu Xingchen smiling. Xu Mingzhu couldn't help sighing, "My son is so lucky. He is doing so well in his wife's family? Now he even wears thousand-layer shoes."

No one else has this kind of luck.

In addition, there were three cotton jackets for the three little ones. My aunt got one in bright colors, one bright red, one green, and one blue, and a large bag of cotton wrapped in a piece of cloth.

Jiang Zhizhi felt a pang of sadness at the bottom of her heart. Her uncle and aunt had used all of this year's cotton just for the three little ones.

Great aunt Ding Xianglan also dried fruits, candied sour plums, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, and pickled two large jars of sauerkraut, because Jiang Zhizhi loved her pickled sauerkraut when he lived at home. She also got a piece of beef and cooked a big pot of sauerkraut beef noodles.

Jiang Zhizhi's feet are a little swollen and fat now, so she likes to wear shoes one size larger to make them more comfortable.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and Jiang Zhizhi is becoming lazy. He would never go out if he can stay at home.

On the winter solstice, Xu Mingzhu got up early in the morning to make glutinous rice balls for the pregnant woman at home to eat.

Lu Xingchen took a military coat and put it on Jiang Zhizhi. The coat looked so big on her that it even covered her butt perfectly.

Today, the three families agreed to celebrate the Winter Solstice together.

Men have their own battlefields and responsibilities, while women stay at home preparing delicious food and wait for the men to come back to reward them.

Yu Niannian brought a big bag of flour, cabbage and pork, planning to make dumplings. Little Qi Yan was wrapped tightly, like a cute and carefree little penguin.

Xueli froze two chickens and some sauerkraut and brought them over.

Xu Mingzhu prepared a large pot of hot tea and let the people have a sip of the hot tea when they arrived. There was a large plate on the table with delicious cream cakes on it.

Jiang Zhizhi laughed, "So in the south, people eat something corresponding to each solar term, while in the north, people eat dumplings."

Xueli teased Xiao Qiyan and said with a smile: "Winter Solstice is as important as New Year's Day. It's a small reunion for people. It's best to make and eat it right away. Zhizhi, what flavor do you like?"

Jiang Zhizhi likes the ones stuffed with corn, carrot and pork the most, and she also likes the ones stuffed with water chestnut and pork.

But her brother Wangzi fell in love with northern sauerkraut pork dumplings.

As for Brother Chen, he likes everything, is not picky about food, and is easy to raise.

Yu Niannian laughed out loud: "When I was a child, my family was poor, so I only ate dumplings. Now that I have grown up, I feel that dumplings are indispensable during every festival."

Xu Mingzhu, Xueli, and Yu Niannian love making dumplings.

Yu Niannian was a little nervous, puffing up her cheeks. She didn't want to waste the precious flour.

But isn't she a little too addicted to the job of making dumplings?

Jiang Zhizhi specially ordered barbecued meat, roasted chicken wings and roasted chicken legs today.

Today is the Winter Solstice. Lu Xingchen and Jiang Wang stayed in the army with the soldiers for a while to celebrate the Winter Solstice, and then hurried home.

Su Yu, Gu Qingpei, and Gu Qingchuan came back twenty minutes later.

When Lu Xingchen looked at Jiang Zhizhi for the first time, he couldn’t say that there was something wrong with her, but at the same time, everything was wrong with her.

"Did the three little ones bother you?"

"No."

"Are you hungry?"

"A little bit. I didn't eat enough this morning." While speaking, Jiang Zhizhi's eyes fell on the grill outside, and her little hand held Lu Xingchen's fingers.

Lu Xingchen understood, got some charcoal fire, threw five or six sweet potatoes in, and went to the kitchen to get two chicken wings and two large chicken legs. "Wife, these were marinated last night. I'll grill them for you. Wait."

Jiang Wangxuan came over, looking like he was inviting a cat or teasing a dog, and said, "Anyone who sees it gets a share! I want one too!"

Lu Xingchen was not unreasonable. He stuffed another portion of ingredients into his brother-in-law's hands and said, "Yours is indispensable. Go and bake it yourself."

"What's that expression? OK, go make some dumplings."

Jiang Wang couldn’t make dumplings. It wasn’t that he couldn’t make them, but his dumplings looked too ugly. Only he could eat them. He muttered, “I’ve thrown grenades, shot guns, and tricked the enemy, but I can’t make dumplings well.”

