"Yun Gui, your village is really developing."
"Yes, it will get better and better."
At this ti, the five children were full, greeted Wang Shulin, and all left.
"What are the kids doing so early?"
"Teacher Jiang is giving them a lecture." Li Yungui didn’t ntion it; the fewer people know about it, the better.
"All the children are going?"
"Yes, they’re all going."
"That’s great. I’ll arrange for the educated youth to give lessons to the kids when I go back. It seems I’m lagging behind you at every step."
"Teacher Jiang is giving the kids lessons for free."
Wang Shulin sighed. How co others et such good people? It’s decided, I’ll make arrangents when I go back, even if it’s just teaching the kids to write their own nas.
They finished eating, and Li Yungui put on his coat, carrying a bag of white flour and a basket of cabbage and radishes onto the car.
Wang Shulin drove them to the township. This ti it only took half an hour.
"Old Wang, you can go back."
"Alright, I’ll leave then. Fengzhen, take care."
"Got it, cousin, tell my mom to put away my clothes."
Wang Shulin waved and drove away.
The two waited at the station, and after a while, the bus arrived, and since it was the starting point, they got seats.
They had a lot of belongings, earning so cold stares from the ticket seller. After checking their introduction letters and finding no issues, the seller collected the fare and left.
Along the way, the two didn’t talk much; after all, they weren’t familiar, and there was so gender-related reservation.
So passengers got on during the journey, and they reached the city by eleven o’clock.
Li Yungui carried the basket, holding the flour bag, as well as Lu Fengzhen’s luggage, who was carrying the remaining bags herself.
The two went directly to Li Yunqiao’s doorstep, which was definitely locked.
"Fengzhen, wait here at the door and watch the luggage. I’ll go find my elder brother to co back."
"Okay, Village Chief Li, I’ll stay right here."
Li Yungui hurried away. Lu Fengzhen moved all the luggage to the door and squatted to one side waiting.
Li Yungui found Li Yunqiao, "Elder brother, I brought her here. She’s at the door of the house, can you arrange sothing when you have ti?"
"Alright, I have a eting this afternoon. I’ll co back after it’s done."
"Okay, then I can still catch the bus if I leave now."
"But you should at least eat before you go."
"No need, the fourth batch of materials is arriving today. I might still catch it if I go back."
"Even if you catch it, it won’t need you. Isn’t Yun Qiang and Xiao Jiang there?"
"I won’t feel at ease until I get back."
Seeing his younger brother this way, Li Yunqiao stopped persuading. Instead, he took out a package of snacks from the drawer, a gift prepared by his daughter-in-law, which he didn’t usually like to eat.
"Keep this to eat on the bus. Also, take your bike back. Before you didn’t want it when I gave it to you, so this ti I bought you a new one, but you need to take yours ho."
Li Yungui did not stand on ceremony with his elder brother, so they rode bikes back ho.
After Li Yungui left, Lu Fengzhen squatted at the door. Two middle-aged won with armbands ca over.
"Comrade, what are you doing here?"
Lu Fengzhen stood up nervously. "Two comrades, I’m here to join my cousin, my second cousin has already gone to find him."
"Vice Mayor Li is your cousin?"
"Yes."
"Which village are you from?"
"I’m from Jin Family Village, my cousin is from Li Family Village."
"Oh, you don’t look that old, why have you co to join him?"
"It’s because my niece-in-law is about to give birth. I ca to help clean up; it’s just at ho. It’s the sa wherever I stay."
"Oh, will Vice Mayor Li be here soon?"
"Yes, my elder cousin doesn’t know we’re coming today. The second cousin went to find him." Actually, Lu Fengzhen was scared to death inside, hoping the Li Family Brothers would co back quickly.
"Sister Tang, Sister Wang, are you on duty today?" Li Yunqiao greeted with a smile.
"Vice Mayor Li is back. We saw this lady squatting at the door and ca to check."
"This is my cousin; my oldest son’s wife is going to give birth, and there’s no one to care for her, so I asked my cousin to co back and help."
"Alright, now that her identity is confird, Vice Mayor Li, you can carry on with your work."
Li Yunqiao smiled as he saw the two off, then unlocked the door.
The three of them moved the luggage inside in one go.
Seeing the food and vegetables his brother brought over, Li Yunqiao felt a pang of emotion. His life was better than his brother’s, yet his brother always helped his family.
"Fengzhen, your room is this one downstairs; you can tidy it up yourself."
"Okay, Brother Li."
Li Yunqiao retrieved a new bicycle from the warehouse outside.
"Second brother, if you’re in a hurry, just take the bus back. If not, spend the extra money on a ticket."
"Okay, I understand."
Hearing that Li Yungui was going back, Lu Fengzhen said, "Village Chief Li, wait, there are sugar buns here for you to take for the road."
"No need, I have snacks here. Fengzhen, do your best, I’m heading back now."
After sending off Li Yungui, Li Yunqiao went inside to explain to Lu Fengzhen that the upstairs was Hong Lin and his family’s room with three kids, while the downstairs was his room and study.
"I’ll lock the study, so you don’t need to tidy it up. You can tidy the other rooms.
When Xue and the others left last ti, they’d already tidied their rooms. You can arrange things as you see fit. The kitchen is here, this is the storage room, and that door over there is the bathroom.
Fengzhen, I have a eting this afternoon and need to go to work. Can you manage on your own? Do you know how to use the gas stove?"
Lu Fengzhen shook her head.
After teaching her a few tis and seeing she could use it skillfully, Li Yunqiao left.
Besides the gas stove, there was a stove in the kitchen. Lu Fengzhen decided to light it since she’d need hot water to clean the house soon.
Everything here had collective heating; it was warm inside but the water was cold.
She lit the honeycomb coal stove and set the kettle on it.
She decided to tidy her room first. Once the water boiled, she put a new aluminum pot on it to steam two sugar buns to eat later.
By then, she’d already tidied up her own room, and put all her clothes into the wardrobe. City life was really nice; even the wardrobes here looked great.
After lunch, she started cleaning the kitchen, which was actually quite clean. Obviously, this family was tidy, and she made a ntal note to keep it that way.
Then she spent another two hours cleaning both upstairs and downstairs.
There was a clock in the living room, and it was already four o’clock. It wasn’t clear what ti work ended, so she thought she’d make dumplings with cabbage filling for dinner.
She mixed the dough and chopped the filling, adding extra lard for a richer taste.
By the ti the dumplings were made, it was almost six; still, no one had returned. She could only start boiling water in the anti.
When he got off work, Li Yunqiao rushed ho, sowhat worried that Lu Fengzhen hadn’t adapted yet.
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