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Chapter 16
Chapter 16
Lu Qing was worried that the hooligan who raised the duck girl in QJ was the same person as the bastard who drugged Jiang Yao, but Jiang Yao knew that the bastard was himself.
Although this matter has nothing to do with him, out of professional habit, Jiang Yao still asked curiously, "Why didn't the duck girl say it at the beginning? It has been more than a month now, and it is difficult to obtain evidence."
"Hey, she probably broke the jar now." Lu Qing sighed.
It turned out that after the duck-breeding girl was bullied that day, she was afraid of being ridiculed and ostracized by others, so she swallowed her anger and didn't say anything, but she didn't expect that she was pregnant after half a month.
She definitely can't keep the gangster's seed, so she secretly went for an abortion/abortion, but an accident resulted in heavy bleeding, and now her life is picked up, and it is basically impossible to get pregnant after that.
An infertile woman is like a hen that can't lay eggs. It is almost impossible to marry in this age.
The more she thought about it, the more angry she became. Anyway, she was going to die alone in her life, so she didn't want to let that bastard go, so she went to the Public Security Bureau to report the case to bring the man to justice.
"The hooligans haven't been caught yet. You must not go out at night in the future, and ask me to accompany you when you go out during the day, understand?" Lu Qing urged.
"Sister Qing, I understand." Jiang Yao felt Lu Qing's concern and nodded immediately.
For the next day, the entire Qingyuan production team and even people from Quanquan Mountain Commune were discussing this matter. Jiang Yao doesn't care about this, and prepares to sell jelly at home.
The cost of 80 catties of jelly is not high, but it is not easy to make.
First of all, she has to have a big pot. In addition, there are no disposable bowls and spoons these days, so when selling jelly, she has to bring her own porcelain bowls and porcelain spoons.
Her own is a small pot, and she doesn't have that many sets of bowls and spoons, but the Lu family, who was once a big family, has them.
Previously, many of these bowls and spoons were chipped due to being smashed, but Jiang Yao tried hard to find ten pairs of bowls and spoons that were almost perfect.
She cleaned and drained the bowls and spoons, then went to the Lu family's farm tool room to get a bamboo basket and put the bowls and spoons in it.
The next day, she got up early with Lu Qing and planned to go to the paper factory to line up early, hoping to get handmade raw materials. When they went out, it was bright and light, and Lu Che was worried, so he sent them to the paper factory. When he saw that there were already six or seven women queuing up, he was relieved to go to work in the sugarcane field.
The matter of raising duck girls is still raging, and the woman at the front is talking hotly. Lu Qing and Jiang Yaoan listened quietly without interrupting.
After waiting for about fifteen minutes, the village cadres who distributed the raw materials came. The paper factory has imported a lot of raw materials this time. In addition, they went early, and Jiang Yao and the others received the raw materials smoothly.
Back at Lu's house, they had breakfast first, and then made handicrafts in Jiang Yao's room.
"By the way, tomorrow is the market day. You said yesterday that you would go to sell jelly with Lu Che?" Lu Qing asked when he remembered it.
"Yes." Jiang Yao said: "My brother sent me about a catty of jelly grass, and it is estimated that I can make 80 catties of jelly. It is not realistic to eat it myself, so I want to get it tomorrow and set up a stall next to the theater. Sold to moviegoers."
"That's a good idea." Lu Qing said with a smile, "Lu Che has always been cold-hearted. I really didn't expect you and him to get along well, so you can set up a stall together."
It was obvious that Lu Qing's words had no other meaning, but Jiang Yao was inexplicably guilty and did not dare to continue talking about this topic with her. What are these sticky papers for?"
"These are for worship." Lu Qing said in a low voice.
"Don't you say you want to get rid of feudal superstition? How can you still do this?" Jiang Yao asked in confusion.
Lu Qing: "It's all export, so it can be done. Speaking of which, this paper factory was established by a relative of Lu Qianyuan."
"Is there such a thing?" Jiang Yao suddenly realized, "No wonder Chen Shuanglian dares to use the bus for private use."
"Otherwise, you think that Lu Dazhou doesn't care about diesel money, and just tossing around with Lu Zhisen, he sometimes has to turn a blind eye." Lu Qing said.
Jiang Yao: "Then Lu Dazhou is not afraid that Chen Shuanglian will win over people's hearts, and he will push his man or son to be the captain of the production team in the future, and take his position?"
"I'm not afraid of this." Lu Qing said, "Many people love petty and cheap, but the villagers are not stupid. If Lu Qianyuan or Lu Zhisen are really the production captains, they are the ones who suffer."
"It's the same thing."
When Lu Che came back from work at noon, Jiang Yao told him to pick more banana leaves when he came back from work in the evening. Lu Che guessed that it had something to do with business, so he responded without asking more.
In the evening, Lu Che brought the banana leaves back, Jiang Yao washed them and then had a meal and bath, soaked 3 catties of rice in water before 8 o'clock, and told Lu Che to get up around 12:30 tonight to grind rice milk, and then go to bed .
Jiang Yao didn't fall asleep because she had something in her heart. When she got up after 12:30, she walked into the yard and saw Lu Che grinding rice milk.
"I was going to call you after grinding the rice milk, but I didn't expect you to get up by yourself." At this moment, only the moonlight above your head was shining in the yard, and the surroundings were very dark. Jiang Yao couldn't see Lu Che's face, but it was not difficult to tell what he said. There was joking in his voice.
"What?" Jiang Yao pursed her lips and said, "I'm still very active in my work, not to mention earning money."