In the army, just being able to stay alive is enough. When he goes on a mission or goes to the front line, Jiang Wang feels extremely happy as long as he can eat his fill. As for the taste, he doesn't care that much.

Jiang Zhizhi snorted, "Brother, you live a rough life yourself, but how can you be so rough when pursuing a girl?"

Upon hearing this, Xue Li looked at Jiang Wang in surprise. She couldn't imagine what the dumplings made by Brother Jiang looked like.

Su Yu coughed, and finally felt a rare sense of pride, "I'll help with the package."

He feels extremely accomplished. He is the one who makes the dumplings for the family during every festival. As for his wife, Yu Niannian, don't blame her. They are not very close anyway.

Over the years, at least he has made progress, but Nian Nian is still standing still, as if she wants to eat him alive!

Su Yu immediately took Yu Nian Nian's place and said loudly: "Wife, the dumplings you make are my favorite. I will eat all of them later."

“Perfect!”

Everyone looked at each other and laughed, "No one is competing with you for that share."

Yu Niannian was so embarrassed that she felt completely humiliated!

Perfect ass, is she finished and conceited?

Jiang Wang was sitting on a small stool, flipping a chicken leg, but the people present did not believe in Wang's skills.

Wangzai was also very sad.

After it was baked, Jiang Wang looked for Jiang Zhizhi with a smile. Lu Xingchen sneered, "My wife will eat my portion!"

Jiang Wang took a stroll and found that the big chicken drumstick in his hand was not selling well?

No, no, these people are ignorant, Jiang Wang's head was shaking like a rattle.

Xueli sat on a small stool, her cheeks round and plump like a peach. Jiang Wang looked at the last prey and glared at her pitifully.

Xueli was very surprised. It was terrible. If she didn't take this big chicken leg, Brother Jiang would probably cry in front of her the next second.

Xueli took the big chicken leg and said softly, "Thank you, Brother Jiang."

“It smells good.”

Jiang Wang smiled with his big white teeth showing, his eyes sparkling, and his tail flew up to the sky because of the praise.

While waiting for dinner, Jiang Wang sat next to Xue Li naturally, because he felt that Xue Li was the kindest person tonight!

Jiang Wang didn't even notice that the smile on his face hadn't faded tonight, and his heart was simply setting off fireworks.

Jiang Zhizhi's smile deepened. She poked Lu Xingchen's waist and whispered, "Visiting you."

Lu Xingchen was stunned for a moment, then he burst into laughter and touched the three little ones who were also excited with his big hands.

I don’t know if it’s because of their new mom, but now the three little ones get excited whenever there’s any movement.

The young couple looked at Jiang Wang and Xue Li, then at Gu Qingpei and Gu Qingchuan, and their smiles became interesting.

Lu's mother Xu Mingzhu experienced the joy of eating melons on the spot. She ate the melons at the forefront and did not forget to pull Jiang Zhizhi to whisper about her experience of eating melons.

Gu Qingchuan roasted a big chicken drumstick and when he wanted to give it to Li Zi, he found that his sister also had a big chicken drumstick in her hand?

"Lizi, the chicken leg in your hand is not as good as the one roasted by Third Brother. You can throw this one away and eat the one roasted by Third Brother."

Xue Li: “….”

Jiang Wang: “….”

Jiang Wang said fiercely: "Gu Qingchuan, don't talk nonsense!"

"Ahem, ahem, ahem..." Gu Qingchuan was directly scolded and hit back at him: "What nonsense am I talking about? I am an honest man, I am telling the truth."

Gu Qingpei was puzzled. How come Wangzai happened to be sitting with Limei?

Once or twice, he said it was luck. Was he overthinking it? Why did things develop in such a strange direction?

Gu Qingpei narrowed his eyes, staring at Lao Jiang's clear eyes, and felt that he was being too suspicious.

"Brother, I'm sorry."

Jiang Wang was full of questions. Although he was a little confused, the old customer said sorry, so he gave him some face. "It's nothing, brother, I forgive you."

The smile on Jiang Zhizhi's lips grew wider and wider. The man's fingertips were rough, formed by years of touching guns, and her hands felt a little itchy.

What Lu Xingchen was thinking in his heart was that Lao Jiang was a fool but had good fortune.

Gu Qingchuan pricked up his ears, chuckled, and pushed in the direction of his second brother: "Guess why Wangzi takes such good care of Xueli?"

