Wang Tianxiao led the two into the supply and marketing cooperative, pointed to the various snacks on display and said, "You can choose yourselves. Each of you can pick a snack worth one yuan."
"So many!" Li Guanhong was overjoyed.
Li Yamei also had a happy expression on her face.
The two went inside to pick out things. Wang Tianxiao hesitated in front of the cigarette counter for a while, his lips moved a few times, but in the end he did not choose to buy cigarettes.
In his past life, he loved smoking. His wife told him many times, but he wouldn't listen, saying he couldn't quit.
Whether it was karma or not, his wife eventually died of lung cancer. He always felt that if he had stopped smoking, his wife might not have needed to inhale so much secondhand smoke, and her lungs might not have had problems.
So even though he always wanted to smoke and found the smell of cigarettes very appealing, he never smoked again after his wife passed away.
He leaned against the counter, watching his two children happily browsing through the items, and he felt happy too.
That's just the kind of person he is; he's content as long as his loved ones are doing well.
"Brother-in-law, we've made our choices."
"Okay, put it on the counter."
The sales clerk calculated the cost of the two people's items: two yuan and one mao, a little bit too much.
In retrospect, Li Guanhong had taken too much stuff. He looked at his belongings with great reluctance, glancing left and right, unwilling to put any of them down.
"Take them all, no need to choose."
Wang Tianxiao rubbed his head, then went over and took two more packets of tea, five bags of soy milk powder, five cans of food, and several packets of different pastries.
The canned goods and pastries were divided into two parts: one part was prepared by my father-in-law and mother-in-law, and the other part was taken back to my mother.
He wouldn't always do what his mother wanted, but he never neglected to be filial to her.
Regardless of the circumstances, he always maintained his basic principles of conduct and strived to be a moral person.
When Wang Tianxiao returned to his mother-in-law's house with his two children, he noticed that the atmosphere was a bit strange, and his brother-in-law, Li Guanlin, and his wife had also returned.
They looked at themselves with shock and incomprehension.
"Big brother, sister-in-law is back."
Wang Tianxiao greeted them, knowing full well what they meant. They were simply finding it hard to accept that he now seemed to have become wealthy and was no longer the poor man he used to be.
He had no intention of deliberately humiliating anyone; it wouldn't have mattered.
He found it boring to live in a world where he derived his pleasure from others.
Doing your own thing and gradually getting better in life—that's true, ultimate happiness.
"Tianxiao, are Lili and the baby alright?" Li Guanlin just smiled and didn't say anything, but Gao Juanjuan was more lively and asked a question.
"Yes, everything is fine."
"That's good. Look, we didn't even go to see Lili when she gave birth. We were just too busy with work in the fields."
"It's fine. The work in the fields is more important. Didn't you send me some money?"
When Li Yali was hospitalized, Li Guanlin even gave her two yuan, which was actually quite generous.
We shouldn't have too high expectations.
They basically maintained the proper etiquette that relatives should have.
We can't expect everyone to be like Li Yaqin, thinking of all her brothers and sisters.
As long as you remember who has been good to you, you should be even better to them.
A drop of water in need is repaid with a spring of water.
After exchanging a few pleasantries, Wang Tianxiao said it was getting late and left his mother-in-law's house with Li Guanping.
He could sense that Gao Juanjuan's attitude changed immediately after learning about his current situation, and she was much more enthusiastic, trying her best to repair their previously broken relationship.
But he didn't care.
Since you've been able to maintain the status quo without trying to change it or start a new pattern, there's no need to.
That would make me uncomfortable.
You shouldn't do things that make you uncomfortable or that you don't want to do.
This is his most basic way of doing things now.
The motorcycle is traveling on the road.
“Guanping, it wasn’t convenient for you to stay with your aunt earlier, but now that we’re out, I still want to make things clear to you,” Wang Tianxiao said, and the north wind immediately filled his stomach. “When you get to my place, I’ll still pay you two yuan a day, not the one yuan we negotiated with them.”
"How can this be... Brother-in-law, one yuan is enough. We are... relatives. It's only right that I help you with something. It's already... excessive to charge you. How can you... charge more?"
Li Guanping speaks very slowly, which is his consistent habit and matches his gentle and unassuming personality.
"That's just to appease your parents. Let me tell you, the person I hired offered two yuan. If they offered you one yuan, wouldn't that make you seem less important than an outsider? Your sister definitely wouldn't do it."
"No...it's alright, I'll talk to my older sister about it. It's really not necessary, one yuan is enough."
"Guanping, why are you so stubborn? You're eighteen now, and you'll be looking for a girlfriend soon. These days, girls ask for such expensive dowries, and they also want to buy three major items. How are you going to find a wife if you don't have some savings? Are you expecting your parents to save money for you?"
"this……"
This hit Li Guanping's weak point.
Actually, Wang Tianxiao was exaggerating. In fact, as can be seen from the series of events that followed, Li Guanping didn't need to worry about finding a wife at all. He could just pick anyone, and many girls would like him.
I don't want it, it's just because he's really handsome.
Standing at 1.78 meters tall, with a square face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, fair skin, and a straight and upright posture, his handsomeness is not the delicate kind, but rather a very masculine kind.
He looks a bit like Chow Yun-fat when he was young.
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