Chapter 382: An Inexplicable Encounter (Page 1/2)
Lin Man knew very well that the reason Huo Qingci was trying so hard to climb up was simply because he hoped to help his children in the future.
Of course, Huo Qingci climbed high, so she and her children had face in public, and the Qiao family dared not look down on her.
She, Lin Man, does not need any help from the Qiao family and will definitely live a better life than Qiao Sitian.
"Don't get too tired. Work is work, but your health is more important."
"Well, I understand. I won't mess around. I will work hard. When I'm no longer a doctor, I'll transfer to the personnel department. My ultimate goal is to become the dean before I turn fifty."
Lin Man smiled and said, "It's easy for you to build a courtyard. After the reform and opening up, we can open a private hospital ourselves."
Huo Qingci pinched his fingers gently and said slowly, "Manman, the director of a private hospital is different from the director of a military hospital.
I'm currently at the regimental level, and to become the dean, I need to be at least a division commander or higher. I'm a military doctor."
"I understand. Then you should work hard! When reform and opening up begin, we'll buy land and build a school and a hospital, and I'll be the principal."
Schools and hospitals only require a large initial investment, but the profits are substantial later on, making them more promising than real estate. Of course, real estate should also be pursued, and the profit-making process will come later, step by step.
"Manman, are you planning to sell your gold to buy land in the future?"
"No need. There will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the future. We just need to seize the opportunity, use our savings to start a business, and we will be able to make several times the profit in no time."
Lin Man is confident that she can make a lot of money by doing business on her own. If she can go to Hong Kong after the reform and opening up, she will first speculate in stocks and then in real estate, and by the way, use the space to resell home appliances, clothing and other things in both places. She doesn't believe that she can't make money.
When Huo Li learned that Lin Man was going to take the children back to the city to play for a while, he simply asked the driver to take them back to the courtyard first and then return to the city after he was done.
Back in the courtyard, Lin Man discovered that the pomegranates she had planted before were still very large even though no one had taken care of them. One pomegranate tree bore forty or fifty fruits.
All the Kyoho grapes under the grape trellis have turned black and purple. She didn't have time to go to the backyard to check on them because she hadn't lived there for a long time. There was a pile of fallen leaves in the yard. She had to put down her luggage quickly and clean up the yard first.
"Qinghuan, you look after An'an and Ningning. I'll clean the yard."
"Sister-in-law, let me help you clean the yard. After we finish cleaning the yard, let's pick pomegranates. I see that their skins have turned red. The pomegranates should be ripe."
"Pick one and taste it first, and you'll know if it's ripe."
"good."
Lin Man went to the room to put her luggage, while Huo Qinghuan took Huo Yian and Huo Yining to pick pomegranates under the tree.
Huo Yining said, "Uncle, uncle, I want the biggest and reddest pomegranate."
"Okay, I'll pick it for you."
Huo Yian tugged at Huo Qinghuan's trouser leg and said in a baby voice, "Little Dudu, I want one too."
"An An, stop pulling at my uncle's trouser legs. If you keep pulling, my pants will be ripped off. Pick a pomegranate and let's eat it together."
Huo Yian let go of his hand and smiled foolishly at Huo Qinghuan, "Little Dudu, An An wants red fruit."
Huo Yining pointed at the pomegranates on the tree and said, "Brother, this is not called a red fruit, it's called a pomegranate. Uncle, pick a pomegranate for me too!"
Huo Qinghuan picked a large pomegranate weighing seven or eight taels for Huo Yining, and a small pomegranate weighing four or five taels for Huo Yian.
"Ningning, let's open this big pomegranate and eat it first, and let An'an play with the other one first."
"Okay, little uncle."
Huo Qinghuan took off the keychain from his waistband. There was a folding knife on it. He used the knife to cut the pomegranate open and was surprised to see that the pomegranate seeds inside were reddish-purple, different from the pomegranates he bought.
He broke off a pomegranate seed and put it in his mouth, exclaiming, "Oh, the pomegranates we grow at home are so sweet, aren't they?"
After saying that, he broke off a petal and handed it to Huo Yining, "Here, eat slowly." Then he broke off a petal for Huo Yian as well.
Huo Yining broke off the pomegranate seeds and stuffed them into his mouth, asking as he did so: "Uncle, do I have to spit out the seeds when I eat pomegranates?"
"No need, I swallowed them all. Our pomegranates don't have many seeds."
Huo Yining retorted, "Uncle, if you swallow the pomegranate seeds, a pomegranate tree will definitely grow in your stomach."
Huo Qinghuan smiled and said, "I don't spit out the seeds when I eat watermelon, so why don't I see watermelons growing in my stomach? Watermelons and pomegranates are both growing in the ground."
Huo Yining thought about it and realized that there was no land in his stomach, so watermelons and pomegranates could not grow.
Lin Man first cleaned the house and the yard, then took out the basket and scissors and asked Huo Qinghuan to cut the pomegranates first.
Leave the smaller ones on the tree first and pick them when you leave.
After picking twenty pomegranates, Lin Man stopped them from picking more and took them to pick grapes.
Huo Qinghuan squatted under the grape trellis, counting the densely packed grape bunches and grinning, "Sister-in-law, the grape harvest is great too. Can we eat all of them? What a pity! It would be great if we could sell them for money."
