Chapter 1746: Posting a Question

【My good friend is on summer break and invited me to stay at his place for a while. What kind of gift should I bring?】

On a certain social media app full of lively, real-life content, this post suddenly appeared.

This was a magical app Qiao Qiao had only learned about after asking Sister Yanran; it was said that as long as you asked a question on it, someone would answer.

It was his first time being invited to someone's home as a guest, and he felt both curious and excited.

But looking into the rearview mirror, his sister and Lu Chuan were still talking to the villagers and village officials, pushing and shoving.

Yet, looking at their expressions, it didn't seem that intense; it didn't look like they were arguing...

He leaned against the back of the seat to watch for a while, remembered his sister saying he didn't need to get out of the car, and obediently sat back down.

After hesitating for a moment, he lowered his head and stared at his phone.

As a newly registered user, the website would certainly provide traffic to promote him in order to retain him.

Consequently, before long, the backend notified him of many comments.

【Summer break? So you're still a student. For friendships between classmates, it's not about the value of the gift; just buy some seasonal fruit and bring it over.】

【Are you a top student? If so, bring a copy of your notes; your friend's parents will definitely welcome you with open arms.】

【Why emphasize that your good friend is on summer break? Do you not have a summer break? Are you still in school? Could it be that you're already working? Is this an old classmate?】

Everyone else was answering, but only this one was asking a question.

Qiao Qiao therefore replied earnestly: "I don't have a summer break. I'm already working. We are classmates I met last year. We studied together this year."

His answer was strange.

But young people who have been on the internet know that many people just look normal; in reality, they have no linguistic logic, and you can encounter all sorts of incoherent answers online.

Therefore, they only quickly extracted the key points:

【Your friend is still a student, but you're already working? Fine, then when you go to stay at someone else's house, you can't go empty-handed. Ask how many people live in the house and if there are elders like grandparents. If there are, buy two boxes of soft, easy-to-digest pastries; they're cheap and practical, and the main thing is that the etiquette is covered. Also, see if the parents have any preferences, like cigarettes or tea... If they drink, bring two bottles of liquor; the specific kind depends on your financial strength. Don't puff yourself up to look bigger than you are; after all, they've already invited you over. If you really try to act richer than you are, the parents might look down on you.】

This comment had the most likes, and there were many replies from netizens underneath:

【Yes, the person above is right. Your friend is still a student, and the decision-making power in the house still lies with the parents. You're going as a guest and staying for a while, so if you fulfill the etiquette, your classmate won't have to be nagged by their parents.】

【Your friend is still a student? Then you aren't very old either. When young people associate, the value lies in sincerity. Just bring two boxes of milk and buy some fruit. If the gift is too heavy, the receiver will feel burdened. It's supposed to be a friendship between you two; if the gift is too heavy, it looks like an interaction between adults.】

【He's already working, and his friend invited him to stay at their house, so he definitely needs to fulfill the etiquette. Where we're from, people with the ability to work can already be treated as adults; it mainly depends on the age, though.】

【Is there really anyone willing to go stay at a classmate's house for a while? I feel like a golden nest or a silver nest isn't as good as one's own dog kennel. Sleeping at someone else's house is cramped, the living habits are different, and isn't it uncomfortable to be squeezed together in the hot weather?】

【Boys might have rougher living habits—it is a boy, right? If it's a girl, I don't recommend it; after all, you even had to ask whether you should bring a gift when visiting, so I assume you haven't been before, which isn't very safe.】

Everyone chatted away lively, and the comment section gradually became bustling.

Qiao Qiao watched earnestly, writing down every piece of advice he thought was useful: pastries, cigarettes and alcohol, fruit, milk, notes...

But he didn't have notes, and Xiao Yang was already in university.

As for the milk...

He became worried again. Although he hadn't been to Xiao Yang's house, it felt very far away. In such hot weather, wouldn't the milk go sour by the time he arrived?

