He Dong rode his bicycle with He Wen and Li Xiumei and appeared under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village.
The crowd suddenly became agitated.
"Hey, isn't this the boss who loves his country? There has been no news for such a long time, we almost thought you were gone."
"Can he talk? His wife has gone back to her parents' home, maybe he has gone back too."
"In the blink of an eye, your daughter has grown so big. When she left the water village, she was just a tiny thing, not even as heavy as my old hen."
"Go back quickly, your parents will be happy to see you."
When those aunts are happy, they can't control their mouths and say anything.
Ho Tung exchanged a few words with his wife and daughter before riding off to the Social Workers' Temple.
When the family of three returned, only Zhao Moli was there.
Zhao Moli was delighted to see her eldest son, but then she calmed down and said calmly, "You're back."
"Mom, we're back. He Wen, hurry up and call grandma."
He Wen was a little timid. He hid behind Li Xiumei and played with her pants.
"This child is still shy, but he will be fine in a few days." Li Xiumei was afraid that He Dong would get angry, so she hurriedly explained.
Thinking that he was like this when he first met He Wen, He Dong didn't say anything and silently took the luggage out of the car.
"Mom, we bought a set of clothes for you and Dad. Come try them on later to see if they fit."
"Why waste that money? Mom and your dad have clothes to wear."
He Dong was less than 20 years old, but he had lost his youthful appearance and turned from a thin boy into a portly uncle.
Looking at her son who had changed so much from what he used to be, Zhao Moli felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.
"I'll go clean up the house for you."
Li Xiumei stopped her and said, "Mom, we can do it ourselves. You just look after He Wen."
The curtains in the room were still there. Li Xiumei did not take them down, but just moved them a little to the side, leaving room for the family of three to sleep.
He Dong put down his things and went out with a bag of snacks. Li Xiumei told him to go early and come back early.
The house was being cleaned busily.
There was silence outside the door.
Zhao Moli looked He Wen up and down.
He Wen is dark and strong, and you can tell at a glance that the Li family’s food is pretty good.
She was seen standing at the door of the house, looking at Zhao Moli timidly.
He took small steps and pretended to walk towards Zhao Moli casually.
Zhao Moli took out a piece of fruit candy from her bosom. This was something she had hidden for a long time and had not been willing to eat.
Maybe because it was covered so often, the sugar melted a little and stuck to the candy wrapper.
Zhao Moli wiped her hands before taking the candy off and giving it to He Wen. She then picked up the candy wrapper and licked it in small bites.
A piece of candy quickly brought the two closer together. When Li Xiumei came out, He Wen was already sitting next to Zhao Moli, watching her weave a wicker basket.
He Aiguo was still working in the fields when he heard many people congratulating him, which made him confused.
He Xi was still young and had not married yet, and his wife was not pregnant, so what was there to be happy about?
When I got home, I saw a strange child squatting on the ground playing with a grasshopper made of willow branches.
When he saw Li Xiumei again, he suddenly understood.
"Dad, you're back. Come on, come in and try on your new clothes. Dong Ge and I bought them for you."
Li Xiumei's sudden concern made He Aiguo feel a little overwhelmed. "Well... okay, um, where's your mother?"
"Mom went to the cafeteria to serve food. I asked her to go and get some dishes."
Now every household relies on the produce from their private plots to exchange for household necessities or extra meals.
"oh."
He Aiguo fled back into the house.
For dinner, the family would set up a table in the yard as usual and eat. When the weather got colder, they would take the food back inside to eat.
"Dad, I'm planning to build a house."
He Dong has already gone to the village chief to approve the housing plot, and I believe there will be a result in the next two or three days.
"Xiaodong, you've seen our situation. Building a house isn't just playing house. You can't just pile a few bricks together and it becomes a new house. We don't have that kind of money yet."
He Aiguo almost wrote the words "Your father has no money" on his face.
"Dad, don't worry, I have money. I plan to build a bigger house for our family to live in."
He Aiguo was about to ask him where the money came from, but then he thought that his daughter-in-law's family was willing to support them for a year and a half, and maybe the money for building the house was given by them.
Thinking of this, he lowered his head and continued to eat.
The excitement about the return of the Ho Tung family of three had not yet subsided, and it reached a new climax with the news that they were going to build a new house.
The village chief was very proactive and approved it in just two days.
"Village Chief, is there no other place?"
Ho Tung was not very satisfied after seeing the site. He thought the location was too remote. If he really built a house there, it would be at the end of the village.
"No, all the places in the village where houses can be built have been built. If you want to build such a big house, you can only get a foundation at the end of the village."
The village chief also wanted to find a piece of land that was not too remote and close to the crowd to build a house for his son. His family had another member, and if this trend continued, his house would soon be too small to accommodate him.
"I see that the area between the Su family and the Youth League House is quite large, so why is it not possible there?"
"There's a house there. If you build a house there, you either have to expand it or tear it down and rebuild it. And that house is public property of the village."
Besides, that’s the Su family, who are sworn enemies of the He family. If they try to get close to them, wouldn’t that be looking for trouble?
"Right there, I bought that house too."
Ho Tung didn't care about the price at all and made the decision directly.
The village chief had nothing to say and re-marked the ground.
As soon as he got the foundation deed, Ho Tung couldn't wait to find someone to build the house.
On the first day of work, he gave each worker who helped him a Daqianmen cigarette.
"Today we're mainly repairing the foundation and demolishing the house. It's quite hard work, so how about giving each person an extra two cents today?"
"good……"
The workers soon started calling him "Brother Dong".
He wanted to build a blue brick house, but no other house in the entire village was built entirely with blue bricks.
Seeing cart after cart of blue bricks being pulled in, the villagers were extremely jealous.
Everyone ran to Zhao Moli and said she was blessed.
She thought to herself, who in this world is truly blessed throughout his life? As his mother, she knew very well what kind of person He Dong was. She was afraid that there must be something fishy going on.
But she didn't want to say anything bad about Ho Tung in front of so many people, so she just laughed off other people's compliments.
Li Xiumei would go to check on the progress of the house almost every day, and would bring He Wen to wander around the door of the Su family intentionally or unintentionally.
Su Qing saw it but pretended not to see it.
She really had nothing to say to the people in the He family, and it was simply impossible for her to repay kindness with resentment.
Even if she knew that it was the Ho Tung family who built the house, so what? It was not her family's territory and she had no right to interfere.
As long as you don't bother her in the future, she doesn't care.
Even if you come to provoke her, so what? If I’m in a good mood, I’ll curse you back. If I’m in a bad mood, I’ll hit you back. It’s that simple.
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