Chapter 91

"Is it heavy? Not bad! About 20 kilograms."

As Jing Xian spoke, she glanced at Shang Nanchen, secretly observing his reaction, ready to snatch the box away if anything went wrong.

Shang Nanchen listened to Jing Xian's description, frowned, and suddenly looked at her with sharp eyes. He asked in shock: "Where did you get it from? Did you take it from those boxes?"

Those gold bars were all from the same batch, and they were numbered. Once any of them were found to be missing, none of them would be able to escape.

Shang Nanchen didn't blame the old man. He took the box and walked out. He wanted to put the gold bars back in the box before anyone checked.

"Hey? Where are you going?"

"I'll be out for a while and back soon!"

Seeing this, Jing Xian jumped down and chased after him, but Shang Nanchen walked too fast, and Jing Xian didn't catch him until she reached the door.

She was afraid of waking up the children and alarming the neighbors, so she lowered her voice and asked, "Where are you going? Tell me clearly!"

Jing Xian was worried that he would insist on leaving and she would not have time to go back and put on her clothes, so she put her arms around his neck, jumped into his arms, and let him hold her.

Shang Nanchen: “…”

He felt that there were some things he had to make clear to Jingxian, otherwise she might not know how dangerous this matter was.

"I'll go back to the house and tell you." Shang Nanchen walked back holding Jing Xian in one hand.

When the two of them came into the room, Jing Xian didn't let go and sat on his lap, waiting for him to explain.

Shang Nanchen wanted to let the man go, but he couldn't, so he had to compromise in the end.

He said, "Did you know that gold bars are coded?"

"Gold bars have codes, what does that have to do with my gold bricks?"

Jing Xian really didn't notice that there was a code on the gold bars. She didn't dare to touch them, let alone look at them carefully. At that time, she was almost blinded by so many gold bars.

Later she thought she would get two boxes, but she ended up with nothing.

It's a waste of joy.

Many people also call gold bars gold bricks. Shang Nanchen thought Jing Xian didn't understand what he meant, so he had to make it clearer: "All gold bars are coded. Once the codes don't match, everyone who has come into contact with the gold will be investigated."

Now Jing Xian understood.

She pointed at the box and said, "Take a closer look."

"What are you looking at this for?"

Shang Nanchen was still thinking about what to do if he ran into someone on the way back and how he would explain it. He didn't notice that Jing Xian was speechless and even wanted to roll her eyes.

She didn't understand Shang Nanchen's meaning at first, but later she understood and had to let Shang Nanchen look for the answer himself.

"Just take a look if I'm letting you. Why are you talking so much nonsense?" Jing Xian urged and got off him.

Shang Nanchen opened the box suspiciously and saw a golden brick as big as a brick. He looked at Jing Xian in surprise: "Where did you get this thing?"

Under the big box.

“I dug, but there was nothing.”

Shang Nanchen was very sure that the warriors not only dug deeper, but also dug wider, for fear that more gold bricks would be left behind.

Jing Xian thought, there is no way to find it.

This was what she detected through the roots of the plants when she was lying on the tree and feeling more and more uncomfortable the more she thought about it after Shang Nanchen and Song Zheng left.

She manipulated the wicker not far away to hide the box.

He then used reed twigs to cover the large pit and the box full of gold next to it, and then returned to the tree to rest.

"Oh, I'll give it to you anyway, don't worry about it, and don't ask me how I dug it. I only dug this one, can our family keep it?" Jing Xian looked directly at Shang Nanchen, "You were right to hand over those gold bars to the country. I can understand that. This gold brick has no number on it, nothing at all, can I really not keep it?"

Shang Nanchen knew that she was acting, but he couldn't bear to refuse her. Not everyone can resist temptation.

"Hide it well. If others find out about it..."

“No one else will know.”

Jing Xian smiled and picked up Jingzhuang with a piece of red cloth and put it on

He opened the cupboard, took out the old cotton-padded jacket, put the gold brick in, and then put the cotton-padded jacket back at the bottom.

She turned around and said to Shang Nanchen: "We are the only two people who know where this thing is. If it is missing, it must be you who did it."

