October is over, and according to previous years, the temperature will cool down after a while, and we are discussing in the dormitory what clothes we should buy.
Li Ru and Wen Yun both come from coastal areas, where winters are not too cold. Not to mention down jackets, in the winter when the temperature is not very cooling, you may only wear a thin jacket outside.
What is a down jacket? Not worn.
For the coming winter, I am also afraid of freezing.
Li Ru has been looking at Feng Shuli and Shi Jing's winter clothes for the past few days and asked them to help research what kind of down jackets to buy.
Wen Yun pushed the door open and came in with dinner in her hand. Li Ru turned to her and said, "Have you bought a down jacket?"
She put the rice on the table, "I looked at it, but I haven't bought it yet."
"Let's buy them together. We'll get 30% off two items. If you spend a thousand and two dollars, you'll get two pairs of thermal pants worth ninety-eight dollars for free." Li Ru stood up and walked over, showing her the store's online picture, and trying her best to recommend styles.
Wen Yun also put down her schoolbag and looked at it carefully. She also looked at a lot of sweaters and down jackets during this period, but she couldn't find anything she was satisfied with.
She rarely bought clothes in the past, and if she bought one more, the Xu family would accuse her of spending money indiscriminately. She has worn school uniforms most of the time since she was a child. Now she wants to buy her own clothes, but she just can't make up her mind.
"If you take a closer look, you'll definitely find something you like. Their store has a lot of clothes." Li Ru was afraid that Wen Yun wouldn't buy it. Two pieces could save a lot of money, so she tried her best to recommend styles.
Wen Yun has looked back and forth, but still feels that it is not suitable for her. Li Ru likes spacious designs with brighter and more high-profile colors, while she likes light colors and simplicity.
Li Ru looked at her expression and thought she was reluctant to give up after seeing the price, so she emphasized: "You can't buy cheap down jackets. How can you wear them if they are less than 500? These are originally priced at thousands, but their quality is very good. Only buy them after they are discounted." Seven or eight hundred.”
Wen Yun nodded, "I know."
She was alone here, afraid of getting sick and frostbite, and planned to buy something more expensive.
"This is very cheap. I bought this one in the mall for 1,800 yuan." Shi Jing was also there, and she took out her long down jacket.
"Don't you work part-time every weekend? You also work-study and ask your parents to give you money to buy clothes." Li Ru flipped through the photos of the down jacket on her phone and decided that Wen Yun thought it was too expensive and couldn't bear to part with it.
Wen Yun could only say politely: "It's not about money. I really don't like the style of the down jacket. I'm sorry."
She knew that buying winter clothes cost money, so she saved the money from her part-time job this month to buy clothes.
"I think it will look good on you. If you don't believe me, send it to your boyfriend and let him have a look. Maybe he will pay for it for you." Li Ru gave her an idea.
Wen Yun really didn't like these styles, and the other party kept nagging in her ears that she must involve Ji Huai. She opened the lid of the lunch box, thinking about whether to actually send it to him, and then ask him to say it was not suitable and resolve the matter peacefully.
"He hasn't even bought you clothes. If you let him buy them, won't you save money?" Li Ru had no patience. Seeing her unenthusiastic attitude, he felt that he was acting like a donkey because of his kindness, and pretended to remind her, "You are still in a different place. Love, if I won’t spend this little money on you, what’s the point of falling in love? No companionship, no money yet? Shi Jing’s boyfriend recently bought her two more lipsticks.”
Shi Jing turned around and lay down on the chair to look at the two of them. There were two lipsticks on her table. When she heard Li Ru's words, she nodded in agreement.
But her boyfriend is a college student, and Wen Yun's boyfriend is not, so she should spend more money.
Wen Yun felt that she was getting more and more crooked as she spoke, and that it had nothing to do with Ji Huai. Just as she was about to speak, there was a rapid knock on the door, "Here, please open the door for me."
She quickly stepped forward and opened the door.
Feng Shuli held several express packages in her hands. The piles were almost as high as her head. She was panting and kicked the carton on the ground in, "I'm exhausted."
Wen Yun stepped forward to help her get a few, then reached out and closed the door.
"Why did you buy so many packages? Don't you have no money?" Li Ru asked.
Wen Yun walked over and was about to put a few packages in her hands on her table. Feng Shuli slumped on the table, raised her water glass and took a few sips of water, "I only have two, and they are both Wen Yun's."
