Shu Miao paused, raised her eyebrows slightly, and waited for his next performance.
She wanted to see what he could say.
Facing his cousin's pair of dark eyes that seemed to see through his inner thoughts, Shu Zili touched his nose awkwardly, his tone a little unnatural.
"Even though you can't peel many tung nuts from the green-skinned tung oil fruit, you can exchange them for sugar, so..."
The more he talked, the softer his voice became, and finally he turned his head away guiltily, not daring to look her in the eye.
"sugar?"
Shu Miao recalled the sweet taste that choked her throat, and her brows wrinkled slightly.
Shu Zili saw that her expression was not right and thought that she was angry, so he hurriedly explained.
"Yes, yes, but don't get me wrong, I didn't intend to keep it all by myself, it's just, it's just..."
Little did he know that Shu Miao's attention was all diverted to the word "change".
"Can I get something else besides sugar?"
Zili lowered his head, thinking he was about to be scolded by his sister, but he didn't expect the topic to take a turn.
"ah?"
He looked up suddenly, and was overjoyed when he confirmed that his cousin was really asking him questions and not looking for him to settle a score.
Worried that my hesitation would make my sister angry again, I hurriedly took the initiative to explain.
“There are so many things you can exchange, but they may not be available every day!”
"Sometimes I can exchange it for eggs, sometimes for sugar water, but after calculating, I think exchanging it for sugar is the most cost-effective!"
The sugar water was finished in a short while. If it was a candy bar, you could bite it into several pieces and it would turn into several cups of sugar water!
Talking about his area of expertise, Shu Zili's self-confidence was revived once again, and a hint of pride appeared on his face.
"Can that be exchanged for salt?"
But the next moment, he was stunned by Shu Miao's unexpected question and murmured,
"Salt? Don't we have salt at home?"
Seeing him answering the question foolishly, Shu Miao couldn't help but take a deep breath. She knew that this guy was unreliable!
I no longer hoped that he could help me, so I just changed the subject.
“Never mind.
By the way, aren't there green ones among those tung oil nuts we picked today? It should be about a pound or two if we put them together. It should be no problem to exchange them for a piece or two of candy, right?
"Ah? But what if mom asks?" Shu Zili's attention was diverted as expected, but he was still a little hesitant.
Shu Miao blinked, indicating that she didn't understand his train of thought.
Aren’t those tung fruits still not harvested?
As long as she doesn't say it, who would know that a pound or two is missing?
But in order to stop him from pestering her, Shu Miao still reminded him, "Just say it's a pity to pick the green ones, pick them later."
"Can……"
"I'll go then, okay?"
Shu Zili thought about it and a smile appeared on his face again. He scratched his head a little embarrassedly.
"Well, okay then. I'll definitely leave a piece of candy for you then."
Feeling that this transaction was absolutely fair and just, Shu Zili immediately rushed towards the pile of tung fruits happily.
Just as he got there, he suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Shu Miao, "What do you want salt for?"
Shu Miao's mouth twitched, but he gave an extremely outrageous answer, "I like to eat sweet potatoes with salt."
Shu Zili subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was.
Suddenly, I remembered that my aunt loved to eat the sour green plums that made your teeth fall out with salt or chili powder, and suddenly I felt that eating sweet potatoes dipped in salt was also a lot more normal.
"Is that so? That's really hard to tell my mom..." If my mom saw my sister wasting salt like this, she would definitely beat her!
So, he proposed a roundabout and feasible plan, "Why don't we take the tung nuts to ask Lin Zhiqing and see if we can exchange them for some salt."
"Educated youth?"
Shu Miao was stunned when he suddenly heard an unfamiliar word.
Shu Zili had long been accustomed to his cousin's ignorance of everything, and while picking tung fruits, he answered casually,
"Oh, the intellectuals from the city."
But once I opened my mouth to say this, I couldn't stop.
"Let me tell you, these intellectuals from the city are really generous. They actually used national food coupons to exchange for a bite of eggs. Grandpa Qin was so happy."
Halfway through his speech, Shu Zili seemed to be worried that Shu Miao would not believe him, so he suddenly raised his voice.
"I'm not lying, I saw it all with my own eyes!" He turned to look at Shu Miao, his eyes full of sincerity.
"Then what else have you seen?" Shu Miao's eyes flashed.
Although she didn't know what the national food coupons were used for, just by looking at Zili's performance, she knew that this must be a rare and good thing.
Shu Zili blinked and shook his head honestly, "No more."
After hearing this, Shu Miao was a little disappointed, but it was okay, so he asked again
"Where does Lin Zhiqing live?"
"Yue'er Bay!" Shu Zili answered as if it was a matter of course.
Shu Miao: "..."
She shouldn't have any expectations of this guy...
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As the sun sets, the colorful clouds in the sky illuminate the entire courtyard.
Li Qiao dragged her tired body into the yard under the dim sunset.
But when his eyes fell on the tung fruits in the yard that were almost piled up like a small mountain, his eyes lit up instantly.
He hurried forward and grabbed a handful of peeled tung nuts, feeling extremely happy.
"Where did you pick it up?"
"In the mountains." Shu Miao hesitated for a moment and chose not to go into too much detail.
The main thing is that she doesn’t know whether she should tell others about her trip into the mountains. What if she gets scolded?
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