Chapter 80079. Sweet and Soft Little Baby
I had dinner at my grandpa's house and then went home.
Before leaving, Liu Ye'er stuffed ten taels of silver into her grandparents' pockets, but the two old people refused, saying that they had made money from the rice-fish-duck farming method during the autumn rice season, and asked Liu Ye'er to keep it for Li Ge'er and Zhou Yi.
"Brother Li and Zhou Yi made some money in the county. Brother Li asked me to give these ten taels to my parents. Don't worry, Zhou Yi knows about it..."
Liu Yeer smiled and said some caring words, asking the two elders and her brother to pay more attention to their health.
"You and Dashan too..."
The two elders also gave Zhou Yi a few reluctant instructions. Knowing that Zhou Yi liked sour taro stalks, they stuffed two large jars and two backpacks of taro onto the ox cart.
The taro from my grandfather's house is delicious, and it is the same variety as the ones given by Gui Fulang. Zhou Yi wants to take them all and sell them in the store, also to supplement the income of my grandfather's family.
Two acres of taro.
More than 3,000 kilograms.
The whole family insisted on giving everything to Lei Li and Zhou Yi. After much persuasion, they finally accepted the money. However, they did not want to take it away today, but would take it all to the county town tomorrow.
So the next day, many people who wanted to take ox carts to the town market or county town found that there were no carts available, and they were all hired by Lei Li and Zhou Yi to pull taro carts.
Several ox carts were moving slowly on the mountain road, giving off the aura of a mighty caravan.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi sat on the first ox cart to show the way.
Zhang Daqiang sat on the last ox cart, feeling a little reluctant to leave. As soon as he left the village, he looked back from time to time. When he could no longer see Sanlihe Village in the distance, he sighed.
——I don’t know when I can see Mr. Miao and Xiaobao again.
Lei Ji Fast Food Restaurant had not been open for several days, and the regular customers were getting impatient. When they saw the two bosses coming back with so many taro, they all came up to help move the food.
Just chat for a few minutes.
"I haven't eaten the food in your restaurant for two days. My mouth has no taste. Fortunately, you are back..."
"The taro that the two bosses brought back must be delicious. Are we going to use it to make taro rice tomorrow?"
"Zhang Daqiang is going back with you guys too? Next time you do something like this, take me with you. I'm strong and work fast. Just give me some food, haha..."
It’s too late to make lunch.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi started preparing dinner directly. One went to buy meat, one went to the vegetable seller's house, and one peeled taro and sweet potatoes, washed rice, and cooked two pots of rice first.
This taro is soft, sweet and has a different taste from sweet potato. It is very popular for making taro rice, braised pork with taro, taro cabbage pancakes, or taro stewed chicken.
At the port with a large passenger flow, 3,000 kilograms of taro were consumed in just a few days. Lei Li sent a message to his grandfather, asking him to buy taro from other people in the village.
We hired a few more trucks to transport the taro.
There was a lot more taro, and the consumption rate was a little slower. It took less than half a month to sell out, but it was still in higher demand than sweet potatoes and potatoes, so Lei Li sent a second letter.
The previous two times, because the taro was unsaleable and Lei Li wanted a lot, the two families offered a price lower than the market price. This time, someone was greedy and wanted to take the opportunity to raise the price, so Lei Li's grandmother directly found other families to buy from.
Although the old lady didn't tell Lei Li about this bad thing, the people pulling the ox carts were all from Sanlihe Village and Silihe Village. She knew exactly which family was doing the wrong thing, so she told Lei Li everything.
"...Your grandparents had good intentions. They thought the taro grown by those two families was good, and since they were close to us, they thought of buying from them. Who knew they would rip us off? They really don't know what's good for them."
After hearing this, Zhou Yi only thought of one word——
Killing the familiar.
In modern times, it’s big data that’s exploiting the familiar, and here it’s village data that’s exploiting the familiar. It’s really everywhere…
Lei Li didn't have any ideas.
He knew that people are fickle. Anyway, there are many people who want to sell taro to him. Besides, in addition to taro, he also has potatoes, sweet potatoes, purple potatoes, white potatoes, yellow potatoes, cassava, hairy potatoes... There are many potatoes to buy.
His family grows sweet potatoes simply because they grow in large quantities and are sweeter and softer, and he and his mother love sweet food.
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A month passed quickly.
It is already November, and winter has arrived in Qingmi County.
Qingmi County is located in the subtropics, where the four seasons are not particularly distinct. Although plants wither and change, the area is still full of green in winter.
The large evergreen trees make the trees with changing leaves stand out very vividly. Against the green mountains, there are clusters of red, golden, orange, and even white flowers here and there.
The temperature didn't drop drastically either.
Still above zero.
Some are a few degrees Celsius, some are over ten degrees Celsius, and occasionally there are warmer temperatures of over 20 degrees Celsius.
These were all roughly guessed by Zhou Yi based on the body temperature. In the kitchen of the fast food restaurant, which was not very narrow but not very spacious, it was still so hot that Zhou Yi was only wearing a jacket.
The port is still bustling.
Probably because the New Year is approaching, many ships are returning from outside. Some have been away for a few months, some have been away for half a year, and I heard that some have been away in the north for two or three years before returning.
I think quite a few of them made money.
