After the exploration team left, Jiang Mingde lay back on the hospital bed, touched his fractured coccyx, and began to cry out.
This damned country place! It was in tatters and the floor was not clean. He slipped and fell hard on his way home that night, and his butt was almost broken.
Jiang Mingde had no place to vent his anger, and he was even more determined to speed up the construction schedule and finish the task as soon as possible. Jiang Mingde gritted his teeth in pain and temporarily put aside other thoughts.
In a room in the corner of the town, Tiezhu was reporting the situation to Song Weizheng with a sly smile: "I saw it with my own eyes. He fell hard. I heard that he broke his bones. He will have to stay in the hospital for at least one or two months."
Song Weizheng patted his shoulder and said, "Well done, thank you."
Tiezhu laughed and said, "What are you thanking me for? This guy is just like a pig head. I don't like him. He even dared to scare us in front of our aunt and sister. He deserves it! I just feel sorry for your bucket of oil. It's all spilled on the ground. It hurts my heart to see it."
Song Wei Zheng's lips curled slightly: "It doesn't matter if I lose a little bit of money. I can earn it back later."
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That day, Jiang Miaomiao was standing at the entrance of the village waiting with a basket on her shoulder. The things in the basket were covered with rags, so it was impossible to see what was inside.
After waiting for a while, we finally saw an ox cart slowly approaching from a distance. In addition to Old Liu driving the cart, there were also the village chief and several village officials sitting on it.
When the ox cart arrived in front of her, Jiang Miaomiao stepped forward and stopped for a moment.
Old Liu stopped the car and looked at her in confusion: "Miao girl? What are you doing standing there? You're blocking the road."
Jiang Miaomiao smiled and said respectfully to the village chief on the ox cart: "Village chief, can you give me a ride? My sister has been sick these past two days, and I want to go to the town hospital to buy some medicine for her."
Village chief: "Why don't you just go to our village doctor Chen to buy medicine? Why go to the town hospital?"
Jiang Miaomiao explained: "Village chief, you may not know that my sister is getting married in a little over a month. I can't afford to go on a business trip. I have to be very cautious now! I have to go to the town hospital to ask for peace of mind."
The village chief nodded thoughtfully: "Okay, we also happen to be going to the town, so we can take you along the way. But let me make it clear first, we don't know when we'll leave, and we won't wait for anyone. If you want to take a ride back, you'd better hurry up."
Jiang Miaomiao agreed repeatedly: "Of course, of course, thank you, Village Chief!"
She climbed onto the ox cart while expressing her gratitude.
Old Liu in front cracked his whip and the ox cart started moving again.
When they arrived at the town hospital, the village chief and several officials went straight in.
Jiang Miaomiao looked around and found that no one was paying attention, so she followed them quietly.
She came to the town hospital today, of course not because of her sister's illness.
Jiang Miaomiao knew that a big leader had come to the village some time ago and led a team to mine on Shitou Mountain. The leader was a big official from a big city, rich and powerful, and she was tempted at the time.
No one in this country place can afford her antiques, but a big leader from the city should be able to afford them, right?
She had heard in her previous life that many wealthy and powerful people loved to pretend to be cultured and buy some ancient paintings and antiques to show off.
Unfortunately, this leader seldom came to the village, so she never had the chance to meet him.
Isn't this a coincidence? Yesterday, I heard that the leader was injured and hospitalized, so the village chief called on several village cadres to go and visit him, and they also picked out some useful supplements to bring over.
When Jiang Miaomiao heard about this, she immediately felt that the opportunity had come, so now she followed the village chief and several others and secretly came to the leader's ward.
She stood at the corner of the wall, facing the occasional puzzled looks from the nurses passing by, and finally waited until the village chief and his friends finished their conversation and came out.
After everyone walked away, Jiang Miaomiao quietly walked to Jiang Mingde's ward with a basket on her shoulder and tried to push the door open to go in.
"Hey! Who is that?! What are you doing sneaking around?" A sharp voice suddenly came, scaring Jiang Miaomiao so much that she almost dropped the basket.
She hugged the basket tightly with concern, turned around and found that it was the nurse who had been staring at her.
Jiang Miaomiao could only explain in a gentle voice: "Miss Nurse, I am here to visit the patient."
The nurse raised her eyebrows with a suspicious look on her face: "Visiting a patient? Why do you hide for so long to visit a patient? And you're being sneaky."
Jiang Miaomiao forced a smile, feeling a little impatient: "There's someone in front of me, and I don't know him, so I'm going to wait until he leaves before trying again."
"Don't worry, nurse. What can a little girl like me do? I'm really just here to visit the patient! The leader of our village is here. My father specially asked me to come and deliver some gifts to visit the patient." She pleaded.
The nurse looked at her coldly several times, and finally let her go with some doubt.
Jiang Miaomiao then breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and knocked on the door, then gently pushed the door open and entered the ward.
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After a while, the door of the ward opened again, and Jiang Miaomiao came in empty-handed with a smug smile on her face.
When she passed by the nurse, she was no longer as humble as before. She held her head high, chest out, and walked past her with a proud look, and even glanced at her smugly.
After Jiang Miaomiao walked past, the nurse looked at her like she was crazy: "Are you sick..."
