Chapter 163 Bamboo Shoots

Moreover, Liu Yinyin no longer accepts wild vegetables from students as tuition.

The truth is...because of two consecutive years of bad times, there are only a few students left in the school.

After this spring plowing season, it is estimated that there will be even fewer students in the village.

If there are not many people, Liu Yinyin plans to quit this job.

Having Jiang the educated youth alone is enough, and he doesn't have to work in the fields.

As for raising rabbits, there is not much work in the village now, so there is no shortage of people raising rabbits, and Jiang Zhiqing does not have to do everything himself.

There are not many wild vegetables on the mountain. After walking for half a day, I didn’t even find half a basket of wild vegetables.

Liu Yinyin found a place with a lot of weeds and prepared to cut some weeds for the pigs to eat.

Afraid that Gu Yanyan might be tired, I let him sit on the grass nearby and rest for a while.

Gu Yanyan was a person who knew how to entertain himself, and after a while, he started playing with ants.

I cut a full basket of weeds, and there was nothing good to find on the nearby hills. It was not easy to walk far with Gu Yanyan.

Liu Yinyin originally wanted to lead the little family down the mountain, but unexpectedly, she ran into an acquaintance.

"Yinyin, are you also here to pick wild vegetables in the mountains?" Yang Guizhi had just come down from the mountain, carrying a large basket on his back.

"Sister Guizhi." Liu Yinyin smiled slightly. Yang Guizhi's home was also at the end of the village, not far from her home.

When Yang Guizhi gave birth prematurely, Liu Yinyin lent her money.

I also thought that since the two families were close to each other, I could help each other if anything happened in the future.

However, things did not go as planned. Yang Guizhi was very busy on weekdays and the two of them did not have much interaction.

Occasionally we meet on the street and we just nod and say hello.

Even...Liu Yinyin hasn't seen Yang Guizhi for some time.

Because of the famine, Yang Guizhi looked thinner than before, with a pale yellow complexion and was as thin as skin and bones.

Liu Yinyin felt sad when she saw this. When natural disasters occur, it is the common people at the bottom who suffer.

Unlike the people in the city, no matter what, they can still get a fixed amount of food every month.

Yang Guizhi was not liked by her mother-in-law to begin with, and after giving birth to two daughters, her life became even more difficult.

She could barely get enough to eat at home, so she had to go up the mountain to find food to fill her stomach.

Yang Guizhi also happened to be going down the mountain, so the two of them went together.

On the way, she took out a few bamboo shoots from her backpack and gave them to Liu Yinyin: "I just found these in the mountains. I dug up quite a lot. They will last for several days."

Yang Guizhi was lucky today in the mountains and found a patch of bamboo shoots.

Bamboo shoots are good stuff, and taste much better than wild vegetables.

"Thank you, Sister Guizhi." Liu Yinyin was quite surprised to see the fresh bamboo shoots.

Now, the vegetables in the fields have not yet matured, and it is the time of shortage.

The only vegetables we can find in the mountains are wild vegetables such as bamboo shoots and mushrooms.

Many people went up the mountain to look for food this year, and Liu Yinyin didn't find any bamboo shoots.

However, under the current circumstances, it must not be easy for Yang Guizhi to find so many bamboo shoots.

I don't know how long she searched in the mountain.

Liu Yinyin felt embarrassed to take her things for free, so she thought about going back and sending some eggs to Yang Guizhi in exchange for these bamboo shoots.

When they reached the foot of the mountain, the two separated and Liu Yinyin took Gu Yanyan home.

Yesterday I left a pig's trotter and a piece of pig's liver hanging in the well.

If you don't eat it, it will go bad tomorrow.

Gu Cheng has already cleaned the hair off the pig's trotters.

Liu Yinyin soaked a handful of soybeans and stewed them with pig's trotters in a casserole.

Cook pork liver into porridge for Gu Yanyan.

I also cooked a dish of pickled bamboo shoots and steamed six corn dumplings.

Dinner is ready, but Gu Cheng hasn't come back yet.

Liu Yinyin looked at the time and it was already past six o'clock.

At this time usually, Gu Cheng would have almost returned.

Thinking that the man took the two little wild boars to the county town today, he must have other things to do and would be back late.

As it was getting dark slowly, Liu Yinyin went to water the vegetable garden first.

After watering the water, I accompanied Gu Yanyan for dinner, but Gu Cheng still hadn't come back.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Liu Yinyin didn't wait for him any longer.

He went out with a basket of wild vegetables and weeds and ten eggs.

Liu Yinyin went to Yang Guizhi's house first and gave her ten eggs.

Coincidentally, the person who opened the door was Yang Guizhi, and Liu Yinyin stuffed the egg directly into her hands.

Yang Guizhi hesitated to accept the eggs. She said awkwardly, "It's just a few bamboo shoots. There's no need to give so many eggs."

She gave Liu Yinyin three bamboo shoots, which weighed less than half a pound after peeling the shells and were not worth ten eggs.

Liu Yinyin said directly: "Take it. I have to go to my mother's house. I won't go in. You...be careful."

Liu Yinyin gave her eggs because she wanted her to eat them herself, not to give them to her mother-in-law.

Yang Guizhi thought of her skinny little daughter and no longer refused.

"Who is it?" After Liu Yinyin left, mother-in-law Yang Guizhi saw that her daughter-in-law had not entered the house, so she called out from inside the house.

Yang Guizhi quickly stuffed the egg into her clothes and shouted, "Here it comes!"

Because she was a girl, her mother-in-law didn't pay much attention to her little daughter. Now that she was grown up, the number of eggs she had eaten could be counted on one hand.

The ten eggs sent by Liu Yinyin are just enough to nourish the girls. One egg a day for the two girls will last them for many days.

Liu Yinyin took Gu Yanyan to the Liu family to deliver wild vegetables.

The boy walked a lot today and might be tired.

When returning from delivering the wild vegetables, Gu Yanyan insisted on being held by Liu Yinyin and refused to leave unless she held him!

Liu Yinyin was full of black lines: "......"

Seeing the little guy squatting on the ground and refusing to move, Liu Yinyin was furious.

Although Gu Yanyan is only one and a half years old, he already weighs more than 20 kilograms. The little guy is chubby and feels heavy to hold.

Liu Yinyin said in a gentle voice, "We'll be home soon, can you just walk back by yourself?"

Gu Yanyan shook his head and stretched out his hands to Liu Yinyin: "Mom, hug..."

Liu Yinyin: “…”

Thinking about it, the little guy did walk a lot today.

Liu Yinyin was not a cruel mother. She put the basket across her wrist and was about to bend down to hug her son.

Suddenly, not far away, I saw Gu Cheng coming back on his bicycle...

When Gu Yanyan saw his father coming back, his eyes twinkled and he no longer asked to be hugged by Liu Yinyin.

When Gu Cheng rode his bicycle to the mother and son and stopped, the little guy immediately ran over.

He grabbed the bicycle and tried to climb up, his eyes sparkling, and he said, "Dad, the bicycle..."

He doesn't want his mother to hold him anymore and wants to ride a bicycle.

There were two large bags tied to the back seat of the bicycle. Gu Cheng lifted Gu Yanyan up with his big hands and put him on the big bar in front of the bicycle.

After getting on the bicycle as he wished, Gu Yanyan smiled so much that his eyes narrowed into slits.

Gu Cheng pushed the bicycle, and the couple walked back.

Liu Yinyin turned her head and glanced at the bag tied to the back seat of the bicycle.