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Zhang Hongmei asked the aunt beside her, "Is Captain Qi Xiaoyun's boyfriend?"

The aunt looked surprised. "You don't know? Aren't you from Beijing? Isn't Captain Qi Song Zhiqing's neighbor in Beijing?"

Zhang Hongmei was surprised but didn't show it on her face, "Oh yes, it's that Xiao Qi. I hadn't thought of him before."

The aunt didn't think much about it and continued to sigh, "Everyone in our village says they are a match made in heaven, with their talent and beauty. None of those female educated youth can compare to Song Zhiqing, and they still want to be related. Captain Renqi is not blind."

After saying this, Zhang Hongmei glanced at her son who was following Song Yun like a tail. She felt that the aunt beside her was implying something about her son and pretending that she had no evidence.

Picking sour dates is much easier than picking chestnuts. Zhang Hongmei has been with those aunts and grandmas. Through casual chatting and guided topic chatting, she has roughly figured out the general situation in Qinghe Village. She is generally satisfied. There are some excellent people in the village, but there are no extremely vicious people. Most people have positive outlooks, especially the team leader, who is an upright and principled person. That is enough.

She believed that with Xiaoyun's help, Lifen would be able to live a good life.

Song Yun and Yang Lifen arrived early and occupied a jujube tree. The two worked together in perfect harmony and quickly filled the backpacks they brought with them.

However, the jujube forest is called a forest, but in fact it is just a dozen jujube trees. More and more villagers come, and behind the tree there are almost several families beating the jujubes, and the people below pick up the jujubes frantically. Whoever picks up the jujubes owns them, and quarrels break out from time to time.

Song Yun was not greedy. She filled the backpack she brought with her and stopped working. She called Yang Bing and Zhang Hongmei and left the jujube forest.

"Why are you leaving? I see there are still a lot of dates on the tree over there." Zhang Hongmei was reluctant to leave. Her basket was not full yet. She was busy chatting and had no intention of picking dates.

Song Yun said, "There are more and more people. If we wait any longer, we'll have to fight with others for it. We've already picked up a lot, so there's no need."

Yang Lifen glanced at the villagers still hurrying along the mountain path toward the jujube forest and asked, "Are we going back to Dong now?"

Song Yun shook her head, "No, I'll take you somewhere else to get something."

With a twist of her foot, Song Yun led Yang Lifen and the others towards Yelipo.

After finding a spot, Song Yun pointed to a vine covered with triangular leaves and said, "This is the vine of wild yam, also known as Huaishan. Have you ever eaten it?"

Yang Lifen and Li Bing both shook their heads, indicating that they had never eaten it.

Zhang Hongmei had eaten it before. She had yam chicken soup in a state-owned restaurant in Beijing. Song Yun had said before that she didn't know what yam was, and when she mentioned yam, she remembered it.

Zhang Hongmei said, "I ate it once in a state-owned restaurant. The chef said it was a traditional Chinese medicine, often used in medicinal dishes and tonic soups."

Song Yun nodded. "If you use these yams properly, they'll have many benefits. Let's dig up more yam and bring some back to Beijing tomorrow. I'll write you a recipe for a medicinal diet that will be of some benefit to your condition."

Zhang Hongmei was overjoyed when she heard this. She worked very hard to dig yam and filled all three sacks she brought with her before going down the mountain.

Song Yun planned to keep some of the yam to be processed into medicinal materials, and the rest, except for the ones that she gave to Zhang Hongmei, would be made into yam powder, which would be good to drink by mixing it with boiling water when the weather is cold.

In the afternoon, Zhang Hongmei and Yang Xiaobing rode Song Yun's bicycle to the town. When there was no one on the road, Zhang Hongmei told her son the stories about Qi Mo Nan that she had heard from the aunts in the village.

Yang Yubing was upset after hearing this. He also wanted to hear Song Yun deny in person that she and Captain Qi were a couple, and that she had said that she was not considering finding a partner at the moment. His annoyance finally subsided a little. "Mom, what do you think I should do?"