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Chapter 961: Exchange of Old Items

In fact, Suning and Chen Xueru broke up peacefully, so Suning couldn't help but feel relieved. After all, Suning didn't want to make a big fuss over such a trivial matter.

Little Su Jie looked up at his father and asked, "Dad, where is my mom?"

"Your mother's silk shop is too busy, so your father will take care of you from now on." It was the first time that Suning met a woman he had not conquered, and he still did not intend to let the child be involved in adult affairs.

"Dad, then you don't have to go to work anymore?"

"Yes! Dad has already contacted a kindergarten for you. There are many children there to play with you."

"Okay! Okay! I just like playing with other kids."

"Haha, brat! You're so excited just because you heard you can play."

Suning's job now can be described as very easy. After all, his superb cooking skills have long captured the stomachs of the experts who came to China to help. The leaders of his unit told Suning that he only needs to take good care of these experts.

So it is very easy to take care of my son alone, and it feels like a pleasure to walk through the thick snow to pick up my son from school every day.

"Suning, I heard that you and Chen Xueru are divorced?" Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu hurried over and asked Su Ning.

"Yes! We have different values! Being together is a torture." Suning explained casually without any concern.

"What a pity." Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu said with deep emotion.

"A husband and wife are like this, one must be strong and the other weak. If both are very strong, then it is doomed to not last long." In fact, Suning has long seen through the essence of marriage. It is nothing more than a union for the continuation of offspring. If they are unhappy, they can naturally separate at any time.

"Suning, I didn't expect you to be so open-minded." Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu looked at each other in surprise, both very surprised at Suning's open-mindedness.

"Haha, I have no choice. This is just a forced smile."

"Suning, since Cai Quanwu has a lot of free time now, why not let Cai Quanwu help you pick up Su Jie and drop him off." At this time, Xu Huizhen took the initiative to ask Cai Quanwu to help Suning take care of the children.

"Alright! Let Cai Quanwu help me for a few days first. It will be fine after I'm done with this."

"It's okay! Cai Quanwu is mainly responsible for the literacy class now anyway."

Although Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu are very nice people, it is not appropriate to leave the child in their care all the time.

So Suning plans to arrange an AI robot to come out in a few days. As long as the origin of the problem is explained clearly, it will not be a big deal.

……

Now the outside is bustling with activity everywhere, and Chen Xueru seems even more crazy at this moment. She collects daily iron tools and donates them every day.

"Xueru, what are you thinking? How can you bear to divorce such a good man like Su Ning?" Xu Huizhen looked at Chen Xueru in front of her with some depression and questioned.

"Hmph! He and I can't get along every day. I think it's good to separate like this." Although Chen Xueru also felt very sorry about this marriage, she still said it very stubbornly.

"Xueru, you will regret it sooner or later." Xu Huizhen shook her head with a wry smile, having already realized that Chen Xueru would regret it in the future.

"Impossible! There is nothing in this world that I could regret."

"Xueru, tell me honestly, do you have any new situation?" At this moment, Xu Huizhen suddenly had an idea, and then looked at Chen Xueru in confusion and asked.

"..."

Seeing Chen Xueru's hesitant expression, Xu Huizhen was surprised to confirm her guess.

"Who is the other party? Do I know him?" Then Xu Huizhen looked at Chen Xueru anxiously and asked, suddenly realizing that Chen Xueru was too irrational.

"I know him! He's Hou Minhao, the eldest son of the Hou family." Seeing that the smart Xu Huizhen had noticed this, Chen Xueru simply said it directly.

"Oh my God! Isn't he already married?"

"We divorced last year! My mom wants to continue to match me up with Hou Minhao, but I'm still a little hesitant."

"Xueru, you have to think carefully. As long as you take this step, it will never be possible for you and Su Ning to be together again in the future." Although seeing that things could not be stopped, Xu Huizhen still looked at Chen Xueru and gave her instructions.

"Hmph! I don't know what's so good about Suning. I've lived with him for so many years and never noticed." At this time, Chen Xueru retorted disapprovingly.

