Chapter 110
Lunch was Grandma’s specialty, a large pot of vermicelli stewed with pork, stir-fried free-range chicken, and stir-fried cured meat with radish.
At the square table, his aunt and cousin sat on one side, Tiantian and his brother sat on one side, and Grandpa Qin and Grandma, who had returned from the fields, sat on one side.
Lin Xue, as a daughter, had never agreed to Grandpa Qin and Grandma living together.
But at the dining table, hearing Grandpa Qin talk about the house in the county town, Lin Xue temporarily held back and did not retort.
Grandpa Qin: “In my opinion, it’s still too cold in the countryside in winter. The house in the county town is already decorated. We should go and live there for a while.”
To repay her kindness, Qin Bailan had bought a small, decorated two-bedroom apartment in the best location in the county town.
It was written in both Grandpa Qin’s and Grandma’s names.
But Grandma was nostalgic and was always reluctant to leave the fields and the house here, so she had never gone to live there.
“Let’s wait a couple more days and finish the radishes here, or they’ll go bad when we come back.”
Tiantian was oblivious to the undercurrents at the dining table. He was a little glutton who was burying his head in his food.
Grandma’s bowl was like a small basin. Tiantian couldn’t pick it up and could only place it on the table, burying his head in the bowl to eat.
At the end, the bowl was too light. Shen Tiantian’s face chased the bowl, and he almost ate on the floor.
Shen Xiuze was always paying attention to Shen Tiantian. Seeing this, he timely helped him and placed the bowl back on the dining table.
“Eat slowly. No one is fighting with you.”
Tiantian was full. He looked up, his mouth stained with a circle of soy-sauce-colored rice, and his breath was the salty and fragrant smell of food.
“So yummy.”
Grandma liked it when children had a good appetite and could eat. She smiled, her eyes narrowed, and gave Tiantian another piece of meat.
“As long as Tiantian likes it. There’s still an old hen at home. I’ll pack it for you when you leave.”
Tiantian liked to eat chicken, and his little mouth was already drooling.
But he still had to pretend to be reserved, blinked his eyes, and waved his small hands like an adult.
“No need. I’m here to see Grandma. How can I take the fragrant old hen?”
And it’s an old hen that can be made into a chicken soup that can make people swoon!
Grandma was amused and laughed, her features completely relaxed.
Today was her happiest day of the year.
Her daughter and her two grandsons had come to see her, which had warmed Grandma’s heart.
However, Shen Xiuze seemed to have seen through something and glanced at Lin Xue without a trace.
After the meal, Grandma was busy washing the dishes, and Lin Xue took the opportunity to squeeze over and inquire about the demolition of the village.
On the other side, Shen Xiuze, who was out walking the cub, held the bouncing Shen Tiantian’s hand and made a phone call.
“Hello? Wei Yue, does your family have a plan to build a resort? Where is the specific location?”
Wei Yue was one of Shen Xiuze’s few friends. Their family backgrounds were similar, and they usually had business dealings.
Therefore, Wei Yue did not deliberately hide it and told him the specific location on the phone.
“Hey, speaking of which, this resort project seems to be very close to your little brother’s hometown. Why don’t we evaluate it and demolish one more village? We can also give an extra resettlement fee.”
Shen Xiuze, however, had a smile on his face, his eyes as cold as ice.
“No need for special care. If you demolish one more village, where will the extra resettlement fee come from?”
Anyone with eyes could see that Grandma’s village was not suitable for a resort tourism project.
It was just that Wei Yue and the Shen family had a good relationship, and he was thinking of doing him a favor and expanding a little to the side.
However, the resettlement fee was indeed a tricky problem.
Now that Shen Xiuze said that there was no need for special care, Wei Yue couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief.
The project funds for their resort were also very tight, so it was best not to have to give special care.
“Alright then. Contact me if anything comes up.”
After hanging up the phone, Shen Xiuze glanced at Shen Tiantian, who was eavesdropping with his little ears, and tapped his head.
“What are you doing?”
Tiantian quickly shrank his little head and said with a guilty conscience:
“I wasn’t eavesdropping. I was walking very seriously!”
With that, Tiantian’s little eyes darted around. Thinking that he had figured something out, he said with a straight little face:
“Big brother, are you going to demolish Grandma’s house?”
Shen Xiuze glanced at Tiantian’s straight little face and couldn’t help but ask:
“Does Tiantian want it to be demolished?”
Tiantian opened his mouth, thought for a while, and still said:
“Big brother, the house is Grandma’s. My thoughts are not important. You have to ask Grandma.”
Shen Xiuze let out a light laugh, couldn’t help but ruffle Shen Tiantian’s little head, and said with a hint of meaning:
“You see things more clearly than some people.”
In the kitchen, Lin Xue had completely exploded at this moment.
“What? They’re demolishing the village next door, but not this village?”
Jiabao clearly said that this village would definitely be demolished!
Grandma nodded. She looked at her daughter’s angry appearance and understood everything.
She lowered her head in disappointment and sighed several times.
A hint of bitterness was in her mouth, and Grandma’s spirit seemed to have been drained. Her figure suddenly became old.
“The village chief just notified us two days ago. The terrain of our village is not good, and it’s far from the national highway and the county town, so it won’t be demolished.”
Lin Xue let out a cold hmph and directly threw the bowl.
“I wasted all my effort. Then what’s with the house in the county town?”
