Chapter 143: The Widow's Door, You Still Dare to Enter

"Sss—ouch, sis, I'm already grown, you still yank my ear; can you at least give me some face."

Lu Ying tugged his ear, came into the Main Hall, then gave another kick, sending Lu Cheng into the room.

"Even though you're my younger brother, I can yank you if I want!"

Inside the room, Chen Xianglan sat at the dining table with a serious expression.

Lu Cheng immediately complained: "Mom, are you still going to control your daughter? With her like that, she'll never get married in any lifetime."

Chen Xianglan glared: "I don't want to talk about her now; talk about you."

Lu Cheng sat on the stool and muttered: "What business do I have? I just got back from duty."

Chen Xianglan snorted coldly: "You still know you just came back; I saw you a moment ago, and in the blink of an eye you ran off to Yan Hong's House—what for?"

"Me? She said she had some good news to share with me…"

Chen Xianglan cut in immediately: "She has good news; does that need to be shared with you? Let me tell you, when you used to run to her house, I said nothing."

"But now you've been married, and she's a widow; aren't you afraid of gossip?"

Lu Cheng shrugged: "Not that serious, we're neighbors, just visiting each other's homes, that's normal."

Seeing Chen Xianglan still glaring, Lu Cheng had to straighten his attitude.

"Don't worry, Mom, it's not what you think. Yan Hong sister and I are completely innocent; if you don't believe, I can swear on my character."

Lu Ying, shelling peanuts, took over: "You can't swear on character; what we're questioning now is your character."

Chen Xianglan slapped the table: "Right, we are now seriously questioning your character."

Lu Cheng helplessly: "Fine, fine, I'll go less."

"What?"

"I'm not going, I'm not going."

Lu Cheng quickly pulled five Great Unity tickets from his pocket to appease Mom.

He still had a hundred yuan left, which could be useful.

Sure enough, when Chen Xianglan saw the money, she immediately forgot the earlier matter, eyes lighting up as she took the cash.

"That much money, did you get a salary? Heh, Mom's voice was a bit loud earlier, didn't scare you?"

Lu Cheng had become accustomed to Mom's mood swings, faster than Sichuan opera.

"Not a salary, this is from hunting in the Northeast, exchanged for skins."

"You went hunting? That's dangerous." Chen Xianglan hurried forward to check: "Nothing happened, right? You can't hunt anymore, no reckless stuff."

Lu Cheng spread his arms: "Ah, it's fine, that place has plenty of mountain game, just a casual hunt."

Lu Cheng deliberately downplayed, never mentioning being surrounded by a wolf pack.

Otherwise Mom would be scared at night and couldn't sleep.

"Mom, it's only five tickets, nothing to count, go make dinner, I'm hungry."

Chen Xianglan still counting the money, asked casually: "What do you want to eat, Mom will make it for you."

"Fried bean‑sauce noodles, please; haven't had them for several days, craving it."

Chen Xianglan satisfied, put the money into her pocket: "Wait, I have leftover stir‑fried cabbage from yesterday, I'll heat it up for you."

Anything is fine, mainly afraid Mom would nag again about his going to Sun Yan Hong's house.

Snatching the peanuts Lu Ying had peeled, Lu Ying was lost in thought, not caring.

Lu Cheng reached his hand to her face and waved: "What are you thinking about?"

Lu Ying raised her head: "Lu Cheng, didn't you say last time that the southern man delivering goods to our Tea Stall could arrive in a week?"

Lu Cheng nodded: "Ah, what's up, hasn't arrived yet?"

The duty on the Jingha Line this time, because of heavy snow at Gongzhuling, took nearly ten days round trip.

He thought Ding Yuanmin had already delivered the goods and returned to Guangcheng.

Lu Ying shook her head: "No, otherwise I could ask you—was it delayed by something? It's snowing now, we have to sell less."

Lu Cheng truly didn't know what was happening; could Ding Yuanmin be deceiving him?

But logically, they shouldn't; there's no reason to cheat.

He was basically giving Ding Yuanmin's production team a sales channel; the other side was grateful and hadn't even responded yet.

"No problem, sis, tomorrow I'll take you to work, and also check the team to see if anyone knows."

Lu Cheng also wanted to find Wang Fengshi to learn about progress on the West Germany side.

This trip has been almost half a month, still don't know how it's going?

Fine snowflakes fell all night; on the Hu Tong road only a thin layer of snow.

The next day, the snow stopped, the weather was especially cold.

Lu Cheng took down the cotton gloves from the wall; the two gloves were connected by a thin rope, which could be hung around the neck.

Finally putting on the Military Coat, Lu Ying sat on the back of the seat and immediately saw the ripped spots on the coat.

"Lu Cheng, who patched this back? It looks like a dog bite! If it doesn't work, let's go to the tailor shop, let those good sisters patch it; this stitching is ugly."

Lu Cheng refused: "No need, patch it, how can you still tell it's a wolf bite."

"Huh? Wolf bite? Did you meet a wolf while hunting?"

Lu Cheng's fondness for this coat is because it easily draws attention, and when others see it they'll ask a couple of lines.

At this moment, it was Lu Cheng's time to show his saint‑like brilliance.

"Yes, it was a wolf bite; you just don't know…"

"At that time a hundred‑plus wolves were about to surround me, but who is your little brother? Si Jiu Cheng's Xiao Zhangfei, a fierce one!"

"I mounted on horseback with my gun, tore into the wolf pack; the scene, blood flowed like a river, day and night dark, it was like a gun god possessed me, one shot each, hundred percent hit."

"Finally, guess what? Hey, the wolf pack got scared, it wanted to run!"

So I again drew my gun and spurred my horse, charged in and killed my way in; I'm so clever—capture the thief by first capturing the king—and shouted, "Hey, Dai Zi, don't run; if you've got the guts, have a big showdown with grandpa."

The Alpha Wolf indeed stopped, and the two of us fought three hundred rounds, a clash that turned the world upside down, day and night.

In the end, though, I was a step ahead; among a million wolves I singled out that wolf and knocked it off its horse.

Lu Ying, listening from behind, rolled her eyes: "You're just bragging here, can you stop exaggerating?"

"See, you still don't believe it; if you don't, fine!"

Lu Cheng rode his bicycle, ringing the bell, leaned his body and made a sharp turn.

First he took his sister to the Tea Stall, then went to the Traffic Police Unit.

He managed to meet Wang Fengshi smoothly, who was bustling around the office.

After a dozen minutes, Wang Fengshi finally remembered there was another person in the office.

"Group Leader Lu, if you want tea, pour it yourself; I won't serve you."

Lu Cheng smiled: "No problem, Director Wang, you keep busy; I'm not in a hurry."

Seeing that Lu Cheng truly had business, Wang Fengshi probably guessed what it was.

"Group Leader Lu, you miss your wife, right? Captain Lei has been away for almost half a month, which indeed makes the two of you separated for a long time."

Lu Cheng followed up: "So, how is Captain Lei over there, exactly?"

He didn't bring up Ding Yuanmin's matter for now, since it's personal; he just asked about the situation over in West Germany.