Gu Qingpei and Xu Mingzhu looked at him immediately. Gu Qingchuan straightened his chest and said with a rare sense of accomplishment: "It must be because of me!"

"Haven't you all seen how well Wangzi and I have been getting along? And Xueli is my biological sister, so isn't it normal for Wangzi to take better care of my sister?"

Xueli's pretty face flushed, and she hurriedly picked up the public tongs and put two more pieces of barbecued meat into the third brother's bowl, "Third brother, eat quickly, it won't taste good if it gets cold."

Gu Qingchuan's eyes were full of meat. The aroma that came from his nose made him feel so tempted that he didn't care about others and ate first to show his respect.

Xue Li breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately the delicious food could shut up Third Brother.

......

Two large boxes of cultural relics were sent to Kyoto, and Teacher Zhao convened a meeting with Lu Xingchen, Jiang Wang, Gu Qingpei, and Su Yu.

Teacher Zhao said: "Those people are quiet now, and have completely disappeared."

Lu Xingchen: "Report to the teacher, we have a suspect."

Teacher Zhao had a heavy look on his face. When the name came out of Lu Xingchen's mouth, even Teacher Zhao himself was shocked.

The Qin family has a strict tradition, and Qin Yaodong is the most promising young generation of the Qin family. How come his temperament has become so distorted?

Is it the rebellious period of young people, specifically disobeying their elders?

No matter what, we can't betray our motherland!

Eating Chinese rice and smashing Chinese pots!

Betraying your country never ends well!

Teacher Zhao exuded a chilling pressure, and slammed the table in anger, "We must continue to investigate this matter."

"I want to see what Qin Yaodong wants."

Jiang Wang pushed the investigation report in his hand forward. These sheets of paper contained everything Qin Yaodong had been able to investigate since he was a child.

Jiang Wang took out two more file bags, one of which contained Qin Yaodong's notes.

There were several letters in another file bag, and the handwriting looked very much like Qin Yaodong's.

If they only looked at the handwriting, those present would have difficulty distinguishing which was written by Qin Yaodong himself and which was someone else's deliberate forging of handwriting.

Su Yu's face was filled with hatred, revealing a bit of frightening cruelty: "Asshole, you have simply disgraced the reputation of the old commander Qin in the army."

Gu Qingpei's eyes were cold, and he sneered: "At least Qin Yaodong knows how to pretend. He is really something in front of Master Qin."

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Old Master Qin asked Qin Yaodong to go to the army twice to help him get things, but in fact he wanted him to save face in front of his former soldiers.

But Qin Yaodong obviously didn't take this matter to heart, instead he looked nonchalant.

Old Master Qin saw it all. The Qin family is no longer the powerful Qin family it used to be.

Mr. Qin's wife passed away early, leaving behind two sons and a daughter.

The eldest son moved out when the family was divided, so when the Qin family got into trouble due to sensitive relationships, the higher-ups set up a special investigation team to investigate the Qin family, and the eldest son came out clean.

The second daughter married into her grandson's family. Because of her unhappy marriage, her health became weaker day by day. Heart disease needs to be treated with heart medicine. If the body is broken, taking too many medicines will be of no use.

The youngest son and daughter-in-law, Qin Yaodong's father and mother, were implicated because they did not want to be separated from Old Master Qin, and were now sent to the northwest.

The labor force in the Northwest was so heavy that the youngest son was so tired that he vomited blood, and the youngest daughter-in-law was as thin as a bone. Grandpa Qin used many connections to send money and food to the Northwest.

Old Master Qin had experienced several movements, and he already knew that this matter was no small matter.

At this critical juncture, he was willing to sacrifice himself to save the Qin family, but in the end, things did not go as he wished.

He was usually very strict with Qin Yaodong, and the amount of words the grandfather and grandson said to each other when they met could be counted on ten fingers.

Qi Yaodong completed his assigned tasks step by step, and he was a hard-working person. He grew a lot in the past few years. But is Qin Yaodong happy under the constraints of the Qin family's strict rules?

This was the first time that Mr. Qin thought of this problem.

Sun Mengyao was too angry to say anything. The incident with her stepmother Zhong Qin left a deep shadow in her heart. Now only her cousin cared about her.

She didn't want her cousin and grandfather to quarrel, and she immediately felt bad.