He Chaoyang glanced at the post office staff who had run away, and seeing that Chen Shuning didn't care, he didn't ask any more questions. Then he heard Chen Shuning mention that he wanted to repay Du Xiangqian's favor.
He laughed and said, "What favor? You brought that kid so much good food, that's enough. Besides, I treated him and his brothers to a meal afterwards."
Just now, Xiang Qian's relative mentioned the time I treated him to dinner. Actually, I was treating that kid. I don't know if Xiang Qian just happened to run into him or what.
Anyway, that woman came along too. She was the only woman at the table of grown men, and she was always complaining, making sure none of the guys at Xiangqian ate well.
Looking at He Chaoyang's disgusted expression and then thinking about the woman's adoring eyes, Chen Shuning couldn't help but laugh.
The two chatted for a while longer, and then Lin Xiaoyan, who had just run off, came running back with several full sheets of stamps.
He grinned and moved closer to Chen Shuning, saying ingratiatingly, "Comrade, look at these stamps. They were just delivered recently. Especially this one, 'The Motherland is Red,' which was delivered this morning. The towns below aren't even shown yet."
Looking at the bright red, festive stamps, Chen Shuning was overjoyed. In later generations, a single stamp could be exchanged for a house, let alone a whole sheet like this. He was going to make a fortune!
Besides the two full sheets of "The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red" stamps that Lin Xiaoyan brought, there were several other versions as well. Chen Shuning didn't understand them, but they all looked pretty good. Chen Shuning bought one sheet of each set, and of course, he bought both sheets of "The Motherland's Mountains and Rivers Are All Red".
When it came time to pay, He Chaoyang wanted to pay, but Chen Shuning firmly refused, as their relationship was still only at the dating stage.
Even when He Chaoyang spends money on food and drinks, Chen Shuning will always find a way to make up for it from other sources.
They would either cook something to eat or find things from their spatial storage that existed in this era, such as enamel mugs, to give to He Chaoyang. Of course, the most common gifts were food, because that was the safest option.
He Chaoyang knew Chen Shuning's temperament, and although he was somewhat helpless, he still respected Chen Shuning's idea.
Watching the two leave the post office, Lin Xiaoyan breathed a heavy sigh of relief, then hurriedly ran behind the counter, grabbed the phone, and dialed.
She had met He Chaoyang before. She and Du Juan had been good friends since childhood, and she had seen He Chaoyang from afar when they were shopping together last time.
She clearly remembered that time.
Du Juan stared at the man's figure with admiration and boasted to her that he was the man she would marry in the future. At the time, she found it strange that Du Juan came from a good family, was good-looking, and was a doctor at the county hospital with a good job.
What kind of man could make her show that kind of expression? I remember she jokingly asked what kind of man could bewitch a young lady like her like that.
What did Dujuan say back then? Maybe it was because Lin Xiaoyan wasn't pretty, so Dujuan never had to be wary of her growing up.
So he told her about He Chaoyang's family background, social status, and current achievements. This was the reason why Lin Xiaoyan was so frightened when she saw He Chaoyang's face.
After all, the Lin family is a family that many people in this small county cannot afford to offend, let alone someone like He Chaoyang who has a background in Beijing.
But what's with the girl next to this man? The two of them look very intimate.
So as soon as the two left, Lin Xiaoyan ran back to call Dujuan, wanting to tell her about her discovery. Maybe she could even get some benefits from that girl because of this news.
But for some reason, no one answered the phone at the Li family's house today, even though it's the Lunar New Year. Could it be that something happened to the old man of the Li family?
It's no wonder Lin Xiaoyan misunderstood. During the Lunar New Year, no one answered the phone at home, which meant that the entire Li family would only be mobilized if something happened to the old man.
Lin Xiaoyan could never have imagined that the Li family was in such a state of chaos. Although it wasn't the case that Old Master Li had health problems, it was pretty much the same.
When Du Xiangqian returned and told the old man everything that had happened that day, the old man was so angry that he smashed his cup on the spot.
This was the first time the Li family had seen the old man lose his temper like this since he retired from the army and returned to his hometown to live out his retirement.
Although Du Juan knew the old man would lose his temper before she returned, she still underestimated how angry he would be.
Even after she told him that Du Xiangqian was dating a landlord's daughter, she couldn't divert the old man's attention.
In the end, they kicked the whole family out.
However, Dujuan knew that this was not the end of the matter, because she could tell from her mother's expression that her greatest ordeal would come when she got home.
She just didn't know when Du Qianjin had become so cunning. He used some excuse when he was about to leave and was kept by his grandfather, leaving her to go home alone and face her mother's anger.
Even at this point, Du Juan still didn't realize that her current predicament was all because she coveted things that didn't belong to her.
Instead, she blamed everything on others, blaming He Chaoyang for being ruthless and resenting Du Xiangqian for disregarding family ties by going home to complain.
But she hated Chen Shuning even more. Why should such an unremarkable woman be able to stand next to Brother He?
What angered her most was that she was completely helpless in the face of such a woman.
Today, she only made that woman slightly unhappy, yet Brother He was so heartless as to harm her like this.
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