Chapter 46
Junjun Tailor Shop.
Fu Le took a piece of flawed silk fabric and went to the shop where his mother often made clothes.
"Aunt Chen, could you make me two sets of sportswear and three short-sleeved shirts? I'd like the embroiderer to add some nice patterns on them. Also, could you make three plain-colored shirts for my mom, with some simple embroidery to help her distinguish them? Do you still have her size?"
"Okay, let me see your fabric." The middle-aged woman stood up from behind the sewing machine and took the plastic bag. When she saw the soft, faintly silky fabric inside, her eyes widened. "Lele, is this silk? My goodness, the quality is amazing! It feels so comfortable, tsk tsk... such good stuff, such good stuff..."
"It's silk. I asked a classmate to get it for me. She lives in Yuncheng, where there's a lot of silk."
"Okay, don't worry, I'll give it to Auntie. This piece of cloth is quite large, it must be over ten meters long, maybe twenty? Let me measure it..."
When Fu Le offered to pay, Aunt Chen simply asked for the remaining two meters of fabric to cover the cost. She wanted to make two nightgowns for her newborn granddaughter, and Fu Le readily agreed.
This fabric is really nice for making nightgowns, especially comfortable to wear in the summer.
For students, every day is a tough one. Fu Le was so engrossed in her studies that she had to keep up with the revision. She squeezed her time to the extreme. Fortunately, with the help of honey and kiwi fruit, she wasn't too tired, and her physical functions were getting better and better.
Time flies, and June has arrived in the blink of an eye. The weather is getting hot, and the tense time for senior high school students has begun.
It's another Friday that students have been looking forward to.
"Damn, Fu Le, it's only been less than two months, how did you grow so tall? Did you eat pig feed?" Wang Jin's annoying voice rang out from behind.
Fu Le turned his head and saw Fang Ge, who was dazzlingly handsome and had lost weight and grown taller.
Once the chubby face gained definition, Fu Le realized that Wang Jin was also quite handsome, belonging to the category of strikingly handsome men. "You two have grown taller too."
Previously, she had to look up at the two of them. Now, although she doesn't have to tilt her head up 180 degrees to get closer like before, she still has to look up.
"I guess your milk tablets helped. Fang Ge is 186cm tall now, she's grown six centimeters. I'm 181cm tall, I've grown five centimeters."
Fu Le glanced at the two people's long legs and could tell that their proportions were really good; it was all in their legs.
Fang Ge approached with a smile, "Long time no see." The little girl seemed to have grown up suddenly; her skin was radiant, and her features were even more delicate.
The sudden closeness startled Fu Le. He caught a whiff of clean, pleasant soapy scent mixed with a unique, youthful fragrance—unexpectedly delightful.
Taking a deep breath, Fu Le took a step back, causing Fang Ge's eyes to darken. "Let's go, let's have a meal together. We're about to enter Hell Week."
Watching the two interact, Wang Jin raised an eyebrow and chimed in, "Yeah, it's hell week. We probably won't see each other again until after the college entrance exam."
“Sure.” This time, Fu Le did not refuse.
It had been a long time since they last saw each other, and the relationship between the three of them hadn't changed much. However, there were some minor changes. Fang Ge and Wang Jin's positions had changed, and Fang Ge was now walking next to Fu Le. Fu Le didn't notice this change because she suddenly felt a little melancholy about parting.
"Fu Le, where are you planning to go to university?" Fang Ge asked in a low voice, his rough voice having become deep and resonant.
“The capital city, the place I most want to go.” Fu Le replied without hesitation, completely unaware of the momentary freeze in Fang Ge’s expression after hearing the address she gave.
"That's good," Fang Ge said calmly.
Wang Jin glanced at the two of them, shook his head speechlessly, and couldn't bear to look.
After dinner, the three of them went to a photo studio and took a lot of photos. Wang Jin insisted on going, and Fang Ge cooperated. Fu Le couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.
By the time they got home, it was almost eight o'clock. The two of them rode their bikes to drop Fu Le off on a small path near her house before turning back.
"Hey, Young Master Fang, what are you up to? Are you plotting something?" Wang Jin teased on the way back.
"It's none of your business."
"Alright, alright, I admit I talked too much. I won't say anything more, okay?"
In the darkness, Fang Ge remained silent; only he knew what he was thinking.
Nanjiufeng is a small mountain opposite Fu Le's house. It is not high or big, but it is undulating and densely forested. There are not many wild animals in the mountain, at most some wild boars and rabbits. Most of the animals are snakes, insects and rodents, so it is a relatively safe mountain. Villagers often go up the mountain to cut down some dead trees to burn for cooking.
In the dead of night, as the entire village fell into a deep sleep, a huge black shadow flew out from the backyard of Old Fu's house and headed towards the depression on the back of Nanjiu Peak not far away. That place was an undeveloped mountain valley with excellent concealment.
Finding a flat and bright spot, Fu Le placed the empty bucket that had previously held milk inside and threw in the carcass of the sand cricket pupa. The mechanical beast's back was almost level with the bucket, making it easy for Fu Le to stand up and operate. He bent down, cut the meat in the bucket into pieces, and put it in, leaving no blood behind, which all fell into the bucket.
From 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., Fu Le worked like this for a month to finish processing all the corpses of the sand crickets. She also collected eight large buckets of blood plasma, plus blood plasma from more than fifty crickets, in 30-liter buckets. There was no other way; she had too much milk and not enough buckets, so she used water buckets instead.
This time, aside from everything else, she had 453 sand cricket pupa corpses alone from her trip to the other world. She didn't plan to sell the meat; she would eat it herself. After she opened her martial arts acupoint, she needed at least ten catties of meat every day. She didn't know where all that meat went, but she would get hungry if she didn't eat. There was less than one Gulu Beast's worth of meat left. Once that was sold, she would sell regular braised meat. Business didn't matter; her family didn't rely on this to make money anymore.
For nearly two months, the exterior structure of the Fu family's house was almost finished, and the courtyard wall had also been built. It was just waiting for decoration so that people could move in. During this period, no one from the Fu family's uncle's family came to the construction site to take a look. Everyone knew why. Although Old Fu didn't say anything, he saw it all. He felt disappointed and sad, but he swallowed it all down.
Looking at her uncle's well-preserved health, Fu Le felt a pang of sadness. During this time, she had given him more than ten pills to restore his bodily functions, along with the Qiqi fruit and sand cricket pupae meat. She planned to find an opportunity to take her uncle to the capital for a brain examination, hoping that everything would go as she wished.
Knowing that her uncle was about to go home and would definitely be back to doing hard labor on the construction site, Fu Le was a little worried. What could she do to prevent her uncle from being so tired?
A handsome face flashed through her mind, and Fu Le's eyes lit up. How could she have forgotten Lu Shi?
"Your uncle is coming to be the warehouse manager?" Hearing Fu Le's words over the phone, Lu Shi agreed without hesitation. "How much will he pay?"
"One thousand." Compared to other people's salaries of five or six hundred, giving her uncle one thousand wouldn't be too outrageous.
"Okay, when are you coming?"
"My house is completely finished."
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