Wang Zhong stayed on the farm for most of the year, from the beginning of the year until the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, before returning to the city.

Back at home, Qin Jingru prepared a table full of sumptuous dishes, and turned out the copper stove that had been dusted at home for a long time, and bought five catties of fresh and fine mutton, all cut into thin slices, as well as fresh radish and cabbage.

Knowing that his father was coming home, Wang Xinyi also rushed back home when there was no class in the afternoon, and the family sat around the dining table and ate mutton.

A family of four was eating when there was a commotion outside.

"What's wrong?"

Qin Jingru turned her head curiously to look outside the house.

"It sounds like Yan Jiefang's voice." Wang Chongdao.

"Yan Jiefang? Does he still have the face to come back? As soon as Yan Jiefang was mentioned, Qin Jingru was angry.

Since the earthquake in 76 years, Wang Zhong led people to stop Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang's brothers and sisters from demolishing the earthquake shed, the three brothers and sisters have held a grudge against the old Wang's family, and they occasionally came back to visit Yan Fugui and the three mothers.

Qin Jingru is not a temperamentless person, besides, people don't want to see him, Qin Jingru naturally doesn't want to see them, anyway, his own family doesn't have a place to ask for them, but it's them, maybe something will come to the door in the future.

"It's not a year, what is he doing when he comes back?" Wang Zhong asked Qin Jingru.

Qin Jingru explained: "Haven't the three masters been doing business with Xu Damao recently, making a lot of money, and adding new washing machines and color TVs to the house, it is estimated that Yan Jiefang heard the news and is ready to come back to take advantage." ”

Wang Xinyi frowned and looked outside the house, listening to the quarrel in his ears, he was a little displeased: "I remember that Yan Jiefang is more than thirty people, I don't want to work hard by myself, why did I come back to take advantage of my parents?" ”

Wang Xinyi has been taught by Wang Chongyan since he was a child, but he has not been affected by the atmosphere in the courtyard, he is quite self-reliant, and he is a little angry, after all, his age is there, not to say cynical, but he is always unaccustomed to those things that do not conform to his own morality and values.

"Not only Yan Jiefang, but also Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiedi, they are all a virtue."

"Hey!" As she spoke, Qin Jingru sighed: "I don't know how the three masters in the courtyard were chosen, the first master is okay, but the two masters and the three masters have not sorted out the affairs of their own families, how to manage the affairs of the courtyard." ”

"What's so strange about this, the first master and the second master are high in rank and older, and the third master is a teacher."

"The two masters have just stopped for half a year, and the three masters are making a fuss again!" When Qin Jingru said this, he still had a slight smile on his face, and raised his eyes to look at Wang Chong, with a little meaning in his eyes.

Get along day and night, share the same bed for nearly 20 years, Qin Jingru also understands Wang Chong, knows that Wang Chong is a big deal to see the excitement, and has already guessed that the reason why Wang Chong lives in the courtyard and refuses to move is that he feels that there are many people in the courtyard, and there is no shortage of gossip to listen to and watch in his spare time.

"People with many children, the most taboo is that a bowl of water can't be leveled, and the three masters are calculating, Yan Jiecheng and Yu Liqing are out of blue, Yan Jiekuang and several of them are not fuel-efficient lamps, if there has been no change in the family, it is estimated that it can remain stable, but once something happens, and some of them are noisy."

Wang Chong's words are not only talking about the situation of the three great masters, but also teaching Wang Xinyi and Wang Heng.

Wang Heng is still young, he can't listen to it and say it, even if he listens, he may not be able to understand, but Wang Xinyi is different, this girl is about to graduate from college, and when the time comes, she will have to talk about the object, get married, form her own family, and have children, Wang Chong can't help but be a little long-winded.

The commotion outside is getting more and more fierce.

"Dad, you can't be so partial, such a lucrative business, you just take the eldest brother and sister-in-law to do it, and I and the third sister and the little sister are not your own, right?"

Immediately, Yan Fugui's scolding voice came: "What nonsense are you talking about!" ”

"Anyway, I don't care, if you still think that I am your son, then you must bring me with you for this business, and this money can't just be earned by you and my eldest brother."

"Dad, what the second brother said makes sense!"

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Although there is a courtyard in the middle, Wang Chong's family, who live across the door from Lao Yan's house, can clearly hear the conversation between the father and son of the old Yan family.

The other people who lived in the front yard naturally heard it, Wang Chong's family was fine, but the other people in the front yard couldn't help but be interested in Yan Fugui and Xu Damao's money-making business.

