The host of the quick travel is lacking in virtue for eight generations

Chapter 819 60 Yaozu Sister Control Group 56

The mother and daughter spoke in unison, nodding in sync with identical expressions.

Fox Xuan was extremely excited, but unfortunately there were other people in the carriage, otherwise he would have hugged both of them and given them a kiss each.

"Young man, your wife and daughter are both very lively and beautiful. You're so lucky!"

The elderly woman next to them watched the family's amusing interaction and couldn't help but laugh.

"Those two seem quite lively. Are you traveling alone, ma'am? Are you going to Jinshi?"

The family of three bought a bunk bed on one side of the house. Suixin and Xiaoyun slept on the lower bunk, while Huxuan slept on the upper bunk. There was only an old lady opposite them.

The train's final destination is Jinshi, where they will have to transfer.

The old lady nodded, "Yes, my son works over there, and my daughter-in-law gave birth last month. She has no experience and can't take good care of the baby, so she asked me to go over and help take care of the child."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Yun and Hu Xuan exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with an ambiguous meaning.

Suixin tilted her head back and smiled at the old lady, saying, "Grandma, are you going to take care of your little brother? When I was little, my grandma and great-grandma also came to my house to take care of me."

The old lady's smile deepened. "Oh my, this little darling is so clever! She knows that already. Yes, Grandma went to take care of her little brother."

Xiao Yun couldn't help but ask, "Your son must be quite old, why are you having a child now? Or did you get married late?"

This old lady looks to be in her sixties or seventies. If she had children, she would be at least in her forties or fifties, or at least in her thirties if she had children late.

Of course, the premise is that she must have children. Her appearance suggests that she has no offspring, so Xiao Yun couldn't ask her directly and could only resort to this old-fashioned approach.

I didn't have any other thoughts, I was just purely curious. The old lady's face was quite dignified, but she had a lot of trouble with marriage and children.

The old lady said, "My husband and I used to fight alongside the troops. Our son was born on the way. During the emergency transfer, it was inconvenient to take the child with us, so we entrusted him to a fellow villager's family. We only found him after the war was won."

When we brought the child back, he was already a teenager and had never been to school. So we sent him back to school. After a few years of schooling in Xiahe, he was quite a grown man.

He only found a partner after he started working, through the factory's union arrangement. He was already over thirty when they got married, and then the famine hit. His daughter-in-law neglected her family and ruined her health from hunger, which delayed things for several more years. My old man didn't even live to see her; he passed away the year before last. Sigh..."

Xiao Yun looked at Hu Xuan, and both of them understood. It seemed that the old lady's son had been switched. However, they did not intend to say it. The old lady's son was obviously dead, and this son seemed to be quite filial, so there was no need to expose this matter.

The old lady was quite cultured, so she chatted with them a lot along the way. When they got off the bus, she gave Suixin a woven bracelet with a small red agate gourd hanging on it. Judging from its size, it was meant for a child.

Xiao Yun and his wife were bound to refuse. These things are genuine nowadays, unlike in later years when you could buy indistinguishable fakes for a few dollars at a street stall. How could they accept such a good thing from someone they had just met?

However, the old lady said, "Don't refuse. This is for the children. At the time, we didn't know if it was for a grandson or a granddaughter, so we prepared a few for both. I prepared a jade one for the grandson, so this one is extra."

I took a liking to your daughter, Suixin, as soon as I saw her. It's fate. You should let her accept it. It's nothing special, just for good luck.

Suixin does indeed have a fondness for bright colors; she likes these vibrant ones. She immediately said "Thank you, Grandma" and started fiddling with the bag in her hands.

There was nothing else to do but thank them as well. Xiao Yun also offered her blessing: "May your children and grandchildren be filial and may everything go smoothly for you in the future."

She used some incantation techniques to say this, as a way of repaying a favor on behalf of Suixin.

Don't think she suddenly changed her personality and is so sensible towards a stranger; there's a reason for it.

Originally, there was no connection between the old lady and Suixin; they were just strangers who met by chance and then moved on. But when the old lady took out the bracelet and handed it to Suixin, a bond suddenly formed between them. It was this bracelet that created the connection—a faint red thread, with the other end attached to another bracelet on the old lady's body.

She didn't want her daughter to be betrothed so early, so she used a ritual to repay the favor and cut the faint red thread of fate.

