Yao Cuihong became anxious and reached out to grab the handlebars of Shen Huanxi's bicycle to prevent her from leaving.

"Huanxi, listen to me. The two-story house in our village was built by you who worked hard and earned money from business. If you say you don't want it, you must be unwilling to give it up. Why don't you buy it back..."

"I'm in debt, I have no money, and the feng shui is bad, so I won't buy it." Shen Huanxi refused succinctly.

In fact, she was a little surprised that Yao Cuihong would come directly to her to buy a house. She just thought she wanted to borrow money again.

"Huanxi..." Yao Cuihong knelt down towards Shen Huanxi with a "thump".

"Just think of it as helping our Feng family and your ex-husband out of our past friendship. A husband and wife are bound by a hundred days of grace. After all, you were once a family. Now that he is in trouble, can you help him?

I'm not asking you for money, I just want you to buy the house back. It's only a few hundred dollars, you can get the house back at a low price and help us at the same time, so why not help us?

I know you are the softest person, so please help us, you can’t just stand by and watch us die, otherwise what will others say about you…”

Yao Cuihong's true colors showed up as she shouted. She knelt down and begged, looking as pitiful as she could be. It was the same drama that she had performed at the doorstep of the Xiao family, just to force her to agree.

There were many people in the Sanbei Command Headquarters, and it was time to get off work, so Shen Huanxi's colleagues came over to see the excitement.

Yao Cuihong suffered a loss the last time she went to Xiao's house to find Shen Huanxi, because Shen Huanxi had a divorce agreement to use as a weapon for counterattack.

But she felt that Shen Huanxi would not always carry the divorce agreement with her. That was why she came here to find Shen Huanxi today.

If Shen Huanxi himself brought up the matter of leaving the house, she would just deny it. Shen Huanxi couldn't produce any evidence anyway.

Even if Shen Huanxi didn't care about her reputation, she still had to work. She knew that this kind of unit would not tolerate people with bad conduct. Wasn't Chen Fugui kicked out for this reason?

Just as Shen Huanxi was about to say something, Li Shaohua came over and held her back.

"Auntie, are you bringing up the old friendship now? You said yourself that your house was built with Huanxi's money. The friendship you are talking about is this friendship. Then what kind of friendship was it when Huanxi divorced your son and left the house?" Li Shaohua said.

"You..." Yao Cuihong didn't expect that someone would come to testify for Shen Huanxi's leaving the house. In this way, even if Shen Huanxi couldn't produce a divorce agreement, she couldn't deny it.

Li Shaohua looked at his colleagues who were watching the excitement.

"Everyone, let's go. Xiao Shen is our colleague. Divorcing and leaving the house is bad enough, and now we have to deal with this ex-mother-in-law. Let's not watch Xiao Shen's excitement and make her feel bad. Xiao Shen, let's go."

After Li Shaohua finished speaking, he pushed Yao Cuihong away and pushed Shen Huanxi's bicycle.

Shen Huanxi rode forward, and she caught up with him and sat on the back seat of Shen Huanxi's bicycle. The two of them went away together, leaving Yao Cuihong to be pointed at again.

…

After returning home, Shen Huanxi told Xiao Shanhe about Yao Cuihong's trouble at work.

"I always felt something was wrong. I know Yao Cuihong. She would not be willing to sell the house to me at a low price. That's why I bought cigarettes and alcohol and went to ask Director Li of the village committee to help me with the operation. Why did she suddenly come to me now?"

"Maybe she is desperate because she can't sell the house, so she came to you. You also said that she thinks you are kind-hearted. If the house is so hard to sell, who else can she choose to take it over if not you?"

"No." Shen Huanxi shook her head. "She thinks I am mild-mannered and easy to bully. Logically, if she wants to buy a house from me, she will definitely not sell it to me at a low price. Based on my understanding of her, even if she wants to sell the house to me, she will definitely sell it at a high price. Who said I am 'easy to bully'?"

"I understand." Xiao Shanhe thought of something when he heard Shen Huanxi say this.

