"What's wrong?" Song Qing picked two handfuls of vegetables from the field and threw them on the ground to feed the goslings. As she fed them, she started to space out. Lu Yang noticed that she had been absent-minded ever since she came back, which he found very strange.
She's been coming home full of energy every day lately, and hasn't been this depressed in a long time.
He was holding Song Qing's drawing pencil and drawing the shape of a truck on a new piece of wood.
To save face in front of his daughter, he had to make her a car with moving wheels.
He studied the wood for a long time, then remembered the drawing Song Qing made every night, and suddenly came up with a solution.
"Didn't I tell you a few days ago that our factory was going to have a deputy factory director?"
She and Factory Director Shen disagreed. I spoke to her for a while at the factory gate today, and Wu Xiu happened to see us. Her expression was a little strange.
Ke Ren Wu Xiu didn't say anything, and even with Director Wei, she was only a little more amiable, without saying anything explicitly.
"Never mind, Master Liu is right, I'll just do my job well!"
She was initially hesitant about whether to talk to Wu Xiu and clarify things, but then she felt it wasn't necessary.
Song Qing stood up and threw all the vegetables in her hand out. The little goose excitedly chased after the vegetables.
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Not many people knew that the Chen family had returned, but Zhou Qi was one of them.
He didn't have any deep-seated grudges against the Chen family; he was just using their affairs as a stepping stone.
After Lin Yingyu's identity was confirmed, Zhou Qi was unable to extract any further information from her, and he was imprisoned to await his final trial.
From initially clinging to a sliver of hope to later becoming utterly despondent, Zhou Qi seemed to have suddenly reached the age of nearing his end, listlessly passing each day.
Until news of the youngest son arrived.
He was left with a leg disability and had difficulty walking, and was sentenced to 30 years of labor reform at a Northwest Farm.
He had a special affection for his youngest son, who was almost 40 years old when he had him. He didn't know whether to be happy or sad upon hearing this ending.
My leg is still damaged after 30 years. I can only comfort myself that at least I'm still alive.
A few murky tears streamed down Zhou Qi's tired eyes. He hated himself for being so greedy.
He spent decades busy scheming and plotting, only to end up with nothing, and even harmed his son to such an extent.
Zhou Chunyan immediately published a notice in the newspaper severing ties with Zhou Qi, and afterwards she rarely went out, fearing that people would link them together again.
They also learned that Zhou Han had been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Zhou Chunyan had always harbored hatred towards this half-brother who was more than ten years younger than them.
"Thirty years? Will he even live to see the day he gets out?"
"Hard to say, it's a farm."
Before Li Mei went to her parents' home to cause trouble, she came to find Zhou Chunyan. Without saying much, she directly asked her to return the nine hundred yuan for the house.
Zhou Chunyan certainly didn't want to give it; what did it matter to her and her brother whether Zhou Han was injured or what happened to him in the future?
She and Li Mei were lifelong enemies.
“That money was earned by my son, not by the old man. If you don’t give it to me, I’ll have no choice but to go outside and make a scene about it.”
Don't think that publishing a notice in the newspaper will truly absolve you of any responsibility.
Li Mei's eyes were terrifying, so empty that Zhou Chunyan found them eerie.
She dared not gamble on what this madman might do next.
"It's only five hundred. You've been using that house for so long, it's only right to charge you a little money."
After receiving the money, Li Mei left without a word. News of her vandalizing her parents' home soon spread, but she quickly disappeared from Xin'an.
Thanks to Zhou Chunyan's constant accusations that Zhou Qi didn't care about her and her brother, and the fact that they were indeed the ones who killed her mother back then.
The Zhou family's houses were all confiscated, but her mother's old house was still there, and no one reported them.
The Zhou siblings just wanted to get through these years quietly.
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A few days ago, someone secretly passed a message to Tian Qiaozhu: a cow died in a commune under Xin'an. Beef is a good thing, and the commune is secretly selling it without needing ration coupons.
Although it sold for 2.8 yuan per jin (500g), while pork is only 1 yuan per jin now, it was still secretly bought up by everyone.
Tian Qiaozhu gritted her teeth and bought three jin (1.5 kg). Song Hai, who was standing to the side, was a little surprised when he saw it. It was almost equivalent to half a month's salary when her daughter first started working.
"Why are you spending so much money on dried meat when it's neither a holiday nor a festival?"
Beef is good, but you can just buy it to try it out. It's all meat, and one pound of beef is equivalent to three pounds of pork. You might as well buy some pork; at least you can eat more.
“Old Chen and his family are back. I’ll braise all this meat. You can send some to your two sons’ families, and I’ll take the rest to them.”
She was wondering what to bring when she visited them, and this beef arrived just in time.
Nowadays, cattle are treasures of the commune. Unless they die in an accident, no one is willing to kill them. They are fed all kinds of grass and fodder, and their meat is top-quality.
Tian Qiaozhu blanched the fish, boiled it for half an hour, then turned off the heat and started braising it. The aroma was so strong that even Song Hai secretly swallowed his saliva.
After braising three pounds of beef, only two pounds remained. She sent some to each of her two sons' families, and also made some flatbreads. Tian Qiaozhu then carried these with her and Song Hai out the door.
Lin Yueyu stayed at the guesthouse for a few days until all the formalities were completed and the house was returned. She took her husband and son back home, and when she opened the door and saw her former home, she burst into tears.
The past is the past; all she hopes for now is for her family to live happily together.
The house was a mess, but it took several days to finally clean it up.
The walls were covered with slogans written by those people. They repainted the walls and cleaned the usable furniture.
In fact, most of the furniture had been smashed, and some pieces were pieced together and barely usable, so we had to make do for now.
Tian Qiaozhu had gone to the guesthouse to look for them before, but had never run into them. Later, she heard that they were cleaning the house, so she dared not go to disturb them.
Aunt Tian
The family was finally able to return home. Chen Yuqi wrote a letter to his sister, saying that he would go back to pick her up after settling his parents.
He was packing his luggage, his mother was cooking porridge in the kitchen, and his father's stomach had been damaged by the hardships of living in the countryside, so he could only be soothed by cooking porridge.
The house wasn't as filled with laughter as it had been a few years ago; people weren't talking much, but Chen Yuqi could still feel the same ease as before as she had.
"Xiao Qi has connections!"
The knocking on the door had become almost a nightmare for Lin Yueyu. Chen Yuqi was standing in the living room when he saw his mother rushing out of the kitchen. He could also see the worry and fear she was trying to suppress. His heart felt like it was being pierced by needles.
"Don't worry, I'll go open the door."
Standing outside the door were Tian Qiaozhu and her husband, carrying things and looking very cautious.
"Xiaoqi, are your parents home? Aunt Tian is here to check on you."
Tian Qiaozhu carried the basket with great anxiety, and Chen Yuqi turned to look at his mother.
Lin Yueyu recognized their voices and nodded after a while.
Chen Yuqi opened the door and let them in.
"...Moon Language".
When Tian Qiaozhu saw Lin Yueyu standing at the kitchen door, she immediately lost her composure, and tears quickly blurred her vision.
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