Rebirth in 1985

Chapter 18 The Heroine Appears ()

When Lu Shaohua sent Lu Jiacheng to the car and returned to the shop, Weng Wende was also in the shop, but he was rummaging through the lychee leaves, as if he was looking for something. "Brother Wende, did you drop something?"

Hearing Lu Shaohua's voice, Weng Wende raised his head, touched his head with a red face, and mumbled for a long time without saying a word. The clever Lu Shaohua saw here and there and didn't know what he was looking for. He turned his head and covered his mouth with laughter. He really didn't expect that Weng Wende still had such a cute side. He originally thought he was a very stable person, but at noon, when he was putting lychees in his pocket, Lu Shaohua found it very funny. And now? The lychees were all sold out, leaving only the leaves, and he was still desperately looking for any lychees that were left. This made Lu Shaohua unimaginable. Do you think a man in a suit and tie, who is also the owner of a big restaurant, is looking for any lychees that are left under the lychee leaves, and can make Lu Shaohua control his laughter?

"Okay, okay, it's because the lychees are too sweet and too tempting. How could I be like this?" Weng Wende was so embarrassed by Lu Shaohua's smile that he blamed the lychees for everything.

"Hahaha, hahaha." It would have been better if Weng Wende didn't say anything. After he said that, Lu Jiahui also started laughing wildly.

"Okay, stop laughing. I've asked the kitchen to prepare some delicious food. We can clean it up later. Let's go celebrate first." Seeing the two of them laughing so hard that they were out of breath, Weng Wende could only use eating to change the subject.

Sure enough, when the topic of food came up, both Lu Shaohua and Lu Jiahui stopped smiling. It was obvious that they were hungry. Lu Jiahui was even more exaggerated. When he heard the word "food", his stomach kept making "gurgling" sounds. The expression on his face was as if he had been hungry for more than ten years. If you look closely, you will find that saliva is already flowing from the corners of his mouth.

But it's also true that Lu Jiahui has been doing physical work from the beginning, either moving lychees or putting them into bags and handing them to Lu Jiacheng to weigh. People say that labor speeds up digestion, and Lu Jiahui is not an iron man. How can he not be hungry since he had lunch at noon and it's already past ten o'clock in the evening?

"Let's go, let's go and eat quickly." Lu Jiahui was not embarrassed by his growling stomach, but instead said loudly.

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After a sumptuous dinner, Lu Shaohua touched his stomach and felt full, but at this moment, he was silently mourning for Lu Jiacheng's stomach. Lu Jiacheng was anxious and rushed to the car on an empty stomach. In this era, it takes more than ten hours to get home by car, unlike the 21st century, where there are highways that can get there in three or four hours. Not to mention the length of time, in the 1980s, there was nothing to buy around the highway. Even though Lu Jiacheng went home with several thousand yuan from selling lychees a day, he couldn't buy anything. There were convenience stores and fast food restaurants everywhere on the highway like in the 21st century, so including the time spent on the bus and the night, Lu Jiacheng had to starve for at least seventeen or eighteen hours before he could fill his stomach when he got home.

Seeing Lawrence Lu and Lu Shaohua put down their chopsticks and touched their full stomachs, Weng Wende said, “Let’s go and have some tea.”

"You are such a dishonest boy. You chatted all night yesterday and didn't even make a cup of tea for Third Uncle. It turns out you hid it." Lu Jiahui said loudly.

Weng Wende was stunned, feeling wronged, and said to Lu Jiahui with a bitter face: "Third Uncle, I forgot about it last night because I was so happy. Now I'm going to make up for it." After that, he said in a tone that only the two of them could hear: "I still have some top-quality Tieguanyin. I'll give it to you later."

Hearing this, Lu Jiahui looked at Weng Wende with a much warmer look, as if to say, "You are smart, kid."

"You guys go first, I'm going to the bathroom." Lu Shaohua knew that he was going to drink tea, so he hurriedly said that he was going to the bathroom. He knew that he had to drink a lot of water when drinking tea. He had already drunk a lot of water all day, and the weather in May was unusually hot, so he drank much more water than usual. If he didn't go to solve it first, he would have to go before he could drink two cups, so he might as well go now.

……

After Lu Shaohua solved the problem of "metabolism", he lowered his head while walking and thinking about the problem of funds. According to his estimation, lychees can only be sold for about two months at most in this season. Although today's business is good, after deducting the cost and transportation fee, he can only make a few hundred thousand in two months. And this few hundred thousand is also combined with the lychees purchased from other people in the village and transported to sell, which is far from the amount he wants in his mind. "No, I have to think about whether there are other profitable projects."

"Ah!" Just as Lu Shaohua was talking to himself, he suddenly felt as if he had bumped into something, and then heard a scream. When he came to his senses, Lu Shaohua realized that he had bumped into someone, and the person he had knocked down was a girl who looked about the same age as him, about 1.3 or 1.4 meters tall, with long hair, a pretty face with a little redness, and a pair of big, watery eyes with a clever look. Lu Shaohua was a little fascinated by the sight, and secretly sighed in his heart: "If such a beauty was born in ancient times, it would be a disaster for the country and the people!"

