Chapter 1494: Arrangements in 1494
Li Yunqiao finished speaking and saw his daughter’s small troubled expression, which made him laugh uproariously inside.
"Dad, can I have my brother-in-law often bring me back to see you guys, is that okay?"
Lu Fengzhen listened to her daughter’s words, feeling heartsick. Everyone wanted to leave her.
"Tongtong, when it gets warmer, we have to plant in the fields back home. There won’t be time to take care of you. After the autumn harvest next year, I’ll ask your brother-in-law to come and get you, okay?"
"Brother and Zhibin can go?"
"They are going to school, but you’re still young and can’t go to school yet. If you go, your sister will have to take care of you and won’t have time to work."
"Mom, I asked Aunt Lv. Her Ruoyan, and Yiqing Yixin are all in the village’s Red Education Class. I can go with them."
Li Yunqiao laughed heartily and kissed his daughter several times.
"My darling has already found out, huh? Okay, you can go, and by then your mom and I will come and visit you."
The little girl happily kissed Li Yunqiao several times and then dove into her mother’s arms, planting several kisses there too.
Although Lu Fengzhen knew that her children would leave someday as they grew up, she was still reluctant when they actually left.
It’s too troublesome. Xue’er’s family also has children. While Hongpeng can almost look after themselves, the little girl still needs someone to take care of her.
However, since her husband agreed, she couldn’t say much.
The little girl probably sensed her mother’s mood wasn’t good, so she sat in her mom’s lap and told her all about playing with Sister Tingting in the village.
In the evening, let Hong Lin send four fish to his in-laws’ home, and he took the remaining six out.
Red Army and Hongling both lying in bed, still not used to it.
"Second brother, which day will we go back?"
"The second day after New Year’s Eve, Sis will go home to pay respects for the New Year, we’ll go back together."
"Yeah, lying in bed feels uncomfortable. Nothing like the big, warm bed is as cozy."
The two kids had been out for several years, having stayed for only a few days, it really felt kind of unfamiliar.
The Wei family’s New Year was still as lively, and this year with more fish, Jiang Xinyu made fish balls for the kids; they absolutely loved them, bringing over the Lv family’s four little kids who didn’t want to go home.
Yang Xiuqin looked at the four adults eating and felt helpless.
"Only Xinyu has a good temper, with so many kids, just one sentence from each would be enough to cause chaos."
Lv Beiguang nodded, "No problem, let them be there."
"Jing Chen doesn’t want to come with me to his maternal grandfather’s home." Li Xue felt quite helpless too.
On the morning of the second day after New Year’s Eve, Jing Chen still went together to visit his maternal grandfather. Ruoyan and the other three still went to the Wei family.
Yang Xiuqin sighed, "Xinyu, this Tingting truly has a good temper."
Just seeing her playing so well with the little ones, and she even mediates when there are arguments.
Jiang Xinyu just laughed, this girl still has a gentle temperament but is also not without her own ideas, which is good.
"In the future, when Ruoyan grows older, she’ll be the same."
𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
"Ruoyan has a boyish temperament. If she stays with Feifei Tingting more often, it might be better."
"Hehe, Ruoyan will be very pretty in the future. Although she may not grow prettier than Jing Chu, she won’t fall short, and in terms of temperament, you shouldn’t be too strict."
Yang Xiuqin nodded, "Yes, I know. I’ll keep that in mind.
I just really like Feifei. The other kids don’t measure up to her."
"Feifei indeed makes me less worried. At that time, when Shi Jing and the two followed Master Shang here, I dreamt about them every night.
After coming here, seeing them living well, I always feel I’ve owed those two something. They’re just too understanding."
Yang Xiuqin didn’t know about Jiang Xinyu’s past, Lv Beiguang never talked about these things.
"Xinyu, how did you bear to let the two of them come over? And why?"
"At that time, someone wanted to get me. My surroundings were too dangerous, Old Wei was even more powerless, having a worse time, so I could only send them to Old Yang.
The two of them are tough and refuse to live with Old Yang, so it was just the three of them in Li Family Village.
Luckily, Old Yang often came to check on them, or else I’d feel more guilty."
"Weren’t you a deputy factory director at that time?"
"What’s a deputy factory director? It just attracts more hatred."
"So now that you two are fine, you don’t want to go back?"
"Yes, enjoy a few years of leisure, we’ll see later; right now, I find this life quite good. I don’t want to change."
Li Xue arrived home. Today Zheng Lihong didn’t go back to her parents’ home; it was arranged for tomorrow.
The family had a lively meal, with Tongtong following Li Xue closely.
Li Yunqiao sighed, the children were all leaving. Only his granddaughter was left at home.
After the fifth day of the new year, Lv Beiguang and they started brewing wine again. The village would start work on the twentieth of the first lunar month.
The beginning of seventy-five was very promising, another great harvest. Li Yungui expanded the farm but didn’t touch the brewery.
Everything progressed particularly well. In October, Lv Beiguang and his wife returned to the South, but the three children didn’t want to go back. Li Xue went and specifically talked to their elderly parents, leaving the three children.
She didn’t find it tough taking care of seven children alone; they went to school during the day, just cooking was a bit tiring.
Guodong was considerate of her, and the kids could look after themselves.
After the autumn harvest, Li Manjiang came home. Qu Xiaoli was so happy she didn’t know what to do, her eldest son hadn’t come back in years.
This time, Li Manjiang had a long holiday and could stay until New Year’s, so they discussed it and decided to visit the Tao family.
Qu Xiaoli was considerate of her daughter-in-law, wanting to be with her son, but she understood her daughter-in-law’s longing for home.
After they left, she sighed repeatedly.
Li Yungui also had no choice; luckily there were still a few young men at home.
Jiang Xinyu felt a bit anxious, as in her past life, there would be a seismic disaster next year, but she didn’t know how to express it.
Feifei leaned on Mom, "Mom, this isn’t something you can change.
You can write a letter or call Aunt She, ask them to be more careful."
"Just afraid they won’t take it seriously."
"What else can we do? Or let them come over here?"
"But using what excuse? They all have jobs."
"Then let brother, sister, and the younger ones come over."
Jiang Xinyu shook her head, that wouldn’t resolve anything.
She really didn’t know what to do; there were still several months ahead. Saying anything now wouldn’t help, but perhaps she could write a letter to hint a bit.
Thus, Jiang Xinyu wrote letters to all her friends, mentioning natural disasters and advising them to pay more attention to weather and animal changes.
Wei Kaiyun also sensed his wife’s anxiety. He asked but didn’t get any answers; his wife didn’t tell him anything, so he couldn’t do anything about it.