After attending his third cousin's wedding, Shen Yu had to go on a business trip again. This time he was going abroad with a delegation led by a senior leader to discuss cooperation projects. He might not be back for a month.

While Meng Tao was acting coquettishly and saying that she couldn't bear to leave her husband, she began to think about it in her mind: when her husband is not at home, can she go out and do some small business?

Shen Yu knew his wife too well. He knew what she wanted to do as soon as she glanced at his watery eyes.

He waved a few invitations in his hand. "From this month to next month, there are four wedding banquets. They are all sent by my classmates and friends who are very close to me. I have also promised them that I will attend. I am going on a business trip tomorrow, so you have to attend the banquet on my behalf. Husband and wife are one. If you are there, I am there too. Don't forget it."

Meng Tao took the invitations and looked through them one by one. One would start in a week, and then another would start a few days later. This, this, this... wouldn't the plan to "travel" out of Beijing be ruined? She couldn't help but complain: "What are these people thinking? They have to hold a wedding in the middle of summer. Aren't they afraid of the heat? They sweat every time they move."

Shen Yu liked to see his young wife getting angry. He pinched her cheeks and lowered his head to take a bite. "You said someone was a Pacific policeman the other day. I think you are the same. You care when others hold their wedding banquets and when they sweat? Come on, move and sweat for me."

Meng Tao smiled and pinched his ticklish spot: "What are you talking about? You have a problem with your thinking!"

"What's the problem? Point it out to me."

"I'll pull it out for you!"

The two of them laughed and chatted for a while, and Shen Yu embraced his wife: "I will be gone for a month, maybe even longer. The days without you will be so tormenting and painful. I... will miss you so much!"

Meng Tao kissed him back: "My son and I miss you every day!"

"not enough."

"What then?"

"You must think about your husband all the time! I can feel it."

"This? I heard that thinking too much will make you sneeze. What if you are at the negotiation table and suddenly something like that happens, scaring the other party?"

"Heh...you can try."

Shen Yu was amused by his young wife and stroked her hair gently: "I can't be with you. I'm worried about you wherever you go. If you go far away, tell your family, tell Zhehan and your eldest cousin, and bring Xiao Wangcai with you, or I'll let Ding Hao follow you."

"No, Ding Hao is going abroad with you, and you need someone by your side. I'm not going anywhere, and you've assigned me tasks, so I don't have time."

"Really? Seven days for one, three to five days for two, so much time is wasted? You only need one day and you'd be tempted to go around the world."

Meng Tao: “…”

She narrowed her eyes and gave him a death stare, then pounced on him and started fighting. Shen Yu laughed loudly, his heart and eyes filled with his little wild cat-like and spoiled wife.

After Shen Yu left, Meng Tao entrusted Xiao Yunhai to her parents-in-law. Xiao Wangcai also stayed at home to accompany Xiao Yunhai. Xu Hengkai arranged for her to fly to Y Province by helicopter.

The eldest cousin and her husband Su Xiangyang came to pick her up at the airport. Meng Tao brought them recent photos of Xiao Tangyuan and some Beijing snacks, and told them that her trip to Y Province was not only to revisit her old place, but also to find some "good things". They could do it on their own and told them to get busy and not to worry about her.

Xu Aoxue said, "Your Shen Yu called us a while ago and said that when he was away, you would be restless and wander around. You must come to Y Province for a visit, so we must worry about your safety."

Meng Tao blushed: "How could he say that? When he comes back, I will settle the score with him!"

Su Xiangyang and Xu Aoxue both laughed.

Xu Aoxue sent two young men to follow Meng Tao, explaining that they were just drivers and security guards, and that they would obey her and not interfere with her activities. They could also help solve various problems encountered locally.

Meng Tao couldn't refuse, so she simply made use of the two young men. She wrote a list, arranged for them to purchase and collect the goods for her, and then send them to the railway station for shipment. The workload was enough to keep them busy for two or three days, and Meng Tao took the opportunity to go on a "travel" by herself.

She disguised herself in the black market and went to the private trading market on the border, spending money to buy large quantities of jade. When she encountered unscrupulous black-hearted dealers, she would rob them and take away all their jade materials, filling them all into the sea of ​​clouds in space.

In addition to jade, she also encountered a large number of smuggled precious medicinal materials, cultural relics, and animal products such as ivory, rhino horns, tiger bones, deer antlers, bear paws, bear bile, bear oil, snake venom, etc. Meng Tao would buy them if she could afford it. If they had already been obtained by foreign traffickers, she would directly confiscate them remotely, leaving the traffickers with nowhere to look for them.

Don't blame her for being unethical. They are our Guo Jia's treasures, how can we tolerate them being lost in a foreign land!

After changing several images and wandering around the border for three days, the black market bosses and local bullies were going crazy. All their property and money were lost inexplicably without even a sound!

A group of people gathered together, shouting and killing, looking for the hateful "thief", and Meng Tao left quietly.

Shen Yu had nagged her many times, telling her not to use the space too frequently unless absolutely necessary. There were still many talented people in this world who would be able to sense that kind of abnormal energy.

Know when to stop and put safety first.

It’s all that little thief Hu Laosi’s fault. He insisted on calling her his master. See, she’s been dragged down by him!

