Chapter 308 Writing a Book
She insisted on buying a house in the city center and building the "Xia Li Restaurant" in the city center. She also worked hard to make the "Xia Li Restaurant" the most popular place and a check-in spot that everyone loves to visit.
After the event, the restaurant returned to normal. It was not so busy, so Hua Xiali naturally did not need to continue to maintain order there. Hua Xiali returned to Huazhuang and lived an ordinary farm life with Huo Beixi.
At this time, the sugarcane can be harvested, but she didn't plant much, just the one in Hua Mu's yard and some in Huo Beixi's yard.
Only a little of this can be eaten by the family, and the rest can be kept as seeds. The varieties grown with spiritual spring water are naturally better. As they reproduce from generation to generation, the taste and texture of the sugarcane will get better and better.
That morning, Hua Xiali sat at the desk filled with sunlight, writing furiously the love story between Grandpa Fang and Grandma Mo.
Hua Xiali thought for a long time about the name of this story, and finally decided to name the book "Mo Jing Chuncun". She wanted to publish the book before Grandpa Fang passed away, and then give it to Grandpa Fang to read, so that Grandpa Fang would not have so many regrets in his heart.
Hua Xiali kept writing quickly and put down the pen only when his fingers started to hurt. Then he stood up to stretch his muscles. Looking at the sugarcanes in the yard that were as tall as thick bamboo poles, Hua Xiali went to the utility room to get a sickle, and then went to the yard to cut the sugarcane.
She first cut a piece of sugarcane, peeled off the extra leaves, then cut the sugarcane into pieces, peeled the skin, and took a bite.
Crisp, sweet and juicy, so delicious.
As soon as Huo Beixi entered the courtyard, he saw Hua Xiali standing in the yard eating sugarcane, and asked with a smile, "Is it delicious?"
"It's delicious, especially delicious." Hua Xiali handed over the sugarcane in her hand, and then divided the sugarcane she had just cut into pieces. However, she did not dare to waste the parts that could sprout. Instead, she collected them together and planned to bury them in the soil and take them out to plant sugarcane in the spring after the New Year.
Huo Beixi also tasted it and nodded repeatedly, "It's really delicious, much better than the sugarcane grown by that family in the village."
When the sugarcane from the village was ripe, the uncle sent a few pieces to the brigade for everyone to try. Although they were not tasty, everyone still bought a few pieces each in order to patronize his business. After all, a few pieces didn't cost much.
Hua Xiali smiled and didn't say much. Could she say that the sugarcane she grew was delicious because of the spiritual spring water? Of course she couldn't say that, but she wouldn't take the initiative to help others. When they came to her, she might consider it. After all, they were from the same village, and they had never offended her, let alone hurt her.
She has already added spiritual spring water to the wells of many families who grow wood ear mushrooms, so she could add some for his family, but she would only consider helping if the family came to her.
"Is the sugarcane ready to be harvested?" Huo Beixi asked.
Hua Xiali said, "Don't worry, it's not too cold here in winter, so it's okay to wait until the New Year to collect the fruits. The two of us can just collect them slowly."
Hua Xiali did not plan to eat or sell all the sugarcane he planted in the first year. He would leave some for his family and take the rest to Baibao County.
This little bit of sugarcane is not enough!
When the uncle's sugar cane starts to sell, she will go buy a truckload and transport it directly to Baibao County, where there are many mountainous areas and a lot of sugar cane seeds are needed. After lunch, during the lunch break, Hua Xiali showed Huo Beixi the manuscript she had written, "I have already started writing Uncle Fang's story. Do you think I have a good idea?"
Huo Beixi hugged Hua Xiali and read the book carefully. Hua Xiali's writing was very immersive, and as Huo Beixi read, he felt as if he was drawn into the story himself.
Hua Xiali chose to start from the place where Grandma Mo married her ex-husband. Her ex-husband married her because of his parents' orders, but he refused to take responsibility for her after marrying her, gave her a lot of grievances, and even had an affair with a female student in the city.
When the ex-husband went back to his hometown during the holidays, the female student followed him reluctantly, so the ex-husband arranged for her to live with a relative. When Grandma Mo saw them hugging each other, she was furious, and then she became mentally ill, ran around in the mountains, and finally fell off a cliff in front of everyone.
Then the ex-husband remarried, and the woman he liked was the female student.
Then Uncle Fang found Grandma Mo, took her home, and took good care of her. When Grandma Mo woke up, she returned to normal and told Uncle Fang what she had experienced.
Uncle Fang had long felt sorry for Grandma Mo, and after taking care of her for some time, he had already fallen in love with her, so he asked Grandma Mo to marry him.
Grandma Mo thought that her ex-husband had remarried, so she decided to let it go and agreed to Grandpa Fang's proposal. When she brought Grandpa Fang home to meet his parents, everyone found out that she was not dead. They also found out that her ex-husband's family had not even looked for her, and in order to remarry, they directly announced to the outside world that she was dead.
The Mo family thought it was shameful for Grandma Mo to marry a second time and kicked her out. After Grandma Mo followed Grandpa Fang back home, she got married directly at Grandpa Fang's house and no longer had any contact with the Mo family.
After getting married, in order to prove her innocence and to prove that what she had said was true, Grandma Mo hung the bed sheet outside her ex-husband's house for a few days, and then hung it outside the Mo's house for a few days. She wanted to tell everyone that her ex-husband married her but was not responsible for her, so it was not her who was embarrassed, but her ex-husband's family.
Later, Grandma Mo took Grandpa Fang to her ex-husband's house and asked for back all the advantages that her ex-husband had taken from the Mo family over the years. Her ex-husband's family had many children and could not afford her ex-husband's tuition. It was because the Mo family could pay for his tuition that he was able to marry Grandma Mo.
But he turned his back on his family, using the Mo family's money to date a female classmate in the city, and even shamelessly said, "There is no love in arranged marriages." Who arranged a marriage for him? It was obviously something he had asked for.
Grandma Mo took the money back and cut off all ties with her ex-husband's family...
Hua Xiali didn’t write much, and this is all there is at the moment.
Huo Beixi smiled and said, "I think I can win the prize."
Hua Xiali glared at him coquettishly, "Just try to cheer me up. This is the first time I've written a story, except for the essays I write for exams. It's good enough that it's readable. I don't know if people will like it. And you actually said that I can win a prize."
"I think you can focus on rural revitalization, which is more in line with the current main theme. This will also improve the structure of the book. I think the effect will be better." Huo Beixi said.