Meng Tao was sitting on the bus. When all the passengers in front, behind, and around her had gotten off, she used the travel bag to cover the blue cloth bag and put it into the bus.

Then he got off the bus, carrying a half-empty travel bag, asked someone for directions, and went to the local products company's store.

Pingjiang City Local Products Company has a lot of local specialties, and the quality is also very good. Meng Tao is not short of money now, so she bought nearly a hundred kilograms of local specialties in the store. Seeing that there was a fruit store across the street, she went over and bought forty to fifty kilograms of apples and pears each, stored them in the space, then took the bus directly to the train station, preparing to return to the village.

Meng Tao arrived at the train station and walked into the ticket office when she suddenly saw two men coming out. One of them was the fruit seller from last night. He was holding a handful of train tickets in his hand. The two men were talking as they walked, as if they were arguing about something, and did not notice Meng Tao.

The ticket hall had three doors. Meng Tao turned around and went in through another door. The two passed each other through the doors, but she heard the fruit seller talking, and she couldn't help but be surprised.

"That Tao Mengmeng only said that she was from Mengzhou, but she didn't say where exactly, so I really don't know. And she was wrapped up so tightly that I couldn't see her face clearly. From yesterday until now, we have searched the entire city, but there is no trace of her. If she goes to Mengzhou, even though it's just an area, it's not small, right? How is it possible to find her?"

"You don't have to worry about this. Mr. Zhou just wants those fruits. He has plenty of money, so he can invite as many people as he wants. The real purpose is to find out how many agricultural science institutes there are in Mengzhou. If we find the one that specializes in growing this kind of fruit, it doesn't matter whether Tao Mengmeng shows up or not."

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When the two men were a little further away, Meng Tao turned around and walked closer to the door. Through the glass door, she watched them walk side by side down the steps and leave through the station square. Her heart was pounding: The fruit owner sold 500 kilograms of fruit so quickly? The new buyer knew the difference between the batch of fruit and wanted to find her!

Are you going to let her live? She just wanted to make a little money, but she was targeted the first time she made a move.

Sure enough, our ancestors were right. Don't show off your wealth, and treasures should be hidden deep, because there are too many smart people in the world! The station broadcast was urging passengers to get on the train, but the fruit seller bought a ticket and left the station. It was obviously not this train. Meng Tao quickly looked at the train arrival table on the wall, walked to the ticket office to ask a few questions, then paid for a train ticket and took this train to leave Pingjiang City.

This train does not follow the Mengzhou line, but the small town it passes through is relatively close to the Mengzhou city, and there are shuttle buses between the two cities. Meng Tao decided to take the train there. At most, he could stay there for one night, and then take a bus back to Mengzhou for a few hours.

I will give up on this trading market in Pingjiang City from now on. Damn it, even the fruit seller is so scary. So many people are going to find her, it's going to scare them to death.

It was the sixth day since Meng Tao went out that she returned to Linshui Village, looking dusty and exhausted. She didn't know what kind of unlucky person she was. Her train was late and her bus broke down halfway. She was really impressed by herself!

When she returned to the village, Bao Shunfeng scolded her for a long time. Even though Meng Tao gave him a pack of cigarettes and a pound of fruit candies and eight apples and pears for his children, he was merciless. He scolded her until she was exhausted. Then he asked what local specialties she had sent to the provincial capital. Meng Tao answered one by one, trying to say as little as possible. Bao Shunfeng waved his hand and let her go.

The local specialties were mailed out from the county town. Worried that the fruits, dried fish, mushrooms, etc. would get mixed smells, she went to the stores on the street and privately bought two wooden boxes made of wood strips from the salesperson when no one was around. The dried goods could be wrapped in cloth, but the fruits had to be wrapped in wooden boxes. She also bought some newspapers to block the smells and prevent shock. It took her a long time to pack the goods and mail them out.

Liu Jianxin and his wife gave Meng Tao seven or eight kilograms of shiitake mushrooms, black fungus, and dried bamboo shoots. Meng Tao also went to the Pingjiang local product store and saw that the various mountain products and dried goods were indeed of high quality. She bought a lot and stored them in the space. She could give them to others or eat them herself. The dried fish and shrimp sent by Sun Hong's hometown were thick and big and very good, weighing more than ten kilograms. These were not available locally, so Meng Tao shared them all with Meng Zhehan and Shen Yu.

