Chapter 208 Precious
After the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a faint green vitality gradually emerged in the distant mountains and fields.
Lu Miao was thinking of digging some wild vegetables, so he took a small hoe and asked Fu Jingyou to go out with him with a small basket, but when they got there, there was nothing.
I truly experienced what it means to "see grass from a distance but not near."
"I told you when I came here that it's not time yet. Look... you've made your shoes so dirty again."
Fu Jingyou carried the basket and looked at her helplessly:
"It just rained, the ground is so wet and slippery. What if I fall? Let's go home."
Fu Jingyou was a little unhappy.
Lu Miao knew she was in the wrong, so she pouted and hummed softly, letting him hold her wrist and walk back.
After the fourth day of the New Year, the families of He Da Ge and He Er Ge went back to work as usual.
The production team was repairing farm tools and preparing to start work again.
This time we are busy with land preparation and spring plowing.
The oil cake fertilizer piled up before the New Year was very successful. Not only was it better than those piled up before, but its dark and solid appearance also showed its "fertility" more intuitively.
He Hongjin agreed with Lu Miao that if the team needed someone later, he could come and pick one directly, and Lu Miao agreed.
Calculating the time for sowing seedlings, the women comrades who had previously learned composting from Lu Miao, under the instruction of He Hongjin, carried out the first collection of materials for composting after spring.
The threshing floor is basically not used during this season, so composting is done on both threshing floors.
Occasionally, when the weather was good, Lu Miao would go over to take a look and stop by the educated youth site to sit for a while.
She seldom went out and had much contact with the people in the team. After the spring, the guys at the educated youth site were busy earning work points and food rations, so they visited her less often.
It is worth mentioning that there were a total of six places for the educated youth point in the Spring Festival lottery to go home to visit relatives, and Geng Xiaoyun and her brother directly drew two of them.
After returning from the three northeastern provinces after the New Year, Geng Xiaoyun brought back two large bags of snow clams.
She knew that Lu Miao loved to eat it, so she collected it. This time when she went back, she greeted the uncle and aunt next door and asked them to collect all the forest frogs that the neighbors had caught themselves.
There were five or six kilograms in total, which was a bit too much. When Geng Xiaoyun came back, she was worried all the way, afraid that Lu Miao would think she was forcing the purchase.
Fortunately, when the things were delivered to Lu Miao, Lu Miao was only happy.
"I didn't expect you to bring back the frog. I didn't bring any money when I left. Can you come back with me to get it?"
Geng Xiaoyun wanted to say that there was no rush, but she remembered that Lu Miao was still pregnant and it would be unsteady for her to walk around.
Geng Xiaoyun nodded and followed Lu Miao to the Fu family.
Geng Xiaoyun used to live in the same room with Chen Miaomiao.
After Lu Miao moved out of the educated youth center, Geng Xiaoyun moved into Lu Miao's previous bed.
When leaving the educated youth site, Geng Xiaoyun went back to the house and searched around before coming out and walking out with Lu Miao.
The two people walked slowly.
When they had almost reached the corner of the pond, Geng Xiaoyun took out a small, thin package wrapped in oil paper from his pocket.
She handed the package to Lu Miao: "Here."
Lu Miao took it and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"It's nothing to be proud of. I went back to visit my family, didn't I? They asked how I was doing, and then they ended up talking about the big guys from all over the place at the educated youth camp."
"You bought me some snow frog. I've already written to my family about you. My mother heard you had an unstable pregnancy and some bleeding, so she asked me to give this to you."
"My bleeding happened so long ago. Why did you have to make such a big fuss? You even told your family and made your mother worry..."
"Haha, aren't you helping me too?"
"Where we are, wood frogs are worthless. Anyone can catch them in season. You gave me so much money last time, and even food coupons. When my family received the letter, they felt uneasy for a long time."
Geng Xiaoyun touched her head and smiled. She had run into a barber in Yanji before and had grown a short braid in the past six months.
She has always been the type of efficient older sister.
But now, due to the short braid on her back, her neat aura has slightly diminished, and she looks a bit silly.
"I'm only good at some physical work. If you have good ideas and easy tasks for the team, you can take me with you. I'll keep them in mind."
"As for money, even if you have it, I can't give it to you. I can only bring you these local specialties from my hometown to try."
"I always choose the right person. I chose you because you're suitable. Why would I care about you being so particular about this?"
"How can I be so particular? Aren't I saying these things just to make myself feel at ease and because I treat you like my own sister?"
Lu Miao snorted and laughed, feeling a little helpless.
But I am also very curious, what is it that can cure unstable fetus during pregnancy?
Slowly unfolding the small package and seeing what was inside, Lu Miao was shocked:
"This? For me?"
Geng Xiaoyun smiled and nodded.
Wrapped in it is a dried wild ginseng, the kind as thick as a finger.
Some tiny ginseng roots were crushed and broken, so Lu Miao held them very carefully, fearing that some of them would spill out.
At this time, the production team still had some side businesses such as raising chickens and ducks, and cultivating mountain products and mushrooms.
But I’m afraid it’s really hard to find many people who grow ginseng artificially.
The ginseng that Geng Xiaoyun brought must be pure wild ginseng without any human intervention, and judging from its size, it must be of a high age.
"No, no."
Lu Miao quickly packed the ginseng and stuffed it into Geng Xiaoyun's hand.
Lu Miao didn't understand the quality of ginseng, but she understood its value.
Geng Xiaoyun held her hand and pulled her:
"Oh, what's wrong with that? You're usually so outgoing, so why are you so slow right now?"
"This is too expensive! I can't take it. Please send it back to your family as soon as possible, or you can keep it for yourself!"
Whether it's about friendship or being sentimental, some things can be ignored, but they can't be so careless.
One dollar plus five kilograms of food coupons was enough to exchange for more than two kilograms of snow clam from Geng Xiaoyun, which was already a great deal.
Not to mention that Geng Xiaoyun brought back so many snow frogs this time, this wild ginseng is obviously worth far more than snow frogs.
Or give it to her...
If she really took it, wouldn't that just be taking advantage of others?
Lu Miao has his own bottom line and refuses it stubbornly.
"I brought this here to nourish you. It's friendship. How can you reject friendship?"
Geng Xiaoyun said:
"Besides, things only show their value when they are used in the right place. You can use it to make your body healthy, but I am as strong as a calf. If I take it back, won't I just be a rotten grass root?"
"What rotten grass roots! It's not like it can't be stored. Can't you keep it for later use?"
"Why keep it? I'll sell it to you. I can sell it to you, right?"
Sell?
That's fine.
Lu Miao didn't rush to refuse. Geng Xiaoyun saw her intention and quickly stretched out a hand and waved:
"Wu Jiao!"
“…”
(End of this chapter)
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