Chapter 84
Jian Feng quickly contacted Xiao Meng and Xiao Shi.
Since the Spring Festival, Xiao Meng and Xiao Shi also took the driving test. Later, they rented a minivan and did some hauling business in the city.
After that incident, Jian Feng gradually developed a side business at work.
For example, when he went downstairs to pick up or deliver goods, he would take the opportunity to collect some rare mountain products.
Some counties are close to the mountains, and Jian Feng wants mushrooms, dried shiitake mushrooms, wild rabbits, etc. from the mountains. Even if he can't sell them, it's not a loss to feed his family.
Some places also have special products, and Jian Feng also wants them. For example, a certain county town produces Chinese yam. Sometimes when Jian Feng has an empty truck after delivering goods, he will collect half a truck of Chinese yam and bring it to the market. Immediately, vegetable vendors will take the whole truck away.
There is also a village that makes vermicelli, and Jian Feng would occasionally buy some.
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Kong Guorong has always been aware of Jian Feng's actions.
At first, Kong Guorong felt a little uncomfortable, but later he understood after being scolded by his wife.
Nowadays, a truck driver in the market usually earns more than NT$2,000 a month. Jian Feng has been earning more than NT$1,000 for two years. Even if the salary has risen to NT$1,500 now, it is still not considered high.
In this situation, it is normal for people to do some private work.
And Jian Feng has an advantage, that is, when other truck drivers get benefits, they not only get them for themselves, but also get them from their bosses.
Take rice and flour for example. When they are sent downstairs, they are weighed on both sides. The number on this side is one number, and the number on the other side is another number.
When there are a lot of deliveries, the driver can just take one or two bags and no one will notice.
But Jian Feng never had such a problem. He never made money from Kong Guorong's goods. Every time he just used the empty truck to do some private work.
Lin Hui advised Kong Guorong not to be so calculative.
If someone else were to do it, it might not be as satisfactory as expected.
Kong Guorong just turned a blind eye to it, and ever since that summer dinner when Jian Feng witnessed him flirting with another woman, Kong Guorong didn't know whether he felt guilty or something else.
In the following month, whenever Kong Guorong encountered such a thing, he would directly remind Jian Feng.
Take this time for example, Kong Guorong was recycling dried sea cucumbers, how much space would a few bags of sea cucumbers take up? The remaining empty warehouse was given to Jian Feng.
Kong Guorong also knew that Jian Feng now had two brothers with whom he had a good relationship. When the store was too busy, Jian Feng would ask them to help.
Just be frank and make it clear.
Jian Feng called Xiao Shi and Xiao Meng. He drove the truck while Xiao Shi and Xiao Meng drove the minivan. The two cars drove one after the other and headed straight to Kui County.
Before leaving, Jian Feng said that he might not come back at night.
Wang Mengmei has long been accustomed to her husband's busyness over the past six months. He was not so busy last year, but this year he is very busy and leaves as soon as he says he will.
However, the family savings were also growing rapidly, and Wang Mengmei responded.
"It's okay, go ahead, I'll leave the door open for you."
Wang Facai is getting bigger and bigger now. There won't be any thieves who are so blind as to steal from him when he's free. The barking of a dog as tall as a person's thigh can wake up several buildings around.
Jian Feng left, leaving only Lin Hui and Wang Mengmei at the dinner party.
Without the man around, the two of them chatted more comfortably.
Let's go shopping together in the afternoon.
Jian Li went home by herself and threw her camouflage uniform into the washing machine to wash it.
Then Jian Li sat at the desk and began to write a reply to Jiang Rou.
Previously, Jiang Rou had mistakenly thought that Jian Li was a senior in high school, so after the college entrance examination results were released, Jiang Rou sent another letter to invite her.
Invite Jian Li to the capital for a book signing event.
The second volume of the book has been released, and the sales have hit a new high. With the first volume as a foundation, the second volume has been welcomed by even more people. The magazine company has an office full of letters from readers.
So many people called or sent letters to express their love for this comic.
There are even readers who draw derivative works in the same style and request that the author see them when they send them over.
Jiang Rou was still worried that Jian Li would not do well in the exam, so she tentatively stated in the letter that academic qualifications were not that important.
She herself is only a high school graduate, but now she is the editor of a popular cartoonist.
How awesome!
Jian Li naturally accepted Jiang Rou's kindness, but unfortunately, she still had three years left...
In her reply, Jian Li wrote down her new address.
It's still school.
Jiang Rou had been so annoyed by the editor-in-chief's constant urging recently that without Jian Li's contributions, the magazine's sales had dropped by tens of thousands of copies in the past few months. So as soon as the college entrance examination was over, the editor-in-chief urged her to contact Jian Li as soon as possible.
"Now that the exams are over, she should have plenty of time. Go and urge her to publish not only the third volume, but also what she's going to publish next!"
Jiang Rou wrote two letters, but Jian Li's reply was late.
The editor-in-chief couldn't wait: "Ask her if she's willing to come to the capital! The whole family can come!"
Jiang Rou handed the letter to him helplessly: "Take a look for yourself."
The editor-in-chief read through the entire article at a glance and felt numb.
