Ever since Zhang Fengmei came to ask for money and stole the pig baby, Jiang Xinyu's family and Jiang Baoqin's family didn't deal with each other very much.
When we walked to the village, the younger members of the two families met each other, and it was awkward to say a few words.
Jiang Baoqin chases Song Minghan every day, and there are already rumors in the village. Jiang Yuzhu is in the village every day, how could he not know about it?
Jiang Yuzhu felt that Jiang Baoqin was evil-minded. It was clear that Xinyu and Chen Yi were dating, but now she asked such a question in front of Chen Jiajia.
After Jiang Yuzhu finished speaking, she also asked deliberately: "Baoqin, you and Song Zhiqing are together every day. Are you two dating?"
Jiang Baoqin's face turned ugly when he heard her suddenly ask this question. His face turned red and his eyes evaded, and he was speechless. Because Chen Jiajia was there, Jiang Baoqin didn't want to deny it, but he was afraid that Song Minghan would find out and be angry with her.
"What are you talking about? Don't talk nonsense about things that don't exist." Although Jiang Baoqin denied it, his coy attitude made people think wildly.
Jiang Yuzhu seemed to be surprised and said, "No? The aunts, aunts, and daughters-in-law in the village all say that you two are dating. I think you two are indeed very close."
Jiang Baoqin blushed even more, acting like a shy little daughter-in-law.
Jiang Yuzhu had no intention of letting her go, "If not, it's better to keep a distance from now on. Look at what the news is like in the village."
Chen Jiajia's face was pale, and she raised her chin slightly and said: "Song Minghan is an upright and kind-hearted comrade, but his concern for Comrade Bao Qin was misunderstood by everyone in the brigade, which is also ridiculous. Is it possible that there is no relationship between gays and lesbians? Isn't there such a thing as pure friendship? Comrade Yuzhu, do everyone in the brigade like to gossip behind others' backs so much?"
Jiang Yuzhu blinked and said innocently: "Go and ask them. I heard it when I was at work. Baoqin should have heard it too."
Jiang Yuzhu knew that Comrade Chen Jiajia from Beijing had a sense of superiority, but she did not ask for anything from others, nor did she feel that she was inferior, so she would not please anyone.
While he was talking, Zhou Qi came in with a stick noodle pancake in his hand and was eating it.
Li Yuezhen looked at the pancake in his hand and asked, "Is the rice ready?"
Zhou Qi shook his head, "The pancakes haven't been finished yet, so we won't start eating until a while later."
People from the film studio set up a simple shed in the village and set up three stoves specifically for cooking. People living in the village did not eat at the host's house.
Li Yuezhen complained: "It's stick noodles again. I haven't eaten white noodles since I came here."
Zhou Qi squatted aside and ate the pancake without any hesitation. When he saw the rabbit cage in the yard, he smiled and showed his big white teeth and said to Jiang Yuzhu: "I think your rabbit is already edible, can you give it to me?" Get another one." Even in the city, if his family had rations, he would not be able to eat this wild rabbit.
Jiang Yuzhu gave the rabbit a handful of grass, shook her head and said, "I can't make the decision. You can talk to my mother."
There were more and more people. Song Minghan used a pole to carry water back and forth four times, filling two water tanks. When Chen Jiajia was about to take a bath, the group of people dispersed chatting and laughing.
Jiang Xinyu carried the washed clothes and walked home, with Xiao Heizhu wagging her tail behind her. When she returned, Comrade Chen Xiuyun was already at home.
There are outsiders at home, so the mung bean cake business is temporarily out of business, and even the pig soap soap has to be stopped.
This season, the bitter greens are growing just right and haven't bloomed yet. In the evening, Chen Xiuyun washed a handful of bitter greens, boiled them, mixed them with salt and vinegar, and made pancakes made from a mixture of thick sorghum noodles and stick noodles. The mother and daughter
Just had a makeshift meal.
"I will go to the county town tomorrow morning, and you two will stay at home."
Jiang Xinyu asked in surprise: "Don't you have to go to work?"
Chen Xiuyun said "Yeah", "Recently, a lot of people have come from the brigade, as well as people from other villages to watch the fun. We live at the entrance of the village, so we have to leave someone to look after the yard. Otherwise, what will we do if something is lost? Tomorrow you two will collect chicken manure
Shovel it into the dung bucket and go to topdress the private plot."
If Chen Xiuyun hadn't been able to exchange pig soap for money, she wouldn't have allowed her two daughters to stay at home and have nothing to do.
In the evening, they were able to sleep on the same bed as Jiang Yuzhu again. The two sisters each talked about what happened at home and at school.
Jiang Xinyu learned that Jiang Pandi was going to get married in a while. The man came to a Wuliqiao brigade two days ago. He was not too tall, he was quite dark, and he stuttered a bit, but he seemed to be an honest man.
Honest.
She also knew why Comrade Chen Xiuyun agreed to let the educated youths live in. As for the second aunt's house, because there was no room available, the studio borrowed the small courtyard of her house from the old Lin family. As for Mrs. Li, she needs to be more at ease now.
How peaceful I am, even if this thing doesn't work out, I won't dare to cause trouble to her family.
There is also Chen Jiajia, a flower from Beijing. Because of her beautiful hair, she is now famous in the village. She is surrounded by people wherever she goes, and all the young men become restless.
Before dawn the next day, Chen Xiuyun left with a cloth bag containing forty pieces of pig soap.