"Mine?" Wen Yun looked hesitant and stopped.
"Yes, you bought too much, right? I went to pick up the courier and saw your courier. I thought there was only one, so I wanted to pick it up for you, but the courier guy brought out eight." Feng Shuli was still exhaling.
Wen Yun was even more confused, "I didn't buy express delivery."
"Ah?" Feng Shuli was stunned, and quickly picked up a courier and looked at it. Her eyes widened, "That's your name. Is it the wrong phone number? Did I get it wrong? But I remember that the last four digits are this."
There are many people with the same name in the school, and if you take the wrong one, you have to take it back.
Wen Yun checked the phone number carefully, but was still confused, "It's my phone number."
"That's yours." Feng Shuli breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed it through the bag, stood up and picked out her express delivery, and then put the rest of the express delivery on her table, "There should be clothes inside, your boyfriend gave it to me The clothes you sent, right? I heard from the courier guy that you seem to have two boxes of milk at the courier. They were just delivered by courier. I couldn't lift them, so I didn't let the courier guy find them. "
"Thank you, sorry for bothering you." Wen Yun looked at the express delivery and quickly took out her mobile phone to send a message to Ji Huai.
After waiting for a while, he didn't reply, so she made a video call to him.
The call was connected, and he appeared in her field of vision wearing a straw hat, "What's wrong, wife?"
"Are you chasing ducks?" Wen Yun asked.
"Well, hurry back now." Ji Huai gently kicked the Samoyed next to him and pointed at the big white duck in front of him that was about to run to the ditch.
The Samoyed and him had formed a tacit understanding, so they ran forward quickly and stood on the edge and barked twice. The big white duck did not dare to run in and followed the troops forward in a satisfactory manner.
"Did you buy me clothes?" She sat on the table and looked at the packages.
Ji Huai: "The express has arrived? It's so fast, I thought it would take a few days."
"You didn't even ask me for my opinion."
"Didn't you ask my opinion when you bought me shoes?" He raised his eyebrows.
"But… "
Ji Huai moved out to Wang Xiufen, "That day, grandma asked me if it was cold over there. She was afraid that you wouldn't be able to adapt to it, so she said to buy more clothes. You can see if you like it first. I think you look good in it, and I'll also give it to you." Grandma saw it and she also said these are beautiful and I must buy them for you."
As expected, Wen Yun swallowed her words about returning the goods, "Then there's no need to buy so many pieces."
As she spoke, she stretched out a hand to open the package. The first package contained a white sweater with a hollow design, which was soft to the touch. At first glance, I quite like it.
Ji Huai stretched out his bamboo pole to catch up the ducks who had fallen behind in the queue, and continued, "It's not much. I have to have clothes to change into in winter. Grandma also said that there are less and I will buy you a few more. There are no clothes brought here. How many can you wear?"
"How can it be so cold? It's not like the north." Wen Yun unpacked one package after another.
A pea green short down jacket, a black long down jacket, three sweaters, a short cotton coat, a woolen cardigan jacket, two pairs of fleece jeans, a pair of boots and a pair of gloves...
Looking at the boxes and clothes all over the table, she was forced to stand up and sort them out because they couldn't fit them all and there were a lot of them on the ground.
"Grandma and I are afraid that you will get cold, but don't get frostbite. I heard that it is very troublesome. If it grows this year, it will grow in the next few years." Ji Huai said seriously.
"Can I return a few items?" Wen Yun was dazzled by the sight, fearing that he had bought them randomly. How much would it cost? She felt bad if it wasn't her money, it was earned by his hard work chasing ducks.
"Yes, I've been out in the field for more than a month. Do you want to buy it? It's four for one hundred yuan. You can catch them as you like." Ji Huai's voice was softer, as if he was talking to someone.
Wen Yun stopped talking and asked him to do his work first.
The other end.
The duck that Ji Huai was driving happened to pass by the entrance of the village. Several aunts in the village were sitting under a tree and chatting. When they saw him driving the duck back, they asked him if he would sell it.
The big white ducks are fed with feed and must be put out of the market in about two months, otherwise they will lose money. Ducks that have grown up eating hormone-containing feed do not taste good.
The duck raised by Ji Huai grew up eating rice in the fields. It is more than two months old and is completely natural.
