Chapter 033 Put on cotton clothes

Sun Dong went to learn how to raise pigs, and all the eggs from then on were brought by Sun Feng.

Sun Feng was not as flexible as Sun Dong, but fortunately he was honest and would do whatever he was told to do and in whatever way he was told to do. The first time he came alone to deliver eggs, he told Tang Yuan exactly how he came and how he had kept his whereabouts secret when he was not there.

As the weather got cooler, the number of eggs laid by the thirty or so chickens they raised increased from ten to fifteen per day, and sometimes even to twenty per day. That means each chicken lays an egg every day and a half.

The number of eggs has increased, and the storage time is longer than before. Tang Yuan currently has two regular customers, Aunt Cao and Shen Wenyu. If you count herself and the customers she actively knocks on doors to promote her products, these eggs can basically be consumed.

Although this process is complicated, the risk is low. Every time she wants to find new customers, she will chat with Aunt Cao and eliminate those petty people. Even if they are willing to spend money to buy eggs, she will not sell them.

After all, if you are a petty person, you never know when she will be displeased with you because of some trivial thing.

She was vigilant and indeed eliminated some risks.

Another day, Tang Yuan was sitting in Aunt Cao's house. He saw Aunt Cao open the window and look out carefully: "Xiaofang, come here. I'll show you someone. You must never sell eggs to this person."

Tang Yuan passed by and saw the appearance of the people outside through the gap.

"There's no shortage of eggs in my family these days. I don't know how she got her eyes on me and has been trying to find something to hold against me," Aunt Cao frowned. "I really don't know why she is so petty. Originally, my son competed with her son, and it was all fair competition. His son was not chosen to go to the train station because he was incompetent. This..."

Aunt Cao was cursing and swearing.

Tang Yuan has already found the memory of a direct communication with the other party: "She came to me before and asked me if she could exchange eggs here, but I refused."

"She really did look for you, luckily you refused!" Aunt Cao was still feeling scared.

"It's okay. We are just exchanging things. It doesn't matter if you catch me," Tang Yuan said with a smile. "Besides, I don't have many eggs. I can't give them to everyone. Otherwise, it would be considered speculation."

When she said this, Aunt Cao looked at her again.

Whether it was speculation or not could not be determined just from the transaction between the two people, but Aunt Cao had been in contact with Tang Yuan for a long time and knew that her situation was not simple. After all, how could an ordinary person find so many eggs from time to time.

However, Tang Yuan was right. The two of them never bought or sold anything, only exchanged. At least in this matter, it could not be considered speculation.

Thinking of this, Aunt Cao breathed a sigh of relief, glanced out the window again, and spat, "Bah, stare, stare, stare, you're not afraid of having nails in your eyes, and you still want to make life difficult for my family. Your family will be in trouble before ours!"

"What do you mean?"

"It's a long story..."

So, the two of them never mentioned the man outside again and started talking about gossip instead.

When Tang Yuan was about to leave, Aunt Cao once again showed a reluctant expression: "I am so happy chatting with you. I really hope you can chat with me every day. I am not as happy chatting with others as I am with you. We really get along well."

"I will come when I have time." Tang Yuan said. She also thought it was nice to chat with Aunt Cao. Not only could she listen to gossip, but she could also learn about the character of many people nearby from her, which was very helpful for her business.

After leaving Aunt Cao's house, she turned a corner and ran into the person who had been following her at the door.

According to Aunt Cao's gossip, this man is a person who flatters the powerful and bullies the weak. Her son had a girlfriend before and had a regular job in a factory, but she felt that her son was about to go to the train station and thought the woman's job was not good enough, so she tried every means to break up the two of them.

After much difficulty in breaking up the relationship, the son did not get the job at the railway station. When he went back to look for the girl, she had already been introduced to another man who also worked in the factory. It could be said that they were a perfect match.

After hearing this gossip, Tang Yuan felt lucky for the girl. With a family like that, she would have had a hard time even if she had married into the family. It was not easy for her to escape from such misery right from the start.

"There must be eggs in your basket." The woman, who had been staring for a long time, grabbed the handle of the basket.

"What are you doing? Are you trying to steal something?" Tang Yuan pulled back.

"No..." the woman responded, "Just sell me a few eggs. We really need eggs. We don't need too many. Three or five will do. I'll pay you. Whatever you say is the price."

"I'm not selling eggs," Tang Yuan pulled the basket back from her hand. "You're committing a crime, don't you understand? Don't drag me into this. Really, I don't know why you always think I'm selling things. I'm a good person, how could I be speculating? You're crazy."

Having said that, she avoided the other person and left quickly.

I was glad that I didn't sell the eggs to her in the first place, otherwise there would be a lot of trouble now.

Not to mention now, even in later times when the times change and business can be done seriously, there will still be trade disputes, and there will be no fewer now. And even if it is a trade dispute, the consequences of the dispute now can be much more serious than in the future.