"Know what?"

"Is it possible that she thinks you are easy to bully, so she wants to sell the house to you first, but she refuses to move out and occupies the house?"

"Ah... that's possible." Shen Huanxi immediately understood what Xiao Shanhe said.

"I was wondering why she would want the house back in my hands. So this is her purpose." Shen Huanxi gritted her teeth.

Xiao Shanhe poured her a glass of water and passed it to her.

"Being angry is harmful to your health. Don't be angry. She is selling it to you at a low price, so just buy it. Leave the rest to me and I will help you solve it."

"How can you help me?"

"Trust me, drink some water and calm down. I can do it." Xiao Shanhe gave Shen Huanxi a confident look.

Shen Huanxi looked at his calm and serious eyes, and her anger immediately subsided. Although he did not clearly say how he would help, she inexplicably felt that he could really do it.

The overall feeling that Xiao Shanhe gave her was that he was very reliable, extremely reliable.

Shen Huanxi knew Yao Cuihong's plan, so she went back to Director Li and told him that she didn't need his help with the transfer of the house. Director Li wanted to return the cigarettes and alcohol, but she said that there was no point in taking back a gift and left without accepting them.

Yao Cuihong has been anxious these days. Whenever she has time, she comes to Shen Huanxi and begs humbly.

Before the divorce, Shen Huanxi had never seen Yao Cuihong treat him well. Now, in order to achieve her goal, Yao Cuihong was willing to lower herself to any extent.

"I don't have that much money, and I still owe a huge debt. I can borrow 300 yuan by scraping together money from here and there. If you are willing to sell it to me at this price, I will buy it. If not, I can't do anything about it. You can find someone else yourself." After Yao Cuihong came seven or eight times, Shen Huanxi finally offered a price.

When she heard the price of three hundred yuan, Yao Cuihong agreed immediately. She had already lowered the price to three hundred and twenty yuan, which was only twenty yuan less, which was better than not having enough money.

After the two of them agreed on a price, Shen Huanxi spent a weekend going back to the village committee to handle the transfer of ownership. With Director Li present, the transfer was completed quickly.

Shen Huanxi felt relieved after getting the house deeds and land titles. Overall, it was still a loss, but it was better than not getting a penny back. The most important thing was that the house was no longer owned by Feng Shenghui and Yao Cuihong.

Otherwise, she would feel uncomfortable letting the two of them live in the house she bought with her hard-earned money. It was worth spending the three hundred yuan.

When she took the house deed and land deeds back to the two-story building, she saw Yao Cuihong holding Feng Fulonglai in the yard and refusing to leave, just as Xiao Shanhe had expected.

Shen Huanxi took the house deeds and land deeds and tried to chase them away, but the old woman sat down on the ground and cried out in dismay.

"Shen Huanxi, you have no conscience! If you chase us away now, where will we live? You are such a black-hearted person!"

"Yao Cuihong, this is my house. The title deed and the land deeds are all here. You have already sold this house to me. It is none of my business if you have no place to live. You should move out as soon as possible."

When Yao Cuihong heard Shen Huanxi say this, she pulled Feng Fulong and cried together.

"This house is yours, but we sold it to you at a very low price out of our past friendship. You have now moved to the city and have become a city dweller.

You have a house in the city, why don’t you let us live in this house? How can you bear to see us, the elderly and children, have no place to live?..."

"Doesn't the Feng family still have an old house? Don't tell me we can't live there. When I got divorced, didn't you drive Chang'an and Changning back to my mother's old house? Chang'an and Changning can live in our Shen family's old house, so why can't you live in your Feng family's old house?"

"That's different. When you got divorced, Fulong and his mother moved in. The house was too crowded, so we had no choice but to let Chang'an and Changning move back to your parents' home temporarily.

It's hard for a divorced man to find a wife. Shenghui has finally found a new wife. We can't scare her away as soon as she comes home.

Huanxi, we had planned to let Changan and Changning live in your mother's old house temporarily. When Cuixiang and Fulong get used to this place, we will bring them back. You have to believe me...

