Song Songbai's cooking skills are quite good, probably because he has been in charge of his own business since he was a child.
One dish was not enough today, so Song Songbai chopped the bones he bought yesterday and put them in the pot, and added some black fungus he dug up from the mountain that day.
A delicious and nutritious soup.
Zhou Yian also secretly added some Ganoderma lucidum to nourish his wounded heart.
Early the next morning.
Because the article had just been published and had not yet been reported, and it happened to be the busy farming season, there was no reason to shirk farm work.
Zhou Yian still has to go to work.
But she couldn't go to harvest rice. Although she liked eating rice, there were probably all kinds of insects in the mud, and the thought of it made her scalp tingle.
Just do other work.
It just so happened that the soybeans were ready to be harvested, so the team leader arranged for her to do so.
It is not against discipline, and most women will not arrange to harvest rice.
It just so happened that the stems and leaves of the soybeans had turned yellow, and the seedlings and pods had dried up and turned dark brown.
But harvesting soybeans is also a technical job. It is best to harvest when there is dew. After harvesting, you should put it down gently to avoid the loss of the grains inside.
So often when most of the soybeans have been put into the wheat field, children will come with baskets in the evening and look for soybeans one by one.
Every grain of rice is stored in the warehouse.
These soybeans found do not need to be handed in. Those who have money can fry them, and those who don’t can grill them over charcoal.
They all smell delicious.
No one will dislike it!
"So, this is why you asked me to come out with you in the evening to snatch beans from the kids together?" Song Songbai looked helpless and held his forehead.
"Haha," Zhou Yian laughed awkwardly.
"You are my partner, if you don't accompany me, who will?"
Although I was a little tired from the farm work during the day, who could refuse free roasted beans?
"And it's not just children, many older women come to pick them up too."
Zhou Yian defended himself.
Sure enough, several aunties were also picking up trash. Zhou Yian also saw the familiar Aunt Zhang and even Old Lady Qi picking up trash.
"If you don't want to, forget it. I'll go find Aunt Zhang. She's a very nice person." Zhou Yian said and ran towards Aunt Zhang.
Old sisters, gossip, here she comes.
Song Songbai couldn't stop her enthusiasm at all. He shook his head and had to go back to cook.
So when Aunt Zhang turned around, her eyes sparkled, "Zhou Zhiqing, come over and pick up beans too."
"Yes, Auntie. I used to live with my grandfather in the countryside, and he often took me to pick beans." Zhou Yian replied.
"Oh, then you are half a country person, no wonder you look so kind to me."
"Yes, yes, I think the auntie is also very kind."
Zhou Yian looked around, ready to find an excuse to start the gossip session in a tactful way.
I found that most of the aunties were gathered in groups, and there was another auntie chatting next to Auntie Zhang.
There was a woman picking beans alone over there, and there was a little girl beside her.
Feeling alone.
"Auntie, why is that person over there always alone?"
Aunt Zhang looked in the direction Zhou Yian pointed.
"Oh, that one." Aunt Zhang deliberately lowered her voice. "She's a widow."
"What's wrong with being a widow? It's not what she thought it was." Zhou Yian was excited.
"She's also pitiful. She didn't marry into our Gejia Village at first. She gave birth to a girl there, the one next to her."
So, did both of her husbands die? The little girl's father wasn't from Gejiazhuang, so she only married into Gejiazhuang later.
Zhou Yian expressed shock with his eyes.
Aunt Zhang nodded in confirmation. "She married in after her first husband died. Then this one also lost his job digging a canal, so her mother-in-law kicked them both out, saying she was unlucky and brought bad luck to her husband."
"The village chief was so kind that he gave them the old house at the entrance of the village to live in."
"The village chief is pretty good. But even if she is unlucky, why don't the women care?" Being unlucky has nothing to do with women.
"Take a closer look. Do you think she's pretty? That's when things get complicated," said Aunt Zhang.
"Who did I offend?" Zhou Yian wondered.
"Ge Huiji's wife. Ge Huiji has taken a fancy to her. Some people say that they have seen Ge Huiji go to her room several times."
"Is Ge Huiji so fearless of death?" Zhou Yian joked. Could it be true love?
"Who knows? Anyway, Ge Huiji's wife found out later. The methods they used were cruel." Aunt Zhang deliberately lowered her voice.
"I'm the only one who knows. When I was walking towards the bamboo forest that day, I heard the couple arguing. Ge Huiji and his wife admitted that she was the one who spread the rumor."
"What rumors?"
"I know this. I've heard it several times," the woman next to her interrupted. "It's about that widow Li who can't stand her loneliness. She hooks up with men every day, several a night, and she talks about it with all sorts of details. As a result, no one in the village cares about her anymore."
"So it was Ge Huiji's wife who spread the rumor," the woman next to her looked at Aunt Zhang complainingly, "Why didn't you tell me if you heard it? Are we still good sisters?"
"Well, didn't I just forget it for a moment?" Aunt Zhang said embarrassedly.
In fact, he didn't want to meddle in other people's business for fear of offending Ge Huiji's family.
"That Widow Li is quite pitiful. Look at her picking beans now," Zhou Yian pondered, "She probably doesn't think of herself as a secret prostitute."
Otherwise they wouldn't be so poor. The children's clothes are also tattered, except for the nice colors.
"Actually, we all guessed it was gone later," said the woman next to us. "If it was true as the rumors said, with so many men, giving each a little would be enough for them to eat. How could they be in such a miserable state? I just didn't know it was Ge Huiji's wife who did it."
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