Chapter 3 Time has changed and the sea has changed
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Xu Li took Xu Kai to find a small bathhouse and used grapefruit leaves to help Xu Kai take a good bath.
When he changed into the new clothes that Xu Li specially brought, the moment he walked out of the bath, Xu Kai felt that the sun was much brighter.
Taking the pace of regaining new life, Xu Kai wanted to go straight to the bus station in his memory.
But after taking a few steps, Xu Kai's confident steps became hesitant - it turned out that Xu Kai could walk through Hengdian with his eyes closed, but now he couldn't even tell the difference between east, west, south and north.
Xu Li, who had guessed that Xu Kai was looking for a bus station, whispered: "Brother, the bus station was cut off five years ago and built the Guomao Building that integrates guest rooms, catering, entertainment, conferences and business. The car leading to our Furong Village has become a bus No. 12."
Ten years have passed. Although Hengdian is still called Hengdian, it has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The old gray houses and dirty and messy streets were gone. The old silk factory, old pharmaceutical factory and other state-owned factories that everyone knew about in Hengdian had no trace left behind. Even the stinky Nanjiang no longer exuded the familiar smell of Xu Kai.
Nowadays, Hengdian, with straight roads, bridges, garden-style streets, uniquely decorated buildings, uniform industrial parks, beautiful tourist attractions, magnificent film and television shooting bases, fully equipped hospitals, hotels, schools, cinemas, libraries, gymnasiums, high-end shopping malls, hotels, and commercial streets, have become a metropolis.
"Times change with each other!"
"I'm no longer the boy I used to be!"
Bus No. 12 took Xu Kai and Xu Li through most of Hengdian to Furong Village.
As Xu Kai expected, the small mountain village that was once dilapidated and backward has now changed a lot.
Brick and tile houses, small villas, and even large villas with different shapes replaced the old small earthen houses.
The once uneven rural dirt roads have become wide and neat cement avenues.
In the past, the small soil bubbles that children played in front of the village turned into clear ponds, with ancient corridors and pavilions everywhere, and trees and shrubs were scattered on the shore of the pond, and the newly paved stone roads were winding and secluded, making the southern scenery.
Xu Kai turned his head and looked at his home: "Fortunately, there was not much change except that it was a little bit worn than ten years ago."
After walking along the muddy mountain road for nearly twenty minutes, Xu Kai finally returned to his home that he had been dreaming of for ten years - No. 1 Furong Village.
As soon as Xu Kai and Xu Li appeared, there was a "crackling" sound of firecrackers in front of Xu Kai's house.
Soon, Xu Kai saw Xu Yun and Cui Min, who were obviously much older than ten years ago.
Seeing Xu Kaizhen coming back, Cui Min's tears flowed down in a bad mood, and even Xu Yun's eyes were red.
Xu Kai wanted to say something, but he really didn't know what to say. He even wanted to kneel down and fuck his parents who had been fucking him for so many years, but he thought that was too artificial.
"Stop crying, let the child laugh."
After saying that, Xu Yun lit the brazier that had been prepared long ago.
Then Xu Yun and Cui Min led Xu Kai across the brazier and into their home.
Before Xu Kai asked why Xu Mai was not here, Xu Li took the initiative to say: "Mai Mai won the second place in the city in the piano competition and could participate in the finals. We all thought this opportunity was too rare, so we asked Tang Yun to take her to the Magic City to participate in the finals."
It was not until this time that Xu Kai remembered this younger brother who had been silently accompanying him.
After looking carefully, Xu Kai found that Xu Li has also grown a lot older. He is no longer the sunny and handsome half-boy that year, but a middle-aged man who has been baptized by life.
Yes.
middle aged.
Although Xu Li is two years younger than Xu Kai, he is only twenty-nine now.
But no matter how Xu Kai looked, he felt that Xu Li looked more than ten years older than him.
The reason for this is that in addition to Xu Kai’s practice for ten years and being good at health preservation, it is also because Xu Li’s ten years have been too difficult.
It is no exaggeration to say that Xu Kaineng has been in prison for ten years without distractions because he has this good brother who has been silently dedicated to their family.
It was him who supported Xu Kai's parents.
It was him who educated Xu Kai on his daughter.
It was him who shouldered many responsibilities and obligations for Xu Kai that should have been borne by Xu Kai.
When Xu Kai was imprisoned, he was less than nineteen years old and was just a half-year-old boy in high school.
It can be said that he has become what he is now and has nothing to do with Xu Kai-shek.
If Xu Kai had not been imprisoned, he would never have dropped out of school early to become an extra to make money to support his family, and would have become as vicissitudes as he is now.
"Thanks to you and Tang Yun for helping me take care of Mai Mai over the years," Xu Kai said sincerely.
Xu Li grinned: "Brother, your daughter is my daughter, do you say thank you?"
Xie didn't say it with his mouth, so Xu Kai didn't pretend to be pretentious, but asked: "When will you and Tang Yun get married?"
Listening to Xu Kai’s mention of this, Cui Min said: “They should have gotten married long ago and have been together for 8 years, but Tang Yun’s father is just a vampire with a 500,000 yuan bride price. He would not let Xu Li and Tang Yun marry him. If he was too anxious, he would drink pesticides.”
"If you don't have knots, don't have knots. Anyway, it's just a formality. With my relationship with Tang Yun, I can't get apart if I don't have this form." Xu Li comforted everyone.
"How can this work? Tang Yun has followed you for 8 years without regrets and helped me take care of Mai Mai for 8 years. Our family has to give Tang Yun a decent wedding, which is not to let Tang Yun down for you and for our family. Besides, 500,000 yuan of bride price is not much. A girl as good as Tang Yun is worth even if she gives 5 million yuan of bride price." Xu Kai said.
The Xu family knew that Xu Kai had a compensation of 1.3 million yuan, but they had already agreed that no one could move the 1.3 million yuan, so they would keep it for Xu Kai to marry a wife.
After all, compared with Xu Li, who has lived with his girlfriend for 8 years and has a stable relationship and a career has begun, Xu Kai, who has been in prison for more than ten years and has a daughter who is almost eleven years old, has even worse conditions. Without this 1.3 million, how could Xu Kai get married and start a business?
So, although Xu Kai had already brought the topic to the money, Xu Li immediately changed the topic: "Brother, you have to go and thank Officer Fan the next day. If you don't have her, you will have to sit for at least three more years. Even if you come out in three years, you will also be in charge of the case and you can't do a lot of work."
Xu Kai knew that it was not difficult to make millions with his own abilities, and no one believed it.
If I am willing to take out the 1.3 million I have to do, I guess these relatives in my family who have already thought of me so pitiful and hopeless will not want them.
Therefore, Xu Kai simply stopped mentioning this and used facts to speak in the future.
"Yes, I will definitely thank her if I have the chance."
Chapter completed!