Chapter 74 News from Mohe
After educating the Gu siblings, Ye Qing turned his attention to the ladies' bicycle.
The 26-inch Phoenix brand diagonal beam lightweight style has two diagonal bars instead of the large horizontal bar in the middle, and the entire body is also much smaller than the 28-bar model.
Ye Qing pushed the bicycle out of the yard, sat on it to try it out, and felt that the seat was still too high. Her legs could not reach the ground, so she simply asked Gu Weidong to help adjust the base to the lowest position.
After the seat was adjusted, it fit perfectly when he sat on it. Ye Qing tiptoed and rushed out. It was different to ride a bike by yourself and ride someone else's bike. You can experience the thrill of a fast ride in the front, while sitting in the back you can only worry about your butt getting broken into pieces.
I have to say that Ye Qing's women's bicycle is very eye-catching. When she went out for a ride this time, she happened to meet villagers from Kaoshantun who were returning from work. The men were fine, but as soon as the women saw her new model, their eyes were immediately glued to the bike and they couldn't take their eyes off it.
So, not long after Ye Qing returned to the end of the village, several villagers came to her house, all of them were curious to see her new car.
Ye Qing was not reserved and allowed anyone to try it out. This size and style were indeed more suitable for female comrades than the 28-inch bicycle. Many aunties and sisters-in-law in the village came to try riding it.
However, when they asked Ye Qing about the price of this car, they found out that it was the same price as the 28-bar model. The key point was that the production quantity of this model was less than that of the 28-bar model, so one had to ask someone to find connections to get it. In Jiaotan County, it might take several months to get one. Now these aunties and sisters-in-law were speechless.
Ye Qing is a city dweller and she is capable enough to be featured in newspapers, so it is not surprising that she can afford a bicycle.
But other families in the village don't have such conditions. They spend the money of a 28-bar bicycle to buy a ladies' bicycle. Ordinary farmers in the countryside would not engage in such a loss-making business.
So everyone just treats it as a rare item, but almost no one is really interested in or wants to spend money to buy one.
However, after several female educated youth in the village tried riding it, they became very interested in it. The female educated youth who went to the countryside to work in the production team received resettlement funds from the Revolutionary Committee, so if they really wanted to buy a bicycle, they could afford it.
They just live in the village, and even eat and sleep temporarily in the homes of the members, but this does not mean that they do not have fixed expenses every month.
Especially when the Youth League Home is built at the end of the year, these old Youth League members will have to move to the Youth League site. If they empty their savings to buy bicycles, they will definitely not have enough money to decorate the house when they move to the Youth League site. If they encounter any urgent need for money, they will be at a loss.
After some secret discussion, several female educated youth gave up the idea of buying a bicycle.
After receiving these waves of villagers and educated youth who came to watch the excitement and after dinner, Captain Wu and the old branch secretary came again.
The two came to ask about Ye Qing's exam performance during the day.
Ye Qing didn't say anything, she just took out her barefoot doctor's notebook from her bag and handed it over.
When the two veteran production team members saw the little notebook, they were even more excited than Ye Qing himself.
"Great! Now that we have the certificate, our health station is set in stone!"
"Once this crop of corn cobs is delivered, we can officially start building the house!"
After getting satisfactory answers, the two leaders did not stay with Ye Qing for too long. They said that Ye Qing was tired from going to the county to take the exam, and asked him to rest early, and then left in a hurry.
Although it was a little late, the two felt that they had to immediately call a meeting of all the cadres of the production brigade to announce the good news. In addition, they had to quickly divide the tasks of building the health station into smaller parts so that the cadres could complete their respective tasks as soon as possible during this period of time. Once the grain distribution task in the village was handed in, they could start work seamlessly!
Ye Qing only raised a few of her requirements for the health station to Captain Wu. As for how to build it and who would build it, she would definitely not get involved in these matters.
Before going to bed, she gave the old lady acupuncture, went to the closet to check on the baby girl, and then sat quietly under the kerosene lamp to write the pathological analysis related to Alzheimer's disease, writing down as much as she could remember.
Although Mr. He's abdominal epilepsy may not be related to Alzheimer's disease, Ye Qing feels that these things will be useful one day.
After she had finally searched through all the knowledge points in her mind, the notebook in her hand was already filled with several pages.
She couldn't help but stretching and prepared to wash up and go to bed.
