Chapter 130 Know
"Is it my sister-in-law's younger brother?"
Seeing this, the man's mother didn't say anything more. She pushed the plate of meat buns towards her son and took a bowl of millet porridge for herself.
As she drank, she looked at the other passengers passing by in the aisle. Suddenly, an idea occurred to her, and she asked her son, "I saw you at the front of the line for a long time just now. What happened? Did you have an argument with someone?"
The man was stunned, and when he thought of the person he had seen before, a smile appeared on his face, but the smile looked complicated no matter how he looked at it.
He shook his head. "I didn't quarrel with anyone."
After thinking for a while, he explained a few more words, "It's Dongzi. I saw Dongzi when I was getting food just now."
"Dongzi? Which Dongzi?"
The old lady sitting opposite the man frowned, obviously not remembering who it was.
The man sighed and was about to explain when the woman sitting next to him, who had been silent the whole time, spoke up, "Is it my sister-in-law's younger brother?"
The old lady was stunned for a few seconds before she came to her senses. "Who? You mean the brother from the Jiang family?"
The man nodded. "It's him. I saw him getting food over there. He should be working on this car."
"Really? Zhihao? Are you sure it's Dongzi?"
The old lady's face was full of joy. "Is he the only one? Did you see anyone else? Did you ask him? Is everyone in the family okay?"
The old lady asked in rapid succession, "And who's that? Where's Qianqian? Is she okay now?"
Seeing her son slowly shaking his head, the old lady's heart skipped a beat, but she recovered the next second when her son spoke.
"I haven't met anyone else, so I don't know." The man thought of Jiang Dong's attitude, his face bitter, "After the last incident, Dongzi probably doesn't want to bother with me anymore."
The woman next to her paused in feeding her child, spilling most of the millet porridge in the spoon.
The old lady was also taken aback. The joy of meeting an acquaintance instantly faded. Her face showed the same complicated expression as her son's just now. She didn't know what to say for a moment. When she saw the loneliness on her son's face, she felt even more guilty and ashamed.
"So what? Even if there was unpleasantness before, it's been so long, and now the situation is like this, how can there be such a big grudge?"
Although Guan's mother had felt uncomfortable during the previous quarrels between the two families, after so much time had passed and she had experienced so many separations and deaths, she had long since forgotten the past. Now, when she met someone she knew, she was only filled with joy and concern.
Knowing they were in the car, Guan's mother couldn't sit still any longer, "No, I have to go say hello."
She was about to get up from her seat, but her son pushed her back down.
"Mom, don't go." Guan Zhihao stopped his mother. "Dongzi is there getting food. If you go now, you'll delay his work. Wait until he gets off work. Since he's already on this bus, there's always a chance we'll run into each other again. Don't worry."
After hearing this advice, Guan's mother calmed down and said, "You are right."
She looked at the people queuing and let out a long sigh, "I wonder how they've been doing these days? Are their families all right?"
Guan Zhihao lowered his head and ate his meal. "Since Dongzi can work on the car, I think he must be a good person, right?"
Guan's mother: "I hope so."
Their family had finally managed to hold on until now and wait for rescue in the city. Their ex-in-laws' family lived at the foot of the mountain by the river, and no one knew how they escaped danger.
…
The Guan family was thinking about the Jiang family's affairs. On the other side, Jiang Dong handed the rice spoon in his hand to someone else after recognizing Guan Zhihao, and pulled his old mother who was busy in the kitchen to go aside and mutter to herself.
It is now the end of September. After such a long period of operation, a lot of kilometers have been accumulated. One month after the last station was set up in the urban area of City A, Jiang Qian set up two more stations in the north and south directions of the existing route.
Even half a month ago, an agreement was signed with the security bases where some sites are located.
Because of bird attacks and the fact that road traffic in many places is not yet open, there are various risks. In addition, the number and quality of transportation personnel required are relatively high, so the transportation of materials between places has become a major problem.
The idea of transporting supplies by train was first proposed by one of the four newly established stations, and after that it received support from multiple nearby bases. So, one morning, Jiang Qian heard the system say that a letter of intent for a contract appeared in a duty booth.
Jiang Qian was surprised but happily accepted it. She exchanged more than half of the train's revenue for empty freight cars, and the remaining small half for ordinary cars.
With more stations, the population flow between cities has also increased. Even though the number of carriages has increased, the trains are still full every day, even the dining cars.
More and more people have discovered that, if the cost of tickets is not counted, eating in the dining car is even cheaper than eating in the base. Therefore, more and more passengers have chosen to eat in the dining car. This has led to Huang Liping and others being busy from morning to night whenever they go to work, with little time to rest. In recent days, there are not even enough seats in the dining car.
