Chapter 52 The Forgotten Yan Naqian
After Lili left, life at home became peaceful.
Tang Liren still goes to work every day to reclaim wasteland.
Xingxing signed up to go to the back mountain to pick wild tea leaves. This job can earn her 5 points a day!
Tan Fenghui did housework at home every day, washing clothes, cooking, tending the vegetable garden, knitting sweaters, breastfeeding the baby, etc.
Every morning Taotao went with Zhou Xiaoni to cut grass for the pigs and look after the pigpen, chicken coop and duck pen. At noon she went to look after her library. In the afternoon she either went to the back mountain to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables, or took red beans and yellow beans to the river to put cages in the river to catch small fish and shrimps.
Song Zhi worked as a blacksmith every day and went into the city from time to time. He then brought back, breathlessly, a lot of discarded spare parts thrown away by factories. In one go, he made a lot of strange, simple but practical things for Taotao.
——A few days after the autumn harvest, it rained heavily just as Xingxing said!
Thanks to this year's autumn harvest, because Taotao's menu was so tempting, all the men, women and children in the village came out together. With strength in numbers, we completed all the tasks four or five days earlier than usual, and all the grains were dried and stored.
But other villages are not so lucky!
I heard that some villages were already hit by insect pests, resulting in reduced grain production, and then it hit the rainy season...so much so that everyone in the village was worried and didn't know how they would survive the winter this year.
Because it rained for seven or eight days in a row, Taotao grumbled at home, "Rain is so annoying. Clothes can't dry for several days! This is my last set of clothes. If it doesn't dry, I will have no clothes to change into..."
Song Zhi became interested in it.
After a few days, he made something that looked like a wardrobe. However, he only built a simple frame with bamboo, and asked Taotao to find some old clothes that could no longer be worn, and made them into a cloth cover to cover the frame, and then made some small mechanisms at the bottom of the frame.
——It is a hand-cranked rotating plate with fan blades and a pot of charcoal fire underneath.
This is the dryer made by Song Zhi.
When the sun is out, this bamboo frame is a shelf that can hold several layers of flat bamboo sieves for drying goods; when it rains, take away the bamboo sieves, hang the wet clothes in, put the small charcoal stove with fan leaves at the bottom of the bamboo frame, and then cover it with a cloth cover...
Then they would start shaking a wheel connected to the small charcoal stove. It would take a long time, about three or four minutes, to shake it to the bottom until it could no longer be shaken.
Once you let go——
The wheel began to slowly rotate in the opposite direction, driving the fan blades installed at the bottom of the bamboo frame to rotate slowly.
There were coals burning in the small charcoal stove, the fan blades were spinning to blow hot air, and there was a cloth cover outside...
As long as the clothes hanging inside are not too wet, you only need to turn the turntable ten times, which takes about two hours, to dry the half-wet and half-dry clothes in the "dryer". It is really easy to use!
Of course, later on, Song Zhi’s invention was donated by Tang Liren and used to dry mushrooms in the village... That’s a story for later.
These days, Bai Zhenggan held a meeting in the village committee with the theme of "Carrying out the spiritual civilization construction of Ruyi Village". Then he took out the materials copied by his beloved daughter Taotao and passed them to everyone to see.
He added, "Look! This is the suggestion proposed by Comrade Bai Taotao! Take a look... What a simple suggestion, starting from the subtleties, slowly cultivating the villagers' personal accomplishments and improving their spiritual civilization. But after careful study, you will know how much power is contained in these small incidents! So! Can we not give her the 20 kilograms of rice she asked for? Ah, can we not give it to her?!"
The village cadres passed the materials around and everyone present read them.
Well, Taotao’s suggestion is indeed very good.
But Secretary Bai’s roar...
Everyone looked at each other.
——No, Secretary, actually you can make the decision on this request for 20 kilograms of rice!
But some smart people quickly understood Bai Zhenggan's intention and immediately expressed their opinions.
