Chapter 98 Return to Daxia! You promised to study abroad, but you brought your daughter-in-law back?
The next morning.

On a mountain road outside a poor village in the south of the northwestern province of Daxia, a tractor was making a "beep beep" sound, and was pulling two people and some luggage on the haystack behind it.

After almost a whole day of travel, the two finally arrived at their destination.

"We actually took this kind of transportation to enter this mountain?"

Lucy was leaning on Lu Ze's shoulder. Her originally listless face was now brightened up. She looked extremely surprised. "Lu Ze, did you always take this to school before?"

The two of them transferred to the capital of the northwestern province in Yanjing, and then took a five or six-hour long-distance bus to reach a county town.

Lucy thought that they had arrived at Lu Ze's hometown.

Then they pulled her onto a passenger bus that was packed with elderly people going to the market as well as some workers and students who needed to go back to the countryside.

After finally getting a seat, and being protected by Lu Ze's arms, Lucy felt that no matter how bad the situation was, she just needed to take a bus to a rural area.

Unexpectedly, she ended up riding this old-fashioned tractor into the mountains?

It was a fantastic adventure, and the experience alone made the trip worthwhile for Lucy.

But, isn’t this place too remote?

Hear this.

Lu Ze smiled and said, "How is that possible? This is because I rarely come back, so I can enjoy the VIP treatment of our village."

"Before, I could only walk to school step by step."

As the only one in Lujia Village who could study abroad, he was able to enjoy the treatment of being picked up by a tractor sent by the village.
On weekdays, ordinary villagers do not have such good benefits and can only rely on their own feet to walk out of the mountains.

However, Lu Ze looked at the cement road in front of him and said, "At least it's no problem for tractors to get in and out."

This road should have been built in the last year. He remembered that before he went abroad to study, the main road in the village was still a muddy road with flying yellow soil.

At that time, if the road was dry on a sunny day, it would be fine. But if it rained or snowed, even tractors could not move, so people had to be carried by donkey carts or horse carts.

With this one-way cement road, villagers' daily commuting will not be so difficult.

This should be the "Village-to-Village" policy implemented by Daxia. However, the road in Lujia Village was not completed until about 11 years ago, but now it has been advanced by more than two years.

Lu Ze guessed: "Could it be that because of my repeated large-scale 'aid' to Northwestern Province, the highway was built ahead of schedule?"

The sound of the tractor lasted for more than twenty minutes, echoing across the mountains and fields.

Finally, we stopped in front of a village.

"Uncle, this is the gift I brought you."

Lu Ze handed over a beautifully wrapped gift box and said, "And thank you for taking me to the village."

This was the high-quality tobacco he had bought in the county town before. After all, for the farmers in the mountainous areas of the northwestern province, smoking cigarettes was too bland and too expensive, so they always liked to smoke strong and cheap hand-rolled cigarettes.

This uncle from the same village likes to smoke on weekdays, and Lu Ze is just trying to please him.

"Look at you, you buy these things every time you come back." The old man's sunburned face flashed with anger: "Don't bring them next time."

After saying this, he put the box of tobacco in his hand, and the old man couldn't help but smack his lips.

This box of cigarettes would cost at least three or four hundred yuan, how could he afford to smoke it? He usually only smoked some tobacco that cost a few yuan per pound.

At the entrance of the village.

"Lu Ze, is this your hometown?"

Lucy looked at the scenery around her, which was beyond her imagination.

The mountains and plains are covered with barren yellow earth, and even in this spring and summer season, there is little green.

Did Lu Ze come from such a place? Can people really live in such a barren land? What kind of perseverance does it take to survive here for generations?

“Yes, this is where I have lived since I was a child.”

Looking at the village in front of him, Lu Ze's eyes were filled with nostalgia.

If his previous life was counted, he hadn't returned to his hometown for many years. The vague image in his memory became clear again at this moment.

And that side.

Under a big tree at the entrance of the village, a group of middle-aged ladies were sitting together, holding some melon seeds or snacks in their hands.

They seemed to be discussing something, like sparrows chattering at the same time.

The content included everything from heaven to earth, from the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the village to the situation of bachelors outside the village. There was nothing they didn't talk about.

Even the dogs passing by will be criticized for things like "How many litters did it give birth to?", "Whose dog is this?", "I see it behaves like other dogs" and so on.

After all, for most rural women, after finishing farm work and housework, apart from all kinds of gossip, there seems to be no other way to relieve loneliness.

That's when.

An old lady glanced towards the entrance of the village, as if she had discovered something strange.

She pointed in the direction where Lu Ze was standing: "Look, isn't that the kid from Lu Jianguo's country?"

Everyone turned their heads to look and instantly turned to this topic.

"Didn't he go abroad to study? Why did he come back suddenly?"

"Yes, it seems that he went to a famous university in Eagle Sauce to study for a master's degree? Last year, the village chief shouted it on the loud speaker for three consecutive days."

"It should be the holiday, right? I saw he was carrying luggage."

"It's only June, and the school in Yingjiang is on holiday so early? Foreign students really don't learn well at all."

Suddenly.

Lucy's figure also followed Lu Ze with her luggage and appeared in their sight, which made the aunts even more angry.

"Why did Lu Ze bring back a woman?"

"She's so beautiful. This woman is so pretty, much prettier than the stars on TV."

"Isn't he studying abroad? Why is he bringing all the girls back to the village?"

