Hu Wenhua wanted to offer to deliver it to her, but then felt it would be too abrupt.
After hesitating for a while, he finally straightened up and said in a normal tone, "My sister's family is slaughtering a pig tomorrow, and we can trade mushrooms for it. If you like mushrooms, you can come and trade."
Ding Jiajia's eyes lit up with a smile, and she thanked her softly, "Thank you for letting me know."
He's a really good person. Trading mushrooms for pork would be a very happy thing for the villagers, and he even took the initiative to tell her about it.
However, his parents earned a considerable income from collecting herbs. Although they weren't extremely wealthy, they were able to live a comfortable life. It was just that the villagers didn't know this and only saw that their family had no land and no security.
She wasn't craving pork.
Hu Wenhua sensed the girl's nonchalant tone and was worried that she wouldn't go or that she wouldn't know which house it was, so he became a little anxious. "My sister is Hu Shuiqing. The house on the high ground is the only one that's easy to find."
"If you find picking mushrooms tiring, I can help you."
After saying that, he felt it was too obvious and was afraid of scaring the young girl, so his burly body shrank back somewhat awkwardly.
He felt he should leave, but his feet seemed to have their own will and didn't want to go.
Ding Jiajia knew Hu Shuiqing; everyone in the village knew him.
In the past, the villagers only called her Fan Er's wife or Fan Er's daughter-in-law, but since last year when mushrooms and water chestnuts were exchanged for rice, the villagers have started calling her by her name, and she now has her own name.
She didn't have much of an impression of Hu Shuiqing before, at most knowing that she and the Fan family woman who bullied her belonged to the same family, but after the family split, especially after this series of events, she realized that she and the Fan family woman were different.
She had thought about getting to know him, but she never had the chance.
Their family makes a living by collecting medicinal herbs. They can use the herbs to buy meat and rice, so they don't need to collect mushrooms to exchange for them. They don't have many opportunities to interact with Hu Shuiqing.
Now, she's even more curious about the name of the burly young man who helped her.
Ding Jiajia is waiting.
But all she got in return was the boy's hesitant offer to help her pick mushrooms.
Afraid that he would think she was craving meat, she explained softly but clearly, "No need, my family has enough pork, no need for help."
He's tall and strong; it must be tiring for him to squat down and pick mushrooms.
Hu Wenhua thought that he wouldn't see her tomorrow, and that it wouldn't be good for her if he, as an outsider, couldn't come here often.
Undeterred, he pressed on, "What about the rabbit? Do you want to switch?"
He can be the master of the rabbit.
Ding Jiajia shook her head again.
He hesitated before saying, "I don't really like eating meat."
Unlike other families in the village, her family didn't lack meat, and besides, the meat her mother cooked wasn't very tasty.
When she was little, she always thought that meat was just not tasty. It wasn't until her parents took her to the city and she ate meat at a restaurant there that she realized it was just that her mother's cooking was bad.
She also considered making it herself, but the result was even worse.
She inherited her mother's bad cooking skills.
Switching it back would be a waste of meat.
Hu Wenhua scratched his head, unable to think of any other solution.
Or, could we find another excuse to come and see her tomorrow?
But what if the villagers see this? Won't they gossip?
Isn't this a bit unfair to a young girl like her...?
Ding Jiajia fiddled with the herbs absentmindedly, her eyes occasionally drifting towards the large man in front of her.
He was very tall and strong, much taller than Fan Dazhu and the others who often threw mud at her. In fact, there was no man in the whole village as burly as him. In the past, she was very afraid of this kind of person.
If they saw it, they would lower their heads and stay far away.
But she wasn't afraid of him at all; in fact, she felt somewhat at ease. What was the reason for that?
"you"
"I"
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