Chapter 205 Back
At twelve o'clock noon, a dusty truck drove into the gate of the machinery factory.
"Zhao Shu, did your trip go smoothly?" the guard asked loudly.
"There were some minor setbacks, but luckily nothing serious happened." When Zhao Shu said this, his eyes glanced at Xu Hexiao as if he didn't care. The latter was driving. His handsome face was so cold that there was no expression at all.
The guard wanted to ask what the trouble was, but the car had already entered the factory and drove towards the unloading area.
They sent a shipment of goods to Hai City and also shipped a truckload of goods back from there.
Xu Hexiao stopped the car steadily and took out a large bag from the car. These were his personal belongings, so he put them away first to prevent others from unloading them as cargo.
In addition to the handbag, Xu Hexiao also carried another on his back. The warehouse manager noticed his two bags at a glance and said with a smile, "This is your first time going to Haishi. There are many new things in Haishi. Our colleagues who go to Haishi for the first time always have to make a lot of purchases. It's only because you left in a hurry that day, otherwise there would be a lot of people asking you to help buy things."
Xu Hexiao hummed, "It's my first time there."
The car came back, but Xu Hexiao and Zhao Shu couldn't leave yet. They had to hand in the order, wait for others to unload the goods, and then check the quantity of the goods. If the quantity was ok, they still had to check if there was any damage...
After waiting for about forty minutes, Xu Hexiao was told that there was no problem with the goods and he could leave.
"You can rest this afternoon and you don't have to come tomorrow morning, but you have to come to work on time at 2 o'clock in the afternoon," Zhao Shu reminded him.
"Are you going out tomorrow?" Xu Hexiao asked. If he was going out, he would have to prepare in advance. This time he went out in too much of a hurry.
Zhao Shu nodded. "Of course. We have a lot of goods piled up recently and need to move them away in time. Plus, it's the end of the year now and it could snow at any time. When it snows, the roads will be hard to travel on, so we should make a few more trips before the snow falls."
Xu Hexiao looked up at the gray sky and asked, "What if it snows tonight?"
Zhao Shu also looked up at the sky and said, "It depends on how heavy the snow is. If it's not heavy, we have to get out of the car."
Xu Hexiao understood, "I'll go back first, you should go back early too."
"Okay." Zhao Shu stood there and watched Xu Hexiao leave.
"How are you guys teaming up?" The warehouse keeper came behind Zhao Shu at some point.
"He's very worry-free and trustworthy. He's a good driver and should be a good person too." Zhao Shu said.
"It's really rare. This is the first time I see you speak so highly of someone."
"He deserves it."
Xu Hexiao's bicycle was still in the factory. He pushed it out of the factory gate, and with a stride of his long legs, the bicycle sped away. It usually took him 20 to 30 minutes to complete the journey, but today he finished it in 15 minutes.
Lin Qi was pounding rice and grinding wheat flour, making a lot of noise, so she didn't notice the knock on the door. Xu Hexiao waited outside the door for about a minute, but when he didn't hear any footsteps, he climbed over the wall, opened the door, took the things in, and then closed the door again.
Not long after he walked, he heard the sounds of rice being pounded and the millstone turning.
Xu Hexiao curled his lips, put the big bag in his hand in the kitchen, took the backpack on his back to the master bedroom, and then walked towards the warehouse.
Um?
Lin Qi, who was sitting by the fireplace, paused and turned to look at the door. When their eyes met, a broad smile broke out on her face.
The next second, she stood up from her seat and rushed towards the person at the door.
Xu Hexiao caught her in his arms, feeling so soft-hearted that he held her with both hands and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm dirty."
"It's okay. I'm not clean either." Lin Qi held Xu Hexiao's face. "You have a beard. It pricks people. I won't kiss you."
"I'll shave it in a minute."
"Then I'll go boil some water for you."
"good."
Xu Hexiao carried Lin Qi to the kitchen.
Four children entangled by vines: “…”
I'm leaving now.
Fortunately, their oblivion was only temporary. Two minutes later, the vines also carried them towards the kitchen.
"I met a bear on the road, I killed it, gave some of the meat to my colleagues, and the rest is here." Xu Hexiao opened the handbag, which contained pieces of chopped meat.
"So much?" Lin Qi was a little surprised. It must be about two hundred pounds.
"Well, we ate some of the more than 300-pound black bear on the way. That colleague was the only one at home and he was often on business trips, so he only took one bear paw and ten pounds of meat. The rest is all here." Xu Hexiao poured the meat into a large wooden basin. "It has been salted. Now that the weather is cold, it should be fine to keep it for more than ten days. If it snows, it can be kept even longer. There will be enough meat to eat in the winter."
"Give 20 kilograms to Brother Guoan and the others? They helped you find a job, you should feel good about it." Lin Qi said, and mentioned that Aunt Chu brought Chu Guoan's two children to visit in the past few days, and also mentioned that there was a thief in the house last night, she saved Cao Zheng, and let Cao Zheng stay overnight.
Xu Hexiao knew that the two of them could not hurt Lin Qi, but he still worried, "Is he injured?"
"No. I didn't meet them face to face. I took them away from thirty meters away." Lin Qi said.
While the water was boiling, Lin Qi cooked a bowl of noodles for Xu Hexiao. When Xu Hexiao finished eating the noodles, the water was also boiled.
After taking a shower, Xu Hexiao went to sleep in his room with his four children. Lin Qi rode a bicycle to deliver meat to Chu Guoan.
She didn't look for the location of Chu Guoan's house, but went directly to the hospital, put the meat down and hurried home. When she got home, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon.
