Chapter 757: Chapter 757: With a Seedling, There’s No Worry About Growth Chapter 757: Chapter 757: With a Seedling, There’s No Worry About Growth Luo Qiao drove to the train station, bought a platform ticket, and went in to meet someone. She arrived just as the train was pulling in.
Seeing Elder Rong and his wife emerging from the train carriage, Luo Qiao hurriedly went to greet them, “Elder Rong, Rong Daniang.”
“Qiaoqiao, it’s such trouble for you to come pick us up.”
“It’s Sunday today, and it doesn’t interfere with my classes.”
The three of them left the train station together, and seeing Luo Qiao had come by car to pick them up, they were inevitably touched.
Once in the car, Rong Daniang began to chat with Luo Qiao about their trip back home. They had come to consider Luo Qiao as family and were willing to share their family matters with her.
This time, they had returned because Elder Rong’s eldest sister was seriously ill and wanted to see her brother one last time. Among all the siblings, she had been the kindest to him, and he didn’t want to leave any regrets, so he went back.
As it turned out, when they got back, his elder sister was indeed very sick. However, their nephews were just waiting for them to return with money to treat their mother’s illness, which left them feeling disheartened.
With his elder sister in such a state, he couldn’t ignore her as her brother. Yet the elder sister’s family wasn’t without children of their own. His request was simple: he would pay half, and the nephews should pay the other half to save their sister’s life.
After all, he had grown up on his elder sister’s back and couldn’t remain indifferent.
Regarding the requests from other siblings, nieces, and nephews, the couple said they had no capacity to help. Apart from running to the hospital to care for his sister, they spent the rest of their time chatting with neighbors they got along with in the village.
Now that the elder sister was getting better and the doctor said she just needed to recover at her own pace, they finally packed up and returned to Beijing.
Upon returning home, Elder Rong couldn’t rest and went straight to the backyard, worried about his flowers and vegetable garden. Rong Daniang also rested briefly before sorting out the specialties they brought back, setting aside some for gifting, and giving quite a lot of hemp cakes to Luo Qiao to distribute.
After lunch, Luo Qiao visited the department store, thinking to take advantage of her free time today to buy gifts for her little nephew and niece’s full-month celebration.
After making the rounds, besides buying two little silver locks, she also bought two sets of clothes for each child. As the saying goes, an aunt buys shoes and an auntie socks—Luo Qiao also bought two pairs of shoes for each child before she stopped shopping and returned home.
Luo Qiao had already passed all of her first semester college courses and was preparing to take the next semester’s exams at the end of next month so that she could attend the end-of-term exams with the second-year students during the summer break.
So she spent most of her time at the library when she went to school, enjoying a relatively flexible schedule, which meant she certainly would attend the two children’s full-month celebration.
Meanwhile, at the Textile Factory Family Courtyard, Song Shiya had just finished making chicken soup for her daughter and brought it in, while changing her grandson’s diapers, she remarked, “A seedling well planted frets not its growth, look how well our Xiao Penghui is growing.”
Jialin smiled, “I’m finally about to finish my confinement. I feel like I’m about to stink.”
While talking, she played with her daughter at her side, “Is our Ziyuan listening to mommy? When our Ziyuan grows up, she’ll also be a little beauty, won’t she?”
Luo Jialin’s confinement was the envy of everyone, with children in the Zheng family courtyard drooling every day. The two sisters-in-law were frustrated every single day but had to hold it in.
Since they had divided the family property, they had no say in what the third household was eating, and most of it was sent by the maternal family, be it from aunts or grandmothers, or sometimes from brothers and sisters-in-law, or cousins. It was something they could not envy.
Not to mention Luo Jialin having a comfortable confinement, even Zheng Zhiyuan had put on weight from it. In the beginning, he still brought a bowl for his parents-in-law, but Hao Xiuyue and Zheng Daquan felt uneasy about taking food from their daughter-in-law and specifically asked not to be sent any more.
Recently, the Zheng family was nearly done with finding a match for their youngest son and was just waiting to set a date once the third son’s house was vacated.
With assistance from the Luo family, Luo Jialin’s workplace had assigned her a room—about twenty square meters—which was sufficient for a family of four. Over the past few days, Luo Haoxuan, along with his son and son-in-law, had nearly finished getting it ready.
Once the full-month celebration was done, they could move over. There was nothing the Zheng family could say as it was housing provided by the daughter-in-law’s employer and had nothing to do with the Zheng family.
It was possible to get a place through connections at the steel factory as well, but Lu Yi still preferred to have Lu Yichen find a place with the bank first, and fortunately, a room had just become available—it was a stroke of luck.
Luo Haoxuan wanted the Zheng family to know that some things could not be envied. He wanted to support his daughter, so he deliberately had Lu Yichen ask her employer first.
Luo Jialin looked at her mom, “Mom, can I move to that house after the full-month celebration is over?”
“Yes, it’s all set up, and we’ve aired the place out for several days, so let’s move after the full-month celebration. Your little uncle is almost ready with his matchmaking too. Your in-laws are decent folks, so don’t make it hard for them,” her mother said.