Chapter 376 Shrimp and Sea

It was a cold winter with heavy snow and ice. After several nights of continuous snowfall, Zhaojiatun was covered in white.

This year's snow came earlier than last year and the weather was unusually cold.

Every household in the village was allocated grain according to work points. After deducting the public grain (agricultural tax), households with surplus grain had to pay for the unified purchase of grain. The grain they received and took home was barely enough to make ends meet.

The price of grain purchased by the central government has remained basically unchanged for ten years. Millet is 10 yuan and 40 cents per 100 catties, millet is 14 yuan per 100 catties, rice is 19 yuan per 100 catties, and corn is 10 yuan and 20 cents per 100 catties...

At the end of the year, the accounts for grain that should be collected and returned are settled, and the villagers hide at home to spend the winter, or visit neighbors or act as matchmakers or pull boats.

After Ma Dongmei came back from the provincial capital, she held her breath and dug out her brother-in-law and sister-in-law's old books and picked up the textbooks that she had thrown away for many years.

She read the book haltingly and her handwriting was ugly, which made her want to give up several times in just a few days.

But every time this happened, she would think of the scene of Lin Yiyi sitting in front of the window and flipping through the pages of a book.

The sunlight shone on her through the window, making her look excessively beautiful.

Ma Dongmei flipped through the book in her hand again, reading along word by word, and circled the words she didn't know with a half-broken pencil.

It's just like digging holes and burying seeds in the fields.

When she can understand these books and recognize all the words, she may be able to be like Lin Yiyi.

Ma Dongmei didn't know how long it would take, but every time she looked further, she got closer.

Lin Yiyi is her role model.

Snow is falling outside the window, and I turn another page.

The math problem I finished has been modified and noted by someone.

Lin Yiyi frowned and slowed down her eating of persimmons. Looking at the wrong mark, she suddenly felt bored.

The persimmons are no longer sweet.

With her ability, can she get into university?

Painting makes people happy.

After Tian Meiling finished cooking the lamb foetus soup, she served a bowl to Lin Yiyi and brought it into the house. Seeing that she was painting, she put down the bowl and reminded her with a smile, "Yiyi, remember to drink the soup while it's hot."

Lin Yiyi turned her head and smiled at her, "Sorry for troubling you, sister-in-law. I know."

"It's not a problem. It's my duty. What are you drawing?" Tian Meiling walked closer to take a look. It looked like a man who fell into the water and was rescued by a female comrade.

"Who is this painting of?" Why is it a man with wet clothes sticking to his body? Aren't you afraid that your cousin will make a scene if he sees it?

Some time ago, my cousin Tian Meihui came to visit relatives with her husband. After they left, during the meal, Lin Yiyi praised Tian Meihui for her good taste in marrying a well-mannered and handsome male teacher. They must have had common topics.

My cousin's expression at that time was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Lin Yiyi put down the brush and took two steps back to admire the composition. She was quite satisfied. "I don't know who I'm painting, so I just painted it casually. The female educated youth who was brave enough to do something righteous and the male educated youth who fell into the water."

Just a few more details and it'll be done.

"..." Tian Meiling saw that she was honest and didn't fancy other gay men, so she glanced at her and reminded her, "My cousin will be back late tonight, so put it away when you finish painting."

“…Oh, okay.”

Lin Yiyi smiled warmly but was speechless in her heart. All the male characters she drew had to have his face, otherwise she would make trouble again.

She is tired of drawing.

Zhao Sheng's words were still ringing in his ears: "Why can you draw other men's facial features so vividly and clearly? This is evidence that you have been peeping at men a lot!"

She was speechless and cursed in her heart. Of course, she didn't change her actions because Zhao Sheng was not at home during the day anyway.

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Xiushui Town.

In the afternoon, Zhao Sheng went to the neighboring city and then went to Xiushui Town. He placed four bricks on the courtyard wall and went to the state-owned restaurant to pack two servings of scallion shrimp.

