Chapter 208 Baozi

Aunt Zhou went back to the house and took out a bag of cotton. There wasn't much cotton, only about a pound and a half at most.

But something is better than nothing, so Liu Yinyin accepted the cotton.

In addition, Aunt Zhou also gave Liu Yinyin ten yuan.

I have been exchanging supplies with others recently, and there are not many defective items left at home, so I have to spend money to buy them.

Liu Yinyin thought for a moment, lowered her voice and asked her, "Auntie, do you want any food?"

Food!

Aunt Zhou's eyes widened immediately, and she asked excitedly: "You...do you still have food at home?"

Liu Yinyin smiled awkwardly and said, "Auntie, I'll tell you the truth. We did stockpile some food at home. But... my husband said that he will be transferred to another place for work soon. The journey is long and it is not convenient to carry food with him."

"So, I just want to sell the food and buy it again when the time comes."

This was of course meant to fool Aunt Zhou.

There were thousands of kilograms of food stored at home, and it was impossible for Liu Yinyin to take it all away.

The famine will end next year, and there will be no need to store so much food at home.

She thought about dividing the food into three parts, exchanging one for money, selling one to the Liu family at a low price, and the remaining one...

Just keep it at home and if you can’t finish it, see if you can send it to Gu Cheng’s unit.

Aunt Zhou was shocked and asked, "You want to leave?"

Liu Yinyin showed a helpless expression: "There is no other way, I have to follow my husband wherever he goes."

"That's right..." Thinking of Liu Yinyin leaving, Aunt Zhou felt reluctant to let her go.

After being together for so long, she still likes this little girl very much.

Moreover, if Liu Yinyin no longer lives here, no one will send her meat and eggs in the future.

However, as Liu Yinyin said, if her man was transferred to work somewhere else, she, as a woman, would definitely go with him.

Besides, there are children.

Aunt Zhou asked again: "When are you leaving? Will you come back later?"

Liu Yinyin thought: "I can't leave for a while, it will take at least two or three months, the place is far away... I'm afraid I won't be able to come back often in the future. If I come back, I will definitely come to see you."

Aunt Zhou was delighted when she heard this: "Then don't forget it."

Liu Yinyin smiled and returned to the previous topic: "Auntie, do you want some food?"

Aunt Zhou nodded hurriedly: "Yes! Of course."

It's such a time now, how can I not want the food when there's food?

Liu Yinyin nodded: "I will come to the county again in two days and bring you food then."

Leave from Aunt Zhou's house.

Liu Yinyin went to Aunt Li's place again. This time Aunt Li was at home.

Liu Yinyin brought ten kilograms of white flour, which she bought from the system.

She wanted to exchange something with Aunt Li, but it was too expensive to buy it with money, so she decided to just exchange it for flour.

It is rare to find someone offering food in exchange for something.

Aunt Li smiled and asked, "What do you want to change this time?"

Liu Yinyin asked her, "Auntie, do you have any dried wild mushrooms? And some cotton, I exchanged it for someone else."

Liu Yinyin wanted to exchange for dried wild mushrooms herself. This stuff is durable, so it’s okay to buy more.

Aunt Li understood and said, "If you hadn't told me, I would have almost forgotten. Last time you asked for dried wild mushrooms, and I saved them for you."

As she spoke, Aunt Li took down a bag from the shelf, which contained a bag of dried wild mushrooms.

The amount of dried mushrooms was quite large, about four or five pounds, and Liu Yinyin was quite satisfied.

Aunt Li said, "These are all the dried wild mushrooms we have. We also have some cotton. How much do you want?"

Liu Yinyin pondered, "Auntie, please see how much cotton I can exchange for. I will exchange 10 kilograms of flour for this bag of dried wild mushrooms, and the rest for cotton."

Dried wild mushrooms are not expensive at this time, but as for cotton...it is a little more expensive than white flour in a good year.

But now is a famine year, there is nothing and food is expensive.

Aunt Li lowered her head and calculated, then said, "I'll give you another five kilograms of cotton, okay?"

If it were someone else, Aunt Li would give at most four kilograms.

Liu Yinyin nodded and said, "Okay."

Ten kilograms of flour can be exchanged for so many things, it's really not a big deal.

Together with what was exchanged from Auntie Zhou... there were almost six and a half kilograms of cotton, enough to be divided among Liu Ersao and Huang Xiaoyue.

However, six and a half pounds of cotton is a lot.

It’s not easy to take them all back at once.

Liu Yinyin only packed two kilograms of cotton, and she would bring the rest back to the county town in two days.

In addition to cotton, Liu Yinyin also smuggled out five kilograms of pork, two kilograms of chicken breast, a handful of celery, a handful of leeks and two kilograms of fruit from the system.

After returning home, Liu Yinyin immediately started kneading dough to make dumplings.

Having bought so much meat and dried wild mushrooms, she planned to make more dumplings and buns this time.

Liu Yinyin prepared dumplings with three kinds of fillings: celery and pork, dried mushroom and chicken, and leek and egg.

It just so happened that we still had half of the pheasant left at home, so we cut off the lean meat and chopped it up together with the chicken breast we bought...

After returning from the county town, Liu Yinyin has been busy making dumplings.

My hands are almost numb, but fortunately the results are very gratifying.

After working all day, Liu Yinyin made more than 600 dumplings, including 50 buns with mushroom and pork fillings.

Leave forty dumplings for dinner and hang the rest outside to freeze.

The only advantage of very cold weather is that food can be kept for a long time, just like a natural refrigerator.

Liu Yinyin rubbed her sore arms, packed ten buns and went to the Liu family to take care of Yanyan.

The buns are for Liu Lai Fu and Jiang Cui Hua.

She was busy making dumplings and didn't pick up Gu Yanyan at noon.

Jiang Cuihua is busy growing vegetables at home right now.

It’s cold, and the fertile soil we dug yesterday has frozen. We have to pile it up in the house to dry for a day, and we can only plant vegetables after it thaws.

So it has been delayed until now.

Jiang Cuihua muttered, "This morning, your cousin was testing me. Yesterday, she was building a fireplace and digging the earth at home. She wanted to find out what we were doing."

Liu Yinyin asked curiously, "How did mother reply to her?"

Jiang Cuihua snorted: "What else can I say? Just tell the truth and say that I am trying to grow vegetables at home."

There's no way. This is what it's like living in the village. Everyone sees each other every day, and the relationships become too strained if they are not good.

What's more, they are relatives. After a long time, people will guess something, so it's better to say it yourself.

So as to avoid being blamed later.

Jiang Cuihua added: "However, even if others knew about it, they would not follow suit immediately. At least they would see vegetables being grown at home before they would do so."

It was only after she saw her daughter actually grow vegetables that she decided to move out of the house and build an earthen stove to grow vegetables.

Liu Yinyin thought so too. Although the housing conditions of rural residents are better than those in cities.

But it is only enough to accommodate the guests. Most families do not have any extra rooms.

But things developed faster than Liu Yinyin had imagined.