Chapter 277 Uninvited Guests
Xia Juanjuan had no objection, but she still had to tell Li Zhan about this matter, and only after he agreed could it be officially recognized. So she put it aside for the time being.
After the autumn harvest and winter planting, food is distributed according to work points.
The income of the commune this year is about the same as last year. The villagers handed in all their chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc. in exchange for work points. They also handed in seven or eight big fat pigs, a dozen sheep, dozens of chickens and ducks, and hundreds of chicken and duck eggs. They were all sent to the grain station to sell for money, and then the money was brought back and distributed to each household according to work points.
Of course, we still kept two New Year pigs and a few sheep to breed lambs next year. As for the chickens and ducks, each family decided to keep them if they wanted to, as long as the total number did not exceed the limit.
But if you want to kill the hen to make soup or eat it, the corresponding work points will be deducted, and it will be considered as the commune selling it to the individual.
Xia Juanjuan directly used her work points to exchange for three old hens, planning to kill and eat them during the Chinese New Year.
In addition to money and poultry and livestock, there is food, including coarse grains such as sweet potatoes and corn, and fine grains such as wheat and millet, which are also distributed according to work points.
This year, the lotus pond harvested a lot of lotus roots and fish, which all counted as Xia Juanjuan's work points. In addition, Lizhan worked hard during the wheat harvest, so she actually got a lot of work points and also received more than 200 kilograms of food, which she pushed back home in a cart.
The New Year pig should be slaughtered towards the end of the year, otherwise the meat will go bad before the New Year.
Everyone could only be patient and wait for the day to slaughter the pigs.
Soon the first snow of the year fell, November passed and December arrived.
After Laba, everyone starts to get busy with things like paying bills and debts.
Xia Juanjuan's family did not owe any debts, but there were a few nice people who had borrowed money from her and they all came to pay her back.
On this day, there had been another heavy snowfall the night before. Xia Juanjuan lit the coal stove very brightly, planning to spend the day indoors warming herself by the fire while making close fitting vests for the kids out of animal skins.
The three little guys, who were over two years old, had reached the age where everyone hated them. They didn't feel the cold at all. They got up early in the morning and ran to the yard to make snowmen and so on.
Xia Juanjuan had no choice but to get up from the bed and go out to take a look. It was snowing so heavily that it had buried the adults' calves.
The three little guys had red faces from the cold, but they were happily running around in the snow with bloated and shaky steps, occasionally falling down on purpose and rolling around in the snow.
Xiaowen is eight years old this year. He has been well nourished in the past two years and has grown a lot, but he still has a childish heart and takes Xiaowu, Beibei and the triplets to play in the yard.
Xia Juanjuan was speechless. She didn't even feel cold in this sub-zero weather.
However, I still rolled up my sleeves and helped them build a snowman, and stuck a carrot on it as a red nose.
Just after finishing the game, Xia Juanjuan was shivering with cold and wanted to go back to the house to let them play by themselves, but she heard a knock on the door.
Xia Juanjuan looked towards the door and saw two men and women in torn cotton padded jackets standing at the door. When they saw Xia Juanjuan, they asked softly, "Is this Lin Yuru's home? Lin Yuru and Xia Shuangshan's home?"
Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment. Who are these two people?
When Lin Yuru heard her name being called, she came out to check. She also didn't recognize the people there, so she asked, "Who are you?"
When the two men saw Lin Yuru, they asked tentatively: "You... are Lin Yuru, right?"
Lin Yuru had a bad feeling in her heart, and she didn't say anything, but just looked at them and said, "Who are you first?"
The two looked at each other, and then the man said, "I am the uncle of the girl you kept, and this is her...her second aunt, Li Erni."
When Lin Yuru heard the name, her body swayed and she almost fell down!
Li Erni! She remembered this name.
Last year, Xia Shuangshan secretly went to other counties to inquire, and it seemed that Li Erni was the biological mother of the young lady they picked up, and her biological father was called Liu Yuliang.
That is, how come she has become the second aunt now?
In any case, these two people are probably Xia Juanjuan's biological parents or relatives on her biological parents' side!
How did they find my home?
It turned out that the person who came was Li Erni, and the man was not Liu Yuliang, but Li Erni's younger brother Li Sancai.
Originally, Liu Yuliang and Li Erni had planned to come here last winter when they had some free time, but something went wrong.
Liu Yuliang was a gambler. After the busy farming season, thinking that he could make a lot of money right away, he couldn't help but get together with a few second-rate guys in the village to play cards and gamble. He ended up losing a lot, and he suspected that the others had colluded to cheat him, so he started an argument with them, and then a fight broke out.
It was probably because there were three of them beating him alone, and Liu Yuliang got so angry that he picked up a stick and started beating them. As a result, he hit one of them on the head, and that person fainted immediately. Although he was rescued later, his brain was damaged and he became a fool.
