Chapter 729: Unexpectedly Worried About Too Many Supplies

The total was eighteen hundred.

The First Auto Factory gave one thousand.

And the bicycle factory gave eight hundred.

Because the bills were of a much smaller denomination, the stack of cash felt thicker than the one from the First Auto Factory.

Fu Mingxue happily tucked the money into her pocket—in reality, she’d put it into her dimensional space.

’Who doesn’t like money?’

She had received three huge windfalls in a single day.

The delivery from the Scientific Research Institute arrived sooner than expected. Just as Mrs. Fu and Qin Wenhao finished organizing the pile of New Year’s goods, they heard a knock on the door.

This time, it was Mrs. Fu who answered the door.

When she saw they were staff members, she immediately knew who had come, especially after spotting the car parked at the gate.

She turned her head and shouted directly into the courtyard, "Mingxue, hurry out here! Someone’s here for you—"

Her voice had barely faded when the person at the door spoke up. "Auntie, I’m from the Scientific Research Institute. I’m here to deliver New Year’s goods for Mr. Fu."

"Please, come in! She’s home!" Mrs. Fu was the picture of hospitality.

"Alright, I’ll start bringing the things in."

Just then, Fu Mingxue came out, with Qin Wenhao right behind her.

"Group Leader Fu! I’m here to deliver the New Year’s goods."

"Xiao Zhao, thank you for your trouble!"

"It’s no trouble at all. I just came from Director Zheng’s place, and you were on my way. Oh, right, this is your salary."

Xiao Zhao pulled a large envelope from his pocket and handed it to Fu Mingxue.

The envelope was sealed by their work unit, so Fu Mingxue didn’t need to open it and count the money.

Besides, she had learned the amount of her salary and bonus the day before yesterday and had already signed to confirm it.

She had just forgotten to pick up her pay then, and after working some overtime, she never made it to the finance department to collect it.

That’s why she’d had it delivered directly.

Once Xiao Zhao handed over the salary, a great weight was lifted from his shoulders.

You have to understand, he had been terrified when he set out, carrying the salaries of both Director Zheng and Group Leader Fu.

If he had lost that money—even several years of his salary wouldn’t have been enough to cover it.

When he unloaded the fifty-five-pound bag of rice, fifty-five-pound bag of flour, five boxes of fruit, and a twenty-two-pound piece of meat from the car, Fu Mingxue was speechless for a moment.

’This is way too much. How are we going to eat it all?’

In the past, she would have been condemned for such extravagance.

The items were quickly moved inside, and Xiao Zhao immediately drove away.

He still had a lot of work to do. Some deliveries could be left for others, but some he had to handle personally.

Mrs. Fu had never imagined she’d one day be worried about having too much stuff.

"—This is just too much. If we’d known we were getting all this, we wouldn’t have had to buy any New Year’s goods at all."

If only it had arrived two days earlier, they could have given this meat to Qin Wenshu. After all, they could have used it for their wedding.

In her two lifetimes combined, Fu Mingxue had never seen so much pork in her home.

’Have I achieved pork freedom?’

"Let’s cure the meat. Or, we could make some sausage."

"I know, why don’t we give some meat to Wenhao’s aunts!"

Hearing his mother-in-law’s words, Qin Wenhao immediately stopped her. "Mom, there’s no need to give it to them. Let me make it into sausage! Just teach me how, I’m sure I can do it. I’m not busy anyway."

Hearing her son-in-law say this, Mrs. Fu dropped the idea.

"Alright then. Later, take a good amount back to your family’s home. As for the rest, besides what we’ll cure, we can spend the afternoon making sausage."

Curing it with salt was convenient; once preserved, it would last a long time.

The main thing was, after the New Year, she and the two children would have to go with her daughter to the family housing complex.

It wouldn’t be easy to bring all this cured meat with them.