"Catch them casually?" Aunt Ji stepped forward and looked at these big white ducks, "How many of them should I buy? Should you sell these ducks next month?"
Ji Huai: "We will keep them in captivity and feed them for the next month, and we will sell them when they grow a little longer."
Nowadays, the big white duck weighs only five kilograms at most. The rice in the field cannot make it full. If it is kept in captivity and fed with feed, it can gain weight to eight or nine kilograms, and then it can be sold at once.
Sister-in-law Ji reached out and grabbed the necks of several big white ducks and caught a few.
Several ladies nearby also came forward to take a look and thought it was a good deal. Usually, the ducks they buy for feed have to be raised for several months before they can be eaten. Otherwise, the duck meat will be soft and tender. Now they can just buy it and kill it.
"I'll buy a few too."
"This duck is good. It's too fat and not delicious. My Xiaodong likes it like this."
"Is there any rope? I'll buy four too."
…
"Daughter-in-law, you try it first. If it suits you, don't quit. I'll be busy for a while." Ji Huai turned away and whispered into the earphone.
Wen Yun was squatting on the ground, opening her clothes, taking them out for a closer look, and sighed silently, "You sell the duck first, and I'll see if the size is correct."
There were intermittent sounds from Ji Huai's side, and she no longer had the intention to eat. She kept looking at her clothes and became more and more irritable. Why is his vision so good? She found everything beautiful.
Wen Yun thought she had lowered her voice extraordinarily, but she didn't know that several people in the dormitory were paying attention to her and listened with their ears pricked up.
They knew that her boyfriend was a duck farmer, and they just heard that he was selling ducks.
However, the quality of these beautiful clothes seems to be very good, and the milky white boots are even more beautiful, with a slight heel, which is in line with Wen Yun's quiet and gentle temperament. And why is this boyfriend who raises ducks, his vision and things he does not always fit in with his status as a duck raiser
In most people's imagination, the other person is an uneducated man who lives in the countryside, is slovenly, and probably speaks rudely. In other words, Wen Yun had never seen much of the world, and was coaxed with a little sugar.
But what he did didn't feel right. There was something strange about it.
But then I thought about it, they also valued their talents after all. Wen Yun was beautiful and had a good temper, and could be a decent teacher in the future. The other party was probably trying their best to please her.
Ji Huai sold twenty ducks, four for one hundred yuan, buying a total of five hundred yuan, and received cash. Just after returning home, Ji Liang's mother came to the door and said she wanted to buy something.
He just said a price, and he was from the village anyway. These ducks grew up eating rice, and the cost was just a few dollars for ducklings, plus the cost of feed for the previous month, which added up to less than ten dollars.
No matter how low the price is, he will make a profit.
"You gave me a dozen little ducks last time. You can catch five for one hundred dollars." Wang Xiufen walked out and asked the other party to catch one more duck. She also held a bag of peanuts and stuffed them over.
"Thank you. His dad said that the end of the year is here and he would like to treat his classmates to a meal. I heard from Aunt Ji that your family sells ducks, so I came to buy a few." Ji Liang's mother kept saying and praising, "The meat of ducks eating rice is delicious. , I’m going to stew it and eat it.”
"It tastes delicious no matter how you cook it, but it won't taste good when you eat the feed." Wang Xiufen exchanged greetings with the other party and tied the big white duck's feet with a rope.
Ji Huai took the knife and went to the courtyard to pick a sugar cane and chop it down. He walked back to the tree and sat on the swing, gnawing on the sugar cane to quench his thirst. He continued chatting with Wen Yun, "Have you tried it? Let me see."
Wen Yun tried on a few items. There was a mirror next to her cabinet, and she took photos and sent them to him.
"It looks good. Grandma chose that blue sweater and black down jacket, as well as the woolen jacket. She said it looked fresh and clean." Ji Huai took a bite of sugar cane, put his feet on the ground, and swung gently back and forth on the swing.
Two Samoyeds were playing in front of him.
Wen Yun did not dare to refuse Wang Xiufen's kindness easily, but she was also at a loss and didn't know how to express her gratitude.
"My wife is good-looking and looks good in anything she wears." Ji Huai praised her.
"Do you want to return some? I just bought you a pair of shoes. You bought me so many clothes. Isn't it expensive?" She sat back at the table and spoke in a low voice.