But while pondering, he still replied earnestly to the netizens who were offering advice:

【It's a boy, and I'm a boy too.】

【Teacher Xin said, one must have a heart to guard against others, girls should be even more cautious, you are right!】

【I am willing to go to my friend's house to play. He came to stay at my house for a while before. Our living habits are a bit different, but we both love to eat and are very good at eating.】

【Why would it be cramped? If you can't sleep upstairs, you can sleep downstairs—my friend said his house has 5 floors, so it should be enough to sleep in, right?】

【Why would visiting as a guest lead to being nagged by parents?】

Netizens looked at the previous replies and then at the suggestions in the comment section, their expressions gradually becoming strange—

【Everyone disperse, it's a young master who doesn't know the hardships of the world—the young master's friend's house already has 5 floors, I'd guess the poster's house is no less than three floors.】

【He's already stayed at your house for a while, so you don't need to feel burdened when you go over. Listen to me, just buy two jin of fruit and bring two boxes of milk.】

【Being nagged when inviting a friend over is probably an experience only poor families have—because the space is very small, having an extra person means different living habits, and you have to be careful about food, so it's very uncomfortable.】

【Good heavens, 5 floors, could it be that every room you open is a suite with a living room, a study, a studio, and a bedroom?】

Qiao Qiao watched everyone's continuous and increasingly enthusiastic replies, his brows gradually furrowing.

He could understand some of the words above, but he couldn't quite grasp the meaning, so he stuck to his clumsy method—

He replied earnestly to every question asked.

For example, the one about the number of floors in his house.

"Yes, my house has 3 floors. My mom and dad have one floor, my sister has one floor, and I have one floor. My friend's house has two extra basements."

"The rooms have living rooms, bedrooms, and small studies, but there are no studios."

Comment section:...

【Disperse, disperse, this one is a real young master.】

【With so much money, even if you send him abroad, he wouldn't have to start working so early, right? Why is your friend studying, but you've already been working for a year? Could it be a three-story self-built house in the countryside?】

【Don't look down on self-built houses in the countryside, okay? The three-story villas of rich people in our village cost millions just to build and decorate.】

【What does your family do? Or rather, what does your friend's family do? Since you aren't short of money, be sincere when giving gifts and cater to their preferences.】

And below were Qiao Qiao's replies:

"That's right, we are in the village, and the house was built by ourselves."

"My family farms, and my friend's family also farms. They have very, very large fields."

Well then.

【The family is so rich, but they still don't value education, otherwise he wouldn't even have been able to go to school.】

【To the one above, some people truly don't have a talent for studying. Not having a diploma doesn't mean they aren't cultured.】

【Look at the way he replies to questions, does he seem very cultured?】

【Alright, two young masters from self-built countryside houses are best friends here, and we people living in rented rooms are giving them advice.】

【Poster, don't just ask, what is your friend's house like? Can you post a picture? What about yours?】

The comment section turned into a mess.

Qiao Qiao flipped the page back and forth, but couldn't extract any different essence from it, so he had to continue replying:

"I've come to the county town, I don't have pictures right now."

"I haven't been to my friend's house either, it's very far, but their family has a lot of land, much more than my family."

"I don't have much culture, I'm not as capable as my friend."

Comment section:...

【I don't know why, but even though the poster has a feeling of playing dumb and showing off, there is inexplicably a bit of sincerity and seriousness, as if he is frowning and pursing his lips right now, staring at the screen and replying to us sentence by sentence.】

【+1, I have this feeling too, he has such an old-cadre style.】

Qiao Qiao stared at these two comments, his eyes slowly widening.

He looked up and saw that in the rearview mirror, he was indeed nervously pursing his lips, his brows slightly furrowed.

It was just that his eyes were very round, and he seemed a bit puzzled.

Refreshing again, there were new comments liked to the front row:

【The poster asks so earnestly, can you post a picture after you go to your friend's house? I have never seen a five-story self-built house in the countryside; I feel like self-built houses generally wouldn't have two basements.】

Qiao Qiao thought about it earnestly:

Although there were many things people said that he couldn't understand, there were indeed many people who offered suggestions.

He therefore replied earnestly: "Okay, when I see him, I will ask if I can take pictures."

That's right, Xiao Yang said their house was also built by themselves, why would they build two extra basements?

(It's normal to own the land yourself, build a high-end villa project yourself, and keep the king of the buildings for yourself—from Old Yang.)

Qiao Qiao had wasted so much time in the car, and when he turned his head again, he saw Song Tan talking to the village officials behind the car, and now she was waving her hand, finally about to disperse.

And when Song Tan got into the car, seeing the car windows rise and the doors close, in the enclosed space, she finally leaned back against the seat:

"I've been here for two days, and I'm not as tired as I am right now."

The three of them, Yanran, sat in the back row and nodded frequently: "Yes, yes, staring at the instruments all afternoon is not as tiring as this moment."

It was just that their instruments really couldn't be taken back this time; even if there was no luggage in the car, it was just one car, and they couldn't take them back.

Fortunately, the car Chen Yuan and the others chartered was big, so they could carry them along after they were done.