There are a lot more businessmen coming to Lei Ji fast food restaurant to eat, and the proportion of meat dishes ordered has increased a little, but only a little. Most of the customers are still workers who work hard to save money to support their families.
The festive atmosphere in Qingmi County is getting stronger day by day.
At the port, you can see stalls selling big red lanterns and various kinds of lanterns, as well as red paper couplets. From time to time, children set off firecrackers, putting them in cow dung on the road and exploding them, and then being chased and beaten by the adults who are caught in the fire.
What came off the boat were not only cloth, tea, porcelain, and jade, but also sausages, cured duck, and ham, which were probably specialties from the state capital or somewhere unknown.
There are actually rare dairy products, such as milk candies and milk bars, which have a particularly mellow and rich milk flavor.
Lei Li and Zhou Yi bought some sausages and cured duck, as well as a few packets of milk candy. They kept half of the milk candy and took the rest to Zhu Zhuer's house.
Zhu Zhuer just gave birth last night.
He's a little man.
Its whole body was red and wrinkled, its hands and feet were not even as big as Lei Li's fingers, and there was a patch of dandruff on its head, which was clumpy and looked like a little turtle.
Zhu Zhuer is obsessed with appearance and is a little disgusted with the baby she gave birth to. She thinks he is ugly and doesn't look like her at all.
Zhu Qingshan liked the baby very much. He learned how to hold and coax the baby from the midwife. If he didn't have to go to work during the day, he would have wanted to follow his son everywhere.
I was also very cautious about the name of my child. I read books all night but still couldn't come up with a correct one.
Mr. Zhu didn't know how to come up with a name and was illiterate. He just kept thinking about it but couldn't come up with anything. When he saw Lei Li and Zhou Yi coming, he felt like he was saved.
"How about you two come and name the child? After all, you are the child's godparents, so you two should get involved in such a big thing..."
If the child doesn't like his name in the future, just say that it was given by his godfather and godmother, and he won't dare to say anything.
Mr. Zhu praised his own cleverness.
Zhou Yi was shocked when he heard this. Immediately, his mind flashed with the image of a cow named "Da Zhuang", a dog called "Black and White Evil", and a future child who might be named Lei Zhuang and Lei Mei...
A person's name.
The bark of a tree.
Seriously, asking Lei Li to choose a name is like ruining a child's future...
"How about calling me Shuo?"
Zhou Yi hurried to get ahead of Lei Li, fearing that if he was a step late Lei Li would speak, and Zhu Da Hu, who shared the same views as him, would agree.
"shuò?"
Mr. Zhu pondered for a moment, but couldn't put the number in his mind. "Which one?"
"Shuo" means huge and magnificent.
Zhou Yi explained, "Shuo means big, tall, solid as a rock, and knowledgeable. As a name, it means we hope our child will be tall and healthy, tenacious and hardworking, good at studying, and have a bright future."
“This is good!”
Mr. Zhu's eyes lit up, and he patted Zhou Yi on the back excitedly, almost causing him to bleed internally. "That sounds great! Study hard! Maybe our Zhu family can produce a scholar, hahahahaha!"
"I'll tell Qingshan about this, he'll definitely agree!"
As he said this, Mr. Zhu rushed into the house, his voice so loud that it could be heard in the yard.
No surprise.
Zhu Qingshan also thought that the name Zhu Shuo was good and would not offend the court or the elders.
Only Zhu Zhuer felt that the "tall" in Shuo was not a good idea, because he liked the bookish and gentle type of men. If he grew too tall, he was afraid that he would be as rough as his father, Zhu Da Hu.
but……
Zhu Zhuer looked at her red-skinned son sleeping in the crib.
Well... I feel like she won't look that good in the future. She should grow taller and stronger. If she's too small and short, he's afraid no boys or girls will like her.
It’s good to be called “Zhu Shuo”, very good.
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Children change every day.
After half a month, the dandruff on Zhu Zhuer's son, Xiao Zhu Shuo's, head fell off on its own. His facial features grew a little, his skin became white and tender, his face became rosy, and his mouth became red, just like a doll in a New Year picture.
Then he put on the small clothes that Zhu Zhuer made for him, especially the little tiger ones. He had a tiger-like head and was very cute. He was not afraid of people and would hum or laugh when he saw people. He was very lovable.
And they look alike.
His eyes and nose are like Zhu Zhuer, and his mouth and forehead are like Zhu Qingshan. Zhu Dahu looked left and right and insisted that little Zhu Shuo also looked like him, with overall facial features similar.
The more Zhu Zhuer listened to him, the more she felt that the baby looked more like her own father. When she thought that such a sweet and soft baby would grow up to be a big picky eater, she suddenly lost her appetite.
"No, no."
Lei Li comforted him, "I heard from the elders in the village that if you take your child to look at good-looking people more often, your child will also be good-looking in the future. If you take care of your child more often, the child will always look at his father, and he will definitely look more and more like you in the future."
"You're right."
Zhu Zhuer thought it made sense, so as soon as Zhu Qingshan came home, he would hold the child and walk around Zhu Qingshan, or let Zhu Qingshan coax the child.
Zhu Zhuer thinks her husband is the best looking! He is literate and can make money. It would be great if the child looks like him!
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