Chapter 198 Tea Tree
The full basket of Dendrobium weighed twenty kilograms. When Xu Hexiao came out of the pharmacy, he had two hundred yuan more in his pocket.
Xu Hexiao returned home and gave the money to Lin Qi.
Lin Qi didn't take it. "You can take it. You'll need it when you go to the black market. It seems that selling medicine is much safer than selling food."
"That's right, but you can't sell it too often, or people will notice it." Xu Hexiao said. When he took the two hundred yuan from the nurse in the pharmacy, the nurse's eyes were full of jealousy and envy, and she almost asked him where he picked the dendrobium. If he went to sell medicine frequently, the other party would probably send someone to secretly follow him.
"Yeah, we're not short of money. We don't need to make too much noise like we did in Yao County, otherwise our life would become uneasy." Now they have four lovely children, and a stable life is more suitable for them.
On the other side, Lin Mo in Zhoucheng received a letter from the capital. Looking at the familiar handwriting, he didn't care about anything else and opened the letter at his workstation.
After reading ten lines at a glance, Lin Mo finally put his mind at ease after worrying for more than ten days.
"How is it? Is it a letter from Qiqi?" Fang Ning asked.
"Yes, she wrote to me. She said that she has settled down in the capital. The house she lives in is big and in the city center, so everything is very convenient." Lin Mo said.
"Isn't this good? Why are you still frowning?"
“They have no jobs, and in a place like the capital, prices are high. They have to raise four children, so their life must be difficult.” Lin Mo never thought that he was the one who got married first, but his sister ended up having more children than him, four at once!
Quadruplets? He had never even heard of them, let alone seen them!
"Qiqi and her brother-in-law should have saved a lot of money. They are not unprepared. But then again, Qiqi really scared all of us. Not only did she suddenly have four children, but she also suddenly ran to the capital. She did something we could never do in our lifetime. Your sister's experience is really amazing."
"Who says it's not?"
After dark, Lin Qi gave birth to an orange tree, which produced thousands of kilograms of blood oranges.
After picking the oranges, Xu Hexiao was responsible for cutting down the orange trees.
"I'll dig out the tree roots tomorrow. These roots, trunks and branches can be used for firewood, which is a good use of them." Xu Hexiao said.
"When can I grow things without any worries?" Lin Qi was unhappy.
"Wait a little longer. It will be 70 years next year. Maybe there will be changes." Xu Hexiao comforted her.
Will it?
Lin Qi didn’t know.
"It's still early, let's go try the hammock." Xu Hexiao picked up Lin Qi and strode towards the bedroom. After a while, Lin Qi had no more thoughts to think about.
The test lasted for two hours. At the end, she fell into a deep sleep. Xu Hexiao helped her wipe her body and carried her to the bed in the study.
Xu Hexiao changed the diapers of the four children before leaving the house.
Xu Hexiao went to the black market carrying a sack of blood oranges in one hand. As soon as he arrived at the black market, he went straight to the meat stall.
"Here I come." The butcher had a deep memory of Xu Hexiao's eyes. In the dark night, only his eyes were the brightest.
Xu Hexiao nodded, put down the two sacks, took out an orange from the sack, peeled it on the spot, and handed it to the butcher.
"You are really confident about your oranges." The uncle said, and put a slice into his mouth. The next second, his eyes widened and he put a few more slices into his mouth. After eating the whole blood orange, he stopped, still unsatisfied, and said, "Eighty cents a pound, I want them all."
"One dollar per pound, I'll sell them all to you." Xu Hexiao said.
"One dollar is too expensive. The apples at the supply and marketing cooperative are only 40 or 50 cents per pound. I'm offering 80 cents, which is double the price." The uncle said sincerely.
"The apples at the supply and marketing cooperative are very small, and their sweetness is incomparable to that of my oranges. My oranges are sweet and fragrant, without any residue. Even the peel is delicious if you eat it directly." Xu Hexiao handed the peel to the uncle.
The uncle took a bite with doubt, his eyes full of surprise, "This peel is actually sweet, but the sweetness is very light, with a pungent and cool taste, but without the bitterness of ordinary peels. It should be good for making tea. OK, one dollar a pound, I'll take them all."
The two bags of blood oranges weigh a total of 240 kilograms, and at one yuan per kilogram, that's 240 yuan; half a lamb weighs 31 kilograms, and at 2.5 yuan per kilogram, that's 77.5 yuan. The butcher still has to give Xu Hexiao a change of 162.5 yuan.
Xu Hexiao didn't want the bag of blood oranges back, so the butcher gave him a small one and asked him to use it to pack mutton.
"Next time you have fruit, remember to come to me. As long as the quality is so good, I will give you a high price." said the butcher.
Xu Hexiao agreed, "Okay."
"If you have fine grains, I want rice and flour as well." The Chinese New Year is only a month away, and every household is making dumplings, so flour can be sold at a high price.
"I'll come to you next time I'm short of meat," said Xu Hexiao.
"The black market changes its location almost every three days. If you can't find me, go to the poplar forest in the west suburbs and look for a man called Brother Dao."
