Chapter 16: The First Return to the Countryside
After dispelling their doubts, Chen Xin was also thinking about this matter.
Her plan was to ask her brother-in-law's brother to come out and help with things, but she didn't think much about the rest. Now that she thinks about it, she was still a little naΓ―ve in her original thoughts.
Money is fascinating. This sentence may not refer to everyone, but under the influence of money, people will change, which Chen Xin is convinced of.
If there was only the breakfast shop at the beginning, my brother-in-law's brother would have helped, and the horizontal and vertical water would not be too much, at most it would be a little better than ordinary people. But after opening the cafΓ©, this is not easy to explain, will people think that she is using her brother-in-law's money to use it arbitrarily? Even if she hands over the account to the other party to manage, it cannot completely block the tongue of the idlers next to her.
On this issue, Chen Xin went to visit Grandpa Liu again and wanted to ask Grandpa Liu's opinion.
"Are you saying that you plan to divide the money left by your brother-in-law into two parts, one of which will be handed over to his parents to deal with, and the other will be stored in the bank in Zhang Zhang's name?"
"Yes, although the money is not much, but for the old man of my brother-in-law's family, this money is not a lot of money. And I heard that my brother-in-law's brother has a bad leg and said that family affairs are a little difficult, so I have another purpose for going back this time, which is to get him some kind of livelihood in the county town, so that he can also save some money. β
"That's a good idea. Grandpa Liu pondered for a moment and nodded, "Then have you thought about it, what kind of business will you do for him?"
"I haven't really thought about it. Chen Xin was also worried about this, "My strength is to make special food, but my brother-in-law's brother doesn't seem to be very good at this, and I don't know much about my brother-in-law's hometown, I don't know what people like and what they like to eat." β
"Why don't you talk to your brother-in-law's brother when you go back this time and see what he thinks. If he doesn't want to come out and do things, it's not bad to work at home. β
Grandpa Liu got up and went to the study to get a book and a stack of old newspapers.
"I remember that your brother-in-law is from Banan, where the mountains are high and there are few people, the climate is good, but the geographical location is relatively remote. However, there is a very popular cash crop in the market, if your brother-in-law's eldest brother is willing, I can find someone to ask him to go to the agricultural school to study, without a diploma, just follow the teacher to the experimental field for practical operation. You might need to give some money or something, and I don't think you'll be happy to give that. β
Of course, it's okay to give money, if my brother-in-law's brother is willing to go to school, she can also bear the other party's tuition fees or something.
Grandpa Liu showed Chen Xin the materials he had collected, and he gave Chen Xin a notebook for reference.
By the time all work and study stopped a year ago, it was already about 20 months old. Chen Xin went to say goodbye to Tie Lei and his wife, and asked them to help take care of the house, and then took Zhang Zhang's little fat man on the train with a big bag.
Before leaving, I had already contacted Secretary Yu, and the other party helped find a car for the unit at the other end of his hometown, gave the driver a red envelope, and asked him to help send his aunt and nephew to the village, and wait for the seventh or eighth day of the new year to pick up again.
The other party is also a retired soldier, and when he heard that he was the widow of a martyr who sacrificed and wanted to go back to see his grandparents, he agreed without saying a word, and specially went to the train station to pick up Chen Xin and the little fat man.
"There is only one car a day in the village over there, and you may not be able to sit on it during the Chinese New Year, if you don't look for Lao Yu, I guess you will either be knocked out, or you will have to walk back." β
Lei Bang is more than one meter eight tall, and he grabbed the salute that Chen Xin brought back in his hands with both hands, and asked her to hold the little fat man well.
"There are a lot of people at this train station, you take good care of the child, otherwise you will be angry if the child falls. Lei Bang is from the Northeast, his parents came from the Northeast to support the construction, and they took root, and now the two of them have retired and have no plans to go back, so they live locally. Lei Bang speaks the Northeast dialect at home, and he does things in a hurry, but when he is detailed, there is nothing to do with women.
The car driven by Leibang is a construction vehicle of their power bureau, Beijing Jeep.
"Your brother-in-law's village is in the mountains, and the road is not easy to walk, and you can't get on it unless you are a jeep. The general shuttle bus stops at the foot of the mountain, and you have to walk for at least more than an hour to go up the mountain with your children. The road is very bumpy, you hold the child really well, don't wait for a while. β
I turned a corner on the road and went to the market to buy a lot of things for the New Year, as well as two sets of clothes for the elderly.
Fortunately, there are photos of her brother-in-law's parents at home, and she can barely estimate what size of clothes the old man wears based on the photos, but her brother-in-law's brother is not easy to do, and there is no precedent for unmarried women to buy clothes for unmarried men, unless it is a family.
Chen Xin looked at the trunk of the car that was almost full, and then stopped the urge to buy, buy, buy.
"Are you planning to let your uncle and aunt eat until the middle of the year?" Lei Bang laughed loudly, and he was more enthusiastic about Chen Xin than before.
Other people are high-minded but delicate, and they used to look at the face of the officer, and Zhang Zhang's father was a martyr, so he took good care of Chen Xin and Zhang Zhang. But now that Chen Xin didn't hesitate to buy all kinds of New Year's goods for the old people in her brother-in-law's family, and even took into account the clothes, shoes and socks, she knew that this girl was a beautiful person.
"My uncle and aunt also suffered a big crime, and finally got a son out thinking that he could enjoy some happiness, but my brother-in-law went suddenly, and the family only relied on my brother-in-law's brother to take care of him. The eldest brother has inconvenient legs and feet, so life at home is not easy. I can help a little, if you want to let the two elders live a good life, you can only look at Zhang Zhang. β
This is true, after all, she is the daughter-in-law's sister-in-law, and has nothing to do with the Zhang family, even if she doesn't come back to see the old man, no one can say anything about her, but she came, took the child with her, and bought a lot of things, all of which shows that Chen Xin did not plan to let the child break off the relationship with the Zhang family, and when Zhang Zhang grows up in the future, he should naturally bear the maintenance obligations that his father did not fulfill.
Before coming, Chen Xin still went to Director Yu to ask for the phone number of the village chief of Zhang's village, and she always had to tell someone about taking the child back for the New Year.
But Chen Xin definitely didn't expect that she would be greeted beyond what she had previously known.
The village where the Zhang family is located is located in the middle of the mountainside, and it used to be a place where the people lived together, and every family here is related to the family, and how many generations can be counted down from the same ancestor.
In the past, Zhang Zhang's father was the hope of the whole village, but this hope was dashed too quickly, and it was impossible for them to put their hopes on Zhang Zhang, who was still a bun, so in the past two years, the whole village has also tried its best to help the children of the other two families, hoping to make a profit and give back to the village.
And Chen Xin called and said that he wanted to bring Zhang Zhang back to see the old man, and the village chief immediately felt that Chen Xin was very good and wanted her to leave a good impression on the old Zhang family, so after knowing when Chen Xin came back, the village chief directly discussed with the village party secretary and put the pig killing banquet on the dam at the head of the village.
So when Chen Xin got out of the car with Zhang Zhang in her arms, she saw that the dam was crowded with people, and the atmosphere of the New Year was very strong, which was too different from the bleak and cold rain scene she imagined.