Chapter 152 The Long Years in the Mountains
The blizzard stopped suddenly, but the snow did not melt.
——According to locals, it is already December, and the snow will not melt until two months later, which is the beginning of next spring...
But the oasis is already bustling.
The first to be affected are the various vehicles transporting materials.
Although the country is very poor now, it still wants to transform the desert, so it has dispatched many units to this desert and then transported grain here according to the plan.
The vehicle that brought supplies to Taotao delivered a full truckload of supplies early the next morning after the snow stopped.
Most of it was saplings of various trees and seeds of various plants, a small part was various instruments, chemical reagents, as well as soft films, felt cloths and fertilizers for replacing greenhouses, and the rest was food and daily necessities rationed to Taotao, Deng Gaoyun and Shi Yuxi.
It took everyone two or three hours just to unload the goods!
Shi Yuxi hurried to cook and left the two drivers to have a meal together. The two drivers then hurried back to perform other transportation tasks.
In the afternoon, Taotao and his two sisters began to count things.
The public ones have been cleaned up, and the delivery orders are checked one by one, and the warehouse registration is done...
The three brothers and sisters began to count the personal packages they had received.
Each person received several large bags.
It should be the letters that Professor Fu sorted out for the three of them after he returned to Beijing, the agricultural journals issued internally, and some notebooks, pens, enamel cups, towels, soaps, etc. that the unit distributed at the end of the year...
In addition, there are things that Professor Fu bought for the three of them with his own money:
——There was a bag of White Rabbit milk candy in Taotao’s package, which was obviously bought by Professor Fu for Xiao Feibai.
——There was a tube of medicated toothpaste in Shi Yuxi’s package. It might be because Shi Yuxi had two decayed teeth and often had toothaches…
——Deng Gaoyun’s package contained a thick army green men’s cotton-padded jacket liner, two pairs of autumn trousers, a packet of Chinese medicine, several pairs of insoles and cotton socks.
Taotao asked him what the medicine was. Deng Gaoyun said with red eyes, "It's the chrysanthemum, wolfberry and mulberry leaf tea that my teacher prescribed for me... Because I always stay up late, she was afraid that I would damage my body."
After saying that, he walked aside holding the bag of Chinese medicinal materials.
Taotao heard his sobs and stopped disturbing him.
——Deng Gaoyun is an orphan. His parents died when he was young, and he grew up with his cousin and his wife. My cousin's family was also very poor, but my cousin insisted on sending him to college. My cousin's wife was not happy about this, thinking that they were not real brothers. The couple often quarreled over this. Otherwise, why does Deng Gaoyun care so much about money? Because he always remembered his cousin's kindness, he would send the money to his cousin as soon as he saved enough.
So he lived frugally and didn't care about his appearance.
The teacher must have considered that the winter in the northwest is much colder than in Kyoto, so he bought him a cotton coat liner out of his own pocket, and also bought him autumn trousers, insoles and socks...
Deng Gaoyun looked at the package and wanted to cry.
In fact, he had started to cry.
Think about how good the teacher is, like a loving mother, but Zuo Tianhua made the teacher so angry... He made up his mind to treat the teacher like a mother.
Deng Gaoyun stood in the yard of the research station, holding the things sent by his teacher and silently shedding tears.
Taotao was also sorting out the package that her teacher had prepared for her, but she found that the teacher had also written her a handwritten letter.
I took out the letter paper and saw that there was a half-written piece of letter paper inside.
The gist of it is that after Professor Fu returned to Beijing, she checked what An Qiuli said in the telegram: "The department caught fire and the diary was destroyed." Sure enough, just as she had guessed, the part that was burned was exactly the part recorded by Taotao and Wang Liying.
Not only that, in the remaining logs that were not burned, An Qiuli also deliberately changed some data that Taotao had recorded.
Professor Fu, Qi Huan and Chen Yicheng spent two days checking the data that Taotao had copied and the data that Wang Liying had recorded on the note...
An Qiuli was caught.
——Even if the laboratory caught fire and the log was destroyed by her carelessness, why would she deliberately change the data? ? ?
An Qiuli then cried and told the truth.
