Not far from the village, we encountered other villagers, but no one spoke to us; we acted as if we didn't know each other and went our separate ways.
However, the villagers looked at the educated youth with absolutely unfriendly eyes, making Tang Baozhu want to gouge out their eyes.
Thinking about this, I suddenly realized that I was still not calm enough. I don't know why, but after arriving in this world, I suddenly felt irritable.
I wonder if those people who were taken to the hospital last night have returned?
I really hope they're brought back half-dead, and then they just hang around at home, half-dead and barely alive. Just thinking about it makes me happy.
After arriving at the educated youth settlement, all the firewood was piled up in the yard, ready to be dried a little more, and then piled up in the backyard so that it could be taken directly when needed.
As for the wild vegetables picked by all the women, they picked out the ones to eat at noon and in the evening, and washed the rest. They then blanched them in boiling water to remove the bitterness, and then dried them.
Besides the grain, which everyone stored separately, the other vegetables were all grown together in a small plot of land in the backyard. But it wasn't much, only about two-tenths of an acre. If it were more, the villagers would start to make trouble.
So people had no choice but to pick more wild vegetables while they were plentiful, so that they could dry them and have vegetables to eat in winter.
At this time of year, we can still eat wild vegetables mixed with grains, which is a way to save food. But when winter comes, if there are no wild vegetables, there will be no way to save food. So, in order to save food, we can only pick more. There can never be too many wild vegetables.
I had wild vegetable and sweet potato porridge for lunch. I really felt like throwing up after eating Tang Baozhu. Fresh wild vegetables are naturally a bit bitter, and sweet potatoes are naturally a bit sweet. When the two were cooked together, a few grains of salt were added.
The taste was truly bitter, sweet, and a little salty, but seeing how much others enjoyed it, I could only force myself to finish my share.
Because Tang Baozhu didn't buy any whole grains, while most of the others ate whole grains, everyone asked her if she wanted to go and buy some more.
Otherwise, cooking would be a bit difficult. To be honest, Li Xue didn't want to, but she thought that it would be okay to eat separately after dealing with all the bad guys.
However, all the grain in the warehouse next to the brigade headquarters had been taken by the puppets. No one has noticed it yet, but that's only because no one is buying the grain. If they were to buy it now, they would definitely be discovered.
In the end, I could only tentatively ask if there were any wives from outside the village who were a bit easy to talk to, and if I could buy the house from one of them, it would probably be more cost-effective.
He had run out of money and needed to buy food, but he was broke. However, he had brought a lot of cloth with him, which he thought he could trade with them.
Finally, Ye Li told me that no one in the village could be trusted, whether they were women who had married into the village or children as young as a few years old.
Finally, the others said they were willing to exchange some fabric with her, since they hadn't made clothes in a long time and didn't have any fabric to patch their clothes. So when they saw that she had some fabric, everyone was willing to exchange with her.
Tang Baozhu had plenty of fabric in her space, and she quickly bought 100 jin of sweet potatoes, 50 jin of potatoes, and 30 jin of brown rice, all of which were very cheap whole grains.
This is already a lot. If we exchange it again, other people won't have enough food to eat this year, so we didn't plan to exchange too much.
Tang Baozhu wanted to share the refined grains she bought at the brigade headquarters, but the others felt they were taking advantage of her and were unwilling to cook her refined grains together with their coarse grains.
That's why Tang Baozhu bought so much coarse grain, so that everyone wouldn't feel embarrassed in the future. But at the same time, it seemed like her own fine grain was being wasted.
She didn't feel embarrassed about eating alone; she just felt that the atmosphere at the educated youth settlement was quite good, and it was best not to disrupt the current atmosphere. It seemed like it wouldn't be a bad idea to eat something delicious after dealing with those bad guys.
The village head and other village officials haven't returned all day. It seems the lightning strike last night must have been particularly severe, as no one has even come back to report it.
Is it because it's too serious?
So the town's hospitals won't admit you; you can only go to the county or city?
If that's the case, it would be great.
That night, as Tang Baozhu lay in bed preparing to sleep, she sensed the puppet contacting her. From its words, it seemed that the town's Party Secretary, Mayor, and other officials were not good people.
He asked Tang Baozhu for instructions. What should he do?
Do I need to ask for permission?
Then we should just use a Heavenly Thunder Talisman to blast them away. What's the point of keeping these social parasites and scum around?
No one can do anything to them, so they can continue to roam free, and I consider myself to be acting on behalf of Heaven.
I don’t know how much merit I will accumulate when I leave, but just thinking about it seems pretty good.
If we do more to uphold justice and accumulate more merit, it won't be a waste of time, given the great opportunities this era offers.
In fact, there were many poor families in this era, so they simply plundered all the wealth and resources of corrupt officials and used the plundered money and food to help the poor families, which would be another source of continuous merit.
The next morning, Tang Baozhong saw that no one else seemed to want to make breakfast, so she took out some fine grains and made herself a bowl of noodles. She couldn't refuse to eat; there was no shortage of food, and she should eat as much as possible, at least it would be better for her health.
The older educated youth witnessed this scene but didn't say anything; they simply pretended not to have seen it.
The newly arrived educated youth, seeing that the older educated youth had no objections, couldn't suppress their restless hearts. They weren't used to not eating breakfast, so they secretly took some of their own food to cook themselves some breakfast.
Tang Baozhu expressed her approval of their approach, noting that the emaciated appearance of the former educated youth clearly indicated a lack of nutrition.
Nothing is more important than health. If you're not healthy, no matter how much you save on things, it's useless if your health collapses.
After eating and drinking their fill, the group put on the gloves necessary for work and headed towards the square of the brigade headquarters.
Although Tang Baozhu guessed that there was no need to work today, others probably didn't know. Besides, the fields couldn't be left uncultivated forever; it would be disastrous if this season's harvest was wasted.
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