Vol 3 Chapter 388: Ma Xiumei’s whereabouts are actually right next to her
“This toilet, just pull the rope at the back and it will flush.”
Li Duoyu patiently introduced the equipment in the room to Zhou Xiaoying, including shower heads and electric hair dryers.
Li Duoyu said:
“From now on, our new home will be decorated according to this standard.”
Zhou Xiaoying was frightened on the spot: "It's better not to give it up. These things must be very expensive."
“Then do you like it or not.”
Zhou Xiaoying hesitated for a while and nodded very honestly.
"Then it's over. I've made money. If I don't take care of myself, I'm going to be a miser."
“Then it’s up to you to decide.”
Zhou Xiaoying is not the kind of person who cares about money, especially things like building and decorating a house. She has no reason not to support it.
In fact, more than one person in the village has told her that since your family has made so much money with so many fish, she must help him manage his money.
But she really doesn't like it. If she is a gambler like Xiao Weidong, then she really might manage the money.
But the man in her family is more self-disciplined than she is. He hardly smokes cigarettes and rarely drinks alcohol. Who is a better person than you, why should you care about the money he earns.
As for what they say, men become bad when they have money, and the seductive **** outside will take the initiative to seduce them.
Zhou Xiaoying thinks it is indeed possible.
But she is more open-minded about this kind of thing.
If it is a cat that really knows how to steal food, no matter how you control it, it will still steal food. There are only two situations: being discovered and not being discovered.
Speaking of which, the second sister-in-law said it more realistically. She fed him until he was full and saw if he could still eat.
But when she thought of her second sister-in-law's strong figure, Zhou Xiaoying suddenly broke into a cold sweat for her second brother. After this meal, she would probably be full for a week or two.
Li Duoyu slept quite comfortably, but Zhou Xiaoying did not sleep well, because it is most likely to feel lonely in the dead of night when people are quiet.
Although she was born on Dandan Island, she knew very well that she was different from Duoyu and Shanshan.
The root is not there.
Finally, she returned to her "hometown", but unexpectedly, she found out that her grandfather was gone long ago, and so were all her remaining relatives.
She was not as strong as she appeared. Late at night, tears flowed down uncontrollably and she made a slight choking sound.
Unexpectedly, the person behind her who had been snoring just now suddenly turned over and hugged her, and touched her pillow by the way.
“Why did you secretly pee on the pillow?”
Zhou Xiaoying, who was quite sad at first, was so angry that she pinched him directly after hearing this: "When I was a child, every time you wet the bed, you framed me."
“I didn’t wet the bed.”
“You still don’t admit it.”
After the two of them had a fight, Li Duoyu hugged her tightly.
Zhou Xiaoying found a comfortable position, hunched over and wanted to have a good sleep, but she didn't expect Li Duoyu to be dishonest.
“I told you that you have relatives here.”
“I’ll just walk around outside and won’t go in. What are you worried about?”
Zhou Xiaoying frowned.
But suddenly I remembered what my colleague said, as long as your husband is still interested in you, there is no other woman out there.
But once I don’t touch you anymore.
Then be careful.
Li Duoyu woke up early in the morning and had no intention of going to the so-called Revolving Palace. Instead, he had a simple breakfast at the hotel and checked out.
Only stayed for one night.
It cost more than two hundred yuan, and Zhou Xiaoying felt distressed. Seeing that Li Duoyu and the others were about to check out, the female manager Su Yang was a little surprised:
“Mr. Hibi, are you leaving so soon?”
Li Duoyu calmly replied: "It's very inconvenient that I lost all my documents. I plan to get a new one first."
What Li Duoyu didn’t expect was that the female manager was very enthusiastic and sent him and Zhou Xiaoying to a Polonaise taxi.
The female manager smiled and said:
“Mr. Hibi, let me tell the driver where you want to go.”
Li Duoyu’s mouth twitched.
Finally I understand why some people hate transition services. He didn’t originally intend to take a taxi, but only wanted to take a rickshaw.
Taxis are extremely expensive in this era. The starting price is four or five yuan, and the charge for one kilometer is at least one yuan.
According to Zhou Xiaoying's salary, it is not enough to pay for a taxi around Jinling City.
“Let’s go to the train station.”
Female manager Su Yang said to the driver: "Master, go to the train station and drive slowly."
"okay."
Seeing the female manager waving goodbye to him, Li Duoyu couldn't help but sigh.
Not long after the taxi left the hotel, Li Duoyu wanted to get out of the car, but when she saw Zhou Xiaoying's surprised look, she felt that it would be nice to be extravagant once in a while. This must be her first time taking a car.
"Master, I have something to do and want to change places."
Hearing the smooth Mandarin, the master was stunned and said in surprise: "You can speak our language."
“Yeah.” Li Duoyu nodded.
The master immediately understood that this person was probably a returned overseas Chinese, but it was rare to see him speak Mandarin so well.
He has also received many overseas Chinese from Hong Kong Island and Southeast Asia. Some only speak English, some speak Cantonese, but they just don't like to speak Mandarin very much.
“Where to go, you tell me.”
"Gaojia Village." The car drove for more than an hour before arriving at the location of Ma Xiumei's natal family. It is a relatively remote place with almost all dirt roads and potholes along the way.
