Digging for gold

  "Oh, these are your two kids at home, so adorable." Jin Defu's wife said with a hint of envy when she saw Yueting and her brother.

  Geng Mei smiled, "Don't envy me, your family is not bad either, two sons, in our place it's still the sons who are favored, growing up to be a strong laborer, if anyone should be envied, it's you."

  Yu Xi glanced at the children in their family, the youngest should be a bit older than his brother, and the oldest should be around six or seven years old. However, those two children are not as good-looking as Bai Haoran's, one look and you can tell they take after their father.

  Jin De Cai saw Yu Xuan's small and delicate appearance, and he couldn't help but feel envious as a man without a daughter. He stretched out his hand to touch Yu Xuan's small face, "Little girl, come visit uncle's house often in the future."

  Yu Sai was startled by his appearance and quietly pulled at Ge Mei's sleeve, "Mom, let's go home."

  The children all have to go back home now, and it's not good for the couple to say anything more. They can talk again as neighbors later on.

  "Brother Jin, come visit us at home when you have time, we'll head back first."

  Back home, Bai Wengu could instruct his daughter-in-law, "Geng Mei, from now on, don't casually chat with them. I think Jin Defa is not a simple person, he's not someone we can afford to offend."

  Geng Mei couldn't see anything out of the ordinary, except that the man looked a bit fierce, "Wen Li, what makes you say they're not simple? There must be some reason?"

  Bai Wenli smiled wryly, "Geng Mei, don't forget, I'm a veteran of street fights since childhood. That man has a murderous aura about him, it's not just a simple fight. Do you see that kind of feeling on me? No, right? From now on, let's keep an eye on the kid. And don't even mention our family's little girl, she's quite fierce for her age, having such intuition at such a young age."

  Bai Wengui is not stupid, the girl is always smiling and rarely rejects anything. But today's matter is quite strange, they were talking when the child wanted to go home, so he thought it must be the child who can feel the murderous aura he was talking about.

  Bai Wengui hugged Yu Tong and teased her, "Girlie, tell Daddy, isn't that uncle very scary?"

  Yu Xi didn't have anything good to hide about this matter, "It's better for people like that to stay far away from home." She nodded, "Yes, that uncle is quite scary when he gets angry."

  Geng Mei didn't say much, the man said it's definitely that way, besides, girls rarely comment on someone's appearance, and this is the first time Jin Jia has spoken harshly.

  "Alright, listen to you, I'd better have less contact with them."

  After dinner, Bai Wenli sat on the kang with two children and played. "Geng Mei, I've been thinking about it for two days. I plan to go to Altai to dig for gold. I heard that many people have gone there before. I also want to try my luck. If I can dig some out, that's best. If not, I'll come back."

  Geng Mei was somewhat skeptical, she wasn't a local and of course didn't know that this place had a legend about gold, "Really? I've never heard of it?"

  Bai Wengu held his daughter in his arms and smiled, saying "You, haven't you heard enough? We have a proverb here that says the Altai Mountains have 72 valleys, and every valley has gold. I'm sure it's not wrong."

  As soon as she heard this proverb, Geng Mei's heart moved. "Wen Li, you said that in the past you couldn't dig much, why don't I go with you? The two of us can still dig a bit more, and in the future when the child goes to school, we'll have more tuition fees. What do you say?"

  Bai Wenli saw the look of eager anticipation on his wife's face, and couldn't help but smile. He also wanted to take Geng Mei with him, but what about the kids at home? They were all too young, and that place was definitely not suitable for children.

  "What about the kids? We can't take them to such a cold place, can we?"

  When it comes to the child, Geng Mei really has some reluctance, but thinking of the situation at home, her heart hardened again. "Why don't we let older sister help take care of him for a while? If there's no gold, we can come back early. If there is gold, I can go over and lend a hand, not to mention that I can cook and do laundry for you. As a big man, going alone will have many inconvenient places."

  Geng Mei said that this thoroughly revived Bai Wenli's heart, nodding her head, "This makes me think carefully, I'll discuss it with my sister again."

  Sitting in Bai Wenhui's arms, Yueting couldn't help but feel happy. Gold, if they could really dig up gold, their family's situation would improve immediately. She hadn't heard of the proverb about Huangjigou before, but later she did hear that Altai cattle and sheep had a delicious taste without any odor, and also had unique edible and medicinal value, which was very popular in the international market. Someone praised Altai cattle and sheep as "eating Chinese herbal medicine, drinking mineral water, and walking on the golden road." She remembered that during the Asian Games in 1990, this sheep was specifically designated as the official game meat for the Asian Games. It seemed that she would have good luck with food from now on.

  But thinking that her parents were going out, she felt a little sad. There were only two small children left at home. If they were taken care of by their elder sister, it was not as good as being taken care of by their own parents.

  Look at her small hands and feet, she can't help but sigh secretly in her heart. She's too young to be of any use, even if she has self-discipline, she still needs to be taken care of. Not to mention there's also Bai Haoran, this little brother. Even if they want to follow along, it would probably be inconvenient. They wouldn't be able to help, and would likely just cause trouble.

  But things in the world are often so coincidental, before Bai Wenglai had time to find his sister, Bai Xinyi came to the door with the two brothers of the Bai family bringing things to accompany her.

  But look at Bai Xinyi's eyes, they're almost as swollen as a goldfish. Bai Wenli immediately got angry, "Sister, did your brother-in-law bully you? Dammit, I'll go settle the score with him."

  After finishing speaking, he was about to walk out with his stuff, but was pulled back by Bai Xinyi, "Younger brother, don't be in a hurry, listen to sister slowly telling you..."

  At the sight of her brother's anxious expression, Bai Xinyi picked up the important point and said, "Younger brother, I'm divorced, but this divorce was initiated by me."

  "Hey, don't rush off just yet, listen to me finish. You know how your sister's husband was quite insistent before? I've been with him for so long now, and at first, I thought it didn't matter if we didn't have kids. We could just live our lives happily as a couple, but you also know that his family is counting on him as their only child. This time, his parents made a condition: if he agrees to divorce me and find someone else, they'll buy him a car. Alas, your sister's husband has been tempted, always mentioning the car in front of me. I've been thinking too... now that he's tempted, who knows what other temptations will come later? He might just leave me for someone else! I'd rather take advantage of my youth and get out while I still can, instead of waiting until I'm old and worn out, and then being discarded by him. What do you think?"