My courtyard shelter

Xu Dong smiled and nodded.

"Honey, please stay with me for a while, I'll go back and get the shrimps."

The stall owner seemed to hesitate to speak.

Yang Lina quickly comforted her: "Don't worry, eldest sister, our home is right next to Panjiayuan. We can get back and forth in half an hour at most."

"That's good!"

After Xu Dong left, Yang Lina chatted with the stall owner about home affairs. Anyway, she was idle.

"Sister, did you grow the melon seeds yourself?"

"Yes, more and more sunflowers have been planted in the past two years. Our balcony is completely covered with them."

“Why not just plant potatoes or sweet potatoes?”

Yang Lina asked curiously.

The stall owner explained with a wry smile: “I have grown potatoes and sweet potatoes at home before, but they consumed too much water and the yield was not as high as expected.

After trying again and again, in the end, growing sunflowers was the most cost-effective. You can grow two crops a year, and you can get about 50 pounds of whole grains, which is much higher than the yield of potatoes and sweet potatoes. "

"Seeing that you are so anxious, is your family very short of food now?"

"Que, why not?"

The stall owner pointed at himself:

"You can tell by looking at my appearance. Which family is not short of food now? To be honest, our family's October rations can only last until the 25th.

There are still six full days until next month!

If I couldn't hold on, I wouldn't be willing to sell the melon seeds now and keep them until the Chinese New Year. At least I could get more in exchange for them than I do now. "

"Sister, how many people are in your family? Why is the food consumed so fast?" Yang Lina asked curiously.

“There are six people in our family, the old man and I, our son, daughter-in-law, and finally our two grandsons, one is eight years old and the other is five.

Originally, the rations could barely last until the end of the month, but the two children were so ignorant that they learned to eat secretly.

By the time I found out, it was already too late. I lost more than 30 kilograms of sweet potatoes. Are you angry? "

Yang Lina helped the stall owner fill up the tea.

"Didn't you lock up the food?"

Nowadays, food is precious and is the lifeblood of every household. Most families hide their food tightly for fear of being stolen.

Even in Lao Xu's house, the rice in the kitchen is usually kept in a cupboard and locked, for fear that it will be ruined by the triplets playing house.

Speaking of this, the stall owner became even more angry.

"It's locked, why isn't it locked? But it's useless. The boss didn't know who he learned it from and secretly assigned a key. It's my fault for being careless. Every time I cook, I don't think to check it."

Yang Lina is also a mother and can’t help but express concern:

"You didn't beat the children, did you?"

The stall owner shook his head: "How dare we take action? The two children are already thin. Let's not say anything about fighting. If someone from the Children's Bureau discovers it, it will be too late to regret."

"Does the Children's Bureau still care about this?"

"I didn't control them very much before, but now I control them very strictly. After all, situations like ours are not uncommon. Some cruel parents can really kill them."

Immediately afterwards, the stall owner listed several real cases, some of which he had read in newspapers, and some of which happened around him.

Yang Lina covered her mouth in surprise. This situation was unimaginable to her. No matter how naughty her children were, she had never dealt with them harshly. At most, she would only spank them a few times.

After a while, Xu Dong came back with shrimps.

The transaction was successfully completed, and the stall owner was very satisfied. He praised Xu Dong and his wife as good people because they made three taels more dried shrimps and made a lot of money.

After returning the melon seeds to the shop, Xu Dong saw that his wife was a little depressed and asked cautiously:

"What's wrong? Weren't you fine just now?"

"It's okay. Let's continue shopping. Maybe we can encounter other good things." Yang Lina quickly adjusted her mentality.

But then, the couple didn't gain much.

…

More than two hours passed in a flash, and it was almost the time agreed with Mr. Mike. Xu Dong brought his wife to Mr. Mike's new home.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Please come in, please come in quickly."

Mr. and Mrs. Mac are very welcoming.

Xu Dong looked at the furnishings in the house and praised with a smile on his face:

“The house is beautifully designed!”

"Thanks!"

Xu Dong pointed to his wife and introduced: "This is my wife Yang Lina. You can call her Nana."

Mr. Mike reached out and shook Yang Lina's hand. They said that as the Romans do in the country, he has changed the kiss on the hand.

Mrs. Mike looked very friendly, holding Yang Lina's hand and constantly asking for her. Yang Lina also liked this "foreign friend" very much. This was probably just a matter of affinity!

Xu Dong couldn't help but exclaimed: "Mrs. Mike, I didn't expect that your Mandarin is not inferior to Mr. Mike at all, and your accent is even better."

Mr. Mike laughed a few times:

"Haha, I learned Mandarin from my wife. She is my Xia Yu teacher, so she should be better than me."

Yang Lina took the opportunity to hand the bag in her hand to Mrs. Mike: "Mr. Mike, Mrs. Mike, this is your first visit and I brought you ten kilograms of dried shrimp. I hope you like it."

Dried shrimps are used to "swap" pastries.

Because Mr. Mike refused to accept money and said he would give it away for free, Xu Dong had no choice but to adhere to the principle of "reciprocity" and give the other party a big gift.

Mrs. Mike was a little shocked. Ten pounds of dried shrimps was an incredible gift. It could be sold for at least fifty or sixty thousand yuan on the market.

If you meet a wealthy person, one hundred thousand is not a problem.

"Too expensive." Mr. Mike evaded.

Xu Dong waved his hand: "Mr. Mike, please believe me, these dried shrimps are nothing to me, you must accept them."

He did this to make friends with the other party.

From the last transaction, he found that this person's background is not simple, and his network of contacts is very wide, and he may be useful at any time.

Mr. Mike smiled:

"In your Daxia language, then I would rather obey than be respectful."

"Mr. Mike, your Mandarin is getting better and better, and this idiom is used very well." Xu Dong gave a thumbs up.

"Thank you for the compliment!"

Everyone sat down, and Mrs. Mike quickly brought a pot of freshly brewed coffee, and said modestly:

"There is only instant coffee at home, please forgive me!"

"It's great to be able to drink coffee."

Xu Dong said politely.

Yang Lina was a little curious: "Nicole, where did you get your coffee?"

"My father's friend gave it to us. There are many indoor coffee plantations in the United States, and the output is quite considerable. You know that we Westerners can't live without coffee every day."

Mrs. Mark explained.

"Bullshit."

Xu Dong secretly complained.

They Daxia people also like to drink tea, but the growing environment of tea trees is a bit harsh. In the end, they changed to chrysanthemum tea, which is easier to grow, and the scale of planting is also limited.

To put it bluntly, it's not that the planting factory can't grow tea trees, but it's a question of whether it's worth it. In the current environment, the boss is not a fool and knows how to make a choice.

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