Chapter 41 Untitled
"Is there any conflict between Xiaocao and Song Zhiqing? Why does she seem to dislike Song Zhiqing?"
After the people left, a few aunts gathered together to chat.
"I don't know. Xiaocao's temper has been getting weirder recently. I heard that her family is trying to introduce her to a date, but Xiaocao was not happy about it and had a quarrel with her family. She was even beaten by her grandmother."
One of the aunts suddenly lowered her voice and said, "You may not know, but my son said he saw Xiaocao giving something to Luo Zhiqing."
"What? Is it the Luo Zhiqing who is going to marry Jiang Xiaowan?"
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If Song Wei had not walked far, she would have recognized the girl's voice. That was Xiaocao, who she and Li Juan had seen having a secret meeting with Luo Yecheng.
At this time, Song Wei and Heidan arrived at the Youth League Courtyard, and all the Youth League still in the yard looked at her.
As soon as Song Wei saw the look in their eyes, she knew that they must have known about what happened in the Lin family today.
"Song Zhiqing is really generous. He didn't ask for compensation for a broken watch, but gave the watch to the owner for food and drink."
Xu Laidi was the first one who couldn't help but speak out, and there was jealousy in her tone and eyes.
If that watch was hers, she would definitely cherish it and protect it well.
This Song Wei must be a fool. Not only did he not ask for compensation when his watch was broken, he also took Heidan, a child, in.
What's the difference between this and taking on a burden? What kind of work can Heidan do when he's so young? That's a watch, more than 130 yuan! Xu Laidi felt so distressed that it seemed like the watch was hers.
Song Wei glanced at Xu Laidi who was talking, and without paying any attention to her, he carried his things and went back to his room.
Heidan carried the firewood around to the backyard, unloaded it, and then quickly went to Song Wei's room carrying the basket on his back.
He wanted to see how the rabbit was doing.
Xu Lai Di stamped her feet in anger: "What does she mean by this!"
Gao Le leaned against the door frame while cracking melon seeds: "Isn't the meaning obvious? Isn't it obvious that Song Zhiqing doesn't want to pay attention to you?"
Zhao Su was very grateful to Song Wei for his idea and also helped out.
"That's right, it's just a watch. Why are you making such a fuss? The watch belongs to Song Zhiqing. It's her business to do with it as she pleases. Why are you worrying about it?"
Xu Laidi didn't expect that these two people would help Song Wei, and she became angry and embarrassed.
"I was thinking about Song Zhiqing, don't be ungrateful!"
Gao Le curled his lips: "It's good enough that you didn't fight with Song Zhiqing, and you're still thinking about her. No one would believe it."
After eating melon seeds, Gao Le and Zhao Su strolled to the backyard.
Before the shift, after coming back from work, they would collapse on the kang and sigh after dinner. But today they worked less and still earned three work points, so they felt so refreshed that they even had time to eat melon seeds and play.
When they arrived at the backyard, Song Wei had already taken the rabbit out.
Seeing the two, she pointed at the pile of firewood that Heidan had carried back.
"That's what Heidan picked up for you."
Gao Le quickly gave Heidan ten cents.
After handing out the money, they grinned and said, "We have five bundles of firewood today."
Heidan had one bundle of firewood, a little girl from the village had one bundle, and the other three bundles were brought by a little boy.
Because Heidan was with Song Wei, in addition to picking firewood, he also helped pick mushrooms, walnuts, and roasted rabbits. He didn't come back until it was almost dark, so he only picked up one bundle of firewood.
The little girl only picked up a bundle of firewood because her family favored boys over girls and she had a lot of work to do. If she didn't go home for a long time, she would be scolded.
But the little boy had no worries. He wanted to make money, so he put all his effort into picking up three bundles of firewood and earned three cents that day.
Even though a bundle of firewood only cost one cent, Gao Le and Zhao Su spent almost seven or eight cents that day.
If you do this every day, it will cost more than twenty dollars a month.
It’s a little more than the monthly salary of a part-time worker in the factory.
Therefore, apart from these two wealthy young men who have plenty of money, no one else can afford this.
After Gao Le and Zhao Su left, Song Wei and Heidan were busy taking out the walnuts and mushrooms and spreading them out, as they had to be taken out to dry early the next morning.
"You stay in the room. I have something to ask Li Zhiqing."
Heidan nodded obediently, and kept moving his hands to spread all the mushrooms evenly, otherwise they would become smelly if they were piled together overnight.
From time to time, his eyes would look into the backpack where the six little rabbits were. He looked so curious.
Song Wei went to find Li Juan carrying some dried pine nuts.
"Li Zhiqing, help me fry the pine nuts and mushroom sauce later."
Li Juan is busy working on her one-third acre of land. She is quick and diligent, and is no worse than the women in the village who work regularly.
"Okay, I'll help you fry it tonight."
You have to use an iron pan to fry the pine nuts. There is only one public iron pan in the front yard of the Youth League compound, so you have to wait until other Youth League members have used it before you can use it.
"Thank you for your help."
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
She was thinking of killing a rabbit tomorrow and eating it together with Li Zhiqing.
After putting Songzi down, she went back to her busy work. The problem was how to place the rabbits.
Rabbits can dig holes, so it’s not possible to keep them on the ground. You need a cage.
But it’s getting late now, let’s go tomorrow.
The three big ones continued to be tied up, and the six small ones were put into a backpack to be raised first, and then put into the cage when the cage arrived.
Heidan was very active in making a nest for the little rabbits with hay, and then fed them with tender grass leaves picked from the mountain.
Several little rabbits are able to eat grass. Looking at their furry little mouths moving as they eat the grass, Heidan feels extremely satisfied.
Of course he did not forget the three big rabbits, but he fed the three big ones more casually, just throwing the grass in front of them for them to eat.
"Heidan, come and take a shower."
Song Wei placed the diluted water in the backyard and shouted towards the house.
“Here I come.”
Heidan reluctantly left the little rabbit and ran behind it barefoot.
"Sister Song, I can wash it myself."
Heidan was pinching his clothes, his little black face flushed as he stood shyly in front of the basin of water.
Song Wei stood up: "Okay, call me when you're done."
The little brat is still shy.
While Heidan was taking a bath, Song Wei went to find Li Juan.
She is frying pine nuts at the moment.
"Just stir-fry it like this, right? I'll do it and you control the heat."
She is very strong and can stir-fry the pine nuts with ease.
Li Juan didn't argue with her and talked about Heidan while making a fire.
"You really have to keep Heidan, but you don't have enough food."
Although she also sympathized with Heidan, it was not an easy thing to raise a child and add another mouth to feed.
Song Wei: "I know my limits."
In the wasteland where resources were so scarce that she could support herself, in this era of abundant resources in the mountains, if she couldn't support herself and a little kid, her previous life was wasted. Besides, Heidan was also trying to support himself, so it wasn't a big pressure for her.
(End of this chapter)