freenovelworld Chapter 206 How can the younger generation complain to their elders about a little bickering?
Chapter 206 How can the younger generation complain to their elders about a little bickering?
"Well, I've had some fortuitous encounters, and I know a tiny bit of the Hidden Tricks technique!"
Lu Yuan nodded: "I will keep it a secret!"
Qiao Manman pulled out a jujube paste pill: "But I don't believe it, unless you eat this poison. If you dare to betray me, you'll bleed from all seven orifices!"
Lu Yuan grabbed Qiao Manman's hand and swallowed the jujube paste pill without hesitation.
Feeling the warmth of his lips, Qiao Manman rubbed her fingers uncomfortably: "Don't worry, as long as you don't do anything stupid, we can grow old together."
"Okay!" Lu Yuan smiled, borrowed tools from Qiao Manman, cleaned up the traces of the two people coming in, and also destroyed the mechanism.
Qiao Manman, being meticulous, took out a metal detector from her spatial storage and had Lu Yuan scan the area.
You wouldn't know unless you scanned it, and once you did, you really did discover something different.
First, they found two pottery jars filled with Yuan Shikai silver dollars under the old locust tree, and then they found a telegraph machine near the outhouse.
"Damn, you surnamed Lu, your family wouldn't happen to be...?"
Lu Yuan quickly covered her mouth: "No, no, absolutely not! Look, this thing was just buried!"
Qiao Manman noticed, of course, otherwise she wouldn't have just stood with her hands on her hips and spoken to him in a whisper.
Lu Yuan saw her blink and nod, then released her mouth, his whole body trembling.
Good heavens! If it weren't for Qiao Manman's caution, the Lu family would have been doomed!
Qiao Manman put on disposable gloves and put the transmitter into her spatial storage.
After thinking for a while, he buried a large stone inside and covered it with soil.
They also placed a camera in a hidden spot nearby.
Lu Yuan finished up, erasing all traces.
Still not reassured, she went to check another property. Fortunately, there was nothing unusual there, but the furniture and other items were a bit out of place, so Qiao Manman took them all away.
The two went home together. Qiao Manman took out a large piece of pork, two catties of dried persimmons, and some walnuts, red dates and peanuts from her space, put them in a basket and tied it to the back seat of the bicycle.
Upon reaching the gate of the compound, they were checked by the guard. They exchanged knowing smiles, and were then allowed to pass.
After winding his way through the maze of buildings, Lu Yuan just took out his key and was about to put it in the lock when the door opened.
"Why are you back so late?" Aunt Zhou asked worriedly.
Qiao Manman patted the basket: "Going off to do something big with Lu Yuan!"
Aunt Zhou recognized the contents of the basket by the moonlight and was horrified.
He pulled them inside before exclaiming in a low voice, "You two went to the black market? Good heavens, you bought so much meat!"
"There are other things too!"
Qiao Manman grabbed a handful of peanuts and offered them to Aunt Zhou, but she refused, saying, "Keep them, keep them, may you have a son soon. We have lotus seeds at home, but we're lacking longan now."
I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow and ask. If they don't have it, I'll ask one of my old friends for help.
Qiao Manman wanted to say that it wasn't necessary to go to so much trouble. But seeing the other person's eyes light up, she could only nod happily.
"Then have an orange!" I feel really bad for making people wait so long!
Qiao Manman took two oranges out of her pocket and handed them to the other person.
Aunt Zhou tactfully picked out the smaller one: "Alright, I won't stand on ceremony with you! Go upstairs and rest, I'll take care of this basket of things."
"Okay, thank you, Aunt Zhou!"
"Aunt Zhou, go to bed early after you finish your work!"
Qiao Manman was led upstairs by Lu Yuan. After washing up, the two sat facing each other on the bed, neither of them feeling sleepy.
"If we have a wedding, will a lot of people come to our house?"
"Yes, besides family members, almost everyone from the compound will come to attend the ceremony."
