Chapter 106 Buying Electrical Appliances
After dinner, the family went back to their rooms to sleep.
Lin Qin didn't do anything, just a short nap at noon was enough.
As soon as Huang Yuezhen got home, she hurriedly handed her the reserved portion of taro and diced pork with salted rice. "Have this for lunch. I saved it especially for you. It won't keep in this weather. Eat it quickly."
Huang Yuezhen took the bowl and said, "I've eaten it all at the construction site."
Lin Qin laughed twice, "It's not like I haven't worked there before, how could I not know what's going on? Even if you eat, you can only eat the leftovers. Sometimes there are leftovers, and sometimes there are none. That won't do!"
In fact, Huang Wenlong tacitly allows people who cook to include their own share of the meal, but generally they dare not count more. Some people working on the construction site have big appetites and eat a lot, and the amount of food is difficult to control, so there are not many chances of leftovers.
Since there was a lot of work to do at Nanyu, Lin Yi would usually cook some porridge or something like that after lunch break. Lin Qin noticed that Huang Yuezhen ate more and guessed that she didn't eat much at all at the construction site.
Huang Yuezhen felt a little embarrassed, so she followed Lin Qin's instructions and ate the bowl of rice before going to rest.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Yixian got up to send the two children to school, and brought Gao Lei with him when he came back.
Chen Wenjun, sleepily, sat with Gao Lei under the arbour in the yard, making tea.
Gao Lei started by asking about Ling Chen's affairs, "You are no longer fishing, but are you doing seafood wholesale now?"
Chen Wenjun smiled and nodded, "Now that I have the iron boat, I can't stop wanting to travel far away. The first time I went to Nangang, I wanted to go fishing, but I happened to see a fishing boat entering the port, so I took the opportunity to wholesale some fish back. I didn't expect that they were so good to sell, so I just did this business.
I go out at 4am every morning to go to the morning market, and then I go again in the afternoon to deliver goods to restaurants. I finish around 10pm. It’s a bit tiring, but I earn more than fishing.”
Gao Lei admired her and said, "Only you can make this kind of money. I really can't do it."
"Didn't you also go out to sea?" Chen Wenjun replied naturally.
Gao Lei gave him a thumbs up and said, "You can see that! Let me tell you, I'm doing shipping in Guangdong Province now, mainly buying goods, shipping them to Anshi, and making a profit from the difference."
Chen Wenjun's expression changed slightly.
Gao Lei knew he had the wrong idea when he saw him like that. "It's not smuggling, don't be afraid."
Chen Wenjun's expression eased a little.
Gao Lei continued, "My family is all in the system. I dare not mess around, or my parents will break my legs!"
Chen Wenjun thought of the Gao family's behavior and Shen Yunfeng's character, and was completely relieved. He reminded: "I won't say anything if you know what's going on. Smuggling is too risky, and there are many dangers in the open sea. No one cares about things at sea. If you get into trouble, it's very likely that you will not survive.
The government is now cracking down on smuggling quite aggressively. I went to my father-in-law’s village a few days ago and heard village officials saying that there are rewards for reporting.
Gao Lei nodded heavily, "Don't worry, I won't do that kind of thing. But then again, your house is so nice, but it's empty inside, don't you plan to buy some electrical appliances?
I bought some electrical appliances this time, including a TV. Do you want one? I'll give you one!"
Chen Wenjun's pupils trembled, and he refused without thinking, "Forget about giving it as a gift, but I can't take advantage of you again. Do you have a refrigerator? My wife is pregnant, and the weather is hot, so it's more convenient to have a refrigerator in the summer."
Gao Lei hurriedly congratulated him, "You really do have a refrigerator, a Rongsheng brand, with two doors. It's not expensive if I buy in bulk. If you want one, I'll send one to you tomorrow."
Chen Wenjun said seriously: "Brothers should settle accounts clearly!"
Gao Lei paused for a moment, then smiled and nodded.
The next afternoon, Gao Leizhen brought the refrigerator that Chen Wenjun wanted, as well as a 20-inch Sony color TV.
Chen Wenjun's face changed when he saw the TV, "This is..."
Gao Lei said nothing. He had the package unpacked and asked the technician to install it. Then he said, "We agreed yesterday that I will give you the TV and you just need to pay for the refrigerator."
When Chen Wenjun heard this, he refused to accept it. In the end, the two of them pushed it back and forth, and Gao Lei accepted 5,000 yuan from Chen Wenjun.
As soon as Gao Lei left, the whole family gathered around the TV and the refrigerator, excited but also a little sad.
Lin Yi said with a sigh, "I spent five thousand just on these two things. When did I become so careless about spending money?"
He had always thought that he was a rich man because he earned more than 8,000 yuan, but now he dared not say that at all.
Lin Qin watched them chattering with amusement, tuning the frequency with the remote control.
Lin Yi and Huang Yuezhen were both shocked by the color images on TV and neither of them said a word.
When it was time for Chen Wenjun to go out, they finally realized what was happening and went to the fields carrying their hoes, looking back every few steps.
Lin Qin turned off the TV immediately. It was not like she had never watched TV before in her previous life, but this TV was not as attractive to her as a refrigerator.
In the evening, the two children came back from school and were so excited to see the TV that Lin Qin turned it on for a while. The cartoon "Black Cat Sheriff" was playing and the whole family was fascinated by it.
After an hour, Lin Qin turned off the TV and said to the two children seriously, "From now on, I'll look at your test scores. If you do well, I'll reward you with an extra hour of TV. If you don't do well, I'll turn off the TV."
The two children were still eager to learn, but after hearing what was said, they immediately felt a sense of urgency in learning and nodded in agreement.
Suddenly it is time to harvest rice, and farmers all know how hard it is to harvest rice.
Lin Qin wanted to help, but no one in the family dared to let her do it, so she could only make fruit popsicles for Lin Yi and Huang Yuezhen in different ways, and some refreshing mung bean cakes.
The two children also followed suit to eat and drink.
After half a month of busy farming season, they had gained two kilograms.
After the rice is harvested, it is sent to the city to be processed into rice.
According to Lin Yi's habit, he processes fifty to sixty kilograms at a time, and then processes more after eating, so as to avoid the food from spoiling quickly in the summer.
But everyone was busy, and Chen Wenjun didn't have enough time to go to the city to process the rice, so he had to process 100 kilograms of rice at a time.
When the 100 kilograms of rice were sent back to Nanyu, the typhoon came.
This year's typhoon was fierce. The weather changed in the morning, and by two o'clock in the afternoon it seemed as if the sky was going to collapse. The wind was so strong that we couldn't go out.
Lin Yi wanted to go to the kitchen but couldn't. Hearing the sound of plastic film being torn outside, everyone in the room was frightened.
"How can I send my children to school when the wind is so strong?"
Lin Qin quickly hugged the two children in her arms, "Dad! You should be thankful that the weather has changed now. It would be troublesome if it changed on the way to school! You definitely can't go out in this kind of weather. Just explain it to the teacher tomorrow."
Lin Qin hurried upstairs and closed all the windows in the rooms, opened the door, and woke up the sleeping Chen Wenjun. "There's a typhoon, and the wind is too strong now. We won't go out today, so you can continue to sleep."
(End of this chapter)
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