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Chapter 295: Pigs aren't as important as you

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"Said he wants to take Little Stone to the provincial capital to participate in formal training." Gu Chan's hand holding the phone tightened slightly.

Wei Xiangdong added, "Given that Little Stone is still small and can't leave his parents, I can accompany him there, and after the child gets used to it and we adults are at ease, he will stay there alone."

This was what he asked one by one.

Gu Chan nodded, "That's what he said."

"Since he said that, there should be no problem." Gu Chenghuai said steadily.

"How about this, I'll find someone else to inquire, and I'll reply to you tomorrow." Knowing big sister and brother-in-law were worried, he offered to inquire about it himself.

Sure enough.

Gu Chan and Wei Xiangdong's expressions relaxed.

"Trouble you." Wei Xiangdong thanked him.

Gu Chenghuai frowned slightly, "Why be polite with family."

Gu Chan nudged her husband with her elbow and said to the phone: "Your brother-in-law doesn't know how to talk, I've disciplined him. Are Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao not around? How are the two cubs? Are they adapting?"

Lin Zhao's expression was helpless, "Adapting, how could they not be adapting, they run around and can't be found."

Away from home, the one she worried about most was the twins.

So she asked: "Big sister, how are Seeing Qian Bao and Seeing Yaobao? Did they cry?!"

"The first two days you left, Seeing Yaobao cried for you, now she doesn't cry, Seeing Qian Bao didn't cry, he's just as he always is, it's just that every afternoon he calls Da Huang to the village entrance..." Gu Chan didn't say that Seeing Qian Bao stayed at the village entrance every day until the sun set, then went home listlessly, not making a fuss, but it made people's hearts ache even more.

If this were said, it would be stabbing a knife into her sister-in-law's heart, so she didn't say it.

Lin Zhao is a mother, she understands the cubs she gave birth to, she could imagine... the scene of her youngest son waiting for her at the village entrance, and her eyes immediately turned sour.

"After I brought the telegram you sent back home, Seeing Qian Bao saw it, and then he didn't go to the village entrance anymore, Mother takes him everywhere, he's very obedient." Gu Chan said in detail.

"Zhaozhao, don't worry, I'll go back every two days, the children are being looked after, you and Xiang Yubao and Gu Hangbao stay a few more days, don't rush back, everything is fine at home."

Lin Zhao knew everything she was most concerned about, thinking of the Zhao who took her place?"

"Used to it! How could she not be used to it! Her teeth are all showing from happiness." Gu Chan's face was piled with smiles, "She even said, no wonder everyone wants to be a worker, being a worker is more comfortable than farming." Speaking of this, she burst into laughter.

And then the topic turned, and she added: "Bang Bang and Laimei aren't having a good time, because their mother is strictly grasping their studies."

"Last time I went back, they even cried to me, saying their mother doesn't treat them like people. It's not easy to have summer vacation, and they have endless books to memorize and endless homework to write."

The two faces of life being worse than death flashed in her mind, and Gu Chan laughed until her throat hurt.

Lin Zhao also laughed, "It's hard on Bang Bang and Laimei, when I go back I'll bring them gifts."

"If the two boys knew, they would be happy!" Gu Chan answered.

"Big sister, you can tell them in advance next time you go back." Lin Zhao smiled lightly, "You have to give children something to look forward to."

"Big sister, you tell them, let them study hard, I'll bring them each a pair of Warrior shoes when I go back."

Gu Chan knew what Zhaozhao meant, hanging a radish in front, so Bang Bang and Laimei would have enough motivation to study, "Deal, I'll tell them."

After chatting a few more words, the phone hung up.

"Talked a bit too much, big sister will feel the pain when she pays the phone bill." Lin Zhao followed Gu Chenghuai out of the communication room.

"It's okay, with brother-in-law there, he'll coax her."

"What did you say, one yuan three mao five fen?! So much!!!" Gu Chan was indeed scared by the phone bill, her eyes wide, feeling it was unbelievable.

"How much did I say?" She muttered, her hand touching her wallet feeling the pain, trembling.

Wei Xiangdong couldn't help but laugh and swiped the cloth wallet from her hand.

He said: "Turn around, I'll pay, if you don't look you won't feel the pain."

Gu Chan really couldn't bear it and turned around.

Her man decisively paid the money and took his wife out.

On the way, Gu Chan muttered about the pain.

"I heard long ago that making phone calls costs money, but before I made one I thought... how expensive could it be, at most, at most a few mao, only after making one did I know, good fellow, it's not costing money, it's burning money! Only said a few words, spent a yuan, a yuan, several days' wages!"

Wei Xiangdong looked at her with a smile, not expressing an opinion, just looking at his wife with such a smile.