After the two sisters got up, Jiang Yuzhu cooked and Jiang Xinyu fed the chickens and rabbits. While they were busy, Chen Jiajia and Li Yuezhen also got up.
Chen Jiajia scratched her neck and the corner of her mandible, and said to Li Yuezhen: "Is there any bug on the bed? I've been scratching it for several days. Bathing and applying toilet water are useless."
Li Yuezhen didn't feel itchy, "Did you get bitten by some bug in the field?"
The two of them greeted Jiang Xinyu and the sisters, then washed their faces and brushed their teeth before going to the shed to eat.
At noon, Chen Xiuyun came back with a large bag of things.
"Mom, what delicious food did you buy?" Jiang Xinyu thought that Chen Xiuyun had made money and bought meat, so when she asked, her face was inevitably a little bright.
Li Yuezhen and Chen Jiajia haven't come back yet, so Jiang Xinyu doesn't need to lower her voice when speaking.
Chen Xiuyun opened the package, "I didn't buy this, it was sent by your fourth uncle."
The tiaotou cake made of glutinous rice flour is wrapped in oil paper. When the oil paper is opened, the fragrance of osmanthus comes out.
Chen Xiuyun was a little nostalgic, "When I was a child, I could often eat this. You two should try it. This is produced by your Sijizi Food Factory."
In the mouth, the Tiaotou cake is glutinous but not rotten, sweet but not greasy, soft but not dry, and has a scent of osmanthus. Jiang Xinyu likes this sweet but not greasy taste very much.
In addition to the Tiaotou cakes, there were also two pieces of Tiaotou waffles. They might have been bumped during transportation, and a lot of scum fell out of the paper bag. The mother and daughter pinched some of the scum and ate it. Jiang Xinyu felt that the Tiaotou cakes were more to her taste.
She doesn't like greasy and crunchy food.
In addition to snacks, there was also a pack of White Rabbit toffees and five sizable pieces of cloth. Jiang Xinyu looked at the fabrics and found that two of them were corduroy. Compared to the bright colors of later generations, one of them was khaki.
It's very authentic, and the light purple color is really nice.
Chen Xiuyun picked up the fabric and gestured to the two girls, "I'll just make a summer shirt for you two. It's rare for you, the Fourth Sister, to be so generous."
Jiang Xinyu pointed to the white piece of Liang and said, "Mom, I want a white shirt."
Chen Xiuyun pulled apart the white cloth. This piece was really quite big, "I'll make one for you two."
Chen Xiuyun guessed that her eldest brother told her about her life here after he came home. In addition, the man died. Last year, when he went home to visit relatives, she only had one chance encounter. She concluded that the fourth brother and sister were a shrewd person who would be so generous.
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Her eldest brother said that the fourth brother was treated obediently by the fourth younger sister, and he didn't look like a man at all.
These days, you can't buy anything if you don't have a ticket. Most of the people in the village can't make new clothes all year round. Those who raise pigs in the village only raise them because they give tickets when the pigs are handed over. Chen Xiuyun feels,
These five pieces of cloth were the savings of her four younger siblings, and even she could make new clothes this time.
Chen Xiuyun packed up her things and took out a pair of Takahashi waffles, "Xinyu, go see if Chen Yima is here. If she is, bring this to her."
I moved to the east end of the village, not far from Chen Yi's house. It takes less than five minutes to go back and forth.
Chen Yi's mother was not at home, and the courtyard door was locked. Jiang Xinyu walked back, but before she even entered the house, she heard the sound of a bicycle "dinging, ringing, ringing."
Looking up, she saw Chen Yi. Thinking of what happened at the school gate, Jiang Xinyu glared at him and started to walk back.
In Chen Yi's eyes, her watery eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of oil just now, but they had no deterrent effect at all, and instead made his heart itch.
"Stop, I have something to say to you."
Jiang Xinyu tied the pastry on his hand to the handle of his car, "My mother just happened to ask me to deliver it to your house. What do you want to say? Hurry up."
She looked up at the sky. It had been gloomy since morning and it looked like it was going to rain.
Chen Yi looked at her idle look and didn't know how to speak out what he had been thinking about for a few days. Besides, there were people passing by at any time on the road, so it was not the place to talk.
He looked around, raised his chin slightly, and said in the direction of the ditch: "Let's go over there and talk."
Jiang Xinyu didn't know what kind of medicine he was selling in his gourd. When he got to the ditch, he saw a woman coming out of the woods over there. Then, there was another movement, and a man who was still arranging his clothes came out.
One of these two people is the famous Widow Yao in the brigade, and the other is Zhang Tiezhu, an old bachelor in the village. Well, there seems to be a difference of ten or twenty years in age.
Seeing Jiang Xinyu and Chen Yi here, Widow Yuan said hello to them calmly. Seeing the snack bag hanging on the bicycle, she asked: "What delicious food did Chen Yi buy? There seems to be something in the food station."
There’s nothing for sale.”
Chen Yi said casually: "Aunt Chen gave it to me."
Widow Yao asked meaningfully: "What are you two doing here? Talking, right? Then I won't disturb you young people."
Widow Yao smiled and twisted her waist and walked away.
Jiang Xinyu is so uncomfortable. In Widow Yao's eyes, did she and Chen Yi come to the woods?
The old bachelor Zhang Tiezhu glanced at the two of them, cleared his throat and spit on the ground, then walked away in a swagger.
Just when Chen Yi was about to speak, rain started to fall from the sky.