After sending the Ruan family to the train station, Pei Yuanzheng and Ruan Niannian took them directly to the platform.
Mr. Ruan asked someone to buy a hard sleeper ticket. There were not many people in the carriage, and only the Ruan family from Xi County got on the train.
There were not many things to bring back, unlike the large and small bags when they came here. Brother Ruan could carry them all with just two hands, so Pei Yuanzheng did not see them off to the car.
When the train was about to start, Father Ruan raised the window and asked Pei Yuanzheng, "Are you sure the news you said is true?"
"Of course, Dad, you have to prepare early." Pei Yuanzheng's face became serious when he heard his question.
Father Ruan nodded at him, and looked at Ruan Niannian a few times with concern. When the train started slowly, he choked up and said, "Live a good life. Your mother and I are not around. Listen to your husband more and don't be willful."
"Okay, I get it, you too, take care!"
Almost in an instant, Ruan Niannian's tears came down. She ran after the train for a while. The train was going faster and faster, and she stopped only after it left the platform.
Pei Yuanzheng has been silently accompanying her and running with her.
After the train left, Ruan Niannian squatted on the spot, hugged her knees and cried uncontrollably, crying out all the grievances and longings of a lifetime.
After she finished crying, Pei Yuanzheng picked her up and wiped the tears from her face with the hand massager he carried with him.
"Wife, you've cried enough now, don't cry again in the future, or people will think I bullied you."
Ruan Niannian immediately burst into laughter, "How can you be so talkative? Seeing that you never smile in front of other people and speak in a stern voice, I thought you were deliberately pretending to be gentle in front of me."
"I'm used to it." Pei Yuanzheng said helplessly, "What's so funny about me and them? I don't look good when I smile. My wife looks good when she smiles."
"loquacious!"
Although she said this, Pei Yuanzheng could tell from the expression on her face that she was very willing to hear such words.
The couple had no intention of staying in the county town and went straight back to the team.
Pei Qingbai and Pei Qingyang took half a day off and went to work in the afternoon. They were told by the scorekeeper that Pei Qingsong and Pei Dasao had gone to work in the morning and their work points were recorded.
Pei Qingbai was a little at a loss.
In the eyes of this honest man, it was his mother's favoritism that led to his and Pei Qingyang's current situation, and it had nothing to do with Pei Qingsong. Such kindness was a little difficult for him to accept.
Pei Qingyang muttered, "If they want to give, then give. Second brother, don't forget that mother still has more than 3,000 yuan, which is all left for them. What's wrong with helping us do some work?"
Pei Qingbai felt that this was not the case, but he didn't know how to refute Pei Qingyang, so he could only go and get the farm tools to work. Apart from working, he didn't know how else he could make his wife and children live a better life.
When Pei Yuanzheng brought Ruan Niannian back to the team, Pei Qingshan had already called his eighth uncle over.
Seeing Uncle Eight’s smiling face whenever he sees anyone, even people in a bad mood will become a little more cheerful.
As soon as they met, Uncle Eight called out to Ruan Niannian, "My niece's wife, come here."
Ruan Niannian walked over and called out obediently, "Hello, Uncle Eighth."
"Okay, okay, here's this for you. Uncle Eight won't give this thing away easily." He took out a small long cloth bag and put it in Ruan Niannian's hand, "Open it and see if you like it."
Ruan Niannian opened the cloth bag she was holding. It was heavy. When she took it out, she found it was a finely crafted silver hairpin that weighed at least one or two taels.
"This is too expensive." Ruan Niannian glanced at Pei Yuanzheng, not knowing whether to accept it or not.
Pei Yuanzheng was also a little surprised, but he didn't let Ruan Niannian return it. "Keep it, wife. Thank you, Eighth Uncle."
"Hey." Ruan Niannian put away the silver hairpin and followed suit, "Thank you, Uncle Eighth."
The Pei family is indeed a large farming family with a long history and still has some heritage. An elder in the family can easily give out a silver hairpin. They should not be underestimated!
Thinking that Pei Yuanzheng called people over because he must have something to talk about, Ruan Niannian made an excuse to pack up and return to their temporary residence.
As for what Pei Yuanzheng wanted to see his eighth uncle about.
He was not a man who liked to waste time, so he directly stated his purpose: "Uncle Eighth, you are the best stonemason in our village. The construction of the house for my three grandsons and brothers will be left to you."
"Nonsense!" Pei Qingshan scolded directly: "Uncle Eighth is already so old, and you are looking for trouble."
As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the back.
The Eighth Uncle was very dissatisfied: "Pei Qingshan! Tell me, how old am I this year? Am I too old to walk?"
He's just older than me.
In fact, he still likes the feeling of being needed.
Immediately, Uncle Eight patted his chest and assured: "Don't worry, Yuanzheng, Uncle Eight has agreed to build the house. You can buy the materials yourself, and you don't need to call others. Just call a few young and strong people in our tribe, and Uncle Eight can finish the work for you in one day!"
He was talking about an ordinary brick house, but Pei Yuanzheng wanted to build a flat-roofed house.
Pei Qingshan knew what he was thinking all along, and he quickly advised him, "Don't do that. You're going to do the free market business, and you won't come back here often, so having a place to stay is enough. Why do you want to do it so well? Are you trying to save up a fortune for your eldest brother?"
He had nothing to dislike about Pei Qingsong, but he also had nothing to dislike about him. He was just telling the truth.
It is not appropriate for younger generations to address their elders directly. He should at least call Li Dani "Auntie". He cannot just call her Li Dani, and he cannot just call her Pei Qingsong.
"Okay then." Pei Yuanzheng was helpless as the whole family was afraid that he would suffer.
He actually felt that it was worth using the money to repay Li Dani for raising him for eighteen years.
At least from now on he won't have to be blackmailed by Li Dani and ask her to repay his kindness all the time, as that would only cause internal friction and have no other effect.
Anyway, he has now determined that he is not Li Dani's son.
Without that near-death experience of giving birth to a baby, Li Dani didn't say anything nice to him in the first eighteen years, and was even very harsh to him. Thinking of this, he didn't feel any guilt at all.
"Oh, right." Uncle Ba suddenly remembered, "Have you chosen the homesteads for Qingbai and Qingyang?"
Pei Qingshan slapped his forehead and said, "Look at me, I forgot about such a big thing. They didn't come to see me. I'll go and check it out now. Or should I join Yuan Zheng's room?"
"That's fine." Pei Yuanzheng nodded, "But I still have to ask my second and third brothers for their opinions."
He thinks it's good to work together so they can take care of each other.
"Then wait until they get off work and ask them."
Eighth Uncle chatted with Pei Qingshan and Pei Yuanzheng for a while, and then took on the task of finding people to help build the house. He also refused Pei Yuanzheng's request for wages, and only told him to entertain the brothers who came to work well.
After seeing Uncle Eight off, when I came back, Ruan Niannian was at the door, touching the women's Little Phoenix, unable to let go.
This was her favorite gift that Pei Yuanzheng gave her.
"It's bad!" Pei Yuanzheng's face suddenly changed, as if he remembered something.
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