"What do you mean by studying abroad? I think the girl is pregnant and can't hide it anymore, so she brought her home to recognize her relatives!"

"They've all married and had kids outside? Doesn't that mean Old Lu is going to be a grandfather?"

A group of women who were discussing the matter immediately described the incident as follows: [Lu Ze married a wife outside under the pretext of studying abroad. Because she was pregnant, her family came to chase him, so he had no choice but to return to his hometown.]

And the speed at which things are evolving is becoming more and more outrageous.

They obviously didn't notice that the expressions on the faces of the two people standing behind them changed from confusion to shock.

"What? There is such a thing?"

A middle-aged man who looked somewhat similar to Lu Ze opened his eyes wide in disbelief.

How come his son went abroad and brought his daughter-in-law back with him? Even his grandson is coming out?

Is this the surprise he said he would give me on the phone last week?

This is not a surprise, it's almost a shock.

"What are you guessing about? Go pick up your son." A man next to him patted Lu Jianguo's shoulder hard and said in a bad tone.

This middle-aged woman is in her forties. Although she has been exposed to wind and sun, one can still vaguely tell from the traces of time that she must have been very pretty when she was young.

It was Lu Ze’s mother, Lin Xiaqin.

Mr. and Mrs. Lu walked quickly to the entrance of the village. Seeing the dusty Lu Ze, they couldn't help but feel distressed.

They spent a year studying abroad, thousands of miles away from home in a foreign country. How could they not be nervous?

But after taking the luggage.

Looking at the incredibly beautiful girl next to his son, she was looking at him with curiosity.

At this time.

Lu Jianguo quickly pulled Lu Ze over and said, "Tell me honestly, what's going on with this girl? Is she really your wife?"

"If someone else is really pregnant, you have to be responsible for her." Lin Xiaqin next to her said, "You can't forget your duties as a human being just because you are studying abroad."

"In the past one hundred years, our Lu family has never produced a 'Chen Shimei'."

"Dad, Mom, what are you thinking about?" Lu Ze's face was full of black lines.

How did Lucy get pregnant? If she got pregnant, wouldn't she be performing a "roast suckling pig in three bites"?
"This is a friend I met when I was studying abroad in Yingjiang. She was very curious about our Northwest Province, so she followed me here to travel for two weeks."

Lu Ze introduced them and asked Lucy to greet Lu's parents.

"Howl." Lucy raised a bright smile: "My name is Lucy, Su Lu's friend, sorry to bother you, please take care of me."

Listening to her strange accent, each Chinese character seemed to have the wrong tone.

Mr. and Mrs. Lu: ???
Why does she sound like a foreigner?

The aunties at the entrance of the village were all shocked: "Oh my god, Lu Ze is really capable. He even brought back a foreign wife?"

Tens of minutes later.

In Lu Ze's home, in a small farmyard with several rooms built with blue bricks and stone tiles.

"Your name is Lucy, right?" Mrs. Lu asked kindly.

There was still a strong sense of surprise and curiosity in her eyes as she looked at Lucy.

Who could have guessed that a girl who looked so similar, even with black hair and eyes, was actually a native American?
And she is so beautiful, and her figure is obviously good for bearing children.

"We need to urge Aze to do his job," Lu Ma thought to herself.

Not a girlfriend now? She thinks she could be one in the future.

Hearing this question.

"Yes, it's vegetarian." Lucy nodded rapidly.

She didn't understand what was said, and could only roughly guess that Lu Ze's mother was calling her name.

Those beautiful eyes looked around the small house.

It seems that every place here is a very novel experience for her.

Looking at the incomprehensible conversation between the two, Lu Ze shook his head helplessly.

He stood at the door and gazed at the scenery in the distance, and sighed: "The environment here in my hometown has changed a lot. I think even the road has been opened."

The hometown in his memory seemed to have changed a lot in this life.

"More than that."

Lu Jianguo put the luggage inside the house and explained, "It is said that in the future, the road will be built to the doorstep of every household, and even a main road will be paved in the village."

"The remote villages in the back mountains will also be built with a cement road."

"Also, a group of engineering teams came last month."

"It is said that a primary school will be built in the village, and even a few teachers will be arranged to serve as a collective public school for several surrounding villages."

"Even the students in the village have eggs and milk to eat every day. They eat so well every day."

The series of major events that have occurred in the past two months are the first of their kind in decades for this remote mountainous area of ​​Lujia Village.

Often, just as the previous piece of news spreads throughout the northwestern mountainous area, the next piece of news comes.

"Who is this 'enthusiastic citizen' you mentioned? Who is this kind-hearted person who is helping us mountain people?"

Lu Jianguo, an old farmer who had not received much education, spoke with doubts.

After all, in these plans, donations were made in the name of "enthusiastic citizens", and he thought that this was a good deed done by some kind-hearted person for their "Lujia Village".

"Dad, this should just be a name."

Although Lu Ze said this, he couldn't help but feel warm inside.

It's comforting that all he did was not in vain.

But this is far from enough. Daxia's economic scale has not expanded much. Even Lujia Village is not enough to become truly prosperous.

"It seems that we should submit the smartphone technology to Daxia," Lu Ze thought to himself.

The scale of this future industry is calculated in trillions of US dollars and is known as the most prosperous industry in the world. Daxia should grab the most lucrative piece of fat in advance.

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