Finally, it was Grandpa Xia who came up with an idea. He imitated the shopping carts on the trains in the past. He prepared meals in advance every day and put them on the carts, and had people push the carts around the carriages, so that there were fewer people in the dining car.
But despite meeting so many people over the past few days, the Jiang family hadn't encountered a single familiar face on the train. City A's rescue operation had clearly covered half of the city, but for some reason, the villagers who had said they were coming to the city to look for someone hadn't shown up once.
Every time they saw friends and family members on the train recognize each other and shed tears, the Jiang family felt a mixture of joy and complex emotions. After waiting for so long, even Jiang Weimin, who was most concerned about the matter, had lost hope.
But they didn't expect that just when they were about to give up, they would run into an old acquaintance on the train.
Like Guan's family, Huang Liping felt complicated when she heard her son talk about his former in-laws again.
As for the Guan family, the two families got along well in the early years.
For the Jiang family, they have to maintain a proper attitude when their only daughter marries into another family, even if it is just for the other party to treat their daughter (sister) well.
The first few years after the couple's marriage were also the "honeymoon period" for both families. But when did this period slowly turn sour? It was after the couple decided to have children.
When Jiang Qian and Guan Zhihao first got married, they were both relatively young. Neither of them had a pressing need for children; they simply wanted to make more money while they were young and enjoy a few years of leisure before having children.
Furthermore, Guan Zhihao's younger sister married early and already had twins. However, her in-laws were living with her eldest uncle's family and were unable to help with the children's care. Guan's father and mother were already busy helping to care for their granddaughters, so they didn't push their son and daughter-in-law.
Therefore, until the two wanted to have a child, they learned of the shocking "bad news" -
Jiang Qian has difficulty conceiving.
But difficulty in conceiving does not mean that you cannot get pregnant.
During those years, because she wanted to have a child, Jiang Qian had been taking care of her body. She took countless Western and Chinese medicines, and even tried various small clinics and unconventional prescriptions recommended by others.
During this period, they had experienced pregnancy and in vitro fertilization, but for some reason, despite having taken good care of their bodies for a long time, they were unable to keep the child.
After experiencing the fourth miscarriage, the couple no longer insisted on having a child and changed their minds and decided to find a suitable child to adopt from an orphanage.
However, they didn't expect that after going through so many things before, they encountered the biggest obstacle after changing their minds.
Huang Liping had felt resentment, regret, and sadness about her daughter's previous marriage. Now, hearing her son say he had met his ex-son-in-law, and thinking back on the past, it was hard not to feel emotionally moved.
But what happened in the past is in the past. Apart from some dissatisfaction with the way Huang Liping handled the last incident, she has always considered her son-in-law a model son-in-law and cannot find any fault with him.
But now, the matter is done, the two people have separated, the two families have had a big fight, and they can never go back to the way they were before. But even so, Huang Liping still hopes that the other party can be fine, and she believes that the rest of the family should also think so.
"Did you see him? How was he? Was he alone?"
Jiang Dong nodded, then shook his head, "He looks like he's in average condition. I guess he didn't have a good time before. I wonder if he's alone."
Judging from the number of meals the other party bought, it should not be for one person, but it is not certain. After all, there are people with big appetites who order several meals by themselves.
"I was busy at the time and didn't look closely. After he left, I thought about it and wondered if I should tell my sister about this first."
The two families had such an unpleasant quarrel before. Jiang Dong felt heartbroken when he thought about the state his eldest sister was in at home when she was getting a divorce.
Although his elder sister behaved normally later and it had been more than a year since the incident, he was still worried that she would be upset after the two sides met.
"We really need to tell your sister first," Huang Liping confirmed her son's thoughts. "Even if your sister has come to terms with it, we can't hide what happened to him. So, ask Brother Xia for leave and run over to tell your sister... Forget it, let's wait until after get off work. Your sister is in the cab right now, so we probably won't see each other."
"Okay then."
…
After handing over the shift in the afternoon, Jiang Dong and Huang Liping returned to the dormitory after get off work and told Jiang Qian what had happened today.
Jiang Qian was stunned at first, then she lowered her eyes and said "Oh" calmly.
To everyone's surprise, when she looked up again, her expression was as relaxed as usual. "That's great. We're all still alive. That's good. Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Don't worry, I'm fine." Jiang Qian said with a smile, "For me, that thing is already in the past. Don't take it too seriously. Other people's affairs have nothing to do with us. Mom, Dongzi, if you two have time, why not help me think about where to set up the next site?"
【Author’s words】
Secrets revealed by acquaintances, this chapter is about family matters and the introduction of previous events.
Thank you for your support. The next chapter will probably be on the 14th or 15th.
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