Chapter 363 Greetings

She is sleeping soundly now and looks so cute.

"Little sister, is my brother-in-law okay?" Huang Xiaoyue didn't know that the island had experienced a snowstorm.

Liu Erge's letter did mention Gu Cheng's injury in a few words.

Since the island was closed, Liu Yinyin has not contacted her family, and they don't know about Gu Cheng's situation.

However, judging from his appearance just now, he didn't seem to be in trouble.

Liu Yinyin said: "It's not a big deal."

I don’t know if it’s because of the wild ginseng he ate, but Gu Cheng said the wound on his hand has almost healed.

It was still a little painful before, but it's much better now.

"How's things going at home?" Liu Yinyin changed the subject.

Huang Xiaoyue said cheerfully, "It's OK. The harvest in the village is good this year. The food we got in the autumn harvest is enough for our family to eat until the autumn harvest next year."

For ordinary people at this time, as long as they could have enough food to eat, nothing else was a problem.

"And..." Huang Xiaoyue thought of something and continued, "It's all thanks to you for lending grain seeds to the village during the spring plowing season. Otherwise, the grain harvest this year wouldn't be so good."

She was not saying anything flattering. The harvests in other nearby villages were not as good as that in Liujia Village.

For country people, nothing is more important than food production.

A good grain harvest means that we won’t have to go hungry for the next year.

Liu Yinyin had just noticed that the villagers' spirits and complexions were much better than during the previous famine.

"Little sister..." Upon hearing the news that Liu Yinyin's family had returned, Sister Liu hurried over, "Where's your eldest brother? Why didn't he come back?"

Liu Yinyin suppressed her smile and said vaguely, "Sister-in-law, it was difficult for my brother to take leave from work, so he didn't come back with us."

Mrs. Liu said "Oh", but she was not too disappointed.

As long as Brother Liu sent money and tickets home on time every month, Sister Liu didn't care whether he came back or not.

However, she still says nice things.

Sister Liu curled her lips and said with a smile: "I made two pieces of clothes for your brother. When you go back, please bring them to him for me."

Brother Liu lived comfortably on the island, and so did she in the village.

As a man with money, a house and children, it doesn't matter whether he comes back or not.

The family had already separated, and knowing that Brother Liu had not returned, Sister Liu did not stay long. She exchanged a few words of greeting and left.

Mrs. Liu snorted and muttered to Liu Yinyin, "She is living a good life now. No other woman in the village can compare to her."

The work points that Mrs. Liu earned from working were enough for her own living.

Half of the money and notes that Brother Liu sent back went to Jiang Cuihua, and the other half went to Sister-in-law Liu.

Living in the countryside, there was no place to spend money, so most of the money that Brother Liu sent back was saved by Sister Liu.

I don’t know how wonderful my life is now.

As for Brother Liu’s two children, Sister Liu curled her lips and said nothing.

When it was time for dinner, Liu Yinyin finally understood why Second Sister-in-law Liu disliked First Sister-in-law Liu.

The daughter and son are back.

Jiang Cuihua was very happy and prepared a sumptuous lunch.

The table was filled with dishes: braised pork, chicken with mushrooms, braised fish, spicy snails, braised shrimps, and scrambled eggs with green onions.

Garlic lettuce, spicy and sour shredded potatoes, and stir-fried cabbage.

The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Someone in the village killed a pig yesterday. Jiang Cuihua bought a few pounds of pigs, intending to keep them for eating during the New Year.

Jiang Cuihua was in a good mood today and took out all the pork.

And killed a chicken!

This meal is even more sumptuous than the one during Chinese New Year.

A group of people were getting ready to have dinner when Liu Zhizhi and Liu Qingwen from Mrs. Liu's family ran in.

Liu Qingwen was younger, and he stared at the pork belly on the table with his mouth watering: "Grandma, eat some meat..."

The smile on Jiang Cuihua's face froze in an instant.

After all, they were his grandsons, and he couldn't bear to send them back.

What else could Jiang Cuihua do? She added two sets of bowls and chopsticks and asked the two children to come to the table and eat together.

Sitting next to Liu Yinyin, Liu's second wife whispered to her, "Every time we eat meat at home, the two children come over."

It's not that Liu Ersao is fussy. This kind of thing might happen once or twice, but who can stand it if it happens every time?

Ever since Big Brother Liu left, every time the family eats meat, the two children would come to the house and ask for meat just by smelling the meat.

How could the children understand these things? I guess it was Mrs. Liu who asked the two children to come over.

Second Sister Liu was naturally unhappy. The two families had separated, and it was really unkind of Sister Liu to do this.

There were so many people in their family that there was not enough meat to eat. Now with two more children, the meat that was about to reach their mouths was gone. No one would be happy.

Liu Yinyin: "Doesn't my sister-in-law have a sex ticket?"

Brother Liu must have sent back some meat coupons. If he had the coupons, it wouldn't be expensive to buy meat at the supply and marketing cooperative.

Mrs. Liu was speechless for a while as she thought about it: "She had a meat ticket but she was reluctant to buy meat, so she sold the ticket to the educated youth in the village."

Liu Yinyin: “…”

If you say that Mrs. Liu is not kind to her two children, she is also reluctant to eat and wear good clothes for herself.

Liu Yinyin didn't know what to say about having money but not wanting to spend it.

After dinner, Liu Yinyin prepared to go back home.

The house must be cleaned, otherwise it will be uninhabitable.

Jiang Cuihua followed her to the end of the village to help.

"I sweep the house every month, but it's easy for dust to accumulate when no one lives in it. You didn't tell me in advance, otherwise I would have cleaned the house for you..."

Liu Yinyin said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter if we clean up now. We have time anyway."

Jiang Cuihua smiled and said, "I heard from Mingzhong that my son-in-law got a promotion?"

Liu Yinyin nodded: "Yes, I've been promoted to a higher level."

"This is incredible." Jiang Cuihua grinned, "Now everyone in the area knows that my son-in-law is a high-ranking official."

Gu Cheng's rank is really high. It is already very difficult for military officers to get promoted nowadays.

Gu Cheng returned to the team at the end of last year and was promoted to group leader at that time. Not long after that, he was promoted again.

As for other people, let alone being promoted every year, some people may not even be able to be promoted one level even after staying in the army for several years.

Moreover, Gu Cheng is still young and will have plenty of opportunities in the future.

Liu Yinyin was actually quite happy for him.

However, the future is unpredictable, and when the turbulent times come...

Liu Yinyin only hopes that Gu Cheng can get through that period safely, and whether he gets promoted is secondary.

After arriving home, Liu Yinyin found that the house was quite clean.

The furniture, stove, pots and pans in the room were all in the same condition as when I left.

There is just a little dust on it, it needs to be wiped off.

Jiang Cuihua helped take the quilt out of the cupboard to dry it, saying, "I'll ask your father to send some food, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar over later."

Knowing that her daughter would not come home for dinner, Jiang Cuihua did not bring up the idea.