AWB Chapter 114: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 114
Chapter 114: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 114
Hearing Xu Ayu's slightly sighing tone, Wei Miao seemed to see the light and remembered everything. The vague memories in his mind became clear.
Because this incident happened in public, it caused a big stir. The Chinese went on strike and shouted slogans. In the end, the Green Gang leader mediated and the matter was barely settled after a large amount of compensation was paid.
Her husband went home and cut down the magnolia tree in the yard, and also knocked down half of the wall of Grandma Cui's house.
Later, the man sold the house at a low price, and the buyer was Xiao Jiangsu. The man only made one request, that the wall of Grandma Cui's house be repaired.
The man disappeared with a large sum of money, and no one has seen him since then. It is said that two soldiers who went to the brothel for pleasure also disappeared with him.
Wei Ada seemed to know more. He said:
"I heard that he bumped into two foreign soldiers while riding a bus in the concession and was publicly... "
He didn't say anything else, but just sighed and said in a low voice:
"Ah Sheng is a good young man, and he is best friends with your uncle. The two of them have been good friends since they were young."
When Wei Miao heard his father mention his uncle who suddenly disappeared, and saw the couple in low spirits, he felt that human beings' divergent thinking was truly terrifying.
But ever since Xu Ayu became pregnant, she could remember something that was almost forgotten.
"Dad, I heard from Pingmei that you hid some private money?"
Wei Miao hurriedly left the place of trouble before Xu Ayu showed his might.
"How dare you, Wei Ada, secretly hide some of your own money? Where did you hide it? How much is it?"
Listening to the pregnant woman's lively roar, Wei Miao said sorry to Wei Ada in his heart.
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By the time Lupin worked day and night to transport the batch of dyes and equipment back home, more than 20 days had passed, which shows how large the quantity was.
During these twenty days, Wei Miao was not idle. In addition to reading the several large boxes of books that Lu Pingsheng brought back for her, she also began to go to the secret room frequently.
There were a total of sixteen boxes. In addition to two boxes of jewelry and one box of weathered paintings and calligraphy, there was only one box of gold, and the remaining twelve boxes were all filled with silver ingots.
This is very unreasonable.
But as to what was unreasonable, more than 20 days had passed, Wei Miao and Lu Pingsheng had moved all the boxes, but they still couldn't figure it out.
"Brother Lu, what do you want so much gold for?" Wei Miao watched Lu Pingsheng put ten gold ingots into a cloth bag.
"The mountain people have their own magic. You are a little kid living on the river, why do you care about those things?"
Then he saw Wei Miao start to count gold ingots out of the box.
"What are you doing?"
Wei Miao said as a matter of course: "If you take ten, I will take ninety."
After saying that, he continued to count with his head down.
Lu Pingsheng was stunned. This little brat was obsessed with money.
These days, I have counted all the things here clearly, how much silver, how much gold, and how many jade and gemstones there are, all written down clearly.
"Brother Lu, I think we should get another box to pack your things in. If you need them in the future, you can just use your own box."
Lupin said angrily, "There are sixteen boxes, why does Alla only have one."
Wei Miao looked at him speechlessly, as if he was a dishonest bastard.
The two men went up the stairs, Wei Miao went out first, and the two men crawled out of the closet, each of them very satisfied with their gains.
Today is the full moon day of Uncle Xu's baby boy. Wei Miao found an inconspicuous silver lock from the jewelry box as a gift.
"Brother Lu, if you have time recently, please stock up on some food."
Wei Miao was thinking about doing sulfa research soon, although he would not be locked up in the laboratory for a month like before.
But she still didn't like the feeling of being hungry.
After listening to this, Lu Pingsheng nodded, and the two of them separated at the door.
Wei Miao looked up at the still gloomy sky, feeling the dampness in the air, as if it was going to rain at any time.
Wei Miao knew that this was the early arrival of plum blossoms, or what Grandma Cui called “early plum blossoms.”
"The plum blossoms are ripe in time for the rain, and the vastness is in the late spring."
In the next month or so, it is estimated that we will rarely see the sun.
At Uncle Xu's house, Wei Miao looked at the tightly wrapped little boy with great interest.
The little face is fairly white, neither fat nor thin, and the clear eyes look around.
"Ah Miao, look, he is smiling at you." The expressions on many fish's faces were full of surprise and joy.
It can be seen that she likes this younger brother very much.
Wei Miao said: "A one-month-old cub can't see anything yet, he can only sense the light. Because I am near the window, he likes to look over here."
When Wei Ling heard this, she was skeptical and said, "Brother, let me switch places with you."
Wei Miao let her go.
"A Ling, look, he is also looking at you and smiling." Many fish said this while they were eager to try.
As a result, when she went over, the little boy started crying loudly.
Aunt Xu, half leaning on the bed with a somewhat tired face, said nervously:
"Hold me here, maybe I'm hungry."
On the way back, Xu Ayu said that Aunt Xu was better taken care of this time after giving birth than any other time, but her health was still very weak. He lamented that giving birth is like the gate of hell for women.
Wei Miao smiled and took Xu Ayu's arm and said:
"Mom, I've asked Brother Lu to find out. Now there are servants who specialize in taking care of childbirth. When the time comes, I'll hire two for you, one to take care of you during the day and one to take care of you at night."
Xu Ayu raised the corner of his mouth and spit at her for daydreaming, "You have been daydreaming all day long."
Wei Ada smiled naively: "Ah Miao is right, it's better to hire a servant, but the most important thing is to keep your health."
Xu Ayu pouted and gave Ada a cold look, but unfortunately the honest man was so happy that he didn't notice the mistress's dissatisfaction.
As the family was walking home, they saw people coming and going in front of Lu Pingsheng's house, carrying things home.
Wei Ada went to help, "Mr. Lu, what did you buy?"
Lu Pingsheng smiled and said, "Some books and things I had at home before. Now I can't even get into the house."
After that, he said to Xu Ayu:
"Auntie Ayu, I'm going to make some donations to the orphanage, and I'd like you to make some dried meat or something to help me fight hunger in the next few days."
Xu Ayu is now over three months pregnant. With the help of Wei Ada and Wei Ling, she will have no problem talking.
"Okay, what kind of jerky do you want to make?"
Lu Pingsheng thought of the various kinds of dried meat in his previous life, and said casually: "Dried chicken, duck, fish and meat are all fine. I'll have someone send a cow over tonight."
The Wei family was stunned.
"Does it require such a big amount of money?" Xu Ayu asked unconsciously.
What she actually wanted to say was that if she had the money to buy beef for jerky, wouldn't it be easier and simpler to donate a few thousand kilograms of food to the orphanage?
Lu Pingsheng did not explain to her. He waved to Wei Miao, cleared his throat and said seriously:
"Ah Miao, you didn't come to class today, so I need to check your homework."
When the little ones saw his attitude as a teacher, they didn't even stop and quickly slipped back home.
Xu Ayu laughed and said:
"Mr. Lu, thank you for training Ah Miao. If she doesn't obey, you can just..."
Xu Ayu wanted to just beat and scold him, but she couldn't bear it, so she changed her words:
"Just come to me and I'll discipline her."