Chapter 115 Chapter 115 Risk
Ning Shixia couldn't understand why her parents could each have their own home, but before she could ask further, Yao Ju changed the subject.
"I've always heard you say there are a lot of fun things to do in town. Can you take me there before dinner?"
Ning Shixia's attention was diverted at once: "Of course, let me think about it, um... we can go swimming in the creek in town... No, no, it's almost time for dinner, swimming is only for a while, it's not satisfying.
Go catch some small fish by the pond? No, that won’t work. It’s easy to get muddy when catching fish, and it’s too troublesome to get your clothes dirty before eating. By the way, I can take you to pick fruits in my grandma’s vegetable garden! ”
After picking the early-ripening grapes from her grandmother's house, there are still some late-ripening ones that are slowly growing and gradually ripening.
The fruits that are not ripe in batches are difficult to sell, so we keep them for our own consumption. Sometimes we can find several bunches if we look around, and we share the extra ones with relatives.
"Planting fruit trees in the vegetable garden?" Yao Ju grew up in the city and had never played these things, so he was very interested in these fun things in the town.
"Yes, many people in our town grow fruit trees in their vegetable gardens, and some have them in their yards as well. However, the fruit trees in my grandmother's vegetable garden are not in the garden, but on the small hill next to the garden. There are many grapes planted on the hill. When summer vacation just started, my brother went to help harvest the grapes."
"Didn't you go?" Yao Ju asked.
"It was too hot at that time, and there were a lot of mosquitoes. I was afraid of being bitten by mosquitoes, so I didn't go with them. Now that the weather is cooler, I put some floral water on my body and I won't be bitten by mosquitoes."
While the two were talking, they had already finished eating in their own small bowls.
When he sent the bowls to the kitchen, Ning Shixia told Ning Shaoming that he was going to take Yao Ju out to play, and then asked him, "Dad, can I take your Xiaolingtong with me? When it's time to eat, call me and I'll be back right away."
Ning Shaoming had just heard what the two children said in the kitchen, and he felt a little distressed for Yao Ju who had to go through all that at such a young age.
I just thought of asking Xiao Xia to take him out to play, it would be nice to relax.
Ning Shaoming nodded in agreement and was about to give Ning Shixia a pager.
But Yao said, "Xiao Xia, Uncle Ning, I also have a PHS, Xiao Xia, you can just use mine."
He took out his pager from his schoolbag and handed it to Ning Shixia: "Just save the phone numbers of Uncle Ning and Aunt Zhao in it."
"Okay, then we'll just have this." Ning Shixia saved his parents' phone numbers and then dialed his father's number.
Ning Shaoming also saved the phone number and let them play by themselves.
Ning Shixia took Yao Ju to the bathroom first, applied floral water on both herself and him, then ran outside, said something to her brother, and the two of them rode away on Ning Shiqiu's bicycle.
I first rode to Ning Shixia's grandmother's house and parked the bike in front of the door. Her grandmother's house is busiest at noon and in the afternoon when students get out of school.
A movie was playing on TV, and a group of people were sitting so densely in front of the TV watching it. Ning Shixia had to work hard to ask people to move a little bit, and then he squeezed through and pulled Yao Ju to his grandmother's kitchen.
His uncle was cooking in the kitchen. When he saw Ning Shixia coming, he took a small bowl and gave her food.
Ning Shixia waved her hands hurriedly: "Uncle, I don't want to eat anymore. If I eat more, I won't be able to eat tonight. Are there any grapes in the vegetable garden? I want to take my friend to pick grapes."
"Yes, your aunt went to the vegetable garden to water the vegetables yesterday morning, and when she came back she said she saw several bunches of grapes. They will be ripe in the next few days. You can go and see who this child is. Why haven't you seen him before?"
"He's a friend my brother and I met in the county town. His name is Yao Ju. Today is my brother's birthday and he came to celebrate with him. Brother Saw, this is my uncle. You can just call him uncle too."
Yao Ju followed up with, "Hello, uncle!"
"Hello, hello. You're welcome to come here to play. Let Xiaoxia take you to have fun," Zhao Hongfa invited habitually, "How about having dinner at my uncle's house later?"
