Chapter 324

"Auntie Xiang Hou, you take your mother and Cuicui and go play together. It's just the three of you. Go see the waterfall; it's beautiful, like a fairyland."

"What about you, Uncle Tian?"

"Me? I won't go. How can one go back to one's own hometown for tourism?"

"That won't do, Uncle Tian. This is the prize you drew; how can we be embarrassed to take it?"

"Go ask your mother, discuss it with your mother."

"This... alright, I'll go ask her. Uncle Tian, come in and drink some water."

"No, no, I'll just wait here, hehe."

Old Tian stood at the door, rubbing his hands.

Li Juxiang took the prize ticket, went into the house, and found Liu Jinxia, who was sitting there writing a memorial for a client's birth date.

Liu Jinxia was writing a draft.

The beginning was holding a thick book, breaking down the birth date according to the book; the end was a fixed structure, mourning the deceased, wishing them peace and stability below, and occasionally asking them to bless the living descendants.

The middle was excerpted from scripture books, a paragraph of Daoism, a paragraph of Buddhism, mainly looking very high-end.

Liu Jinxia only did circling and drawing, waiting for her granddaughter to come home from school to transcribe it. Cuicui's handwriting was becoming more and more beautiful now.

Cuicui said that calligraphy was learned from Sister A Li, and she also learned painting. Auntie Xiang Hou said the school teacher also praised Cuicui for having a talent for painting.

"Mom, Uncle Tian is here again. This is the prize ticket he drew."

Li Juxiang handed the prize ticket to her mother and repeated Uncle Tian's words.

Liu Jinxia held the prize ticket in her hand, raised her head, and looked at the sunlight projecting into the window, as if she were checking for counterfeit money.

"Mom, what are you doing?"

"Checking if it's true or false. There are many scammers making fakes these days."

"Look at what you're saying, how could Uncle Tian be such a person."

"That's hard to say. A three-person trip, how could there be such a coincidence in this world? It's not guaranteed he doesn't intend to pack up our three generations and abduct us to sell."

"Mom, you're getting more and more outrageous."

"One must be on guard against others. For no reason, why would he give this to our family?"

Li Juxiang held back a laugh: "Mom, are you really not understanding or pretending not to?"

Liu Jinxia glared at her daughter angrily: "I'm already at this age, how could I still be thinking about this? Isn't this nonsense?

Life is pretty good right now; I'm making a little money, playing a little cards. Am I really so tired of living comfortably that I absolutely must bring back a funeral portrait frame for myself?

No matter what kind of thought he has, it has nothing to do with us. Don't bother with him, let him continue to be foolish alone."

Li Juxiang went out with the prize ticket.

Liu Jinxia continued to flip through the scriptures, drawing lines.

Not long after, Li Juxiang came back again.

"Mom."

"Did he leave?"

"Uncle Tian said, besides the luxury three-day tour, there are also refrigerators, color TVs, and big sofas."

"What?"

"But this has to be picked up at the prize collection point in Jiujiang, and you have to go and redeem it yourself with this prize ticket."

"Getting more and more outrageous!" Liu Jinxia stood up, cursing angrily, "This old thing is truly determined to abduct people."

These days, although home appliances no longer need tickets to buy, the price is still not low, which counts as a big item in ordinary rural families.

Liu Jinxia went around the desk, walked out of the room, and went straight to their porcelain vat.

Seeing this, Li Juxiang could only run out first, signaling Old Tian to run quickly, or else her mother would scoop up feces to splash him.

Old Tian still wanted to stay and explain that this was a task the young master had given him that must be completed.

But looking up, Liu Jinxia was really holding a long manure spoon and walked out.

Old Tian: "Jinxia, this is true..."

Liu Jinxia didn't hesitate, waving the manure spoon toward here.

Old Tian was so scared that he immediately turned around and ran.

"Clatter..."

A large piece of liquid splashed at the entrance of the dam.

But it wasn't feces, it was water.

Liu Jinxia threw the manure spoon to the side, akimbo, and looked at Old Tian who was fleeing in a panic with a bad expression.

At the card table in the afternoon, Liu Jinxia told about this incident.

Flower Granny said directly: "Old scammer, no good intentions!"

Wang Lian was also worried: "Don't go, what if..."

Mainly, Old Tian's initial identity in the village was a member of the Jiujiang Zhao family acrobatics troupe.

At first, he sat in a wheelchair, later he walked like flying, directly lowering his image to the level of those who pretend to be disabled and beg for money in the city.

The young people of the acrobatics troupe left, Old Tian didn't leave, occasionally mixing food and drink at Li Sanjiang's place. In short, this person was written full of unreliability from top to bottom.

