The world is in trouble

Chapter 165: A raging fire spreads across the prairie! Momo sacrifices herself!
After the fireworks.

Lin Xiao's mother and grandmother were busy in the kitchen again, washing dishes and so on.

Lin Yao, Bai Xiaoping and Su Tao went in to help.

Paopao felt embarrassed and wanted to help, but was chased out by grandma.

What she meant was that Bubble was born to be a young lady, and she has never done any housework. It would be a shame to use such pretty little hands to wash dishes.

Lin Yao couldn't help but said, "Then I deserve to wash the dishes."

Grandma took a look and said seriously, "You wash the dishes."

Suddenly, Bai Xiaoping and Su Tao beside them burst into laughter.

Lin Yao didn't care and laughed too.

Grandpa had already gone out to brag with a bunch of old buddies.

His father, Lin Huaili, was also invited by the village party secretary Lin Yiqiu to help supervise the village's accounts for the year.

It’s very interesting in the countryside. After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner on New Year’s Eve, there will be a final settlement of accounts. I don’t know which year this tradition was passed down.

Lin Huaili’s status in the village is no longer the same as it was before.

Moreover, he adapted to this role very quickly.

In the past year, Li Hu came here every few days.

Moreover, whenever the mayor and the secretary wanted to express their condolences, they would come to Lin Xiao's house first.

Lin Huaili's prestige was built up bit by bit in this way, and at critical moments, he was willing to take responsibility and help.

People are really strange.

Grandpa could be himself all his life.

As for his father, Lin Huaili, it was only after he reached middle age that he gradually found the roles he was good at.

Lin Xiao's mother, on the other hand, had not changed at all. She was still the same as she was when the family was poor.

There is still endless work to do every day, and she has to work even if she is not allowed to.

Even now, Lin Huaili is still farming and growing vegetables. He has not even given up on the tea forest, and he has been managing the oil tea forest carefully.

It seemed that only in this way could he feel more at ease and enjoy everything he had now.

After finishing the work in the kitchen, Xia Xi, Qu Feifei, Taozi and Paopao watched TV and played poker.

The one I hit is red 5.

Three against one, the kind that makes money, 2 dollars at the minimum.

The biggest win or loss in one hand is probably around 20 to 30.

Bai Xiaoping went on the court with great enthusiasm at the beginning, because she used to play often before her divorce and she was quite good at it.

The result was a complete loss.

And Xia Xi seemed to be cheating, she seemed to be able to calculate every card.

So after a few rounds, everyone couldn't stand it anymore and kicked Xia Xi off the table.

Then, the four of them were balanced and fought evenly, with both sides fighting back and forth.

It was not until this time that the fireworks and cannon fire gradually stopped.

By midnight, it will reach another peak.

Several neighbors came directly to the house to watch TV and chat with Lin Xiao’s mother and grandmother.

The TV I bought at home is a 42-inch LCD TV from Sharp, which is almost the largest TV on the market.

The women in the village are chatting over here, and the girls at the table over there are playing cards.

From time to time, he glanced at the TV.

The 2003 Spring Festival Gala was not boring but still very interesting.

Lin Xiao went to the rooftop to make a phone call.

The important ones were just a few phone calls, from Lian Zheng, Lian Yi, Li Shuang, Ouyang Tang, Dean Zhang of Aurora University, etc.

Xia Xi, on the other hand, stood at the stairs to keep watch for him.

While keeping watch, she cursed the scumbag.

The call to Lian Zheng was just a normal New Year greeting.

But calling Lian Yi was troublesome, as the other end refused to hang up.

"Qiaoqiao, how much New Year's money did you ask for this year?"

"What? What do you want to do?" Qiaoqiao asked vigilantly, "Are you trying to cheat me out of money again?"

"You obviously volunteered, how can you say it's a lie?"

"Hehehe, you guys had bad intentions last time at the holiday villa. You are not good people."

Lin Xiao: "Don't accuse me wrongly. I was already sleeping in Li Zhongtian's room. You called me back. I was groaning all night and arching my butt. I don't know what I was doing."

"Shut up, shut up, stop talking..." Lian Yi said angrily, "Forget it quickly, or I'll settle the score with you. I'm obviously not ready yet."

