"Uncle Niu, here's this for you, as well as the car money."
Cheng Qiao gave Uncle Niu a pack of production-brand cigarettes, which were not expensive, costing eight cents a pack, and twenty cents for the car fare. You had to give him some benefits for coming out so early, otherwise what would you do if people didn't like you in the future?
Uncle Niu accepted the cigarette, but pushed the money away. Are you kidding me? I just walked to the county town and ate two meat buns and a big bowl of millet porridge. Isn't this enough to pay for the bus?
"Qiao girl, do you still have the floss? Uncle Niu will buy it from you."
"One thing, I'll ask Xu Hui to deliver it to you later."
"Hey, how much is it?"
"Uncle Niu, the floss is a bit expensive, so just give me fifty cents."
The wrinkles on Uncle Niu's face became deeper. How could he sell meat floss for fifty cents? This was Cheng Qiao bribing himself. As for why he was bribing himself, he had no idea.
Cheng Qiao did bribe Uncle Niu. When Zhao Xiaobao asked her to secretly help take care of his father, she didn't take it to heart. She only occasionally thought of asking Li Huan to secretly send some supplies.
But listening to my father's tone today, it seems that Zhao Guoliang is still an old acquaintance of my father. Thinking of it, with the surname Zhao, he cannot be a relative on my mother's side.
But she was not in a hurry. Her father still needed to confirm whether she was a relative on her mother's side. After all, she was still too young at that time and could not remember many things.
"Uncle Niu, in the next two days, I will take my father to the back mountain to collect herbs after lunch every day. Please let me know what herbs you want."
Uncle Niu nodded repeatedly. He didn't expect that he would become an underground liaison officer when he got old. However, if Zhao Guoliang was really a relative of Cheng Qiao's family, he would take good care of him. After all, Cheng Qiao and the little ruffian were really good to him.
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Cheng Liguo also understood the meaning of his daughter's words and couldn't help but nodded. Adversity makes people progress. After his daughter went to the countryside, she was isolated and helpless and could only grow up quickly.
"Grandpa, thank you for giving me a good name."
As soon as Cheng Liguo followed Cheng Qiao into the courtyard, a childish voice rang out from beside him. When he lowered his head, he saw a five or six-year-old child looking at him with shining eyes.
Cheng Liguo knelt down, touched Xu Hui's head, and said with a kind smile: "You must be Chen Xuhui, good boy, live a good life with your parents."
"Yes, grandpa."
"Here, this is a meeting gift from grandpa."
A small cloth bag appeared in front of Xu Hui's eyes. When he opened the bag, he saw that it was all bullet casings. This kind of bullet casings are the supreme existence in the hearts of children. Xu Hui went crazy with joy.
"Grandpa, where did you get all these bullet casings? Thank you, grandpa."
Where did he get it? Of course it was given to him by Li Bing. At first he thought it was strange why an old man wanted bullet casings. When Li Bing said the word Xuhui, he understood.
"This is Comrade Li Bing, and it was your uncle who saved it slowly. He originally wanted to make some toys for little Cheng Li, but when he learned that you also became a child of our family, he took care of you first."
Li's mother admired Cheng Liguo immensely. These two sentences not only let Xu Hui know the importance of little Cheng Li to the Li family and the Cheng family, but also told him that they would treat him as a true relative.
Xu Hui felt warm after hearing this. It turned out that he was so important in the hearts of his parents and grandfather. He did not give such good things to little Cheng Li, but instead took care of himself first:
"Grandpa, don't worry, I will play with little Cheng Li. He is my younger brother, my biological brother."
"You're so good, you're a good boy, let's go play."
Cheng Liguo comforted Xu Hui, and then began to look at the Li family's house. From the outside, the Li family had been divided into courtyards because there were two courtyard doors on one wall.
But a new courtyard door should be closed for a long time. They all enter and exit through the old courtyard door. When entering the courtyard, they face the old house.
Another door opened on the wall between the old house and the new house, and that door was the gateway to Cheng Qiao and Li Huan's yard.
The old house was basically made of clay, but the new yard was made of bricks and tiles. Judging from the construction of the house, the Li family really had Cheng Qiao in mind.
Standing in the yard was an old man who could tell he grew up in a wealthy family. Cheng Liguo quickly took two steps and quickly stretched out his hands: "Hello, Comrade Ye Jun, I am Cheng Liguo."
"Hello, Comrade Cheng Liguo, as long as you don't blame me for stealing your daughter, I'll be relieved."
Ye Jun also quickly stretched out his hands, and the two warm hands held each other tightly, creating a deep trust between each other in an instant.
"No, I also want to thank you for your concern and care for my little girl. Not only that, you also taught your little girl your life-long skills. I only have gratitude and admiration in my heart."
Cheng Liguo spoke from his heart. He was sincerely grateful to the man who taught his daughter and son-in-law their skills.
Li's mother had prepared a sumptuous lunch. Although it was still early, the man lost track of time as soon as he started drinking. Li Huan glanced at the food on the table, turned and ran to Chen Weidang's house.
"What, your father-in-law is here, come on, I have to toast him."
When Chen Weidang heard that Li Huan said that his father-in-law was here and invited him to have dinner and drinks, his eyes lit up twice, and Cuihua laughed angrily. He was obviously greedy for wine, and he spoke so loftily.
"Wait a minute, you come in empty-handed, you have to get something."
Cuihua took out the basket of eggs she had saved for three months and stuffed them into Chen Weidang's hands. Chen Weidang scratched his head in embarrassment. Food is very precious now, so what can be eaten by others for nothing?
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The three gentlemen, plus Li Huan, held four wine glasses and began to drink slowly. Mother Li set up another table in Grandma Xuhui's room, where her mother and the children ate.
It is said that people will be tired after drinking and eating well. Cheng Liguo and Ye Jun obviously drank too much. They fell asleep in Ye Jun's room, and Chen Weidang was also staggering about to go home.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Huan had no choice but to ask Xu Hui to call Ermao over. He and Ermao carried Chen Weidang back home. The snowy road was difficult to walk on, and Chen Weidang was staggering.
I know how many times I fell.
After finally arriving at the door of the house, I met Zhao Di going out and looked at Chen Weidang and Li Huan with angry eyes, but Chen Weidang was unconscious and could not care about this, but Er Mao caught Zhao Di's eyes.
Cheng Liguo woke up the next day with a headache. Cheng Qiao took out two wooden boxes and put ten health pills in each. Cheng Liguo quickly threw one into his mouth, but Ye Jun looked at them carefully.
"Qiao girl, your skills have improved again."
Putting the health-preserving pill into his mouth, Ye Jun even frowned. This apprentice did not have Bai's teachings, and his method of making medicine was more delicate. He was able to integrate all the medicinal properties into a small pill. The progress was really great.
Cheng Qiao blushed. Others thought she blushed because of Ye Jun's praise, but Cheng Qiao knew that it was a pill obtained by cheating, and she really didn't have such ability.
