amaotonovel Chapter 296 You're already on an IV drip and you're still thinking about food? Did you dri
Chapter 296 You're already on an IV drip and you're still thinking about food? Did you dri
"What are you doing? What are you doing? Rushing in with your head covered! Are you buying or selling?"
"Selling things!" Meng Peiyu lowered her voice and took a handful of rice from the basket: "Refined rice, look at this quality, haven't you ever seen anything like it before?"
The goalkeeper nodded: "That's right!"
He picked a few and put them in his mouth, chewing as he asked, "Where did they come from? They're so clean!"
Meng Peiyu's lips twitched. She thought to herself that this was the first time she had ever seen someone chew raw rice, and couldn't help but ask, "Is it delicious?"
"Okay, fine, mind your own business! It's 50 cents a piece, pay before you buy!"
Meng Peiyu covered the basket with the cotton cloth: "Go ask your boss if he wants a thousand catties of this quality rice!"
"So many? You're not exaggerating?"
"Are you going or not? If not, I'll sell somewhere else!"
"Go, go, go, please wait a moment!" The man's attitude changed instantly, and he eagerly led Meng Peiyu to a corner in the market, letting her sit on a bench to rest.
Meng Peiyu rolled her eyes, thinking how troublesome it was. If the gold and silver in her spatial storage hadn't disappeared, she wouldn't have needed to sell grain for money. A pile of stuff wouldn't even fetch a few coins.
Is she short of money? Obviously not. It's just that her wallet isn't full, and she feels insecure.
Taking advantage of the trip back to Kyoto, there were plenty of opportunities to pull off a big heist. Fortunately, after the reform and opening up, people were able to buy houses and hoard land.
Meng Peiyu waited for a while, then got bored and went to browse other stalls. She found some selling gold and silver jewelry and couldn't resist buying a hairpin.
When she returned, she found the man standing on tiptoe, peering at her. She went up to him and asked, "Did your boss agree?"
"Yes, yes, the boss asked me to invite you in for a detailed discussion!"
Meng Peiyu put the hairpin in her pocket and followed the people through a maze of twists and turns until they entered a courtyard house.
Half an hour later, he came out, rode his bike straight to the place where Dou Yifan had hidden his treasures, and released the supplies in his space.
It included 1,000 jin of rice, 500 jin of wheat flour, 20 jin of white sugar, 20 jin of brown sugar, 10 barrels of soybean oil, a quantity of candies and pastries, 10 watches, and 2 bicycles.
Two hours later, the black market people arrived. Looking at the supplies in the yard, they gave a thumbs-up.
"Count them, this is three thousand yuan!"
Meng Peiyu looked around and thought it was really cheap. Something she'd spent almost half a year signing in was only worth three thousand yuan; it was truly eye-opening.
The system boasted: "Host, look how amazing I am! In such a short time, I've helped you earn the equivalent of ten years' salary for an average person!"
Meng Peiyu's lips twitched: "Your standards are surprisingly low!"
He pocketed the money and quickly left. He thought to himself that it wasn't a complete loss; he would be able to collect the good fortune soon.
She climbed over the courtyard wall to get home, lay down on the bed to sleep, completely unaware that the Meng family members, like her, had not returned home all night.
The next day at daybreak, Meng Peiyu got up and ate breakfast. She found that the note she had written was left untouched on the dining table. Suspicious, she went to knock on her parents' door.
The door was open, but there were no signs of anyone having slept inside. I went to my younger brother and sister-in-law's room to ask what happened, and just like in the master bedroom, there wasn't even a mark on the bed.
"What's going on?" A bad feeling rose in my heart.
After getting dressed, she was about to go out to look for them when she ran into Li Zhong, who had come back to get something: "Uncle Li, where are my parents?"
"Young Miss, where have you been? Something has happened to the Master and Madam!"
The two voices rang out simultaneously, startling Meng Peiyu: "What's going on?"
As Li Zhong packed his things, he said, "Yesterday at noon, my father's workplace had a get-together, and they ordered a dish of braised potatoes and green beans."
The head chef was preparing other dishes and didn't have time to cook, so he let the apprentice do it.
