Chapter 121 – Everything will be fine.

Cheng Ming hadn’t seen Zhao Lei for almost a month or so.

Zhao Lei got off the bus with a worn out travel bag on his back and a shopping bag in his hand, traveling light.

After a short baptism of society, the eyes are firm, without the previous confusion, was tanned a little dark face still has the youthfulness and childishness of a teenager.

Cheng Ming, who was waiting at the station early, raised his hand and shouted, “Yo, Zhao Lei, long time no see.”

“Cheng Ming, thank you for picking me up.”

“It’s just a favor. How’s it going? Did you sell all the plug-ins?”

“No, there are still more than two hundred copies left to sell, and I feel that there’s still a market over in the provincial city that hasn’t been fully opened up. But I’m busy stepping on Internet cafes in other urban areas, and there’s still the sinking market in the county that can be tapped, but I’m really limited in energy alone.”

“Find an agent to distribute it, you have channels to get the supply at the lowest price, that’s your advantage, your goal is the general agent of the province, this time to step on the spot to talk about the next few cybercafe agents?”

“On the provincial city of two Internet cafes promised to pay first from my hands to take a dozen activation code to try the water. If you can’t sell them, you can find me to return them, and the other Internet cafes only agreed to help sell them first, and then share them if they sell them.”

“Take your time, wait for them to get a taste. They’ll take the initiative to contact you to get goods from you once they’ve made money.”

“How about the midterm? Are you sure you’ll get into the first grade?”

Cheng Ming said with a bitter smile, “How even you ask this, the results will only come out tomorrow, over the score line of the first middle school should be no problem.”

Whether or not he goes to the first high school is another matter, and I don’t know if Dad can help him arrange it.

“That’s also true, after all, you have such a smart mind, it’s completely different from me.” Zhao Lei scratched the back of his head and said.

“If you can keep your mind on your studies, not much worse than mine, get in the car.”

“You don’t have to take care of my feelings on that, I know I’m not the reading type.”

“By the way, I have a few things to talk to you about, you still burn wood in your house, right, how about considering burning coal?”

“A coal stove?”

“Yes, a coal stove with a tank beside it, heated by the residual heat of the stove, and a kettle to boil the water, and hot water any time you want it, and you don’t have to go up the mountain to gather wood, much less bother to make a fire with all your old strength, as long as you replace the coals morning and evening.”

Coal briquettes are better suited to the countryside than gas cans.

Cheap is one thing, the gas stove to boil water really isn’t as convenient as the coal block stove that burns all the time and has an extra tank.

In particular, after breaking the loose coal into coal powder, add loess and water to mix well, and then use special molds to make honeycomb coal, which can be preserved for a long time after drying.

Mixing burnt honeycomb coal with soil also works as a farm fertilizer.

“How much does it cost?”

“I don’t know the market price, but you certainly have enough money in your pocket to buy a briquette stove and a load of coal.”

“Is there still enough money to open a store after buying all this?”

“Definitely enough, you still have six or seven thousand left, right? If it’s not enough, I can advance a little more, we can find a family to rent a store, or we can build a small house on the roadside open space, for example, that piece of land next to the small bridge I think it’s good, in and out have to pass through there.”

“Won’t you get torn down for building a house in a place like that?”

“No, if you really don’t feel at ease, you can pay some money to the village treasury as a protection fee. There are quite a few left-behind children and elderly people in the village, so you can put some chairs outside the store for them to cool off and pass the time. Over time, they will also develop a dependence and habit.”

What’s more, Cheng Ming had this relationship between his dad and the village chief as insurance.

“You didn’t open that store to make a lot of money anyway, but it’s good for your grandfather to have a place to retire, just so he has company and won’t be bored, and it’s good to be able to make sure he breaks even at a minimum.”

“Okay, I’ll do whatever you want, I got all this from you anyway.”

The heavy trust made even Cheng Ming a bit overwhelmed.

“Zhao Lei, you have to remember that the money in your hand is all earned by yourself with your own skills, relying on your mouth to talk and running out with your feet, not my charity, not to mention relying on God to reward you for eating.” Cheng Ming said in a serious manner.

“I’ll give you some advice on how to spend your money, but it’s up to you to decide how to spend it, what to spend it on, or whether to keep it in the bank.”

“Cheng Ming, let’s go to the place that sells coal stoves now.”

“Okay!”