"Taotao is so smart!"
"Tao Tao is so good at making recipes. She mobilized the whole village and allowed us to harvest the autumn harvest early and avoid the rainy season. That's great!"
"Hey, Taotao was the one who was in charge of the supply and marketing contract with the state-owned restaurant!"
"In other villages, millet was plagued by diseases and insect pests, but our village was the only one that didn't. It was also because Tao Tao explained the diseases and insect pests to everyone every day that everyone took it seriously and stopped the problem in time!"
The remaining people whose brains were not so bright suddenly understood and comprehended it.
Then I thought, Taotao is not a village cadre, she is young and very smart, and she has no competitive interests with the village cadres present. It is just a matter of praising the little girl...
That little girl has done so much to protect the village, she deserves praise!
For a moment, everyone started praising him highly.
Bai Zhenggan was so proud when he heard everyone praising Taotao crazily.
So, the 20 kilograms of rice that Taotao applied for on behalf of the library were quickly distributed in the form of receipts and handed to Taotao.
Taotao was holding twenty small pieces of paper with the village committee's official seal on them. On them was the village accountant's handwriting "Pay one pound of rice" and she was so happy!
——She wanted to carry out a series of spiritual civilization activities in the village, but was afraid that the villagers would not be enthusiastic enough to participate. Now that she has the support of the village committee, she has received 20 kilograms of rice, which she can use as a prize...
The activity can begin!
In fact, the spiritual outlook of Ruyi Village is considered acceptable among the six natural villages under the jurisdiction of the entire township.
But Taotao was still a little dissatisfied.
So she had already made plans in her mind long ago. She wanted to change Ruyi Village slowly, bit by bit.
The first thing to do is to ensure that the villagers maintain personal hygiene at all times.
Farmers in the country don’t care much about their self-image. They are poor anyway and don’t have many decent clothes, so it doesn’t matter if they are torn; it doesn’t matter if their hair is long, as they don’t care about it if it’s long, everyone in the village will know them anyway; and it doesn’t matter if their hands and feet are dirty, or if their nails are dirty... Well, everyone in the village is like this!
So Taotao spent three hours every day in her library opening hours to earnestly advise women to pay attention to their image...
In fact, once the novelty wears off, the women who come to the library every day no longer like to study; they come here to chat.
Taotao mentioned it so many times that the women were still a little unhappy. They thought that Taotao looked down on us and thought we were dirty.
Later they rarely came.
Tao Tao was not angry. A few days later, she wrote a notice at the entrance of the village committee:
[Ruyi Village's October 1967 Spiritual Civilization Selection Competition is about to begin]
Eligibility: All villagers.
Selection rules: The village committee will conduct three random checks at irregular intervals. Anyone who maintains consistency and has the highest score in the three checks will become the winner.
Special note: The winner will receive a mysterious prize.
However, Taotao kept it a secret and did not say what the selection would be about.
As soon as the news came out, the deserted library became lively again, with women chattering -
"Taozi, what are you judging for? Tell us first!"
"Taotao, tell me what the prize is first. If it's something good, I'll participate."
"Why do I have to review it three times? It feels so troublesome..."
"What exactly is the selection? Taotao, please explain it to us so we can be mentally prepared!"
A few days later, Taotao organized the first spiritual civilization selection.
The venue was in the small square of the village committee. The villagers who were willing to participate in the selection brought their small stools here nervously.
Unexpectedly——
The content of the selection is:
1Do you wash your hair often? Is your hair greasy?
2Have you combed your hair? (Men: Do you shave regularly?)
3. Do you change clothes frequently? Are your clothes and pants clean and tidy? (Note: Patches are available)
4Do you brush your teeth every morning and evening? Are your teeth white?
5Are you wearing shoes? (Note: Straw sandals are also acceptable)
6. Have you washed your hands clean? Are your nails trimmed regularly?
The villagers were dumbfounded.
Xingxing arranged for everyone to take turns to come forward and let the village cadres check their personal hygiene one by one.
