Chapter 698 Meaning
White flour and bran are light in weight, with one bag weighing fifty to sixty kilograms, but they can fill half a bag more.

Gu Peng unloaded the truck alone again.

Even in the middle of winter, I was sweating profusely even wearing only a single layer of clothing.

Before seeing him, Lin Chuxia had also seen poor people. She herself was born poor and climbed up step by step.

But what’s the point of climbing this far and being envied by everyone in the village?

Gu Peng was tired from work and was squatting beside to rest when she suddenly asked him this question.

His life seemed harder and poorer, but what was the point of working harder?

Gu Peng did not answer her question, but told her a story.

The protagonist of the story is a labor camp prisoner who was sentenced to seven years in prison for making a mistake.

In the northwest, where people were reclaiming wasteland and farming, life was unimaginably hard, but no one gave up, just to survive.

After he was released from prison, no company was willing to hire him because of his criminal record.

In order to have a bite to eat, he was like a rat crossing the street.

But he still didn’t give up.

If everyone has to find the meaning of life, then what is the meaning of this prisoner’s humble life?

“Yeah, what’s the point?” Lin Chuxia couldn’t help but ask.

Gu Peng stood up, patted his butt, and said only one sentence, “What’s the meaning? Being yourself is the greatest meaning.”

This sentence seemed to answer the question, but it also seemed not to answer it, but it made her wake up from her dream.

In the past 20 years, she has lived for her parents, her siblings, her mother-in-law and sister-in-law, her husband, and to have children, but she has never lived for herself for a day.

Later, she hired Gu Peng to work in her own store and offered him the highest salary.

Gu Peng’s reward to her was to encourage her to do what she wanted, help her expand her territory, and make the company bigger step by step.

And looking for opportunities, when Li Guangyuan was entangled with the mistress, Gu Peng found reporters to expose them, hoping to help her regain control of the company.

In her previous life, Gu Peng was her partner, her best friend, and her life mentor.

All her achievements and her peaceful second half of life are inseparable from Gu Peng.

When she was reborn, she also thought of Gu Peng.

Just calculating the time, he was still undergoing reform in the northwest at that time.

1989 years.

In her previous life, she met Gu Peng in 90. She remembered Gu Peng saying that he had been out for more than a year at that time.

Gu Peng will be released from prison soon.

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“You’re going to the northwest?”

When Qin Yang heard Lin Chuxia say that she was going to the northwest, he was stunned.

“What are you going to do in the Northwest? Is it for work?”

When he was in the northwest, Lin Chuxia went there to visit him several times, and thus got to know some of him.

But he has been transferred to Yan City for more than two years, and his wife has never mentioned anything about the Northwest.

Lin Chuxia didn’t know how to tell him, so she just nodded and said, “I’ll be back in about three or four days.”

She didn’t know the exact time when Gu Peng would be released from prison, but it should be this year.

She went over to check the time.

Although she was still a stranger to Gu Peng in this life, Lin Chuxia did not intend to ignore Gu Peng. Just like Wang Tianxue, she believed that they would get together again and become close friends and partners.

Qin Yang looked at her for a moment, then asked, “What is Qiqi going to do?”

Xiao Qiqi is still breastfeeding, although the little guy is not picky about food now and will also drink milk powder.

If I were to be away from my mother for several days, I would probably not be able to adapt.

Lin Chuxia had already thought about it. “My milk supply has been low recently. I thought I might as well take this opportunity to stop Qiqi from breastfeeding. The nutritional value of breast milk after six months of pregnancy is not that high. The formula milk powder my mother bought is also very good. What’s more, I will have more work after the Spring Festival, so I will have to stop breastfeeding sooner or later.”

Now that things have come to this, Qin Yang knows that she has made up her mind.

He just said, “You don’t have to hurry on your way. Mom and I are at home, so you can rest assured about the child.”

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Apart from the children, there is nothing much to arrange at home.

Lin Chuxia and Zhuang Jingshu said hello again, and on the eighth day of the first lunar month, they boarded a train to the northwest.

Qin Yang and Zhuang Yang together sent Lin Chuxia to the train.

As the train drove away, Zhuang Yang looked at his brother-in-law with a sullen face and asked, “What on earth did she go to the northwest for? I haven’t heard that Xia Yang has any business in the northwest.”

Except for the few peach trees in Daqingshan Village.

But even if it was about the peach saplings, there was no need to let the boss Lin Chuxia go.

After asking, I waited for a long time but got no reply. My brother-in-law’s face seemed to have become even gloomier.

A bold guess made him exclaim, “No… No, you don’t even know what she’s doing in the northwest, right?”

After watching for another two seconds, Zhuang Yang felt that he had guessed correctly.

He is such a clever boy. He can guess so much information from his brother-in-law’s poker face.

“Brother-in-law, what’s wrong with you? If you’re really worried, just go with us. You’re on vacation now anyway, and Qiqi has the chairman to take care of her, so you don’t have to worry about anything.”

“But then again, my sister, although I haven’t had as much contact with her as you, I know her personality. She’s not the type to do things recklessly. She went to the northwest probably because she wanted to develop some new business. You know, my sister likes to make trouble the most. I guess she went to investigate some new project again. She was worried that the project would fail, so she didn’t tell us in advance. If you don’t believe me, just wait. It won’t be long before she will tell us good news.”

Qin Yang pursed his lips. The train was no longer visible. He turned around and walked back, “Let’s go back.”

Zhuang Yang touched his nose, as if all the comforting words he spoke were addressed to a deaf person.

No, why should he comfort him?
Chu Xia wasn’t going to do anything shameful, so why did he, as her brother, feel guilty first?

Zhuang Yang shook his head to get rid of these messy thoughts.

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Lin Chuxia has always been a person who does things neatly and efficiently.

In her previous life, she had heard Gu Peng talk about his life in a northwestern prison, and she also knew where he was serving his sentence.

Before she went there, she had already understood the general situation there.

When the train arrived at the station, she rested there for one night. The next morning, she took a bus to that place.

The location was quite remote, so we had to reversing two vehicles and finally hiring a tractor to bring her there.

Generally, prison visits require the person to be a close relative of the criminal and to bring proof of their relationship with the criminal as well as their own identification, and to visit within the prescribed time.

Lin Chuxia and Gu Peng are obviously not related.

As far as Lin Chuxia knew, Gu Peng was an orphan. His parents died early and he had lived with his grandmother since he was a child.

Later, my grandma and grandpa passed away, and I lived with my uncle’s family for a few years.

During the years he lived with his uncle, he was often bullied by his aunt and several other children in their family.

Later, he got into trouble and his uncle’s family simply cut off ties with him.