Chapter Seven: Parents

  With beauty by your side, time flies quickly.

  "Chufei, next stop is Jiangning. Before we part ways, I plan to give you a gift." Su Wen said with a mischievous tone.

  "Hmph, you dare to give, I dare to accept." Chu Fei didn't back down at all.

  "Alright, close your eyes and I'll put the thing in your backpack. You can only take it out and look after we get off the bus, got it?" Su Wenxi said matter-of-factly.

  Seeing Su Wen being so serious, Chu Fei solemnly nodded her head.

  Chu Fei closed her eyes, and Su Wen's hand quietly reached into Chu Fei's backpack, where a piece of ancient jade was put in.

  "You're really asking for it, what a dirty thing, just wait till I meet you again and I'll beat you to death." Chu Fei's small fist waved in front of Su Wen, not knowing if this counted as a threat.

  "Faye, get off." Chu Lao had already stood up.

  "I'm leaving." Chu Fei waved at Su Wen, "By the way, your name is Su Wen, right? I'll remember you."

  "Hey, remember I put all the tokens of our engagement in your backpack, you'd better take good care of them and don't lose them." Su Wen burst out laughing.

  "Chu Fei's words were cut off as she was pushed out of the train before she could finish her sentence."

  Platform.

  "Grandpa, let's go home, it's already daylight." Chu Fei yawned, she was a bit sleepy.

  "I can't go back yet. I've already asked someone to search for Gu Yu along this railroad, hoping to find her. She's the only thing your grandmother left me." Chu Lao's face was solemn.

  "Grandpa, was the ancient jade thrown out of the window?" Chu Fei's eyes widened in surprise.

  "I didn't see it very clearly, but I'm sure that's what happened. The man in blue was trying to avoid the police search and quietly threw the ancient jade out of the window. Su Wen must have seen it too at the time."

  "No wonder Grandpa stopped the police from searching him later, it turned out that the ancient jade had been thrown out of the window all along. That guy is really despicable." Chu Fei said as she took off her backpack.

  "It's really hateful, they even dare to steal things from my Chu Jiang Shan. Their guts are really big." Old Chu's eyes had a cold intent, "Just now I've already ordered people to catch them, these two guys won't be able to come out of the bureau again. But that Su Wen, he's not simple, even I can't see through him."

  "Yes, I think he's interesting too." Chu Fei giggled.

  "Fei'er, why don't you go back to the Treasure Pavilion first? I'll wait for news here." Chu Lao walked straight towards a row of chairs.

  Chu Fei was about to say something when she saw a familiar object peeking out from the gap in her backpack, and hastily pulled open the zipper.

  She was stunned.

  What is this?

  "Grandpa, look! Is this that piece of ancient jade?" Chu Fei exclaimed excitedly, holding up the ancient jade in her hand.

  ……

  At half past eight, the train arrived at Lingyin County.

  Su Wen pulled his luggage out of the station and looked into the distance. His father was riding a second-hand motorcycle, looking at him from afar. Although they were far apart, his father's weathered face still made his heart ache.

  "Dad!"

  "Go home, your mom has made dinner and is waiting for you."

  Father said, has skillfully tied the suitcase on the back seat of the motorcycle.

  Su Wen's eyes were slightly moist, he hastily got on the motorcycle, just in time to avoid his father seeing him lose composure. However, in his heart, he had already made a secret decision: with the Great Heavenly Dao Retrieval System, he would definitely let his parents live a good life.

  Shi Xiu Village

  Su Wen's hometown is right here.

  Lingyin County is a mountainous county, and transportation has always been underdeveloped. It wasn't until ten years ago that the train was opened to traffic. The location of Shixiu Village is relatively good, it's close to Lingyin County, about 10 miles away. Riding a motorcycle can reach the county seat in less than half an hour.