Taotao stood aside and recorded names and scores.
Most of the people slipped away on the spot and did not dare to approach the village cadres for inspection.
The rest of the people tried to remain calm, but they were also embarrassed and blushed.
From that day on, the villagers were traumatized. At first, everyone paid attention to hygiene and loved cleanliness.
They comb their hair neatly, change and wash their clothes in time when they are dirty, mend the torn clothes as soon as possible, and keep them clean and tidy at all times. If they need to work, they will wear a neck apron and sleeves on their hands.
In addition, those who didn’t like brushing their teeth also hurriedly asked someone to go to the town to buy toothbrushes, toothpaste and tooth powder. Those who didn’t like washing their faces started washing their faces every day. There were also many people who cut their fingernails and toenails with hatchets and broke their skin...
During this process, Taotao saw that many people had bloody fingers and toes. She couldn't help but feel angry and amused. On the one hand, she reported to the village committee and asked the collective to order a batch of nail clippers. On the other hand, she donated her small scissors for making clothes and placed them on the small table in front of the library. She tied it with a rope and placed a bottle of alcohol and a large bag of clean thumb-sized scraps of cloth next to it.
Everyone can go there to cut their nails with small scissors, but before using them, everyone must wipe the blade of the scissors clean with a rag dipped in alcohol.
For the second selection, Taotao notified everyone three days in advance.
So this time everyone lined up confidently to be inspected by the village cadres.
The men all shaved their beards cleanly, and some of the women put on hair oil, washed their faces and applied some cold cream, and put on their best clothes and shoes, as if they were taking it more seriously than visiting relatives!
All of a sudden, everyone noticed that all the villagers had become so good-looking.
"Taohua, the clothes you are wearing today are really beautiful!"
"Aunt Six, how come your braids are so beautiful?"
"Sister Qi, did you make these shoes yourself? How did you make them? They look so beautiful!"
"Wow, Uncle Eighteen, you look so energetic today!"
"Jiujinzi! You look so handsome today! If you look like this every day, you would have found a wife long ago!"
The village cadres are also very happy that the villagers can have such a mental outlook.
So this time, the village cadres strictly checked the villagers' personal hygiene in accordance with Taotao's prior instructions. They even ask people to open their mouths to check if their teeth are yellow.
Taotao still sat aside, recording all the inspection results of the village cadres.
The villagers thought: Wow! The village cadres checked their personal hygiene so carefully, which shows that this is a very important matter...
In the following time, the villagers cleaned themselves up more and more seriously.
After the autumn harvest, it is the slack season for farmers. Although the Ruyi Village Committee has issued many work tasks, most of the other villages have nothing to do.
So it’s blind date season.
There were gradually more and more matchmakers coming to Ruyi Village and more and more people from other villages coming to visit relatives.
Outsiders were surprised to find the changes in the villagers of Ruyi Village - how come they were no longer as sloppy as before, and had become more refined?
Clothes had to be changed every three days at most, hair had to be combed every day, teeth had to be brushed and face had to be washed twice a day. Many women also liked to take their torn clothes to the library to have them mended - it was said that the librarian Taotao would teach everyone how to mend torn clothes to make them look nice!
Suddenly, the handsome men and pretty women in Ruyi Village...
It attracted countless matchmakers.
However!
This autumn, the most popular and sought-after single man in Ruyi Village is Bai Taotao's third uncle!
He is in his forties, in the prime of his life, but he is divorced and his four daughters are all missing... Not to mention anything else, just because of his great strength and the fact that he is a good farm worker and can earn 12 work points every day during the busy farming season, within just a few days, at least eight out of ten matchmakers came to propose marriage to Uncle Bai!
—There are divorced women, widows with children whose husbands have died, and even some young girls in their twenties who have not yet married...
For some reason, Uncle Bai kept shaking his head and refused to marry again.
Those have nothing to do with Taotao anymore.