Gu Chan complained for a long time without anyone echoing, stopped complaining, looked over, and met a pair of smiling, joy-filled eyes.

The man's appearance reminded her of the past, when they were just together, this person loved looking at her like this.

Later after marriage, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea occupied most of their lives, both of them were tired to death every day to support the family, their feelings were good, but it couldn't be denied that they gradually tended toward a peaceful life.

She had a job in the textile factory cafeteria, the family had compensation from that family, life became well-off, Wei Xiangdong's body gradually improved... in this process, the husband and wife's feelings became increasingly sticky.

"... Why are you looking at me like that?" Gu Chan felt her face heat up from the man's look.

Wei Xiangdong looked at his wife, who had started walking with the same hand and foot, and the smile in his eyes deepened, "My wife is really pretty."

Gu Chan paused in her steps and reached out to punch him, "Shut up! No proper shape!"

Pretty my ghost, pretty, where is a woman's muttering pretty?

"It's just pretty, even if you punch me ten times it's still pretty." Wei Xiangdong rubbed the place he was punched and kept saying.

Gu Chan rolled her eyes at him, ignored him, and strode home.

However, with this person's distraction, she temporarily forgot the one yuan plus she had spent.

Returned home, Little Stone ran toward his parents, didn't say anything, just looked at them with eager eyes.

"Don't look, the phone call went through, your third uncle is going to find someone to inquire, if it's true... you'll have to leave your parents." Gu Chan touched her son's face and sighed lightly.

Big Stone knew his mother couldn't bear to part with his brother and said: "Mother, I'm not going anywhere, I'll stay by your side forever."

Gu Chan rubbed his head, "Don't say that, if you have a good future in the future, leaving home is fine too, your father and I only hope you are well."

"Hmm." Big Stone nodded and added: "If I have a good future, I will pick Mother up to enjoy happiness."

Wei Xiangdong:??

"... What about me?" He looked at his eldest son gloomily.

Big Stone looked at him, "You'll definitely be with my mother, what else is there to say."

Wei Xiangdong: "..." That makes a lot of sense.

"Stinky boy!" He reached out and flicked his son's forehead, "At least mention me!"

Big Stone hadn't said anything yet, his mother protected the calf first, patting the man's arm, "Don't touch the child's head, my son is so smart, what if you knock him stupid?"

The eldest is indeed smart, following his third uncle and little uncle, good at reading, and his brain is also active.

Wei Xiangdong withdrew his hand, pretending to be disappointed, "Fine, fine, fine, I've become the one with the lowest status in the family."

Little Stone tilted his head, his voice carrying the softness unique to young children, but what he said made people's hearts cold, "When has Dad ever had a high status?"

"... Shut your little mouth." Wei Xiangdong's gaze was threatening.

Little Stone hurriedly drilled behind his brother's back.

"Why are you scaring him." Big Stone was dissatisfied, his words worried: "This kid's courage is already small, what if he's scared into a little mouse?"

Just like this, he still has to leave home alone, don't know how he'll be bullied?

Just thinking about it makes him worry!

Wei Xiangdong heard the subtext of his eldest son and was also worried.

"Your personality is indeed..." The father sighed.

Little Stone knew his father and brother were worried about him, blushed in embarrassment, clenched his hands, and whispered: "Mother said it will be fine when I grow up, is that true, Mother?"

He looked at Gu Chan eagerly.

Gu Chan nodded, "Yes, aren't you braver than last year now, it's good to have progress."

Zhaozhao was right, a child's courage can be trained, she followed the method Zhaozhao said, training intentionally or unintentionally, and Little Stone indeed had changes.

Little Stone smiled shyly.

"I'm going to train." As soon as Little Stone thought of what the coach said to him, his little heart thumped, excited and didn't know what to say, just wanted to train, train...

"Don't train all the time, rest when you're tired." Gu Chan said.

The coach said her son had high talent, which he had never seen before, but in fact, it was her son who trained hard.

Little Stone trained by himself most of the time during the day, often training until he was covered in sweat.

It was also her son's good fate to have a good uncle who paid great attention to his little nephew's affairs and sent training materials several times.

"Got it." Little Stone responded, returned to the room, took out his table tennis ball, carefully opened the rubber bag, took out the table tennis racket, and practiced swinging it on the spot.

This scene was seen by the other three.

"Mother, if my third uncle confirms that the coach is really a coach, will our family send Little Stone away?" Big Stone asked, his words revealing faint reluctance.

Although his brother was stupid and always made him worry, he was still quite reluctant to part with him.

If he wasn't by his side, what if someone bullied his brother?