"Her father, what kind of business do you say the third master and Xu Damao are doing, how can they make so much money?" Qin Jingru asked curiously.

Wang Chongdao: "What kind of business can you do, it is nothing more than pouring things from the south to the north, and now the reform and opening up in the south is in full swing, all kinds of factories are blooming everywhere, what fashionable clothes and pants, shoes and bags, electronic watches, televisions, from the south to the north, the profits are not low." ”

"Profit is not low?" Qin Jingru's eyes lit up instantly.

Wang Chong saw Qin Jingru's thoughts at a glance, and took the lead in saying without waiting for her to speak: "Don't envy others for making money, this is not a long-term business, and the profits are high at the beginning, but the threshold is too low. ”

"If you really want to make money, you can help Yushui and Brother Zhu run the Peony Building well, if the Peony Building is managed well, you will only earn more and more in the future."

"The baked cakes in the Peony Building are delicious!" Wang Heng, who was immersed in cooking, suddenly raised his head and said.

"Aren't mom's pancakes delicious?" Qin Jingru looked at her son and asked.

Wang Heng said: "Mom's cooking is also delicious!" ”

"Speaking of pancakes, I haven't eaten my mother's pancakes for a long time." Wang Xinyi next to him also added a sentence.

"Ming'er's mother will make baked cakes in the morning, and you will go back to school after breakfast." Qin Jingru looked at her children with a little doting in her eyes.

Although Qin Jingru is still a little patriarchal in her bones, it doesn't mean that she doesn't love Wang Xinyi, she was conceived and born in October, and her blood is connected, so how can she not love her.

In the evening, after Wang Zhong handed over the public grain, he hugged Qin Jingru and chatted.

"I heard that the rain said that Lou Xiao'e is back?" Qin Jingru leaned into Wang Chong's arms and asked curiously.

Lou Xiao'e didn't want to deal with the people in the courtyard anymore, so she asked the stupid brothers and sisters and Wang Chong not to reveal the news about her to the people in the courtyard.

Silly Zhu and Yushui are both believers, and they have been for several years, and they have never mentioned Lou Xiao'e to the people in the courtyard.

This time, when Lou Xiao'e came back from Shencheng and went to the Peony Tower to gather with the rain, she was bumped into by Qin Jingru.

The young lady who was born with a golden spoon in her mouth at the beginning is now quite old, and this alone shows what kind of life Lou Xiao'e lived in the bitter cold northwest in those years.

Qin Jingru naturally couldn't help but sigh, and Lou Xiao'e also specially instructed her not to reveal her affairs to the people in the courtyard, she didn't want to have anything to do with other people in the courtyard.

"It's been a few years since I came back." Wang Chongdao: "I also invested some money in her name in Xinyi!" ”

"You put money in him?" Qin Jingru was stunned for a moment, his voice instantly rose a few decibels, and the person also struggled out of Wang Chong's arms, sat and turned his head to look at Wang Chong's eyes, with a shocked expression.

"I heard from Yushui that Lou Xiao'e's business has been a lot in the past few years, and she has opened several factories in Shencheng."

Qin Jingru pouted her buttocks, and Wang Chong knew what she was thinking: "You money fan, most of those factories belong to the Lou family, I only used the name of Xin Yi to invest in Lou Xiao'e's newly opened garment factory, specializing in making clothes, pants and shoes." ”

"That's quite a lot!" Qin Jingru said.

Wang Chongdao: "The initial investment is not small, but it has begun to make a profit last year. ”

"You, don't tell me a word about such a big thing." While being happy, Qin Jingru couldn't help but pat Wang Zhong angrily.

Wang Chongdao: "Didn't I tell you! ”

"Humph!" Qin Jingru said a little coquettishly: "You are still embarrassed to say, if I hadn't asked you about Lou Xiao'e, would you have been planning to hide it from me all along?" ”

Wang nodded and said, "I really didn't plan to tell you." ”

Qin Jingru rolled her eyes, but she wasn't angry: "Your mouth is the same as welding, and it's firm enough." ”

Wang Chong smiled slightly and didn't answer.

Qin Jingru's voice suddenly changed: "Then what's the matter with you and the rain?" ”

"Dry firewood, that's it." Wang Zhong was also calm.

Although Qin Jingru had already guessed it, when she heard the answer from Wang Chong's mouth, she couldn't help but feel gloomy in her heart.

