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Chapter 68 Overseas Relations (Please read on!)
Qi Delong is a very interesting guy. Because of him, his father Qi Kexiu changed from a Yanjing native to a rural person.

The educated youth Qi Kexiu originally had a chance to return to the city, but was kidnapped from the train by Fan Chunhua, who was three months pregnant, and her cousin Wei Jiefang and others. She had to choose between getting married or being charged with hooliganism.

Qi Kexiu knew the current situation and chose to get married. Then he had a son and lost his household registration.

Later, in order to obtain a Yanjing household registration, Qi Delong worked hard as a cow and horse in Yanjing for several years. Finally, he became a Yanjing citizen again by marrying an old Yanjing woman who was 10 years older than him.

Of course, if she is 10 years older, she is an old woman, and if she is or years older, she can only be considered a good sister.

Life as a dependent was not easy, so Wei Ming later asked Qi Delong to work as a stagehand in his own film and television company. Qi Delong was a down-to-earth person and much more reliable than Qi Kexiu.

Donkey carts are slow, but motorcycles are fast. Even if there are three people on the cart and even if the road is not flat, the efficiency of the machine is still terrifying.

So Wei Ming would stop after riding for a while and wait for Lao Wei. Only when they got on the main road could the donkey cart barely keep pace with the slowed-down motorcycle.

Old Wei said to his son, "Wouldn't it be a bad idea for us to go to Old Yang's house empty-handed? How about buying some eggs at the market?"

Wei Ming said: "There were originally two bottles of Moutai, and I put one bottle down for the old man yesterday."

hiss!
Wei Jiefang felt a little pain in his flesh, but he still forced a smile and said, "It's my duty. You have troubled Teacher Yang and Mr. Yang a lot during your four years in high school. It's just a bottle of wine."

Speaking of Teacher Yang Shuting, Wei Hong also started gossiping. She is the head of the high school English teaching and research group and a top student who graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Although she is already forty years old, she is still elegant and beautiful, and is unique among the female teachers in the school.

"There are many middle-aged single men in the county who want to pursue Teacher Yang, but she doesn't like any of them."

Wei Ming laughed and said, "There's no chance for them. Although they are divorced, their relationship is still there."

Moreover, every winter and summer vacation, Teacher Yang would take Liu Rulong back to Guangzhou, and A'long's father had already obtained official Hong Kong citizenship, so it was relatively convenient for him to enter and exit Guangdong.

Wei Jiefang asked curiously, "How is Liu Rulong's father doing in Hong Kong?"

"Although I don't know what he does specifically, judging from the income in Hong Kong, he should be doing well. Aaron wears famous brands and often goes to places like overseas Chinese stores."

Wei Jiefang said with emotion: "Times have really changed. In the past, people were afraid of having overseas connections, but now they are eager to have overseas connections."

After hearing what he said, Wei Ming suddenly asked: "Dad, if one day, overseas connections come to you, will you refuse this relationship?"

Wei Hong was surprised: "Ah? Our family has overseas connections?"

Wei Jiefang said firmly: "No, definitely not. If your great grandfather and your great aunt write to me, I won't even read them and will just burn them!"

"Great-grandfather? Great-aunt? Who is that?" Wei Hong was even more confused.

Wei Jiefang: "As for your grandfather's brother and sister, I have never seen them. I don't know if they are alive or dead."

In front of Qi Delong, Wei Jiefang didn't want to say too much, because these two people he had never met had happened to their family. Wei Hong was still young at that time and had no impression of it, but Wei Ming remembered it clearly.

Wei Ming quickly warned, "Dad, if there really is a letter from overseas, don't rush to burn it. Let me take a look first."

Old Wei waved his hands: "I know, I know. You are the backbone of our family now. I will definitely discuss important matters with you."

Wei Ming smiled and said, that’s right.

Because the livestock market closed early, they went to the market to buy pigs first. The market in Chengguan Town was right on the edge of the county town and not far from Yang Songqiao's home.

Because the Chinese New Year is only more than four months away, if you buy a pig that is too small now, it will not grow up before the New Year. So the professional Lao Wei bought a three-month-old, healthy and strong half-grown pig, and asked the seller for a pig cage.

Then he took the three children to drink tofu pudding and eat fried dough sticks, and Qi Delong, who ran away from home, also had a delicious meal.