And the reason why the village was so enthusiastic was inseparable from Qiao Qiao's actual results.

Just this morning, in another one of his live streams, all the grapes that passed inspection had already been listed and sold out.

Next was the day and night shipping.

But Song Tan couldn't help much with this matter; the only thing she could do was to hand over the remaining security guards who had rushed over overnight to Chen Yuan for deployment, responsible for quality control.

And she had to take Yanran and the others back quickly.

After all, helping Bai Yu County sell grapes, the commission of 5 yuan per jin wasn't earned for nothing, and they had to handle all the miscellaneous after-sales matters.

As for why they couldn't leave for a while...

Sigh, it wasn't because the villagers and leaders were too enthusiastic.

Not to mention anything else, people like Tao Zhuangzhuang and Da Liang all rushed to pick several baskets of fresh and good-looking grapes early in the morning, and the baskets were stacked on top of each other, so the trunk couldn't fit them at all.

Everyone's thoughts were very similar:

"If you can't finish eating them, give them away. Our county's grapes are delicious, and giving them away is also decent."

It was quite decent, but it couldn't be helped that everyone was giving them away.

Pushing back and forth, every family wished they could stack a few baskets, and the leaders of Bai Yu County even wanted them to wait a while longer, saying that the old varieties of grapes in the fields that were mature and easy to fall off were also being picked.

In addition, they found the landlady of the family canteen and brought two large barrels of homemade grape wine, just because Song Tan had praised it at the dinner table.

This, this, this...

In short, they couldn't push them away, and they couldn't fit them, so after a long time of entanglement, they finally rejected most of them, leaving only those sent by two big families, as well as the wine.

"Sigh." Song Tan looked at the grapes stacked everywhere, basket by basket, and felt worried at this moment, "Yanran, do you want to share some and give them away?"

Who knew the three of them would shake their heads in unison, and Tang Xiaodong even sighed:

"Boss, there are too many fruits we can taste in this season. When we followed our teacher before, there were all kinds of them everywhere..."

"What about giving them away?"

Song Tan actively offered ideas: "You can also send them home."

This was originally a good idea, but it couldn't be helped that Yanran and the others were close to the water, and they could often find good things at Song Tan's place, sending them home every few days.

Now, let alone them, even their families looked down on this kind of fruit.

Anyway, it wasn't as good as Qiao Qiao's family's, so what was the difference between expensive and cheap? It was better to eat the cheap ones.

And although they were fine products, following Professor Song, were there few sent by the senior brothers and sisters every year?

In the summer and autumn, there were really no shortage of various fine products from all over the country.

Looking at Lu Chuan again, he also shook his head:

"Didn't my best friends return fully loaded two days ago? If these grapes are sent over, they will also have to give them away."

Song Tan: "..."

She simply made a decision: "When we enter the city, take a detour and send them to my aunt's place first, leave 50 jin, she can sell them or give them away, it doesn't matter."

"Leave another 50 jin for my aunt's place."

"And when we go back, leave 50 jin at my uncle's place..."

With such a distribution, the grapes piled up in the back seemed to instantly become less heavy.

But there were still...

She simply took out her phone and asked Guo Dong: "Do you want the grapes from Bai Yu County? If you don't eat them, you can give them away."

Little Doctor Guo also looked down on this.

She didn't eat much fruit to begin with, it was only the Old Song family's that could make her eat a lot.

As for giving them to relatives and friends...

For those close people worth sending fruit thousands of miles away, such as teachers, she was now doing business, and what she sent were all good things from the Old Song family.

Regardless of the price, the fishy grass picked and dried by the pond, the moxa sticks she made herself, or various medicinal herbs that could be used as medicine, and the fruit produced on the mountain, etc...

It wasn't necessary to send this over.

Looking at Teacher Xin again?

"Do you want to send some to your parents?"

Xin Jun also refused:

"Even if I send them, they won't be able to eat them, they will all be distributed to customers. There is a gap between Bai Yu County's grapes and those on the market, it's not appropriate for one private room to eat well and another private room to eat ordinary ones, so I won't send them."

Song Tan was also helpless.

These were grapes that sold for 50 yuan a jin, and now they couldn't even be given away.

Thinking and thinking—

"Then give them to Secretary Xiao Zhu, there are several brigades in the village, and there are some elderly people who have no children or family by their side, give them all some—oh, those with diabetes can't be given any."

?? It's here, the guilty one is here, Qin Shi tomorrow! Tomorrow for sure, ah ah ah! ===== CHAPTER 1747 =====