After get off work, Lian Yanyan brought Yangyang and Liang Laidi to the Lian family home.

"Grandma, Grandpa, Auntie, come and lend a hand!" Lian Yanyan called out as soon as she entered the courtyard. She was carrying meat, vegetables, eggs, and other groceries. These groceries are easy to buy now, and she had gone out to buy them during her lunch break.

"Oh dear, why did you buy such a thing?"

"Our whole family of four is eating here today."

"Four mouths?" Grandma Lian first glanced at her granddaughter's belly, then noticed the little girl standing timidly to the side: "Whose child is this? Why is she so thin?"

"It's Mo Yan's family's. There's been a bit of a situation, so they're temporarily fostering her here. She can only speak her hometown dialect. If we speak normally and slowly, she can understand us."

"This child is too thin. Here, have something good to eat."

Yangyang has already accepted the fact that there is suddenly an older sister in the family, and she jumped up and down happily: "Great-Grandma, I want to eat shortbread."

"Yes." The old lady led one child in each hand and brought them into the house.

Lian Jianhua smiled shyly: "Sister."

"Is this place easy to find?"

"It was easy to find. I asked two people after I got off the train and found it. Sis, what did you ask me to do here?"

"We'll talk about it when your brother-in-law arrives."

Mo Yan's business has expanded into this city. He doesn't have much capital, so his initial model was small-scale buying and selling of electrical appliances, fashion, and so on. By connecting with the transportation team, he has accumulated a considerable amount of capital in less than a year. Naturally, he wanted to meet with his cooperating distributors this time.

When I came back in the evening, I had already eaten dinner, so I sat down with a glass of water and chatted with everyone.

"Brother-in-law, the cities in the south have developed to such an extent?" This was Lian Jianhua's first time in the city. He thought this place was already very good, but he never expected there to be a better place.

"This is nothing. Once the market is fully opened up, the entire city could be completely transformed in just a few years."

Lian Jianhua felt a tickle in his heart, as if something inside him was about to burst forth, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

Lian Yanyan spoke for him: "Jianhua, we didn't bring you here to work in a factory. Your personality is suited to going out and making your own way, but there will be risks. Are you brave enough to go?"

"I dare! I must go and see what the forefront of reform and opening up is like."

"Then listen to your brother-in-law, don't be rash, listen more and observe more."

"Sister, I understand. I won't cause any trouble for brother-in-law."

Although the two elderly people in the Lian family were worried, they didn't say a word to stop them. They were old and couldn't understand the development of the times anymore. They listened to their children, especially Yanzi. Since her father passed away, all the decisions she made had unexpectedly good results.

For Lian Yanyan, having a foreseen script and knowing the general direction of the times, it would be foolish for her to still go astray.

Mo Yan had always remembered how Aunt Lian had come all the way from afar to take care of him during his postpartum period without saying a word. He had wanted to repay her for a long time. He had wanted to get his cousin a temporary job before, but his wife refused. When he came back this time, he learned that Lian Jianguo had gotten a permanent position in the middle school's logistics department.

Now that his wife has given Lian Jianhua to him, even if he's a piece of rotten wood, he'll still carve something out of him. Besides, the young man looks clever.

The old man, disregarding what he couldn't understand, only felt sorry for his granddaughter: "Yanzi, another child has come to our house, and Xiaoyan is away from home for long periods of time. Let your grandpa go to your place and lend you a hand."

"It's alright, Grandma, Mo Yan found me an auntie to help out."

"Payment?"

"Yes, just like when Yangyang was little, she puts in the work and I pay her." Things have changed a lot in the past few years. When Yangyang was little, it was something that couldn't be talked about outside. Now, as long as I don't show off, no one will bother to ask about these things.

"As long as you know it."

"Grandpa and Grandma, you two just take good care of yourselves. You can come over to visit me whenever you have free time."

"Well, we are blessed too. In our old age, we are finally living a good life."

Mo Yan stayed for a month after returning this time, and then left again with Lian Jianhua. Lian Yanyan's life didn't change much. Aunt Yu had already started working. She would come every morning, make breakfast, and help take care of the two children getting up and washing. After everyone else had left for get off work or school, she would go out to buy groceries in the afternoon, cook dinner, teach Liang Laidi Mandarin, and then go home at nine o'clock in the evening. She earned 20 yuan a month.

"Come on, are you adjusting well to school?" Lian Yanyan asked. When the child first went to the school she was temporarily attending, she had difficulty speaking the language and felt quite awkward for a while. However, she was a resilient person, and within a month, she had mastered most of the pronunciation of Mandarin. However, when she put the words into sentences, they still tended to sound like her dialect.

"I've adapted, Auntie. My teacher says I learn quickly."

Lian Yanyan wasn't worried about her being bullied. She was personally delivered by an official from the Education Bureau. She was the daughter of a fallen hero and a key student of the teachers. No one would dare to bully someone like her.

"That's good. Your name isn't very good, but since your household registration is still at home, we can't change it. Just call me Lai Lai normally. When you need to go back home for exams, remember to write the name on your household registration."

"Yes, Auntie, you're so kind. I don't like that name, but a lot of people around here are called that. Luckily, when you registered me, you didn't write my original name, because there are no people with that name here."

"When you grow up and your household registration is transferred separately, you can change your own name." Lian Yanyan patted her head. She had been well-fed and cared for for a month, and the little girl had grown taller and her face had regained its color. Most importantly, she no longer habitually hunched her shoulders.

Time smoothly slid into 86. In the past few years, Mo Yan maintained a frequency of going home once every two months. Lian Yanyan had been promoted to deputy director of the office and was eligible to queue for housing allocation, but Lian Yanyan gave the opportunity to an older comrade. Everyone praised her for her noble character.

In reality, most of the apartments allocated this time were still in tenement buildings, which she didn't like. She wanted to wait for the next batch of detached apartments, and she was very comfortable living in her current independent courtyard, with very nice neighbors.

Lian Jianhua was getting along very well with Mo Yan, and he replaced everything in the family with new ones. If it weren't for Uncle Lian's opinion that the TV was too flashy, he would have liked to get two TVs.

She had just gotten off work when He Lanying came to find her: "Yanzi, are you off work?"

"Auntie? What's wrong? Is something the matter?"

"Um."

"Go ahead and say it. What can't we say among family?"

"Yanzi, your aunt got a job in the government canteen back then because you pulled some strings. Now, a new clothing store opened on the street yesterday, and I..."

"Want to start a business?"

"Yanzi, I know I've let you down. If you don't agree with me..."

"I agree."

"Hmm?" He Lanying looked at her in surprise.

"The government canteen looks respectable, but you're a temporary worker, and it seems like becoming a permanent employee is a long way off. Plus, you're only earning a fixed salary. With prices rising so fast these days, it's good that you want to start a business. Have you contacted Jianhua yet?"

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