It turned out that she was afraid that Taotao would report to Professor Fu that she had neglected the laboratory for a long time... She also wanted to tamper with the data when Taotao was away, which would put Taotao in big trouble... The laboratory data was confused, and the recorder Taotao needed to bear a great responsibility. And the progress in the laboratory will definitely be forced to stop. This would mean having to start the experiment over again, which would extend the project time and her employment as well.
Professor Fu was disheartened and reported the matter directly to the hospital.
After a meeting, the hospital decided to deal with An Qiuli: to send him to a grassroots forest farm to build a new communist countryside.
An Qiuli cried so hard and pestered Professor Fu for several days, but Professor Fu was unwilling to pay attention to her, so he handed over the laboratory to Qi Huan and Chen Yichen. She took a few days off and went to visit relatives.
After coming back, I heard from Qi Huan that An Qiuli's family was capable, and in the end he did not go to the grassroots level, but was transferred to a forestry bureau in a provincial capital city as a section chief.
At the end of the letter, Professor Fu instructed Taotao to be united and friendly with Shi Yuxi and Deng Gaoyun and study their profession seriously.
After Taotao finished reading the letter from her teacher, she handed it to Deng Gaoyun and went to check her other luggage.
I have to say that Professor Fu is really meticulous and considerate.
Taotao received a large package of letters, which were written to her by Guan Haishan, Zhou Xiaoni, Cheng Zhujun and others. These letters were probably sent to the Agricultural Research Institute after she left Beijing. Professor Fu received the letters for her and forwarded them to her this time.
Taotao read the letters from her good friends and learned about their recent situations.
——Guan Haishan said in the letter that she would return to Beijing soon and hoped to meet Taotao.
——In the letter, Cheng Zhujun told Taotao how much money she had earned and that she had been named an advanced worker at the Red Star Machinery Factory. She also told her that her younger brother Cheng Zhuping had ranked first in the grade in the exam. Finally, she said in the letter that she and her brother had nowhere to go during the New Year, so they might go to Song City to spend the New Year with Tang Liren. She also tactfully asked Taotao whether Nansheng would come back for the New Year, and hinted that Taotao should write a letter to urge Nansheng to go home...
——Zhou Xiaoni told Taotao in the letter that her aunt had chosen a marriage for her. She was very confused. She wanted to agree because she wanted to have a home, but she didn't want to agree because she didn't have any feelings for the young man. When she thought about the fact that almost all the girls around her who were of the same age as her were engaged, she became a little anxious.
Taotao smiled.
She noticed that it was getting late.
Looking around, Hua Niu was still playing with Xiao Feibai.
She called Hua Niu over, "Niuniu, it's getting late, you should go back early!"
Niu Niu responded loudly, and together with Xiao Feibai, she picked up the building blocks scattered on the ground, and then ran to say goodbye to the adults one by one.
Tao Tao handed the letter from Zhou Xiaoni to Hua Niu, "Niuniu, I have one more thing for you to do. On your way back, take a detour and deliver this letter to Hong Hong's house and give it to Hong Hong's mother!!"
Hua Niu nodded, took the letter and put it in her pocket.
Then Taotao grabbed a handful of White Rabbit candies and gave them to Huaniu. "Here, can you count? Count how many people are in Honghong's family and your family... One candy for each of you!"
Hua Niu counted on her fingers, "One, two, three... Feifei's mom, there are six people in Honghong's family! There are two people in my family!"
Deng Gaoyun just walked in. When he heard this, he asked curiously, "Aren't there five people in Honghong's family?"
Hua Niu corrected him, "Uncle Deng, Hong Hong's mother is pregnant with another one!"
Deng Gaoyun suddenly realized!
Tao Tao then asked Hua Niu, "What is six plus two?"
Hua Niu was not even four years old after all, so she turned around and asked Xiao Feibai to borrow his fingers to count one by one. After counting three times, she said to Tao Tao with certainty, "Six plus two equals eight!"
Taotao laughed loudly and stuffed the White Rabbit candy into Huaniu's hand, "Take it! One candy for each member of Honghong's family, and the rest are all yours!"