"No need to return it." Ji Huai shook his head and then said with a smile, "Of course I have to buy you more, otherwise grandma should say that I am shameless and spend your money."
"Well..." Wen Yun lowered her eyes and muttered awkwardly, "No, I'm embarrassed."
Ji Huai: "Are you sorry? I just bought you a hot water bottle. When it's cold, charge it at night and put it under the quilt to keep you warm."
"I can buy it myself." She opened the lunch box again. The food was still hot, and she took small bites.
"But I want to buy it for you. I always feel that you lack everything and need it. Anyway, I just want you to buy it, and I am happy and happy." After Ji Huai finished speaking, he added, "When I looked at those clothes, I felt they fit You. Sometimes when I look at the clothes others are wearing, I think they would look good on you, so I want to buy them for you."
Wen Yun couldn't refute, she couldn't hide the smile on her lips, and there was a sweet sparkle in her eyes, because she was the same.
She wanted to make a lot of money and buy him nice clothes and shoes. When I saw the clothes worn by boys on campus, I thought he would look good in them and be more handsome than them.
Ji Huai: "It's so cold over there, and I don't know if you can adapt to it. If you are by my side, I can keep you warm and use it as a human-shaped heating bag. There is nothing I can do about it from such a distance, so I can only buy you clothes." Heat pack.”
Her heart was sore and swollen, moved and sad at the same time. She gave her phone number to the Wen family, hoping that Wen Qiulan could contact her when he came back. For so long, no one has called her, no one has cared about her, and she has lived like an orphan.
Only Ji Huai cared about her, even his grandma who had never met her cared about her.
Wen Yun: "I don't want you to be a humanoid heating bag for me. You are not honest when sleeping."
Her voice was soft and sweet, and Ji Huai's heart felt like it was being gently teased by a feather, and he asked in a drawled voice, "What should I do?"
"I don't know!" She said word by word. She was cute and mean at best, without any lethality.
Ji Huai teased her: "How about being dishonest first and then being honest?"
Since the scenes of those two days reappeared in Wen Yun's mind, her ears quickly turned red again, "I want to eat."
Ji Huai quickly said: "Eat more and grow more meat."
She raised her voice and said, "Stop talking!"
"I care about you, but you have wrong ideas." Ji Huai reminded him seriously, "Daughter-in-law, something is not right with you."
Wen Yun pouted, but he could only say dullly, "The bad guy will complain first, you big bad guy."
Ji Huaitan said frankly: "Well, you are right. I am a great villain, a great villain, a great liar, and a great pervert..."
"..." She pursed her lips and smiled quietly, as if she had eaten candied fruit.
Early December.
The villagers are preparing to farm one after another, and the fields are plowed. At this time, no more ducks can be driven off the fields.
Ji Huai went to buy another batch of feed and had to feed the big white duck a lot to gain weight so that it could be put into the market at once.
Now that the ducks have all grown up, they eat a lot of feed, several packs a day. Every few days he has to buy feed and move it into the warehouse.
The cost invested is getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately, we are about to see the dawn of victory, so we grit our teeth and persevere.
He has been raising big white ducks much longer than others, and because they are close to the seaside, the water is brackish, so the ducks here are called saltwater ducks.
Saltwater duck is more expensive than ordinary duck and easier to sell. After feeding them for a period of time, Wang Xiufen began to pick out the ducks. She would pick out the ducks that were very big and probably had outgrown them, and take them to the town to sell them together in the morning.
The market has been good recently. Selling one makes several yuan more than waiting for someone else to buy it. If they can make a little bit, it is a matter of convenience for them.
Ji Huai caught more than 20 kilograms of fish today. Wang Xiufen put the salted duck eggs made during this period in the car. There were fifteen big white ducks in the bamboo cage.
In addition, she also has to sell the vegetables she grows, including carrots, lettuce, Chinese cabbage...
Ji Huai piled the peanuts into the car and saw peanuts. He couldn't help but said, "If you can't eat them all, plant less. You are really free."
Wang Xiufen's voice was louder than his, and she scolded in a deep voice, "If you don't plant it, what will you eat? There is so much land, why don't you plant it and keep it? It's not you who planted it!"
Ji Huai shut up.
There are many stalls today and the market is very lively. Wang Xiufen was killing fish, while Ji Huai was selling duck eggs, salted duck eggs, and various vegetables.
