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Chapter 21
Chapter 21
Two days later, it was time to go to the county town to go to the market.
The jelly was very popular last time, and this time it is of course the protagonist of the fair. Given that there are now seven chickens laying eggs at home, and Lu Che earned another twenty from the tractor, Jiang Yao decided to make dozens of tea eggs to sell today.
Usually raw eggs are 5 cents for the big ones and 1 cents for the small ones, but now they are processed, the big ones are 3 cents, the small ones are 2 cents, and the seasoning cost is about 5 cents.
In order to occupy a good position, they still went to the market at four in the morning. Unexpectedly, they met Lin Fang on the road, and she went to the market with Lin's mother.
Being able to come out bravely, Jiang Yao is very happy for her.
Lin Fang thanked Jiang Yao very much, "If you hadn't encouraged me that day, I wouldn't be able to live again so quickly." She looked at Mother Lin's slightly hunchback and said with emotion, "Someone in the production team next door met me like this before. Her parents think she is ashamed, but my parents don't, they have been defending me, so I can't be depressed anymore."
"It's best if you can think like this." Jiang Yao said with a smile.
"Well." Lin Fang nodded, "I may not be able to come out all at once, but I will try my best. I have already thought about it, even if I can't get married in this life, it doesn't matter, I will work hard, work hard, and give I myself gave my parents a better life."
"Yes." Jiang Yao said these two words not only to Lin Fang, but also to herself. At present, she can't change the general environment, but as long as she works hard, her life is still full of hope.
When he arrived at the market, Lu Che picked the last location and started placing goods.
Lin Fang and her daughter were beside them, unloading the vegetables from the ox cart.
As the sky gets brighter, more and more residents come to the market to buy vegetables.
This time the market is the same as last time, it's on Sunday, but today's business is obviously better than last time. Because the sugar water prepared by Jiang Yao has a good sweetness, it is very good to eat it with jelly.
In fact, the sweetness of this sugar water is already super sweet in later generations, which does not conform to the concept of healthy eating. But these days, sugar is expensive and scarce, so can eat a bowl of super sweet jelly, not to mention how satisfying.
The reputation of jelly is good, and the sales of tea eggs also follow. Although the price of a tea egg catches up with the price of two raw eggs, the marinated fragrance can make people drool from far away, and some people are willing to spend money to satisfy their appetite.
As for Lin Fang's side, she also sold well. She probably faced strangers in the county town. Without the psychological burden, she was able to go out and sell hard.
When it was past ten o'clock, there were only two bunches of green vegetables left on her side.
She moved over and said to Jiang Yao, "Yaoyao, I'm almost selling it here, or I'll help you sell it."
"No need, we have to sell at least until three or four o'clock in the afternoon before going back, don't worry." Jiang Yao said: "My aunt is getting old and picks vegetables in the early morning. When you sell out, go back early and let her rest."
"Okay." Lin Fang also felt sorry for her mother, so she didn't insist. Just then someone came to her booth, and she hurriedly greeted the customers.
"Auntie, I have the last two dishes left. If you want it, I'll give it to you at a cheaper price." Lin Fang raised her head as she spoke, but when she saw the appearance of the person who came, she couldn't help but startled.
The lady-in-law recognized Lin Fang long ago, and she looked at her with contempt and disgust in her eyes, "How could you be so embarrassed to come out to sell vegetables, such an unclean woman? This dish must be as dirty as you, and it is still sold. Is it disgusting for others to eat?"
Saying that, she lifted her foot and kicked Lin Fang's two vegetables.
Lin Fang's face suddenly turned pale, her body trembled uncontrollably, and Mother Lin immediately hugged her.
Jiang Yao had no impression of this woman, but she could tell from what she said that she knew about Lin Fang being hooligan, and hated Lin Fang because of it.
"Hey, what do you want to do?" Even though she didn't know what was going on, Jiang Yao hurriedly stopped when she saw that the woman's feet were about to step on the vegetables.
Lu Che knew his target very well and knew that she would not sit idly by, so at the same time, he had stopped opposite the woman.