After the taxi got there.
A group of children and young people gathered around. Li Duoyu paid thirty yuan in foreign exchange and then said to the taxi driver:
“Master, I’m here to do something and I’ll only stay for an hour or two. Can you wait for me here? I have to go to the train station later.”
The master said: "No problem. If I go back empty, I will be at a disadvantage, but I will only wait for you for two hours."
After arriving at Gaojiacun.
Li Duoyu repeated his same trick and asked a few people with cigarettes in their mouths to hand them cigarettes, and soon asked for the address of Ma Xiumei's mother's family.
The two parties just got to know each other briefly, but Ma Xiumei's family was extremely excited when they learned that Ma Xiumei's first wife was still alive, not only in an overseas province, but also looking for her.
“My uncle is still here.”
In this era, anyone who has overseas relatives feels it is a very glorious thing. Most importantly, they all imagine that their relatives in overseas provinces will send them some foreign exchange or take them out of the country.
Soon, Ma Xiumei’s family took out the letters they had chatted with more than ten years ago.
When Li Duoyu saw the address.
Li Duoyu was stunned on the spot. He never imagined that after Ma Xiumei remarried, she would follow her second husband to the island closest to the Overseas Province.
Dandan Island.
When they saw this address, Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying looked at each other, what a coincidence.
Li Duoyu looked at the address on the letter and roughly knew who Ma Xiumei was, and the old man Gao might have met his grandson.
Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying did not plan to travel. Instead, they took a taxi to the train station and went directly back to Dandan Island.
Easy as it comes.
It will be very troublesome to go back.
The landform of Rongcheng is divided into eight mountains, one water and one farmland. The waterway is easier to travel, but the land route is very troublesome.
If you take the train, you have to make a big circle. First, find a way to take the train from Jinling to Yingtan.
Only when you get there, is there a train to Rongcheng.
At first, Zhou Xiaoying thought that the journey would be difficult. After all, the train smelled bad and there were a lot of pickpockets.
Unexpectedly, Li Duoyu is a talkative person. After getting on the train, he went directly to the conductor and bought two decks of playing cards, and he would play "eighty points" with everyone he saw.
Others didn’t know how to play, but they enthusiastically explained the rules. Zhou Xiaoying, who originally wanted to read quietly, was also moved by his emotions and joined the group of card players.
Li Duoyu and Zhou Xiaoying spent three days and transferred three trains before arriving at Rongcheng Railway Station.
But the moment the two of them got out of the train station, they didn't want to take the train anymore because it was too torturous.
Because they almost sat on hard benches for the past three days, once when changing trains, the two of them only bought standing tickets and stood for a whole day and night.
In fact, Li Duoyu can also use the method of losing his travel certificate to buy soft sleepers and hard sleepers on trains through foreign exchange coupons.
The treatment there is very good. I heard that there are steaks and red wine on the car, but it’s good to try some things. If you often walk by the river, you will always get wet shoes.
As soon as the two of them arrived in Rongcheng, Zhou Xiaoying rushed back to Dandan Island without stopping.
As soon as the passenger ship docked, Zhou Xiaoying went straight to her home. When the two returned home, they happened to see Tutu playing with an inflatable tiger in the courtyard.
Little chubby Li Haoran was also playing with him. He kept pressing the inflatable tiger, making little Tutu giggle.
“Tutu.”
Hearing the sound, Xiao Tutu turned around suddenly. When he saw his parents, he who was still laughing just now burst into tears and ran towards Zhou Xiaoying.
He threw himself into her arms.
Li Duoyu glanced at his mother-in-law, her expression was quite haggard. Looking at the situation, she had suffered a lot these days.
“Mom, you’ve worked hard these days.”
Chen Huiying said with a hint of disgust: "If you don't come back, it will be easier to take care of the child. As soon as he comes back, the child will cry immediately."
Li Duoyu smiled.
This is really true.
Li Duoyu also heard it from Zhou Xiaoying in her previous life, when she helped take care of her grandson.
The son and daughter-in-law did not come back. The grandson was very obedient, but once they came back, they were completely out of control.
Seeing his uncle and aunt come back, Li Haoran scratched his head and said: "Uncle, aunt, you are back."
Li Duoyu glanced at Li Haoran and asked, "You have been helping to take care of Tutu these days when I am away."
“No, I just spend half a day with him every day, and the rest of the time I play with my friends.”
Li Duoyu touched his head.
“Yes, you’re very good. Next time, I’ll buy you some delicious food.”
“Thank you, uncle.”
But the more Xiaopangdun thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong: "Uncle, did you go out for so long this time and didn't buy anything?"
“It’s more urgent this time, no.”
After hearing this, Xiao Pangdun suddenly felt a little disappointed and looked dejected.
Seeing his appearance, Li Duoyu took out a pack of **** candies from his bag.
“I almost forgot, I bought you a bag of candy.”
Chen Huiying on the side glared and said: "Haoran doesn't have many teeth left. You still buy him candy, don't you think his teeth are falling out fast enough?"
Li Duoyu coughed and said:
“Haoran, I can only eat one candy a week from now on, do you know?”
“I got it, uncle.” (End of chapter)