HBWnovel Chapter 28 Friends from the Past 5
Chapter 28 Friends from the Past 5
The days passed by.
The two little black boys have grown up, and whenever they have a holiday, they ride their bikes to their grandma's house in Dazao Village to play.
The Bai family had long since separated. The eldest and second sons of Master Bai's family had settled in another county at their wives' request and did not plan to return.
The children from both families have grown up and no longer need their parents' care. Master Bai is also not as energetic as he was a few years ago. Why don't they separate the family and wait for his younger brother and in-laws to come and eat at their home?
Actually, the first two daughters-in-law had some complaints. The younger brother-in-law always cooked special meals for Bai Zhenzhen at night when he lived at home, showing no affection at all, while his own brother's children just watched.
This is utterly unreasonable. The money they themselves encouraged the men to give to the family wasn't enough to feed the children; the fact that they were able to eat their fill was all thanks to Master Bai's subsidies.
Moreover, the two brothers had five children, and no outsider could afford to support them. It was only because their grandfather was a chef that they were able to barely make ends meet.
However, over the years, the Bai couple have come to understand that the eldest and second eldest sons of the Bai family share the same thoughts as their wife, and there is really no need to salvage the relationship.
Having witnessed Zhou Dongping's carefree life, Master Bai decided to separate the family when his eldest daughter-in-law started causing trouble.
He didn't live with any of his sons, and divided his savings into five parts: two for himself and his wife, and the other three for his sons.
The house belongs to him; there's no question of dividing it.
Then give each of the three a kitchen knife, and that's it.
If anyone feels it's unfair, then get out of here and take nothing.
Seeing that Master Bai was serious and had made a lot of money, Bai Laoda and Bai Laoer, who had been staying in other counties, didn't have the confidence to say anything more.
He only cricketed with his wife a few times in private.
After the family split up, Bai Lu's family continued to live with Master Bai and started paying food rations and rent.
The gifts he gave during festivals were also more substantial than those given by his two older brothers.
However, Chen Jing sensed that her mother-in-law, Wu Fang, hadn't quite recovered yet, and even the melon seeds that Zhou Dongping had someone bring her didn't taste good anymore.
He felt that his family had become a laughing stock, no wonder he felt so bad.
After discussing it with Zhou Dongping, Chen Jing persuaded her mother-in-law to go to the countryside to visit her own mother for a few days.
Upon hearing this, Wu Fang felt as if her meridians had been opened. From then on, whenever she had free time, she would bring her own food, tie up her grandson, and ride Lao Bai's bicycle to Hongzao Village.
Sometimes I stay overnight, sometimes I return the same day.
Anyway, Zhou Dongping doesn't go to work at all now; she just stays home taking care of her one-year-old granddaughter, Chen Miao.
Fishing, chatting, eating melons, planting vegetables, visiting relatives—they all take this little girl with them, like carrying a pendant.
Like her brother Chen He, Chen Miao loves listening to adults chatter on and on, and she can listen all day without getting bored, though it's unclear how many words she can understand.
Now that Wu Fang and her grandson are here, it doesn't matter.
Sometimes we can even watch Fu Bao and Xiao Gu's romantic drama together.
The two of them stood there, looking as if they were being illuminated.
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Fu Bao ultimately didn't go to work. Before leaving, Xiao Gu told her that the college entrance examination was going to be reinstated.
The situation has changed; someone in Xiao Gu's family has already been bailed out.
The two said their goodbyes solemnly and agreed to meet again in Beijing.
Fu Bao wanted to go to university, and his family supported him, so he transferred 300 yuan from his job to his older brother who had won the lottery.
I found some study books that I had casually bought at a junkyard a few years ago and started reviewing them.
It's no coincidence that she was drugged by human traffickers and then escaped.
She was lucky from a young age, but she always encountered danger first, and then managed to escape unscathed.
For example, being scared by a snake and running away, falling down, or digging up a large ginseng root.
She was chased and pecked by chickens until she reached the foot of the mountain, where rabbits bumped into her.
He slipped into the river but was rescued by his family; a fish slithered into his clothes.
They couldn't find it on the black market, but were chased by the Sleeve Team and ended up picking up a small yellow croaker.
