The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

After hearing what his uncle Liu Wu said, Liu Minghui decided to go home. After all, nothing would happen if he left the car here.

Liu Minghui walked home along the path. On the way, there were many middle-aged women gathered in groups of three or four to chat.

When Liu Minghui returned home, he saw wheat being ground before he even entered the door. It was his eldest brother who was pulling the mill, and Liu's mother was helping beside him.

Liu Minghui walked in, "Mom, big brother."

"Oh, Minghui is back, come in quickly, why haven't you come back for the past two months?"

Liu's mother, who was busy, saw Liu Minghui and came over, took Liu Minghui's hand and asked.

"Mom, I'm back. I've been a little busy lately."

"I came back today because I have something good to tell you."

Liu's mother asked in confusion: "What good news?"

"You're going to have another daughter-in-law."

Seeing Liu Minghui's smile, Liu's mother was also happy and said, "Minghui, you have found a partner, why don't you bring him back to show me?"

Liu Minghui looked at his mother's anxious look and said helplessly: "Mom, I will bring it back to you after the New Year."

"Good good."

Liu's mother held Liu Minghui's hand and nodded repeatedly.

After Liu Minghui finished speaking, he went to help Liu Lao Da grind flour. While working, he asked, "Brother, how is the harvest this year?"

Liu Lao gasped and replied: "It's OK, just enough to eat."

Liu Minghui thought that the rural areas would start eating from the same pot this year, and planned to talk to Liu's father about it later.

It took several people half an hour to grind the wheat. The amount of wheat distributed this year was not much, less than 100 kilograms, and the wheat utilization rate was only about 80%.

After grinding, there are less than 80 kilograms left. All of these will be mixed into cornmeal. This is the two-piece flour. The cornmeal here is ground from pure corn.

After finishing all these, Liu Minghui saw that it was still early, so he asked: "Where are Dad and Second Brother? Why aren't they at home?"

While tidying up the yard, Liu's mother said, "They went to work on the reservoir. The commune plans to build a reservoir upstream, and your father and his wife thought they had nothing to do so they went to work."

Only then did Liu Minghui understand why his father was not at home.

After packing up her things, Liu's mother planned to cook. Since her son was coming back today, she had to make a good meal for him.

Seeing that his mother was about to cook, Liu Minghui went to help light the fire, "Where's my sister-in-law?"

While kneading the dough, Liu's mother said, "At your uncle's house, your sister-in-law can't sit still, so she always likes to run outside. Fortunately, she is three months pregnant now, otherwise I would have to lock her up at home."

Liu's mother prepared the meal in a short while, and then the eldest brother called his sister-in-law back to eat.

As soon as Liu Minghui put the food on the table, his little niece ran in and jumped into Liu Minghui's arms.

"Uncle, I want to take a big car."

Liu Minghui picked up his niece and said, "Okay, let's go take the bus this afternoon."

At this time, the eldest sister-in-law came in, looked at Liu Minghui and said, "Her uncle, don't spoil the child."

"It's okay, sister-in-law."

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Liu's mother said, "Let's eat first. Minghui will be busy later."

Then everyone started eating.

In the afternoon, Liu Minghui and his family came to the brigade headquarters. When they arrived, his uncle had already helped weigh the things and was waiting for Liu Minghui to pay.

"Uncle, how many of these are there in total?"

Liu Wu smoked a cigarette and said slowly: "50 kilograms of wild boar meat, four pheasants, and 30 kilograms of eggs."

These are what the villagers left over from hunting in the mountains some time ago.

Liu Minghui did the math: "Wild boar meat is 60 cents per pound, a pheasant is 3 yuan, and eggs are 50 cents per pound, a total of 57 yuan."

Then he took out the money from his pocket and handed it to Liu Wu.

"Uncle, look whose family you gave the share to."

Liu Wu took the money and divided it among his friends.

Liu Minghui took his little niece into the car and went to move things.

Seeing Liu Minghui busy, several villagers came over to help. The atmosphere in Liujia Village is still good.

After a while, all these things were moved. After Liu Minghui gave some cigarettes to the people who helped, he found Liu Wu.

"Uncle, now that I'm done, I'll leave first."

Liu Wu nodded: "Then you can go back first, and remember to come back more often when you have time."

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Minghui decided not to tell Liu Wu what might happen this year.

Anyway, if the village needs help in the future, Liu Minghui can still help. Not to mention much, a few thousand kilograms of food can be easily taken out by Liu Minghui.

Liu Minghui got in the car and drove towards Sijiu City. After entering the city, Liu Minghui planned to go find Yu Li first.

They arrived at Shajing Hutong, which was too small for trucks to enter. Liu Minghui got out of the car and called a child.

"Little boy, go to the courtyard in front and ask Sister Yu Li to come out. This piece of candy is yours."

The child was also from Yu Li’s courtyard. He picked up the candy and rushed over.

After a while, Yu Li came out and saw Liu Minghui standing by the car waiting for her.

"Why are you here? You came here and asked a child to call me. Who did I think it was?"

Liu Minghui smiled and took out a two-pound piece of wild boar meat from the car. This was something Liu's mother asked Liu Minghui to give to Yu Li.

"I went back to my hometown today and told my mother that this was given to you by my mother."

Yu Li said shyly, "That's not good. I haven't even met your aunt yet."

Liu Minghui stuffed the thing into Yu Li's hand.

"I've already said that we'll go back together after the New Year."

After handing the things to Yu Li, Liu Minghui planned to leave. There were still many people watching nearby, so he couldn't do anything out of the ordinary.

After getting in the car, Liu Minghui said to Yu Li: "You go back, I still have to go to the steel mill."

"Okay, you need to drive slower. I'll come to your place tomorrow."

Yu Li also knew that he was busy, so she waved to him and went back.

When Yu Li returned home, her mother saw her holding a piece of meat and asked, "Who is looking for you?"

Yu Li smiled and said, "Who else could it be? Minghui just came over, but he was driving and didn't come in to sit for a while."

"Here, this is what my future mother-in-law asked Minghui to bring for me."

Yu Li handed the meat to Yu's mother.

"Oh, you haven't even married yet, and you're already calling her mother-in-law."

Yu's mother joked.

Yu Li blushed and ran back to the inner room.

Liu Minghui drove back to the steel rolling mill and stopped at the door.

"Purchaser Liu is back. What's on this truck?"

The security officer asked.

"These are all supplies collected from the countryside. Please check them. I still need to put them into storage."

After the security personnel got in the car to check it, Liu Minghui drove the car to the warehouse.

The warehouse manager looked at Liu Minghui's truckload of supplies and gave him a thumbs up, saying, "Purchasing Manager Liu, you are really awesome. You always bring back truckloads of supplies."

"Haha, it's all thanks to my fellow villagers who take care of me."

Then several people unloaded the supplies together.