Rebirth in the 60s: A Path to Counterattack
Chapter 24 - 024. It’s not very easy to happily become a dad!

Chapter 24: 024. It’s not very easy to happily become a dad!

Ever since Dai Weiguo became a scoundrel like Chen Shimei, Liu Shouren hadn’t seen his younger sister so happy before. Just for her rare smile, Liu Shouren felt he should ignore the bit of reluctance in his heart. It’s only six pounds of grain coupons and three dollars, right? Although those things at home couldn’t be exposed yet, the confidence this gave Liu Shouren wasn’t lacking in the slightest.

The future is promising; what’s a little temporary hardship?

The siblings were thinking about giving Lianshan, who wasn’t officially part of the family yet but had been marked as her man early on in her heart, a good meal. Another was contemplating doing a good deed to the end, as a way of repaying Lianshan for saving his sister twice. Neither of them cared much about those thirty meat buns, and after returning, they generously invited everyone to eat them as lunch.

But they remained calm; Wang Jianguo and the Lian family brothers couldn’t stay calm, could they?

These are white flour meat buns, each costing ten cents and requiring two ounces of grain coupons.

Relatives, these thirty meat buns cost three dollars plus six pounds of grain coupons! That’s enough to buy a sack of potatoes or a hundred pounds of cornmeal, isn’t it? And they ate them all in one go?

Wang Jianguo shook his head, saying he couldn’t bring himself to eat them!

Under the persistent persuasion of the Liu siblings and Lianshan and Lian Hai, he gingerly tasted one like it was a rare delicacy. He carefully wrapped up the remaining four buns, placing them like treasures in his waist pouch, saving them to honor his parents and let his two kids taste some meat when he returned home.

Though he was reluctant to eat them, Lianshan and Lian Hai were in no mood to eat. The child was severely injured, and even in a daze, he kept crying in pain. The distressed father, Lian Hai, felt as if his heart was being scratched by a cat, aching with worry. He wished that time would pass quickly and that the damned bus would come soon so he could take his son to the provincial city for medical treatment! Whatever debts to be incurred are secondary, as long as the child is cured without any lasting complications, he’d be eternally grateful.

At twenty-six and still unmarried, Lianshan treated his nephew, niece, and little grandnephew as if they were his own children. Seeing a well-child hurt like this, he too felt upset. To make matters worse, he already owed over a hundred bucks to the team and now another two hundred was added, it’s nothing short of a snowballing disaster! The worry in his heart made him want to find a deserted place to cry, so where would he have the appetite for buns?

"Lianshan bro, Lian Hai, look, I’ve already bought them, why don’t you give me some face and eat a bit? Otherwise, in this hot weather, won’t they spoil by the afternoon? Dig in, as people need food like iron, eat well to better take care of the child, getting all worked up won’t solve issues." Though not a spark now, Shuzhen had already claimed this silly man as her own, didn’t she? Full of love and care, how could she allow him to neglect his health over anxiety and self-starvation!

After persuading them twice without success, she directly glared with almond-shaped eyes and lightly shoved the bun into Lianshan’s hand with a feisty look. It’s as if saying, "If you don’t eat it, I won’t let this go!" Wang Jianguo watched with wide eyes, and his lips curled into a meaningful grin: Isn’t that something? In these times, how is there still a good person rescuing others from desperate situations? That’s two hundred bucks in cash and fifty pounds of national grain coupons, something a whole family might struggle a whole year to save up!

And just like that, it’s lent out without a flinch, turns out this is the root!

The hero saving the beauty results in the beauty being smitten, no less; that’s straight out of a drama, isn’t it? Heaven indeed blesses simple-minded folks, and doesn’t it just let Lianshan bro run into this?

Liu Shuzhen, the most beautiful flower within miles years ago, a dream girl to many lads.

Now divorced with a bellyful of child, accompanying her family despite poverty and fiercely protecting her siblings. When it comes to being willing to offer money and effort like Lianshan, she fits perfectly.

Moreover, if Lianshan truly has this fate, not only would he get a lovely wife! And putting aside, once these two families merge, even if it doesn’t completely clear the debt of two hundred bucks, at least it would give Lian Hai some breathing space. Mm, as Lian Hai’s close buddy, Wang Jianguo felt the need to remind him indirectly. So at least that silly boy should appreciate it; don’t offend the sister-in-law who came so painstakingly!

Despite his own sister’s deep affection for that scoundrel Dai Weiguo before, even now that she had figured things out, seeing clearly, Liu Shouren wasn’t thinking in any other direction. Just concerned about how people’s harsh words shouldn’t distort or exaggerate his sister’s genuine gratitude. Words can kill, who said men don’t gossip like women? He just noticed how Wang Jianguo’s sneaky looks didn’t seem honest at all!

If Wang Jianguo knew Liu Shouren’s thoughts at this moment, he’d guarantee he could slam his head on the ground and cry out injustice. How was spotting something extraordinary and unknown considered sneaky? His ancestors have been poverty-stricken farmers for eight generations, with genuine roots and red descendants!

With vigilance aroused within, Liu Shouren actively joined the ranks to comfort and encourage the Liu family brothers. Not only did he soothe the frowns between the Lian brothers’ brows but also had each eat five meat buns plus half a box of millet porridge. Occasionally expressing profound gratitude for Lianshan’s courageous rescue of his sister, nearly declaring to Wang Jianguo solemnly: His sister and Lianshan are only in a savior relationship, lending money purely out of gratitude.

Wang Jianguo outwardly smiled in agreement while inwardly shed a tear of sympathy for Lianshan: Finally meeting a good girl with unspoken affection, yet carrying along a difficult brother-in-law; being a joyful father may not be so easy!

Amid everyone’s anxious waiting, the first long-distance bus of the afternoon finally arrived at the station. After hastily bidding farewell to Wang Jianguo, they quickly boarded the bus with the tickets they bought earlier. Departing at one in the afternoon, they reached the provincial city around six. The unconscious Little Lian Jie had already woken up; knowing this fall resulted in severe injury and required treatment at the provincial hospital. Upon waking, never having cried before nor called out in pain, the little guy immediately cried his heart out, demanding to go home without treatment. Insisting that kids’ skins heal quickly, seemingly serious injuries were actually nothing much; just a few days’ rest would have him bouncing again. There’s no need to go through hospital hassle, wasting money or whatnot. His understanding made one’s heart ache; how could a mere five-year-old act so mature?

It was Lian Hai who, coaxing and scaring him, said if untreated, he’d become lame, unable to join the army for military grain coupons, or even earn work points in the fields. Only then did the little guy stop resisting, mumbling about how he could cooperate like that pretty Shuzhen aunt had said: Optimistically cooperating with the doctors’ treatment, recovering early to save the family’s hospitalization costs, medicine fees, and various other expenses, such understanding tugged at people’s hearts.

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