Chapter 68 Birthday
The postman had been doing letter delivery rounds since young and had gotten familiar with Wu Chun Hua. In the past few days, he had become a loyal customer of their roujiamo.
While Xu Xiao Jiao was signing, Wu Chun Hua had already neatly prepared two roujiamo for him. The postman handed her the money, "I've been here for five days in a row. Your son-in-law is such a considerate person."
Every time they chatted for a few words. So he knew that the son-in-law of the family was away from home and would send his wife a letter and a package every second day. He didn't know what was in the package, but he could tell it was something for his wife.
Who could deny it? When Wu Chun Hua saw the corners of her daughter's mouth turned up, she smiled and said, "Really troubling you."
"What trouble? This is what I do. If I didn't come to your place to deliver the letter, I wouldn't be able to eat such delicious roujiamo."
Watching the postman walk away, Wu Chun Hua reached out and poked Xu Xiao Jiao, "Happy now."
Xu Xiao Jiao pursed her lips and smiled, "No."
Wu Chun Hua laughed. She stretched out her hand to touch her daughter's soft and fair cheek, "Your mouth is so stubborn. Not only are you happy, Mom is happy that Wei Ping is treating you well. My daughter is blessed."
Xu Xiao Jiao held Wu Chun Hua's arm and smiled, "Mom, do you think Song Wei Ping is stupid? It's been several days and he only knows how to send things. Don't he know how to call home."
Wu Chun Hua glared at her, "Didn’t he get scared by you? Afraid that you won't talk to him again. Just wait. From what I see, it’ll be soon fast. My daughter isn’t angry at all, right?"
Xu Xiao Jiao smiled and said, "En en, I'm not angry at all."
She returned to the room, leaned on the bedside, and carefully read the latest affectionate letter. She put the letter together with the others with curved eyes. There were already five letters in the small iron box.
Xu Xiao Jiao took out those pink postcards and looked at them again. She didn't know what Song Wei Ping was thinking. The ones he chose were all beautiful scenery and words of love. It was really hard to imagine how he picked them out one by one.
Okay, Song Wei Ping, you can call now. I will answer this time.
As Xu Xiao Jiao was thinking about it, she heard the sound of 'ding-a-ling-ring, ding-a-ling-ring' in the living room outside.
She sat up immediately, walked out quickly, held the receiver, and put it to her ear, "Hello??"
On the other end of the conversation, a familiar voice came through the radio waves, "Jiao Jiao?"
Xu Xiao Jiao's heart started beating wildly. She delicately chided, "Song Wei Ping, you’re finally willing to call home?"
Outside the door, Wu Chun Hua heard the phone call. She walked to the door, but before entering the room, she heard Xu Xiao Jiao's voice and immediately shook her head and laughed.
This girl knew how to turn the table on someone. She turned around and walked away quietly, leaving space for the young couple.
On the phone, Song Wei Ping's voice carried a slightly delighted tone. He could detect it, "Not angry?"
Xu Xiao harrumphed, sitting on the sofa and fiddling with the phone cord, "I'm still angry."
Song Wei Ping asked her gently, "Did you receive the letters I wrote to you?"
As soon as he mentioned this, Xu Xiao Jiao grinned, "Hey, Song Wei Ping, who taught you such affectionate words. It made me laugh to death."
Song Wei Ping heard her laughter and unconsciously chuckled along, "No, it's love."
So it came out naturally.
Xu Xiao Jiao gave him a pah, "You are getting sweeter and sweeter. Then when you come back, read the letter to me. Haha, I can't imagine it. How you can read such affectionate letters with your serious and expressionless face. Hahaha."
Facing Xu Xiao Jiao, Song Wei Ping was always thin-skinned. He nodded as if nothing had happened, "Okay, I'll read it to you in bed at night."
"Rogue!" Xu Xiao Jiao scolded him, somehow feeling better and better.
In a good mood, she was naturally willing to talk to Song Wei Ping for a while. After chatting for a while, she asked about business, "How are you doing over there? The weather is getting hotter and hotter. Xiao Gang is about to have summer break. Isn't it even more uncomfortable over there?"
Song Wei Ping hummed in confirmation, "It's fine. I'm a little tanned. As long as you don't dislike it, it’s all good"
Then he reported the itinerary, "We are on the right track here. I will go out in a few days to discuss the machines."
They had already agreed on these procedures. Xu Xiao Jiao wasn't worried. Thinking how he had many things to do next, she missed him a little, "Song Wei Ping, it will take a long time for you to come back."
Hearing her longing, Song Wei Ping tightened his grip on the telephone. He missed her even more.
"En, it will take at least a few months." Next, he will go to many places to inspect the machines. This was the top priority and was related to their long-term development. He had even contacted a few foreigners to prepare for comparison and inspection. If the imported machine was good value for money, he would buy it even if it was much more expensive.
The factory site was very large, but they plan to build only two workshops in the first phase. Make the profits first before expanding the rest. After the machines come in, the factory will be mostly completed. Afterward, they can’t be careless with the production. He and his partners had recently visited a lot of old craftsmen with relevant skills and planned to recruit them with high salaries. Even he spent money to visit the newly opened factories. Now he was very busy every day and he will only be busier in the future.
