Chapter 47 It's Raining

After hearing Lu Zhiheng's words, Old Man He didn't say anything more. If he could pull out the head of the Public Security Bureau, then it must be true.

However, Old Man He did not let his guard down. This man was not old, but he seemed very calm and composed. He also had a good-looking face, and you know his daughter was very particular about looks.

Sigh, he felt remorseful whenever he thought of his daughter. If he hadn't been working at the Qu family's residence, he wouldn't have harmed his daughter.

Lu Zhiheng was quite trustworthy. After dinner, he changed his clothes and left. Before leaving, fearing that He Yuping would not accept the money, he left 50 silver dollars and a jade pendant on the coffee table in the living room.

After finishing their meal, He Yuping and her daughter went with her father to the local street office. They needed to talk to the street office about this matter and ask them to take care of these people, otherwise, it would happen again.

If those people find out that his daughter doesn't actually have a man, they'll definitely keep coming.

He couldn't be with his daughter every moment, so the most effective way was to address both the symptoms and the root cause. The old man thought he had some free time these next few days to go out and find out exactly where they were active, and then find a time to put them in a sack and give them a good beating.

It would be best to break their legs or something, so they can't come out and cause trouble anymore. When the old man first came here, they came to see him, an old man, and planned to extort money from him.

They hadn't expected the old man to be so agile, despite his age. He quickly subdued them and took them to the police station. Although the laws weren't perfect at the time, and there were still many wicked people around, these men were sent to labor camps and returned sometime later. Now they were trying to harm his daughter, so it seemed they would have to be dealt with again before they would behave.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, a light drizzle began to fall outside, and the rainwater felt like ice water.

He Yuping and her daughter simply stayed indoors, setting up a copper pot for hot pot. The old man poured two liang of ginseng wine, and they sipped the wine while eating the hot pot.

"It's still better to eat hot pot to keep warm. Paired with this ginseng wine, life is wonderful. I wouldn't trade it for even the gods."

"Grandpa, are your demands really that low? If that's all you ask for, then I could satisfy you every day before we opened the shop." He Caiwei found it a little funny to see the old man squinting his eyes and looking so content.

"What nonsense are you talking about, girl? Is this a low standard? You know, vegetables and meat are very hard to find these days. A table without meat looks colorless. And vegetables, you know, in this kind of weather, vegetables can't withstand this cold rain and they'll all freeze to death. Before the New Year, didn't you see that all that was available for sale were cabbages and radishes? Ginseng wine can't be eaten with radishes, understand?" The old man used his chopsticks to scoop up the last piece of meat from the pot, sipped his wine, and slowly chewed it.

“I understand. We have plenty of vegetables. Grandpa, have you seen the little greens I planted in the side room next to the kitchen? They’re growing so well, we can harvest a batch every few days.” He Caiwei was extremely proud of herself. Back when she bought the house, she had already chosen two rooms to use for growing vegetables in the winter.

This was all to conceal the vegetables in her space. The old man was shrewd and experienced; if she didn't have something to fool him, she wouldn't dare take out the dripping vegetables to use for hot pot.

It's common knowledge that ginseng and radishes shouldn't be eaten together; how could she not know that? The old man has been drinking a little ginseng wine every day lately, so radishes haven't appeared on their table for a long time.

"What a clever girl! You must have come up with this idea. Your mother isn't as bright as you." The old man chuckled, belittling his daughter and praising his granddaughter.

He Yuping wasn't angry when her father said that, after all, she wasn't very bright. The bright person her father was praising was her own daughter, so there was nothing to be angry about.

"By the way, daughter, have you thought about finding someone else? In the two months since you came here, several people have come to propose marriage. I thought you might not want to rush things, so I turned them down. If you want to find someone, just tell me, and I'll have someone introduce you." The old man was eating when he suddenly thought of Lu Zhiheng and decided to ask his daughter about her marriage.

"Let's wait a bit. Actually, I wasn't thinking of looking for someone else, but I don't know when a situation like yesterday might happen again, which is really bothersome. How about I find a son-in-law to live with us? Anyway, I have a house and a shop, so I can find an honest man to manage for me." He Yuping felt that she could support her daughter and take care of her father in his old age, so she didn't really want to find someone else.

After being influenced by the TV dramas in her daughter's online space, she now feels that getting married is a very troublesome thing.

Not counting the money she made from selling things in her space and the money she plundered from the Qu family, she has already made a fortune from these two shops in just over two months.

If the mother and daughter didn't squander their money, the revenue from these two months would be enough for them to live a carefree life for several years.

But seeing the history books in the space, she knew that life would become increasingly difficult. All she could think of was earning more money and stockpiling supplies to ensure that her family of three wouldn't go hungry in the future.

The future will be less favorable for those who are relatively wealthy, so from now on he plans to keep a low profile and be careful not to attract attention.

He Yuping had to be extremely careful to avoid giving anyone any leverage against her.

"It's okay to take it slow, but not too long. You have to find someone you like. It would be best if you could suffer. If not, you can marry into their family. If they don't want Guai Guai, then you can leave Guai Guai with me, so she won't be disliked when she goes to your in-laws' house." With just two sentences, the old man had already thought of endless possibilities.

If his daughter meets someone she likes, but that person doesn't want to accept his granddaughter, then he will raise his granddaughter.

He Yuping felt increasingly uncomfortable listening to her father's words. It was as if she was destined to suffer after marriage, and that anyone who dared to look down on her daughter should be kicked out of the way.

He Caiwei could absolutely imagine what the old man was thinking right now: that she, the poor little thing, had become a little cabbage after her mother remarried.

After spending a few days with the old man, she realized that his imagination ran wild. He would often start to overthink things based on just a few words, scaring her half to death.

The old man must be imagining something right now, otherwise his smile wouldn't be so creepy.

"Dad, please stop imagining things. What kind of nonsense are you thinking? Why are you laughing so strangely? It's terrifying." He Yuping was speechless at her father's wild imagination. She reached out and picked up a large piece of meat for him, stuffing it directly into his mouth to stop him from overthinking. She needed to find something for him to do.