She kept the cured chicken, cured duck and salted duck eggs for herself. When she saw that the couple stuffed money and tickets into her pocket again, this time it was a hundred yuan and a roll of national cloth coupons, meat coupons, sugar coupons and industrial coupons, Meng Tao sighed, but she had no choice but to keep them for the time being as she still couldn't give them back.

Meng Zhehan and Shen Yu each got a package and a wooden box with different amounts. Shen Yu was given 20 kilograms of fruit and Meng Zhehan was given 30 kilograms. There were also more other things, so he was asked to share some with Zhang Guoqing. After all, they were sent from his hometown, and it would be wrong not to give them to Zhang Guoqing.

It seems not a good idea to send a separate copy, so Zhou Cuiling will send it to him.

In the evening, I took a basket to Zhou's house for a meal. In it were a dozen pears, navel oranges and peaches, a piece of smoked meat, and two kilograms of dried mushrooms and black fungus. Aunt Yang was surprised and asked where such good things came from. Zhou Cuiling kept asking Meng Tao what she had been doing these days. She was almost worried to death, fearing that she had been abducted and sold.

Zhou Cuiling stared at her speechlessly, her face full of disbelief.

Aunt Yang reached out and tapped Meng Tao's forehead: "You are so bold. You just follow someone so casually, and you are a man. If we sell you out, where can we find you?"

Meng Tao said, "Aunt, I am not as stupid as I used to be. I only believed him because he knocked over a book that contained a photo of my grandfather."

Aunt Yang was surprised: "Really? Your grandfather's photo?"

"Um!"

Zhou Cuiling: "What if the person in the photo just looks like your grandfather?"

"No, that's really my grandfather's photo. He took the photo with someone else many years ago. Don't I recognize my grandfather? You just wait and see. After a while, Grandpa Liu will come to our village. He wants to see my grandfather in person."

"Oh my god, is there really such a coincidence in the world?"

"Yes, I did. I came across it."

Two days later, Zhou Shian came back and heard Aunt Yang tell him about this. Bao Shunfeng also knew about it and blamed Meng Tao for not telling him. Meng Tao said, "I just came back and you scolded me so badly that I couldn't even raise my head. How could I dare to say anything?"

"I scold you to discipline you. You are such a terrible girl. You have been fascinated by the colorful world outside after going out for two times. If I don't take care of you, you will become wild and unruly."

After Bao Shunfeng finished scolding her and left, Meng Tao wrinkled her nose at his back: Congratulations, you guessed it right, Meng Taohua has really gone wild. If she wasn't subject to the time limit for the proof, she might not have come back yet, and she might have gone somewhere to become a fruit vendor again.

She came back from the county town by bus, and when she arrived at Fenghe Commune, she couldn't help but get off the bus and go to the orchard. She found the man directly and bought more than a thousand kilograms of fruit again and stored them in the space, waiting for an opportunity to go out and make some money.

Several educated youth couldn't help laughing when they saw Meng Tao making faces.

Qian Xiaoyun, Jiang Limei and He Huijuan remembered to buy the little things that they asked Meng Tao to buy. The educated youth were worried about her these days, just like Zhou Cuiling, fearing that she had been abducted.

Meng Tao was speechless. Was she so easy to be kidnapped? But she was still very grateful to everyone for thinking of her. Each of them gave her a handful of candies bought from other places and stored in the space for a few days. The educated youths originally thought that it was just fruit candy, but after tasting it, they couldn't stop eating it and kept asking Meng Tao where she bought it. Meng Tao only said that it was sold in the department store in the district city. The educated youths said that they must buy more when they go there.

In the provincial capital, Shen Yu and Meng Zhehan simultaneously received the parcel and wooden box sent by Meng Tao.

Meng Zhehan first peeled an orange, and it still had the same wonderful taste and charming aroma that Sister Taohua had given him before. He then tried the navel orange, pear and peach in turn. They were all of excellent quality. The package contained dried fish and shrimp, various dried fruits, mushrooms, black fungus, dried bamboo shoots and dried vegetables. Sister Taohua attached a letter saying that these were all carefully selected. High-quality ingredients are good for the body and can keep people in good health. It is best to eat them yourself and not give them to others.

(End of this chapter)