Back to the 1990s: Holding the spiritual spring and striving for a well-off life

Then he hired two more employees and the crayfish restaurant was opened.

Hua Xiali taught them how to do it and left the rest to them, letting the four of them earn money for her.

Hua Xiali also opened a cold dish restaurant next to the crayfish restaurant and called Jia Chenguang over to run the restaurant. She only sold two or three cold dishes every day, but one of them had to be cold-mixed bamboo shoots or spicy bamboo shoots. She asked her fourth uncle and aunt to break the bamboo shoots and deliver them directly to the cold dish restaurant. She wanted to make a little extra money during the bamboo shoot season.

Soon it was the summer of 1988, and everyone was on summer vacation. Hua Xiali went to the river bend to catch fish when it was cool in the morning, and previewed her senior high school courses at home under the guidance of Jian Nan when it was hot in the morning and at noon. Then she went to the town to sell melons in the evening. She now put the melons in the store and let everyone sell them to her, so she didn't have to watch over them herself.

She doesn't sell that many, so she only sends one cart of melons to each store, and that's it once they're sold out. She needs to make steady profits over the long term. If she converts all the melons in her space into money, then does she have to go out and buy them when she wants to eat melons in the future?
That day, Hua Xiali, Jian Nan, Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli went to the river bend to go fishing together. It was actually Hua Chunli's suggestion because Hua Xiali went to collect fish every morning and had no interest in fishing anymore.

But Hua Chunli wanted to go fishing, so Hua Xiali naturally accompanied him.

But this time there were no steamed buns, so he just kneaded some dough and used the dough for fishing. However, Hua Xiali did not add extra spiritual spring water this time because he was afraid of catching too many fish.

"Second sister, I want to go to the bathroom. Can you accompany me to the bamboo forest opposite?" After fishing for a while, Hua Qiuli put down the fishing rod, came to Hua Xiali, and said embarrassedly.

Hua Xiali put down the fishing rod and said, "We are sisters, why are we being so cautious?"

Afterwards, Hua Xiali took Hua Qiuli's arm, stood up and walked towards the bamboo forest opposite.

"Xia Li, where are you going?" Jian Nan shouted in confusion.

"Of course it's to get work done!" Hua Xiali waved without looking back, and then walked into the bamboo forest with Hua Qiuli.

Hua Chunli waited for a while, then came to Jian Nan with the fishing rod, sat next to him, and spoke carefully, "Jian Nan, I like you, let's go out!"

A whole year has passed since last summer. He is handsome, gentle, and very outstanding. She has been secretly attracted to him for a long time, but she has never had the chance to tell him!

"I don't like you." Jian Nan didn't expect Hua Chunli to confess to him so directly, but he had a girl he liked from the beginning, so he refused without any hesitation.

"Jian Nan, you are a graduate student now, and I will be a sophomore soon. When the time comes, I will also take the postgraduate entrance examination at Rose University, and I will also be admitted to your school..."

"I'm really sorry, I don't like you." Jian Nan interrupted what Hua Chunli wanted to say. She probably wanted to say that she was also a college student and they were a good match.

But feelings are not measured in this way, and he doesn't think Hua Xiali's future achievements will be lower than his. "You don't like me?" Hua Chunli looked at him with wide eyes as if he had heard a joke, "Everyone in the village says that you have such close contact with our family because you like me and want to get close to me. Now you tell me that you don't like me, then who do you like?"

Jian Nan squinted his eyes and looked at the sparkling and dazzling water in front of him without saying a word.

"Is it Xia Li?" Hua Chunli asked tentatively. Seeing Jian Nan continued to remain silent, Hua Chunli seemed to be certain of something. "Jian Nan, do you know that Xia Li is only eighteen years old this year? She still has to be in her third year of high school and four years of college. A year can bring a lot of variables, let alone five years. Do you think you can wait for her?"

"Don't worry about my affairs." Jian Nan stood up and was about to leave with the fishing rod. Hua Chunli quickly reached out and grabbed him, "Jian Nan, I like you. Do you really want to reject me for an uncertain future? We are together, and you have my wholehearted love for you. If you wait for Xia Li, it is very likely that you will lose everything."

"Hua Chunli, I will respect you because you are Xia Li's sister. I didn't expect that you would do such a thing as to steal your own sister's boyfriend. Even if you want to, I, Jian Nan, am not someone you can steal. You underestimate me too much." Jian Nan angrily shook off Hua Chunli's hand.

He didn't know when he gave her the illusion that he was in close contact with her family because of her, but it was obviously because of Xia Li.

"When did I steal my sister's boyfriend? You can't accuse me like this. You are neither Xia Li's boyfriend nor her fiancé. I confessed my love to you openly, how can that be considered stealing her?" Hua Chunli found it unbelievable. Could it be that he had unilaterally determined that he was Hua Xia Li's boyfriend?
"Hua Chunli, I'll say it again, I don't like you, okay? Do you understand?" Jian Nan took the fishing rod and went somewhere else. He didn't expect that others did not believe the rumors, but Hua Chunli, the person involved, actually believed it. It was obvious that he was very close to Xia Li, but Hua Xiali couldn't see it. Couldn't she see it too?

When Hua Xiali and Hua Qiuli came back half an hour later, they saw that there was a huge distance between Jian Nan and Hua Chunli. They didn't know what was wrong with the two of them, and the atmosphere was a bit weird.

"Xia Li, why did you take so long?" Jian Nan asked.

The fact that the two of them were gone for such a long time must have created an opportunity for Hua Chunli, but he didn't think Hua Xiali would do such a thing, so it was very likely that Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli had colluded, and Hua Chunli asked Hua Qiuli to take Hua Xiali away.

Hua Xiali was a little embarrassed, "Qiu Li might have eaten too much watermelon and had diarrhea, so he was delayed for a while."

See, his guess was right, it was Hua Chunli and Hua Qiuli who did it!

"Then you should eat less watermelon in the future, or you'll get diarrhea." Jian Nan said with gritted teeth.

Hua Xiali also found it very strange. The watermelons grown in the backyard were watered with spiritual spring water, so they shouldn't cause diarrhea. He didn't know what was going on.

Jian Nan and Hua Chunli were not in the mood to fish, so they just caught a few fish and went back. There were not many fish, so they hid them in a wooden barrel and no one saw them when they got back.

On Hua Xiali's birthday, Hua Xiali decided to celebrate properly. He had no money and had never celebrated his birthday before, but now not only does he have money, he also has so many supplies in his space!
But Hua Xiali did not tell anyone about his decision. Before returning from the town in the afternoon, he told his mother that she must come back in the evening no matter what. (End of this chapter)