Chapter 310 Brother Fu's Love

The onlookers said that they had never seen a mother like this before.

A piece of candy is so expensive nowadays, she didn’t save it for her children, but ate it herself!

While eating, Xia Juanjuan took out a few more candies and first gave them to Xiaowen, Xiaowu and Beibei. Then she said to the triplets, "If you want to eat candies, hurry up and wipe your tears. If you don't want to eat them, Mom will share your share with your brothers and sisters!"

When the triplets saw that their mother still had candies in her hands, they were afraid that these would be shared and they would have nothing to eat, so they all climbed up obediently, wiped their tears, and looked at Xia Juanjuan eagerly.

Compared to dad, sugar is more important.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and gave each of them a piece of candy to stuff into their mouths. Then they stopped crying and started laughing happily.

When the onlookers saw what was happening, the kids were all stunned and couldn't help but burst out laughing.

They were eating breakfast while waiting in the store. Not long after, Xia Shuangshan came to pick them up in a ox cart.

Hearing that Li Zhan had taken the train to go on another mission, she sighed helplessly and tried to comfort her daughter, saying, "Juan'er, Li Zhan is doing this to protect his country. You can't blame him in your heart."

Xia Juanjuan smiled and said: "Dad, how can I not know about this kind of thing? Don't worry. You are at home to help. If Li Zhan is not at home, why don't we come over too?"

After hearing this, Xia Shuangshan smiled and said, "You are right to think so!"

Soon it was Qingming Festival and Grain Rain, and it was time for spring ploughing.

The villagers are still busy planting sweet potatoes, cotton, spring corn, soybeans and the like.

Lotus roots were planted in the lotus pond, and fish and shrimp were raised. Various fruits and vegetables were planted in the private plots.

Xia Juanjuan still worked as usual, went up the mountain to hunt, raised her cubs, went to the county town every now and then to sell supplies, and went to the black market in the county town and Beijing to look for antiques.

Luocheng would occasionally provide large amounts of supplies, such as timber, cotton, and food.

I once sold fifty large white pigs. A live pig weighs about 200 kilograms. At 70 cents per kilogram, one pig would cost 140 yuan, and fifty pigs would cost 7,000 yuan.

After all the calculations, I used up all my savings to buy the courtyard house in Beijing, and now I have saved about 20,000 yuan.

Xia Juanjuan asked Dahei to look for one, and they bought another courtyard house with three entrances and four courtyards. The location was a bit further away than the one near Shichahai, but the price was also much cheaper. In the end, they only spent about 15,000 yuan.

In addition to shipping goods from Luocheng, Xia Juanjuan also asked Luocheng to help with some things.

It was because of the fierce fighting that it was somewhat inconvenient for her to show up, so occasionally she would get some food, cloth, cotton and the like, and ask Luo Cheng to help deliver them to Shen Wanxue and Rong Zhenbang in the northwest.

However, she did not clearly state the relationship between her and Shen Wanxue and Rong Zhenbang. She just said that Shen Wanxue had stayed in their commune for a period of time and they had a good relationship.

As Fu Nanzheng's childhood friend, Luo Cheng naturally knew that Xia Juanjuan and Fu Nanzheng were siblings. Once he couldn't help but laugh and said, "Don't mention it, you two siblings are quite similar sometimes."

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then narrowed her eyes slightly: "We are siblings? Who are I siblings with?"

Luo Cheng cursed in his heart. He forgot that he was secretly investigating Xia Juanjuan. On the surface, he should know nothing about Xia Juanjuan.

However, the secret had already been let out, and Xia Juanjuan probably expected that given Luo Cheng's cautious nature in this line of work, it was impossible for him not to investigate her just because she said so.

Luo Cheng chuckled twice, and as a real man, he simply accepted it.

After all this, the mysterious relationship between the few people was officially revealed.

Xia Juanjuan didn't blame Luo Cheng too much. After all, he was her third brother's childhood friend, so his character should be guaranteed.

Xia Juanjuan asked: "You just said that we are quite similar as brother and sister. In what way?"

Luo Cheng smiled and said, "Let me help you with the mailing. You're sending it to the northwest, and he's sending it to the island in the east. It sounds interesting anyway."