Hearing him say this, Ning Shixia remembered that the family had to make a lot of delicious food today, so she could invite her uncle and his family to her house for dinner. "Uncle, don't cook. Let's go to my house for dinner today. My dad has made a lot of delicious food."
"Your mother also said so this morning, but your aunt's family is coming to our house for dinner today, and we have to entertain the guests as well."
"Okay, I'll bring you something delicious later. Let's go first!"
Zhao Hongfa moved the firewood in the stove and waved his hand: "Go ahead, go ahead, be careful."
Ning Shixia had already run out of the back door of the backyard holding Yao Ju's hand, and a voice came from outside: "Got it!"
Her grandmother's vegetable garden was not far from her home, just a few minutes' walk away, but if she wanted to pick grapes, she had to walk through the vegetable garden and climb up the hillside.
"It's right here. There aren't many grapes left. We have to look carefully to find them. Should we split up?"
Yao Ju nodded excitedly. It was the first time for him to play like this. It was like looking for treasure in a field.
Ning Shixia drew a boundary for him and told him: "From here to there, and over there, all of them are my grandmother's land. You can't go outside of that. They belong to other people."
After Yao Ju remembered it, the two of them each carried a small bamboo basket and went treasure hunting separately.
When they received Ning Shaoming's call asking them to go back for dinner, the two of them reunited and saw that they had picked quite a lot.
"I couldn't pick so many before. I'm so lucky today!"
Yao Ju said happily: "Maybe it's because today is Xiaoqiu's birthday?"
When the two of them went back, they first went to Ning Shixia's grandmother's house.
Zhao Hongfa was also surprised to see that they were able to pick two small baskets of grapes, and he also said, "You two are really lucky."
Ning Shixia left the grapes he picked for his grandmother's family to eat, and took the grapes picked by Yao Ju back home.
Along the way, they were chattering about whether to eat the grapes directly or use them for something else.
Finally, considering that Ning Shixia has too many people in his family, there are not only several children from the county town, but also Ning Shiqiu's good friends in the town. Although he usually looks like a little adult and seems a little serious, he actually has a good relationship with people. Many of his classmates like to play with him.
With so many people, if they ate the grapes directly, each person wouldn't get much. In the end, Ning Shixia and Yao Ju gave the grapes to Ning Shaoming.
Ning Shaoming originally wanted to use it to make a grape mille-feuille, but he already had a large three-layer cake at home, and making a mille-feuille seemed a bit repetitive.
Seeing his dilemma, Zhao Ruyue said, "How about making drinks?"
"How to make it?" Ning Shaoming had never seen fruit tea. In his mind, the drinks he knew of were carbonated drinks, juices, milk drinks, and freshly made drinks like pearl milk tea. "How about juice?"
Wouldn't this amount of grapes be insufficient for making juice?
Zhao Ruyue told him the general method of making Grape Duoduo. Her explanation was not comprehensive, because she had never made it herself, only tasted it, so she could only give a general idea.
But for Ning Shaoming, as long as he has a general idea of how to do it, he can figure it out on his own.
After dinner, it was not yet dark, and the children thought it was time to eat cake after dark, so they all ran out to play.
This time Ning Shixia can finally take Yao Ju swimming.
She excitedly pulled Yao Ju and ran towards the stream. The reason why their town was called Rongxi Town was because there were many banyan trees and streams there since a long time ago.
There was a small stream, formed by water gushing up from a spring below. There were no leeches in it, and the terrain was higher than the fields in the town.
Therefore, after pesticides are sprayed on the fields, the water containing the pesticides will not be discharged into this stream.
This stream is particularly clean, and many people in the town like to come here to swim in the summer.
Yao Ju was also eager to go play in the water, but he didn't bring any clothes: "I didn't bring any swimming trunks. Is there a place in town that sells swimming trunks?"
Ning Shixia was puzzled: "What swimming trunks? As a boy, can't you just wear shorts when you go into the water?"
"ah?"
"What?" Ning Shixia pointed to the creek. "Look at my brothers. They can go into the water just by taking off their clothes and leaving only their underwear. I envy them so much. Unfortunately, my mother says girls can't do that."
