Chapter 51 Fishing for eternity
"Ruolan, you!" Li Ruoju looked at the expressionless Li Ruolan in front of her, and suddenly felt extremely strange.
Li Ruolan used to be timid, which is totally different from now. She always feels like the person in front of her is a stranger.
"I think what I said is quite right. Deng Minghao and I are already married, and our house was built with the resettlement allowance.
I'm not like you. You've been working outside for so long, and although you've taken some money home, you must have some savings.
The two of us could only go to work and dig for food in the fields every day. We were exhausted every day, and the food we got at the end of the year was barely enough for us to eat.
So we really can't give you any help. You can live well on your own. If we don't touch you, then you don't touch us either."
Li Ruoju's face looked very bad. She stared at Li Ruolan, and then glanced at the silent Deng Minghao.
"I understand." Li Ruoju said nothing. After getting off the kang, she carried her luggage and went to the educated youth site next door.
"I don't know if what she said is true. What if she attracts the Li family here?" Looking at Li Ruoju's back, Li Ruolan always felt uneasy.
Deng Minghao didn't care: "Come if you want to. Anyway, we are educated youths and we are married. Can they still get us out of here?
Things will work out when the time comes. If they come, I won’t let them take advantage of me.”
"I just feel annoyed. I'd better stay away from Li Ruoju in the future. I don't want to have anything to do with people from the Li family." Li Ruolan closed the door and locked it before returning to the house.
After a few uneventful days, it was finally New Year's Eve. Deng Minghao got up early in the morning and started making porridge to paste couplets.
The educated youth point suggested that everyone should have dinner together on New Year's Eve, but Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao didn't want to be too deeply involved with Li Ruoju, so they refused.
Qin Wan said that she had to take care of Lu Yunxiao and did not go either.
Xu Tao and Guo Xiaoya were both wealthy people, and they definitely ate better than them, so naturally they had no interest in eating with them.
Seeing that Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao didn't come, and Li Ruoju had been here for these days, Li Ruolan hadn't come to visit for even a single day, many people noticed something.
Although Zhou Shengnan and Zheng Fanghua live with Li Ruoju, their relationship is usually superficial. Li Yingying, on the other hand, is quite interested in Li Ruoju.
After a few days, their relationship became better and better. They would often huddle together and whisper to each other, no one knew what they were talking about.
Although they did not have dinner with the educated youths on the night of the 30th, Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan went to the educated youths' site early in the morning on the first day of the New Year to pay New Year's greetings. They said they were paying New Year's greetings, but in fact they just went there to walk around and chat.
Then the people from the educated youth point went to the team leader's house together, just as a formality.
After leaving the team leader's house, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao did not go back to the educated youth site with the other educated youth, but went to the village. Aunt Guihua, Aunt Cuihua, and Aunt Wang Er were very caring towards Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao on weekdays.
So they also went to these three stores, and Qin Wan followed them.
"What's going on with your second sister? It seems to me that you don't seem to be close to her." Qin Wan asked Li Ruolan while walking on the road.
There was nothing to hide, so Li Ruolan told Qin Wan the general situation at home.
“There’s actually no big hatred between us, but there’s no love between us either, so it’s good for us to get along just like this.
She went to the countryside to avoid her parents' harassment and to get together with us. She had a good idea, but I didn't want to get involved with her."
Qin Wan nodded and said nothing. She couldn't empathize with them, but she knew what kind of people Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao were.
They must have their own reasons for choosing to stay away from Li Ruoju, and there is no need for others to say anything.
The three of them went to Aunt Guihua's and her three other aunts' homes. When they saw Li Ruolan and the other two coming, the three aunts were quite happy and gave them a lot of peanuts and melon seeds.
Aunt Guihua also gave them three roasted sweet potatoes and asked them to take them back to eat. After giving them three, she thought for a moment and gave one to Qin Wan.
"Give one back to Yunxiao to try, too. Yunxiao is really a good kid. I never thought you two could be together."
Aunt Guihua was relieved again, and then she sighed.
It would be great if Lu Yunxiao could still stand up. Even if he walked with a limp, at least he could go out and do some work.
I heard that he is paralyzed in bed now. It’s a pity that such a good girl like Qin Wan has to be dragged down like this.
Qin Wan accepted it happily: "Then I will thank Aunt Guihua on behalf of Lu Yunxiao. When his leg is healed, let him come over to thank Aunt Guihua in person."
Aunt Guihua thought that Qin Wan just said that and didn't take it to heart, so she just agreed with a smile.
The New Year passed uneventfully. These days, they all went to the educated youth site. Most of them were Deng Minghao, who went to play poker with Shen Yi and the others.
Of course, the game won’t last long. We’ll just play two rounds and then disperse.
In this way, combining work and rest, the work in the space was almost done. All the corn was crushed with a manual crusher and then put into the warehouse.
The brown sugar was also boiled, and some brown sugar blocks were produced, while the rest was boiled into sugar sand. In total, more than 150 kilograms of brown sugar were produced.
The current price of brown sugar is 64 cents per pound. If you sell it on the black market without a ticket, you can get about 80 or 90 cents per pound.
Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan have already thought it through. They don't plan to send too much food to the black market to sell, although most of the protagonists with space in the novel would do so.
However, the large amount of grain flowing into the black market would definitely attract attention. Besides, they were not short of money now, so they could just buy some less noticeable things from time to time.
For example, things like chicken eggs, duck eggs and brown sugar. Anyway, they will have to stay here for another six or seven years, so they just need to save a little money every year during these years. After accumulating a little, they can start doing business directly after the opening up.
It is said that the best time is after the reform and opening up, when even pigs can fly.
She and Deng Minghao never thought about becoming the richest man and making a lot of money. They had only one goal, which was to become landlords.
After returning to Beijing, I will buy a few more courtyard houses and then open a shop to do some small business. When the children grow up, in another ten or twenty years, they will be able to lie down and count money.
In their previous life, they were oxen and horses, and worked very hard after graduation. Even though transportation is so developed, they have not been to many places.
They don't have any big ideals in this life. As long as they have enough money to spend, they will travel all over the world. Of course, this is Li Ruolan's idea.
Deng Minghao’s idea was to take a fishing rod and fish by the river until the end of time.
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