"It's definitely from their blood."
"Don't you feel any remorse for ripping off your own nephew like that?" He Caiwei was almost dying of laughter.
“It doesn’t hurt. You’re still my own daughter. What’s wrong with tricking him a little? He’s the older brother, so it’s only right that he lets you have your way.” Lu Zhiheng said without any guilt.
"Uncle, thank you!"
"It should be Uncle who thanks you. If it weren't for you, I don't know how many times I would have lost my life. It's a pity I didn't want you to do those dangerous jobs, otherwise you would have been recruited by the organization long ago." Lu Zhiheng really felt it was a pity. This girl was skilled and had good eyesight.
Although he hid it very well, he could tell that his wife was no ordinary person, but he didn't want to dig any deeper. Now, after being betrayed, he was able to hide himself very well, but unfortunately, the price he paid was too high.
Several of his brothers sacrificed their lives; if he hadn't been a young girl, he would have become a martyr too.
"Alright, Uncle, it's past 7 o'clock, you should go back. After breakfast, you still have to go to the Civil Affairs Bureau. I'll go to school first to ask my mother for leave. You two can take advantage of my absence today and get your marriage certificate and make phone calls as needed." He Caiwei teased as she pushed the wheelchair back. They had been out for more than an hour, and it was time to go back, otherwise her mother would worry.
When He Yuping got home, she wasn't worried. She saw the note her daughter had left behind. The young man next door who had come to help Lu Zhiheng was anxious and ran over to ask if she had seen him. He Yuping showed the young man the note her daughter had written. After reading it, the young man felt relieved and went back to his work.
This man's daily routine is fixed. After Lu Zhiheng gets up, he will tidy up his clothes and bedding, and wait for the young man to come and wash the clothes he has changed out of. Sometimes he makes his own breakfast, but if he gets up late, the young man will make it for him.
After lunch, the young man would help him walk around the parallel bars for a while. After finishing lunch, he would leave and either have someone bring him food in the evening or come over to cook himself, while also taking care of the lunch table.
Lu Zhiheng is a clean person, so he asks the young man to fetch water for him to take a bath every day. After the bath, the young man helps tidy up the bathroom before leaving.
The young man was found for him by Director Zhang to take care of Lu Zhiheng. He was paid 18 yuan a month. He was supposed to stay here all day, but his mother hadn't been feeling well lately, so he was allowed to go home for a few hours in the afternoon and go home to sleep at night so he could take care of his mother.
Director Zhang only gave the young man this job to take care of the orphans and widows. Lu Zhiheng also gave him an extra five jin of fine grain coupons so he could take them back and buy some fine grains for his mother to supplement her diet.
After getting the marriage certificate, we still need to pick a date that Brother Lu and Sister-in-law Lu can make. The banquet we said we'd have in two days was just talk. What kind of brother and sister-in-law wouldn't attend their own brother's wedding?
Upon hearing that his younger brother was getting married, Lu Zhining immediately went to his superiors to request leave. His superiors approved the leave slip, and several of his comrades chipped in to contribute money, asking Lu Zhining to help deliver it.
The train journey from Kyoto is arduous and takes at least four days to reach Shenzhen. Considering their schedule, Lu Zhiheng and his family got their marriage certificate and moved in together in the same courtyard where Lu Zhiheng had lived before.
He Caiwei cut out several beautiful "double happiness" characters and pasted them up. The old man checked the auspicious date. It was exactly the third day after Lu Zhining and the others arrived.
Now, apart from large items and grain that require coupons, small, miscellaneous items like cotton, cloth, kerosene, salt, and eggs do not require coupons.
Taking advantage of her personal space, He Caiwei would bring back a little something every day when she came home. It wasn't until the day of the banquet that she discovered that the little girl had actually brought back a whole room's worth of things.
Cured meat, eggs, cabbage, potatoes, melon seeds, peanuts, candy, and snacks—this room has everything needed for a banquet.
He Yuping knew that these things were all in her daughter's space, and her daughter just brought them back during her trip.
Lu Zhiheng was deeply moved. Although it wasn't the time when resources were most scarce, it was still quite difficult to get so many things.
Moved, he immediately gave her 500 yuan as pocket money. He Yuping was afraid that he didn't have enough money, so she wouldn't let her daughter take it.
But who is Lu Zhiheng? He directly took out his bankbook and the cash he had taken from the bank with Director Zhang yesterday. In addition to the 500 yuan for his daughter, there was 2,000 yuan in cash and more than 10,000 yuan in savings in his bankbook.
"Oh, Uncle Lu is a millionaire, huh? What's up? Why are you showing off your wealth now?" He Caiwei looked at her mother's stunned expression and almost laughed. It wasn't that much money, was it? Hadn't she shown her mother the money in her spatial storage before? Why was her mother so surprised by this little bit of money?
"That's right. I started working at seventeen, earning nine silver dollars a month at first. Later, I gradually converted it into paper money. Your uncle was shrewd; he would convert all my salary into gold every now and then. You know, no matter how much paper money depreciates, gold doesn't depreciate much."
I've rarely taken vacations in recent years, and even when I do, I eat at your uncle's house, which doesn't cost me anything. I had no idea I had so much money in my savings account.
"Oh right, and this too." Lu Zhiheng suddenly remembered something, quickly crouched down and rummaged around the kang cabinet. Behind the cabinet, he pulled out a bulging cloth bag. He didn't know what was inside, but he stuffed it directly into He Yuping's arms.
"What is that?" He Yuping didn't know what it was. Anyway, there were only the three of them in the room, so she just opened the cloth bag.
A pair of exquisitely green bracelets, of very fine quality, were displayed before them. Accompanying the bracelets were a pair of gold longevity locks, a pair of gold bracelets for children, a pair of silver bracelets, and a gold phoenix hairpin.
"Where did these things come from? You can't take these out now." He Yuping quickly wrapped the cloth bag up and prepared to return it to him.
"My mother hid it secretly back then. She accidentally found out that my father was having an affair and was planning to run away with the family property, so my mother hid most of the things in the house, leaving only a small amount of cash and some small goldfish. Later, my mother passed away, and my brother had no choice but to take out some money to support us."
Didn't I tell you? My sister-in-law was our family's child bride. Back then, her parents were fleeing famine from somewhere and passed through our area. They wanted to sell my sister-in-law, but my mother took pity on her and bought her.
Later, when my eldest brother wanted to go to school, my mother also supported my sister-in-law. My family used to be a small landlord in our hometown. My father only cared about having affairs outside, while my mother was responsible for managing the family's land and money.
My mother knows best how much we have at home. My father thought he had taken all the money, but that was just a drop in the ocean. My mother has hidden a lot of things away. We can't take them out now. We'll show them to you when we go back to pay respects to our ancestors.
"But everything I have now is what I earned myself. This one you have is what my mother said she was going to give to her daughter-in-law. My sister-in-law also has a share, but it's all hidden away now. You can just look at it and play with it, but you can't take it out. When you can take it out, I'll dig it out for you, and you can wear a different one every day." Lu Zhiheng didn't take the cloth bag she offered, but instead stuffed everything back into her hands.
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