Five Nut Mooncake

Song Shixia was the only one left at home, so she asked Ji Weiqing to take the child and mooncakes back home. She said she would go to the station with her brother tomorrow and told him not to come back at night, but Ji Weiqing was absent-minded and didn't know if he listened to her.

Song Qiusheng was beaming with joy, dressed very fashionably, and it was obvious that he was living a good life. "Can you change the packaging of the mooncakes to something nicer?"

Song Shixia thought he was looking for trouble: "You have high requirements. No packaging will affect your appetite, right?"

Song Qiu Sheng scratched his head and said, "I'm going to give this to someone as a gift. The mooncakes you make look more fashionable than those sold in the store."

With just such a simple and sincere compliment, Song Shixia curled the corners of his lips and picked out six of the most beautiful mooncakes.

"One for each flavor, is that enough?"

Song Qiusheng was very generous and said, "That's enough. I'll give you the money for the chicken."

Song Shixia didn't bother to be polite with him. Anyway, she was going to use the money to buy things for her family.

She asked casually, "Who are you sending off? Your partner from last time?"

When giving mooncakes as gifts, the packaging must be nice and classy? Song Shixia felt that her brother was in trouble. Which male customer would care whether the mooncake packaging was nice or not? The mooncakes sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives were all wrapped in oil paper, but people still gave them as gifts.

Song Qiu Sheng shook his head and said, "No, I had a falling out with that guy. He has a narrow vision and can only see the tiny profits in front of him. He doesn't even have the courage to withstand failure." Partnering with such a person will sooner or later cause problems.

"You're talking so tough now? When you get home and see your parents, I'll see how you can avoid being urged to get married."

Song Qiu Sheng straightened his back and said, "Why are you hiding? Men should get married when they are old enough, and women should get married when they are old enough. What's the point of rushing them? We can talk about it when it's our destiny."

It looks like there's an 80 to 90 percent chance that this is the case. Look at how proud he is. I wonder if my future sister-in-law will be the same cool young lady I met last time.

Song Qiusheng was carrying something: "I'm leaving now. I'll pick you up at the school gate tomorrow."

Song Shixia watched him go out and said lazily, "No need, I'll take a ride to the station. It's too much trouble for you to come."

He waved his hand and said, "I'm on my way. Just wait for me at home."

Song Shixia went back to the house and asked, "Has the sun risen from the west?" Could Song Qiu Sheng be so considerate?

As night fell, Song Shixia locked the door, and then the sound of a door being unlocked came from the door.

She turned around and looked at Ji Weiqing in surprise.

"Where are the children?"

"At home, I am the only one back."

The two of them walked into the house side by side.

"Did you forget to take your bag?" He must have forgotten his few treasure books that he carried with him wherever he went.

"I'll go home with you." His tone was very calm, but Song Shixia could hear a tone of refusal.

He sent the child to her grandmother's house, and there seemed to be no excuse to refuse, but it seemed as if he was afraid that she would run away.

Song Shixia made three rules with him: "Let me make it clear first, the trip back and forth will definitely waste a lot of your time, so don't blame me for not reminding you."

Ji Weiqing said without hesitation: "No, it's vacation time."

She exclaimed: "So you still have a vacation." Song Shixia swore that he was not being sarcastic, it was mainly because she had never seen him idle on the weekends.

Ji Weiqing looked puzzled: "Why not? Professors also have human rights."

Song Shixia whispered, "I see you work overtime every Saturday and Sunday, either writing papers or reading literature. I don't dare disturb you when you are in the study every day."

Ji Weiqing corrected: "It's not a thesis, I'm just writing a report to kill time."

"It's all the same. You're working overtime anyway. I thought professors were busier than doctors." He didn't even give her a vacation, nor did he spend time with her.

Even if Ji Weiqing was slow to react, he could still hear the disappointment in her tone.

His usually cold and indifferent expression showed a loss of what to do: "Sorry, I was negligent."

"Don't apologize to me, you didn't do anything wrong."

