This day.
There were bursts of "quacking" sounds coming from Ji's backyard, and the big white duck was frightened and ran around.
Wang Xiufen's chubby body is particularly flexible. She takes three steps and two steps, with two left hands and two right hands, grabbing the duck and stuffing it into the duck basket.
The big white ducks were especially fat and heavy when she carried them. She smiled so hard that her eyes narrowed into slits.
"This batch of ducks are well raised." The purchaser noted the weight beside him and looked at her and said, "They are at least eight pounds each, and some are more than that."
Wang Xiufen was also very satisfied: "That's right, it lasted longer than usual."
Baskets of ducks were loaded onto the truck. The recent purchase price was good, and the selling price was very satisfying.
Ji Huai collected the money and drove to the feed factory in the town to settle the bill.
The boss was writing the receipt, "You should have made a profit, right?"
"I made a little profit. I didn't sell it until after three o'clock, so my grandma urged me to come and clear the account." Ji Huai emphasized the second half of the sentence.
"Your grandma is a trustworthy person. In the past, your grandpa and I would always come to pay the bill on the same day after selling ducks." The boss gave him the receipt and said with a smile.
This is why he felt free to give Ji Huai credit.
"I'll get another batch of feed." Ji Huai said to him.
The laying ducks at home are about to lay eggs. I have been picking up several eggs every day recently. I estimate that they will all lay eggs by the beginning of the month, so they need to keep up with the nutrition.
"Okay, I'll have someone take it there." The boss responded.
After counting the feed, Ji Huai settled the bill. When the boss saw the worker there, he asked him to move the feed into the warehouse.
After a lot of busy work, night gradually fell.
Ji Huai took out two stacks of brand new hundred-yuan red bills from the car. These were the 20,000 yuan he had just received from the bank. He walked over and handed them to Wang Xiufen, "Here, little duck's money."
She had advanced the money to buy the little duck, which cost almost ten thousand. In addition, she had been working during this period, so she couldn't work in vain.
"How much money did he earn in total?" Wang Xiufen felt that he had worked hard during this period and refused to accept it.
"Take it." He stuffed it into her arms. "I have thirty thousand left. I bought a batch of feed and plan to buy another thousand laying ducks. I won't raise the big white ducks for now."
Egg-laying ducks can lay eggs and have a long egg-laying cycle, so they will definitely make money. This is not necessarily true for white ducks. If they keep eating feed, they will lose money if the price is not good. He will raise another batch before harvesting rice around May next year.
Although he only made 40,000 yuan, all costs were deducted, including the cost of the egg-laying ducks. If the egg-laying ducks were included, he should have made about 70,000 yuan. However, since the egg-laying ducks were not sold, he had to keep the eggs.
Wang Xiufen accepted it and said, "I'll save it and buy you a house."
Ji Huai raised his eyebrows and smiled, "It's still early."
"Don't save it early. There will be many places to spend money." Wang Xiufen went to the room to put the money away, then walked out and looked at the big hen in the yard, "Kill a chicken to eat tonight."
She didn't know how to celebrate. She had worked hard during this period, so she wanted to make up for it by killing a chicken.
"Okay, fry them and eat them." Ji Huai looked at the two Samoyeds and said, "Give them a good meal, and they will lose weight."
Wang Xiufen stepped forward, leaned over and grabbed a big hen in her hand, and carried it away.
In the evening, the two Samoyeds were also given two chicken drumsticks and a small bowl of meat. It was probably too fragrant. They stuck out their tongues and waggled their tails desperately.
Before the meal, Ji Huai was still on the phone with Wen Yun, and Wang Xiufen was already used to it.
She knew that Wen Yun would go to work on weekends and come back at night, so Ji Huai would call her and wait until she returned to school before hanging up to make sure she got there safely.
During this period, Wang Xiufen also asked, "Xiaoyun, have you eaten?"
Wen Yun heard her voice and felt a little restrained. Ji Huai answered for her first, "She is still on the bus and can only eat when she returns to school."
"I bought sesame seeds." Wen Yun also added softly.
"Is it delicious?" Ji Huai asked her and told Wang Xiufen what she said.
"Yeah, it's delicious. I've been eating it for two days in a row." She nodded.
"It's good to eat sesame cakes. The sesame cakes there are very famous. Eat more." Wang Xiufen took out the bowl and brought out the boiled seaweed soup.