Hua Niu carefully counted out eight candies and put them into her other pocket. She stuffed the remaining two into Xiao Feibai's pocket and bowed to Tao Tao. "Thank you, Mother Feifei! I'll go deliver the letter now!"
Taotao warned her, "Be careful on the road! The snow on the ground is slippery, be careful not to fall..."
Hua Niu had already run far away, but she turned back and waved to Taotao.
Xiao Feibai got two pieces of candy, and he licked his lips greedily, eager to peel off the candy wrapper——
Taotao snatched it away quickly!
The little guy was startled and pouted in grievance, "Dad! Dad, Dad, Dad!"
Song Zhi immediately stuck his head out of the kitchen and asked, "What's wrong?"
The little fellow complained in a baby voice, "Mommy is not bad! Give some candies to you, Feifei's candies! Mommy grabs the candies..."
Tao Tao glared at her son and said, "Then tell me, how much sweets have you eaten today?"
The little guy suddenly felt guilty, "Uh..."
——Since Dad came home, he brought back a lot of delicious food! There are glutinous rice noodles, candied dates, dried red dates, dried longans, etc.
Everything is delicious!
Yesterday, while mom and dad were talking endlessly, Xiao Feibai sat quietly by the side, holding the bag that dad brought back and eating glutinous rice sticks and candied dates, biting them with a crunchy bite...
When the parents heard it, they rushed over to grab it, only to find that he had already eaten half of it.
This was distributed by Song Zhi's unit. The blizzard has blocked the roads for more than ten days, and the food reserves in the satellite city are almost exhausted. There is no shortage of staple foods such as rice and flour, but there is a shortage of dishes and side dishes. By the last few days, there were really no side dishes left, so the chef had to make clear soup noodles, noodles with sauce, etc. for everyone, and the only side dishes he could give everyone were some candied dates, dried red dates, dried longans, etc.
Song Zhi collected all these things, thinking that he could use them to cook some sweet soup for Taotao.
Who knew that my son would steal so much without me noticing!
The end result is——
Little Feibai kept clamoring for his dad to make dumplings for him. The dumplings were wrapped, put into the pot, cooked, and served on the table...but little Feibai couldn't eat the dumplings at all because he was full of glutinous rice noodles and candied dates!
I only ate one in the end!
Today, Song Zhi cooked red bean paste with brown sugar for Taotao as breakfast, and also made a sweet and sour candied potato for lunch...
Xiao Feibai was very happy and ate a lot.
It's almost time for dinner...
And let him eat candy?
Are you going to eat dinner at night? !
The little guy looked at the candy that his mother had confiscated with grievance, stepped on his right foot with his left foot, and compromised, "One! Fei Fei Qi, one candy!"
"No!" Taotao flatly refused.
Xiao Feibai had no choice but to say dejectedly: "One tomorrow!"
This is possible.
But Taotao made a request, "If you say three sentences with more than ten words today, I'll give you a candy tomorrow!"
Xiao Feibai spoke without hesitation, "Mom mom mom mom mom..."
As he spoke, he counted on his fingers and stopped only after he counted ten words.
Taotao was stunned.
Song Zhi and Deng Gaoyun burst into laughter at the same time.
Tao Tao put her hands on her hips, her voice rising an octave, "Song Feibai!"
The little guy blinked and quickly uttered the first sentence, "Daddy loves Mommy, Mommy loves Feifei!"
Standing at the kitchen door, Song Zhi smiled.
Oops, exactly ten words!
The little guy patted his chest.
Tao Tao was a little dissatisfied, "There are four repeated words in ten words? Okay, you passed this sentence, but the other two sentences can't have so many repeated words!"
The little guy racked his brains and said the second sentence, "Uncle Deng cooks...Aunt Xixi...sings!"
Taotao nodded, "Not bad! One more sentence!"
The little fellow saw two dogs playing and biting each other, and suddenly had an idea, so he shouted, "Good boy, Da Wang Da A Wai (good boy)! Catch voles every day!"
He looked at his mother's expression, and when he saw her smile, he jumped up happily, "Tomorrow there will be Tangtangqi!"
I have to say, it’s easy to liven up the atmosphere when there’s a child around.
