Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 539

On the third day of junior high school, Niu Xiaoqiang went to pay Yu Simei another New Year's greeting.Yu Simei seemed very happy, and cooked a table full of special dishes for Niu Xiaoqiang, and specially prepared two bottles of Moutai for Niu Xiaoqiang.

The two sat facing each other, eating, drinking and chatting cheerfully. The atmosphere was warm and harmonious, and they looked like a young couple.

It was already three o'clock in the afternoon when Niu Xiaoqiang left Yu Simei's house.

He originally wanted to pay New Year's greetings to Wu Ping after dinner, but now it was obviously too late, so he had to wait until the next day.

On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Niu Xiaoqiang had just finished washing, and before he had time to go out with a gift, someone knocked on the door of his house, and a timid female voice came from outside the door: "Xiaoqiang, are you at home?" ?”

Niu Xiaoqiang was very unfamiliar with this voice and couldn't tell who it was.He put down the gift he had just held in his hand and stepped forward to open the door.When he saw the woman standing at the door clearly, his face was full of doubts.

This is a tall and thin woman. The padded jacket on her body is full of holes. Some places have been patched, and some places are so torn that it can no longer be patched. A lot of cotton wool is exposed.

Her lower body was wearing a pair of army green trousers, which were also very worn out, with patches attached one by one.

Looking at her feet again, she was actually wearing a pair of straw sandals.On the morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the temperature was very low, and a thick layer of frost formed on the ground outside. The woman's feet were so cold that there was not even a trace of blood.The toes and both palms were covered with chilblains, swollen and high.

Although this woman was dressed poorly, her long hair was braided into two braids, and her face was very clean and tidy, which was pretty impressive.

Niu Xiaoqiang didn't know each other at all, and he didn't remember where he had seen him at all.He stared straight at it for a while, until the other party was at a loss for what to do. Then he came back to his senses and asked with doubts on his face, "I don't know if you are...?"

The woman who knocked on the door lowered her head, looking extremely embarrassed: "I...I am Niu Xiuying..."

"Ah?! You, you, you are Yingzi!"

Niu Xiaoqiang's shock was no small matter. Although he learned from his uncle that Yingzi's life was not very good, he couldn't connect the woman in front of him with Yingzi in his memory anyway.

In his memory, Yingzi loves to laugh and is a very lively girl.But the woman in front of her had a distressed expression on her face, and what was even more eye-catching was that she had a little crow's feet at the corners of her eyes, which made her look a bit old-fashioned.

If she is a peasant woman who is nearly 30 years old, no one will doubt it, but if she is a girl under the age of 17, it is unbelievable.

Suddenly, Niu Xiaoqiang felt a very strange feeling. He felt that his best memories of childhood had exploded, replaced by a deep sense of absurdity.

In less than ten years, no matter how a person changes, he can always see the shadow of the past.But Yingzi's body can't find any trace of that year anyway.It was as if she had been changed from body to personality, completely becoming a stranger.

Seeing how big Niu Xiaoqiang's reaction was, Niu Xiuying became even more embarrassed and lowered her head even lower.She was holding a bamboo basket in her hand with a dozen or so eggs in it. This was all the presents she had prepared for the New Year.

Niu Xiaoqiang was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his hand and pulled Yingzi into the room: "Go in and sit down quickly, and I will light the stove for you to warm up."

Yingzi was a little afraid to sit down, she felt like a clown, she was ashamed, and regretted that she shouldn't have come at all.

Seeing that she was standing still, Niu Xiaoqiang reached out and snatched her bamboo basket and put it on the ground, then forced her down on the chair: "Yingzi, do you need to be so sympathetic with me? Sit down quickly. Bar."

"kindness……"

Niu Xiaoqiang turned the stove on very skillfully, and ran to the kitchen to cook a big pot of sparerib noodles, filled a bowl and handed it to Yingzi: "You haven't eaten breakfast yet, and neither have I. Let's have it together."

I don't know if it's because I'm too hungry, or because I haven't eaten meat for a long time.Yingzi couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva after smelling the tangy pork rib noodles, but she didn't reach out to pick up the rice bowl.

Niu Xiaoqiang sighed, put the job bowl into her hands, and comforted her softly: "Yingzi, you really don't need to be so extravagant, just treat this place as your own home. I remember you were not like this when you were young."

When Niu Xiuying heard the three words when she was a child, and then thought of the current situation, the strings in her heart were deeply touched, and tears flowed from her eyes.

Niu Xiaoqiang knelt down and patted her on the back lightly, comforting her with distressed expression: "Can you stop crying? I know you have suffered all these years, but since we have met again, I will never Regardless of you, I will take care of you."

Yingzi cried even louder when she heard this, she didn't care about the job in her hand, hugged Niu Xiaoqiang, and cried bitterly: "Why didn't I come to you sooner... If I came to you earlier ... I will not be reduced to the current situation ... "

Niu Xiaoqiang had mixed feelings for a moment. Although he was splashed with a lot of soup, he didn't care at all. He stretched out his hand to gently wrap Yingzi's shoulder, and whispered: "It's not too late now, with me here, You won't have to suffer anymore."

The childhood friendship between the two is beyond the comprehension of others, and no one feels awkward when they are embracing each other at this moment.

After venting, Yingzi let go of Niu Xiaoqiang, and said embarrassingly, "I'm so sorry, I broke your bowl and splashed soup all over you..."

Niu Xiaoqiang saw that Yingzi's mood had stabilized, and his mood improved a lot.He grinned: "This is Sui Sui Ping An, it's okay, just wait a moment, and I'll serve you a bowl of pork rib noodles."

Yingzi nodded, taking advantage of Niu Xiaoqiang's skill in making noodles, she got up and cleaned up the broken rice bowl and the spilled noodle soup.

The two sat around the fire, talking while eating noodles, talking about things from their childhood.

Both Niu Xiaoqiang and Niu Xiuying were full of nostalgia for their childhood, and the more they chatted, the more lively they became. Yingzi couldn't help giggling when they were happy, and it was impossible to see that she had been so sad just now.

Under Niu Xiaoqiang's warm greeting, Yingzi ate three bowls of noodles in a row.She put down the bowl and chopsticks a little embarrassedly: "I ate too much..."

Niu Xiaoqiang laughed: "That's too much? My eldest sister eats more than you. We are all rural people. How can we work if we don't eat enough?"

　Weiyu Xiaoxiao has had a bad cold for a week, her throat is so inflamed that it hurts even to swallow saliva, and she coughs continuously at night, almost coughing up her lungs, because the cough is so severe that her head hurts.

　　In the past few days, I drank several batches of ointment, and Bai Jiahei also killed a whole box, but the situation still did not get much relief, so I had to go to the hospital for an injection.

　　Even though it was so difficult, Weiyu Xiaoxiao never complained of suffering, let alone asked for leave.

　　Now there is only more than a week left before the Chinese New Year. Weiyu Xiaoxiao has to slow down the update speed. In order to ensure that more and more manuscripts will be saved during the Chinese New Year, there will be a maximum of three chapters per day, and at least no less than two chapters. I hope everyone Can understand, thank you!
　　Finally, Weiyu, who is still struggling with the disease, smiled and wished everyone good health and a happy Spring Festival!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)