Chapter 512 Before the Spring Festival
Lu Jingshen went to several shops and they all said that their oranges were sweet. He understood the situation, so he simply started from the first shop and bought ten kilograms from each shop.
Anyway, there are only five or six shops selling oranges. If you buy oranges from every one of them, there will always be sour ones. Just let your wife pick the sour ones to eat.
Seeing Lu Jingshen buying oranges like this, the owners of several stalls were also confused, but it can be seen that this man is an open-minded person and does not bargain.
When I went to the last store, the oranges there were not in good condition, so I didn't buy anything. I bought five bags in total, two bags in one hand and three bags in the other. Because I had thought I was here to buy oranges, I didn't have a cart, so I had to carry them by physical strength.
He bought a lot, so the stall boards were all packed in woven bags with handles, so he could hold them, but they were definitely heavy. Fortunately, Lu Jingshen had been exercising and had good arm strength and physical strength.
When Lu Jingshen returned home and reached the door, Lu Jingyuan quickly ran out to meet him: "Brother, if I had known you were going to buy so much, I would have pushed the cart with you." Then he asked in confusion: "Brother, we have so much fruit at home, why did you buy so many oranges? We can't finish them all."
After handing Lu Jingyuan two bags, Lu Jingshen said, "Your sister-in-law wants to eat sour oranges. But who can say their oranges are sour? Otherwise, people won't buy them. So I just bought some for my family. At least we can have some sour ones. We can't finish them at home. When we start work after the New Year, we can give them to the workers as lunch fruit."
Lu Jingyuan nodded: "That's right, we have a big family anyway."
Seeing Lu Jingshen coming back, Lin Xiaoxia also went to the door to greet him: "You bought so much, it must be very heavy, why don't you come back and push the cart or ask Jingyuan to accompany you, aren't you tired?"
Lu Jingshen smiled and said, "This is considered heavy, but it looks like a lot. I'm not sure which one is sour now."
After entering the house, the two brothers placed the oranges on the floor of the living room. Lu Jingshen opened each bag of oranges and took out one. After opening it, he tasted it first.
After eating the second one, he felt a chill from the sour taste and quickly handed it to Lin Xiaoxia: "This one is too sour."
Lu Jingyuan also happened to eat one of the bags and grimaced in disbelief: "So sour?"
Lin Xiaoxia took the orange that Lu Jingshen handed over, ate one and nodded repeatedly: "This is delicious, this is the real flavor."
Lu Jingshen and Lu Jingyuan both felt their mouths water when they looked at Lin Xiaoxia, it was so sour.
But Lin Xiaoxia ate with gusto.
In the afternoon, everyone in the family had work to do and the factory was about to close for the holiday. There had been a lot of things to do in the past two days, so Lu Jingshen went to help, leaving Lin Xiaoxia on the big kang in the upper room, eating and watching TV.
After a while, the phone rang. She picked it up. It was Lu Yahong, Er Honggu calling. It was nothing special, just asking if Lin Xiaoxia and the others had returned and wanted to talk to her.
Lin Xiaoxia happened to answer the call, so Erhonggu also opened up: "Xiaoxia, I really want to thank you. If you hadn't shown us the way and helped us open the store, our family would still have to borrow money to get by. Now it's much better, and we can even save money."
Lin Xiaoxia smiled and said, "That's also because of Er Honggu's ability. If you need our help in anything, just let us know."
Lu Yahong said, "I'm not being polite with you. By the way, I heard from your mother that you are pregnant. I don't have much good stuff here, so I saved some eggs for you. I will take them to you in a big car tomorrow. You can ask Jing Shen to go to the front of the supply and marketing cooperative at 9:30 in the morning to pick them up."
"No need, Aunt Erhong. There are so many people in your family. Just keep it for yourself. I can't even finish what my mother prepared for me."
"Your home is your home. I don't have anything to show you. This is your home. If you don't want it, I'll feel bad."
"Yes, I want it. I'll ask Jing Shen to get it at the station tomorrow. Thank you, Aunt Erhong." Lin Xiaoxia didn't dare to refuse it. If she didn't want it, Lu Yahong would probably have a bad New Year.
Hearing Lin Xiaoxia say this, Lu Yahong was happy: "Okay, don't forget it tomorrow, I'm fine, you have a good rest and take good care of the baby."
"I understand, Erhonggu."
"Then I'm hanging up."
"Goodbye, Erhonggu."
Not long after she hung up the phone, another call came in. It was from a classmate of Li Shaofen, who said that an elderly person in her family was celebrating his 66th birthday on the sixth day of the New Year, and asked Lin Xiaoxia to tell Li Shaofen.
After a while, I received another call asking when we would start production and delivery after the New Year.
Lin Xiaoxia sat by the phone and found herself just like the operator. The calls came one after another, and she took a pen and paper to write them down. Now that she was pregnant, it seemed that her memory was not as good as before. She was always sleepy and was afraid of delaying things.
This was my first day back in the village, and it was spent in such a lively manner.
At night, I lay on the kang with Lu Jingshen, but it was too hot to sleep.
Lu Jingshen watched Lin Xiaoxia roll over like a pancake and smiled, "Let me put a few more mattresses on you. Mom is really worried about us getting cold. This is how much firewood we're short of. I'll ask her to burn less tomorrow."
Lin Xiaoxia also laughed and sat up: "Indeed, I can't sleep because of the heat."
The two couldn't sleep, so they sat up and played poker until they felt sleepy.
The next day at noon, just after dinner, Li Shaofen and Lin Xiaoxia were sorting some cloths on the kang. These were all the cloths that Li Shaofen had saved over the years, saying that she wanted to use them to make small clothes for the children.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were talking excitedly when Yuan Jing arrived.
She came alone, her eyes were red and swollen, and she had lost weight, no longer having the charm she once had.
As soon as she entered the house, she apologized to Li Shaofen in a crying voice: "Sister, I was wrong. It was all my fault before. Please forgive me."
Li Shaofen frowned and looked at Yuan Jing: "What are you doing?"
Yuan Jing said: "Sister, I'm not here to make trouble. I don't want anything. I just want to live a good life with Fuqiang, but he hates me so much now and ignores me. I really have no choice but to come to you for help."
Lin Xiaoxia knew what was going on with Yuan Jing. She hadn't told her mother-in-law about Yuan Jing since she came back. She thought that Li Wensong would be back tomorrow and they would tell her then. She didn't expect Yuan Jing to come today.
She said to Li Shaofen, "Mom, she went to see Wensong before the New Year, but was driven away by Wensong. I thought she would be quiet before the New Year, so I didn't tell you. I didn't expect her to come again."
Li Shaofen said, "Wensong was right to chase her away. I'm too lazy to bother with her." Then she turned to Yuan Jing and said, "You know we're annoying you, so why are you still here?"
Yuan Jing cried and said, "Sister, I really know I was wrong. I was wrong before. I know Fuqiang regrets what he did before because Wensong and you guys don't care about our family anymore. Fuqiang feels remorseful now, so he hates me. I want to change, but Fuqiang ignores me. I really don't know what to do. I know you hate me, but I admit everything. You can beat me or scold me. I just want to ask you to speak a good word to Fuqiang on my behalf. As long as he can forgive me, I will be willing to work like a cow or a horse for you."
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