"Reluctant to part with your brother?" Gu Chan asked knowingly, she touched her son's head and sighed, "Your brother likes it, look at him, how spirited he is when he plays ball, if there's no chance then forget it, but since there's finally a chance, if your father and I don't let him go, your brother will definitely blame us when he grows up. Your grandma always says, when a child's wings grow hard they will fly away, parents shouldn't delay the child's future."

Wei Xiangdong saw his wife was about to cry and said: "It's only the provincial capital, not very far, you can get there by bus. In the future I'll earn more money, we'll go see him every month, if it really doesn't work, once a week is fine too."

Hearing this, Gu Chan was suddenly vigilant, her gaze staring at him, "You want to go into the mountains again?"

That appearance seemed as if as long as he nodded, her claws would scratch him.

Big Stone saw the atmosphere was tense and quietly slipped away.

"No." Wei Xiangdong hurriedly said, "I promised you I wouldn't go into the mountains, so I won't."

He pulled his wife into the room and whispered his plan, "I plan to raise pigs with someone."

Gu Chan's face changed slightly, "Raise them in the mountains? No, this is absolutely not allowed, if discovered this is a great crime, you'll have to go in..."

"A Chan, A Chan, don't get angry first, listen to me." Wei Xiangdong hugged his wife's shoulders and continued: "It won't be discovered, and there's no danger."

"The place I'm talking about is very hidden, I've known it since I was small, it hasn't been discovered for so many years. Besides, pigs raised in the deep mountains, nameless and surname-less, who knows I'm the one raising them?"

He said his plan, "I'm a man, I have to find a way to support the family, I don't have other skills, I only know how to hunt, this matter..."

Wei Xiangdong paused, skipped the back, and continued: "I've thought about it carefully, raising pigs has potential, think about it, meat is lacking everywhere, once the pigs are raised big they can be sold easily, then the family will be well-off."

Gu Chan was still afraid, "Our family is well-off now."

"Well-off what well-off." Wei Xiangdong laughed, "When Little Stone goes to the provincial capital, we'll go see him, the train ticket money alone is quite a lot. I'm a man, I can't let my wife worry about money, otherwise what would I become, someone who eats soft rice? If that happens, will you still look up to me?"

"Why wouldn't I look up to you, my job was given by you anyway." Gu Chan said.

"Then you're my wife, if there's good stuff I'll definitely think of you." Wei Xiangdong said dismissively, "Don't say anything about letting or not letting in the future, mine is yours. Wife suffers, I enjoy happiness alone? I can't do that."

Gu Chan suddenly remembered, "Doesn't our family grow mushrooms, there's money too."

Wei Xiangdong said: "Hmm, I want you to live a good life."

Growing mushrooms can earn money, but it's far from raising pigs.

He always felt he was different from others, there was a kind of drive in his bones, as if he didn't know fear.

Gu Chan saw the persistence in the man's eyes, was silent for half a moment, and said: "You said you plan to raise them with someone, with whom?"

Wei Xiangdong said: "With Dali."

Who is Dali? A person from the same village, fatherless and motherless since small, grew up eating everyone's rice, eats a lot, has great strength, looks honest, and has a tight mouth.

Indeed a good partner.

Gu Chan struggled, unable to make up her mind.

"... I'm afraid of being discovered."

Wei Xiangdong knew his wife agreed, a smile appeared on his face, and his whole face lit up.

He held Gu Chan's hand and said solemnly: "I will be careful."

The man's voice softened, using a pleading tone: "You promise me, wife? As soon as there's a problem I'll run, I absolutely won't fold myself in, okay?"

Gu Chan couldn't bear the grinding and sighed lightly, "Fine."

After responding, she added: "Remember your words, absolutely don't fold yourself in. You are the backbone of our family, pigs aren't as important as you."

Wei Xiangdong hugged his wife, full of smiles, "Wife, you are really good."

Gu Chan's eyes carried a smile.

Her man is also very good.

A certain military district.

Lin Zhao returned home, opened the letter, browsed quickly, and the corners of her mouth kept rising.

"Comrade Guan's ability to act is really strong, sending the thank-you letter so quickly." She sighed.

Looking at what Lin Shifan said, he listened to the leader reading the thank-you letter, his toes curling and curling, his whole person uncomfortable, Lin Zhao laughed out loud.

"What are you laughing at?" Gu Chenghuai asked.

Lin Zhao handed the letter over.

"Is this something I can look at?" Gu Chenghuai said with his mouth, but his action of taking the letter was not slow at all.

After reading it quickly, his expression was calm, "I knew the letter would mention me."

Lin Zhao patted his arm, "This isn't the point, what I'm laughing at is Third Brother's reaction to his leader reading the thank-you letter, don't you think it's fun?"

Gu Chenghuai said: "Third Brother still needs to practice."

Practice what, face thickness.

As long as the face is thick enough, how could it be embarrassing?! ===== CHAPTER 296 =====

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