"Qinghuan, don't worry. If you can't finish eating all the grapes, you can pick them and make wine."
They haven't had time to make rice wine this year, but the grapes are ripe, so they can make dozens of kilograms of wine.
The wines in her space are all original imported red wines, and they definitely taste different from the wines she brews herself.
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First of all, the brewing process is different. If you want the wine you brew yourself to be sweeter, you can add more rock sugar.
The weather is so hot that I start sweating all over after staying outside for a while.
After picking another basket of grapes, Lin Man asked Huo Qinghuan to take the children back to enjoy the breeze and asked him to look after the two children. She would go to the department store first and come back to bring them food.
To her surprise, she ran into Qiao Sitian and a middle-aged woman holding a child at the fabric counter.
Looking at the person's eyebrows, she knew that this woman might be her biological mother. Lin Man really didn't expect that they would meet in such an occasion.
If she had known she would run into her, she would have beaten her to death and would not have gone out today.
Lin Man turned to leave when Qiao Sitian suddenly called out to her, "Lin Man, why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
Wen Wan was stunned. Is that her biological daughter? She is so pretty. Why is she so tall? She is a head taller than her.
Lin Man was selectively deaf. Qiao Sitian ran over and grabbed Lin Man, "Lin Man, don't leave. Mom is here. Come over and say hello to Mom."
Lin Man pushed Qiao Sitian away and looked at her coldly, "What do you mean? Qiao Sitian, I'm not here to cause you any trouble. What's the point of you dancing in front of me again and again?
She directly threatened me that I could not go back to the Qiao family, and now she tells me that she is my mother?
Do I have a mother? I tell you my mother died when I was born. I am now a parentless person. If you dance in front of me again, I will beat you up.
If there weren't so many people coming and going, Lin Man really wanted to kick Qiao Sitian a few times. This person was really annoying.
Wen Wan didn't know what was wrong with her. When she heard Lin Man say that her mother died when she gave birth to her and now she was without a father or a mother, the sadness in her heart surged like a tide and she couldn't suppress it.
Tears slid down her cheeks like a flood that had broken through a dam.
She put down her granddaughter, staggered over to Lin Man, and said in a trembling voice, "Child, I... I'm your mother! I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I was sick before, so I couldn't go take you home."
Lin Man listened to Wen Wan's words, but she couldn't help sneering in her heart.
She remembered what Song Jingjing had told her. Wen Nuan told her mother that she had originally planned to go and see her biological daughter, but was unable to do so because she had to take care of Qiao Sitian who was in the hospital.
Hearing Wen Wan's words now, Lin Man found them ridiculous. She had made up such a poor excuse, actually saying she didn't go pick her up because she was sick.
Didn't she know that Song Jingjing was the daughter-in-law of the Huo family? Didn't she know that Song Jingjing would tell on them?
Lin Man looked at the poor and pitiful woman in front of her and couldn't help but worry about her IQ.
How could Qiao Yan like such a stupid woman? Is it just because she has a pretty face?
If there wasn't an innocent little girl on the ground, Lin Man really wanted to ask this old woman to eat some virus-infected pollen and let her lie on the sickbed like Lin Daiyu.
Lin Man turned her head away, no longer looking at Wen Wan, and walked directly downstairs. Wen Nuan wanted to chase her, but Qiao Sitian stopped her: "Mom, since she doesn't want to recognize you, why are you doing this? I think you should just forget it."
Qiao Sitian cursed Lin Man in her heart for being so stupid. She knew that Lin Man would never recognize her mother in such a place, so she pretended to be generous and asked Lin Man to say hello to her mother.
Lin Man just said that her mother died when she was born. Her mother must have been furious to hear that. Who would say their mother died in front of their own mother? Her mother must have completely given up on her, right?
Wen Wan looked at Lin Man's departing back in a daze, tears streaming down her eyes. This time she really felt a little regretful.
Why did she get angry with Qiao Yan and say that she would not recognize her daughter? Now, her daughter got angry and said that she was dead.
She is not dead!
Why didn't the child look back at her?
She was in pain for a whole day and night when she gave birth to her, and she still remembers the pain vividly.
If Li Zhen had not exchanged her child back then, then the one living a good life in the Qiao family would be her own daughter!
How could she be so confused that she is still helping others raise their children?
Wen Wan suddenly woke up. She looked at Qiao Sitian fiercely and said coldly, "Qiao Sitian, you didn't let my daughter come back, right?"
The first time Qiao Sitian saw Wen Wan's ferocious look, she was a little scared. She asked cautiously, "Mom, what's wrong with you?"
"Don't call me mom, I'm not your mom! Your mom is the woman at the recycling station. I know you're involved with that woman, and you even introduced her to someone."
What an ungrateful person! He raised her for so many years and spent so much time and effort on her, but she actually treated Ye Yunchu, whom he had never met, well. He arranged a job for her and introduced her to a boyfriend.
She turned around and asked her for money to buy this and that, and pushed her own daughter further and further away. At this moment, Wen Wan really hated Qiao Sitian.
She didn't know if she had lost her mind, she left Qiao Sitian and her daughter Wang Shishi and ran after Lin Man like crazy.
Because Lin Man didn't want to see Qiao Sitian and Wen Wan, she left as soon as she went downstairs. Wen Wan looked for them for a long time but couldn't find them, so she squatted on the ground and cried loudly.
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