Song Zhi returned to the kitchen to continue cooking. Xiao Feibai played with the two dogs. Deng Gaoyun held the cotton-padded jacket and autumn trousers given by the teacher and prepared to go to his room to try them on...
Taotao held the candy in her hand and walked into the house, wanting to put it back.
I saw Shi Yuxi coming out of her room, her eyes red from crying...
Tao Tao was stunned, "Senior Sister, what's wrong with you?"
Unexpectedly, Shi Yuxi hugged her and cried.
This time, everyone was shocked.
Song Zhi stuck his head out of the kitchen again, took a look, and then went back to his work silently.
Deng Gaoyun suddenly opened the door and asked in surprise: "What's wrong? What happened?"
He was still wearing the army green cotton coat lining that his teacher had just brought him.
Shi Yuxi hugged Taotao and sobbed for a while, "Taotao! Taotao... He wants to divorce me! Wuwu..."
Taotao was stunned.
Deng Gaoyun was also stunned.
He felt bad... He had been secretly in love with Shi Yuxi for more than a day or two. He saw Zuo Tianhua pestering her, saw her happily marrying Zuo Tianhua, and saw her bright and gentle eyes slowly extinguish... Later, she became more and more unhappy...
Now, she should have also received the letter that her teacher forwarded to her?
Zuo Tianhua filed for divorce from her?
Isn't that a good thing?
Why is she crying? !
Is it because she still loves Zuo Tianhua?
Just when Deng Gaoyun was embarrassed and jealous——
Xiao Feibai also ran over, holding onto the corner of Shi Yuxi's clothes, anxiously comforting her, "Auntie Xixi, don't cry! Mom! Feifei's candy for tomorrow... is for Auntie Xixi!"
Shi Yuxi burst into laughter again.
She reached out her hand and stroked Xiao Feibai's soft hair. She threw herself into Taotao's arms and cried for a while. Finally, she calmed down and said to Taotao with sobs:
"Taotao! He said in the letter that he was anxious to divorce me, so he sent me a divorce agreement for me to sign... I, I will sign it right away! And I have to go to the county town tomorrow, so I can send the divorce agreement back to my house and ask my brother to handle the divorce on my behalf!"
This time, Deng Gaoyun was completely stunned.
Taotao also laughed.
But she held back her laughter and asked Shi Yuxi seriously, "Senior Sister, have you really thought it through?"
Shi Yuxi said with tears in her eyes: "Of course! I have been thinking about divorce for several years! This is not something I just thought of on the spur of the moment! He has been dragging his feet and refusing to divorce..."
"Then why is he willing to leave now?" Taotao asked.
Shi Yuxi handed the letter in his hand to Tao Tao and said, "His request for divorce is that my brother should issue him a certificate."
Taotao frowned, took the letter and read it quickly.
After reading it, she cursed, "Beast!"
Deng Gaoyun took the letter from Taotao and read it quickly.
It turned out that Zuo Tianhua told Shi Yuxi in the letter that he agreed to divorce on the condition that Shi Yuxi's brother write a certificate proving that a person named "Qin Yaqin" suffered from severe liver disease. The letter also gave details of Qin Yaqin's personal situation - Qin Yaqin is 23 years old this year, her father is an official in a certain provincial capital city, and Qin Yaqin herself is currently working in a certain township in a certain county (with Zuo Tianhua). She needed a certificate from the hospital proving that she had liver disease and recommended that she be transferred back to the city for treatment and recuperation.
The letter also included a divorce agreement handwritten by Zuo Tianhua.
It said inside: Zuo Tianhua and Shi Yuxi divorced due to a breakdown in their relationship. During the four years of their marriage, Zuo Tianhua paid Shi Yuxi 20 yuan every month, a total of 960 yuan, which Shi Yuxi had to repay in full. Zuo Tianhua agreed to divorce Shi Yuxi from the day he received the remittance...
Deng Gaoyun also cursed him as a "beast" and frowned in anger.
