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Chapter 606: 596
In the evening, Li Hongjun, looking refreshed, brought his two lively children and his delicately beautiful wife to the courtyard house.
"Hongjun is back." The brother-in-law greeted Li Hongjun warmly.
Li Xianglian, hearing this, hurried out of the house, "Hongjun is back?"
"Uncle’s back? Where is he?" Shuanzi immediately followed her out of the house, and then surrounded Li Hongjun like stepping into snow.
Having not seen each other for two years, there was quite an affectionate reunion, and afterwards, Li Xianglian even pulled Li Hongjun aside to whisper for a while. Shen Yunfang didn’t need to listen to know for sure that the siblings were talking about Qiu Shuping’s matters.
By the time the three families sat down around the dinner table, it was already dusk and the lights were just starting to come on.
This year had been a harvest year for everyone, and there was also more stock at home, so the New Year’s Eve dinner was very sumptuous.
After eating for a while, the children, having had their fill, all ran out to play with fireworks, leaving the adults of the several families still here, toasting and drinking.
Liu Jianjun and Dashuan kept urging Li Hongjun to drink, "Hongjun, I won’t speak of gratitude for our relationship, but my heart is truly happy, you know. This year, following Yunfang’s lead, in just the days before the New Year, I earned almost ten thousand yuan. Ten thousand yuan!" Dashuan even emphasized the amount at the end, worried that Li Hongjun hadn’t heard him clearly.
"Exactly, all this money, if it weren’t for Yunfang leading us, us old farmers, just depending on digging in the soil back home, we wouldn’t earn this much money in a lifetime," Liu Jianjun immediately added a few words.
He was truly grateful to his nephew by marriage and his wife from the bottom of his heart. Not to mention all the times since they’d helped his daughter with her illness, his family had often benefited from the nephew’s. He said no one asked his family to come help, but he and his wife understood clearly, it was their nephew’s family taking care of them.
In the Capital, if you stand out and say you’ll pay a few bucks a day for work, watch, people would probably bust the doorframe of this courtyard house trying to get in. Why would the nephew’s wife insist on calling them from their hometown, providing food and lodging, and in the end, even giving them a share of the profits? It was clear they wanted to give money to his family.
"That’s not all, Yunfang even bought us a house in the Capital, Hongjun, I’m telling you, now your sister is also a Capital resident," Li Xianglian said with a cheerful smile.
At first, she hesitated whether to keep her household registration in the countryside or move it to the Capital. After the younger sister-in-law analyzed it for her, she decided that once she went back, she would talk to the team about moving the household registration.
They had already started contract farming, and this year their family took on fifteen acres. She began to consider that if she moved her household registration to the Capital, it wouldn’t be so simple to contract land for farming back home; she would have to pay a portion of the money to the team because they would be considered city residents. So, she hesitated. But after Yunfang analyzed the various benefits of moving the household registration to the Capital for her, not to mention anything else, the convenience for her children’s education with a Capital household registration was very enticing. In the end, after discussing it with her husband, they decided to do it for their kids; they could just pay a little more back home, as they could afford it.
"Yeah, our family bought an apartment too, and it’s a high-rise! We all went to see it; it’s really nice. Now, when we come to the Capital, we’ll have a place to stay," Dashuan’s wife talked about their new apartment endlessly.
Li Hongjun looked at everyone chatting away and took the chance to steal a glance at his wife. The wife he had married was really capable, and the way she made money was like scooping it into a pocket nonstop, so fast.
"Heh heh, my wife always says this is what everyone deserves. Besides, our families are so close, there’s no need to mention it. It’s lively and fun, and making some money together is good too. If it were just Yunfang working alone, I definitely wouldn’t let her. I’m not even considering anything else; I just can’t feel at ease." In the last few years, the situation hadn’t been very clear, and when he heard that his wife was going out to do business, he would become anxious. Thankfully, they didn’t encounter any serious problems. With Old Ma and his wife around, there was a basic guarantee of safety. Plus, with the help of his eldest sister’s family and Dashuan’s family, his wife didn’t have to strain herself. Of course, earning more money was always better, but he believed that there was never enough money. He meant that it was fine as long as it was substantial.
Moreover, he knew the money in his wife’s possession was not just substantial, it was very substantial. Even if their family did nothing from now on but loaf around, she could still provide for them.
"Heh heh, you’re still worried about Yunfang? Let me tell you, Yunfang is not someone to be trifled with," Dashuan’s wife joked. She knew Yunfang’s strength. Last year, when Yunfang went to the market, she had handled a hoodlum by herself, even when knives were drawn; not a hair on Yunfang’s head was touched. In Dashuan’s wife’s mind, Yunfang was no ordinary person.
"Haha, I know that. I’m the one with the most authority to speak on that," Li Hongjun laughed heartily.
Back when they had just gotten married, they were all about warmth and affection. Simply gazing into each other’s eyes would send pink bubbles floating. Now, with children and having faced life and death situations, Yunfang had become more hot-tempered, easily getting into little disputes with him. His heart had softened too. Just seeing his wife and children would fill him with an endless fondness, making their life together all the more delightful.
Of course, that was just his own point of view.
The group chatted for a while about the year’s harvest, then the conversation turned to Li Hongjun and his wife’s upcoming move to Z Province.
"Yunfang, are you really going to follow Hongjun to Z Province? What about your household registration?" Li Xianglian had just been thinking about moving her own family’s registration to this side, and now her sister-in-law was planning to move it away. She wanted to persuade her sister-in-law to think it through three times. Although it was right to follow Hongjun, at the end of the day, the children were the most important.
"Mhm, it’s already confirmed. Z Province University. The children will come with me for now. Later on, if it’s necessary, I can move their registration back here." She knew that within the next thirty years, it would still be relatively easy for her children to get back into the Capital. So, moving them out now wasn’t a worry.
"That’s true, you have your house right here. When the time comes and you want to move back, just move back," Dashuan’s wife thought simply. No, it should be said that everyone’s thinking was quite simple nowadays.
"Yep, Hongjun says that his military district is quite well-developed. They have a kindergarten and elementary school right inside. I’ll take the kids over there. Pangpang can go straight to elementary school, and Manman just needs to go to kindergarten. Their military district isn’t too remote either; it’s just over thirty minutes by bike to my workplace, so it’s really convenient." That afternoon, Shen Yunfang had asked about the basic situation over there, and she was quite satisfied with it.
"That’s great, that’s great. Hongjun, how many days of leave do you have this time coming back? When is Yunfang planning to move the children?"
"I have to leave on the fifth day of the lunar new year. Yunfang and the kids don’t need to rush. They can move over after the Lantern Festival," Li Hongjun replied. He had ten days of leave, and this was a special concession from his superiors considering his recent injury, otherwise, he wouldn’t have had any leave this year since he had just transferred to the new unit.
