When Lu Yuan got home, he told Wen Moxue that Mo Lijuan had been standing next to him when he called earlier that day.
The young woman didn't care at all. "Never mind her. It's good that she heard it. Now that she knows we don't like her, she won't keep coming around us."
Lu Yuan shook his head. "Your cheap cousin has an unusually thick skin. Even after all that, she still went to a state-run restaurant and wanted me to treat her to a meal. I don't think she'll stay quiet for long."
"What should we do then?"
"Don't be afraid. As long as we know how to refuse and don't let her take advantage of us, she can't do anything about it."
After the couple finished talking about their cousin, Lu Yuan brought up Yu Shaoheng again.
"He'll probably come to our house today. When he arrives, you can tidy up and see what you can take out. Try to get it out when he comes."
"Okay, I understand."
“This is a big client. If we maintain good relationships with them, we’ll definitely make a good profit every month.”
That kid needs 200 yuan sent from home every month. Instead of sending the money to the supply and marketing cooperative, it's better to spend it here. It doesn't matter where you buy things, and with him, you don't have to travel all the way to the commune. It's so convenient, and it's a way of helping him out.
Besides, he might have more and a more complete selection of these things than the commune does, and you can even buy them on credit—how great is that!
"I reckon that educated youth surnamed Xiao will come along too. Both of them are well-off, so let's bring some expensive and hard-to-get things, preferably food, to tempt them."
The little girl covered her mouth and chuckled, "You caught two lambs, so you're going to fleece them as much as you want, huh?"
Lu Yuan denied it, "No way! This is called mutual benefit."
Right now, what's most important? Isn't it supplies? Everyone's short of supplies, and he's sharing with these two people. Can you say he's not helping them?
He had already done more than enough by not selling it to them at the high price on the black market.
As the two were talking, Lu Guoan came looking for them again.
"What is it, Uncle?"
Lu Yuan led the person into the main room and asked.
"Let me ask you about the tractor driver job. You don't want to be a tractor driver, so who do you think would be more suitable?"
Lu Yuan was annoyed. He thought something serious had happened and that the person had to come to him about such a small matter.
He shrugged and said, "The team can decide. If they can't make up their minds, they'll draw lots."
Lu Guoan clapped his hands, "That's right, draw lots, that way no one can say anything."
Lu Guoan left, but before he left, he went to say goodbye to Grandma Liu and Gao Weishan and his wife.
Seeing Old Liu sitting under the shade of a tree, drinking tea, eating biscuits, munching on a fragrant cucumber, and listening to the radio, he admitted that he was envious, his eyes reddening with envy!
He really wanted to retire at Lu Yuan's house!
It's impossible for him to come, but with Old Liu setting an example here, he's full of hope for his retirement. If the village continues to develop like this, he'll probably be able to live like this when he gets old.
As soon as Lu Guoan left, Lu Xiaoqin and Lu Xiaojun came again. The siblings came to their private plot to pull weeds and pick vegetable leaves.
Lu Yuan followed them to the vegetable garden; he wanted to pick some vegetables to prepare dinner.
Seeing that the siblings were only pulling up grass and not breaking off vegetable leaves, Lu Yuan reminded them,
"You guys should also get some vegetable leaves; rabbits like to eat them."
Lu Xiaojun did exactly what he was told, but Lu Xiaoqin looked conflicted. "Big brother, the rabbit has already eaten all the grass, it's too wasteful to just use the vegetable leaves."
"What's the waste? It's not a waste if the rabbits eat it. Don't you see this vegetable garden? Even if you don't pick the leaves, we can't finish all the vegetables."
Lu Xiaoqin looked at the thriving vegetable garden and nodded. Indeed, her older brother's vegetable patch was growing better than anyone else's; it seemed like they could never finish eating it all.
Pick them today, and they seem to grow back immediately tomorrow.
She muttered unintentionally, "If you raised two pigs, you wouldn't need to go out to gather pig feed."
Lu Yuan sighed helplessly. When he didn't want to raise two big fat pigs, wasn't it because he didn't have the quota?
He picked eggplants, tomatoes, green beans, tender pumpkins, small chili peppers, and cucumbers.
We picked and ate as we went; the bright red tomatoes and green cucumbers tasted even better than fruit.
Tomatoes and cucumbers were also given to Lu Xiaoqin and Lu Xiaojun. The siblings happily accepted them, having been craving them for a long time, but they didn't dare to steal any to eat, and could only look at them and swallow their saliva.
My older brother gave it to them today, and they didn't even think about taking it with them; they just ate it all up.
These were the best tomatoes and cucumbers they had ever eaten, and they were very satisfied.
Just as the group was enjoying their meal, someone waved to them from a distance.
"Brother Yuan! Brother Yuan!"
Lu Yuan burst out laughing when he saw it!
Hey, it's a sucker... oops, I mean, a big client has arrived.
He waved and shouted back, "Yu, the educated youth!"
Yu Shaoheng came running over excitedly, saying, "Brother Yuan, my wife said you were here, so I came straight over."
Lu Yuan gave him a tomato and a cucumber.
"Try it, you can eat it directly, it's very thirst-quenching."
Yu Shaoheng thanked him and accepted the tomato. Seeing that the Lu siblings were also eating, he didn't stand on ceremony and took a big bite of the tomato without wiping it.
Instantly, the sweet tomato juice filled my mouth, and so much juice that it spurted out.
The boy's eyes lit up, and he nodded repeatedly, albeit vaguely.
"It's so delicious, so incredibly delicious!"
Then he devoured a tomato in a few bites and started crunching on a cucumber.
"Wow, the cucumber tastes so good too!"
Lu Yuan picked a few more tomatoes and cucumbers and put them in the basket.
He asked with a smile, "Did you come alone? Where's Xiao Zhiqing?"
"He was called away by the brigade leader to discuss the house."
What are we talking about, a house?
"We were planning to buy the houses at the current educated youth settlement, and the brigade leader asked him to sign some kind of agreement."
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