kingnovel Chapter 497 Arrangements for Two People
Chapter 497 Arrangements for Two People
The next night, several people gathered in the cowshed again, and Zhou Mingxuan brought good news.
"My grandfather told me that the crime committed by Zheng Pengcheng's father has been investigated and they are just waiting for the final verdict.
As for Zheng Pengcheng, his previous cases have been reopened for retrial. If the Zheng family is isolated and those who were bribed to give false testimony have changed their statements, it is estimated that there will be a result soon.
As soon as there is a result, Beijing will send people over here to arrest the person."
Grandpa Wu slapped his thigh excitedly, "Great, that kid is finally going to be taken away.
It's all that kid's fault. You've been here for more than two months, almost three months, and we haven't been able to meet each other in private many times.
He always caused trouble for the production team."
“Grandpa Wu is right. If that kid hadn’t been here, Mingxuan and I wouldn’t have to live a hard life and wouldn’t dare to go into the mountains to hunt.
Thinking back to the two months I lived in the Youth League camp, eating potatoes, cabbage, and radishes every day, I felt like I had turned into a rabbit. ", Zhao Junhao touched his stomach aggrievedly.
"I've never had such a hard time."
Wang Xiulan looked at him with a wronged expression and said with a smile, "We don't lack meat here. If you ever crave meat in the future, come and eat with us. Auntie will make you something delicious."
Zhou Mingxuan rolled his eyes at Zhao Junhao and said to Wang Xiulan, "Aunt Liu, don't listen to him. We don't lack meat now.
Since we moved out to live on our own, we can eat meat every other day, if not every day. It's not as miserable as he said.
As for the time when we lived in the educated youth camp, we brought some meat coupons with us when we arrived. When we exchanged meat with the villagers, we also exchanged some bacon. In addition, there was meat that Xiaoxue gave us, so we were still able to eat meat occasionally, and it was not as miserable as he said.
He is used to pretending to be pitiful and asking for favors from his father and mother. Don't pay attention to him."
Zhao Junhao came closer to Zhou Mingxuan and said, "I'm not like what you said. Don't you think I've become darker and thinner since I came here?"
Zhou Mingxuan slapped him away and said, "You are dark because you worked in the fields and got tanned.
As for being thin, you didn't work every day before, but now you have to go to the fields to earn work points, and your fat has turned into muscle, so you look thinner."
Grandpa Wu laughed cheerfully, "You two are indeed much stronger and calmer now than when you first arrived.
I am no longer the mischievous person who had nothing to do and was always causing trouble when I was in Beijing."
Mr. Zou took a puff of his cigarette and asked Zhou Mingxuan, "What's the situation in Beijing like now? Are those people still causing trouble there?"
Zhou Mingxuan nodded seriously, "Grandpa said that the situation over there is more serious than before. He said that it's a good thing that I went to the countryside. The Zheng family has been unlucky and something has gone wrong. This has provided them with an opportunity to turn the tables. Otherwise, they would have been beaten and couldn't fight back."
"Beijing is like this, and other places are probably even more chaotic," Liu Weihua sighed. "I don't know when this chaos will end."
Liu Jingxue thought to herself, it is only 71 now, and there are still 77 years until the college entrance examination is resumed in 6, so there is still a lot of time.
However, she remembered that a novel said that in 75, some of the people who had been sent down to the countryside began to be rehabilitated and returned to the city, but she didn't know whether it was true or not.
Mr. Zou flicked the ash off his cigarette and said, "Let's just wait and see. This chaos can't go on forever. It will eventually end.
We have an easy life here, but I guess the lives of other people who have been sent down may not be as easy as ours.
I just hope those people can get through this and wait for the weather to clear up.”
Liu Jingxue knew that Grandpa Zou was probably thinking of his son's family.
"Don't worry, Grandpa Zou, Uncle Zou and the others will be fine.
Mr. Zheng is in the hospital. I will go to the town in two days to send a package to Grandpa Zhang and get some more good things for Uncle Zou and others.
I went deep into the mountains today and dug up a ginseng that was more than 300 years old. I will prepare it in the next two days and send it to Grandpa Zhang, asking him to pass it on to Uncle Zou.
Send them more common medicines, brown sugar, milk powder, and malted milk.
I have some cloth, so I'll send it to them. They have a lot of people and children there, so they'll definitely need it.
Send them some bacon. I think both Grandpa Zhang and Uncle Zou are short of meat."
