Chapter 251 Opening the Letter, Yu's Accident
Wan Laoer didn’t think too much about it, but the recipe was not his, so what he said didn’t count.
"Fourth brother's wife, I can't give you a definite answer on this matter yet. You can go ask Sister Yu after lunch. If she doesn't mind, I will definitely not object. After all, we are all family, and it's best not to let outsiders take away the wealth."
When Liu heard this, she was overjoyed and immediately wanted to go find Yu, but was stopped by Old Lady Wan.
"Okay, it's time for lunch. What are you going to do at someone's house at this hour? Go and cook."
Although Mrs. Liu was scolded by Old Lady Wan, she was not angry. She smiled and went to the kitchen with Mrs. Wan Er.
"Boom! Boom!"
There was a hurried knock at the gate of the yard.
"Mom, I'll go take a look. It seems like someone is knocking on the door. It's snowing so heavily, and I don't know who is visiting." After saying this, Wan Laoer put on his shoes and came out.
Old Mrs. Wan also sat on the kang and stretched her neck to look outside, but the snow was so heavy that she could not see anything.
In the kitchen, Wan Ersao and Liu also stuck their heads out to take a look. Seeing Wan Laoer go to open the door, they quickly shrank back. Snowflakes were flying straight into their necks, making them shiver with cold.
When Wan Laoer opened the door, he saw Jinniu. He had his hands in his sleeves and was stamping his feet. His cheeks were red from the cold. He was wearing a round rabbit fur hat on his head and a cotton jacket and trousers.
"Hey, village chief, please come in and warm up on the kang. It's so cold, it's hard to go out."
Wan Laoer quickly let Taurus into the house.
Taurus's smile was a little stiff. There was nothing he could do about it. His face was frozen. When he smiled, it felt like the skin on his face was as stiff as broken ice.
Taurus didn't hesitate and walked in quickly with his back bent.
When they got into the house, Wan Laoer hurriedly helped Jinniu sweep the fallen snow off his body. Jinniu took off his hat, which was already a little wet. Wan Laoer took it and put it on the kang to dry. Soon wisps of white mist rose up. Little Fubao saw it and quickly crawled over to study it carefully.
"Village chief, you're still going out in such heavy snow, is there something wrong?"
Wan Laoer poured a cup of hot water and handed it to Taurus. Taurus held it in his hand, and a warm current flowed from the palm of his hand straight to the bottom of his heart, instantly warming his whole body.
"I was delayed today by some matters at home. I should have come yesterday. No one is at your home. Your next-door neighbor General Wan and his family have returned to Beijing. These are the two letters he left behind, one for your family and one for Wan Xingmo. Wan Xingmo hasn't come back yet, so I'll leave the letters at your home. When he comes back, you can pass the letters to him."
Jinniu took out two letters from his arms and placed them on the kang table.
"What? The Jinshu family moved away? I haven't heard any rumors about this before?" Old Mrs. Wan's heart suddenly skipped a beat. Although the two families had not been together for a long time, they had experienced life and death together on the road to exile, and they had supported each other when they came to the border. In her heart, Old Mrs. Wan was really reluctant to see the Jinshu family leave.
"You had just left the village that day when the imperial edict arrived. General Wan was reinstated. The emperor also returned all the property that had been confiscated to the Wan family. He also ordered General Wan to return to the capital immediately. It seemed that the war in the north was tense and he needed him to put on his armor again."
After hearing this, Old Lady Wan was very happy for Zhao. After all, no one wanted to stay in this barren border area. Not only was the weather bad, but the border was also chaotic, with many wolves, and life was difficult.
A beautiful person like Zhao has lost a lot of her beauty and aged several years due to the hardships she has endured during those days at the border.
"That's great, but I don't know when Mo'er will be back. Lao Er, take a quick look at what's written in this letter?"
Old Mrs. Wan picked up the letter and handed it to Old Second Wan.
Although Wan Laoer had studied for a few years, he had almost forgotten how to read after such a long time. He picked up the letter and only saw that it was written for Old Lady Wan.
Wan Laoer opened the letter, took out the stationery inside, and read it haltingly for a long time before he could roughly understand what it meant.
"Mother, General Wan said that he would give us his house and land as a gift, and let us do with them as we please."
Wan Lao Er said in surprise.
Old Mrs. Wan had heard it, but her face was not very happy. Their family had no shortage of houses to live in now, and this land was quite good. Originally, the land of their two families was next to each other, and now they could be directly connected. The recipe that Yu mentioned just happened to require planting potatoes, and if it really worked, the five acres of land would be ready-made and there would be no need to reclaim wasteland.
Jinniu immediately smiled and said, "Congratulations, Auntie. Your family has grown a little bit. Your family is now the richest family in our village. However, most of the exiled people have left this month. Haven't you considered going back?"
Jinniu was really afraid that the Wan family would leave as well. He was still thinking about Wan Laoer's double-season grain and the high-yield wheat seeds, which had not yet been promoted in the village. So he asked tentatively.
Old Lady Wan sighed, "We do want to go back, but we don't know anyone there. Our household registration is now at the border, and our eldest son has a family there. We can't think of going back in the next few years. And I think that although the conditions here are a bit tougher, it's much more comfortable than living inside the border. Let's leave it like this for now and see what the children choose in the future."
Taurus finally felt relieved. As long as the Wan family members didn't leave, everything would be fine.
"Aunt, you guys should eat quickly. I have something else to do. It's snowing so heavily. The patrol team in the village should be reorganized. Otherwise, I don't know how many more houses will be damaged."
Because there are so many gangs at the border, there are a lot of orphans and widows in every village. The men who couldn't survive joined various gangs, and many died in fights with other gangs and never came back.
However, in the past six months, no one has seen any gangs, as if all those small sects disappeared overnight.
Old Lady Wan just tried to persuade them to stay symbolically, "Have dinner first, then go. We don't know when the rain will end, and your patrol team is working hard."
"We are all from the same village, so we should help each other if we can. Every family has difficulties. Our village is relatively good, there are not many orphans and widows. In Shangtian Village, which is two villages away from our village, half of the people are orphans and widows, and most of the fields are abandoned. With this snow, I guess many more people will die."
As Jinniu said this, he took his hat from the kang, put it on his head, and walked out.
Wan Laoer shrank his neck, clasped his hands and sent Jinniu out the door, just in time to see a figure from the university staggering towards this side.
"Village Chief, Uncle Jin Zhu, please go to my house quickly. My house collapsed and my mother's legs were smashed. Please go and save my mother quickly?"
It was Ergouzi. As soon as he arrived, he knelt down in the snow and kowtowed to Jinniu and Wan Laoer. The tears on his face froze into ice chips.
"Child, get up quickly and stop crying. How can you cry at this time? Don't you want your face anymore?"
Jinniu grabbed Ergouzi and ran hurriedly to the end of the village.
Wan Laoer didn't even have time to go back and put on his hat, and was about to run away. Fortunately, Wan Er's wife heard him in the kitchen and quickly chased after him.
"Dad, wait a minute, put on your hat and scarf. If you don't wear a hat today, your ears will fall off when you come back."
Wan Ersao shouted, turned around and went into her room, hurriedly finding the hat and scarf in the closet.
When Wan Laoer arrived at Yu's house at the end of the village, he saw that quite a few people had gathered there, and everyone was helping to pull people out of the snow pit.
In the yard, Xiaolan was crying heart-wrenchingly, and her voice was hoarse. Ergouzi held his sister in his arms to prevent her tears from freezing into ice chips, as her face was so tender that it must not be ruined.
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