Chapter 170 Hostility

His parents agreed without hesitation and walked towards Panpan and the others, "Hey, kid, how much is the candied haws? Where are your parents?"

Xu Xiaoyou pointed to the back, "The parents went there."

Panpan: "Candied haws are 50 cents each."

The young mother thought it was at most 30 cents each, but when she heard 50 cents, she was stunned for a moment, "Why is it so expensive?"

Panpan: "It's not expensive, we only have 30, and they will be gone once they are sold out."

He raised the one in his hand, "There are still five left."

How pitiful it is for a child to have a broken head, just eat a candied haws to comfort him.

Panpan felt that compared to the pitiful child with a broken head, 50 cents was nothing.

If it can make the child happy, every dollar is worth it!

If it was his baby, he would buy it to make the baby happy!

Not to mention his baby, even if Tiantian wanted it, his parents and grandma wanted it, he would buy it, and he would not think it was expensive at all.

Well, if it was Hou Wei, he might ask Hou Wei to be patient, a man should not be too greedy and spoiled.

So he thinks that if other parents really love their children, they will buy it for their children!

Sure enough, the mother hesitated for a moment, and exchanged glances with the father, "It's a bit expensive."

She already wanted to buy it for her son, but she thought it was expensive, so she needed her husband's support. As long as he agreed, she would buy it without any burden.

Dad nodded, "Buy one, we don't buy it every day."

Mom nodded immediately and smiled, "Yes, the baby is so pitiful, buy one to sweeten your mouth."

Although there is candy at home, the meaning of candied haws to children in winter is different, it is irreplaceable.

They successfully sold another one.

After a while, another middle-aged man with four pockets came out of the hospital with red eyes. When he saw the child selling candied haws, he immediately asked for four.

Tiantian reminded him: "Uncle, 50 cents a stick."

The middle-aged man glanced at her and said, "My mother... wants to eat something sour and sweet."

It was not easy for his widowed mother to raise him. She paid for his education and arranged a job for him after graduating from technical secondary school. Finally, he had a good life.

But his wife disliked the rural mother-in-law and did not let her live with him.

His mother had worked hard for him all her life and had never enjoyed a single day of happiness. Now that she was dying, she wanted to eat something sweet and sour. He didn't know what sweet and sour food to give her. Maybe he could buy an apple or some sugar mixed with vinegar.

When he came out, he saw several children selling candied haws.

Isn't this sweet and sour?

He wanted to let his mother eat enough.

Panpan said, "Is your mother sick? Candied haws are delicious. Don't eat too much. One stick is enough."

The middle-aged man sniffed and wiped his tears. Oh, he had to buy another stick for his wife and children. After all, they might only eat this once in a winter.

He bought four and a half candied haws and left.

Tiantian sighed and whispered, "Is he really greedy? His mother was sick, and he bought some for himself."

The child didn't understand the sadness of adults, but she knew that when grandma was sick, she didn't like to eat. She couldn't even finish one candied haws. Why did

she buy four? He must be greedy. He wanted to eat it.

They stayed here. Those who were discharged from the hospital happily bought candied haws to celebrate, and those who died also bought a candied haws to leave the last bright red color of their life journey. The last sour and sweet taste seemed to be the closest to happiness.

Almost no one bargained here. Even if they thought it was expensive, they would buy it after a moment of hesitation. Those who couldn't afford it would not even ask.

Young female nurses and doctors would come over to buy a string or a few candied hawthorns to eat. Those who

were discharged from the hospital, especially those with children or those who were not short of money, would buy two to celebrate. Some people

who were passing by even bought candied hawthorns to take home to comfort their children.

Panpan also took the initiative to give two hawthorns to a rural patient, two hawthorns to an old man in the countryside, and two hawthorns to an old grandmother in the countryside.

City people were paid wages, so they could eat 50-cent candied hawthorns, because they didn't eat them all the time.

Most people in the countryside couldn't afford it. Not to mention 50-cent candied hawthorns, they couldn't even afford 30-cent candied hawthorns, because they might have borrowed money to see a doctor.

But people who like to eat candied haws are not divided into country and city people. City people can buy them if they like them, while country people will either endure it and walk away, or look at them with tears in their eyes.

Children are all soft-hearted, and they can't bear to see people wiping tears in front of them, so they give two.

Some people will thank them, and some even want more.

Hou Bo will coldly tell them to stop.

"Selling such expensive candied haws, but only giving two, you are really stingy."

"Rich people's children are as cruel as rich people."

Xu Xiaoyou retorted, "There are so many people coming and going, and you are the most greedy."

At this time, a nurse and a doctor came out to buy candied haws, and the man walked away angrily.