Ning Shixia was very depressed. She didn't understand why girls couldn't do that, and the adults were hesitant when explaining it.
"It doesn't matter if you didn't bring a change of shorts," Ning Shixia continued, "You are about the same height as my brother. I asked my brother to borrow some... but no, my mother said that shorts can only be worn by myself and cannot be lent to others."
Yao Ju: "What should I do? I might as well not go into the water and just play in the water for a while." The more he spoke, the more regretful he felt. Before coming here, he never thought that the town would be so much fun. If he missed this opportunity, he didn't know when he could come again.
After all, Xiaoqiu’s birthday only comes once a year, and it’s still a long way to Xiaoxia’s birthday.
Ning Shixia said, "It's not that difficult. You can just go down in your shorts. When you come back up, put the car in neutral and wash and dry the shorts. It's so hot now, the shorts will be dry in less than two hours."
"Hang up..." Yao Ju came to his senses and realized what this meant. His face instantly turned red. "You, you, you, girls can't..."
"What can't girls do?" Ning Shixia was unhappy.
Boys can run around in their shorts, but girls can't even say anything?
Seeing that she was angry, Yao Ju said hurriedly, "It's nothing, it's nothing, you can tell me."
"So are you going to take it off?"
Ning Shixia put her hands on her hips and looked at him.
"I'll take it off, I'll take it off..." Yao Ju suddenly felt like she was a bully who threatened decent women and men...
After taking off his clothes, Ning Shixia kicked him into the water again. Yao Ju had learned to swim and was quite good at it. He quickly emerged from the water and wiped the water off his face.
Ning Shixia moved his hands and feet on the shore and shouted, "I'm coming!"
She jumped into the water like a cannonball, splashing water. Yao Ju had just wiped the water off his face when she splashed her in the face again.
But he was not angry. Instead, he felt particularly cheerful and quickly immersed in the joy of swimming and playing with his friends.
Zhao Ruyue cleaned up the dishes at home, took an ice cream in her hand, and walked slowly to the stream, to digest the food and to check on the children to make sure nothing happened while swimming. Ning Shaoming was making the drink she mentioned at home.
I occasionally make bubble milk tea for my children at home, and also give some benefits to the customers in the store by providing some unused bubble and tapioca pearls.
Because you need syrup to make desserts, bread and cakes, you can also use white sugar, brown sugar or powdered sugar instead of syrup, and we always have them at home.
Zhao Ruyue saw that it was almost time and urged the children to go home. At that time, Ning Shaoming's drinks were ready.
After the group of children went back, they waited for Ning Shiqiu to make a wish and blew up the cake, and then they drank fragrant and sweet fruit tea. The delicious drink and delicious cake made them all smiles, and they were still thinking about it the next day.
This three-layer cake also caused a sensation among the children in the town. Every child who came to see it wanted to have such a big cake on his or her birthday.
But this was not enough to surprise Ning Shaoming. After all, the cake he prepared for his daughter’s birthday had also brought him a lot of business.
What surprised him was that a large portion of the business he brought in this time was not from children, but from the elderly.
It’s not the elderly who come to buy cakes, but the children who go back and tell them that one parent was thinking about the birthday celebration of an elderly person in his family. The elderly person has several children and their family is not very prominent. If they bring a big cake this time, how face-saving it would be to have such a big cake at the table?
From this family, people in the town started the habit of buying cakes for their elders’ birthdays.
When Ning Shaoming received the order, he didn't think much of it. Later he heard from others that because the family gave the old man a big cake, it made the old man feel very proud in front of relatives and friends, and when the relocation money was divided, the old man even gave them a little more.
Ning Shaoming just remembered the demolition and asked Zhao Ruyue: "Is the house I bought before about to be demolished?"
The houses on the street across from their store have already started discussing demolition compensation.
Zhao Ruyue got so busy that she forgot about the house. After all, the house had been left there since she bought it, and she seldom went there. She really didn't feel like she had a house of her own.
Moreover, after the three stores in the county were opened, the family had more income, especially Zhao Ruyue's electronics store, where nearly two-thirds of the goods have been sold.
