Chapter 70: Secretly Moving Heart
Zhao Liya happily thanked him for the return gift. Coconut juice is delicious, coconut meat is tasty, and you can make coconut chicken with it. It's a great thing. Shrimp and fish are even better, and they're delicious in soups or stir-fries.
But why did he specifically mention Master Zhou to her? It sounded as if she had some kind of relationship with Master Zhou, which made her feel inexplicably uneasy and uncontrollable.
Zhao Liya had no choice but to try her best to remain calm and composed, nodding in agreement and smilingly welcoming them all to her home.
To be fair, a man like Mr. Zhou, who has outstanding appearance, character and demeanor, is really hard to ignore, hard not to pay attention to and hard to like.
Not to mention he has helped me many times.
But she knew very well that she was a fugitive, and no matter how good Mr. Zhou was, he could not have anything to do with her.
At most, they just have some feelings for each other.
After he knew that he was a relative of a convict from Yan Village, he did not look down on me. This was because he was well-educated and graceful, and did not judge people by their status.
But I can't help but be foolish and wishful thinking.
Even so, Zhao Liya felt a certain amount of regret and melancholy. For the first time in her two lives, she had a secret crush on a man, but it was destined to end in vain! Her young heart was truly so miserable and pitiful!
Just focus on making money!
After counting, there were less than 10,000 kilograms left.
Later, when another merchant came to negotiate and tried to buy it, Zhao Liya refused to sell it.
This is less than 10,000 kilograms, and there is really no way to sell it anymore.
Who knows if there will be enough for next year's seeds? If not, will we have to make up for it?
These vendors actually wanted to buy from her, ship to the provincial capital, and resell them, making a profit from the difference between the middlemen. But with such a small amount of goods, how could the provincial capital's huge market be enough?
It would be better not to go.
Zhao Liya politely declined, but at the same time said that her family would plant a lot of potatoes and would definitely have plenty to sell next year. She could even plant two crops and have a harvest in June.
The vendors were initially unhappy to see Zhao Liya was unwilling to sell, and some even presumptuously assumed that she was hoarding goods, was dissatisfied with the current price, and wanted to raise it, deliberately refusing.
After hearing this, he became happy again.
It's just a few months, there's no need to wait.
Some smart ones took the opportunity to ask for an advance payment and come directly to reap the rewards when the time comes.
Zhao Liya thought for a moment and then smiled, "It's hard to say what the market price per jin will be at that time. However, since the boss is here, it's not good to let him go empty-handed. So, if you want to make a reservation, you can prepay one thousand jin at the price of four cents per jin. The price will be the same when the thousand jin is sold. If you want to buy more, it will be based on the current market price."
Many bosses agreed and made reservations.
One thousand catties is one thousand catties. The price at that time will definitely not be lower than four cents per catty. In the end, they still made a profit.
The potato business came to a temporary end very smoothly, and people in each village began to harvest rice one after another.
The rice is ripe, and the golden rice ears are heavy. From a distance, it looks golden. This is everyone's food for the year. No one doesn't like or cherish it, and nothing is more important than harvesting rice.
Even Aunt Li Shiyi went home temporarily to harvest the autumn harvest.
The same is true for every household in Yan Village, all of them are busy harvesting rice.
The Gu family has 30 acres of rice fields, but every year they ask the villagers to "help" them, to help with planting and harvesting, which makes their life very easy during the busy farming and harvest seasons.
This year is no exception.
Unexpectedly, they didn't come to provoke the Zhao family again, and didn't ask the Zhao family to do the work. Zhao Liya and the others were prepared for how to refuse, but they actually felt a little regretful - why didn't they come?
Since they didn't come, the Zhao family didn't take the initiative to provoke them.
The Zhao family had no paddy fields, but Widow Qu had more than four mu, so he helped Widow Qu harvest.
Deng cooked at home, and the two children obediently helped to wash vegetables and feed the chickens. Zhao Xiang, Zhao Liya, and Hu Ling all went to the fields to help. Together with Qu Guafu and Qu Yutao, the five of them worked together at a remarkable speed, which was the envy of others.
The more than four acres of paddy fields of Widow Qu's family are not connected in one place, but are distributed in three places. The farthest two acres are about six miles away from the village.
The nearest one is near the village entrance, and coincidentally, it is adjacent to the Luo family's paddy fields.
In the Luo family's rice fields, Luo Shuyan was the only one harvesting.
This large area of connected rice fields belonged to many families. It was the autumn harvest season and people were working in many fields. In other people's rice fields, all the able-bodied family members were working, making Luo Shuyan look even more lonely.
When the villagers saw this, they all sighed.
Zhao Liya clearly heard someone passing by shaking their head and sighing, "These Luo couple are such scoundrels. They're deliberately using Shuyan to force Lin Mo's cousin to help. It's strange, because they used to come and help a long time ago, so why aren't they here this time?"
"Hey, I'm not stupid, why would I keep doing this endlessly? If there's no end in sight, I wouldn't do this either."
"That's true."
Zhao Liya couldn't help but glance at Luo Shuyan. As if she had noticed something, Luo Shuyan also looked up at her. Meeting her gaze, he nodded slightly and smiled at her.
Zhao Liya also nodded and smiled.
Luo Shuyan is very thin, with a small oval face and a slightly pale complexion, but her facial features are very delicate. Her tranquil temperament is inexplicably endearing.
She worked slowly, occasionally raising her arm to wipe the sweat from her forehead.
Zhao Liya and her friends had almost finished harvesting their field, but she had only harvested a small part.
Zhao Liya's heart moved, and she thought that it seemed that Yu Xiaofang had really told Luo Shuyan, and Luo Shuyan's working speed was very normal.
Not long after, Luo Shuyan's stepmother, Qi, and her father, Uncle Luo, arrived. Seeing that Luo Shuyan had only done so little work, Qi flew into a rage and pointed at Luo Shuyan, cursing, "You little bitch! You've only cut so much in half an hour? Is your hand broken? If you don't work harder, you won't eat today!"
As she spoke, she glared at her husband angrily and cursed, "Look at this damn girl, she's doing this on purpose, isn't she? If we don't harvest quickly, the rice will fall into the fields and be lost! Then the whole family won't have anything to eat, and you'll see what will happen to you! How could you raise such an ungrateful, unlucky person! Look at her, look at her, she's still so slow! I don't believe she didn't do it on purpose!"
Luo Shuyan simply stood up and stopped moving.
Uncle Luo frowned, "Shuyan, didn't you hear what your mother said? Why are you still standing there?"
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