Chapter 179 General Lychee

Today, we are still preparing the same amount of ingredients as usual when selling at Anxinfang.

Although the sales speed in a new market was not as fast as there, it was still sold out within three hours.

Liu Mao had put the strings on himself yesterday and knew the number of lots in the two buckets in front of him. Now that they were all sold out, he did a rough calculation and couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The number was much higher than he had previously guessed. Starting tomorrow, he would take 70% of the profits...

Thinking of this, even Liu Mao, who had always been calm, couldn't help but breathe faster.

"Don't get too excited. This is just the beginning. In less than a month at most, sales will be reduced to only one-fifth of the current level."

Sang Yu was very calm. She asked a few people to pack up their things, prepare to go buy groceries, and then go to Liu Mao's house.

She suddenly thought of something: "Brother Liu, have you told Auntie that we are going there? Don't scare her."

"I told you, my mother was very happy when she found out I was going into business, and she kept saying she wanted to thank you in person."

Liu Mao went home last night and told his mother about this. Naturally, he concealed the murder and only said that he had a connection with the Sang family and they planned to do business together.

Of course, Liu's mother, who had always felt that her son was idle and restless all day, readily agreed to this.

Knowing that the other party would come to her house the next day, she started cleaning the house this morning and refused to rest no matter how Liu Mao persuaded her.

To be honest, this was the first time that Sang Yu and his family of three visited someone else's home after arriving in Lingnan, so they had to buy some things and bring them over.

Although Liu Mao was a man of few words and was decisive and swift in killing people, after spending the whole afternoon together yesterday, the Sang family father and son realized that he was not the vicious criminal they had imagined, and now they dared to talk to him proactively.

"Brother Mao, what does Auntie like to eat? Do you want me to buy some cakes and bring them over?"

Sang Xingjia's emotional intelligence wasn't so low as to ask the other party directly to tell him what he wanted, but he had heard that Liu Mao's mother was in poor health and didn't know if she had any dietary restrictions.

Liu Mao shook his head slightly: "No need to spend too much money, we have it at home."

After all, the three people from the Sang family didn't go to his house to ask for help, but he himself needed something and needed them to come to his house, so how could he let them spend money?

"I remember there's a stall over there that sells some good candied fruits. Let's buy some and take them with us." Sang Yu thought about it carefully and gave a suitable suggestion.

Things like candied fruits can be stored for a long time.

For someone like Liu Mao's mother who takes medicine all year round, it can also change the bitter taste in her mouth, which is perfect.

Candied fruit was not a valuable item, so Liu Mao did not refuse.

The group bought vegetables, meat and some small gifts for Liu Mao to use in his stall tomorrow, and then followed him home.

Liu Mao's home is also in Xicheng. The specific location should be in the northwest corner of Lingnan City. It is a bungalow with a small courtyard.

Liu Mao walked through the narrow alley and came to the door of his home. He knocked on the door a few times and shouted inside: "Mom! Aunt Wang! I'm back!"

Footsteps were soon heard from inside the door, followed by the sound of wood rubbing as the bolt was removed, and then the two wooden doors were pulled open.

The person who opened the door was a woman who looked to be in her thirties. She was startled when she saw several people following Liu Mao.

Patting her chest, she complained, "Xiao Mao, you're such a jerk! You brought people back without even telling me in advance. You almost scared me to death."

"My mother..." Liu Mao wanted to ask if his mother had not told her about this.

Then he thought it would be easiest to just apologize directly. "I was inconsiderate. I'll remember that next time."

"Since you're back, I'll go back and cook. Those little brats at home are always complaining about being hungry..."

Aunt Wang obviously didn't intend to argue with him about this matter, and planned to leave when she saw him come back.

"Okay, Aunt Wang, you can rest at home this afternoon. I'll be home."

After Aunt Wang left, Sang Yu asked, "Is she the one who usually takes care of your mother?"

"Yes, Aunt Wang is not a bad person, she just likes to take advantage of others. Before, I went out to earn money, and it was thanks to her that she came to help take care of my mother."

Since returning home, Liu Mao seemed to have spoken more unconsciously.

He has always been very grateful to Aunt Wang. He is the only male in the family, and his mother is sick and can only be taken care of on the bed.

If I take care of my mother at home, I won’t have money to treat her illness. If I go out to earn money, I won’t be able to take care of her.

This may have been the reason why he didn't work honestly at first.

Thanks to Aunt Wang's willingness to lend a hand, he has been able to hold on until now.

"Stop talking at the door, please come in quickly." Liu Mao came back to his senses from his memory and found that the guests were still standing at the door.

The yard is not very big, and there is a lychee tree planted in the middle, about four or five meters high. The branches are obviously trimmed to make it easy to climb to the crown to pick the fruit.

However, it is not the fruit-bearing season now, and only green leaves remain on the tree crown.

As soon as he saw the lychee tree, Sang Yu almost couldn't walk anymore and asked, "What kind of lychee tree is this?"

"General Lychee."

When she asked about the lychee tree, Liu Mao's eyes fell on the treetops. "It's said that it was planted by a general of the Southern Han Dynasty. The ridges of the fruit look like a general's armor. My father planted it himself."

For Liu Mao and his father, the spiritual symbolism of this litchi tree far exceeds its own value, and it has become his spiritual sustenance after his father's death.

"It's a pity you came a little late. You could have eaten lychees in a month or two."

"It's not too late, we can come back next summer to taste it. I just hope that Brother Liu won't think we're bothering you then."

As a lychee fanatic who has tasted several varieties of lychees, Sang Yu looks forward to eating lychees the most when he comes to Lingnan.

In later generations, many lychee varieties disappeared in the long river of history due to the development of the times and various unexpected factors.

Although many of them do not taste as good as those produced through scientific selection and grafting in later generations, quite a few of them taste excellent.

It was a pity that they had arrived long after the lychee fruiting season, and the only thing available in the market was 'lychee fried' or lychee preserves.

In the mountains and forests in front of his previous residence, Sang Yu also found many lychee trees of unknown varieties, and he was waiting to taste them one by one after they bore fruit next year.

"Of course, you're welcome."

After chatting with Sang Yu for a while, Liu Mao suddenly felt that something was wrong. Where was his mother?

He had clearly called out before entering the house, and he knew that there would be guests coming today, so his mother would definitely not avoid them. So it could only be...

It’s bad! Liu Mao thought to himself that something was wrong and turned around and ran into the house.

When Sang Yu saw Liu Mao's expression change drastically, she suddenly understood - something had happened.