He said to Shi Yuxi, "It's obvious that... Zuo Tianhua and this Qin Yaqin are in love! Zuo Tianhua himself has a rural household registration, so he has to divorce you first, then marry this Qin Yaqin, and then make a fake certificate for Qin Yaqin to prove that she is sick... Then he can accompany Qin Yaqin back to the city?"
Tao Tao, "Senior Sister, are you... going to drag your brother down with you for this scumbag?"
A word can wake a dreamer up.
Deng Yuxi's eyes, which had just become bright because she was able to get rid of this failed marriage, dimmed again in an instant.
This house is not very big.
Song Zhi had been busy preparing dinner in the kitchen, and he heard everything that was happening outside clearly.
So he suggested, "File for divorce! Didn't Liu Yinghong successfully file for divorce? The letter in Senior Sister Shi's hand was written by Zuo Tianhua himself! Isn't that the best evidence?"
After a pause, Song Zhi added, "It proves that he instigated Senior Sister Shi... forced Senior Sister Shi's brother to commit a crime, and he even extorted money from her! With this evidence, he won't be taken care of anywhere!"
Shi Yuxi's expression became lively again, "Yes! Why didn't I think of this?!"
She held Taotao's hand and said, "My parents, my brother and his wife all hope that I can divorce him... So I'll go into the city tomorrow, and then write a letter to my brother to tell him that I want to divorce! And I'll send Zuo Tianhua's letter along with it... With my family advising me, I'm sure I won't suffer any loss!"
Taotao smiled and clapped her hands, "Send it by express registered mail! We can't save this money!"
Shi Yuxi nodded vigorously.
Deng Gaoyun hesitated again and again, "Yuxi, I'll go with you tomorrow!"
After a pause, he blushed a little and said hesitantly, "Well... mainly, I also want to go to the city. It's almost the New Year, and I have to buy some things."
Tao Tao said with a smile: "Brother, since you are going to the city too, I won't be polite... Can you bring me some things back?"
"No problem!" Deng Gaoyun said repeatedly.
"It's time for dinner! We're having hotpot today, come in and eat!" Song Zhi said.
Everyone entered the kitchen happily.
The kitchen is not too big.
It seemed a bit crowded with four adults and one child, but because there were so many people and there was a small charcoal stove... it was very warm.
Song Zhi used a salt bone and white radish to make a milky white soup base with a salty aroma. The main ingredients were various blanched vegetables: soaked kelp slices, mushrooms, bean curd sticks, Chinese cabbage, etc. The staple food was hand-rolled noodles, and there were four dipping sauces: bean curd paste, ginger and scallion sauce, garlic vinegar...
He also had the unique idea of asking Taotao to pick a tomato she had grown in the greenhouse, peel it, chop it into pieces, throw it into a frying pan, mash it into a paste over low heat, and then add some rice vinegar and white sugar.
A dish of sweet and sour tomato sauce is ready.
——Obviously made for the little ones.
Xiao Feibai really likes this ketchup.
He asked his father to cook some hand-rolled noodles, which he mixed with ketchup and ate with great sizzling taste...
At that moment, Song Zhi and Shi Yuxi talked about the procedures for the hospital to issue a medical certificate, and Taotao kept on telling Deng Gaoyun what to bring back for her when he went to the city tomorrow...
The dinner was delicious, sweet and lively.
However, Taotao still felt that Deng Gaoyun was unreliable. After dinner, she took out a pen and paper and made a list, writing down clearly what she wanted to buy for the New Year, food, medicine, etc. She then did some calculations in her mind and took out fifty yuan to give to Deng Gaoyun.
Deng Gaoyun was shocked. "You want to buy so many things?"
Tao Tao said helplessly: "They are all necessities."
Deng Gaoyun took the money and the list and looked at them carefully. Indeed, most of them were food and daily necessities: the largest item was pork. Taotao asked him to bring back 30 kilograms of pork and some pork bones if there were any. Then there were various condiments, candies and milk powder for the children, and various medicines that needed to be supplemented.
Also, Tang Liren sent Taotao some local specialties from her hometown, and Taotao specifically wrote down that she wanted Deng Gaoyun to go to the post office to help pick up the package...
Deng Gaoyun nodded and said, "Don't worry, I will get everything done for you tomorrow."