"Hey! What's wrong with you? You bumped into someone and didn't say a word." The girl glared at Lu Shaohua and yelled. She was a little angry. Being knocked down by someone was already a very infuriating thing, and now the person who knocked her down was still standing there, looking at her face intently, which was like adding fuel to the fire. Her anger rose sharply.

After being yelled at by the girl, Lu Shaohua came back to his senses and quickly apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it."

"Humph! If it wasn't deliberate, then it was intentional?" The girl said pickily, as if she didn't want to let the person who knocked him down rest assured.

"No, that's not what I meant. I was thinking about something just now, so I didn't notice and bumped into you." Lu Shaohua said to the girl with a smile, but secretly slapped himself twice in his heart.

"Oh! Not to mention that in ancient times she was a beauty who brought disaster to the country and the people. Even now that she is so young, she is still a vixen." Of course, he didn't dare to say this out loud. He just muttered it in his heart. If he really said it out loud, it would be like adding fuel to the fire.

"Hmph, even if you didn't mean it, why do you keep staring at my face?" After hearing Lu Shaohua's explanation, the girl's anger subsided a lot, but when she thought about how Lu Shaohua was staring at her face intently just now, she asked with some discomfort in her heart.

"Oh! It's because... you're pretty, so I took a closer look." Lu Shaohua said, pretending to be serious. He's an experienced person. Although he didn't get married in his thirties in his previous life, he still had a relationship. Which girl doesn't like others to praise her? And which girl doesn't like sweet words? The answer is obviously impossible. Even the ugliest girl likes others to say she's beautiful. It's because of her love for beauty.

Sure enough, after being praised by Lu Shaohua, the 'girl' was no longer as angry as before, but a little shy. This shyness made her face, which was red because of anger just now, even redder. "Are you serious? Am I really beautiful?"

"Yeah, very beautiful." Lu Shaohua nodded sincerely. He said 'beautiful', but in his heart he added: "It's already a disaster for the country and the people."

"Are you pretty? Why does my sister say I'm ugly?" The girl seemed to have forgotten that Lu Shaohua had knocked her down just now. She didn't care whether she was familiar with Lu Shaohua or not, and kept asking if she was pretty.

"Yeah, she's really beautiful. Let me treat you to a meal, just to make up for knocking you over just now." Lu Shaohua really didn't want to discuss the question of whether she was beautiful or not, so he quickly changed the subject to treating her to a meal. This could be considered 'saving the country in a roundabout way' or 'spending money to avoid disaster'. Otherwise, if he continued discussing this, his ears would get eroded.

"Okay, I'll forgive you if you treat me to a meal, hehe." The girl said naively.

"Oh! Let's go then."

……

There were four plates of snacks on the table in the restaurant. A boy and a girl were sitting opposite each other. The boy was sitting on one side, looking around, while the girl was concentrating on the food on the table.

"Xiaohua, you are here. No wonder I couldn't find you after looking for you for so long." Weng Wende's voice rang out in the hall, and he walked towards the table where a man and a woman were sitting. Yes, the table where a man and a woman were sitting was where Lu Shaohua and the girl he knocked down were sitting.

"Oh! Brother Wende." Lu Shaohua heard Weng Wende's voice and called out as a response to him.

“Oh! So Yuling is here too? You two...you two..." When Weng Wende walked closer, he found that there was a girl sitting opposite Lu Shaohua, and this girl was someone he knew. However, he was very curious why she was sitting with Lu Shaohua.

"Hello, Brother Wende, hehe." The girl called Yuling by Weng Wende stood up, giggled and called him.

Seeing this scene, Lu Shaohua was really a little confused. He didn't expect that the girl knew Weng Wende. "Brother Wende, do you know her?"

"Hahaha. Of course I know her. The relationship between her family and ours is just like our family and yours. We are old friends." Weng Wende said with a laugh.

Lu Shaohua suddenly realized what was going on, and explained to Weng Wende awkwardly, "When I went to the bathroom just now, I accidentally knocked her down, so I treated her to a meal as an apology."

"So that's how it is. Okay, I'll introduce her to you. Her name is Zeng Yuling." Weng Wende paused for a moment before introducing Zeng Yuling, "Her name is Lu Shaohua. Don't underestimate him because he looks like a child. In my hometown, everyone calls him a 'child prodigy.'"

After Weng Wende finished introducing them, Lu Shaohua nodded to Zeng Yuling as a greeting. Zeng Yuling also nodded to Lu Shaohua.

"Okay, now that we know each other, let's go and have some tea." Weng Wende returned to the topic. He originally thought that Lu Shaohua had gone there, so he came out to find him to go back and have some tea, but he didn't expect that he would run into Zeng Yuling.

"Brother Wende, you guys go ahead. My father is still waiting in the box," Zeng Yuling said with some embarrassment.

"Oh, your father is here too. I'll go have some tea first and then come to your place later." When Weng Wende heard that Zeng Yuling's father was also here, his eyes lit up.

"Well, I'll go over first." Zeng Yuling said, turned around and ran towards the stairs to the second floor of the restaurant.

"Okay, slow down and don't fall."

"Brother Wende, do you have a private room here?" Lu Shaohua asked curiously when he heard the word private room.

"Haha, of course there is. The box is on the second floor. Few people go there. You've only been here for less than two days, so you definitely don't know about it. Okay, let's go have some tea." Weng Wende patted Lu Shaohua on the shoulder and said.

"Um"