Chapter 23 Going Down the Mountain
When Tang Yue woke up the next day, it was still daybreak outside. After getting up, brushing her teeth and washing her face, she fed the pigs with her mind control and took two eggs and a glass of milk from the warehouse. This was her breakfast for the day. After breakfast, Tang Yue silently said "go out" and was outside in an instant.
Tang Yue took out the backpack, hatchet, kettle and other things and prepared to go back. There was no need to clear the way back and Tang Yue was not in a hurry. He stopped to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms. When he came to the yam, Tang Yue stopped to take a look and found no traces of wild boar digging, so he felt relieved and continued to move forward.
When Tang Yue returned home, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon. She returned home through the back door and locked it. When passing by the vegetable garden, she found that the vegetables were seriously exposed to the sun. She would water them when the sun went down. She went to the front yard and took out the wild vegetables she picked on the way down the mountain, washed them, put them in a winnowing basket, and took them out to dry on the drying rack. Three drying racks and 15 winnowing baskets were full. While there was still sun, she dried some of the water and put the dates on the remaining two drying racks and ten winnowing baskets to dry.
While Tang Yue was busy, she heard someone knocking on the door and quickly opened it. It turned out to be Aunt Guihua. "Oh, where have you been these two days? We were so worried about you."
Tang Yue didn't expect Aunt Guihua to come to visit her. "Aunt, you came to see me. I went up the mountain these two days. Look at the wild vegetables and dates I picked. Aunt, I picked a lot. I will carry a basket of dates back when I go back later."
For rural women, dates are a rare blood-replenishing and body-nourishing food.
"Oh, thank you so much. This thing is not easy to find. I didn't expect you to pick so much. By the way, I came here this time to exchange shoes with you. You haven't been at home for the past two days, and you found me here." Aunt Guihua quickly stated the purpose of her visit.
It doesn't matter to Tang Yue whether she changes or not now, she has enough furs, but she won't refuse if they want to change, "Okay, auntie, let them come, I have to go to the commune tomorrow. If they don't have time later, ask them to come tomorrow night."
"Okay, I'll go back and tell them. They should be here soon. I'll go call them first," Aunt Guihua said as she was about to go out.
Tang Yue called her quickly, "Aunt, wait a moment, take some dates back." Tang Yue walked into the room carrying an empty basket, and instantly filled the basket with dates. She then took it out and handed it to Aunt Guihua, "Aunt, take it back and eat it. You're welcome. I picked a lot of dates this time."
"Okay, thank you then. I'll take it back first."
After Aunt Guihua left, Tang Yue washed the rice and put it in the pot to cook. She also washed a lot of rice. While cooking, she used a wooden bucket to fetch water to water the vegetables. It took only two minutes to finish watering. Looking at the remaining five centimeters on the side, she decided to plant some onions, garlic and leeks. As for the uncultivated area on the side, Tang Yue planned to plant two jujube seedlings here. She took out two jujube seedlings from the space in an instant and planted one near the chicken coop. It would provide shade for the chickens when they grew up, and the other jujube seedling was planted three meters away on the side. She used her mind to control the cup in the space, filled it with a cup of spiritual water, and poured it into the bucket. She filled the bucket halfway with water and watered the two trees respectively. They should be able to survive.
When Aunt Guihua returned home, she quickly poured the red dates in the basket into a large wooden basin, added water to wash them clean, took out a dustpan and poured them into the basin, and spread them out to dry. Just then the team leader came back from outside and saw the old woman preparing red dates. He asked, "Where did you get the red dates?"
"It was given to me by the educated youth Tang Yue. She picked a lot of them on the mountain and gave me some."
"That girl is back, tell her not to go into the mountains, it's too dangerous."
"You think that if they encounter a wild beast, Tang Zhiqing will be so angry. Who will be unlucky, the beast or her? It's not certain who will give the meat to whom."
The team leader was also surprised when he heard this. Everyone would be worried about Tang Zhiqing, which was why Tang Yue spent so much money on building a house but didn't dare to make any plans. "Next time I go to see her, I'll give her a jar of pickled vegetables I made. No one in the village pickles better than mine."
Tang Yue returned to the front yard, picked up a handful of wild vegetables, blanched them in boiling water, added chopped green onion, ginger and garlic, then poured soy sauce and oyster sauce, and then poured boiling oil on them. It was really fragrant. She took out a bowl of braised meat and ate it. After the meal, she washed the dishes and heard someone knocking on the door. Maybe she needed to change her shoes.
Tang Yue opened the door and welcomed all the aunts in. Aunt Qiuju and Aunt Shufen were also there. She welcomed them into the bedroom and asked them to sit on the kang. Tang Yue quickly took out rain boots, liberation shoes, scented soap and soap and placed them on the kang for the aunts to choose. Finally, she changed two cowhides, five sheepskins and more than ten rabbit skins, and finally gave each aunt three hairbands. Aunt Qiuju saw that there was no cloth on the kang, and asked, "Didn't I hear you change the cloth? Why don't you see it?"