What Taotao is most concerned about now is the third personal hygiene evaluation in the village.
The first time she checked, she caught the whole village off guard; the second time, in order to boost the villagers’ confidence, she informed them three days in advance; so the third time…
Taotao was scheduled for the Double Ninth Festival on September 9th.
Early in the morning, she worked together with the Women's Federation of the village to go to the nursing home to pick up all the lonely elderly people, cut their hair and wash their hair in the small square of the village committee, and gave them gifts: two sets of new clothes for each person, one set for autumn and one set for winter, plus a pound of white sugar, a bag of milk powder and ten salted duck eggs for each person.
The old people were all very happy, grinning with their toothless mouths.
After visiting the elderly, the third personal hygiene inspection for the whole village began.
This time, everyone is very excited and looking forward to it.
——Mainly for the mysterious prize.
Suddenly someone said in a sarcastic tone: "People are making fun of you! Like livestock, they ask you to open your mouth to check your teeth and fingernails... Aren't you ashamed?"
Taotao looked carefully and saw that it was Li Cuier who was speaking?
Look at Li Cui'er again...
During the past half month, the appearance of most people in the village had changed, but Li Cui'er was still the same - she was wearing a dirty old blue cloth printed top, but the back collar, front and cuffs had turned dirty black and gray, and there were several holes on the elbows... Plus, her hair was tied up in a haphazard ponytail, and was a little messy, and her face was covered in dirt.
In the past, the images of villagers were mostly similar.
Li Cui'er also seems less outstanding.
But today, everyone put on their best clothes and dressed neatly...
It makes Li Cui'er look like a beggar!
What's more, when she opened her mouth to speak, everyone smelled bad breath?
"boom--"
Everyone retreated together, and everyone showed contemptuous expressions towards Li Cui'er.
Li Cui'er was completely unaware and kept asking people, "And what's more! Do you know what the prize is? Maybe it's a piece of rag! Or it could be a bag of rapeseed. If you want to eat ready-made ones, you have to grow them yourself, hahahahahahaha..."
After thinking for a while, Li Cui'er continued to talk to herself: "If the prize is something good...just wait and see, the one who is selected is either Taotao's mother, Taotao's sister-in-law, or her sister!"
Her tone was sarcastic, but no one paid any attention to her.
Bai Taotao didn't want to pay attention to Li Cuier either.
The selection process went smoothly.
But the winner was beyond everyone's expectations.
——The lucky one is Zhou Xiaoni!
It was not until then that the villagers suddenly remembered that it seemed... since Zhou Chunsheng left and Zhou Chunni married far away, Zhou Xiaoni seemed to have become a different person?
In the past, Zhou Xiaoni was just like other children in the village, naughty, stubborn and sloppy.
After Zhou Chunni left, thirteen-year-old Zhou Xiaoni became taciturn. She is busy every day from dawn to dusk...without stopping for a moment.
She fetched water, washed clothes, cooked, cleaned the yard, and planted a variety of vegetables in her yard and raised chickens and ducks. She not only kept her home spotless, but also kept herself neat and tidy.
However, recently, Zhou Xiaoni has been following Bai Taotao...
Bai Taotao's family has always been clean and tidy. Maybe it's because Bai Taotao's brilliance overshadowed Zhou Xiaoni, so no one paid attention to her.
Now that the selection results are out——
Everyone was shocked at first, and then accepted it with pleasure.
"That girl is really neat and tidy! Not only does she keep herself tidy, but her home and outside are also kept tidy and clean! It's worth it!"
"It's really not easy for little Ni'er. Her parents are gone, and her brothers and sisters are gone too. She has been supporting the family all by herself... She's only thirteen! Oh, this award should belong to her!"
"Little Nico is really doing well. If you ask me, everyone in our village should learn from her! What's wrong with being alone? You have to live a good life alone!"
"Let's give this prize to Xiao Ni! I'll try again next time!"
