They bought everything they needed to buy, and both Ye Yaodong and A Guang were satisfied. This trip was full of rewards, things were accomplished, and they bought a lot of things.
The twins were also satisfied. Although they went to the Friendship Store just to look around, they had gone shopping and experienced it. In the past, they didn't even dare to walk in.
The display of high-end products and some people in suits and leather shoes walking back and forth are daunting when viewed from a distance.
"Brother Dong, what is this chocolate?"
"Chocolate is chocolate. What else can be made from foreign products?"
"Is this delicious? What does it taste like? You bought so much, just a few pieces, and it cost 20 yuan in foreign exchange coupons. It's really expensive. How much does a pound of pork cost? With this money, you can buy half a fan of pork.
Already."
"Foreigners' food is damn expensive, but there's nothing we can do about it. We haven't eaten it before. Things we haven't eaten before are always more fresh and mysterious. Of course I'll try it if I have the chance. I'll eat it when I go back
I'll tell you what it tastes like, but I heard it's sweet and bitter."
"It's so strange. Are foreigners' tastes so different?"
"The tastes of foreigners are so different. Have you ever heard of cat poop coffee? It's the feces pooped by cats and used to make coffee."
"Holy shit, is this okay? They have nothing to eat. They even eat cat feces. It's so disgusting. Do they have no cats there? Have you ever seen them? Oh my god, if they can really make money, I will sell them immediately.
Just pick up cat poop on the street."
"Hahaha... I heard that the cat poop coffee is unusual, but I don't know why it is unusual. Anyway, it is definitely not the poop of an ordinary cat at home. I just don't know what kind of cat poops. It is so special."
He had only heard about it and didn't go out of his way to understand it. Because he wasn't interested, he really couldn't explain it.
"No matter how extraordinary a cat is, it is still a cat, and the poop it poops is also cat poop... Just like humans, no matter how high their status is, the poop they poop is still poop. It's really disgusting. No matter how poor we are, we still don't eat poop.
To the point..." A Guang also had a look of disgust on his face.
"Every place has its own regional culture. Foreign ones are different from ours, which is normal. Our local specialties are also different in each place."
"That's disgusting. I really want to pick up cat poop and sell it to them."
Ye Yaodong chuckled and ignored them. He closed his mouth and stopped talking. There was flying dust in front of his eyes. He was wearing a hat and dust cover, so it was best to talk less.
I visited the store, then took the car, and waited until it was already 12 noon when I got home.
The whole family had been waiting impatiently for a long time. They thought that since they didn't come back last night, they would be home early this morning. Unexpectedly, they didn't come back until noon.
Lin Xiuqing had been waiting at home. When she heard the movement of the tractor, she hurried out and walked to the workshop.
"What did you do? Why didn't you come back earlier?"
"I walked around the store, so I'm late. Cook me something to eat. I'm hungry."
"What's there to go shopping for? I don't lack anything at home. I even went to the store and I didn't know if I would come back early. If I'm missing something, can't we still buy it here?"
"That's different. After all, it was brought back from the provincial capital or the city. It's different after it's labeled. It sounds like it's high-end, which adds points."
"What did you buy? It sounds high-end. How high-end do you want it to be?"
"We'll find out when we get home." Ye Yaodong put his arm on Lin Xiuqing's shoulder and walked home.
A Guang from behind suddenly shouted, "Sister-in-law third, Dongzi said it's your birthday today, happy birthday."
Lin Xiuqing stopped, frowned, and gave Ye Yaodong a strange look.
Ye Yaodong also frowned and glared at A Guang fiercely.
Lin Xiuqing said in confusion: "Today is not my birthday. Listen to his nonsense. It's weird that he knows when my birthday is. The sun has to rise in the west."
"Hahaha~ I'm going home first." Aguang laughed and shook the cloth bag in his hand, walking towards the side road.
Ye Yaodong stared, as if he wanted to shoot several knives out and stab his back into a sieve.
Lin Xiuqing patted him and said, "What are you looking at? We've gone home. Two weird people don't know what they're doing."