Xu Hexiao was still asleep, but the children were awake, lying quietly in bed without crying or making a fuss. Lin Qi glanced into the room and turned to prepare dinner.
On the other side, in the hospital, before Chu Guoan could come to his senses, Lin Qi ran away.
"What's the matter? Why are you in such a hurry?" Chu Guoan muttered as he got down from the hospital bed and used his intact hand to open the lid of the basket. As soon as Lin Qi entered the room, she said that these were the things Xu Hexiao brought back from his business trip. She didn't even mention what they were and just left.
What can I bring back from a business trip?
Chu Guoan was thinking of some local snacks, something like a specialty. He was hungry, so he could eat something to fill his stomach.
However, when Chu Guoan saw the large piece of meat in the basket, the corners of his mouth twitched, “Who comes to the hospital to visit a patient and brings raw meat!”
No, she wasn't here to visit him at all, she was just here to deliver the goods!
"Guoan, who are you talking to?" Mrs. Chu walked in with a lunch box and saw her husband squatting on the ground, not knowing what he was doing.
"I don't know what kind of meat Brother Qiqi's sister-in-law brought. I can't tell." Chu Guoan said.
There were other people in the ward, and after hearing what Chu Guoan said, they all came over curiously.
"Oh, such a big piece of meat, it must weigh more than ten pounds, right?"
“This meat doesn’t look like pork.”
“It’s not like lamb or beef either.”
"Let me take a look. I've eaten wolf meat, venison, roe deer meat, and even tiger meat. I should know... Hey, this looks like bear meat. Turn the meat over and let me see."
Mrs. Chu turned the meat over.
"Oh my goodness, this is a bear paw. You are such a generous friend!"
Chu Guoan and Mrs. Chu did not expect that there was a bear paw under the basket.
Chu Guoan was a little excited. He had never eaten bear paws before.
Mrs. Chu was also pleasantly surprised. Both the bear paw and the bear meat came at the perfect time. Their meat coupons had been used up long ago, and they had borrowed all they could. She was worried about how to nourish her husband without meat. Now, these twenty-plus kilograms were enough to sustain them until the meat coupons were issued next month.
There were four bear paws. Zhao Shu took one and gave one to Chu Guoan. There were two left. Lin Qi planned to eat braised bear paws tonight.
Xu Hexiao woke up by the smell of fragrance. The overbearing and rich smell was pervasive and filled the entire yard.
Xu Hexiao got up, changed the children's diapers, put them in the cradle, and then carried the cradle to the kitchen.
"Did you brew wine?" Xu Hexiao asked as he entered the kitchen. He smelled the aroma of wine.
"I just brewed it yesterday, rice wine." Lin Qi replied. She likes to add wine when cooking, especially meat. A little wine can remove the fishy smell and make the taste more fragrant.
"I'll buy some wine jars and wine jars tomorrow morning." Xu Hexiao said.
"Don't you have to go to work tomorrow morning?"
"If we're not going tomorrow morning, we have to go out again in the afternoon. But this time we're just going to the surrounding counties and cities, and we'll be back the next day." Xu Hexiao hugged Lin Qi, lowered his head and kissed her.
Xu Hexiao's tongue tip knocked open Lin Qi's pearly teeth, greedily absorbing the sweetness in her mouth——
The two kissed passionately. Lin Qi felt something strange about Xu Hexiao's body. She pushed his chest and said, "The wine is about to run out."
Xu Hexiao hummed, but held Lin Qi without moving, "Let's go to the study tonight?"
As for why they were going to the kitchen, they both knew it.
Lin Qi nodded gently, "Hurry up, the food will burn soon."
"No, I don't smell any burnt smell yet." Xu Hexiao said no and finally let the person go.
That night, Lin Qiyi softened her heart and agreed to many of Xu Hexiao's excessive requests, trying many positions she had never tried before. As a result, the man's eyes turned red and bloodshot, and it was out of control and lasted until the second half of the night.
Lin Qi was so tired that even her fingers were sore. She had originally planned to get some food for Xu Hexiao in the morning and let him take it with him, so that he could eat it on the way to the village or the shop. But he ended up sleeping until noon and didn't even have breakfast.
Xu Hexiao did get up in the morning to change the children's diapers and feed them, but he was also very sleepy, so after changing the children's diapers, he lay down and went to sleep again.
"It's twelve o'clock. There's still some time until two o'clock, so I can still cook lunch at home." Lin Qi said.
Xu Hexiao hummed, "You cook, I'll go buy some wine jars and wine pots."
"How about buying it next time?" Lin Qi didn't want him to be too tired.
Xu Hexiao shook his head. "I'll be very busy next time, so I may not have time."
The lunch was still bear meat, braised in brown sauce. While the meat was stewing, Lin Qi also found time to fry chive dumplings and make egg pancakes. She made more than 30 egg pancakes and used up all the eggs in the house.
"Aren't you going to keep it to hatch chicks?" Xu Hexiao raised his eyebrows.
"The temperature is too cold, I'm worried they can't hatch. Let's wait until spring." The weather is so cold, if we hatch the chicks now, they will probably freeze to death when it snows.
"When I come back next time, I will have someone connect the wires for us. There was electricity here before, but when the chaos broke out, the wires were cut and stolen. I will report to the power supply bureau when I come back tomorrow or the day after tomorrow." Because their Anliang Brigade has no electricity, they have been here for many days, lighting candles and kerosene lamps, and have adapted well. However, since there is electricity here, they still connected the wires and used electric lights for more convenience.
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