After Xue Ling rushed to the door, he took Xiao Ranran home to drink milk.
The little guy accidentally wet his pants, so she found him some shorts to put on.
Liu Ying was busy in the kitchen, shouting: "Ling, what do you want to eat for lunch today? I'm going to make some bone soup and add more kelp, do you like it?"
"I like it!" Xue Ling said with a smile: "Mom, when I am outside, I miss the egg pancakes you made the most. How about you bake a few for lunch?"
"What's so difficult about this!" Liu Ying said: "There are a lot of eggs at home, and I will do them later. Look at you, you have lost so much weight in more than two months!"
Xue Ling couldn't help but think of the more than ten days on the ship, and explained: "When I took the machine to the imperial capital, I stayed on the ship for more than ten days. Every day, I either had cold steamed buns or various fishy fish soups. At first, I could survive after a few days.
Come on, I feel like vomiting after eating too much... I get goosebumps just thinking about it now."
"What a sin!" Liu Ying clicked her tongue a few times and said, "Don't ever go there again! Ling, according to me, you buy so many houses to rent out for one or two thousand yuan a month! You already make so much, don't you?
It’s necessary to work so hard.”
Xue Ling smiled and nodded in agreement: "Yes, I have decided to relax at home."
Liu Ying suddenly remembered something and said: "I was so happy that you came back last night that I forgot to tell you. A few days ago, your colleague's name was Wang Qing. She came home with a few apples and said they were for viewing.
Let's see if you're back. I said you should be soon, and she said she would come to see you again. She also said that she had dinner at home in the evening, not at the photo studio. If you come back, go find her when you have time.
.”
"Oh...Wang Qing!" Xue Ling nodded: "I understand. I will go find her in the evening when she gets off work."
While playing with the briquettes, Liu Ying explained: "She seems to be looking for you for something. I saw that her face was sad and her eyes were red. I asked her if she had been wronged in any way. She kept shaking her head and said nothing.
Didn’t say anything.”
Xue Ling was stunned for a moment, then smiled softly.
"Mom, Wang Qing is an intellectual and she values privacy. Don't ask her about this in the future. Just ask her to sit down and drink some water or tea."
Liu Ying nodded and carefully placed the briquettes in the stove.
"I know. I'm just worried about her, so I asked. She looks weak and weak, and I just feel sorry for her."
Xue Ling naturally understood that she had good intentions and said nothing more. Seeing that her son fell asleep in her arms after drinking milk, she quickly took him to the bed in her room to sleep.
At this time, the door opened.
Cheng Tianyuan carried several or two large mesh bags and walked to the kitchen.
"Mom, I went to pick up the goods earlier and happened to meet Chang Bo who was selling vegetables in the city. I gave him two packs of cigarettes, and he stuffed a lot of fresh vegetables and carrots and asked me to bring them back to eat. I also bought some more
Pork and beef.”
"Put it here." Liu Ying asked with a smile: "Is Mr. Chang in good health? He drove the donkey cart here, right?"
"Yes." Cheng Tianyuan replied: "He is still very strong, but the old donkey seems to be almost unable to walk. I invited him to my house as a guest, but he said he didn't know the road and said he would go to the development zone to find me when he had time.
Dad is nagging."
Liu Yingdao: "Uncle Chang often comes to the county town. He goes over there from time to time to find your dad. Your dad didn't let him run away in vain. He stuffed him with cigarettes, candies and so on."
Cheng Tianyuan said: "He lives in our village. If he comes to our place more often, we can also know about things in the village - which is pretty good!"
Liu Ying seemed to think of something and stopped talking.
"Well... Ah Yuan, we haven't been at home in the past two years, and the old house has not been repaired. When we went back during the Chinese New Year, there was air leakage and water leakage. I'm worried that sooner or later, the things in the house will not be saved."
Cheng Tianyuan thought for a while and said, "When the weather gets cooler, let's hire a few workers to repair it."
"Can't we rebuild it?" Liu Ying looked at the large kitchen and whispered: "We can live in such a good house, why can't we rebuild the old house? Our family only has two houses in the village.
Can't you make it more respectable?"
Cheng Tianyuan frowned slightly and said: "If we want to rebuild, it will require a lot of money. I have opened one more store and the business has just stabilized. I can't be too aggressive, otherwise there will be deviations in the accounts. We can't live in it now, so
If you don’t need to stay, just do some repairs for the time being.”
Liu Ying lowered her head and whispered: "I'm afraid that the old furniture inside will rot..."
"If it's gone, it's gone." Cheng Tianyuan explained: "They are all worthless old things that are no longer of use now. When the weather gets cooler, I will find a few people to repair the house. I will not let go of the old furniture, but some can
Take it out and dry it out."
"You kid - why are you so hesitant about things!" Liu Ying scolded: "Those are things our family has used for so many years! How can we not want them!"
Cheng Tianyuan saw that the old man was angry and did not dare to say any more.
"Don't worry, just put it away as much as possible and don't throw it away."
Liu Ying added: "When you make money, you have to rebuild the old house. Our family can't have nothing in the village. We need at least two beautiful big houses."
"Mom, what you said is wrong." Cheng Tianyuan whispered: "Ling Ling still has hundreds of acres of land in the village!"
Liu Ying curled her lips: "They are all wasteland. If you use so much land and don't plow it, you won't plant anything. If you buy so much land, it will be wasted."
Cheng Tianyuan made a hissing gesture to her and said: "Ling Ling has her own plans. I will discuss the matter of building an old house with Lingling when I am financially better off."
Seeing that he had given a verbal guarantee, Liu Ying finally felt relieved.
Cheng Tianyuan took out the telegram from his pocket and quickly sent it to Xue Ling.
"Daughter-in-law, the postman sent a telegram to Café de Coral a few days ago. It seems to have been sent to you by Xiao Jiaxue from the Imperial Capital."
Xue Ling stuck out her tongue and chuckled: "I guess I'm here to rush for the manuscript."
She tore open the telegram and saw Xiao Jiaxue urging her to proofread the translation manuscript quickly, saying that it would be sent before August in the Gregorian calendar. The publishing house had already arranged the schedule, and they would take advantage of the opening of major schools in September to promote it.
Sell more.
"August in the Gregorian calendar? It's almost July now." Xue Ling muttered: "It seems that I can't relax for a while! Fortunately, it's just proofreading, otherwise I definitely wouldn't be able to finish it."
Cheng Tianyuan drank water in the living room and walked in to find that she had found all the final drafts of the translation and was reading and proofreading them.
"Daughter-in-law, are you in a hurry?"
"A little bit," she replied.
Cheng Tianyuan asked: "Can I help?"
Xue Ling shook his head: "It's okay, I just proofread the content, revise it, and occasionally polish it."
Cheng Tianyuan did not disturb her and quietly went to the kitchen to help.
At noon, Mr. and Mrs. Shanyue came together to eat pancakes and drink bone soup afterward.
In the afternoon, they each went back to take a nap. Xue Ling slept with Xiao Ranran for a while, then climbed up and started translating the manuscript.
After Xiao Ranran woke up, grandma helped feed him and took him downstairs to play.
Xue Ling didn't pay attention to the time when she was busy. It wasn't until the evening, when the setting sun shone through the window on the other side, that she remembered that she had other arrangements for the evening.
She took out a summer dress from her duffel bag and saw that it was a size that Wang Qing could wear. She folded it up and put it in her bag. Then she told her mother-in-law, turned around and went downstairs to Wang Qing's house.
They are all in the same neighborhood, so it's very easy to find them.
"Wang Qing!" Xue Ling patted the door and shouted: "Wang Qing! I am Xue Ling!"