"Wenxi, thank you so much. It's been hard on you helping my brother look at the house." Reaching the door, Jin Changqing unlocked it. "Wenxi, do you know why my brother wanted to trade our nice house for Chen Dahua's old one?"
Wen Xi shook her head. "I don't know. Brother Jin didn't tell me."
"Thank you for looking after the house for us. I'm a little tired after I just got back. I'd like to rest first. Can we talk another day?" Jin Changqing had a good impression of Wen Xi and knew that she wasn't the kind of person who would deliberately pester her older brother just because he was well-off, so she felt relieved.
Some girls deliberately call men "brother" this and "brother" that, and slowly they become "brother lovers." Wen Xi is not like that, so Jin Changqing is relieved.
She didn't want anyone to affect her older brother's future.
Wen Xi returned to her room, locked the door, and first wrote a letter to Jin Changfeng, telling him that Jin Changqing had returned. Perhaps Jin Changfeng would also apply for leave and come back, since the siblings rarely saw each other.
Afterwards, Wenxi took out the money that Jin Changfeng had sent her before. At first, it was thirty yuan a month, and later it was fifty yuan a month. Wenxi was not his biological sister, and she felt guilty taking the money, so she only took out one-third of it, treating it as an exchange for supplies. Then she gave the remaining two-thirds to Jin Changqing, saying that Jin Changfeng had asked her to pass it on.
She'd already used all the tickets, so they wouldn't give her any more tickets, just money.
Moreover, some of the money and tickets were obtained by Jin Changfeng in exchange for the things she sent him and his colleagues, so some of them belonged to her.
Jin Changqing locked the courtyard gate, picked up her luggage and walked into the house. She really didn't expect her older brother to be so foolish as to exchange a nice house for such a small and old one.
Her older brother wasn't here, so she had no way of knowing the answer.
However, seeing that the house was clean and tidy, and there wasn't much dust, Jin Changqing knew that Wen Xi was a reliable and responsible person who truly treated the house as his own.
If the key had been given to someone else, the grass in the yard would probably have grown as tall as a person, and it wouldn't be as clean and tidy as it is now.
Jin Changqing found the bedroom, opened the wardrobe door, saw a quilt inside, and went over to smell it. There was no unpleasant smell, so it seemed that it had been aired out before.
Jin Changqing was really tired. She quickly made the bed, lay down to rest, and soon fell asleep.
In the afternoon, hearing the sound of a door opening next door, Wen Xi knew that Jin Changqing must have gotten up, so she went to the courtyard wall and called out, "Sister Changqing, are you hungry? I still have some food here. If you're hungry, come and eat. I have something to tell you!"
"Okay, I'll be right there." Jin Changqing replied, went back to her bedroom, took out a box of cookies from her luggage, and went next door.
Wenxi took out the steaming hot food from the pot. "Sister Changqing, you eat first."
Wenxi didn't dare serve anything too fancy, afraid that Jin Changqing would mistakenly think that Jin Changfeng was supporting her and that she was taking advantage of the Jin family. So today's dishes were just three: stewed cured pork with shredded radish, stir-fried eggs with chives, and stir-fried bok choy.
"Wenxi, thank you!" Jin Changqing looked at the sumptuous meal and knew that Wenxi was generous.
You know, she ate in the cafeteria there, where most of the food was radishes, cabbage, and potatoes. In her eyes, the food at Wenxi's house was already quite good.
After Jin Changqing had finished eating and drinking, Wen Xi took out a blank envelope and handed it to Jin Changqing. "Sister Changqing, this is from Brother Jin. He told me that he would give this to you whenever you came back. Now that you're back, I can finally give it to you. This way, I've completed my mission."
She hadn't planned to accept the money; from the beginning, she intended to use it for Jin Changqing's child, but she never expected that Jin Changqing wouldn't have any children.
Jin Changqing was both surprised and touched. She hadn't expected her older brother to care about her so much when she couldn't see him.
"Wenxi, that box of cookies is for you. I hope you don't mind." She didn't bring anything for Wenxi this time because she just wanted to meet her first. The cookies were for herself, but she had to give them out now. After all, she couldn't go to someone's house empty-handed without bringing any food.
"Thank you, Sister Changqing." Wen Xi didn't refuse, after all, she had also treated Jin Changqing to a meal, and she hadn't taken advantage of Jin Changqing.
"I have something to do, so I'll head back now." Jin Changqing took the envelope and left.
She'll be spending the Spring Festival alone in the village this year, so she'll definitely have to visit the village officials she knows, otherwise someone will surely gossip about her.
Her husband couldn't come back for the Chinese New Year, so instead of staying there alone, she thought it would be better to take this opportunity to come back to the village and reconnect with her husband. When he returned, she would also go home, so as not to delay their reunion.
Even the school is on holiday, which means that the New Year is getting closer and closer. Wenxi will soon be going home to deal with that jerk. Wenxi took Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue to find Yan Zheng. When they arrived at the police station, Wenxi handed the basket to Yan Zheng. "Brother Yan, the three of us have family visit leave this year and can go home. Could you please help us buy sleeper tickets? We don't know anyone, so we had to come to you."
Yan Zheng said with a smile, "Xiao Xi, what's our relationship? You could have just made a phone call, why did you need to come in person?"
Wenxi saved two lives in their family, so they would do anything for him, let alone something as small as buying tickets.
Wen Xi smiled shyly, "I was just delivering something to Lili. My friend came with me today, and I was worried that Aunt Yan and Lili would want us to stay for dinner, so we brought the things here."
It's one thing for her to go to the Yan family alone, but if she brings two friends along, everyone will really think they are poor relatives who are just there to freeload!
Yan Zheng dialed a number and said he needed three sleeper tickets to Beijing, preferably in the same carriage. After hanging up, Yan Zheng said, "Xiao Xi, sit for a while. They'll bring the tickets over soon."
"Thank you, Brother Yan. I'll go outside and wait with my friend." Wen Xi smiled and came out of Yan Zheng's office. She took the contents out of her basket, then carried the empty basket out and sat down next to Shen Jiaojiao and Jiang Yue.
It was lunchtime, and everyone had gone to the cafeteria to eat, so the entire police station was quiet and silent.
"Xiaoxi, does Yan Zheng have a girlfriend?" Jiang Yue reached out and put her arm around Wenxi's arm, asking softly.
Wen Xi thought for a moment and shook her head. "I've never heard them mention it, and I don't know if he has a girlfriend."
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