Chapter 30 Chapter 30 You two have become rich,...
"I bought these because I want to have a better life in the future." Zhao Ruyue opened the bag, took out socks that fit their sizes, and asked them to take some to wear.
"Shaoming and I plan to take these goods back to our hometown and sell them off before the New Year to make some money for the New Year," Zhao Ruyue took the socks and opened another bag. "Don't be fooled by the colorful socks. They are all high-quality products from the factory. There are other things here. Come and pick a few to try. We have scarves, shawls, and gloves. We just haven't had time to sort them out yet. Take whichever you like. We'll consider it a gift."
"No, you're going to sell them. I'll pick a few and you can tell me how much they cost," Wu Li touched the socks Zhao Ruyue took out and thought they were really good quality. She stuffed the money into Zhao Ruyue's hand and said, "I'll buy a few for my parents and children at home. You can bring them to them when you go back."
Zhao Ruyue stuffed the money back into her pocket and said, "Don't pay me. We have been friends for so many years. Do you still need to pay for such a small thing? Take it back now! I have to give some to them even without you telling me. We got a great bargain. The purchase price was very low. Giving this away won't break the bank. Don't worry!"
Ning Shaoming also echoed: "Xiaoyue is right, just accept it. We will go back the day after tomorrow, and we will have to trouble you to help clean up the room and the remaining things that cannot be taken away."
Huang Wenfa said: "The things you left behind are all good things that can be used in daily life. If we clean them up, we are taking advantage of them. How can it be considered as helping?"
"Come on, it's just a little thing, stop complaining." Zhao Ruyue simply picked out two silk scarves and stuffed them into Wu Li's hands. She also picked out two scarves of different colors and styles for men and women, and three pairs of gloves, and stuffed them all into her hands. "Return them or pay me back, I'll be really angry!"
Since she said so, Wu Li and Huang Wenfa couldn't continue to push the issue back and forth with her and be polite: "Well, we are lucky this time."
The two of them touched the things that were stuffed into their mouths. The texture was the same as the things they had gone shopping in the mall, which they only dared to look at and touch but were reluctant to buy.
If I go to the mall to buy so many things, I'm afraid it will cost me half a month's salary!
After receiving the things, they were also thinking in their minds that they should buy something for Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming to take with them so that they could eat on the road during the long-distance bus ride.
When they came here before, they had no money in their pockets, so they took the long-distance bus with them, which included eggs boiled at home, steamed buns and dumplings bought on the street, and other cheap things. Even the water they drank was boiled water in a kettle from home.
Snacks, bread, and drinks are "luxuries" that we dare not even think about.
It’s different now. They can earn money every month. They can occasionally buy things they couldn’t afford to buy before to satisfy their hunger, and they don’t feel bad about buying them as gifts for friends.
Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming took the bus back to their hometown on the morning of the 14th.
The temperature in Shenzhen has finally dropped in the past few days, and it is low at night. Wu Li and Huang Wenfa usually rush home directly after work and do not stay outside to get cold.
On the 13th, after Huang Wenfa went to pick up Wu Li from get off work, the two did not go home immediately as usual, but went to a nearby shopping mall.
I first went to the supermarket in the mall to buy some snacks and drinks, then went to the bakery and picked out a bag of different kinds of bread.
On the way back, I passed by a store selling salt-baked chicken and bought some salt-baked chicken wings and salt-baked chicken legs. After I got home, I only left two loaves of bread for myself to have breakfast the next morning.
The rest were stuffed into Zhao Ruyue and Ning Shaoming’s pockets: “Take them with you on the road!”
Zhao Ruyue and her husband stared at the two shopping bags in front of them, dumbfounded: "We got home on the morning of the 15th, how could we eat so much!"
Wu Li said, "It's cold, so it won't spoil easily. If you can't finish it, take it back and give it to Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia."
Huang Wenfa nodded: "That's right!"
Zhao Ruyue thought about it and realized that she probably couldn't refuse these things. She saw that there were many things with a long shelf life, so she simply gave up refusing them.
At worst, I can give some to Miaomiao and Xiaode after taking them back, so that the two children can be happy in advance before they go back.
It was time to go home soon, and the luggage had already been packed. Zhao Ruyue lay in bed but didn't feel sleepy at all.
She couldn't fall asleep at the thought of meeting her two children soon.
She kept thinking in her mind, after returning to her hometown and living with her two children, would she really be able to educate them well?
How should she feed them this time? What kind of educational method should be chosen and how should it be implemented? What if things don’t go well?
I fell into a drowsy sleep in the middle of the night, but it felt like I hadn't slept for long when the alarm clock rang.
When Zhao Ruyue got up, she felt dizzy, but fortunately she was not sick, she just kept yawning.
Ning Shaoming saw that she was not in good spirits, so as soon as they got in the car, he urged her to catch up on some sleep, so as not to get carsick and vomit, which would make her feel even more uncomfortable.
Fortunately, the car they chartered was a long-distance sleeper car with berths where they could lie down, and there were no strangers among the people returning, only their fellow villagers.
As soon as Ning Shaoming said that Zhao Ruyue did not sleep well last night and wanted to take a nap now, several fellow villagers also said that they were also too excited to sleep well last night because they had to go back to their hometown today and they also wanted to sleep. The others took the initiative to speak in lower voices.
