While the people of Qianshuihe Brigade were annoyed that they had angered Chen Suwen and lost the opportunity to exchange items, the group had already run to a location nearly two kilometers away from Qianshuihe Brigade.

"Mom, are we just leaving like this? Aren't we going to change anything?" Zhou Cunzong pedaled, while Zhou Min held the children tightly behind him, bouncing along with the road.

But she still held the children tightly and didn't let go, and the four of them bounced up and down along the bumpy road.

"What's the point of changing anything? They've already treated your sister so badly, and we're still keeping her around to be bullied? Do you think that's in my nature?"

Chen Suwen was never one to swallow her anger; she was ruthless when she argued with people, and equally ruthless when she hit them.

Those people from the Qianshuihe Brigade were so outrageous; she didn't want to stay there any longer.

“We have children with us. Who knows what kind of conflict might arise if we stay there? It’s better to leave as soon as possible.” Chen Su was fearless herself, but what could she do when she had several children to care for?

Even if she can protect them, she will also expose her special abilities, so she still needs to be careful.

"What do we do now? We haven't gotten anything in exchange." Zhou Cunzong glanced back at the peanut oil and other items in the truck bed, all of which were supplies they had brought to the countryside to exchange for goods.

For example, her mother used a face cream box to store skincare products, such as brown sugar and fruit hard candies.

The rest were cookies made by his wife, which he could trade with people in the countryside for eggs or other things.

Now that they haven't gotten what they needed, are they really okay to go back like this?

"What's the rush? Aren't there any other villages in the entire city of Guangzhou besides Qianshuihe Brigade?"

With so many rural areas across the country, and countless villages in Guangzhou alone, surely she could find a village to trade with?

"Mom, I have a friend who works in the village below. How about we go to his house to exchange some things?"

"Your friend?" Chen Suwen looked at him in surprise. When did he have a friend from the countryside?

It's not that she looked down on country people or forbade Zhou Cunzong from making friends with them.

Instead, she was quite surprised when he suddenly mentioned that he had a friend in a lower-level brigade, since he hadn't had much contact with people from that brigade throughout his life.

"Yes, he's my friend, someone I've known before."

Zhou Cunzong indeed didn't have many friends from the countryside. Although the schools he attended from childhood to adulthood included people from rural areas, they were generally just classmates and not friends.

He met this friend after he started working, when he was buying things with his colleagues at the supply and marketing cooperative.

That friend was quite enthusiastic and hit it off immediately with the eloquent Zhou Cunzong, and their relationship grew better and better.

Since that's the case, let's go to Zhou Cunzong's friend's place.

After receiving his mother's approval, Zhou Cunzong led the way, and the car moved much more smoothly. He even hummed a song, no longer feeling the sense of escaping for his life.

Shi Jiankang is a member of the Chishan Brigade. He is considered a model worker in the brigade and always gets full work points.

He is eloquent, warm, and cheerful, and many people in the village speak highly of him.

He would also go up the mountain to set traps, and from time to time he would catch some prey to sell in the commune, and he would also go to the city of Yangcheng to sell things.

He met Zhou Cunzong when he went to sell things in Yangcheng city.

At that time, Zhou Cunzong was in a little trouble, and Shi Jiankang, who was tall and strong as his name suggests, helped Zhou Cunzong out.

"If it weren't for Jiankang, I might have been injured back then." Zhou Cunzong said with lingering fear, "That bastard actually tried to hit me with a brick. If it weren't for Jiankang saving me, my head might have been cracked open."

Chen Suwen couldn't help but frown, "You almost got your head smashed open, and you just casually say you might get a little injured?"

"Is it just a matter of getting a minor injury? You could easily get killed."

Although she didn't travel back to that lifetime, and Zhou Cunzong would have died so quickly according to the original plot, it's better to be safe than sorry.

If it weren't for that young man named Shi Jiankang, Zhou Cunzong might really be in grave danger.

Zhou Cunzong chuckled, "So Jiankang is my savior. He's a really good person, and he's very loyal."

Chen Suwen nodded, saying that being able to save Zhou Cunzong's life made him a good young man.

The Chishan Brigade wasn't far away; they arrived after riding their bikes for half an hour.

On the way, Zhou Min had already fastened the children's "seat belts" again, and the children used their free hands to eat bread.

When they went out, Shen Wenxiu not only made cookies for herself, but also made bread for them to take with them.

Whether you take it to exchange for something or keep it to eat and fill your stomach, it's fine.

The children were indeed a bit hungry at this moment, so they ate bread and drank water.

The water was a lightly salted solution prepared by Chen Suwen, which could both quench thirst and replenish salt.

"Sister, did you take the rope back?" Zhou Mei asked Zhao Lexin while drinking water. Her sister had just been able to jump rope with the children from the Qianshuihe Brigade.

Grandma simply picked them up and threw them into the car; she didn't even remember whether she had brought the rope back.

If we don't get it back, will my sister still have a rope to play jump rope with?

"I got it back." Zhao Lexin took out a bundle of rope from her pocket; this was the rope she used for jumping rope.

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