Chapter 15: Getting Dressed
Song Youyou gained a lot from this trip to the black market.
Bought a processed wild rabbit and some vegetable seeds.
The lady selling seeds knew that she wanted to grow vegetables on the balcony, and immediately told her that her husband could make iron frames specifically for people to grow vegetables on the balcony.
Song Youyou also needed it, so she left her address and asked the aunt to send it over when the time came.
After coming out of the black market, she used up her meat coupons that were about to expire, and bought a pound of pork and some seasonings for pickling from the supply and marketing cooperative before returning home.
When she got home, she didn't waste any time. She went straight to the kitchen to cut the pork and rabbit meat into long strips. Then she heated up salt and seasonings, spread them on the meat, and then put the marinated meat in a jar and sealed it.
After marinating for about three days, take it out and put it outside to dry in the sun, and it will become bacon that can be stored for a long time.
After the bacon was pickled, there was a knock on the door.
Song Youyou washed her hands, dressed up like a girl in the black market, covered half of her face with a scarf, and then went over to open the door.
"Sister, as you requested, I've sent you two iron frames."
The old lady spoke cheerfully, followed by a dull man carrying something.
"Okay, then please help me put it on the balcony."
The balcony of the house is quite long, and the two iron frames only take up half of the area when placed together.
"Sister, here are two bags of soil. I see you want to grow vegetables, so I'll ask my husband to dig some for you." After putting the things in place, the old lady asked again.
"Thank you so much, Auntie. It saves me a lot of trouble."
She was not very strong, so if she wanted to carry two bags of mud, it would definitely take some effort and time.
In order to thank the old lady, Song Youyou rounded up the money and gave a few cents extra as compensation for the soil.
It is also equivalent to the price of hiring a laborer now.
"Oh, sister, this soil was dug by me, it's free, how can I charge you more money!" The old lady refused.
Song Youyou insisted: "Yes, it has helped me a lot."
Although it is a simple task for others, it is not their obligation.
Moreover, she had originally planned to spend several days on the work, but thanks to the old lady's help, she only needed to finish it in one afternoon. The fee of a few cents was really nothing.
To her, time is more valuable.
"Then I'll take it. Thank you, sister. If you need anything in the future, just come to me!"
The enthusiastic lady took the money and smiled so much that her eyebrows were not visible.
After they left, Song Youyou looked at the sky.
It was almost evening, and it would be too late to prepare the soil and plant the rapeseed.
Moreover, the foreign journals I brought back also needed to be translated at night.
Thinking of this, Song Youyou planned to put the vegetable planting work aside and do it tomorrow.
After a busy day, I feel a little sticky.
Song Youyou simply took a shower first.
She planned to take a shower and eat something before concentrating on translating foreign materials to make money.
She did some calculations in her mind while taking a shower.
The pork I bought that day was 80 cents per pound, which is 4 yuan per pound; wild rabbits, because they didn't require meat coupons, cost 94 cents per pound. The wild rabbit I processed weighed 3.5 pounds, and I spent 3.3 yuan; vegetable seeds and custom-made iron sheets cost about 5 yuan, for a total of 12.3 yuan.
Yesterday I spent 50 yuan on the deposit for foreign language materials, and 2.7 yuan on food. Add to that the 5 yuan I spent on the first day, and I spent 70 yuan in three days.
So she didn't have much cash on her hands, only 30 yuan left.
Thinking of this, Song Youyou washed even faster.
She had to take a quick shower and eat before getting back to her money-making job as a translator.
However, after she finished taking a shower, she realized that she didn't bring any change of clothes.
I was busy calculating just now and forgot...
Song Youyou felt troubled by her own carelessness.
However, the toilet is not far from the room, only a few steps away.
After looking around, Song Youyou used the materials available, covering her body as much as possible with a towel, then quietly poked her head out from the crack of the toilet door. After planning her running route in her mind, she directly opened the toilet door completely.
But some things in life are often just coincidental.
Just as she stepped out of the door, she heard the sound of a key being inserted into the jack.
Song Youyou let out a small cry of fright and ran even faster, like a frightened rabbit.
Gu Xiao returned to the door of his house. Because he didn't know whether Xiaoyou was home or not, he took out the key and opened the door.
But just as he inserted the key into the door, he heard a sound from inside.
Gu Xiao thought something had happened to her and quickly turned the key.
As soon as I came in, I happened to see the door of the room slam and was closed hurriedly.
Gu Xiao walked over with a worried look on his face and knocked on the door. "Youyou? What happened?"
"No, it's okay, I'm just getting dressed, don't come in!" The voice inside was embarrassed.
Wear clothes?
Combining with what happened just now, Gu Xiao suddenly seemed to have guessed something.
A surge of heat rushed to my head, and the blood in my body began to stir.
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