"Gu Ling'er, it's you. What's the matter?"

Since Gu Ling'er called her by her full name, Chen Qiangwei also called Gu Ling'er by her full name.

Gu Linger felt a little annoyed that Chen Qiangwei even cared about this, but she endured it when she remembered what her mother said.

"I'm going to the mountains to dig for bamboo shoots. Do you want to come with me?"

Last night, the first spring thunder of this year finally sounded, and bamboo shoots broke out of the ground. The bamboo shoots dug at this time are the tenderest.

As for why they didn't go to Zhulinpo in the village but chose a place farther away, Zhulinpo had already been reached by people who lived nearby.

People had already picked all the bamboo shoots in the morning before going to work, and by the time they got there, they probably wouldn't even see the tip of a bamboo shoot.

Chen Qiangwei saw that Gu Ling'er's face was awkward and her words were stiff, but her eyes revealed desire.

This is because he suddenly realized that Liang Xiaoman is not a good person, but he wants to make friends with her because there are other good friends he gets along with?

Chen Qiangwei readily agreed: "Okay, wait a moment, I'll go get the tools and call Wang Xiaomai to join us."

Gu Linger was a little excited after hearing what Chen Qiangwei said. She didn't know why she had the urge to stick to Chen Qiangwei. She guessed, probably, it might be that being with Chen Qiangwei could make her mind clear?

Wang Xiaomai was making a vest in the house at the moment. Thanks to Sister Guihua, she bought four feet of defective cotton cloth without a ticket.

She originally thought it was only enough to make one vest, but she overestimated her small body and realized that four feet of cloth could actually make two vests!

Originally, one vest was enough to make Wang Xiaomai happy, and now that he can make two, Wang Xiaomai feels double the happiness.

She had already made one of the two vests and was wearing it. Needless to say, it was a hundred times more comfortable to wear than she had imagined!

Wang Xiaomai carefully put the unfinished vest back into the basket, "Sister Weiwei, I'm going too."

Although rural people have a lot of private plots, they usually only leave one or two ridges for growing vegetables, and the rest are used to grow food crops, such as potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc.

There aren't many varieties of vegetables that can be grown in one or two rows of vegetable plots, so everyone just wants to have a dish to eat on the table.

Nowadays, most of the food we eat is coarse grains, and they are just enough to fill our stomachs. Who has the leisure and interest to consider the dishes on the table and have two different meals a day?

It was only because Third Grandma was the only one in her family that there was not only enough food to eat, but also some left over. Her health was not very good, so the private plot in the yard was mostly used to grow vegetables.

When wild vegetables in the mountains are fresh, everyone will go to the mountains together to dig wild vegetables. This can save some food for the family and improve the taste.

Wang Xiaomai carried a backpack and walked with Chen Qiangwei and Gu Linger. She was counting the time, waiting for the team to go to the commune pig farm to pick up the piglets.

Thinking about being able to eat some fat meat by the end of the year, Wang Xiaomai feels that life is now full of hope.

When she was young, Grandma Gu was good at raising pigs, and there is still a pigpen at home.

Wang Xiaomai also helps her grandmother raise a pig every year at home. She hands over half of the pig at the end of the year, and the rest are her own. The whole year's oil depends on this pig.

So she discussed with Gu Sannai and decided that when the Huaihua Brigade went to pick up the piglets, they would also pick one up, and she would be responsible for cutting grass, cleaning the pigpen, etc.

Now, in the private plot in the yard, except for one row planted with vegetables and one row planted with pigweed, the rest have been plowed and planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Sweet potato leaves grow fast and lushly. They can be fried or chopped and cooked for pigs.

Pigweed is a large-leaf vegetable specially fed to pigs. The leaves can be broken off and grow again, and they grow very fast.

If you work harder to cut weeds in the mountains, you don’t have to worry about the pigs not growing up. As long as you work harder, the task pigs can basically meet the standards.

The three of them headed towards the foot of the South Mountain, and along the way they met many people who were there to dig for bamboo shoots like them.

After walking for a while, they finally arrived at their destination - Nanshan, which was also the place where Chen Qiangwei and Wang Xiaomai came to chop and collect firewood.

It's been a while since I last came here, but the mountain has already become lush and green.

There is an area on the South Mountain where a lot of bamboos grow. This time they went to dig bamboo shoots in that bamboo forest.

Gu Ling'er pointed at the thirty-centimeter-long bamboo shoots emerging from the ground and said to Chen Qiangwei proudly, "Look, there are so many thunder bamboo shoots. You don't have any in Beijing, do you?"

Chen Qiangwei looked at the red-shelled bamboo shoots in front of her and nodded, "Indeed, there aren't any."

Lei bamboo shoots are short, strong, plump and tender, usually only 20 to 30 centimeters long, and the longer ones can be 40 centimeters. The bamboo shoots are white and very tender, and can be cut off with a hoe.

The outer shell of bamboo shoots has burrs and cannot be picked directly with hands. After digging them out, pinch the tip of the bamboo shoots and throw them into the backpack, or put them on the ground first and put them in the backpack when you have collected enough.

Chen Qiangwei took a look and saw that the people who went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots had already started to get busy. She also took off her backpack, took out a small hoe from it, and pretended to learn how to dig bamboo shoots. After practicing a few times and feeling that she was almost done, she started to dig skillfully.

Liang Xiaoman looked at Gu Ling'er who was chatting happily with Chen Qiangwei, "Ling'er, why didn't you call me when you came to dig bamboo shoots?"

Gu Linger's hands kept moving. "My mother said that she will only let me play with you after you give me the vanishing cream."

Liang Xiaoman almost bit her teeth off. Liang Xiaoman knew that Liu Jinhua didn't like her very much, but she thought she had Gu Linger under her control, so she didn't take Liu Jinhua seriously.

Unexpectedly, Gu Linger even told Liu Jinhua about this kind of thing, which made Liang Xiaoman feel a little embarrassed. She was going to marry Gu Anyang in the future, and now she hasn't married him yet, so she feels inferior.

But in order to appease Gu Linger, she gritted her teeth and said, "Next time when the educated youth have a break, let's go to the city to play. I will definitely buy some vanishing cream for you then."

Liang Xiaoman had a good plan. Gu Linger's second aunt worked in the city's supply and marketing cooperative and was quite nice to Gu Linger. They had finally managed to visit her, so they didn't believe that Gu Linger's second aunt would not show some appreciation.

Gu Linger's second aunt and second uncle have always raised Gu Anyang as their son, and even when they are old, they still have to rely on Gu Anyang to do the pot-breaking.

From now on, Gu Linger's second aunt and second uncle will have to live by her mood. She will not accept if they don't treat her well.

Fortunately, others don’t know what Liang Xiaoman is thinking, otherwise they would all call him a lunatic!

Gu Linger frowned. "Why do you have to wait until the educated youth have their day off? That's their day off, not ours. Is it really like what my mother said, that you're just talking about it?"

Liang Xiaoman bit her lip. "How could that be? We've been friends for so many years, don't you know me well?"

It's difficult to ask for leave now because of spring planting. In ten days or so, when the planting is over, it will be easier to ask for leave."

Gu Linger nodded: "That makes sense, then let's talk again in ten days or so. I promised my mother that you would definitely buy the vanishing cream for me.

Once I get the vanishing cream, I can stand up straight in front of my mother."

Chen Qiangwei almost laughed to death. She had never seen anyone more direct than Gu Linger.

"Xiao Man, where the hell have you been? Hurry up and dig bamboo shoots. You've been slacking off all day."