Unexpectedly, when I looked up, I saw several scratches on the window paper at the back of the main house. Under the dim light of the kerosene lamp, a black head was printed on it.
The last time it did this was the female mandrill, and Ye Qing was almost scared to death at that time. But now it was a familiar thing, and when she saw such a scene again, she was immune to it. She walked forward calmly and directly opened the window frame at the back of the house.
As soon as the window opened, a big head came straight towards her, and a big mouth that exhaled fishy hot air stopped less than a foot away from Ye Qing, with drool dripping from the corners of its mouth.
Behind this guy, there were three black shadows of different sizes standing neatly together, all staring at her with their big round eyes.
A row of black coals with their mouths open and drooling, as if they were copied and pasted, who else could it be but the black bear family?
Fortunately, she thought that after these four black bears showed up on the beach, they were really scared by the old branch secretary and his men using hunting rifles and ran back to the mountains.
Unexpectedly, these guys, who looked silly, had learned to play hide-and-seek with others. They actually hid secretly in the bushes for several hours, and only ran out to look for her late at night when everyone in the village had gone to sleep!
However, Ye Qing's calmness did not last for more than three seconds.
Because when she turned her gaze and saw the situation behind the black bears, she was so angry that her temples were throbbing and her face was so dark that she was unbearable to look at.
If beating a bear wasn't too violent, and if it wasn't possible for the creature to go crazy, she would even want to learn from the fighting people and have a fight with this evil creature first!
Because these bastards had no choice but to go into her backyard!
The medicine garden she had finally put together in the backyard, after taking care of it day after day during this period, it finally looked like something.
As a result, this family of four barged in as if no one was around, not only knocking several holes in her garden fence, but also trampling her well-grown medicinal herbs, making them all over the place!
Looking at the herb garden and wondering how many medicinal seedlings could be rescued, Ye Qing almost lost his temper on the spot.
"Ah Qing, what's wrong?"
Hearing Ye Qing open the rear window and vaguely feeling some movement coming from the backyard, Grandma Zou, who had fallen asleep, suddenly asked.
Afraid of scaring the old lady, Ye Qing hurriedly explained:
"It's okay, go to sleep. I think some small animals came out to look for food at night. I was afraid they would eat the Ganoderma lucidum I planted, so I opened the window to check."
As he spoke, Ye Qing pointed at the four bears outside, signaling them to step back, and then he closed the back window with a snap.
This is how Ye Qing commanded the four black bears to retreat in the cabin before. After these four big guys understood Ye Qing's instructions, they were quite obedient and immediately took several steps back.
Ye Qing quickly ran to the kitchen, took out the jar of jam that she had made and placed in the cupboard, found an enamel basin and poured all the jam into it.
Thinking of the black bears' love for maltose juice, I dug out some maltose cubes, crushed them, dissolved them quickly with hot water, poured them into the jam, stirred them, and served them out.
After bringing the big bowl of sweet wild fruit jam mixed with maltose juice to the four black-headed bears in the backyard, the big male bear didn't show any courtesy to Ye Qing at all. He immediately picked up the enamel bowl and led his wife and children to run into the woods not far away. The family of four gathered under a tree and began to lick the bowl frantically.
After finishing a large bowl of dessert, the family of four finally stopped looking for Ye Qing and walked away panting, patting their chests. Soon they went into the mountains and disappeared.
Ye Qing didn't care about these guys coming to her place to eat and drink for free. She just wanted to send them away as soon as possible and prevent them from coming to the backyard and destroying the medicinal seedlings she had grown with great difficulty.
It would be fine if they just damaged the fence and herbs in her medicine garden, but if they scared the old lady at home, or threatened the safety of other villagers in the village, I'm afraid the old hunters in the village would really destroy them all one by one.
Only after the black bears disappeared into the night in the back mountain did Ye Qing heave a sigh of relief and quickly took a flashlight to check her medicine garden.
She picked up and fixed the herbs that had been trampled down, and used her supernatural powers to secretly catalyze some vines to grow out, and repaired the damaged fence. After finishing all this, she went back to the house to wash up and go to bed.
As a result, in the middle of the night, she heard some noise outside the window in a daze.
The familiar grunting sounds and the sound of low bushes being trampled down in the forest all indicated that the black bears were coming again.
Ye Qing immediately woke up from his dream and ran to the backyard to check the situation.
But when she opened the back door and ran out, she didn't see the black bears outside, but she smelled a strong smell of blood in the air.