After getting in the car, Zhao Ruyue fell asleep quickly.
When I woke up, the car had to stop at a highway service area to rest. There was a paid toilet in the service area where I could wash and go to the toilet.
Zhao Ruyue had eaten some of the things Wu Li and Huang Wenfa bought in the morning, but now looking at so many delicious foods, she had no appetite.
Instead, I smelled the aroma of instant noodles made by others and felt like eating them.
She turned to the small supermarket in the service area and saw that the instant noodles in buckets sold for four or five yuan a bucket in ordinary stores were sold at double the price here, at ten yuan a bucket!
For ten dollars, you can buy four bags!
Zhao Ruyue didn't buy anything and came out empty-handed. She thought to herself that when she got home, she would buy two boxes and eat them slowly at home!
After leaving the small supermarket, I went back and forced myself to stuff something into my stomach, and then the car was on the road again.
As soon as she got in the car, she fell asleep again.
When I woke up again, it was already night and I was getting closer to home, but long-distance buses could not take the highway between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m.
At around one or two in the morning, the car had to stop at another highway service area for the night and would not be on the road again until after five in the morning.
The car continued driving for more than two hours before Zhao Ruyue finally saw the words "Yunshan County, Exit, 12 kilometers" on the roadside sign.
Others also saw the sign, which meant they were really close to home. The atmosphere in the car became a little restless, and no one was sleeping at this time.
At eight o'clock in the morning on the 14th, the car got off the highway and continued to drive towards Rongxi Town.
After getting off the highway, a fellow villager who lived closest to the highway exit quickly arrived home, and his family was waiting at the door early.
As soon as the car stopped, his family members came up to him, saying over and over again, "We're here! We're finally here!"
"How was the trip? Did you feel carsick?"
"We'll take the stuff, you go and cross the fire pot!"
"Go wash your face and hands. Breakfast is ready. We knew you would arrive this morning, so we waited for you to come back before eating. After breakfast, go and have a good rest..."
The car started again and drove farther and farther away. The first family of the reunion gradually disappeared from sight. The people in the car who were about to be reunited with their families could not hide their excitement.
Everyone stared at the familiar scenery of their hometown outside the window, and some people who usually didn't talk much couldn't help but start talking more.
"I don't know if my parents are home. I called them a few days ago and they said they wanted to borrow a cow to plow the paddy fields. I asked them to wait until I get back, but I don't know if they listened to me."
"So you're harrowing the fields so early? Don't you start raising rice seedlings in February or March?"
"They said that more young people have gone out to work in recent years, and fewer families raise cattle. They are afraid that they won't be able to borrow cattle. I thought that after paying off the family debt, if there is still some left, I will just buy a calf and let the elderly at home raise it."
Another person said: "Raising cattle is troublesome. I plan to save enough money to buy a tractor. Then I can transport goods. I can also remove the tractor head and convert it into a rotary tiller. I can also install a paddy field wheel to plow and harrow the land."
"Why, are you going back home to farm in the future?"
"What else can we do if we don't farm? We can't work all our lives, right? Our grandparents can still take care of our children when they are in primary school. It's ok if we go out, but it will be hard to take care of them when they are in junior high school. We, as parents, can't leave them alone."
"Well, what's the big deal? If the children can study well, then we can support them. If they can't study well, then we can let them go out to work. It's great for the whole family to earn money together!"
The other person smiled and ignored the conversation.
Zhao Ruyue listened to others chatting without saying a word, as they were almost home.
Ten minutes later, the familiar old house came into view.
Ning Shiqiu and Ning Shixia, who had been squatting at the door of their house eagerly waiting since they woke up in the morning, saw a rare bus that was taller than the bus to the county town coming from afar, and they immediately stood up.
They stared at the car with burning eyes, silently saying in their hearts: Don't let it be a passerby, don't let it be a passerby...
Under their expectant eyes, the car stopped steadily in front of their door.
The two of them were stunned in disbelief for several seconds, and then they heard a familiar voice calling their names: "Xiao Qiu! Xiao Xia!" Then they came to their senses as if waking up from a dream and rushed towards the car door.
"Mother!"
Zhao Ruyue's eyes were red as she held a child in one hand: "Xiaoqiu and Xiaoxia, we are back!"
Ning Shaoming stood by happily, patting the two children's heads. Just as he was about to speak, he was called away by a neighbor who had returned with him: "Third Brother Ning, come and move your things!"
"Coming, coming." Ning Shaoming remembered that they had a lot of stuff, so he hurriedly called his parents, eldest brother and eldest nephew to come out from home to help move.
His elder brother Ning Shaoxian, who was helping to move things, widened his eyes as he moved them and said exaggeratedly: "You two have become rich. You moved the entire shopping mall in Pengcheng back?"
Ning Shaoming smiled and said, "What do you mean by developed? That's not true. Xiaoyue and I got some from a factory owned by a friend or relative. I'll tell you in detail when we get in."
"Wow," Ning Shaoxian exclaimed again, "You two are really promising. You even made friends with relatives who own factories. If I had known, I should have gone to work with them last year."
Ning Shaoming: “…”
He silently decided in his heart that when he talked to his family later, he would change the excuse to say that they bought the goods on credit from the factory and asked for a higher purchase price.
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