Chapter 103 102 Mid-August, eggs for sorbet

It was already 1:30 noon, cicadas were chirping outside the window, and the hot wind was stirring up dusty leaves on the trees.

Wang Yuan sat on the edge of the kang and saw the following message in the telegraph newspaper:

"Can it be 12,000 yuan? I'll ask Sun Dagang to discuss it in detail."

Li Yan moved to Wang Yuan's right side curiously. Recently, she had been reading "Dream of Red Mansions" frequently and her literacy level had been increasing, so she could fully recognize the content on the paper.

"Hiss~"

Li Yan took a breath of shock.

Wang Yuan was afraid that Sun Dagang would see something, so he glared: "What are you looking at, you bitch? Go and boil a pot of water to make tea for Brother Dagang."

"Tch, I don't like watching it yet."

Li Yan turned around and went to the outhouse to boil water.

There is no electric kettle at home, so hot water is boiled in a large pot. Wood is free and very convenient to make a fire.

If future generations cannot do this, they will not allow the wood on the mountain to be cut down, and even if they are bought, they will not be allowed to burn, saying that it pollutes the atmosphere. It is helpless to think about it.

Sun Dagang smiled and said: "Xiaoyuan, where is the ginseng you mentioned? Take it out and let me have a look."

"Brother Dagang, Brother Lian sent you a telegram? What did it say?"

"It was nothing, he just asked me to come over on his behalf, buy ginseng and send it to him.

I thought about how easy it was. Xiao Yuanqian and Brother Lian had such a good relationship, and the price was not low, so why not just buy it outright.

Hiss~ I have already bought my train ticket. I will take the train to Beijing tomorrow, just in time to see the legendary Yanjing City." Sun Dagang smoked a dry cigarette and glanced at Wang Yuan.

Wang Yuan instinctively felt that Sun Dagang was not telling the truth.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Yuan said slowly: "Something went wrong. I told Brother Lian that the ginseng is not mine, but belongs to a friend of mine.

Before, his grandfather refused to give him a note, so he found a ginseng and wanted to sell it to get some money.

Now that his grandfather is willing to write him a note again, he gives his grandfather ginseng to eat."

"Huh? What kind of note is it?"

"The train that transports wood is not a piece of paper, so he can earn far more than the tens of thousands of yuan from selling ginseng."

"Hiss~"

Sun Gangzhang couldn't help but take a breath of cold air. He felt that there was no need for Wang Yuan to lie to him, and it was normal for him to be able to hang out with Zheng Lian, Yanjing's big brother, with some background. After all, birds of a feather flock together.

As for why you are still willing to live in the countryside with such a big background? Is it a product of young people going to the countryside?

Sun Dagang had a lot of plots in his head instantly.

"Then what's the deal?" Sun Dagang frowned: "Brother Lian said that he can give you up to fifteen thousand, is fifteen thousand okay?"

"No, no, the ginseng may have been eaten by his grandfather. When the train rings, it's worth ten thousand taels. Tens of thousands of yuan is really a small amount of money when it comes to many things."

"But I can't explain it to Brother Lian."

"What's so hard to explain? It's not your fault, and it's not my fault either. If he doesn't want to sell it, I can't help it. If I have the ginseng in my hands, I will definitely sell it."

Sun Dagang calmed down a bit, and Wang Yuan gave him a few words of explanation before sending him away.

When Wang Yuan returned to the house, he saw his wife Li Yan looking straight at him, frowning:

"I'm confused. Don't we have ginseng in our hands? What kind of friends, police officers, train leather guys, what are you talking about?"

Wang Yuan felt that his wife was very cute, and then he explained with a smile that the so-called ginseng in the hands of his friend was of course a figment of his imagination.

"Aren't you lying?"

"I just want to take care of Zheng Lian's emotions, and then try to raise his status." Wang Yuan hugged her into the house:

"If I tell you clearly that I am just asking for the price and not planning to sell it, do you think it will cause Zheng Lian to be dissatisfied?"

"Why are you dissatisfied? What's wrong with asking for the price?" Li Yan looked confused.

"It's easy for you to think. Zheng Lian has to go from home to the post office to send a telegram. Doesn't it waste time on the way? Does it cost money to send a telegram?

We are just small farmers in the bitter cold frontier, and we are the eldest brother of Yanjing. If we let others do things because of our unequal status, it will be very easy for others to be dissatisfied."

"What you said makes sense."

Li Yan talked about the price again: "He just said it was 15,000, right? We bought it for 4,200, and can we sell it for 15,000 when we resell it?"

"I suspect the price will still be high in the future, so we are not in a hurry to sell."

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The big catfish was too heavy. After everyone had a meal, Wang Yuan put the fish meat into the space in the name of selling the fish to the market.

If you want to eat catfish meat again in the future, just say it is fish meat bought from the market, and your relatives will not suspect anything. Anyway, in the eyes of their relatives, Wang Yuan is very "supernatural".

time flies.

In the blink of an eye, August 12, 1987 came.

Sister-in-law Li Ping has lived at Wang Yuan's house for more than half a month, and now she has finally returned home. Wang Yuan is very happy that he can finally spend time with his beautiful wife. There is a big light bulb every day, which makes him feel uncomfortable both mentally and physically.

Wang Yuan sold the bile of the bear he shot to a state-owned store for 1,400 yuan, kept the bear skin, and sold the rest to restaurants in the city.

Hot weather.

There are more and more people selling ice cream on the streets.

It’s noon this day.

The little girl was taking a nap when she vaguely heard the cry of "sorbet, sorbet!" and quickly got down from the kang, grabbed her shoes and ran outside.

When she climbed down from the kang, she kicked Wang Yuan. The latter was having a sweet dream and was kicked awake.

"Hey~ This little girl really deserves a spanking again." Wang Yuan got up and got very angry, so he rubbed the big white cat.

"Meow meow?"

The big white cat felt aggrieved, then ran to Li Yan's lap to sleep.

Li Yan was not sleepy at noon, so she knitted sweaters on the bed and watched TV. She even muted the TV to avoid disturbing Wang Yuan and the little girl.

"Xiao Yuan, look at the little girl quickly. She doesn't seem to have any money."

"Well, the little girl will be more kissable when she sees something delicious than when she sees her own father."

"Pfft~ What nonsense are you talking about? Get out quickly, don't let the little girl be abducted."

Wang Yuan didn't move slowly at all and walked out with his upper body naked.

The ice cream seller was an old man, his clothes on his back and chest were soaked, and he had a kind smile on his face.

There is a wooden box on the left side of the back seat of an old 28-bar bicycle. It is wrapped in thick cotton clothes and contains shaved ice, popsicles, ice cream, etc.

On the right side of the back seat is a basket with eggs in it.

"Young man, what do you want? There are four or five kinds of shaved ice, popsicles, and ice cream."

"You open the lid and I can take it myself."

The little girl was licking ice cream with cream on the side, with a happy giggle on her face.

Shaved ice costs two cents, popsicles without cream cost three cents, and ice cream with cream costs five cents.

Wang Yuan took an ice cream, a popsicle and two bags of shaved ice, a total of 12 cents, including the little girl, it was 10 cents.

"Young man, do you have eggs at home? Don't give me money, just give me 6 eggs." The old man grinned.
Chapter completed!