"Fuck you! You talk as if you are cleaner than Xiao Ni! Look at the dandruff on your hair... How many days have you not washed your hair?"
Next, Bai Taotao announced the mysterious prize for the winner—two kilograms of rice!
There was another uproar in the audience!
What does two pounds of rice represent?
Even the strongest men in the village who can earn 12 work points a day have to work for four consecutive days!
The villagers who were convinced by Zhou Xiaoni just now, now all had their eyes turned red with envy, jealousy and hatred!
Zhou Xiaoni was surprised and delighted. Amid the envious gazes of everyone, she went on stage and accepted Taotao's award - two slips with "one pound of rice" stamped with a big red official seal.
A strange voice came from the crowd——
"In my opinion, Bai Taotao was partial to her, right? Everyone knows that Zhou Xiaoni is Bai Taotao's follower... Bai Taotao must have told Zhou Xiaoni about the selection content early on, so Zhou Xiaoni passed the three rounds of evaluation!"
Bai Taotao recognized that it was Li Cui'er's voice.
But before Taotao could retort, the villagers started to cry out -
"It turns out that only the secretary's family in our village likes to be clean and respectable, but look, no one from the secretary's family participated in the award ceremony this time! How can this be called favoritism?"
"That's right! Little girl didn't just start being clean today. She's been like this for two or three months. Did she know that this contest would be held today? If that's the case, she's been maintaining personal hygiene for two or three months just for these two kilograms of rice, so I think she deserves it!"
"Humph, you are dirty yourself and you still blame others for being clean! Look at yourself, you are as dirty as a beggar!"
"Why, are you jealous? Then clean yourself up. Even with your condition, Bai Lao Si doesn't despise you. I want to vomit when I see you!"
"yue..."
Li Cui'er cried after being scolded, and ran away with her face covered.
Then Bai Zhenggan spoke again, encouraging everyone to learn from Zhou Xiaoni and to take care of their personal hygiene and the hygiene of their homes. He also asked everyone to pay more attention to the next selection project at the library. I heard that there will be prizes there too!
After a while, Zhou Xiaoni ran to get a pound of rice, and then kept the certificate for another pound of rice for herself.
That night she steamed a small half pound of rice, then found a duck egg, went to the vegetable garden to pick a few vegetable leaves, made a duck egg and vegetable leaf soup, made some pickled vegetables, and took out a bottle of shrimp chili sauce that Taotao had given her.
This was her dinner.
She could finally have a full meal of authentic rice!
When the rice was cooked, Zhou Xiaoni ate the fragrant rice and took a deep breath.
Rice without any other grains or beans is so delicious!
It's simply intoxicating.
Then she picked up a chopstick of shrimp chili sauce and mixed it into the rice... The oil in the chili sauce dyed the rice bright red! Zhou Xiaoni ate her rice in big mouthfuls. She choked, so she took a few big gulps of duck egg and vegetable leaf soup, and then ate a few bites of crispy pickled vegetables...
She sighed comfortably and quickly thought about what to do with the remaining half of the rice.
——Take out another half and cook a pot of porridge tomorrow morning. She can eat it all day long! Save the remaining bit first, and cook it into rice in a few days to satisfy your craving.
When the mouth is full of oil,
Suddenly someone called out from outside the door, "Xiao Ni? Is Xiao Ni home?"
Zhou Xiaoni recognized that it was Bai Taotao's voice!
She quickly put down her bowl and ran out, "Yes! I'm at home! Sister Taotao... have you eaten? Do you want to come in and eat with me?"
When saying this, Zhou Xiaoni straightened her chest unconsciously - thanks to that pound of rice, this was the first time she dared to invite others to her home for dinner so openly.
Taotao smiled, and without entering the house, she directly handed over something in her arms.
Zhou Xiaoni took a closer look and saw that it was a four-eyed puppy?
Tao Tao said, "My uncle sent a litter of puppies, and my mother asked me to give one to you... You raise it and let it guard your house in the future!"
