In the small courtyard at the foot of Mengsheng City Wall.
Shen Baojia worked day and night for several days. As soon as he finished delivering the goods, he received a large bonus and went home happily.
Fortunately, this man was honest and hardworking, and he was very attentive. He even cleaned the yard carefully before leaving.
Meng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief the moment he opened the door.
He only remembered it halfway through his journey because the shipping yard was as messy as the garbage dump outside the city.
If Feng Yijia saw the messy scene, she would think he was extremely sloppy.
Heaven and earth can testify that, thanks to my experience in prison over the years, I am absolutely good at taking care of my housekeeping, if nothing else.
Now looking at the relatively clean yard, Meng Sheng secretly decided to give Shen Baojia another bonus later.
He led the person in and sat him down at a small table under the eaves.
Meng Sheng parked the car quickly and put the food he had just bought on the table.
Feng Yijia walked for a while, and his stomach felt a little bloated. He smelled the tempting fragrance and felt that he could go on again.
He reached out and took the braised chicken feet that he had prepared earlier and started chewing on them.
While chewing, he looked around the yard and asked, "How did you make your fortune?
How come I don’t see anything!” Apart from some common household items, she didn’t see anything else.
Meng Sheng went back into the kitchen and fished out two bottles of iced soda from the water tank. He opened the lids, placed one in front of the man, and then sat down and said, "Nothing special, just dealing in dry goods.
They are collected from nearby rural areas and sold in the city.
We just shipped out the goods this afternoon, so you can see them if you come over in the morning.
That thing takes up space, and the yard is full of sacks, so piled up that there's no place to step!"
Feng Yijia rolled his eyes and asked, "How much is a pound of dried goods now?"
Meng Sheng answered without hesitation: "It ranges from a little over ten cents to over a dollar, depending on the variety!"
Feng Yijia squinted his eyes and looked him up and down, then leaned in closer and whispered, "You've set up such a big stall right from the start, it seems you've made a lot of money!"
As the distance got closer, the woman opened her collar slightly, looking down from above. Meng Sheng could clearly see the delicate collarbones on both sides of her neck, which were two shades whiter than her face and almost dazzling. His eyes instantly became deeper, and his throat rolled subconsciously.
He took a few gulps of the soda, suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, and said to the person's clear eyes, "Not bad!"
After a pause, he smiled and asked, "Do you want some?"
Feng Yijia was a little tempted, but quickly sat up straight and shook his head: "Forget it, no reward without merit!"
Hearing this, Meng Sheng asked tentatively, "Why? You have a lot of money to make, but you look down on my meager income?"
“Hey, stop talking.
"I've been wandering around in that poor mountain valley for decades. Almost every family is extremely poor, and there's no custom of burying people with their parents. How can I make money?" Feng Yijia sighed and shook his head, and replied.
Meng Sheng raised an eyebrow when he heard this. Regardless of whether what was said was true or not, he stopped talking about the money and changed the subject: "Does this mean that you can only, uh, hang around your grave?"
Feng Yijia blinked and nodded: "Almost!"
Perhaps curiosity about unknown things is ingrained in people. After listening to this, Meng Sheng looked at the gradually darkening sky, thought for a moment, then stood up and quickly turned on all the lights in the room.
After sitting down again, he asked again: "There are many people buried in that cemetery. Have you seen other... ghosts?"
The last two words were spoken in an extremely low and vague voice.
Feng Yijia didn't even hear clearly, but she could guess with her toes. She looked at the man's series of cowardly actions with amusement and answered honestly: "I haven't seen it, it's just me!"
Meng Sheng straightened his back instantly and discussed with others what factors might be related to the occurrence of such a low-probability event.
However, they were not knowledgeable people. They talked about random things for a long time while eating various foods on the table, but they did not come up with anything that was certain.
This actually brought the two of them closer.
Meng Sheng felt that he had transformed from a partner when he was just reborn into a good friend with whom he could talk happily.
After Feng Yijia finished eating five chicken feet and two chicken wings, he saw that it was getting dark, so he washed his hands and prepared to leave: "I have to go back to the guesthouse to rest. I have to go back to the village early tomorrow morning."
It was indeed getting late, and the scenery in the distance was blurry. Meng Sheng felt reluctant to leave but did not try to keep anyone. The social atmosphere was very strict nowadays, and it was not pleasant for a single man and a single woman to live under the same roof.
He took a flashlight from the house and came out, showing with his actions that he was going to send someone away. He said, "I've been out for a few days and I'm going back tomorrow too. Let's go together then!"
Feng Yijia shook the water off his hands, walked out of the yard, and said as he walked: "I bought a lot of things, and Aunt Xu asked me to go to Zhongyi Village to find a carriage to take me back to the village.
You have a bicycle, you can ride back first!"
Meng Sheng turned on his flashlight and followed the person. Looking at the person's graceful back, he decisively changed his earlier plan and said, "I have a lot of things to bring back this time, and my bicycle can't carry them all.
Can your shopping fill a carriage?
If there's space, I can share a rental car with you and save you some money."
——"I am a poor guy who just got independent. If I want to buy enough things for a carriage, I will probably be drowned in spit.
As long as you're not afraid of the villagers seeing us gossiping about us when we return together, that's all that matters!"
——"Well, it's only because there are no mobile phones or TVs nowadays, otherwise everyone would be obsessed with their phones and no one would bother to pay attention to others all day long!
I'm not afraid of gossip, but you can't stand other people talking behind your back.
I'll just get off the carriage before it enters the village.
If you can save two dollars, it’s two dollars! "
——"You're a wealthy man, yet you're still thinking about saving money on car fares. They say the richer you are, the stingier you become. Are you one of them?"
——"Just now I said I would share something with you, don't you remember?
Is there anyone in the world as generous and stingy as me?
This is called being low-key, not wasting, and remaining frugal despite wealth, a farmer's true nature! "
——"I think you're more like being shameless or just bragging!"
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The galaxy gradually appeared above their heads, the ground began to turn dewy under their feet, they listened to the voices of people and the chirping of insects around them, and chatted randomly.
Baishui County is not big. It only takes more than 20 minutes to walk from the city wall to the guesthouse where Feng Yi lives, even if you walk slowly.
Meng Sheng sent the person to the door of the guesthouse, watched the person enter the door, turned into the corridor and disappeared, then slowly walked back.
The sweet feeling in his heart and the curve of his lips that couldn't help but curl up made him clearly realize that he had fallen into a trap named Feng Yijia.
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