Chapter 34
When Jiang Yugui returned home, Cao Guifang and Cao Meimei were both looking at him eagerly.
It was a very hot day, but Cao Guifang didn't mind the heat and took apart Fubao's old sweater and knitted it for her child.
It is almost impossible to wear a new sweater these days. Many people can't remember where the wool came from in the first place. It may be an old sweater bought from someone else's home, or it may be something else. Anyway, when it comes to children, they have to watch their elders take apart their sweaters year after year, and see the small sweaters slowly turn into big sweaters.
If Cao Guifang had not been so active in the past, wouldn't Cao Meimei be here? Cao Meimei's needlework is well-known in her mother's family.
This is because she is afraid of hard work, does not want to go out to do farm work, and is also afraid of getting tanned. Now, if anyone in the neighborhood wants to make clothes and pants, they all come to her, but she gets nothing, at least that's what it seems on the surface.
But in fact, she saved a lot privately.
Her mother charges people one dollar and eighty cents, but she turns around and tells them that she will secretly give them a discount of two cents next time, and tells everyone it is a secret. But these people are still very tight-lipped. But in fact, they are not tight-lipped at all, they just don't want others to take advantage of them.
Moreover, Cao Meimei was very smart. Just like exchanging money for candy, she did not hide all the money she took over the business secretly. She only paid a dime or two occasionally. Everyone in the family thought she was extremely honest. Even if others told the matter out, her family would think she just forgot to tell them.
Now that Cao Meimei had just arrived, Cao Guifang asked her to help with the work. Cao Meimei smiled on the surface, but in her heart she had already scolded Cao Guifang.
But Cao Guifang didn't notice that her niece was rolling her eyes at her. She kept looking in the direction of the Yu family.
The things that happened these days made her feel very uneasy, as if something had gone off the track that things were supposed to be going.
In the past, no matter what the matter was, when she went to her eldest sister-in-law's house to make a scene, her eldest sister-in-law would scold her and quarrel with her, but they would always compromise in the end. Even if the two of them were in a stalemate, as long as her husband said a few words, she would always get a good result.
But ever since she introduced Yu Yao to someone, things seemed to be a little different.
Sometimes she even thought that if Liu Yang had not come to find her, she would not have done this if Liu Yang had not promised her so many benefits, and she would not be unable to see her son now.
And what could she have done wrong? She didn't believe that the Yu family would not agree to such a good opportunity.
Are their family really so noble that they married Yu Ping off as a woman?
If she were to say, Liu Yang just didn't know how to control people. He was just stupid. He took the benefits promised to her directly to the Yu family. Was he afraid that the Yu family would not agree?
However, what she didn't know was that since Liu Yang had chosen the target, there was no way he wouldn't ask around. But the information he got out of it, combined with the self-righteous information in his mind, happened to miss the truth.
What he found out was that the Yu family was very poor and that the eldest son of the Yu family went to the city to become a son-in-law and never came back. He made good use of the opportunity and felt that the Yu family was just like the legendary eldest son of the Yu family, who was greedy for money.
Apart from anything else, the Liu family basically has no worries about money.
As for the fact that the director of the steel plant had married a son-in-law who was rich, he knew about it, but he didn't think about it at all. Even he himself felt that it was not reliable for him to find such a poor daughter-in-law, so he didn't think that the Zhao family would possibly marry such a poor son-in-law.
His parents knew it all, but his father would never tell him about such trivial matters, and he didn't want to listen to his mother talking about these trivial matters.
Moreover, he heard that the Yu family was sick and weak, and there was no one to support them. It was almost the same as having no uncle like Jiang Yugui for Yu Yao. He also came to Cao Guifang to act as a matchmaker in order to ensure the authenticity of this matter.
The benefits he promised were not only those of matchmaking, but also those of appeasing Jiang Yugui, the so-called uncle.
To put it bluntly, Liu Yang's goal is to marry a wife who has no support but is presentable. One of the two must be beauty or family. However, his situation is special, so a good family is out of the question. So wouldn't a good-looking woman be the one he likes?
But this time, I didn't expect that my calculations would have hit the wrong person.
Besides, Cao Guifang was feeling a little self-doubt when she saw her man coming back happily.
It was obvious from the gesture that something good was going to happen, and the slight regret that had just arisen in Cao Guifang's heart immediately disappeared. She knew how could her elder sister-in-law bear to ignore her man?
"Brother Gui, what's up? Is there anything good?"
Jiang Yugui's smile almost reached his ears, but just when he was about to speak, he saw Cao Meimei and immediately stopped smiling. Don't think he doesn't know that whenever there is something good at home, this woman will share some with her parents.
He didn't answer her, but looked at Cao Meimei and said, "Meimei, you see, your second uncle didn't treat you well when you came here as a guest. Take this money and go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy some food."
