Chapter 178

After just one night, this man's attitude changed 180 degrees. Qiao Sheng and the others, who had just given him medicine, were also confused.

However, they soon figured out the reasoning. The problem was with Wang Xiaohu, a young boy. He actually spent the whole night trying to persuade his mother to let him get on a boat. In

the beginning, he didn't have a boat, so he could take the island owner's fishing boat to help. When he saved enough wood, he could build his own boat. His father could support the family, and so could he in the future.

The most important thing was that the so-called grandfather whom he had never met might not be that reliable. After all, his mother was sent away to suffer before she could remember anything. Who could guarantee that they would live better if they went there now?

Qiao Sheng felt his back teeth ache after hearing this. It was really hard to persuade him. After all, from his point of view, the problem Wang Xiaohu mentioned was not a problem.

"Given your current physical condition, do you still want to go on a fishing boat? Do you fish or do the fish beat you? Even if you are sixteen next year, you may not be able to get on the boat in this situation where you are not well fed and clothed. Your sister will die. People have to be realistic. No matter how bad your grandfather is, he can feed you three." Meng Nannan wanted to open this kid's head to see if it was normal. His brain circuit was obviously abnormal.

"What if you want to kidnap us!" Wang Xiaohu began to waver, but he was still stubborn.

"You're right, what's the point of kidnapping you three? You're old, weak, sick, and disabled. If you kidnap them, you'll have to pay for them by weight." Meng Nannan was even more disgusted when he heard him kidnap them.

"Let's put it this way. After all, your mother has to see her biological parents. The most important thing is that your grandmother is in poor health now. She just wants to see her daughter again in this life. That's why your grandfather risked violating the family rules and asked us to come and pick you up. How about this, you three mothers go over there and take a look. If you can live better than here, you can stay. If you don't, we'll be responsible for sending you back." Qiao Sheng saw that there was no real progress in their quarrel, so he might as well cut out the problem and come up with a more reasonable solution.

Wang Xiaohua didn't react at all. She took the medicine obediently and licked the honey candy given by Qiao Sheng. Aunt Jiang was obviously tempted, especially when she heard that her mother was not in good health, she wanted to see her.

Wang Xiaohu actually wanted to leave a way out for his family. Since Qiao Sheng and his team had paved the road so smoothly, they really didn't seem to have any worries.

A few people withdrew and let the three of them discuss it. In the end, they agreed to go with them. Because they were not sure whether they would come back in the future, Aunt Jiang meant to take everything with them, so that it would be okay even if they came back in the future.

In fact, there was not much that could be taken away. After all, this family was really poor. In addition to wild vegetables, there were only pots and pans, and two bundles of firewood that Wang Xiaohu had collected in the past few days.

The bedding was prepared by Qiao Sheng and his friends. You can just roll it up and take it away. A few people helped to pack it up. Aunt Jiang also explained to the neighbors next door that she was going to visit relatives.

She didn't say when she would be back, after all, it was not certain whether she would come back or not. She said goodbye and walked towards the shore.

When Wang Xiaohu saw Qiao Sheng's three boats, his eyes were not enough. The boats of Meng's siblings and Shen Chen were all three-story, which was not small. Qiao Sheng's boat was even bigger, with four floors and many more floats than the other two.

Looking at this boat that was obviously much larger than the island owner's fishing boat, he suddenly felt that he had to work hard all his life to have such a big boat.

Aunt Jiang and her two daughters were arranged on Shen Chen's boat, considering that Qiao Sheng and Meng Nannan

's boats were less crowded. After they boarded the boats, Qiao Sheng and his group were still in the lead, followed by the Meng siblings' boat, and Shen Chen's boat was at the end. When the boat started, they found a problem. Grandpa Jiang had given Aunt Jiang the coordinates of this island, but not the coordinates of his own cemetery island. Qiao Sheng

was sleeping when the boat started, so only Li Mu scanned the coordinates at that time and input them based on his memory. Sure enough, two days later, they arrived at the coordinates they input, but there was no island nearby.

As a result, Li Mu could only recall and try, and it took another day. The third time he input the correct coordinates, he found the island of Grandpa Jiang.

This time, when they stopped the boat, they stopped at the side where Mr. Jiang and his wife lived. From where they had landed a few days ago, they thought the whole island was a cemetery. When they moved the boat to the other side, they found that there was actually a forest on the island, but it was on the other side.

Because they didn't know when they would come back, Mr. Jiang had been waiting on the shore for the past few days, fishing and waiting for them.

When they dropped anchor and got off the boat, Mr. Jiang saw Aunt Jiang, and tears came down all of a sudden. He really couldn't connect his plump daughter with the skinny woman in front of him.

But looking at her outline, he could guess that this was his daughter, because she was a thinner version of his old woman. The father and daughter hugged their heads and cried for a while.

Grandpa Jiang led the troops back to the small courtyard where they were guarding the tomb. It was also fenced and brick-roofed, but it was much better than the house where Aunt Jiang and her family lived before, and it was clean and tidy.

There were also many livestock in the yard. An old lady who looked very similar to Aunt Jiang, but was much plumper, was holding a bowl and feeding the chickens in the yard.