As soon as Shi Yuxi finished her meal, she went back to her room to write a letter to her family...
Taotao and her family also returned to their room.
When Song Zhi is not around, Xiao Feibai is particularly attached to him.
After washing up, the family of three snuggled up in bed to play - Taotao was mending her son's overalls with needle and thread. There were a few stains on it that were too ugly to wash off, so she cut pieces of cloth from old clothes, made them into cute giraffe patches, and sewed them on the overalls. Song Zhi and his son played the game of hiding socks on the bed...
At nine o'clock in the evening, Xiao Feibai was so sleepy that he fell asleep without much struggle.
Taotao had also finished sewing her son's overalls and was ready to go to the fields to tidy up and go to bed.
Song Zhi stopped her, "Just sit still. Tell me what you want to do. Let me do it."
Taotao smiled, "Can you help me when I go to the toilet?"
Song Zhi looked at her helplessly.
Taotao got downstairs, put on her slippers and cleaned the house for a while. When she came back from the toilet, she found that Song Zhi was not in the room, and there was a stack of money on the table?
She had already washed her hands and didn't want to touch the money, so she picked up a pen and scratched it...a total of fifty-eight dollars and sixty-five cents.
Are there both zero and integer?
At this time, Song Zhi came in with a kettle, a washbasin and a towel.
Taotao took a look at what he was holding and rolled her eyes at him.
He smiled.
"You gave me all your salary, didn't you keep any for yourself?" Taotao asked.
Song Zhi said sternly: "A man with money in his pocket is not a good man."
Taotao: ...
She laughed a little.
Like a room full of flowers.
Song Zhi also laughed.
"If you don't have enough money, just tell me," Song Zhi said guiltily, "I should still have some money by the end of the year..."
Taotao laughed so hard that she fell forward and backward.
She opened the drawer and took out Cheng Zhujun's letter, letting him read a sentence from it.
Song Zhi couldn't understand.
Tao Tao said proudly, "This is the code agreed upon by Zhu Jun and I... It means that she earned 2,400 yuan this year! We each earned 1,200 yuan! She has already given the money to my mother. Didn't my mother send me something? My mother has already hidden the 1,200 yuan in the package for me."
Song Zhi frowned, "That's not good. It would be a pity to lose it."
Tao Tao sighed, "But remittance is even worse. If someone I know sees it, it will cause trouble. In fact, even if my mother doesn't bring money... I have enough money. When I came here, I brought a thousand yuan, which is enough to support us until next summer. It's just that because it's the New Year, I always want to eat some meat and so on, so the expenses are indeed a bit high."
Song Zhi suddenly hugged Dabaitao.
Taotao giggled, "Let's first tell you how many times you want this time?"
Song Zhi: ...
Tao Tao chuckled, "Don't wake up Xiao Feibai like you did last night... My senior sister lives across the street and my senior brother lives next door, I still have some dignity to protect!"
Song Zhi whispered, "They won't be interested in what's going on in our room tonight."
"What do you mean?"
Song Zhi, "One is obsessed with leaving, the other is obsessed with pursuing..."
"You noticed it too?" Taotao asked.
Song Zhi, "So it's a good thing that your sister got divorced early! This single man and single woman... after a while, even if you and the child are here as light bulbs, they will still cause gossip."
He was talking to Taotao seriously, but his hands didn't stop moving.
After a while, the big white peach became soft.
She thought to herself, over the years...his abilities have improved! From being clumsy and knowing nothing at the beginning, just stiffly letting her do whatever she wants, to now being sometimes wild and sometimes proactive... he is very good at pleasing her.
Taotao praised him and encouraged him generously, and even stretched out her arms to hug him with a smile.
The next day, Taotao couldn't get out of bed.
Song Zhi went to make breakfast in high spirits, picked up his son and helped him wash up... Deng Gaoyun and Shi Yuxi also woke up with dark circles under their eyes.
The three adults and one child finished their breakfast in silence.
Deng Gaoyun and Shi Yuxi went to the oasis to find a water truck and hitch a ride...
Hua Niu came to play with Xiao Feibai.
Song Zhi had nothing to do, so he brought the noodle soup into the house and fed Taotao.
