The villagers learned in the afternoon that Grandpa Fang and Grandma Fang were going to the city to retire with Lin Mai.
Many folks sent sesame oil, peanuts, eggs, chicken, dried vegetables, pickled vegetables and so on.
Grandma Fang only collects dried vegetables and pickled vegetables, which are not valuable in the countryside.
Let the villagers take the laying hens and the like back and sell them to Linmai's buyer.
She gave money to those who refused to take them back.
Lin Mai went to Fu Qiang's house to inform him of the departure time tomorrow, and asked him to fish out two large buckets of snails and bring them with him to test the water.
When they arrived at Fu Qiang's house, only his crazy mother and youngest sister were at home.
Fuqiang's little sister, who was only five or six years old, timidly called out: "Sister Maizi."
Fuqiang's crazy mother sat on the threshold and looked at Lin Mai, giggling, and said incoherently: "You are a good person."
Lin Mai smiled gently at her, and then asked Fu Qiang's younger sister: "Are you and your mother the only ones at home?"
The younger sister pointed to the back room: "There is also dad."
Lin Mai asked again: "Where are your brothers and sisters?"
The little girl said a little nervously: "We have all gone to dig sweet potatoes."
Lin Mai then remembered that during sweet potato harvest season, sweet potatoes could be roasted and sold.
But there's no rush.
She told Fu Qiang's younger sister the purpose of coming to Fu Qiang's house and asked, "Can you tell my brother what I said?"
The younger sister nodded and whispered, "Yes~"
Lin Mai had some doubts that she couldn't do it, and said warmly: "Then tell me what I want you to tell your elder brother."
As expected, the rich young girl stammered and couldn't speak clearly.
Since even Fu Qiang's little sister is not qualified to deliver the message, Fu Qiang's crazy mother is even less likely to be relied upon.
Lin Mai thought for a while and entered Fuqiang's father's room.
Although Fu Qiang's father was lying on the bed with his eyes closed, he was not asleep.
He noticed it as soon as Lin Mai came in.
He opened his eyes and saw Lin Mai coming in. He looked at her doubtfully, and then struggled to sit up.
When a grown-up girl entered her room, it was inappropriate for a grown-up man to lie down there.
Lin Mai immediately stopped him and said, "You don't have to do it. I'll just say a few words to you."
Fuqiang's father has been bedridden for a long time, his hands and legs are weak, and it is difficult to sit up on his own.
Hearing what Lin Mai said, he gave up.
Lying on the bed, he asked weakly: "What are you talking about?"
Lin Mai then told him again what he had just said to Fu Qiang.
Although Fu Qiang's father was a patient, his brain was still normal. He said to Lin Mai, "I promise to tell you what he said."
Lin Mai nodded and planned to leave.
Suddenly I thought of how Fu Qiang's father had difficulty sitting up just now, and asked: "I'm going to the provincial capital to see a doctor tomorrow. Can you go by yourself?"
Fuqiang's father said: "With Fuqiang's support and a stick, you can do it."
Lin Mai thought for a while and decided to rent a car or tractor and go to the city.
She didn't want to rent a car before because she didn't expect Fuqiang's father to be so weak.
Back at Grandpa Fang's house, Lin Mai told Grandpa Fang that he wanted to rent a car.
Grandpa Fang didn't blame her at all for thinking about it. Instead, he said happily: "It's just right to rent a car. I can bring all the vegetables in the vegetable field with me, so I don't have to wait in the field and waste it."
Lin and Mai, mother and daughter, and Grandpa Fang were busy all afternoon, and they didn't finish until about five o'clock in the afternoon.
Grandpa Fang contacted a van from the town government.
Although he has retired, it is not difficult for him to rent a bus and move.
Even if he wants the mayor to arrange a vehicle for him, the mayor will arrange it.
His level is there. Even after he retires, he can still use the bus, but he just doesn't want to do that.
Because Grandpa Fang made an agreement with the driver to come to his house to pick up people at 7:30 in the morning.