"Hey, you second-rate kid who wants to meddle in your own business?" The lady-in-law stared at Lu Che with disdain.
Lu Che glanced at her coldly, "You kick over other people's stalls at will, do you want to go to the public security bureau next door?"
"Public Security Bureau?" The woman sneered, "The public security only takes care of you peasants who set up stalls when they are idle and have nothing to do."
"Then let's go for a try and see if the Public Security Bureau takes care of it." Lu Che sneered.
"That's right, let her go now."
"Okay, let's see if the police will give justice to us peasants."
"..."
The woman's contemptuous "peasant head" obviously irritated everyone. Seeing that Lu Che and Jiang Yao made their way to Lin Fang, they also supported them.
The woman was stared at by a pair of eyes, and suddenly panicked. She forcibly calmed down and shouted: "You are so ignorant. Do you know that the woman you are helping is a dirty shoe."
As soon as the words fell, Lin Fang's body trembled even more, desperately digging into Lin's mother's arms.
Jiang Yao watched and quickly walked over to comfort her.
"Shut up for me." Lu Che said through gritted teeth.
When the woman saw that she had pulled back a city, her back suddenly straightened. Just as she was about to speak, Jiang Yao stood up again. She crossed her arms around her chest, stood in front of the woman, and said imposingly, "As a hooligan, Auntie, why do you still have the face to speak here? If I were you, I would be too ashamed to go out, you seem so shameless."
Just when she went to appease Lin Fang, Mother Lin told Jiang Yao in a low voice that this woman was Chen Shuanglian's sister Chen Shuangyue. Sure enough, they are sisters, and they are just as bad.
"You..." Chen Shuangyue was about to explode with anger, she stretched out her index finger and pointed at Jiang Yao, but was blocked by Lu Che.
"Hurry up and get out of here, let's go and report to the police." A small vendor was shouting.
"roll……"
"roll……"
The shouting became louder and louder, and Chen Shuangyue was also frightened. She stamped her feet in exasperation, but she was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped by Jiang Yao, "Pay for the two dishes before you leave."
"Why should I pay? It's not bad." Chen Shuangyue said unconvinced.
"It's been rolled on the ground a few times. If you say it's not bad, you can buy it back. You won't be able to sell it after kicking it with your stinky feet anyway." Jiang Yao said.
"That's right, hurry up and buy it, or we'll call the police." The peasant brothers echoed.
Chen Shuangyue looked at this group of peasants who were about to revolt in the next moment, and was also frightened. She could only say: "Weigh it for me. I will pay you how much you should pay, and I won't give you a penny more."
Hearing the sound, Jiang Yao quickly picked up two bunches of green vegetables, weighed them on the scale, and said, "It's exactly three pounds, three cents per catty, nine points in total."
"Jiufen, are you stealing money?" Chen Shuangyue's eyes widened, "It's obviously two cents a pound, you want to take the opportunity to deceive me."
"I didn't lie to you. The vegetable harvest in the past two weeks has been low and expensive. Today everyone sells it for three cents." Jiang Yao said, pointing to the vast number of small vendors, "If you don't believe me, ask everyone, today's vegetarian dishes are Is it all three cents a pound?"
As soon as the words were finished, someone shouted: "Yes, I am selling three points."
"I also sell three points."
"Three points are three points, not one point less."
"..."
She knew that these peasants were fooling around, but Chen Shuangyue could only recognize it. She angrily took nine cents out of your pocket and threw it in front of Lin Fang and her daughter. Then she walked away angrily with two bunches of vegetables. .
Jiang Yao picked up the nine cents, folded it and handed it to Lin Fang, and said, "It's alright, put the money away, go back with my aunt early, and you'll be fine after a sleep."
"Thank you." Lin Fang raised her head and said gratefully to the farmers who supported her, "Thank you, everyone."
"Girl, you're welcome, don't care what others say, for yourself, for your mother. You have to cheer up."
"That is, even if the sky falls, it can be used as a quilt, and it will pass."
"..."
Everyone, you comforted Lin Fang with your words. She was deeply moved and changed her inherent cognition. There may be bad people in this world, but most of them are good people.
