Chapter 36 Proud
Xu Hexiao walked towards the fire step by step, his eyes fixed on the six corn stalks, or to be exact, on the base of the corn stalks - there were roots there, but not a trace of soil.
The roots are so clean, it doesn’t look like they grew in water at all.
The most abnormal thing is that the whole plant is tender green, and it will take about a month to fully mature. But now, not only in Anliang Brigade, but in the entire Jiahe Commune, the corn has turned yellow, and it will be harvested in a few days. It is impossible to have such tender corn.
Where did these come from?
Xu Hexiao looked at Lin Qi, but Lin Qi ignored him. Apart from her initial panic, she had now calmed down. No matter how much Xu Hexiao doubted her, he would never doubt that she had supernatural powers.
This is beyond Xu Hexiao's understanding.
Even if he suspected that she was abnormal and she didn't admit it, what could he do?
"Aren't you going to explain?" Xu Hexiao asked.
Lin Qi had no expression on her face. "What do you want to explain?"
Xu Hexiao: "Corn. Where did they come from?"
"Others grow it in the mountains." Lin Qi said expressionlessly.
Xu Hexiao was stunned. He didn't expect to get this answer. He pointed to the roots of the corn plants and said, "There is no mud at all."
"Washed." Lin Qi put the clay pot on the ground and picked out the corns one by one with chopsticks.
Nine golden, fragrant corns were neatly arranged in a basket. Xu Hexiao looked dazed, and after a while he said, "Some people still grow corn in the mountains."
Lin Qi gave Xu Hexiao a look of surprise, "Yes, I also grow vegetables outside the cave. Next year I will grow corn, peanuts, and soybeans."
It would be a waste if we don’t plant something on such a big forest!
Lin Qi did not return home all night and only returned to the educated youth point in the morning.
"Where did you go?" Jane asked in a somewhat aggressive tone.
Lin Qi frowned, seeing his red eyes, and asked in surprise, "You didn't sleep all night?"
"What do you think?" Jian Tongyi said unhappily. He frowned when he found that Lin Qi had changed her clothes. "Where did you get these clothes?"
"I bought it." She left the blood-stained clothes in the cave, and it would be difficult to explain if she put them back on.
"When did you buy it? You clearly didn't bring anything when you went out last night." Jian Tongyi frowned even deeper.
In fact, it's not that I brought nothing with me, I brought a dagger. Lin Qi thought to herself, but I can't tell Jian Tongyi about the dagger.
"I put it in the cave two days ago, so it's convenient to change." She often went to the mountains, so it was no big deal to leave a piece of clothing in the mountains. Thinking of this, she gave Jian Yitong a shot of prevention, "In the future, I won't go back, so you don't have to wait."
"What do you mean? Are you planning to stay out all night often?" Jian Tongyi found that this little fool's heart was becoming more and more wild.
Lin Qi thought about it and shook her head, "It's too late, I won't go back."
Jian Tong was overwhelmed. "You, a girl, want to stay out all night? Do you know that only unruly girls would stay out all night?"
Lin Qi shook her head and said honestly, "I don't know."
In the end times, there is no home, so you can spend the night wherever it is safe.
Looking at the ignorant Lin Qi, Jian Yitong felt powerless. He suppressed his inexplicable irritation and warned and advised, "Staying out all night or being intimate with the opposite sex will affect your reputation. If you have a bad reputation, you will be excluded from the team. If you mess around with men and women, the consequences will be even more serious."
What does the relationship between men and women have to do with her?
Lin Qi had no expression on her face. "I understand."
Jian Yitong didn't trust her, "Do you really know?"
Lin Qi glanced at him, said nothing, and walked towards the room.
Jian Yitong caught up with him and said, "You haven't told me why you didn't come back last night."
"I went into the mountains, but I was too tired and didn't want to walk, so I came back." Lin Qi said confidently.
"After separating from us last night, you went into the mountains again?" Seeing that Lin Qi was about to move forward, Jian Tong simply stopped him.
This time, the person frowning was Lin Qi, whose normally expressionless face darkened. "Why do you care about me?"
Jian Tong choked and fell silent. Yes, no one else cared about Lin Qi, so why should he?
Lin Qi still had to cut grass for the pigs today. When she came back after cutting grass for the pigs, it was already afternoon.
Several people came to the educated youth point, two of whom Lin Qi knew, one was Hongmei and the other was Xiaomei. It was then that Lin Qi realized that the two were cousins. In addition to Hongmei and Xiaomei, there were three other girls.
As soon as Lin Qi appeared, their eyes all turned to her, full of curiosity.
"Lin Qi, I came here to thank you. It was all thanks to you yesterday, otherwise I would have been bitten by a snake." Xiaomei was still frightened.
"You're welcome." Lin Qi said calmly. She saved people just to save trouble, that's all.
"You saved my life, how can I not thank you?" Xiaomei said seriously. She handed a basket full of eggs to Lin Qi, "There's nothing good at home, please don't despise it. Normally I should give you a hen, but my hen is hatching chicks. When they hatch, I'll give you a few chicks."
Lin Qi never thought about raising chickens. Animals are not plants and require more energy and thought.
However, just when Lin Qi wanted to refuse, Ma Guizhi suddenly coughed, and kept winking at Lin Qi and mouthing: Yes.
Seeing this, Lin Qi nodded, "Okay."
Seeing Lin Qi agreeing obediently, Xiaomei's hands felt itchy and she really wanted to pinch her fair face.
"Tomorrow is the big market. Lin Qi, do you want to go? Let's go together." Hongmei invited.