It was this incident that made Tang Yuan more cautious. He only cooperated with old customers whose character he could verify, and would not easily develop new customers.

Anyway, she has to eat eggs herself. If she eats one a day, she can consume thirty eggs in a month. If that is not possible, she can eat two a day. There is no other source of nutrition these days, and eating two more eggs will not cause excessive cholesterol.

As the temperature became more and more suitable, the number of eggs increased, from a dozen or twenty a day to thirty, but at the same time, she also learned that low temperatures would lead to a decrease in the number of eggs.

This meant that the thirty-egg-a-day situation wasn't going to last much longer, at least not as long as she'd initially thought.

After knowing the news, she simply stopped worrying about selling the eggs. After all, the temperature in the game space was always suitable, and the eggs could be stored for ten or twenty days without any problem. After two rounds of ten or twenty days, the temperature would drop to the point where the number of eggs would drop again. There was no need to worry about not being able to sell the eggs.

Ignoring the eggs, she turned her attention to the cotton.

During this period, she harvested more than 100 kilograms of cotton. Apart from the gold coins needed to buy seeds and the cotton sold, she saved the rest.

She used more than fifty kilograms of cotton to make herself several thin cotton coats that she could wear inside and change into. As for outer clothes, she directly used her banknotes to buy cotton cloth and cotton and asked the ladies in the boiler room to help her make them.

What she finally made was a huge cotton coat that almost covered her entire body. Not only could it be worn as clothes, but it could also be used as a quilt at night, which effectively solved the problem of cloth and cotton shortages.

In addition, the aunties used the remaining fabric and cotton to make her two pairs of thick cotton shoes.

Everything was ready and the first snow of winter fell.

The large cotton coat and thick cotton shoes wrapped her whole body, making it almost impossible for the wind to get in, and making her look like a large, swaying penguin.

Two months have passed since Tang Jianguo's farce, and everyone's memory of the incident has gradually faded, but their sympathy for Tang Yuan still exists. At present, Tang Yuan is wearing new cotton clothes, and she has gradually gained weight from eating and drinking in the past few months, but everyone's feeling towards her is still mainly "sympathy".

"Slow down, be careful, the road is slippery, watch your step."

"Okay." Tang Yuan's head was wrapped in a thick cotton hat and scarf. He looked carefully at his feet. Even though the ground had been swept, there were still ice chips, making the road slippery and difficult to walk on.

Occasionally, we would encounter "ice assassins". At this moment, the temperature has not yet dropped to the lowest point. In some places, the ice is relatively thin. When we step on it, water will come out, and even our cotton shoes will become ice skates.

For this reason, she always carried an extra pair of cotton shoes so she could change them in the boiler room.

You can change them even if they are not wet. When the temperature drops, your feet will always be cold. Even if you wear warm cotton shoes, you cannot resist the cold. If you have a pair of replacement shoes, you can put the shoes you take off in front of the fire to bake from time to time. When you put them on again, both feet will be warm.

This is the advantage of working in a boiler room. If you change to other jobs, you won’t have such good conditions.

But because of the characteristics of the boiler room, many people come to get close to it just to wear a pair of warm shoes from time to time.

"In this weather, I wish I could stay here forever."

"I have to buy beehive coal again. When winter comes, beehive coal falls very fast. If you are not careful, it will be gone again."

"We are not so bad here. The welfare in the factory is good. At least there is enough beehive coal. I couldn't even buy beehive coal before. Life was very difficult. I had to rely on hard work to get by."

"In this case, a heated kang is better, it's more comfortable," the person who was speaking said, with his hands in his pockets. "In winter, I just want to lie on the heated kang, it's so comfortable."

"It's good to be able to lie on the kang, but there's no salary."

"Too."

Tang Yuan listened to what everyone said and put her hands in her pockets. She sat on a bench, her wide clothes pressed down, completely trapping her whole body inside. The temperature could not dissipate, and she didn't even need to change into cotton shoes.

But her favorite place is still the game space.

No matter how warm you keep, it’s still winter, and it’s definitely more comfortable to stay in a gaming space where the temperature is always constant.

As the weather got colder, she went out less often. Except for when she had to go out to get eggs, she stayed in the space the rest of the time.

During this period, she bought a lot of books from the scrap yard, including some story books.

The books are not circulated in the market, but people who have them in stock at home can look through the waste and even find a few "banned books", not only "sexual" books, but also many bloody and violent books. They are hidden very deeply, sandwiched between newspapers and old books, and then quietly sold to waste stations and finally to recycling sites, once and for all.

These books were not popular in later generations, but that did not affect her reading. She just regarded them as a way to find some excitement in her quiet life and to kill time. Before she knew it, half a day or a whole day had passed.

After reading the banned books, you can see different patterns when you read various serious textbooks and newspapers.

The main feature is a combination of meat and vegetables, so reading is not tiring.