"Phone number? Dad, it's my eldest brother's phone number." Li Jianguo said he didn't know it. He didn't want to cause trouble for his eldest brother and his wife.
"Mom, give me the phone number."
Liu Juan couldn't count; the old man usually made the phone calls. She shook her head.
"Don't ask me about this, I don't know."
Li Yanhong couldn't do anything to her father, and she just thought that the New Year was only a few months away anyway.
My older brother and sister-in-law will be back soon, so we'll talk about this when they get to their home.
I refuse to believe that they can make a fortune with my second uncle's brothers but not with their own sister.
Considering that the autumn harvest is in two months, if I send Chen Dashun over, she'll be busy by herself. I'll wait a little longer.
"Then I'll head back now. Remember to let me know when my older brother and the others return."
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, Li Yanhong pretended not to understand her father's expression.
Early September is the time to register children for school.
Ye Xiaoxiao had already found a school for her child early on; there was a Dongsheng Elementary School near their neighborhood.
Children with out-of-town household registration need to pay a tuition fee to attend school. However, they are now considered local residents.
Elementary school tuition fees have increased somewhat compared to previous years, but it's only a few dozen yuan.
"Mom, I want to go to school too."
After seeing her older brother go into school with his schoolbag, four-year-old Li Xinyue kept pulling her mother, wanting to go to school too.
"You'll be older in two years and you'll be able to go to school."
Nowadays, children only have a year of preschool when they are six years old. They can only start first grade when they are seven.
Ye Xiaoxiao carried the little one to buy candied hawthorns from a roadside vendor before coaxing her to go home with her.
When I got home, I received a phone call from my fourth son's wife.
"Pear Blossom. What's wrong? Is something wrong at home?"
Ye Xiaoxiao has a good relationship with her two brothers and their wives. They are sisters from a mountainous area and are very hardworking.
She's not cunning at all. Compared to the local girls, she's very hardworking and honest.
"Sister-in-law, it's just that the child needs to register for school, but the family... the family doesn't have the money right now."
All the money we made so far has been invested in the greenhouses. I...I'd like to borrow some money from you.
Pear Blossom was quite embarrassed.
"Oh, that's no problem. How much do you need to borrow?"
Ye Xiaoxiao calculated the time; the eldest child in the fourth family was only six years old, so this year would be his first year in preschool.
It only costs about ten yuan in tuition fees.
"20 will do."
"Ah, you can go and get some from Dad first. I left some money for him at home. You can have your fourth brother talk to Dad about this."
A bead of sweat trickled down Ye Xiaoxiao's forehead. Had the fourth brother and his wife run out of money from running the greenhouses?
Isn't it said that you can make money by building greenhouses?
"Sister-in-law, you have no idea, Li Chenyu is such a blockhead."
I have to do everything every day; he goes with others to buy fertilizer.
Instead of buying from a proper fertilizer store, they make a profit by charging two yuan more there.
He did manage to bring back ten bags, which cost him 200 yuan. But they were all counterfeit.
"All the seedlings were burned to death when I went up to the field." Bai Lihua almost cried as she spoke.
"Oh, did you find that person? Sue him and make him pay compensation."
Ye Xiaoxiao and Li Chenyang haven't done any farm work in the past few years.
They only have a superficial understanding of these things. They don't sell these items either.
"Where did you find him? He was just a guy who drove a small truck and sold fertilizer in the village. He would run away after he sold it all. Many families in the village were scammed."
Bai Lihua was furious. She and her sister had forbade it from being bought, but her third brother had listened and didn't buy it.
But the fourth brother disagreed, insisting that it would be foolish not to take advantage of the situation, and that the same fertilizer could not possibly be fake.
"If it weren't for the two children, sister-in-law, I really wouldn't want to stay with him."
"I'm so angry! I told them not to buy it, but they insisted. All the seedlings this year have been burned!"
Judging from the sound, Ye Xiaoxiao was crying again.
"Alright, alright, he's learned his lesson. He definitely won't do it again. Let's just let it go."
Take 200 yuan from your father to use first, then till the land again, and that's it for this year.
We can start over next year. Don't talk about divorce. The kids are still so young.
Ye Xiaoxiao offered a couple of words of advice before hanging up the phone.
Looking at Lihua like this, Ye Xiaoxiao thought back to when she also wanted a divorce.
But thinking about it, even if we get divorced, finding someone else might not be as good as the one I have now. At least Li Chenyang is very obedient now.
Keep in mind that Li Chenyang was already a 180-pound fat man with a beer belly at this time.
A physique rarely seen in this era.
Now, thanks to years of running his repair shop, Li Chenyang, at 35, is tall and has maintained a good physique. He hasn't gained much weight.
The September weather still carried a hint of summer heat, and Ye Xiaoxiao was organizing a newly arrived batch of electric fans in the store.
This is leftover stock that the manufacturer specially reserved for her. It's cheap, and she'll definitely be able to sell it for a good price next spring.
"Excuse me, could you please take a look at my TV?" A gentle female voice came from the doorway.
Ye Xiaoxiao looked up and saw a young woman who was quite different from most modern women.
She stood at the doorway with her hair styled in large, wavy curls, her eyebrows and eyes painted, and her bright red lips exuding a seductive charm.
She was wearing a light blue polyester dress, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old, with fair skin and a pretty face.
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