The only superior item was that the skin was quite good. Wearing new clothes, combing his hair, and standing there, he truly had a lot of style.

Old men of this age in the countryside basically started to shrink and hunch, Old Tian truly belonged to the crane standing among the old men.

But looking good couldn't be eaten as a meal, and the old ladies had long passed the age of romance.

From out of town, no proper work, no homestead, no responsibility field, still a drunkard, having worked hard to send the parents-in-law away, raised the children, and in old age still have to pick up an old man to continue serving? Why bother!

The old sisters were all condemning, only Liu Yumei didn't speak.

But she was the backbone of the old sisters, and Flower Granny specifically added a sentence:

"Sister Liu, what do you say?"

Liu Yumei: "Good thing, go, three-piece set, it's worth a lot of money."

For a time, the other three sisters all fell silent.

Finally, Liu Jinxia said sheepishly: "Sister Liu, really go?"

Liu Yumei: "He talked about this when drinking with Li Sanjiang yesterday, and I have seen the prize ticket, it is true, you can get things when you go, it can't be fake."

Liu Yumei's words were "imperial edicts" here.

She said it was true, and the three old ladies immediately changed their previous tone.

Flower Granny: "Heaven, the old thing is really willing to spend!"

Wang Lian: "Really spent a lot for our Sister Sister Xia Hou."

Liu Jinxia tried hard to press the corners of her mouth so she wouldn't laugh out loud.

Regardless of age, vanity exists.

But Liu Jinxia's brain was still very clear:

"My family doesn't lack this, he drew the prize, he can take it himself, I don't covet it."

Liu Yumei was too lazy to continue persuading. She only knew that Old Tian was Zhao Yi's person, and Zhao Yi wouldn't be so outrageous as to do the abduction of people.

Second floor, in the room.

A Li was doing handicrafts.

Beside, Cuicui was painting seriously, a five-colored mountain chicken was outlined very vividly by her.

But Cuicui was not satisfied, nor was she proud, because what she was copying was the phoenix that A Li had just painted.

At this time, Cuicui suddenly let out a cry of pain. She put down the paintbrush, her left hand grabbed her right wrist, and under the bracelet, a circle of bruises appeared.

"So painful..."

A Li stopped the work in her hand, took a look, and reached out to Cuicui.

Cuicui handed her right hand to Sister A Li.

"I don't know what happened, this piece became..."

A Li grabbed Cuicui's forearm with her right hand, raised the small purple hammer she was using earlier with her left hand, and knocked it down toward that bracelet.

"Pop!"

The bracelet cracked and shattered all over the floor.

Cuicui was frightened, and then her eyes misted over, and she couldn't control herself and cried loudly.

"Wuwuwuwu... wuwuwuwu..."

Since she was young, she had no friends. Not only did the children of the same age in the village not play with her, but even the adults didn't treat her well, feeling that wherever she went, she would bring bad luck to that family.

Even after skipping grades to go to school now, she had new friends and new classmates, but in her eyes, Brother Brother Yuan Hou and Sister A Li who could play with her and didn't dislike her back then were the most special.

This bracelet was made for her by Sister A Li herself, and it was the most precious gift she had ever had. Since she put it on, she had never taken it off.

But in the blink of an eye, the bracelet was destroyed.

Cuicui was not blaming A Li; she was crying very purely.

The old ladies playing cards downstairs heard the crying coming from upstairs.

This kind of scene is actually very common; it is rare for children to play together and not cry in the end.

But here, it was quite rare.

Liu Jinxia laughed "giggle giggle" and said to Liu Yumei: "My Cuicui was made to cry by A Li of Sister Liu's family?"

Liu Yumei also laughed. She also felt this matter was very interesting.

Even, Liu Yumei had already imagined in her mind that her own A Li was angry, pushed Cuicui to the ground, and stared at her fiercely.

But how to think... it felt impossible to be true.

Coincidentally, Liu Jinxia was skipped in the next round, so she went upstairs to take a look.

"Little Cui Hou, Little Cui Hou..."

Hearing her grandmother's voice, Cuicui immediately woke up from her sad mood, quickly collected the broken bracelet on the ground, wiped her tears hard, and replied:

"Grandma!"

Liu Jinxia appeared outside the screen door, and Cuicui walked over.

"Grandma, I just accidentally fell down, and it hurt so much I cried."

"You are just delicate, crying so loudly, what if you disturb your Sister A Li?"

Cuicui pouted.

Liu Jinxia, whose eyes had long since undergone cataract surgery, noticed a circle of frightening bruises on her granddaughter's wrist.

