Heart Touched
After arriving in Qingyuan, Hu Yufeng gave Li Taiyang two days off and went straight to the factory.
Uncle Hu looked at his sister at the door every day, but when his sister really stood in front of him, it was as if his mouth was stuffed with cotton and he couldn't utter a word.
Hu Yufeng saw that he looked dazed, and her heart tightened. She asked first, "What's wrong? Do you have a cold?"
Uncle Hu said in a muffled voice: "No!"
"What did you do to make people talk about it?"
Uncle Hu gave him a sidelong look and asked, "What can I do?"
Really, what's so unreliable about him now? If you still think so much about him, you shouldn't worry about this heartless old sister!
I thought so in my heart, but my mouth had its own thoughts.
"Don't you even look at your age? You're still running outside all day. You don't eat well or sleep well outside, and you're so skinny that you can fart two miles away..."
Hu Yufeng: ...
I realized later that my brother cared about her.
Feeling relieved, he handed over a small bag: "I bought this for you, try it to see if it fits you."
Uncle Hu's voice came from behind: "Why buy this? I have everything, you're just wasting money!"
Hu Yufeng walked into the office building as he continued to chatter.
"Mom, are you back?"
Qin Wenli was concentrating on writing something. He looked up when he heard the sound of the door being pushed open. The next moment he suddenly stood up and came to greet me with a look of surprise.
"Well, I came back after finishing my work. Is everything okay?" Hu Yufeng handed over the things in her hand and sat down on the sofa.
"Okay, everything is fine." Qin Wenli brought a glass of water and placed it on the coffee table next to Hu Yufeng.
"Mom, have you eaten? I'll ask the kitchen to cook something." Qin Wenli said with bright eyes.
When he mentioned Hu Yufeng, he really felt a little hungry, so he nodded.
Qin Wenli hurriedly got up and went out to make arrangements.
Huizi in the operating room also ran over after hearing the news, holding her hand and saying distressedly: "Godmother, you have lost weight."
Qin Wenli looked ashamed as he watched from the side. It was because he was not ambitious enough that his old mother had to run back and forth.
Hu Yufeng patted her hands and said with a smile: "Money can't buy you a slim body when you are old, and being slim makes you energetic!"
Seeing that she was thinner but full of energy, Huizi stopped talking.
Soon the noodles were ready in the kitchen, and Qin Wenli brought them over: "Mom, they say you should eat dumplings when you get on the bus and noodles when you get off. I thought you've been sitting in the car all morning and don't have much appetite, so I made some sour soup noodles with臊子 for you to try."
Hu Yufeng took it with a smile, took a sip, and sighed comfortably: "Home-cooked food is still delicious!"
The food in the restaurant is heavy in oil and salt. It’s okay to eat it for a few meals, but if you eat too much, you’ll feel greasy. The clear soup noodles at home are the most soothing to the stomach.
After dinner, Hu Yufeng went to sleep again. When she woke up, she heard chattering in the yard.
She pushed open the door, and the children in the yard turned around and gathered around her.
"Grandma, grandma, you're finally back. I missed you so much..." Qin Shu hugged her arm and shook her.
"Grandma, are you not feeling well? Why have you lost so much weight?" Qin Yu looked at his grandmother with concern.
"It's okay, you feel more energetic after losing weight..." Hu Yufeng said with a smile.
While they were talking, Yang Xiu also came out, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law greeted each other again.
As he was talking, Qin Wenli had already come out of the kitchen with food and called out, "Mom, let's go in and eat."
Qin Wenli has not been idle this month. The office building was reorganized and renovated, and a dining room was cleared out on the first floor. This month, apart from being busy with daily chores, I was also busy with the decoration.
Hu Yufeng followed him into the room and couldn't help but admire in her heart as soon as she saw it. It turned out that Wenli's aesthetic taste was quite good.
The restaurant is not big, with a simple ceiling lamp on the ceiling, several farming pictures hanging on the wall, a set of sideboards against the wall, and a maroon round wooden table in the middle.
At this moment, several plates of hot dishes have been placed on the table, emitting the aroma of food.
Hu Yufeng sat in the main seat, and when the others saw her sit down, they also sat down.
Qin Wenli filled the glasses in front of everyone with juice, picked up the glass first and said, "Come on, let's raise a toast together to celebrate Director Hu's triumphant return after overcoming all the difficulties he faced."
Everyone was amused and raised their glasses to celebrate.
"Learn from grandma..." Qin Yu said with a smile.
Qin Shu and Li Xiang hurried to follow.
Hu Yufeng felt particularly comfortable after the meal. After dinner, the children went to do their homework on their own initiative, and the adults gathered in the office again.
Hu Yufeng then talked about the details of signing the general distributor contract.
The phone call was too expensive, so Qin Wenli and the others only knew a rough idea. Now, listening to Hu Yufeng's story, they couldn't help but sigh and admire her. My mother/godmother is really good at reading people’s minds and seizing opportunities.
Especially the selling method of "pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud" is simply ingenious.
Several people couldn't help but wonder if this trick could be applied to their daily work.
…
The next day, Hu Yufeng went back to her hometown again to visit the old lady, Qin Shengtian and Lao Zheng.
The other two were fine, except Qin Shengtian, who kept coughing. Hu Yufeng guessed it was because he smoked too much tobacco.
I couldn't help but curse: "You can't live without a pipe, you smoke all day long, sooner or later you will smoke yourself to death..."
You know what, she hadn't cursed for a long time, so her skills were not so good anymore. As soon as she finished cursing, she burst into laughter.
