Yuan Tiantian didn't sleep well that night. She woke up at five in the morning. Bai Ying was already awake. After a simple breakfast, they rode their electric scooter to the vegetable market.
Yuan Tiantian felt a bit unaccustomed when she realized there was no "Xiu Xiu" (assuming it's a pet) behind her.
However, since they went early today, Yuan Tiantian not only bought fresh vegetables but also some live river shrimps. She directly bought ten jin of them.
After they got back, just as she put the live shrimps into the water basin and walked out of the kitchen, Yuan Tiantian saw Aunt Qianhua running over in a hurry.
"Auntie, what's wrong?"
The aunt didn't look right. After Aunt Qianhua walked closer, she grabbed Yuan Tiantian's hand. "Xiaoyuan, can you sell me some more eggs? Auntie really has an urgent need!"
Yuan Tiantian frowned, not because she didn't want to sell to her, but because of Aunt Qianhua's urgent matter.
"Auntie, of course I can sell them to you. But what's this all about?"
Yuan Tiantian was thinking that if it was an urgent matter related to money, she might be able to help. When Aunt Qianhua heard this, her eyes instantly turned red. Just as she was about to tell Yuan Tiantian about it, she was interrupted by someone.
"Mom, don't go to that family to give gifts anymore. It's useless. I'll figure out a way for the greenhouse!"
Yuan Tiantian saw a young woman about her age running towards the food store in a hurry. After seeing Aunt Qianhua, she said the above words. It turned out to be Aunt Qianhua's daughter. She had heard from the aunt before that she had a son and a daughter. The son was in the town, and the daughter had just graduated this summer after studying in City B.
However, when Aunt Qianhua's daughter got closer, Yuan Tiantian felt that she looked familiar. And when that person saw Yuan Tiantian, she was even more surprised and called out her name.
"Yuan Tiantian?!"
Only then did Yuan Tiantian finally understand why she felt that the person's eyes were familiar, because she was her college classmate, Li Xinyu.
Aunt Qianhua was also confused by this. She didn't expect that her daughter actually knew Xiaoyuan. The three of them then found a table and started chatting in detail. After Li Xinyu sat down, she immediately asked Yuan Tiantian why she had opened a store here. Yuan Tiantian simply explained that it was her grandma's house and she didn't want it to be deserted, so she used it to do some business.
Li Xinyu looked at Yuan Tiantian and seemed to want to say something else, but Yuan Tiantian deliberately interrupted her. She started asking Aunt Qianhua about the matter they were facing. She had just heard about giving gifts and the greenhouse, and it sounded quite confusing.
Aunt Qianhua and Li Xinyu both sighed when they mentioned this. Finally, Li Xinyu explained it to Yuan Tiantian.
It turned out that Li Mu, Aunt Qianhua's husband, wasn't in good health and wasn't suitable for farming, so he just grew some vegetables at home. Two years ago, Li Mu started growing greenhouse vegetables, and the income was not bad. He couldn't make a fortune, but he could earn some small money. This year was the same as last year, but unexpectedly, a pesticide they got from the pesticide station last month had some problem, and all the vegetables in one mu of the greenhouse died.
Now they wanted to find someone to solve this problem, but as ordinary farmers, they couldn't make their case clearly. The people at the pesticide station just said that it was the Li family's own negligence that killed the vegetables.
That's why, knowing that the village head's relative worked at the pesticide station, the Li family wanted to give some gifts to get him to communicate on their behalf. But yesterday, they gave the village head's family their chickens, ducks, and twenty eggs from Yuan Tiantian, and they didn't get any reply. Early this morning, the village head's wife hinted that the eggs from yesterday were good. That's why Aunt Qianhua wanted to buy some more to send over, hoping that it might work.
"Mom, they're just scammers. They'll never speak up for you!"
Li Xinyu got angry when she heard what her mom said. Then she turned to Yuan Tiantian and said,
"I don't know what kind of attitude they had when my mom went to see them yesterday because I just got back last night. But I saw their attitude this morning. That woman's arrogant and greedy look really disgusted me."
"If my dad hadn't stopped me, I would have gone out and scolded them right then. Anyway, I won't agree to giving gifts to the village head's family anymore!"
After Li Xinyu said this angrily, Aunt Qianhua sighed heavily. Yuan Tiantian didn't know how to comfort them.
However, she agreed with Li Xinyu that they shouldn't give gifts to the village head's family anymore. From their words, she could see how greedy that family was.
"Is there any farmland or mountain land for rent in the village? About ten mu."
Yuan Tiantian didn't directly comfort Aunt Qianhua because she knew that whatever she said at this moment wouldn't be of much use. But she had an idea in mind that might help them, though she wasn't sure yet.
The two of them were stunned by Yuan Tiantian's sudden question. But Aunt Qianhua quickly reacted. "There's no farmland. Everyone is using it now. Even those who don't have the labor to farm have leased it to their relatives. But there's a small hill not far behind my house that's not being used. I heard that someone wanted to lease it some time ago, but after they looked at it, they thought the soil wasn't good and gave up."
"It's probably about ten mu. Only the village head has the detailed information."
Yuan Tiantian nodded after hearing this. Then she said to Aunt Qianhua, "Auntie, take me to the village head's house. I want to take a look at that mountain land. I want to lease it."
"You want to lease the mountain land?!"
The one who let out a surprised cry wasn't Aunt Qianhua but Li Xinyu. She looked at Yuan Tiantian in a strange way. It was obvious that she didn't believe Yuan Tiantian would do such a thing at all.
"Do you know how to do farming?"
Li Xinyu was already quite surprised to see Yuan Tiantian running a food store today. Now she was going to lease a mountain for farming. It was really hard to imagine. In the class before, Yuan Tiantian was just on nodding - acquaintance terms with most of the classmates except for Zhao Qian. Everyone knew that she was the second daughter of Wanxiang Entertainment, giving people the impression of being aloof from worldly affairs.
She just found out today that the Xiaoyuan her mom talked about, the one who ran a food store with excellent cooking skills, was actually Yuan Tiantian. It was already like a fantasy!
Yuan Tiantian smiled and then looked at Aunt Qianhua. But the aunt also had a worried look on her face. Obviously, she also thought it wasn't very appropriate for Yuan Tiantian to lease the mountain behind and do farming.
"I don't know how to farm, but isn't Uncle Li here?"
Aunt Qianhua and Li Xinyu instantly widened their eyes and looked at Yuan Tiantian in shock.
"Okay, Auntie, take me to the village head's house first. I still have to come back to make lunch later."
"As for the farming matter, I'll talk to Uncle Li in detail later."
After Yuan Tiantian finished speaking, she called Bai Ying out, who had been washing vegetables in the kitchen.
"I'm going out. You take care of the store first."
Bai Ying glanced at Aunt Qianhua and Li Xinyu, then nodded at Yuan Tiantian. "Don't worry."
Then he walked back into the kitchen. Yuan Tiantian took her relevant certificates and rode her electric scooter following Aunt Qianhua.
However, when Li Xinyu saw Bai Ying, she was extremely shocked. Could it be that what Zhao Qian said before was true?
Was Yuan Tiantian promiscuous?