When Tang Yue heard that the cloth needed to be changed, she quickly asked the aunts to wait a moment, walked into the storage room, and took out 100 kilograms of cloth from the space with her mind. Then she came out of the storage room, holding the cloth and pouring it on the kang. Tang Yue had never seen this cloth before, and the color was very bright, with several pieces of bright red. In the end, everyone shared it out, and it was gone.
After seeing off the aunts and closing the door, Tang Yue boiled water for a bath, washed her clothes and hung them outside. Tang Yue closed all the doors and windows of the living room, walked into the bedroom, silently recited to enter the space, and instantly returned to the space.
Tang Yue walked into the space yard, looked at the wild vegetables drying in the yard, took sacks from the warehouse to pack them up, filled several large sacks. The wild grapes were not dried yet, Tang Yue turned them over and spread them out to dry, and took some wild grapes out of the warehouse, and filled the oilcloth that had just been emptied after harvesting the wild vegetables with grapes. Seeing that there was still a lot of them left in the warehouse, she had no choice but to dry them slowly.
Thinking that the pigs had not been fed yet, he controlled the feeding with his mind, then returned to the bedroom. Thinking of the money earned from selling cloth in the past two days, he quickly took out some of it. One piece of cloth weighed more than 100 kilograms. When Tang Yue sold it, five yuan was enough for a whole set of clothes. The two times he sold cloth, he made almost fifteen hundred yuan each time. Last time, he took out five large pieces. With so much money from two sales, it was almost enough.
The conditions in the village are pretty good, and the most important thing is that the money is very valuable. I counted the money and put it together with the 500 yuan that I didn't spend last time and the 2,500 yuan on the table, which added up to 5,500 yuan. I kept the remaining dozens of yuan in change on myself and took it with me when I went out, and put it in the kang cabinet.
Tang Yue counted the money and put it in the dressing table, then walked out of the bedroom and came to the stone table in the yard. She poured herself a cup of spiritual water and drank it. Thinking of the red date seedlings she had dug up, she used her mind to control the digging of several holes by the river, and finally planted ten. After planting, she watered them with river water and went out.
Returning to the bedroom, Tang Yue put the few dozen yuan in change in the drawer of the kang cabinet, and lay down on the kang to prepare for sleep. She planned to go to the commune tomorrow to see if there were any houses to sell, and to make another trade.
The next day, Tang Yue woke up, brushed her teeth, washed her face, changed her clothes, put on a backpack, took a kettle and some steamed buns, and prepared to set off. She walked to the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, where several people were waiting for the car. She greeted each other and waited for a while before the oxcart came. She paid ten cents and got on the car. The oxcart moved slowly and took an hour and a half to reach the commune. She got off the oxcart and walked to a remote alley, put on the same shabby makeup as last time, changed her clothes, and went to ask the gossiping auntie.
Seeing a few middle-aged women sitting under a tree in front of her making shoe soles, Tang Yue walked over quickly and said, "Aunties, can I ask you something?"
"Hey, brother, what's wrong with your face?"
Tang Yue touched her face embarrassedly, "Isn't this because I was naughty when I was a child and got scalded by boiling water?"
When the aunties heard this, they hurriedly asked, "What do you want to know?"
"Dear aunties, I just got a boyfriend. His family requires that the house be in the public housing complex. It was so hard for me to get a boyfriend, so I must make it happen."
When the aunties heard this, they said, “It’s really not easy. You should be thankful that a girl like you is willing to be with you. You really should buy the house.”
Tang Yue touched her nose guiltily and said, "Indeed, I should buy it. I have come here to ask all the aunts."
Then the aunts started talking one after another about which houses were for sale and which houses were for rent. Tang Yue quickly responded, "Aunts, I want to buy a house with a big yard."
Finally, there really was such a house. One of the aunties took Tang Yue to the door of a house and knocked. Soon a voice came from inside: "Who is it?"
"Old sister, please come to me. I heard that your relative's house is for sale. I brought someone to take a look."
"You, come in quickly, come in quickly."
"Isn't this young man getting married? Look at his face. He finally got the woman to agree, and she wants a house without any other conditions. He should buy it quickly. Don't miss this one. Who knows when the next one will be."
After hearing this, Tang Yue hurriedly said, "Thank you, auntie, for making this trip for me. I'm sorry to bother you."
"Thank you for calling me Aunt Luo."
"Hey, thank you, Aunt Luo."
Aunt Luo said "you're welcome" and left.
Tang Yue looked at the relative of the landlord in front of her and said, "I don't know what to call this aunt."
"My husband's surname is Zhang and he can call me Grandma Zhang."
"How can you call me Grandma Zhang? It makes you look old. I'll just call you Aunt Zhang."
"It's all right," Aunt Zhang laughed. It turned out that girls of all ages like to hear nice things.
"Auntie, where is your relative's house?"
"Wait a moment, I'll get the key."
Tang Yue waited at the door for less than two minutes before Aunt Zhang came out.
"Come on, I'll take you to have a look. The house consists of three brick and tile rooms, with a kitchen and bathroom built with bricks on the side. The best part is that there is a well in the yard. The yard is also quite big, and the wall is quite high." Tang Yue was quite satisfied when she heard that the wall was high, but she would have to see the details first.
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