It’s different now. You don’t live in this house anymore. It’s empty anyway. What’s wrong with you letting us live in it? If a house is not occupied for a long time, it will become unpopular. Just think of us as helping you look after the house…”

"Bullshit." Shen Huanxi couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Yao Cuihong's high-sounding words.

Others may not know, but she knows it best. How could Yao Cuihong and Feng Shenghui have only intended to let Chang'an Changning live in the Shen family's old house "temporarily"?

When she was away for two months, Chang'an and Changning lived in the old house of the Shen family for two months. There was no pot to boil hot water, and the two children took cold showers for two months. Every day they ate the leftovers sent by Feng Shenghui and Yao Cuihong.

Thinking about these, Shen Huanxi had the urge to hit people, and Yao Cuihong still had the nerve to make up stories.

"This is a two-story building with so many spacious rooms. You told me that the house is crowded. Why don't you say that the village is crowded and you can live in the ancestral tomb of your old Feng family?"

"You, you, you! Shen Huanxi! Why are you cursing people?" Yao Cuihong pointed at Shen Huanxi. In that era, rural people were most taboo about talking about death, especially the older rural people.

Shen Huanxi said this on purpose to anger Yao Cuihong.

She saw Pan Jianguo's car coming towards them, followed by several other small three-wheeled vehicles with people in them. She knew that the person Xiao Shanhe was looking for had arrived, so she looked at Yao Cuihong.

"You're right. I won't live in this house. I won't lose anything if I let you live in it. But don't forget that I'm in debt to build this house.

I am willing to buy the house back because you have been begging me for a while, and I want to help you. But I also have to pay off my debts. I have already mortgaged this house to my creditors, and they are there, they have already arrived. "

Shen Huanxi pointed down the hillside.

Yao Cuihong heard the sound of the car engine just now, but she was busy being lazy and refusing to move out of the house, and was busy arguing with Shen Huanxi, so she didn't look down the hillside.

After hearing what Shen Huanxi said, he looked down and saw Pan Jianguo’s sedan and four other 3-wheelers.

There were four or five people sitting on each scooter, all of them were burly men between 20 and 40 years old, tall and tanned.

Yao Cuihong was frightened when she saw this scene.

"Who are they? Who are they?"

"You are my creditor's henchmen, so I told you to move out quickly. I have already mortgaged my house to my creditor." Shen Huanxi said.

Before Yao Cuihong could react, those "thugs" had already rushed up, rushed into the yard without saying a word, and even broke the door of the yard.

Feng Fulong was so scared that he started crying loudly, so Yao Cuihong carried him to the small building on the second floor.

"What are you doing! Are you breaking into a private house? What are you doing here? What on earth do you want to do?" Yao Cuihong screamed in fear.

"This is Shen Huanxi's house. It has been mortgaged to us, so we can do whatever we want with it. Who are you? Get out of the way." The leading man was not polite at all and was about to break into the house with his men.

What else can Yao Cuihong do? She can only make trouble and play tricks. No matter what situation she encounters, she will only deal with it the same way she used to deal with Shen Huanxi. So she sat down and cried and yelled again.

"Oh, how heartless! I, an old lady, have nowhere to go. Shen Huanxi is in debt, and yet they let someone break into the only place I can live. It's so unfair..."

Now the villagers couldn't bear to watch or listen to the excitement anymore, and they couldn't help but blame Yao Cuihong.

"Auntie Yao, she is glad to have the title deed and land deeds in her hands. This is her house. When will it be your turn to take care of it?"

"This is already her house. Don't say she's just using it to pay off a debt. Even if she demolishes it right now, you can't say anything to her."

"You want to live in someone else's house, but they won't give it to you, and you make a scene, refusing to move out and letting them deal with it themselves. Then if I want your land in the future, can I just put a hoe on it and say it's mine, and you can't say anything."

…

Yao Cuihong was never in the right. When she heard everyone talking about her, she had no way to refute. She was scolded and upset by Feng Fulong's crying. Meanwhile, those men who had just been mistresses had already broken into the house.

