Reborn with a Space: Building a Fortune Amidst Famine

Chapter 469: 469 family members

The group stared at Zhao Yanping in a daze, all trying to advise her.

”I know, my life is so good now, I don’t even have time to cherish it enough.”

Not far from his home, Zhou Yongbing met the postman.

”Xiao Bing, there’s a letter for your family.”

The postman was Zhou Yongbing’s childhood playmate, and they still had a particularly good relationship.

”From my wife?”

”Yes, and it’s from the Capital.”

Zhou Yongbing took it and put it in his pocket.

They said a few words and parted. Zhou Yongbing went to the supply and marketing co-op.

He looked at the pastries there and used food tickets to buy five pounds of ox tongue cakes. Then he went to the building to find his Third Sister.

”Xiao Bing, what are you here to buy?”

”Third Sister, can you help me out? I want to bring more pastries. Xiao Li’s brother and sister-in-law are going back to their hometown. We don’t have much else to carry, so I thought of bringing more pastries to eat on the train.”

”Sure, how much do you need?” This was a must-help situation. They got them some meat, which even in their position at the building, they couldn’t manage to get so much meat.

”Can you get me ten pounds?”

”Alright, two pounds of glutinous rice sticks, four pounds of peach shortbread, another two pounds of baked sponge cake, and two pounds of ox tongue cake?”

”Third Sister, replace the ox tongue cake with glutinous rice sticks. I already bought five pounds of ox tongue cake at the supply co-op.”

”Alright, wait here.”

”Third Sister, I have money and food tickets.”

”Got it.”

An hour later, Zhou Yongbing returned with fifteen pounds of pastries and had to prepare some food for his second sister-in-law; otherwise, he’d feel a bit embarrassed.

”Sister-in-law, you share some with Second Sister. You should take more since you have a long journey ahead.”

”No worries, don’t trouble yourself.”

”Right. Xiao Li. Here’s your letter from the Capital.”

Zhao Yanli took it and looked at the writing on the envelope, ”It’s a letter from Yuanyuan. She’s always on my mind.”

She couldn’t wait to open it. ”Yuanyuan and her family have already moved to the Capital. She received only one letter from me.”

”Now you can relax. With Yuanyuan, nothing can go wrong, and there’s also Xiao Tan.”

Have to admit, Xiao Tan is indeed quite capable.

”I’ll check the map later and ask Xiao Bing if he knows how far the train station is from where Yuanyuan lives?”

Outside, Zhou Yongbing heard his wife mentioning him, so he hurriedly came in.

”Xiao Bing, can you check how far Yuanyuan’s address is from the train station?”

Zhou Yongbing smiled wryly, ”Xiao Li, I’ve never been to the Capital. Let me check the map.”

”Looking at the map, it seems pretty far.”

This made Zhao Yanli discouraged.

”Why that expression? Even if it’s nearby, you can’t just go over. Just take good care of yourself and wait until you have time to visit Yuanyuan later,” Zhao Yanping rolled her eyes at her younger sister.

”But after the New Year, I’m going to take over my mother-in-law’s work. By then, I can’t just leave whenever I want.”

”Then write to Yuanyuan. She’ll visit you when she has time.”

”That’s true; I really won’t have many opportunities to go out in the future.”

”Where else do you want to go? Your husband, children, and elders are all at home.”

”Yes, yes, yes, I’ll just obediently stay at home.”

Xiao Lei woke up, and Zhao Yanli felt embarrassed to feed the baby in front of her sisters-in-law, so she turned around.

Zhou Yongbing was about to cook when Zhao Yanping stopped him. ”We’ll eat at home. Your Brother-in-law is cooking; just cook for Xiao Li.”

Returning home, Zhao Qingxiang and the others had already come back, having bought two sleeper tickets and two seat tickets.

”You can leave at midnight today. Let Xiao Li know this afternoon so she won’t worry. Also, we’ll bring Dad and Mom here to see you, but it won’t be for long as we have preparations to make back home.”

”Alright, we’ll let Xiao Li know this afternoon.”

Actually, Zhao Xiaojing also wanted to return home. After all, that’s where she was born and raised. Having been away for so many years, she wanted to go back and see.

But Xu Hongbing was unwilling, so she had no choice but to go home together.

In the afternoon, they went to their sister’s house again, ”Tonight’s train, and your Second Sister’s train is tomorrow morning.”

”You’re all leaving?”

”Yes, all leaving. But as your older brother said, we’ll drive straight here. Dad and Mom definitely want to see you.”

Zhao Yanli nodded. She missed her parents too. Meeting them would be the best thing.

After staying for a little while, they left to pack up and still needed to go to the public bathhouse.

Zhao Yanping knew her brother and sister-in-law were spending the New Year on the train, so she made them stewed meat and packed two lunch boxes. For the New Year, somehow they had to eat meat.

Time passed quickly, and at noon on the New Year’s Eve, Tan Shaoting was going to celebrate with everyone. So Yuanyuan brought the children along too.

There was an art performance at noon. Cao Jinling was very dispirited and disheartened, mainly because she was ostracized and had no chance of getting close to Tan Shaoting.

Today, Tan Shaoting in uniform was simply the love of her heart. He was too good-looking to describe. No other man could compare to him.

She stared at Tan Shaoting infatuatedly, and many noticed.

This made Cao Jinling even more ostracized by her teammates.

The whole art troupe liked Tan Shaoting, and her blatant behavior naturally led to being ostracized.

So during the performance, Cao Jinling was sabotaged and ended up embarrassing herself on stage.

Su Yuanyuan sat with the children beside Tan Shaoting and felt the sentiments of the girls nearby.

But looking at Tan Shaoting’s expressionless face, she found it quite funny.

Heart of steel? Perhaps that’s the case here.

Tan Shaoting noticed his wife looking at him, her smile carrying a hint of mockery.

So he suddenly turned his head, ”Do I look good?”

Su Yuanyuan didn’t expect him to say that and was stunned before quickly nodding with a smile, ”Absolutely! You’re so good-looking. Look, the girls on stage are all giving you the eye.”

Tan Shaoting couldn’t help but smile at his wife’s teasing. While his face remained stoic, what he said next was quite different.

”If I look good, it’s for you to see. The rest, I see them all as sweet potatoes.”

Su Yuanyuan burst into laughter, ”Wouldn’t the girls be heartbroken if they heard your description?”

”What’s it to me?”

”See? An incident happened, didn’t it?”

”So what? They’ll all get punished when they return. Plus, I’ll have them undergo ten days of training tomorrow.”

Teach them a lesson. Make them so tired that they won’t have the energy for other thoughts.

Really clueless. Instead of focusing on their work, they think about such nonsense all day. The atmosphere has turned bad.