Zhao Ruyue immediately returned the money that Fan Xiaorong had advanced to her after the items were sold.
At the same time, half of the purchase price was paid, and the remaining payment will be paid together with the 20% deposit for the second batch of goods when the next purchase is made.
Not only is their family no longer tight on money, they also have savings again.
Zhao Ruyue thought for a moment and said, "The area to be demolished is so large. We'll start from the street across from our store. The house is on the other side in the opposite direction. It shouldn't be that fast to demolish the house we bought. I'll go take a look some other day."
By the time Zhao Ruyue found time to visit, the weather had turned cold and the two children at home were about to go on winter vacation.
Ning Shaoming’s store’s summer limited edition delicacies such as cold noodles, cold skin, and cold rice noodles have been temporarily removed from the shelves, but the store’s business has not been greatly affected.
Because the weather is colder, more people are eating hot soup noodles.
Now that we no longer have to make cold skin and cold noodles, there is less work to do in restaurants.
Ning Shaoming has gained back the weight he had lost. After going through the busy times when the business first opened, the work now may seem like a lot to others, but it is so easy for him.
He would help out at the restaurant for a while when it was particularly busy every day, and then return to the bakery to teach apprentices. In his spare time, he would also work on new breads and cakes.
When Zhao Ruyue went to see the house this time, the owner of the convenience store opposite looked at her as if she was looking at something rare.
"You are so lucky." The store owner said this. In fact, she thought Zhao Ruyue might have some inside information, but after asking around, she felt that it was not the case.
She found out that the family who bought this house also bought four bungalows. Those four bungalows were right on the edge of the demolition zone, and if they were demolished a little bit, they would also be included in the demolition zone.
If there was inside information and if there was extra money, he would definitely buy another house in the demolition area. Why would he buy a house there?
Of course, Zhao Ruyue would not tell anyone that she really knew the news in advance. When she heard her words, she asked in confusion: "Why do you say that? Our family has not earned enough money to renovate this house yet. I asked someone before. If we want to renovate this house, I am afraid the cost of renovation will be several times more than the purchase price of the house."
The shop owner slapped her thigh and said, "Why are we still renovating this place? Didn't you see the notice posted on the archway at the street corner?"
Zhao Ruyue said: "I didn't come from that side, I came from the other side."
"Go check it out quickly. Our house is going to be demolished. Luckily you didn't hire someone to repair it right away after you bought it, otherwise you would have lost a lot of money!"
Zhao Ruyue showed a pleasantly surprised expression and said, "Okay, thank you very much. I'll go check it out right away."
When I arrived at the signboard at the street archway, I saw a notice posted there.
Zhao Ruyue read the notice carefully, wrote down the contents, and then went to the street office to find out more about the situation.
Knowing that only a notice had been posted and the demolition compensation work had not officially begun, he left his and Ning Shaoming's pager numbers. When the time comes to hold a meeting to mobilize people and discuss the compensation method, the street office will call them to notify them to come.
After returning, Zhao Ruyue found a time when only she and Ning Shaoming were together and told him about this.
Ning Shaoming was also very happy, but he didn't know how much compensation he would get for the demolition. Their place was a small county town, and the compensation they would get would definitely not be as much as that in big cities.
The two were happy, but they only regarded it as extra income. They were not so happy as to be ecstatic. They continued to work hard on their own business.
They now have four stores, with a monthly revenue of tens of thousands. The ones that make the most money are Zhao Ruyue's electronics store and Ning Shaoming's bakery which is open all day.
Although restaurants have separated desserts and bread and no longer sell them together as before, with rising prices, boiled rice noodles and fried rice noodles that originally cost only a few cents per serving have now increased in price to one dollar and one dollar and fifty cents respectively.
The income of the two stores is relatively stable, with a slight increase but not much. However, there are more customers in the county and it is busier, so we do earn more than in the town.
However, the bowl-shaped cake that Ning Shaoming used to sell at a very expensive price at the night market has dropped a lot in price because it is no longer a one-stop business. Now there are several stalls selling it.
After he stopped selling bowl-shaped cakes, many guerrilla vendors emerged in and around the night market, running around selling bowl-shaped cakes in small stalls without paying stall fees.
