Chapter 15: Sons, Daughters, and Parents

Nancheng is the old town of Qingxi, which is relatively economically weaker than other districts, but most of the government units and high-end communities are concentrated here.

Compared with the hustle and bustle of other districts as commercial centers, the pace of life in the south city is much slower, and it is more quiet and peaceful, probably because of this, so many wealthy people are willing to live here instead of moving their nests.

The second community is a villa residential area built on the mountainside in the south of the southern city, the legendary rich area of Qingxi, and the large areas on the hill are villas of different shapes.

In addition to the villas themselves are very luxurious, the distance between each other is also very wide, regardless of the front yard and the backyard have a large area to arrange, how to get it completely depends on personal preferences, Liu Xinran's house has a strong Chinese courtyard taste.

As she tiptoed back, a man with books and glasses was sitting in his small gazebo drinking tea and reading.

"What the hell are you doing?" At a glance, he knew that it was his daughter who had returned.

"Dad, I'm coming home, alas, how sneaky is there." Liu Xinran pouted, although she said this, she was still a little weak-hearted.

Liu Xinran has always been a quiet little fresh image outside, and probably only in front of her loved ones will she show such a playful and cute side, and her children will inevitably be coquettish with their parents.

"During this period of time, you usually go home more and more often, I will calculate it for you, it seems that as long as there is no class in the afternoon, you will run back, unlike in the past, only go home on weekends."

Dad Liu is not easy to fool, he has already summarized the rules, Liu Xinran defended: "The university town is in Dongcheng District, it's not far away, and there is nothing in the school anyway, so it's better to go home." Dad, are you still annoying me? ā€

"Don't change your concept, why haven't I seen you so idle before?" Dad Liu then said: "Didn't you still have a Go club in school, why do you set up a club without organizing club activities?" ā€

Liu Xinran said: "The club activities of the Go Club are nothing more than playing chess with like-minded people, or teaching interested people to play chess. ā€

Her explanation was very reasonable, and Father Liu didn't chase this point and slammed it, but asked, "What are you carrying in your hand?" ā€

Liu Xinran's heart was weak for a while, and she subconsciously wanted to hide, but after thinking about it, she felt that it was not so necessary, and besides, why did she hide it when she brought it back, so she said: "Isn't this time to make lunch, so I went to the vegetable market to buy some vegetables and came back......"

"Are you sure you're coming back from school and going to the market on your way?" Daddy Liu caught his daughter's pigtails.

Liu Xinran blushed when she heard this, you can go directly to Nancheng Pedestrian Street by changing the subway line from the university town, and then you can go directly to the entrance of the community by taking the bus.

The little lie was easily exposed, and he could only stomp his foot and say, "Oh, Dad." I want to eat tomatoes and radishes today, so why don't I go buy some of them? ā€

Dad Liu couldn't help but be happy when he saw her like this, and said leisurely: "Girl, what did you want to eat in the past, but you called your mother directly, I can't bear to tell you, there is a Carrefour branch at the entrance of the community." ā€

Of course, Liu Xinran is not unaware that there is a supermarket at the door of her home, in fact, she often accompanies her mother to go shopping, and usually goes to the supermarket to buy things at home, and the mother and daughter act together.

"This, I ......" Liu Xinran herself is not good at lying, and she couldn't find a reason to come to the circle for a long time, but made a big red face.

Dad Liu couldn't help but sigh when he looked at it, girl, it's strange that you don't have a ghost in your heart with this expression.

Looking at the playful expression on her father's face, Liu Xinran was even more weak-hearted, a little annoyed and angry, and stomped her feet again to ignore it, and said: "Anyway, I just went to the vegetable market to buy it, because the vegetables there are better than those in the supermarket, if you don't believe it, don't eat it later." ā€

What Liu Xinran has in her hand, of course, is the vegetables that Zhang Yao planted, tomatoes, radish, cucumbers, cabbage, shallots and peppers, each of which is full of portions, and she has a lot of effort to bring it back.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, stewed pork ribs with radish, and cucumbers, all of which were made by Mother Liu, were all very common home-cooked dishes, but they made the family of three full of joy.

Her parents were also amazed, and sure enough, just like their daughter said, these dishes not only looked amazing, but also actually tasted surpassing, and they were definitely the most delicious vegetables they had ever eaten in their lives.

Seeing her parents full of praise, Liu Xinran was even more proud, and said, "I'm right, right?" But you don't know, at the beginning, there were still people who suspected that it was cultivated with hormones, and many people didn't dare to buy it, or did I break this ending......"