At this moment, in a law firm in Hong Kong, Hu Laosi, dressed in a suit and tie and looking like an elite, finished talking to the lawyer, signed the contract and stamped it. He looked calm on the surface, but tears were streaming down his face.

Master! I finally completed the task you assigned me! I am really an elite now, no longer a petty thief! I will continue to work hard and will definitely become a good disciple that you are proud of! If Meng Tao could hear it, he would probably want to step on him to death.

When they arrived in Province D, since Meng Zhehan was undergoing closed training at the base, Meng Tao didn't need to go to see him. She directly took out the space truck and drove to Mengzhou.

She didn't intend to alarm other people. In fact, this return to Province D was part of her plan, but she hadn't had time to tell Shen Yu. It just so happened that he was on a business trip, so she came back by herself.

June is the season when loquats and bayberries mature. She has always been thinking about the bayberries from the Yangjia Village Brigade in Qingxiagou, Guanshan Commune, Xingyang County, and promised to purchase the fruits from their village continuously so that they can make more money.

She collected a batch of fruits the year before last and returned last year's deposit. However, she couldn't come back because she gave birth to a child. She sent them a letter asking them to deal with the fruits themselves, as she broke her promise and they no longer wanted the deposit.

This year she has to come back to harvest the fruits. The fruits in that village are really good, especially the bayberry, which is so tempting. Whether eaten fresh or made into canned or preserved fruits, they are all very delicious.

Meng Tao's small truck drove directly into Yangjia Village. They already had a tractor and had expanded the dirt road, so even Jiefang brand cars could pass through.

The people of Yangjia Village were so happy to see Meng Tao. Accountant Yang quickly asked his wife to go home and catch a chicken and kill it for the guests. Team Leader Yang said with a smile: "Little Miss Tao, last year we received your letter and knew you couldn't come, so we used a tractor to deliver the fruit to the supply and marketing cooperative and earned a few hundred yuan. Compared with the more than 1,000 yuan you gave us, we felt unhappy because we got less money. This year, everyone is stretching their necks, looking forward to your return!"

"You grow good bayberries. I've been thinking about them, too. I couldn't come last year, and I didn't dare to ask anyone to come. What if he was careless and damaged the fruit during transportation? The most important thing about bayberries is their appearance, so I have to come in person to feel at ease."

"Yes, yes, yes! You are absolutely right. This fruit is very delicate. We must be careful!"

Because they had been looking forward to Miss Tao coming to pick the fruits, the members had already prepared new bamboo baskets. At the command of Captain Yang, the whole village was mobilized, and men, women, old and young all joined in, picking bayberries and loquats busily but not randomly.

Meng Tao was warmly invited by several women to go to Accountant Yang's house for tea and lunch. After the meal, she joined everyone in the fun of picking fruits.

The bayberry and loquat are ripe, and the plums are actually edible, but they are not yet ready to be eaten with the pits removed when bitten.

The plums in Yangjia Village are an old variety handed down from ancestors. Each fruit is as big as an abacus bead. The ripe fruit is crystal clear. When you put it in your mouth and take a bite, the flesh and the core will separate directly, hence the name "boneless plum". It is crispy and sweet when chewed, and leaves a fragrance on your cheeks and teeth. It is said that it was once offered as tribute in ancient times.

There are also thin-skinned, juicy loess pears and sweet peaches. The team leader said that it will take another twenty days or so for them to fully ripen, but the shape of the fruit is fixed and you can eat them if you want. Of course, they won't taste better than ripe ones.

Meng Tao thought about it and thought it was unlikely that they would come again in twenty days or a month, so she decided to just pick them all at once and put them in the space, where they might mature on their own.

Try it once, and if it works, do it this way all the time to save yourself the hassle of running around.

Captain Yang said that this is actually possible. In the past, when typhoons hit, the fruits were blown to the ground and the villagers would pick them up and take them home to cook them with rice bran or straw, and they were just as delicious.

So the decision was made, and everyone worked harder and faster to pick the fruits. By the evening when it was getting dark, they had finally picked all the fruits. When they were weighed, the amount increased by nearly a thousand kilograms compared to the last time.

The members cheered, and Captain Yang was happy: "Thanks to Miss Tao, the weather was good this year, the elderly and children were well taken care of, and the fruit harvest was good!"

Meng Tao was also very happy: "I will continue next year. I will come again next year."

"It's settled, Miss Tao. We'll be waiting for you!"

Captain Yang knew that Meng Tao was going back to the county town to live, so he told the men to quickly load the fruit onto the truck, while the women gathered around Meng Tao and talked to her in a buzzing manner.

"Miss Tao, did you give birth to a son or a daughter?"

"Miss Xiao Tao, did your man come here last time?"

"Miss Tao, bring your man and children with you next year."

"Yes, yes, yes! Miss Tao is so beautiful, and the baby you give birth to will be pretty too. Bring it here for us to see!"

“…”

Meng Tao felt like she was answering reporters' questions. She could hardly cope with the conversation with her mouth, so she took out the photo of her son that she had brought with her and showed it to everyone. Amid the admiration, she was finally able to take a break.

After the car was loaded, Meng Tao settled the bill and made the excuse that he was in a hurry and did not stay for dinner, otherwise he would have to waste another chicken. He waved goodbye to the fellow villagers and drove away from Yangjia Village.

(End of this chapter)