Song Shixia got up to pack the mooncakes. Since there were no ziplock bags, she could only wrap them in oil paper. Judging from the consumption level of the family, it was estimated that the mooncakes would be finished in two or three days.

Ji Weiqing wanted to help but didn't know where to start, so he could only help pile up the mooncakes.

Song Shixia stuffed a five-nut mooncake into his mouth, and Ji Weiqing ate it without changing his expression.

The next morning, Song Qiu Sheng drove a small black car to Shaobaodi and honked the horn twice.

Next to Song Shixia was Ji Weiqing, who was carrying a suitcase, and her hands were empty.

"No wonder you said you would come pick me up. Where did you get the car?"

Song Qiusheng blew up his bangs to show off: "I borrowed it. Get in the car. Will my brother-in-law come with us?"

Ji Weiqing greeted his brother-in-law and opened the car door for Song Shixia.

"Yes, he sent all the children to my mother-in-law's house and was determined to go with us."

Song Qiusheng shook his head in disapproval: "What you said, I can't go?"

Song Shixia didn't say anything. She started to doze off after getting in the car. She didn't sleep well last night.

Song Qiu Sheng and Ji Weiqing were chatting with each other, and the scene seemed familiar.

Song Shixia said she was catching up on some sleep, but in fact she was just listening to the two of them chatting about a topic that was not very interesting. She smiled secretly in her heart, Ji Weiqing was really good at talking, and he managed to run out of topics to talk about, and her brother, a community bull, was so annoyed.

With Song Qiu Sheng and Ji Weiqing taking turns driving, it only took a day and a half to reach the town of the county seat. Her home was in a nearby village.

Song Shixia was unfamiliar with everything here, and Song Qiu Sheng said he wanted to buy something.

She also wanted to buy some gifts to take back.

She lowered her voice and said, "Let's go pick things out together, and then we can say you bought it, okay?"

Ji Weiqing disagreed: "I brought money."

Song Shixia thought that it was probably his mother-in-law who taught him: "Okay, you pay later."

When a car comes to town, it's like a celebrity returning home after becoming famous. Even strangers will take a second look at it, and even the people getting off the car will be talked about.

Song Shixia ignored all of them. She was in a department store picking out fabrics for her family, but she didn't dare buy any underwear because she didn't know the sizes. Most people in the countryside knew how to make clothes, so she bought a set of large-sized pure cotton pajamas for each of her parents based on their approximate body shapes, and a fashionable leather jacket for her brother.

This little thing cost me more than 200 yuan. It's not an exaggeration, a leather jacket costs 150 yuan.

In fact, clothes are not that expensive in coastal cities, but information is backward, and people take advantage of the information gap to do business. Even a pig can get rich if you stand at the forefront of the trend.

She had to buy clothes even if they were expensive. She couldn't go to coastal cities to buy goods just for a coat. Besides, Song Qiusheng had also done clothing business before, but his connections were ruined by his own people. Not everyone can do business.

She had no intention of buying it but just took a closer look at it. Ji Weiqing asked the salesperson to install it for her, saying that she felt sorry for not seeing her brother the last time she came, and the expensive gift she gave him expressed her affection.

As soon as she heard it, she knew it was taught by her mother-in-law herself. It was hard for him to remember every word.

The price of the jacket made the rest of the gifts seem more normal. A bottle of Wuliangye for five yuan, a bottle of Maotai for eight yuan, and a pack of Chinese cigarettes were all high-end items that required cigarette and alcohol coupons, but Ji Weiqing brought them all.

Song Shixia picked out a Dacron shirt for her elder sister, which could be worn by anyone weighing less than 130 kilograms. She also bought a few kilograms of brown sugar and white sugar and ten kilograms of pork. Ji Weiqing finally stopped.

The couple put aside the little disagreement and both of them carried large and small bags in their hands.

"Is this enough? My family has never spent so much money on New Year's goods."

Unexpectedly, Ji Weiqing said unsatisfactorily: "You and your brother haven't bought anything yet."

Song Shixia shook her head quickly: "I don't need it, and my brother doesn't need it either."