She quickly turned on the flashlight and looked around. Sure enough, there were several prey piled up next to the fence of her medicine garden that had been repaired not long ago. Judging from the bloody appearance, it was obvious that they were all caught by the black bear couple in the mountains.
Ye Qing's expression froze suddenly, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
At this rate, let alone protecting the original ecology of the Changbai Mountain jungle and preventing those wild species from becoming extinct, she would become the living king that all the wild animals in this forest fear.
Ye Qing did feel very troubled that these black bears suddenly ran down the mountain to ask for dessert, but she swears by God, she never thought of exchanging so many prey for a bowl of jam and maltose juice.
The law of nature is definitely that the fittest survive and the weak are preyed upon by the strong, but as a human being at the top of the food chain, and with no shortage of meat to eat, it is absolutely unacceptable for her to tame a few black bears to hunt specifically for her.
Although she did not kill these preys herself, it is undeniable that it was her fault that these animals died at the hands of the bear.
Ye Qing couldn't help but sigh.
It seems that if the black bear family comes down the mountain again next time, she will have to make three agreements with these guys. They can come to ask for candy, but they can't always give her prey. If they really want to give her prey, they can just get a few rabbits, pheasants or other species with strong reproductive ability that are rampant in the forest.
But don't be too rude and kill the rare species in the mountains and send them to her. She is so dirty and fragile, I'm afraid she can't bear it.
Late in the middle of the night, Ye Qing looked at the pile of prey and began to worry.
It has already been delivered, and the black bear couple has already run away, so it is definitely impossible to return it. We can only find a way to deal with it as soon as possible.
Ye Qing hesitated for a moment, but decided to ask Gu Weidong from next door for help.
It was so late at night, and the Gu family’s yard had been locked from the inside, so Ye Qingjin definitely couldn’t get in.
However, because Miao's grandmother moved into Gu Weidong's room, Gu Weidong is now squeezed into the east wing with Gu Weibei.
The east wing of the Gu family was separated from Grandma Zou's garden by just two fences.
So Ye Qing secretly stretched the vine under the window of the east room next door and knocked on the window frame regularly.
Gu Weidong was indeed an ace special forces soldier. Upon hearing the noise, he immediately stood up and opened the window.
Under the moonlight, Ye Qing was standing in the yard of Grandma Zou's house, waving at him anxiously.
It was so late at night, and you didn't need to guess to know that something must have happened.
So quickly, he climbed over the fence and came to the backyard under Ye Qing's guidance.
After seeing the prey piled up in the backyard and listening to Ye Qing's description of the origins of the prey, Gu Weidong was shocked and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Many members of this village are experienced hunters. However, if the village does not organize everyone to go into the mountains to hunt together, and the experienced hunters fight alone, they will most likely return empty-handed.
This is why so many old hunters would rather work and farm in the village, and only go into the mountains to hunt in their spare time, because even though Changbai Mountain is so rich in resources, hunting alone is not enough to support a family.
But sometimes, comparing yourself with others can be frustrating. The large prey that the old masters may not be able to catch even after working their ass off is effortless for Ye Qing. She doesn't even have to do anything herself, and the prey will come to her door.
If those old hunters knew about this, they would be so jealous that their eyes would turn red and bleed.
These prey were similar to the ones delivered to the cabin last time, an adult wild boar and a gazelle, estimated to weigh several hundred kilograms. Of course, she would not keep so many green rams, so she asked Gu Weidong:
"The person who helped me deal with the prey last time was Li Yong, right? Will he still accept the wild boar meat?"
Gu Weidong nodded: "The black market in the county is run by him and a few friends. As long as it's meat, the more the better. Anyone who comes will be accepted."
Ye Qing thought to herself that her previous guess was correct:
"Then can you help me contact them again? Let's follow my previous rules. I'll keep a few pounds of each of these meats to eat fresh, and I'll take the offal and bones. I'll sell the rest."
Last time, Ye Qing wanted to give half of the smoked meat and offal to the Gu family, but Gu's aunt refused and Gu Weidong himself disagreed, so Ye Qing's idea of dividing the meat was put on hold.
Therefore, whenever Ye Qing stir-fried preserved vegetables, she would stir-fry more, divide it into two portions and serve one portion to the Gu family. Her preserved vegetables were specially smoked with fruit shells and pine leaves with added ingredients, so they were particularly fragrant when stir-fried. After tasting it once, the Gu family completely fell in love with this southern specialty.
