Chapter 1825: Explosive Combat Power

Running so far for the first time, and going to Guangzhou, Ye Mu was excited for many days, until she saw the long train, she hadn't recovered.

"The train is really this long, oh my, I'm also a person who has sat on a train, hurry up, let's hurry up and grab a good seat, don't be grabbed by others, I heard that those without seats lie under the seats..."

"No need to panic, we are sleepers, the beds all have corresponding numbers, won't be grabbed."

"Hehe, really? That's good, no need to grab a seat, advanced, I have to say it to them when I go back."

Ye Mu looked at everything curiously, but acted reserved, afraid that others would see that she hadn't sat on a train.

Entering the sleeper carriage, she was happy, looking here and touching there. "This is really advanced, there is a bed to lie down and sleep? That's comfortable, I thought the butt would be concave."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and said: "This is still good, there are seats to sit, those who can't buy tickets have to stand all the way."

"Not to the point of standing, just find a place, tilt your butt and you can sit, right?"

"It's not that simple, there are many people with standing tickets, as soon as you get up, someone will occupy your place immediately."

"Then I really have to go and see, I'll go see it when the car doesn't start." Ye Yaodong didn't care about her, anyway, his mother was old, only heard of trafficking women and children, never heard of trafficking old ladies.

"It's the starting station now, people haven't reached the point of being full, you wait until halfway to see, it's all people, can't squeeze in, noisy and smelly."

"Then I really have to go and see, so I can tell the old sisters when I go back."

Ye Mu didn't feel bored in the next two days on the train, turning back and forth in the carriage, and even got to know the women in the next carriage, and when she heard that they were also going to the Canton Fair, she became even more energetic.

And they were also going to purchase, just the products they purchased had nothing to do with him, but they knew other people in the unit, and still introduced him to others, and even exchanged business cards.

Ye Yaodong saw it and was really impressed by his mother. He finally knew who Ye Xiaoxi's self-familiar energy was like.

It's a pity that she didn't do sales. If she was 20 or 30 years younger, it's estimated that it wouldn't be his turn.

Born in the wrong era, after digging food in the countryside for so many years, it's a waste of talent.

If she was born in a few decades later, she would be a sales champion for insurance.

But it's okay, looking at Ye Xiaoxi's clever appearance, she should be able to do it later.

"Dongzi, your mother is amazing, right? Still can pick up work for you!"

"Amazing, amazing, your plastic Mandarin can still pick up work for me, what if you speak more standard?"

"That's it, when the time comes, if your booth is too busy, I'll help you."

"Then you have to be a sales champion?"

Ye Mu was coaxed by him until her mouth couldn't close. "Are we almost there? I feel like I heard Guangzhou on the broadcast?"

"Yes, it's the next station, tidy up and prepare to get off."

"Really arrived? Then hurry up, oh my, these two days have suffocated me, just stayed in such a small place, either lying down or sitting, can't do anything, bones are about to rust."

"I see you running around, quite happy."

"Isn't this just passing the time when I'm idle? I have to find someone to chat with, pass the time."

Ye Mu lay on the train window and looked out. "This feeling seems to be no different from Shanghai?"

"Houses are those houses, if you want to see what the difference is, you have to go down, look around everywhere."

"Then alright, anyway, there are four or five days before and after, you have to take me to stroll around."

"Know."

Ye Mu happily followed them down, and then walked to the exhibition hall, looking around.

"There are quite a lot of people, there are quite a lot of foreigners here?"

"Because of the Canton Fair."

"It's quite close, just walk a few steps after getting off the train, it's quite convenient."

Speaking of this, Lin Xiuqing wanted to laugh. "We didn't know the way in the first half of the year, we thought about taking a taxi, but guess what? 300 meters, took half an hour, arrived!"

Ye Mu looked at them incredibly. "Why are you so stupid, 10 or 20 people, no one thought to ask the way?"

"Didn't think much at the time, thinking Guangzhou is a big city, the place must be big, it's better to find it yourself, it's better to take a taxi directly to the place, save trouble."