Shang Nanchen sighed: "I promised to let you stay, I definitely won't take it away secretly."

That would be best.

Jing Xian got on the kang, covered herself with the quilt, and said, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

"sleep."

After a day of hard work, Shang Nanchen was almost dead exhausted.

How could I not want to sleep?

The two of them were lying on the kang. Shang Nanchen was about to go over and hug Jing Xian, but just as he put his hand on her waist, he was about to pull it back.

Jing Xian asked dazedly, "What's wrong? Aren't you coming?"

"Not now." Shang Nanchen managed to say, turned around and lay flat on his back.

"Why is it not working?" She was still waiting for her superpowers to grow.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes and was almost frightened out of her sleepiness.

She turned around, faced Shang Nanchen and asked, "I...I'm pregnant?"

"Have you lost your memory?" Shang Nanchen turned his head and asked her.

Jing Xian shook her head: "I was just about to fall asleep and forgot about it. It's okay, go to sleep."

She said she fell asleep, but in fact she didn't sleep at all.

After a few minutes, she found that Shang Nanchen was not asleep either, so she asked him, "Are you worried that I won't be able to take care of several children after I give birth?"

"no."

Shang Nanchen denied it immediately without hesitation.

Jing Xian thought that he must have been worried, and it was human nature to worry: "I can't say that I won't be biased, I am definitely biased. It's impossible for me not to be biased towards the child I carried for ten months and gave birth to, and he is my youngest child."

"Well, this is normal." Shang Nanchen's words surprised Jing Xian a little.

She turned her head to look at him and found that he was distracted by something. She stared at him for a long time, but he didn't respond.

"Shang Nanchen?" She called him again.

"Hmm?" Shang Nanchen looked at her this time and said, "When are you going to give birth? Who will take care of you during the confinement period? There will definitely be no one in our family. Can someone from your family come?"

"cannot."

Jing Xian came back to her senses from her shock and looked at Shang Nanchen with strange eyes: "Could it be that you have been thinking about this just now?"

"What else are you thinking? It's not impossible for me to take care of you during the confinement period, but if I go out, how will you take care of the child?" Shang Nanchen thought Jing Xian was scared, so he turned over and hugged her in his arms, whispering, "Don't be afraid, if it really doesn't work, I will take a leave of absence and take care of you and your child at home."

Jing Xian curled her lips and said, "Buy more toilet paper, the soft kind. It doesn't matter if it's expensive. Prepare more diapers for the children, in case I don't have milk, buy some milk powder. If you have sheep at home, raise one. There's no rush for these. The important thing is when are you going to tell the children?"

"Maybe in two months."

"That's fine."

Jing Xian fell asleep peacefully.

I don’t know if it’s because of her pregnancy, but she’s a little sleepy.

It was very late in the morning.

The children were not at home, and Shang Nanchen was not at home either, but there was a note pressed on the edge of the kang, with vigorous handwriting on it.

"The children are in school, so you don't have to worry about them. From today on, they will have lunch in the cafeteria. I've asked for a day off from the hospital for you, so you should rest well at home today. If anyone comes to talk to you, just tell them the truth."

After reading the note, Jing Xian picked it up and put it in the box.

Although Shang Nanchen didn't let her bring lunch to the children, she still decided to bring a meal to the children since she didn't have to go to work today.

There was cabbage and pig fat at home, Jingxian fried tofu and cabbage with eggs and mixed them with pig fat. She also made bread dumplings with cornmeal and white flour.

Seeing that there was still time, she wrapped the dumplings for the children and put them in rice bowls.

After all the dumplings are served, shake the dumplings in the rice bowl to let them

Don't stick them together, otherwise the dumplings will break when you eat them later.

Jingxian filled the rice bowl with her cloth bag and rode her bicycle to deliver meals to the children before the classes were over.

Unexpectedly, she ran into Shang Nanchen on the road. Shang Nanchen took the bicycle and let her sit on the back, then said, "Didn't I tell you to come over and deliver food to them?"

"I don't have to go to work today, so I can cook some food for the kids. They don't like the food in the cafeteria, so I'll cook some for them when I have time. Cooking isn't tiring."

