Chapter 70 When Qin finally met Liu Qingyue, ...
When she finally met Liu Qingyue, Qin Lianrui looked back and forth between Qin Ren and Liu Qingyue for a long time.
Who is actually keeping whom?
Why does she think Xiaoyue is so beautiful? Why would such a beautiful woman be so foolish as to keep a rough man from the village as her lover?
Qin Lianrui is much younger than Qin Ren. Since they grew up together, they are quite familiar with each other.
People you know well lose their filter.
Take siblings, for example. Even if they are good-looking to outsiders, they are all ugly in each other's eyes.
Qin Lianrui was a very pretty girl, but in the eyes of her cousins, she was an ugly duckling.
To ensure Qin Lianrui was aware that Liu Qingyue was pregnant and needed to avoid certain foods, Qin Ren made a list of foods that pregnant women should not eat.
Qin Lianrui was a carefree person; she vaguely felt that these things were not suitable for pregnant women to eat.
However, Qin Ren said that Liu Qingyue hadn't been feeling well lately, and she figured that pregnant women and patients should have similar dietary restrictions, so she didn't suspect that Liu Qingyue had any problems because of this.
She received 50,000 yuan from Qin Ren in one go.
Of the 20,000 yuan, it was her salary; the rest was Liu Qingyue's food expenses.
Qin Ren provided her with ample food allowance, so she began to research how to eat more nutritiously and healthily.
She took a small cart from Qin Ren's house and went to the nearest supermarket to shop.
There are a few small supermarkets and a farmers' market here.
Qin Lianrui planned to find out the situation first. If the ingredients here weren't very good, she would have to go to the city center to buy them.
Qin Ren paid her a good amount of money, and she was taking care of a young and handsome man, so she was quite satisfied with the job.
Watching her departing figure, Liu Qingyue asked with some concern, "Won't it be too tiring for her to go shopping alone?"
Liu Qingyue really wanted to help her, but she was in her first trimester and had to be careful during the first three months, avoiding lifting heavy objects and strenuous activity.
Upon hearing this, Qin Ren said to him, "Don't worry, she's a girl from the countryside, she's not that delicate."
Yes, Qin Lianrui is indeed not a delicate person.
She had been doing farm work since she was a child. Her family didn't want her to go to the fields to bask in the sun, but she would still help out because she felt sorry for her parents.
She can harvest wheat, plant crops, grow flowers, and cook delicious meals.
Also, Qin Ren felt that girls shouldn't be too delicate.
If someone is too delicate to lift a finger, they won't be able to fight back when they encounter an abusive man.
Girls can love beauty, but they also need to exercise appropriately.
You don't need to be able to fight bad men on equal footing, but you should at least have the strength to resist and run away.
Of course, some people might think that we live in a society governed by the rule of law.
How could it be such a coincidence that you would meet a bad man or a domestic abuser?
Some people think it's okay for girls to be a little spoiled and pampered.
They seem to love them very much, but no one knows what they're really thinking.
In any case, Qin Ren's personal opinion is that whether it is a boy or a girl, they should exercise from a young age and learn to be independent and self-reliant.
That kind of pampered upbringing is not true love for them.
With Qin Lianrui's arrival, Liu Qingyue often spends time in the modern world.
The main reason was that the weather there was bad in ancient times; it was always damp, and the sun was rarely seen.
Liu Qingyue is also from the north, where the sunshine hours are quite long.
So when he first arrived in the South, he was a little unaccustomed to it.
Fortunately, he now has more than one home, and the weather at his modern home is quite nice.
There's also air conditioning, underfloor heating, and all sorts of high-tech features here.
J City isn't a rainy city, so living here is quite nice.
After Liu Qingyue moved to the modern era, Qin Ren would come back to rest at night.
With his return, Liu Qingyue felt much more at ease.
Pregnancy is different from other times; during this time, the husband needs to take good care of her.
After settling things with Liu Qingyue, Qin Ren began to arrange another matter, which was the previously mentioned production of tires.
Rubber trees are needed to make tires, and there are rubber trees in the mountains around here.
Qin Ren led his men to inspect the area, and found that the number of rubber trees was not very large.
They need a lot of rubber trees to tap the rubber.
Rubber trees are an important economic crop, and of course, the more of them the better.
Qin Ren originally wanted the local people to plant it, but no one knew what it could be used for.
They won't waste their time on other things until they see tangible benefits.
Therefore, if Qin Ren wants the people to plant rubber trees together, he needs to first demonstrate the benefits of rubber, just like the cement he made before.
A rubber tree needs to grow for six or seven years before it can be tapped.
In other words, even if Qin Ren leads them to plant rubber trees now, it will still take many years for the rubber trees to grow and actually turn into real money.
However, there are no special cash crops in the area, but rubber trees are planted in the nearby counties.
In the future, many local people will be able to make a living by relying on rubber trees.
A fully grown rubber tree can typically be tapped for rubber for twenty to thirty years.
A single tree can collect approximately 500 milliliters per day.
If a family plants ten trees, they can collect five thousand milliliters of gum in a day.
Even if these glues don't sell for much money, they're still a small source of income for farmers who toil in the fields.
Qin Ren will definitely build a rubber workshop afterward. The cement workshop is currently being managed by Wen Lingzheng, as he doesn't have the ability to manage more workshops on his own.
Qin Ren had boasted to King Ying about the rubber project a long time ago.
So even if he builds it himself, neither King Ying nor the Emperor will think much of it.
If the revenue is substantial in the later stages, Qin Ren is willing to hand over the workshop.
