"It’s getting late, we’ll chat tomorrow, I’m heading home now." Mrs. Zhao still held a suitcase.
Captain Zhao heard his wife was back and rushed out to greet her.
"Hurry home and cook."
Mrs. Zhao hadn’t rested since getting home and started busying herself immediately.
"You go call Laosan and the others to e over for dinner."
Go call them, go call them.
Laosan and the others didn’t e back last year, there was no grain, nothing at all over there.
Halfway there, they encountered Laosan’s family of four.
"Grandpa, Grandpa....."
"Yes, e home for dinner."
Yun Xiaoxiao looked at Captain Zhao, it seemed her mother-in-law wasn’t home, and her father-in-law looked a bit shabby.
The family gathered around to eat together.
"How’s Xiao He’s wife?"
Mrs. Zhao sighed heavily, "Nowadays, she doesn’t interact with her family, poor Nini, you know, Nini was a month old but looked like just a newborn. The hospitalization and surgery for the mother and daughter cost over a thousand."
Mrs. Zhao thought they hadn’t had much luck this year.
Was it because they didn’t burn enough paper money for the grandparents?
This year, they’ll definitely burn more to bless the younger generation.
The elderly still believe in these things.
Over a thousand?
That’s no small amount.
"Dad, you’re not young anymore, it’s time to cultivate a successor." Zhao Tianlei suddenly said.
Captain Zhao indeed wasn’t young anymore, he’d be sixty next year.
"In the middle of cultivation."
He also knew he wasn’t young, and couldn’t muster the energy like when he was younger.
However, he felt gratified that the Zhao Family Village Team could install electricity, even raise rabbits and plant medicinal herbs, improving the villagers’ lives.
"Eat."
After the meal, Mrs. Zhao knew they were tired; they’d been on the train for several days, of course they were exhausted.
"Go rest early, tomorrow’s New Year’s Eve, see if there’s anything you need to buy, we’ll have the meal here. You won’t be able to stay at the home village for many days."
"Alright."
Indeed, they couldn’t stay for many days.
Fang Chaoyang’s place wasn’t as warm and cosy as Yun Xiaoxiao’s.
Eldest Uncle Fang and Little Uncle Fang heard their mother had returned.
They came over and saw their nephew and niece had changed greatly, even their mother looked different, much younger.
Standing together, it was obvious they looked like city people, while they looked like rural folks, the difference was too stark.
"Eldest Uncle, Little Uncle..."
The brother and sister called out.
Grandma Fang looked at her two sons, "You’ve e to see us?"
"Mom, we’ve e to see you."
"e to see me empty-handed?"
The two sons immediately felt embarrassed.
Indeed, they came empty-handed.
Having heard they returned, they couldn’t wait to e and check if it was true.
They had left the old home last year and didn’t e back for last New Year’s. Tomorrow would be New Year’s Eve, almost two years gone.
Gone nearly two years before returning.
Looking at their clothes with no patches.
Guessing they lived well in the Capital City.
"Eldest Uncle, Little Uncle, we still need to clean here, why don’t you e over tomorrow and chat with Grandma?"
The two brothers wanted to stay but didn’t know where to start, so they had to leave first.
But their wives seeing them return empty-handed.
Started cursing them.
Cursing Fang Chaoyang’s siblings for being unfilial, stingy, and a lot more.
Just didn’t dare to speak ill of Grandma Fang.
Because Grandma Fang was the mother-in-law, and neither of them had supported her in the past two years.
"Grandma, it’s time to eat."
When they returned, they bought some rice in town.
"Eat, eat." How could Grandma Fang not feel heartache?
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