"Yes." She had never been to the big market, so naturally she wanted to go and take a look.
After Xiaomei and others left, Lin Qi looked at the basket of eggs with a deep look in her eyes.
"Let's all share the eggs. We'll give you some extra money as if we were buying your eggs. How about that?" Ming Kangjian suggested.
The supply and marketing cooperatives don’t always have eggs for sale, so it’s not easy to eat eggs.
Lin Qi thought about it and agreed. She couldn't use the firewood picked up by others to cook her eggs and eat them alone.
"I'll buy you some chickens too. They'll be considered the property of the educated youth camp." Ma Guizhi said, "I've wanted to ask you to buy some chickens and raise them a long time ago, but I was busy recently and didn't have time to take care of them, so I didn't mention it."
"Raising chickens not only allows us to eat eggs, but also meat. I fully support raising chickens." Mo Mingyang said.
When it comes to eating meat, everyone swallows their saliva and no one objects.
The decision to raise chickens was thus made.
At Zhoucheng Machinery Factory, the guard informed Lin Mo that there was a package for him.
"It was mailed from Jiahe Commune in Yao County. Two large packages weighing about 60 to 70 kilograms." The guard exclaimed, "The person who sent you the things is really generous. The mailing fee alone must have cost a lot."
Before Lin Mo could speak, the person next to him spoke first, "Jiahe Commune in Yao County? Isn't that where your sister went to work in the countryside?"
Lin Mo hummed and frowned, which made him look very unhappy with his thick eyebrows and big eyes.
"What's wrong? Are you angry because you feel bad about the money?" Colleague Fang Ning looked at Lin Mo and tried to comfort him. "Our sister has just come to her senses and doesn't know how to spend money. You should teach her a lesson, but don't scold her or she'll scare her. Besides, who is our sister spending money for? It's for you!"
Not long ago, Lin Mo not only took leave, but also borrowed a lot of tickets from them, all for his sister who went to the countryside. Others didn't know the situation, but he and Lin Mo were together every day, so he knew more than others.
"I'm not angry." Lin Mo pinched his brows, "She mailed so many things, I was worried that she didn't have money to spend."
I prepared a lot of things for my sister last time, and my family is still in debt. Now it’s not time to get paid yet, so I have to continue borrowing money to send to my sister.
His sister has been in poor health since she was young, and she has been taking medicine almost all the time. The family has no savings. In the difficult years a few years ago, they owed a lot of foreign debts. They finally paid off their debts two months ago, but now they owe some more. On the one hand, Qiqi needs money to stay in the countryside, and on the other hand, he and Miaomiao's wedding also needs money and tickets. His parents are under great pressure now. When he got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, he could still hear his parents tossing and turning in bed, calculating the family's expenses in a low voice.
"That's a problem." Fang Ning fell into deep thought. He had been to Lin Mo's house and had met Lin Qi before. He was impressed by her slow pace. If Lin Qi was like that in the countryside and had no money, she would have trouble getting food.
Seeing that Lin Mo's face was getting more and more serious, Fang Ning patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry too much. Go get something first. There should be a letter inside. Let's see what the letter says."
Fang Ning was curious about what Lin Qi had mailed to Lin Mo. After get off work, he followed Lin Mo to the guard room, saying that the item was too heavy and Lin Mo couldn't carry it alone.
When they saw the package that was half a person's height, Lin Mo and Fang Ning were a little confused.
Fang Ning: "This package is fat and round. It's really hard to carry."
Lin Mo stepped forward, hugged the package, and carried it on his shoulder, "Let's go."
Fang Ning immediately caught up with him and said, "You carry the first half of the journey, and I'll take care of the second half."
Lin Mo remained noncommittal.
Behind Fang Ning and Lin Mo, Lin's father just came out of the factory with his co-workers.
"That looks like your son Lin Mo." said a co-worker.
Father Lin nodded. "It's him. Next to him is Fang Ning, the son of Mr. Fang from the factory."
"I know Lao Fang, and I also know his son. He is about the same age as your Lin Mo." Having worked in the factory for more than ten years, there was almost everyone in the factory, young and old, whom he didn't know.
"What is he carrying on his shoulders?" Lin's father's eyes were always on Lin Mo's shoulders. If he was not mistaken, the bag seemed to be for postal use.
"Someone must have mailed something to your house. It's such a big package, what good stuff can it be?" The worker's tone was full of envy. In this year when everything was in short supply, the fact that such a big package could be sent showed how close the relationship was.
"We don't have any relatives outside the province," said Father Lin, "but we do have a little daughter who went to the countryside."
"Could it be that your little daughter sent it to you?" The co-worker thought to himself, isn't your little daughter a fool? How could she know to send things home?
"Probably. Not long ago, she mailed some small shrimps and dried fish to our family." Lin's father's face was full of undisguised pride and satisfaction. Many children went to the countryside together, and many of them complained to their families about being poor and asked them to send money and tickets, but his daughter was the only one who mailed something home.
"There are also small shrimps and dried fish!" The worker's eyes widened, "That's delicious, fragrant and crispy. I haven't eaten it for many years."
Father Lin looked at his old colleague, hesitated for a moment, and said, "If there are small shrimps and dried fish this time, I will bring some to you."
"Hehe." The worker laughed, "Then I'll wait. By the way, the jujubes and wild grapes your little girl picked last time were really sweet, sweeter than the fruits sold in the supply and marketing cooperative."
He was given some at that time and took it home to give to his children, who enjoyed it very much.
Father Lin nodded, "It's very sweet."
Dad Lin quickened his pace. He couldn't wait to see what his daughter had mailed back this time.
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