"Am I old?" Qin Jingru looked at Wang Chong with some grievances, and asked with some apprehension.

Wang Zhong raised his hand and stroked Qin Jingru's cheek: "Time is passing all the time, you and I are both old, how can we not be old." ”

"Hey!" Qin Jingru sighed, leaned over into Wang Chong's arms, wrapped his hands around Wang Chong's tiger waist, and said inexplicably: "I hope you can lie to me, don't be so honest." ”

Wang Chongdao: "Some things, since they have been done, they have to be faced, and if you escape for a while, you can't escape for a lifetime." ”

"So during the six months you were on the farm, the rain often visited you?" Qin Jingru hugged Wang Chong tightly, as if she was afraid that Wang Chong would run away and lose it.

Wang Chongdao: "Occasionally, I will go!" ”

Qin Jingru asked, "When was the last time you met?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "Half a month ago. ”

Qin Jingru was silent for a moment and then said, "Yushui is pregnant, do you know? ”

Wang Chongdao: "I know, it's been more than two months. ”

"Isn't there anything you want to say to me?" Qin Jingru put his head in Wang Chong's arms, and didn't dare to raise his head to look at Wang Chong.

Both because of fear and because of lack of confidence.

Wang Chongdao: "When I came back this time, I planned to tell you about this matter. ”

Qin Jingru wrapped her hands around Wang Chong's waist with both hands, hugging her tighter and tighter, as if she wanted to rub her whole body into Wang Chong's body, and asked crisply: "Will we divorce?" ”

When he asked this, Wang Chong could clearly feel the changes in Qin Jingru's body.

Wang Chong didn't think about it, so he replied categorically: "No!" ”

Qin Jingru's delicate body trembled, and there was a moment of stiffness, and then the head buried in Wang Chong's arms was raised, and she looked at Wang Chong with a look of surprise: "Really? ”

"Really."

"Didn't you coax me?"

"It's not!"

But after only being happy for a moment, Qin Jingru's face was full of worry again: "But what about the rain and the child in her belly?" ”

Wang Chongdao: "The child must be born, as for the rest, how it was before, and what will happen in the future." ”

"But wouldn't that be unfair to the rain?" Qin Jingru endured the discomfort and asked generously.

Wang Chongdao: "I told her at the beginning, since I chose you, I will not divorce, if she really makes up her mind to follow me, she must be psychologically prepared, this is her own choice, what kind of consequences there are, she has to bear it herself, although what I said is very irresponsible, but it is so." ”

Qin Jingru didn't know whether to be happy or sad, her best friend became her husband's lover and was pregnant with her husband's child, but her husband had no plans to divorce her and marry her.

Qin Jingru's heart also became entangled.

"Then will the children of the rain in the future also call you dad?" Qin Jingru asked.

"It depends on how the rain teaches!" Wang Chongdao.

Qin Jingru looked at Wang Chong's calm gaze, calmly looked at it with the right attitude, looked at it for a while, and didn't speak again.

Suddenly, Qin Jingru moved, wrapped her hands around Wang Chong's neck, leaned over and kissed him.

Tonight is destined to be a crazy night.

Early in the morning of the second day, before dawn, Qin Jingru got up with a pair of dark circles under her eyes to make baked cakes.

Even though he has just experienced ups and downs, he still hasn't forgotten his promise to his daughter, and I have to say that Qin Jingru today is like the one he saw on TV with Wang Chong.

And Wang Zhong also found the rain.

Now that the rain has moved out of the courtyard, she has bought a new yard to live in near the Peony Building, and hired a nanny to take care of her diet and daily life.

"What, Jingru already knows about us?" Yushui said with a surprised face.

Wang Chongdao: "Don't be surprised, how can the paper keep the fire, Jingru should have guessed it a long time ago, but she kept pretending not to know, until she found out that you were pregnant, and then chose to have a showdown with me." ”

The mood of the rain fell suddenly, and he said with a worried face: "What can I do now, Jingru must hate me to death." ”

"Don't worry, I've already told Jingru that the two of you will go your own way and don't interfere with each other."

"You have a big belly now, don't go to the Peony Building for the time being, let your sister-in-law quit her job, go to the Peony Building as a manager, and take over your job."

"Can my sister-in-law agree?" Pregnant women are really troublesome, and their minds are messed up and they don't know what they're thinking.

Wang Chongdao: "You are like this, how could she disagree." ”

He Yushui's face was a little pale, which was caused by a strong morning sickness reaction.