Sure enough, as soon as Ye Qing mentioned that he was going to leave his internal organs in the water, Gu Weidong immediately thought of the smoked fatty intestines and smoked pork belly that Ye Qing had smoked before, and his saliva immediately gushed out.
He hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but say:
"Or, don't bother Li Yong. Just sell the meat to me. I'll buy it at the price Li Yong asked. But can you teach me how to smoke the bacon? I plan to send the smoked meat to my comrades all over the world."
Upon hearing this, Ye Qing remembered the unknown comrade-in-arms relative that Gu Weidong had found last time who helped her contact Shanhe Farm, as well as the family of the comrade-in-arms who this guy mentioned in his hometown who was making donkey rubber and growing dates. She immediately thought that Gu Weidong's suggestion was good.
He had helped her so much, even if it was just out of courtesy, she should give him a gift in return, so Ye Qing immediately said:
"Then let's do this. I'll give you all the meat. You can help me. We'll kill and carve up these two prey now. Marinate them for two days until they're well seasoned, and then we can start smoking them."
"Don't even mention buying it. I got this prey for free anyway. Giving money to it would be an insult to me."
Ye Qing said so, and Gu Weidong was not the kind of person who would be shy. After thinking about it, he nodded in agreement.
The two men moved the prey from the backyard to the kitchen in the front yard, then found a door panel to use as a chopping board, started to make a fire and boil water, and slaughtered and cut up the wild boar and gazelle.
Ever since Ye Qing read the illustrated book of Chinese veterinary medicine, she has become extremely familiar with animal anatomy diagrams, so being a butcher is a professional match for her.
She didn't even let Gu Weidong do anything. She dissected the two preys by herself in no time, separating the flesh and bones. Every part of the flesh and bones was removed extremely meticulously. Her smooth movements stunned Gu Weidong who was standing by.
Gu Weidong saw that he had no part in being a butcher, so he quickly took over the remaining work, including scraping the pig's hair, cleaning the internal organs, washing the offal, and the subsequent cutting and marinating of the meat, as well as cleaning the site. He was responsible for all the work.
The two of them worked in perfect harmony, chatting from time to time about topics related to their lifetimes while they worked very hard. In more than two hours, they had dealt with the two large prey.
So much pickled meat certainly couldn't be left in the kitchen to attract attention, so Ye Qing used rattan to weave some baskets, put the meat into the baskets, and moved them to the cellar behind the kitchen.
After finishing all these non-stop, the stars were about to appear in the sky, and the two of them went back to their rooms to sleep.
The next morning, Ye Qing slept until noon again.
Last night, Ye Qing and Gu Weidong were busy in the kitchen, making quite a lot of noise. If Wang Chunhua and Grandma Zou were not deaf, they would have heard the noise.
But the two of them tacitly did not get up to check. Ye Qing got up late in the morning, and the two of them did not ask any more questions.
Ye Qing likes to hang out with smart people like this. When it comes to eating meat, you should just eat it quietly behind closed doors. If you make a fuss, you will be glared at. People don't care how you got the meat. As long as it is prey caught in the back mountain, you have to share it with everyone.
Apparently, the Gu family had also reached this tacit understanding. At noon, Ye Qing invited them to his home to eat hot pot. When plates of fresh and tempting mutton and pork ribs were served on the table, no one in the Gu family said a word, but when it came time to eat, everyone opened their stomachs and ate until they were full.
In less than a day, the news that Ye Qing passed the exam to become a barefoot doctor spread throughout the village. In the afternoon, she went to Tantu to check the hygiene conditions of the pig sty and cowshed. The villagers she met along the way congratulated her warmly, and some even asked her curiously what the barefoot doctor's qualification certificate looked like.
Ye Qing carried that thing in her bag. When some villagers were curious, she took it out and showed it to everyone. Then, when those who had seen the certificate returned to their fields and told others about it, the village became more lively.
Everyone knew that as long as Ye Qing got the qualification certificate, the construction of a health station in the village would be a sure thing, so everyone worked harder and unconsciously accelerated the progress of harvesting corn. They all wanted to start building houses as soon as they paid the public grain, and they were eager to build the only health station in the entire Hongqi Commune production brigade.
Don't underestimate this health station. After the villagers' unremitting publicity during this period of time, the news has probably spread throughout the area. When daughters-in-law in many villages return to their parents' homes, they are asked by their families about the specific conditions of the health station. They all envy the health station that is about to be completed in Kaoshan Village.