As a result, while eating...
The quarrel started.
The two were young and strong, and they hadn't seen each other for more than a month, so it was the perfect time to have a happy marriage...
Song Zhi became interested and simply closed the door and entangled Dabaitao.
At first, Dabaitao was also happy.
In the end, she was so tired that she had no strength left, and she was annoyed that he was too demanding, so she bit him hard and finally brought him back from the happiness he had achieved.
While Taotao continued to catch up on her sleep, Song Zhi went to look through her scientific research diary, carried a hoe and went to inspect the greenhouse, then came back to cook and called Taotao to eat.
After dinner, Taotao went to inspect the greenhouse with weak legs. Song Zhi also carried a hoe and followed her, following her instructions to loosen the soil and tidy up the soil...
After finishing work, Taotao saw that Song Zhi’s hair had grown past his ears?
"Go boil some water, I'll help you cut your hair, and then since it's a sunny day today, you can wash your hair and take a bath!" Taotao instructed.
Song Zhi agreed and went to boil water.
Then the couple moved a stool, took scissors and a comb, Song Zhi sat at the gate of the yard, Taotao went to find a piece of lining cloth, put it around his neck, and then carefully trimmed his hair.
Just in time——
Xiao Qingjuan came to Taotao to borrow some ginger, saying that Huang Youming was in poor health and was always afraid of the cold, so she wanted to make some ginger soup for him.
Taotao put down the scissors without saying a word and ran back to get some ginger for her.
Xiao Qingjuan left.
Then Jiang Hongzhi also came to Taotao to discuss the resumption of classes after the winter vacation.
——Because of the heavy snow, everyone was afraid to go out, and classes were delayed for more than ten days. Now that they can go out, everyone still likes the atmosphere of being able to stay in Taotao's greenhouse to take classes, so they gave their suggestions to Jiang Hongzhi.
Of course Taotao agreed immediately.
Jiang Hongzhi saw Taotao cutting Song Zhi's hair, so he stood aside and watched for a while. He found that Taotao's haircutting skills were quite good, so he said to Taotao: "Taotao, help me cut my hair, I, I will give you a potato."
His hair is also long and he hasn't had it cut in over two months.
Taotao smiled.
But before she could speak—
Song Zhi pointed at the visitor unhappily and said to Jiang Hongzhi, "Just ask her to cut your hair for you!"
The person who came was Xiao Qingjuan again.
She ran over breathlessly holding something and said to Taotao, "Fei Fei's mom, a convoy has delivered supplies to Huang Youming. He said he has nothing to thank you for, so he asked me to give this to you..."
Taotao took a look and saw it was a bag of walnuts?
"He is not in good health, let him eat by himself... take it back!" Taotao said.
Xiao Qingjuan, "He asked me to bring it to you!" Then she lowered her voice and said, "Fei Fei's mother, tell me, who gave him this? You gave him this even though you knew he had a broken arm. Do you think he's too tough?"
Tao Tao laughed dumbly and said, "Don't talk nonsense!"
"Oh, he asked me to bring it, and you asked me to take it away..." Xiao Qingjuan looked embarrassed.
Song Zhi made the decision, "Keep the walnuts. Thank you very much!"
Xiao Qingjuan heaved a sigh of relief, carried the bag of walnuts into the courtyard of the research institute, and prepared to leave.
"Fei Fei's mom, Fei Fei's dad, Captain... I'm leaving!"
Song Zhi called her, "Hua Niu's mother, can you cut hair?"
Xiao Qingjuan, "Ah?"
Song Zhi, "If you help Captain Jiang cut his hair, he will give you a potato."
A potato? !
Isn't that better than her washing clothes for others! Fast and not cold!
But……
Xiao Jingjuan showed an embarrassed expression, "I can't."
Song Zhi uttered a word, "...learn!"
Taotao also felt that if Xiao Qingjuan learned how to cut people's hair, it would be a skill that could generate income. There were seventy or eighty men in the brigade. If Xiao Qingjuan could cut hair and collect potatoes for each man, she and her son would have enough food for one and a half months.
