Chapter 41 There Will Come a Time for Them to Regret
"Chi's wife, don't blame us." The plump Aunt Li smiled and came up the mountain with a basket of eggs. "We were deceived by the village chief and Liu Dali at the beginning. We thought they were doing it for the good of the village, so we misunderstood your family. Who would have thought that he was just pretending!"
Chi Wan had just woken up at this moment, and was eating breakfast in the yard with Song Yinghe while studying the crystal core-driven electric fan sent by Li Xingye.
Because the fan structure is very simple, a first-order crystal core can be used for a long time.
According to Li Xingye, ever since the base had Duan Qianyu, the ultimate technical master, all kinds of strange and bizarre crystal core devices emerged one after another.
In addition to those electrical appliances that rely purely on crystal cores for energy, they even used electromagnetic energy to tinker with crystal core generators.
The infrastructure in the base is now much better than before. Whenever Li Xingye comes up with something new, as long as he thinks Chi Wan can use it, he will send it to her.
Therefore, the tree house only looks simple on the outside, but it has everything you need inside. Considering that there might not be enough rooms if Chi Wan had friends coming over, Li Xingye specially helped her expand the number of houses.
It was also Aunt Li's first time to go up the mountain after Chi Wan and the others came back. She thought that her family of three was squeezed in a simple bungalow, but when she saw the huge tree house in front of her, a flash of surprise passed through her eyes.
But no matter how exquisite the tree house is, it is just a tree house. The door is closed and the various facilities inside cannot be seen. Aunt Li just feels that Chi Wan's family is probably not living a good life now.
I feel more confident about what I'm going to say later.
She looked annoyed: "If we knew that Brother Yuanshan had given so much to the village, we would never have hurt your family like that!"
Chi Wan looked at her with some amusement. If she remembered correctly, Aunt Li had often scolded their family, both openly and secretly. At the entrance of the village, she even swore that Chi Wan was trying to steal the credit, saying that she had watched Liu Dali repair those roads bit by bit.
Now he has cleared himself of all blame.
Song Yinghe had a faint smile on her face, but it didn't reach her eyes. She said politely, "Auntie Li, what are you talking about? No one wants to be cheated. I have to take Wanwan to the city to buy things later, so I won't keep you here."
"Hey wait wait!" Aunt Li shamelessly pretended not to understand what Song Yinghe said to send her off, and held Song Yinghe's wrist affectionately: "Sister, this is it. You three may be able to manage an orchard, but once the fruits on the mountain are ripe, you have to pick them as soon as possible, otherwise they will rot in the ground.
"We are used to doing this and are very skilled. If you are too busy, you can ask us to help. After all, we are all from the same village and should help each other."
Chi Wan and Song Yinghe looked at each other and finally understood what Aunt Li was talking about.
Seeing Aunt Li's expression that said "you should be grateful for us helping you", Chi Wan almost laughed out loud.
It must be said that this thick-skinned gene runs in the bones of the entire Qingshui Village.
Without waiting for Song Yinghe to refuse, Chi Wan said in surprise, "Oh, Auntie, why didn't you tell me earlier? When I was hiding in the closet and eavesdropping, I heard Liu Dali talking about picking fruits. He said that the village was full of vampires and the wages were getting more expensive every year.
“So he didn’t plan to ask the village for help this year. He would rather make less money and directly ask the boss who buys the fruits from outside to pick them himself.”
As she spoke, she also looked annoyed: "I am young and don't know much about orchards. Besides, the villagers didn't like our family at that time, so I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to hire anyone. So I took note of his words and went directly to find the boss, asking him to send a car to collect the fruits and take them away."
Seeing Chi Wan's sincere and regretful look, Song Yinghe almost couldn't hold it back.
She suppressed the smile on her face and said to Aunt Li in a sheepish tone, "Sister, don't blame us. It's mainly because Liu Dali has been managing the orchard for ten years. Although we think his character is not very good, at least his business is solid. Just like Wanwan said, we were afraid that we couldn't hire anyone, so we just took it all out.
"Hey, look at what this has caused. Who would have thought that he was trying to sow discord? He might be afraid that Yuanshan's donation would be known to you, and he hopes that our relationship will be bad. But the contract has been signed, and breaking it will cost a lot of money.
"Look, if you can pay me back the money for breach of contract, I will continue to invite villagers to pick fruit."
Aunt Li's face froze.
She is here to make money. How can she pay someone else's liquidated damages before making any money?
But looking at the sincere looks on Song Yinghe and her daughter's faces, what else could she say?
No matter how thick-skinned Aunt Li was, she couldn't say that the Chi family had hired her to work for them at a loss. She could only curse Liu Dali a thousand times in her heart, then left with a wry smile.
Before leaving, he did not forget to take the basket of eggs with him.
Although Chi Wan hadn't thought of taking the eggs, he was still speechless when he saw Aunt Li's stingy look.
"Okay, at least we've stopped them from having these thoughts. Look at her, she looks like she's coming to help our family out of alms. If you don't know, you'd think she's giving me money." Song Yinghe rolled her eyes.
Chi Wan said with a smile: "It's too early to regret now. They are a bunch of ungrateful people who want to take advantage of our family. They are just dreaming. They will regret it in the future~"
Song Yinghe tapped Chi Wan's forehead and said with a smile, "Little clever boy, Liu Dali is going to sneeze in prison."
After chatting and laughing for a while, Song Yinghe and Chi Yuanshan hurried to the city.
What she said to Aunt Li before was not false. Her family did not want to hire these people in the village to do the work, so as to avoid causing more trouble. So they thought of establishing a direct relationship with the supermarket and having them come to pick up the goods.
The two parties have basically finished the talks and are going to discuss the contract today.
Chi Wan stayed at home, waiting for Zhou Huaijin and his grandfather to come and "inspect" their Su Guan He Ding.
In fact, as early as the next day after Zhou Huaijin brought Huaer here, Chi Wan found a time to ask Li Xingye to cure Huaer.
Not only was the disease cured, but the flowers seemed to be blooming even bigger than before, revealing the elegance and dignity of the Cymbidium orchid.
But it was a bit exaggerated to cure it in one day, so Chi Wan deliberately delayed it for a week before sending the photo of the flowers to Zhou Huaijin, telling him that he could come and take the flowers away at any time.
Unexpectedly, within three minutes after I sent the photo, Zhou Huaijin actually called me via video.
Chi Wan picked up the phone, but the person on the other side was not Zhou Huaijin, but an old man with a gentle face, who looked somewhat similar to Zhou Huaijin.
He greeted Chi Wan with a smile: "Hello, little Wan Wan, I am Huai Jin's grandfather. Tomorrow, Huai Jin and I would like to go to you to ask for your advice on raising orchids. Do you think it is convenient?"
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