To make up for the debt owed to Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

So, before the Spring Festival, she cleaned and decorated her neighbor's house in preparation for welcoming her parents-in-law to celebrate the New Year.

At the end of the year, Ruixiang Garment Factory's dividends arrived in her account, easing the financial pressure she had just experienced after buying a house. Before the new year, Meili's lingerie line was launched, and with Wu Tianjiao involved, it quickly captured the markets in the capital and Shanghai, selling out immediately upon release. It seems she made another fortune this time.

This is Lin Qingping and Mei Li's own business! It's different from cooperating with Ruixiang!

As the Spring Festival approached, I received a letter from Gu Youlian and Du Gen. They would also be traveling to the capital with Gu's parents, and the whole family would be spending the Spring Festival away from home for the first time.

When Lin Qingping received the letter, she calculated the days and realized that there were only a few days left before their departure. She quickly went shopping with Gu Juncheng and Zhiyuan and bought a lot of New Year's goods.

Zhiyuan, like a little squirrel, hoarded quite a lot of goods.

On the day the Gu family elders arrived in the capital, the whole family went to the train station to pick them up.

The train arrived in the afternoon. As the crowd of people rushed out of the station, Lin Qingping spotted five people from her hometown in the crowd from afar. Each of them was covered with bags and packages. Even Xiaomai, who was small, had one on her back and another in her arms.

"Father! Mother! Eldest Sister!" Lin Qingping stood on tiptoe and shouted loudly.

After shouting, I inexplicably felt that the people around me had strange eyes.

She glanced to the side and, sure enough, it was Gu Juncheng staring at her.

He seemed to have lost a lot of weight this semester, and his deep-set eyes looked even more piercing.

"What's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked softly.

"It's nothing." Gu Juncheng patted her head.

As they were talking, the Gu family members approached. Xiaomai happily ran up to Zhiyuan, smiled, and whispered, "Brother Zhiyuan."

Zhiyuan, adopting the air of an older brother, nodded and said, "Xiaomai, you've finally arrived."

The Gu family elders and Gu Youlian and her husband also came forward to greet Lin Qingping warmly, but none of them spoke to Gu Juncheng. He was indeed a dull and taciturn man, and his family members were somewhat afraid of him.

Gu Juncheng silently took the bundles from his parents, a total of four...

"Father, Mother, Eldest Sister, why did you bring so much stuff?" Lin Qingping was also startled. "Didn't you say we didn't need to bring anything? I've bought you all new clothes, and you have all the daily necessities. All we need is for one person to come."

"Your father brought you some local produce from home," the mother-in-law said, with a hint of reproach. "I told you, the capital is a big city, it has everything, isn't it better than what we have in the countryside? But your father insisted on bringing it!"

The family chatted as they exited the station.

After exiting the station, the mother-in-law truly realized what a big city the capital was. She was speechless, her eyes wide with amazement. Especially when she saw foreigners, she gripped her daughter's hand tightly, her voice trembling, "Look! Look, those are foreigners!"

The usually taciturn father-in-law even scolded his mother-in-law, "Don't be so naive, acting like you've never seen anything like this before, it's embarrassing!"

Lin Qingping smiled and said, "Mom, it's okay. Let's look at it openly and honestly. You can even go and say hello to the foreigners!"

The mother-in-law was immediately frightened and shook her head repeatedly, "What are you talking about? No, no, no, no! People will think I'm a crazy woman! I'll bring shame to the country!"

The whole family burst into laughter.

Gu Juncheng and Lin Qingping led them on a bus home. Along the way, even Gu Youlian, who had been to the provincial capital and seen the world, stared wide-eyed.

The capital is the capital!

When Lin Qingping brought them home and they learned that the two bungalows were their home, Gu Youlian was stunned again. "Pingzi, are you really planning to settle down in the capital? How much did two such big houses cost?"

Lin Qingping explained to them that only one set was hers, and the other was rented.

But even this was enough to unsettle Gu Youlian's heart.

Lin Qingping welcomed them into the house she had bought, intending for the Gu family to stay there temporarily.

As soon as I entered the house, I started unpacking the bags and packages I had brought from my hometown.

The Gu family elders were obedient; they didn't bring many clothes or daily necessities, only food...

The cured chicken, duck, fish, pork, sausages, and pickles filled five large burlap sacks, and there were also two large burlap sacks of vegetables from the field.

Gu Juncheng looked at the vegetables with some confusion, "Aren't they hard to memorize? There are no vegetables to buy here?"

“Your dad said that everything is expensive in the capital, so bring as much as you can to save some money,” the mother-in-law explained.

"And what about these?" Gu Juncheng pointed to a large bag of potatoes, a large bag of sweet potatoes, two large winter melons, and two large pumpkins, looking utterly bewildered. "Aren't these heavy?"

"And these too!" Gu Youlian opened a bundle she had been carefully protecting all along the way; it was full of eggs...

Gu Juncheng laughed in exasperation, "Your journey has been almost like escorting landmines."

Lin Qingping stopped him from saying anything more, and just hugged her mother-in-law's arm, "Mom, don't listen to him. I like it. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are all my favorites. Thank you, but I'm sorry to have troubled you."

The mother-in-law was delighted to hear this, saying, "I brought it for you because you like it."

They weren't afraid of being tired. They were worried that Lin Qingping might not even look at these country bumpkins in the capital. But with so many of them coming to eat and drink, wouldn't it cost a lot of money? They wanted to save money wherever possible. Unexpectedly, their daughter-in-law didn't mind at all.

When giving someone a gift, is there anyone more delightful than the recipient being happy to accept it?

Lin Qingping happily tidied up the things her parents-in-law had brought. Gu Juncheng laughed at her, saying that she was too easy to please because of such a small amount of stuff.

Little did Gu Juncheng know how disappointed and regretful she felt when she watched those short videos of Chinese New Year in her past life, seeing her parents filling the trunk of their car to the brim when their children returned home for the holidays.

She had also worked hard on her own before. Every time she went home, her car would be full of things for her parents and younger brother. However, when she returned, her car was always empty, with nothing at all.

Before her parents and younger brother moved to the provincial capital, they often visited her, but they never brought her anything. Every time they came, they would ask for things, and she would keep buying them. Later, she even bought them a house to live in...

Potatoes and sweet potatoes were indeed not worth much, and they were quite heavy to carry all the way, but what Gu Juncheng didn't know was that these things were much heavier in Lin Qingping's heart, very, very heavy...

She told her parents-in-law and eldest sister to rest in the living room while Gu Juncheng kept them company. She went to the kitchen to prepare something simple for the Gu family to eat.

Just as she put the pot on the stove, she heard footsteps behind her. She recognized the sound as Gu Juncheng's. Before she could say anything, Gu Juncheng hugged her from behind.