Chapter 445: Encounter

When Lu Qiao and Old Hu arrived at the gate of the military-industrial factory, Lu Qiao saw two people standing at the guard post talking to the guard.

Lu Qiao heard a young girl say nervously: "... We... we won't go in. This is for Shao Le of the Xiang Yang Neighborhood Office, and another one named Shao Yonggang, one bag each."

The person who came was wearing a patched and dilapidated cotton-padded jacket and a plaid headscarf. The other was a man, also very young, but seemed very timid, as if he didn't dare to speak.

The guard said gently: "Fellow villager, don't be afraid. You can also go in if you register."

The woman hurriedly waved her hands: "No, no, we won't go in to disturb you. My younger brother and I will go back now. That... I don't know where Shao Yonggang works, but Shao Le should know. Sorry to trouble you, we're leaving now."

There was no handcart beside the two of them; it looked like they had walked here.

Even if driving a jeep to the Wagouzi Brigade, it would take four hours.

Now there were basically no buses from the city to the countryside. People coming to the city either took horse-drawn carriages, walked, or rode bicycles.

It was said that bicycles were the main means of transportation now, but this was winter, not the south, and the bicycles couldn't be ridden at all in the ice and snow, and after being frozen, the bicycle chains really couldn't be pedaled.

Lu Qiao once missed the bus, so she pushed the bicycle in the warehouse out. For her, as long as the bicycle quality was hard and the tires had air, she could ride at high speed in the snow.

But at that time, there were quite a few people going to work on the side of the road, and someone shouted at her: "Qiaoge, don't ride it. The road is full of ice and snow; what if you slip and fall?"

So that day, Lu Qiao didn't dare to show off and pushed the bicycle to the unit.

After Qin Hengzhi found out, he drove the jeep at noon, put her bicycle in the trunk, and sent Lu Qiao home with a smile all the way.

So in this season, from the countryside to the city, there was only walking if there was no horse-drawn carriage.

The sister and brother didn't dress well either, and the younger brother was obviously nervous to the extreme, which was similar to those rural people who rarely or never came to the city.

In some villages now, thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys and girls don't know what a city is or what a building is. They haven't even left the village.

It's not an exaggeration; it's true.

Last autumn, Lu Qiao took a large truck in the village and went to several villages to collect mountain products.

The main thing collected was mushrooms.

The instant noodles with chicken stewed with mushrooms must be authentic.

Relying on this plain and the vast forest, it was very easy to collect these mountain products.

Lu Qiao went to a village, which was also in the Manshan Commune, but it was a bit far from the Manshan Commune. However, President Zhu and the brigade leader of this production team had a good relationship, and they were told in advance to pick more mushrooms.

The better the taste, the fresher, the higher the price.

She went with two large trucks and collected quite a lot along the way.

And then she also went to that village.

Trucks were new things, and many children had never seen them.

There was a little girl, about eleven or twelve years old. She had picked quite a few mushrooms, which were already dried and looked very clean.

She saw that Lu Qiao among these people seemed young, so she boldly asked Lu Qiao: "What are buildings like? Are they thatched houses stacked one by one? Can people walk on the cement roads in the city? They are all water and mud. Will it be harder to walk than the small paths in the village?"

Only after asking did she know that this little girl had never left the village since she was born.

Pulling her thoughts back, Lu Qiao and Old Hu looked at each other.

Old Hu looked relatively serious, so Lu Qiao said: "I'll go down and take a look."

Lu Qiao got out of the car.

The driver drove the car in first, and Lu Qiao walked to the side of the guard room. Zhao Xiaoman turned her head and saw a girl wearing very beautiful cotton-padded clothes, wearing a wool-hooked hat and scarf, looking at her with a smile.

Zhao Xiaoman pulled the corner of her cotton-padded jacket nervously.

Although it wasn't her first time coming to the city, she came very rarely, and she could count them on one hand, and her younger brother was here for the first time.

She didn't know why this little girl got out of the car.

Thinking she and her younger brother were blocking the guard room, she hurriedly pulled her younger brother and took a few steps back.

Lu Qiao asked: "I just heard you and the guard saying you wanted to find Shao Le and Shao Yonggang, right?"

Zhao Xiaoman clenched her hands nervously, but still nodded immediately.

Lu Qiao looked at the back of her hands, which had chilblains. Many people were like this now. Even her mother's hands were chapped every winter before.

Of course, there was none at all this year.

Lu Qiao looked at Zhao Xiaoman calmly. This was a very smart girl.

Her mother at home had an incorrect mind and was also cowardly and incompetent, and her father was even more unbearable. At the age of seven, she sold herself to the Wu family.

She didn't ignore her younger brother and younger sister either.

Especially for the youngest younger sister, while protecting herself, she was also protecting her younger brother and younger sister within her ability.

Honestly speaking, in such a family, having such bright eyes should be attributed to her fiancé.

It was just that when Lu Qiao mentioned the name Shao Yonggang, Zhao Xiaoman's eyes turned red.

Shao Yonggang returned to the Shao family, but not everything went as smoothly as everyone imagined.

Of course, the Shao family would absolutely not be like what was written in novels, liking the adopted son and not liking the biological son.

For the Shao parents, they really wished they could hold everything best in the world that they could handle to their biological son with both hands.

It was about the same as Lin Junan.

But Lin Junan and Zhou Li had a good relationship. Shao Yonggang and his current wife had many conflicts.

Lu Qiao had seen Shao Yonggang once. That person walked with his head lowered, and his brows were always tightly furrowed.

Shao Yonggang's wife was the niece of Zhao mother's sister-in-law.

Can this relationship be straightened out?

If Shao Yonggang were still Zhao Yonggang, then he would be like many ordinary couples who got married after being introduced, just like that.

But Zhao Yonggang now became Shao Yonggang.

He hated Zhao mother for ruining his life, and naturally felt disgusted with the niece of Zhao mother's sister-in-law, not to mention that the relationship itself was just average.

All thoughts were just fleeting.

Zhao Xiaoman, who reacted, hurriedly opened her mouth again and said: "Yes, yes, we... we want to send them some sticky bean buns and dried vegetables."

Lu Qiao said: "I am in the same unit as Shao Le, both in the Neighborhood Office. My surname is Lu, and my name is Lu Qiao. Do you want to go in with us to see Shao Le now, or what?"

Zhao Xiaoman's eyes lit up, and she said happily: "That would be great. Sorry to trouble you... to send him a message, telling him that I brought a bag of things for him and Shao Yonggang each. They are homemade food, let him eat with peace of mind, they are all very clean. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

"Then you won't go in?"

"No, no, don't bother. My younger brother and I are going back now."

Lu Qiao nodded and said: "Okay, I will tell Shao Le."

Subsequently, she asked curiously: "I heard that you can weave many things with corn leaves, is that right?" ===== CHAPTER 446 =====