Chapter 333: Cross-border Business
Orange was secretly moving the vegetables in the bowl out when he was frightened by the sound from the front yard. His hand trembled and the chopsticks made a crisp sound when they hit the bowl.
He looked up and accepted Lin Xiaotong's direct gaze, then closed his eyes and stuffed the liquid into his mouth in one breath.
"My daughter, do the vegetables taste good? Come, eat some more."
Xie Yi was particularly considerate and picked up another piece of food with the serving chopsticks.
"Dad, thank you so much."
Lin Xiaotong saw the child's bitter and resentful look and burst out laughing.
After receiving Orange's accusing look, he also picked up a piece of vegetables for himself with chopsticks.
Gao Xiulan also picked up a piece of food for Xie Da Jiao and said, "Old Xie, drink less beer and eat more rice to fill your stomach."
Xie Da Jiao drank the wine in one gulp and responded immediately.
"Hey, why are you here?"
Xie Yi was eating his meal with his head down when he heard footsteps. He turned around and saw Guoqing coming over with a bowl in his hand.
"Grandma Gao, Chengzi's mom, can I come over and join the table?"
Gao Xiulan glanced at the child's bowl, which contained meat and vegetables, and nodded with amusement.
Orange waved his hand, moved his seat, and let someone sit next to him.
At noon, we ate at a small table at the backyard door, and everyone sat on small benches.
Lin Xiaotong looked at He Cuicui in the front yard and saw that she hadn't caught up with them. She asked the child, "Why aren't you eating at home? Why are you running to the backyard?"
Guoqing ate his rice in big mouthfuls, and after swallowing it, he told the truth: "My dad was crying and making a fuss at home, and I got annoyed, so I came out to eat."
The cart was locked up by his grandmother. His mother and grandmother put their hands on their hips and fought fiercely. His father was scolded to death.
It was kind of funny when these words came out of the child's mouth.
Xie Yi touched Guoqing's little head and said, "You are a little devil."
When Jin Qiaofeng ran out, she saw her eldest grandson eating at someone else's table without even raising his head.
"You're such a busy man, why are you back at noon today?"
Gao Xiulan finished eating, put down her bowl and chopsticks, and handed someone a stool to sit on and talk.
The business scope of Jin Mei Ren has expanded to half of the city, and it is in charge of matchmaking lines in several districts.
He also rented a room in Lin Xiaotong's small courtyard at Peking University as an office.
He Cuicui is often busy and doesn't come back until noon, and the overtime work in the hospital is even worse.
The two female comrades in the Chang family are very career-oriented.
All three meals a day during the National Day holiday were prepared by Ernengzi, who had a fixed schedule and free time at work.
Jin Qiaofeng didn't hesitate to sit down and fan herself with the palm-leaf fan on the bamboo bed.
Xie Da Jiao served a bowl of mung bean soup to Guoqing.
"Drink slowly, it's still a little cold."
Guoqing said thank you crisply: "Thank you, Grandpa."
The two little ones have a good appetite, which makes the adults happy.
Jin Qiaofeng held her head and thought, this kid not only takes the seat, but also eats and drinks for free.
He is so shameless, he must be like Ernengzi!
He slapped his thigh suddenly and said, "You don't know, I encountered a strange thing today."
Gao Xiulan became curious when she heard this: "Tell me about it."
Lin Xiaotong drank the mung bean soup slowly after dinner. Hearing this, Xiao Ma Zha also moved over here.
"I'm not going to Yu'er Hutong today. A girl came to me to propose marriage.
To be fair, this girl is good-looking, but she doesn't have a job. I originally thought that the other party was looking for a city girl with a job.
Something is wrong when you ask, guess what? "
Gao Xiulan agreed politely, "She has very high demands?"
"No! I heard the girl's mother say that it would be best for her to 'get married out,' and I thought she wanted to marry far away.
I didn't expect this family to think too far ahead, actually looking for a foreigner!"
I was dumbfounded at the time. This seemed to be urging her to develop cross-border business.
Gao Xiulan also found it incredible: "So 'getting married' means going abroad!"
Xie Yi cleaned the table and Lin Xiaotong went to help wash a plate of grapes.
Xie Da Jiao threw one into her mouth and said, "If she finds a foreign son-in-law and he doesn't work in China in the future, it will be difficult for this girl to see her family again."
Not only in the old city, even parents with a little bit of common sense at home would not feel comfortable letting their daughters marry far away.
Transportation is not that convenient now. The round-trip train tickets from the south to the north are quite expensive.
