The two brothers Zhao Donglin and Zhao Donghe got off the car and went straight to the restaurant with their four children. When they arrived at the restaurant, they found that something was wrong. The Li family greeted the guests like the masters in the restaurant, and even took care of collecting money.
Li Wangping's sister-in-law didn't show the slightest embarrassment when she saw the two of them. She greeted them with a smile and said, "His in-laws elder brother and second brother, you are back? Oh, you are so busy in the provincial capital that you don't have time to return. The child has already been born." It's been ten days."
Zhao Donglin frowned and ignored what he said. Zhang Qiaoer was helping in the kitchen, and Heidan took his younger siblings to the kitchen to call grandma.
"Ah, why are you here? Are your parents here?"
"Father and uncle are outside."
"My mother went to my aunt to see my little sister."
Zhang Qiaoer was very happy to see her grandchildren. She told her son-in-law and left the kitchen with the children.
At the beginning, Zhang Qiaoer felt ashamed for not going to the provincial capital with her son and daughter-in-law to take care of the eldest daughter’s delivery. Now that the daughter has given birth smoothly, although it is a girl, they are not a patriarchal family. The pain is the same as that of a boy and a girl. Well, it was the sudden appearance of the Li family that made her very annoyed.
While taking care of her daughter and granddaughter, she helped her son-in-law look after the kitchen. She didn't want to quarrel and make trouble in the store, so she forbears it until now.
When the two sons came back today, Zhang Qiaoer suddenly felt like he had found his backbone.
"Have you eaten yet? What would you like to eat, noodles or dumplings?"
It was lunchtime at the moment, and there were quite a few people eating in the restaurant, some eating alone, some eating in couples, and some coming in groups of three or four.
After half a day in the car, the kids were really hungry.
"We want noodles."
"Okay, grandma will do it for you later."
Li Wangping met Donglin Donghe while serving the dishes, but he didn't dare to look directly at them, and kept avoiding his eyes.
"Brother-in-law, what's going on?"
Zhao Donglin's question was naturally about the third sister-in-law of the Li family. Li Wangping understood, and so did the Li family.
Before Li Wangping could speak, the sister-in-law of the Li family spoke first.
"Big brother of his in-laws, we are here to help, Caixia has given birth to a baby, we are also kind."
The second sister-in-law of the Li family also helped, "Yes, the whole family, if we have difficulties, we still have to reach out."
If Zhao Donglin doesn't understand what this means, the rice that has been eaten for so many years will be in vain. It's just a group of brazen relatives who set up the banner of family affection to beat the autumn wind.
Zhao Donglin smiled, sat down with the children, ordered a bowl of noodles for each of them, Fang Fang and Ying Bao shared a bowl.
"After eating, let's go see the eldest sister, and we have to go back to the village at night."
The county definitely couldn't accommodate such people, and it would cost money to live in a guest house. In addition, Jiahui had to go back to her mother's house tomorrow.
As for the matter of the Li family, wait until they understand the situation clearly before talking about anything else.
I hope they are all sincere to help.
After eating, Zhao Donglin brought lunch for Jiahui and the others, and went to Meixiang's dormitory building with Donghe.
At this moment, Meixiang also came back from school, and Jiahui was talking to her about getting married.
Ji's family has already calculated the date, the wedding will be held on the eighteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, that is, ten days before the new year.
At that time, the school was on winter vacation, and everyone had time. The imperfect thing was that Jiahui didn't have much time to help with the preparations.
"Is your wedding dress prepared by the man?"
The Ji family was very sincere, with a gift of 888 yuan, ten cigarettes, twenty catties of fruit candy, ten tables of banquets in the county, and four popular items, watches, bicycles, semiconductor radios and sewing machines.
Calculated, the Ji family will spend four to five thousand yuan to marry Meixiang and Ji Zhenfeng.
"Auntie said she would buy two sets of clothes for me. I also bought some cloth and made a few shirts and coats myself. There are enough clothes for me."