In the ward, Jiang Mingde took out a worn-out and stale plate from the basket, weighed it and examined it carefully. His eyes gleamed as if he had seen some treasure.
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Of course Jiang Miaomiao did not catch up with the village chief's ox cart. She waited until almost evening before she saw an ox cart passing by from a neighboring village.
When she got home, the moon was already high in the sky and most people had gone home to rest.
Jiang Miaomiao tiptoed to the window at the back of the house and called Jiang Xiuxiu, asking her to get up and open the gate for her.
"Huh..." After entering the room, Jiang Miaomiao collapsed on the bed, "Luckily I didn't wake up Mom."
Jiang Xiuxiu put on her coat and quietly closed the door. She turned to look at her sister and asked in confusion, "Sister, what were you doing that brought you back so late? Mom has been looking for you for a long time today and is very angry. You better be careful tomorrow."
Jiang Miaomiao raised her hand and said, "Let her be angry. I have important things to do and no one can stop me."
"What are you busy with, sister?"
Jiang Miaomiao rolled her eyes at her impatiently: "You won't understand even if I tell you. Just wait to get married and stop minding my business."
After saying that, she turned over, turned her back to Jiang Xiuxiu and ignored everyone.
In the darkness, Jiang Miaomiao took out a roll of money from her pocket and felt it carefully, her excitement almost overflowing.
She finally sold her antique plates today!
Although she had to talk a lot and pretend that it was passed down from her ancestors to gain his trust, the big leader from the city was still generous after all, and paid a huge amount of money as a deposit. She didn't dare to take it out to count it outside, but just glanced at it casually, and it was probably a few dozen yuan!
However, Jiang Miaomiao also kept the plate she brought there, waiting for her leader to find an antique appraiser before delivering the remaining goods and money.
Jiang Miaomiao touched it over and over again, fantasizing about the huge amount of money she would have in the future, while holding the roll of money against her chest, she fell asleep slowly while having such a sweet dream...
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"Xiaoxue!" One day, Jiang Suisui saw Song Yuxue on the way to Shitoushan to deliver food and greeted her happily.
Then she noticed the basket Song Yuxue was carrying and asked curiously, "Are you bringing food to your brother?"
Song Yuxue nodded: "Yeah."
Jiang Suisui: "Then let's go together. You wait for me and we'll go back together later!"
Song Yuxue said obediently: "Okay."
When they got to the mountain, Song Yuxue went to find Song Weizhen, and Jiang Suinsui and several other girls helped everyone divide the food.
When preparing to go down the mountain, Jiang Suisui saw that Song Yuxue had not returned yet, so he said to the others: "You go back first, I'll go find someone."
She turned around and walked towards the place where she found Song Wei Zheng last time. Sure enough, she saw Song Wei Zheng. He was sitting on the stone with a relaxed posture, looking down at Song Yuxue who was squatting on the ground playing.
"Xiaoxue." Jiang Suinsui called out.
Song Yuxue raised her head and saw her. She quickly threw away the things in her hands, stood up and ran towards her: "Sister Sunshun!"
Jiang Suisui touched her head and asked, "Has your brother finished eating? What were you playing just now?"
Song Yuxue took her hand and led her to the stone, then squatted down, looked up at her and said, "Brother is teaching me how to play with stones."
Then she picked up two stones and demonstrated to Jiang Suisui. Although she was a little clumsy, she succeeded once or twice with just a flip of her hand.
Jiang Suisui's eyes lit up as he clapped his hands and exclaimed, "Wow, that's amazing!"
Song Yuxue said proudly: "I'm not that good, it was my brother who taught me, my brother is the one who is good!"
"Sister Sunsun, can you play?"
Jiang Suinsui shook her head: "No..." This completely involved a blind spot in her knowledge. She had no such entertainment in her childhood.
"Brother!" Song Yuxue turned around and called out to Song Weizheng, "You should teach Sister Shunshun too!"
"Ah? No..."
"good."
"......right." Before Jiang Suishun could finish her words, Song Weizheng responded, then stood up from the stone and squatted down.
Then they both raised their heads and looked at Jiang Suinsui who was still standing.
Jiang Suisui: “…” Being stared at by four eyes, the pressure is so great…
She squatted down silently, and finally, the three of them gathered in a circle. Jiang Suisui and Song Yuxue watched Song Weizheng throw a stone with his hand, quickly drop it to grab the stone on the ground, and then quickly catch it. He repeated this several times, which made Jiang Suisui dazzled.
"Awesome...awesome!" She didn't even dare to applaud, for fear of disrupting Song Wei Zheng's rhythm.
Song Weizheng stopped, raised his lips slightly, and threw a few stones to her: "You can play with Xiaoxue."
"Oh... okay." Jiang Suinsui imitated Song Weizheng's just way of grabbing and throwing stones, but...she didn't catch any.
The more she played, the more unwilling she became. She squatted on the ground and started playing with the pebbles, even more devotedly than Song Yuxue.
Song Wei Zheng sat back on the stone again. This time, he lowered his head and looked at the two people, one big and one small, squatting on the ground, playing this childish game with great pleasure. His eyes unconsciously showed a doting look that he himself was not aware of.
Finally, on the way back down the mountain, Jiang Suisui held Song Yuxue's hand and said unconvincedly: "Xiaoxue, wait for me, I will go home to practice, and in two days we will compete to see who is better!"