Xiao Wei never asked Xiao Cheng for money.
Naturally, they wouldn't ask about Bailu (White Dew).
He stubbornly put the money on the table and walked out.
Bai Lu grabbed his backpack, unzipped it, stuffed the money inside, and zipped it up.
All the movements were performed in one smooth motion, so fast that Xiao Wei didn't even have time to react.
"what you do?"
"It's nothing, I just put a few loquats in your backpack." Bai Lu smiled and stuffed a few more in.
Xiao Wei glared at her: "I don't like loquats."
"What about star fruit?" Bai Lu reached into the bamboo basket.
"No," Xiao Wei refused.
"Then you can go." Bai Lu ignored him and picked up a large tangerine, peeling it herself.
Xiao Wei: "..."
When Xiao Cheng returned, he ran into Xiao Wei, who was walking out angrily, and almost bumped into him.
She was as frightened as a startled lamb.
His angry face froze for a moment, then he turned and ran away.
Bai Lu was eating oranges when she saw Xiao Cheng return. She immediately stood up and greeted him with a smile: "You're back! Aunt Wu from next door gave me some fruit. It's very sweet. Try some."
An orange was handed to me.
Xiao Cheng glanced at it, didn't take it, and asked directly, "Is there anything you need to buy recently?"
The two hundred yuan that was originally intended for her was used to raise compensation for Wang Hao at the bureau.
Bai Lu was a little confused by the question: "No, I still have money. I haven't used up the money you gave me last time."
As she spoke, she began peeling an orange.
While peeling an orange, she told Xiao Cheng about the neighbor's visit: "Aunt Wu's family bought that piece of land and wants to demolish the old house and build a small red brick house. She wanted to ask if you have a construction team that can help her build the house."
The town is full of houses with blue bricks and tiles, and the worst are mud brick houses. Red brick houses are too expensive to build, so they are very rare.
In the entire town, only Bai Lu's family built a red brick house, which was only one story high, and it cost them 30,000 yuan.
In the end, he even extorted money from Xiao Cheng.
Bai Lu peeled the orange, broke it in half, and eagerly offered it to Xiao Cheng: "Try it, it's really sweet, not sour at all, it's incredibly delicious."
Her eyes crinkled into crescents, and her smile was sweeter than an orange.
Xiao Cheng took half of it, broke off two pieces of fruit and ate them. Indeed, they were sweet and cloying.
Seeing that he was frowning, Bai Lu figured he probably didn't like oranges, so she simply ate the other half herself.
He asked, "Do you know any construction teams?"
In fact, Xiao Cheng knows how to use a bricklayer's trowel to build houses.
He remembered seeing Bai Lu, but the original owner of this body didn't know her, so she could only ask, and also had a slight desire for him to build a house next door.
In the previous life, the original body was gone yesterday, so there was no subsequent incident of Liu Guanggun's night raid.
Xiao Cheng did try to find the original owner of the body, since she was pregnant with his child when she fell into the river. Although it was a misdiagnosis, no one knew, and he gave up because he couldn't find her.
Bai Lu knew about this last deal at the sand and gravel quarry, including Wang Hao's arrest.
They also knew that this deal would cause many troubles and ultimately lead to Xiao Cheng and his companions being imprisoned.
During the period when Li Chengbin's debt was delayed, Luo Shiliu would invite Xiao Cheng to work on a construction site in the neighboring county.
All four of them went, and even got into a conflict with the local bullies. They all came back covered in injuries.
Bai Lu thought that building a house next door would be able to divert the disaster away.
Xiao Cheng didn't know what Bai Lu was thinking, but he could see from her hopeful eyes that she wanted a definite answer, and even had some kind of subtle expectation.
"have."
After saying that, he popped a segment of orange into his mouth.
Upon receiving an affirmative answer, Bai Lu's face lit up with an innocent and slightly excited expression. Her eyes sparkled as she looked at Xiao Cheng and asked, "Who is it? Luo Shiliu and the others?"
"It's so great to be able to build houses for people in town. Everyone here is a neighbor, so we can talk about anything. It's close to home, and I can go home for dinner every day!"
She continued to list the advantages without caring whether Xiao Chengcheng had admitted it or not, her coquettish tone full of envy.
For reasons unknown, Xiao Cheng didn't tell her that he could also build houses.
Listening to her innocent and soft voice, and seeing her envious little eyes, I continued to eat the sweet and cloying fruit.
"Knock knock knock—"
There was a sudden knock on the door.
Xiao Cheng went to open the door; it was Luo Shiliu.
He leaned casually against the door, and as soon as the door opened, he said, "Nanxian is going to build a sugar factory, complete with employee dormitories. It's a pretty big project. It's being run by locals who made money outside and came back to set it up. They make 300 yuan a month. Quite a few people from the town have already gone there. How about you guys go check it out?"
Luo Shiliu usually gathers intelligence and knows all the important information very well.
300 yuan a month, although not as much as the commission they receive from collecting payments, is considered very high in this area; the brick factory only pays 260 yuan a month.
They were about to quit, but Li Chengbin's debt was postponed, so they could go work on the construction site first.
I'll come back five days later to settle the matter with Li Chengbin and completely change careers.
If Luo Shiliu had arrived half an hour earlier, Xiao Cheng would have agreed, but now...
He looked at the mud-brick houses not far away: "Those are going to be demolished and rebuilt into small red brick buildings."
The wages haven't been discussed yet, but judging from the basket of exquisite fruit on the table, it's unlikely to be short by much.
Luo Shiliu was almost speechless with shock: "What! Liu Guanggun built a small house before us? Brother Cheng, you're not kidding, are you?"
“Collecting debts is at least a stable job, but Liu Guanggun has no work at all. Where would he get the money to rebuild a new house, a small red brick building? Since when can you get rich by stealing chickens and dogs?”
Luo Shiliu's information gathering finally backfired. As of now, the information he had was that Liu Guanggun and Ahui had been brutally beaten by Xiao Cheng last night.
The reason was that he had harassed their sister-in-law.
How come overnight, even a half-crippled bachelor has money to build a new house? What's going on?
"They've changed the person."
Xiao Cheng kindly provided the answer.
Luo Shiliu suddenly realized, with an "I knew it" expression. After confirming with Xiao Cheng which excavator company to contact tomorrow, he went home to improve his business skills.
Xiao Cheng returned to the main house. The fruit basket on the table was still there, with some more cakes on it, but Bai Lu was nowhere to be seen.
A rustling sound came from the backyard.
Amidst the vibrant spring colors, a slender girl, wielding a hoe, dug and turned in the vegetable patch, her activities unclear from a distance.
Xiao Cheng's cold and silent eyes unconsciously softened with a touch of warmth. Without a word, he turned and left.
Go to the farmers' market to buy vegetables.
After Bailu finished tidying everything up, she came out of the backyard, washed her hands, picked up her small vegetable basket, and prepared to go grocery shopping.
Xiao Cheng has returned.
He also bought a large piece of beef, a tilapia, some broccoli, and two carrots.
When Bailu (White Dew) arrives, I immediately think of braised beef with radish, steamed tilapia, and stir-fried broccoli and carrots.
Without saying a word, he ran back to the backyard.
When he returned, he had a large white radish in his hand, the leaves of which had been plucked off to feed the old hen.
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