Qin Hanshu was off work that day, and Fan Hongxia came to see her early in the morning.
"We're going cherry picking in the back hill today, do you want to come?"
There is a mountain behind the garrison. Zhou Weiguang had been saying for a long time that he wanted to take Qin Hanshu there for a walk, but they hadn't been able to go yet.
Anyway, I haven't planned anything for today, so it's good to go out for a walk.
Qin Hanshu agreed.
The sun wasn't too harsh this month, but Qin Hanshu still wore a hat when she went out, carrying a water bottle filled with water infused with dried orange slices.
Last winter, when she ate oranges, she casually threw two seeds into her online space and used the resulting oranges to make a lot of dried orange slices.
I remember Zhou Weiguang was surprised at the time and asked her where she bought so many oranges.
She lied and said she bought it from the black market.
Fortunately, many people in the residential compound buy things on the black market, so Zhou Weiguang and his group probably already knew about it and didn't say anything when they heard about it.
Since then, whenever Qin Hanshu wanted to take something out of her spatial storage, she would say that she bought it from the black market.
The mountain behind is not very high; it only takes about ten minutes to climb from the foot of the mountain to the top. Moreover, the mountain path is well-maintained, gentle, and flat, and the children from the residential compound often run up the mountain to play.
Qin Hanshu's belly wasn't very big yet, so she could walk quite easily.
However, Liu Ercui's belly was already quite swollen. Fan Hongxia hadn't invited her, but when she heard about it, she insisted on coming along to play.
Fan Hongxia paid special attention to her when they went up the mountain, and only felt relieved when she saw that the other woman walked more nimbly than she did.
There are several wild cherry trees on the mountain, bearing a lot of cherries. Every year around this time, Fan Hongxia and her friends come to pick them.
Of course, it also depends on luck; the cherries might have already been picked by someone else.
It's okay if you can't pick them all; it's good to get some exercise by walking around.
Qin Hanshu was returning to the back mountain for the first time and looked around curiously.
The mountain has abundant vegetation, and various wildflowers are blooming beautifully this season, making for a pretty nice landscape.
Moreover, Qin Hanshu discovered that she could actually see the department store from the mountaintop, and it seemed to be not far away.
Qin Hanshu had an idea: why not just cross the mountain and take the tram to the department store?
Qin Hanshu pointed to the other side of the mountain and asked Fan Hongxia, "Sister-in-law, what place is that? How long does it take to get to our department store?"
Fan Hongxia looked at it and said, "That's a school, I think it's an accounting school. It'll only take about ten minutes by tram to get to your workplace."
Fan Hongxia glanced at Qin Hanshu and said in surprise, "You don't mean you're planning to walk through the back mountain to get to work from now on, do you? No thanks, girl. It will take you at least half an hour to cross this mountain, and then it will take you almost an hour to get to work by bus. You won't save much time, and you'll be tired."
Qin Hanshu laughed and said, "Do I look tired after climbing up from the foot of the mountain?"
Fan Hongxia observed carefully and found that Qin Hanshu was not even panting heavily; the pregnant woman had better stamina than Fan Hongxia, who was not pregnant.
Fan Hongxia smiled and said, "Your physical condition is really good."
Not only was she not tired, Qin Hanshu also felt that she could cross the mountain in twenty minutes.
Qin Hanshu: "I sit in the office every day, slumped over my desk for hours, which is actually more tiring. Appropriate exercise makes my body feel more comfortable."
Fan Hongxia thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, saying, "You're right."
However, we'll have to wait until the baby is born to discuss that further.
"What are you talking about? Come and pick cherries!" Liu Ercui called out from the other side.
The cherries from the wild cherry tree were incredibly sour, but everyone was still in high spirits and filled all the baskets they had brought. The group of five people each received about five or six pounds.
After eating the fruits produced in the space, Qin Hanshu rarely ate ordinary fruits anymore, let alone the wild fruits that grew on the mountain.
She took all the cherries she picked from the mountain and fed them to the chickens in her spatial dimension—even the chickens were a little annoyed.
Then I picked about the same amount of cherries from my space, made them into cherry jam, and put them into the jars I usually saved from eating canned food.
She only sent one jar to Cao Jing, and not to anyone else. She didn't want anyone to ask her for the recipe after enjoying it, only to find that their own attempts didn't taste the same and they might think she was keeping it a secret.
She took a jar to work so she could dip the biscuits in it as a snack.
"Sister Zheng, shall we go get some hot water?" Qin Hanshu got up, intending to get hot water to make milk powder and biscuits, and asked Sister Zheng if she was going.
"Go, go, wait for me!" Sister Zheng reached into the drawer, pulled out a handful of tea leaves, and threw them into the cup. "Let's go!"
The hot water room was near the elevator, and the two walked towards it while talking.
"You're living a good life, aren't you?" Sister Zheng looked at Qin Hanshu with envy. "You haven't even given birth yet, and you're already eating all sorts of good food."
She saw Qin Hanshu's baby formula can; that brand costs over ten yuan a can. How much does Qin Hanshu earn in a month? For her to be willing to drink such expensive formula like water shows how good her man is to her.
Qin Hanshu smiled but didn't say anything.
There weren't many people in the hot water room; now that the weather is getting warmer, fewer people are drinking hot water.
"By the way, I saw you walking with two girls the other day, on the first floor of our department store." Sister Zheng asked with interest, "Who were those two girls? They looked pretty good."
Qin Hanshu thought for a moment, and wondered if Sister Zheng was referring to Cao Jing and Ru Mei.
"They were all performers in the song and dance troupe, one of whom was my sister-in-law."
"Sister-in-law?" Sister Zheng exclaimed in surprise, "You're already married?"
Qin Hanshu nodded: "The other one isn't married, but he has a partner."
As soon as Sister Zheng opened her mouth, Qin Hanshu knew what her purpose was.
As I said before, women of this age seem to be quite enthusiastic about matchmaking.
Sister Zheng sighed regretfully, "It's Xiao Lin from the finance department. He's a young man in his twenties and still doesn't have a girlfriend. He asked me to find him one. He's a good catch, so his standards for a woman are quite high. I think those two girls with you are pretty. He'll definitely be interested in them."
He might be interested in her, but she might not be interested in him.
Qin Hanshu knew this Xiao Lin. Although his face wasn't ugly, he was probably only 1.6 meters tall and didn't care about personal hygiene. Sometimes when they bumped into each other in the corridor, they could smell the sour stench on him from two or three meters away.
Perhaps he felt his job was respectable, and being a vocational school graduate, he was extremely arrogant, always looking down on people at work and having no sense of interpersonal skills.
Qin Hanshu was glad that she had stopped Sister Zheng from speaking in the first place.
After returning to the office with the water, I found the place bustling with noise, as if something major had happened.
Sister Zheng is the most gossipy person; she grabbed someone and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
"Ye Zhongping has committed a misconduct offense and has been publicly reprimanded!"
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