"The people here are quite treacherous, deliberately pitting you, clearly just mention a word, point a way."

"Not necessarily locals, there are many people coming here to work."

They talked while going to the exhibition hall to report, the process was the same as the first half of the year, all skilled.

After reporting, he let everyone arrange activities by themselves, and also let the deputy factory director who came with him watch, if he goes out, he must report, absolutely can't be alone.

And their couple and his mother were naturally a three-person small group. After the luggage was put down, they took his mother to stroll around first, and tomorrow they would pick up the goods and set up the exhibition.

It was just that his mother couldn't wait to go to Shisanhang to stock up, and she wouldn't do it even if it was two days late.

Said that it would be too hurried, and worried that it would be too tired, energy would be insufficient, and it would be left unsettled. She must handle the things she wanted to do early, so she could be at ease, otherwise she wouldn't be able to sleep at night, always thinking about it.

Ye Yaodong saw that it was noon, so he simply took her there first. Her old bones didn't feel tired, what could they say as young people.

When Ye Mu arrived at the entrance of Shisanhang alley, looking at the small mountain-like packed goods under the arcade on both sides and the merchants hurriedly pulling handcarts, her face was full of surprise.

On both sides of the narrow street, almost every floor of the old arcade was transformed into a stall, and dense signboards were stacked layer by layer. Huge woven bags and black plastic bags wrapped in clothes, like a torrent composed of goods, surged and piled up on the sidewalk, almost blocking traffic.

"Is this it? There are so many

"Is this it? There are so many people; is all of this cargo?"

"Yes, that's right. Every bundle of goods here is still piled on the ground, and it might reach BJ or the Magic City in two days."

Ye Yaodong explained loudly while carefully pushing the cart to avoid the crowd.

The air was mixed with the slightly chemical smell of new fabric, the scent of sweat, and the aroma of beef offal and the bitterness of herbal tea drifting from the roadside stalls.

Ye Mu excitedly pulled them to hurry into the alley, "Let's walk faster."

The couple wasn't as good at squeezing as Ye Mu; she shoved here and pushed there, and just like that, she squeezed into a stall.

In a space of less than ten square meters, the walls and the air were hung full of clothes. The boss was shouting loudly at the crowd in Cantonese with a Chaoshan accent, "Wholesale starts at one hundred! No retail!"

"Dongzi, what is this person saying?"

He listened to the people around him and distinguished, "No retail. Let's go, let's change to another one, let's go to the very back."

As Ye Mu walked inward, she watched the various stalls almost fighting to grab goods, using their bodies to push, hands to squeeze, pinching fingers, and elbows bumping back and forth.

Some women squeezed into the battlefield neatly, but after grabbing the goods, they were all disheveled, their clothes messy, and their hands scratched until they bled. Only then did they leave the battle circle with a pile of goods, looking as proud as victorious roosters.

Her eyes were fixed in a stare.

Lin Xiuqing looked at Ye Mu's expression and also had an amused look on her face, "We saw the same thing when we came in the first half of the year. It should be like this every day. It's terrifying; for a few bags of goods, they fight like their lives depend on it."

"My goodness, these goods must sell for a lot of money, otherwise how could they fight like this? I must have sold them too cheaply in the first half of the year!"

After Ye Mu finished speaking, she grabbed Ye Yaodong's arm again, "Dongzi, hurry up, take a picture. The area where they are fighting the hardest, you take a picture for me."

"No, take a few more. When I get them developed, I'll take them back to show them. It's not easy to get the goods; you have to fight to the death to get them, so it's only right that they are a bit more expensive."

Ye Yaodong could only comply with the camera hanging around his neck.

"Fine, whatever you say, who told you to be my mother."

"I won't let you lose out; when I make money, I'll give you half." Ye Mu said with a grin.

"Forget it, do I lack that bit of your money? You'd better keep it for your own retirement."

Although it was already October, Yangcheng was still very hot; everywhere there were short sleeves and shorts, mixed with the smell of sweat.