Her trick of throwing tantrums and rolling around could only be used against Shen Huanxi in the past, but now she found it was completely useless.

She stood up and tried to go into the house to chase the men out, but someone suddenly grabbed her arm.

"What are you doing! Let me go! What are you doing!" Yao Cuihong shouted at Xiao Shanhe.

She didn't even know when Xiao Shanhe arrived, and wasn't this man disabled? How could he be so strong?

Yao Cuihong has been living off Shen Huanxi for years, but she is a country girl after all, so it is impossible for her to be without strength. But after she found that her arm was grabbed by Xiao Shanhe, she could not move at all.

"I also want to ask you, what do you want to do?" Xiao Shanhe grabbed her arm tightly and refused to let her go.

"They've gone in. They've broken into people's houses!"

"With the consent of the landlord, it's not called trespassing. I've already agreed, why are you so anxious? It's not your house." Shen Huanxi held the house deed and the land title in her hands. The weather was cooler in autumn, and she deliberately used the house deed and the land title as a fan.

The villagers who came to watch the excitement were not blind, and they all stood on Shen Huanxi's side.

"Auntie Yao, I have Huanxi's title deed and land deeds in my hands. Isn't that enough to remind you that it is her house?"

"She has the right to do whatever she wants with Huanxi's house. It's not your turn to intervene."

"Even if she demolishes the house, it's not your turn to say anything."

…

"That's not possible! Tell them to come out! No! Come out quickly! Come out! No! No!" Yao Cuihong shouted anxiously and her words were incoherent, but she couldn't get rid of Xiao Shanhe no matter what.

She was so nervous. Was there something in the room that she was afraid of being seen? Shen Huanxi was immediately startled.

"It's not up to you to decide whether I can have my house or not." Shen Huanxi said to her.

"Blah!"

“Boom boom boom!”

“Bang, bang, bang!”

…

The strong men brought back by Xiao Shanhe threw things out of the house one by one, in bundles, and in handfuls.

There were clothes and shoes for Yao Cuihong's family, pots and pans, tables and chairs, brooms and feather dusters, everything.

Yao Cuihong just watched helplessly as things from her home were thrown out and almost passed out.

After all her calculations, she only expected that Shen Huanxi liked to bully people, but she never expected that Shen Huanxi would directly call her creditor back.

"Yao Cuihong, you just said a word, trespassing, right? You also know that trespassing is illegal, but occupying someone else's house is an even more serious offense.

By putting these things in there, you are occupying my house. It's not a big deal if someone throws your things out, but it will be a big deal if I take you to court.

Think about how old you are. If I really sue you, how many years have you been in prison? How old will you be when you get out? You may have spent your entire life in prison." Shen Huanxi said.

Yao Cuihong turned pale with fright.

People of this generation all came from the decade of the Cultural Revolution. All kinds of absurd things happened in those ten years. For example, Old Yangtou from the village was reported to be a "□□" because he secretly raised two big geese at home. He was □□ and almost died.

Many people who came out of the Cultural Revolution in the past ten years have suffered from neurasthenia. Yao Cuihong does not understand the law, and during those ten years she has seen many people being severely punished for trivial matters. Now, when she heard Shen Huanxi accuse her of such a serious crime as "occupying other people's houses", how could she not be scared?

“Ding ding ding ding…”

Things belonging to Feng Shenghui's family were thrown out continuously, and suddenly a series of unusual noises were heard.

When Yao Cuihong heard the sound, she suddenly came to her senses and went back. She saw a cloth bag thrown on the ground and quickly picked it up and wanted to hold it in her arms.

Shen Huanxi suddenly realized what it was, rushed over to grab it, and before Yao Cuihong could react, he opened the bag and poured it out.

Along with the sound of "ding-dang-dang", several big gold bracelets, big gold rings, and many gold chains and gold beads fell out of the bag.

Yao Cuihong was so panicked that she squatted down and tried to snatch it back, but Shen Huanxi grabbed her arm and pulled her up.

