On the way home, Meng Tao learned from Xu Yuting that Tian Zhigao was beaten half to death by them.

She remembered that at Zhang Guoqing's home, Zhang Guoqing's mother, aunts and uncles entertained her warmly, with melon seeds, peanuts and red dates, and cooked sugar water to make rice popcorn. A group of women, young and old, sat and talked for a long time, but they didn't see Zhang Guoqing and the brothers Liu Jianye and Xu Yulin. She didn't know where they had gone. It turned out that they went to look for an opportunity to beat up Tian Zhigao.

Shen Yu also knew about this. It took him some time to make the call. When he came out, he didn't see Zhang Guoqing coming to pick him up. He stood at the door and waited for half an hour before he came. After getting in the car, he heard what Zhang Guoqing said.

He glanced at Xu Yuting in the rearview mirror and said, "Well done, I'll give you a reward later."

Xu Yuting sneered, and Meng Tao asked, "No one saw it, did they?"

Xu Yuting said, "No. Zhang Guoqing is a local and is familiar with the terrain. He found a shabby little courtyard, and my brother Jianye and I kidnapped him like catching a chicken. It was effortless, and we cleaned up all traces after we were done."

"Drove it directly from the roadside?"

"That's not the case. Tian Zhigao brought it here himself. Zhang Guoqing invited us to his house, and my brother Jianye and I thought we should go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some candy and cakes. Unexpectedly, we found Tian Zhigao. He walked into an alley to talk to someone. We didn't buy anything, but turned back to follow Zhang Guoqing. We planned to park the car and come here immediately, let Zhang Guoqing know, and say he would arrange it... Hey, it was so satisfying!"

Meng Tao looked at him with amusement: "You also took action? Did you hurt yourself?"

Xu Yuting glared at her with his eyes bulging, like an inflated frog: "Don't look down on me! Don't look at me as thin, I've also trained. I'll take off my clothes to show you that I have muscular muscles!"

"Come on, I believe you have it, so don't take off your clothes for others to see."

"I didn't show it to anyone else, so I showed it to you."

"I won't watch it. Leave it for your wife to watch."

"I don't have a wife."

Shen Yu said, "You will have it in the future. Xiao Huahua is my wife, she only looks at me."

Xu Yuting: “…”

He glared at Shen Yufei across the back of the chair.

Meng Tao sat in the passenger seat and glanced at Shen Yu. Shen Yu smiled and reached out to ruffle her hair.

Xu Yuting watched helplessly as Xiao Huahua was molested, but he could do nothing about Shen Yu, and he was almost mad.

When I got home, I heard from Captain Bao that the police had been to Linshui Village, and the villagers also knew that Tian Zhigao had been seriously injured in a "robbery" in the commune.

Everyone said it was retribution and Chen Shimei deserved to be beaten like this.

Shen Yu told Liu Yongsheng: I talked to my father on the phone. My father is still at work and cannot come to Linshui Village, but he is looking forward to meeting Senior Liu in the provincial capital and is ready to welcome the distinguished guest at any time.

Liu Yongsheng smiled and nodded. This meeting would definitely take some time.

He was willing to stay in Linshui Village for a few more days. His old friend Meng Shengli was quite picky about the location. Although this village was a little remote, it had beautiful mountains, clear water, and good air, and the food grown on the land was even more delicious. Of course, Xiao Huahua was a good cook. Maybe he took too much medicine at home before, and he didn't feel hungry every day. After coming to Linshui Village, he was thinking about the next meal after the previous one, like a young man with fast digestion. He thought about food all day long, and he himself found it funny.

But the itinerary had already been planned, and there were things waiting for him at home, so he had to go back.

Liu Yongsheng said to Meng Tao, "Xiao Huahua, you still have to accompany Brother Jinniu, so Grandpa Liu won't take you back to celebrate the festival. Grandpa Liu likes this place very much and wants to celebrate the New Year with you, but he has something else to do, so he will go back first. You and Brother Jinniu, stay home and take good care of yourself."

Meng Tao nodded: "Grandpa Liu, when the weather gets warmer, you and Grandma Liu and Grandma Xu can come again. I will also visit you when I am free."

"Okay, okay. We'll wait for you. Your grandmother Liu and grandmother Xu want to see you. Xiao Huahua, do you have any photos?"

