Li Xiyue instructed Mi Bao, "Quickly search for Du Jingshan and see where he is. Why isn't he at school?"
Her biggest fear was that Du Jingshan would suddenly leave without saying goodbye, and if that happened, her parents would die from the poison within a few days.
She had absolutely no trust in Du Jingshan.
Honeybee searched for Du Jingshan's location and said, "I found his location, he's home!"
Li Xiyue glanced at the location on the electronic map. Fortunately, Du Jingshan had just gone home.
She said, "It's most likely because Du Guixiang went home, so he went home to check on her. Let's go to his house too, and see where he can hide then?"
Mi Bao set up a spatial passage for Li Xiyue, and Li Xiyue came to Du Jingshan's doorstep through the spatial passage.
Li Xiyue took out a net bag of canned fruit and canned meat from her spatial supplies.
In those days, the fruits sold in the North were only those from the North; fruits from the South could not be transported to the North.
Moreover, it's the dead of winter now, and in the north, only apples are available for winter storage. Bananas are considered high-end southern goods, and people wouldn't buy them unless they were asking someone for a favor or visiting relatives.
In those days, the only things you could usually see in winter were canned fruit.
However, canned fruit is not cheap, but there are many varieties.
Li Xiyue carried a large net bag full of canned fruit of various colors upstairs.
She knocked on the door, and Du Guixiang's mother's voice came from inside.
Who is it?
Li Xiyue said, "Auntie, I'm Yue'er!"
The door was suddenly pulled open.
When Du Guixiang's mother saw Li Xiyue, it was as if she had seen a Bodhisattva. She smiled and said to Li Xiyue, "Yue'er! It's you! My two children and I have been talking about you!"
Thank goodness you went after my daughter, otherwise, who knows where that girl would have run off to!
By the way, where did my daughter go? I asked her, but she won't tell me!
Du Guixiang stood behind her mother and gave Li Xiyue a meaningful look, preventing Li Xiyue from speaking.
How could she tell her mother that she had gone after Mu Cangnan, especially since Mu Cangnan had confessed his feelings to Li Xiyue!
Li Xiyue immediately understood what Du Guixiang meant. She said to Du Guixiang's mother, "She didn't go very far. She had just left the capital by train, and someone at the train station happened to have seen her board that train. I followed the train's route and caught up with her after a few stops."
She spoke casually, as if she had only driven out of the capital and seen Du Guixiang.
Du Guixiang's mother believed Li Xiyue's words without a doubt. How could Li Xiyue possibly harm her daughter after finding her and bringing her home?!
She thanked Li Xiyue profusely, saying, "Good child! Thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't know where to look for my daughter."
"What on earth did this girl take? She's lost her mind. What's she doing running off from the capital?"
Li Xiyue said with a smile, "She heard me say that there are many delicious fruits and other delicious foods in the South, and she got hungry and wanted to go out for a stroll."
Actually, once our car and train systems become more developed, traveling will be a regular occurrence!
The word "tourism" was too new to Du Guixiang's mother; she couldn't understand it at all!
The word "tourism" doesn't even exist these days.
She said, "What did you say? What kind of oil? Anyway, it's good that Guixiang is back. Why is that child so greedy? She actually ran out for some delicious food! No wonder she wouldn't tell me no matter how I asked her!"
She turned around and glared fiercely at her daughter.
Du Guixiang didn't expect Li Xiyue to come up with this reason. However, although the reason sounded a bit silly, it could indeed appease her mother.
She pursed her lips and said, "Yue'er said the fruits in the South are especially delicious? I'd like to take the train there to buy some and try them. Anyway, I've made money; I can afford not only train tickets but also plane tickets!"
Du Guixiang's mother said, "I don't care what kind of ticket you buy, as long as I'm alive, you're not allowed to run around recklessly!"
What does it matter if it tastes good or not? As long as you can eat your fill, that's all that matters. Kids of your generation have it too easy. In our time, being able to eat your fill was a luxury!
"It's because I let you eat too much that you've caused trouble at home!"
Li Xiyue said, "Auntie, please stop scolding Guixiang. Guixiang definitely won't do it again. I brought Guixiang some canned fruit!"
"Gui Xiang, these are all the canned fruits from the South that you wanted to eat, including lychee, yellow peach, longan, and pineapple."
She handed a large net bag of canned fruit to Du Guixiang.
Du Guixiang looked at Li Xiyue with gratitude. The reason she had given was perfect, and her mother believed it completely!
She laughed and said, "Wow! I wanted to eat longan! So this is longan? And this is lychee? They look almost the same, except the lychee looks bigger!"
Mom, please open the can for me quickly. I want to taste what fresh longan tastes like.
We can only buy dried longan here; the whole longan flesh is pitch black, not white at all!
Du Guixiang's mother, unable to bear Du Guixiang's nagging any longer, obediently took the canned food to the kitchen for the children to open.
Li Xiyue knew that canned food tasted different from fresh fruit, but canned food could make do when fresh fruit was unavailable.
Du Guixiang's mother divided the canned food into several bowls and handed them to Li Xiyue, Du Guixiang, and her son.
Du Guixiang couldn't wait to scoop up the fruit with a spoon and eat it. She nodded as she ate, "It's delicious! The South is so much better! We've never even seen all kinds of fruit before! When I make a lot of money, I want to live in the South!"
Du Guixiang's mother said, "Keep dreaming! If you go to live in the south, what will happen to your household registration? Without a household registration, where will you get ration coupons? Without ration coupons, you won't even be able to buy meat!"
Du Guixiang glanced at her mother, who would always pour cold water on her idea. Anyway, she had money; why couldn't she just buy tickets?
In the space, Mi Bao said to De Li Xi Yue, "If you tell Du Gui Xiang's mother now that you can buy things without tickets in the future, she probably won't believe it even if you beat her to death!"
Li Xiyue said, "If I hadn't experienced the future, I wouldn't believe that one day votes would disappear from the stage of history! And that our country would be so prosperous and strong!"
Her gaze fell on Du Jingshan, who had been sitting silently on the sofa, eating canned food one after another.
They acted as if they didn't see her at all, completely ignoring her as if she were invisible!
Li Xiyue walked over and pretended to sit on the sofa watching TV. She lowered her voice and asked Du Jingshan, "Is the medicine ready yet?"
Li Xiyue spoke very softly, so that only Du Jingshan could hear her.
Du Jingshan said in the same voice, "No, no one brought me food. I ran away because I was hungry. The medicine wasn't made."
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