Qiao Manman bought several card-insert cameras from the system store, told Lu Yuan what they were for, and then lay down to sleep.
Lu Yuan waited until Aunt Zhou was asleep, then woke up Lu Qihua, Lu Jingchuan, and Xie Susu. The four of them gathered in the study and discussed the situation of the mansion in the dark.
When the three men heard that a radio transmitter had been hidden in the yard, they broke out in a cold sweat: "Are you serious? Good heavens, who wants to harm our family!"
"I don't know, but Manman and I hid the transmitter somewhere else."
The three breathed a sigh of relief, and the old man asked, "Where are the things inside?"
Lu Yuan dug his nails into his palms, lying without changing his expression: "It's gone. I don't know who stole it. I disabled the mechanism."
The old man was so shocked that he slumped into a chair, utterly dejected: "Just like that, gone? My life savings, not even a single trunk left?"
"It might have been moved by the person who set up the radio transmitter!"
The three fell silent for a long while before the old man sighed, "Well, at least the root of the problem has been removed."
Lu Jingchuan comforted him, "Dad, it's alright. Manman still has some valuables. Besides, she and Xiaoyuan are both capable. Even without those things, we can still live a prosperous life."
The old man rubbed his face: "Yes, judging from Man'er's manner of speaking, her family is probably not simple. Xiao Yuan, treat her well."
Also, we need to be on high alert for the upcoming wedding and be wary of anyone trying to sabotage it.
Those two houses aren't suitable to be left empty forever...
There are a few injured soldiers in the team who are about to be discharged. We'll choose those with good character to live there; consider it as them looking after the house for us.
"Okay, I'll get on it!"
After the meeting, the three went back to their room and continued sleeping.
Lu Yuan installed security cameras at home under cover of night. After finishing, he returned to the room, hugged his wife, kissed her forehead, and felt sweetness in his eyes and heart.
The next day, Qiao Manman went downstairs for breakfast and found several old men gathered at her house, glaring and arguing.
Lu Qihua introduced them to her: "This is Grandpa Wu next door, this is Grandpa Meng, this is Grandpa Wang, and this is..."
Qiao Manman greeted everyone with a smile, her attitude neither humble nor arrogant.
Old Wang nodded: "No wonder Xiao Wen went back and said that Xiao Yuan married a good wife. After seeing her, she is indeed extraordinary."
The words were kind, but the tone was somewhat sarcastic.
Grandpa Lu asked suspiciously, "Does Xiaowen know Manman?"
“I ran into Comrade Wang Xingwen, Comrade Meng Shanshan, and a few other comrades at the movie theater yesterday. They asked me where I was from and how I got together with Lu Yuan.”
Qiao Manman spoke cryptically, but Lu Qihua understood the deeper meaning. He was angry inside, but didn't show it on his face. Instead, he smiled and asked, "Why didn't you tell me?"
"It's nothing serious, I didn't take it to heart. It's just the younger generation bickering, how could they complain to their elders!"
One sentence felt like a slap across Old Wang's face.
Qiao Manman didn't mind. She squatted down and poured Lu Qihua a cup of tea: "Grandpa, I want to go out for a walk with Lu Yuan today."
"Okay, you guys go ahead. Let Xiao Yuan take you to try the crispy roast duck at the state-run restaurant."
Qiao Manman hummed in agreement, went back inside to change into her military overcoat, slung her canvas bag over her shoulder, and rode her bicycle with Lu Yuan around the courtyard before heading to the state-run restaurant.
After eating fried dough sticks and tofu pudding, we went to a photo studio to take some group photos. We also took the opportunity to transfer ownership of the courtyard house.
We visited Tiananmen Square and the Palace Museum, ate Western food at the Moscow Restaurant, and finally packed a roast duck to take home.
She saw her relatives looking at her with smiles on their faces.
"Is this Xiao Yuan's wife?"