Shen Huanxi was not strong enough, and the reason she was able to pull Yao Cuihong up was because she had attacked by surprise. If she continued to hold Yao Cuihong, she would not be able to do so, so she had to push Yao Cuihong towards Xiao Shanhe. Xiao Shanhe took the opportunity to grab Yao Cuihong and controlled the old woman again.

"Click, click," suddenly two people carrying cameras came up and started taking pictures of the gold bracelets.

Shen Huanxi looked at Yao Cuihong with red eyes.

Seeing Yao Cuihong's big gold bracelets with her own eyes, she was really furious. What kind of hard life had Chang'an and Changning lived through these years? Yao Cuihong actually bought herself so many gold jewellery after treating the two girls harshly.

"What are you doing! What are you doing! What are you doing! This is my gold! Mine! Mine!" Yao Cuihong shouted anxiously when she saw Shen Huanxi picking up the gold ornaments.

Shen Huanxi felt very upset and didn't say anything to her. It was Xiao Shanhe who spoke first.

"You know it's your gold. You bought it with the money Huanxi brought home before the divorce. When Huanxi and Feng Shenghui divorced, she left the house with nothing. The divorce agreement stated that she didn't want a penny of the house, the family land, or the savings in Feng Shenghui's account.

But you didn't mention the fact that you still had the gold at that time, which was a secret, so Huanxi could tell you about it." Xiao Shanhe tapped the back of his wheelchair with his fingers and spoke in a light tone.

"I will sue you until you spend the rest of your life in jail!" Shen Huanxi was furious, especially when she was holding the heavy gold bracelet and thinking of the tattered clothes that Chang'an Changning wore in the past. She was so angry that she almost cried, and she said viciously.

"Take the photos carefully and clearly so that they can be used as evidence later." Xiao Shanhe said lightly to the person holding the camera.

Yao Cuihong was terrified, really terrified.

Just now Shen Huanxi said that she might spend the rest of her life in prison, and now he's saying that she'll spend the rest of her life in prison.

The two men holding the cameras looked very capable, and Xiao Shanhe also explained things in a very coherent manner. This time, she didn't even need Xiao Shanhe to hold her, and she just sat paralyzed on the ground.

Shen Huanxi's eyes were red as she put away all the gold jewelry in her bag.

In the 1980s, private sale of gold was not allowed, so she took the gold back home as a deposit, which would appreciate in value in the future.

She was also thankful that private sale of gold was not allowed in that era, otherwise Yao Cuihong might have sold the gold to redeem Feng Shenghui long ago, and she would never have had the chance to get the gold back.

I'm afraid she won't even be able to get the house back.

"How many state-owned gold shops are there in our city? Where is the nearest one?" Shen Huanxi asked Xiao Shanhe.

She became even angrier after asking this question. She didn't even know how many gold shops there were in the city, yet Yao Cuihong used her hard-earned money to buy so much gold.

"Very few, you can count them on one hand. Do you want to check Aunt Yao's gold purchase records?"

"No! This gold is not ours! It's not mine!" Yao Cuihong heard Xiao Shanhe say this and shouted before Shen Huanxi could answer.

"I bought this gold with the money Huanxi brought home before, but it's not mine, and I don't plan to keep it for myself. I'm keeping it for Huanxi. Money left at home will be gnawed by mice and bitten by cockroaches, but gold won't. That's why I bought this gold for her. It's all hers, all hers! Don't leave any evidence! I don't want it! I don't want it!"

Yao Cuihong was also completely panicked and just wanted to distance herself from the gold as soon as possible.

She doesn't want to "spend her entire life in prison" or "spend her entire life in jail."

Wasn't the purpose of selling the house to get Feng Shenghui out? But Feng Shenghui was not bailed out, and she was also imprisoned. If both mother and son were in prison, what would they do in the future?

Recently, Li Cuixiang always told her about the terrible things that happened in prison, such as fighting, stealing food, and being beaten by prison guards...