A doctor recognized Panpan and Tiantian, after all, they had been here with Father Lu before, and was surprised: "Oh, it's you two, I heard someone say there was a kid selling delicious Tanghulu, so I came out to see, I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence."

The two kids greeted Uncle Zhang obediently, and introduced Hou Bo, Xu Xiaoyou, and Xiao Hou Wei to him.

Doctor Zhang smiled and said: "Let's go, come to the hospital, I will help you sell it."

But Panpan refused, "That's not possible, we have sold almost all, and we have to go to the school to let our classmates taste the delicious Tanghulu."

Although it was expensive, he felt that such good Tanghulu was worth the money, and there must be other children who wanted to eat it.

If we let acquaintances buy it, it would be unfair to Brother Lu An.

Besides, they don't have many Tanghulu, most of them have been sold out, and the loose hawthorn candies are also selling very fast, and they are almost sold out now.

Panpan wanted to give doctors Zhang and Yan Tanghulu to eat, but Doctor Zhang naturally refused.

Doctor Yan was not here at the moment, he went to the Revolutionary Committee to attend the commendation meeting.

Panpan: "Uncle, if you buy it, just 40 cents, I won't make money from you."

Doctor Zhang laughed and said, "How can that be? We can't let the child lose money."

He was a doctor, so he naturally didn't care about the dime.

He bought two sticks, and he and his colleague tried one, and took the rest home to feed the child.

One dollar was enough for everyone, and he thought it was a good deal.

In order to avoid Doctor Zhang asking acquaintances to buy it, they decided to leave.

When leaving the hospital, Tiantian sighed and felt a little depressed. Although she made money, she felt sad when she saw those people who were sick and could not be cured and could only wait to die. If you bring grandpa and grandma into the picture, oh, that little heart will be upset.

She held her hat, her head drooped, her braids drooped, and the hairpins on her head looked listless. Her voice was muffled, "I don't want grandma to get sick, I want them to live a hundred years."

Little Hou Wei: "Long life!"

Xu Xiaoyou comforted her, "Don't worry, Grandma Fang and Grandpa Lu are in good health, they will definitely live to be a hundred years old."

Hou Bo reached out and lifted her braids, helped her straighten the hairpins, "Let's go to the school."

He felt that Tiantian was particularly soft-hearted, maybe because she was a girl, he didn't have any thoughts when he saw those patients, and felt that they had nothing to do with him.

On the way to school, they met two aunts with red armbands.

The aunt asked them, "Children, what are you doing? Where are the adults at home?"

They looked at these beautiful children suspiciously. The boys were older, no more than ten years old, and the children were five or six years old. They were pushing bicycles and carrying large baskets and baskets. What was going on?

Tiantian sniffed and said nothing.

Panpan and Xu Xiaoyou were comforting her on both sides and wiping her tears.

Hou Bo was about to say that they were visiting relatives, but little Hou Wei was still young and spoke quickly, and he shouted, "We are selling candied haws!"

Hou Bo hurriedly said, "We made two at home, but the sugar was too expensive and we couldn't bear to eat them all, so we took them out to exchange with other children."

He was afraid that the aunt would confiscate their candied haws, even though there was not much left.

In Qizhou, he had seen the red armbands abuse their power for personal gain, confiscating the vendors' things and taking them for themselves.

One of the aunts asked curiously, "Does anyone know how to make candied haws? Let me see."

Another aunt asked, "How much is one? Give me one and take it back for the children."

They could see that these children were good-looking, had bicycles, wore neat clothes, and spoke politely and logically. They were obviously educated and must have a good family background.

They would not offend anyone easily.

Looking at the candied haws again, each one was plump and round, with a thin and crispy outer layer of syrup. It was obvious that the craftsmanship was authentic and it must be delicious.

They were also very happy to buy it.

When they went to the primary school, they found that although the adults thought the fruit was too expensive, they either refused to buy it or bought it at the original price after bargaining failed. The primary school students were the most difficult to deal with!

The primary school students thought it was too expensive and bargained noisily, asking them to buy two for five cents.

But in fact, most children could not even afford two for five cents.

They had no money at all!

Only three children from wealthy families had pocket money. One spent fifty cents to buy a candied haws, and another spent fifty cents to buy ten sugar-coated hawthorns.

Although the third one had money, he wanted to bargain hard and asked for two cents a piece. He also forced them to sell, and threatened to arrest them and send them to labor reform if they did not sell!

He claimed to be the grandson of the principal, and he had a group of lackeys who helped him to cheer and encourage him, and even wanted to grab the candied haws!

Panpan and the others decisively fled from the gate of the elementary school.

