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4. Phone

Meng Zhaodi was also jealous of Meng Qingqing. Not only was he jealous of Meng Qingqing studying better than her, he was also jealous of Meng Qingqing’s uncle, uncle and aunt’s family working outside, and that Meng Qingqing’s father was a high school student. The foreign name, unlike her, Meng Zhaodi, is a very native name, which often makes students laugh. But although Meng Zhaodi was also jealous of Meng Qingqing, she was smart, not as explicit as her mother, she would hide more than her mother.

Meng Qingqing picked water three times before filling the tank. Because she had been doing this work every day when she was seven years old, she didn’t feel tired. Grandma’s noodles were cooked, and grandma specially gave Meng Qingqing a meal. After eating an egg, Meng Qingqing ate the noodles and saw that it was already 7:40, so he said to his grandma and hurried to the village office.

It takes half an hour for adults to get from Mengjia Village to the village office at the earliest. Meng Qingqing couldn’t wait to hear her father’s voice and ran all the way, so he rushed to the village office in more than 20 minutes.

Panting, Meng Qingqing told the people in the village office that there was an urgent matter to call.

People at the village office knew that Meng Qingqing was from Mengjia Village, and shook his head and said, “There are more or less families in other villages who have a phone at home, but your Mengjia Village can’t even have a phone.”

Meng Qingqing thought, Dad had long wanted to install a landline at home, but their Meng’s village was too remote, and there was only one family, and the telecommunications bureau was unwilling to pull the cable. Later, Dad planned to take her and grandma to the provincial capital. To live, so I put it down. So every time I call, I have to travel a long way to the village office.

Meng Qingqing also did not explain. When mentioning Mengjia Village, people nearby know that Mengjia Village is the poorest and most backward.

Meng Qingqing dialed the phone, excited and eager to hear her father’s voice, telling her that he wanted to see him, he is now ill in bed, and hope to hear her voice too

But the person who answered the phone was an uncle, and Meng Qingqing was no less familiar with this voice than his father’s.

“Uncle, why are you holding my dad’s phone? My dad will let him answer the phone.” Although Meng Qingqing hates this person with a beastly face, she can’t fall out with him all at once. Now she is still small in the eyes of others. , Many things cannot be undertaken.

“It’s Qingqing. Your father has been busy with work these days. He left the phone with me. If you have anything, I will tell him.”

Obviously Dad is already lying in the hospital now, and Meng Zijian still perfuse her like this. Even if he finds out later, he will find a reason to say that he didn’t tell her to prevent her from worrying, but he didn’t let Meng Qingqing know that Dad was lying. When she was in the hospital bed, his real intention was not to let her contact her father and to know how much his father had fortune.

It seems that from Meng Zijian’s mouth, he can’t ask anything about his father. Father’s phone number is in Meng Zijian’s hands. He can only go to his father’s side to know the true situation of his father. She will try her best to save her father’s life and not let her father’s property fall into the hands of Meng Zijian and his wife.

Meng Qingqing also casually said: “Uncle, it’s nothing, I just miss my dad, so I call him. Since my dad is not here, I will hang up.”

Meng Qingqing put down the phone, thanked the people in the village office, and hurried home. She had to find a way to persuade her grandma to agree to go to the southern city of the province to find her father. In her previous life, she was twelve years old. She didn’t know that her father was sick or where she was. Of course she didn’t dare to go so far alone to find her father in the provincial capital, but now she knows that her father is in the hospital and that he is in that hospital. In the ward of that department. So even though the uncle didn’t tell her, she knew it and was able to find it.

Meng Qingqing returned home while thinking, but grandma is not at home, she may have gone to the field. In the countryside, there will always be endless farm work. Grandma fell to the ground in her previous life.

Meng Qingqing ran to the ground, and grandma was there. Meng Qingqing patted her chest, bent over and panted and said, “Grandma, give me some money for travel expenses. I’m going to see Dad.”

Grandma was weeding the grass in the valley. She put down her hoe, beat her waist and said, “What did he say when you called your dad”

“Grandma, my father said, let me go to the provincial capital for a few days.” Meng Qingqing lied.

Grandma shook her head, “Why do you go so far by yourself? You have to take several trains?” There are more than 30 kilometers of mountain roads from Mengjia Village to the town, and more than 70 kilometers from the town to the county seat by car. It takes more than ten hours to take a bus from the county seat to the provincial capital. Grandma has never been to the provincial capital, but she heard that there are so many people and cars in the provincial capital as densely packed as trees on the mountain. With so many people and cars, how did the granddaughter find her father?

Meng Qingqing could only continue to lie to her grandma, “Grandma, my uncle is just going to the provincial capital, so he will send me along.”

Grandma felt relieved after hearing this, “It’s good for your uncle to go with you, but you also want you to go to the town by car alone, and ask if anyone is going to town today. You can go with a group.”

Grandma carried a **** and returned home with Meng Qingqing. Grandma washed her hands and found three hundred yuan for Meng Qingqing. “Qingqing, this is travel expenses, and money to buy food and food on the road. When you get to the provincial capital, don’t run around. I heard that the provincial capital is very large. If you run away, you can’t find your way home.

Meng Qingqing has lived in the provincial capital for more than ten years and is already familiar with it. Of course, there is no problem of missing her home, but she still nodded seriously and agreed to her grandma. I used to be ignorant and always disliked grandma’s nagging. After she became an orphan, she missed her grandma’s nagging so much, no one was nagging in her ears, and no one cared.

Meng Qingqing was carrying three hundred yuan, and with his grandmother’s thousands of warnings, he went on the road. The village chief, Uncle Mouse, accompanied her all the way. He went to town to work. Uncle Mouse was called a mouse because he had a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek and was thin and thin. Although this uncle did not look very good, he was an outspoken person. In his previous life, after the death of his father, this Uncle Mouse helped her and grandma a lot. So Meng Qingqing had a good impression of him.

Uncle Mouse walked big and fast, and Meng Qingqing had to trot to keep up with him.

ps: Happy Lantern Festival, everyone

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