Immediately opened the screen door, pulled her granddaughter out, and looked carefully.

She certainly wouldn't believe this was caused by fighting among girls. This was clearly not man-made, more like... illness, right, illness!

She was in this line of work, but she was most unwilling to believe that her own granddaughter would be involved in that kind of thing.

"Come, come with Grandma, Grandma will take you to the health center to let the doctor see."

Cuicui was pulled downstairs by Liu Jinxia, arrived at the dam, and Liu Jinxia walked over first and said:

"The child doesn't know what happened, a circle of blue-purple appeared on her wrist, I'm afraid her body has a problem, I'll take her to the health center to find a doctor to see."

Liu Yumei put down the cards in her hand, waved her hand, and said: "Let me see."

Liu Jinxia urged Cuicui to hand her hand to Sister Liu.

Liu Yumei just took a glance and knew what was going on.

Back then, her own granddaughter personally crafted a bracelet and gave it to Cuicui to help her suppress the sharp fate on her body.

Now, for some reason, the fate on Cuicui had changed, and after the bracelet lost the object of suppression, it began to become a burden on the body.

The bracelet was gone; needless to say, it must have been knocked off by her own granddaughter.

Hehe, no wonder Cuicui cried upstairs just now.

Liu Yumei grabbed Cuicui's wrist with her right hand, picked up the teacup with her left hand, poured the warm tea inside onto it, and then her right thumb began to rub gently along the bruises.

Rubbing and rubbing, the bruises actually gradually faded away.

Flower Granny: "Hey, it's gone, what kind of secret recipe is this?"

Wang Lian: "Was the paint washed off?"

Liu Jinxia opened her mouth wide. Even if she hadn't eaten pork, she was a person who often rode pigs.

Earlier, she had instinctively suspected that the marks on her granddaughter's wrist were unusual. If the doctor in the health center couldn't see any problems, she would have to use her own methods to tinker with it when she went back.

Therefore, seeing Liu Yumei remove the marks so simply, she instinctively thought of that kind of possibility. Could it be that Sister Liu...

Liu Jinxia shook her head, quickly pulling out this thought. She, Liu Jinxia, had been fierce all her life and had never been convinced by anyone, except for being afraid of and convinced by this one. She would rather believe that Sister Liu knew traditional Chinese medicine than believe that she used that kind of method.

"Alright, it's fine."

Liu Yumei let go of her hand, and by the way, took a piece of crispy cake and handed it to Cuicui's mouth.

Cuicui smiled and opened her mouth to take it, chewing it in her mouth.

Liu Jinxia patted her granddaughter's head with a smile: "You swallow everything given to you, don't you know how to take it out and eat it slowly?"

Cuicui: "Hee hee."

Liu Jinxia asked: "Sister Liu, what happened to the child?"

Liu Yumei: "After skipping grades, the learning pressure is too great, and the blood and energy are stagnant."

Liu Jinxia: "Then then then... then what should be done?"

Liu Yumei: "Take the child out for tourism, relax, open the heart knot, and it will be fine."

It was just a mention earlier. Combined with the changes that appeared on Cuicui, Liu Yumei felt that Zhao Yi's arrangement for Liu Jinxia's family to go to Jiujiang was perhaps necessary.

Even if they were old sisters at the card table, Liu Yumei truly cared about them.

Ordinary old ladies in the village, she was really too lazy to play with them.

In Liu Jinxia, Liu Yumei actually saw her former self.

The man in the family was gone, a woman, wanting to support a family, whether in the countryside or the rivers and lakes... it was not easy.

Liu Yumei: "Cuicui, can you recite 'Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu'?"

Cuicui: "Yes, Li Bai's poem. Sunlight illuminates the incense burner and produces purple smoke..."

Liu Yumei smiled at Liu Jinxia:

"Coincidentally, this waterfall is the waterfall written on the prize ticket."

Sun Nu is Liu Jinxia's root.

Therefore, Liu Jinxia wanted the prize ticket.

But she gave Old Tian a sum of money.

Old Tian didn't want to accept it, but Liu Jinxia insisted on giving it. If he didn't accept the money, she wouldn't take it.

Old Tian had to accept it.

Liu Jinxia gave Old Tian a solemn explanation, saying she didn't have that kind of intention, and she could help him act as a matchmaker to look at other old ladies. As for the prize, Liu Jinxia promised to help Old Tian collect it, but she wouldn't want it.

And Liu Jinxia also knew that the money she gave was definitely not enough for the travel expenses, so after coming back, she would ask Li Sanjiang to treat Old Tian to a good meal at a restaurant in town.

