Chapter 170 Feedback
The heavy rain lasted for four days, and Lin Qi and Xu Hexiao also stayed at home for four days. During these four days, Lin Qi hardly got out of bed, and spent the whole time in bed. Even for meals, Xu Hexiao cooked them and brought them to her in front of the bed.
He was obviously the one who did the hard work, but he was full of energy and became more and more energetic every day, while she felt sore all over and even had difficulty raising her hands.
"I can't come today. I have to go to the planting area." Lin Qi noticed Xu Hexiao's aggressive, fiery eyes, and her heart trembled. He had been looking at her like this for the past few days, and then he would tear her apart and eat her.
"Well, I won't move you today. After breakfast, I will carry you into the mountains." Xu Hexiao said.
Lin Qi did not refuse. She was sore all over and walking was indeed a problem. "I don't know if anyone will come today, but I have already grown sweet potatoes. If anyone comes, let them dig them up by themselves."
"Okay, everyone will abide by the agreement." Xu Hexiao said. Those who did not abide by the agreement were dealt with by him.
After breakfast, Xu Hexiao carried Lin Qi out and met Lao Yi and his two companions about ten meters away from the gate.
"Don't look at anything inappropriate." Lao Yi smiled and covered his eyes with his hands.
"It's so early in the morning, and you just don't care about the life and death of an elderly widower?" Old Fu asked with a fierce face.
Lao Bi's reaction was the most normal one. "I am full of vitality and energy early in the morning. Not bad!"
Lin Qi buried her head in Xu Hexiao's back and ignored the teasing of the three of them.
Xu Hexiao's eyebrows flew, showing his good mood, "Qiqi and I will go to the mountains. If anyone comes, you can ask them to dig sweet potatoes according to the previous rules."
"Okay, leave it to us and you guys go about your own business." Old Yi waved at them.
Xu Hexiao hummed, "I'll bring you a rabbit when I come back."
"Three." Lao Yi took the opportunity to put forward conditions.
"Okay." A man in a good mood is always easy to talk to.
After arriving at the planting area, Lin Qi was responsible for promoting the growth of the plants. After that, she lay back on the bed and went to sleep.
Xu Hexiao lit a fire for her to remove the moisture from the cave, "What are you going to give Brother Tan tonight?"
"Oranges and wine. I don't want to prepare anything else. You pick the oranges, and as for the wine, wait until I wake up and I'll move it." After waking up, she should have recovered almost completely.
Xu Hexiao looked at her belly, perhaps their child was already inside, "If she is pregnant, will it be harmful to her body if she continues to use energy?"
Lin Qi shook her head. "As long as we don't use up all the energy, there should be no problem."
As for pregnancy.
Lin Qi touched her belly. She had been working so hard these past few days and it happened to be her ovulation period. She should get pregnant, right?
In the evening, when Brother Tan came to deliver the goods, he was in a visibly good mood.
"It's raining, so I'm not so stressed. If the drought continues, I'm afraid they'll have to send another vehicle to transport supplies," said Brother Tan.
Xu Hexiao frowned, "It's useless to have another car. Where can we get so many things?"
"The higher-ups may not believe it. So, if the drought continues, not only will the people be in danger, but you, Qiqi, will be in danger too," said Brother Tan.
Xu Hexiao and Lin Qi looked at each other. It seemed that it was indeed necessary to get sick.
"But it's different when it rains. Everyone can be self-reliant, and Lin Qi's presence is not so necessary." Brother Tan smiled and looked at the dozen or so jars. "What's in here? Aren't they all bars?"
"That's right, it's wine." Lin Qi said.
Brother Tan's eyes widened. "Oh my goodness, so much wine! I'll keep two jars for myself. Don't worry, I'll pay for it."
"It's all fine. You decide on the arrangements." She didn't tell Brother Tan that they now had hundreds of jars of wine.
After the heavy rain, the Anliang Brigade fell into an extremely busy few days. Everyone was turning over their own vegetable plots, planning to plant some green vegetables before the New Year.
Judging from the situation in previous years, it is already very cold at this time of year and nothing will grow even if you sow the vegetable seeds. Even if something does grow, it will not grow big or well.
But the players don’t have high demands, which is a good thing.
However, before the team members' vegetables grew, everyone discovered that vegetables had grown within 300 meters of Lin Qi's home. It seemed that they had grown overnight. By the time they discovered it, the vegetables were almost ready to be picked.
The lush green vegetables looked refreshing and delicious, making the team members, who had been eating coarse grains for more than a month, very envious.
It has been a long time since they have seen green vegetables on their table.
They sent a representative to Lin Qi to inquire. Lin Qi looked confused and said, "Why are you asking me what to do with the vegetables grown on the collective land? You just picked them as wild vegetables."
After more than a month, the members of the Anliang Brigade were able to eat green vegetables again.
One night in late December, heavy snow fell in Yao County.
Lin Qi thought in the morning that no one would come to dig sweet potatoes in such cold weather. However, as soon as she went out, she saw a dozen people with blue faces from the cold walking towards the sweet potato field.
The snow was five centimeters thick, and the men's shoes and trousers were soaked. They appeared here early in the morning, and probably set out before daybreak.
