Chapter 45 Wang Shuhua raised her hand to wipe away her excitement…
Wang Shuhua raised her hand to wipe away her tears of emotion, "Yingzi, Sibao, I don't know how to thank you enough. You thought of promoting your family first when such a good thing happened."
Cheng Xiuying: "Although Hongxing Breeding Farm is relatively close to Hongcheng Brigade and has better conditions, it is still located in the mountains, not in the county. I will ask my nephews and nieces to keep an eye on it when there is another opportunity in the future."
The pancake was big, round, fragrant, and sweet, which moved Wang Shuhua to tears: "Yongyi, quickly thank your third aunt and your fourth sister."
The Cheng family will soon have a city dweller with a stable job, no longer having to toil in the fields or rely on the weather for their livelihood. This is just the beginning; once it happens, it will happen again and again.
Cheng Yongyi: "Thank you, Third Aunt, thank you, Jiajia." Her cousins all called her by her name, not Sibao, so she should just follow suit and not be treated specially.
Yu Jiajia gave her a sweet smile.
Cheng Xiuying: "Yongyi is good-looking, just like me, she should be a city person."
If you can't find a job in the city, you should at least marry a city person! Then you won't have to toil in the fields for a living anymore.
In fact, Cheng Yongyi resembled Wang Shuhua in appearance, with an oval face, fair skin, thick eyebrows and big eyes. She looked very dignified and elegant. The only similarity between her and Cheng Xiuying was their height.
She's almost 1.7 meters tall.
Wang Shuhua grinned from ear to ear: "If Yongyi had half your good fortune, I'd be laughing in my sleep. I'll go cook, braise the pig's head, and make a braised fish. I'll also slaughter one of the old hens at home to nourish Sibao. Sibao is good in every way, except he's too thin."
Cheng Xiuying agreed, "Sibao is indeed good in every way, but he still needs to gain some weight! But don't kill the chicken this time. We've already had a feast today with pig's head and fish. We can save the old hen for next time."
Wang Shuhua: "Okay, when you leave, catch one and take it with you. Kill it whenever you want to eat it."
Cheng Xiuying beamed with joy: "Sister-in-law, then I won't stand on ceremony with you."
Her mother and sister-in-law are very savvy, so she is most willing to help her family.
After the elders finished speaking, Yu Songchuan decided to take a walk up the mountain to scout out the route, as he and his fourth sister still had a big business to make money from.
The old lady said, "Yongyi, let's go play together, but don't go too far into the mountains."
Cheng Xiuying: "Go have fun."
Nine-year-old Cheng Mingdong and seven-year-old Cheng Mingjun from Little Radish Head also want to go up the mountain to play. They like to follow their uncles and aunts.
They're both grown up now, not a burden anymore.
The younger children, with tears in their eyes, also wanted to go, but when Grandma Cheng glared at them, none of the children dared to say anything.
The family was ruled by Old Mrs. Cheng, and everyone, adults and children alike, had to obey her; otherwise, they would be beaten.
Yu Jiajia couldn't bear to see the children cry, so she took out a handful of fruit candies from her pocket, gave one to each of the three little radish heads, and instantly calmed them down.
Compared to the mountains I've visited many times, fruit candies are clearly more appealing.
The remaining few were all given to the old lady, "Great-Grandma, please eat."
Even if you appease the children, there's no reward for doing good deeds!
It turns out that even blood relatives don't get a reward for doing good deeds.
Seven-year-old Cheng Mingjun regretted it as soon as he saw the fruit candies. He also wanted to stay and eat the candies. The colorful fruit candies, and the wrappers could be folded into colorful cranes, were both delicious and fun.
He quickly stopped regretting it. Aunt Jiajia took out a handful of candy from her pocket, one for each person, so everyone got one!
She is truly the most beautiful and kindest cousin in the world!
Yu Jiajia also ate a pink fruit candy, orange flavored, which was sweet and sour and very delicious.
She was full of anticipation for this trip up the mountain.
Although she is not short of money, who would complain about having too much money! She really wants to make money with her Chinese herbal medicine skills.
As soon as the group arrived at the village entrance, they heard a commotion in the distance as a crowd gathered. They quickly went over to see what was going on.
One of the people in the crowd looked very familiar... he was one of the four people who had been following the Yu family.
He was quite handsome, wearing a gray polyester shirt and black polyester straight-leg pants, with a pen tucked into his shirt pocket. He was dressed very fashionably and looked like a city dweller.
At this moment, he was tied up with hemp rope by the commune members and pointed at and talked about by a group of people.
After listening for a while, Yu Jiajia and the others understood: this person was secretly climbing a tree to peep at young women using the toilet...
The young woman was crying and sobbing. Her innocence was gone. How could she ever get married again?
