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Reborn In The ’80s - Chapter 4

Published at 13th of May 2022 05:42:21 AM


Chapter 4: Ice Cream

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Cui Qingfeng sold the ice cream and received five cents within those two short minutes. He put the money away happily, and turned his head to see Xu Zhaozheng staring at himself, then asked curiously, "Xu Zhao, do you need something?"
Xu Zhao looked back and said, "Cui Qingfeng, I want to ask you something."
Cui Qingfeng couldn't help hold himself back when he heard Xu Zhao, and asked enthusiastically, "What's the matter?"
"Where did you get your popsicle?"
"The county, what's wrong? You want to sell popsicles too?"
Xu Zhao nodded.
Cui Qingfeng asked in consternation, "Do you really want to sell popsicles?"
Xu Zhao thought for a moment and said, "Well, yes."

Cui Qingfeng looked at Xu Zhao in surprise. In the first few years, to develop agriculture and achieve a bumper grain harvest, the country banned and suppressed businessmen. Even small businesses were described as speculative and unfair practices. All transactions were not so great so no one dares to do big businesses. It was only in the last two years that a minimal number of people begin going to the sea to do business and that how small businesses began to arise and become popular in the market.

At first, Cui Qingfeng, like most people, was somewhat despised by merchants under the influence of "Shen Nong Commerce and Industry", but his young uncle did not think so. His young uncle told him that agriculture had developed to a certain extent, and commodity trading must come into being. In the market industry, they do not care in the matter of whether the businesses are cheap or poor. In general, the convenience of the people is to facilitate themselves. In the future, commercialization will become more and more popular. To achieve success, the first condition is to seize market opportunities, so those other talents will be impressed by it.

Cui Qingfeng didn't understand the meaning of his uncle's words. Later, after listening to his uncle's words, he started his little ice cream businesses and has earned a small amount and wanted to make his relatives and friends to not see him as a poor learner but also a high expectation man. He thought Xu Zhaohui, like everyone else, looked down on him selling popsicles. He did not expect Xu Zhao to be willing to stand on the same line with him. This made him very effective and happy. At the same time, Xu Zhao was different from the average person; as visionary as his uncle!

"Yes!" Cui Qingfeng said excitedly.
"Don't you think I'm robbing your business?" Xu Zhao asked.
"How could it be! Even without you, someone else will sooner or later sell popsicles too." Cui Qingfeng lowered his voice and said, "Xu Zhao, let me tell you, the popsicles only cost two cents and three cents when they are ex-factory, and three cents to five cents if you sell them. Only a little money can be earned. This year is a bumper year, and all industries have gone out of business. "

"How many popsicles do you sell in a day?" Xu Zhao asked.
"A hundred or so, earn two dollars a day, fifty or sixty dollars a month, more than working in the city."
"It's quite a lot, but you can make more." Xu Zhao said.
"really?"
"Really."
"Then let's make money together and sell it separately." Cui Qingfeng was very happy that Xu Zhao boasted himself, and did not think deeply about what Xu Zhao just said, but asked anxiously, "When will you go shopping with me?"
Xu Zhao thought about it and said, "Wait two more days."
"Why wait two days?"
"I have to collect wheat." There is no money, no dime anywhere on his whole body.
"I will collect it for you."
"No, I just finished cutting it in a quarter and decided to cut it more after. Go ahead and sell the popsicle, or it will melt away. Go quickly."
"Then I will be waiting for you."
Cui Qingfeng pushed the bicycle happily and walked away calling while selling, "I'm selling popsicle ice cream."

Xu Zhao withdrew his eyes and turned to Xu Fan.
Xu Fan stood on the ground, sucking his fingers and looking at Cui Qingfeng's popsicle box with his big eager eyes. The little child had already moistened his little fingers and was about to wash them out cleanly.

Xu Zhao pulled Xu Fan's small hand out of his mouth, wiped it with his clothes, and asked, "Want to eat a popsicle?"
Xu Fan nodded.
"Daddy will buy it for you after two days when he has money, OK?"
"Good!"
"Then you sit and play in the shade of trees first."
"Ok."
"No more licking hands."
" Okay, I will be good."

Xu Fan didn't bother Xu Zhao of wanting to eat ice cream, as he sat obediently in the shade of the tree, re-picked the surrounding wheat grains, picked one and put one in his pocket.
Xu Zhao continued to bend over and cut the wheat. After cutting for more than two hours, he finally chopped up. When he was about to go home, Cui Qingfeng hurriedly rushed over on his bicycle and looked at Xu Zhao with regret. 

 "Xu Zhao, I'm sorry, just seeing you got me too excited which makes me only remembered it now that I haven't given you popsicles."

Xu Zhao quickly refused.

Cui Qingfeng said that he would like to give a popsicle for Xu Zhao and Xu Fan to eat.  Xu Zhao took an ice cream for Xu Fan to eat and then urged Cui Qingfeng to go home and rest as it was too hot this day.

Xu Fan watery eyes sparkled as he received the ice cream. In his two-year-old life, he watched Xu Dawa and Xu Erwa eating popsicle ice cream. This is the first time he gets to eat ice cream in person, he was excited and joyful. After giving Xu Zhao a bite of the ice cream,  Xu Fan was reluctant to eat, so he licked it bit by bit, and licked to the time they have gotten home. 