The commune called the police, Liu Yuliang was arrested, and sentenced to several years of hard labor.
Li Erni was a rural woman who had rarely left the commune or the town. Now that her husband had been arrested, she was so scared that she didn't know what to do. How could she possibly run out alone to find Xia Juanjuan and then take her to Beijing to find the Fu family to recognize her as a relative and earn some thank-you money?
Therefore, this matter was delayed.
Until this year, Li Erni accidentally let this matter slip in front of her younger brother, and Li Sancai heard it and became greedy, wanting to get a piece of the pie. Xia Shuangshan had been to the village before, so it was easy to find out Xia Shuangshan's address. Even if we could only find out a rough idea, Widow Wang had come here before to ask, and the two of them would know it after a while.
The question is where is the address of the biological parents of the girl in Beijing.
If they didn't know this, they wouldn't be able to get anything out of the girl even if they found her.
Li Sancai asked Li Erni to visit Liu Yuliang to find out where your family in Beijing lives.
However, Liu Yuliang was not stupid. If he told Li Erni, that stupid woman, he would not get a penny of the benefit fee and all of it would be swallowed up by Li Sancai.
Later, Li Erni called her eldest son over and said that she had no money and was waiting for the money to marry her son. You have to work here for a few years, and your son will have to stay single for a few years with you?
Liu Yuliang was moved by what he said and drew a map for Li Erni, showing how to get there from the train station.
Li Sancai and Li Erni then set out without stopping and headed towards Xia Shuangshan.
However, at the beginning Liu Yuliang and Li Erni planned to pretend to be Xia Juanjuan's biological parents, recognize her as their relative, and then bring her to Beijing.
Li Sancai felt that it was inappropriate, so he changed them to Xia Juanjuan's second aunt and uncle, which would be more convenient to talk about later. And if anything happened, they could distance themselves from the matter.
When the kids playing in the yard saw a stranger coming, they all hid behind Xia Juanjuan.
Xia Juanjuan asked Xiaowen and the others to take the triplets into the house, and then she looked up at the person who came.
She had heard Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru talk about her life story in advance. Her biological parents lived an ordinary life, and she was probably the one who sold her out. Therefore, she couldn't help but frown coldly.
How dare you come here?
To put it bluntly, she is not the original owner.
Even if she was still the original owner, if her biological parents who had never raised her came to find her, she would still beat them out mercilessly.
Li Sancai and Li Erni had already inquired after entering the village and knew that Lin Yuru was now living with her daughter and son-in-law. Now seeing Lin Yuru's reaction of fainting and seeing Xia Juanjuan, they had already guessed that Xia Juanjuan was the person they were looking for!
Li Sancai poked Li Erni, who was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came towards Xia Juanjuan and cried, "You are my poor niece, right? Niece, you have suffered so much these years! Your biological parents have always asked us to keep an eye out for you, and we have been looking for you for many years and have not given up! It’s all those damned human traffickers who kidnapped you when you were so young..."
Xia Juanjuan interrupted her directly and sneered, "Human trafficker? Is she the widow Wang from your village?"
After hearing this, Li Erni stared at Xia Juanjuan in astonishment, and then looked at Li Sancai somewhat at a loss.
This...how come it's not the same as they expected?
Also, Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru actually said that the daughter was not their biological daughter? They originally planned to scold the traffickers, and then naturally said that Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru were the daughters bought from the traffickers, and they knew the news of her biological parents but did not tell her...
Now all the plans were disrupted. Li Erni had never seen the world before and didn't know how to deal with it.
Li Sancai was also caught off guard, but he reacted faster than Li Erni. After a moment of hesitation, he quickly replied:
"Wang... Widow Wang? Was she the one who took you away back then? My niece, it's my uncle and your second aunt's fault. We were so careless that we didn't know about this! Don't worry, when we get back, I will immediately report to the commune and arrest Widow Wang, the child-stealer! My niece, you don't know that your biological parents - your second aunt's and my cousins' brother and sister-in-law - are from Beijing! Your family is very rich. As soon as we heard about you, we rushed to find you and picked you up, and then we went to Beijing to meet your biological parents!"
Li Sancai changed the topic and deliberately revealed the news that Xia Juanjuan's biological parents were both very rich.
He saw that this small courtyard was made of bricks and tiles, and there were six or seven rooms, including the main house, the side room, the kitchen, etc. It was impossible for an ordinary farmer to have the money to build such a good house, which showed that this family lived a wealthy life.
But no matter how rich you are, can you compare to your city parents with Beijing household registration?
After Li Sancai finished speaking, he waited proudly to see Xia Juanjuan's face full of surprise and excitement, and she couldn't wait to clamor to follow them to Beijing.
Unfortunately, Xia Juanjuan was unusually calm and said calmly, "Oh, then what are the names of your cousins? Why don't they come to pick up their daughter in person?"
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