Shang Nanchen felt that Jing Xian was someone who was partial to her own child and would be nice to the other four children.

Arrived at school.

Jing Xian didn't let Shang Nanchen in. She carried her things and walked into the school.

The children had not finished their classes yet, and many of them could not sit still. They looked out the window and saw Jing Xian.

Someone immediately shouted, "Shang Aiguo, your mother is here to bring you food again!"

Tiedan didn't even turn his head and listened to the teacher attentively.

Fusheng's seat was by the window, so he subconsciously looked outside and saw Jingxian standing outside. He poked Tiedan secretly and whispered, "Brother, it's really my mother!"

Tiedan turned his head and looked outside, and really saw Jingxian.

He complained, "My father's words are not good, and they don't count. He just loves his wife and doesn't want my mother to suffer. But my mother loves us and still cooks for us and brings us food."

Xiao Mao was sitting behind them, and when he heard this conversation, the corner of his mouth twitched.

When the class was over, the three kids rushed out at the same time.

"Mom!"

"Mom!"

"Mom."

Fusheng ran the fastest, holding Xiaomao with one hand and Tiedan with the other.

The shouts of the three children were heard throughout the school.

As soon as the bell rang, Jing Xian saw three children running out like the wind.

"Why are you running? Mom isn't leaving." Jing Xian handed the rice bowl to the three of them, "I won't go looking for your brother. When Damao comes over later, the four of you can eat together. I'm going back first."

"Okay!"

Fusheng was very happy, waving his soft little paws and saying, "Mom, walk slower!"

"Got it, let's go back and eat!"

Jing Xian didn't walk fast and was out of the school in less than two minutes.

Shang Nanchen propped up his long legs on the ground. He saw her come out and get into position. Then he waited for her to get in the car and rode home.

Jing Xian met many people along the way and greeted them with a smile.

After returning home, Jingxian continued making dumplings.

Shang Nanchen eats too much, so she has to pack more. There are a lot of cabbages at home now, so she can get as much as she wants. But there are not many potatoes and radishes left.

She could only plant it secretly in the back, trying to stimulate the growth a little bit every day.

No one can see it anyway.

"I'll pack it for you."

Shang Nanchen rolled the dumpling wrappers while Jing Xian wrapped the dumplings, and they both finished very quickly.

As they wrapped dumplings, they chatted: "You said the army took so many seeds from me, when will I be compensated?"

"Maybe they're charging you the market price for your food." Shang Nanchen looked at Jing Xian, "Do you feel wronged?"

Jing Xian shook her head: "Why are you aggrieved? There is nothing to be aggrieved about. The country will never let us down."

"You are clear about it in your heart." Shang Nanchen felt that Jing Xian's perception was still very good.

"If these vegetables and grains are gone, we will have nothing to eat. If we want to eat these things, we have to go out and buy them." She was mainly worried about how to celebrate the New Year.

Shang Nanchen said: "I'll think of a way."

He said he would think of a solution, and he actually thought of a solution.

A few days later, a cart of potatoes was brought to the family. The potatoes were not very big, far from the ones grown by Jingxian.

Jing Xian didn't mind either.

I didn’t take away all the radishes at home, so there are still quite a lot of radishes left.

All the carrot seeds she had left were taken away, leaving her only seeds to plant next spring.

Radish, cabbage and potatoes.

The supplies are still very abundant.

Jing Xian collected the sesame seeds, processed them, fried them in a pot, and made sesame salt with a small mill.

When the time comes, cook some porridge and sprinkle some sesame salt on it, and the children will be able to eat a big bowl of it.

After this comes out of her stomach, she can eat something and then put some in.

On the weekend, Song Ning and Xu Ning did not go home. Xu Ning had to work overtime, so Song Ning came here first.

She also brought five kilograms of flour.

When Song Ning entered the yard and saw Jing Xian peeling peanuts, she sat down to help. After a while, she peeled a lot of peanuts.

"What is this for?" Song Ning asked curiously.

Jing Xian said, "The weather is getting colder and colder, and I don't know if there will be a lot of snow this year. I plan to make some oil tea noodles, and when the children are hungry, they can have a bowl together."

"Huh? Oil tea noodles? You can also make this?" Song Ningke was surprised.