"Xueru, you just don't know how to appreciate the blessings you have."

At this moment, Xu Huizhen undoubtedly felt sorry for her best friend. She noticed Chen Xueru's heartbeat from the few words just now, and also realized that it was impossible for Su Ning and Chen Xueru to go back.

……

By the year 1959, the true power of the natural disaster had finally begun to show, and many hungry people had begun to flee to the city.

So Suning arranged an AI robot to disguise itself as an old, weak, sick or disabled person and blend in with them. Then it "happened" to be helped by Suning and stayed in Suning's home to work.

After arranging an AI robot to take care of the family, Suning suddenly felt a lot more relaxed and no longer had to worry about his son having no one to take care of him.

You must know that as natural disasters become increasingly serious, the monthly rations and quotas are becoming less and less, and now the workers, peasants and soldiers canteens have run out of food and have closed down.

Suning's secret material trading business is becoming more and more popular. Every night, it arranges its own AI robots to be responsible for the transactions, and quickly exchanges precious antiques from the hands of the old people.

While Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu were having lunch, Cai Quanwu looked at the goddess in front of him and explained, "Huizhen, Suning has been secretly exchanging supplies. He can get a lot of food and food."

"Ah? Where does he get such great ability?" Xu Huizhen knew very well how difficult it was to obtain supplies nowadays, and she couldn't help but be shocked by Suning's powerful ability.

"I don't know! The 20 kilograms of rice I brought back today were given by him." Cai Quanwu naturally didn't know the details. After all, the truly secret matters were left to those expressionless guys.

"This is speculation, you must not get involved in it." At this time, Xu Huizhen couldn't help but look at Cai Quanwu in front of her with fear and reminded him.

"It's okay! Suning's real helpers are all expressionless people, and they always exchange antiques and other old items with others without asking for money."

"Oh? He also likes collecting these old things?"

"Huizhen, Su Ning likes old things more than you do. Since the first day I met him, he has been constantly in contact with the old people and young people in the neighborhood, secretly exchanging old things on a small scale."

"What if others don't have old items?" "These days, everyone has some old items. After all, they can't be eaten or drunk, so people don't value them too much. Besides, Suning also accepts yellow goods in trade."

"Suning is really too bold. If he gets caught, the consequences will be very serious."

"It's okay! He donated his salary a long time ago, and his family doesn't even have much food stored. There's no way anyone can find evidence against him."

"No, where did Suning get these supplies? Did he steal them from his unit?" Confused Xu Huizhen quickly started to make random guesses.

"Impossible! You forgot about the cafeteria that Suning opened 55 years ago. It allowed unlimited food to all customers. I guess he must have control over the supply channels."

"Makes sense."

……

Although every household now has no food, the old people and young people in the old city were naturally reluctant to exchange their valuable antiques for supplies at first. After all, they knew the significance of these valuable antiques best.

But in the end, as the natural disasters became more severe day by day, these people had to take out their most valuable treasures and valuables. After all, nothing was more important than survival.

However, after Suning had contacted all the old people and young people in the old city, he felt that it was becoming increasingly difficult to continue exchanging more important antiques.

At the same time, Suning also understood the principle of "too much is as bad as too little" and knew that they could not feed these people too much at once, so they temporarily stopped large-scale exchanges and announced to the outside world that supplies were in short supply and could not be supplied for the time being.

Then Suning released a large number of AI robots again, and then collected junk in the remote suburbs and rural areas around Sijiu City every day, and soon all the old items left around Sijiu City were looted.

"Suning, I want to exchange some food from you." Xu Huizhen and Cai Quanwu finally found Suning because her sister Xu Huizhi and brother-in-law Fan Jinyou could hardly hold on any longer.

"That's not right! I often ask Cai Quanwu to bring back so much food. Isn't it enough for your family to eat?" At this time, Su Ning looked at Cai Quanwu on the side with some surprise, feeling that their family would not lack food.