As for running away from home, I had long forgotten about it. I guess I just wandered around the city with them and then went back.

I will definitely be beaten when I get home, so I have to eat something good to replenish my body.

"I'll buy another chick," Old Wei said to the old man who was buying a chicken next to him, "The one that died laid eggs the most diligently, so I have to replace it."

Wei Ming said: "You might as well buy a few more, now the policy has been relaxed."

In fact, another problem with raising chickens these days is the feed problem, after all, there is not enough food for people.

But this is not a problem for their family because they live on the edge of the village. They can let the chickens out to catch insects and eat grass in the fields so they won't starve to death and they know to go home at night.

"Okay, then buy three!"

Wei Hong poked Qi Delong: "Xiaolong, there are three chickens and a pig, how many legs do they have in total?" Qi Delong counted on his fingers and finally concluded that there were nine.

Wei Jiefang said with a smile: "It's not unfair for your father to beat you up."

"Isn't that right?" Qi Delong ran to the donkey cart and took a look at the piglets, then squatted for a while at the old man selling chickens. It seemed that he was really wrong.

"Ten legs," he then asked, "Sister Hong, if we add another donkey, how many legs will it have in total?"

"Fourteen legs."

Qi Delong said proudly: "No, it's fifteen legs. If you don't believe me, go count them."

Wei Hong actually went there, and when she came back she beat Qi Delong up.

However, the simple and honest Xiaolong didn't know what was wrong with him. Why did everyone hit him? I clearly have fifteen legs!

Thirteen-year-old Wei Hong already understands some things, but nine-year-old Qi Delong knows nothing.

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After leaving the market, Wei Jiefang asked Wei Ming to return the car by himself, and they would wait for him here. He had chickens, pigs and donkeys, so it was not convenient for him to visit.

"Brother, I'll go with you." Wei Hong said as he got on the back of the motorcycle.

"Aren't you most afraid of going to the teacher's house?"

Wei Hong: "I want to ask you something."

"What?"

"What's going on between our great grandfather and great aunt?"

Wei Ming: "Actually, there is nothing that cannot be said. It is all in the past. But I have to start from my grandfather."

Grandfather is also great-grandfather.

"When my great-grandfather was young, he traveled to Cangzhou to learn martial arts and acquired superb martial arts skills. However, his skills were in vain as the country was in turmoil. So when he heard that a military school had been opened in Baoding, he left his wife and children behind and went to study there. He was in the first class."

"Ah! The Baoding Military Academy in the history books?"

"Yes, after graduation, he worked as a martial arts instructor there for a few years, but in the end he became a professional soldier and died in the First Northern Expedition."

Wei Hong still knew some history, so she asked, "Which side is the old man on?"

The First Northern Expedition was a campaign by the National Revolutionary Army during the period of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party to suppress the three Beiyang warlord forces, namely Wu Peifu of the Zhili clique, Zhang Zuolin of the Fengtian clique, and Sun Chuanfang of the Zhili clique.

Wei Mingdao: "He is on the side of the National Revolutionary Army."

Wei Hong breathed a sigh of relief. After all, according to the history textbooks, the National Revolutionary Army was the righteous side, and the old man was righteous!
Wei Ming added: "Before the Northern Expedition, the old grandfather sent his eldest son, our great grandfather, to the Whampoa Military Academy, where he was a student of the sixth term."

This one is even more famous. Wei Hong suddenly wondered how a rural girl like her could be related to modern history.

And the relationship is very deep. "Do you know who are the members of the sixth batch of Huangpu Military Academy?" Wei Ming asked.

Wei Hong shook her head, she wasn't quite sure.

So Wei Ming told her about it. She was stunned to find that there were many great figures from history books.

"So our grandfather is on our side, our great grandfather is on the other side, and our aunt is abroad?"

“Your summary is very accurate.”

"Oh my!" Wei Hong's face flushed, "Then our family composition is too complicated!"

She always thought that her family, which had been poor peasants for eight generations, had a good family background.

Wei Ming: "Who says it's not true?"

As they were talking, they arrived at Mr. Yang Songqiao's house, a quiet and private courtyard.

At the same time, Zhao Chunlai, the captain of Gouzitun, convened a meeting to discuss Wei Jiefang's problem...

(End of this chapter)