Chapter 3 A kind person sent a car to take them back

After waiting for about half an hour, a man in his twenties wearing glasses came hurriedly.

As he walked, he looked at the ground, searching for something.

Liu Xihua saw him and pulled Jiang Daguo's arm, "Daguo, do you think he is the one who lost something?"

Jiang Daguo looked at the man and said, "I don't know if it is true. I'll go ask."

The young man with glasses found that he couldn't find what he was looking for after searching around. He sighed in disappointment and was about to turn around and leave when Jiang Daguo called him, "Comrade, did you lose something?"

The young man turned around and nodded, saying, "I lost a file bag, comrade, did you pick it up?"

Since you can ask this, it is likely that you found it, right?

The young man's eyes were anxious and expectant.

"What's written on the bag?" Jiang Daguo took out the file bag from behind him, took a look at it, and hid it back behind him.

That was the file bag that he had dropped!

The young man became excited, adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and said happily, "It says Hu Qingsong, A City People's Broadcasting Station."

Jiang Daguo nodded, "You are finally here. I have been waiting for you for half an hour."

He handed the file bag back to the young man.

The young man took the file bag and looked at it. The surface was clean and intact.

He checked the documents inside again and found that not a single page was missing.

The young man breathed a sigh of relief. If he had lost his file bag, he would not be able to transfer to a new job.

He fought for this job for a long time.

He carefully put the file bag into the briefcase under his arm, took Jiang Daguo's hand and shook it again and again, saying, "Comrade, thank you for helping me find the file bag and keeping it intact. You are a good person."

Jiang Daguo smiled naively, "It's just a small matter."

The young man pointed to the noodle shop behind the platform and said, "Comrade, can I treat you to a meal? It's just a token of my appreciation."

Jiang Daguo wanted to go home early to earn work points to raise his children, so he was repeatedly rejected.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sighed, "He said he wanted to thank me, why didn't he accept it? Mom, please persuade Dad to accept it. This person may become a big shot in the future and can help us a lot."

Liu Xihua looked at her daughter in her arms, who was yawning with her mouth open.

real or fake?

Will this person become a big shot in the future?

Liu Xihua said to Jiang Daguo, "Daguo, this comrade wants to thank us, you should accept it. If you don't accept it, he will feel bad."

"Yes, yes, elder sister is right, comrade, you must accept my thanks." The young man held Jiang Daguo and refused to let him leave.

Unable to refuse such a kind offer, Jiang Daguo had no choice but to agree.

Seeing that they were carrying children, luggage, thermoses and basins, the young man enthusiastically helped them carry their luggage bags.

After entering the noodle shop, the young man took the meal ticket and ordered the most expensive beef noodles in the shop, which came with two poached eggs.

In 1980, every family in the village was poor and could only afford meat during the Spring Festival. Eggs were only eaten when sick or visiting relatives.

Looking at the thick chunks of meat in the bowl, Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua were both excited and embarrassed, holding their chopsticks and refusing to eat.

The young man looked at the two of them and said, "Is it not to your taste?" "Ah, no, no." Jiang Daguo smiled naively, then picked up a piece of meat and started eating.

Liu Xihua saw him eating and started eating too.

The soup bowls were empty and the two of them ate until their bellies were full.

The young man had finished his meal and started chatting with them. He learned that Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua were waiting for a bus to go to the station and then take a bus back to the village. The young man smiled and said, "So you are going to Hongqi Town? What a coincidence. My brother-in-law is driving to Hongqi Town for work today. He should not have left City A yet. I asked him to give you a ride. It is not convenient for you to squeeze in with a car full of people with all your bags and a child."

Liu Xihua and Jiang Daguo were so surprised that they kept saying it was impossible and that it was too polite.

"He is going to Hongqi Town alone. The back half of the jeep is empty anyway. Why not give you a ride? It's on the way anyway." The young man laughed heartily.

Liu Xihua thought of her daughter's voice and wondered if this was the thank you gift for picking up the cowhide bag?
This thank you gift is too big.

It takes more than an hour to take a bus from City A back to Hongqi Town.

The young man was very enthusiastic and insisted that they take a ride, so Liu Xihua and Jiang Daguo had no choice but to agree.

He asked Liu Xihua and Jiang Daguo to wait in the noodle shop, and went to the guesthouse next door to borrow a phone to call his brother-in-law.

When he came back, the young man said, "My brother-in-law will be here in ten minutes."

Sure enough, ten minutes later, a semi-new jeep stopped in front of the noodle shop. The young man walked over and waved to the man in the car.

The man in the car glanced at Liu Xihua and Jiang Daguo and said, "Tell them to get in. I'm going to the countryside right away."

The young man came back and helped Liu Xihua and the others with their luggage. "You guys get in the car. He's leaving now."

The back seat of the jeep was very wide, and there was more than enough room to put down the luggage and sit Liu Xihua, Jiang Daguo and Jiang Xiaoxiao.

The young man waved at them, and the jeep turned around and drove onto the road.

After more than an hour, the car arrived at Hongqi Town.

Liu Xihua was embarrassed to let the car drive into the village because the roads there were so bad, so she just said to park on the side of the road and someone from home would come to pick her up.

The man driving the car enthusiastically took their luggage out of the car and drove back to town.

Not long after, an oxcart returning from the town to the village team arrived at the intersection. Since they knew each other, Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua got on the oxcart.

The driver saw Liu Xihua holding a package and asked with a smile, "Xihua, what are you holding? Why does it look like a child to me?"

It was no secret in the village that Liu Xihua had not been able to conceive. She had tried all kinds of folk remedies. If it were not for the prohibition of feudal superstition in the new society, Liu Xihua's family would have wanted to ask a god to perform a ritual for her.

Is this like holding a fake doll to seek peace of mind?

"It's a child. We picked him up in the hospital in City A." Liu Xi'an said as he looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao in his arms.

"Ah? It's really a child?" The old man driving the cart turned around and stretched his neck to look at Liu Xihua's hand again, "Is it a boy or a girl?"

"Baby girl."

"Why did you pick up a little girl? It's useless to just feed her. Isn't it a waste of money?" The old man driving the cart was familiar with the situation of Jiang Daguo and Liu Xihua's family. He sighed and shook his head.

Jiang Daguo's father was beaten by the Japanese when he was young and his leg was broken. His mother was the daughter of a landlord with a bad background. She had never worked since she was a child and could not do any farm work. She was also terrible at housework. He had many younger sisters who were not very old. His wife Liu Xihua had miscarriages every year and was always sick and taking medicine and could not do any work.

Jiang Daguo is the only strong laborer in the family, but he can only earn a few work points, so his family is the poorest in the whole team.

Why pick up something else but a girl who only eats for free?

stupid!
(End of this chapter)