"Grandma asked you to eat more." Ji Huai knew she heard it, but repeated it.
Wen Yun was embarrassed and responded in a low voice.
After he hung up the phone, Wang Xiufen asked, "Has Xiaoyun arrived at school?"
"Just entered the school." Ji Huai took off the headphones.
"It's really not safe for a girl to come back late at night, and she's in another province and unfamiliar with the place." She continued while eating, "It's not easy to support yourself while going to school."
"There's nothing I can do, she's trying to be brave again." Ji Huai was helpless.
He could raise Wen Yun, but that would change the taste. She would probably feel that he was insulting her, which might make her feel sad.
"Both parents don't care about her?" Wang Xiufen has lived for most of her life, and she can guess from Ji Huai's words that it is probably not as simple as a single-parent family.
"Well, they all ran away." Ji Huai didn't hide anything.
"She's still in school and you don't care about her?" Wang Xiufen stopped eating and seemed to find it incredible, "You didn't give her any money?"
Ji Huai: "How can I have money? I completely cut off contact and didn't even make a single call."
"It's also pitiful." She shook her head and sighed, and started gossiping again, "You know the Xu Zhuang family in Xujiacun, right? That eldest daughter is still your high school classmate. Didn't her stepmother also bring a girl? The stepmother ran away. , leaving the girl behind, she was also admitted to college this year, and it was a good college. Oh, their family held a big banquet, and relatives, classmates and people in the village were invited. The eldest daughter received a share of the money to go to school. The eldest daughter went to school. What kind of books can I read? I remember I was in the same class as you in elementary school, and my scores were about the same as yours. How many points did you get on the test?"
"That girl is also pitiful. It is said that she does not dare to come back. As soon as she comes back, she is scolded by the two elders of the Xu family and has to work every day."
Ji Huai slowed down his chewing speed and pursed his lips tightly, "Where did you hear about this?"
"I went to the entrance of the village to listen to what they said. Their family is so virtuous that if other families don't hold a banquet, they will definitely not return it. Now I have to get into a good university to hold a banquet, and the whole village is scolding me behind my back. Isn't this shameless? Are you trying to cheat money?" Wang Xiufen glared slightly, and continued eating her meat while minding her own business, "Her stepmother is not a good person either. It is said that she had an affair with someone from outside the province before, and they got married, so she had an illegitimate child."
Ji Huai ate in silence without speaking.
Seeing that he didn't agree, Wang Xiufen was confused and silent for a while, then pretended not to ask, "The daughter she brought was your junior high school classmate, right? What's her name?"
He still said nothing and continued to eat meat.
Wang Xiufen also slowed down her movements and thought for a moment, isn't that stepmother named Wen? Wen Yun is also named Wen, so...
"It's Xiaoyun." Ji Huai raised his head slightly, looked at her indifferently, and repeated, "She is the poor girl you just mentioned, the one who dared not go home."
"She..." Wang Xiufen was stunned and didn't react for a long time. She quickly explained, "Grandma doesn't have any other intentions. Her mother..."
"Run away. He has disappeared a long time ago." He interrupted, as if he didn't want to hear it.
Wang Xiufen calmed down again, "It turns out it's her. I haven't seen that child before. She is said to be relatively quiet. The Xu family is not an easy place to stay, and people are very difficult to get along with."
"If she doesn't go back, I won't let her go back. It's obvious that she is bullying her." Ji Huai ate much faster, with a solemn and unhappy look on his face.
After eating, he took the bowl to the kitchen, went upstairs to get his clothes and entered the bathroom.
Wang Xiufen withdrew her gaze and looked at the two Samoyeds squatting on the ground wagging their tails. Her eyes were a little complicated. She saw that there was still more than half of the chicken on the plate on the table, and a lot of it was eaten by the two dogs.
When Ji Huai came out, she also packed up. She looked at him but hesitated to speak, "Are you afraid of people gossiping?"
"What am I afraid of? Didn't people talk about me before? Just say whatever you want." Ji Huai wiped his hair and looked as if he didn't care. He raised his eyebrows and looked at her, "What? Are you afraid that people will gossip? "
"What am I afraid of? Maybe I won't be able to live for a few more years, and one day I will fall asleep..."
