Chapter 115. Return gift
Knowing how important chickens are to a farming family, when Lianshan wanted to kill a chicken for them, Jiang Limin sincerely tried to stop him. But when he was taken to their chicken coop and saw: my goodness, there were at least twenty or thirty wild and domestic chickens!
The newly acquainted brother Lianshan kept boasting, saying that all the chickens in his family are raised on bugs, making the meat tender and tasty; their mushrooms are picked from the mountains, the proper fourth treasure of the Northeast. The flavor of the small chicken stewed with these mushrooms is incredibly delicious and nutritious.
Jiang Limin, who never considered himself a foodie, was drooling and enthusiastically went with brother Lianshan to catch and kill chickens.
As for the original plan of delivering gifts and leaving without causing the Lian family to incur any expense?
Jiang Limin said: What’s that? He doesn’t know it!
Rarely meeting someone so genuine and agreeable, he had already changed his plan in minutes. Gifts need to be given, jobs need to be arranged, and he wants to make friends with Lianshan too.
They had hauled over a Jeep full of rice, flour, fabric, cotton, soybean oil, frozen goods, each in four portions. They intended to give half to Lianshan, who contributed the most to saving people, and one portion each to the families of Lian Yue and Lian Hai.
With the Jiang family’s three generations taking turns expressing their sincerity in gifting, each item was chosen from the highly sought-after grains and fabrics of the time. There was the helplessness of acquiring these things being irreversible once bought, and burdensome to return or take back. In the end, it was Shuzhen who decided to accept these much-needed yet hard-to-buy items, which also meant accepting the heartfelt sincerity of the three generations.