Needless to say, Xu Xiao Jiao knew that he would be quite busy. How much effort was required from planning to construction of a factory. She had watched her elder brother busying away in her previous life. During that time, her elder brother didn’t give a good feel. "Song Wei Ping, are you too ugly to look at?"
Song Wei Ping rubbed the stubble on his chin as well as pondering how his skin had darkened several degrees, "Isn’t that perfect. You won't have to worry and get Xiao Ji to supervise me every day."
Xu Xiao snorted, "I'm afraid you'll end up with some bad peach blossoms."
Though she hadn’t talked to Song Wei Ping the last time Chen Ji called her, she told Chen Ji to watch Song Wei Ping carefully and report it immediately if he got too close to other women.
Song Wei Ping smiled, "Xiao Ji is now closer to you than to me. He comes to supervise me for you every day. There is a female fly, he wished to keep me away from it. Don't worry."
Xu Xiao Jiao was proud, "That's right, Xiao Ji was my little brother now. I'm taking care of him. You should take more care of him, understand?"
Song Wei Ping nodded. He had already had this idea, "Many factories are under construction in the development zone. Once our factory is built, I plan to get some land on the road outside to build a few snack houses and rent them out. When the time comes, I’ll give one to Xiao Ji and let him sell pot stewed pork."
Xu Xiao Jiao's eyes lit up when she heard this, "Great, Song Wei Ping, your idea is pretty good."
The two were chatting happily and didn't feel they said much. Unknowingly, half an hour passed. It wasn't until someone from behind Song Wei Ping urged them that they realized that so much time had passed.
Song Wei Ping was still a little reluctant to hang up, "I'm in the phone booth. Someone is urging me from behind. Hanging up now. I'll call you tomorrow."
Xu Xiao gave an ‘en’ in response. Although he said he would call tomorrow, she was still reluctant to hang up. "Song Wei Ping, then you have to call early tomorrow."
After hanging up the phone, Xu Xiao Jiao felt a little forlorn. Even if Song Wei Ping called every day from now on, she couldn't see him in person. It felt like the days were so long.
Should she do something? Xu Xiao Jiao contemplated with her chin on her face.
Now that Wu Chun Hua had completely mastered managing the pot stewed meat shop at home and could handle it herself. Besides, once Xiao Gang is on vacation, he will be able to help. So she won’t be needed.
Grandmother was in good health now. She happily sought her gardening friends and chatted with the neighbors every day. It could be seen that she was living a comfortable life and didn't have to worry much.
She wasn’t as career-oriented as Shen Hua Hua.
Career? Xu Xiao Jiao's eyes lit up. Yes, she could pursue her career.
This time when they came back from the south, Song Wei Ping spent thousands on the goods. After selling them out, it almost doubled. Song Wei Ping didn't take the money with him. He and his business partners had sufficient loans, so he had no use for the money. Since he was out of town for a long time, he was afraid that something would happen to his family and left all his money to her. Now in this town, she could be regarded as a secret rich woman.
Originally, she thought that this money was an emergency fund and wouldn't be of much use. But now she suddenly had an idea.
Since the money was lying around, she could use it to invest in a career.
Although she had bought some houses around Chen Ji in the south, the more land, the better.
Anyway, Song Wei Ping wouldn't ask her where she spent her money. After a few years, the land would become more and more valuable and housing prices would rise. She would be able to surprise Song Wei Ping.
Her business, which required neither mouth nor hands, must develop and grow!
Nowadays, the market was active and there was a lot of information. There was an information board in the town. When Xu Xiao Jiao and her pot stewed meat shop opened, they posted advertisements on it. However, there were very few advertisements at that time. Usually, whatever happened in the town, the government would post some red-headed messages.
It was different now. Now in the town, someone had opened a canteen, someone had opened a shoe repair shop, someone was going to sell steamed buns, and someone was going to make clothes for people. Because their pot stewed meat shop took the lead, everyone liked to post information about their own store opening on it.
Of course, there was a lot of other information. Xu Xiao Jiao went there every day to look around and soon found out about the sale of the house.
One family posted an advertisement for selling their house. These days, many people who sell their houses do so because of troubles at home. Sometimes due to unlucky circumstances. No one asked about it. In order to sell the house quickly, this family made it clear that their two sons went to the south, where they started a business and started a family business. So the old couple wanted to go there to help and simply sold their family’s old house.
This was the kind of news Xu Xiao Jiao was waiting for.
In three to five days, she had another property under her name.
However, there were few people selling houses in the town. Many families have been here for generations. Even if there was any major development elsewhere, most of them were reluctant to sell the old home. Like their family. Although they bought a house in the town, the two old houses in the Meilin village were still kept. One was because the family felt nostalgic, and the other was Xu Xiao Jiao’s value-added mentality.
After much thought, she set her sights on the county city.
In this era, commercial housing had not yet appeared. Generally speaking, people who had a stable job could only live in houses allocated by their work units. There was no concept of buying a house. Nor were there many houses for sale in the county.