Chapter 430 The Secret of Shen Yejun
Jiang Wanwan was quite surprised: "Why? Dad has the gentlest personality and is very clear-headed. He is always filial to grandma and never talks back to her. How could he quarrel with her?"
Something terrible must have happened.
Xu Lan sighed: "I just don't know what happened to make me angry."
"Uncle San had saved a lot of money, but when grandma asked him, he said he didn't have a cent left. Grandma asked him where the money went, but he wouldn't say anything. His mouth was as tight as a clam shell. He didn't say anything, which made grandma choke."
"He has been here for so long and has spent very little money. He has saved about 500 or 600 yuan. Now all this money is gone. No one knows where he spent it or on whom he spent it."
Jiang Wanwan thought for a while and said, "Could it be for the second wife?"
Xu Lan shook her head: "No, this morning we were discussing whether we had given money to the second wife, so we asked your brother Dazhu to borrow his bicycle to ride back and check, and we found that he had not given money to the second wife."
"Last time, your Xingjiang people demolished their house, and they dared not to cause trouble. Now they stay by the house all the time. They work in the fields during the day and build the house at night. When they have nowhere to live, they live under a tree. The old couple also has a child, and the child usually lives with the educated youth at night, so it's not that miserable."
"It's the two of them who are miserable. I heard from your brother Dazhu... He went over to take a look and almost didn't recognize them as people from the second house. They were dark and skinny, like monkeys, and didn't look like they were helped by anyone."
Jiang Wanwan thought about it: "..."
It's your own fault.
Xu Lan: "The money was not spent on the second house, and we can't guess who it was spent on. When Xingjiang comes back, ask him to ask the third uncle. They go to build the pig farm together every day, so they can ask by the way."
Jiang Wanwan shook her head: "You can't ask. Even if you ask, they may not tell you."
“Let’s pretend to put this matter aside first, and then let Shen Xingjiang give him some money, and then let Shen Xingjiang follow and see who the money was spent on.”
The Shen family has already alerted the enemy. If they ask again, who knows when they will be able to get the information out.
Xu Lan thought about it and nodded: "Then I'll do as you say."
After spending the early afternoon here, Xu Lan took the children back home.
After dinner in the evening, Cheng Lingxue went back, and Shen Xingjiang came back soon after.
His face and shoes were covered in dirt, as if he had just dug it out of a coal mine. He washed it five or six times by the well before his skin color showed.
Jiang Wanwan finished eating, but left some food in the pot for him.
Today we have scrambled eggs with cucumber, stewed chicken with potatoes, and some pickled vegetables, cucumber, bok choy, egg sauce, coriander and green onions.
People here prefer to eat two-grain rice, which is a mixture of millet and rice. Jiang Wanwan started to like it after eating it a lot, and now eats this for most of her meals.
After washing his face, Shen Xingjiang went to the bathroom to take a shower, his upper body was naked, and his lower body was covered with a pair of black knee-length shorts.
The water on his body had not dried yet and was flowing down his muscles.
After working all day, he was very hungry, so he picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
Jiang Wanwan was afraid that he would choke: "Eat slowly."
Shen Xingjiang slowed down, picked up the juicy, emerald green cabbage, dipped it in some egg sauce and put it in his mouth: “If you have something on your mind, tell me.”
Jiang Wanwan thought about waiting until he finished eating before talking to him, but she didn't expect that he saw through her.
"My sister-in-law came during the day and gave me a sweater and cotton pants. They are so beautiful. I'll show them to you later."
"She told me that grandma and dad had a fight yesterday because she didn't know who dad spent his money on. Grandma didn't find out and got angry."
Shen Xingjiang took a bite of rice and picked a piece of chicken thigh meat to eat.
He found several chicken legs in the bowl.
She left them all here on purpose.
The tender chicken wrapped in sauce and mixed with rice was particularly delicious, not to mention that it also contained Jiang Wanwan's thoughts. Shen Xingjiang ate it very contentedly.
"I'll give him some money tomorrow and wait for a few days, then I'll know where he sent the money."
Jiang Wanwan chuckled: "That's what I thought too!"
After dinner, Shen Xingjiang washed the dishes, brushed his teeth, and went to sleep on the kang. He was so tired that he fell asleep almost as soon as his head touched the pillow.
He is building the pig and goose farm as soon as possible. The sooner he finishes it, the sooner he can raise pigs and geese next year. He will build up the business before going to school so that he and Wanwan will feel more confident when they arrive in Beijing.
No one's money is as safe to spend as the money you earn with your own hard work.
Jiang Wanwan heard his breathing, touched his hand with heartache, and closed her eyes for a long time before falling asleep.
The next day Shen Xingjiang went to the factory.
The military district granted them several thousand square meters of land next to the grassland. Shen Xingjiang found some familiar workers, most of whom were from the production team, to come here to help when they finished their work.
The ground has been turned over and it is time to lay the foundation.
Jiang Jun is here helping to draw the factory blueprints. He is good at this, and combined with book knowledge, this time the factory is built better than the one in the military zone.
Cheng Wenyuan was also here, helping to boil water, deliver water and meals, and doing some light work.
When Shen Xingjiang arrived at the factory, almost everyone had arrived. He found Shen Yejun: “Dad.”
Shen Yejun, who was digging the ground with a hoe, heard Shen Xingjiang's voice, and his back tensed up. He thought Shen Xingjiang had also come to ask questions, and his clothes were soaked with sweat from nervousness.
"Ah? What's wrong, son?"
Shen Xingjiang took out thirty yuan from his pocket: "Give some of this thirty to Uncle Jianjun, and give some to Brother Dazhu and Brother Erzhu, and keep the rest."
"You can't work for nothing."
Under normal circumstances, Shen Yejun would definitely say that the family didn’t need it, but this time he hesitated and accepted the money.
"Thank you, son."
"By the way, your grandma and the others didn't say anything to you, right?"
Shen Xingjiang remained calm: "We haven't seen each other for a long time, and we didn't say anything. Did anything happen?"
The more he asked, the more Shen Yejun felt that his family had not told him what was going on.
How could Shen Yejun, an honest man, deal with Shen Xingjiang? He was sold and still had to count money for his son.
"It's okay, I just asked casually."
Shen Yejun took the money and distributed it to everyone, and put the rest in his pocket. After finishing work at night, he lied that he had a stomachache and did not go home with the Shen family. Instead, he sneaked out.
Shen Xingjiang followed behind him. He had specially practiced tracking skills, and Shen Yejun didn't notice him at all as he was lurking behind him.
Shen Yejun didn't go anywhere else but stopped at a guesthouse in the county town closest to the military region.
He spoke a few words to the people at the guesthouse and went in.
Not long after, Shen Yejun and a woman came out, and the two were talking at a distance.
The light was dim, and the woman's face was not clear: "Why is there only a few dollars? What can a few dollars do?"
"After all these years, you're still so disappointing. Next time you come, you must give me a hundred dollars. I haven't had a good meal at a state-owned restaurant in a long time."
"The food in your state-owned restaurants isn't that good either. I only eat there reluctantly. You just give me a few dollars and I can't even enjoy my meal here!"
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