The puppy was chubby, with moist eyes, and barked twice at Zhou Xiaoni.
Zhou Xiaoni was overjoyed, her heart melted by the cuteness of this little puppy. She quickly took it and said shyly, "Sister Taotao, I, I don't have anything to give in return!"
Taotao smiled, "What are you thanking me for? You are such a fool! Well, as long as you can really live your life well, my parents will be very happy! But, you have a family now, so you must support the dog!"
Zhou Xiaoni looked at the puppy.
The puppy hissed and licked her hand with its tongue.
Zhou Xiaoni said sincerely: "Sister Taotao, thank you, and thank my uncle and aunt for me too!"
"You're welcome!" Tao Tao walked out, but suddenly stopped and asked her, "We are going to the market tomorrow. We have arranged to have Uncle Tan take our ox cart. Are you going?"
Zhou Xiaoni's eyes lit up, "Go!"
——She had collected a lot of dried mushrooms, dried chilies and other things, and was planning to take them to town to exchange for other things.
Taotao waved at her, "Then see you at the village entrance at seven o'clock tomorrow!"
After saying that, she ran away.
Zhou Xiaoni stared blankly at Taotao's receding figure, smiled, and carried the puppy back to the house.
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The next day, Taotao's whole family, except Bai Zhenggan, carried large and small bags and went to the village entrance to wait for Uncle Tan.
Also traveling with them were Second Aunt, Sister Yongjun, Sister Caixia from the Second Family, and Zhou Xiaoni who had been waiting at the village entrance early.
At around seven o'clock, Uncle Tan finally arrived driving the ox cart.
Song Zhi helped to pile everyone's belongings into the car, and the women sat on it with laughter.
He was too embarrassed to squeeze with the women, so he just walked next to Taotao.
——It takes about two hours to walk from Ruyi Village to the town. It takes two hours to take a bullock cart, but the advantage is that you don’t have to carry your own luggage.
The women were laughing and chatting...
Suddenly someone shouted from behind, "Zhenggan sister-in-law! Taotao...wait a minute!"
Everyone turned around and saw that Yan Naqian was running towards them?
Xing Xing was anxious, "Uncle Tan, let's run!"
Taotao laughed out loud.
Tang Liren glared at her little daughter with a mixture of amusement and anger, and shouted, "Why are we running away? It makes us look like we are hiding... as if we are doing something shameful!"
However, Tang Liren was really annoyed with Yan Naqian, so she said to Uncle Da Tan: "Da Tan, don't worry about her, let her run for a while, we should walk, don't stop for her!"
Uncle Tan responded.
So, Yan Naqian chased after him——
She fully expected the bullock cart to stop and wait for her.
But no.
Yan Naqian felt extremely embarrassed!
But although the ox cart showed no intention of stopping, it also had no intention of speeding up?
She also thought that according to the original plot, if she didn't marry Song Zhi as soon as possible, she would not be able to get a spot to return to the city... and leave this terrible place.
Yan Naqian gritted her teeth and continued to run to chase the car.
If the mountain doesn’t come to me, I will go to the mountain!
But the big buffalo seemed to be walking very slowly, and it took Yan Naqian almost half an hour to catch up with it.
She had never suffered such hardship in her past life or this life, and she felt extremely wronged.
She saw Song Zhi.
There was only Song Zhi in her eyes.
So Yan Naqian leaned on the wooden fence of the ox cart with one hand, and stretched out her other hand towards Song Zhi with tears in her eyes, "Brother Song Zhi——"
Song Zhi avoided it perfectly.
Yan Naqian almost fell to the ground...
Fortunately, he held on to the wooden fence tightly and was able to stop himself in this extremely embarrassing situation.
The women on the ox cart had stopped talking, and everyone was staring at Yan Naqian, as if she was an alien.
Yan Naqian came to her senses, bit her lip, and warned herself in her heart: Since these people don't like her, she shouldn't get too close to them.
