Traveling through the Eighth Five-Year Plan: Starting from selling fruit at a stall

Chapter 76 Back to Hometown
Ling Yue said: "Now the birds have left the nest, and even if there are birds, think about it, if the mother bird knows that the birds have been stolen, will it be very sad?"

Tongtong tilted her head: "Then can I go play with Xiao Hei?"

"Tong Tong is good, Xiao Hei is at grandma's house, we are going to grandma's house this time, it is far away."

"Then what's in grandma's house?"

"Grandma seems to have a kitten at home."

Tongtong's thinking was jumping: "Then can I sleep with the kitten at night?"

Ling Yue: ...

Wang Zhaoyang had no choice but to save her from the fire and water: "Tongtong is good, the kitten wants to catch mice at night, and it is also very dirty, and there are fleas, isn't Tongtong afraid of fleas biting you?"

"Then we can help the kitten take a bath!"

Wang Zhaoyang shook his head: "The kitten is afraid of water, if you give it a bath, it may scratch you because of fear."

Tongtong was full of disappointment and said: "Mom, are there still many fruit trees in grandma's house?"

Ling Yue really didn't have the mood to pay attention to her, "Tongtong, can you be quiet?"

She was really annoyed by her question, and more importantly, she didn't know it either!

She was afraid that she would not be able to hold back, so she began to reprimand her.

Tongtong is still chattering: "Is that right, can we pick fruit to eat after we go home?"

Ling Yue was really scared, so she turned her eyes to Wang Zhaoyang for help.

Wang Zhaoyang had been prepared for a long time, and he took out a comic book: "Look, Tongtong, what did Dad buy you?"

Tongtong saw it, and immediately exclaimed happily: "Ah, it's "Gourd Brothers"!"

Immediately snatched the little book from Wang Zhaoyang and started to read it.

Ling Yue secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally being able to be clean for a while.

It was past nine o'clock in the evening when the train arrived at Fuqian County.

I randomly found a food stall and ate some supper for dinner, and then found a small hotel to stay in after eating.

Early the next morning, the group hurried to the bus station after breakfast, and got on the bus to Yingkou Town.

It was past ten o'clock when we arrived in Yingkou Town.

According to the custom, Ling Yue, as a married daughter, goes home to celebrate the birthday of her elders. In addition to the birthday gifts, she also prepares some "batches from the banquet" for the guests to take away.

Bulk goods can be determined according to your actual situation. Generally, there are boiled eggs with a red dot on the egg. This egg should be placed on the table after you are seated and before the table starts.

In addition, we need to prepare glutinous rice cakes, fried melon seeds and peanuts, etc. If the conditions are better, we can also prepare some seasonal fruits.

The melon seeds and peanuts are fried at the roasted seeds and nuts shop in the town. It is a little expensive, but it saves time.

Eggs are a bit troublesome. Firstly, they are not easy to buy, and secondly, they can only buy raw eggs to take home to cook. Ling Yue asked several stores before buying about fifty catties.

By the way, I brought another three hundred catties of green peel oranges.

Ling Yue didn't know if three hundred catties was enough, it was better to have something than nothing.

Under Wang Zhaoyang's reminder, these things had to be wrapped in red paper and tied with fine hemp rope.

Ling Yue was suddenly depressed.

She really didn't expect that in the era when plastic bags were not popular, she would need red paper hemp rope to wrap these things.

But when she arrived at the grocery store, she immediately burst into a smile.

There are still plastic bags in the small grocery store!

This will save a lot of trouble.

She didn't know how many tables there were in the banquet. According to her thinking, a table of banquets counted as eight people, and it would be great to have [-] tables if it was full.

I bought [-] small plastic bags directly, and then put some melon seeds and peanuts in them, and then put six to eight oranges, and the bulk goods for the banquet will be ready.

But as soon as the account was settled, Ling Yue frowned.

These things actually cost more than 400 yuan!

Fried melon seeds cost two yuan and three catties, and she bought a hundred catties.

Oranges are thirty-five cents a catty, and three hundred catties is one hundred and five.

Eggs cost one yuan and thirty-five cents a catty, and she bought fifty catties, which cost 67 yuan.

Adding up other odds and ends, it cost about 430 yuan.

Seeing such a large pile of things, Ling Yue was in trouble again.

It can be said that they came from Qingpu City with light travel, but now the oranges alone weighed three hundred catties, plus other things, they couldn't bring them back at all, so they had to call a tractor to pull them back.

It took more than 40 minutes of bumps for the tractor to stop in the open space of the warehouse in the village.

"Zhaoyang, you and Zhongqiu are here to unload the goods, I'll go back and call someone to pick them up."

Ling Yue left this sentence, and took Tongtong to walk to the hometown in Ling Xiaoyue's memory.

Along the road in memory, I soon saw an adobe house on a slope.

Just when Ling Yue was still confirming whether it was here, Ling Qingfeng, who saw her leading Tongtong from a distance, rushed over and hugged Tongtong in his arms, with an expression on his face that couldn't be restrained Surprised smile: "Tongtong, why are you back, I miss uncle!"

As he said that, he took a sip on Tongtong's face.

Tongtong laughed happily in his arms: "Uncle's beard pricks me so itchy!"

Ling Qingfeng got excited, and rubbed her chin against her soft little face: "Really, why don't I know, I don't itch!"

After arguing with Tongtong, Ling Qingfeng asked Ling Yue: "Sister, brother-in-law didn't come back?"

Ling Yue looked at the thick-browed, dark-skinned, lean and capable man in front of him, with a smile on his face, and said, "We're all back. Isn't our mother's [-]th birthday in two days? Let's come back and have a look."

Ling Qingfeng echoed: "Yeah, Dad has been talking about this for the past two days, but our mother doesn't agree to handle it!"

Ling Yue raised her eyebrows unexpectedly: "Why doesn't she agree?"

Ling Qingfeng said hesitantly: "It's not like you don't know about our mother's temper, why don't you try to persuade her?"

"Okay, that's right, you take the basket and go to the warehouse to pick things up. Your brother-in-law is guarding things there."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

Ling Qingfeng walked two steps quickly, before entering the room, he shouted to the room: "Mom, my sister is back."

As soon as Ling's mother came out of the house, there was a little man in her arms. Before she had time to look, the little man called "Grandma" sweetly in her arms.

After shouting, he shouted at Father Ling again: "Grandpa."

The sweet and glutinous grandma's shout made Ling's mother's heart melt, and she hugged Tongtong and kissed her on the face.

"My dear, I miss grandma to death."

She hugged Tongtong with a smile in her eyes: "Tongtong is so obedient, she has grown a lot taller."

Ling Qingfeng came out from the back room with two loads of empty baskets, Ling's mother asked, "Qingfeng, why are you carrying the baskets?"

"My sister said she brought some things back and asked me and my dad to pick them out."

Before Mother Ling could react, Ling Qingfeng hurriedly ran towards the warehouse carrying the baskets.

Looking at the wrinkled old man in a blue floral shirt with an apron around his waist, Ling Yue felt an inexplicable sense of sadness in his heart.

She moved her lips and called out, "Mom."

(End of this chapter)