After work, Jiang Tang returned home and looked at the stove that Xiang Qin and his wife had helped build.
What surprised Jiangtang the most was the smooth stone on the stove. "This is nice. This is clean. Did Aunt Xiangqin help with this?"
Meng Si Ning shook his head. "I was bored, so I went out and picked it up. And after Aunt Xiangqin left, I bought a few ordinary tiles from the mall. While the dirt on them was still wet, I took down the stones from the flat surface, broke the tiles, and pasted them. I'll use the stones on the sides. How about that?"
"It's absolutely perfect, but I can't explain it."
"I'm leaving early tomorrow morning. You can just take me home and bring a big package when you come back. Who knows what's in that package?"
"OK."
The two of them talked about the stove for a while, then went to Captain Luo's house for dinner together.
In the evening, there was porridge, cold cucumber salad, scrambled eggs, and stir-fried vegetables.
However, the stir-fried dishes were not very oily, and Jiang Tang also found that the scrambled eggs were all put into her and Si Ning's bowls by the Luo family.
"Secretary Jiang, I've been observing for the whole afternoon. Do you have any good suggestions?"
Jiang Tang shook her head: "I need a few more days to understand. I will go to Sara Village tomorrow."
Captain Luo nodded. "Will you be back for lunch tomorrow? Accountant Wang has made arrangements for you. The families you'll be dining with will start from the east end of the village, right next to the one you live on. I've already made the arrangements. Tomorrow morning, you and Reporter Meng will go to Uncle Luo's house for lunch."
"OK."
Jiang Tang wanted to ask who Grandma Huixian was, but then she thought it wouldn't be good to be too deliberate.
So don't be in a hurry, take your time.
After dinner, Jiangtang took out a few candies from his pocket and gave them to Hongxing, asking him to share some with his older sisters and brothers at home.
Seeing the precious candy, Mei Zi's wife hurriedly took it back from her son and gave it to Jiang Tang: "We can't accept this precious thing."
Jiang Tang smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, these are candies for children. I prepared them for the children. Don't refuse them."
Captain Luo also refused: "This won't work."
"Captain Luo, just this once, let the child take it. It's not something valuable."
It took a long time before the children finally accepted it.
On the way back, Meng Si Ning sighed: "At this time, even a piece of candy is a luxury."
"Ah, yes."
After returning, the two of them went straight into the space. Meng Si Ning bought her a bag of ten kilograms of candy, all kinds of candies, the most common kind: "Keep these. When you ask someone for help on weekdays, you can use these as a return gift."
Jiang Tang nodded: "That's fine."
She was sitting on the floor, her back against the sofa, with a notebook on the coffee table.
Meng Si Ning took a look and asked: "Did you make a record?"
"Well, today I found that the team members are very lazy at work. They can finish something in more than an hour in three hours.
Don’t they feel the heat? Can’t they just rest at home after work? Why do they have to waste time in the fields?”
Meng Si Ning also sat on the ground with her and said, "If they finish their work early, Captain Luo will definitely assign them other tasks. After all, there are so many people in a village. Even if there is nothing to do, as a captain, he can't let them sit idle in broad daylight.
If this gets known to the higher-ups, they'll definitely say he's incompetent as a captain."
Jiang Tang frowned. "It's not impossible. I have to think of a way to motivate everyone."
Meng Si Ning nodded and said nothing. In this regard, her best friend had more ideas than her.
"I observed today that there is a lot of grass in Youcaoling Village, and next to the fields. I also found tea trees, which would be a good sideline business."
Meng Si Ning's eyes lit up: "Is it the same tea we drank at Captain Luo's house today?"
"Yeah, what do you think?"
"It's quite good, and it's a famous tea. Logically, there shouldn't be any tea trees like this here. They're more common in the south."
"I don't know. They might be wild. I've noticed these tea trees are quite scattered, not numerous. Besides, it's not like we can't create more land here. The hill behind us isn't very densely populated with weeds, so it could be reclaimed. I asked Captain Luo, and he told me some villagers there used to grow crops there, but wild boars were frequent, and the harvest was minimal, so they gave up. They were fighting with Shaluo Village for that little hill of wasteland, and that's because wild boars rarely appeared there and there weren't many trees, so it became a popular spot for both villages."
"There are so many weeds here. Can we raise pigs and chickens? This is a great natural breeding ground."
"I thought so too. I'll ask Captain Luo later."
While Jiang Tang was worrying about the future of the villagers, Meng Si Ning was concerned about her life problems.
Unlike her, she lived with her mother in a second-tier city before she was twelve years old.
Although we are not very poor, we are not rich either.
After her mother died when she was twelve, she was taken back to the Meng family by her father. On the surface, she looked like a daughter of a wealthy family, but in fact, she lived a cautious life without any freedom.
Although her best friend's family is not as wealthy as the Meng family, she is a little princess who has been spoiled since she was a child.
She still has to worry about many details.
So Meng Sining bought her a new set of bedding.
They are all brand new cotton quilts. The four-piece sets I chose are ordinary and will not look out of place. I bought two sets.
In addition to these, there are also kettles, flashlights, kerosene lamps, and that old-fashioned pink toilet paper.
When Jiang Tang was looking at her notebook and thinking hard, she saw her best friend bringing back a lot of things from her.
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