Shen Heng's lips curled up, and he ruffled Bai Jiaojiao's hair: "Then you have to admit that I was the one who took off your shoes last night, right?"
Bai Jiaojiao was speechless after Shen Heng's question, and could only glare at him fiercely: "Let's go back, I'm not shopping with you anymore!"
"Hey, why are you still angry? You're really not going shopping anymore?"
Bai Jiaojiao was leaving, so Shen Heng could only follow behind.
"I'm not going to shop anymore; there are too many mosquitoes here."
Did a mosquito bite you?
"Um."
Shen Heng looked Bai Jiaojiao up and down and saw that her right arm was red: "It's okay, just let Heng-ge kiss it."
He was about to lean down and kiss her when Bai Jiaojiao quickly pushed him away, saying, "We're outside!"
"Okay, then I'll go back and kiss you." Hehe.
Bai Jiaojiao quickened her pace, trying to leave Shen Heng behind: "I really don't know when you'll be able to be serious!"
Shen Heng loved teasing Bai Jiaojiao, whether it was proper or not, but that kind of thing wouldn't let him kiss his wife more than a couple of times.
"The seriousness they show is all an act!"
Shen Heng teased Bai Jiaojiao all the way back to a crowded place, where he completely changed his roguish behavior.
At noon, Du Songjiang told them that this time the duck down had really been collected and carefully inspected, and it was absolutely 100% duck feathers.
Shen Heng thoroughly examined the two bags of down from the inside out before nodding: "That's fine. Go find a scale and show me."
Du Songjiang immediately sent someone to the brigade warehouse to bring over the scale. When Shen Heng put it on the scale, the two bags of duck down weighed 21 jin.
Du Songjiang immediately whispered, "Let's just calculate it as twenty jin."
People who used to come and collect duck eggs always did the same thing, taking only a small amount with them.
Du Songjiang was frightened by Shen Heng's fury in the morning. Seeing how formidable Shen Heng was, he was afraid that Shen Heng would cause trouble for them after returning home, so he rushed to give him gifts.
Shen Heng glanced at Du Songjiang but didn't say anything; he figured he might as well take advantage of the opportunity.
"Let's find a place to put it here, and we'll tie it to the car and take it back tomorrow. We're not leaving today; the road is too far."
Du Songjiang thought they would leave immediately after taking the goods, and he wanted to get rid of this plague as soon as possible so that next time someone easier to talk to could come and collect the down.
To everyone's surprise, they decided to stay another night.
As the village head, Du Songjiang often hosts guests who come to his village on official business. They stay and eat at his house. Last night, he picked the cucumbers from his vegetable garden that he hadn't been able to bear picking, complaining that they were too old and wouldn't taste good.
Du Songjiang really didn't want to serve him anymore, but he had no choice but to say okay, okay.
In the afternoon, Bai Jiaojiao found Du Songjiang and gave him five yuan: "This is our meal allowance for this business trip. Thank you for your help these past two days. Could you make us some duck soup tonight?"
"Oh dear, you don't need so much!"
Du Songjiang's attitude changed completely when he saw money.
Bai Jiaojiao smiled and said, "Please help us make it. Pick a fat duck; we want to take the rest with us."
"Don't worry, this is easy to handle. My wife is very good at making duck soup."
Du Songjiang has no objections now. In the past, when people came to buy duck meat from them, they would only give them 1.8 yuan per duck. They can buy three ducks for 5 yuan.
Du Songjiang put 1.8 yuan into the village's account, and kept the rest for himself. He was incredibly diligent when it came to work.
When it was time for dinner, Du Songjiang's wife brought them a bowl of duck.
The duck soup was covered with a thick layer of oil, and the ducks inside were quite large.
Bai Jiaojiao and Shen Heng brought their own lunchboxes for eating while traveling.
She washed the lunchbox at Du Songjiang's house and filled it with some duck soup and a few pieces of meat to bring to Bai Shiqing.
Shen Heng said, "I thought you were feeling sorry for me and wanted to improve my meals."
"Of course I did it for you," Bai Jiaojiao laughed, placing a duck leg in Shen Heng's bowl.
"Can I eat this? Shouldn't you save it for your sister?"
As she spoke, she immediately took a bite out of the duck leg: "It's no use being reluctant now."
Bai Jiaojiao could tell that Shen Heng was enjoying his food, so she coaxed him, "Of course I want Heng-ge to eat first, my sister is not as important as you."
Shen Heng raised an eyebrow, his expression impassive, but he was secretly overjoyed.
Du Songjiang had someone compress the twenty pounds of duck down, then tied it up with rope to reduce its volume as much as possible. He then hung one on each side of Shen Heng's bicycle handlebars, making two large bags that still looked quite cumbersome.
“Heng-ge,” Bai Jiaojiao looked at it, “why don’t you have them take some parts off? I’ll hold one from behind, and you can split the other one in half and hang it on both sides. Otherwise, how can this bike be ridden?”
"Never mind that, sit still, let's hurry home."
They set off from Yanglinwan before dawn as usual, but this time, because they knew the way, they arrived at Shili Village before dark.
As everyone was finishing their work, they saw two large bags hanging on the two men's car and wondered what they were.
"Hey, where have you been? What good stuff did you bring back? Let us see!"
The person asking the questions was Old Mrs. Liu, who had been in the same work group as Bai Jiaojiao. She was always gossipy and had no interest in anything.
Before Bai Jiaojiao could refuse, Shen Heng cursed, "What's it to you? Go back and cook for your lazy son. He's over thirty and still single. Aren't you ashamed?"
Shen Heng didn't care that the person opposite him was an old lady of grandmother's age. He was annoyed by her and started cursing.
Grandma Liu was utterly humiliated. If it were anyone else, she would have definitely started arguing on the spot, but since Shen Heng was scolding her, she could only be thankful that she wasn't beaten.
Shen Heng glanced at her and continued walking home.
Bai Jiaojiao found it extremely funny from behind.
Even the most ruthless people wouldn't hit a woman, and they would at least give face to the elderly or other vulnerable people. But Shen Heng showed absolutely no regard for such things.
In his eyes, there were only those he couldn't fight, and everyone else.
When the two got home, Bai Jiaojiao told Shen Heng to rest on the kang (a heated brick bed), as he had been riding his bicycle the whole way and must have been exhausted.
Although Bai Jiaojiao hadn't been traveling, she was still exhausted that day: "Brother Heng, how about we skip dinner tonight?"
Sigh, she doesn't want to get off the kang (heated brick bed) anymore.
Seeing Bai Jiaojiao like that, Shen Heng reached out and hugged her: "Then let's sleep first, and talk about it when we wake up."
"Okay." Bai Jiaojiao wanted to smile, but she found that she didn't even have the strength to smile when she was lying on the kang. As soon as she finished speaking, she fell into a deep sleep in Shen Heng's arms.
Shen Heng was indeed exhausted, and he fell asleep soon after.
When Deng Min heard that the two of them had returned, she was worried that they wouldn't have time to cook dinner since they were busy tidying up. So she decided to bring them along for dinner.
But when she came to deliver the food, she practically pounded on the door, and the two of them didn't respond.
"What are they doing in there?"
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