Not to mention the girls who were married out from Kaoshantun. They were all urged by their in-laws to come back and inquire about the news. What they wanted to know was how the health station would be charged for villagers who were not from the Kaoshantun production brigade.
For a time, Kaoshantun was really popular and became a hot topic in several nearby towns. According to the description of later generations, this village had a tendency to develop into an Internet celebrity village.
The married girls and the new wives all straightened their backs unconsciously in their respective husband's and parents' homes, and they all felt proud of the changes in Kaoshantun.
The unmarried young men in Kaoshantun have become even more popular in the blind date market. The doorsteps of several nearby matchmakers have been trampled down by people, all of whom are asking if there are any reliable gay men in Kaoshantun who can be introduced.
Even Wu Xilai, the man who was almost 40 years old, had lost his wife and had three children and was recommended to Wang Chunhua by the aunties in the village, someone came to ask if he wanted to remarry him.
Many older bachelors in the village have started to find love, not to mention the young and prime-aged ones. The villagers in Kaoshantun have of course noticed this change, and they have become more respectful of Ye Qing, the female educated youth who has brought good luck to Kaoshantun.
Those old ladies who had been secretly plotting against Ye Qing and trying to lure him back home were all taught a lesson by their men and stopped all those unnecessary plots, for they were afraid that if they were not careful enough they would offend the educated youth and their entire family would become public enemies in the entire village.
These changes are of course invisible and intangible at the moment. Ye Qing conducted routine physical examinations on the livestock in the cowshed and pigpen, carefully recorded the relevant data in a form, and also pointed out to Meng Jia which areas needed further improvement.
She was just thinking about whether to ride her new means of transportation to the next farm to check on the progress of the reform of Captain Zhao's pig farm, but at this time, Lai Guochang and the policeman who was in charge of investigating the abandonment of babies last time came to Kaoshantun again.
Ye Qing guessed the purpose of the two people's visit at a glance, and his heart was immediately filled with joy.
Sure enough, after seeing Ye Qing on the beach, the two did not even go into the village, but walked directly in the direction where Ye Qing was.
Then, the policeman took out two documents from his arms and handed them to Ye Qing.
As soon as Ye Qing saw the big red seal on the material, he couldn't help but burst into smile.
One is a certificate from the biological parents of the baby girl stating that they voluntarily gave up foster care, with the joint signatures and seals of the commune, the police station, and the Women's Federation;
One copy was an adoption form from the county welfare home, signed by both the police station chief and the welfare home director, and stamped with an official red stamp.
With these two proofs of the agreement in hand, all hidden dangers were strangled in the cradle. Ye Qing was not afraid at all that the girl's parents would come looking for him after the child grew up. Even if they really came, with such complete procedures in hand, it would be useless for them to make a fuss or even resort to moral kidnapping.
Ye Qing's heart finally settled down. He quickly put away the two documents carefully and thanked them again and again.
Lai Guochang also took the opportunity to ask about Ye Qing's examination in the county. He was surprised to learn that Ye Qing had already obtained a license:
"Didn't you take the exam yesterday? Don't the results usually get announced a week later?"
Ye Qing was stunned: "Is that so?"
However, she recalled the exam she took yesterday. It seemed like a formality. Whether it was answering the questions and handing in the papers, or Dean Gu helping her to get her license, the whole process was indeed a bit sloppy. She was a little amused and explained to Lai Guochang:
"The certificate was obtained by the director of Jiaotan County Hospital, Gu, in person. I guess it was out of respect for him that the health bureau didn't give me that long of a wait and issued my certificate on the spot."
Upon hearing this, Lai Guochang was speechless.
Even the director of the county hospital is working hard for Ye Qing. This girl is really amazing now.
But no matter how powerful she was, this girl was now in the commune under his jurisdiction, and during their interactions, he had heard her express her ideals and aspirations several times. From what she said, it seemed that she was planning to put down roots in this Kaoshan Village and not leave.
This made Lai Guochang so happy that he didn't know what to do. He hoped that with the help of this girl, he could achieve some political achievements so that he could be promoted from the commune to the town or even the county during his lifetime.
Therefore, Lai Guochang is now particularly concerned about Ye Qing's affairs. As long as Ye Qing needs his help, he will do his best to solve it.