"So when is your birthday? I think it was recently, right?"
"Remember your age, there is still more than half a month left, July 27th, and you will have already gone to Zhejiang Province by then."
"Oh, I'm just telling you, I always remember there were a few sevens, and I thought they were seventeens."
"Okay, what riddles are you playing? Why do you ask me for my birthday all of a sudden?"
Lin Xiuqing looked at him suspiciously, thinking something was wrong, "Did you do something behind my back? Or were you making some kind of bet?"
"What can I do behind your back? Who is so boring to bet with him on your birthday? What's the point of betting? I thought too much. I just suddenly remembered and mentioned it to him during the chat. I didn't expect it.
He did this, left, it was so hot, the sun was so bright, and he was still talking outside, so he went home."
"Mysterious..."
"Where is my daughter?"
"Eat watermelon at home and watch TV."
"It's so comfortable. Where is your son?"
Lin Xiuqing gave him a blank look, but couldn't help but laugh, "You can tell us so clearly, I can give you your daughter and my son. One is doing homework, and the other is playing next to him. There has been a fight just now, and now
I don’t know if there is still a piece of it.”
"Why fight?"
"Chenghu was doing homework and felt that Yangyang was disturbing him by playing with toys nearby, and he was very angry."
"Why doesn't he go to herd the sheep? Is Chenghu jealous? It must be uncomfortable to see him not having to do his homework."
"There is no one to accompany him. Doesn't a person not want to go? Everyone is there to catch up on their homework. It will be September 1st in two days. It is time to register. They are all here cramming. I don't see that there are fewer children running on the road.
Already?"
"No one can read. At least there is Dongxue in your mother's family. It's scary to see her here."
"It doesn't matter whether you study or not. Anyway, there are so many things at home, so they have to do most of the work."
"That's true."
If you can't study, then go home and inherit the family business.
The sun's rays in the middle of the day melted people away, and all the dogs in the family huddled lazily in their kennels. No one wanted to stay in the sidecar and be exposed to the sun.
When I first stepped into the courtyard, all the dog heads popped out of the kennel, filling the hole of the kennel. There were still puppies that couldn't squeeze out. It took a long time to squeeze their heads out from the side.
come out.
He pointed at the dogs with a smile and said to Ah Qing: "Look, they are all dog heads. They are filled with holes. We are not afraid that the heads will get stuck and cannot be retracted later."
Lin Xiuqing stopped and smiled, "These dogs are really cute sometimes."
"If you have a machete at this time, you can cut off a bunch of dog heads neatly from top to bottom..."
"Woof woof woof woof..."
"Woof woof woof woof..."
All the big dogs were barking, and the little puppies turned their heads and barked too.
"You're swearing so dirty, shut up!"
Lin Xiuqing turned her head and said, "Do you understand all this?"
"Guess."
She smiled and shook her head, "I thought you and dogs were the same kind."
"Dog men are the same as dogs, I am not."
"How can there be so many words? The dog man is right, it's you."
The old lady came out of the house and stood at the door waving to them, "Come in quickly, it's sunny outside, why are you talking in the yard? The noodles are almost ready, come in and eat."
The two of them walked quickly into the house.
Sitting at the table doing homework, Ye Chenghu's eyes shone brightly, "Dad, you are back."
"Write your homework."
Ye Yaodong threw the cloth bag he was carrying on the table, and his brother wanted to immediately pounce on it and grab the bag.
"Let go..."
"Let me see first..."
"I'm the elder brother, let me see first..."
"I am the younger brother, and the older brother wants to take care of his younger brother..."
"Go away, my parents just said that I should leave my sister alone..."
"I told you to give in to your younger brothers and sisters!"
Ye Yaodong pulled the bag over again, "What are you arguing about? Everyone has a share, I will share it with you."
He rummaged through the things in his bag, then pushed the copybook to Ye Chenghu, "This is for you. Write a page of big words every day. If you don't write enough, I'll beat you to death."