I feel dizzy. I didn't even look at it or touch it, but I feel like you are telling me something.

Lin Xiao: "Okay, I'm going to hang up now. I have a lot of calls to make."

"Five minutes, another five minutes..."

Then, we chatted for another five minutes.

Secretary Xiao Lian repeatedly ordered, acted coquettishly and angrily, asking Lin Xiao to go find her quickly and to stay with her for more than five hours next time.

Next, it took me more than half an hour to finally make all the calls I needed to make.

The call to Li Shuang was very simple.

"Sister, why don't you come to my house for the New Year?"

Li Shuang: "Because I hope you will come to my house for the New Year."

"What are you doing?"

Li Shuang: "We are poaching people from the TV station to set up our own production company."

Then, the two fell silent.

"Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year."

After hanging up the phone, Xia Xi walked over to Lin Xiao and said, "Why, Big Ass Sister can't stand your scumbag and is starting to back off?"

Lin Xiao was too lazy to answer.

"It's strange. Do you know what the most common words people say when I come to your village?" Xia Xi asked.

Lin Xiao asked: "What?"

Xia Xi: "Although we are poor here, the air is very good and the scenery is also very beautiful."

She spoke in the tone of the villagers here.

"I admit that the air here is good, of course tonight is an exception." Xia Xi asked doubtfully: "But to be fair, this is a typical hilly area, with very ordinary scenery. It's not that great at all, even every mountain is so ordinary."

Lin Xiao said: "You have traveled all over the world and seen famous mountains and rivers, but many people here have never been to the county town in their lives, so of course they think the scenery in their hometown is nice."

Xia Xi said: "Just like a normal couple, they are obviously very ordinary, but after getting used to it, you still find them charming and beautiful?"

Lin Xiao: “That’s about the same idea.”

"After all the whining, what do you think of this place?"

Xia Xi said: "Ordinary, ordinary."

“But for me, it is the best of the best.”

"What I lack most is ordinary fireworks."

"I am very happy."

Lin Xiao didn't say anything, because what the other party said was true, although it deserved a beating.

"Wow, you are actually taller than me." Xia Xi said.

Lin Xiao said: "It's just a little bit, 1.8 meters is hopeless."

"Very good, very handsome." Xia Xi said, "You are so handsome that if I want offspring, I am willing to borrow from you."

Lin Xiao asked: "Would you like to have offspring?"

Xia Xi shook her head and said, "I don't want to at all at the moment."

"From now on, any child you and Paopao have will be for me to play with."

"I will pick the cutest and most beautiful one to adopt as my adopted son or daughter, and then give him my huge fortune."

“The meaning of struggle lies in the process, not in the result.”

"By the way, do you know how many hours of sleep I can get a day now?"

Lin Xiao said: "Who knows."

Xia Xi: "I can sleep for 11 hours."

"Before, I couldn't sleep for several days and nights in a row. Even after taking a lot of sleeping pills, I could only sleep for four hours."

"At that time, I even felt that my life was over and I might commit suicide at any time."

"You saved me."

Xia Xi gently tilted her head on Lin Xiao's shoulder and looked at the mountains not far away.

There is no ambiguity at all.

In her previous life, Xia Xi did not commit suicide and she developed inhuman nerves, but she was eventually swallowed by the abyss.

She has gradually become soft throughout her life.

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Early the next morning!
The sound of firecrackers going off non-stop was bang bang bang.

Lin Xiao and Lin Huaili got up early and helped the family cook dumplings.

According to local customs, people eat tangyuan on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the men in the family have to make them.

Women can sleep in.

The sound of firecrackers couldn't wake up Xia Xi and Paopao.

The two of them continued to sleep under the quilt.

We slept in the same room last night, whispered to each other in the middle of the night, and now we are dozing off.

suddenly……

There was a commotion in the room.

"Look, look over there."

This is Bai Xiaoping's voice from the next room.

Xia Xi sat up vaguely and looked through the window to see a man suddenly rushing out from the threshing ground a few dozen meters away.

Pour gasoline directly on yourself.

Then, a fire set itself on fire.

The whole person becomes a torch.

Keep wailing.

Gradually fall down.

Bubbles also came out from under the covers to see what it was.

As a result, Xia Xi covered her eyes directly.