Qin Ren did want to make money, but this was based on the premise of safety.
Now he is not so short of money, and he also has a fiefdom that he can use to collect taxes.
Even if his fiefdom's tax revenue wasn't as high as others', it was enough for him and Liu Qingyue to live comfortably.
Since he wasn't short of money, Qin Ren felt that there was no need to take too many risks.
For example, alcohol and cement in the past, and rubber now.
Even if the emperor later wanted to take over the rubber workshop, he would definitely give Qin Ren a reward.
This reward may not seem as much as what the rubber workshop earns, but it's still a pretty good income.
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Qin Ren personally led a group of people to teach nearby farmers how to tap rubber.
Once they've been taught, Qin Ren won't need to come over every day anymore.
He would pay them wages. Rubber tapping is not a very strenuous job, nor does it require much time to watch over it.
Even if these farmers come here to earn money from rubber tapping, it won't interfere with their other work.
Therefore, many farmers want this job.
Unfortunately, there aren't many rubber trees in their area, and only a few dozen people can earn this money.
While his men were leading the farmers to collect rubber.
Qin Ren consulted a lot of information and found that tires are made of natural rubber and synthetic rubber.
Synthetic rubber involves chemistry.
Qin Ren is quite knowledgeable in this area because he is a science student and has done some research in this field.
The advent of rubber tires marked the beginning of the industrial age.
Because tires were invented, vehicles such as bicycles and motorcycles came into being.
To enable the use of these faster modes of transportation, oil and diesel fuel will also be needed.
However, today's Dayong is clearly still in an agricultural era.
If it weren't for Qin Ren's arrival, many more people in Dayong would starve to death every year.
So now that Qin Ren has come up with this, it's hard to say whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
While Qin Ren was busy making tires, Liu Qingyue discovered something interesting on the other side.
Recently, he watched live shopping and became obsessed with those blind box ceramic cups.
They are all very exquisite and beautiful cups, which look a bit heavy-duty.
These cups are mainly for looks; they're actually quite inconvenient to use.
Liu Qingyue bought five cups while watching the live stream, and two of the cups she got were the same model. Liu Qingyue gave the one with the same model to Qin Lianrui.
Besides the blind box cups, he also bought several cotton dolls.
Liu Qingyue has always liked these kinds of things; he had bought several dolls back in his hometown before.
Unfortunately, Qin Ren didn't bring it with him after he moved.
Qin Ren felt that such items were available online or in physical stores, so there was no need to bring them from his hometown.
Liu Qingyue also felt that online shopping was convenient, so he bought a new plush toy online.
Unexpectedly, while he was strolling around, he discovered cotton dolls.
Based on these cotton dolls, he discovered all sorts of interesting games.
These games include otome games and some large-scale competitive games.
Because she was unfamiliar with this area, Liu Qingyue even bought a computer specifically for playing games.
Shopping, playing games, and collecting cotton dolls—Liu Qingyue has been incredibly busy lately.
Although he was busy with mostly trivial matters, time flew by, and winter soon arrived.
Winter was even more unbearable in the ancient south, so Liu Qingyue simply stopped going back there.
Their house has underfloor heating and air conditioning, so staying at home feels like springtime.
At this time, Liu Qingyue's belly was becoming quite noticeable, but because he wore relatively loose clothes every day, Qin Lianrui still didn't notice anything amiss.
Qin Lianrui is very skilled in cooking. Previously, she was only good at roasting chicken, roasting duck, and some farm-style dishes.
For example, steamed buns, steamed dumplings, fried sugar cakes, fried dough sticks, braised chicken, stir-fried rice noodles, plain noodles, knife-cut noodles, and various stir-fries...
Later, she learned to cook in her spare time, learned some Western-style pastries, and could even make sandwiches and hamburgers herself.
Her cooking was clean and hygienic, so Liu Qingyue gave up her habit of ordering takeout.
Liu Qingyue has clearly gained weight recently, and her double eyelids are becoming less noticeable.
On this day, Liu Qingyue went out to pick up a package, and Qin Lianrui accompanied him.
Qin Ren had said that Liu Qingyue was not in good health, and he hired her to take care of him.
So every time Liu Qingyue was going out, Qin Lianrui would go with him.
Liu Qingyue was a boy, and Qin Lianrui was a girl, so the two had a very close relationship.
Qin Lianrui didn't think much of it when she saw Liu Qingyue being so friendly to her.
He only thought Liu Qingyue was a lesbian, and he treated her as a close friend.
This time, Liu Qingyue bought an 80-centimeter cotton doll, which was super big.
When the two of them went to the nearby delivery station to pick up their package, they brought their little trolley with them.
After receiving the package, Liu Qingyue unpacked it.
Both of them liked these cute things, and stood by the roadside for quite a while before going home.
On the way, Qin Lianrui, pulling the cart, said, "The New Year is coming soon, and I'll be going home for half a month then. Do you need to hire another nanny here?"
Qin Ren paid her a high salary, so she should be working overtime here.
However, she has never traveled far from home, and if she doesn't go back to her hometown for the Chinese New Year, her parents will probably worry about her.
Liu Qingyue: "I've already told Qin Ren that we'll go to my house together for the New Year, so don't worry about me."
Qin Lianrui: "Are you feeling better?"
"It's much better. It just gets a little more tiring than the average person. As long as I don't do strenuous exercise, there shouldn't be any problems."
Qin Lianrui nodded. To be honest, she was quite worried about Liu Qingyue.
She always couldn't help but care for and look after someone as beautiful as Liu Qingyue, because she genuinely didn't want anything to happen to him.
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