"ah……"
Zhang Guifang let out a heart-wrenching scream in front of the Meng family's small villa. The people around her shuddered and spat.
On one hand, I think Meng Fuyan is ruthless, but on the other hand, I think Zhang Guifang deserves it!
Meng Fuyan was unaware of what was happening in Changning City, but she could guess what it was like. Lu Xingming, on the other train, was completely oblivious.
He was currently holding the package Meng Fuyan had given him, grinning foolishly!
"It smells so good!"
His package contained four boxes of rice, one box of braised pork, one box of chicken stew with mushrooms, one box of braised lamb chops, one box of braised beef, and in another brown paper bag were ten boiled eggs, ten salted duck eggs, a large bag of beef jerky, and a bag of spiced peanuts.
Finally, there were ten pounds of cured pork, two dried chickens, and one dried rabbit.
He can find a way to provide extra meals when he goes to the army.
Meng Fuyan knew he loved to eat meat, but in this era, no one could eat meat all day long, so Meng Fuyan prepared all kinds of meat for him.
Lu Xingming immediately burst into laughter, his teeth practically disappearing from his eyes!
"She really is my younger sister!"
But after thinking about it, I felt a little sorry for her. She must have gone to great lengths to get all this meat. I wonder how long she had saved up all those good things to get so much meat!
...
At six o'clock in the morning, the train arrived in Meng Fuyan's city. She boarded the train with her younger brother and saw Gu Tingzhi already waiting at the door of the sleeper car.
These days, very few people travel by sleeper berth; usually only officials can buy sleeper tickets. So at this moment, the carriage is not crowded at all and is very quiet.
Looking at the little one in front of him, Gu Tingzhi seemed to remember something, and a look of affection flashed in his eyes.
"Go inside, it's quiet here and not crowded."
It was indeed very quiet, and the journey went smoothly.
Meng Fuyan brought a lot of food with her. With her spatial storage, she wasn't worried about it spoiling. If she ran out, she could buy more on the train. Anyway, she had money, so she didn't care how much she spent.
Surprisingly, Gu Tingzhi also bought a lot of food, and Meng Fuyan found that many of them were her favorite dishes. Were their tastes really that similar from the beginning?
"You...you're really going to work in Nan'an County? Weren't you in the army? Did you transfer to civilian work?"
Gu Tingzhi explained with a smile, "It is indeed a job in Nan'an County, a kind of 'gilding' experience. Whether I go into the military or politics in the future depends on my father's arrangements."
Meng Fuyan blinked, confused!
Are all large families this willful?
Can one switch back and forth between military and political service?
Something feels off.
However, she didn't ask any more questions, because she knew that Gu Tingzhi's background was very complicated, and at this time he should be being suppressed by his stepmother, so it was normal for him to encounter some setbacks.
This life is much better than the last one, in which he lost his job and was sent to the countryside as an educated youth.
Gu Tingzhi is the son of the Gu family patriarch, but he was not born to the first wife. He originally had an older brother, but he sacrificed his life. Therefore, Gu Tingzhi is now isolated and helpless in the Gu family.
The Gu family is a powerful military and political family in Kyoto. The current head of the family is his biological father, but he doesn't love him. He is a very scheming person who only cares about interests.
Gu Tingzhi grew up in the countryside because his biological mother had a complicated background. His father was a large landowner, and his mother was a capitalist's daughter. They had a daughter who married the head of the Gu family and then used most of the family business to support the head of the Gu family in fighting wars.
In those turbulent times of war, people were often separated. The landlady stayed at home taking care of the children and the elderly. It was only later that she learned that her husband had deceived her. He was not single when they got married; he had already married a wife and had several children, and he had more than one wife.
She was just one of his many concubines; he married her only for her family's wealth.
Moreover, this idea came from his first wife.
War requires money; how can you enjoy life without money? How can you recruit soldiers and build a career without money?
How can so many children of a powerless wife enjoy the benefits?
Her in-laws knew all this, but they conspired with everyone to deceive her. When she was sick, they stayed at her house to recuperate and enjoyed her respectful filial piety, but they felt that it was all their due.
His son is an outstanding person, so what's wrong with him marrying another wife?
Gu Tingzhi's mother was heartbroken and furious, but the other party was powerful and influential. She had already given birth to her child, and her family property had been taken away. They were fighting abroad and never came back. There was nothing she could do. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the landlords fell from grace, and the Gu family seemed to have forgotten about her. Not to mention her, no one even came to take her child back.
Gu's mother was later given a rural identity by her parents, which allowed her to live a few more years and raise her child.
So Gu Tingzhi and his older brother grew up in the countryside.
Both brothers were outstanding, graduating from military academies and later joining the army. They quickly distinguished themselves and were discovered by Grandpa Gu, who brought them back to the Gu family.
Unfortunately, not long after returning to the Gu family, Brother Gu sacrificed himself while on a mission, leaving behind no wife or children.
Gu's mother had also passed away long ago, and now, only Gu Tingzhi remained.
Meng Fuyan lowered her eyes as she thought of the Gu family's situation.
Three days later, the train arrived in Baishan City, Heilongjiang Province.
After three days and three nights, they arrived early on the fourth day. Taiping Commune is located in Nan'an County, which is under Baishan City. Fortunately, the train goes directly to the county seat, so everyone took a car and got off in the county seat.
With food and drink provided, and Gu Tingzhi taking care of them, plus a sleeper berth where they could rest relatively well, the siblings had a smooth journey. Along the way, Meng Yunji even had the mood to look at the scenery outside the train window. This was his first time traveling so far, and the changes from south to north were quite eye-opening for him.
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