At this moment, there was only one thing in his mind.
Three years pass and then another three years. When will this end?
The editor-in-chief was upset: "Zhili is a junior high school student!?"
Jiang Rou: "It looks like it should be."
Otherwise, I have changed schools again. It can only be because I am taking the high school entrance examination this year.
The editor-in-chief muttered to himself: "Then our new chapter..."
Jiang Rou also knew what the editor meant, so she comforted him: "High school doesn't mean you won't draw anymore. Didn't Zhili say that? Her new story has some clues, and she will send three pages of drafts in advance."
Rather than the fact that Zhili is a junior high school student, Jiang Rou cares more about Zhili's new chapter.
I don't know what story will unfold.
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On the other side, Jian Li started her high school life after sending out the first draft of the third volume.
The first step in high school life is military training.
Even if it happened again, Jian Li still felt painful.
Stand in military posture, turn left and right, march in step...
After a morning of sunburn, Jian Li felt like she was about to be sunburned.
Fortunately, she asked her mother to buy her sunscreen in advance, otherwise after a week, she would have either peeled off or gotten several degrees tanned.
However, not everyone has this awareness, and most students still insist on sunbathing.
Like Cheng Yu, he was sunburned on the first day.
Others get tanned as soon as they are exposed to the sun, but she looks like a boiled shrimp and starts to peel the next day.
The two stood next to each other, Cheng Yu was confused: "I also bought sunscreen, why is this happening?"
Jian Li took her sunscreen and glanced at it, then said sympathetically, "The sunscreen you bought only has a value of thirty."
Cheng Yu stretched his head to look: "What thirty?"
Jian Li pointed to a decimal number in the corner of the sunscreen bottle and said, "This one, thirty."
She took hers and said, "Mine is fifty."
Cheng Yu: "...Let me use yours. I'll buy some after school."
Jian Li generously lent her sunscreen to Cheng Yu, and the two of them hid in a corner to apply sunscreen.
I don’t know if Jian Li’s sunscreen is really better than my own, or if it’s just a psychological effect.
Cheng Yu felt better after the afternoon.
When other female classmates saw this, they also came over to see what Jian Li bought and planned to buy something when they got home.
On the third day of military training, good news finally came.
The weather began to become extremely gloomy, and it looked like a heavy rain was about to fall.
Cheng Yu said happily: "Once we disperse later, let's go buy some milk tea!"
At the milk tea window in the school cafeteria, a cup of milk tea costs 1.5 yuan. After drinking it for a few days, Cheng Yu found that Jian Li was the only one in the class whose taste was most similar to his.
Jian Li wiped her sweat quietly: "Okay!"
Soon it was eleven o'clock, and the strong wind made the branches whistle, so the instructor had to announce the disbandment of the class.
Jian Li and Cheng Yu ran quickly to the cafeteria. They first bought some milk tea and then went to get some rice.
Jian Li has recently become obsessed with the rice noodles at school. The thin rice noodles are cooked in a pot until they become transparent, and then dried tofu shreds and vegetable sesame sauce are placed at the bottom of the bowl. The rice noodles are placed in the bowl, topped with diced chicken and peanuts, and then a spoonful of chicken soup is poured.
If you like leeks, you can add some leeks and a spoonful of chili oil.
Jian Li ate with gusto.
Although Wang Mengmei can cook many things, she doesn’t cook rice noodles. In Wang Mengmei’s words,
"What's so delicious about rice noodles? They're all glue! Didn't you read the news? There was a girl who ate rice noodles every day. Later, she went to the hospital for a check-up and found that her stomach was full of undigested glue rice noodles!"
Tabloids are prevalent these days, and all kinds of eye-catching fake news are flying everywhere. Jian Li didn't know where her mother heard it from. Anyway, she just didn't let her eat it.
Now that the emperor is far away from home, it is so delicious to eat Jian Li.
After eating the hot rice noodles, Jian Li still felt unsatisfied, so she took two sips of the chicken soup with two spoonfuls of chili oil. The spicy taste was so spicy that she almost cried.
Cheng Yu was no less impressive.
The situations of Cheng Yu and Jian Li are different.
In Cheng Yu's words, Jian Li made too many delicious dishes at home, so she was not allowed to eat junk food.
And in Cheng Yu's house...
No one can cook.
"My parents are busy with work, and even if they are not busy, the food my mother cooks is terrible."
How bad is it?
Cheng Yu said that she gained five kilograms in the first month after she started kindergarten.
While the kids nearby were smashing their bowls and making a fuss about the food in kindergarten not being as delicious as the food at home, Cheng Yu was eating so hard that he couldn't even raise his head.
After so many years, the only thing that has not changed is Cheng Yu's parents' poor cooking skills.
So Cheng Yu is not picky about food.
After lunch, the two returned to the classroom. The provincial experiment had a half-hour lunch break at noon.
The training time was reduced today, so everyone stayed in the class after dinner.
We were all classmates I had just met. After a few days, we became familiar with each other. Some were chatting, some were reading, some were sharing magazines and comics, and some were arguing.
Amid the noise, someone passed a note to us.
[Excuse me, I don’t have a sanitary napkin with me, can I borrow one? ]
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