In addition to the contract, there were also many valuable gifts.
He called Song Qiuxue to thank her for sending him the gift.
“It’s not all for you. It’s almost Chinese New Year, so take some and send it to my eldest sister and second brother. If you get along well with them, it will be easier to get the recipe when you open a shop together.”
Guo Rui divided the gifts he received into three portions. When he went to Song Yinhua to sign the contract, he gave one portion each to Song Yinhua and her brother Song Baogen in his own name.
Li Wenxiu looked at the packaging, which had foreign language text she couldn't understand.
“This is an imported product, Guo Rui, where did you buy it?” Li Wenxiu asked.
"Second sister-in-law, don't underestimate me. I have a wide network of connections. This was sent to me by a friend from abroad," Guo Rui said generously. "These imported goods are expensive; most people can't afford them."
He said to Song Yinhua, "Sister, if you like it, I'll have my friend send some more next year!"
Song Yinhua exchanged a few polite words, then looked at the high-end packaging of the gifts, which were printed with foreign languages and were clearly expensive.
Guo Rui gambles, frequents brothels, and uses heroin. How could he have such a wealthy friend who sends him such an expensive gift from abroad?
This is clearly illogical.
Li Wenxiu didn't pay much attention to that; she loved these imported goods.
She couldn't bear to eat it all at home, so she immediately sent some to her parents' home and left the rest for her son.
That evening, she opened one of the boxes and made a cup of nutritional supplement for her eldest son to help him recover.
My eldest son, who is only a few years old, complained of stomach pain and diarrhea at night.
Song Baogen and Li Wenxiu quickly took their son to the home of a villager who ran a clinic in the village.
"Your child has food poisoning. What did you feed him?" the doctor at the clinic asked.
"I just had a normal dinner, nothing much," Song Baogen said.
"I didn't eat much, how could I have food poisoning?"
Li Wenxiu then remembered that she had given her child a cup of imported medicine. "Caixing and her husband gave our family some nutritional supplements. I opened one and made a cup for my son. It was an imported product, and it looked very high-end. There were foreign words on it that I couldn't understand, so it should be fine!"
The doctor gave the child an IV drip, and Song Baogen stayed with the child at the outpatient clinic overnight.
Li Wenxiu brought home the nutritional supplements her son was drinking, box and all. The doctor noticed that the packaging of the supplements was indeed very high-end.
He checked it over and over and saw the date on the packaging box.
"It's been expired for almost a year. The child has a sensitive stomach; how could he not get an upset stomach after eating it?" The doctor handed the nutritional supplements back to Li Wenxiu. "How could you dare to give expired food to the child?"
Li Wenxiu and Song Baogen quickly looked at the numbers on the packaging box. Seeing the date on it, they both felt a little angry.
"What kind of relatives do you have?" Li Wenxiu angrily complained to Song Baogen. "Caixing went too far, even betraying her own second brother! Luckily, Dabao is alright. If anything had happened to Dabao, I would never forgive her for the rest of my life!"
Song Baogen was also angry. "Go back and bring over all the nutritional supplements that Cai Xing and her husband gave you. I'll take them to the hotel in town to return them to Cai Xing later."
“Yesterday I also sent some to my parents and my brother.” Li Wenxiu hurriedly rode Song Baogen’s bicycle back to her parents’ home.
Fortunately, the gifts sent to her parents' home hadn't been opened yet, so she took all the gifts to the clinic.
Song Baogen asked Li Wenxiu to take care of his son, and he rode his bicycle to the hotel in town with the gifts, leaving them all in the room of Song Caixing and her husband.
"Second brother, what are you doing?" Song Caixing looked at the gifts scattered on the ground. "These are all imported goods that my husband asked his friends to bring back from abroad. You guys can't afford them normally."
“My eldest child ate the food you sent last night and got food poisoning, spending the whole night on an IV drip at the clinic.” Song Baogen was very angry. “Keep these expired imported goods for yourselves.”
Song Baogen turned to leave, but stopped after a few steps and said to Song Caixing, "Caixing, I'm your second brother. We grew up together. How could you betray me?"
"Second brother, I didn't. There must be some misunderstanding. Could it be that your eldest child ate something that poisoned him..."
“My eldest child was taken to the clinic after eating the things you sent. The date on the packaging was from last year, it's been expired for a year. You gave it to me and my older sister?”
Song Baogen became more and more excited as he spoke, and his voice grew louder and louder.
Other hotel guests also looked over.
"How can you do this to people? You asked me to find my older sister to give us a recipe so we could open a shop together, and before the shop even opens, you're sending us expired food as a favor? How can you be so disgusting?"
Guo Rui picked up the gift box and checked the dates on it, discovering that they were indeed all expired.
Some expired a few months ago, some a year ago, and some two or three years ago.
Guo Rui quickly apologized, saying he didn't know these things were expired.
"If you're not willing to give them away, then don't give them away at all. Don't disgust people with these expired products!" Song Baogen left angrily.
Song Caixing also got into a fight with Guo Rui, angry that he had given expired food to his relatives.
Guo Rui was left speechless and kept apologizing to Song Caixing. After finally managing to appease her, he went out to call Song Qiuxue and accused her of sending him expired food, which embarrassed him.
Song Qiuxue said, feeling wronged, that she had also been deceived and didn't know it was expired.
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Song Yinhua prepared breakfast early in the morning, unpacked all the gifts Guo Rui had given her, crushed them, and mixed them into the feed for the chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs in the pen.
When Song Baogen went to the hotel in town to find Song Caixing and her husband, he passed by here and told her that the gifts had expired and could not be eaten.
With the Lunar New Year approaching, every household is busy preparing for the holiday.
After finishing breakfast, Song Yinhua went to her home in Huojiabao Village to sweep the dust, cleaning the house inside and out.
We also bought a lot of New Year's goods, and made new clothes and bought new shoes for my crazy mother-in-law and daughter in preparation for the New Year.
That evening, she tidied up her home in Huojiabao Village and prepared to lock the door and head back to the foot of the mountain.
Since Huo Jianguo's death, she usually lives at the foot of the mountain in Songzhuang Village and rarely returns to Huojiabao Village.
A dark shadow flashed by.
Song Yinhua closed the door with the black lock, when suddenly a figure sprang out from behind her and pressed a dagger against her neck.
"Don't move! Hand over all the money..."
Before he could finish speaking, a black wolfhound suddenly darted out and bit his wrist.
"Ah...help..."
Song Yinhua pushed open the door, took a rope, tied the person up, and asked her neighbor next door to help her call the police from the convenience store.
The people on the ground were still crying out for help, which attracted the attention of the surrounding neighbors.
Turning on the lights, Song Yinhua recognized the man. "Are you Guo Rui's cousin, A-Feng?"
Back then, Song Qiuxue even wanted to introduce him to her.
She learned some things about him from Li Wenxiu and found out that he was a drug addict. So she asked Li Wenxiu and her brother to help her find some of his old flames and have them bring heroin to ruin the blind date on the spot.
“I’m your brother-in-law’s cousin, we’re family, I was just joking with you,” Ah Feng said with a smile. “We almost became husband and wife back then. I heard your husband died, and I’m not married now either, so I can marry you.”
Back then, Ah Feng wasn't as sleazy and shameless as he is now.
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