After Lin Fang and Mother Lin went back, it was almost time for dinner.
Lu Che boiled the sweet potatoes and came out. Jiang Yao thought about adding one or two tea eggs to each person, and that was the way to deal with it at noon.
"Let's eat." Jiang Yao was about to take out the sweet potato, but heard Lu Che say, "I'll send you a letter to the post office, wait for me, come back and let's eat together."
"Okay." Jiang Yao took out the letter she wrote to Jiang Zhen last night from her messenger bag, as well as a small package containing the dried winter melon and dried radish that Lu Che insisted on sending.
The post office is also near here. don't know if there are many people who send letters today. Lu Che went for half an hour before returning.
"It's ready, hurry up and eat." As soon as he sat down, Jiang Yao handed him a sweet potato. Unexpectedly, he took out a paper package from his pocket and put it in her other hand.
"What is it?" The paper package was warm, Jiang Yao opened it and found that it was actually two buns, smelling the fragrance, it must be meat buns.
Farmers may not be able to eat meat during the festivals, and it is impossible for anyone to make meat buns and sell them. Even if there are other channels to buy meat, they would not dare to do so. In the entire county, only state-run restaurants can buy buns.
"Where did you find the ticket?" Jiang Yao asked in a low voice.
Lu Che also answered her in a low voice: "No, the workers inside secretly wrote it and sold it without a ticket."
"Isn't that expensive?"
"It's okay, buy one for two. Okay, eat it while it's hot."
"Yeah." Jiang Yao responded and took one of the meat buns and handed it to him.
"No, you eat it all." Lu Che peeled off the skin of the sweet potato, and ate it in big gulps.
Jiang Yao's warm palm holding the meat bun warmed her heart. This man may not have much at the moment, but he gave everything he had and gave her the best.
She divided the bun in two, handed him half, and said, "I want to eat an egg, but if I can't finish two buns, you can eat half."
Lu Che raised his hand and took the bun over.
It was only after six o'clock in the evening that Jiang Yao and Lu Che closed the stall and went home. This time it was later than last time, not because of bad business, but because the jelly made 40 pounds more than last time.
The result of more sales and more labor is that he made more money today. Jiang Yao sat on the ox cart and counted it carefully. Today, he earned a total of sixteen yuan and three points.
This time it's a lot more than last time, but the jelly can only be sold once or twice at most. When autumn comes, this cold and cold thing will not be popular.
She had to think about it in advance. It would be more profitable to get something to sell after the fall.
Back at Lu's house, Lu Qing had already prepared the meal, including Jiang Yao's.
After a tiring day, she was not polite. After eating, she went back to her room to take a bath and sleep.
Lu Che was considerate of her hard work and didn't come to trouble her before going to bed, but he stayed in her small kitchen early the next day and went to work when he had enough kisses.
Jiang Yao disliked this man's stickiness in her mouth, but she was still happy in her heart. People in love are like this, and they want to spend a few minutes with their partner. Especially after a period of practice, someone's dog kissing skills have been greatly improved, and she likes kissing him more and more.
After breakfast, Jiang Yao and Lu Qing went out to pick up handmade materials, but they didn't expect to meet Chen Shuanglian on the way.
The enemies were extremely jealous when they met. Jiang Yao thought that this narrow road meeting would inevitably lead to a "fight". Just when she was ready to fight the vixen, Chen Shuanglian turned around and ran away as if she had seen a ghost.
"Are we ghosts?" Jiang Yao asked Lu Qing.
Lu Qing smiled and said, "It's more terrifying than a ghost. We are Chen Shuanglian's nightmare now. Not to mention sending Lu Zhisen to prison, we also messed up the marriage of her eldest son."
"Is there such a thing?"
"Have."
It turned out that Chen Shuanglian's eldest son, Lu Zhihai, had talked about a worker before and was about to get married. As soon as Lu Zhisen's incident came out, the worker object immediately broke up with Lu Zhihai.
"In such a family, it is estimated that no parents would dare to marry their daughters."