If a girl cannot make up her own mind and is unlucky enough to marry into a cruel family, then her second half of life will be difficult.
Jin Qiaofeng continued slowly, "This family seems to want me to find a well-off international student. This is really putting a difficult situation on my part."
There are now quite a few international students from all over the world in universities. You can meet several of them even if you walk with your eyes closed on Xiushui Street and the Forbidden City.
Xie Yi was busy peeling grapes: "There aren't that many people being taken advantage of, right?"
"It's difficult to communicate because we don't speak the same language." Jin Qiaofeng still couldn't understand the bird language.
"Aren't there a lot of evening schools now offering English lessons?"
Lin Xiaotong had a classmate from the Foreign Affairs College who went there to teach. All the students in the class wanted to take the TOEFL and apply for a visa to go abroad.
Gao Xiulan frowned: "Is it really that good to go abroad?"
She also couldn't understand why, if you didn't have some skills, you would have to keep your tail between your legs if you stepped onto someone else's land.
"I declined this one and went to the next one. I didn't expect the guy there also wanted a foreign wife!
I've been busy all morning."
Jin Qiaofeng seriously suspected that these two people came to destroy her sign on purpose.
Yang Shujuan came out from next door and stood there listening for a while.
After a while, he interrupted, "The last time I went back to Shanghai, the niece of Lao Xia's former colleague married a Japanese man."
"Islanders? What the hell!"
Gao Xiulan's head was shaking like a rattle.
Orange and National Day were also listening with great interest.
Although I didn’t quite understand what they were saying, it was quite interesting to watch the adults’ changing expressions.
Guoqing stood up, clenched his fists and shouted: "Attack the Japs!"
Orange led the applause.
Yang Shujuan nodded. "That family has gone abroad. I heard they're working in a big hotel now. The two of them can earn nearly a hundred yuan a day!"
When people are abroad and want to contact home, they can only rely on the phone, and they cannot hide it when answering the phone at the entrance of the alley.
This news was like boiling water in a frying pan, suddenly exploding.
The last time she went back to see her fifth uncle, she heard about this from the older sister next door.
Hearing this number, everyone present gasped.
Nowadays, a worker's salary is only a few dozen yuan, which is enough to support his family.
“Is it really that easy to make money outside?”
A leisurely voice came from behind.
Jin Qiaofeng turned her head, patted her chest, and said unhappily, "Diao Yulian, you scared me."
"Tsk, then you are really timid."
Diao Yulian shook her hair, her eyes shining.
"Working as a waiter at the Friendship Store only makes a little over 100 yuan a month, but there's so much gold abroad?"
Her family hasn't had a good time this year. At the beginning of the year, Wu Shengli, with his stupid brain, insisted on going to the lotus market to grab the Clivia.
It is said that this thing is a "green gold bar" and if you grow it well, a pot of it can replace a color TV or a refrigerator.
I read the newspaper and it did say that Chuncheng had sold a lot of "sky-high priced Clivias", and a price of ten thousand yuan was considered a low price.
Wu Shengli brought two pots home, and in March he was lucky enough to sell them, making a profit of thirty yuan from the single sale.
Seeing that he was actually making money, she didn't stop him.
Wu Shengli was extremely ambitious and was thinking of stockpiling a few more pots and selling them at a high price in Chuncheng.
He heard that in Chuncheng, if you take your Clivia into a store, you can exchange it for something without paying.
There is such a good thing, so I can't miss it.
Diao Yulian gritted her teeth and took out some money from the family's small treasury, and Wu Shengli moved several pots of Clivia to the yard.
Water and loosen the soil on time. Growing flowers is more meticulous than raising children.
I was planning to take a train to Spring City in June, but before I could buy the ticket, the Clivia bubble market suddenly collapsed.
No one is buying them in the market, so the flowers left in my hands are worthless.
Wu Shengli looked at the large and small Clivias under the eaves of his house, his eyes darkened, and he could not bear it anymore.
Not only did I not make any money, I actually lost hundreds of dollars.
Diao Yulian's heart was bleeding, but she didn't say anything when she saw the man crying.
When Wu Shengli is not working in the summer, he finds a place near the train station to set up a repair stall.
When business is good, I can make a few dollars a day.
Jin Qiaofeng stood up, shaking her legs, and glanced at her: "What's the matter? You still want to go abroad?"
Diao Yulian said angrily, "I can't get out even if I want to."
Nowadays, going abroad basically means studying abroad at public expense, working on a study tour or going abroad at your own expense.
It's not easy anyway.
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