Xu Dong nodded with a smile.

"Wife, please accompany my elder sister, I'll go back to get the shrimp."

The stall owner seemed to want to speak but stopped.

Yang Lina quickly comforted: "Don't worry, sister, our family is next to Panjiayuan, and it can be back and forth in at most half an hour."

"That's good!"

After Xu Dong left, Yang Lina and the stall owner chatted about family matters, but they were idle anyway.

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

"Yes, more and more sunflowers have been planted in the past two years, and our family has planted all the balcony."

"Why not just grow potatoes or sweet potatoes?"

Yang Lina said curiously.

The stall owner explained with a wry smile: "I have planted potatoes and sweet potatoes in my family before, but they are too water-consuming and the yield is not as high as I imagined.

After trying it, it is the most cost-effective to plant sunflowers. You can plant them for two seasons a year and you can get about fifty kilograms of coarse grains, which is much higher than the harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes."

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

"Why don't you lack it?"

The stall owner pointed at himself with his finger:

"You can tell from my appearance. Which one of the companies is not short of food now? I won't hide it from you. Our family's food rations in October can only last until the 25th...

There are six days left before next month!

If I hadn't been able to hold on, I wouldn't have been willing to sell the melon seeds now and save them until the Chinese New Year period, at least it would be much more exchanged than now."

"Sister, how many people are in your family? Why are food consumed so quickly?" Yang Lina said curiously.

"Our family is six, the old man, my son and I, my daughter-in-law, and finally two grandchildren, one is eight years old and the other is five years old.

Originally, I could barely eat food until the end of the month, but my two children were ignorant and actually learned to eat it secretly.

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

Yang Lina helped the stall owner fill the tea.

"Didn't you lock the food?"

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

Even for Lao Xu's family, the rice in the kitchen is usually locked in the cabinet, for fear that the triplets will be ruined by the house.

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

"It's locked, why didn't it? But it's useless. The boss didn't know who he learned it from, so he secretly made a key. It's also my fault for being careless. Every time he cooks, he doesn't think about checking it."

Yang Lina is also a mother, so she couldn't help but care about it:

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

The stall owner shook his head: "How dare we do it? The two children are thin, so I'll say that they'll make a comeback. If they are discovered by the Children's Bureau, it's too late to regret it."

"The Children's Bureau still cares about this?"

"I didn't care much before, but now I'm very strict. After all, this situation like our family is not uncommon. Some cruel parents can really do anything."

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

Yang Lina covered her mouth in surprise. This situation was unimaginable. Even if her child was naughty, she had never done any heavy blows. At most, she would just give her butt a few times.

After a while, Xu Dong came back with the shrimp.

The stall owner was very satisfied with the successful completion of the transaction and praised Xu Dong and his wife as a great man because they had a lot of dried shrimps, which made a lot of money.

When Xu Dong sent the melon seeds back to the shop, he saw that his wife was a little depressed and asked carefully:

"What's wrong? Wasn't you doing well just now?"

"It's okay, let's continue shopping. Maybe we can come across other good things." Yang Lina quickly adjusted her mentality.

However, the couple did not gain much next time.

...

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

"Dongdongdongdong..."

"Please come in, please come in quickly."

Mr. Mike and Mrs. Mike were very enthusiastic.

Xu Dong looked at the decorations inside 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 to shake Yang Lina, and they all said that he was following the local customs, so he had changed his kissing gift.

Mrs. Mike looked very friendly and held Yang Lina's hand and kept asking about her well-being. Yang Lina also liked this "foreign friend". This is probably because of her fate!

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

Mr. Mike laughed a few times:

"Haha, I learned Mandarin from my wife. She is my teacher Xia Yu, so it's OK to be better than me."

Yang Lina took the opportunity to hand the bag in her hand to Mrs. Mike: "Mr. Mike, Mrs. Mike, the first time I came to the door, I brought you ten kilograms of dried shrimps. I hope you like it."

Dried shrimps are used to "exchange" pastries.

Because Mr. Mike refused to accept money and expressed his intention to give it for free, Xu Dong had to adhere to the principle of "reciting gifts" and also give the other party a big gift.

Mrs. Mike was a little surprised. Ten kilograms of dried shrimps were an amazing gift. If it was put on the market, it could be sold for at least 50,000 or 60,000 yuan.

If you meet a rich man, it is no problem to have a hundred thousand yuan.

"It's too expensive," Mr. Mc shuddered.

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

His move is also to make friends with each other.

From the last transaction process, he found that this person’s background was not simple, his connections were very wide, and he might be able to use it anytime.

Mr. Mike showed a big smile:

"In your Daxia words, then I'd rather be respectful than obey my duty."

"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 for yours!"

“It’s great to have coffee.”

Xu Dong said politely.

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

"It was given to us by my father's friend. There are many indoor coffee plantations in beautiful countries, and the yield is quite considerable. You also know that we Westerners cannot live without coffee every day."

Mrs. Mark explained.

"The bullshit is inseparable."

Xu Dong secretly complained.

The people of Daxia also like to drink tea, but the growing environment of tea trees is a bit harsh. In the end, it was replaced with chrysanthemum tea that is easier to grow, and the scale of the planting is also limited.

To put it bluntly, it is not that the planting plants cannot plant tea trees, but whether it is worth it. In the current environment, there are no fools above and know how to choose.
Chapter completed!