"Really? Then thank you in advance!"
Huang Qinqin nodded: "Really, but there might not be many. We can only bring them back to the office for everyone to try."
"It's alright, it's good enough to have a taste. If it's good, we'll wait until the department store sells it and then go to support it."
"That's right, that's right."
It wasn't that Huang Qinqin was reluctant to bring back more, but rather that Grandma Huang's family didn't have much left.
The pickled vegetables that Huang Qinqin brought back were mostly leftovers from last year. For now, the only ones she pickled this year are taro stems and pickled cowpeas.
As for radishes, although they have started to grow, there aren't enough of them to be used to make pickles yet.
As for pickled cabbage, it's not the season for planting mustard greens yet, so what we're eating now is from last year.
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In that case, pickled radishes and sauerkraut won't be available in large quantities for a short period of time, right?
This is terrible, no, no, I have to ask about this when I get back tomorrow.
As for now, Huang Qinqin plans to draw a few pictures for Huangjiacun first, and then ask the daily chemical factory if they can put the labels on the bottles as well.
......
Before going to bed at night
Xu Weiguo suddenly asked Zhang Yumei, "Wife, do you remember Xu Jingui's first wife?"
Zhang Yumei looked at him suspiciously: "Why are you asking this?"
"Just asking casually, do you remember me?"
Zhang Yumei recalled: "There was a bit of that. I'm not saying this to be rude, but Xu Jingui's previous wife was really quite good."
"She's not in good health; she's always hunched over and looking down. I've seen her several times, and she's always working with her head down."
Xu Weiguo pressed further, "When was the last time you saw her? Do you remember?"
"I don't quite remember, it must have been after she gave birth to her second child. You even asked me to deliver gifts to them back then!"
After saying this, Zhang Yumei got angry. Even though they had separated from the family for over ten years, Xu Weiguo would still make her deliver gifts during holidays or when Xu Weimin's family had a happy occasion!
At the time, Zhang Yumei thought it was just a matter of dividing the family property. After all, Xu Weiguo's parents lived with Xu Weimin, so she figured it was fine to give it to them.
But this year she discovered that they had long since severed ties with Grandpa and Grandma Xu, and she felt heartbroken about all the things she had given away over the past ten years!
Zhang Yumei glared fiercely at Xu Weiguo, then slapped his belly hard: "You've gotten so fat, your allowance will be halved this month!"
Xu Weiguo hadn't expected that asking a question would cost him his allowance, and reluctantly said, "Why is it halved? It wasn't even..."
"Fine, halved it is then," Xu Weiguo swallowed the rest of his words under Zhang Yumei's warning glare.
But since he'd already spent his allowance, Xu Weiguo simply continued, "Did you see her at the time? How did she look?"
"And do you remember where she's from?"
Zhang Yumei sensed something was wrong: "Why are you suddenly asking these questions? Are you hiding something from me?"
Xu Weiguo wasn't sure what was going on yet, so he wasn't planning to tell her yet and was thinking about how to gloss over the situation first.
Zhang Yumei slapped his thigh hard.
Snap!
"Are you trying to fool me? I know what you're up to the moment you bend over. Tell me the truth!"
Zhang Yumei and Xu Weiguo have been married for over twenty years. Apart from the first few years when he was in the army, they have spent more than ten years together day and night.
If Xu Weiguo wanted to deceive her, it wouldn't be that simple.
Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Xu Weiguo had no choice but to tell the truth: "I went to see Fang Hui today, and we suspect that Xu Jingui's first wife did not die a natural death."
Zhang Yumei exclaimed in surprise, "You suspect Xu Jingui and his group?!"
Although Xu Weiguo didn't want to admit it, he had no choice but to nod silently.
After learning the reason, Zhang Yumei began to try hard to recall things about Xu Jingui's wife. She actually remembered something.
"Oh right, I remember now! When I went to deliver gifts to Xu Weimin's family, I went in and took a peek at Jin Gui's wife."
"I noticed that Jin Gui's wife was in a bad mood, so I comforted her. She told me that she missed her parents and wanted to go home."
Xu Weiguo didn't quite understand what was wrong with that statement: "What's wrong with it? It's normal to miss your parents and want to go back to your parents' home, isn't it?"
"Tsk! Why can't you get it?"
Zhang Yumei felt her bottom getting a little numb, so she shifted her position before continuing, "Normally, when a daughter has a baby, whether it's in the village or the city, her family will definitely come to visit!"
"Generally, if your parents don't come to visit, there are only two possibilities. The first is that your parents have passed away; the second is that you don't have a good relationship with your parents."
"But Jin Gui's wife is clearly neither of those cases, yet neither of her parents have come to see her. I think you can start your investigation from there."
Hearing her say that, Xu Weiguo understood: "Okay, then I'll talk to Fang Hui about it tomorrow. By the way, do you remember how weak she was back then?"
"Because they said at the time that Xu Jingui's wife died in childbirth, I wanted to confirm her physical condition after giving birth."
Zhang Yumei said with certainty, "She is somewhat weak, but certainly not weak enough to die."
Xu Weiguo nodded: "I understand. I'll talk to Fang Hui about it tomorrow. It's getting late, let's go to sleep."
......
The next morning
After finishing breakfast, Huang Qinqin asked shyly, "Uncle, could you lend me your bicycle again?"
Chen Ming readily replied, "Sure, you can take it."
"Thank you, Uncle!"
After watching Xu Weiguo and Chen Ming walk to work, Huang Qinqin silently planned in her mind: It seems I should ask Manager Gao if they can be provided with a bicycle.
We can't expect her to provide the bicycle every time we go out. We have two bicycles at home, and she's been using both of them; it's not good.
When Huang Qinqin arrived at the department store, she saw several of her cousins and greeted them with some surprise: "Big cousin, second cousin, third cousin, don't you guys have to go to work today?"
Huang Jianmin said with a grin, "Aren't you surprised? We had already agreed to rest and go home together today."
"Then last night Guiming told me that you guys were also going back to Huangjia Village today, so I was thinking of hitching a ride with you. Hehe~"
Huang Qinqin nodded, suppressing a laugh: "I definitely have no objection, but have you cousins asked Guiming how many bicycles we have?"
Huang Jianmin pointed to the three bicycles and said, "Huh? Aren't there three here?"
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