After leaving the elementary school, Tiantian had long forgotten the low mood brought by the hospital, and her face was full of fear, "The elementary school students are so scary!"

Elementary school student Hou Bo: "..." In fact, they are not that scary, at least not all of them are that scary.

They checked and found that only three candied haws were left, and there were less than twenty candied haws left in a small basket.

They didn't go to the guesthouse or hotel.

"Brother and the others have sold out too, right?"

Lu An and the others took away thirty sticks.

"Let's meet at the square."

They had just finished their meal at around ten o'clock. The sun was setting and they were hungry again.

Hou Bo led them to the Revolutionary Committee.

Aunt San said that if they were hungry, they could go there and eat hot meals in the cafeteria.

Lu Ping and Lu An were talking to each other.

So far, they had only sold four strings of rice, and they sold them at a price of three cents.

Lu Ping: "Let's go back and find Pan Pan."

Let Pan Pan sell it.

Lu An was a little sad, "Brother, I told you, 50 cents is too expensive, 40 cents is too expensive, and they are still negotiating for 30 cents."

Lu Ping: "As for the buyer, wouldn't it be better if you gave it to him for free? You can't immediately lower the price when people think it's expensive. If it's lower than 30 cents, we might as well eat it ourselves. It's so cold, it's not worth it to freeze it."

Lu An: "It's so expensive, it's hard to sell, people don't want it, we can't sell it, they certainly can't sell it either."

Lu Ping pushed his bicycle to the Revolutionary Committee Square.

On the road, someone saw Tanghulu and asked how much it cost. Lu Ping wanted to say 50 cents, but Lu An had already said 30 cents.

The man said with disdain, "It's too expensive, everyone else's selling it for 20 cents, 20 cents, I'll buy two."

Lu An thought that Pan Pan and his friends must have lowered the price to 20 cents if they couldn't sell it all, otherwise why would this person say that others were selling it for 20 cents?

Lu Ping naturally disagreed.

If it was 20 cents, it would be a waste of time and a loss.

Candy is too expensive!

The man was unhappy, "Do you know how to do business? Now people are catching speculators everywhere and not allowing you to sell, but you are still wandering around with a straw bag. If you get caught, not only will your goods be confiscated, but you will also be fined. Hurry up and sell it."

He saw that the two children were timid, so he wanted to scare them. He would buy all the last 10 cents each.

It happened that two aunties with red armbands were walking this way.

The man immediately threatened the two of them, "Did you see that?"

Lu Ping saw it, and Lu An was so scared that his legs went limp, and he wanted to pull his elder brother to run.

The red-armbanded aunt also saw it and shouted, "Don't run, we won't catch those ten or eight candied haws."

Hearing her say that they wouldn't catch them, Lu Ping signaled Lu An not to panic.

The man said awkwardly, "Hey, you're not arresting them again?"

The mother walked up to him, looked at him, and said to Lu Ping and his brother, "You and those kids are from the same family, right? I bought two."

She warned the man, "Don't ruin the reputation of our Red Armbands everywhere. When did we arrest people indiscriminately? If you come here once in a while, we won't care. If you come here every day, that won't work. If you sell 20 or 30 candied haws, we won't care. If you sell hundreds or thousands every day, there will definitely be a problem. If you're not speculating, where do you get the candy from?"

The man didn't buy any candied haws and ran away.

Lu Ping and Lu An also thanked the Red Armbands and went to look for Pan Pan and the others.

As a result, they saw several people surrounding Hou Bo and his friends' bicycles on the road, buying candied haws.

Xu Xiaoyou saw them and shouted, "Brother, you haven't sold all the candied haws yet? Hurry up and bring them over, we don't have enough!"

Lu An: "..."

Lu Ping: "Let me tell you, don't look at Pan Pan as a kid, he can sell things."

Lu An was a little unconvinced before, thinking that his father could sell things, and he was his father's son, so if it was inherited, he should be the one who could sell things, not Pan Pan, his nephew?

As a result... Pan Pan was better at selling than him.

He wondered if he was too stupid.

Lu Ping whispered, "It's okay. Didn't you see that I can't sell it?" He

couldn't open his mouth to shout. He was embarrassed to sell melons to Wang Po, embarrassed to argue with her, and even more embarrassed to refuse her.

She wanted a bargain, but he didn't dare to insist or refuse.

This really can't do business.

Over at Panpan's place, a few children were promoting Tanghulu with their mouths smeared with honey.

Xu Xiaoyou: "We carefully selected hawthorns, washed them thoroughly, and even removed the butts of the hawthorns."

Panpan: "We used kodo sugar. We used up all the sugar in our house and our neighbors' houses. They are so sweet. They will be gone once they are sold out."