“Why not?”

Jing Xian fried the peanuts, put them in the medicine grinder, sat there and ground them with her feet. After a while, all the peanuts were crushed into peanut pieces.

She poured out the crushed peanuts and swept the medicine grinder clean and put it away.

The whole process was so smooth that Song Ning was stunned.

"You really know how to make oil tea noodles? Can you make more?"

Jing Xian looked at her and said, "Are you planning to make something for Liao Yu?"

"He doesn't eat at regular times, and sometimes there's no food when he goes to the cafeteria after work. I'll prepare this for him, so he can fill his stomach if he's hungry." Song Ning had nothing to be embarrassed about.

Jing Xian nodded indifferently: "You light the fire."

Song Ning went to light the fire obediently.

When she is with Jingxian, she always thinks twice before speaking.

The main thing is that if she says something that makes Jing Xian unhappy, Jing Xian will make her unable to eat or do anything.

After a while, Song Ning learned his lesson.

"I'll only help you this time, so just watch it yourself." It's not that Jing Xian didn't want to help, but it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

Song Ning didn't dare to refute and just watched carefully.

"First, clean the pot. Don't make the pot too hot. Just use a low heat. Then pour the white flour into the pot and stir-fry constantly. Don't use too high a heat, or the flour will get burnt. Stir-fry slowly until the flour changes color. Stir-fry for a while longer, then take out the flour and put it in a dry bowl. It's best to sift it with a fine sieve to prevent lumps of flour from forming inside."

After Jing Xian finished speaking, she turned around and asked Song Ning, "Did you remember it?"

"Yeah, I'll remember that."

"Then pour oil into the pot. I use soybean oil. You don't need too much oil, depending on how many oil-tea noodles you are making. This amount is enough for the ones I am making now. You can estimate the specific proportion in your mind. When the oil is heated to 70% and the color becomes lighter, pour in the chopped peanuts and sesame seeds. If you have chopped walnuts, you can also put them in after they are fried."

"After frying until fragrant, pour the fried noodles in over low heat without turning on the fire and stir until evenly mixed. Stir more until it looks like this. Then pack it up and take out a jar when you want to eat it."

After Jingxian was done, she filled all the jars of malt extract at home with oil tea noodles.

Song Ning asked for a jar and held it tightly in his arms, fearing that Jing Xian would change her mind and take it back.

"Can I borrow your bicycle for a while?" After saying that, he ran out and rode away on the bicycle.

Without asking, I knew she was going to find Liao Yu.

Jing Xian felt that Song Ning and Liao Yu were likely to be getting married soon. Song Ning had taken the initiative, and she didn't know what Liao Yu's attitude was.

Song Ning didn't come back yet, Xu Ningren arrived first.

It was almost as if Song Ning walked in first and she followed behind.

"Did you meet Song Ning? She just walked by here." Jing Xian asked when she saw Xu Ning.

Xu Ning shook her head: "I didn't see her. I suspect she was worried about bumping into me, so she walked the other way."

This scheming Ning is quite capable.

"How are she and Liao Yu doing now? Why do I feel that she is more passionate now than before?" Jing Xian was too embarrassed to ask directly, so she asked tentatively in a roundabout way.

Xu Ning is

Gentle: "It's still the same."

"What is Liao Yu's plan? Has she told him? He and Song Ning have been together for such a long time, but she hasn't said when they plan to get married?" Jing Xian was worried that this matter would not work out in the end.

Seeing how devoted Song Ning is now, he will definitely be devastated if it really doesn't work out.

Xu Ning shook her head: "I don't know either. I don't know what the situation is now. I asked Song Ning before, and Song Ning told me that there was no rush. She also didn't let me ask Liao Yu, so I don't know what to do."

Jing Xian had a bad feeling in her heart. Although she didn't want to admit it, she still felt a little uneasy when she saw Liao Yu's attitude.

"Do you think Liao Yu has other ideas?"

As soon as she said this, Xu Ning let out a long sigh: "To be honest, I was worried about this too. At that time, I was afraid that this kind of situation would happen, so I asked Song Zheng to check it out. The results after the investigation were good, but I never thought that the problem would eventually appear on Liao Yu."