Ye Chenghu was picking up the copybook with a happy expression, thinking it was something good. When he heard this, he opened it and took a look at the copybook with a shocked expression.
Ye Yaodong also handed him two pencils, two erasers, and a new pencil sharpener, "Hey, the equipment is complete."
I deliberately didn't take out the mouth organ and only brought him school supplies.
"Why this? I don't want it."
Ye Chengyang laughed loudly, "I don't have to go to school. Dad, are mine just toys?"
"Well, yours is an illustration book, take it."
Ye Xiaoxi also ran over with short legs, stood on tiptoes and grabbed his hand, "Show me, I want to see..."
"Yours is a bunch of little dolls. I give them to you. If the dolls don't come out, dad will buy them for you."
She clapped her hands happily and jumped twice with joy, "Okay, okay~"
Ye Chenghu stared at this one with wide eyes and looked at the one holding a copybook and yelling angrily, "Why is mine like this? I don't want to write."
"I brought them back from the province~ There is also a pencil case for you to hold pencils and erasers. They are all bought by the province. If you don't want the copybook, then I will take them all back and give them all to Yangyang for him to go to school next year.
use."
Ye Chenghu immediately lay down on the table, swept all the things that belonged to him in front of him, and protected them under his chest, "No!"
"Then just keep it. It's a page of big words every day. It doesn't matter if you're a bad student. The handwriting will look better."
"Ah~~" Ye Chenghu screamed while lying on the table, waving his hands randomly across the table to vent his emotions.
Lin Xiuqing kicked him while holding the freshly served noodles, "Sit down and do your homework quickly."
"I haven't even finished my homework, and dad has arranged it for me again."
"If you don't want these things, you don't have to write what he assigned you."
He sat up straight and looked at the brand new stationery in front of him, with cartoon characters printed on it. Not to mention how novel it was. Where could they buy these in the countryside? They could only buy the most common stationery, so how could he afford it.
Still reaching out and circling the pile of stationery, he said aggrievedly: "But I want it, brought back from the provincial capital."
"Then just be honest and do your homework."
Ye Chengyang smiled evilly and waved the illustration in his hand in front of his eyes several times, "Brother, this illustration is of Sun Wukong. It looks good..."
Ye Chenghu looked at it eagerly but shouted at him angrily, "Go away."
In fact, my eyes kept following his illustration, reluctant to let go.
Ye Yaodong was slurping the noodles, and Lin Xiuqing took the cloth bag away from him. She was a little confused when she saw that it was still bulging with a lot of things.
"What else? Is it still so heavy?"
"There are also several pieces of stationery, one for each of the children next door, and several children from your second brother's family. You take them out and give them one share. You don't know if they are enough, so you make do with one share.
A little less, as long as everyone has a share. I originally bought quite a lot, but a thief scratched the bag while Aguang was riding in the car on the road. A lot of it was gone, so I gave him a little more."
"You are so thoughtful that you even prepared my second brother's children."
"Your second brother's family is going to have a college student, why don't I care about it? Not to mention buying stationery. School is about to start, so it makes sense to give away stationery, so of course they will have a share. Your eldest brother and his children will also have a share. Come back
When I was in the city, I gave some to Lin Guangyuan and the others."
Ye Chenghu looked better at this time and asked: "Are Brother Ahai, Brother Ajiang, and my sisters all there? Do they also have to write copybooks every day?"
"Um."
He was happy and said, "That's good."
"Your cousins ​​should also write."
He nodded happily, "Okay, okay."
Lin Xiuqing took out everything in the bag for him and sorted it out, only to find several boxes of things written in English letters.
"What is this? Why are there still English letters?"
"This is chocolate. I bought it at the Friendship Store with my foreign exchange coupons. It's very expensive. A box costs several yuan. I gave it to you."
She was surprised, "Are these for me? Then 5 boxes here don't cost more than 20 yuan?"
"A 20-yuan foreign exchange coupon costs about twenty or thirty yuan."
"Is anything so expensive? How much does a pound of pork cost, and these few things cost more than 20 yuan?"