They engaged in a price war with each other, so that the price of bowl-shaped cakes once dropped to only 30 or 40 cents each.
But at the end of the price war, only three or four stalls were still selling the delicacy, and the price remained stable at 50 cents per piece. The only ones who were able to hold on were those who loved the taste and could make a little profit by selling at this price.
When Ning Shaoming is too lazy to make them himself, he will occasionally buy a few to eat. They taste really good.
"Next week, the two children will have their final exams. After they finish their exams, we will take two days off and go to the city for a physical examination."
"Are you really going?" Ning Shaoming thought she had forgotten about it, but he didn't expect her to still remember it. "I don't think there's anything wrong with me."
"Even if there is no problem, we still have to go for a check-up. The two children should not only have their bodies checked, but also their teeth and eyes." Zhao Ruyue had never thought about these things before, but now that her family has money, she thought of them.
If you protect your children's teeth and eyes well, you can save them a lot of trouble in the future.
Seeing that she insisted, Ning Shaoming didn't say anything more. He took two days off and took the children out to play.
After Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia finished their final exams and the results came out, both of them won awards.
Zhao Ruyue told them that she would take them to the city for two days. They thought that they had done well in the exam and won awards, so their parents wanted to take them out to play as a reward.
But when they arrived in the city, they found that there was no reward, but they had to get injections instead. Both children were confused.
Ning Shiqiu, who used to claim that he was the older brother and was not afraid of injections or taking medicine, saw the needle in the nurse's hand hanging on his father like a koala, and he couldn't pull it off. People around him couldn't help laughing when they saw it.
After a while, Zhao Ruyue finally lied to him and said, "Look, is that your classmate?"
Ning Shiqiu was afraid of being embarrassed if seen by his classmates, so he jumped down immediately. However, he realized that he had been deceived. When he came to his senses, he was already pressed down on the chair and his fingers had been disinfected.
As soon as Ning Shixia entered the hospital, she ran into her mother's arms, and was held tightly, so she couldn't run away even if she wanted to.
The family of four had their blood drawn on an empty stomach, and then Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming took the two tearful children out for breakfast.
Fortunately, not many people undergo comprehensive physical examinations nowadays, so it only took them one morning to complete all the physical examination items.
In the afternoon, she took her two children out to play. When they passed by an electronics store, Zhao Ruyue thought that some stores might not have the accessories she wanted to buy, and the boss might need to go somewhere else or ask a colleague to get the goods. So she went in early and found a store that sold computer accessories that she felt was pretty good, and handed the list of accessories she had made to the boss.
After the boss looked at it, he said that he had to find a few things himself and might not be able to help her complete them until tomorrow.
Zhao Ruyue paid the deposit first and then continued to take her children out to play.
It just so happened that some of the physical examination results could be available that afternoon, while some could not be available until the next day, so they stayed in the hotel that night.
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia had never played in the city at night. Looking at the neon lights on the street felt particularly novel. They even leaned against the window to look down when they returned to the hotel.
Yao Ju knew that they would go to the city in the next two days, so he followed them to the city and invited them to stay at his home.
Unfortunately, Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming disagreed, as Yao Ju was the only one living in his home in the city. But they couldn't just go to his house rashly, so they booked a hotel in advance.
However, after Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia finished their physical examination, they called Yao Ju.
After Yao Ju met them at the hospital entrance, he took them to play in the city.
He took them to some places to play and some shops to eat at that even Zhao Ruyue didn't know about, so they really had a great time on this trip.
After getting up the next day, the family of four went to the hospital first to get the test results.
After Zhao Ruyue got the test results, she didn't even look at her own results, but went straight to Ning Shaoming's.
Then she pointed to the results of several examination items and asked the doctor: "Doctor, do these items mean that my husband has a higher risk of stroke?"
The doctor looked at it and nodded, saying, "That's right, but don't worry too much. In the future, just pay more attention to maintaining good living habits, regular physical examinations, and..."
The doctor told me many things that I should pay more attention to in my daily life.
Zhao Ruyue wrote them down carefully, and then asked about the examination results of her two children and herself.
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