  The population of Shixiu Village is not small, with over a thousand people, and it is also considered a large village in the surrounding area. The villagers were still isolated from the world 40 years ago, but with the advent of reform and opening up, the period of rapid economic development arrived, and many bosses entered the mountains to open mines. Shixiu Village, which was hidden in the mountain seam, was also discovered. Later, the country cracked down severely, and those bosses were either caught or escaped, leaving behind only a cement road that leads directly to the county town.

  Twenty minutes later, the motorcycle drove into Shixiu Village.

  Su Wen's home is relatively close to the front, entering Shixiu Village, the fifth household is Su Wen's house, a very ancient and elegant old mansion built with wood and stone from the mountains. In recent years, a seriously ill overseas Chinese wanted to find a place for recuperation, accidentally passing through Shixiu Village, he took a fancy to Su Wen's house at first sight, and offered 1 million yuan, but Su Wen's father flatly refused. According to his father's words, this is the ancestral home passed down by our ancestors, it can't be sold even if we die.

  "Hurray, the university student is back! Why didn't you find a job outside?" Neighbor Huang Bazi said with a sarcastic tone. Her family and Su Wen's family had a lot of conflicts over land issues. At the beginning of the year, she heard that Su Wen couldn't find a job outside, but she didn't miss any opportunity to mock him in front of others. Thanks to her, the whole Shixiu Village knew that Su Wen couldn't find a job.

  "Shut up, you spendthrifts!" A man carrying a large ceramic bowl came out of the house. This was Huang Bazi's husband, Huang Daren. He looked at Su Wen and comforted him, "It's okay if you can't find work outside. We're all mountain people. We may not have much else, but we've got plenty of hills. Next year, we'll plant a few acres of fruit trees and we won't starve."

  "Thanks, Uncle Huang." Su Wen smiled, he knew that this Uncle Huang was not bad, but just couldn't control his wife at home, otherwise she wouldn't have been nicknamed "Huang's Wife".

  "Don't stand there like a fool, hurry back home and eat." Huang Daren looked over at Su Wen's house and saw that it was Su Wen's mother who had come out.

  Seeing his mother's hair already having some white spots, Su Wen's heart ached: "Mom, I'm back."

  "Come back, it's good. Your dad went up the mountain last night and caught a wild rabbit. I made your favorite braised rabbit meat, it's all ready, go eat quickly!" Mother casually took off the backpack on Su Wen's back, "By the way, I also cleaned up your room, you must not have slept well after sitting on the train for a whole night, go take a nap after eating."

  "Mom, I slept on the train, now I'm not sleepy." Su Wen and her mother walked into the house together.

  He held a bowl of steaming hot braised rabbit meat, with a bun in his hand and one in the bowl. Su Wen habitually sat down at the doorway to eat, just like he used to do before.

  "Brother Wen, you're back?" A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy slammed on the brakes of his bicycle, and the screeching sound of the tires and brake pads could still be heard.

  "Xiao Yu, why are you running so fast?" Su Wen smiled.

  "Wen Ge, Cui Da Pao is collecting old coins at the village entrance, I'll go take a look... Who would have thought that those worthless things could be so valuable, some of them can sell for over a hundred yuan." said Xiao Yu with a mischievous grin. He was a child from Old Zhang's family in Shixiu Village and had always idolized Su Wen, after all, Su Wen was a university student. Many parents in Shixiu Village used to educate their children by holding up Su Wen as an example, but now no one says that anymore.

  "Old coins? What a coincidence?" Su Wen's interest was piqued, he had sold quite a few old coins in Kyoto, but the price wasn't over a hundred yuan. "Come on, let's go take a look."

  Su Wen had also heard a lot about Cui Dapao, who was quite famous in the surrounding villages. In recent years, he had been buying goods from several nearby villages and it was said that he had even bought several houses in the county seat, including a villa in Jiangning City. Where did this money come from? It didn't take much thought to figure it out.

  Alas, all parents in the world are pitiful! Book friends, you must be filial!