"Foreign products are expensive to begin with. Just take them apart and eat them to see."
Lin Xiuqing took a few boxes of chocolates and flipped them through, and suddenly realized, "Ah, did you buy these expensive things for me? A Guang thought it was my birthday, so he asked like that just now?"
Ye Yaodong was a little embarrassed and hesitated for a while, but he still said frankly: "Yes, I haven't remembered your birthday for so many years. I only remembered that it was probably recently, so I went to the Friendship Store and wanted to buy something for you, but
It’s just a 20 yuan foreign exchange coupon, so I just bought chocolates.”
She looked at him in surprise, opened her mouth and laughed. She opened her mouth to say something, but she didn't. She just kept looking at him and laughing.
Ye Chenghu suddenly stuck out his tongue and pretended to vomit a few times, "Nauseous."
The couple both stared at him.
Lin Xiuqing also put away her sweet smile and hit him on the head with the chocolate box in her hand.
"Hurry up and do your homework for me. Put these stationery away first and use them when school starts. Use the old ones now."
After he finished speaking, he took out the copybook from his arms and said, "I will start writing on the copybook today. I will check it during dinner. If you don't finish it, I will beat you to death and you won't even be able to step out of this door at night."
"I haven't finished my summer homework yet."
"Is it valid that you haven't finished your summer homework?"
Ye Chenghu flattened his mouth, but then looked at the chocolate in her hand, smiling flatteringly, "Mom, we have never eaten any chocolate like this, can you open it for me to try?"
Ye Chengyang also pulled Ye Xiaoxi, who was sitting on the ground playing with a baby, "Mom, my sister wants to eat too."
Ye Xiaoxi was pulled to stand up and looked at everyone with a blank expression.
Lin Xiuqing took the box of chocolates and hit him on the head with a smile, "I think you want to eat it, and you even asked her to talk about it."
"My sister really wants to eat."
After Ye Chengyang finished speaking, he coaxed Ye Xiaoxi, "The chocolate on my mother's hand is delicious. Do you want to eat it?"
"I want to!" Ye Xiaoxi immediately dropped the doll, hugged Lin Xiuqing's calf, and sat on her instep, "Mom, I want to eat... I want to eat..."
Lin Xiuqing raised her feet, but she remained motionless, "You are really good at holding my legs and sitting on my insteps. When you get up, I will open a box and share it with you."
"Okay."
All three pairs of eyes were fixed on Lin Xiuqing's hands, watching her open the package, eager to taste something.
The old lady was watching from beginning to end, smiling at their fuss. She was surprised when she saw that Lin Xiuqing had opened the box and there were 12 individually wrapped chocolates lying inside.
"Just a few of them cost four or five yuan? Isn't this small piece worth half a catty of pork?"
She patted Ye Yaodong with the Cattail Fan in her hand, "You bought 5 boxes of just this? You're a prodigal."
Lin Xiuqing also said: "This is too expensive. I thought it was just like a full box of biscuits."
"Well, it's expensive. Eat it. Most people can't afford it anyway. We don't buy it every day. We only buy it once every few decades."
"I've been deceived the first time. Even if I die, I won't even think about buying it a second time."
As he said this, he also gave one of the chocolates in the box to each of the three children, and also gave one to the old lady.
The old lady immediately shook her head and took a step back, "I don't want it. I don't want foreign things. I don't like them."
The three children couldn't wait to tear open the outer paper. It was a small piece of milk chocolate that was suitable for eating in one bite and was shaped like water drops.
"Ah, so it's brown?"
"Can it be eaten? It doesn't look delicious."
Ye Xiaoxi put it directly on the stool, "No, it looks like dog poop."
She has always been fed and clothed, and she is not like other children who stuff everything they see into their mouths.
Ye Chenghu had already taken a bite, his facial features wrinkled up, and he stuck out his tongue, revealing the chocolate that had not completely melted on it.
"yue~ It's not delicious, it's a bit bitter."
"It's also a little sweet, it has a strange taste."
