Wen Moxue covered her mouth and chuckled, "You can't say that. I was just too embarrassed to ask for money. The powder was just a regular hemostatic drug. Its effectiveness was only due to the spiritual spring."
Of course, even without the spiritual spring water, the medicine would still be more effective than the current hemostatic drugs.
"Besides, Dr. Gao gave me so many good things, many of which cannot be bought at the supply and marketing cooperative and must be purchased at the Friendship Store using foreign exchange certificates."
"At least this old man has some conscience."
"Stop calling him 'old man' all the time. He looks like he has gray hair, but he's only in his forties. How is he old?"
Lu Yuan wanted to say "Mind your own business," but what came out of his mouth was, "Fine, I'll listen to my wife, I won't call her that anymore."
Wen Moxue glared at her, "If you keep acting like this, you can forget about living a life of luxury with me in the future."
This threat worked; Lu Yuan immediately backed down.
"I know, I really won't call you that anymore, wife."
Wen Moxue: "......"
When the two returned home, the Lu family was all there.
Lu Guoqing, Lu Xiaofang, and Lu Xiaoqin had just returned from work. Their father was sitting at the entrance of the main room, smoking welding fumes, while the two sisters were cooking in the kitchen.
Lu Xiaojun, on the other hand, squatted in the yard and silently counted ants.
These past few days, because people keep making fun of his mother as a "loose woman" and insulting him as possibly being an illegitimate child, he can't stand the gossip and isolation, so he's stopped going to school.
Lu Guoqing's father remained silent when he found out, and even the way he looked at the kid was very strange.
Lu Yuan was busy with his own things and didn't notice any of this at all.
Just as the two men drove the oxcart to the gate of the courtyard, Lu Guoqing got up and walked over with his hands behind his back.
My eyelids twitched as I looked at the cartload of stuff.
Did this boss spend all the money he got yesterday?
Why did you buy so much stuff?
Lu Yuan glanced at him. "We're moving tomorrow. The new house has no pots, pans, or anything. We can't just bring them from the old house."
Lu Guoqing looked somewhat lost. "Moving tomorrow?"
The eldest son didn't seem as useless as I had imagined. Although he didn't work, he could at least hunt for money.
He wouldn't have felt anything before, but now that Zhang Yuping, that wretched woman, has been arrested and given him such a huge cuckold's horns, he regrets separating his eldest son from his family.
If the younger child in the family isn't his, then wouldn't he be...?
Thinking of this, his face immediately turned ugly. He yelled at the little brat who was still squatting on the ground looking up at them.
"Why aren't you coming over to help your older brother and sister-in-law? You have no sense of propriety."
Lu Xiaojun said "Oh," wiped his nose, and quickly jogged over to help move things.
He was completely devoid of his former arrogance and domineering attitude.
Lu Yuan: ? ? ?
What's going on? Did I take the wrong medicine?
What used to be such a precious treasure is now being treated like this?
He wouldn't vent all his anger towards Zhang Yuping on this little brat, would he?
He frowned slightly. He didn't like this spoiled brat, but he also looked down on the man who took his anger out on the child.
In Zhang Yuping's case, the child is innocent.
However, he didn't say anything more. He had always felt like an outsider in front of this father and son.
Lu Guoqing not only asked Lu Xiaojun to help move things, but also helped himself, and even asked the two sisters who were cooking in the kitchen to come out and help first.
There was really a lot of stuff on the oxcart, and the two of them kept adding things to it as they walked.
Besides the large iron pot, there were two quilts, an enamel basin, a tea mug, more than a dozen earthenware bowls of various sizes, a kitchen knife, a cutting board, and so on.
The most important thing is the grain. There are at least a dozen kilograms of rice and wheat flour.
There were also two bags of sorghum flour and corn flour, weighing about forty or fifty kilograms.
What surprised them most was the small half-portion of pork.
Everyone stopped what they were doing, staring intently at the pork and swallowing hard.
Lu Yuan's eyelids twitched. If this wasn't raw pork, he had no doubt that these people would pounce on it and tear it apart.
Wen Moxue knew they would be envious, so she took out a kitchen knife, cut off a piece, and handed it to Lu Xiaoqin.
"Here, take it and use it to make an extra dish tonight."
Without Zhang Yuping around, the group has been relatively well-behaved these past few days and has been quite polite to her.
On her last day here, she, as the nominal sister-in-law, should at least do something to show her appreciation.
Lu Xiaoqin was pleasantly surprised and quickly took the meat. This piece of meat weighed at least two pounds, enough for several meals.
"Thank you, sister-in-law. Don't cook dinner tonight, let's all eat together."
After saying that, he realized that he had acted on his own initiative and hurriedly looked at Lu Guoqing.
My father manages all the grain now.
Lu Guoqing thought the suggestion was good, and it was also a good opportunity to ease the tension with his eldest son and daughter-in-law.
He took the key from his waist and handed it to his youngest daughter.
"Xiaoqin, cook more rice."
"Okay, Dad."
Lu Xiaoqin happily took the key and went to get the food.
Wen Moxue called out to him.
Thinking back to the corn porridge I ate on my first day at the Lu family's house, it still makes my throat feel dry.
"We just happened to buy a lot of rice today, so let's have rice for dinner tonight."
Holding the large bowl I had just bought, I filled it with a lot of rice.
Lu Xiaoqin was almost in tears.
Oh my, meat and rice, what a wonderful day!
My sister-in-law is so wonderful!
The others stared wide-eyed, filled with anticipation for dinner.
After all the belongings were moved into the east front room, Lu Yuan went to return the oxcart.
I also went to take a look around the new house; the courtyard wall has already been built.
It was also built very high; other people's courtyard walls are only about one meter high, but his is at least two meters high.
He's over 1.8 meters tall, so tall that you can't see inside from the outside.
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