"It's not us who want it! It's my sister Xu Huizhi and her family who are starving. They can't even buy food on the black market."

"Sure! But they're all two-piece noodles, and you can't reveal that you got them from me. You know, your cheap brother-in-law is a venomous snake."

"I know! I promise I won't let them know."

If Xu Huizhen had not come personally to ask for the purchase, Suning would have definitely ignored Xu Huizhi and Fan Jinyou and would have wanted to let the couple starve to death.

Now Fan Jinyou is just an ordinary worker in a small factory. He relies entirely on Xu Huizhi's savings and dividends to make a living. Although he is extremely annoyed with Xu Huizhi, he still has to suppress his impatience and cater to Xu Huizhi.

By the time Xu Huizhi brought back twenty pounds of flour from Xu Huizhen, Fan Jinyou's family, who were already dizzy with hunger, immediately looked at Xu Huizhi as if they were welcoming a foreign guest.

"Huizhi, did you get the food?" Fan Jinyou asked Xu Huizhi in front of him with stars in his eyes.

"Well, twenty pounds of flour." Xu Huizhi looked at Fan Jinyou and her harsh mother-in-law in surprise and explained.

"What? Shouldn't it be rice or white flour?" It's a pity that both Fan Jinyou and his mother felt disappointed. They actually wanted to eat fine grains.

"Jinyou, all these were earned by my sister and brother-in-law. Where did they get the rice or flour?" Xu Huizhi felt helpless at this time. She finally saw the greedy nature of Fan Jinyou's family.

"Hmph! Your sister and brother-in-law are so smart, they must have good food." Fan Jinyou was not aware of his own greed, but continued to retort with confidence.

"Okay! Next time, go find food yourself. I can't satisfy your request."

"No! Hehe, that's all I said."

……

Although the Chen family is also a wealthy family in Sijiu City with no shortage of money, they have always been exchanging food through the black market, and the black market in Sijiu City has long been monopolized by Suning.

Of course, Suning would occasionally ask Cai Quanwu to take Su Jie to deliver some food to the Chen family, but after all, they were both Su Jie's grandparents.

Of course, Suning never thought about reuniting with Chen Xueru, nor did he have the weird hobby of going back to his ex. He just wanted to make his son Su Jie mentally healthier.

"Mom, Su Jie is here to deliver food again?" Chen Xueru noticed the food in the house as soon as she returned to the Chen family.

"Yes! It's the food that Cai Quanwu and Su Jie brought together."

"Hey! No one has enough food these days. Next time, tell Su Jie not to send it to us."

"If we don't let them send it! What will our Chen family eat? This is not enough for us to eat, and the food we buy on the black market is definitely not enough."

"Dad, Mom, aren't I worried about affecting Su Ning and Su Jie?"

"Humph! Suning is a cook, and he still needs food. Besides, this is a gift from my grandson. That Suning never steps foot in our Chen family's door."

"I know! Suning still resents me in his heart."

"Xue Ru, he was the one who initiated the divorce. Is it fun for you to think so much every day?"

"..."

After calming down, Chen Xueru regretted her past madness. In order to compete for the first place, she kept belittling and forcing her husband, which led to her divorce from Su Ning.

Looking back on those years now, it really doesn’t feel worth it. At the same time, I also realize that Suning has been really good to me.

But there is no such thing as regret medicine in this world. Every time Chen Xueru saw Suning's cold attitude towards her, she had already realized that it was impossible to go back to the past.

"Xue Ru, what's the situation at your family now?"

"It's not bad! Hou Minhao often takes antiques, jade, and yellow goods from his home to the black market to exchange for supplies. Most of the time, the black market people come to the Hou family in person to make the exchanges."

"These guys in the black market are really well-connected. The old folks and wealthy families in the Forty-Nine City have all done business with them. I heard that many people want to order them, but they are helpless."

Of course, Chen Xueru also admired these people in the black market, and she didn't know that the controller of the black market was her ex-husband, so now she was just a little emotional.

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(End of this chapter)