Chapter 114: Benefit by Association_1
Dogs barking came from the yard.
Dong Lamei guessed that Li Jinhua had entered the yard, but the persistent barking of the little dog made her especially nervous.
Old Mrs. Qin turned her head to look, then continued with her work nonchalantly.
Dong Lamei’s heart rose to her throat, but she found it even more strange that Old Mrs. Qin didn’t go home to check why the dog wouldn’t stop barking. She tentatively asked, "Is there... someone at home?"
"Hmm, Jin came back early this morning, she’s sleeping inside."
Dong Lamei’s face immediately turned pale with shock, "Jin came back? Wasn’t he dealing with fertilizer with friends? I see no fertilizer in your yard either?"
Old Mrs. Qin: "You haven’t even entered the gate, how would you know it’s not there?" The yard was piled with fertilizer reserved for her daughter-in-law’s classmates; the rest had been taken to the fertilizer station. "The fertilizer has arrived, thirty cents a pound, take it away for nine yuan."
"Nine yuan? That expensive? We’re talking about money even with our relationship?"
"Do you want it or not?" Old Mrs. Qin was somewhat impatient, not to mention their relationship was not as good as before, even in the good times, three hundred pounds of fertilizer couldn’t just be given away for free.
Nine yuan, not ninety cents, one couldn’t even earn nine yuan from a month’s work during the slack farming season.
Moreover, it wasn’t overpriced, as just the other day she had heard the villagers saying that the fertilizer station’s price had gone up to forty-five cents a pound, yet it was still in short supply.