Lu Che didn't argue with her, only said: "The rice milk is almost ground, you see what to do, I don't understand."
"I'm going to cook the jelly grass first." Jiang Yao turned back to the kitchen and started to get busy for her first stall.
In fact, it is not difficult to make jelly, first boil the jelly grass, and then filter the slurry with a filter bag. Immediately afterwards, add water to the slurry, bring to a boil over high heat, then lower the heat and add the rice milk, stirring while cooking.
Because it is a large pot, it is quite laborious to stir, this task falls on Lu Che, and Jiang Yao is responsible for burning the wood.
She sat on the rocks with her head down, and occasionally added wood to the stove.
The surroundings were silent, save for the occasional crackling of the fire as the wood burned.
Now she only needs a small fire, and she only adds firewood once in a while, and when she is free, she can't ignore the shadow falling over her head.
She couldn't hold back for a long time, and looked up at him secretly.
At this moment, his hand was stirring the wooden stick in his hand again and again, his eyes fell on the surface of the pot, and his expression was focused.
In the past, she thought that the side face of a man who was writing with a pen or typing on a computer was the most attractive. Now she suddenly found that a man with a stick to eat is also very good-looking, so that her heartbeat was about to speed up again. .
Feeling that her face was about to burn, Jiang Yao felt that she couldn't look any longer. Just as she was about to withdraw her gaze, Lu Che's eyes suddenly moved down.
She was caught.
"..." The air was stagnant for two seconds, and she squeezed a calm smile and said, "Look, the starry sky is so beautiful tonight!"
Hearing the sound, Lu Che didn't look up. He still stared straight at her and said, "Really? Is anyone beautiful?"
"..." Jiang Yao had reason to suspect that he was flirting with herself, and had the evidence.
The darkness couldn't resist someone's scalding gaze, Jiang Yao lowered her head, and she didn't dare to look up until the jelly was cooked.
After the jelly is boiled, the rest is left to time, and the production is completed after cooling and solidification.
Lu Che asked Jiang Yao to go to bed, while he went to the vegetable garden to pick vegetables.
Tomorrow's stall will not only sell jelly, but also vegetables from the old business. She wanted to help him, but he insisted on letting her rest, "You can also sleep for two hours, and we have to leave at four o'clock, otherwise we won't be able to occupy a seat next to the theater."
"Okay." Jiang Yao didn't insist, and went back to the room to sleep.
At 3:50, Lu Che woke her up. When she packed up and walked out, he had put everything on the ox cart. When she got on the cart, he set off on the ox cart.
The sky is still dark at four o'clock in the morning in summer. Today, there are other farmers in Qingyuan going to the market, but no one is earlier than them, and they are the only ones on the road.
Because they left early, they managed to occupy the booth next to the theater.
Early in the morning, they mainly sell vegetables and eggs, and when the theater opens, the jelly starts to sell.
As expected by Lu Che, a bowl of jelly at eight cents was considered too expensive by many people, but Jiang Yao added a piece of banana leaf to the bottom of the bowl before adding the jelly. After packaging it, it looked taller. Zhang Sancun's tongue is not rotten, and the delivery speed of jelly is quicker.
However, 80 bowls of jelly were not a lot, and they didn't go home until 5 o'clock in the evening.
Compared with the road, the ox cart going back this way can be described as
easy
too much. Jiang Yao sat on the ox cart and counted the pile like a little money fanatic.
"Wow, with vegetables and eggs, we earned 11 yuan and 97 cents today." Jiang Yao said excitedly: "A factory worker's monthly salary is usually 20 to 30 yuan, and we are less than half a month old today. ."
Lu Che, who was sitting in front of the bullock cart, turned his head and looked at her satisfied smiling face. The corners of his lips curled up, and he said, "It seems that you have a mind for making money."
Compared to the future business empire of the boss, her eleven yuan and ninety-seven cents are really not worth mentioning. She smiled humbly and said, "This depends on your help, otherwise I can't do it alone. ."
She couldn't handle the 80 catties of jelly alone.
Jiang Yao thought that the boss would be polite after hearing this, but who knew that he gave an "um" and said, "Yes, but I don't help everyone."
"..." Boss, your words are easily misunderstood.
After a long day of exhaustion, the two of them ate sweet potatoes and jelly at noon. They were already hungry, and Jiang Yao planned to go back and cook a meal of pure white rice without sweet potatoes to treat herself and him well.
Especially him, he hasn't slept for almost a day and a night since 12 o'clock last night, and he was doing hard work.
After a long time, they finally returned to the road of Lu's house, but from a distance they saw many people standing in front of Lu's house.
Lu Che turned around and glanced at Jiang Yao for unknown reasons. Before they could think about what happened, he heard someone shouting, "The hooligan is back, the hooligan is back... Sure enough, I'm a bastard... …”
Immediately afterwards, two public servants/an ran out of Lu's house, rushed in front of Lu Che and held him down, "Lu Che, now I suspect that you are involved in a QJ case, please go back with us for investigation."
"Impossible." Jiang Yao knew that this must be talking about the case of the duck girl. She was about to speak when Lu Che turned her head, looked at her, and said word by word, "Don't talk about those useless things, The clearer will clear himself, and I will be back when the investigation is clear."
"No..." Jiang Yao didn't know that he told herself not to talk about that night, for fear of affecting her reputation, but she only said two words and was interrupted by him again. He hooked his lips towards her, his voice soft as if he was coaxing a child, "Good, it's alright, wait for me to come back."
As soon as she finished speaking, a tear leaked from her eyes.