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After experiencing many unexpected events, the Chen family urged Fu Bao to learn things like dog-paddle swimming, being chased by his older brother, fighting with his genitals, climbing trees, and scaling walls.
This is quite an unusual aspect of Fu Bao's daily life.
You might think someone is delicate and gentle, but in reality, they can unleash a powerful attack.
After Xiao Gu left with his grandfather, it was as if a switch had been flipped, and the other people in the cowshed were also picked up one after another.
Only then did the villagers realize that Liu Yu, a former educated youth from the educated youth institute, had come to Dazao Village to visit his relatives in the cowshed.
People couldn't help but marvel at how these urban educated youths were truly unassuming.
Dazao Village was always overshadowed by Fu Bao's fame, so those political figures would always overlook it. The villagers also didn't have the time to actively engage in such activities, so the educated youth compound, the cowshed, and the villagers lived relatively peacefully.
While Fu Bao and Xiao Gu were basking in the glow of romance, they didn't forget to catch up on lessons with a few elderly people, and their good fortune extended to just a few of them.
After the people from the cowshed left, the educated youth and the young people in the village also received the news and began to prepare for the college entrance examination.
In addition to Fu Bao's materials, Xiao Gu also sent books to her and the village, and Zhou Dongping asked Liu Yuan to collect several sets of books from the recycling station and send them to the village for everyone to use.
When everyone found out, they praised Zhou Dongping for her kindness and magnanimity.
After the exam, it's time to wait for the admission notice.
Not long after the results came out, quite a few educated youth and villagers received admission notices, making Dazao Village quite the talk of the town.
Fu Bao achieved the best results and was admitted to a university in Beijing.
As for the story of Fu Bao and Xiao Gu, we don't know how it will unfold; we can only wait and see how the system broadcasts it.
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Time flies, and before we knew it, we had great-grandchildren in the family.
The original owner's entire family looked much more energetic than their peers, thanks to the nourishment of the spiritual spring water.
Despite her advanced age, Zhou Dongping remained youthful at heart. Taking advantage of the changing times, she went to the provincial capital alone to purchase some properties and shops, spending all of the original owner's wealth and even making a will.
The Zhou family members were used to following in Zhou Dongping's footsteps. After receiving her advice, several families started businesses in the county. With the money they made, they followed her example and bought houses and shops.
Chen Jing didn't continue working in the county town. She quit her job, learned the craft from her father-in-law, and then dragged her husband to the provincial capital to open a shop.
With the school district shop given to me by my mother, running a food business is fine except for being a bit tiring.
Seeing that their business was stable, Master Bai and his wife packed their bags and went to the provincial capital.
Upon arriving in the provincial capital, the group stayed in a large apartment that Zhou Dongping had given to her daughter, which made Master Bai extremely envious. He then took out some of his savings to buy a small apartment for his son, Bai Luye.
Chen Yuan and his wife both had decent jobs, but neither of them had much ambition. Even after receiving their allocated property, they didn't go to the provincial capital.
There's a version of the bitter-flavored brain-boosting soup by Zhou Dongping. Chen He, Chen Miao, Bai Zhenzhen, and Bai Xiaodi are all very successful. As long as their parents don't hold them back, that's fine.
One of the reasons Chen Jing and the others went to the provincial capital was to avoid Bai Lu's two older brothers' families.
Didn't you see that Master Bai was driven away by your annoyance?
Seeing that everyone was doing well, Zhou Dongping decided to renovate and expand her house to the side.
They persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Zhou to come and live in Dazao Village, and Mr. Zhou and his family could also stay for a few days.
Sometimes she would invite her old friends over to chat and drink tea, adding a little spring water to it. You couldn't really taste anything special; at most, you'd think it was good tea.
When asked where she got the money to buy all these things, Zhou Dongping explained to her family that she traded grain for small yellow croakers at the pigeon market.
To outsiders, it was explained that it was the family fortune left by her deceased father-in-law.
When the time was right, the system pretended to be a patriotic businessman and built roads for several nearby villages, including Dazao Village, and also built senior activity centers in each village.
Square dancing hadn't taken off yet, so the activity center only had newspapers, books, radios, gongs and drums, and ping-pong tables.
When people are busy, they come here to relax, which is better than getting together to play cards.
The country is developing rapidly, and the younger generation is busy with their future, so these old folks need to take good care of themselves.