As An Moxue followed him, she observed the surrounding environment and memorized the route.
They chatted as they spoke: "Brother, what's your name?"
The man replied, "Big sister, you can just call me Xiao Sanzi."
"Brother Xiao Sanzi, how far is it?" Xiao Sanzi led An Moxue, turning left and right.
"Almost there, just ahead."
After walking for a few more minutes, we stopped in front of a wooden door. We knocked three times short and two times long, and after another minute, we knocked three times long and two times short before someone came to open the door.
After going inside, Xiao Sanzi whispered something in the doorway, then said to An Moxue, "Big sister, just go with him."
An Moxue said to Xiao Sanzi, "Thank you, Brother Xiao Sanzi."
The person who opened the door led her into a room. "Wait a moment, ma'am, I'll go get something."
A short while later, the person who had gone out returned, carrying several bags and a scale.
"Big sister, take a look, and then I'll weigh it for you."
An Moxue looked at them and asked, "What are the prices?" "Rice is 55 cents, flour is 60 cents, and the pork you want is all lean, so it's cheaper at 1.5 yuan per pound. Ribs are 50 cents. If you're lucky tonight, you'll get beef, which is a rare find, at 3.5 yuan per pound. How much do you want?"
"Ten pounds each of rice and wheat flour, how much pork and beef do you have left? Can you give me a few dozen pounds of each?"
“Okay, big sister, let’s do it one step at a time, shall we?” An Moxue nodded.
The man began weighing the items: "Ten jin of rice for five yuan and fifty cents, ten jin of flour for six yuan, twenty-two jin of pork for thirty-three yuan, thirty jin of beef for one hundred and five yuan, and a small half-piece of spare ribs for three jin and eight liang for one yuan and ninety cents. The total is one hundred and sixty-one yuan and forty cents." The man helped her put the meat at the bottom of the sack and the rice and flour on top.
An Moxue paid the money but didn't leave immediately. Instead, she asked the man, "Brother, what's your name? How can I contact you if I want to buy something again? Do you buy things here?"
The man replied, "Sister, you can just call me Er Gouzi. If you want to buy something, go to the black market and find Xiao Sanzi, and have him bring you here. Or you can come here and knock on my door. If you have anything to sell, you can come here and find me. Knock seven times, stop once, and then knock five more times."
"Okay, I'll definitely come back to you next time I need anything. I'll be going now, brother, see you later."
He said, "Okay, sister, take care, come again next time."
After carrying her things for a while, An Moxue looked around to make sure no one was watching, released her bicycle, looked around again, and then put her things into her spatial storage.
She rode her bike back to the house she had previously visited, put away her bike, climbed over the wall, opened the door, and went inside. The man was still asleep and hadn't woken up.
An Moxue turned around and quickly left the house, finding a place where she could observe the house's movements without being easily seen by others, and then entered the space.
When the man woke up at daybreak, he found that something was missing from the house. There was no shouting or cursing, nor did he call the police. Strangely, he simply checked the house inside and out as usual, and then went to work.
After An Moxue noticed that she had gone out, she looked around to make sure no one was paying attention before leaving the space and following the man from a distance. She only needed to be able to see where he was going, and she didn't dare to get too close for fear of being discovered.
However, An Moxue felt that the figure was very familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it before.
Finally, after the man entered the film studio, An Moxue turned around and went to the state-run restaurant, ate breakfast, packed ten steamed buns, and left.
An Moxue did not stay in the county town; she rode her bicycle directly back to the village.
When they were almost at the village, An Moxue put her bicycle into her spatial storage and then removed her makeup inside.
Once outside the space, she wandered through the woods, carrying a basket in one hand and a woodcutter's axe in the other.
Pick up any mushrooms you see, chop down any dry branches you see, and slowly make your way home. By the time you get home, you'll have a basket full of mushrooms and a big bundle of firewood.
The two little ones were released from the space, and some food was added to their bowls. An Moxue went into the space to take a bath, then lay down on the kang and fell asleep immediately.
She slept soundly for days.
When she woke up again, she glanced at her watch and saw that it was already past 4 a.m. She got up and moved around a bit before making dinner. But when she opened the door and went outside, she realized something was wrong. She rubbed her eyes, looked at the sun again, and then at her watch. It was already past 4 a.m. She had slept for a long time.
After performing a set of punches, I felt completely refreshed. When I went inside to cook, I discovered that two wolf cubs had dug a large hole in the corner where the firewood was stored.
She had originally squatted down to fill the hole back in, but as she did so, a yellowish object was revealed at the bottom of the hole. She dug around with her hand and discovered a golden corner. She found it a bit unbelievable; could there be hidden gold here?
Then she took out a military shovel and started digging. One gold bar, two gold bars, three, four, five... twenty gold bars. She buried 20 gold bars in a corner of the wall.
An Moxue found it hard to believe. Was this some kind of windfall that came to her while she was sitting at home?
After thinking for a moment, he went into the storage room of the space and found the metal detector. He took it out and searched every corner of the house. Under a corner of the bedroom, the metal detector beeped.
Following the sound of the metal detector, An Moxue dug down until she had dug nearly a meter deep when a wooden box was revealed.
Amo Xue kept digging at the wooden box, digging and digging until she finally dug out the whole box. She probed it again, but when there was no sound, she gave up. Then she opened the box, and wow, it was a box full of neatly stacked gold bars.
She counted them; there were fifty in total, plus twenty in the kitchen, making a total of seventy gold bars. She instantly felt incredibly lucky, it was amazing! With a wave of her hand, she put them away!
Buying a house comes with so many gold bars! Who buried them? Overjoyed, she took a detector and went into the yard, scanning every inch of the ground with it. There was no more sound, but she was still very satisfied. So many gold bars, seventy of them!
An Moxue was in a great mood and decided to celebrate. She went into her space and picked strawberries, bananas, apples, oranges, and grapes to make a fruit salad. She ate the fruit salad and grilled fish for breakfast.
In a good mood, An Moxue decided to do nothing today. After finishing her meal, she locked the doors and windows and strolled around the village.
I went to Uncle Ma's house to chat with Aunt Ma for a while. Not long after, the two of us went to the entrance of the sales point. There was a group of men and a group of women in front of the door, talking about this and that.
When An Moxue and Aunt Ma arrived, they were talking about Li Laitou's mother and his wife Wang Zhaodi. This family was truly something else; you never know when to speak of Cao Cao, and he appears right there.
Li Laitou's mother arrived, and someone called out from afar, "Laitou's mother, come here, let's chat for a while. How's your pregnant daughter-in-law doing these past few days? Is she feeling any better?"
Li Laitou's mother: "Don't mention her, she's bad luck, a spoiled brat. She thinks she's the ancestor just because she's pregnant. She's so beautiful, who does she think she is! She doesn't do any work all day, and she keeps saying she's not feeling well. All she thinks about is eating fine grains. She's already struggling to make ends meet, and she wants eggs every day. She's just dreaming! She's dreaming faster than she can dream."
Some people said, "They're educated youth sent to the countryside, they must have some money, you should try to coax them a little."
Li Laitou's mother said, "What a load of rubbish! It's just a tattered quilt that's been used for who knows how long, the cotton is all stiff, there's nothing there."
Some people advised her, "You old hag, the baby in your belly is the most important thing."
Li Laitou's mother said, "Only what is born is a child; what's inside the belly is just a piece of flesh."
Well, it's like fire meeting water—they're incompatible.
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