Chapter 408 (Extra) Unreliable
The willow breeze blows on my face, but it is not cold.
As soon as spring arrives, the weather becomes warm as soon as it is said. The leaves and grass buds rush out. Even the flowers on the branches can't wait and stretch out their bodies silently.
After school on the first day of junior high school, I would run around the fields with my younger siblings, carrying baskets. Shepherd's purse was a bit old at this time of year, but things like watercress and scallions were still edible.
This year, Chuyi is a girl who is exactly ten years old and is eating the food of an eleven-year-old.
Now he is in the third grade of the primary school in the brigade. He has a lively personality, just like Hu Qingqing. He is smart and good at studying. He always gets the first place in the exams.
She no longer remembers anything from her childhood. There were also some gossipy women in the team who told her that Hu Qingqing was her stepmother, but she basically ignored them.
She has been raised by Gao Xiulan since she was a child. Between her mother-in-law and her mother, she is closer to her mother-in-law Gao Xiulan.
Moreover, Hu Qingqing was also very nice to her. With Gao Xiulan and Lu Dongcai taking care of her, Hu Qingqing usually didn't bother to interfere. She only took care of Chuyi's food and clothes, and made sure she didn't go hungry or get cold.
So, no matter what others say, it will have no impact on the first day of the new year.
I was digging wild vegetables on the edge of the field when I heard a series of tinkling sounds.
Chuyi looked up and saw the person coming with a gleam of surprise in his eyes: "Third Uncle!"
Lu Dongfu smiled and said, "First grade! Digging wild vegetables again. Have you finished your homework?"
Chuyi said: "I have finished writing at school. I will dig up some more wild vegetables and ask my mother to pickle them. I will stir-fry them with rice when I run out of vegetables."
After that, Lu Dongfu asked, "Uncle San, are you on vacation? Don't you need to stay in the city with my Aunt San?" Lu Dongfu's partner is from the county town. Her elders work in the county party committee, and she is a junior high school teacher. She is 21 years old this year. They have been together for quite a while and decided to get married in the second half of this year. So he called her "Aunt San" early on the first day of the new year.
Lu Dongfu said, "What do you know, little kid? I'm going back now. It's getting late. Come back soon! My younger brothers and sisters, please keep an eye on them!"
Chu nodded and waved to him.
Lu Dongfu pushed his bicycle into the yard
At this moment, everyone in the family is still busy working in the fields.
Last winter, Xinxi started to implement the distribution of land to customers, and it was completed just at the beginning of the year.
In their family, he and his elder brother Lu Dongcheng are both registered in the county town, and his sister-in-law Shengxia is also there, but the family still has a lot of land, so they have to work hard.
Besides, the land has been distributed to each household now. Apart from the public grain and the reserved funds, the rest is theirs, so they have to work even harder.
No one who can get ahead of others wants to fall behind.
The last time he came back was on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. His family said that this year there were more than three acres of early corn fields.
When Lu Dongfu got home, he opened the door to the main hall. Seeing that it was getting late, he helped the whole family cook dinner first.
It was almost dark when Gao Xiulan and the others came back carrying hoes and backpacks.
Looking at him in the yard, I called out, "Are you not busy this week?"
Lu Dongfu hummed, "I'm not busy. I'll come back to take a look and send a message to Uncle San and the others."
Lu Minghai asked him, "Did Dongping call?"
"Well, Brother Dongping called last week and said my cousin's wife had given birth. The older one is a boy and the younger one is a girl. I've been busy and just got back now, so I had to tell my uncle and aunt."
The last letter mentioned the date, and Gao Xiulan knew about it. When she heard it, she was shocked: "Why is it so early? It's not even a month yet, there's still a long way to go."
"How would I know? But they say everything is fine. The baby is just a little thin due to premature birth, but there are no problems with either the adult or the child."
"That's great! As long as you're fine." Gao Xiulan breathed a sigh of relief. What she loved most was having new members in the family. She was as happy as if she had two grandchildren. She ran to the next door before even eating.
Her laughter could be heard through the wall.
After a while, Lu Mingjiang and Zhang Hongying came running over.
Asked Lu Dongfu: "Dongfu! Tell us what your brother Dongping said."
Lu Dongfu asked them to sit down and have dinner.
The couple waved their hands: "No, no, we're just asking you, and then we'll go back and cook."
Lu Dongfu said, "They were born on the sixth day of the first lunar month. The older one is a boy and the younger one is a girl. Well, Dandan gave them their nicknames. The boy is called Qiuqiu and the girl is called Diandian."
Zhang Hongying laughed, "This kid is quite clever."
Lu Mingjiang asked: "What about the child's full name?" This must be asked clearly. You can't not even know the child's name.
Lu Dongfu paused before saying, "One of them is Wen Chengyu, and the other is Lu Qinghe."
Hearing this, the couple were stunned for a moment. Zhang Hongying couldn't help but ask, "Why is your last name Wen?"
Lu Dongfu simply put down his bowl and told them, "This is what Brother Dongping meant. The Lu family already has Lu Hongkang, and now there's Lu Qinghe. A son and a daughter make up a perfect family name. The Wen family only has one cousin, and now that a child is born, of course one of them has to take that family's surname."
As for how much money was fined for the two children and how Wen Wan lost her job, Lu Dongping never mentioned this matter on the phone.
Even without mentioning it, Lu Dongfu knew that these two children were not easy to come by. The situation had become increasingly tight over the past two years. For example, his eldest brother Lu Dongcheng had children a few years earlier and now had three. For someone like him who hadn't even gotten married yet, he could only have one in the future, otherwise his future would be in jeopardy.
