After watching the car drive away, Meng Shengcai took his wife and went to the village with a load of bricks and tiles.
It seemed like God had made all the snow fall before the New Year, and it has been sunny for half of the first month of the year.
The snow on the mountain gradually melted, and the mountain road became dry and easy to walk on.
After several hours of driving on the mountain road, the car drove back to the village smoothly in less than an hour.
The hum of the engine was heard for the first time in this remote mountain village.
It attracted almost the entire village.
Outside the Meng family's yard, people surrounded the brand new tricycle in three layers, staring at it with shining eyes, whispering about where the Meng family made money and how expensive the tricycle was.
Several young people who felt they had a good relationship with Meng Sheng took the initiative to help unload bricks and tiles, and asked directly.
"Sheng Lao Er, how much is your car?"
"Meng Sheng, where did you buy this car? It can hold much more things than a bicycle!"
After these two questions touched everyone's heart, the originally noisy scene became much quieter, and a group of people on the side pricked up their ears, waiting for answers.
As soon as spring came, people had to be hired to farm and grow medicinal herbs. In addition, everyone in the old house had gone to the provincial capital to make a lot of money, so Meng Sheng no longer created an image of himself as a poor man.
He smiled and replied, "The car cost four or five thousand yuan. I met a long-distance driver when I went to the city before. I helped him a little and asked someone to buy it for me from the provincial capital."
"Four or five thousand yuan!"
Several exclamations were heard simultaneously from the surrounding villagers.
Everyone gasped, their eyes widened, and they calculated in their minds how much four or five thousand yuan was.
Thirty yuan for a hundred kilograms of grain, five cents for an egg. Even if the lowest price is four thousand yuan, it is still more than ten thousand kilograms of grain and about eighty thousand eggs.
Many villagers were amazed after counting the money on their fingers for a long time.
I marvel at how the Meng family has quietly accumulated such a large sum of money, and I'm also amazed that Meng Sheng is still as spendthrift as ever.
Instead of saving such a large sum of money, he bought a piece of metal that is neither edible nor drinkable.
Apart from saving people time and effort, it's not very useful.
In the eyes of these simple villagers, the least valuable things nowadays are time and energy.
Meng Sheng calmly unloaded the truck and worked despite everyone's envious, jealous, and contemptuous looks.
Feng Yijia was not used to being watched by others, so he went into the yard as soon as he parked the car.
I haven't been home for a few days, and the house, bed, pots and pans are all covered with dust. I have to clean them up before I can live in them.
When Feng Youcai heard that his daughter had returned, he came out from the field regardless of day or night, and followed his busy daughter, chattering nonsense.
"My goodness, is it fun in the county?"
"Baby, do you miss daddy?"
"My dear, has anyone bullied you these days?"
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Feng Yijia was busy with his hands, and whispered carefully about what he had seen and heard in the past ten days.
The bustling streets and various customs and activities, delicious food, getting along with the Meng family, my new house and shop, etc.
After finishing his story, he asked his father, "Dad, how is things at home these days?"
"Everything is fine and peaceful."
Feng Youcai didn't expect that after scaring people twice, it also had the effect of protecting the house.
No one dared to approach the two courtyards, day or night.
After answering, a gloating look appeared on Piaohuo's face again, and he said with a smile: "A few days ago, your uncle came back and was covered in wounds. I heard that he was beaten up by his brothers-in-law.
You didn't see it, when he returned to the village, his face was bruised and his legs were limping, his cotton jacket had several big holes in it, and he looked so miserable. It made me so happy to see him.
At this point, Feng Youcai's smile faded a little, and he said with a hint of sarcasm in his eyes, "Your uncle and I have been brothers for decades, but only now do I truly understand him.
He is a cowardly and treacherous bastard. Not only his brothers, but even his wife and children mean nothing to him!
He didn't dare to stay in the village, so he rented out all the land at home to others. After collecting rent for a few years, he sold everything that could be sold at home, packed his bags and left the village, not knowing where he went.
Two days after they left, your aunt came back with her son and daughter, only to find that the house was empty and the fields had been rented out.
It was like the sky had fallen. After crying for a long time, she left with her children.
The whole family probably won’t be back for a while.”
Feng Yijia didn't expect that his uncle's family would end up like this, but when he thought about the gold jewelry that had been hidden for more than ten years and no one knew about it, he was not surprised.
Then he asked, "Dad, what about my uncle's family?
Is there anything else happening in the village?"
Feng Youcai curled his lips and said, "Feng Laosan didn't see it. I guess he has done too many bad things and is too afraid of ghosts to return to the village.
Instead, his wife and two daughters came back and stayed for two days.
Preparing wedding supplies.
I heard that the two girls have been engaged to the third son’s wife’s family, and they have received a lot of betrothal gifts. They will be married off at the same time in a few days.”
My third uncle has two cousins, the older one is eighteen and the younger one is only sixteen. In their previous life, my third uncle and his wife were very good at scheming, and a few years later they married their two daughters to men in the city one after another.
Life after marriage was not good at first. She was despised and excluded by her in-laws everywhere. But life became better after she had a child. She carried large and small bags of things to the village, making many families envious.
Now that I am getting married in such a hurry, I don’t know whether my future life will be good or bad?
Feng Yijia was worried for two seconds, then thought of the days when she was ordered around by the two of them, and was blamed and beaten for them. She decisively put the future of her two cousins behind her.
Continue to listen to his father talk about things in the village.
"Feng Chunhua's husband has returned from the army. I heard he got a promotion, and he wants to take his wife and children to the army to accompany him.
The positions of Women's Director and Sales Representative will soon be vacant.
Chen Hai's wife and Meng Jiemin's wife have been fighting openly and secretly for this position these days.
Also, the village primary school started school, and Principal Chen's wife had to take care of the children, so his family transferred her back to the village primary school to teach.
Feng Chunhua's sister-in-law, Chen Wenqing, who graduated from junior high school, went to school as a substitute teacher.
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The father and daughter were chatting among themselves, not paying any attention to what was happening outside between Meng Sheng and the villagers.
Only after the truck was unloaded and the onlookers were sent away, and a few young men who helped with the work were led by Meng Sheng into the house to wash their hands, did they stop talking.
One person was busy bringing food and pouring water, while a ghost floated back into the copper coin to continue nourishing its soul.
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