"Don't they own land?"
"Yes, it seems like the family owns quite a lot of land."
"Tell them to switch to growing vegetables, and your restaurant will buy them. Then tell them to raise chickens and pigs as well. They can raise more chickens, but only a couple of pigs. You can buy them all, even if you lose a little money, and buy them at the market price. That way, their lives will gradually improve."
Lou Xiao'e's eyes lit up with surprise; this idea was really good.
Although Xiaoqin's family is in Beihe, it's right next to Beijing. It only takes an hour or two to get there by car. When the time comes, she can just find any car to pick up her family's vegetables.
In this way, the dowry will ensure that her brothers can find wives without any problems, and their subsequent living problems will also be solved by growing vegetables and raising chickens and pigs.
Anyone with a modicum of foresight would choose this method.
"Thank you, Brother Chu, that's a really good idea."
"No need to thank me, I've watched Yangyang grow up."
After finishing the gossip, and finding a good solution to Lou Xiao'e's biggest headache—her eldest son's marriage—she felt restless and couldn't sit still any longer. After chatting for only a few more minutes, she hurriedly went home.
It was completely dark by then, and Ding Qiunan was really worried about letting Lou Xiao'e walk back alone, so she simply took her husband and their two dogs with her and walked Lou Xiao'e back to her home.
The restaurants on Qianmen Street opened in mid-December, and their popularity was indescribable.
This place will be renovated after the spring this year. No one made a reservation today, and the restaurant was already closed when they arrived at the door.
Li Chu and Ding Qiunan didn't go in either. After dropping Lou Xiao'e off, they turned around and went home.
"Honey, why have you been looking at me so strangely the whole way?"
"What's so strange about it? I'm just admiring him, okay? How come my man is so smart? How did you come up with that idea?"
“Hey, I was thinking of renting a piece of land for us to raise dogs, so we would definitely need to hire someone to take care of it. At that time, I thought about growing some vegetables on that land so we could eat them and sell them.”
"You can grow vegetables?"
"Of course, you should ask your sister when you get back. We did farm work when we were in Nanniwan too."
"Tsk tsk, I didn't realize that. I thought you couldn't tell the difference between grains."
These words left Li Chu speechless. He waved his hand and said, "Let me tell you, my wife, I can do almost everything except give birth."
"What nonsense are you talking about? You're getting all worked up just because I said you're fat."
"Oh, by the way, darling, Xiao'e just came over and told me..."
Li Chu stared at his wife in disbelief, opening his mouth but unable to utter a single word.
He never imagined that his initial skepticism about Yi Ping'an and the widow's affair would escalate to this point.
Both elderly people were rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment. He couldn't say how the old man would fare, but given the old woman's condition, he estimated that she was probably not going to make it this time.
He suddenly felt lost, unsure whether his intervention back then to help them have their own child was the right or wrong thing to do.
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"Why aren't you saying anything?" Ding Qiunan waited for a long time but her man didn't say a word.
"I don't know what to say. Is it really a good thing to have a child late in life? I remember when Yi Ping'an was little, he loved it when I held him. No matter how hard he cried, he would stop crying as soon as I held him. Sigh~ Spoiling a child is like killing him!"
"That's also a problem with the old man's upbringing. If you want to date, just date properly."
"This matter is difficult to resolve no matter what. Fortunately, Jian Guo withdrew quickly, otherwise we would probably be the ones suffering."
Ding Qiunan only then realized what had happened, and her back was instantly covered in cold sweat. She couldn't imagine what the consequences would be if the scene that happened at the old man's house were to happen in their house.
"I want to beat Ding Jianguo up again now," she said through gritted teeth.
Wasn't that slap last time enough?
"If the same scenario happened to my mother, I guarantee the outcome wouldn't be much better than what happened to my uncle."
"Alright, honey, Jianguo has been behaving quite well lately, and he's realized his mistakes. But you can talk to him about this again; there's no need to resort to violence."
“I definitely need to talk to him again. I didn’t even think of coming here if you hadn’t mentioned it. I was just watching other people’s drama unfold. We almost became the main characters.”
"Alright, honey, don't think about unhappy things anymore. Now you can think about Huihui's marriage."
"What's there to consider when our daughter is getting married? We can just sew two more quilts later. We already gave her the rest of the dowry."
"I'll talk to Huihui when she comes back this weekend. If it's confirmed, I'll process her enlistment. I'll register her for the exam tomorrow."
"Ugh~ one thing after another has happened these past few days, and my head is spinning."
"Don't overthink it, let's just live our own lives."
"Okay, I understand. Actually, as long as you're by my side, I naturally won't think about anything else." Ding Qiunan raised her head and looked at the man beside her, smiling sheepishly.
"Okay, I'll always be by your side."
The cold winter wind could not dispel the warmth that lingered in their hearts.
...
For the next two days, Li Chu was running around everywhere. Winter was his busiest time. The older comrades would easily catch a cold. What might be a disease that young people could tough out on their own could be fatal to these older comrades.
On the evening of the 5th, the elderly couple, who had been holding on in the hospital for two days, could not continue to live and passed away one after the other.
Li Chu was deeply saddened when he received the news that evening.
He had originally booked a table at Xu Damao's place for lunch on the 6th, but because of something at Uncle Yi's house, He Yuzhu was helping out there, so he definitely wouldn't be able to eat there.
"Dad, what do you think of this outfit?"
Li Chu, who was lost in thought, was snapped out of his daze by a voice.
Looking at his daughter standing at the living room door in her military uniform, Li Chu grinned foolishly.
Wearing a military uniform, Li Wenhui no longer exudes her former delicate charm; instead, she displays a heroic and spirited demeanor.
Seeing her father looking over, she gave a perfunctory salute: "Greetings, Commander!"
"Good, good, my daughter looks even prettier in her military uniform. That brat Shen Yi is really lucky."
"Dad, then I won't get married. I'll stay home with you and Mom."
"That won't do. Dad can't ruin your lifelong happiness."
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