Grandma was very disappointed in her heart. She shook her head and sighed, but in the end, she didn’t tell the truth.
“That’s your Grandpa Qin’s. We haven’t had a wedding or gotten a certificate. We’re just living together. I’m too embarrassed to go and live there.”
Lin Xue didn’t doubt this.
When Grandpa Qin was young, he had actually had a good impression of Grandma, but fate had played a trick on them, and the two of them had ended up getting married to other people.
Now they were both alone, and their children were all good-for-nothing and unfilial. After all this time, they had ended up living together with Grandma.
“So it’s not your house after all!”
This time, Lin Xue was too lazy to deal with it anymore. She wiped her hands and turned to leave without looking back.
Ye Jiabao, who was wandering in the village, was pulled by his furious mother to get into the car. He heard his mother say that the village would not be demolished, and the shock in his eyes could not be calmed for a long time.
How is it different from his previous life again?!
In his previous life, this village was clearly demolished!
Ye Jiabao carefully recalled in his mind, but still couldn’t think of which part had gone wrong.
No, that’s not right!
In this life, Shen Tiantian didn’t live in the village!
Could it be related to Shen Tiantian again?
Thinking of this, a cold sweat inexplicably broke out on Ye Jiabao’s back.
Since he had been reborn, his personality had been very arrogant, with a hint of looking down on everyone.
He always felt that everything was within his expectations, including which movie would be a hit and which village would be demolished. Ye Jiabao knew it all clearly.
But now, Ye Jiabao had been frustrated several times in a row, and his heart was becoming more and more uncertain.
Could it be that his rebirth had caused some kind of butterfly effect, and the village that was supposed to be demolished had been butterflied away?
Thinking this, Ye Jiabao couldn’t help but feel frustrated.
Not only had he not become a little star earlier than Shen Tiantian after his rebirth, but even the demolition of a small village had inexplicably disappeared.
Ye Jiabao pinched himself hard, trying to calm himself down.
But his mood had been affected, and Ye Jiabao had also inherited his mother, Lin Xue’s, bad temper. At this moment, he was in a dead end and couldn’t comfort himself at all.
He opened his phone and found that there was still a trending topic about Shen Tiantian on Weibo.
It was the new episode of the variety show that had been broadcast yesterday. Because Shen Tiantian falling into the flour and Shen Yuanchuan eating the dough drops was too dramatic, the trending topic had been pushed up by the netizens.
The comment section was also full of laughter.
This episode of the variety show is simply divine! Especially Tiantian’s part. There’s almost no invalid clip!
Hahahahahahaha!
So fun. What would this variety show do without Tiantian!
Ye Jiabao looked at it and only felt that the anger in his heart was like a rising tide, drowning him wave after wave.
Shen Tiantian, why are you so haunting!
Lin Xue also looked up at this trending topic and said with frustration:
“Shen Tiantian is so popular? Speaking of which, Shen Tiantian has been quite lucky since he was born. Originally, Lin Shuang was fired, but then Shen Tiantian playfully ran to the company to find Lin Shuang, and in the end, Lin Shuang was inexplicably promoted.”
At that time, Lin Xue was not working, so she didn’t know much about what had happened.
She just felt that Lin Shuang’s promotion was a stroke of luck.
Now it seemed that it was also related to Shen Tiantian.
Ye Jiabao listened quietly, his fingers tightly clutching his phone, and was silent for a long time.
The afternoon weather was still a bit biting cold.
Tiantian was going to stay at his grandma’s house tonight. At five o’clock, it was already dark. Grandma’s house didn’t have a heated brick bed, so she had to put a small coal stove in the bedroom.
To prevent carbon monoxide poisoning, the window was specially opened a small crack, and a cool breeze blew in.
The winter nights in the village were very quiet. Tiantian was so cold that he wriggled into the big red quilt that his grandma had taken out and stuffed his cold little hands and feet into his brother’s arms.
Shen Xiuze, who was leaning against the head of the bed, reading the news on his phone, had his pupils shrink from the cold.
“Shen Tiantian!”
Shen Tiantian smiled very obediently, but his hands and feet were pressed tightly against his brother’s, and he even rubbed his little face against his brother’s neck.
“Big brother, my hands and face are so cold.”
He had been playing wildly with the children in the village in the afternoon. How could he not be cold?
Shen Xiuze’s brain was cleared by the cold. He sighed, held Shen Tiantian’s small, cold hands in his own big hands, and rubbed them a few times.
“You still went out to play when you were cold? If I hadn’t gone to get you back, you would have spent the night in a tree.”
Tiantian had gone crazy playing. He had followed a few children, chased chickens and dogs, ran around the village for a while, and had even climbed a low, small tree.
But Shen Tiantian couldn’t get down after he climbed up. He was so scared that he pouted his little lips, hugged the tree trunk, and kept calling for his brother.
Shen Xiuze had gone late. Against the setting sun and the half-dark night sky, he was both angry and amused as he lifted the wailing little tyke down from the tree.
Hearing his brother talk about his embarrassing moment, Shen Tiantian pouted his little lips, a little unhappy.
“I could have gotten down.”
Shen Jinfeng still let out a cold scoff. “You’re just being stubborn. If you dare to climb a tree again next time, see if I don’t spank you.”
Tiantian had been spanked many times, and he felt that he had no majesty in front of the children.
He sighed with a bit of sorrow, lay on the bed, and in a few seconds, he was snoring.