The two picked out a smaller coal stovetop at the market and bought another pressure cooker and a pan.

Cheng Ming led the way in front, and the fellow in charge of delivery followed behind on a three-wheeled motorcycle.

Zhao Lei sat on the carriage of the tricycle in charge of the new stove, fearing that it bumped and touched, like a baby to protect.

Cheng Ming and Zhao Lei carried the coal stove into the house together.

“Brother, welcome back …… What is this?” Zhao Ren, who was standing at the door to greet him, asked with wide eyes.

“In the future, our family will burn coal.” Zhao Lei said as he patted the silver and white aluminum plate of the coal stove, “It can also boil hot water, so you don’t have to be afraid of the cold anymore in winter.”

Zhao Ren’s eyes gleamed as she said, “Amazing!”

“Coal ballast can be more difficult to pick up than firewood ah, I used to carry a basket, holding a wire rake, looking for steam locomotives left on the roadbed coal ballast, the good take to sell money, the bad own home use, now can not pick up.” Zhao Si whacked his old back and said.

“Grandpa, we’re not picking up lumps of coal, we’re going to buy a load of coal, just like everyone else in the village.” Zhao Lei said under his breath.

In fact, many people in the village have upgraded to the dual-use of coal and firewood, and usually just burn coal. If there are festivals, invitations and banquets, they will still use wood stoves.

The wood stove is not only for making fire for cooking, but also for seeking the blessing of Lord Zao.

Zhao Lei and Zhao Ren circled around the coal stove, opening the lid of the water tank to have a look, before getting down and pulling open the ventilation channel under the stove.

Cheng Li clasped his arms in front of him and looked at Zhao Lei and Zhao Ren, asking in a puzzled manner, “Brother and sister reunited, shouldn’t they have a deep embrace? Why are you so happy to hug a stove.”

“You think everyone is like you, that just one day of not seeing them is like a lifetime of not seeing them. For them, it’s the simplest of pleasures.”

Cheng Ming hugged Cheng Li from behind, his hands passed over his shoulders and rested on his chest as he looked at Zhao Lei and Zhao Ren with interest.

Clothing, food, shelter and transportation, the initial solution to the problem of food and clothing, the next is housing and transportation, right, slowly, slowly, everything will be fine.

“Obviously it’s my brother who keeps hugging me, right? Now it’s not too, it’s only been away for an hour or so and he’s hugging me, there’s really nothing you can do about a pampered brother.”

Cheng Li helplessly spread his hands and shook his head, then covered the back of Cheng Ming’s hand with his palm.

“I wasn’t afraid you’d drop it. You were the one who pounced first yesterday, weren’t you?”

“But now it’s my brother who hugged me up first, isn’t it? Yesterday is over, no talking about yesterday.”

“Then I’m letting go and never hugging you again.”

Cheng Ming made a move to loosen his hands, only to have his sister hold his arms tightly.

“Don’t you dare! I don’t know anything about my brother helping his friend’s sister put on a bracelet, wash her feet, wipe her hair, comb her hair, or whatever.”

“Uh.”

This is clearly as clear as can be.

“Rei told you everything?”

How to say, for two consecutive nights, probably hit by the divorce of his parents, Cheng Ming’s emotions fluctuated a bit, and his behavior towards Ren was slightly overstepping the mark.

“Is this something that can’t be told to me?” Cheng Li twisted the flesh of Cheng Ming’s arm and turned ninety degrees, narrowing his eyes and asking rhetorically, “Brother!”

“Of course not.”

“Hmph!”

It couldn’t be too easy for Cheng Li to lure Zhao Ren’s words.

It’s really dangerous, so I can’t let up for a moment.

Obviously you have me, but you still won’t let go of other lolitas, do you want to go to jail that badly?

There was no doubt that Cheng Li was going to be good friends with Zhao Ren, and it was also considered one of Cheng Li’s regrets from his previous life.

Her emotions towards Cho Rei were quite complicated, on the one hand, Cho Rei was the one who was hogging the position of 『sister』. But also, she was the one who accompanied her brother instead of herself, and gave her information about him.

A large part of the reason that his brother would honestly come back for a blind date was because Zhao Ren had pushed behind his brother.

Gotta protect Cho Rei from the clutches of her brother, who’s clutches are just coming towards her.

If her brother dared to take a shot at her friend, Cheng Li wouldn’t mind tempering her brother from the inside out, putting a lock on her disobedient brother or something.