Luo Qiongzhi took in everything, sighed in her heart, and decided to help her own grandson, otherwise he would be pitiful, so she pretended to say it casually.
"You don't know, our Fang Chi's men in the army have it much harder than here. It's dozens of degrees below zero in the northwest, and they stand guard all day without even a meal. There's nothing they can do about it, they're soldiers after all."
"ah?"
Su Nan covered her lips in surprise. Thinking of the videos of border soldiers patrolling in the snow that she had seen on the Internet in later generations, she couldn't help but feel a sense of awe. She took another piece of cake and handed it to Xiao Fangchi.
"Eat more. If you hadn't carried the burden, we wouldn't be able to live in peace and tranquility."
Liu Yu also nodded and praised: "Nannan is right. We all have to thank you. The temperament of a former soldier is different. He is full of righteousness."
"Oh, it's because I can't find a wife. I'm a 22-year-old man and I've never had a girlfriend. What should I do?" Luo Qiongzhi slapped his thigh, looking distressed.
Su Nan subconsciously leaned back a little, and the corners of her mouth twitched twice. Her intuition told her that something big was going to happen.
"How could that be? Brother Xiao is so handsome that I thought he had been engaged for a long time but just hadn't gotten married yet." Liu Yu looked at Xiao Fangchi, half believing and half doubting.
"How could that be possible? This guy insisted on building a career first and then starting a family. He would never go on a blind date. In my opinion, he is just too picky and doesn't look down on those young girls in our village who have never seen the world."
Luo Qiongzhi looked at Su Nan calmly. Seeing that she looked like an outsider and had nothing to do with it, she knew that Xiao Fangchi was completely hopeless.
Liu Yu took a bite of the cake and could understand Xiao Fangchi's thoughts, so he smiled and comforted him, "Brother Xiao is so well-off, so of course we can't give in.
Rather than finding someone you don’t like or can’t talk to, it’s better not to find one, so as to avoid quarrels every day in the future and make the family restless. I have a relative like this, and his life is not going well.
So, grandma, don't worry too much, fate is something you can only encounter and not seek."
"Grandma, listen to how insightful Liu Zhiqing is." Xiao Fangchi raised his head and said jokingly.
"You little bastard, are you calling me old and confused in a roundabout way?" Luo Qiongzhi pretended to stand up and hit Xiao Fangchi.
Later, he took advantage of the situation to stand up, raised the half piece of cake in his hand to Su Nan, who had been silent the whole time, and said with a faint smile: "Thank you, it's delicious. I've rested enough, so I'll leave first."
As soon as he finished speaking, he walked out of the courtyard and left.
Su Nan chewed the rose cake in her mouth and suddenly shouted to Xiao Fangchi's back: "Go slowly, be careful, and bring Yun'er a sister-in-law as soon as possible."
Xiao Fangchi paused, without turning around, he just waved his hand and quickened his pace.
Seeing this, Liu Yu glanced at Su Nan and said angrily, "How can you tease others like this?"
"I'm just helping grandma." Su Nan snorted. Sister Xiaoyu was stunned and didn't expect her to notice anything.
Just then, Xiao Heguo and Li Cuiping came back after going to the office early in the morning.
"Uncle, aunt."
The two little girls quickly greeted them sweetly.
"Xiao Su, I went to the public supply and marketing department and the hospital to ask for you. Here's the price list. I can't read, so I asked the salesperson to fill it out. She also said that the prices in the public store are about the same as those in the county town, with no difference."
Li Cuiping pulled out a neatly folded piece of paper from her coat pocket and handed it to Su Nan. Su Nan took it with a smile and said, "Thank you so much. Come on, have some snacks. These are specialties my family sent me a few days ago."
"Okay." Li Cuiping agreed and pulled Xiao Heguo to sit aside to have some snacks.
This was the first time she had seen such high-end dim sum.
Su Nan slowly opened the paper. On it was a list of food and medicines that Zhou Rang had sent over during this period. After the series of names were numbers, which were the prices written by the salesperson.