At high noon, there were people everywhere, and they had to squeeze to the middle-back section before they could get into some stalls.

Following the principle of "the first time is strange, the second time is familiar," Ye Yaodong led his mother to the stall they had visited in the first half of the year, and then let his mother choose.

Ye Mu muttered in a low voice, "There are far fewer people at this stall. Will the things be bad?"

"There are so many people at other stalls; do you want to fight them? We also got our goods from here in the first half of the year."

"It's not that I can't. Let's look at this side first, and later I'll go to the crowded place to grab two bags. You just need to watch my wallet for me."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and teased, "Mom, are you preparing to slaughter everyone?"

Ye Mu stood at the entrance, constantly looking back, reluctant to leave the stalls where people were fighting, feeling a bit eager to try.

"Watching them fight back and forth there, I always feel the things are better. If I don't go grab two bags, I feel like I'm losing out."

Ye Yaodong: "..."

That also seems to make sense...

"You'd better look around here first. If you buy enough, you don't need to go grab. It's enough to be about right. Do you think you're opening a shop?"

"Alright."

Ye Mu looked back once before walking into the shop.

"What? These summer clothes are five yuan a jin? A jin? Or per piece?"

"This sack is 100 yuan? My goodness..."

"Mom... they are selling autumn and winter clothes now. These summer ones are being cleared out cheaply, and the autumn ones are probably discounted because the season is passing."

Ye Mu looked at the short sleeves she was wearing, "Isn't it still very hot?"

"The north has already entered winter, so they must be selling in advance. The goods here are sold all over the country, not just to us in the south."

"My goodness, buy, buy, buy. Buy a bit more; it's fine to wear them next year or the year after..." Ye Mu's eyes shone as she looked at those cheaply cleared goods.

Ye Yaodong stood outside, letting the two women pick.

Both of their mouths were stretched to their ears, and they were still beaming with joy even while sweating profusely from rummaging.

Shopping really is a woman's nature.

After they bought enough and came out, he thought they could leave, but he didn't expect his mother to still be thinking about those "hot items" from earlier.

"Dongzi, you watch these here. A-Qing, you come with me over there."

Lin Xiuqing looked at the battle circles everywhere over there and felt a bit intimidated.

"Is it about enough? Two bags of summer clothes, one bag of autumn, one bag of winter. That's enough. What if you can't sell them? Didn't you just sell a batch in the first half of the year? Where would the villagers buy a pile of clothes?"

"I can take them to nearby villages to sell. Turn around for ten days or half a month, and I guarantee nothing will be left. Or take them to the market during the big fair; there's no worry about selling them at all."

"How about waiting until next year?"

"Oh, I don't need you to do anything. You just watch from the side and keep an eye on my wallet. Once I grab the goods, you just help me drag them to pay."

Lin Xiuqing looked at her high-spirited appearance and had no choice but to bite the bullet and follow.

She even looked back at Ye Yaodong, wanting to see if he could stop her.

"A-Dong... I'm going with Mom, you just wait here..."

"Fine, you go do your thing, I'll go find a cart to haul the goods."

With these several bags of goods, it wouldn't be easy to carry them by hand. He left the goods at the stall first and went to find a cart himself.

When he had found the cart, he saw his mother and A-Qing carrying two big bags of goods, coming out of the alley.

Lin Xiuqing looked intact.

His mother, however, was a mess. After getting on the train from the Magic City, his mother had kept up her image, applying makeup every day on the train.

At this moment, her bright red lips had turned into a bloody mouth, smeared all over her face, truly like a monster that eats babies. The powder she had originally applied to her face was black in one spot and white in another.

And that head of curly hair that had been curled so nicely was now a bird's nest. The short sleeves she was wearing were pulled out of shape, the left hem was pulled very long, the collar was loose and baggy, and the clothes were as dirty as if she had crawled on the ground.

Ye Yaodong was speechless looking at his mother's image, changing from a stylish Shanghai grandmother to a crazy woman who had just finished a fight.

