"How do you know? Did that girl come to see you?" Zhang Hua asked.
"She just told me to tell you that she left something at that place yesterday."
"Put something there? Did she say she put something there?"
"No, he just said he put something there and left."
Zhang Hua guessed that Yun Yan might want to repay him and Shen Lei, but was afraid of trouble, so she used this method.
Forget it, let’s wait until it gets dark and go back to the place where we were yesterday with Lao Shen. Don’t let her down.
Yun Yan was processing loaches and eels with Qian Qian, and they were chatting while working.
"Yun Yan, did you gain anything from going to the mountain yesterday?"
Gain? Does almost not making it back count as a gain? Does inexplicably owing someone a favor count as a gain?
"No, maybe I'm just unlucky. Apart from that time when I caught a pheasant, I haven't caught one since then, let alone seen one." Yun Yan said helplessly.
"Haha, these pheasants and rabbits are not that easy to catch. If they were so easy to catch, they would have been extinct long ago."
"That's true. Even the villagers who were born and raised here rarely catch wild game like pheasants, let alone us."
"By the way, Yunyan, the package I picked up yesterday was sent by my mother. She sent me a lot of delicious food. Come back to the educated youth camp with me later, and I'll get some for you."
"No need, your mother sent it to you from far away, just keep it for yourself."
"But Qian Qian, your mother is so kind to you. She often sends you things even though it's so far away."
"Yes, sometimes I really think my mother is the best mother in the world, and my father and brother are also the best in the world." Qian Qian said happily.
Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something, and she put away her smile and said with some guilt: "Yun Yan, I'm sorry. I didn't mean it."
Yun Yan was confused by her sudden apology: "Qian Qian, why are you apologizing to me all of a sudden?"
"I forgot about your situation for a moment. I'm sorry, Yunyan. I shouldn't have said this in front of you."
Yun Yan was left feeling a bit amused and helpless by her words: "Qian Qian, you don't have to apologize to me. It's normal for good friends to share happy things."
"If you have to accommodate another person's emotions to the point of wanting to be tolerant of them, then they are not true friends."
"Yun Yan, what do you think a true friend is like?"
"A true friend can share your happiness and comfort you when you are sad, but she will never deprive her friends of their freedom to be happy because of her own unhappiness."
"Just like just now, you shared the love and care your family gave me. If I were to become jealous of you or interrupt you because of the love and care you received from your family, then we wouldn't be true friends."
“True friends never bring their bad emotions to each other.”
Qian Qian smiled after hearing Yun Yan's words: "Then are we real friends?"
"Of course, at least I treat you as a true friend, what about you?"
"Me too." Qian Qian said and the two looked at each other and smiled.
In the afternoon, the two of them cooked more than 100 kilograms of spicy loach and spicy eel slices. Yun Yan promised Qian Qian that she would make braised pork intestines for her again tomorrow. Then Qian Qian left with a big bowl of spicy loach, feeling very satisfied.
After Qian Qian left, Yun Yan began to weigh and bag the prepared loaches and eels. When she finished, it was almost nine o'clock. She quickly took a shower, washed clothes and prepared to go to bed.
Back in the cowshed, Zhang Hua and Shen Lei took advantage of darkness to go to the trap where they rescued Yun Yan yesterday and took out the things inside.
When the two men returned to the cowshed and took out the items, the people in the cowshed couldn't believe it. What was this? Rice, noodles, cornmeal, and a bag of brown sugar.
Although the quantity of each item was not large, they were all good things that they had not seen in two or three years.
Several people quickly hid the things in the hole under the bed and pretended nothing had happened.
"These things must be hidden well. We must not let those people find them." Shen Lei reminded them.
"Don't worry, we all know our limits."
"I didn't expect that this female educated youth could come up with such good things. The rice and noodles are even better than those I have eaten before." Gu Yuantong said in disbelief.
The female educated youth who lived near the cowshed all knew that she often cooked delicious food. They could smell the fragrance coming from her house in the cowshed.
"This time, Lao Shen and I helped her unintentionally. It's really rare that she took the risk to deliver things to us." Zhang Hua said.
After hearing Zhang Hua's words, everyone in the cowshed fell silent. Yes, all of them were reported by their relatives, friends, and even close family members and ended up here.
Now, a person who has no relationship with them is willing to take the risk to send them something just for a small favor, and they feel a little touched.
"If these things are discovered, we can't say that they were given by that little girl." Shen Lei said seriously.
"That's natural. She gave us things and we betrayed her. What would we become then?"
The next morning, Yun Yan rode her bicycle to the county town. As usual, she disguised herself and then went to the black market.
As soon as I entered the black market, an old customer came up to me and said, "Sister, you haven't been here for a long time. I've been coming here every day recently, and I finally ran into you today."
"It's summer harvest time, isn't it? Farmers have to finish their work in the fields before they can think about other side jobs."
"That's true. By the way, please quickly bring me two packages of spicy loach and three packages of spicy eel slices. My husband and children have been craving this for a long time."
"Don't worry, there are plenty of loaches and eels today. Here, these are your loaches and eels."
After the woman left, a few old customers came and more than thirty bags were sold in a short time.
After a while, Yunyan saw someone selling chickens and rabbits, and walked up to ask the price.
"How are you selling these chickens and rabbits?"
"Three dollars a chicken, five dollars a rabbit." The chicken seller replied in a low voice.
Yunyan picked up the chicken and rabbit and weighed them. The chicken weighed about three or four pounds, and the rabbit weighed about six or seven pounds.
"It's too expensive. I'll buy a few more if you make it cheaper."
He thought for a moment and said, "I have four chickens and two rabbits here. If you take them all, I'll give you twenty dollars."
Yun Yan calculated in her mind and said, "It's too expensive. I'll take all eighteen."
The man selling chickens thought about it and agreed, and gave Yunyan the cages containing chickens and rabbits.
Yun Yan took the cage and found a corner in the black market and put the cage into the space.
After a while, more customers came to buy loach and eel slices. About an hour later, Yun Yan left the black market.
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