Chapter 771: Returning to the Maternal Home

A chill shot straight from his spine to the top of his head. His scalp felt like it had been electrocuted, tingling and going numb, and his hair stood on end. He turned and ran, then scrambled into the car, shouting with a pale face.

"Quick, go home, something happened to Big Brother."

The driver glanced at the hearse in the rearview mirror and couldn't help but shudder. Even the slowest person understood now that their Big Brother had gone to the West. From now on, Qishi had lost a heroic figure; this was definitely a major event.

The engine roared, and the driver almost stepped the accelerator into the fuel tank. The tires rubbed against the ground, making a harsh screeching sound. Thin smoke rose, and the Mercedes darted out, disappearing into the police station courtyard in the blink of an eye. Immediately after, the hearse also left.

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Time rewinds to noon!

Arong Banner, Na Guzhen, Zhenxing Village!

The old Yuan family was awesome. The daughter who married far away had returned to her maternal home, and her nephew was a famous big boss. The iced black tea and Very Cola that their own children liked to drink were produced by the nephew's factory.

Look again at that line of small cars, and there was even a big van. Oh, no, that was called an RV; it had a bed inside where you could lie down and sleep.

And there were bodyguards, dozens of them, wearing suits, better than what they wore for the New Year—it was so grand. Then think about Boss Dong in the county, rich, the richest man, also traveling with bodyguards and luxury cars, but he couldn't compare to the Yuan family's nephew; it was like heaven and earth.

Zhou Andong and the others arrived around one o'clock in the afternoon. It wasn't that the road was hard to travel, but Yuan Liying was nervous about returning home. Halfway there, Zhou Andong had the car stop, pushed Old Comrade Zhou, and accompanied his old mother to walk a bit, feeling the familiar breath of this black land.

Anyway, there was no rush, and there was no shortage of food in the car. If they were hungry, they would have a bite. Everyone was in high spirits, walking and stopping, and they didn't enter the village until after one o'clock in the afternoon.

There was no work in the fields now. After eating lunch, people were either taking a nap at home or cooling off under the trees, playing cards or chatting.

As soon as the motorcade entered the village, it attracted the attention of the villagers. Curious ones followed the motorcade into the village and then saw the motorcade stop outside the old Yuan family's gate.

When they saw Yuan Liying, they shouted in surprise that the old Yuan family's eldest daughter who married far away had returned. Then, within an hour, the whole village knew.

As soon as Yuan Liying got out of the car, she hugged her old father and mother and cried her heart out, and the two old people's tears also fell like rain.

Before they were done being moved, brothers, nephews, nieces, and the younger generation—ten or twenty people—all came.

Meeting naturally meant another round of greetings. And since they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years, many of the younger generation didn't recognize them, so they introduced them again. Big Aunt, Big Uncle, Auntie, Uncle—they called out a whole lot.

Then it was Zhou Andong and Jian Qiu, whose ears were filled with calls of "Big Brother (Cousin)," "Sister-in-law (Cousin-in-law)," "Uncle (Cousin-uncle)," and "Aunt (Cousin-aunt)."

Next were Xiao Qin and Xiao Bei, and finally, Old Four, who was full of anticipation. Don't look at Old Four's young age; she was already an aunt (cousin-aunt).

Yuan Liying took out a large handful of red envelopes that Jian Qiu had prepared, with two thousand in each. Regardless of whether they were married or not, as long as they were of the younger generation, they were given one.

Jian Qiu also packed red envelopes, with only five hundred in each. As a daughter-in-law, she naturally couldn't steal the limelight from her mother-in-law. As long as they were unmarried, called her sister-in-law, and were younger than her, they were all given one.

Afterward, Jian Qiu was pulled aside by her grandmother to chat. Because Jian Qiu's aura was too strong, except for the three aunts-in-law and Yuan Lu, who was familiar with her, only the carefree Yuan Ying accompanied her to talk.

The remaining sisters-in-law, cousins, and nieces stood aside, just accompanying them with smiles, not knowing what to say.

Zhou Andong chatted aimlessly with a few brothers, while the children were incredibly excited to receive the red envelopes.

Cousin Yuan Hai looked up and saw his son open the red envelope, and seeing that large stack of bills, the corners of his eyes twitched.

He never expected that there would be so much money in the red envelope.

Then he heard the kid cheer: "I'm going to buy an ice pop."

After saying that, he ran out. Yuan Hai's wife, Shen Qing, quickly followed him out. Zhou Andong's mouth curled into a smile, mourning for that kid for three seconds.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, the kid came back dejected.

Old Four saw this nephew who was several years older than her, shook her head, sighed, and patted the kid on the shoulder.

"Just now I said, don't be too proud, hurry up and hide the money, don't let your mom find it. You wouldn't listen, money's gone, right?"

Looking at Old Four's little-adult appearance, Shen Qing burst out laughing: "How did you know I was going to confiscate his money?"

Old Four curled her lip: "Don't all you adults do that?"

After saying that, she pointed at the few nephews and nieces who were still happily playing with their money.

"Look at them, how happy they are now, and how miserable they'll be in a while."

Shen Qing really couldn't help but laugh out loud, and everyone looked over strangely.

"Sister-in-law, what's so happy?" Sun Tao asked curiously.

Yuan Hai and Yuan Tao were brothers; Zhou Andong's big uncle's family only had these two sons.

"Our little Old Four!" Shen Qing pointed at Old Four, laughed again, and told the story.

"You really are a little smarty-pants!" Sun Hui walked over holding her youngest daughter and rubbed Old Four's head affectionately.

At this time, two middle-aged women walked in, and upon seeing Yuan Liying, their eyes turned red.

"Liying!"

When Yuan Liying saw these two women, her eyes also turned red. She hugged them both and started shedding tears again.

Zhou Andong took one look and knew these two women must be his mother's best friends from her youth; otherwise, they wouldn't be shedding tears the moment they met.

Old Man Yuan Xizhang returned and called his grandsons and granddaughters-in-law to go out and catch a pig; he wanted to slaughter the big fat pig weighing over three hundred jin in the pigsty.

When Zhou Andong heard about slaughtering the pig, he stood up and walked out: "Let's go, let's go."

At this time, the Yuan family courtyard was full of people, inside and out. Those who were familiar and had good relationships were all in the courtyard, ready to help.

Those who were unfamiliar and had no relationship all stood outside the main gate watching the excitement.

There were three pigs in the pigsty. A middle-aged man stood in front of the pigsty and pointed at a black-haired pig.

"Uncle, is it that one!"

Yuan Xizhang nodded: "Yes!"

The middle-aged man shouted: "Come, come, come, help, help, catch the pig out."

There were too many people helping; Yuan Hai and the others weren't needed at all.

"Dongzi, just watch from the side; there are so many people, we aren't needed."

"Wu Chao!" Zhou Andong waved his hand and called over Wu Chao, who was watching the excitement not far away. "Go to the car and get a few cartons of cigarettes to distribute to the neighbors."

"Okay!" Wu Chao walked out quickly.

Among the crowd watching the excitement outside, a sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked guy had been watching for a long time and was just about to leave when he heard Zhou Andong say he was distributing cigarettes, so he retracted the leg he had stepped out.

Soon, Wu Chao and Wang Wentian took out more than ten cartons of Zhonghua cigarettes from the car, then tore them open to distribute cigarettes to the neighbors.

Of course, it was one cigarette per person; Zhou Andong wasn't that generous to give a pack to these strangers.

The sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked guy's eyes lit up when he saw the Zhonghua, but when he saw that everyone only got one cigarette, he curled his lip and walked away. ===== CHAPTER 772 =====