Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 533 The Bamboo Dragonfly in Childhood
Hearing this, Niu Xiaoqiang's heart sank, and he kept complaining that he didn't take good care of this poor relative.

In fact, he can't be blamed for this. It can only be said that he is usually busy with work and bears a lot of pressure every day, so he has no time to think about other things at all.

When he heard his uncle say that Yingzi didn't come because he had no shoes, Niu Xiaoqiang subconsciously looked down at his uncle's feet, and found that his uncle was wearing a pair of worn-out cloth shoes.

The fabric of this pair of shoes is very thin, and it is not warm at all. It has been stained with a lot of muddy water, so it will not keep warm even more.

Niu Xiaoqiang dragged his uncle into the house with some distress: "Your shoes are all soaked, hurry up and warm up in the house, I still have several pairs of new shoes, I'll give you another pair."

The uncle shyly said in a low voice, "I'm torn and dirty. It's not suitable for me to enter the house on this big day, right?"

Niu Xiaoqiang insisted: "There is nothing inappropriate about this, we are all a family, so don't be so alien."

Niu Dazhuang was still chatting and laughing happily with everyone, seeing Niu Xiaoqiang dragging a ragged old man towards home, Niu Dazhuang couldn't help being taken aback.

When he saw clearly who Niu Xiaoqiang was pulling, he immediately squeezed out of the crowd and greeted his uncle with surprise: "Old man, when did you come? Why didn't you tell me when you came?"

Seeing that Niu Dazhuang was so enthusiastic about him, his uncle didn't dislike him at all because of his shabbiness, so he couldn't help sighing: "Da Zhuang, your family is a real person. I thought that you would look down upon you when you are promising." As a poor relative of mine, I didn’t expect you and Xiaoqiang to be as real as before, and you don’t dislike them at all.”

Niu Dazhuang sighed: "Look at what you said, no matter how promising I am, Niu Dazhuang, I will never forget my roots. We also came from the poor. What do you dislike? Let's go in and talk."

The uncle's shrinking subsided a lot, and after entering the house, he sat by the fire and kept looking at the furnishings of Niu Xiaoqiang's house.

Niu Xiaoqiang's family is not much different from before, and it doesn't look very rich, so the uncle couldn't help hesitating and said: "Da Zhuang, I heard that you are now the deputy director of the factory, why is your family still the same? ?”

Niu Dazhuang laughed and said, "Xiaoqiang said he wanted to build a big house, so our family didn't bother to buy property."

When he said this, he took out two packs of Hongtashan from the drawer and stuffed them to his uncle: "You take this, don't be polite to me."

Before his uncle could refuse, Niu Xiaoqiang brought a pair of new cotton boots from under his bed: "Grandpa, this is a gift from someone else. I have so many shoes that I can't finish them all. I will give you this pair of shoes." Here you go, come, I'll put it on for you right now."

The uncle was still emotional just now, but now he is a little moved. Because he was so excited, he couldn't speak, and could only wave his hands vigorously.

Niu Xiaoqiang didn't talk nonsense anymore, he just took off the wet rag shoes on his uncle's feet, helped him put on the new cotton boots, and then said: "Get up and take a few steps to see if they fit , if it doesn’t fit, let’s change a pair, I still have several new pairs of shoes.”

The uncle was touched and said: "There is no need to change it, it is quite suitable, then what, I came to congratulate today, but I made it look like I came to take advantage of it, how outrageous it is."

Niu Dazhuang grinned and said, "We're all a family, so we don't need to distinguish them so clearly. Our lives are better now, so we should take care of them."

Just as Niu Dazhuang finished speaking, another guest came outside.He had no choice but to apologize, got up and went outside to greet him.

Sitting next to his uncle, Niu Xiaoqiang asked about the situation at his uncle's house: "Grandpa, where does my uncle work now?"

"He's showing people the cemetery—look at my mouth, today is a big day for a big girl to get married, and I said it's too unlucky."

Niu Xiaoqiang smiled and waved his hands: "We don't talk about feudal superstition, don't care about it, do you know what happened to uncle's arm?"

This uncle used to help people open mountains and blast rocks. Because of a production accident, his right hand was blown off by Qi Gen, so he became disabled.

Uncle shook his head and sighed: "He is still the same, when it rains on cloudy days, his old injury hurts so much that he can't do physical work."

Niu Xiaoqiang said: "Where is Yingzi? Is she studying now or helping at home?"

"She dropped out of elementary school and helped her farm at home, oh, I almost forgot, she asked me to bring you something, here, this is it, I didn't want to bring it for her, but she insisted Insist that I bring this thing to you, saying that I have promised to give it to you long ago."

While the uncle was talking, he took out a small bamboo dragonfly from his pocket. Niu Xiaoqiang took it in his hand and watched it repeatedly. The more he looked at it, the more sad and moved he became.

This bamboo dragonfly looks ordinary to others, but it has a special meaning to Niu Xiaoqiang.When I was a child, other children thought he was a fool, no one wanted to play with him, only Yingzi didn't mind at all.

Although she is younger than Niu Xiaoqiang, she plays with Niu Xiaoqiang every day.Once other children got together to play with the bamboo dragonfly they made by themselves. Niu Xiaoqiang was very envious and wanted to join in, but was directly rejected by others.

Niu Xiaoqiang was only eight years old at that time, and he shed tears when he was sad.Yingzi saw him squatting on the ground crying, so he stepped forward to ask why.After Niu Xiaoqiang explained the reason, Yingzi immediately took Niu Xiaoqiang to make bamboo dragonflies.

As a result, neither of them could do it, and Yingzi cut his palm for this, leaving a deep scar.Even so, she was very strong and did not shed tears. Instead, she covered her palms and assured Niu Xiaoqiang that she would definitely learn how to make bamboo dragonflies in the future, and she would definitely give one to Niu Xiaoqiang when she was done.

It's a pity that her father had an accident not long after, and not long after that, their family was forced to move to Liuhe Town due to life, and the two have never seen each other since.

Niu Xiaoqiang is not what he used to be. He is no longer the fool he used to be. He has already forgotten the promise about the bamboo dragonfly. Unexpectedly, Yingzi still remembered and fulfilled the original promise.

Niu Xiaoqiang was full of emotions for a moment, and his mind was flooded, and scenes from his childhood flooded his mind one after another.For some reason, his nose was a little sour, and his eyes were red.

The uncle didn't notice Niu Xiaoqiang's strangeness, he muttered to himself: "Yingzi is a good boy, she knew how to help the family when she was very young, but it's a pity that she was not born in a good family, for this family , she had to sacrifice herself, and married someone at a young age..."

Niu Xiaoqiang was taken aback for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "What are you talking about? She seems to be a month younger than me...how did she get married??"

(End of this chapter)