"If you want to register your child's household registration under the Zou family's name, ask Wu Yongbing to give you a certificate. I'll sign and stamp it and you can go to the police station to handle it. Whenever you need it, just come to the commune to find me."
After Lai Guochang finished speaking, he and the policeman rode away on their bicycles.
Ye Qing began to think seriously about the matter of adopting a godparent. Since he wanted to adopt Grandma Zou as his grandmother, he couldn't just say it verbally. He had to hold a formal ceremony and invite some people from the village to have a meal as witnesses.
It is better to do it today than to wait for another day. She did not delay and went to Wu's house after dinner that night to tell Wu Yongbing her idea.
The matter of adopting a godparent was originally proposed by Wu Yongbing. Now that Ye Qing is willing to make it official, Wu Yongbing is of course very happy and is willing to help Ye Qing.
So the next day at noon, Wu Yongbing helped Ye Qing invite several elderly and respected people in the village, and also invited all the cadres of the production team to the Zou family.
The entire Gu family was present, and the banquet was arranged by the Gu family. Under the chairmanship of Wu Yongbing, Ye Qing brought the baby girl and kowtowed three times to the old lady earnestly. When they changed their words, they no longer called Old Lady Zou "grandma", but called her "grandma" directly.
Of course Ye Qing's name would not be changed, but Ye Qing named the baby with cleft lip Zou Yun, taking the Zou family's surname.
This was proposed by the old lady herself. She wanted the child to always remember the great sacrifices made by her husband and son, and to carry forward the revolutionary heroic deeds of the Zou family in the future and pass on this great spirit forever.
Due to some unspeakable reasons, ceremonies in this era cannot be grand and loud, and simply having a meal is considered extremely elegant and formal.
That afternoon after dinner, Ye Qing went to the town police station in person to apply for a household registration transfer certificate, and changed her and Zou Yun's household registrations to Grandma Zou's name, and the column on the relationship with the head of the household was filled in as granddaughter.
After completing the formalities, Ye Qing went to the post office.
She wanted to ask Xu Xianzhen if there was any registered letter or package for her. After all, it had been some time since she sent the letter to Shencheng, and according to the time calculation, she should have received a reply.
However, Ye Qing was a little disappointed, as the post office did not receive her package and letter. Instead, Xu Xianzhen was very happy to see Ye Qing coming. She pulled Ye Qing to the yard behind the agricultural technology station. After leading Ye Qing into the house, she mysteriously took out a booklet from a bookcase in the house.
Then Xu Xianzhen handed the booklet to Ye Qing and asked her to open it and take a look.
Ye Qing was a little puzzled, but still opened the booklet.
When she opened it, she was stunned.
This turned out to be a set of red commemorative stamp booklets with the theme of "Founding of the Republic".
The first stamp issued by the Liberation Post Office after the founding of the New Xia Kingdom, "Founding Ceremony", with a face value of 35 yuan (old currency);
The Tiananmen National Day Parade issued on the 1950 Party Founding Day has four original tickets, and the large size of the ticket is magnificent.
The five stamps of the 1st Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China issued on National Day in the same year have a fluttering five-star red flag, one large and four small, which are eye-catching.
There are also 10th and 15th anniversary commemorative ticket packages. The 10th anniversary ticket package has a total of 19 tickets issued in five sets, and the 15th anniversary commemorative ticket has 1 ticket.
Flipping through the entire book, one can see that its production is even more elaborate than the stamp album that Ye Qing bought from Xu Xianzhen last time.
Ye Qing felt the weight of holding so many precious and memorable stamps in her hands. Even though she had no hobby of collecting stamps, she couldn't help but feel fond of them and flipped through them again and again from front to back.
"How is it? Do you like it?" Xu Xianzhen couldn't help but asked with a smile.
Of course, Ye Qing couldn't say that he didn't like it against his will.
But first of all, she could see that this booklet was more exquisite and rarer than the previous one. How could she, a speculator, be worthy of owning such a good thing?
Secondly, she now has two more family members and can no longer spend as lavishly as before. She has to save some money for emergencies, so no matter how much she likes this booklet, she dare not buy it casually.
So she couldn't help but raise her head and apologize to Xu Xianzhen:
"Sister Xu, this booklet is really good, even better than the previous one, but I'm short on cash lately. If you want me to buy this booklet again, I can't afford it right now. I'm really sorry."
Xu Xianzhen was amused on the spot:
"What? Who said they were selling this to you? My cousin heard that you like collecting stamps, so she asked someone to buy it from somewhere else."
