Chapter 36 Hunting

"50 yuan? How can it be so much! Ruoqing, those things are all yours...Okay, even if I owe you, I will definitely pay it back in the future. Ruoqing, then don't be angry with me, okay?"

"Then just admit it. Don't come to me casually anymore. I hope that the next time you come to me, it will be when you return the 50 yuan to me." Shen Ruoqing smiled, and this smile almost made Lin Chen blinded.

By the time Lin Chen reacted, Shen Ruoqing had already left.

He was so angry that he didn't get any benefits, but instead he had an additional debt of 50 yuan!

Shen Ruoqing returned home in a good mood. Old Mrs. Ji was preparing things for the market.

"Mom, what are you going to do with all these things?"

Shen Ruoqing watched her mother take out sweet potatoes and some vegetables, as well as sorghum flour that she didn't like, as well as some straw sandals, bamboo baskets and so on.

"My dear, Mom is preparing some things for the market. Do you want me to go with you tomorrow? We'll go to the Red Flag Brigade in the next village. It's quite close."

"Going to the market?"

"Yes, everyone brings their extra things to exchange with others, bartering. Although you can buy anything at the supply and marketing cooperative now, you still need a ticket."

"Isn't private trading prohibited?"

"We are bartering, exchanging, not a private transaction."

Shen Ruoqing was a little interested now. "Then mom, wake me up early tomorrow and I'll go with you."

Shen Ruoqing thought that going to the market was fun, but when she got there, she found that the scene was completely different from what she had imagined.

On both sides of the not-so-wide dirt road, people in ragged clothes squatted sparsely, each with a willow or bamboo basket in front of them.

There were some chicks, ducklings, wild vegetables, fruits and other things in the basket.

If you want to go a little higher, you can see people selling candied haws on the roadside.

Shen Ruoqing's enthusiasm was extinguished by a basin of cold water.

Is that all? What's so good about this market?

But she still found something good. It was a five-foot-long piece of defective floral cloth. She loved it. Last time, Shen Ruoqing bought her cloth to make new clothes, but she planned to wear them during the Chinese New Year. There were many competitors. In the end, she bought the defective floral cloth at a high price of thirty kilograms of sweet potatoes and ten kilograms of sorghum flour.

Seeing how Old Lady Ji was trying to fit the flawed floral cloth on her body, Shen Ruoqing was very upset. Was her mother planning to use this piece of tacky floral cloth to make clothes for her? "Ruoqing, are you here at the market too?" Song Feifei was from the Red Flag Brigade. She didn't expect to meet her at the market.

“Yeah, but it feels like there’s nothing good on this episode.”

"Do you want to exchange for some pig offal? My family brought a lot of pig offal today, and now there should only be a few pig bones left. If you want it, hurry up, or it will be gone soon."

"Yes, yes." Although Shen Ruoqing didn't lack this little bit of money, she appreciated Song Feifei's kindness.

After changing the pig bones, Shen Ruoqing carefully picked and chose and changed some other things.

In the end, Shen Ruoqing and Old Lady Ji got back five ducklings, two chickens, a piece of floral cloth, two pork bones, and two pounds of cherries.

Han, who came with her, also twitched her lips. Why did her sister-in-law have to exchange for these sour cherries when there were so many wild fruits everywhere in the mountains? She even had to exchange them for vegetables. The mother-in-law must love her sister-in-law too much.

Shen Ruoqing didn't expect this cherry to be so sour. The cherries imported in modern times are sour and sweet, and very delicious. I didn't expect the cherries at this time to be so sour. But I didn't want to waste them. I thought that since the cherries were so sour, I could make some cherry wine.

This is how the trip to the market came to an end.

After returning to the village, the team leader notified everyone to hold a meeting. The content of the meeting was that everyone was short of food, so the villagers were organized to go hunting in Daqing Mountain. For this purpose, the village also invited a hunting expert from a nearby village to lead the team.

The meeting was mainly to determine how many people each family would send. This was related to the distribution of prey later, and the villagers signed up enthusiastically. There were many people going, so the Shen family only sent Shen Ruoqing's eldest brother Shen Xiangdong.

When Shen Xiangdong came back, he promised Shen Ruoqing: "Little sister, when I come back, I will hunt a lot of meat for you!"

Shen Ruoqing nodded: "Brother, I believe you. But there are all kinds of things on Daqing Mountain. Although there is someone leading the team this time, you still have to be careful."

Old Mrs. Ji prepared some dry food for Shen Xiangdong, and Shen Xiangdong followed the large group into the mountains.

The young man leading the group was called Zhou Feng. Although he was only 20 years old, he had been hunting with his grandfather since he was a child. Originally, they wanted to invite his grandfather to come, but the old man said that he was old and pushed his grandson out. Zhou Feng had an old-fashioned homemade gun, and because of this, Tang Jiandang was willing to let Zhou Feng lead the team.

Shen Ruoqing continued to go to school. The final exam was coming up soon, but there would be a joint test before the exam. I heard that this exam was jointly conducted by several schools in the county, so even Shen Ruoqing had to review well.

On the day of the joint entrance examination, Shen Ruoqing finished the test paper very quickly. Before she had time to check it, a ball of paper was thrown next to her.

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What does this mean? Who cheated and threw it in the wrong place? What if someone saw her and misunderstood her as cheating? After thinking about it, Shen Ruoqing stepped on the paper ball.

"Teacher, I saw this student cheating!"

A thin girl stood up behind her and looked at her proudly.

"Cheating?" The invigilator immediately became serious when he heard these two words, "Student, you can't just accuse someone of this. Tell me how you saw her cheating?"

"I saw with my own eyes a piece of paper with the answers written on it under her feet! Teacher, if you don't believe me, just ask Shen Ruoqing to lift her feet up and take a look." The girl who reported the cheating was named Liu Xinyi, and she was Ji Meihua's eldest granddaughter.

"Which eye of yours saw me stepping on the note?" Shen Ruoqing slowly lifted his foot up, and there was nothing on the ground.

"I feel you have falsely accused me and I demand that you apologize to me."

"How is this possible? I clearly..." Liu Xinyi widened her eyes.

"Teacher, I demand that this student apologize to me. Fortunately, I have finished the test paper. Otherwise, I would definitely not do well in the exam if I were affected by this. I hope the teacher can handle this fairly." Shen Ruoqing said.

"Student Liu Xinyi, you should apologize to student Shen Ruoqing." Before, when Liu Xinyi said Shen Ruoqing cheated, the teacher didn't believe it. Shen Ruoqing's grades were well-known, so how could he cheat? Now there was no evidence, and the teacher immediately and severely asked Qi Xinyi to apologize.

"I'm sorry! I saw it wrong!" Liu Xinyi said gritting her teeth and sat back unwillingly.

"Teacher, can I hand in my paper early?"

With the teacher's permission, Shen Ruoqing handed in the test paper and left the examination room.

(End of this chapter)