After Xu Man finished speaking, she suddenly paused for a moment before realizing that Tang Baozhu was unaware of their discussion because Tang Baozhu did not live with them. This made her feel a little awkward.
“Baozhu, we didn’t deliberately avoid discussing this with you. We just discussed it while we were chatting at night before bed. Please don’t take offense.”
Tang Baozhu wasn't angry at all, seeing her cautious demeanor, since it was her own choice to live alone.
"I'm not angry. After all, I'm the one who wants to live alone. What's wrong with that? Besides, I don't want to go to the county town. It's too far. I feel like I'd lose half my life if I walked there."
"Now that you mention it, I don't want to go anymore. Just thinking about the four or five hours it takes to go back and forth makes me feel so tired! But I also want to go to the commune restaurant to improve my meals. It's such a dilemma."
Tang Baozhu saw that everyone's conditions were quite good. Logically speaking, if their families were well-off, they shouldn't have been assigned to such a far-away rural area. It was really too unbelievable. Why were all of them in such good condition?
She generally doesn't dwell on things she can't understand. Having lived such a long life in her previous life, the only thing she's come to terms with is not meddling in other people's business, just living life as she pleases, and not getting too caught up in things.
"Does everyone want to go out for a walk? Since we arrived here, we haven't really explored the village much. We're going to be here for who knows how long, so we should get familiar with the place."
"Sure, I'm bored after waking up anyway, might as well go outside and take a look."
Everyone liked the suggestion; both men and women agreed. Although the older educated youth didn't really want to go, they were worried that something might happen since everyone else was a new face, so they went along.
After agreeing on the terms, Tang Baozhu washed up and washed her face. She originally intended to just grab a few pastries to tide her over, but these pastries were far too exquisite and didn't look like something you could buy at a supply and marketing cooperative.
Finally, having no other choice, I grabbed a hard-boiled egg and stuffed it into my mouth in two bites.
I felt like I was choking, so I quickly drank a few more sips of water. When I came out, I found that almost everyone had arrived, so let's set off together.
As soon as she stepped outside, she saw a little boy walking over and coming straight up to Tang Baozhu. "Pretty sister, someone asked me to give you this."
The little boy shoved the things directly at Tang Baozhu and then ran away. Tang Baozhu was worried that he would fall, so she quickly caught him. By the time she realized what was happening, he was already far away.
"Hey, don't run away! Who told you to bring this over?"
When the little boy heard Tang Baozhu call him, he ran even faster, as if someone was chasing her.
Xu Man, Liu Lili, and Zhao Lifang all came forward, eager to see what was inside, and urged her to open it.
"Quick, look what's in the bag! I'm so curious, could it be from Comrade Jin, who's been helping you with chores these past few days?"
"It's possible. The youngest son of the brigade leader's family has a very obvious purpose."
Tang Baozhu was also a little curious. Wasn't the person who gave the gift afraid that she would think it was from someone else?
I opened the bag and found a diamond-encrusted hair clip inside. Although it was quite ordinary to Baozhu, who had seen many fine things, it was still very pretty for this era.
These sparkly clips should only be found in mirages, but we're too far from mirages here, though we're quite close to the other side of the river.
"Wow, Baozhu, this hair clip is so beautiful! I wonder who gave it to you."
No girl could resist such a pretty hair clip, especially since there aren't many clips like this around us these days. People around us were practically drooling over it.
"Baozhu, do you think this clip was a gift from the brigade leader's youngest son? If so, do you think it's possible to buy another one like this? It's so pretty, I'd like to ask him to get me one too."
"I don't know if he gave it to me or not. I'll just keep it for now and ask him when I see him someday. I'll also return the clip to him. It's not like I'm getting something for nothing. It's not like I can't afford to buy one myself."
Tang Baozhu has plenty of truly fine things, priceless jewels, let alone an ordinary hair clip. How could she possibly be bribed by an ordinary hair clip?
"Are you really going to send it back? That would be such a waste."
"Lili, don't talk nonsense. Baozhu is right to think this way. If you don't want to date him, you shouldn't accept gifts from men. Otherwise, people might think that you've accepted the gifts because you've agreed to date him, which would be too troublesome."
Li Feifei truly lives up to her role as the female lead; she's incredibly clear-headed and composed.
"Let's go, forget about this clip. Just ask him next time we see it, and if it belongs to Comrade Jin, we'll return it to him."
He stuffed the clip into his pocket and saw that the older educated youth were all carrying a basket on their backs. He realized that he had indeed forgotten to buy two baskets from the carpenter.
"Didn't you all come out to have fun? Are you carrying these baskets to pick some wild vegetables or something?"
“We’re used to carrying baskets. We take them with us when we go out to play, and we pick anything useful we see. Winter is long here, so if there are still wild vegetables, we’ll pick them and dry them in the sun later. That way, we won’t be short of vegetables to eat in winter. If you don’t mind the trouble, you can pick more, so that winter will be easier.”
The more Tang Baozhu looked at them, the more she felt that everyone got along quite well. At least the new comrades were inexperienced, and they would share their past experiences with everyone, which was quite good.
"How about we go to the carpenter's shop now and buy a basket? Then we can go somewhere else, so we don't end up with nothing to carry the nice things we see."
"Sure, it's still early, let's all go together."
The basket that Tang Baozhu found at Uncle Gen's house was quite beautiful. It just goes to show that his craftsmanship was indeed quite good, even though the carpentry work wasn't very pretty.
Then she found some baskets that could be used to make fruit platters, and Tang Baozhu felt that she knew what she was going to learn next.
She planned to give Uncle Gen some money and see if he would teach her how to make baskets and other similar items.
Although these things aren't woven from bamboo, they're quite pretty even though they're woven from rattan. Once I learn how to make them, I can also weave them from bamboo. Anyway, bamboo can be planted in the space, and I can also plant some dyeing plants, so it will be even prettier then.
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