After returning to the educated youth settlement, Shen Mu Ning tidied herself up a bit and went to work.
In the afternoon, Cao Jin was also wandering around the brigade.
Because when he went back at noon, he heard from Chen Zhaodi and Cao Dashan about Shen Mu Ning's achievements that morning.
It's unbelievable that Cao Jin has such great strength against Shen Mu.
It should be noted that the educated youth from the city were physically weaker than those born and raised in the countryside.
In the past, the educated youth who went to the countryside, let alone being able to do farm work well, most of them couldn't even earn enough for their basic food rations.
Even now, after staying in the countryside for so long, not all the educated youth in the designated settlements can earn the full work points every day.
Of all those people, only Chu Mingxu was able to keep up with the pace of work when he first arrived.
Once he adapted to life in the countryside, he became one of the people in the brigade who earned the most work points every day.
But these people were all strong laborers, and each of them could earn about eighteen or nineteen work points during the autumn harvest.
In other words, even they are not as good as Shen Mu Ning. Does that mean Shen Mu Ning's physical strength is better than that of men like Chu Ming Xu?
Cao Jin didn't believe this, so he spent the afternoon wandering around the brigade, mainly waiting near the drying ground.
Then Cao Jin saw Shen Mu Ning quickly carrying corn on her back and walking towards the drying ground.
Cao Jin waited near the drying ground for an hour, during which time Shen Mu Ning came and went three times.
Cao Jin walked back with mixed feelings. It seemed that Shen Mu Ning was indeed very strong. Should he still carry out his plan?
As Cao Jin left, Shen Mu Ning glanced at the spot where he had just been.
In fact, Shen Mu Ning had already noticed that Cao Jin was watching her, but she didn't make a move.
As Shen Mu Ning walked away with her basket on her back, her thoughts raced: Cao Jin was looking at her just now, but it didn't look like the way he had been scrutinizing her before.
The gaze that had been directed at him earlier carried a hint of disdain, and it was withdrawn the moment he noticed it.
What kind of people in this group have such keen senses?
After arriving at the Xinshan Brigade, I did not do anything out of line, so that person was most likely sent by Cao Jin to monitor me.
However, now that we know that the person is not Cao Jin, it means that apart from the Red-Letter Soldiers, he has nothing that can threaten us.
He didn't have any particular secrets worth digging out.
Let's deal with Cao Jin before the wheat harvest.
Once Cao Jin is subdued, won't it be easy to find out who he sent to monitor him?
Afterwards, Shen Mu Ning focused on her work, and in that afternoon she earned another nine work points.
Now, no one talked about Shen Mu Ning anymore, mainly because everyone knew about her abilities that morning.
In the evening, after dinner, the educated youth washed the vegetables as arranged the day before.
After finishing her meal, Shen Mu Ning washed all the vegetables she had exchanged for.
Just after Shen Muling and the others finished washing all the vegetables, there was a knock on the gate of the educated youth settlement.
Because of the special geographical location of the educated youth settlement, they would lock the gate after all the educated youth returned.
So when someone knocks on the door, they have to open it themselves.
Shen Mu Ning knew that it was Aunt Gui Hua who had come, so she hurriedly opened the door.
"Aunt Guihua, come in quickly." Shen Muning led Li Guihua in.
Li Guihua carried a basket of vegetables on her back and put them down as soon as she entered the yard.
She took out some vegetables and handed them to Zhuang Xue, who was still washing them, saying, "Zhuang, you can wash these vegetables too."
"I've come to learn how you make kimchi. I don't have anything to offer, so these vegetables will serve as my tuition."
Li Guihua was quite embarrassed; she had only brought this much food when she came to learn someone else's craft.
What Li Guihua didn't know was that Zhuang Xue was even more embarrassed to accept her gifts.
She had heard from Dingxiang before that pickled vegetables were something that every household in Sichuan Province had, and that it was very easy to learn how to make them.
Zhuang Xue quickly declined, saying, "Auntie, this kimchi is very easy to make. You don't need to do this. Please take these vegetables home."
"That won't do. You can't learn someone's craft without paying tuition."
Li Guihua kept stuffing the stuff into Zhuang Xue's hands, but poor Zhuang Xue wasn't as strong as Li Guihua, so she could only ask Dingxiang for help.
Upon receiving Zhuang Xue's signal, Ding Xiang quickly stepped forward, "Auntie, making kimchi is really very simple. How about this, we can exchange these vegetables of yours with you?"
Dingxiang knew that Li Guihua didn't intend to take advantage of them, but she still felt it was inappropriate to just accept the gifts.
However, they had originally planned to exchange some more vegetables at the brigade, and now Aunt Guihua could help them out.
After hearing this, Li Guihua no longer refused, but simply accepted a token amount of money from them.
Dingxiang knew that Li Guihua had not charged a reasonable fee, so she taught Aunt Guihua even more diligently.
Aunt Guihua watched her make kimchi and carefully explained each step and its purpose.
Dingxiang even explained all the potential problems that might arise later.
After learning how to do it, Li Guihua went home happily.
The people of Lingbei don't have many vegetables to eat in winter; the only things they can store are radishes and cabbages.
The way she learned to preserve vegetables from the educated youth this time will finally allow her to add a few more dishes to her family's repertoire.
When she goes back, she'll have to tell the people she's close to, and encourage them to give it a try this year.
Anyway, they feed all the vegetables they can't finish eating in the summer to the pigs, so even if these methods don't work, it's not a waste.
After returning home, Li Guihua called her sisters-in-law and close friends and shared this method with them.
When Gu Chengde returned from his private plot, he found the house bustling with activity. No one even noticed that he and his eldest son had returned.
Gu Chengdela pulled over Li Guihua, who was wiping the clothesline, and looked at his busy eldest daughter-in-law and youngest son.
He quickly asked, "What are you doing? Why did you pick so many vegetables?"
Li Guihua was about to say who dared to disturb her work, but when she heard Gu Chengde's voice, her anger immediately subsided.
"Oh, I want to make these vegetables into dried vegetables so they can be preserved and eaten in winter."
After listening to Li Guihua's words, Gu Chengde didn't know how to evaluate them, because he didn't know if they would succeed.
"Where did you hear this idea from?"
Li Guihua looked at Gu Chengde with a smug expression: "Couldn't I have come up with this myself?"
Gu Chengde smiled faintly and remained silent, knowing that Li Guihua would eventually tell him.
Seeing that Gu Chengde wasn't responding, Li Guihua could only tell him that she had learned it from the educated youth.
After hearing this, Gu Chengde did not stop Li Guihua's actions.
Since this is the method mentioned by the educated youth, it proves that this is how vegetables were preserved in their hometown.
If the experiment is successful this year, we can tell the whole brigade next year, and it can also be promoted to the whole of Lingbei.
In this way, people in Lingbei will not lack vegetables in winter.
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