Chapter 221 221 Committing a Crime with a Knife
At noon, Su Xiao made a dish of braised bamboo shoots in oil. She was generous with the amount of oil she used, and the dish was so delicious that everyone wanted to swallow their tongues.
The last bit of food was scraped clean from the bowl by Tian Sheng using a steamed bun.
Su Xiao looked at Cheng Liang's bowl with a smile on her lips, feeling very satisfied. No one wants their cooking to be disliked, and eating it all up is the best praise for them.
"Little Miss, shall we eat again tonight?" Sweetie patted her round little belly, licked her lips, and looked on expectantly.
Since Huang Feiyan started working at the farm, Su Xiao and Huang Feiyan have been cooking right there at the farm.
And Su Xiao naturally took over the kitchen at the farm.
With her intervention, the food at the farm improved dramatically.
"Sweetie, do you want more?"
"Uh-huh."
"Okay, then we'll do it tonight."
Su Xiao looked at her with doting eyes.
"Thank you, sister." Sweetie smiled broadly, overjoyed.
After digging bamboo shoots for several days, I dried them all and stored quite a lot.
Su Xiao thought about it and decided to send some out as gifts, since she also needed to mail the letters that were supposed to be sent every five days.
However, since she was going to give them away, she thought it would be better to collect more mountain produce and send them along with the bamboo shoots. In the spring, besides bamboo shoots, they also picked quite a few wild mushrooms.
Without further ado, Su Xiao grabbed Huang Feiyan and decided to take a stroll around the village.
"Auntie, do you have any extra dried goods at home? I'd like to trade some with you." There's a big tree in the village committee square, and some elderly women like to gather there to chat and gossip.
Nowadays, rural women are generally very hardworking; almost every household has some stock. The group immediately became interested, asking, "How would you like to exchange them? How much do you want to exchange?"
Seeing an opening, Su Xiao was immediately delighted. She plunged into the group of women and started chatting, "I'll take as many as you have. I'm collecting them as gifts, so you ladies have to pick out the good ones for me. Don't bring the bad ones..."
"Of course, Su Zhiqing, we're all from the same village, we wouldn't cheat you."
Su Xiao was very satisfied with what she heard, and added, "As for how to exchange them, I have brown sugar, cloth, rice and flour here. Whatever you want, as long as I have it, I can exchange it for you."
The older women were delighted to hear this and immediately started talking all at once. Soon they had all made a decision and went back to get their things.
Su Xiao told Huang Feiyan to wait there, and if anyone came to ask again, to say that she had gone back to get the goods to be exchanged, just as they had just agreed on.
Huang Feiyan nodded, and the two of them each performed their duties.
Not long after Su Xiao left, other older women, having heard the news, rushed over. Huang Feiyan spoke eloquently and with great enthusiasm.
Old Lady Zhao saw this scene from afar, and a hint of resentment flashed in her eyes.
Suddenly, she turned around, her bound feet disappearing into the alley in a flash.
When the old lady returned home, she stood in the yard and looked at the woodshed with a venomous gaze.
Su Xiao returned to the educated youth compound, quickly took out a basket of things from her spatial storage, and happily headed to the square in front of the village committee compound.
She had just turned out of the alley when she saw a scene that made her eyes widen in horror.
"Yanzi, get out of the way!" Su Xiao threw down the basket and rushed over like the wind, trying to stop it all.
Upon hearing the sound, Huang Feiyan turned around and screamed in terror. She retreated while throwing a bag of dried bamboo shoots at the person who had entered.
Tian Jinhua, disheveled and filthy, lunged at her with a machete in hand, muttering, "I'll kill you, and you'll have to pay for my son..."
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