"Aren't Elder Zheng and the others still here?"
Ruan Miaomiao raised her chin and pointed to the two shacks next to her.
Upon hearing this, Qin Fengying burst into tears: This is their daughter, so kind!!
However, mothers always worry about their daughters.
She gripped the straw curtain behind her tightly, whispering, "Miaomiao, a drop of kindness is appreciated, but a bucket of resentment will be repaid!"
Qin Fengying worried that her daughter's generosity would foster greed in Zheng Lao and his group.
However, Ruan Miaomiao, who was familiar with the plot, knew that it wouldn't happen. After all, in another half month, Old Zheng would be exonerated. If she didn't seize the opportunity to help each other in times of need and deepen their friendship, when would she?
However, she couldn't tell Qin Fengying this directly, so she could only hint at it indirectly: "Old Zheng might be going back soon, and then he'll be the one to help you..."
The mother and daughter exchanged a glance, everything understood without a word...
"Fengying, Fengying..."
After Ruan Miaomiao left, Qin Fengying stared blankly at the pile of things her daughter had left behind, pondering how to distribute them.
Just then, Qin Fengying heard her husband Sun Deming's nervous voice coming from outside the shack, which startled her so much that she quickly lifted the straw curtain and went outside.
Sun Deming's face was very pale. Seeing his wife, he seemed to find an outlet for his pent-up worries. He hurriedly pulled her into the shack and said urgently in a low voice:
"Fengying, something's happened! I've walked around the village several times, but I haven't seen Miaomiao anywhere..."
Upon hearing this, Qin Fengying immediately understood why Sun Deming was nervous.
She didn't answer the man's question, but instead pulled him directly to the bedside and pointed to the pile of cotton.
Upon seeing this pile of high-quality, pure white cotton, Sun Deming immediately came to his senses, but still asked with some disbelief, "Was Miaomiao here just now?"
Qin Fengying nodded gently and whispered back what Ruan Miaomiao had just said.
After she finished speaking, she looked up at her husband and asked softly, "Should we listen to Miaomiao?"
After a moment's thought, Sun Deming replied in a low voice, "The Ruan family wields considerable power in the military and is always able to obtain information that we don't know. What Miaomiao said might be true."
"If what Miaomiao said is true, then we need to seize the opportunity..."
Qin Fengying made up her mind to give more of what her daughter suggested to the Zheng family elders.
Sun Deming showed no objection to this.
After all, this act of kindness in their time of need could not only help them clear their names later, but also make the Zheng family a supporter of Miaomiao.
Although he knew the Ruan family was very good, as parents, they always wanted to plan more for their children.
So, after it got dark and the village quieted down, the couple quietly slipped into Old Zheng and his wife's shack with about three pounds of cotton in their arms.
"What... what are you doing?"
Grandma Zheng was cooking the red beans she had brought home that afternoon in an earthenware pot, adding some pumpkin and potatoes, making it a sweet and delicious meal.
Before the elderly couple could even eat, the straw curtain at the door was lifted, a clear night breeze swept in, and the Sun couple appeared in their shack.
Along with it came a large bundle of cotton, which made the old couple's eyes widen: such high-quality cotton was rare, especially since they hadn't encountered it since arriving at the cowshed.
"That girl saw that the weather was getting cold and was worried that we useless people would freeze in the cowshed, so she sent us all the cotton that her family had sent her."
He repeatedly urged me, saying that you two are getting old, and the winters here are bitterly cold; you might have a hard time without warm clothing, so he insisted that I share some with you.”
Qin Fengying wiped away her tears, looking deeply moved.
She deliberately mentioned Miaomiao so that the Zheng couple would remember Miaomiao's kindness.
As soon as she heard it, Old Lady Zheng knew who the girl Qin Fengying was talking about was. She was also moved to tears, her cloudy eyes filled with tears, and she nodded vigorously, sobbing uncontrollably.
Beside him, the elderly Mr. Zheng also had tears in his eyes, muttering things like, "That girl is such a good girl, kind and wonderful."
Sun Deming and his wife exchanged a glance and tacitly continued to speak well of Ruan Miaomiao in the ears of the two elderly people, ensuring that Ruan Miaomiao's kindness was etched in their hearts and that they would definitely repay Ruan Miaomiao's kindness when they found an opportunity in the future!
The same act was repeated by the Sun couple in front of another couple.
However, the cotton delivered to the other couple was only a little over a pound, and the amount delivered was only half of what Old Zheng had received.
With everything laid bare, the four people had no objections and all felt that the Sun couple hadn't kept much for themselves. The reason they gave the Zheng couple more was simply to take care of the two elderly people in their twilight years...
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"Have you heard? Zhou's divorced daughter, Narcissus, has actually gone to work in the provincial capital."
"What? Zhou Shuixian? The provincial capital? To work?"
"Old Mrs. Liu, are you talking in your sleep? Do you think jobs in the city are so easy to find? There's a fixed number of jobs in the city, otherwise, why would so many educated youths come to our place to be sent to the countryside?"
"That's right, Granny Liu, where did you hear that? Jobs in this county town cost five or six hundred a month, and jobs in the provincial capital would probably cost seven or eight hundred. Does the Zhou family have the money to buy a job for Zhou Shuixian?"
"That makes sense. If the Zhou family really has that much money to buy jobs, why don't they give them to their precious Yunwa instead of a divorced girl with a child? Isn't that out of their mind?"
...
Old Mrs. Liu had just come out of the brigade leader's house when she heard the news and immediately came to the big banyan tree at the village entrance to share it with her best friends. Little did she know that as soon as she told them, she would be questioned by so many people.
In particular, the way people looked at her was as if they thought she was old and not thinking straight.
snort!
Feeling disliked, Old Lady Liu instinctively wanted to retort, but in the next instant, all her words stuck in her throat. The brigade leader had just said that Yunwazi had connections to help buy jobs, some in the provincial capital, some in the county, and some in the commune. Why did she tell these women?
After saying that, she'll make these women compete with her son?
If these women hadn't acted as if she were senile, she would have taken pity on them and told them this wonderful news.
But now...
She wouldn't say anything until she got her son a good job, then she'd let those women know what good news they'd missed today...
Thinking of this, a smug smile appeared on Old Lady Liu's face. She looked at everyone with an expression as if they were fools, wiggled her hips, and hurried home with a smug look on her face.
However, despite her advanced age, the old lady walked quite fast, gliding home as swiftly as a compass.
The women who were still doing needlework behind them were stunned when they saw this scene: Is this old man senile, or is he a little mentally unstable?
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