256 points longan
The weather is hot and there are few people at home, so eating too much longan will cause internal heat.
The two large baskets of longan could only be given away as gifts.
Jiang Baohai meant that each of the neighboring families would send a small bowl to try, and the rest would go to Jiang's mother and Gao Qinghe's family for half a basket.
The rest was kept for our family to eat. We had a refrigerator at home, so we could finish it in three days.
Gao Qinghe had no objection.
Mother Jiang thought of her nephews and nieces from her mother's family, and felt sorry for them because they had never eaten anything good.
Afraid that the food would go bad, he took half a basket of longans and rode his bike to the neighboring Qijia Village early the next morning.
Gao Qinghe slept at home until he woke up naturally, then brought bowls of longan to the other rooms of the Jiang family.
Since the Chinese New Year, everyone has become more aware of the rules and knows that other people’s things belong to them.
In addition, some things about this blood relationship are hard to explain. Although a few families occasionally take advantage of it, they never appear to make decisions for Jiang Baohai again.
In view of this, Gao Qinghe was happy to give some sweet treats from time to time to maintain the relationship.
After all, life would be easier in this day and age if you had a big family behind you.
Unlike later times, where public security is good and everyone can take care of their own business, neighbors who have lived together for decades may not even know each other's names.
Although he bought a house in the provincial capital, Gao Qinghe had no plans to live there.
Jiang Baohai couldn't get out of the mine yet. If she went to the provincial capital, the couple would have to live apart from each other like they did in their previous life.
In her previous life, a few years before she got married, she lived in the provincial capital, Jiang Baohai, and the company. The couple could only be at home for two days at most in a month.
Jiang Baohai often came back to have a meal, spend a few hours with her, and then rushed back to work.
It was not until the company's business stabilized and a mature team was formed that Jiang Baohai retreated to the second line and the couple began to spend more time together.
Of course, she would definitely not be bored if she went to the provincial capital alone.
But when she saw the reluctant look in someone's eyes, her heart softened and she decided to stay with him in the old house for a few more years.
And the situation this time is different from the previous life.
Gao Qinghe lowered her head to look at her belly, her eyes filled with tenderness like a pool of water slowly melting.
Her baby will surely grow up healthy and happy under the joint love of mom and dad.
She didn't want to be like the wives of those big bosses in her previous life.
I work hard at home to take care of the children while my husband is out having fun. In the end, I have to play the role of a loving father in front of my children, making them only love their rich dad and not their nagging, complaining mom. I have exhausted myself into a resentful person with nothing.
Everyone says they are too busy with work to take care of their children. Can they be busier than the leaders of the country?
These are all reasons for not wanting to have children.
If Jiang Baohai dared to do this, Gao Qinghe would immediately decide to become a widow!
"Oh, why did you bring something? Xiaohe, you are so polite!"
Aunt Yu Cuilian was flattered and invited Gao Qinghe to come in and sit down.
When he looked up inadvertently, he saw the murderous intent in her eyes, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He asked cautiously, "What's the matter?"
There is no such thing as a visitor without a reason. Xiaohai, the powerful daughter-in-law, suddenly came to the house with something. She must have other purposes!
When Yu Cuilian thought about it, she became more confident.
Unexpectedly, Gao Qinghe was just distracted and too engrossed in something else.
Coming back to his senses, Gao Qinghe put down the bowl of longan with a smile.
"Aunt, this is called longan. Bao Hai's friend sent it to us. There are too many for us to eat. I brought it here for you to try."
"Eat it while it's fresh, otherwise it will go bad if you keep it for too long."
After saying that, he nodded to Uncle Jiang who came out of the house after hearing the sound, then turned and left.
The old couple looked at each other in disbelief.
Delivering something?
Leaving now?
Qian Qiaolan, who also received a bowl of longan, took a special look at the sun in the sky.
That’s right, the sun rises from the east today!
Jiang Ziqiang didn't care about the adults' complicated thoughts. When he saw fresh fruits he had never eaten before, he just picked them up and ate them.
Children are definitely very smart when it comes to eating. Even if they have never eaten longan, they know that they have to peel the shell.
A perfect, white, plump and shiny longan flesh is revealed. Before you even eat it, you can smell a sweet aroma.
Jiang Ziqiang put the whole thing into his mouth in one breath, chewed it, and his eyes lit up.
"Mom, this is delicious! It's so sweet. I've never eaten such sweet fruit!"
This is absolutely not an exaggeration. At that time, watermelons and grapes had not been improved, and their taste was actually not as fresh and sweet as it is in later generations.
Especially oranges and apples, which are mostly sweet and sour.
The so-called sweet apples are not actually purely sweet.
Longan doesn’t taste sour at all and has a strong honey aroma that even children who love sweets can’t resist it.
Moreover, it is easy to peel and eat. There is only a core inside, and the rest is all meat.
Jiang Ziqiang ate seven or eight in one breath and was reluctant to stop.
When Qian Qiaolan saw this, she was shocked. Gao Qinghe said that eating too much would cause a sore throat!
He slapped his son's hand away when he tried to take the longan, took the whole bowl away and placed it on the top of the cupboard.
Qian Qiaolan cursed angrily, "You useless thing, you're like a starving ghost, haven't you ever seen anything good? Go to school now, and wait for your dad to come back tonight before you eat!"
Jiang Ziqiang didn't have much respect for his stepfather, and even felt a little disgusted with him.
He looks like a lecher and would flirt with the pretty ladies in the village every day when he saw them.
But there was no other way. Both his mother and he had to rely on others to survive, so they had to change their surnames and call him dad.
However, he liked his fifth aunt's fourth brother and his wife, who always smiled at him and often gave him delicious food.
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Gao Qinghe delivered the longan to several families.
Huang Yanqiu's car just happened to arrive at her door. She pushed the small door open skillfully and strode in. Without even calling out, she walked straight into the living room and saw Gao Qinghe leaning on the sofa, fanning herself with her hands.
She is becoming more and more lazy now. She just walks a few steps outside and doesn't want to get up again after sitting down when she comes back.
"What do you want me to get?" Huang Yanqiu asked casually.
Gao Qinghe wiped the sweat from his forehead, pointed at the half-basket of longans by the door, and complained suspiciously:
"I don't know why it's so hot today."
Huang Yanqiu touched her hand. Is it hot?
Not at all.
"I think you're afraid of the heat." Huang Yanqiu came to the door, picked up a bunch of longans and asked, "What is this?"
Gao Qinghe: "Longan, fruit, food."
Huang Yanqiu peeled one for herself and tasted it without hesitation. She thought it was good, so she ate three more before stopping and moving the food to the car.
"Keep half for yourself!" Gao Qinghe instructed outside the door.
"Know."
Huang Yanqiu, who was about to get on the bus, suddenly turned back, sat down opposite Gao Qinghe and said:
"Did you know that Zhou Zhenghua's mother is here again?"
Gao Qinghe raised his eyebrows and shook his head.
Huang Yanqiu smiled wickedly and said with some sympathy, "Ouyang Yan is over eight months old and will give birth soon. Zhou Zhenghua called her mother up here again, just in case of premature birth or something, so she would have someone to help."
"You don't know, after Ouyang Yan stopped vomiting, she looked like she wanted to make up for all the nutrients she had lost before. She ate herself into a fat person. Her belly was so big that I was scared just looking at it."
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