Chapter 70: Jiaojiao is spoiled by the rough man

Su Wanwan, who had almost forgotten that Xu Yan had two older sisters, immediately held back the tears that were about to well up in her eyes and sniffed helplessly: "Then..."

"What then?"

Seeing the drastic changes on Su Wanwan's face in an instant, Xu Yan's lips curled up infinitely.

"Well... have you ever received a scarf?" Su Wanwan asked in a muffled voice, clutching a small yellow flower next to Liuta.

"No." Xu Yan immediately shook his head, "I haven't received anything."

"You've lived for nineteen years and never received a gift from anyone?"

The voice of Su Wanwan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was still muffled, and still contained some anger.

"This... I have received it." After hearing Su Wanwan's question, Xu Yan, with his hands on the steering wheel, pondered for a moment.

"I said, how is it possible that no one has ever given you a gift?" Su Wanwan's answer was more like mumbling to herself, and the resentment in it was obviously deeper.

"When I was little, my second sister loved playing with me. She especially loved giving me things she didn't want anymore and even tricked me into wearing her clothes. My eldest sister would give me some small gifts every New Year."

Driving silently, Xu Yan briefly recalled his growth process.

"Ah...besides these?"

"What else could it be? Oh, when I was very young, my father took me to town to make a few sets of clothes."

Without hearing anything else from Xu Yan, Su Wanwan silently raised her eyes and looked at the profile of Xu Yan who was concentrating on driving.

"Then do you want to receive gifts from others?"

"Wanwan, are you planning to give me a gift?" Xu Yan, who already had a lingering smile on his face, smiled again, "No need. Wanwan being here is a great gift for me."

His old face turned red and Su Wanwan buried the lower half of her face in her scarf.

"Wait, didn't you say you were out shopping for materials for the new factory these days? Why is the car so empty?"

Su Wanwan looked around the car and found that there was almost nothing in Xu Yan's car. Except for Xu Yan's own bag and a few small boxes with unknown contents, there was nothing else.

Unlike the previous two times when he went out to purchase the wood and incense powder needed for the factory's production, he came back with a whole truck full of goods each time.

"I went to the relevant places in the county to consult and found out that it would not cost much more to use earth bricks instead of grass mud. The most expensive part is the transportation cost of earth bricks."

Listening to Xu Yan's words silently, Su Wanwan began to imagine what the adobe house would look like in her mind.

Since her soul came here, she has never seen a house made of earthen bricks. She had never seen such an ancient house in her previous life. For a moment, she had no idea what it was.

"I plan to ask the people in the county who are in contact with me to transport some earth bricks to the village and try to build a house. If these earth bricks can function like grass mud, then we will just build houses with earth bricks in the future. The maintenance cost of this kind of house is very low."

Su Wanwan nodded. "When can the bricks be delivered? Do we need to hire specialized technicians?"

"No, I will discuss this with Secretary Wang and the others later. It shouldn't be complicated."

"Why did you discuss this with Secretary Wang and the others?"

Seeing the village appearing in the distance at the end of the road from the car window, Su Wanwan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It was snowing so heavily outside, but Xu Yan was able to find the right direction and successfully drive the car back to the village...

"Because this is not something Wanwan should consider." Xu Yan answered very straightforwardly and turned the car into the intersection where the Xu family was.

Su Wanwan was about to speak after hearing Xu Yan's words, but heard him continue -

"Wanwan should study hard. Leave these small matters to us."

Xu Yan's words successfully suppressed her anger. Su Wanwan wanted to continue talking, but Xu Yan had already parked the car in the Xu family's yard.

After parking the car, he turned around and went to deliver the bicycles to the canteen.

"Then I'll...go home first."

Su Wanwan followed him out of the yard somewhat awkwardly, fearing that Xu Yan’s eldest sister Xu Lan and second sister Xu Mei would suddenly appear at this time. That... would be too embarrassing.

Xu Mei, the second sister of the Xu family, has never liked her very much...

"Let's have dinner together tonight. I'll be back soon after I deliver the car."

"what?"

Su Wanwan was walking in the Xu family's yard, planning to go home, when she heard Xu Yan shouting this to her from afar. Then the guy got on his bicycle and disappeared in the heavy snow.

It made her want to shout something but she didn't know where to shout.

"Wanwan, come on in and sit down. It's snowing so heavily outside. What are you doing here in the snow?"

A few seconds after Xu Yan left, Su Wanwan was standing in the Xu family's yard in a daze, not knowing where to go, when suddenly a carefree figure walked up behind her.

Hearing the tone, she knew without turning around that the person walking towards her was Xu Mei, the second sister of the Xu family.

Ever since Old Man Xu was admitted to the clinic and later sent to the county for treatment, Xu's eldest and second sisters have been avoiding the villagers and have been indifferent to many things in the village.

Even Xu Lan, the eldest sister of the Xu family, went to the production team to help less often, and remained silent when asked about family matters. The second sister Xu Mei would often have verbal conflicts with people in the village, but fortunately, no big deal was made.

I didn’t expect that after not seeing her for a while, the second sister of the Xu family has changed so much in personality.

Su Wanwan thought silently in her heart, but she couldn't save face, so she had to follow Xu Mei into one of the rooms in Xu's house.

There was a fire in the room, and Xu Mei led Su Wanwan into the kang in the inner room separated by a curtain. "Sit here first. I'll go get you a cup of hot water."

Sitting on the kang somewhat awkwardly, Su Wanwan nodded inaudibly, and then saw Xu Mei walk out.

The last time she came to Xu Yan's house was in summer. She still remembered the expression on the face of Xu Yan's younger brother Xu En when Zhong Qingqing walked into the house with eggs.

Wait...where's Xu En?

Thinking of this child, Su Wanwan mobilized the memories in her mind.

It seems like I haven’t seen Xu En for a while.

In the past, Xu En always ran around with other half-grown children in the village. From time to time, they would play around near the radio station, and sometimes even join in the broadcast of the Quotations of the Times.

But recently she seemed to have not seen Xu En in the village, nor did she hear any rumors about him among the villagers. Even after the factory was established, she had not heard that Xu En was going to come to work in the factory.

But Xu En is not young anymore, so he can consider working in a factory...

When Su Wanwan was wondering, Xu Mei lifted the door curtain and walked in with a cup of hot water.

Xu Lan followed her.

"Our Xu En was taken to the county by Xu Yan to take care of his father some time ago. Now he lives and eats with his father in the county, right in that hospital."

Su Wanwan carefully took the steaming cup of water and pursed her lips, "But Xu En is still young. Are you at ease letting him take care of Uncle Xu alone?"