The girl's family was indignant and pointed at the man, yelling, "You little hooligan, how dare you peep at my sister while she's taking a bath! I wish I could beat you to death! Just wait to be convicted of hooliganism!"
The eldest daughter's mother held her daughter and cried, "My daughter, she was perfectly fine, but someone spied on her. How will she ever get married?"
The young man, wearing Dacron, cried out in protest: "I didn't peek! I was climbing the tree to raid a bird's nest. I didn't look down! If I had seen anything, may I die a horrible death with no descendants!"
He didn't dare follow them into the village. Strangers would be too easily discovered if they entered the village. He thought he would climb a tree to see if he could see inside. As soon as he got up the tree, he heard screams from below.
No matter how many mouths he spoke, no one believed him. Everyone firmly believed that he had ruined the girl's reputation, and that he should either be sent to the commune on charges of being a hooligan in the Red Army brigade, or he should marry the young woman.
The young man in the dacron realized that he had been tricked; he must have been discovered climbing the tree, and the girl had appeared on purpose.
He had just wiped his hands with excrement, and now he was tied up and forced to marry a village woman. His vision blurred; what terrible luck he had encountered!
The young man, Dacron, was so angry he wanted to grind his teeth: "I have a wife and two sons, so I can't marry you, but I can compensate you. I have twenty yuan, half a jin of meat coupons, and a jin of grain coupons in my pocket, and I'll give them all to you. I guarantee I didn't see anything! I will never damage your reputation."
The girl's family definitely wanted a son-in-law from the city, just like Cheng Xiuying. However, the man was indeed a bit older, and his children were already running around in the countryside. They believed him and decided to give him the money.
The bag contained 26 yuan, half a jin of meat coupons, and two jin of grain coupons.
Then, the young man signed and affixed his fingerprint; this was the money as an apology.
The girl's family's eyes lit up. "My goodness! So much money! And meat coupons and grain coupons too! We're rich!"
The family cursed the young man a few more times, then released him, telling him to get lost and never show his face in Hongcheng Brigade again.
The other members were green with envy, but they were annoyed that someone had gotten there first.
No one sympathized with the young man; a stranger climbing a tree, acting suspiciously, he was definitely not a good person.
Yu Jiajia and the others were laughing so hard they almost died. Yu Songchuan said, "There are still three people left. I wonder if they've even entered the village yet."
The news spread quickly, and people began searching for suspicious strangers.
Others turned their attention to the Yu family.
Yu Songqing: "Will that girl's reputation be affected?"
Cheng Yongyi: "No. Everyone knows that going to the toilet is fake. Who would go to the toilet here? They would hold it in at home and save it for fertilizer or to earn work points."
This is the area of blind spot in the Yu family's knowledge.
Cheng Yongyi explained, “The cow dung and sheep droppings on the road would be picked up and used as fertilizer. They would be kept by each family for their own use, and any extra would be exchanged for work points to give to the brigade. There was a public toilet at the entrance of the village, which was as clean as new, but almost no one used it unless they couldn’t hold it in anymore.”
If you can exchange something for work points, it's a loss to get it done outside.
Everyone suddenly realized.
Yu Songqing pondered deeply. The girl's crying was heartbreaking and desperate, and it didn't seem fake. If she wasn't going to the toilet, then why did she say she was going to the toilet? That wad of money was worth half a month's salary for him! There were also meat coupons and grain coupons.
Where is Lu Xiaoqing?
Yu Songyan: "Human nature is multifaceted; what you encounter is only the side that she is willing to show."
Cheng Yongyi gave them a few words of advice: "Be a little more vigilant in the village and don't go to remote places. If someone falls into the river, don't rush to save them; all the girls in the village can swim. If someone shouts for help, don't rush over; just run away. If someone tries to talk to you, try to keep your distance. Don't worry too much; even if there's a problem, my grandma can handle it. Don't be afraid."
Everyone: ...
Yu Songchuan: "I hope the other three can also be found and make more contributions to the Hongcheng Brigade."
As they spoke, they reached the foot of the mountain. This time, they found no one following them, nor did they know where the other three had gone.
It's almost 9 o'clock now, and they'll all be back before midnight. Nothing is more important than eating pig's head and braised fish, so they can't go into the mountains and can only wander around the outskirts.
Hongcheng Brigade is situated near mountains and water, but not deep in the mountains; it lies at the foot of the mountains in a plain area. The land is fertile and the water source is abundant. As long as there are no years of disaster, the yield per mu is quite good, and everyone's life is relatively good, enough to fill their stomachs.
Yu Jiajia took a deep breath and started climbing the mountain. She was very excited, looking around, wondering if there were any ginseng or lingzhi mushrooms on the mountain.
She has a system now, so she should find a few hundred-year-old ginseng roots when she goes hiking!
She even brought a red string to tie the century-old ginseng!
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