Her daughter doesn't need to be controlled by fate, not even by a new generation of male protagonists. She can find whoever she likes in the future. Her marriage will not be controlled by her husband and his wife, nor by the will of heaven or a red thread.

After changing trains and traveling for two days and two nights, they finally returned to their familiar hometown. They went straight to their little home. Suixin was already asleep. Hu Xuan carried his daughter into the house, and with a cleansing talisman, the entire courtyard was instantly sparkling clean.

Jiabao moved out two years ago and now lives in his own small courtyard, which his family bought for him with money raised from the house. It's not far from his office. He's a young man in his early twenties, and having a house will increase his chances of finding a partner.

Yes, he hasn't found a partner yet. He's been on several blind dates, but none of them have worked out. The ones with good qualities aren't good-looking, and the good-looking ones not only come from poor families but also have some really difficult family members. So he hasn't settled down yet.

Actually, his company would have arranged a dormitory for him after he became a full-time employee, but since he wasn't married, the only option he could get was a shared dormitory, which was less convenient than living with them.

Although he bought a house, it wasn't registered in his name, but rather in his father's name.

It wasn't to prevent anything, but because after he got married, he could still apply for the company's family housing, but if he already owned a house, he couldn't apply.

This is a company benefit, so why not take it? Everyone else does it this way, and nobody says anything.

……

Hu Xuan told Xiao Yun and his daughter to rest for a while while he went to his workplace to show up. He would be able to return to work tomorrow and would also ride his tricycle back to Baijiatun Brigade in the afternoon to deliver half of the local specialties and gifts he brought back to the Xiao family.

For a while after that, he couldn't bring his wife and children back home; he couldn't keep taking time off.

They arrived home around noon. They had lunch at the long-distance bus station earlier, because the child gets carsick and couldn't travel on an empty stomach. After eating and drinking their fill, the child got on the bus and soon fell asleep from the swaying.

I can take a nap during this time and then go back. Anyway, it's fast to ride a tricycle, and a round trip won't take long.

Hu Xuan returned quickly, just to show up at work and let Jia Bao know that they were not planning to have dinner at their home that evening. They would return home after delivering the items.

It's summer now, and it gets dark late, so I don't plan to walk at night.

Before they even entered the village, they found a group of people noisily making a fuss as they walked out, including the brigade leader and his youngest son, Qi Hongbin.

Apart from the members of the two production brigades, the other group consisted of a group of young people who looked like educated youth from the village, and I didn't recognize any of them.

In the last two years, they didn't come back as often. Even when they did, Xiao Yun stayed at her parents' home and wasn't very familiar with the educated youth who came and went. After all, every year there were new arrivals, as well as those who returned to the city, got married, or took wives.

Most of the older educated youth have left, except for Qin Yuanfeng and Xu Zhiqiang, who married a girl from the village and moved out to build their own house. Most of them have found ways to go back, and some have even deliberately retired due to injury or illness.

Many of the educated youth who came later also went back. As for the female educated youth, apart from two who were teachers at the village primary school and neither of them left nor got married, and the female educated youth who married Lin Jie, the rest also left. And none of them were familiar faces; they must have all come later.

Hu Xuan rode his bike directly up to the captain and his men and asked, "Uncle Qi, what are you all doing here?"

The captain sighed, but before he could speak, his youngest son spoke first.

"Director Zhuo! That's great, you've come at the right time! These educated youths are clamoring to report us. Come, come, this is the director of the tail-cutting association. Go ahead and report us, let's see who's in the right!"

Hu Xuan glanced at him. This kid usually called him "brother," and this was the first time he had called him "Director Zhuo."

He didn't contradict him, but instead put on a serious face and said in a stern tone, "What's going on? If you have any problems, just tell me directly, and I can help you solve them on the spot."

"We were newly arrived educated youth in the countryside. Because it was our first time doing farm work, we were a little unfamiliar with it and made some small mistakes. The scorekeeper and the brigade leader were not tolerant of us at all. They even tried to deduct our food rations. Isn't this exploitation? We also put in the work..."

A tall, thin man stepped forward, his face filled with righteous indignation.

Qi Hongbin scoffed, glanced at him disdainfully, and said to Hu Xuan, "He makes it sound so easy, a minor mistake? Is that a minor mistake? It's almost ruined our harvest this year!"