Seeing their different expressions, Lin Xiuqing picked up the one Ye Xiaoxi left on the stool, peeled it open, and took a small bite.
"It's really weird, but it's not unpalatable. Foreigners eat weird food."
After saying that, she handed it to Ye Xiaoxi's mouth.
"No." Ye Xiaoxi turned her head away and lowered her head to play with her doll.
Ye Yaodong drank all the soup in the bowl, then put down his bowl and chopsticks and said, "This is the taste. It tastes bitter, but also a little sweet."
Lin Xiuqing saw that her two sons had stuffed all the chocolates in their hands into their mouths, chewed them and swallowed them, and said in disgust, "A waste of things."
She put the rest in her mouth and held it in her mouth. It was too expensive and she couldn't bear to chew it. Then she went to clear the dishes, but the old lady snatched it away.
"Dongzi just came back. You two are still busy. I'll take care of this. You go back to the house."
"Okay, there is still some money in the bag, it should be from a store in the city. Let's go back to the room and settle the accounts."
Lin Xiuqing took all the stationery to the room by the way, intending to distribute it after settling the accounts.
Of the many things that Ye Yaodong brought back, his own children must have kept the most, and the others would divide them randomly.
He also followed her into the house and secretly locked the door. Then he took two quick steps, hugged her from behind, and whispered in his ear: "Does the chocolate taste good?"
“Not delicious.”
"There will be no bitterness in the mouth, but sweetness in the heart."
Lin Xiuqing was amused by him, patted him, and then turned around and said: "Well, indeed, that's what you said."
"Let me tell you, chocolate is associated with love abroad."
"We're already an old couple, what's the point of being in love or not? Don't make trouble, let me settle the accounts first. It's a hot day, I've just walked for a while and I'm sweating. You're still hugging each other, it's so hot,
Sticky, go away."
Ye Yaodong let go of her and accused: "You settle accounts every day."
"What if?"
"Don't you want to ask me about my experience in the city?"
"I plan to ask properly after settling the accounts. I have to deal with the matter at hand first before we can talk properly. Otherwise, you can talk first."
He was bored, so he sat by the bed and told her the story of his trip to the city, during which Lin Xiuqing also gave some reactions.
"So, do you really have overseas Chinese relatives in your family? Don't you have to hold a family recognition meeting to worship your ancestors later in the evening?"
"In imagination, it should be like this, yes."
"Then the filling machine you want shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Probably. We have to find out what these overseas Chinese do and what country they are from. Anyway, we should be able to give information when we worship ancestors in two months at the latest? I heard that there are quite a lot of overseas Chinese and they are quite rich. I also want to give back to my hometown.
, then it should be okay to help my family, right?"
"When the machine is shipped back, where do you want to put it? In the city or at home?"
"What do you think?"
"Let's put it in the workshop at home first. If we put it in the city, we can't reach it, and it's far away, so it's inconvenient. How can we rest assured if we entrust everything to outsiders?"
"And now fermentation is done in workshops. After fermentation, it is more convenient to fill it directly with the machine and then transport it to the city. This saves you from having to transport the liquid to the city for filling. If this is the case, it will be different from what it is now.
What's the big difference? We already have filling machines, but we still need to transport them to the city in large tanks. Isn't it unnecessary?"
Ye Yaodong nodded, "You are right. If we can get machines, then transport them to the workshop here. Then asking people from the village to work will also provide employment in the village. Moreover, there is a village committee in the village to help us, which is not easy.
There's trouble."
"After it becomes bagged, we will have our own tractors to transport back and forth to the city anyway. We will build a large warehouse for storage in the city. After enclosing the wall, we will first build two large warehouses, one for storing dried fish.
, one for fish sauce.”
He thought that if he grew bigger and bigger, the remaining land could be used to expand the warehouse. Then he would just use it for delivery in the city and use it for production at home.
The city is an urban area after all. In the future, transportation will be accessible in all directions, and delivery and logistics there will be more convenient.
Let’s do this first, and we’ll discuss later whether we want to expand it or not.