When he got to Xu's house, there was still more than half of the ice cream left. When he got inside of the house, Xu Zhao went to the toilet meanwhile both Xu Dawa and Xu Erwa took this time to take advantage of Xu Fan and blocked him.

Xu Dawa said, "Little boy, where did you get the ice cream bar? did you steal it? Quick give it to me!"
Xu Erwa said, "Xiao Xufan, give the ice cream to the second brother."
"No, this is my father's, my father's classmate gave it to me." Xu Fan took two steps back and immediately protected the ice cream with his small hands.
Xu Dawa reached out to Xu Fan and said, "Don't give it to the second brother, give it to the big brother."
Xu Fan twisted his body and turned his back to Xu Dawa: "Brother I will not give it."
Xu Dawa put his hand out and asked, "Do you give it to Big Brother?"
"No."
Xu Dawa raised her voice: "Little boy, let me ask again, will you give it?"
"No."
Xu Fan holds tightly onto the ice cream and ran to the latrine, but in the end, he was a child no more than two years old, who was thin and small, which could not be as tall as the seven-year-old Xu Dawa and the five-year-old Xu Erwa. He was caught by Xu Dawa and Xu Erwa in two steps and they grabbed the ice cream off from his hands.
"Mine, that's mine, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Xu Fan shouted, holding Xu Dawa's clothes," It's mine! "
"Go away!" Xu Dawa pushed Xu Fan down and kicked Xu Fan leg.
"Xu Dawa! What are you doing!" Xu Zhao, who had just come out of the toilet, give a sharp rebuke.

Xu Dawa was startled and didn't continue to kick, but then he suddenly thinking of the 'old' Xu Zhao weak and incompetent state, the little "fright" in him has disappeared without a trace.
Xu Erwa gave Xu Zhao a fierce glance.
Ignoring the two big children, Xu Zhao stepped forward three steps and hugged Xu Fan up quickly, and snatched the ice cream in Xu Dawa's hand. The speed was very fast that Xu Dawa didn't have time to react as the ice cream in his hand disappeared. 

As he was just about to yell at Xu Zhao, but receiving a knife-like gaze makes him immediately counseled, and start crying out loud that the third uncle grabbed his ice cream, and then walked out to the yard to find Xu Zuocheng.

When Xu Erwa saw Xu Dawa crying away, he followed the lead and cried away.
Xu Fan also cried.
Xu Zhao anxiously asked, "Xu Fan, what's wrong?"
Xu Fan burst into tears, touching the calf with his hand and said, "It hurts."
Xu Zhao plucked up Xu Fan's trouser legs and saw that Xu Fan's legs were bleeding as his little legs have been wounded. 
Xu Dawa's mind is too poisonous!
Xu Zhao felt distressed for a while that this poor family had no disinfection potions or bandages. Xu Zhao could only wash Xu Fan with clean water, hoping that it would scar quickly so as not to get infected.
"Does it still hurt?" Xu Zhao asked.
Xu Fan sat on the small stool in the hut and licked the ice cream bar and said, "No more pain."
"Is the ice cream delicious?"
"It's delicious, you eat it too, dad."
"Dad has eaten it, you eat it yourself."
"Father takes another bite; it's delicious." Xu Fan handed the ice cream to Xu Zhao's mouth, and his clear eyes were free of impurities.
It is difficult to decline Xu Fan's kindness.

Xu Zhao took another bite, to be honest, the ice cream in this era was not good, the taste of saccharin was too strong, and the ratio of milk, rice, and flavor was not right, but Xu Fan and others ate with relish. Thinking through, what can make it tastier? Suddenly an idea came up in Xu Zhao's mind. He thought about it carefully and suddenly heard Xu Zuocheng and Xu Youcheng shouted from outside.

"Xu Zhao!"
"Xu Zhao, you come out now!"
"..."
The fierce shout scared the little Xu Fan as he hurried run towards Xu Zhao.
Xu Zhao reached out and patted Xu Fan's back and said, "It's okay, don't be afraid, Dad is here."
Xu Fan said timidly, "Uncle and Erbo are so fierce."
"Don't be afraid, Dad can be even more fierce. You sit here first and dad will go out to see." 
"I go out too."
"You have to be obedient."
"Then dad come back soon."
Xu Zhao hugged Xu Fan to bed and let Xu Fan eat ice cream slowly. He sorted out his emotions as it turned out that 'Xu Zhao' suffered too many grievances due to having a child out of wedlock. 

Xu Zhao has always believed that the original Xu Zhao did nothing wrong. Xu Zhao was the only son out of the other two brothers to be spent money on sending to school was because Xu Zhao love studying. Okay, as for the unmarried child ... I can only say that the original Xu Zhao is the victim. If you want to blame, it should be on the scum man who planted the seed. Why did the original Xu Zhao have to endure it and take it with Xiao Xufan?
Xu Zhao is not an enduring person! He also did not intend to endure it.

Since God has arranged for him to come here, God must have a reason for it. As he will not continue the road of the original Xu Zhao and will forward on and get out of this in his own way. 
He sorted out his clothes, walked to the door of the hut, opened the wooden door, and slightly lowered his head. After stepping out of the low hut, when standing in front of the hut, his body was straight, his eyes were clear, his face was calm. 
Seeing this scene, Xu Zuocheng and Xu Youcheng, who were aggressive, were inexplicably angry.





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