We just drained the water from the fields a couple of days ago, and after waiting for them to dry a bit before we could start harvesting, they actually drained the water back in!

That's not all. They only cut the rice ears, leaving the stalks. Many ears fell into the water, making threshing difficult. That's half a hectare of land! They wasted so much. It would be too lenient for them to just have their rations reduced instead of losing money.

Not only are they unrepentant, but they also argue illogically, saying they want to experiment with some kind of ratooning rice. We still need to plant radishes and cabbages after the harvest; we don't have time for experiments. They even want to play the victim and accuse us first. I've never seen such shamelessness!

After listening to both sides, Hu Xuan had already made a judgment. He glanced at the educated youth and said in a deep voice, "It's understandable that you're new here and unfamiliar with farm work, but you have to bear the consequences of your mistakes. The brigade leader and the others are just following the rules when they deduct your rations."

Upon hearing this, the educated youth's faces turned extremely ugly. The tall, thin man still tried to argue, "We were just trying out new methods, hoping to use our knowledge to increase production..."

Hu Xuan interrupted him: "It's good to have innovative ideas, but we must also consider the actual situation. We can't act blindly, and we certainly can't joke around with the collective's harvest. This is the Northeast, and the climate here is not comparable to that of the South. There are crops that are suitable for growing here, so we can't generalize."

The tall, thin man wanted to continue arguing, but was stopped by a bespectacled educated youth next to him.

The educated youth wearing glasses said with a forced smile, "Director Zhuo, we really didn't think things through and caused everyone trouble. We are willing to accept the punishment of having our rations withheld, and we will definitely learn farm work well in the future and not make such a mistake again."

Hu Xuan nodded. "It's good that you can recognize your mistakes. We're all trying to make a better life for each other. If you have any ideas in the future, you can discuss them with the captain and the others first."

The captain chimed in, "That's right, it's best to talk things out. We'll all be part of the same team from now on."

At this moment, Qi Hongbin suddenly said, "Brother, you've come all this way back, don't let these things spoil your fun, go back quickly."

Hu Xuan smiled, greeted the captain and others, and then rode his bicycle with Xiao Yun and Sui Xin into the village.

They first went to the Xiao family's house, left the local specialties and gifts, and shared the photos they had taken in Qing City with their family, as well as the interesting things they had encountered there.

She then recounted what happened at the village entrance, after which Grandma Xiao said, "These young rascals who came this year have probably caused quite a stir. Not only are they causing trouble in the fields, but they're also spreading anti-feudal superstition propaganda in the village, claiming that the ancestor carved on the wall is here. They even took a scepter and knocked it down, which caused the wall to collapse. They injured their own foot and then demanded compensation for medical expenses..."

Xiao's mother also mentioned a few things those people had done, and felt that they were all very unreliable.

Just then, Huandi said, "There's a female educated youth named Yang Xin who keeps going to the school to find Guangyuan, trying to get him to use his connections to get her a teaching job. She even said that he owes her family something. She's a complete lunatic!"

Xiao Yun: "Yang Xin? Could she be Yang Hui's sister, the one who harmed Guangyuan?"

Huandi nodded, "That's right. The first time Guangyuan scolded her away, she came back and kept saying that if Guangyuan hadn't sent her older brother to a labor camp, her whole family wouldn't have lost their jobs, and she wouldn't have had to go to the countryside to take over the work."

It's really abnormal that she can put all of this together. Why doesn't she mention that her older brother almost killed Guangyuan? If you ask me, Yang Hui should be executed. Keeping him around is just a menace.

He was aiming to kill someone back then. If Guangyuan hadn't been lucky enough to run into someone collecting fish, he might really be dead.

Seeing that she was getting more and more frightened as she spoke, Xiao Yun reached out and patted her shoulder to comfort her, saying, "Alright, it's all over now. Guangyuan is lucky, has a good life, and will have good fortune from now on."

Don't worry about Yang Xin. Have your brother-in-law get her out of there. We can't let someone like her stay in our brigade; otherwise, she'll be a problem later.

Huandi glanced at her third brother-in-law, who was talking to her grandfather, and said somewhat apologetically, "Won't I cause you trouble, brother-in-law?"

Xiao Yun shook her head. "No, we'll just use her troublemaking excuse. It's just a transfer, not sending her to a labor camp. Besides, she did cause trouble, and we didn't falsely accuse her."