"Then you see, what is fate?" Chen Feng said with a smile.
“This is Xiaofeng’s money, why are you so tactless?” He Lan rolled her eyes at Lu Dahai and said.
"I didn't mean anything by it, I'm just quite puzzled. By the way, all those fish have been sold for a total of seventy-nine yuan. It's all here, you can check it." Lu Dahai took out a wad of cash and handed it to Chen Feng.
"Hmm." Chen Feng took the money, glanced at it casually, and then pulled out a one-yuan note and placed it on the counter.
"Give me a tube of 502," Chen Feng said.
Lu Dahai took a tube of 502 glue and handed it to him, then told him, "502 is 1.5 yuan now, so don't tell anyone I sold it to you for 1 yuan."
Chen Feng was stunned for a moment upon hearing this, then took out two one-yuan bills and handed them to him.
"Then give me another tube."
"Oh, what are you taking? Let's go." Lu Dahai stuffed the two yuan into his hand, pushing him along as he handed it over.
He could only do this because there was no one else in the room; otherwise, he wouldn't have dared to push and shove Chen Feng like that.
After all, Lu Dahai runs a business for the whole village, and everyone knows him quite well. It's your business if you have a good relationship with Chen Feng.
But if you sell Chen Feng for one yuan and I sell him for one yuan and fifty cents, others will inevitably feel resentful. Lu Dahai can't do business like that.
He could only be so polite to Chen Feng if no one was in the room.
"No, don't push me, I..."
Chen Feng stretched his head to go back, but Lu Dahai didn't give him the chance at all.
"Hey, hurry up and go. Why are you arguing with me over five cents? Just go." Lu Dahai half-carried him and pushed him out.
"No, I... well..." Chen Feng turned around to speak, but was pushed so hard that he couldn't stand up straight.
"It's just five cents, what are you going to give me? Do you think I'd be short of your five cents?" Lu Dahai pushed Chen Feng all the way to the door, and it looked like he was about to send him away.
"No, I'm glued, I'm glued, wipe!" Chen Feng finally found a moment and quickly pointed to the counter.
Upon hearing this, Lu Dahai turned around and saw the one-yuan coin and glue neatly arranged on the counter. He immediately looked embarrassed.
He thought Chen Feng was going to keep giving him the 50 cents, but it turned out he had forgotten to give him the glue.
Turning around, he found Chen Feng looking at him with a helpless expression. He couldn't help but chuckle a few times and went back to get him the glue.
"Haha, I'm so excited! I thought you were going to give me that fifty cents." Lu Dahai handed him the glue and chuckled.
"It would have been so nice if you had been this enthusiastic when I bought the milk," Chen Feng said with a smile.
"That won't do, the cost of milk is too high, haha." Lu Dahai laughed when he heard this.
"Okay, I'm leaving now."
Chen Feng was just joking; after all, the other party also had costs to cover. He waved the glue away and walked back.
When they got home, Chen Feng handed the glue to Liu Ping.
"How much is a tube now?" Liu Ping asked.
“It was 1.5 yuan, but he sold it to me for 1 yuan,” Chen Feng said, sitting on the stool and lighting a cigarette.
"These days, everything is getting more expensive, even glue is going up in price." Liu Ping opened the box, glanced at the glue, confirmed it was the same one she used before, and put it back.
Chen Feng shrugged upon hearing this, but remained silent.
When they get to the county town, he'll see if he can find any good work shoes for her.
That night, Zheng Ping and his wife had already turned off the lights and gone to bed, but Zheng Ping had something on his mind and couldn't fall asleep, tossing and turning.
Seeing that he was still not asleep, Mao Min thought he had other ideas, so she glanced at the curtains and said, "Why aren't you sleeping? What's going on?"
"What are you doing?" Zheng Ping was taken aback when he heard this.
Upon hearing this, Mao Min rolled her eyes at him, then moved closer and reached out to tease the little creature.
"What do you think?" Mao Min smiled, pursing her lips.
"No, that's not what I was thinking about," Zheng Ping said, shaking his head and sighing.
"Then why don't you sleep at night? I thought you were afraid of being overheard too early," Mao Min asked, pulling her hand back in confusion.
"Do you think those people actually found anything in the river?" Zheng Ping asked hesitantly.
"Who knows?"
Mao Min was also a little conflicted when she heard this. She thought, "If someone else finds this, they'll regret it to death."
"Why don't you go out and ask around?" Mao Min suggested.
"But it's so late, all the convenience stores are closed, where am I supposed to ask around?" Zheng Ping said, somewhat troubled.
"Why don't we go to Song Hui's house and ask him? He definitely wouldn't go to bed so early," Mao Min suggested.
“Okay, I’ll go ask.” Zheng Ping did as he said, got up, put on some clothes, and went outside.
Of course, he wasn't stupid. He couldn't just stick his neck out and ask if the other person had found anything. He wandered around the kitchen for a while, came up with an excuse, and went to Song Hui's house.
Song Hui had just changed his clothes, his hair was still half-dry, and he was eating the food his father had left behind when he heard someone knocking on the door.
He opened the door with his chopsticks in hand and was somewhat surprised to find Zheng Ping there.
"Brother Zheng, what brings you here so late at night?"
"Oh dear, isn't this your sister-in-law? She insisted on saying she was hungry in the middle of the night and asked me to get her some eggs to make some noodles. I don't have any eggs at home, so I came to see if you have any. Can I borrow two?" Zheng Ping said helplessly as he walked in.
"Yes, it's in the kitchen. Get it yourself," Song Hui said, pointing to the kitchen. Too lazy to go himself, he simply said.
"good."
Zheng Ping went into the kitchen, took two eggs, and saw the detector standing on the wall with water droplets on it. He had a guess in his mind and prepared to steer the conversation toward the river.
So he came out and asked, "Why are you washing your hair so late at night?"
Upon hearing this, Song Hui immediately became furious and said, "Damn it, don't even mention it. Everyone's going to the river to fish for gold, so I'm going too."
"As a result, I soaked in the water for half the night and didn't catch anything. I was shivering from the cold."
Zheng Ping raised an eyebrow upon hearing this and continued to ask, "How many of you went? Did no one find anything?"
"There must have been more than twenty people, both in and on the riverbank, all for nothing. Damn, do you think Chen Feng is so lucky? There was only one piece of gold in the river, and he just scooped it up?" Song Hui said, extremely puzzled.
“Who knows?” Zheng Ping echoed.
For some reason, Zheng Ping felt extremely happy when he heard that they hadn't managed to retrieve anything, and all the anxiety he had felt all night vanished.
I'm in an incredibly happy mood.
Although Zheng Ping felt that his mindset was a bit off, he couldn't help but laugh and kept suppressing his smile so that Song Hui wouldn't notice anything amiss.
"By the way, Brother Zheng, why didn't you go?"
It was only then that Song Hui realized something was wrong; Zheng Ping was always involved in these kinds of things in the past.
"Well, it's just that it's raining and I didn't want to move. My sister-in-law even asked me to stay home and cook, but I just decided against it," Zheng Ping said, making up an excuse.
He certainly wouldn't be foolish enough to tell Song Hui that Chen Feng knew there was nothing in the river and that's why he wasn't allowed to go.
“You were right not to go,” Song Hui said, waving his hand.
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