Chapter 507 - 0507: Family visit opportunity 2_1
"Lu Jiang fell silent at this.
He had not seen his biological father for the first four years of his life. He should feel fortunate that he had the opportunity to go home last year.
Zhao Yong suddenly hit Zheng Xuefeng’s outstretched hand with his chopsticks. "Old Zheng, what’s the idea? You don’t eat the peanuts in front of you, but secretly try to take mine? Taking one or two is bearable, but you’re grabbing more and more. Do you think you can just eat mine and save yours? What a beautiful world you live in."
Ye Zhengjun immediately guarded the peanuts in front of him. "Old Zheng, don’t touch mine!"
With reluctance, Zheng Xuefeng withdrew his hand. "Why are you guarding them so intensively? What’s wrong with me eating a few of them? It’s not like I’m eating your meat."
"Peanuts are even more precious than meat, don’t you know?" Zhao Yong pushed his pile of peanuts a bit sideways, moving them as far away from Zheng Xuefeng as possible where he couldn’t reach. The pile was now closer to Lu Jiang, but he wasn’t worried about that. Lu Jiang had brought the peanuts, so he surely had more. They could take an opportunity to sneak some out and share them among themselves.
Noticing Zhao Yong’s ill-intentioned look, Lu Jiang quickly said: "They’re all here. Do you know how hard it was for my wife to save some peanuts and send them to me? How much can we grow at home? I can’t handle you guys staring at them like a tiger."
"Your family grows peanuts?" Zheng Xuefeng asked.
"Of course. Our production team exchanged a large piece of land with other teams for grain last year and planted many cash crops such as cotton, soybeans, and peanuts. We did it to support the national construction." Lu Jiang certainly wouldn’t reveal that they planted a bit more on their own plots these past two years as a cover for Feng Qingxue as she fenced off some space because the peanuts from the two thousand mu of land could only be harvested in the summer and autumn.
In fact, they’re not supposed to plant cash crops or grains on their own reserved plots; those are for every household’s vegetables, but Wang Zhengguo turned a blind eye, and every household would plant some to sell to the supply and marketing cooperative to supplement household expenses.