Cao Meimei looked at the money he handed over, then looked at the sky, and thought to herself, is there something wrong? What kind of food is there in the supply and marketing cooperative at this time?
Can you please find a better excuse to get rid of her?
But in order to get her away, the couple whispered to each other without caring whether what they said was nonsense or not, and just stared at her.
If Cao Meimei had been sensible at this time, she would have taken the money to her fellow villager's house and exchanged it for some eggs or something.
But Cao Meimei didn't want to go, the supply and marketing cooperative was so far away, "Second Uncle, I don't need delicious food, I just want something simple."
Cao Guifang was annoyed when she saw her like that, so she took the money and stuffed it into her hand, "Go when I tell you to go, and if there's no food, buy a bottle of wine."
As soon as she yelled, Cao Meimei immediately obeyed. What else could she do? Her second aunt was so fierce that she dared not disobey.
Humph, wait until she marries a military officer in the future, and then we’ll see how she deals with this couple.
She was reluctant in her heart, but she agreed in a nice way. She took the money and said obediently, "Okay, I'll go right away."
Cao Guifang was still a little reluctant to part with the money, but thinking that her husband was busy with work, she just glared at Cao Meimei. After watching Cao Meimei leave the house, the couple closed the gate of the yard to completely put an end to Cao Meimei's desire to eavesdrop.
Cao Meimei had no choice but to go to the supply and marketing cooperative cursing.
She couldn't walk too slowly, because if she walked too slowly she wouldn't be able to buy anything. She was sure that if she couldn't buy anything she would be scolded by her second aunt. Why was her life so hard? When would her officer come to marry her?
At this time, Yu Yao didn't know that Cao Meimei had already fallen deeply in love with her fiancé. Her mother didn't know what happened either, but she became a completely different person after returning from the village chief's house.
She seemed to be suddenly relieved, and said she wanted to sell the house and go to the city today.
"Mom, don't worry, take your time. Yu Ping and I have taken several days off. Let's take our time to pack."
Jiang Limei waved her hands, "There's nothing much to clean up. I've already cleaned up most of the things that need to be cleaned up. I'm also planning to sell this house. Besides, I can't let my mother-in-law help clean up the city alone. I'll go by myself."
"What, sold?"
When they heard that she wanted to sell the house, their family members' reactions were exactly the same as the village chief's just now.
For many rural people, the houses in their hometowns are their roots. If the houses are sold, the roots are gone. Not to mention that the house also carries the memories of such a large family. How can she sell it just like that?
Even Yu Yao, who didn't care much about the house, was a little confused. She came from the future and knew that many people who moved to the city would never return to the countryside, but they didn't know that.
"Mom, don't be impulsive. Let's take it slow and think everything through." Yu Yao suspected that she might want to give herself and her second brother some money to support themselves.
Although Gu Qing's family was well-off, she was marrying far away after all, and her mother might be worried that she would be wronged.
You know what, Jiang Limei really thought so. Not only the two siblings, but she herself couldn't go to the city without money. The children needed money, and she would have to spend some money to take care of the grandfather.
Although she is not afraid of hardship and thinks she can make money, she will still feel anxious if she doesn't have any money.
Jiang Limei believed that Lao Yu would understand him, and he must also want his children to live a better life.
"You don't need to persuade me anymore. I have already told the village chief that the house will be sold to his daughter-in-law's sister. They will come to sign the deed soon. Have you packed your things?"
No one expected her to be so swift and decisive, so they had to rush back to the house and pick up everything that had been left behind.
It took them less than two hours from the time they returned to the time they packed up and left. They even sold the furniture and other things that could not be taken away to the village chief's house, and the family set off in a hurry.
Who would have thought that soon after leaving the village, I saw Cao Meimei walking by the roadside with a net bag and a gloomy face.
Many people pointed and talked about them along the way. This time, they were no longer ridiculed or pitied, but shocked, envious, and even jealous. Even though they had no idea what important person the Yu family had hooked up with, it did not prevent them from knowing that a car had come to pick up the Yu family for two consecutive days, nor did it prevent them from seeing the Yu family leave in a car.
There was no concept of overloading in that era, so even though the four people in the back seat were a bit crowded, it was still a very novel experience for Jiang Limei, Yu Sheng and Yu An.
Whether out of curiosity or reluctance to leave Qingyang Village, several people looked out of the car window at the same time. Unexpectedly, Yu Yao's eyes met Cao Meimei who was walking towards them.
Yu Yao was puzzled. She didn't remember ever offending this elder sister.
However, the car only went forward for less than a few dozen meters before it stopped, and everyone in the car was stunned.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Tian asked.
Yu Ping turned to the others and said, "Wait a minute, I want to talk to the girl from the Cao family."
Although everyone found it very strange, no one stopped him because nothing would happen in public anyway.
Yu Ping must have his own reasons for doing that.
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