Ahem…
“Yes, I bought a box.”
"I can't tell, this girl is quite thin. I know I should buy you some vanishing cream."
Is he younger?
If I hadn't reminded him, it would have been strange if he had remembered to buy the vanishing cream.
Granny Liu stayed with her for two days, her hands and mouth never stopped talking, gossiping about all the neighbors.
There is really nothing she doesn't know about the surrounding villages.
Finally, they talked about Xie Linan’s first blind date.
"Did you hear that Zhou Xiaohui is back?"
Ye Xiaozhen was still a little confused, "Who is Zhou Xiaohui?"
"Oh, that's Xie Linan's first blind date, the one who ran away with her."
Ye Xiaozhen raised her eyebrows, "Oh, her, what happened after she came back?"
"Nothing. I'm just telling you this for fun because I have nothing to do. Before Zhou Xiaohui got engaged to your Lin An, she was a lover. It is said that the girl was good at coaxing and used sweet words to trick Zhou Xiaohui. Her family thought that the girl was unreliable, so they asked a matchmaker to arrange the marriage for her.
The matchmaker mentioned your Lin An. The two families had already agreed, but the man outside convinced Zhou Xiaohui to run away with him. She ran away for four years, and came back a few days ago with a three-year-old baby in her arms. "
"That's good."
"What's good about that? Zhou Xiaohui's family's ancestors opened a private school, so they are quite traditional. How could they tolerate her eloping with her husband? Their old man was clamoring about marrying her as a wife and eloping her as a concubine, and he insisted that she had eloped with her husband and became a lowly concubine. He even cancelled her household registration and refused to acknowledge her."
Ye Xiaozhen thought that the management was really chaotic at the moment, and she hoped that her account would be cancelled while she was still alive.
"They came back mainly to get their household registration. Zhou Xiaohui didn't have a household registration, and neither did her child. Their old man was adamant and wouldn't allow anyone at home to get one for her. Now she lives in Zhou's woodshed with her child. It's so pitiful."
Ye Xiaozhen was startled. "Why are they living in the woodshed? Where is the man?"
"The man doesn't want her anymore, and there's no evidence."
Ye Xiaozhen: "..."
"If the man wanted her, he would have registered her in his family long ago. How could it have turned out like this?"
Ye Xiaozhen sighed for a while, this made...
"The state recognizes de facto marriages, so it doesn't necessarily require a certificate."
"That has to be acknowledged by both sides' neighbors, relatives and friends. The man's family scolded Zhou Xiaohui for being shameless, seducing his son and coaxing his son to live away for a few years, where he suffered. They simply didn't acknowledge their marriage. Not to mention her in-laws, Zhou Xiaohui's family didn't acknowledge it either, and her husband insisted on her becoming his concubine. They didn't even have a wedding banquet, so how can this be considered a de facto marriage?"
There is nothing we can do about it.
Old Lady Liu chuckled and said, "She knows that your Lin An is so successful. I wonder if she will regret it."
She was at Ye Xiaozhen's house for the past two days. In the afternoon, Xie Li came back with a group of friends.
Xie Li originally thought that it would take at least a week to pick all the fruits by herself, and she could only package them together and sell them cheaply to vendors.
But she didn't expect that Xie Linli and Xie Linqi found eight strong guys for her, plus the three of them, a total of eleven people.
The cooperation was much faster than her climbing up and down alone, and it was done in two and a half hours.
On Sunday, they also helped to carry it down from the mountain.
Eleven baskets of fruit were placed in the Xie family's yard, filling it up.
To thank them, Xie Li packed two large bags for them.
The guys were very happy, each carrying two big bags.
"Sister, I'll look for you again next year."
Xie Li smiled and said, "Okay, I'll come back to you next year."
"It's getting late, let's go now."
They have to take their stuff home and then go to school.
Xie Linli and Xie Linqi made an appointment with several classmates to meet at school.
It was getting late, so Erji hurriedly packed up and went to school.
Lin Xinghua had prepared everything for them long ago, five yuan a week, and also brought rice and salted vegetables.
This was quite a bit of money at that time.
Ten dollars a week for two weeks, that's forty dollars a month. It's really not easy for an average family to come up with forty dollars of spare money a month.
"Grandma Liu, thank you for these two."
Grandma Liu was smiling from ear to ear as she received a basketful of dates and persimmons as a thank you.
"Hey, I didn't do anything. I just came here to sit and chat with Zhen. You gave me so much."
"Not much, not much. They are all grown by me. They are not worth much."
She looked at the yard full of persimmons and dates and said, "There are so many. It must be a big orchard, right?"
Xie Li smiled and said, "There aren't many. There are more trees than there are trees. There is a large forest, and only a small part of it is planted with fruit trees."
Grandma Liu said: "You are still capable. It is not easy for a woman to raise a child in a village."
"Oh, by the way, are you going to sell these fruits?"
"I can't finish it, so I have to sell it."
"How much do you want?"
Xie Li smiled and said, "It's up to you. We'll sell as many as we can. We'll make persimmon cakes out of the remaining persimmons for ourselves. We'll sell the winter dates, but we'll dry these baskets of red dates for ourselves."
"Okay, you check how much it sells for per pound, then go to the village and ask if anyone wants to buy it."
"Grandma Liu, thank you so much."
Xie Li offered a price that was relatively cheap for retail investors.
Winter dates cost one yuan for three pounds, and persimmons cost two cents per pound.
Everyone thinks this price is cheap and buying it is a good deal.
She got the advantage herself because she sold it to the fruit seller at a lower price.
People from their village and several nearby villages came to buy after hearing about it. Most of them were sold out that afternoon, earning about 200 yuan.
Xie Li will not sell the remaining ones. She plans to make persimmon cakes and dry the red dates into dried dates.
Persimmons are cool in nature, so Ye Xiaozhen only tried half of one and stopped eating. She ate some red dates instead.
Xie Linan came back in the evening and ate a lot.
Seeing him eat five persimmons in one breath, Ye Xiaozhen hurried to stop him.
"Eating too much will give you diarrhea."
Xie Linan smiled, "Are you imitating Auntie? You were clearly trying to steal the door, but you insisted on saying that eating too much watermelon would give you diarrhea. Don't even mention those few slices. You wouldn't get diarrhea if you eat two pieces of watermelon in one go."
Ye Xiaozhen slapped him on the forehead, "She is afraid that you will eat too much because she is being picky. If you can eat more, can she stop you from eating? There are so many baskets."
Xie Linan asked, "Really?"
"Of course, don't eat anymore. If you have nothing to do, go and help Grandpa play with the hemp rope."
To hang the persimmons to dry, a lot of hemp ropes are needed, and grandpa started rubbing them in the afternoon.
Hearing this, Grandpa smiled and said, "No need, it's just a little work, it will be finished in a while."
"Grandpa won't let you help, let's go back to the house and sleep."
At this moment, Xie Li was still making clothes under the light in the house, while staring at Hongxia while doing her homework.
Ye Xiaozhen looked at the time on the wall and said, "It's not even seven o'clock yet."
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