"It cost 13 yuan in total!"
"We even made a corn thresher, which we put on our tricycle!"
Lin Xue quoted the price, which made Lin Cuihua stare wide-eyed in disbelief.
"I first went to the scrap yard and bought the parts for 5 yuan. Then I spent another 50 cents to have an uncle who sells scrap help me transport them to Master Qian's shop."
"Then I paid 5 yuan for the uncle to assemble it for me, and another 3 yuan for materials. So, in total, it cost me 18 yuan and 50 cents!"
Lin Xue almost forgot about the uncle's transportation fee; it was only 50 cents. She really is very forgetful.
"Girl, if this brain of yours could go to school, getting into Tsinghua or Peking University wouldn't be a problem!"
Lin Cuihua suddenly felt very proud. Although her daughter was not in good health, she was very clever.
She never thought of going to a junkyard to find things and having a repairman help her assemble them.
Isn't this the way to achieve the most with the least amount of money?
Lin Cuihua was proud; this was her daughter.
"Hehe, I don't want to go to school. School is so tiring, from 5 am to 9 pm!"
"I just want to be my mom's little darling, eating and drinking all day long, and being completely free!"
Lin Xue swayed her body arrogantly.
She gave her mother a smug look.
"You!"
"You've already gotten so smug after I just praised you a couple of times!"
Even so, after finishing her meal, Lin Cuihua still went to check the tricycle.
Although she didn't know how the small threshing machine worked, she could roughly guess its operation from its appearance.
There was a bag of unthreshed corn in the warehouse. Lin Cuihua took out a few, plugged them in, and with the buzzing of the motor, the corn cobs were quickly threshed cleanly.
"Wow, this thing is really useful!"
"This is much faster than using your hands!"
After the experiment, Lin Cuihua used the machine to churn out the entire bag of corn cobs.
Then, carefully cleaning the remaining corn kernels from inside the cannon barrel, the machine was placed in the storeroom.
"It works, right? This year, our family won't have to work as hard as we used to when husking corn!"
Lin Xue munched on an apple while saying smugly to the person next to her.
He didn't forget to pat Xiao Jiu's head as he turned his head.
"My daughter is amazing!"
"But don't go out alone in the future, what if something happens?"
Although he was happy to have two more big items in his home, he cared more about his daughter than about these material things.
"How can you stay at home all day and get good health? Don't people always say you need to exercise to improve your physical condition?"
"I think I should also go out and move around more. After all, you have to move around to stay alive!"
It was past 8 p.m. when the two went to sleep.
Lin Xue wasn't interested in the programs on TV, so she went to bed early. Her mother's TV stayed on until midnight.
Early the next morning.
Lin Cuihua went to work early, and when Lin Xue got up, the house was already empty.
I opened the pot lid, took out the food my mom had heated up for me, and ate some.
She was probably a little tired yesterday, so she slept very soundly today. Even the rooster's crowing this morning couldn't wake her.
Xiao Jiu was probably fed by Lin Cuihua, and was chasing after a corn cob.
After Lin Xue finished eating, she washed Xiao Jiu's rice bowl and water bowl and replaced them with new ones.
Then he pushed his tricycle, intending to go for a stroll in the street.
"Hey, Xiao Jiu, when did your family buy a self-propelled tricycle?"
Aunt Li from next door was also going to the market to buy things today, and she saw Lin Xue pushing her cart out as soon as she stepped out of the door.
"I rode this from a relative's house yesterday, Aunt Li, are you going to town too?"
Lin Xue greeted the other person warmly, then locked her front door and pushed her car onto the road.
"Isn't it easier to spray pesticides in rice paddies? I'm going to go buy some!"
"Your mom's been busy these past few days, so how about I bring yours along too? I can have your brother Dazhuang help you get your medication later!"
There are still people at Aunt Li's house, so there's no need to lock the door.
Her family still needs to use her bicycle, so Aunt Li has to walk to the street.
"That's great! I was just about to go to the market to buy some meat anyway. Why don't you ride in my car?"
Lin Xue invited Aunt Li to get in the car, but Aunt Li was reluctant to let her take her.
"Let me ride it, you sit in the back!"
Aunt Li put her basket into the cart bed, then took the handlebars and plopped down on it.
Lin Xue consciously sat down in the truck bed and placed the small cushion her mother had sewed for her the night before under her bottom.
She uses this tricycle to haul corn when she's harvesting it, so the cargo bed is quite large.
The steel bars underneath were also chosen to be very sturdy, so even though Lin Xue weighed 60 or 70 pounds, Aunt Li rode on them with great ease.
"Xiaoxue, you need to eat more! Look how effortlessly I can carry you!"
Aunt Li rode her bicycle ahead while chatting with Lin Xue.
"It would be good to save you some energy, Auntie. If I get too fat, you won't be able to carry me!"
"Hahaha……"
Chatting and laughing, they soon arrived on the street.
Lin Xue asked the old lady to help her buy pesticides, and also left her the tricycle.
He walked to the Qian family's repair shop and handed the blueprints to Uncle Qian!
"Don't worry about the things, just be careful on your way back!"
Last night, Uncle Qian had already inquired about Lin Xue's situation and learned that there were only the mother and daughter in the family.
They also learned that Lin Xue suffered from congenital heart disease, but despite being afflicted with the illness, she did not give up her studies and learned to recognize characters at home by watching TV every day.
This inspiring girl made Uncle Qian feel more affection for her.
I didn't know about Lin Xue's health condition yesterday, which is why I asked her to help with the work.
Now that we know, we naturally won't let Lin Xue stay.
He said he would send the money to her home once the machine was sold.
Uncle Qian's wife also came out to greet Lin Xue and gave her a lot of pears that had grown at home.
Lin Xue arrived empty-handed, carrying only a blueprint.
When they left, their hands were full, each carrying a bag of pears and a bag of persimmons.
If she weren't so weak, Aunt Qian would have loved to give her even more.
Back at the pesticide shop, Aunt Li had already bought the pesticides.
He was carrying his things out of the store at that moment.
"Aunt Li, look! My relatives gave me two bags of fruit. Take some home and eat them later!"
Lin Xue finally managed to put the fruit into the truck bed and sat down on the side of the truck, panting heavily.
"Wow, these pears are really nice!"
"But these persimmons must have just been picked; we need to let them ripen a bit before we can eat them!"
Aunt Li checked the two bags of fruit and praised Lin Xue, saying she was a good person.
"Auntie, I don't know how to pick persimmons. Why don't you take them all home and share some with me when you're feeling better!"
Lin Xue found it troublesome, so she handed over all the work of making lazy persimmons to Aunt Li.
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