Xu Ning was very distressed.

She really didn't want to introduce someone to Song Ning. She would be worried if it worked out, and she would also be worried if it didn't.

Being a matchmaker for others is not a good thing at all.

"If they don't work out this time, I don't know how I'm going to tell my family when I get home." Xu Ning really wanted to find a place to vent her anger. She couldn't tell anyone else about this, so she could only tell Jing Xian, "You know how much I regret it now. I regret letting them go on a blind date. What should I do if this doesn't work out? I don't even know if Song Zheng will blame me for this."

Jing Xian couldn't quite understand Xu Ning's pain, as she had never done these things before.

Sometimes, she didn't handle social interactions well. Not only was she unfamiliar with them, she was also clumsy.

All the ways she knows how to get along with others were slowly figured out by watching others.

Moreover, sometimes, her thoughts seem to be different from those of normal people.

"Think of it this way. If Liao Yu is not a good person, it's actually a good thing that he and Song Ning broke up."

Xu Ning asked in bewilderment: "How can this be a good thing? Liao Yu's family is well-off, and Song Ning will be blessed if she marries him. It's actually very difficult to find such a good family."

"For others, this kind of family is indeed difficult to find. But for Song Ning, isn't it a very easy thing? Song Ning is not that old, only one year older than me, there is no need to rush. Even if it is one or two years later, it is not impossible."

Jing Xian knows more than Xu Ning.

Song Zheng has made a great contribution this time, and he will definitely be promoted within half a year.

Let's not talk about Song Ning's family. Song Zheng alone has a promising future. He is Song Ning's strong backing. As long as the Song family does not fall, Song Zheng will move up step by step. No one knows where he will be in the future.

If Liao Yu had a clear mind, he would definitely not treat Song Ning badly.

The entire Liao family has to support Song Ning.

"My mother-in-law will definitely be worried. And..." Xu Ning was worried about Song Ning's condition. She lowered her voice and said, "Song Ning is trapped. She likes Liao Yu very much. I'm worried that after she breaks up with Liao Yu, she may not be able to accept anyone else in the future."

If this is true, she will become the sinner in the family.

Her marriage with Song Zheng will also come to an end.

Xu Ning was really worried to death.

"Why don't I ask Song Ning?" Jing Xian thought it would be better to ask clearly.

Xu Ning said gratefully: "Thank you so much. You don't know that she won't tell me anything I ask her, and I don't know if it was Liao Yu who told her to do so."

Jing Xian could see that Xu Ning was regretting it now.

"It's okay. I'll ask you later."

Song Ning didn't stay long this time, and she didn't know whether Liao Yu was away or busy. It took less than fifteen minutes. As soon as she came in, Jing Xian winked at Xu Ning, and Xu Ning made an excuse to leave.

Song Ning sat on the bench, looking worried.

Jing Xian was peeling potatoes while asking her, "What's wrong with you? You look listless. Didn't you go to see Liao Yu? Didn't you see him?"

“

I saw it." Song Ning said.

"Then why are you still unhappy? You want to stay a little longer, and he's busy?"

"no."

"So you two had a fight?"

"We never quarrel."

"So you want to marry him, but he doesn't agree?"

Song Ning remained silent this time, and took the initiative to ask Jing Xian: "Jing Xian, why do you think he doesn't want to marry me? Is it because I'm not good to her?"

"good."

"Then why doesn't he want to marry me?" Song Ning really couldn't understand. "My family background is not exaggerated, it is really better than the girls in the art troupe. I am also one of the best in terms of height and appearance. If he dislikes my dark skin, I dare not go out in the sun now, just to make myself look a little whiter. What do you think he is not satisfied with?"

Jing Xian felt a little depressed, but she didn't show it on her face: "Didn't everything go well when you two were dating before?"

"Yes! Everything was fine. He even told me that he would come back to meet his family and I was waiting for him. But I don't know what happened to him afterwards and he never mentioned it again." Song Ning got angry when talking about this.

Jing Xian asked: "Have you ever told him about your family background?"

Song Ning frowned and asked, "Why do you want to mention it? Will he marry me if I mention it?"