Spit it out. The people at the breakfast stalls are watching. We can't let Longhai City down.
Swallow it; this stuff is even more sour and smelly than the swill the pigs eat at home, making him feel nauseous.
Good heavens, this boss seems like an honest person, how could he sell them defective goods!
Considering he couldn't afford to lose face in the capital, Ye Lin closed his eyes, steeled his resolve, and swallowed the mouthful of soy milk in one gulp.
Fu Wan, Fang Min, and the others watching from the side couldn't help but shake their heads and laugh.
The boss, who was busy at work, was the one who was smiling the most.
Hey, he just loves watching these out-of-towners drink douzhi (fermented mung bean juice)!
The expressions on their faces were even more interesting than those of the actors performing in the theater!
Seeing this, Robert, Tom, and Jack were also very curious and came over to ask Ye Lin.
"Bo, is this good?"
Ye Lin had been chatting with them all the way and already knew that "Bo" meant "brother."
He nodded with a serious expression, delivering the best performance of his life.
"It's delicious, absolutely delicious! You should try it, you'll never forget it!"
Upon hearing this, Robert didn't think much of it and eagerly took the bowl and gulped down a mouthful.
The next second, his smile froze instantly; the table manners he had been taught since childhood made him afraid to spit it out.
"Hey Robert, how's it? Is it good?"
Jack and Tom leaned over and asked in confusion. Robert, who was also a bad guy, nodded in the same way Ye Lin had done earlier.
"Wow, that's incredibly low-level!"
Jack and Tom believed them and, with a bowl of soy milk costing two cents, taught the five grown men another lesson.
That's just your brother's mouth, a lying devil!
The performance made the breakfast stall owner laugh so hard his cheeks ached. After the laughter subsided, the owner, worried that his breakfast might leave a bad impression on the international friends, gave each of Fu Wan and the others a small bowl of noodles with minced meat sauce.
This was Fu Wan's first time eating Beijing-style zha jiang mian (noodles with soybean paste). The noodles, coated in sauce, were incredibly chewy and delicious when she slurped them into her mouth.
Of course, Fu Wan left money for the noodles before leaving.
They were all small-scale businesses, and a bowl of noodles with minced meat sauce cost four cents. With this group of people, the noodles alone would cost two dollars and eighty cents.
However, the reason the boss was willing to give away free noodles with soybean paste was because Fu Wan had spent a lot of money.
The group drank ten bowls of tofu pudding alone, along with a lot of spring rolls, fried dough rings, pea flour cakes, and donkey rolls. Besides the noodles with minced meat sauce, the owner also made five or six yuan.
Fu Wan experienced for the first time what it meant for a half-grown boy to eat his father out of house and home.
There's a reason why Robert and his two companions grew so tall: their appetites were like gluttons, making Fu Wan shake her head in disbelief.
Those who know them would think they came from a developed country, but those who don't would think these three were refugees.
After breakfast, Fu Wan took a taxi to send Robert and the other two to the hotel.
She herself, along with Fu Ming and the others, returned to the courtyard house.
Knowing that Fu Wan had things to do, Robert and the others could only find a tour guide and go out to play on their own.
Meanwhile, as soon as Ye Lin got out of the car, he saw the stone lions in front of the vermilion gate and was so shocked that his jaw almost dropped.
"This...this is the house you bought?"
Good heavens, Fu Wan had previously said she would take him to see the house she bought, but he thought it would be similar to the small villas in the village.
I never expected it to be a proper courtyard house!
"Good heavens, isn't this the place where only officials used to live?"
Ye Lin touched the large stone lion at the entrance with great interest. "Wow, how was this thing carved? It's so majestic!"
Seeing Ye Lin's curious expression, Fu Wan just smiled.
If Ye Lin is already so shocked just by looking at the gate, he'll be even more surprised once he enters the courtyard.
When Fu Wan came out, she brought the key to the courtyard house. It had been uninhabited for so long that a lot of dust fell from the top of the heavy door the moment it was pushed open.
"Oh dear, so many weeds have grown!"
Fu Ming exclaimed in surprise, and then called Ye Lin to come in.
"Dalinzi, stop touching that lion at the door and come inside!"
With so many weeds, it definitely needs to be cleared away before anyone can live there.
Upon hearing this, Ye Lin quickly responded and strode into the room in a few steps.
Upon entering, he was startled once again.
What a huge yard!
There are also artificial hills and small ponds!
Although there are some weeds, it should look very beautiful after some tidying up.
Oh my, I wonder how much a courtyard house like this would cost. He brought all his savings with him this time. He only wanted to buy a small house, but now that he saw Fu Wan's courtyard house, he was really envious!
There were tools left over from cleaning inside the house. Although the sickle and other tools were a bit rusty, they could be sharpened with a stone.
"Brother, let's clear these weeds, and then go check on Anning's yard later."
"Alright, the grass is so tall, we don't know if there are any snakes, everyone be careful!"
Fu Ming gave a few instructions, then picked up a hoe and tapped the weeds a few times to make noise. With the grass deep and the weather hot, there was bound to be snakes.
Fu Ming and a few others were watching over the courtyard, while Fu Wan went to walk around the various rooms.
When she first fell in love with this courtyard house, besides its large size and good layout, another reason was that the doors, windows, and beams were all made of the finest wood.
Wooden products are susceptible to insects, so when she left last year, she put some insect repellent in the wood. To her surprise, the repellent worked quite well, and there were no signs of insect bites on the doors and windows.
There were some cobwebs on the ceiling, so Fu Wan covered her mouth and nose, found a broom, and cleaned them up in no time.
The four of them worked all morning to clean Fu Wan's two courtyard houses. As for Qin Anning's, Fu Wan planned to go and take a look at it with Fu Ming later.
Ye Lin only learned at this moment that not only did the courtyard house next to Fu Wan belong to Qin Anning, but Fu Wan had also given Fu Ming a small two-courtyard house.
Ye Lin was extremely envious.
Damn it, did this kid wipe out the Japanese army in his past life? Otherwise, how could he have such good luck?
Despite his envy, Ye Lin wasn't jealous. Instead, he secretly pulled Fu Wan aside during lunch to discuss it.
"Ah Wan, how much did you pay for that smaller courtyard house?"
His sudden question actually stumped Fu Wan.
Fu Wan tried hard to recall, "I remember that the two courtyard houses and two shops cost 280,000 yuan. The smaller courtyard house should have cost tens of thousands of yuan, right?"
It had been so long that Fu Wan couldn't quite remember.
Fu Ming was ordering food when he heard Fu Wan's words and quickly came over to add to the order.
"That small courtyard house, I remember it, 80,000!"
Fu Wan put the small courtyard in his name, and he would definitely remember it and return it to Fu Wan later.
Upon hearing the price of 80,000, the hope in Ye Lin's eyes instantly dimmed.
Eighty thousand! That's eighty thousand!
In Longhai City, where even those with 10,000 yuan in their household are rarely featured in the newspapers, let alone 80,000 yuan, even 8,000 yuan is a rare sight.
Ye Lin felt embarrassed to take out his savings book, which contained all of his and Chen Guifang's savings, totaling no more than six thousand yuan!
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