If the workshop here by the sea is too small or insufficient, he can also buy a piece of land in the town. It would be better if the production work can be done nearby.
However, this can only be considered in the future. It is too early to talk about machines now.
"Oh, by the way, Ah Hai came back yesterday and said that if you rush the boat in the factory, the factory has already repainted it for you, and the numbers to be sprayed have also been stamped. You can drive it back anytime."
"Then I'll go and drive back tomorrow. Let me have a rest today."
"Why don't you wait and see?"
"It's too late. It's just these two days. I have to finish all the things at home. I'm going to leave. I'll just wait for a good time and drive back. I'll make do with the day anyway. It's not the first boat anymore.
There are so many.”
"Okay, let's just wait until the Ghost Festival is over before leaving. You brought back a lot of food last time, so you can bring it back this time. Just add some more fruits and vegetables. You don't need to prepare anything else. Many things are ready.
Ready-made, it has not gone to sea recently, nor has it been taken to sea."
"When is Ghost Festival?"
"The 30th, tomorrow."
"Damn, aren't you chasing me away? You want me to get out the day after tomorrow? Wait for Ye Chenghu to sign up on September 2 before leaving."
Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "I just casually said we would leave after the Ghost Festival. I didn't say it had to be the day after tomorrow."
"You settle your account."
"Then you divide the stationery according to the head. If you don't have enough points, just leave a few items for each person. You don't have to have them all for everyone, just make them interesting. These stationery look novel, and they are completely different from what we have here. We can't
There are no such beautiful cartoon patterns, so if you just give them one or two, they will probably be very happy, and they won’t have to go to class, they will just play there.”
"Okay, there are definitely enough copybooks. I bought 20 copies. There are only more copies, not less ones. If there are any left, I will keep them for Ye Chenghu."
"Then he will be so angry. Haha, he writes more than others for no reason."
"For his own good, these are all bought with money. It's okay to write more. If you can't read, it's okay to know a few things from heresies. It's okay to have good calligraphy. If you have the conditions, it's okay to let him learn calligraphy. That way in the future
There’s no need to buy couplets anymore.”
"If you think so far, why don't you give these harmonicas to them? There are still a bunch of them in there."
"We'll give it together at night, otherwise we'll be crying and howling later, and I won't have to take a nap."
"No wonder I said you have so much in your bag, why didn't you take it out to divide it? It's all covered by the banknotes and packed underneath. No wonder it's so heavy."
The bed was full of things poured out of cloth bags, and the couple, head to head, were picking up and sorting them out.
"Will you take a tractor back to your parents' home tomorrow? Take these stationery back to your nieces and nephews, and also send them some fish sauce and dried fish? Have you not been back for a long time?"
"Yes, since my father and eldest brother moved to the city, I rarely go back. But except for the New Year and the holidays, I didn't go back. Then I'll make a trip tomorrow when your boat comes back. By the way
Go to his place and bring back some fruits, vegetables and dried vegetables. It will be ready for you to take away in a few days. I plowed all the ground at home and the vegetables were all gone and they haven’t grown yet."
"My daughter is talking about you."
Lin Xiuqing also chuckled, "There is nothing else at home, but a lot of fruits and vegetables. My second brother and his family will definitely not be able to eat them all now. Our family is in great demand right now, and we don't have enough for you to take away. It's just right to go back and get them."
"Then bring more things back. If I had known earlier, I would have bought more things from the city for you to take back. Then next time I come back from Zhejiang Province, I will bring more things for you to take back and enjoy. Give them the stationery.
Give them more, since none of them at home can read, so I usually don’t buy too much for them.”
"Okay. It's a pity for the second brother. It would be good if he could find some work or business in the city. It seems that the eldest brother is making less money now. The second brother is just looking at the fields and mountains in his hometown."
"Let's take a look at it later. You have to think about what you want to do. What you can earn can only be within your own capabilities. Otherwise, you can just let him learn to drive a tractor first."
"Let's talk about it later."
This one has a little more, 7400
Chapter completed!