"We don't lack food here, but they probably do. It's just that Grandpa Zhang won't let me send food, saying that the travel expenses are enough for him to buy it over there."
Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao looked at each other and said, "We have a few cans of malted milk over there, we'll send them to you as well.
We don’t know how to make bacon, but we can go hunting in the mountains. You can teach us when the time comes, so you don’t have to be too busy to do it alone.”
Liu Jingxue did not refuse their kindness, "Okay, no problem.
There must be a shortage of meat in Beijing, so let's get some and send some to them, so that your elders can also see your filial piety."
Grandpa Wu said, "You two brats should learn more from Xiaoxue.
Xiaoxue has been taking care of so many people this year and is exhausted. Now that you two are here and the man named Zheng has left, you won’t be able to have an easy time anymore.
You have to shoulder the responsibility and don't be outdone by Xiaoxue."
"Don't worry, Grandpa. We will study hard."
Zou Laodao said, "At your age, it is a good time to learn things. I don't know how long you will stay here, so you can't waste your time.
You two are not very skilled, you need to practice more.
Xiaoxue is not only strong, she has demonstrated to us before that she is also very skilled.
Xiaoxue, you can pick out things that don't violate taboos and teach them what they can learn so that they can improve their skills.
Next time you go hunting in the mountains, ask them to take you along. You’ll have a helper and we won’t have to worry about you all the time.”
There was no taboo in the ancient martial arts that Liu Jingxue learned and she could not teach it to other people. Upon hearing this, she agreed without hesitation.
"And Zhou family kid, I heard from your grandfather that you like doing business?"
Before Zhou Mingxuan could answer, Zhao Junhao said, "Grandpa Zou, not only Mingxuan likes doing business, I like it too.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t be so compatible and get along so well.”
He touched his head and said, "My elders were in charge of logistics in the army, which was somewhat related to business. I can be considered to have inherited this knowledge from my family, but I just didn't learn it systematically."
Zou Lao nodded, "That's perfect, Old Man Wu is a profiteer who has been specializing in this for decades, and he has something in his head.
You two can come and learn from him for an hour at night when no one is around. It’s too early for us to fall asleep anyway.”
“This is a good arrangement.
In the morning you get up early to practice martial arts, during the day you go to work or go up the mountain to chop wood or hunt, and at night you learn how to do business. Your time is fully scheduled, don't waste it." Old Wu nodded in agreement.
Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao's faces fell. Is it necessary to do this? How can it be more tiring than working in the city?
Liu Jingxue laughed with glee at the side. Even the cows in the production team didn't work as hard as they did, busy from morning to night.
Seeing the smile on Liu Jingxue's face, Zhao Junhao pointed at her and said, "Xiaoxue, don't you need to practice martial arts or learn business?"
Wang Xiulan didn't want her niece to work so hard. It was already hard enough for her to take care of so many people for almost a year.
She quickly said, “Xiaoxue is your teacher, she doesn’t have to practice martial arts with you.
She must have practiced on her own at home, otherwise she wouldn't be as good as she is now.
As for studying business, she is not going to do business in the future, so why should she study it?
She studied medicine, and on weekdays she had to make medicine for the production team, Mr. Zhang, and her elder brother, so she was too busy to handle it all."
When Zhao Junhao heard this, he realized it was true. Xiaoxue really had a lot to do every day, and he didn't know how she managed to keep up.
Could it be that she only worked half a day? If she worked a whole day, how could she have handled so many things?
Seeing Zhao Junhao's intention to slack off, Zou Lao provoked him, "You two don't want to slack off, but you can't even beat a girl younger than you.
You are not as capable as Xiaoxue to begin with, and you are already far behind her. If you don't work harder, you won't even be able to compare to her little finger.
You can stand being oppressed by a little girl like this?"
After being provoked by Mr. Zou, Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao immediately quit. They patted their chests and promised, "We will learn, we will all learn, martial arts and business."
Liu Jingxue encouraged them, "You two must study hard. When the economy is relaxed and we can do business, I want to open a pharmaceutical factory and a pharmacy to sell my medicine and make money.
But I don’t know how to run a business, nor do I know how to manage it. I just want to lie down and count money. I’ll have to leave all these things to you in the future.”
When Elder Wu heard this, he said, "You two got a great deal. You two know how good Xiaoxue's medicine is.
If the policy is really relaxed in the future, her medicine will surely sell like hot cakes and she will make a fortune.
If you don't study hard and delay her work, you will be embarrassed."
The two patted their chests and said, "Don't worry, Grandpa. We will study hard."