The road conditions were bad and it was snowing, so we drove for more than three hours and finally arrived in Ze County at around nine o'clock in the evening.

When they returned to Lihua Lane, everyone in the house was asleep. Zhao Sheng first went to the kitchen to boil the snow that his cousin's wife had collected. Then he brought it back to the house, lit the kerosene lamp, and took out a small porcelain bottle from the drawer.

Zhao Sheng picked up the curled-up person on the bed. He couldn't wake her up, so he had to bite her to wake her up. "Kitty, wake up. Take the pills and go back to sleep."

Lin Yiyi didn't have a bad temper when she woke up. She was so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes, but she didn't get angry. She just leaned into the man's arms and hummed softly twice.

Although she was conscious but physically sleepy, Lin Yiyi said nothing and simply opened her mouth and swallowed the pill.

She just didn't expect the pill to be as big as a thumb, and it almost choked her to death.

Zhao Sheng quickly fed her the water mixed with boiled water, and after watching her swallow it, he put her back on the bed and let her continue sleeping.

Thinking about the lunch box on the table, Zhao Sheng whispered in her ear again, "I brought you some scallion shrimp. Do you want to eat it tomorrow or today?"

"shrimp?"

After hearing what the man said, Lin Yiyi decisively abandoned her dream, opened her eyes and sat up, looking at her caring husband with a smile, and asked anxiously, "Did you buy me shrimp? Where?"

Zhao Sheng laughed, looking at her greedy expression, and touched her cheek, with a gentle expression and an indulgent tone, "Put on your clothes first, I'll heat up the shrimp and bring it to you inside."

Ten minutes later, what was originally dinner for one turned into dinner for two.

Corn buns, pork and cabbage vermicelli from the textile factory canteen, scrambled eggs with vegetable stems that Lin Yiyi didn't recognize, white sauce tofu, and two boxes of scallion shrimp.

Lin Yiyi smelled the fragrance of the food and her appetite was whetted. She ate one and a half boxes of shrimps by herself and gave the man a small half box.

No wonder he came back so late. When she saw the shrimp, she knew that the man must have gone to Xiushui Town.

The two of them finished their meal affectionately, washed up briefly, and then lay on the bed and talked in each other's arms. Lin Yiyi was in good spirits, and was multitasking, rubbing the man's belly and starting to flatter him.

The next morning, Zhao Sheng went to the neighboring city and then to Xiushui Town. When he arrived outside Xiushui Town, he saw a familiar person waiting there.

Zhao Sheng looked at the middleman and said coldly, "The four houses with a vegetable cellar in Walnut Alley are for sale. I also want six portions of 5 jin of dried seafood."

The middleman goes through the process and asks: "We have the goods. Do you want to sell them urgently or at a high price?"

If you are in a hurry to sell, you can only get 80% of the original price of the house, but you will get the money quickly. The yard will be mortgaged to the middleman who buys the house, and they will resell it. However, the price will basically increase by half of the original price after the house is resold from them.

If you sell at a high price, you have to wait, which wastes time. The middle buyer will help to take the lead and take a commission from both the buyer and the seller.

Zhao Sheng kept an eye on his surroundings, and said in a cold voice, "Sell it at a high price. Apart from the original price of the house, you can take 70% of the extra money and I will only take 30%. The extra 50% will be considered as commission.

Please help me find a yard in Qianzhen or Haishi, Guangdong Province in the south. The yard doesn't need to be too big, as long as there is a plot of land for growing vegetables. It should be no later than May of next year."

In fact, it would be better to buy a house in a mountainous area closer to the port city, but it is too conspicuous and abnormal for outsiders to suddenly go to remote villages to buy property.

The middleman got the profit and was very attentive. He approached the seller with a smile and lowered his voice, "Do you want a map? A map across the mountain."

Ask the people in Qianzhen and Haishi, they will naturally understand what you want to do.