The Beginning of the World: Going to the Countryside as an Educated Youth

Seeing Sun Shaoping quickly regain his composure and quickly arrange things at home, Zhao Dongchuan nodded secretly. He is indeed the protagonist. Well, he can consider taking advantage of him in the future.

Shao Ping also left two bottles of eye drops and painkillers, and told Lan Xiang to give eye drops to grandma. Lan Xiang was quietly carrying a pig feed bucket, preparing to go out to feed the pigs, and when she heard Shao Ping's instructions, she nodded and agreed.

Then Zhao Dongchuan brought Sun Shaoan to his house and lent the bicycle locked in the yard to Sun Shaoping.

Sun Shaoping and Jin Bo used to take turns riding when going home from school, so he was not unfamiliar with it.

Sun Shaoping quickly rode away on his bike carrying the bedding prepared for his brother-in-law Wang Manyin and disappeared in the dusty yellow earth.

Zhao Dongchuan no longer cared about the subsequent events. Now he could only wait for the development of the situation. The more he intervened, the more likely it would cause a chain reaction, which might cause the situation to deviate from its original track.

Normally speaking, Wang Manyin could be released without his involvement in this matter, but it would not be so fast. In order to complete the task, Zhao Dongchuan just told the method in advance to speed up the progress, which would not change the essence of the matter.

The next day, before dawn, Zhao Dongchuan was sleeping when he heard a "ding" sound, a system notification tone came;

"Ding, congratulations to the host for completing the task and obtaining two chances to draw a lottery. The host can start the lottery at any time."

Zhao Dongchuan woke up in a daze. It seemed that Wang Manyin had been released. However, he should have been released last night. Why was it delayed until this morning? He didn't know what happened in the meantime.

As usual, Zhao Dongchuan got up, washed, cooked rice porridge on the stove, and practiced the Five Animal Exercises. After breakfast, it was still early, so he sat on the kang and did exercises.

I was working on a chemistry problem about molecular chains when I heard a familiar sound of footsteps outside the door.

"Brother Dong, are you there?" The person came into the room without knocking on the door. It was none other than Sun Shaoping.

"Shaoping, you're here, what's going on?"

"Your method is very effective. I ran into my brother not far from the village entrance."

"After hearing what happened, my brother agreed with your approach. I led the cow back, and my brother rode his bicycle to the county to find Sister Runye."

"Later in the evening, my brother came back and said that the matter had been settled."

"That scoundrel was released this morning, and now the whole family is at home," said Sun Shaoping with a smile.

"I just feel sorry for my sister, her eyes are swollen from crying. This bastard is messing around and making our whole family restless." Sun Shaoping showed an indignant expression again.

"It's ok as long as he comes back. Let your brother give him a beating from time to time. Wang Manyin is most afraid of your brother."

Shao Ping was so angry that his elder sister's life would be ruined if she had such a brother-in-law.

Zhao Dongchuan was temporarily powerless to do anything about this family matter. If Wang Manyin herself did not change her mind, no matter what outsiders said, it would be useless. She would run away again if you were not careful.

"By the way, Brother Dong, my dad invites you to our house for dinner tonight. Thank you for helping us so much."

"I didn't help much. I just gave some advice. Mainly, I should thank Runye. If Runye hadn't taken Shaoan to find her second father, her advice would have been useless," Zhao Dongchuan waved his hands quickly.

"You must come. This time you not only helped us, but also brought us something. We must treat you back no matter what. Please don't look down on us because we are poor and don't have any delicacies."

"Your bicycle is still at our house. You can ride it home after dinner," said Sun Shaoping.

Sun Shaoping has already said this, if you don't go, you will be looking down on him and will embarrass him, so just go.

Zhao Dongchuan thought so.

"Okay, I'll go over tonight. Let's make it clear before I go that the food is to thank your father for his kindness and cannot be returned. Also, you can't have a big banquet because of me, otherwise I won't eat. Just serve as you normally do and give me an extra pair of chopsticks."

"Okay, I got it. I'll go back and tell my brother and dad that I'll wait for you tonight."

"Then I'll go back first," Sun Shaoping said and went home.

After tidying up for a while, Zhao Dongchuan went to work. When he saw Sun Shaoan, the two of them nodded and greeted each other tacitly. They didn't say much else and just divided the tasks and worked.

After work, the two of them went their separate ways. As they walked, Shaoan said, "Dongchuan, thank you for helping me with my second-rate brother-in-law."

"I'm just offering some advice. I don't want to take credit for it. In fact, you could have thought of it yourself. There's no need to be so polite," Zhao Dongchuan said with a smile as they walked, and then everyone went home.

When Zhao Dongchuan got home, he packed some brown sugar bought from a store as a gift. He couldn't eat other people's food for free today. The last time he gave them something was to repay the old man for "saving his life". This time, the other person was treating him, so he couldn't go empty-handed. After all, the other person's family conditions were not good and their life was in a mess.

When they arrived at Old Man Sun's house, the meal was already prepared on the stove and the whole family was there. The two children, Maodan and Goudan, were running around in the yard. Lanxiang was calling them nearby. Wang Manyin did not go into the house either. He was sitting by the firewood smoking. When he saw Zhao Dongchuan coming in, he was stunned for a moment, then immediately got up and handed him a cigarette.

"Thanks, brother. Otherwise I would have died here. This is not a place for people to stay. Come and have a cigarette." As he said this, he took out a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes with only a few cigarettes left and handed it to Zhao Dongchuan.

"I don't smoke because Sister Lanhua is so pitiful," Zhao Dongchuan said as he blocked it.

Wang Manyin was not angry, but just smiled awkwardly. He knew his own problems. He often said that he was a broken jar in the Jar Village. No matter what others said, he still just lived for himself.

Hearing the noise outside, old man Sun Yuhou and brothers Shao Ping and Shao An also came out to greet them.

"Zhao Wa, you are here, come in quickly"

"You're here," Shaoan also offered to sit down, and Shaoping also greeted him while holding dishes.

The room was packed with people, even Sun Yuting was there. It seemed that he had heard the news and came to get a free meal. He and his wife were both "poor advanced people" in the village. They did not live well and had no food to eat, so they often came to his brother Sun Yuhou's house to get a free meal.

"So many people welcome me. When did I become so popular?" Zhao Dongchuan said jokingly.

"You helped my brother-in-law, which means you helped our whole family. We are all grateful," Shaoan said.

Sun Yuting smiled and said, "Wang Manyin has become a labor camp prisoner. How can I be a member of the Party branch? I can't do my work. I have to thank you."

"When I was doing the bulldozing with this scoundrel, I was so embarrassed that I wanted to find a crack to jump out." The old man Yuhou's brows were furrowed into knots.

On the table were some vegetables grown in the private plot, potatoes and sweet potatoes, with some minced meat, a hint of oil floating in the soup, and a plate of yellow flour steamed buns, which was much better than usual.