The meal lasted nearly an hour. After all the villagers had left, the aunt and the three of them were left to clean up the mess together.
Fortunately, all the food was eaten up, otherwise we would have to find a way to collect the leftovers. Tong Yiya and her aunt collected the dishes and chopsticks and boiled hot water to wash them.
Fu Shinian and Dong Weibing cleaned the tables and chairs, returned them to the villagers from whom they had borrowed them, and then cleaned the yard.
Tong Yiya and her aunt were quite responsible and helped them clean up the kitchen before they both went home.
After being busy for several hours, Tong Yiya found that she did not feel tired at all after returning home. This was different from before. Before, at this time every day, as long as she was at home, she would be so tired that she would lie down on the kang for a while.
But today, not only did she not feel tired, but even at this time, she didn't feel sleepy enough to take a nap.
At this moment, she remembered the green-skinned fruit that the system had rewarded her with in the morning. As soon as she entered the room, she began to communicate with the system in her mind and asked, "No. 03, does the fruit you signed in as a reward today have any miraculous effects?"
"Host, you finally found out. This is because the system has not found that your physical fitness has improved, so it went to find someone above and got you a physical enhancement fruit," No. 03 replied.
"Body-enhancing fruit? In what aspect does it enhance? Don't give me the one that increases weight," Tong Yiya said. An image of herself being fat in the future appeared in her mind and she was shocked.
If the system could sense what she was thinking at the moment, it would definitely roll its eyes at her, but fortunately it couldn't sense it.
No. 03 explained to her: "No, host, the body-enhancing fruit can only slowly improve your physical fitness and strength. The host will feel that your strength will increase every day until you can lift 200 kilograms by hand, then it will stop. Your physical fitness will also be healthier than before and you will not be prone to illness."
Tong Yiya heaved a sigh of relief after hearing this, and then thought that this was the system that asked for it for her, so she thanked him, "Thank you, No. 03."
"You're welcome, host," No. 03 replied
After knowing what kind of fruit she had obtained, Tong Yiya happily went to the pharmacy to process a lot of medicinal materials, and did not finish processing them until around five in the afternoon.
When she was having dinner at night, she found that she had become stronger and ate more than before. Fortunately, she had a planting space, otherwise she might not be able to feed herself.
After entering the space at night, she continued to read and study. In the following days, she would occasionally catch one or two animals to try out the feel of the silver needles.
Fu Shinian and his companion started working in the fields to earn work points the next day. Now that they had finished their house work, if they didn't go to the fields to earn work points, others would have ideas.
The two men went to the fields that day to clean the ditches between the fields with the villagers. After doing the physical work, they returned home. They felt sore all over for the first two days and their hands and feet were covered with blisters.
On the third day, Fu Shinian and the other man came over and asked Tong Yiya for some external ointment, otherwise the blisters would break and be rubbed by shoes and socks, which would be extremely painful.
After applying Tong Yiya's medicine, he recovered soon. The two of them even brought half a pound of brown sugar to thank her.
Tong Yiya was at home harvesting all the vegetables in the yard that day, preparing to plant some again so that she could pickle sauerkraut and dry various vegetables in three months.
She was busy in the vegetable garden when Fu Shinian came into the yard carrying gifts. When he saw her cutting vegetables, he put his things down and prepared to come over to help.
Tong Yiya said when she saw him, "Fu Zhiqing has to go to work this afternoon, why did he come to my place? Does he need medicine?"
She just thought he brought something to exchange for the medicine, and was about to continue to say that the villagers could get the plaster here without paying or giving anything, but Fu Shinian replied: "No, this is to thank you for the ointment you gave us a few days ago. I discussed it with Dong Zhiqing and sent some brown sugar as a thank you gift."
Tong Yiya refused and said, "No need to give me a thank you gift. I am the barefoot doctor in the village. The captain has already said that villagers don't need to give me anything when they come to me to get medicine."
"That's just a small token of our appreciation. It's not a very good thing. Please accept it, Tong Zhiqing," said Fu Shinian.
Tong Yiya thought that if she refused again, he would continue to talk, so she had no choice but to accept it, but still said: "Then I will accept it this time. Fu Zhiqing and Dong Zhiqing should not send it again next time. Otherwise, if the villagers find out and report it to the team leader, I will be in trouble."
Fu Shinian then remembered that she also knew that although she got along better with the villagers than other educated youth, she was still an outsider and people would always look at her mistakes and try to pull her down.
After thinking about it, he said: "This is something we didn't think of for the time being. Fortunately, it didn't cause any trouble to Tong Zhiqing. Don't worry, we will pay more attention to it in the future."
"Well, I'm glad you understand. Fu Zhiqing, please take some vegetables back to eat. I can't finish them all by myself anyway," said Tong Yiya, holding a few cabbages that had just been cut, and walked out of the vegetable garden and handed them to Fu Shinian.
In this way, others would just think that he was here to change the dishes. Even if someone went to complain, they would have a good explanation if the team leader came over.
Fu Shinian didn't refuse and took the cabbage and went back. Tong Yiya went back to the vegetable garden to continue cutting vegetables.
She cut all the old or soon-to-be-old cabbages and placed them on the side of the small stone path in the yard. She took a hoe and first cleared the vegetable roots in the field, and then turned the soil over.
After making ridges and dividing the soil into plots, I planted the various vegetables that had been grown earlier, and then watered them once more, and everything was done.
Tong Yiya spent the entire afternoon working on the two small plots of land in the yard. The pumpkins and watermelons by the courtyard wall were growing well and some were already blooming.
Tong Yiya now stir-fries some pumpkin leaves for dinner, and picks the flowers that don’t bear pumpkins, and makes soup with eggs in the evening.
In the evening she would eat a garlic-mashed pumpkin leaf, a pumpkin flower and egg soup, and a steamed bun made from two-grain flour.
At Fu Shinian's house not far away, Guard Dong smelled the aroma of food coming from not far away and said, "Hey, the food cooked by Tong Zhiqing is so delicious. Why don't we go and eat with her? Otherwise, with our cooking skills, I'm afraid we will both lose ten pounds in less than a month."
"Don't even think about it. You forgot that relationships between men and women are so tight these days. It's okay for me because I'm a man, but Tong Zhiqing is a girl, and those gossipy aunts in the village can ruin her reputation," Fu Shinian said.
"What should I do? I really don't want to come back from a tiring day and have to eat such bad food," said Guard Dong with a bitter face.
"There's nothing we can do. We've come to the countryside now. You'd better curb your young master habits and don't let anyone catch you. What will the consequences be? You've seen enough of them in the city," Fu Shinian reminded.
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