Lin Qi's eyes darkened. She returned home, brought some dry firewood, and built a fire outside the two acres of land. She then went home to carry the big pot over and boiled hot water on the fire.
The fire lit up and soon some people came over. They were a few children with runny noses.
"Can we warm ourselves by the fire here?" a little girl asked timidly with her sister.
"Sure. Who did you come with?" Lin Qi asked.
"Dad, Mom and brother." The little girl replied.
"I came here with my father, mother, brother and sister." said another child.
"I came here with my grandparents."
"My mother and I."
The children were chattering at once, like happy little birds.
"So happy?" Lin Qi asked puzzledly. These kids were starving and cold, what were they happy about?
Lin Qi's question made these noisy children suddenly quiet down. They all smiled with their lips pursed, and their expressions became embarrassed.
"Because we can have a full meal today." A smaller boy said crisply.
"I heard there will be sweet hot drinks."
"Stupid, it's sugar water."
"Sister, are you just making sugar water now?"
"Yes." Lin Qi put a piece of firewood into the bottom of the pot.
"Sister, can you not put ginger in it? It's too spicy." The youngest child said with a frown.
"No." Lin Qi was extremely cold.
Child: “…Okay.”
When the fire was boiling, Xu Hexiao came, bringing shredded ginger, a jar of jujube honey, and a bag of dried fruits.
"Put dried fruits in there too?" Lin Qi raised her eyebrows. Is this a real way to do it?
"I don't know, let's give it a try." Xu Hexiao said.
"Will it taste a little strange?" Lin Qi hesitated and looked at the children by the fire. "Isn't it a bit bad to use these children as test subjects?"
"It won't make you sick, it's okay." Xu Hexiao said as he grabbed the dried fruits and sprinkled them into the boiling water.
Gulu——
The sound of swallowing saliva was heard in unison.
"The water changes color, it's so beautiful!"
“It smells good.”
“I think I smell sugar.”
"Don't get too close, everyone take a step back." Xu Hexiao reminded the excited children.
The children stepped back obediently and squatted down again.
"Breakfast is ready and is being warmed on the stove. You can go back and eat first, then come back and take my place." Xu Hexiao said to Lin Qi.
"I want to wait a moment and taste this." Lin Qi pointed to the boiling water in the pot.
"Not so fast, go back and have breakfast, then bring another bowl." Xu Hexiao advised. They got up late today, and it was already past ten o'clock, long past breakfast time. She should be hungry at this time.
Breakfast was soy milk, fried dough sticks and steamed dumplings. Lin Qi ate steamed dumplings and soy milk, but didn't touch the fried dough sticks. The steamed dumplings had thin skin and large fillings, and the fillings were delicious. The soy milk was rich, and sweet osmanthus was added to cover up the bean smell. Before she knew it, Lin Qi was full, and she walked out with a large enamel cup.
Xu Hexiao put a lot of dried fruits in the soup, and Lin Qi could smell the faint fruity aroma before she even got close. At first, there were only a few children, and she came over for breakfast, but now there are people crowded around the fire. There are people from other teams, and there are people from the Anliang team, including Luo Wei and Xiao Ba.
"Lin Qi is here, we can start drinking." Luo Wei said.
"Lin Qi, your boyfriend said that he can only drink after you come." Xiao Ba said sternly.
"He agreed to wait for me to come." Lin Qi said, handing over the enamel cup.
Xu Hexiao took it and scooped a spoonful for her, deliberately scooping some more dried fruits, "It's a little hot, be careful."
Lin Qi hummed, put it to the tip of her nose and smelled it, blew on it, and then took a careful sip.
As Lin Qi swallowed, the children also swallowed.
"What's that smell?" Lowe asked impatiently.
"It's sweet and spicy, with a strong fruity aroma. It has a very special taste, not bad." Lin Qi said, and then sat on a small stool beside her and started drinking it sip by sip.
"Take your bowls and line up." Xu Hexiao said.
Because they knew there was sweet soup to drink here, the children from the brigade would bring bowls when they came over. The same was true for people from other brigade, who would bring bowls or bamboo tubes to hold water.
The children lined up, waiting for Xu Hexiao to scoop up the sugar water.
What surprised Lin Qi was that the children, who were obviously extremely greedy, did not drink the sweet soup themselves as the first thing they did after receiving it, but instead took the bowls to look for their parents, grandparents.
"They are very well behaved." Lin Qi said.
Xu Hexiao hummed, "Our children will be so well behaved in the future."
The weather was cold, and Lin Qi's family was consuming firewood at an accelerated rate, and it was about to run out.
On this day, Xu Hexiao was about to go out to collect firewood, but he saw a row of neatly tied dead branches piled under the courtyard wall.
"This is what everyone sent." A man touched the back of his head and smiled shyly, "Everyone said that you and Qiqi must be short of firewood since you make so much sugar water every day."
"That's right, we have run out of firewood. You delivered it just in time. Thank you." Xu Hexiao said, with the corners of his mouth slightly curled up. After giving out so much, this was the first time that Lin Qi and he received any feedback.
Although Lin Qi and he had never thought about asking for anything in return, they felt surprisingly good after receiving the feedback.
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