"Thank you, Mr. Qian. I’m waiting for Wang Ailing from our village."
"Mr. Kong, you still need to be mindful of your reputation."
After speaking, he followed closely behind Jiang Xinyu and left.
"What’s wrong? I’ve never seen you like this."
"That guy’s character is no good, otherwise he wouldn’t have returned from the army. He was harassing young girls when he was just a teenager."
"Oh? Such a person can’t be employed in our factory."
Jiang Xinyu was pleased with Qian Jun’s words and handed him a loaf wrapped in paper.
"Mr. Qian, this is bread I made this afternoon. Here are two for you, and I’m saving the other for my sister to try."
"Haha, if I hadn’t ntioned not hiring that guy, I wouldn’t have gotten this bread, right?"
"Mr. Qian, I’m not that realistic, but if I hadn’t seen you, all three would have gone to my sister."
"Alright then, it’s getting late, you should head back early. Do you want to wait and see you off?"
"No need, I have sothing else to discuss with my sister."
The two parted ways, and Jiang Xinyu went to the workshop to find Wang Ailing.
"Sister, here’s so bread for you. I just saw Kong Demin at the entrance. He said he was looking for you, so don’t go out."
"Okay, I know, soone just ca to call out, but I won’t go. Seeing him makes disgusted."
"Alright, he wanted to join the textile factory and asked , but I refused him. I’m leaving now, be careful yourself."
"Okay, you be careful too. Can you get back on your own?"
"Don’t worry, it won’t be a problem."
Jiang Xinyu pushed her bicycle and didn’t see Kong Demin at the entrance, so she rode ho.
Soon after, she saw Wei Kaiyun waiting by the roadside with his bike, and felt reassured.
"Let’s go, did you finish your errands?"
"Yes, the person claid to co for , but when he found I wasn’t there, he looked for Wang Ailing.
He wanted to join the textile factory; I refused him and said so unpleasant things. I even ran into Qian Jun, who said such people aren’t taken in by the textile factory."
"Haha, now you feel settled?"
"Of course, I’m not one to judge too quickly, but I hate the way he looks at ."
"Did he try to make a move on you?"
"No, but I just don’t like it."
The two rode their bikes side by side, while Kong Demin watched from behind, initially wanting to follow Jiang Xinyu to see where she lived, but was surprised to see a man pick her up.
Moreover, Mr. Qian definitely has intentions towards her. It seems going through this channel to the textile factory won’t work.
As for Huang Hongwei, it’s not that I underestimate him, he just doesn’t have this ability.
However, I still went to the Huang Family anyway. I can’t co here for nothing; I have to settle the job.
When Jiang Xinyu and Wei Kaiyun got ho, he already had water heated for her bath.
"Wife, do you want to bathe first or eat first?"
"I’ll bathe first, once I’ve eaten, I won’t want to get off the kang."
"Haha, that’s a good lifestyle habit."
After Jiang Xinyu finished bathing, Wei Kaiyun took a bath with the leftover water.
The next day, the two spent the whole day sticking close together since the ti to go back was starting to count down.
At noon, Jiang Xinyu made a homade version of Haidilao for Wei Kaiyun.
"Tastes great, my wife’s cooking is always this good. How about tomorrow we drive to the seaside and pick up so seafood?"
"Sure, tomorrow’s the 28th of the lunar month, maybe we can catch a big market there."
The next day, at five o’clock, Wei Kaiyun went out to drive; by six, they finished breakfast and set off.
Of course, Jiang Xinyu was happy to go out; last ti it took eight or nine hours by bike, this ti they arrived in less than three.
They didn’t enter the previous village but went next door and found out where the village head lived, directly stating their purpose.
"Comrade, I’ll go ask for you. There were boats out yesterday, not sure if there’s any stock left, today’s boats haven’t returned yet. Do you want to wait?"
"Village head, where do they dock?"
"I’ll find soone to take you, it’s not far from here."
In the car, they had a few sackcloth bags and a plastic sheet, which Jiang Xinyu didn’t want to get dirty with seafood slls.
At the beach, they discovered a boat already docked and in the process of unloading.
"Comrade, are these octopuses for sale?"
"Of course, are you interested in buying, comrade?"
"Yes, how much per jin for the octopus?"
"Four mao per jin."
"What about these prawns?"
"Also four mao per jin."
"Alright, I want both, how should we pack them?"
"They can only be packed into the sackcloth bags."
Jiang Xinyu accepted the suggestion. There were no foam boxes here, and after weighing, they had 120 jin of octopus and 80 jin of prawns, totaling 200 jin, costing 80 yuan.
They received a few flat fish as a gift for Jiang Xinyu.
Not in a hurry to load the car, they left it on the seaside’s sandy shore.
The second boat arrived and was also unloading; they bought more octopus, prawns, and sea cucumbers, the entire batch of 100 jin.
"Comrade, do you have dry oysters or anything? This season, there’s very little shellfish on the boats."
"Yes, the village has so. How much do you need?"
"About 100 to 200 jin."
"Alright, co back with ."
"Comrade, could you help out? I want to leave these bags in your car first; I’m worried about water dripping inside."
"No problem, let’s go."
They purchased 360 jin of this dried shellfish at, which would be a real treat back ho.
Jiang Xinyu noticed many villagers carrying baskets towards a certain direction.
"Comrade, where are they all heading?"
"To the market fair in the village to the east."
Looking at the car’s trunk and backseat full of seafood, the car was already infused with a fishy sea sll.
"Forget it, let’s go ho. We’ve bought enough."
"It’s okay to leave it in the car."
"Still, it’s too much; let’s head ho."
"Wife, if you’re curious, you can go check it out."
Jiang Xinyu finally couldn’t resist and decided to visit the market fair.
Honestly, the bigger the anticipation, the bigger the disappointnt.
But they still bought dried sea fish and gathered sea rice from the fair, so it wasn’t without gains.
After returning ho, they hurriedly unloaded the car, skipping lunch altogether.
Wei Kaiyun fetched and boiled water while Jiang Xinyu washed what she planned to keep before leaving them to air dry in the yard. They had frozen solid already.
Once everything was sorted, it was past two in the afternoon; they ate so noodles, and then Wei Kaiyun went to return the car. "Wife, I’ll be back in the evening."
"Great, should we have dumplings tonight?"
"Sure."
After seeing Wei Kaiyun off, Jiang Xinyu put all the prawns into two large pots, covered with plastic wrap, and stored them. Only the prawns had the lightest sll.
She also saved a basin full of fresh octopus before heading off on her bike to find She Xiaoyun.
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