When Wen G was being persecuted, many people were so angry that they couldn't stop themselves. In the prison detention center, no one could see it. Yao Cuihong didn't even dare to think about how the prisoners would be treated.

Shen Huanxi put away all the gold, and the people brought by Xiao Shanhe also threw out all the things in the house. Shen Huanxi was right. It was her house, and no one could say anything. Besides, no one helped Yao Cuihong.

I went back to the village today just to get the house back and chase away Yao Cuihong and the others. Getting the gold back was an unexpected gain.

After finishing these things, Shen Huanxi went back to the city with Xiao Shanhe and others.

Shen Huanxi and Xiao Shanhe returned to Pan Jianguo's car. Shen Huanxi was still holding the bag of gold tightly.

She didn't know what the price of gold was in this era, but if these were all pure gold, they would be worth at least hundreds of thousands in the future. Just now, she asked Xiao Shanhe how many gold shops there were in the city, just because she wanted to take them to verify their authenticity when she had time.

She held it so tightly not because it was her hard-earned money that she had lost and found again, but because it was the good life that Chang'an and Changning had enjoyed in the past few years.

The good life she had created for her two children with her own hands was actually exchanged for this gold by that old woman Yao Cuihong.

However, now that the house and the gold were back, Shen Huanxi felt relieved. Looking at Xiao Shanhe, she felt a little grateful.

"Thank you today. You didn't even tell me that you had made such thorough preparations and brought back two photographers. Thank you for their hard work." Shen Huanxi said with a smile.

If it weren't for those two people taking pictures with cameras, Yao Cuihong probably wouldn't have been so frightened. Xiao Shanhe really acted well this time.

As soon as Shen Huanxi finished speaking, Xiao Shanhe hadn't said anything yet when he saw the two people with cameras getting into the car.

She was just wondering why Xiao Shanhe let her sit in the passenger seat this time while he sat in the back seat. Now she knew the reason.

Both photographers are men, and it would be inconvenient if they sat in the back with her. Xiao Shanhe was very thoughtful.

Shen Huanxi didn't close the window just now, and the two photographers heard what she said to Xiao Shanhe. They smiled at her as soon as they got in the car.

"Sister-in-law, we are not tired. We heard about your situation from Chief Xiao, so we thought of coming to help. It doesn't take much effort to take a photo. We originally wanted to take photos of the terrain here and then take them back to the unit."

"Yes, it's a piece of cake. We should thank Chief Designer Xiao's friend for giving us a ride. The funding from our company is not enough. If it weren't for Chief Designer Xiao's friend's car, we would have to take a third-hand car back home."

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to introduce myself to my sister-in-law. My name is Ge Wenbin, and his name is Ji Qimin. We are both former colleagues of Chief Designer Xiao." Ge Wenbin introduced himself.

Shen Huanxi also greeted them openly.

"Thank you very much. I hope I didn't delay your work."

"No, we have finished our work." Ji Qimin replied.

Shen Huanxi nodded and looked at Xiao Shanhe again.

"What about my 'creditors'? Who are they?" They couldn't be his former colleagues.

"Railway worker." Xiao Shanhe replied.

"They are on vacation today. I paid for them. It won't delay their work." He knew that Shen Huanxi didn't like to owe favors to others, so he added an explanation.

Shen Huanxi nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

She also doesn’t know what “Chief Designer Xiao” means. Is “Chief Designer” the abbreviation of “Chief Designer”?

How did Xiao Shanhe know so many railway workers?

Shen Huanxi remembered that there was a portrait of Zhan Tianyou hanging in Xiao Shanhe's study. Now he was able to find so many railway workers. Could it be that this man's job was related to railways?

She didn't dare to ask, at least not now. She couldn't let Xiao Shanhe's former colleagues know that she still didn't know what Xiao Shanhe did. That would be so embarrassing for Xiao Shanhe.

…

After Shen Huanxi returned to the city, he spent money to find a contractor and asked the contractor to bring his workers back to demolish the two-story building, and the bricks were piled on the original residential land.

