Chapter 85 The Cold War Continues, the Luo Family

After lunch, Mingdai took Aunt Huang to visit the vegetables she grew.

As soon as Aunt Huang entered the storage room, she was hit in the face by the heat. Looking at the charcoal basin in the middle, she sighed that it was not easy to grow these vegetables.

Looking at the leeks in the basket again, she was somewhat surprised: "It has sprouted so quickly! Miss Xiao Ming, you are so amazing!"

Mingdai was also very happy. She took her to see the other vegetable baskets. Not only had the leeks grown, but the garlic sprouts had also grown to about five centimeters, and the bok choy and spinach had just sprouted.

When she saw the mushrooms, Auntie Huang was shocked: "Xiao Ming, you know how to grow these!"

Mingdai told Aunt Huang that corn cobs can be used to grow mushrooms, which left her stunned.

"Wow, you city people are really amazing. We have been farming all our lives, but we never thought that corn cobs could be used to grow mushrooms."

Huang's wife disagreed and said, "It's not the city people who are powerful, it's Xiao Ming the educated youth who is powerful. Look at that group of city people in the front yard. They have been in our village for so many years, and they have done nothing but cause trouble!"

Aunt Huang agrees with this.

Ming Dai was embarrassed: "It's not that I'm great, it's that I read a lot of books. As long as you study hard, you can find everything in books."

Aunt Huang was shocked: "Is there still a way to teach people how to farm?"

Ming Dai nodded: "Yes, there are specialized agricultural books, and there used to be specialized agricultural universities."

Aunt Huang shook her head and said, "It's true. We were all taught how to farm by our elders. I didn't expect there is a master who can teach us how to farm."

Ming Dai encouraged: "So children still have to go to school. If they don't go to school, they will know nothing."

Huang's wife nodded and said, "Mom, let's send the children to the commune to attend primary school at the beginning of the new year."

Aunt Huang nodded: "Go, everyone go, Huang Tao and Huang Xing should go too!"

She is not that short-sighted old lady who favors sons over daughters. If her granddaughter is literate, she will have a chance to find a job in the city, which is much better than getting married early and working for someone else for the rest of her life!

Mrs. Huang only cares about her children being able to go to school, and nothing else matters. She showered Aunt Huang with compliments.

Mingdai showed them the bean sprouts she had grown.

Huang asked embarrassedly: "Xiaoming sister, I also made it at home, why did it stink in the middle?"

Ming Dai thought for a moment and asked, "Did you touch the beans with something oily?"

Aunt Huang rolled her eyes: "She didn't wash her hands after dinner and touched the beans."

Ming Dai explained to the embarrassed Mrs. Huang the key to growing bean sprouts, and finally gave her half a basket of bean sprouts and mung bean sprouts.

Aunt Huang looked at the basket and saw that there were still quite a lot of bean sprouts. She counted the days and said, "Miss Xiao Ming, I don't think you can finish all of these. The grass market will open in a few days. You can take them over and exchange them with the mountain people. They will definitely be willing to give them to you."

Mingdai was worrying about her bean sprouts growing too much, so she nodded happily.

Finally, Aunt Huang did not forget her purpose and told Mingdai what she wanted to exchange. Mingdai wrote them down one by one in the notebook and explained that she should write now and would not know the result until the end of the month.

Aunt Huang hurriedly said there was no rush and it would depend on Mingdai's arrangements.

When leaving, Mingdai wanted to give half of the candy to Auntie Huang, after all, Auntie Huang had left her a lot of sesame seeds.

Aunt Huang was reluctant and only asked for half of the sesame candy and half of the hazelnut candy, as well as four pieces of peanut candy, pine nut candy and silk candy to share with the children at home.

Zhou Sinian looked at the half of the candy that was put back and breathed a sigh of relief. He took it and hid it in the cupboard.

Mingdai was helpless.

After seeing Huang Auntie and the others off, Zhou Sinian touched his stomach and said, "Not full yet."

Mingdai wanted to laugh when she heard this. Just during the meal, Zhou Sinian ate 7 cakes, which scared Aunt Huang so much that she said she couldn't afford to support him. Now he said he was hungry again?

Mingdai took him back to the space, cooked a large bowl of noodles for him, and took a small bowl for herself.