Xia Juanjuan couldn't help but become interested and asked with a smile: "Send it to the island? Why haven't I heard him say that he knows anyone on the island?"

Luo Cheng said proudly: "You don't know this as well as I do. Do you know why your third brother hasn't gotten married yet even though he's grown up? Because his sweetheart is on this island!"

It turned out that when Fu Nanzheng was in school, he had been dating a female classmate named Yue Sizhu, and they were about to discuss marriage, but the situation began to change.

Due to family reasons, Yue Sizhu was originally assigned to work at Union Hospital, but her original assignment was cancelled and she was reassigned to clean a state-owned bathhouse.

Yue Sizhu was also a hot-tempered person. When her parents were sent to work on the island, she took the initiative to apply to go to the countryside and quietly accompanied her parents to the remote island.

Before leaving, she returned all the gifts and letters Fu Nanzheng had given her, and wrote another letter to break up with Fu Nanzheng and cancel the engagement.

Moreover, when Fu Nanzheng received the returned items, Yue Sizhu and her parents had actually left, without even leaving a contact address for Fu Nanzheng.

Fu Nanzheng went crazy and asked around, but there was no news after half a year. Two years later, Luocheng went to the island to do some seafood business and inadvertently saw Yue Sizhu, who looked much more haggard.

Luo Cheng did not dare to make a false admission, so he made further inquiries. After confirming that she was indeed the fiancée Fu Nanzheng was looking for, Luo Cheng dared to tell Fu Nanzheng.

After hearing this, Fu Nanzheng turned around and went to the island to find Yue Sizhu.

But... two and a half years later, Fu Nanzheng saw Yue Sizhu sitting by the sea and mending the fishing net with a shuttle from afar, but he didn't have the courage to go up to her, say hello, or reminisce about the past.

After watching from a distance for a while, Fu Nanzheng returned by boat.

Sizhu was such a beautiful and proud girl, if he saw her haggard appearance after being exposed to the wind and sun for two and a half years, she would definitely be angry, even cry.

From that time on, Fu Nanzheng asked Luo Cheng to find various ways to help him send some things to the island.

However, there was not a single letter or anything like that, and Fu Nanzheng never sent a single word.

After Luo Cheng finished speaking, he smiled and said, "Look, your third brother is quite stupid, isn't he? He has been sending things to the Yue family for so many years, but he just kept it a secret and refused to let others know. Do you think he has been taken advantage of?"

After hearing this, Xia Juanjuan felt a sense of sadness in her heart.

In the turbulent environment, personal destiny and love and hate are so fragile, yet so strong and persistent.

"You are the one being taken advantage of. Don't say bad things about my third brother in front of me!"

Luo Cheng couldn't help laughing: "Okay, so as soon as you two siblings recognized each other, you started to unite against the outside world?"

Xia Juanjuan had nothing else to say and they left.

Time passed quickly, the wheat harvest was over, and then it was time for summer farming.

Unexpectedly, there was unusually much rain in the summer of that year, with wind and rain every few days. The lotus pond and the small river next to it flooded several times.

The wheat harvest was barely completed, and it was considered a crop of fine grain.

But after the wheat harvest, due to continuous rain for several days, crops such as autumn corn could not be planted.

Some of the spring corn, sweet potatoes, peanuts and other crops planted in the spring were also flooded, and the harvest was predictably going to be very bad.

Even Secretary Zhao, who was always optimistic, would go to the fields every day with his tobacco bag after the wheat harvest, and then come back with a sad face and no idea what to do.

The villagers sighed and said, "If this continues, we will miss out on food. I'm afraid we will have to tighten our belts again from this year to next year..."

"Alas! This year is not easy. I heard that there are floods and droughts all over the country. I estimate that there will be a food shortage next year..."

Xia Juanjuan had also heard about all this, and couldn't help but feel worried.

The supplies in her space were enough to feed the whole family. However, if there was a real food shortage, then her family would be full and would definitely be envied.

Xia Juanjuan secretly went to find Secretary Zhao and suggested that they pick a few ginseng plants that had been planted a year ago and buy some food at the black market in the county town to store up first, so as to avoid being in urgent need of help.