"Aunt Chen, I will seriously consider your suggestion." Qin Feng thanked Chen Suwen as he left.
He needed to figure out if Bai Huirou could accept him, and also deal with the Xie family's affairs.
If someone were to exaggerate and spread rumors about him accompanying Xie Linglong out today to Bai Huirou, his chances of winning her heart would be even lower.
"Sorry, you must have seen this funny." Zhang Jingran told his niece to wait for him in the courtyard behind the pharmacy before he had a chance to talk to Chen Suwen.
Chen Suwen shook her head.
"Sister Suwen, I've packed up all the medicinal herbs you requested." Zhang Jingran handed a large pile of herbs to Chen Suwen. "And some medicinal seed seeds; if I come across any, I'll save them for you."
"Thank you very much, Dr. Zhang." Chen Suwen had a high opinion of Zhang Jingran, and the two were quite compatible.
"I'll come see you again next time. I'm heading back now." Chen Suwen said goodbye to Zhang Jingran, and the two exchanged addresses so it would be easier to visit each other in the future.
Chen Suwen took the large and small bags of medicinal herbs with her, but she did not go straight home. Instead, she found a secluded corner and stored some of the herbs in her spatial storage.
After putting her things away, she rode her bicycle to the outskirts of the city.
She had previously told Zhou Qingyun that she wanted to go hunting in the mountains and eat meat, and although her request was rejected, she was still not giving up.
She was genuinely curious about whether she could actually catch pheasants and rabbits.
In many novels, the protagonist always manages to hunt pheasants and rabbits when he goes up the mountain, but in reality, she hasn't encountered many of them.
In her previous life, Chen Suwen was not from a big city. The orphanage she and Zhou Qingyun lived in was just a welfare home in a small county town.
So they come into contact with a lot of people, including those in the suburbs of the county and the villages below.
When Chen Suwen was reading a novel, she asked her friend who had lived in the village since childhood if pheasants and rabbits were really as easy to catch as in the novel.
Her friend told her no.
Anyway, her friend often went up the mountain when she was a child, but she never encountered pheasants or rabbits. She only saw rabbits when someone in her village kept them as pets.
It was wild; she had never even seen a single hair of it.
As for pheasants, there are many varieties of pheasants, but she had only ever seen one that wasn't very big and looked similar to a large rooster with red and black feathers.
It's like the rooster image painted on the outside of those rooster porcelain bowls; her friend had seen those wild roosters before.
As for golden pheasants or other birds, she had never actually seen them.
Of course, she had seen wild boars before; she even ate wild boar meat when she was a child.
However, Chen Su asked her friend if she liked wild boar meat. Although it was mostly lean meat, the skin was very thick and it wasn't very tasty unless it was stewed for a long time.
These are her friend's exact words.
Chen Suwen had never eaten wild boar before the apocalypse, but after the apocalypse, there were no animal protection laws, so hunting was allowed.
But sometimes she couldn't tell whether the pigs in the post-apocalyptic world were domestic or wild, since they had all evolved.
Wild boars are animals with a high reproductive rate and strong fighting ability, and they can easily overpopulate if not carefully managed.
Back in 1975, there was no animal protection law, and wild boars were universally hated. She could have killed one if she encountered one.
But because it was 1975, most things outside were collectively owned. If she went to someone else's territory to hunt wild boar, she would be in big trouble if they sued her.
Chen Suwen frowned. When will things finally be reformed?
If she can't raise pigs herself, she can let others do it, which will make it much easier for her to buy pork, beef, and other meats.
Of course, Chen Suwen still prefers to eat chicken.
The F3s in South China love to eat chicken; Guangdong province alone consumes billions of chickens a year.
Chen Suwen actually really likes to eat chicken; compared to pork and beef, she prefers chicken.
Chen Suwen remembered the little girl she met when she went to the market last time. She seemed to be from the Qianshuihe Brigade in Tangzhen.
Last time she went to Tangzhen by bus, this time she should be able to go by bicycle without taking up too much time.
Tangzhen is not particularly far from the city center; Chen Suwen arrived by bicycle in less than an hour.
She inquired along the way and found the location of the Qianshuihe Brigade.
She also found Huang Xiaomei, who was still busy working today. Her eyes lit up when she saw Chen Suwen.
"Auntie, are you here to exchange something?"
Huang Xiaomei was very excited when she saw Chen Suwen, and she was even more amazed when she saw the red bicycle.
This bicycle is so beautiful!
"Little sister, is this your relative? She actually has a bicycle, and it's so beautiful."
People of this generation like military green, but they like red even more.
Having military green clothing, hats, or water bottles was a highly desirable thing.
Red clothes are also very popular.
Chen Suwen's red-painted bicycle is particularly appealing to many people.
"No, this auntie traded things with me before. She traded brown sugar for me." Huang Xiaomei didn't dare to take advantage of her and say that she was Chen Suwen's relative.
She honestly explained Chen Suwen's identity, "Auntie, thank you for the brown sugar you gave me last time. My mother's complexion has improved a lot recently."
"Brown sugar? Auntie, do you have any brown sugar?"
"Auntie, do you need to exchange anything? My family can exchange with you."
Upon seeing Chen Suwen, a stranger, enter the village, along with her conspicuous bicycle, the others who had come along the way eagerly volunteered to help.
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