Ye Mu was like a victorious rooster, waving at him happily, "Hurry up and come help A-Qing carry. Am I amazing? I grabbed these all by myself."

Ye Yaodong smiled reluctantly, "Amazing..."

"Let's go, let's go, let's go back, we're done buying."

"Is it worth being this desperate?"

"It's so cheap; if I don't buy more to take back, I'll regret it until my thighs break."

Ye Mu said and started cursing again, "It's those old hags, they really aren't decent, they can really grab. My clothes were torn, my fingers were almost broken by them, they were fierce as hell."

"It's a good thing I deliberately pulled their pants, that's how I grabbed them. One by one, they were shameless, still screaming that their chests hurt and their heart disease was acting up."

"Who has heart disease and is as fierce as them? If the Black and White Impermanence came, they could probably pull their tongues out."

Ye Yaodong felt his scalp tingle just listening; he could imagine how intense the battle was just by hearing it.

"Alright, I've already found the cart, hurry up and carry the goods out and put them on the cart. The other goods are left at the shop. I'll take you there first, you wait in the cart, and I'll carry them over."

"Good, I'm exhausted. It's like I fought several battles. Hurry up and go to the cart to rest for a while."

Lin Xiuqing: Didn't you fight several battles?

Ye Yaodong thought to himself that she finally knew she was tired. He couldn't bring his mother next year. She was already a 60-year-old grandmother, and she was still so brave. What if something went wrong?

They had been on the train for almost two days and two nights, and hadn't really rested since arriving, yet she could still be so full of life.

She had already gone through menopause, yet she could still have so much vitality.

After returning to the guesthouse, Ye Mu lay on the bed holding her waist, groaning that her waist hurt.

"Weren't you quite capable when you were at Shisanhang earlier?"

"Wasn't I excited at the time? I was holding on in one breath. Now that I'm back, I feel like everywhere on my body hurts. It must be those old women who played dirty. A-Qing, hurry and check for me, see if there are any bruises on my body."

Ye Yaodong avoided her in a huff and returned to his own room.

He was exhausted to death, so he slumped directly on the bed. Only after resting enough did he climb up to check the things in the room.

The luggage was all intact, so he took out the hidden brick phone and called his father to report that they were safe and, by the way, complain about his mother.

Ye Fu cursed on the phone for a while before telling Ye Yaodong to hurry and buy a plaster for his mother.

"Your mother has been complaining about waist pain all year. She was afraid you'd tell her to go to the hospital, so she didn't even dare to say anything. Now it hurts again, you go buy two plasters for her to stick on."

"You guys are just like this; if you feel uncomfortable anywhere, you just don't say it. You'll only regret it when a minor illness drags on into a major one later. In a few days when we return to the Magic City, let her go to the Magic City hospital for a physical checkup, and you come to the Magic City too, and do a checkup together."

"I'm fine, what checkup? My body is great, just check your mother."

"When you get old, you'll have some problems. Find out early, treat it early. Many illnesses have no feeling in the early stages, and by the time you feel them, they've dragged on into major illnesses."

Ye Fu wanted to refute, but just as he started, he was interrupted by Ye Yaodong.

"Both of you must go for a checkup together. If you don't check, my mother will definitely say she has no problems. You go check with her, the two of you will have company."

"Alright then, what a hassle, I have to run a trip too. Don't take her to Yangcheng next year."

"Even if you begged me, I wouldn't bring her here. One trip is enough."

"Just going to Yangcheng, and she dressed up so gaudily, who is she showing it to? It's like she doesn't know anything, a person of her age, still running around everywhere..."

Ye Fu rambled on with these same few sentences, and Ye Yaodong hung up after mentioning that roaming was expensive.

Lin Xiuqing also came back and said she was going to buy some plasters for his mother to stick on and see.

"I'll go, you watch here, and by the way, go buy two bottles of hot water for my mother and yourself to wash up first."

"That works too, we haven't bathed for two days on the train, and it feels even hotter after arriving in Yangcheng."

"Mm."