"Old woman, look who's back!" Grandpa Jiang walked briskly, opened the fence door with his left hand, and pulled Aunt Jiang, who was jogging and panting, with his right hand.

"Nannan! Is this my Nannan?" When Aunt Jiang saw the person the old man was holding, she knew at a glance that this was her daughter. She was so excited that she dropped the bowl of millet in her hands on the ground, and ran over to hug her daughter.

Mother and daughter met again after decades, and it was certain that they would cry, but the atmosphere was broken when Wang Xiaohua ran over to pick up the millet on the ground.

Years of hunger made the little girl's first reaction when she saw something dropped on the ground was to pick it up, especially food, which must not be wasted.

But the little girl was still running a fever a few days ago. Although she took a few doses of Chinese medicine, she was very weak due to years of hunger. When she picked up the millet and stood up with the broken porcelain pieces, she almost fell down again because of dizziness.

Fortunately, Meng Nannan was standing close enough to her and supported the little girl. However, she did not hold the millet in her hand firmly and scattered it all over the floor again. The little girl looked down at the millet with distress and wanted to squat down to pick it up again.

Because of the noise, the mother and daughter who were crying with their heads in their arms noticed the situation. Aunt Jiang hurried to help Wang Xiaohua. Seeing that her daughter was weak, Aunt Jiang also reached out to help.

"Is this your daughter and son? My dear, if they fall to the ground, don't care about them. Grandpa still has a lot of millet here. I will make millet porridge for you later." Grandpa Jiang quickly asked everyone to sit in the main hall. His daughter and two grandsons were obviously not in good health.

Obviously, there were not enough chairs in the main hall of Master Jiang, so Li Mu and other masters sat on small stools, at least everyone had a seat.

Master Jiang poured a glass of water for everyone, and then the only thing that could be heard in the whole room was Aunt Jiang talking about the years after she left her parents.

The past few decades really went by fast. Although the mother and daughter had not seen each other for decades, looking at the elderly mother, Aunt Jiang still talked about all the hardships she had experienced, emphasizing how good and well-behaved her two children were.

Qiao Sheng and Meng Nannan, who were shallow-eyed, turned their backs and wiped their tears several times, suddenly missing their mother.

Grandpa Jiang didn't wait for Aunt Jiang to finish. He knew that his grandson was fifteen years old and his granddaughter was ten years old, but they looked particularly thin, especially his granddaughter, who not only had dry and yellow hair, but also looked about the same height as the six or seven-year-old children he had seen before.

The old man stood up and went to the kitchen. After a while, he could smell the aroma of food. Aunt Jiang, who had been talking to her mother, realized that her father was not in the room. This meant that he was obviously going to cook. She quickly stood up and wanted to help.

"Nannan, don't move. Let your father do it. He has been guarding the shore during the day these days. When he comes back at night, he goes to the kitchen to study the food you loved to eat when you were a child. This is his chance to show off his cooking skills. Just rest and don't move." Aunt Jiang didn't give her daughter a chance to work. She pushed her back to sit on the kang and stuffed oranges into the hands of the three of them.

After greeting the family, she did not forget Qiao Sheng and the others. She distributed oranges to everyone. Then she said she was going to the kitchen to supervise the old man, fearing that he would be lazy. Before leaving, she also told Aunt Jiang to have a good rest and think about helping after she recovered.

Wang Xiaohua ate the oranges that her mother had just peeled for her in small bites. Aunt Jiang looked around the room, her eyes dull from time to time, as if she was recalling her childhood.

Wang Xiaohu did not say anything. He took the oranges and did not eat them. His brows were slightly wrinkled. It was unknown what he was thinking. Meng Nannan saw him like this and knew that the child might be thinking about something again.

He asked right away. He didn't think Wang Xiaohu would say anything, but he didn't feel awkward this time. He lowered his voice and went between Meng Nannan and Qiao Sheng to ask them if their grandfather wanted them to take care of their mother and take care of her until she died.

Meng Nannan rolled her eyes and almost flipped over. Qiao Sheng sighed and thought that it was not good for this child to mature too early. What was going on in his mind?

"Instead of wasting time on these wild thoughts, you might as well take a closer look at how your grandparents treat you three, especially your mom. Since she came to this island, hasn't she smiled a lot more? Besides, your grandparents have been guarding the graves on this island all their lives, and they have the tribesmen to take care of them in their old age, okay? Do they need a kid like you who hasn't even fully grown their hair?" Meng Nannan suddenly felt that her brother seemed to be a good person. At least he wasn't the one with eight hundred tricks in his head and none of them were in the right place.

"Xiaohu, don't think too much. The feelings between people are developed through getting along with each other. After a long time, you will know how your grandparents treat you. How about this? We will build you a small boat to facilitate your fishing. It will also be a guarantee for your future livelihood. If you are really happy here, you can drive the boat and take your mother and sister away from here." Qiao Sheng thought about it. In fact, this child still has no sense of security. It is still a bit stressful for him to support a family too early.

Wang Xiaohu rarely argued with Meng Nannan. He thought about their proposal. Although he didn't understand why these people were so good to them, he really had no other choice now. He could only accept Qiao Sheng and their kindness with a thick face.