She couldn't tell whether Yao Cuihong would move back into the house while she was away.

She would not live in that house, even if it was built by her. She felt uncomfortable thinking that Feng Shenghui and Li Cuixiang had lived there.

It's not like she has no place to live in the village. Her mother's old house is still there. She doesn't need that house. It would be a loss if it was demolished, but at least the bricks and tiles can be kept and maybe they can be used in the future.

Anyway, she won't live there, and won't let Yao Cuihong and the others live there either, so just tear it down and be done with it.

The contractor went back to help her demolish the house, and when he came back he brought her a piece of news, saying that Li Cuixiang took the money from the sale of the house and ran away on the day that Yao Cuihong got the money from the sale of the house. She didn't even want the child, and Yao Cuihong had sold the house for nothing.

Shen Huanxi thought of her previous life. Li Cuixiang also ran away with the family's money immediately after Feng Shenghui got into trouble. This time it just happened earlier, and the ending was the same.

No wonder she didn't see Li Cuixiang the whole day on the day she sold the house. She only saw Feng Fulong crying and Yao Cuihong making a fuss. It turned out that Li Cuixiang ran away that day.

The money that Yao Cuihong used to bail out Feng Shenghui was gone, and it seemed that Feng Shenghui would have to stay in there for a while.

Shen Huanxi said in his heart, "Serves you right."

She was not afraid that Yao Cuihong would come to her again. She had Yao Cuihong under her control. If Yao Cuihong came to her, she would threaten to sue her and put her in jail for life. Yao Cuihong was an uneducated old village woman who knew nothing about the law. She was so scared that she dared not to provoke her again, let alone come to her.

She didn't want to care what Yao Cuihong should do next, as it was none of her business.

The next day, she took the gold to a state-owned gold shop to check it, and found that it was all real gold.

In that era, private sale of gold was not allowed, and the price of recycling it to state-owned gold shops would be very low. Shen Huanxi neither sold nor recycled it, and picked out a few pieces regardless of age to give to Chang'an Changning, including gold earrings and a thin plain gold necklace.

She also picked a weekend and took Chang'an and Changning to an old lady who did facial surgery to get their ears pierced.

Girls all like beautiful earrings. In their last life, Chang'an and Changning didn't dress themselves up well and didn't appreciate beauty. In this life, Shen Huanxi will give them the best.

Ear piercing guns were not popular in China at that time. People would directly use ear needles to pierce their ears. Changan and Changning were very scared before getting their ears pierced, but when they thought about wearing beautiful earrings in the future, the two girls closed their eyes, gritted their teeth, and let the old lady pierce them.

After getting their ears pierced, Shen Huanxi asked the old lady to help the two girls put on pure gold earrings. Pure gold will not cause allergies and will also help the wounds heal.

The old woman carefully helped the two girls put on their clothes and kept saying that the two girls were happy.

"Your mother even prepared such beautiful gold earrings for you. How many girls can afford gold earrings these days? Okay, go back to the pharmacy and buy some aureomycin and apply it every day. The wound will heal in seven days."

"Okay, thank you grandma!" the two girls said with a smile.

The old lady's stall was near the vegetable market, with people coming and going. After getting her ears pierced, Chang'an Changning kept observing other girls' ears along the way, some with pierced ears and some without.

But among the girls with pierced ears, almost no one has gold earrings, except these two.

Shen Huanxi saw the gazes of the two girls and felt happy.

She wanted to give the two children the best. In their previous lives, the two girls could only envy others, but in this life, she wanted them to be the objects of envy.

It's just that gold tends to look tacky, and there weren't as many private gold shops in that era as in later generations. The styles of goods in state-owned gold shops were very few, and there were even fewer gold ornaments suitable for Chang'an and Changning at this age.

When she had time, she would design it herself, and then take the gold she had on hand to find a craftsman to make beautiful, playful and not tacky gold jewelry for her two children.

When I brought the two girls back home, I saw Jiang Xiaomei coming.