"Yeah." Lu Qing said, "but I thought others were exaggerating, but I didn't expect Chen Shuanglian to really look like a 'crossing rat' now. But yes, she has offended so many people before, and everyone is now taking the opportunity to fall into trouble. ."
"This is self-inflicted." Jiang Yao remembered what happened yesterday and said, "But her sister Chen Shuangyue is still so arrogant. Yesterday she went to Lin Fang's vegetable stall to destroy it, but she was chased away by our group of vendors."
Lu Qing waited for Jiang Yao to explain the matter in detail before he said, "Chen Shuangyue married a worker in the county town. Every time she goes back to her parents' house, don't mention how embarrassing it is."
While they were talking, they had already walked to the door of the paper factory, and the people who were queuing for the materials had already lined up outside.
"There are so many people today, and I don't know if they can get the raw materials." Jiang Yao asked with a frown.
Lu Qing: "It shouldn't be a problem. It will be busy in the next few days. The paper factory has recently received a lot of raw materials, so we have to finish the next month's goods ahead of schedule."
"That's good." Jiang Yao was relieved now, and stood at the end of the team with Lu Qing.
The two chatted roguely. Suddenly, Lu Qing came close to her ear and whispered, "Aren't the two Du Zhiqings who came with you as sisters? Why don't you stand in line now? It was like this when I came here yesterday."
When Jiang Yao heard the sound, she looked up and saw that there were five or six people between Du Yuejia and Du Yuejiao. No matter how you looked at it, they were not good sisters who loved each other.
It was an inevitable event for Du Yuejia to fall out with Du Yuejiao, but she remembered the plot of the original book. They didn't fall out so early. Could it be that she reminded Zhao Pengfei to reveal Du Yuejiao's true face in advance?
Whether it is or not, Jiang Yao doesn't want to worry too much about things that have nothing to do with him.
After a few days of manual work at home, it was September when the rice was transplanted.
This is related to whether they can eat enough food in the first half of next year, and it is one of the most important agricultural tasks for the production team in a year.
The rice transplanting must be completed within half a month. In order to avoid people grinding foreign workers, Lu Dazhou assigned tasks according to the number of people in each household, regardless of gender, age, and child.
In the past, all the educated youths in Qingyuan were grouped into one household, but today, in order to make the relationship between the educated youths and the peasant households providing the rental housing more harmonious, Lu Dazhou grouped the educated youths with the peasant households where they lived.
In the final analysis, it is to let the educated youth help the farmers to share some of the burden, so that the farmers feel more comfortable.
Jiang Yao was included in the Lu family. As a result, the Lu family needed to plant a total of six rice fields. Except for the old lady Lu and Zhou Yang and Zhou Xin, this job fell on the three young adults, Lu Che, Lu Qing, and Jiang Yao.
Of course Lu Che wanted to do all the work himself, but with the half-month deadline, he couldn't finish it for 18 hours a day.
Seeing his worried appearance, Jiang Yao laughed a little: "I'm not a porcelain doll. I grabbed the sugar cane fields before, and I've done farm work."
In fact, it was only two days before she got off the sugarcane field, and she personally went on the horse.
That's right, but whether his target is a material for farm work, Lu Che's mind is like a mirror, he weighed it for a long time before saying: "When the time comes, you will go to the field all morning, it will be too hot in the afternoon, you will rest at home, you will be bored. Just do it by hand."
"Okay." Jiang Yao knew that he would not agree, so he was not at ease, so he could only respond first, and then act accordingly.
After speaking, she took the initiative to hug him and said, "Why are you so nice?"
Lu Che hugged her back, "If you don't have enough congenital conditions to perform well, what should you do if you run away?"
"..." Is he so insecure? Also, is she the kind of person who can only share wealth but not suffering?
The next day, Jiang Yao got up before five o'clock to plant rice. Lu Che asked her to sleep a little longer, but she didn't want to. "I don't want to do more work when the sun is not out. Is it possible to wait until the sun is shining? I can do it, but I can't get a tan."
"..." Lu Che knew that she had an incomprehensible obsession with sun protection, so she could only wrap herself up tightly to go to work.
