Chapter 82 I Only Have Thoughts About You

After taking the measurements, Huo Beixi took Zhenzhu out on his bicycle. It seemed that he would not eat at home at noon. Even if he was just going to the town, he would not be able to come back in time for noon. Moreover, no one in the town was doing jewelry business. He might be going to the county town or the city.

Seeing how proactive and concerned Huo Beixi was about her affairs, Hua Xiali was deeply touched. Even her parents didn't care much about her affairs, and when choosing furniture, they only considered choosing the ones that Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli liked, without considering her at all.

But Huo Beixi, an outsider, actually...

There was too much river clam meat and it took too much time to clean it. Hua Xiali didn't even make lunch and just focused on cleaning the clam meat. Fortunately, these freshwater clams were raised with spiritual spring water and the meat was very tender, so there was no need to cut it slowly with a knife. In the afternoon, after all the clam meat was cleaned and dried, Hua Xiali took the clam meat to the kitchen for processing.

However, there was so much clam meat that one pot couldn't hold it all. But the other pot couldn't be stained with oil. If it was stained with oil, there would be no way to heat water for a bath. So Hua Xiali could only cook it in batches.

She first put half of the clam shell meat into the pot, then added water to completely submerge the clam shell meat, put in ginger and garlic, and then turned on the fire. After blanching both pots of clam shell meat, Hua Xiali began to formally process it.

She cooked a slightly spicy pot of clam meat, and for another pot she added a little more chili powder because the clam meat had a stronger fishy smell, so she had to add chili. If she didn't add any chili at all, it wasn't that it was hard to swallow, but she would have unbearable just to smell it.

After finishing it, Hua Xiali sent a plate of the slightly spicy ones to his third and fourth uncles' families, letting them taste them. The rest was kept for Huo Beixi, and the ones with an extra half spoonful of chili were eaten by their own family. Their family members were quite fond of chili. In the summer, they would just fry the green peppers grown at home and eat them. Some of the green peppers were even spicier than chili powder.

Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli both had to go back to school in the afternoon, so they had dinner early. After dinner, they packed up their things and left.

Huo Beixi did not come back until the evening, so Hua Xiali kept the dinner warm in the pot for him so that he could have a hot meal no matter what time he came back.

After all, he was running around for her.

Today was obviously his rare day off, but he wasted it because of her affairs.

After Hua's father and mother had finished their bath, Hua Xiali took her bath last. After taking a bath, she moved a bamboo chair to sit in the yard, looking up to admire the beauty of the night sky. At this time of the night sky, the bright crescent moon hung in the deep blue sky, and every star was particularly bright and clear.

Unlike in the previous life, it was not easy to find a few stars.

Suddenly, he heard a sound coming from outside the courtyard gate. Hua Xiali quickly stood up and ran to open the door. It was Huo Beixi, who had just got off his bicycle. Hua Xiali looked at him with a smile, "You're back. Thank you for your hard work."

"It's okay." Huo Beixi smiled faintly, pushed the bicycle into the yard, and then pushed the bicycle into a small house next to the gate.

Hua Xiali followed him in and asked curiously, "What happened to the pearl? What did they say? When can I get it back?"

Huo Beixi reached out to Hua Xiali, picked her up, and placed her on the back seat of the bicycle. Then he put one hand on the wall behind her and the other on the bicycle seat, as if he was holding Hua Xiali in his arms.

His scorching gaze made Hua Xiali swallow her saliva in embarrassment.

"The pearls you opened have good color and are quite round. Someone wants some and can offer twenty yuan for each. What do you think?" Huo Beixi asked with a raised eyebrow.

Hua Xiali's eyes widened in surprise, a little bit unbelieving, "Twenty yuan a piece?"

"Is it too much or too little?" Huo Beixi asked.

Hua Xiali shook her head, "I don't know. This is my first time meeting Zhenzhu, too."

In her previous life, she had worked at a pearl breeding base. The pearls that were opened at that time were quite expensive, costing several hundred yuan each. However, she had no idea how much pearls cost in the 1990s, so she didn't know whether twenty yuan per pearl was a lot or a little.

"Then how do you answer them?" Hua Xiali asked curiously.

"I said let's make the jewelry first, I'll come back and ask." Huo Beixi came closer, and the atmosphere became ambiguous. "If you think the price is too low, I'll reject it for you, or raise the price for you."

"No hurry." Hua Xiali shook his head. "What do you think about this matter?"

"No." Huo Beixi shook his head, but he was saying in his heart, I only have thoughts about you, this is yours, I won't steal it.

"You don't have an idea, but I do. I want the wasteland behind the primary school. Please arrange for someone to measure it for me someday, calculate how much it costs, and then get everything done for me. I want to dig this land into a fish pond to raise freshwater clams and get pearls. Pearls can be sold for money, and the clams can also be sold for money. I can also create a few jobs, which is also a good thing for the village, don't you think?"

Although she informed Huo Beixi in advance, she still followed the normal procedures and gave the required amount of money. She didn't need Huo Beixi to give her a backdoor, and she wouldn't let Huo Beixi give her a backdoor.

She couldn't make things difficult for Huo Beixi, right?

Hua Xiali had worked in a farm in her previous life, so she had some basic understanding. Once she had dug and built the farm, she could ask a professor from the Agricultural University's aquaculture major to come and help her. That way, she could say that everything she knew was learned from the professor.

"You're right. The villagers will thank you then!" Huo Beixi said as he tried to get closer to Hua Xiali.

Hua Xiali stretched out her hand to block him from getting closer, "Dinner is warming in the pot, go and eat it quickly! I've left you some clam shell meat, it's slightly spicy."

Just talk, why are you getting closer?

Huo Beixi put his arms around Hua Xiali's waist and lifted her off the back seat of the bicycle. While putting her on the ground, he moved closer to her.

"Hmm..." Hua Xiali stared at Huo Beixi with eyes wide open in shock. This guy was really hard to guard against.

Being held by Huo Beixi, she could not put her feet to the ground and had to endure it. However, Huo Beixi, the culprit, seemed not to be disturbed at all. He just ate bite by bite with a focused expression. Hua Xiali gritted her teeth and defended her position until the position was lost. She was so ashamed that she could not stand it.