So Taotao explained to Xiao Qingjuan while cutting Song Zhi's hair.
After a while, Taotao had combed Song Zhi's hair.
"Captain Jiang, you don't mind being Xiao Qingjuan's practice stone, right?" Tao Tao asked with a smile, "She can give you a discount... She won't charge potatoes, so can you be her experimental subject?"
Jiang Hongzhi didn't mind, but just said: "Don't cut it too ugly, and keep your hair shorter!"
As he said that, he sat on the stool where Song Zhi had just sat, picked up the lining cloth that Song Zhi had placed aside, and put it on himself.
Xiao Qingjuan took a deep breath——
Then he took the comb and scissors from Taotao, and under Taotao's guidance, slowly cut Jiang Hongzhi's hair.
This oasis is not very big.
Some villagers who were strolling around saw Xiao Qingjuan cutting the team leader's hair in the open space in front of the research station. The fee was one potato, even a small potato would be fine.
When everyone heard this, they became excited and ran back to get potatoes.
There was no barber in the village. In the past, there was a peddler who would ride his bicycle to the village every month to sell needles, thread, soy sauce, vinegar and other things. He would also cut everyone's hair and charge five cents each time.
This year's first snow fell a month earlier, so I guess the peddler went straight back to his hometown to celebrate the New Year!
Now Xiao Qingjuan can cut hair, and her fees are cheaper than those of the peddler? !
Women rarely spend money on haircuts. If your hair is too long and hard to take care of, just cut it short, as long as you can still tie it up with a hairband.
But men can't. My hair is too long and it would be very uncomfortable if I didn't get a haircut.
When they went home to get the potatoes, they saw that Xiao Qingjuan had already cut Jiang Hongzhi's hair... Of course, her skills were not very good, but a man would look more energetic with short hair.
Everyone was fighting for position in order to get their hair cut first.
Fortunately, Jiang Hongzhi was there to help organize the scene; Taotao was there to instruct Xiao Qingjuan on how to cut...
Gradually, Xiao Qingjuan's haircutting speed became faster and faster, and her skills became more and more sophisticated.
From half an hour to ten minutes...
In the whole afternoon, she cut hair for fifteen people and earned fifteen potatoes!
However, Xiao Qingjuan's hands were still so sore that she lost feeling, and Taotao's scissors were no longer sharp. So Xiao Qingjuan said to the people who were still waiting for a haircut: "Go back and come back tomorrow. I'll give you a haircut tomorrow! Otherwise, it's dark and I can't see clearly. What if I give you a bad haircut?"
People were quite angry at first - after all, they had been waiting for a whole afternoon, right?
But when I heard what Xiao Qingjuan said, I felt it made sense. Someone with a quick mind immediately said, "Qingjuan, how about this? I'll give you the potatoes today, and you can give me a haircut the next day when I come over! I'm too lazy to carry the potatoes back and forth..."
Xiao Qingjuan thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then I'll collect 15 more potatoes, and I'll only cut hair for 15 people tomorrow... I'll talk to the others the day after tomorrow, so that everyone doesn't have to wait here and can't go anywhere, okay?"
Since it was explained so clearly, everyone was quite satisfied and nodded.
At that moment, Xiao Qingjuan harvested another 15 potatoes.
Xiao Qingjuan was of course happy, but some people were not happy.
——Aunt Cone Wang Meijiao.
She also heard that Xiao Qingjuan was cutting hair for villagers at the entrance of the research station, charging each person a potato!
She squatted here and counted clearly. Xiao Qingjuan earned 15 potatoes in one afternoon!
Oh, what a great ability you have!
Wang Meijiao gnashed her teeth in hatred—it was all because of that Bai Taotao! As soon as he got here, he slapped her in the face and exposed that she had stolen the milk powder from Bai Taotao! Now Bai Taotao is also teaching Xiao Qingjuan how to make money by cutting people's hair!
Wang Meijiao was jealous to the point of madness, but she had no way to retaliate.
In the end, he could only stare at Xiao Qingjuan angrily, snorted heavily, and stared at Bai Taotao's research station for a while...
She walked away slowly, leaving behind a cold sentence, "We'll see!"
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