"I'll go back to my room to settle the accounts first, you guys chat." After saying that, Su Nan limped into the room with the help of his crutches.
Take a pen from the bedside drawer, multiply all the numbers by the amount, and then add them up.
After a while, Su Nan stood in front of the bed, holding the paper. Looking at the number on it, he couldn't help but gasp. He covered his chest with one hand, opened his mouth blankly, and murmured in a low voice: "How can there be so many?"
Eight hundred and twenty-five yuan?
Where would she get so much money to pay Zhou Rang back? Oh my God, could she take back those shameless words?
"I, Su Nan, am not someone who likes to take advantage of others."
"I've only spent money on two men in my life."
"I will definitely pay it back."
In fact, the food is not bad, not expensive, but the medicinal materials are the best. Zhou Rang, that spendthrift, actually bought the best of everything.
Whenever Su Nan thought about the fact that every bowl of medicine poured into the chamber pot represented money, he suddenly felt so regretful that he couldn't breathe.
"Thank you, Zhou Rang." Su Nan gritted his teeth and crumpled the paper, cursing several times in his heart.
The real person who was far away in Huiping couldn't help but sneeze.
In a state-owned restaurant in the south of Huiping City, there were a few tables of guests sitting here and there. Two waitresses were leaning against the window, chatting idly, but their eyes were always glancing at the table of people in the corner.
There were two men sitting in the corner against the wall. One of them was particularly outstanding in appearance. He was at least 1.8 meters tall, and his slightly tight black clothes showed off his muscular body.
His handsome facial features give off a cold aura that keeps people away.
"What's wrong, Brother Zhou?" Zheng Guangqi sat opposite Zhou Rang and asked worriedly after seeing him sneeze several times in a row.
Zhou Rang raised his head, revealing a pair of deep eyes with a faint red tint, and whispered, "It's okay."
His voice was deep and hoarse, with a lazy ending, which sounded very seductive.
Zheng Guangqi nodded and continued the previous topic: "Ever since the last time the Shanghai route was wiped out, I have never dared to open it again. It was not until I received your telegram last time that I contacted my brothers one by one."
"How much is there?" Zhou Rang raised his eyelids and rubbed the wall of the cup with his slender fingers.
"Almost one-third of the previous number has left. Many people are afraid to join again. They say they just want to live a stable life with the money they earned before." Zheng Guangqi glanced at Zhou Rang cautiously, and seeing that his expression was unchanged, he felt a little relieved.
The number of people was within expectations.
Zhou Rang took out a cigarette from the box on the table, but didn't smoke it. He just played with it in his hand, his eyes fixed on it, as if he was deep in thought.
Zheng Guangqi did not dare to interrupt him while he was thinking, but just waited by the side, drinking the cold water in the cup.
After a while, Zhou Rang's voice was heard again: "Let's go with the second plan. Arrange a few smart people to hold the goods."
"Okay." Zheng Guangqi responded excitedly, with joy flashing between his brows.
In her joy, she couldn't help but ask, "Brother Zhou, when are you going back to Shanghai? What's so good about staying in this shabby little place?"
Zheng Guangqi looked around the state-owned restaurant with obvious disgust on his face.
Zhou Rang closed his eyes, leaned back in his chair, and said nonchalantly, "Did I ever say I wanted to go back? Besides, the higher-ups haven't told the educated youth that they can return to the city, so how can I go back?"
Zheng Guangqi smiled awkwardly and whispered, "Brother Zhou, you're joking. If you want to go back, that's just a simple matter. Can your family ignore you?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Guangqi knew he had said the wrong thing. He quickly covered his mouth, slapped himself a few times, and cursed, "I told you to be so rude."
Zhou Rang suddenly opened his eyes, frowned, bent the cigarette on the table, threw it on the table, and said coldly: "There will be no next time."
"Yes, yes, yes." Zheng Guangqi nodded repeatedly. He knew that he had touched his sore spot. He didn't dare to mention it again and changed the subject directly.
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