"Don't look, there's nothing to see."

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After eating the dumplings, Grandpa and Father Lin Huaili didn't say anything and were still smiling.

After a brief greeting, he went out.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, someone committed suicide.

You need to deal with related matters.

The person who committed suicide was an elderly widower.

The old man has no one to rely on.

He even had no place to live because half of his house collapsed.

This person was quite energetic in middle age, or even in his youth. He loved to brag and was quite boastful.

As we get older, we gradually become silent.

Finally, he seemed to be completely silent and disappeared into the crowd.

He lived in different relatives' homes and rarely went out. He only took a walk at night and occasionally said hello to people.

In 2003, policies such as minimum living allowance and five-guarantee households had not been promoted, and even the agricultural tax had not been abolished.

So people who have a hard time will be really sad.

According to the original policy, there would be a nursing home in every few villages, which would house the homeless elderly.

But that was a special policy for a special time.

In recent years, these nursing homes have gradually become abandoned.

Bubble didn't witness it, but heard about it.

She did not fall into loss, but entered a state of thinking.

“Woof woof, as long as there is love in your heart, no one is an island in this world.”

"As long as destiny holds you together, you will never be alone."

“I don’t like One Hundred Years of Solitude, so I haven’t read it, but I’ve heard some of it, and I really don’t like it.”

"I love you, so I give you half of myself. You love me, so you give me half of yourself. We are a whole, so how can we be lonely?"

"When we have children in the future, our fates will become even more intertwined. You are in me, and I am in you."

Then, Lin Xiao took her to climb the mountain again.

Climb to the highest point of the back mountain.

There are tea oil forests everywhere here. Since it is a good economic crop, the weeds in the entire tea oil forest have been cleaned up very well.

The camellia oil season is almost over, but it’s still there.

At this time, there is the most honey in the camellia oil flowers.

Lin Xiao took a tube and sucked the honey from the flowers along with the bubbles.

This place is already quite high, and the houses in the village seem quite small.

Bubble was excitedly looking for Lin Xiao's house among a pile of small cubes.

"Where is our home?"

"Found it, found it..."

“It’s that little dot.”

“The roof of our house is different from that of other houses.”

She mentioned our family very naturally.

Looking at the beautiful and wonderful Momo.

Lin Xiao suddenly said, "Paopao, how about we donate some money to build a nursing home in the village so that the lonely elderly people from several nearby villages can live there?"

Bubble was surprised and asked, "Really?"

Lin Xiao said: "Really? But you have to earn the money. How about you write the script well and then use the dividends from the shares of Paopao Films to pay for it?"

“It’s not just about building a nursing home, but there are also fixed expenses every year.”

Bubble's beautiful eyes opened wide and said, "Is it really possible?"

Lin Xiao said: "Of course."

"We can't control too many people, but we can still manage a little bit around our home."

The look in Bubble's two big eyes as she looked at Lin Xiao was full of love and admiration.

"Woof woof, you are really an angel."

You are the fool.

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After returning home, Lin Xiao immediately told Xia Xi about this matter.

“You can set up a foundation and operate it independently.”

“At the beginning, the investment was not much, just a few hundred thousand.”

"This is a good thing. Not only can it help many elderly people who really need help and establish our corporate image, it can also enhance Uncle Lin's prestige in the local area."

“And this foundation not only runs nursing homes, but can also carry out other charitable activities.”

"It's not obvious now, but when our company grows bigger, it will be of great use to us."

"Besides, it seems more pure for us to start doing charity at this time. After all, we are not very rich and successful yet."

At noon, Lin Xiao told his grandfather and father Lin Huaili about this.

Both were very excited.

Grandpa kept saying, "Your great grandfather was always doing good deeds. He funded the construction of many bridges in the surrounding area. They are still in good condition today. You can still find stone tablets with your great grandfather's name engraved on them."

Lin Huaili said: "Dad, this matter cannot be told to anyone yet. It must be thoroughly implemented before it can be told. Only after it is done can it have weight."

Suddenly, Lin Xiao looked at his father with admiration.

It's really worth your time reading "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Records of the Three Kingdoms".

Grandpa said, "Do you need to tell me? When did my son start to teach me a lesson?"

However, Grandpa Lin Xiao had to admit it.