Xu Hexiao wrote it down, "Okay."
Xu Hexiao carried the meat to find the man selling medicinal herbs.
"I've said in advance that my medicinal seeds are all collected from the mountains, and I can't guarantee the survival rate."
“Are they all good seeds?”
"Of course. I was planning to keep it for myself to grow, but I'll give you some if you want."
"Okay. I'll take them all."
"Here are six small packets of seeds of six kinds of medicinal herbs, including ginseng, notoginseng, and wolfberry... Go back and plant them yourself. Once they grow, you'll know what they are. If they don't grow, it's useless for me to tell you. I'll charge you two dollars for these six packets of seeds."
Xu Hexiao didn't bargain and handed over two dollars.
"I have a Dahongpao tree here, do you want one?" the uncle selling medicine said again.
"Why don't you plant such precious tea trees yourself?" Xu Hexiao asked, shining a flashlight at the roots of the tea tree. As expected, the roots were rotten and the tree was dying.
The medicine seller smiled bitterly, "I asked a relative to bring it to me from the south, intending to grow it myself, but it didn't survive. What a pity, such a good tea tree."
This tea tree was supposed to grow in the south, but he was determined to try it in the north. The transplant failed, and when he saw the young man wanted medicinal seeds, he dug up the tea tree as well, thinking that if he could sell it for a few cents, it would be worth it to have asked someone to bring it from the south.
"Fifty cents. I'll take it."
The next day, when Lin Qi woke up, she found the tea tree outside the door, but she didn't recognize it. Seeing that it was dying, she input a little supernatural power into it.
When Xu Hexiao woke up, Lin Qi realized that it was a tea tree.
"Would you like some tea?" Lin Qi asked.
"I didn't drink it before." Because I didn't have the conditions.
Lin Qi guessed a possibility, "Is this tea expensive?"
Xu Hexiao nodded. "It's not cheap. Even if we don't drink it, we can give it to others as a gift."
"This is Dahongpao. Are there other brands like Biluochun, Tieguanyin, and Longjing tea?" Lin Qi had seen these names in the apocalypse.
"That's right. If you want to plant some, I'll go find some tea trees for you."
"Okay. She's also a little curious about what the tea leaves she grows with her special powers taste like."
A few more days passed.
The furniture was all finished and all the rooms were painted white.
Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi began to study the children's stroller.
"The wooden wheels are too bumpy, can we try the rubber wheels?" Xu Hexiao said.
"Where does the rubber come from? Take it off our bicycles?" Lin Qi was already thinking about the feasibility of removing the wheels.
Xu Hexiao's forehead was filled with black lines. "We have two bicycles at home, which are just right for taking four children out at the same time. Are you sure you want to remove the wheels?"
"What should we do then? Aren't you worried that the child might get hurt?"
"Let's go look for it at the scrap collection station. The largest scrap collection station is in the west of the city, so we can go visit Chu Guoan."
"Sure. Going out on a bike?"
"good."
Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao dressed the children in thick clothes and put on the red plush cloaks given by Jian Tongyi. Then they tied the children to themselves with cloth, one in front and one in the back.
The children seemed to know that they were going to go out. They were grinning and giggling, with drooling mouths.
"You like coming out so much." Lin Qi tapped their little noses. "It's so cold outside, you're not afraid of getting your faces wrinkled."
"Lift the cloth up so it's over their faces."
"Okay. I'm just afraid they'll pull the cloth off themselves. Their little hands are quite strong."
"They have to dig it out themselves and take responsibility for it. If it blew apart, they would feel the pain themselves and then they would be afraid."
Along the way, Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao deliberately slowed down, and after riding for an hour, they finally arrived at the scrap collection station.
As expected of the largest recycling station, the area is more than 200 square meters. There are all kinds of waste, some are neatly stacked, such as some valuable scrap iron, and some are thrown on the ground randomly, such as some broken wooden furniture.
Lin Qi saw two discarded tires in the waste pile at a glance. She didn't know how the original owner of the tires used them, but there were several big holes in the tires.
Xu Hexiao also found the tire. He took out the tire first, and then took out some iron blocks, iron rods, iron wires and other things.
What they didn't expect was that the price of these scraps was not low, and they were charged five dollars.
The original words of the staff at the purchasing station were, "A bicycle costs more than 100 yuan, and I charge you four yuan for two tires, which is very cheap."
For the sake of the children's car, they had no choice but to pay the money.
After they came out of the scrap collection station, they asked people about the location of the machinery factory. The machinery factory was very famous in the area, and even the children knew it.
They asked questions along the way and soon arrived at the gate of the machinery factory.
"We are Chu Guoan's friends, and we are here to see Chu Guoan." Xu Hexiao said to the guard, and explained, "Chu Guoan is the driver."
"I know Chu Guoan. He drives in and out every day. We are very familiar with each other." said outside the door.
Xu Hexiao stuffed two blood oranges into the guard's hand and said, "So he's an acquaintance. Could you please call him out for us?"
The guard took Xu Hexiao's blood orange, but shook his head, "He's not in the factory, he's in the hospital."
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