Li Huan took Cheng Qiao to the supply and marketing cooperative. They didn't see Qiu Min today. It turned out that the girl had asked for leave. They could only buy some snacks such as melon seeds, walnuts and peach cakes and left.
The two went to the state-owned restaurant for lunch first. Coincidentally, the state-owned restaurant had a big dish today, stewed mutton with radish. Cheng Qiao hurriedly bought two plates, put them in a lunch box and prepared to take them back.
"Cheng Qiao, how many lunch boxes do you have?"
Li Huan couldn't help but ask. He still had two lunch boxes left by Cheng Qiao. His mother and sister brought back another one, so Cheng Qiao still had two in his hands.
"I won't tell you. It's a lot anyway."
Cheng Qiao answered with a smile. She remembered that she had found a box of lunch boxes from the grocery store's warehouse. Together with the original one, there were already dozens of lunch boxes.
"How come you have so many lunch boxes?"
"When my father sent me to the train, he was afraid that I would starve to death, so he packed all the edible food in the house into lunch boxes, so I have so many lunch boxes."
Cheng Qiao suddenly remembered that when she first went to the countryside, she actually brought three lunch boxes, but now there is only one left, so the other two must have been taken away by Xu Laidi.
But Xu Laidie used his own lunch box, so her two lunch boxes must have been sold by Xu Laidie. You know, although lunch boxes are not expensive, they require industrial tickets.
"Is that so? Then you don't need to buy lunch boxes when you bring your lunch. Come on, let's go to the movies and take the seeds home when they arrive in the evening."
The two of them watched a movie happily, ate some peach snacks, and returned to the mansion. Skinny Monkey was already waiting for them as soon as they entered the door, waiting anxiously.
"Why are you here so early?"
Li Huan saw several large bags on a tricycle next to the skinny monkey, so he hurried over and opened the door.
"These two days are the days when the commune collects public grain, so there are fewer people on the road, so I came here early. Brother Huan, why do you need so many seeds?"
"I want to secretly grow some food in the hills behind my house, and then I can send it here to sell."
"We are engaged in speculation and profiteering, so why should we care about a little wool? As long as we are careful, everything will be fine."
Shouhou agreed with that. He saw Cheng Qiao nodding and smiling quickly. This should be Brother Huan's wife. Judging from the way Brother Huan looked at her, he must like this woman very much. He must not offend her.
"Let me introduce you to my wife Cheng Qiao and my brother Hou Jianjun. I usually call him Skinny Monkey."
"Hello, this is radish stewed with lamb. The weather is getting colder. You can take it home and eat it."
Cheng Qiao took out a lunch box from the cloth bag and handed it to the skinny monkey. The skinny monkey quickly glanced at Li Huan, and seeing him nod with a smile, he also took it with a smile.
When he heard it was mutton, the skinny monkey quickly picked up a piece and stuffed it into his mouth. Hmm, it was delicious. If he had two taels of wine and a plate of peanuts, he would not change it for the status of a god.
"Don't eat it alone, kid. Take it back and add it to your parents' dishes."
Seeing that the skinny monkey had eaten two pieces in a row and wanted to eat more, Li Huan couldn't help but chuckle.
The skinny monkey paused as he was about to take the meat, and quickly closed the lid of the lunch box. Not giving up, he put his fingers in his mouth and sucked on them, not wanting to miss even a little bit of the meat flavor.
"Brother Huan, sister-in-law, I'm leaving first."
The word "sister-in-law" pleased Li Huan, and he asked Shouhou to come to his house to work starting tomorrow, providing him with two meals a day and one yuan a day.
Shouhou's eyes lit up. During this period, Brother Huan no longer went to the black market, which directly cut off his income. In addition, the year-end was approaching and the family expenses had increased. He had to save some money for his wife.
"Okay, I'll come over early tomorrow morning. Goodbye, sister-in-law."
The skinny monkey disappeared on his tricycle in the blink of an eye. Li Huan looked at the bags on the ground, wanting to ask something but not daring to.
"Li Huan, will you ever betray me in this life?"
"I, Li Huan, swear that if I do anything to let Cheng Qiao down, let me be hit to death by an oxcart, donkey cart, or car when I go out, let me choke to death when I drink water or soup, let me choke to death when I eat food or vegetables, let me fall to death when I walk, and I will not be able to enter the cycle of reincarnation after death."
Li Huan's oath was spoken quickly and urgently. Cheng Qiao wanted to reach out to cover Li Huan's mouth but it was too late. She could only give Li Huan a fierce look. In a blink of an eye, the bags of seeds on the ground disappeared.
Li Huan kept his eyes fixed on Cheng Qiao's eyes and did not notice that the bags of seeds at his feet had disappeared. He was still expecting Cheng Qiao to tell him some secret.
"Let's go, idiot."
Cheng Qiao locked the door and saw Li Huan still staring at her blankly, so she couldn't help but giggle.
"Hey, let's go."
Li Huan didn't get any information from Cheng Qiao and was a little disappointed. He wanted to hang the bag of seeds on the front bar of the bicycle, but there was nothing at his feet.
"Cheng Qiao, where are the seeds?"
Li Huan looked around in shock. Except for Skinny Monkey, no one had been here before. Where did that seed go? Suddenly he thought of something and looked at Cheng Qiao with sparkling eyes.
"Cheng Qiao, wife, I understand. No wonder you didn't let me come here alone. So here's the secret."
Cheng Qiao smiled again, and the dimples at the corners of her mouth caught Li Huan's eyes deeply. Li Huan couldn't help but take two steps forward and kissed the dimples.
"Hmm~Li Huan~Hmm~"
"Wife, be good..."
The afterglow of the setting sun illuminated the earth, merging the shadows of the two people into one person, and they remained together for a long time.
"Wife, you smell so good. I like you so much."
"You have to help me keep this secret."
"That's for sure, wife, are you a fairy from heaven?"
"Yes, the fairy will conjure up a lot of delicious food for you to eat in the future. Here, do you want some grilled sausage?"
"Grilled Sausage"
Li Huan was surprised to see a red sausage with a thin stick in Cheng Qiao's hand. He couldn't help but repeat it, then carefully took the sausage and took a bite.
The grilled sausage was still hot, sizzling with sweetness, and so delicious that it made your tongue almost fall off. Li Huan finished the grilled sausage in two or three bites, and licked his lips with satisfaction.
"Wife, the grilled sausage is delicious. What else do you have here?"
"There are so many. Rice, flour, pork, seafood. There's nothing I can't get you, except what you can't think of."
Cheng Qiao took out the oden again. Li Huan looked at the paper cup and the bunch of unnamed things in the cup, and he was petrified.
"Wife, you want seeds. Is it because there is land in your immortal body that can grow food?"
Li Huan finally managed to sort out his messy mind before he asked the question carefully.
Cheng Qiao was stunned for a moment. What is a fairy body? Oh, it turned out that Li Huan really thought she was a fairy who had descended to the earth. She reached out and grabbed Li Huan, wanting to take him to the space to have a look.