So Yan Naqian said politely: "Taotao, please make way for me."
Tao Tao replied sweetly, "Sorry, Sister Naqian, I have too much luggage here and I can't move it!"
Yan Naqian took a look——
Indeed, the ox cart was already piled high with large and small bags of things. Because there were so many luggages, the people sitting on the ox cart were all hugging each other, and everyone was holding a basket or a bundle in their hands.
Tao Tao said with a smile: "Sister Naqian, you can go with Song Zhi, come on!"
Yan Naqian: Come on, damn it, the soles of my shoes are almost worn through, and I don’t know how many blisters I have on the soles of my feet.
However, she tried to force a smile, "Okay!"
After a pause, Yan Naqian looked at Song Zhi again and said coquettishly, "Brother Song Zhi, Taotao asked me to go with you!"
Song Zhili ignored her.
——Originally he was walking beside the ox cart, leaning on Taotao; when Yan Naqian came, she took his seat, so he walked to the front of the cart and chatted with Uncle Tan for a while.
Uncle Tan moved his butt and let Song Zhi get in the car and squeeze in with him.
Song Zhi thanked Uncle Da Tan, got on the ox-driving seat, and sat side by side with Uncle Da Tan.
Yan Naqian became anxious when she saw it!
——Why is she the only one without a seat? Did she really have to walk to town? That won’t do! Everyone was sitting and she was the only one walking? This is too cheap.
Yan Naqian hurried to the front and said, "Brother Song Zhi, is there any room left at your place..."
there is none left.
The cow-driving seat was originally for one person, but Song Zhi and Uncle Tan were squeezed in, with each of them only occupying half of the buttocks.
Tao Tao cheered Yan Naqian up, "It's okay, Naqian, just think of it as exercise!"
Xing Xing encouraged Yan Naqian, "You've gained some weight recently anyway, it's time to lose weight."
Yan Naqian: ...
Second Aunt Bai couldn't help herself and asked Yan Naqian, "Yan Zhiqing, why have you gained so much weight recently... Our Dongsheng's wife was not as fat as you when she was in confinement after giving birth. Don't tell me that you are like Erjun, suffering from some endocrine disorder or hormone problem, and became so fat..."
Yan Naqian: Haha, thank you so much!
——The fact is, when Huang Er’s case came out, the original body had a miscarriage. After Yan Naqian inherited the original body, she was afraid that her body would be seriously depleted, so she found a way to buy some brown sugar, milk powder and other things to replenish her body.
In addition, she hated farm work and always tried to avoid it. Also, because she framed Jiang Hongzhi, the people in the Youth League Station hated and feared her...so no one dared to ask her to go to work anymore.
She eats and drinks every day and doesn't exercise. Although the food is not good, she still gains weight visibly.
Taotao ignored her and talked to Xingxing about what they were going to exchange for in town. "…Our village doesn't produce sweet potatoes. Let's exchange some in town. We're almost out of the sweet potatoes at home. If we can find someone to exchange for sweet potato flour, that would be even better!"
Xing Xing also chirped, "Vinegar! There's also vinegar! Sweet potato vermicelli with vinegar makes it delicious! It's a pity that the bottle of vinegar in our house was knocked over by the soybeans... Let's change two bottles of vinegar this time!"
Zhou Xiaoni and the Taoxing sisters were already very familiar with each other, so she also said: "I want to exchange for a can of rapeseed oil, but I don't know if I can get it."
Hongdou also took a mouthful, "Aunt, please buy me and Huangdou a piece of maltose! We promise to eat it slowly!"
"Slow-slow! Eat!" Huangdou also shouted.
Tao Tao patted the heads of her nephews and nieces and said proudly, "No problem!"
Yan Naqian rolled her eyes, pretending to be surprised, and said to Tang Liren, "Aunt, so you...are going to town to engage in speculation and profiteering?"
