"But I have some Beijing-specific pastries called Daoxiangcun for you and Sister Yunyun. They are in my bag. And I happen to meet you now, so I'll take them out for you." After saying that, Shen Lingling turned around and asked Fang Siwen for the pastries.
"Don't worry about the pastries. Going out is the most tiring thing. Go back and change your clothes and have a good sleep. I'll come to see you in the afternoon. You can give me the pastries then. I've never eaten Beijing pastries before. Let me try the differences between these Beijing pastries and those sold in our county." Tian Tian persuaded Shen Lingling while holding her hand.
Shen Lingling's clothes are now wrinkled, her eyes are bloodshot, her face looks tired, and she smells like the car.
Tian Tian had also experienced the pain of riding a train before, and she knew that what Shen Lingling needed most at this moment was a good bath and then a good sleep.
Shen Lingling was even happier when she heard Tian Tian say that. She was indeed very tired, and she had just talked to Tian Tian for such a long time just to tell her that she was very happy in Beijing.
"Then I'll go back. You must come to see me this afternoon. If you don't, I'll be angry."
"Go back quickly, I still have to go to the river to wash clothes." Tian Tian was still holding a large basin in her hand.
Watching Fang Siwen walking away with Shen Lingling, Tian Tian also turned around and continued walking towards the river with the large basin in her arms.
This basin of clothes has been piled up for several days. It rained the past two days and I didn't take them out to wash them. I want to take advantage of today's warm and sunny weather to wash these clothes quickly, otherwise Tian Mu and Tian Zhuo will have to go out to play naked.
The two of them were out all day, and their clothes were filthy. They had to change clothes every two or three days. They had a lot of clothes saved up over the past few days, plus other people's clothes at home. Tian Tian spent a whole morning washing all the clothes.
After washing the clothes, Tian Tian carried the big basin home, hung all the clothes on the string, and went into the house to help Old Mrs. Tian cook.
Old Mrs. Tian cooked kidney beans, eggplants and potatoes as usual. These were their must-have foods in the summer. Tian Tian was a little hurt from eating them every day, but these were all vegetables grown in the fields and there was nothing else she wanted to eat.
Moreover, she had been here for three years, and there was only one box left of the canned food in the shell. Tian Tian was reluctant to eat that can. When she was hungry at night, she would rather work hard to knead the dough, roll out the noodles, and eat them than touch those cans.
Only in winter, she might occasionally open a can and cook a small piece of it in her noodles every night, which would last for about five days.
In winter, it is cold, so canned food will not go bad. If it is opened in summer, it will be inedible in two days. The shell does not have the function of keeping warm. Sometimes when you want to eat something, you can only put some in the shell in winter. The temperature inside the shell is constant with the temperature outside.
Fortunately, Tian Tian has never lacked food since she came here. She can eat well at home. Maybe sometimes she is really greedy and wants to get some food that she can't eat at home. So the food she packed before coming here can last until now. If she was born in a very poor family where she couldn't even get enough food, she would have eaten all the food in the shell long ago.
After dinner, Tian Tian went to sleep in the house. When she was woken up, she planned to go find Shen Lingling. Before she arrived at Shen Lingling's house, Tian Tian was stopped by someone.
It’s Li Jiuniang.
Tian Tian hadn't seen Li Jiuniang for quite a while. It was not the busy farming season, and there was not much work to do in the fields, so Li Jiuniang went to the county town every day. Tian Tian didn't know what he did, and didn't ask.
After all, they were not that familiar with each other, so Tiantian couldn't ask him questions carelessly.
Even Gu Zhao didn't know why. He was often not at home since the autumn harvest. Every day was sweet and I couldn't find Gu Zhao every time I went there.
I didn't dare to stay alone in the cowshed with Gu Xingshu and the others, because it was hot now, and no one was in the house and the door was tightly closed, which would arouse suspicion, and the house was very stuffy.
But if the door was not closed, Gu Xingshu and his family's room was very small and everyone could see who was in the room at a glance, which made it too unsafe.
So in order to ensure Tiantian's safety, Tiantian simply decided not to hang around there.
"What do you want from me?" Tiantian asked.
Logically speaking, a busy man like Li Jiuniang should not have the time to visit a little country girl like him, and there is nothing fashionable now. For example, the toads and crickets before were out of season.
It is possible to catch cicadas now, but it is more difficult to catch them now than in the spring and when we went to the cave. It takes a long time to catch a few. It is a thankless job, and Tiantian is not willing to do it.
"It rained a few days ago. Were there a lot of mushrooms on the mountain? Are there still some now?" Li Jiuniang asked straight to the point.
"Mushrooms are sometimes available, but they definitely don't taste as good as the ones that just popped up after the rain. Besides, the weather has been pretty good these two days, and I haven't climbed the mountain much, so I don't know how the mushrooms are now. Do you want mushrooms?" Tian Tian said.
She had stayed in the mountains for three consecutive days, and even though she was very strong, her body was sore. Later, as soon as the weather cleared up, Tian Tian stopped going up the mountain and said she wanted to rest at home.
Li Jiuniang listened to Tian Tian's words and nodded silently, "I want mushrooms, can you get them? I can buy your mushrooms at a high price. How about 50 cents per pound?"
Tian Tian's eyes widened instantly. 50 cents a pound of mushrooms?! That's almost as expensive as a pound of meat. If she doesn't do it, she'd be a fool.
What's wrong with being a little tired? You can rest after being a little tired, but after this season, there will be no mushrooms on the mountain, and you won't be able to earn this money.
Tian Tian no longer felt how much the labor cost and agreed immediately.
"I'll go, but I have a question to ask you in advance. Does this pound refer to dry mushrooms or wet mushrooms?"
There is a difference between a pound of dried mushrooms and a pound of wet mushrooms. The dried mushrooms are lighter, so they don't weigh as much.
Moreover, she couldn't dry the mushrooms in the sun, and she couldn't tell Old Mrs. Tian that she was drying the mushrooms to sell them, so she could only do it secretly.
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