Meixiang thought about asking her sister-in-law to make her a wedding dress at the beginning. She knew that her sister-in-law was very good at making clothes, but she was too busy now, she had to go to school, do housework, and take care of the children. My brother wrote back, saying that my sister-in-law was already an intern at the Provincial Party Committee, and Meixiang was even more embarrassed to cause Jiahui trouble.
"We Meixiang are going to get married soon, I have to think about what gift to give you."
Mei Xiang is her closest little sister in this world, well-behaved, sensible, and she has all the virtues that a girl should possess.
Meixiang is like a little girl projected from Jiahui's own heart, and everything makes Jiahui very satisfied.
"Sister-in-law, no need, you have given me enough gifts, and I can't use them all up in my life."
If it wasn't for her sister-in-law, she might have married early, wouldn't take the college entrance examination, wouldn't be a teacher in the county, and wouldn't have had the chance to meet Ji Zhenfeng.
Mei Xiang is still very self-aware, knowing that if she hadn't been admitted to university and become a teacher, and her brother and sister-in-law hadn't been so good, the Ji family would never have recognized her so much.
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Most of Dong's wasteland has been tidied up. First, the stones and weeds were dug up with a hoe, and then the soil suitable for planting crops was picked up from other places with a load and spread over.
All this time, digging and leveling the soil, the labor force is really not a little bit, not to mention the huge amount of 50 mu of land, the Dong family almost collapsed from exhaustion.
When Jiahui returned to her natal home, she saw that her mother's shoulders were swollen from the burden, and her hand was also cut. She was very distressed.
"Mom, don't be so anxious. The body is the capital of the revolution. There are so many places, and it won't be done in a while."
Chen Guixiang pretended to be indifferent with a smile and said, "It's okay, this looks scary, I don't feel it at all."
Jiahui didn't believe it. Although she didn't do much work in the field, she knew how tiring it was.
"Mom, you are cheating me like a child. How could you not feel it? It must be very uncomfortable."
Only then did Chen Guixiang sigh and tell the truth, "There are so many places, the boss is all over the place at a glance, if you don't hurry up and fix the whole family, you will feel panicked. Let me tell you, if we can't see them at night, we can't wait to sleep."
Jiahui shook her head helplessly, knowing that her persuasion would be of no avail, so she turned to other things.
"I have already asked about the saplings. A batch will be cultivated in March and April next year. Don't leave the land empty for a few months. It is also good to plant some easy-to-grow vegetables for sale."
Regarding the saplings, Jiahui entrusted her relationship with a professor at Wudong Agricultural University who specializes in grafting and cultivating fruit seedlings.
Chen Guixiang smiled sincerely this time. They sat at home and didn't know where to get saplings. Jiahui told them not to worry, she would figure out a way, but how could they not worry
Well now, everything is settled.
"Okay, listen to you, what's more, didn't you say that some poultry and livestock can be raised on the mountain, I have already selected breeding eggs and sent them to hatch, and after the chicks hatch and raise them at home for a period of time, they can be put directly on the mountain. "
Dong Dagui didn't go to the field for the past few days, so he set up a chicken pen and a sheep pen on the mountain, working in full swing.
How to raise them has also been thought out. Raise them free-range during the day and go to the pen in the evening. The green grass all over the mountain is enough for them to eat.
Jiahui nodded, turned around and brought her backpack to her front.
"Mom, I brought some money back. I thought there must be a lot of places to use the money at home. You take it first, and use it as soon as you can. If you can't afford it, you won't be able to delay things."
There was a thick stack of kraft paper envelopes. There were no hundred-yuan bills at this time, and the largest banknote had a denomination of ten yuan. Jiahui had prepared three thousand for the family. Holding it in her hand was a thick stack.
Chen Guixiang took the envelope, but she couldn't speak, but she was actually relieved.
For half a year's rent, most of the family's money has been used up, and there are a lot of things to buy in the future. It is estimated that this half year will not make money back, and the second half of the year's rent will be a big problem.
"This money is borrowed by your brothers. When they earn money, I will ask them to pay you back first."
The son and daughter are all darlings, and the daughter has a good life and is willing to help her mother's family. Chen Guixiang can't let the daughter suffer.
