The sharp sound startled her, and the flower in her hand broke. "I'm sorry, Auntie. I just wanted to look at the flower and accidentally broke it. I'll give you a candy as compensation."
Qiu Yuling gently put the broken flower aside, took out a piece of fruit candy and handed it to the woman.
Duan Yao looked at the little girl who took the initiative to admit her mistake. She was a stranger, but not as dirty as the other children in the yard. Her expression eased a lot.
"Flowers and plants all have their own lives. To love flowers, you must protect them."
"Auntie, you're right. The teacher described water lilies to us in class. I've never seen a real one before. Now that I see one, I want to observe it carefully and write an essay about it..."
The little girl in front of her spoke in a lower voice. Duan Yao was no longer angry. However, she did not take the candy handed to her by the little girl. She completely calmed down after hearing what she said.
"Then come here, I'll help you move a few plants back. Don't take them without asking next time, okay?"
"I know. I'm sorry, Auntie. I'm not a good child..." She felt more and more embarrassed the more she spoke. She was really going backwards. She had really thought about turning back just now, which was too wrong.
At most, you can just spend a few points to buy it. Why are you still thinking about committing petty theft?
Duan Yao didn't want to keep nagging her. In fact, there were many bad boys in the family quarters who were mischievous and destructive. After all, the girl in front of her was a little girl, and she didn't want to nag her endlessly and watch her laugh.
After digging the flowers, Duan Yao felt somewhat favorable towards the girl, so she went back to the house and brought out two pieces of watermelon.
Qiu Yuling waved her hands repeatedly, quickly placed five candies on the ground, and ran away holding her flowers.
Huh~ What's the old saying? It's all about deeds, not intentions. She'd been so taken aback by the system's high profits from recycling local native organisms that she nearly squinted, about to become that inconsiderate, shallow-minded person.
Ding! Scan completed. Three points per tulip.
Qiu Yuling raised her eyebrows, but the value of recycled wild vegetation was indeed high. She reminded herself again that money can move people's hearts. She no longer had to worry about food and clothing, so she must stick to the bottom line!
She picked a lot of useful and useless things along the way. She smuggled the useful ones into the space and tied the useless ones with wet straws, intending to carry them back home to have some food in the evening.
Of course, she picked up those that had no owner!
"Yuling is back. Why are you carrying so much grass? I don't even have two chickens here, let alone livestock."
Li Qingju looked at the big bale of grass and felt a little sorry for her niece.
Seeing how busy she had been these past few days, she hadn't had time to tell Yuling that she didn't raise chickens. The point was that the family quarters here were vacated from the original row barracks. There was no yard, and the space was cramped and concentrated, making it not very convenient for raising chickens or ducks.
"It's okay, auntie, they are all good things and can be eaten."
During those two years, when we were extremely hungry, we did eat everything, but now we don’t have to do that anymore. I’m afraid that the kids are used to living in poverty in their hometown, and now they are used to looking at weeds to see if they can fill their stomachs when they come here.
"Qingju, don't worry about it. Yuling knows what to do." The old lady scratched her scalp with the needle and raised her eyes to help her granddaughter out of the predicament. The little girl had many skills.
What Qiu Yuling picked up was wild mugwort, which has the effects of clearing away heat and detoxifying, stopping bleeding and relieving asthma, and calming the fetus.
"Grandma, you take a rest too. I'll do it today."
Qiu Yuling picked out the tender buds and branches, blanched them in boiling water for five minutes, picked them up and let them cool, then squeezed out the moisture, added glutinous rice flour and corn flour, and kneaded them into a dough to make dough.
I picked a medium-sized tomato from the basket, blanched it in hot water, peeled it, cut it into small pieces, beat an egg, made an egg drop soup, and added some leftover naan from the morning, and the dinner was ready.
"The sun sets so late here, it feels like the day never ends."
The old lady and Li Qingju were both amused by the childish words.
"Of course not, it's two hours later than our hometown." When Li Qingju first came here, she often couldn't tell the time right, but as time went by, she gradually went with the flow.
"By the way, did Yuling go to Dr. Duan's place?" Li Qingju saw the tulips and thought that Qiu Yuling must have gone there to play.
"Ah? I don't know if it's Doctor Duan, but there's a small flower garden over there with a large patch of water lilies growing beautifully. I was so engrossed in them that I was taken aback. Then an auntie came out and misunderstood me. I got so scared that I broke the flower I was observing. I apologized to her..."
Li Qingju: ...What a little devil who bravely entered the underworld and ran into her.
After careful consideration, he said, "Yuling, next time don't touch the flowers in Doctor Duan's garden. She has a flowerbed over there in the vegetable garden, so don't pick them. Doctor Duan really treasures those flowers and plants and takes good care of them."
"The farmland is in such a tight spot, and the army didn't tell them?" Grandma was a little surprised.
"Doctor Duan said that her products can all be used as medicine. Plus, she's a military dependent and a young person with the ambition to support the border areas. The army inquired about it and didn't interfere."
Did the construction of the Corps start so early?
During the course of that history lecture, the teacher extended the discussion by introducing the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a group of educated young people from major cities who had devoted themselves to aiding the construction of Xinjiang. They were a generation that endured hardships, and their contributions were significant not only to the development of the border areas but also to the development of the nation.
Feeling admiration arose spontaneously, Qiu Yuling repeatedly assured that she would not do that.
She had seen that some of the flowers in the vegetable garden's flower beds had already grown into patches in her space, so there was no need to get involved.
"Okay, okay, Lingling knows her limits." Grandma was afraid that her little daughter would continue to educate Qiu Yuling, so she wanted to interrupt.
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