"So instead of selling fried potatoes now, you're going to sell vegetables at the farmer's market." Mother Liu interjected coldly.

Liu Xinran, who was originally elated, proud and proud, was choked up all of a sudden, and only then did she react, and she was too happy to show off with her parents, but she accidentally revealed her stuffing.

She suddenly wilted like a frosted eggplant, fidgeting and twisting, her eyes wandered around, and she said weakly: "Dad, Mom, you all know? ā€

Seeing her like this, Mother Liu was angry and funny, and said: "How old is Qingxi, who can't meet a few acquaintances when wandering around the streets every day?" I've heard about it with your dad a long time ago, otherwise you would think we'd be so calm that our eyes would have to wait to pop out. ā€

In fact, Liu Xinran's parents did this when they first heard about it, including the so-called acquaintances in Liu's mother's mouth, who would have thought that she would sell fried potatoes.

"Also, I met Sister Xiaoyi in the vegetable market today, and she also went to buy vegetables." Liu Xinran's tone became weaker and weaker, and now she realized that this was something that couldn't be concealed at all.

"It's not surprising that Xiao Yi will go to the vegetable market, her grandmother's illness ...... Alas. Mother Liu sighed as she spoke, shook her head and did not continue the topic, but continued to say to Liu Xinran: "Girl, look at your expression and tone just now, these dishes seem to have been grown by yourself, tell us about it." ā€

"Mom, what do you want me to say? It was my father who taught me, I woke up in my heart, and said in my mouth, I made it on paper, not from the body, it is useless, I am going to practice life, this is a rare life experience. ā€

Father Liu nodded and said, "That's right, so my mother and I have no objections, but we are more interested in the person who practices life with you now, don't you plan to introduce it in a show-off tone?" ā€

"I—I've never flaunted anything. I'm full. Liu Xinran subconsciously slipped away, this is completely the three hundred taels of silver here, but she still didn't realize it, which made it easier to make people suspicious.

Seeing his daughter run away, Father Liu picked up a cucumber and sighed: "Looking at our daughter like this, it is estimated that such a delicious vegetable will not be easy to eat in the future." ā€

Girls are always shy about emotional things, especially in front of their parents, embarrassed to admit it, worried about whether their parents will accept it, etc., holding this kind of shy and apprehensive psychology, they will deliberately avoid hiding it for a long time.

Now Liu Xinran has performed this vividly, and as a person who has come over, her parents naturally understand.

On the other hand, Zhang Yao was also counting the money just after eating, because of Liu Xinran's high-price strategy, which can be regarded as an overloaded one- or three-wheeled motorcycle vegetables, was quickly sold out.

The price was set higher, and the income was much higher than expected, just more than 30 kilograms of tomatoes were sold for a bonus of 800 yuan.

Among the six kinds of vegetables he grows, the most expensive is actually chili, which is locally called dipping water and spicy in Qingxi, and it can generally be sold for five or six yuan a tael, which is still cheap.

Although as an ingredient, each customer will not buy too much, but this has no effect on Zhang Yao, one person can't buy it and ten people can always buy it, right?

All of them add up to more than 4,000 yuan, and the income of one day is equivalent to half a month of selling fried potatoes, and the cost is just to buy seedlings and seeds, which is also negligible.

This result made his parents also dumbfounded, if they planted green beans at a price or if the harvest was not good, half an acre of land would not necessarily have so much income.

"Your dad and I were busy for a day today, and we sold more than 400 yuan of beans. I've been farming all my life, and now I can't keep up with you as a novice, science and technology are so powerful. ā€

Li Yue sorted out the accounts for Zhang Yao again, how many catties each vegetable has, and how much is a catty, and he sighed so much after the account, but it was more relieved, what his son said before was really not to comfort them.

Zhang Guojian also said: "After I finish picking the green beans with your mother and sorting out the rice fields, we will still give you a hand, you are still inexperienced in the more specific planting process, and your mother and I are not as good as you in terms of management." ā€

With the current situation, where do they need to plant any beans, it is best to leave all the fields for Zhang Yao, so that they have no land to plant just to help manage, which can be regarded as complementary.

Their family has a total of two acres and four fields, which is much smaller than Zhang Yao wants, and more importantly, it is too scattered to be managed, but at this stage, it can only be so.

Zhang Yao can still manage this amount alone, which is such trivial things as irrigation and weeding, of course it will be easier to have his parents to help, but what he thinks is that his parents have worked hard for most of their lives, and since they can carry this family, it is time for them to take a break.

After thinking about it, Zhang Yao didn't speak immediately, how to convince his parents is also something that needs to be considered, they will definitely not be willing to let their son work idlely.