"Try to live a hundred and ten years." Ji Huai interrupted her, stretched out his hand to pat her shoulder, and raised the corners of his mouth, "Xiaoyun and I have agreed to have two children, preferably a son and a daughter. If you live this long, think about it, your great-great-grandchildren will see it.”
"Little bastard!" Wang Xiufen thought he was talking nonsense.
Ji Huai walked upstairs with a smile, taking three steps at a time, and quickly disappeared in front of her.
"Still one hundred and ten years old." Wang Xiufen cursed him in a low voice, and then narrowed her eyes with uncontrollable joy, "It's better to have two, a son and a daughter is even better, this is better..."
On New Year's Day, school has a three-day holiday.
The company where my senior interned was not hiring for part-time jobs, but a nearby barbecue restaurant was hiring for part-time jobs. After three days of hiring, Wen Yun applied.
She got up at around six in the morning and took the bus from school.
Ji Huai also called her specifically and told her, "Remember to have breakfast."
She had just caught the bus and was in a hurry because they asked for training to learn basic recipes and so on, so she didn't have time to buy it. Ji Huai kept a close eye on her, so she could only go to the cake shop next to the square to buy breakfast.
The bread sold there was really expensive. The cheapest one cost seven yuan. To buy a bottle of milk, she spent more than ten yuan without making any money. She felt very sorry for her.
It happened to be a holiday, and there were a lot of people in the square. She was standing by the escalator holding a stack of flyers. When she saw someone coming up, she handed it over with a smile.
"No, no, no."
"No."
"unnecessary."
…
Most people waved their hands, and some were very impatient and spoke in a bad tone.
She took a breath and handed it over politely to the next customer, "Hello..."
She understood a truth very early on: as long as you make money, you will suffer in any profession, so just endure it.
When she was in the Xu family and the Wen family, she had been working since she got up in the morning, just for a bite of food. She felt that this was much easier.
Some people would politely accept the flyers, but after she handed them out, she went back to get them. As a result, the store manager asked angrily, "Did you throw them away secretly?"
Only then did she notice that during the peak meal period, there was only one table of customers in their huge store, and several waiters were standing around doing nothing.
Wen Yun: "I'm serious about sending it out. If you don't believe me, we can go see the surveillance camera."
"We have been training all morning, have you introduced me?" the store manager asked again.
"No one listened to me, they..."
The fierce store manager didn't listen to her explanation and felt that she didn't try her best and was just messing around and trying to make money in vain.
Wen Yun tried her best to confront her, but the other party still scolded her severely and asked her to come early tomorrow and continue working hard. She endured the frustration and even helped the waitress sister in the store clean.
A waiter in the store quietly told her: "Don't come tomorrow. The store's performance is not good. There is often no one. The store manager is very grumpy. Business is not good on New Year's Day. I think it will go bankrupt. Our wages are zero." I've been dragging it out piecemeal for several months, but I don't know if I have the money to pay you. It's said that I didn't get any money even though I had a part-time job before."
"If it weren't for the unpaid wages, I would have left long ago."
…
Wen Yun was in a depressed mood. When she thought about it carefully, she could tell that the store manager was unhappy. He kept saying that eighty yuan a day was too high for her. He would say this and that.
Before getting off work, she went to tell her manager that she wanted to pay on a daily basis. She had said that it could be paid on a daily basis, but she was afraid that she would not get the money in the end.
The manager is the store manager's husband, a greasy man with a fat head, big ears and a beer belly. He rejected her request to make a daily payment, saying that he would have to work for three days before he could do it. He looked at her with squinting eyes and said, "Add your contact information so that I can transfer money to you when the time comes."
Wen Yun believed it to be true and actually opened her QR code.
She put her hand on the chair next to her. The other person, not knowing whether it was intentional or not, also put her hand on it. Wen Yun retracted it like a reflex.
"Where do you live? I'll take you back later." The manager glanced at the waiter and store manager in the distance, looking at Wen Yun's face, ready to make a move.
She was wary and did not respond directly.
The other party looked at her and pointedly said, "I remember that you are a student at the Normal University. I have invested in an educational institution elsewhere. I am in need of teachers. I can earn three or four thousand part-time jobs a month. I can take you to see it and let you know. Become a teacher.”
Wen Yun felt even more baffled.
Later, the real purpose came and asked her if she would be free to go see a movie together.
