Mother Zhang poured hot water and washed the faces and hands of Father Zhang and Jinniu. Together with Zhang Fu, she carefully helped the two of them to half lean against the headboard, put pillows behind their backs, and then brought them the meal, letting them eat slowly by themselves.

Meng Jingui sat on the edge of Meng Jinniu's bed and didn't move, with his hands tucked into his sleeves. Zhang Fu and Zhang Ma were busy running around, but he didn't lend a hand to help, nor did he know to move aside. Other people in the ward thought that this man was strange, so no one took the initiative to talk to him. When it was time to eat, the people in the ward greeted each other in the bed, but no one called him.

With Zhang Fu around, even if Meng Jingui wanted to share Meng Jinniu's food, he was too embarrassed to say it and could only watch.

Meng Jinniu did greet him, but told him: "Second brother, go eat quickly, otherwise after this time, the restaurant will be sold out and there will be nothing to eat."

Meng Jingui glared at Meng Jinniu and said, "Eat your food, you can't even stop your mouth from eating!"

If you are so worried, why don't you share some with your second brother? Even a lunch box lid would be fine.

Meng Jinniu ate white rice. Zhang Fu was afraid that he would not be full. He ate a full lunch box of white rice. After only two chopsticks, he found shredded potatoes, two chicken legs, and a big meatball under the rice ball. There was also a bowl of fish soup on the bedside table. This meal was simply amazing. It was as good as the Chinese New Year! Meng Jingui's eyes almost popped out, but Meng Jinniu's expression did not change at all, as if he ate like this every day. In fact, Meng Jinniu's head was bandaged, with only his eyes, nose and mouth showing. Even if he had any expression, it was hard to see clearly.

Meng Jingui thought about the past when his family gave Jinniu a small piece of meat during festivals. Jinniu would be as happy as a fool and would not bear to eat it, so he would put it at the bottom of the bowl and eat it only at the very last moment.

Now this heartless man, his brother was sitting next to him, but he didn't even ask his brother to eat with him. Instead, he directly gave a chicken leg to Zhang Fu and a meatball to Zhang's father, and Zhang's father also gave him a poached egg. Several people ate with relish, and Meng Jingui was so greedy that he drooled.

Zhang's mother came after having lunch with her youngest son at home. She had seen Meng Jingui yesterday and knew that he was Meng Jinniu's brother, so she asked him why he didn't go to have lunch. Meng Jingui could only say that he had already eaten.

After dinner, Aunt Zhang wrung out a hot towel to wipe the hands and faces of the two injured patients, said a few words to Zhang Fu and his son, and left again. She worked in a garment factory and was very busy at the end of the year, so she asked Zhang Fu to take leave to take care of his father. Zhang Fu was just a small worker who moved goods in the winery. There was no shortage of people doing manual labor these days, so he could take leave at will and it would not be a matter of deducting some money.

Zhang Fu asked the two wounded soldiers to sit and chat for a while, poured them some hot water to help them drink slowly to digest, then used a urinal to help them solve their physiological problems, and then helped them lie down to take a nap. He then felt relaxed and ran outside to smoke a cigarette.

Meng Jingui saw how carefully Zhang Fu took care of people, and his eyes towards Meng Jinniu changed. He automatically ignored the pain on Meng Jinniu's body and felt that Meng Jinniu had become a young master who was enjoying his life.

I don’t do anything every day, but I don’t have to worry about food and drink and I can eat meat every meal!

Who gave all this? Meng Taohua!

Meng Taohua could only do this if she had money. Where did she get the money? It was from Meng Changshuan, his third grandfather! Meng Jingui felt that he had touched the truth. He knew why Meng Jinniu had to continue to live in Linshui Village: Who wouldn't want to have such a good life?

Meng Jingui took the bus back. He was willing to pay for the bus fare. He wanted to go home quickly and argue with his grandfather Meng Changshou: I remember hearing family members joking that when he was a child, he almost became the grandson of his third grandfather. So now, why is it Meng Jinniu who settled in Linshui Village instead of Meng Jingui? Why should the benefits that should have belonged to him be given to Jinniu? Meng Jingui hurried back to the old Meng family in Liuzhuang and ran to Meng Changshou to argue, stirring up a mess again.

At this time, Meng Tao was hurrying along the streets of Mengzhou, and finally she got on the last bus back to Xingyang County. She breathed a sigh of relief: she didn't bring her certificate, and if she couldn't get back in time, her accommodation at night would be a problem.

An idea suddenly popped up in my mind: buy a house in Mengzhou, so that I can have a place to stay when traveling. Otherwise, I will always have to stay in a hotel. Nowadays, even the houses in the city are generally old brick and tile structures, and one in a good location should be able to be bought for two or three hundred yuan.

Although this is just a regional city, it has a railway station and its location is quite important, connecting several provinces.

Not to mention passenger transport, just the freight scene seen in the freight yard today was dazzling. It was said that materials were scarce in the 1970s, but the freight yard of the railway station that Meng Tao stepped into for the first time made her doubt this statement: a series of large freight yards, with goods piled up like mountains everywhere, people and transport vehicles coming and going, and the workload of train freight was so heavy that it was really busy.

The reason why Meng Tao had the opportunity to run to the railway station freight yard was because she met Ma Fengnian in the black market.

Ma Fengnian is a middle-aged man in his forties who drives a transport truck at the Jinling County coal mine. Jinling County is said to be the most remote county under the jurisdiction of the Mengzhou region, with high mountains and dense forests, but it is rich in resources. There is not only a coal mine but also an iron mine. The wild game and mountain delicacies are also the most numerous and the best in Jinling County.

Meng Tao didn't know all this at first, and only understood it after hearing what Ma Fengnian said. Ma Fengnian had been in the transportation business for a long time and his mind was active. From time to time, he would take some mountain products out of the truck and sell them to small black market bosses to make a little profit from the difference. But this time, he was careless and trusted others too easily. Without paying a deposit, he helped a small boss from another place collect more than a thousand kilograms of dried goods such as mushrooms, black fungus, walnuts, etc. As a result, when he transported them to Mengzhou, the small boss asked someone to leave a message saying that he had something to do at home and went back first! He didn't want the goods anymore! Ma Fengnian almost fainted: these are high-quality mountain products worth more than a thousand or two thousand yuan! He received the goods first and didn't pay. The villagers trusted him and waited for him to take the payment back to settle the bill. The New Year was coming soon, and every household took out the best mountain products to exchange for money, just to have a good New Year. Who would have thought...

Furious, Ma Fengnian had no choice but to go to the black market to find vendors himself, but no one had the ability to buy so many goods at once, and the purchase price offered by the runaway boss was quite high. The black market vendors could not afford it and no one wanted his goods.

Ma Fengnian didn't dare to go back and had been stranded in Mengzhou for four or five days. He carried a bag of mountain products to the black market every day to set up a stall. He asked everyone he met if they wanted to buy in large quantities. He would let go even if it meant making a loss.

Meng Tao went to the black market wearing a big scarf, naturally to look at various mountain products, and she met Ma Fengnian, who had blood blisters on his mouth and kept saying that his mountain products were of the best quality, and that he had a lot of them and could sell them at a discount... Meng Tao looked at the mountain products in the sacks he placed on the ground. They were indeed of very good quality, and had a fragrant and pure smell. They were of the best quality, so she decided to go and see how much stock he had.

I was a bit busy today, so the update is late. I will update again later.

(End of this chapter)