"But we don’t know when?"
"Any ti is fine, don’t worry. As long as the kids have the intention, they can do it. We need to have confidence."
"Alright, if they reach the right age, we’ll let them get married, and we’ll talk about future matters later."
"That’s the situation. Once they settle down, it will be a relief for us."
Li Yunqiao nodded from the side; he had no opinion as long as his daughter was willing, anything was fine.
"Teacher Jiang, please take care of Xue’er in the future."
Jiang Xinyu nodded with a smile, "No problem." Jiang Xinyu knew it was a polite gesture; their family was practical, being the village chief and all.
"Xiao Jiang, I heard you went to Russia?"
Jiang Xinyu laughed and nodded, "Back then, I was young, ignorant, and fearless. After the third visit, I swore I’d never go again. It was risky."
Jiang Xinyu didn’t know if Li Yunqiao was just making conversation or had sothing more, but either way, it had nothing to do with her, and she wouldn’t commit to anything.
Li Yunqiao continued to smile, "Xiao Jiang, do you speak Russian?"
Jiang Xinyu shook her head, "I can understand the gist, but speaking is not my forte."
"Don’t worry, I was just asking. There’s a chanical manual I have soone translate, but it doesn’t flow well. Could you understand it?"
"If it’s highly confidential, forget it. If it’s just a manual and instructions, I can take a look, but I’m not sure if I can help."
"That would be wonderful! I’ll get it for you imdiately. I’ve been worried about this for a long ti, even thought of seeking help from the province."
"Vice Mayor Li, don’t hold out too much hope."
Li Yunqiao stood up smiling, quickly fetching paper, a pen, and the manual from his study.
Jiang Xinyu took a glance, then bent over the coffee table to start translating.
It wasn’t difficult; in about half an hour, she had translated it. Though her spoken language was not fluent, her reading and writing were fine.
Li Yunqiao watched from the opposite side, increasingly impressed. It was remarkable how she didn’t pause; her translation was much better than the expensive one he’d had done.
Shi Xian hadn’t heard his mother speak for a while, looked up to see her hunched over, not knowing what she was doing, and crawled over imdiately, tugging at her clothes.
Jiang Xinyu comforted him by patting his head and handed him a toy before returning to her translation.
Shi Xian saw his mother writing and didn’t fuss, going back to play again.
Lu Fengzhen softly praised Shi Xian beside Li Yunqiao.
Li Yunqiao nodded, admiring how well the child was raised.
Once Jiang Xinyu finished the translation, she handed it to Li Yunqiao. "Vice Mayor Li, compare it with the earlier translation."
"Xiao Jiang, you’re amazing!"
Li Yunqiao read through it and felt the previously ambiguous parts beca clear, with Jiang Xinyu providing more detailed translation.
"Xiao Jiang, thank you so much!"
"No need to ntion it. I’m just able to do this; no false modesty. For precise manuals, it’s best to have multiple people summarize for accuracy."
Shi Xian crawled over again, this ti hungry, tugging persistently at his mother’s clothes.
Jiang Xinyu felt a bit awkward. "Teacher Jiang, I’ll take you back to your room."
Jiang Xinyu fed Shi Xian and glanced at the ti; it was almost five o’clock. She wondered if Wei Kaiyun had picked up Lv Beiguang yet?
At the train station, the three were still waiting. The train was almost an hour late; they’d bought station tickets and moved two carts onto the platform.
Wei Kaiyun had found out the train would definitely arrive today, so they waited patiently.
The two young ones were chatting softly; Wei Kaiyun felt quite alone.
Finally, at a quarter past five, the train arrived.
Lv Beiguang was anxious, having arranged with Zhang Songpo for sleeping car tickets and stowed all ten large sacks near the front of the train.
No way around it, they had brought Jiang Xinyu so many things, plus his engagent gifts and the presents for the future daughter-in-law; there was really a lot.
Knowing the train was near, Lv Beiguang organized his belongings and headed to the door, ready to disembark.
Wei Kaiyun seed to see Lv Beiguang through the glass window.
"Guodong, your dad seems to have the front end over there, keep an eye out."
"Okay, Uncle Wei."
Wei Kaiyun quickly pushed the trolley towards the front of the train.
When the train stopped, Wei Kaiyun saw Lv Beiguang getting off and gestured to Guodong.
Lv Guodong got Li Xue to watch Wei Kaiyun’s actions.
"Guodong, Master Wei is calling you over."
Lv Guodong hurriedly pushed the trolley over. Not many people were disembarking at this ti in this weather, so Guodong spotted his dad carrying sacks.
"Dad, Dad."
Lv Beiguang heard his son’s voice, put down the sack, and looked towards the sound, first seeing Wei Kaiyun with a trolley, nodding with a smile, then waved to his son.
"Is there more?"
"Six more sacks."
With two people, the pace quickened. After Guodong arrived, they finished in one more trip.
Lv Beiguang smiled, looking at his taller-than-him son. The father and son embraced.
"Dad, this is your future daughter-in-law, Li Xue. Li Xue, this is my dad."
Li Xue looked at this handso man, finally understanding why both Jing Chu and Guodong looked like this future father-in-law.
"Hello, Uncle Lv."
"Hello, Li Xue."
Wei Kaiyun had loaded both trolleys. "Let’s talk at ho."
Lv Beiguang wanted to help with the trolley but was refused by Wei Kaiyun; Guodong wouldn’t let his father work either.
"Let’s go ho first; you can organize what you need to bring later."
Lv Beiguang nodded, "Okay, Li Xue, is your ho in the city?"
Li Xue smiled and nodded, "It’s not far from Uncle Wei’s house."
Lv Beiguang smiled and nodded; that was good.
The four of them arrived ho in half an hour; Wei Kaiyun started the heater, making the room quite warm.
"Director Wei, bags one to eight are for Xinyu, the other two are what I brought."
"Alright, I’ll load them onto the cart."
Li Xue was amazed by how many things Teacher Jiang had.
Soon the future father-in-law spoke,
explaining whose gifts were in which bags, with the last one from Sun Baosheng.
"Nearly every bag contains seafood, and the rest are local specialties."
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