Ye Yaodong went out and came back, and by the way, asked the deputy factory manager about the others' outings, telling the deputy factory manager to keep an eye on the others and remind them about safety.

Ye Mu was lying on the bed groaning, but as soon as Ye Yaodong came, she quickly shut her mouth.

"See if you're still that brave? You're 60, you know? Do you think you're 16?"

"Hehe, how could that be? Don't nag, a grown man shouldn't talk so much, don't be like your father. I'm going to sleep, I'll be fine tomorrow. You guys go back to your own room, don't stay here with me, and with a long face at that."

Blaming the victim, he was also impressed.

"Whatever."

He threw the plaster to Lin Xiuqing and went to wash up himself, planning to sleep first, then eat after waking up. Tomorrow he had to pick up goods and arrange the exhibition hall, there was still a lot to be busy with.

Lin Xiuqing came back after a while.

He told her about taking his parents to the hospital for a physical checkup after returning to the Magic City.

"I was thinking the same thing. It's rare for Mom to run to the Magic City this time, so we might as well just check her body in the Magic City. The medical level in the Magic City is quite high, much better than at home."

"Mm, we'll check together too."

"We have to check too? Didn't we just check a few years ago? Why check again?"

"I'm afraid of death. I haven't finished spending all the money I earned, what if I get something bad? We have to cherish life."

Lin Xiuqing smiled and said, "No wonder they say the richer people are, the more afraid of death they are."

"Definitely, earned so much money, haven't finished spending it, haven't enjoyed enough, how could I bear to die."

"Fine, it's a matter of convenience anyway. Take Mom and Dad to check, we'll check too. Might as well call my second brother and sister-in-law to check together? Since they're here anyway."

"They might not necessarily listen to you."

"Mention it anyway, if they don't go, I can't force them. By the way, do you want everyone to eat together tonight?"

"No, I've already let the deputy factory manager tell the others to solve their own dinner. There's a subsidy for business trips anyway. I see they haven't come back yet, they're probably eating outside."

"Then I'm going to sleep directly, not eating dinner either, I'm exhausted, I'll eat whenever I wake up."

No need to go out, she quickly climbed onto the bed and lay down, she was truly exhausted today.

"Together."

"You're exhausted and you're still reaching out..."

"I'm just touching while sleeping, not doing anything, I'm tired too, it's soft, touching it helps me sleep."

"You keep pinching and rubbing like this, how do you expect me to sleep?"

"You sleep your sleep, don't worry about me. If you can't sleep, it's definitely not my reason, it's definitely because you're not tired enough!"

Lin Xiuqing believed his nonsense, and the consequence was that she had no strength left, and fell asleep the moment she closed her eyes.

Ye Yaodong also fell asleep the moment he closed his eyes.

The couple slept very well, sleeping until dawn.

They hadn't rested well on the train for two days, and had been exhausted for half a day after arriving. After the sleep-aid exercise, it couldn't be better to sleep.

After resting, everyone was full of energy. They chose to take a group photo at the entrance first, and then went to pick up the goods.

The photos from the group photo in the first half of the year had already been developed and were posted on the factory's indoor bulletin board, separated by glass.

He planned to have them take a big group photo every time they came to exhibit in the future; this was the history witnessing the factory's growth.

Ye Mu smiled, "Dongzi, wash one for me to take back to show everyone."

"Then I'll take a separate one for you, you just stand in the same spot."

"That's even better." Ye Mu touched her hair happily and posed.

Ye Yaodong took the opportunity to let others who wanted to take individual photos say so, might as well take them all together.

Since he said so, who would be polite? Everyone said they wanted to take them, so he had no choice but to take them one by one in turns.

It was also fortunate that it was the second time coming, so they had experience. Setting up the exhibition wouldn't take as much effort as in the first half of the year, and there was plenty of time.

Lin Xiuqing said, "A-Dong, let the others who have finished taking photos go to the train station to queue with me, we still have to queue to pick up the goods."

"Fine, then you take the people who have finished taking photos to the train station first, I'll take the remaining people to find you later."

"Mm."