Lu Mingjiang nodded: "That's fine, no matter whose surname you take, you are still a member of my Lu family."
Zhang Hongying looked at him and didn't say anything else.
When I got home to cook, I started complaining, "This is really true. They used to say that raising a daughter was for someone else's family, but here it's the other way around. Raising a son is for someone else's family. He just listens to whatever others say. I've never seen my own child have the woman's surname. How's that any different from marrying into the family?"
Lu Mingjiang said, "Don't talk nonsense. Didn't we make it very clear last time? His household registration is somewhere else, not with the Wen family. Besides, don't we still have Dandan and that...? A little bit?"
"Besides, we still have Donglin. When my wife has children, they will still be surnamed Lu. Our family will never be short of children."
"Look, Dongping was previously taken care of by the Wen family, and Donglin is also taken care of by them. The Wen family only has Wanwan, so it's a good thing to have a child with the family's surname."
It would have been fine if Lu Donglin hadn't been mentioned, but Zhang Hongying got even angrier the moment he did. She slammed the brush against the edge of the pot, "He's also unreliable!"
Lu Mingjiang sighed, "What should we do? A son is no longer under the control of his mother. Sooner or later, he will fly away once his wings are strong enough. You can't lock him up forever."
"It's already like this, think more positively!"
Zhang Hongying said, "How can I be so optimistic? It's so far away, and I won't be able to see him for so many years. I don't care about Dongping anymore, and I can't. Chun'e, you have your own family here. As for that brat Lu Donglin, he's such a worry. He's already in his twenties, and he hasn't made any progress at all."
"After dinner, go tell Dongfu. We don't know when he'll leave tomorrow, so tell him first. If Dongping calls again, have him tell Dongping so he can worry about it! He doesn't even listen to us, so how could he listen to anything his older brother says?"
"It doesn't matter if they're male or female, once they're past the age limit, they have to find someone. The right age only lasts a few years, and after that, where can you find someone good? When they were little, they were full of flowery talk, and people said they wouldn't have to worry about the future. But in the end, they're even more worrying than Lu Dongping."
She keeps complaining about this one and that one being a worry all day long, but in fact, in the eyes of others, her children are really enough to be a worry-free person.
Now the three of them have become city dwellers, in a big city like the capital. They are richer and more successful than the two brothers of Lu Minghai's family. What else is there to be dissatisfied with?
Lu Mingjiang said, "Cui Qinghong, have you asked her what she thinks? She can't stay here as an old maid forever, right?"
"I asked, but I didn't get anything out of him. He's a carefree person. I don't know what he wants to do. But around the New Year he was always out, and he'd be gone for days at a time. I don't know where he went or what he did."
"That also needs to be clarified. It was this incident that caused the feud with Donglin. We haven't treated her unfairly over the years. She can't repay us with evil."
Lu Donglin had once entertained the idea of dating on a whim. But he realized it wasn't something you could just say you had, and finding the right person was crucial. Without that, it was exhausting. He'd better focus on making money! With money, you have everything; without money, you have nothing.
After Wen Wan's full moon banquet, both Lu Dongping and Lu Donglin became busy.
Huaizhuang hired someone to do the renovation, and then ordered a batch of furniture in advance, which was delivered one after another. As originally planned, we will be able to move in before May Day.
Whether it is the operation room, the warehouse, the office dormitory or the canteen, everything that needs to be purchased has been purchased and all the necessary procedures have been completed. The only thing left is the manpower problem. A large number of workers need to be recruited, and not all of them are seamstresses.
Lu Donglin will be responsible for sales from now on. No matter how many stores 7-Up opens or how much goods are shipped, he will be in charge.
Lu Dongping left the design to Wen Wan. The family hired a nanny, and Aunt Zhou helped out. The child didn't want formula to begin with, so after a month, Wen Wan stayed at home for another ten days before she started running around.
After working day and night, we finally moved the workshop to Huaizhuang at the end of April.
Lu Donglin no longer had to run to Tonghua Lane every few days. He had an office at the factory with a place to sleep, so he didn't even need a dormitory.
We had just moved there when problems arose at the clothing store.
The landlord of the old store near Huada University is unwilling to renew the lease.
When signing the contract for the first time, Wen Wan signed a three-year contract at once. The goods they brought back from Guangzhou became a hit in that place thanks to the good opportunity, and they were envied by countless people.
Later, after the rent expired, a rent increase was inevitable. The landlord had become cunning and only wanted to rent the house for one year. He was unwilling to rent the house for such a long time at one time. He was afraid that it would be difficult to rent the house for a longer period of time later.
At this point, the rent had already been paid a month in advance, and he just said he didn't want to go.
But since they have signed a rental contract, he can't just refuse to do so. He has to do it until next year at least.
But when running a business, it is really annoying to have unpleasantness every other day because of this matter.
Lu Donglin decided to look for a new house, and once he found one, he would renovate it and move in. Even if it meant giving up half a year's rent, he was determined not to put up with this humiliation again.
Besides, he was not looking for a house in this area. He had discussed with his brother that there must be a 7-Up clothing store in several places in the city center where there is a lot of traffic.
These past two years have been like the beginning, with businesses popping up one after another and more and more people selling clothes. Now that they have seized the initiative, they will not easily let the opportunity slip through their fingers.
In the capital, at least four more stores are needed. Their first goal is to make everyone here know about 7-Up Clothing.
Besides, Huaizhuang was no longer a small workshop, but a garment factory. For a garment factory to only supply clothing to two stores was a bit overkill and uneconomical.
Taking big steps always involves risk, but the pros and cons are mixed. Without risk, there would be no gains.
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