Wang Shuning stewed the pig's trotters with soybeans and turned to the hall. "Aunt Zhu, do you have any eggs at home? I want to buy ten more."
"Let me see if there are enough." He Zhuzhu stood up and walked into the room. A moment later, she came out with a jar of eggs. "There are only seven left. Weren't there five eggs left yesterday?"
Before inviting everyone to dinner yesterday, Wang Shuning bought ten eggs from He Zhuzhu's house and used five of them for a bowl of scrambled eggs with chili peppers. She was alone and would not eat five eggs in one day.
"When I left home, my mother stuffed half a pound of tea into my bag. I don't usually drink it, so I thought of cooking some tea eggs for breakfast." In fact, that half a pound of tea was given to her by Song Guiying to entertain distinguished guests in the village and to build relationships. After Wang Shuning arrived in Dafeng Village, he found that the economic conditions here were not as pleasing as half a pound of pork compared to tea, and the price was several times lower.
He Zhuzhu put the eggs into Wang Shuning's large porcelain bowl and cooked tea eggs. She had heard of it but had never tried it. Tea was too precious and the villagers could not afford it. Only the big leaders in the town could get some.
After dinner, Wang Shuning put eggs in a pot to boil, cracked the eggshells slightly, and after the fire was turned off, let them soak in the pot, and then put them into a casserole after cooling.
Then she was wearing a rough farm clothes, holding a machete in her hand and cutting sugarcane in the sugarcane field in space.
The sugarcane in the space is different from the one outside. If you cut it off a finger's length from the root, it can still grow out after a week.
After chopping it, peel it and cut it into small pieces and put them into the press in the wooden house. You can smell the strong sweetness of the light green juice before you even take a sip.
Strain through a fine mesh sieve to make sure no bagasse is left.
Pull out the space in the bucket and pour it into a large pot and boil it until the color darkens and the juice becomes very viscous.
When it’s cooked to a certain degree, pour it into a tray to solidify and let it cool.
There are flour mills and rice mills in the wooden house, which can turn wheat into white wheat flour and husk rice into rice. Wang Shuning only needs to harvest the rice and wheat in the fields and take them to the wooden house for processing.
It takes a lot more effort to make brown sugar from sugarcane than from rice and wheat flour. Fortunately, there are presses, otherwise the process would be even more laborious.
In the supply and marketing cooperative, brown sugar costs 50 cents per pound, plus the corresponding amount of sugar coupons. The price is twice as expensive as rice and wheat, but because drinking brown sugar water is good for women and pregnant women, it has always been in short supply.
Brown sugar has a larger market than rice and wheat flour, which is why Wang Shuning spares no effort in making brown sugar.
There are many kinds of things grown in the space, but only a few can be sold in the town. Common fruits like apples and oranges are also sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives in Yihe Town, but there are very few consumers, and there is no black market for them.
On the one hand, there is a shortage of supply, and on the other hand, every household in Yihe Town is of average condition and does not have much spare money to buy fruit.
In order to open the door to the black market in this town, it has to be a necessity.
Wang Shuning also planned to catch some chicks and ducklings to raise in the space. Just buying eggs would be a considerable expense, not to mention that she also wanted to eat chickens. If she could raise pigs without killing them, she would also want to raise them.
The sweet potato field has been dug, and today we are moving to the rice field. We must wear warm clothes when using sickles to cut rice ears, otherwise the falling rice hairs will make our whole body itchy and uncomfortable.
"Your eyelids are drooping and you look so bad. When did you go to bed last night?" Wang Shuning asked Zhang Meili in confusion after she yawned three times in a row.
In the village, there is no fun except working, eating and doing things. People should go to bed early.
Zhang Meili's face was filled with deep resentment. "I don't know who to blame for this. Last night, the people who stole my room, Zhao Leyi and Liu Sicun, ran into my room and Jingyi's room and said a lot of inappropriate things. I was so angry that I couldn't suppress my anger. I closed my eyes for a long time before I fell asleep."
"Why did the two of them come to your house? Didn't they think the rent was too expensive and changed their mind?" The five of them did not live in the educated youth site, and except for the first day they arrived, they didn't even say a word to each other. Why would they come to your house for no reason?
At this point, Zhang Meili's eyes were filled with envy. "Shuning, you and Lv Beichu's hometowns are both in Beijing. Is Lv Beichu's family well-off?"
Wang Shuning frowned slightly and nodded, "He should be pretty good. Although we are high school classmates, I don't know much about his family situation. Why are you asking this all of a sudden?"
In his original memory, Lu Beichu's family was of working-class origin, and his father seemed to be the deputy director of a textile factory. If it weren't for his younger sister, Lu Beichu would not have gone to the countryside.
The novel only describes Lu Beichu's identity and background by saying that he comes from a well-off family, that he particularly dotes on his younger sister, and that his family does not discriminate against girls, otherwise they would not have let him go to the countryside.
However, Lu Beichu's father is quite old and will retire in a few years, so after Lu Beichu and Guo Jingyi got married, they first opened a restaurant in Chaoyang County, and later in City D. It was not until Lu's father passed away and the policy was completely relaxed that they moved their family back to Jing City.
Zhang Meili lowered her voice and whispered, "Yesterday at noon, Lv Beichu gave Jingyi a watch, but Jingyi confiscated it. As a result, Liu Sicun and Zhao Leyi saw it. I think they have developed feelings for Lv Beichu, so they came to Jingyi's house and mocked her openly and secretly."
Wang Shuning opened her eyes wide. She had always wanted to buy a watch, but she didn't know what time it would be inconvenient to do things. She didn't expect Lu Beichu to give it to her as soon as he said it. It turned out to be the male lead. "I didn't see him wearing it on the train."
"Wearing a watch is too ostentatious. If it weren't for Jingyi, Lu Beichu probably wouldn't have taken it out." Zhang Meili's thoughts drifted away. At that time on the train, she always thought that Wang Shuning's family conditions were the best among the five, but she didn't expect that Lu Beichu was the one. Watches are not something you can buy whenever you want. You have to have a way to get a watch ticket. As a result, Lu Beichu gave her an expensive watch just because Guo Jingyi said, "It's so troublesome not to know the time." The two of them haven't even confirmed their relationship yet.
Guo Jingyi is not the type to swallow her anger. "Then what? Guo Jingyi won't just stand there and get scolded, right?"
Zhang Meili was a little annoyed. "Jingyi didn't suffer any loss. She just said a few words to fight back, saying that they were meddling in other people's business. But I was scolded for no reason. I was really angry. Whenever I think of the faces of those two people last night, I can't sleep."
Wang Shuning's back began to get wet with sweat. "Zhao Leyi and Liu Sicun's attitudes were not very good on the day we fought for the house. Even if they know that Lu Beichu's family is well-off now, it's too late for them to show weakness."
Zhang Meili thought it made sense, but when she thought about how Guo Jingyi, who lived with her, had found such a good partner right after arriving in the countryside, and then thought about herself, she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.
After cutting the crops for an hour, Wang Shuning sat on the edge of the field with a kettle to rest. There was a big tree behind him that provided shade.
At first glance, the golden ears of rice hanging from the branches are more beautiful than tall buildings.
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