At this point, Xu Xianzhen did not hide it, but lowered his voice and said,
"A bad element from the five black categories had his house searched a while ago, and many of his belongings were thrown into a recycling station. This booklet was found by a collector at the recycling station. My cousin is somewhat related to the collector, and she only spent ten yuan to find it. I'm giving it to you."
Ye Qing was stunned when he heard this and was about to refuse instinctively.
But could Xu Xianzhen take back the booklet he had given away? He immediately put on a sullen face and pretended to be unhappy:
"Why, now that you've become a famous person, you look down on your friend Sister Xu? I brought my cousin to your place for treatment, but you didn't charge me a penny for the consultation. You didn't even want the things I gave you. Now you're even pushing away the cheap stamp album I bought for you. Are you afraid of being associated with a poor friend like me?"
These words were quite serious. Ye Qing was immediately restrained and dared not say no anymore.
Seeing that Ye Qing stopped pushing him, Xu Xianzhen smiled with satisfaction:
"That's right. It's not a very valuable thing. If you don't know how to use it, people won't even bother to look at it. Otherwise, it will be thrown into the scrap yard."
"Besides, since you always ask for nothing, how can I have the nerve to bring relatives to trouble you in the future? Even brothers have to settle accounts clearly. If we want to visit each other often in the future, we must be clear about this matter and collect the consultation fees that should be collected!"
Xu Xianzhen said this very seriously and sincerely, making it clear that she did not want to take advantage of Ye Qing.
Ye Qing had a smile on his face, but he was quite surprised in his heart.
When she first met this Miss Xu, she thought that a handful of peanuts could cause such a drastic change in her attitude, and she thought that she was a person who was greedy for money and loved to take advantage of others.
But after a few more contacts, she found that it was not the case.
Whether it was the last time when she exchanged her tickets for peanuts, or this time when she gave her this commemorative stamp album, this elder sister had no intention of taking advantage of her, and her words and deeds revealed a kind of wisdom in life. At first glance, she looked like a very sophisticated and tactful person, but not annoying.
Ye Qing quite liked dealing with this kind of people, so he was much more sincere when talking to Xu Xianzhen again. He first asked about her eldest daughter-in-law's pregnancy, talked about some precautions during pregnancy, and reminded her that if she encountered any problems that could not be solved, she could go directly to Kaoshantun to find her. Then he asked about the follow-up situation of Song Hongying and her eldest sister-in-law.
When it comes to Song Hongying's affairs, Xu Xianzhen has a lot of gossip to tell.
"After returning home, my cousin told her husband about the musk poisoning. After that, my cousin found out that her husband and her uncle were not born from the same mother!"
"Her biological mother-in-law died a long time ago. Her current mother-in-law remarried with her eldest uncle when her husband was less than one year old. After that, the mother-in-law only gave birth to two daughters and no sons. Now the two daughters have already married."
"Now her parents-in-law live with her eldest uncle's family. I don't know if her eldest uncle knew that her eldest sister-in-law poisoned my cousin."
"If anyone knows about this, it would be really scary. Who knows who came up with this idea?"
"Anyway, the current situation is that after talking to each other, the couple both felt that this might have been premeditated. No one knows who is behind it, so the couple plans to pretend that they know nothing and give birth to the child quietly."
"In short, this matter is too complicated. The more I think about it these days, the more horrified I feel. I feel that her husband's family is like a den of dragons and tigers. There is no good person there. If the couple goes back, they will probably be eaten up without leaving even a bone. It is better to stay away from them."
Xu Xianzhen couldn't help rubbing her elbows, goose bumps all over the floor.
Ye Qing was also shocked when he heard this. This was exactly the same as those family ethics soap operas that were shown on the 8 o'clock dramas in the past.
But she couldn't know more details even if she wanted to. After all, Xu Xianzhen was not involved in the incident. She only heard about it from her cousin. After being separated by a gap, there were not many details she could know, and the gossip information that could be shared with her was limited.
Ye Qing was still not satisfied with the drama and was unable to see any further developments. For a moment he felt anxious and distressed and wished he could move a stool and sit on the roof of Song Hongying's in-laws' house to get a bird's-eye view.
With such regret, she rode back to Kaoshantun. Unexpectedly, just when she got home, Gu Weidong was next door and shouted to her anxiously:
"Ye Qing, there's news coming back from Mo He!"
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