Chapter 25: First time doing business
Ye Xiaomei had maintained a safe distance today, but she was worried. What if they came tomorrow? Wouldn't they have to sit together again during meals? What should she do?
Without waiting for Ye Xiaomei to say anything, Ma Qijun happily agreed: "Okay, I will definitely come tomorrow."
"The herb needs to be shaded before it can be used. I'm afraid it won't work tomorrow at noon." Ye Xiaomei hurriedly explained.
Ma Qijun looked at the delicate face that he hadn't seen for a few days and thought to himself: Could it be that she doesn't want to see me?
"I'll come back the day after tomorrow to get the herb you mentioned, so I'll have dinner tomorrow."
“…”
Heizi suddenly covered his mouth and turned his back behind him. He couldn't understand how the wild wolf that the leader had mentioned could have become so shameless.
Ye Xiaomei looked at Heizi who was standing behind Ma Qijun with his back to her. What was he doing? Why were his shoulders shaking?
Ma Qijun turned around and looked back, his face suddenly darkened: "Heizi."
"Here!" Heizi turned around suddenly and met a pair of sinister eyes. His face turned dark red and the corners of his mouth twitched a few times before he calmed down.
"Go." Ma Qijun wanted to strangle him to death. If he didn't leave, the woman might really suspect what he was up to.
If you ask yourself, General Ma Qi has never felt so guilty in his life, and he has to especially "thank" Heizi for his performance.
"Let's go now." Wang Minzhi took two steps forward.
This is what Ye Xiaomei wanted to say, but when she thought of her illness, she opened her mouth but in the end no words came out to try to keep him.
Li Cuihua saw him off to the gate and said, "Xiao Ma, remember to come early tomorrow."
Ye Xiaomei took small steps to the outside of the door, leaned against the door sill and looked at the profile in the back seat of the car. Although Ye Xiaomei knew that the farthest place she had been was only the county, she also felt that she had never seen a man more attractive than him in the entire Qinghe County.
And the strong tendons hidden under his clothes were so hot every time I touched them.
Ma Qijun suddenly looked sideways.
Ye Xiaomei shuddered in her heart and quickly lowered her head, her blush flying to her ears.
It wasn't until the sound of the motor's roar faded away that Ye Xiaomei slowly looked up. Suddenly, she felt a pain in her shoulder. Hiss!
Wang Minzhi just retracted her hand that was about to squeeze Ye Xiaomei: "You are just like a piece of dead pork. Every time you come, your grandmother and I have to greet you. How come you can't even say a polite word?"
Ye Xiaomei rubbed his shoulders.
"Your mother is the same. She just sits there with that basket of broken shoe soles all day long without saying a word. If it weren't for your grandmother and I, who knows how outsiders would say that our Ye family doesn't know how to entertain guests."
Wang Minzhi returned to the main room cursing, thinking: I can finally let out a sigh of relief, it's good that I didn't squeeze you to death.
Determination flashed across Ye Xiaomei's eyes. She closed the door and went back to her room.
A gift for hospitality? Ye Xiaomei had thought about fighting back against the old lady, and she had also thought about telling her grandmother directly that the thousand yuan was not intended for her at all.
But Ye Xiaomei couldn't say it. If she did, every time the matchmaker or the Ma family came to discuss wedding matters, her grandmother would definitely not be willing to pay for the food.
She and her mother would certainly not be able to afford to entertain them, and then it would be truly a lack of hospitality.
So, Ye Xiaomei swallowed this matter and waited a little longer. On August 8, she would be liberated.
Oh, and the rabbit must also be married along.
Ye Xiaomei went to feed the rabbit slowly.
Wang Minzhi was furious: "This girl is really shameless. She acted as if nothing happened even after being scolded. I don't know how thick her face is, Xiaolin..."
Wang Minzhi deliberately raised her voice: "You can't be so shameless. No one can bully you when you marry into your husband's family. If anyone bullies you, you should fight him back. How can you say that you still have two brothers to support you?"
The implication of this statement is too obvious. It is implying that the reason why Ye Xiaomei dared not speak is because her mother did not give her an older brother or a younger brother to support her.
The whole night was silent. Ye Xiaomei just wrote and drew on the notebook she was sewing. These were the prescriptions she had summarized from reading various medical books during this period.
