Chapter 204 Heavy Snow
After returning home, before Liu Yinyin had time to go to the Liu family to take care of Yanyan, Jiang Zhiqing came to the house to find him.
Liu Yinyin gave him the twenty kilograms of cornmeal she had prepared.
Looking at the money handed over by Jiang Zhiqing, Liu Yinyin was not in a hurry to accept it.
Jiang Zhiqing was stunned and didn't understand what Liu Yinyin meant for a moment.
After a moment of silence, I thought about the rising food prices outside.
Jiang Zhiqing pondered: "...What's the matter, Comrade Liu? Is it because you don't have enough money?"
He thought Liu Yinyin also wanted to make money.
That was not what Liu Yinyin meant. She was already embarrassed for taking 60 yuan from Jiang Zhiqing at one time, so how could she possibly increase the amount?
Liu Yinyin was thinking about something else. She said, "Jiang Zhiqing, this is what I am talking about. I can no longer buy cornmeal for you."
Jiang Zhiqing was puzzled: "Why? There is no food to sell in the county town?"
"That's not the case." Liu Yinyin told him, "I thought that if it continued to snow today, it would be inconvenient for me to go to the county town in the future."
Of course, this was just an excuse Liu Yinyin made up. The real reason was that if she followed Gu Cheng to join the army in the future, she would really not be able to buy food for the Jiang educated youth.
However, Liu Yinyin didn't dare to tell anyone rashly that Gu Cheng was going back to the army.
Jiang Zhiqing was a little surprised when he heard this, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that what Liu Yinyin said made sense.
Liu Yinyin didn't wait for him to speak and continued, "However, I know where to buy food in the county town. I can tell you that when you go to the county town yourself, you can buy more food and store it back."
It is troublesome to buy food every month, and the price of food may increase again in the future, so it is better to buy more at one time and stock up.
Jiang Zhiqing breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this. If Liu Yinyin was willing to tell him the place, it would indeed be more convenient for him to buy food by himself.
Only then did Liu Yinyin take the money and gave him a bag of sweet potatoes, not much, just two or three pounds.
Perhaps because she felt guilty about earning so much money from Jiang Zhiqing, she would give Jiang Zhiqing a few eggs, a handful of vegetables, or other things every month as compensation.
After Aunt Li's address was handed over to Jiang Zhiqing, the deal between them ended there.
After resolving Jiang Zhiqing’s issue.
Liu Yinyin packed another basket of eggs and went to Liu's house to take care of Yanyan.
The other members of the Liu family were busy chopping firewood in the mountains. At this moment, only Jiang Cuihua and Huang Xiaoyue, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, were at home.
Liu Yinyin handed a basket of sweet potatoes to Jiang Cuihua and said, "I just dug them. Bring some over for you to eat."
Jiang Cuihua glared at her and said, "Your third sister-in-law also brought a basket of sweet potatoes from her parents' home, so we have sweet potatoes to eat at home."
She didn't know that Liu Yinyin and Huang Xiaoyue bought a sack of sweet potatoes.
Liu Yinyin didn't mention it either. She said vaguely, "There are not many people in my family, so we can't eat much, and..."
Huang Xiaoyue was resting in the room. There was no one around at the moment. Liu Yinyin whispered to Jiang Cuihua, "Mom, I planted some sweet potatoes on the mountain before. Now it snows every day, and the sweet potatoes on the mountain can't grow anymore."
"If the mountain is covered with heavy snow, the sweet potatoes in the field will surely be frozen and rot. I was thinking...why don't you ask some brothers to go to the mountain and dig up the sweet potatoes?"
Liu Yinyin didn’t think so before. She originally wanted to give the sweet potatoes from the mountains to the villagers.
But after thinking it over, she felt that this method was not appropriate. She could not let everyone know that she was secretly growing sweet potatoes in the mountains.
There are so many people in the village, not everyone knows how to be grateful.
What if someone has bad intentions and reports her?
Therefore, Liu Yinyin finally decided to tell Jiang Cuihua about this matter and let the Liu family go to the mountain to dig sweet potatoes.
Besides, the sweet potatoes in the mountains don’t grow as well as those at home, and the harvest is not that good. There is no need to take risks for a few sweet potatoes.
No matter what, it is more important that my family is safe and sound.
Jiang Cuihua did guess that Liu Yinyin had harvested sweet potatoes in the mountains, but she didn't know where she planted them.
Unexpectedly, Liu Yinyin took the initiative to talk to her about sweet potatoes.
Jiang Cuihua immediately responded, "Okay, I'll ask you brothers to help you dig the sweet potatoes back."
Liu Yinyin explained, "...Mom, that's not what I meant. We have enough sweet potatoes at home. You can keep the ones we dug from the mountain for yourselves. There probably aren't many left."
"That won't work!" Jiang Cuihua thought the girl wanted them to help dig sweet potatoes, but she didn't expect that she wanted to send the sweet potatoes directly to her home.
The sweet potatoes were grown by the young lady, who had put a lot of effort into growing them, so Jiang Cuihua naturally didn't want to take them for nothing.
Jiang Cuihua waved her hands and said, "If you really can't finish it, you can take it to the county town to exchange for some vegetables and grains."
No matter what, Jiang Cuihua refused to accept the sweet potatoes for nothing.
Liu Yinyin: “…”
Okay, the most urgent thing is to collect the sweet potatoes first, and we can worry about the rest later.
After a busy day, Liu Yinyin took Gu Yanyan home.
In the evening, Liu Yinyin made fried pork with garlic sprouts, braised baby potatoes, and spinach and egg drop soup.
The staple food was steamed sweet potato rice, which was just made by cutting a few sweet potatoes and throwing them into the pot to cook with the rice.
Gu Cheng came back a little late today and his body was covered with snowflakes.
Outside, the snow was falling heavily again. Goose-feather-like flakes were falling down, and a thick layer of snow had already accumulated on the ground.
Liu Yinyin helped him brush off the snow on his body and said, "Why don't you just stay in the county town and save yourself the trouble of going back and forth."
Since they grow vegetables at home, they have to pay attention to the temperature in the house all the time and cannot be left alone. Otherwise, Liu Yinyin would have followed Gu Cheng to live in the county town.
Gu Cheng did not agree: "We still have to come back. The snow is falling too heavily. The snow on the roof needs to be cleared away in time. When I came back just now, I saw a house in the village whose roof was half collapsed by the snow."
He went over to help out, so he came back late.
Liu Yinyin didn't know the news. She asked nervously, "Which family? Is it serious?"
Gu Cheng said: "They were a father and son living at the head of the village. Their house collapsed quite badly, but luckily no one was hurt."
Liu Yinyin remembered that there was indeed a father and son living at the head of the village. Their family was very poor and they lived in a thatched house, and the roof was definitely not solid.
Liu Yinyin heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this: "I'm glad he's okay."
The roof has collapsed, we can just go back and fix it.
However, this incident also taught the villagers a lesson: the snow on the roof must be cleared in time, otherwise their house will be the one to collapse next time.
The snow on the roof of Liu Yinyin's house was also quite thick.
After dinner, Gu Cheng took a ladder and climbed onto the roof to sweep the snow.
At this moment, many people in the village are busy sweeping the snow.
Liu Yinyin was still quite scared. Although sweeping snow was an easy job to say, it was still very dangerous. If she accidentally fell, the consequences would be disastrous.