Chapter 157: Overhearing the Secret Plot

After Liu's mother finished speaking, she pointed at Fu Yan Cheng: "Comrade Fu is heading back to Huicheng anyway; he can give you a ride."

This was what Liu Chuxue had just said: once the business was done, Fu Yan Cheng wouldn't need to turn back; he could go straight to Huicheng.

Hearing he could ride in the impressive big car, Liu Cunyi's expression was unbearable to look at: "Fine, when do we leave?"

Liu Chuxue brushed the dust off her hem: "I'll go back to get the reimbursement vouchers; you go to the village entrance and wait for me."

After speaking, she instructed Liu's father and mother: "Before I return, do not go back to the old house."

Liu's father understood his daughter's worry and knew that if trouble truly came, he couldn't protect his wife: "Rest assured, we'll wait for you to come pick us up, then return to the old house together."

Liu's mother nodded along.

Seeing they had listened, she exchanged a glance with Fu Yan Cheng before running toward the old house.

In fact, the items were already in her space; she simply wanted to return to check the situation at the old house.

Liu Shangan had suffered humiliation there, and she didn't yet know what scheme the old house was plotting; she wanted to go back and investigate.

Unexpectedly, she really did overhear the eldest branch's conversation: "You two grew up as brothers; if the second branch truly cuts off all contact with you forever, that would be truly ungrateful, wouldn't it?"

Liu Chuxue couldn't help but pout; hearing you say such things, no normal person would speak like that.

Just as she was about to enter the courtyard, she heard Ge Xiulan continue: "What should we do now? You know my eldest sister-in-law; she won't give up until she gets the money."

As she spoke, her hand treating Liu Shangan's wound pressed a bit harder.

Then came a sharp "Smack!": "Damn it, can't you handle it more gently?"

Liu Chuxue entered the courtyard, circled through her own room, gathered all the important items, locked the door, and then headed out.

Just as she reached the gate, about to head to the village entrance, she heard Ge Xiulan say: "The windows in the second branch's room have issues; the third branch never fixed them while they lived there. Since they've been unkind, don't blame us for being unjust."

Liu Chuxue naturally understood what that meant; she had been guarding against them long ago.

However, if they truly dared to do such a thing, then don't blame her for making their reputation even worse.

After walking a distance, she specifically went to the Party Secretary's house: "Grandpa Secretary, are you home?"

"Liu Chuxue, why have you come over?"

"There's something I'd like to ask your help with."

"What is it? Speak."

"Here's the situation: for the new house, the main room is planned to be tiled, but as farming households, we inevitably need to dry some grain in autumn, so we want to top the two side rooms and the south room with coal ash."

But before this, we didn't know there would be a family division or a severing of ties, nor did we think about building a house, so we made no preparations at all. These four side rooms and two south rooms will likely require quite a bit of coal ash; please trouble the Secretary to tell everyone, and see which households have saved some that they could spare for us to use first."

"Later, we can repay with our own saved coal ash, or simply pay in money."

"This isn't a difficult matter; I'll go out and ask for you in a moment."

"Then thank you very much; I'll buy you some wine later."

The Secretary had no other hobbies but loved to have a couple of drinks: "Fine, then this Third Grandpa will be waiting."

He and Liu Chuxue's grandfather, Liu Dazhu, were still within five generations of kinship, so drinking wine offered by a granddaughter was acceptable; actually, Liu Chuxue and the others should have called him Third Grandpa, but since most in the Liu village surnamed Liu and there were many Third Grandpas in the village, to distinguish him, the younger generation called him Secretary Grandpa.