Wang Jianguo's hand gripping the parcel froze in mid-air, the chilling feel of the banknotes seeping through the oilcloth into his palm.
He looked at Zhao Shuzhuo's frost-cracked fingers trembling with emotion, and remembered last winter when this man had stuffed his only pair of cotton trousers into Wang Jianguo's hands while walking around in single-layer trousers to drive piles by the irrigation ditch.
"Brother Shuzhuo, I didn't mean that..."
Chapter 746