She learned some methods of making donkey-hide gelatin pills that are needed in daily life to replenish blood and nourish qi, as well as many treatment plans for daily diseases. She didn't expect that even the pig ear vines on the roadside are a traditional Chinese medicine called plantain.
If that's the case, there are treasures everywhere on Tieqiao Mountain. You wouldn't know until you read the book. Once you read the book, you will find that you have missed a lot of treasures.
Early in the morning, Ye Xiaomei prepared the steamed buns and pickled vegetables that Xiao Ya brought, and put them on the cage to keep them warm. She hurried to the pond before dawn.
He took the cut smilax glabra out of the basket and put it aside, then rolled up his trouser legs and went down into the pond.
I picked up a web frame and repeated to myself several times: There must be, there must be, there must be…
I gritted my teeth and grabbed it, and before I had a closer look, the half of the mud that had seeped in was bursting into pieces, and even a few large eels had thrown out a lot of mud.
Ye Xiaomei rubbed her face quickly and poured the food into the basket on her back. Her heart was beating fast. This was great. She could definitely sell it for a good price.
The second, third, and fourth one, I didn’t expect it to be a whole half of the backpack.
Ye Xiaomei pushed the net frame back on, not caring that the mud that seeped out of the backpack had gotten all over her body. She trotted to the river, took down the backpack and pushed it directly into the running water.
Her hands were shaking vigorously, and Ye Xiaomei would occasionally hold the two shaking breasts on her chest.
Not long after the cleaning was completed, Ye Xiaomei could see the lively loaches and eels in the basket. She weighed them and found that they weighed at least 40 kilograms.
Seeing the dawn light just beginning to appear in the horizon, gradually covering the light of the morning star, Ye Xiaomei hurried back to the fish pond and covered the loaches with the cut lycopodii.
When I got home, Zhao Mei was the only one there.
Wang Minzhi took Ye Xiaolin to the county to buy vegetables early, and Li Cuihua must have gone to play cards.
"Xiao Mei, there's no need to weed the fields now. Why did you run away before dawn? Where were you going?" Zhao Mei was walking into the yard, sewing while holding her needlework.
Ye Xiaomei was squeezing water with a crunching sound. She washed the herb and put it away, and would take it out in the evening.
"Mom, look what this is?" Ye Xiaomei smiled happily and pointed at the basket behind her back mysteriously.
"Ah!" Zhao Mei hurriedly put down her needle and thread and thimble, and looked inside the basket: "Where did it come from? This thing is worth a lot of money."
"I caught him." Ye Xiaomei said mysteriously, "Mom, we have to find a way to make some money ourselves. We can't always rely on others. When I get married this time, didn't Dad say he would come back on August 5th? Then he will still give his wages to grandma."
When Zhao Mei heard this, she slowly lowered her head. This was her biggest pain, but the source of the pain was that she could not give birth to a son.
"Then...Xiao Mei, what are your plans?"
"While it's still early, I'll go to the county to sell them for some money." Ye Xiaomei said as she fed the rabbits first, then separated the eels and loaches, and stacked two washbasins in the back basket, one for the loaches and the other for the eels.
Zhao Mei looked at the little figure carrying the bamboo basket on his back, and felt extremely sad. Because of her, both of her daughters became soft-tempered. Even if she had a temper, she would not be like this:
"Xiao Mei, I'll go with you."
Ye Xiaomei was a little surprised: "Mom, didn't they say that Sister Xiaolin's boyfriend would be at our house at noon today? What if the food doesn't sell well and we come back late? Wouldn't you be unable to cook?"
Ye Xiaomei was thinking that she would be scolded if she didn't cook, but for now she could only make do with her life.
"Then I won't eat." Zhao Mei tidied her clothes, said some tough words, turned around and locked the door:
"I'm going to borrow a bicycle from Li Dazui's house. Your basket is too heavy. I'll be exhausted if I return it to the county."
It was just before nine o'clock when we arrived in the county, but considering that the market was only held in the morning, it was already very late at this time and all the roadside stalls were fully occupied.
It was even more impossible to find a "feng shui treasure land" with big trees to provide shade. Ye Xiaomei's face turned red due to the heat, and sweat poured into her collar.
Zhao Mei was at a loss. The momentum she had just used to pledge her support for her daughter to make money was gone:
"Xiao Mei, what should we do? If we keep wasting time, the loach will die."
Ye Xiaomei was also confused. She thought that catching loaches meant she had money, but this was the first time she had done business in her life.
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