Having figured out a solution, Chen Shuning no longer cared about the cold weather. She couldn't wait to take Chen Jiandang to the scrap metal recycling station to find a legitimate way to use her large sum of money.
While deftly chopping hot steamed buns and spicy cabbage, he directed Chen Jiandang to pour hot water into the water turtle.
Chen Shuning hadn't been to town for a long time since the weather turned cold.
The last time Chen Shuning picked up Qin Yalan and Chen Jiandang, she chartered a car herself, so in addition to water turtles, she also brought bedding, and she didn't suffer at all along the way.
But this time it's different. Because the Chinese New Year is just around the corner, the village's oxcarts have been constantly shuttling between the brigade and the town.
As the saying goes, whether you're rich or poor, you go home for the Chinese New Year, which shows how important this festival is to the Chinese people.
So regardless of whether they were rich or poor, every household started preparing for the New Year, which resulted in a large number of people taking public transportation.
When Chen Shuning and her brother arrived at the entrance of the brigade headquarters, there was only one oxcart waiting.
Old Jiang was driving the bus. He still remembered Chen Shuning's kindness because of that bowl of noodle soup last time. When he saw the siblings coming from afar, he called out, "Little Chen, are you taking your brother to buy New Year's goods? Hurry up and get on the bus. We'll set off after waiting for the two of you."
Chen Shuning sweetly called out "Grandpa Jiang" and then led Chen Jiandang to a place to board the oxcart.
Xu Laidi and Wang Chunni arrived five or six minutes after Chen Shuning and her brother got on the oxcart, which was then full of people.
With a flick of Old Jiang's whip, the oxcart slowly headed towards Hongqi Town.
As soon as Wang Chunni got in the car, she started chattering away to Chen Shuning.
"Hey Shuning, have you heard? Shen Wenge seems to have disappeared. I heard it's been more than ten days, and there's no sign of him, dead or alive. When I just arrived, I saw Shen Wenge's mother crying and making a scene in the brigade leader's yard, saying she wanted the brigade leader to help arrange for people to go into the mountains to look for him!"
Since the weather turned cold, Chen Shuning has rarely gone out, and rarely even goes to the front yard, so he really hasn't heard any news.
However, upon hearing that the missing person was Shen Wenge, Chen Shuning became interested, since that person was one of the murderers who killed the original owner in the original book.
Although Chen Shuning believed that those were all plot points from the original book, her arrival had changed many things, and the plot points in the original book were simply things that hadn't happened yet.
However, none of this stopped her from enjoying the show. So she quickly turned to Wang Chunni and said, "Tell me quickly what happened. Why did you only start looking for this person after he had been missing for more than ten days?"
"I heard that Shen Wenge told his mother more than ten days ago that he was going to stay at his sister's house in town for a while."
Everyone in the village knew that he would go to his sister's house for ten days or half a month whenever he had nothing to do, so his family didn't take it seriously.
Yesterday, his mother went to town to buy New Year's goods and stopped by his sister's house on the way, thinking she would visit her son and also try to get some money from her daughter.
But to everyone's surprise, Shen Wenge was not at his sister's house at all. His mother found out that Shen Wenge had never been there.
It's been over ten days since he left, and there's been no news of him at all. His family is starting to panic. Yesterday, the mother and daughter went to the town and asked all the people who usually hung out with Shen Wenge, but they all said they hadn't seen him. So this morning, the mother and daughter went to the brigade leader's house, making a scene and demanding that he help them find him.
At this moment, an aunt from the village chimed in with great interest: "Could he have gone to his second sister's house in Qianjin Brigade? It's almost Chinese New Year, who knows, maybe that kid went to his second sister's house to ask for money."
Shen Wenge had three older sisters. His eldest sister married the village accountant, his third sister married a military officer, and only his second sister's family was poor. She married a villager from the neighboring Qianjin Brigade.
However, his second sister's husband was a down-to-earth and capable man. In recent years, the family's conditions have gradually improved, and Shen Wenge has gone from never visiting to going to his second sister's house every few days to ask for some pocket money.
"It shouldn't be. When I came over, I saw that the brigade leader's house was in a commotion. I went over to take a look out of curiosity, and Li Li and the three sisters from the Shen family were all there. It seems that the person is missing."
This time, it was another auntie from the village who spoke.
"If you ask me, the Shen family deserves it. There are many families in our brigade with more daughters than sons, but look at them, which family spoils their son so much?"
The families that married the three daughters of the Shen family all demanded exorbitant sums of money. The eldest and third daughters were relatively easy to marry into because their husbands' families were already well-off.
But look at what happened when Er Ya got married. My aunt from my maternal family had to go through a lot of hardship to bring her into the family.
"To be honest, it's all my cousin's fault. He's fixated on Shen Er Ya, making a huge scene at home, refusing to marry anyone but her. It's because of that that my aunt's two other brothers are still unmarried. Isn't that a terrible situation?"
The speaker this time was a young married woman who had just married into the family a few days ago. She was accompanying her mother-in-law to town to buy New Year's goods.
"Didn't they say that Er Ya's family has been doing better these past two years? Doesn't that kid Shen Wenge still go to his second sister's house every few days to ask for money?"
Hearing this, the young wife became even angrier and spat to the side, cursing, "Better than my ass! Better than my two cousins who are in their mid-twenties and still can't find wives?"
"It's all because of that Shen Er Ya's troublemaking. Every time Shen Wenge goes there and doesn't get the money, that Shen Er Ya throws pots and smashes things at home, beating the children. In the dead of winter, she even pushed my two little nephews into the snow, acting like the children weren't hers. Even a stepmother isn't as cruel as her."
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