Xiao Houwei: "Sour and sweet, we all love them! Slurp!"

Tiantian: "Hawthorns are also good for beauty. Chinese medicine says that eating them can reduce stomach heat, help digestion and quench thirst. There are many benefits."

"No more, no more. There are only the last few left."

Lu Ping and Lu An watched as the kids sold all the candied haws they hadn't sold at 50 cents a string

. There were actually two people arguing over the last string, one saying 60 cents and the other saying 70 cents, showing off their rivalry.

Panpan just smiled and said, "You don't need 60 cents or 70 cents, 25 cents each, half is fine?"

One of them looked sharp and said, "I see you still have a few in your basket."

Panpan immediately stretched out his arm to block it, his head shaking like a rattle, "No, no."

The last few were to be given to Doctor Yan, Director Qin, and the uncles of the County Revolutionary Committee. Well, it depends on who they are given to.

At this time, Mrs. Lu came out to look for them, saw them at a glance, and invited them to come over for dinner.

There was a leader in the county revolutionary committee who loved to give long speeches. The meeting turned into a one-man lecture, which made everyone tired. Those who didn't have seats had numb legs from standing, and those who had seats had numb butts from sitting.

At least they would give out certificates and prizes after they finished speaking.

Afterwards, everyone could have a simple meal in the cafeteria.

Lin Shu was worried about her kids, and her butt was hurting from sitting there.

During the critical meeting, Qiu Lina sat next to her and stared at her with a very strange and slightly weird look. When

Lin Shu looked over, she looked away as if she didn't know her.

It was finally over, and everyone could go to the cafeteria to eat.

Father Lu was talking to Doctor Yan and others. Sister Lu asked Lin Shu to watch something while she went to find the children.

Qiu Lina stopped Wei Lan over there, "Wei Lan, where are you sitting? I've been looking for you for a long time, why don't you come sit with me?"

Wei Lan came here with three comrades from the city. They were attending the county commendation meeting as superior units.

When he saw Lin Shu, they just exchanged glances before, but now after the meeting, he wanted to chat with her nearby.

He wanted to pursue her before, but her husband returned safely, and he was happy for her. Now they are just friends.

Comrade Lin Shu has a good relationship with his sister and they often keep in touch. His sister asked him to help tell her that she was going on a business trip to another place for an interview recently, and she would go to Lujiazhuang to interview her and the brigade, and also to see their water turbine pump station.

As a result, before he could find Lin Shu, he was stopped by Qiu Lina.

Qiu Lina was introduced to him by someone else, but he didn't like her very much. He told the introducer that she was not suitable for him in the summer.

He asked himself, it was indeed because of Lin Shu that he fell in love with her at first sight, but her husband returned safely and his dream was shattered. Suddenly, he was not keen on finding a partner and had no interest in it, at least not now.

He thought he could build a career first, and it would not be too late to get married at the age of 30.

This was what his sister meant.

But this Qiu Lina still called him all the time and ran to the city to find him at any time, as if they were already a couple.

"Wei Lan, let's go to dinner together, I'll treat you." Qiu Lina smiled at him.

Wei Lan said seriously: "Comrade Qiu Lina, I think the introducer should have told you this."

Qiu Lina immediately interrupted him, "What are you talking about? We are comrades. When you come to the county, shouldn't I treat you to dinner?"

She likes Wei Lan very much and thinks he is the kind of man she imagined, elegant, comely, and a little shy.

But she could feel that he didn't seem to be interested in her, so she couldn't let him say his rejection directly.

Just like this, they were vague and ambiguous. They became friends on the surface, but gradually became partners.

Anyway, she went to the city to look for him, and when he came here she also looked for him. Others would think they were a couple when they saw her.

Women who want to get close to Wei Lan also have to consider whether he has a partner.

Wei Lan: "Sorry, I have something else to do. I'll leave first."

He saw Lin Shu and someone else carrying a wash basin and a hot pot, and hurriedly greeted, "Comrade Lin Shu!"

Lin Shu heard the voice, turned her head and saw him, and smiled, "Comrade Wei Lan, what a coincidence, where are you going?"

Wei Lan hurried to her side, "I was just looking for you, and I want to talk about something."

Qiu Lina's eyes wandered over them, and her face suddenly became very ugly.

She herself had a bad impression of Lin Shu. She thought Lin Shu looked too gorgeous, like a vixen. Before, when a man "sacrificed", she was busy hooking up with a man for a blind date and hanging her cousin.

Now seeing Lin Shu smiling at Wei Lan, and Wei Lan's smile was the most brilliant she had ever seen, she was instantly furious.

Now that the man is back, she is still flirting with single men. How can she be so shameless?