This son made him look at him with more and more respect.

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That afternoon, Lin Xiao drove Bubble back to the People's Hospital to accompany Xiao Wanli.

The mother and daughter were whispering again.

Bubble talked about what happened this morning.

Suddenly, Li Fangfang turned pale with fright. Bubble was so innocent and beautiful, but she actually witnessed such a tragic thing.

But Bubble said seriously: "Mom, I'm not as scared as I thought."

"Instead, I thought a lot and figured out a lot of things."

Li Fangfang asked, "Oh, what did you figure out?"

Bubble said: "In this world, it's best to have a bond. Don't think too much, just devote yourself to it."

"Whether it's for you or for Wangwang, the more I invest, the more I gain."

Li Fangfang didn't know what to say for a moment. This only works for people who are nice to each other.

But she seemed to also hope to see Bubbles and such a young couple, so she did not correct her but encouraged her instead.

"Wangwang plans to use my name to set up a foundation and build a nursing home so that the lonely elderly people in the surrounding villages can have a place to rely on when they grow old."

Li Fangfang was stunned again.

Oh my god.

You, just pamper her.

We opened Bubble Film and Television for her, and now we have set up a foundation for her to do such good deeds.

Even Li Fangfang discovered that Lin Xiao was also protecting Bubble, but the difference between him and them was that he was protecting Bubble while letting it grow.

Not only in career, but also in spirit and heart, Bubble has gradually become stronger, intentionally or unintentionally.

Ugh!
Such a couple is a perfect match.

How can one not be envious and jealous?
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In the evening, the family of four ate at the hospital table again.

But the food is relatively simple, just one bowl of noodle soup and two bowls of fried noodles.

Xiao Wanli, it was time to drink the nutritious porridge again.

But at six o'clock, Li Fangfang started to chase people away.

"Go, go, go, go home!"

"Mom can be alone, what are you two doing here?"

"Go out and play, go home and surf the Internet and play games."

Lin Xiao and Momo didn't hesitate and left the hospital directly.

Two people strolled on the streets on New Year's Day.

At this time, some shops are already open, and Internet cafes are also open.

Two people entered the Haomen Internet Cafe, asked for two computers, and played CS for a while.

Paopao is a bit of a noob, sometimes when playing games on the LAN, so at first his teammates would curse at him. He came over to find out who was such a noob and was holding everyone back, and was about to start cursing.

As a result, I saw such beautiful bubbles.

Suddenly, he went back in disappointment.

Then the situation changed at the beginning, and everyone remembered Bubble's name in the game.

"Don't kill them all, don't kill them!"

"Stand still and let her beat you to death."

Inexplicably, no matter which team Bubble with the worst skills is on, that team will always win.

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The two played until eight o'clock in the evening and then hurried home.

After returning home, Paopao pushed Lin Xiao directly into his room.

That pink and tender girl’s boudoir.

There were countless dolls in there, all kinds of them.

“Don’t turn on the computer.”

"You, just sit and wait for me."

"Just sit on the bed and wait for me,"

Then, Bubble turned the air conditioner to the hottest setting and brought in the electric heater and turned it up to the maximum.

Directly set the room temperature to around 27 degrees.

Then she went into the bathroom shyly and excitedly.

There was a sound of rushing water coming from inside.

After washing for about half an hour, the sound of a hair dryer was heard.

"Bubble, do you want me to help you blow dry your hair?" Lin Xiao asked.

“Don’t…” Bubble: “Just sit there and wait for me. Don’t move.”

It took quite a while, but Bubbles finally dried her wavy hair.

She came out wearing a very beautiful dress.

She came in front of Lin Xiao gracefully.

She even wore makeup.

The originally pretty face glowed even more beautifully because of shyness and excitement.

Even the little mouth's breathing rate is very high.

His speech and movements were all trembling slightly.

"Xiaoxiao, mom always told me not to seduce you because I'm older than you."

"They say you are still young and your physical development is not yet stable."

"It takes 20 years for development to be stable."

"It's New Year's Day now, and you're already twenty years old."

“Then, then…then…”

Bubble could hardly make any sound, so he closed his eyes tightly and calmed himself.

Then she opened her beautiful eyes and said to Lin Xiao in a trembling voice: "Then, let's make... love!"

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