Lin Qiao walked over with a smile and greeted Luo Guangming, "Brother Guangming, you're here too!"
Lin Chen complained to her, "Why didn't you wait for me to pick you up?"
"School got out early today, so I went home by myself. Don't worry, Li Jianfeng took me home."
As soon as she finished speaking, Luo Guangming's excited heart cooled down.
I'd heard she's involved in some physics competition and is even in a group with a boy.
The two would study physics problems together as soon as school was over, and they had a very close relationship.
Fifteen or sixteen years old, what a wonderful age! I'm already twenty-one, and there's a generation gap between me and them.
Lin Chen, unaware of his many thoughts, simply told him:
"It's perfect that you're here. Help me cook. I've invited everyone to eat together today."
At this moment, Jiang Ning heard the commotion and came out, took Lin Qiao's hand, and asked her how the physics competition went.
Lin Qiao pretended to lower her eyes and sigh, but when Lin Chen comforted her, she laughed loudly:
"I passed the preliminary round. In a while, I will go to the county's No. 1 Middle School to participate in the semi-finals. If I pass the semi-finals, I can also represent the school in the city competition."
However, I'm already very happy to have passed the preliminary round.
In the entire school, only she and Li Jianfeng's group passed the preliminary round organized by the township; even Gao Xiaolan did not.
At this moment, at Gao Qiang's house, Li Ying took out a can of oranges, poured a bowl for Gao Xiaolong, and told him to drink it quickly.
Unexpectedly, Gao Xiaolan came home early and saw it, so she quickly poured her a bowl as well.
Gao Xiaolan's face was as long as a donkey's, and she smashed the bowl over her shoulder.
"What are you drinking for? I'm so angry!"
Li Ying thought she was blaming her for favoring boys over girls, so she quickly explained:
"I poured you a bowl, but it was brought over by Jiang Zhiqing. I wouldn't even drink it myself!"
Because Gao Qiang had helped her last time, Jiang Ning had delivered canned food to her family twice.
She gave it to her son when Gao Xiaolan wasn't around.
And you know what? After my son finished drinking it, he was able to say a few complete sentences occasionally, and he stopped drooling so much.
Gao Xiaolan wasn't angry about that. Anyway, her younger brother was mentally challenged, and her parents would be relying on her to support them in their old age, so they certainly wouldn't mistreat her.
She was just furious that Lin Qiao had actually passed the preliminary test.
For so many days, she studied hard and did practice problems, all in an effort to outdo Lin Qiao. Who knew that in the end she would lose to her by just one point on one question.
And what about Li Jianfeng? Wasn't it agreed that he would betray Lin Qiao at the crucial moment? Why did he change his mind at the last minute?
I heard he even took her home. Could he have fallen for her?
That's going too far. Shouldn't he have feelings for me?
That man is despicable, he's playing the two-timing card.
Gao Xiaolan is not one to be bullied.
......
Luo Guangming started the fire, Jiang Ning and Lin Qiao washed and chopped the vegetables, and Lin Chen took charge of the cooking. The group chatted and laughed, and an hour later, a table full of delicious and visually appealing dishes was ready.
Gao Baoliang and Meng Jiao followed the scent into the house.
"Why did you two come at the same time?" Jiang Ning asked casually.
Then I saw Meng Jiao blush.
Lin Chen suddenly realized what was going on, patted Gao Baoliang on the shoulder, and secretly asked:
"Did they succeed?"
Gao Baoliang smirked: "The first step of a long journey. I've only agreed to date for a while. If it doesn't work out, we might break up at any time."
Lin Chen was secretly surprised. This was really unlike his personality. When he was a child, he was the kind of person who would make girls cry and then complain about them. But now he had lost all his principles when it came to Meng Jiao.
During the meal, Gao Baoliang was extremely attentive, always paying attention to what Meng Jiao wanted to eat and reaching out to pick it up for her.
This time, he removed the fish bones from the flesh, and Meng Jiao readily accepted it.
After spending time together, she realized that Gao Baoliang genuinely liked and respected her.
She also needs a man's protection.
Let's just give it a try together.
Because of her close relationship with Gao Baoliang, Yang Lili ended up occupying Ma Huijuan's room, and the two male educated youths didn't dare to object.
Because Yang Lili moved out, it meant that Meng Jiao could live alone.
Meng Jiao fared quite badly during this grain and money distribution. The work points she earned weren't even enough to cover the advance grain demand. In the end, she had to use money to fill the gap and manage to balance the accounts.
However, she no longer has to worry about not having food, as Gao Baoliang brought her 200 jin of rice.
When his father, Gao Guixiang, heard that it was delivered to the educated youth, he didn't blame him at all, and even asked him if it was enough.
We'd send some flour and such over every now and then.
In fact, in everyone's impression, there are very few outstanding educated youth like Ma Huijuan. Most of them are well-educated and reasonable, at most a little delicate, and not very capable of doing much work.
But the educated youth came from the city, and they were all fair-skinned, tender, and educated. Countless families would be overjoyed to be able to marry such a wife.
He couldn't wait for Gao Baoliang to marry Meng Jiao as soon as possible.
After everyone got to know each other better, they stopped avoiding many topics. Gao Baoliang brought Lin Chen some news: the local black market was starting to revive.
With the Lunar New Year fast approaching, many people are taking advantage of the off-season for farming to hold weddings, leading to a surge in demand for the three major wedding items (household appliances, children's furniture, and wedding supplies) and various other New Year's goods.
Gao Baoliang advised Lin Chen to act quickly so that he could take control of the black market.
"Selling dried black fungus this time is a good opportunity to test the market," Lin Chen nodded in agreement.
Suddenly, Gao Baoliang's expression tensed up, and he lowered his voice to say to them:
"You should be careful when you go out recently. I heard that there was a murder case near the township government not long ago. The murderer was extremely brutal. After slitting the throat, he also peeled off the person's face."
Everyone gasped upon hearing this, and even Jiang Ning, who possessed the cheat ability of having a spatial ability, felt a chill run down his spine, expressing his fear.
In this era, there are actually quite a few murderers. Because the resentment accumulated over the years has nowhere to be vented, some people with extreme personalities will kill or commit arson when they encounter the slightest thing.
Although a letter of introduction was required to go anywhere at that time, those people, in order to evade capture, would sleep in caves or hide in the mountains and forests, becoming roving criminals.
Some even hide in remote mountain villages to get married and have children.
"Wife, Mom, Xiaoqiao, from now on, none of you should go out alone. Especially Xiaoqiao, don't go home by yourself to and from school, wait for me to pick you up," Lin Chen said anxiously.
Gao Baoliang also reminded Meng Jiao not to go out alone.
Luo Guangming glanced at Lin Qiao, then lowered his eyes, silently praying that bad people would stay far away from her and never hurt her.
A few days later, Lin Chen and Luo Guangming had collected twenty catties of dried black fungus.
They packed the wood ear mushrooms into burlap sacks, filling two sacks in total.
The two men, each carrying a bag, rode their bicycles to the recycling station.
To everyone's surprise, the people at the purchasing station didn't even look at them and just kicked them out.
"Let's go, let's go, we only accept goods from a few specific communes."
It turned out that they had all negotiated with the commune. Since the Caiqi Commune did not give them any gifts or benefits, they refused to accept the goods from the Caiqi Commune.
Lin Chen didn't care; he could probably sell these things for more money on the black market.
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