The food she ate today was too sweet, so she needs something salty to tone it down.

After dinner, the two went to work in the fields.

Mingdai plans to open up another piece of land to grow corn.

She also wants to eat corn milk buns, boiled corn, grilled corn, and cheese corn kernels... Slurp!

Author: Two foodies!

At the Youth League Center in the front yard, Qi Zhijun was extremely depressed when he saw Fang Rou walking right past him without even saying hello.

He didn't even need Fang Rou to apologize now, he just wanted her to talk to him.

But now, not only did she ignore me, she also stopped riding her bicycle and would rather take a horse-drawn carriage to the commune than talk to me.

He fell into deep confusion.

Liu Yan watched his lonely look from the side, and her heart became happier and happier.

This is one of the few opportunities for her to get in touch with these young masters. She must take down Qi Zhijun!

The two of them should quarrel a little more!

One of them was sad while the other was secretly happy, but Fang Rousi didn't care.

She held the bag in her hand, thinking that after the New Year, it would be a little earlier for Luo Cheng to come back, and a sweet feeling welled up in her heart.

In the village, many people were leaning against the wall in the sheltered area to bask in the sun, but when they saw her approaching in a dupatta and red rain boots, they stopped talking early.

Fang Rou was annoyed by being stared at and walked away with a blank expression.

In Liujiawan, the discord between the educated youth and the villagers has been going on for a long time. There is no need for her to get too involved with them. Even if she marries Cheng Ge in the future, she will not live in the village. She plans to take the exam and return to the capital, so that she can help Cheng Ge develop his career in the capital.

After she walked away, the few people who looked surprised spoke.

Old Mrs. Qing said mysteriously, "Tsk tsk, the girls from the capital are different. Look at what they wear. I would say that the new educated youth Fang's family is better off than the other educated youths. In the past few months, her clothes have changed into older ones, and so have her shoes. The red rubber rain boots she wears are not available to ordinary people. At least I didn't see any red ones in the supply and marketing cooperative where my daughter worked, only black ones."

The beggar's wife quickly agreed: "Auntie is right, this educated youth doesn't look simple."

Er Gouzi's wife followed closely: "It is said that the family has been receiving packages continuously, and a lot of good things have been sent down. Even if Fang Zhiqing does not work, he will not lack food."

The others also followed suit, hoping to make old Mrs. Qing happy so that she would give them some good, cheap stuff the next time the supply and marketing cooperative had some.

Old Mrs. Qing felt that her status was different from those country women because her daughter worked in the supply and marketing cooperative, married a city dweller, and brought her grandson to the city to work as a worker. She felt an inexplicable sympathy for Fang Rou, who was unique among the educated youth, and wanted to talk to her.

Unfortunately, Fang Rou usually ignored people and only went to the Luo family in the village, which caused a lot of gossip. After all, the Luo family still had a young son who had not yet married!

Fang Rou didn't know all this. She was sweetly calculating the time of Luo Cheng's return while thinking about the letter from the capital.

The Fang family's problems were more serious than she had imagined. Her mother's tone was more serious than ever before, and she also questioned the whereabouts of the things in her hands.

Fang Rou did not reply. She knew that even if she told her mother the whereabouts of the things, it would be of no use. In the end, the things would still be gambled away by her father. It would be better for her to hide them and wait until the dust settled before making a move. This would be better than the family having to eat coarse food in the previous life.

She didn't care at all about the dire straits the Fang family was in in the capital at the moment.

Fang Rou walked for a distance and stepped through mud before she reached her destination.

Looking at the peeling wooden door, she took a deep breath, raised her hand and knocked gently.

After a while, someone came over cursing.

"Knock, knock, knock! Knock where are you knocking!! What are you doing in this cold weather?!"

Fang Rou's smile, which she had managed to force out, froze abruptly.

The person who opened the door was Luo's sister-in-law Ding Xiaofeng. When she saw that the person coming was Fang Rou, her eyes rolled and a smile immediately appeared on her face. She greeted her warmly, but her eyes were fixed on the bag in Fang Rou's hand.

"Oh, it's Fang Zhiqing, come in quickly, mom, Fang Zhiqing is here!"

She didn't mention the swearing she had just done.

Fang Rou was disgusted to death, but she kept smiling and followed her inside.