Tang Liren sneered, "Yan Zhiqing, you'd better take care of yourself! Watch the road carefully and don't hurt your back! There will be a market in town today, and people from all over the town will come to trade. Why don't you report everyone in the market? Maybe it will make you look particularly conscious!"
——In this era, speculation is a serious crime. But ordinary people go to the market and barter in an open and aboveboard manner.
Does Yan Naqian think that she is very capable and has caught someone else's handle?
Looking at the sarcastic smile on Tang Liren's face, Yan Naqian knew that she had hit the wrong target and had to give up in disappointment.
At this time, a bus came from far behind.
Tao Tao saw it and said to Yan Naqian with a smile: "Sister Naqian, walking is so tiring! Why don't you catch this bus? We are already here, and it only costs two cents to take the bus to town."
Yan Naqian hesitated for a while, then said with a fake smile: "I'd better walk with you guys. Isn't this to lose weight?"
——She was mainly thinking that with her around, Song Zhi and Taotao wouldn’t be so intimate.
The bus roared and caught up with the slow-moving ox cart. The driver honked his whistle twice, meaning: Pull over to the side! I'm going to overtake.
Uncle Tan drove the ox cart to the side.
Yan Naqian looked at the bus slowing down and was at a loss for a moment.
——Her feet were so tired and sore from walking, and everyone else was sitting on the ox cart while she was walking alone... This feeling was actually quite humiliating.
She really wanted to take the bus to work and then proudly surpass Bai Taotao and the others.
But……
Yan Naqian bit her lower lip, trying hard to calm her original inner thoughts - I have already suffered half the journey, and I have also suffered from your troubles along the way, which has caused me so much trouble; in the remaining half of the journey, I must get back at you and make you uncomfortable!
So she stiffened her neck and refused to look at the bus.
Bai Taotao chuckled.
Xing Xing didn't understand, "Fourth sister, why are you laughing?"
Taotao glanced at Yan Naqian and smiled, "Nothing."
It has to be said that because of Yan Naqian, the women sitting on the ox cart really couldn't chat freely.
But the price Yan Naqian paid for it was not small.
She walked for two hours, and the soles of her already worn-out and unreliable leather shoes fell off...
Fortunately, we finally arrived in town.
At this time, the market began to take shape.
Uncle Tan urged the ox cart to stop some distance away from the market. Tang Liren and Aunt Bai jumped off the ox cart swiftly, ignored their luggage, and ran towards the market without looking back!
Yan Naqian was startled.
Then the others also got off the ox cart, and under the leadership of Song Zhi, they carried various backpacks, bamboo baskets and bundles and chased after Tang Liren and Aunt Bai.
Yan Naqian was stunned.
She asked several times, "What's wrong with you guys?", but no one paid any attention to her; she also wanted to catch up and see what was going on...
But he had come all the way in a ox cart and had not used any physical strength at all, so now he was moving as fast as a tiger!
As for her, she walked for more than two hours and was exhausted. Her soles were also in pain...
In the end, he could only watch Song Zhi, Bai Taotao and the others run away.
Tang Liren and Aunt Bai acted so quickly in order to occupy a good second-rate position in the already established market.
The two of them ran around the market and finally decided on one.
At that moment, Tang Liren stood there and occupied her position; Aunt Bai went to find Song Zhi and the others... Soon, Song Zhi came over with Taotao and the others, carrying large and small bags of things.
Everyone had just taken out the things from the bamboo baskets, backpacks and bags, and had not had time to put them in place. Then some people came and followed them and set up stalls as well.
Sisters Song Zhi and Tao Xing, Tan Fenghui who brought her child, and sister Caixia from the second house went to the market.
Tang Liren, Aunt Bai Er, and Zhou Xiaoni stayed to set up the stall.
Song Zhi came to the market today for his own reasons - he wanted to buy some second-hand goods that had recycling value.
So he said goodbye to Taotao and went for some free time.
Taotao continued shopping with her sister-in-law and sister, and suddenly her eyes caught sight of someone.
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