Meng Tao also climbed up the tree and sat on a branch to pick bayberries to eat. She picked whatever she wanted and ate as many as she wanted. It was so enjoyable that she ate so much that her teeth became sour and she dared not eat any more.

After weighing and counting the baskets of bayberries, they found that they weighed more than 5,000 kilograms, and together with more than a dozen baskets of loquats, they earned more than 1,000 yuan. The people of Yangjia Village were excited.

After settling the money, Captain Yang directed the members to carry the goods on their shoulders and using rickshaws and ox carts. It took more than an hour to finally move all the bayberries and loquats to the side of the road.

Seeing that it was getting late and the truck carrying the goods had not arrived yet, Captain Yang and Accountant Yang were both worried about Meng Tao. Meng Tao smiled and said that they had agreed on a time and the truck would arrive.

Captain Yang wanted to keep a few young men to help get on the bus later. Meng Tao said that some workers were coming with the bus. The villagers had worked hard all day, so they should go back to eat and rest so as not to delay tomorrow's work.

After much persuasion, Captain Yang and others were finally persuaded to leave.

Meng Tao waited for more than twenty minutes after they left, then closed her eyes and carefully sensed the surrounding environment to make sure that there was no one nearby. She waved her hand to put all the bayberries and loquats into the space, rode her bicycle to the commune as quickly as possible, and drove away in her jeep.

After passing Xingyang County, it was already completely dark. Meng Tao put away the jeep, took a bath in the space, and then cooked a bowl of rice porridge and some pickled vegetables for dinner. There was no other way, as she had eaten too much sour bayberries and her teeth were ache, so she could only drink the porridge.

After dinner, she changed into a set of loose khaki work clothes, put on a canvas worker's hat, tucked her hair into the hat, dressed like a female worker, and then put on a large gauze mask. She came out of the space and walked towards the black market in the south of the city.

If she rushed back to Linshui Village, Yanchong Commune overnight, it would be the middle of the night when she got home, which would scare Jinniu and others, who would think she was too bold and presumptuous, and she would inevitably have to listen to their nagging about safety issues. It would be better to wait until tomorrow morning before leaving.

So now that I have nothing to do, I decided to go to the black market. I plan to resell the items, so I just treat it as market research.

At this time, at a simple stall in the black market in the south of the city (it was just a piece of plastic cloth a little more than one meter long and wide, spread on the ground, and then placed a dozen items of goods), Tian Laoliu and Tian Laoqi were squatting on the stall. From time to time, people walked up to the stall and squatted down, picking and choosing, asking the price and bargaining. Within half an hour, four or five items were sold.

Tian Laoqi was rushing to count the money with shining eyes. The small owners of the nearby stalls were looking at him with envy. Right next to the Tian's stall was a middle-aged man selling medicinal herbs. He was wearing a coarse cloth vest and a bamboo hat, and was obviously from the country. He kept expressing his admiration and praising the Tian brothers for their business skills, as they sold so much in such a short time.

Tian Laoliu raised his hair that he had managed to grow, looked up at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and snorted disdainfully. He had been to Guangshi, a metropolis in the south, to buy goods. He had seen the world and experienced the peak of business. At that time, he and his fourth brother had just carried the big sacks over, and there were waves of people rushing to buy... Now, what was this like tonight? There were only a few scattered customers.

A sack of goods was stolen by thugs in Mengzhou, and the family has no stock left. Only these defective and low-quality goods are left. Buyers have no choice but to bargain for a very low price, so there is no profit at all.

But never mind, I’ll just sell as many as I can.

After counting the money, Tian Laoqi said happily, "Brother, Sixth Brother, there are more than nine yuan. Third Brother said that we should sell all these things and keep the money for our tuition. We can go to the No. 1 Middle School in the county next semester."

When he first moved to the county town, Tian Laoliu was just like Tian Laoqi, thinking about going back to school. Now he doesn't think so anymore: "We'll split the money equally. If you want to go to school, you go by yourself. I won't go."

"Sixth brother, if you don't go to school, what do you want to do?"

"My fourth sister-in-law just gave birth to a baby, so how can my fourth brother leave?"

"Mom will take care of Fourth Sister-in-law. When Fourth Brother's head wound is almost healed, we will go to Guangshi to buy more goods."

"But my third brother told us to study hard so that we can go to university in the future."

"Tsk, Third Brother just said that casually, and you believe it? Our family is in this situation now. We haven't moved our rural household registration out of the city, so we are considered illegal immigrants in the city. We don't have any connections, so Third Brother can't even become a government official. You still want to go to college? Even if you get full marks, will they accept you? Dream on!"

“…”

Tian Laoqi paused for a long moment, then suddenly cursed, "It's all because of that Meng Taohua! If it weren't for her mischief, Dad wouldn't have died, and my third brother would still be working as an official in the city and marrying a city girl. We would all have a good future, and our family wouldn't have ended up like this."

"It's her, damn peach blossom, stinky peach blossom, slut, rotten stuff!"

Tian Laoliu followed suit, gritting his teeth and saying, "I will never coexist with her! Does she think she'll become a phoenix after marrying into the city? She's so smug. Third brother said that the Shen guy would never really like a country girl, he's just playing with her. Third brother said it's never too late for a gentleman to take revenge, just wait and see, she won't have a good ending, one day she'll be abandoned and fall into our hands..."

"Disgusting woman, I won't touch her,"

"Why touch her? Just kill her!"

"right!"

The two brothers talked briskly to themselves, but they also knew to keep their voices down. People around them were only paying attention to their own stalls and could only hear their mumblings, but did not pay attention to what they were saying.

At the stall selling herbal medicine right next to it, a female worker in khaki overalls and a mask was bending over to pick up herbs from a sack to examine them. When a middle-aged man saw a customer coming, he quickly greeted them and introduced the herbs he had brought. He then hurriedly opened another small cloth bag, revealing two wild ginsengs of excellent quality.

The woman in khaki work clothes was Meng Tao. When she walked to the herbal medicine stall, she heard Tian Laoliu and Tian Laoqi talking about her. Not only did they curse her for being toyed with and abandoned, they even called her a "slut" and a piece of trash, and said they would take ten years to take revenge on her and kill her!

Meng Tao was so angry that she wanted to step on these two disgusting bugs to death on the spot!

She really intended to do this. After all, she came here in disguise and could run away after the deed was done.

(End of this chapter)