Meng Tao felt very sorry. She had been here for so long but had never thought of taking a photo.

"I'll take a picture someday and send it to you."

"Okay, remember this."

Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan planned to stay at least until the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, but Liu Yongsheng asked them to go back to the provincial capital with him, saying that there were no elders at home, only Xiao Huahua and Jinniu, and Jinniu was still disabled. Even if Shen Yu was a marriage partner and Meng Zhehan was a sworn brother, it would not be easy for them to stay like this.

Although somewhat reluctant, Shen Yu felt that there was no need to argue with Mr. Liu, so he obeyed.

Meng Zhehan became quite Buddhist and was fine with anything.

This delayed another day, until the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, when Liu Yongsheng and his son and Shen Yumeng Zhehan, in two groups of people and two cars, slowly left Linshui Village and headed for the provincial capital.

Zhang Guoqing was still on vacation and did not go with them.

Before leaving, everyone said goodbye to Meng Tao. Xu Yuting was reluctant to leave Xiao Huahua, and his eyes were red. Meng Tao gave him a blue cloth bag. Xu Yuting opened it and immediately turned into a puffed-up frog again: "What do you mean? Do you want to piss me off to death?"

Everyone looked inside and saw two cans of milk powder. They couldn't help laughing when they thought of what Xiao Huahua had said about returning Xu Yuting's food rations.

Meng Tao said to Xu Yuting: "If you drink all of this obediently, strengthen your physique, and make progress in your studies, I will write to you and send you a package."

Xu Yuting stopped being angry when he heard this: "Do you keep your word?"

"certainly."

"Okay, I'll take this."

"You have to drink it. If you dare to lie to me and give it to others instead of drinking it yourself, I will ignore you for the rest of my life."

"Of course I will finish it!"

Meng Tao handed him another cloth bag, which also contained two cans of milk powder, for Liu Jianli.

Xu Yuting was happy and felt balanced now.

Meng Tao had no choice. She had nothing else to give as a gift, so she just used the excuse of returning the food rations. The milk powder had been stored in the space for a long time, and it could at least provide some nourishment for Xu Yuting, a weakling.

The milk powder given to Liu Jianxin was also milk powder, so naturally it was for Xiao Mingming to drink.

Liu Yongsheng was puzzled: "Xiao Huahua, where did all this imported milk powder come from?"

Meng Tao pointed at Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan and said, "These two gave me this drink. I can't finish it. Grandpa Liu, do you want some?"

Liu Yongsheng waved his hand: "I can't drink this."

"Then I'll bring you some tea. I had nothing to do in the county town, so I went to the black market and met a tea seller. He said that the tea trees in the mountains were hundreds of years old and that drinking it would be beneficial to the body, so I bought some."

"The kind you brewed for me, with two or three leaves each time and it tastes delicious?"

"Yes, if you take medicine at different times, it shouldn't have any effect."

"That's good! Let's have one or two taels."

Meng Tao gave him two kilograms. He lived in a retirement home where a group of old friends often gathered to chat, so they definitely consumed more tea.

Also give one pound to Liu Jianxin and one pound to the Xu family.

In addition, two cans of malted milk were given to Grandma Liu and Grandma Xu respectively, and two cans of pickled vegetables and pickled cucumber sauces made from peppers, tomatoes, cabbage, and cucumbers were given to each family.

They can’t carry too much, and the bottles and jars are easy to break.

Captain Bao gave a big pumpkin to Liu Yongsheng, so Meng Tao asked for another one from Zhou Cuiling's house, and then they exchanged them for the big pumpkins in the space, so that the Liu and Xu families each got one.

She didn't give away the dried mushrooms, fungus and walnuts she had collected. Liu Jianxin could get a lot of them from the forest farm, and this time they also sent her two large bags of these dry goods, as well as dried meat and dried fish.

She put these into her space and gave some to Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan as New Year's gifts.

Xu Yulin and Liu Jianye, these two people often train or go on missions, and they often fight each other. Meng Tao gave each of them a bottle of external medicinal wine for traumatic injuries, which she bought at a Chinese medicine shop in the provincial capital last time. It has been stored in the space for such a long time, and it is even more effective.

I was in a hurry to do some things today, so I only had time to update once. I will make up for it tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)