The apprentice hadn't cooked properly; everyone else was fine after eating it, but the master suffered from dizziness, vomiting, and diarrhea, and had to be taken to the hospital.
Food poisoning?
"That's what the doctor said. He said I need to induce vomiting and get an IV drip. I was up all night yesterday, and only after my husband fell asleep at dawn did I have time to come back and pack my things."
Meng Peiyu asked in confusion, "Then why are the others alright?"
"Seeing that the master liked green beans, the others only ate potatoes. The master ate almost all the green beans from that dish!"
Manager Ding of the state-run restaurant was terrified. He paid 100 yuan for the apprentice's hospital fees and threatened to fire him.
Meng Peiyu sneered, "You can't even blanch something properly, you deserve to be punished. Where's my mom? Is she taking care of my dad at the hospital?"
"As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. After Madam learned of the accident, she rushed to the hospital to take care of him. While crossing the road, she accidentally twisted her ankle. When she was taken to the hospital, it was found that her bone was dislocated and she would need to rest for at least two weeks."
Yesterday I was at the hospital taking care of my husband and wife. Getting meals and using the restroom were fine with my husband, but it was really inconvenient for me with my wife.
Meng Peiyu: "..." I felt like I had jinxed myself. If I had known, I wouldn't have said I was going back to Beijing to take care of the patient.
"Thank you, Uncle Li. Take this money back and buy your grandson something nice to eat."
After Meng Peiyu finished speaking, she took out two ten-yuan bills from her pocket and stuffed them into Li Zhong's hand: "You rest in the living room for a while, I'm going to my parents' room to get some clothes to change into."
Li Zhong didn't stand on ceremony and plopped down on the sofa: "Thank you, Miss."
Thinking of something, she added, "Second Miss, the young master went to his aunt's house, so don't worry!"
Meng Peiyu hummed in agreement, opened the closet in the master bedroom, picked out a few changes of clothes, folded them, and put them in her suitcase.
I went to the kitchen and bathroom, gathered up the food bowl, washbasin, towels, toothbrush, and other items, and put them in the trunk of the car along with my suitcase.
"Uncle Li, let's go. First, go to the state-run restaurant and get some millet porridge, then... don't go to the restaurant where my dad has a dinner party!"
"Know!"
Li Zhong turned the key and drove Meng Peiyu to Kyoto Hospital. After parking the car, one person walked ahead with a lunchbox, while the other followed behind carrying luggage.
Li Zhong reminded them: "Second floor, 206!"
Meng Peiyu nodded and walked up the stairs. Before long, she arrived at the door of the ward.
He knocked, pushed open the door, and saw that his parents seemed alright. He found a place to sit down and said, "Dad, you were so careless! Couldn't you tell if the green beans were raw or cooked?"
Meng's father turned his face away embarrassedly: "I was so busy eating that I didn't know whether it was raw or cooked. By the way, although the apprentice's skills weren't great, his craftsmanship was excellent, and the taste was very authentic."
"You're already on an IV drip, and you're still thinking about food? Did you drink a few pounds of fake liquor?" Meng Peiyu opened the lunchbox and put a spoon inside: "Eat up, millet porridge is good for your stomach!"
After saying that, she came to Mencius' mother and said, "Mom, what's the rush? There are so many people here. Do you really think something could happen to my dad? Look at the mess this has made. You're in more serious trouble than him!"
Meng's mother's face was burning red: "Stop talking! Do you think your mother is happy to sprain her ankle? But what can you do if he does sprain his ankle?"
I don't know how my eyes are structured; there was such a huge rock, and I didn't even see it! I almost twisted my ankle!
Meng Peiyu comforted her, "Don't dwell on what's happened. Luckily, I'm here and can take care of you for a few days!"
Meng's mother felt somewhat relieved, but then she became uneasy, thinking that her eldest daughter was already married: "Won't your son-in-law be angry if you don't go back?"
Meng Peiyu was about to say that Chen Junyan would listen to her.
With a quick glance around, he changed the subject: "Of course I can't just wander around outside all the time. I have to go to Yang County in a couple of days."