Her expression suddenly changed, and she felt nauseated and nauseated.
As luck would have it, the store manager came over and thought she was trying to seduce her husband. He scolded Wen Yun aggressively and spoke strangely.
Before Wen Yun could argue a few words, the store manager said, "Don't come here tomorrow, what the hell!"
"If you don't come, you won't come." She walked out with anger on her back, but also felt that she would never get the money. She turned around and walked over, stood at the door and mustered up the courage to scold, "You are a thing, you are not a thing, your husband Disgusting and shameless!”
Before the final note fell, he quickly left again.
When she was standing on the escalator going downstairs, she faintly heard the two people arguing inside, and they seemed to have made a move, but she didn't care and angrily blocked the manager who had just been added.
We got up early this morning. We spent money without making any money. We wasted so much time and encountered such a terrible thing. I was so sad that I wanted to call Ji Huai, but I was afraid that he would worry, so I forced myself to sit down. Take the bus back to school.
In the car, Wen Yun finally calmed down her mood, but found that she had missed the group message because she was not looking at her phone.
The elective courses are divided into groups. The teacher arranges the tasks, and then arranges them within the group. The group leader posts several tasks in the group, and whoever gets it first gets it.
As a result, everyone took away the easy ones and only made PPT.
Some students' tasks were extremely simple, which was not fair at all. Moreover, she did not own a computer at all and had never touched a computer several times before.
There are computers in the school's computer room, but she used them once last time. She was not very good at using them and they were stuck. They were all computers that were about to be eliminated, and some of them would crash inexplicably.
She could learn it, but she had to finish it on the first day after New Year's Day. The information and data collected by other members would not be given to her until tomorrow. The group still had to discuss changes, so she couldn't finish it at all.
Wen Yun originally just felt a little powerless, but when she saw Ji Huai's call, she felt aggrieved.
so sad.
"Did you have a hard day today?" His soft voice came from the other end, "Are you going back to school?"
"In the car." She lowered her head and held back her emotions.
It's the evening bus now. It will be faster to go back to school.
"Have you eaten? Are you hungry?"
"Hungry."
She didn't eat anything tonight.
Ji Huai's voice came from the other end, "What do you want to eat?"
"I don't want to eat it." She breathed softly.
He heard something wrong in her tone, "What's wrong?"
Wen Yun didn't speak for a long time. She took her phone away, breathed out loudly, and fanned her burning eyes with her hands to suppress the tears.
"Daughter-in-law?" Ji Huai called again.
"Yeah." She cleared her voice and found what she thought was a perfect excuse, "I went to the mall today and saw a delicious barbecue restaurant. I really wanted to eat it, but there were crowds of people inside. I’m alone and I just miss you.”
Ji Huai's voice became gentler, "What should I do? I miss you too."
Wen Yun's eyes became even more intense. She raised her head and inhaled, and a smile appeared on her lips, half-jokingly: "Cold salad!"
"I'll come find you, okay?" he said with a smile.
"We've arrived at the Xueyang intersection. Passengers getting off the bus, please bring your belongings..." After hearing the announcement, Wen Yun stood up and got off the bus, following his words, "Okay."
"Really?" Ji Huai raised his voice slightly and confirmed again.
"You don't have time to come." Wen Yun walked across the street to school, her voice was much lower, and she could hear that she was disappointed. She took out a piece of tissue from her backpack, carefully wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and breathed quietly.
"Why are you hiding and crying?" Ji Huai suddenly said this.
Her movements froze, she stopped and stood in the middle of the road.
"Hurry across the road, the light is about to turn red." He warned with a gentle voice.
Wen Yun looked at the countdown of the street lights in front of her, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she quickly walked to the opposite side, turning her head and looking around, her heart beating faster and faster, she was a little out of breath, she was extremely hurried, for fear that her expectations would fail.
"Silly." His low laughter came from the phone, "Go further."
Her breathing became more and more rapid, and she took in big gulps of air. Tears burst out of her eyes involuntarily, and couldn't stop them from falling down. She held the phone in hand and walked forward, and her walking turned into a trot.
Suddenly, she slowly stopped, her tear-filled eyes became hazy, but she kept staring ahead.
Her boy was standing under a streetlight not far away, and the dim light traced his outline. He was holding a mobile phone, looking at her with a smile on his face, and slowly opened his hand towards her.