So before seven o'clock the next morning, Lin Mai and the others were all ready and waiting for the van at home.
The van arrived as promised.
The driver was a warm-hearted and cheerful uncle who helped Lin Mai and others put their things in the car.
Originally, I just planned to ask Grandpa and Grandma Fang to bring a few changes of clothes.
But because she had a car, Grandma Fang brought all the clothes, shoes and socks that her husband and wife needed all year round.
Add in chickens, vegetables from the fields, and vegetables and other things given by the folks, and it adds up to a lot.
After putting their things away, the group got into the car.
Grandpa Fang sat in the passenger seat and gave directions to the driver, and drove the car to the door of Fu Qiang's house.
Fuqiang and his parents were also ready and were about to set off to meet at the long-distance bus station.
But when he saw a van parked in front of his house, the whole family was surprised.
When the neighbors saw a van parked in front of Fu Qiang's house, they all held bowls and gathered around curiously.
Lin Mai and Grandpa Fang got out of the car and asked Fu Qiang and his parents to get in the car quickly.
Fu Qiang hurriedly responded and put two large buckets of snails on the car.
Then he told his eldest sister to take care of his younger brothers and sisters at home and prepare for the autumn harvest, so he and his parents' simple luggage got into the car as a family of three.
The neighbors were very surprised. Grandpa Fang and Lin Mai actually drove to pick up Fu Qiang and his parents, and they didn't know where they would take his family of three.
As soon as the van drove away, the neighbors asked Fu Qiang's eldest sister Fu Ping where Grandpa Fang and the others were taking her eldest brother and parents.
Fu Ping and her younger siblings were very proud to tell their neighbors that Lin Mai was going to arrange for her parents to be treated in a large hospital in the provincial capital and took her brother and parents to the provincial capital.
A neighbor asked in surprise: "Can your family afford to treat your parents?"
Fu Ping said: "Sister Maizi told my brother that we should not worry about money. She will advance my parents' medical expenses, as long as they can cure my parents' illness."
Although she was telling the truth, she didn't have any moisture at all.
But what the neighbors heard was that Lin Mai used his own money to treat Fu Qiang's parents, and they all envied the family for embracing Lin Mai's golden legs.
No wonder these neighbors think this way.
The rich and powerful families are so poor. He will definitely not be able to repay the money Lin Mai advanced to his parents for medical treatment, which is no different from Lin Mai paying for his parents' medical treatment out of his own pocket.
Weiwei's mother heard the conversation between Fu Ping and the villagers in the crowd, and thought to herself that Fu's family had climbed into Lin Mai's family, and she could no longer bully his family.
Fortunately, there is no such thing as overloading in this era. No one even checked the eight drivers in a van, but it was a bit crowded.
Fortunately, in about two hours, the van drove to the back of the small western-style building where Lin Mai lived.
Everyone got out of the car and hurriedly took things down from the car and sent them upstairs.
Fuqiang also wants to help.
Lin Mai said: "Just help your parents upstairs. There are many of us, so we don't need your help."
Fuqiang's father's health was worse than Lin Mai imagined, but he couldn't bear the two-hour ride in the car. His face turned pale and he couldn't stand still.
If Fu Qiang hadn't been supporting him, he might have fallen to the ground long ago.
Fuqiang looked at his shaky father and had no choice but to do as Lin Mai said.
Before helping his father go upstairs, he told his crazy mother to follow him upstairs.
Fu Qiang's mother, who was looking around, heard this and followed her eldest son stupidly.
After a while, everything except two large buckets of snails was brought upstairs.
The driver uncle was about to leave, so Lin Mai kept him alive, and Fu Qiang's father settled him in the guest room, and then took everyone to her Baohaoshi Noodle Shop for breakfast.
Although Fu Qiang and the driver heard that Lin Mai wanted to take them to have breakfast, they tried their best to refuse, saying that they had already had breakfast.
Grandpa Fang waved his hand: "You can eat again after you've eaten!
You are a grown-up man, and you are a grown-up boy, and whoever tells me that he can’t eat, I will whip!”