Chapter 206: Expressing Thanks
"It was the woman from next door. She was just squatting outside."
Mrs. Fu’s eyes widened when she heard her daughter.
"Is she crazy or something?"
What’s she doing squatting outside in the pitch-black dead of night?
Trying to scare my daughter?
The corner of Fu Mingxue’s mouth twitched.
’Yep, that’s my mom for you.’
"She came to apologize. Mom, didn’t I tell you to go to bed early? Why are you still up?"
"I know my own sleep schedule. Anyway, what do you want to eat?"
Mrs. Fu didn’t want to talk about the neighbors, either.
That mother and daughter-in-law duo... they were a real piece of work.
Fu Mingxue shook her head. "Mom, I’m not hungry. Someone gave me an apple earlier tonight, and I’m still full from that."
It was actually a gift from Director Geng.
He had come to see her again that evening.
He said they’d had a meeting and thought her small power unit was excellent.
He’d also spoken with the bicycle factory, and they were very interested too.
He asked if she could build a prototype first.
He had also brought her an apple.
"He gave you an apple? That was really nice of him."
Fu Mingxue just smiled without saying a word.
’He’s being nice because he needs something from me.’
’Otherwise, who’d give a damn about you?’
"Alright, you get to bed early then." Mrs. Fu went back to her room.
After her shower, Fu Mingxue returned to her room to work on the blueprints. She incorporated the design of a later-generation electric scooter and modified the power unit.
She tried to make the power unit’s raw materials more economical and also make it lighter.
Another consideration was theft prevention.
It couldn’t be easy for someone to just detach and steal it.
The next day, she heard voices coming from the courtyard as she was waking up.
When she came out, she saw it was Sister Wang from next door.
Sister Wang saw her too and greeted her with a broad smile. "Mingxue, you’re up."
"Sister Wang, how is your son?"
She remembered her mom saying yesterday that he wasn’t doing well.
But judging by Sister Wang’s expression today, his condition must have improved.
"He’s better, much better! An expert came to the internal medicine department yesterday. After just a few injections, my son improved a lot. His high fever is gone, and his pneumonia is getting better. The expert said he can probably be discharged after another two or three days of treatment."
Fu Mingxue said at once, "That’s great!"
"It is! We owe it all to that expert. Otherwise, I would have been worried sick."
Sister Wang’s whole demeanor was completely different.
Just a couple of days ago, she had been looking miserable.
At that moment, Mrs. Fu said, "Sister Wang gave us a few jars of pickled vegetables."
Sister Wang immediately replied, "My mother-in-law brought those all the way from her hometown. I wanted you to have a taste. She has a real knack for making these pickled vegetables. If you like them, I’ll have her make more next time."
From the way her mother spoke, Fu Mingxue knew she had already accepted the gift, so she said, "Thank you, Sister Wang!"
"No need to thank me, we’re the ones who should be thanking you! Anyway, I won’t keep you from getting to work. We can talk again when you have time."
With that, Sister Wang left.
Mrs. Fu looked at Fu Mingxue. "She gave us six jars. She absolutely insisted, so I had to take them. They look pretty good. I’ll get some for you to try with your wontons."
"—Okay. I’ll grab something later. You can give it to her—no, to her son."
Mrs. Fu had been planning to do that anyway.
Their neighbor’s child was in the hospital, and they got along well enough.
Unlike that other family.
So, she was already planning to give them something.
Fu Mingxue went to wash up.
After breakfast, she came out of her room with a can of malted milk extract.
"Mom, let’s give them this."