The matter was divided clearly, and the words were spoken clearly.

Old Tian held the money and watched Liu Jinxia's back as she walked back.

Liking is true liking, and more and more liking.

But Old Tian also knew that he and Liu Jinxia probably had no possibility.

But he still looked forward to seeing her tomorrow.

Oh, no, he wouldn't see her tomorrow. They would get on the car arranged by the travel agency early tomorrow morning and go to Jiujiang.

The prize ticket was naturally fake, but the travel agency was found by Old Tian himself. As long as you are willing to spend money, all this is simple.

Dragging his lonely back, walking to Zhang Shen's small shop, Old Tian asked for a pack of cigarettes and picked up the phone to dial.

"Hello, Young Master, the matter is handled. They will set off early tomorrow morning.

Young Master, is home okay?

Oh, the Zhao family is gone."

Hung up the phone.

Old Tian "plop" knelt on the ground.

"Wah" cried so sadly and sorrowfully.

His thoughts and loyalty were naturally placed on the young master, but his status as a family-born servant of the Zhao family also made him have deep feelings for the Jiujiang Zhao family.

The Zhao family was not only him, but also the place where his ancestors lived and were proud of.

In order not to disturb his own grandfather, Li Zhuiyuan parked the big truck in the open space next to Big Beard's house first.

Li Zhuiyuan had already made the construction drawings and handed them to Tan Wenbin.

It was a big project, and it had to be done in the dead of night.

When Tan Wenbin got the drawings, he teased:

"Liu Grandma's family is all back, and the outer team hasn't returned to Nantong yet. Is it because they are afraid we will grab his labor?"

Runsheng: "The materials used are also his family's."

After getting off the car, Li Zhuiyuan didn't rush home but walked toward the peach forest.

Passing by the dam, Benben, who was happily watching the big color TV in the crib, saw the passing youth and immediately sat down and lowered his head.

That is, there was no workbook in the crib, otherwise he might perform a head-down homework for you directly.

Li Zhuiyuan walked into the peach forest.

He saw Su Luo who was playing the zither, and Qing An who was sitting with his chest exposed and drinking wine.

Li Zhuiyuan told Qing An about Wei Zhengdao's performance when he shaped Wei Zhengdao's phantom while peeling the black dragon.

Qing An raised his head, took a sip of wine, and said:

"Normal, all phantoms are your intentional transformation. What he is like in your heart, he will inevitably perform like that. In your heart, he is a guy who doesn't obey management and has to be unconventional.

Hehe, it's really appropriate. Kid, you have suffered a lot from that guy, haha..."

Li Zhuiyuan stood quietly beside.

After Qing An finished laughing, he shook the wine jar in his hand gently: "That's it? It can only be used to smooth a mouthful of wine." ===== CHAPTER 325 =====

Seeing that the tour guide had finished checking, Liu Jinxia reached out and snatched it back.

She still had to use the prize voucher to go to Jiujiang to collect the three-piece set. If she lost the voucher and couldn't collect it, wouldn't she have to compensate that old man Tian?

Cui Cui, who was traveling away from home for the first time in her life, was very happy, looking out the car window while eating snacks.

"Mom, do you know how much I used to envy Brother Yuan Hou? He can travel all over the country."

"Silly child, your Brother Yuan Hou isn't going there to play; it's work."

"Then I'll study hard to get into Brother Yuan Hou's university in the future, so I can work all over the country too."

Liu Jinxia turned her head and said, "As long as you can keep studying, Grandma will support you no matter what!"

Immediately, Liu Jinxia asked Li Juxiang again:

"Did Ying Hou get into that university?"

"It's not time for the admission letters to be sent out yet, right? Anyway, he seems to still be at home, sick and lying in bed."

Upon hearing this, Liu Jinxia looked at her granddaughter's wrist, which had already returned to normal, and sighed:

"Studying really isn't an easy thing."

Li Juxiang nodded in deep agreement: "Speaking of people, I used to see Lan Hou go to school and take exams; it was very simple. When it comes to me, it doesn't work; no matter how I study, it doesn't sink in. Lan Hou's son, Xiao Yuan Hou, is also great at studying. This is probably hereditary."

Liu Jinxia: "Pah, pah, pah! My granddaughter didn't inherit your brain, don't say such unlucky things."

"Li, I think my brain is already good enough, but I still want to pry open your brain and see how it grew inside there.

Could it be that I lost to you because of genetics?"

The karmic fire in Li Zhuiyuan's hand suddenly surged, roasting Zhao Yi's new skin.

"Oh, oh, ah, ah, ah, ah!"