It was Saturday and Shen Huanxi was not at work. She had agreed with Jiang Xiaomei before that if Jiang Xiaomei wanted to come and see her, she could do so on the weekend. Shen Huanxi was not surprised to see her this time.

"You two go and have fun by yourselves. I'll chat with your Aunt Jiang." Shen Huanxi touched the two children's heads.

Chang'an and Changning were anxious to show off their ear piercings to the girls in Guixiang Village. They said hello to Jiang Xiaomei and ran out.

Jiang Xiaomei glanced at Chang'an and Changning, then turned back to look at Shen Huanxi, feeling a little envious.

"I will never have the chance to have a daughter in my lifetime. Family planning only allows me to have one. Otherwise, it would be great to have two daughters like you. Oh, forget about two, I would be satisfied with just one."

"Other people prefer sons over daughters, but why do you prefer daughters?"

"What about you? If you could choose, would you choose a son or a daughter?"

"Of course it's a daughter." Shen Huanxi said without even thinking about it. But even if she thought about it a thousand times, she still liked her daughter.

Jiang Xiaomei laughed.

"That's it. You think so yourself, and yet you blame me. Hey, you just watch me carry so many things without helping me." Jiang Xiaomei complained.

Shen Huanxi then realized that she was carrying another large box of canned food.

"Why are you bringing cans again? I haven't finished the ones you brought last time. Besides, these cans are not cheap. I feel embarrassed that you always bring so much." Shen Huanxi said as he helped her carry the cans.

This box of canned apples seemed heavier than the first time she brought it.

"Hey, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. I can't sell it anyway, so just don't complain." Jiang Xiaomei said as she flexed her arms. It must have been hard for her to carry it all the way here.

Shen Huanxi went into the house with her, carrying the canned food.

"You must be kidding. Your Roche Canning Factory has been rated as an excellent enterprise in Yunnan for three consecutive years. How come you can't sell your canned food?"

"We can sell it, but we can't make much money. There are not many raw materials for canning in Yunnan. Only apples are more abundant. For other raw materials like oranges and yellow peaches, we have to buy them from outside. The transportation cost is very high, and the cost of our canned food will also increase accordingly.

In recent years, Yunnan City has developed rapidly, but it cannot compare with big cities. How can there be so many people who can afford canned food? To be honest, we have a lot of canned food in stock in our factory, and we are still worried about how to sell it. "

"If you can't sell it in Yunnan, then sell it in other cities." Shen Huanxi poured a cup of hot water for Jiang Xiaomei and said it casually without thinking much about it.

Jiang Xiaomei sighed.

"Huanxi, you think it's simple. There is only one railway from the provincial capital to our Yunnan City. I just told you that the cost of transporting raw materials is very high because there are few railways and the roads are difficult to travel. You said that the cost of transporting raw materials is high, but isn't it also costly to transport the finished products outside to sell?

Nowadays, there are so many business-minded people, and the country encourages "letting some people get rich first". Many people want to run canning factories. Our Roche Canning Factory is the best canning factory in Yunnan City, but it is not necessarily comparable to those in other cities.

We have canning factories in Yunnan, and other cities also have them. Why do they have their own canning factories in their cities? Why do they have to buy more expensive canned food shipped all the way from Yunnan? Look at me, I'm telling you so much about our factory, and I don't know if you like it or not."

"Xiaomei, don't say that. When we chat, we can talk about whatever we want. It doesn't matter whether I like what you say or not. We are friends, and I like everything you say.

But you don’t have to worry too much about your canned food inventory. When you produce in the future, make a plan and estimate the annual sales volume first, and then produce according to the estimated sales volume. This way, you don’t have to worry about stockpiling too much and not being able to sell it.”

"Okay, Huanxi! Oh, why didn't I think of that? I'll talk to his father later. Huanxi, sometimes I really think you are suitable for business. If you go into business, you will definitely make a lot of money. Why are you willing to do a job that pays only 30 or 40 yuan?

Oh, no, you have been promoted to a regular employee now, but that's only more than 40 yuan, not enough for me to buy a brand-name bag.