Although Jiang Yao took care of the vegetable garden with her grandmother in her previous life, she has never planted rice.
However, she was quite smart, and under Lu Qing's guidance, she quickly got started.
This is because Lu Dazhou has been harsh this time, saying that those who complete the planting on time will be rated at 10 centimeters a day, and if they can’t be completed, they will be rated at 5 centimeters a day. The difference is doubled, forcing everyone to come to work early.
After working for two hours, Lu Che took a few sips of water and let Lu Qing and Jiang Yao go to the side to rest for a while. Lu Qing felt that he could still work for half an hour, but Jiang Yao was really tired, so he went to drink water to rest under the shade of the trees by the field.
Tian, who belongs to Uncle Tian's family, is also nearby, and Zhu Xia came shortly after she sat down.
The two hadn't sat and chatted for a long time. Zhu Xia sat down beside her and joked, "I think you came to work at five o'clock today, which is very surprising."
"What? I'm also trying to integrate into the collective life of farmers. Don't look down on people." Jiang Yao hummed.
"How dare I look down on you, I envy you." Zhu Xia said, lowering her voice: "At the beginning we all said you were stupid to live in the Lu family, but now the three of you are doing the work of six people, one person on average. Do two, and Lu Che is willing to do it again, I guess you don't need to do one."
"In contrast, we are exhausted. These farmers are not from several households. There are only three or four children, but there are many children in six or seven. In the farmers' households, we have done a lot of work, but we can rely on others. No reason to do it."
Even as a pacesetter in learning and writing, Zhu Xia is still a common man and not an immortal. This job is really overwhelming.
"Just be patient, wait until the educated youth point is built." Of course Jiang Yao knew that she was lucky, but she couldn't help Zhu Xia and the others, so she could only comfort them with such vernacular.
"Hope it." After Zhu Xia spit out the bitterness in her heart, she felt much more comfortable, and then she was in the mood to gossip with Jiang Yao: "Did you know that the Du sisters fell out?"
"I don't know, but I can guess. Recently, I went to the paper factory to pick up raw materials, and I saw that they were no longer standing in line." Jiang Yao asked, "Why did they suddenly fall out? Haven't they always been sisters?"
"The specific reason is not very clear." Zhu Xia said, "But I heard that Du Yuejiao wanted to seduce Zhao Pengfei, and Du Yuejia found out and had a big fight."
"No way." Jiang Yao pretended to be surprised.
"Why not?" Zhu Xia pouted and said, "Zhao Pengfei's conditions are so good, why is it strange for Du Yuejiao to be jealous of her sister? Besides, the two of them are not born of the same mother, it is normal to have a disagreement, and they are as harmonious as before. It's not normal."
"Yes." Jiang Yao said, "We don't have any friendship with them anyway, just don't mind our own business."
"Of course." Zhu Xia said: "Now the educated youth are scattered, and I am not a long time. Although there are usually some activities, Lu Dazhou asked me to mobilize everyone. It doesn't matter to me. I don't care about interfering in other people's private affairs. "
"That's fine, let's take care of ourselves." After Jiang Yao finished speaking, she stood up and said, "Enough rest, hurry up and work."
"Okay." Zhu Xia also got up and said, "When the seedlings are planted, the Mid-Autumn Festival is almost here, and then we will get together again."
"Row."
Jiang Yao returned to the rice field and worked until eleven o'clock before being driven back by Lu Che to cook.
There is no time to go to the county town to cut meat, eggs have become a big meat in the family, she makes egg fried rice at noon to replenish energy for everyone.
After lunch and resting for half an hour, Lu Che was about to go to work. She went to Jiang Yao's room and told her, "Don't go in the afternoon."
The sun was very fierce outside, and Jiang Yao really didn't have the courage to go out, but she felt a little embarrassed that she left all the work on Lu Che, "I'm embarrassed for letting you do it."
Listening to this, Lu Che raised his eyebrows, stretched out his hand and put him in his arms, and said, "If you're really embarrassed, then kiss me."
Saying that, without giving her a chance to refuse, his face was already close to her.
Jiang Yao couldn't refuse, so he raised his head and kissed him.
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