Wang Xiufen used to set up a stall, and many people knew her and knew that their salted duck eggs were good. A salted duck egg costs 1.5 yuan. If you buy ten of them at once, the price will be reduced by 2 yuan. Fifteen eggs will cost 13 yuan.
The small basket of salted duck eggs was sold out in a short time. By about 10:30, the white duck and fish were also sold out. There were still some vegetables left, which she half bought and half gave away.
The price of the basket of peanuts was also reduced a lot, and the total price was only twenty or thirty yuan, but Wang Xiufen was very happy.
Ji Huai gave her the change in his hand, packed his things and got in the car to go home.
While he was driving, Wang Xiufen counted the money sold today, "Three hundred... five hundred and five... seven hundred and seventy-five... nine hundred and thirty-seven..."
He counted once and then a second time, and said to Ji Huai, "I think those laying ducks will lay eggs this month, please feed them more."
"Okay." He nodded.
"The total is nine hundred and eighteen yuan." Wang Xiufen calculated the cost. The big white duck ate some feed, and the other costs were nothing. She took the money and said, "When the duck eggs are laid, we will sell duck eggs every day. You are also diligent." Order some, make some salted duck eggs, and put some fish fry in them. As long as you endure the hardship, you won’t get rich, but you won’t starve to death.”
Their family has such a small fortune, they don't ask Ji Huai to read many books, they just ask him to be diligent and down-to-earth.
Ji Huai: "It's so tiring. I've been in trouble these past few months and have done a lot of work."
"What's wrong? Why do men want to be so free? Do you want to be a pretty boy? Of course you can't do so much work alone. In the future, the two of you will do it, so it will save effort?" Wang Xiufen replied to him and said, " After a while, the big white ducks will be out of the market. You can go and pay the money at the feed store and still have tens of thousands of dollars left, and see how much more you can raise. It's hard work, as long as you can make money."
She might not be able to do it in a few years. Of course, they would do it alone. In the past, she had done it with Mr. Ji.
Ji Huai looked ahead and drove, and said with a chuckle, "Xiaoyun is white and tender, just her little arms and legs. Do you think she has the strength to do this? I won't let her do it even if she can."
Wang Xiufen's hand holding the money paused, and then she realized, "Xiaoyun is studying at a normal university and will come back to be a teacher?"
She forgot about it for a while. What she always wanted was for Ji Huai to find someone who could work and endure hardships, so that his life would not be bad and he might be able to save a lot of money.
Ji Huai: "Yes, I have to go to the city to be a teacher."
"That's not bad." Wang Xiufen understood and changed the subject, "Did you buy her clothes? What did she say?"
Hearing this, he opened his mouth and said, "She was very embarrassed and said that you have good taste. She liked it very much and asked me to thank you. She also said that she would buy you a gift."
"Oh, she seems to be a girl who repays kindness." Wang Xiufen smiled so hard that her face was full of wrinkles. Remembering that she was only helping to choose, she quickly took out the money she had just put away, "How about grandma also gives it to me?" She gives you a red envelope, five hundred yuan? You send it to her."
"You can keep it and give it to her when she comes home." Ji Huai coaxed her from both sides and just let Wang Xiufen participate in choosing clothes. Wen Yun didn't dare not accept it because of her reputation.
"Okay, okay." She responded repeatedly, having already made up her mind.
Ji Huai drove for a while and suddenly said, "I want to make more money in the past few years. When she comes back, I want to buy a house in the city so that she can have a place to live."
Wang Xiufen asked, "How much does a house cost?"
She had never thought about it before. I have a small western-style house at home, which is spacious and cool. I have everything, so I don’t miss a house in the city.
Ji Huai thought for a while, "The down payment is about 500,000? Your great-grandchildren will have to study with Xiaoyun in the city, otherwise it will be inconvenient."
Wang Xiufen saw that he was already thinking about this, so she thought deeply, "It would be good to make more money and buy a house."
Half a million is a lot of money. Their family used to have a lot of money. After building a house and buying land, she saved hundreds of thousands more. Her old man was sick and spent more than 300,000 in the hospital. She still had money to buy Ji Huai. car.
Marrying a wife is a big deal for Ji Huai. Five hundred thousand can buy a house, but she doesn't think it's much. The money must be earned and saved.