Ji Weiqing bought a watch when she wasn't paying attention: "My mother asked me to buy it for her."

What else could she do? She had already bought it: "Get in the car. Just this once. Don't give such an expensive gift next time."

"Song Shixia? Is that you?" A surprised voice called her.

Song Shixia had just put her things away when she turned around.

The other person looked like a gentle and cultured person, and was wearing glasses.

She really couldn't find any memory of him.

"Who are you?"

The smile on the other person's face froze: "I'm Wu Tianlei, and I was your classmate in junior high school."

It's been so long since then, no wonder she has no recollection of it.

Song Shixia smiled awkwardly but politely: "It's you, what a coincidence." The original person had no impression of him at all.

Wu Tianlei was very excited: "We agreed to take the college entrance examination together. Where did you go later?"

Song Shixia deliberately pretended to be very disappointed: "I...I didn't go to school." So we are not the same kind of people anymore, so let's stop the awkward conversation.

Unexpectedly, the other party became even more excited, and his face was full of worry: "Are you in trouble at home? I remember you have a younger brother. Did your parents let you get married?"

Song Shixia answered stiffly, "Yes, I'm married. I'm already in my twenties. There's no point in going to school. I might as well get married and be a good wife and mother." She had made herself look so vulgar that she was so disappointed that she just turned away.

"You can't think like that. You can still go on to study for university even if you get married. At first, my grades were always higher than yours, but I was admitted to a normal university. Now I am a glorious elementary school teacher."

Who came to save her? Was it to persuade her to go back to school? Big brother. I really don’t know him.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I'd better forget it. I'm planning to have a baby, and the child needs adult care before the age of five." There's no reason to persuade her anymore, right?

Wu Tianlei said, "I know you must have suffered a lot to have this idea, but relying on a child to tie a man's heart is not a long-term solution. You have to improve yourself to see the wider world."

Song Shixia was dumbfounded. So what was his purpose? To persuade her to divorce?

"Okay, I got it, thank you." She answered perfunctorily, ready to make a quick decision.

Wu Tianlei was very excited: "Where do you live? You didn't tell me before, otherwise I would have given you my textbooks. With your smarts, you will definitely be able to get into the Normal University. Maybe we can even be colleagues together."

Ji Weiqing finally couldn't help but unbuckle himself and got out of the car.

"Xia Xia, it's time to go find your brother."

Wu Tianlei pointed at Ji Weiqing and asked, "Who is he?"

Song Shixia opened the car door and said, "My husband, I am going home for the Mid-Autumn Festival. I am going to marry in the capital."

Wu Tianlei stared blankly at the car leaving, feeling indescribable in his heart and extremely disappointed with Song Shixia.

Song Qiu Sheng was stunned after getting on the car.

"I just went to visit a friend and bought some melon seeds, peanuts and fruit candies. Why did you two buy so much to celebrate the New Year?"

Song Shixia explained for Ji Weiqing: "He didn't prepare anything when he came to our house last time. This time, my mother-in-law told him to be polite. Here, you have something too."

Song Qiusheng has a watch that he bought for more than 80 yuan, and he usually doesn't wear it for fear of damaging it. He recognizes the watch given by his brother-in-law, which costs 120 yuan.

"This watch is too expensive. I can't accept it."

She didn't even need to wait for Ji Weiqing to speak: "Take it. He is the kind of person who would rather you lose it than give it away. Even if it is lost, he wants it to be thrown away from you."

Song Qiu Sheng thanked him again solemnly. He could wear his 80 yuan watch every day, and the watch given by his brother-in-law could be kept for meeting distinguished guests.

A small car drove into Songjia Village, and from a distance a group of children were running behind the car.

Song Shixia asked casually in the car: "Brother, do you know Wu Tianlei?"

"You met him? He's the first college student in our town to be admitted to college. Why are you asking him?"

Song Shixia said nonchalantly: "We met on the road, he greeted me, but I didn't know him."

Song Qiusheng sneered: "Don't get too close to him, he is not a good person."

There is more to come, but I don’t know when it will be when I wake up. I will catch some bugs when I wake up. Good night.