Qin Shengtian lowered his head and let her scold him, feeling a little scared.
Even though she scolded him, Qin Wenli made appointments for the five old men and women the next day and took them for a physical examination.
After running up and down the stairs all morning, I came out and found that Uncle Hu had mild fatty liver and Lao Zheng suffered from high blood pressure. Hu Yufeng has kidney crystals, and the doctor said it was because she didn't drink enough water.
The old lady was very thin, but apart from mild anemia, she had no major health problems.
As for Qin Shengtian, the doctor said that his dry cough was caused by lung heat, and that he just needed to take some medicine to clear the lung heat. Everything else was normal.
This made him very proud, and he looked at Hu Yufeng with the side of his eyes from time to time. Humph, didn’t you say it was caused by smoking? Look!
Hu Yufeng was too lazy to pay attention to his silly look.
Qin Wenli helped to get the medicine and took the elderly people to eat.
Hu Yufeng thought that they seldom went out, especially Qin Shengtian, and this was his first time in the city, so she wanted to take them out for a big meal.
When I talked to Qin Wenli, he said the same thing.
But when they asked, they all said in unison that they wanted to eat fried noodles. After that, the three old men enthusiastically discussed their experience of eating fried noodles in the town.
Qin Wenli listened silently, feeling a sense of bitterness and shame in his heart.
In the past, our family was poor and we only went out once every few years. We would have to order a large portion of fried noodles, or share it between two of us, but my father would still worry about me for many years.
But now that life at home is better, he has neglected it and doesn't think of taking his elders out for a walk, so that in his world, fried noodles are the most expensive and delicious thing in the world.
"Dad, uncle, I'm going to treat you guys today. I'm going to take you to eat beef stew..."
There is no man who doesn't love beef, no matter whether he is young or old. This proposal was approved by Uncle Hu and Qin Shengtian. Only Old Zheng felt embarrassed and secretly gave money to Qin Wenli.
Qin Wenli found a halal restaurant and gave each of his four male compatriots a portion of stewed beef, and his mother and grandmother had beef dumplings.
After eating and drinking, Qin Wenli and Hu Yufeng decided to take a few people to the park.
Qingyuan City is a tourist desert area, and the only thing to see is the park. Even though the lake was stagnant water and the mountain was a rockery, the few people were still dazzled and delighted by the sight.
After strolling around for an afternoon, Qin Wenli persuaded them to have a meal at a restaurant and sent them home before dark.
At night, Qin Wenli looked at Yang Xiu's sleeping profile and the wrinkles between his eyebrows, and an idea came to his mind.
…
"Mom, I have something I want to discuss with you."
That day, Qin Wenli finally made up his mind and sat down opposite Hu Yufeng.
Hu Yufeng looked up at him and motioned for him to continue.
"I was thinking whether we could take advantage of the holidays to go out as a family, firstly to relax, and secondly to let the elderly and children see the world."
To be honest, he was deeply touched by the heartfelt joy of the elderly people that day. Since setting up the factory, he and his mother have taken turns running around outside, but have never cared about the spiritual needs of other people in the family.
Not to mention that children are at the age when their horizons are broadened, even the elderly will see less and less each time.
The purpose of their hard work in making money is to give their families a better life. Now that their food and clothing are guaranteed, they can go out and see the world.
Considering the old man's health, he didn't plan to go too far. The neighboring province is an ancient capital with mountains, water and animals, making it a great place for travel.
There is also the provincial capital, which is where the old lady spent her childhood. Revisiting the old place is also a good choice.
Hu Yufeng raised her eyebrows in surprise, thinking that Wenli had really grown up and lived up to the old lady's care in raising him.
He nodded and agreed: "Okay, but the time and place of departure, as well as the arrangements along the way are all up to you. We old bones can just be the hands-off shopkeepers."
Qin Wenli thought he would have to explain the reason, but he didn't expect his mother to agree so readily. He happily agreed immediately.
It is already the third month of the lunar calendar. People say that it is time to plant melons and beans around the Qingming Festival. The weather in their area is still a bit cold, so it is too early to plant melons and beans, but ploughing the land can be put on the agenda. April is the time to plant corn and potatoes, May and June are busy with harvesting and drying wheat, July is too hot, August is when the children go back to school and it is Mid-Autumn Festival, and September is when the autumn crops are harvested, October and November are too cold, and the twelfth month is the busiest in the factory.
At first glance, it seems that there is no time for the whole year, but as a great man said, time is like water in a sponge, you can always get some if you squeeze it.
Let’s just celebrate May Day. The weather is neither cold nor hot. The land at home will not be abandoned for a week. The factory has just taken over Xingping, and the daily orders are increasing steadily. The time to enter Qincheng has not yet come. No matter how you look at it, it seems like a chosen day for travel.
Thinking of this, he excitedly went to find Hu Yufeng again. As soon as he entered the door, he said, "Mom, how about we set the time of travel during the May Day holiday?"
Hu Yufeng glanced at the desk calendar. Today was April 9th, and there were only twenty days left until May Day.
She couldn't help but admire Qin Wenli's initiative and asked, "Isn't it too hasty?"
Qin Wenli listed the plans for each month in detail. Considering the weather conditions on May Day, Hu Yufeng was instantly convinced by him and felt that May Day was really the best time to travel.
Hu Yufeng asked again: "Where is the location?"
Qin Wenli smiled and said, "I have two places in mind, one is Qincheng and the other is the provincial capital. How about asking for everyone's opinions?"
Hu Yufeng readily agreed.
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