Fu San accepted Fu Laoda's invitation to dinner without hesitation.
He couldn't wait to see how much seafood Boss Fu and his crew would catch at sea!
Fortunately, his mother-in-law came back in the evening, which made things easier for him.
With the matter of the yellow croaker settled, Fu Wan and the others said goodbye to Fu Sanlin and Qiu Ju before heading home.
Along the way, Ye Xiaocui kept nagging, "Awan, you have no idea about the bird that Lingling and Mingzhu picked up. It's practically a spirit! Now it catches mice better than a cat!"
Ye Xiaocui planted a lot of vegetables in the backyard, including beans, which are a favorite of mice.
Since these are all vegetables for their own consumption, Ye Xiaocui didn't dare use rat poison. She'd been racking her brains for days trying to figure out how to get rid of these rats.
As a result, the arrival of this little yellow dog was like a natural nemesis to the mice. Ye Xiaocui even witnessed the little guy catching mice.
Not long ago, she went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables for lunch. Little Yellow followed behind her, wobbling along. She didn't pay much attention when the bird suddenly swooped down and caught a squeaking mouse.
The commotion startled Ye Xiaocui and also alerted Wangcai in the front yard, who ran over to see what was going on.
It's rare to see a bird and a dog so united; they actually managed to dig up quite a few mouse nests in the vegetable garden.
"Little Yellow is a bird of prey after all, so it's normal for it to catch and eat mice."
Actually, in theory, this guy's wings have recovered quite a bit. But for some reason, it rarely flies and is unwilling to leave the Fu family.
Ever since it regained its jungle-hunting skills, every time Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu play with it, Fu Wan would first clean Xiao Huang's mouth and paws.
After all, mice and sparrows carry too many bacteria, and children's immunity is far weaker than adults'.
When the group returned home, Ye Xiaocui was the first to push open the courtyard gate.
Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu were watching TV in the room when they heard the noise and turned around. When they saw Fu Wan and the others, Fu Ling was the first to rush over.
"Mom, Xiao Huang and Wang Cai caught a lot of mice again!"
Fu Wan carefully examined the two mischievous children's hands and found no signs of involvement in the crime before she felt relieved.
"It's in Little Yellow's nature to catch mice, you can't catch them, do you hear me?"
She doesn't want a daughter who catches mice!
Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu nodded in unison. Fu Ling was somewhat discouraged when she saw that Fu Wan was used to Xiao Huang catching mice.
However, children's emotions always come and go quickly. Fu Ming and Fu Laoda went into the kitchen and brought out the food that Ye Xiaocui had prepared earlier, while Fu Ling pulled Fu Wan to the backyard.
The backyard of Old Master Fu's house is very large, so Ye Xiaocui built a chicken coop out of clods of earth. Now, in addition to a few hens, there is also a family of rabbits that Fu Wan brought back from Ye Jian's house.
Not far from the chicken coop was the vegetable garden that Ye Xiaocui and Boss Fu had cleared. They had planted some common vegetables such as chili peppers and eggplants. However, before Fu Wan even got there, she saw Little Yellow standing there, proudly surveying its territory.
The raptor's temperament is captured perfectly!
"Honey, let's not go over there, Xiao Huang is busy right now!"
Fu Wan only glanced at it once before pulling Fu Ling back.
Good heavens, heaven knows where this little yellow dog learned it, catching mice in such a neat row, the scene is quite intimidating.
Although Fu Ling didn't understand, she still obediently followed her old mother back to the front yard.
Fu Wan tried her best to forget what had just happened. There were so many dead rats in the backyard; she would have to tell Boss Fu to deal with them later.
Otherwise, if you leave it in the yard for a few days, the smell will probably make people throw up their dinner from the night before!
After lunch, Fu Wan assigned Fu Ling and Qin Mingzhu two pages of simple math calculations and two pages of writing common characters each.
The two children readily agreed and obediently held their notebooks and began writing in the yard.
"Alright, I'll look after the kids. You and your brother go to the county town. Be careful on the road and remember to come back early!"
Ye Xiaocui knew that they had to go to the county town to sign a contract for a cannery this afternoon, so she urged them to leave as soon as they finished eating.
Fu Wan put the money that Fu Laoda had taken earlier into a cloth bag, while Fu Ming took a rag from somewhere and started wiping the dust off the motorcycle wheels.
Looking at how gentle he was with her, Fu Wan felt that he had never been so gentle when washing her face.
Seeing that Fu Wan was ready, Fu Ming hurriedly said with an expectant look:
"Awan, can I ride the motorcycle when we go to the county town later?"
"Sure!"
It's normal for Fu Ming to be addicted to a motorcycle since it was just bought and he had only just learned to ride it.
However, thinking about how her bones would be shaken to pieces on the way, Fu Wan decided that she needed to put buying a car on the agenda as soon as possible.
Although the car ride is a bit bumpy, it's much better than the motorcycle ride.
The brother and sister rode their bicycles to the cannery, where Director Wang was tidying up and waiting for Fu Wan.
"Jianmin, have you been scammed?"
The person who asked this question was Qian Zhiming, Wang Jianmin's good friend and also the research mentor Wang Jianmin mentioned.
Yesterday, as soon as Wang Jianmin got back, he went straight to him and excitedly told him about how someone had bought the cannery.
With no business at the cannery, Qian Zhiming was also worried about finding a job at home when, unexpectedly, someone bought the cannery.
However, they had been waiting there for more than an hour, and he had been looking out the window at the factory gate, but he still hadn't seen anyone.
"Don't worry, Comrade Xiao Fu would never lie to me!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of an engine approached from afar. Wang Jianmin was overjoyed when he saw it.
"They're here!"
Qian Zhiming looked up at the sound and saw two young men getting off a motorcycle.
"Comrade Xiao Fu, you've finally arrived!"
Fu Wan glanced at her watch; it was exactly two o'clock, the timing was perfect.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Director Wang. Let's go to the government office now to complete the formalities and sign the papers!"
"Okay!"
Wang Jianmin happily agreed.
Purchasing state-owned factories was actually quite common in the 1980s.
Wang Jianmin first led Fu Wan to the State-owned Assets Management Department to fill out some application forms and purchase intention letters. Then he made copies of Fu Wan's asset certificates, such as her bankbook, and finally, he added Fu Wan's identity certificate and handed them over to the government staff.
"Luckily, I went to the government department yesterday to have my assets appraised, otherwise I would have had to wait for several more days!"
After finally finishing their work and taking a break, Wang Jianmin sat down next to her and sighed. Fu Wan was also exhausted; just filling out the forms made her question her existence.
After waiting for a while, the government staff printed out the contract. They valued the cannery at seven thousand yuan, much less than the eight thousand yuan Wang Jianmin had mentioned.
However, that's because Wang Jianmin included the employees' salaries in his calculations.
After signing the contract, the next step is to handle things like tax registration. By the time you finally get all the paperwork done and the certificates are in hand, it's already dark.
Fu Wan couldn't help but rub her aching legs and sigh. Nothing is easy, after all. Compared to that, she still preferred going out to sea to fish!
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