Jiahui smiled and said, "I also hope that the family will get better and better. To be honest, I feel quite pressured to let my elder brother and the others do this."
She came up with the idea, not afraid of 10,000, just in case, if in the end not only did not make any money but also lost the money, then she would feel guilty to death.
After all, she does not major in socioeconomics, and all her ideas are based on her supervisor's cognition, without professional data support.
There are many people engaged in agricultural development, but if this time and place are not suitable for this, who can she turn to for reasoning
Chen Guixiang understood what her daughter meant, and patted her hand with infinite emotion.
"Mom knows, mom understands, no matter what, there are so many lands, if one of them doesn't grow well, let's change it, there will always be a time to make money."
On this point, Chen Guixiang is still very optimistic.
She has come all the way from the old society. In the old society, there were landlords, middle peasants, and poor peasants. In her understanding, having land means being rich. Why can landlords be called landlords? Isn’t it because of the abundance of land
Now the family has 50 mu of wasteland and more than 700 mu of mountain land in addition to the 10 mu of land allocated by the village, which has completely reached the level of "landlord".
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"What do you think about the Li family?"
On the way back from her natal home, Jiahui talked to Zhao Donglin about the Li family.
At the beginning, the purpose of subsidizing the opening of the restaurant was to make the elder sister's life better. Now that the Li family came to reap the benefits, Jiahui was naturally displeased, but the Li family is the elder sister's in-law's family. What does Zhao Donglin mean
Zhao Donglin naturally had complaints about the Li family. No one reached out to help the eldest sister when she needed it the most, so what's the point of running here now? He knew that brother-in-law was too honest and loyal. This kind of personality has its advantages, but there are also many disadvantages, and it is easy to suffer.
It's fine for the brother-in-law to suffer, and the elder sister's nephew and niece also suffer. This is not what Zhao Donglin wants to see.
"I'll talk to them, so don't bother to get angry."
If the restaurant is short of people, they will spend money to find another helper. The Li family must leave. This is business, not charity. If they really get involved, the restaurant doesn't have to open, it just closes down.
Now that Zhao Donglin said so, Jiahui really didn't care. I don't know what he said when he went to the restaurant. Anyway, the Li family had already left before he left.
"Donglin, it's all my fault, and I still caused you trouble in the end."
Zhao Donglin patted Li Wangping on the shoulder with a little complicated thoughts, and turned thousands of words into a word of comfort.
"Brother-in-law, don't worry about other things. Just take good care of the elder sister and the children. We are all a family, so there is nothing to worry about."
In other words, no matter whether he opened this restaurant or stepped in to solve the Li family's affairs, he was not doing it for his brother-in-law Li Wangping, but for his eldest sister Zhao Caixia, as well as Da Ya Erpang and Lin Lin.
Li Wangping's thoughts were not that complicated, and he didn't hear Zhao Donglin's deep meaning. He only knew that Donglin didn't blame him, which made him very happy.
Zhao Caixia already knew about this last night, she cried half the night, and talked a lot about the old days, such as how her sisters-in-law bullied her, how they bullied Li Wangping, how she went to the field to earn work points while taking care of the children, and even talked about it when she came back. You can't get hot meals or hot dishes.
Li Wangping anxiously scratched her head and comforted her, and vowed that no matter how good or bad her family life was, she would never have anything to do with his brothers again, and Zhao Caixia stopped crying.
"Don't blame me for being cruel. After all these years, I've been really chilled. If they treated me even a little bit better before, I wouldn't distinguish them so clearly."
"I know, I don't blame you."
How dare he blame his wife? According to his wife's conditions, marrying him is considered a marriage. If he wants to blame, he can only blame himself for his incompetence. He has not allowed his wife to live a good life in the past ten years.
As my brother-in-law said, people have to distinguish right from wrong, right from wrong, know how to decide what is not good for them, and can't just be led by the nose by others.
He is the head of the family and has already opened a restaurant and became the boss. He should grow up and give his wife and children a stable and peaceful sky.
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