When Lin Shuchao heard that he had to find a partner on his own, he felt a little discouraged but also a little excited.
After all, he was just a young man, and he was full of yearning for falling in love. But before he could get excited for long, Chen Chunhua poured a basin of cold water on him.
"But you don't have a high degree, a good job, or any special skills. How can anyone be attracted to you? Why don't you learn how to cook? If you want to capture a woman's heart, you must first capture her stomach."
At least I don’t have to eat for free anymore.
Lin Shuchao: How come he remembers that women usually cook in most families?
"What if the girl you like can't cook?"
Lin Shuchao lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and said firmly, "Mom, if my brother and I want to separate in the future, can you come with me?"
Chen Chunhua: "...Get lost."
When Liang Shengdi returned home, she also brought back a grass carp, saying she had reserved it for her family today, otherwise it would have been sold out long ago. As soon as Chen Chunhua finished her bowl of braised fish head, Liang Shengdi swallowed her saliva and threw her grass carp into the water tank.
Chen Chunhua fried another egg and cooked a bowl of vegetables and taro.
"Let's eat! Let's eat! I can't wait even though I came back late from National Day, so I'll leave him two pieces of meat." Liang Shengdi sat at the round table with her bowl of rice, ready to start eating.
Lin Guoqing seemed to have a premonition that he would have no food to eat if he returned home late tonight, so he arrived home on time.
"Oh, everyone came back early today." Chen Chunhua smiled and served Lin Guoqing a bowl of rice, "Hurry up and wash your hands, it's time to eat."
In fact, it is already half past six. For normal villagers, they would have finished their meals and digested their food long ago, but the Lin family had just started eating.
But this was already rare and early. Sometimes Lin Guoqing and Shen Chunhua would get home at seven or eight o'clock, and some people would have already gone to bed after dinner.
Liang Shengdi is happy again.
"Chunhua's cooking is still the best. The last time I came back from Shanghai, she made chicken soup for me. I'm finally having it again."
Lin Guoqing kept using his chopsticks, but he complained, "Mom, you are disgusted with the food I cooked."
"You can't even eat much of what you made, so I can't be disgusted with it?"
"No way, I saved it for you guys!"
"Oh, thank you so much then."
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Lin Shuchao finished two more bowls of rice today, and he even fought with his grandmother for the last bit of rice crust. There was no reason for it, probably because the meal was lively again today.
When the autumn wind blows, the crab legs turn yellow.
Qi Jinzhou went to Jiang Province for a trip by car. Lin Shuchao asked him to bring back some hardware along the way, and also a basket of crabs to his shop.
"I brought back several baskets. I heard you're the first one in your family to get off work, so take this basket home. If you can't finish it all at once, you can wrap it in a wet towel and refrigerate it. Or, like you're doing now, put some clean water in a bucket, but remember to change the water... It's best to finish it quickly. It would be a shame if they died. These are hairy crabs."
Qi Jinzhou wiped the sweat off his face and chattered to Lin Shuchao. Lin Shuchao took a bottle of soda from the bucket and gave it to him.
"I know, I know, brother-in-law, come, have a bottle of soda. Sit here and rest for a while. My third sister and the others shouldn't be closing up shop yet and going home."
Qi Jinzhou was probably really thirsty, as he gulped down the entire bottle while sitting there. Lin Shuchao was right; it was still early for Sanni's store to close. He wasn't afraid of going home and staring at Sanni's grandparents, but it was also annoying.
It would be better to rest here for a while, and then go pick up Sanni from get off work when the time is almost up.
"It's more comfortable here." Qi Jinzhou had nothing else to do, so he started chatting with Lin Shuchao. "It's close to home, business is good, and it's quite relaxing."
"Then it just means I don't have the ability to do big business!" Lin Shuchao smiled and opened another bottle of soda and handed it to Qi Jinzhou. He also opened a bottle for himself and drank it slowly.
"If I had some skills, I would go into foreign trade like my third sister and the others. The money would come in like a ton of cash."
Qi Jinzhou was amused by his clamor. "That's not so exaggerated. If it could be done so quickly, everyone would be doing it... Foreign trade may seem like a big business, but the debt is also a big problem. It's not like you, where it's all about cash flow. When you're running around the world asking for money, you'll realize that running a small shop is more comfortable."
"Well, how can I put it? High income brings high risk. Besides, no business is foolproof. A small business like mine will also have losses."
"That's right. We who are involved in transportation are all at risk. If we get robbed, we'll lose everything."
"Everything has risks. As long as you're not working for someone else, there's no difference between making money and gambling. There are gains and losses, wins and losses. It's just that one is legal and the other is illegal."
Qi Jinzhou found it amazing that after being "married" into the Ma family for so many years, this was the first time that his little cousin had spoken such a profound topic.
"There's still a difference," Qi Jinzhou looked at Lin Shuchao, "We'd rather earn less than touch that stuff."
"On my way back, I passed through the provincial capital. That morning, by the river, I stopped for lunch. A yellow-haired man was hacked to death, and a crowd of people gathered to watch. The police had even gone over.
He was said to be cheating in gambling and had already won tens of thousands. He was only discovered by his rivals in the past two days and has been hunting him ever since. That scene…” Qi Jinzhou had seen violent and bloody scenes before, but it was rare to see one in broad daylight and in public.
"...He was covered in blood and probably not alive. I heard from the shop owner nearby that the kid was riding a motorcycle, but that was also stolen."
Huangmao, Motorcycle, Lin Shuchao's temples couldn't help but twitch, could it be such a coincidence?
"So, you really shouldn't compare gambling and business. I've never seen anyone who gambled and ended up in trouble. It's better for ordinary people like us to do business properly."
Lin Shuchao nodded and said seriously, "Yes, then we definitely can't take such crooked paths."
However, when Qi Jinzhou's time was almost up, he packed up and closed the shop as soon as the car drove away, not forgetting to take the basket of crabs with him.
Ten minutes later, Lin Shuchao appeared at the door of Yang Xiaoshu's winery again.
"Hey! Brother Chao, you're too polite! I'll take the noodles, but as for the hairy crabs...why don't you take two jars of rice wine?"
Lin Shuchao: "...Get lost, this isn't for you." He slapped away Yang Xiaoshu's hand that was trying to take the crab basket from the back seat of his car. "Is Hu Qiang in the village recently?"
Yang Xiaoshu exclaimed, "Ah!" "How would I know? I'm a slave every day, and I don't hang out with him."
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