The next morning, she got up early and ran to the mountain to find the key.
After groping on the grass for a while, I successfully found the key and was about to go down the mountain when I suddenly noticed a plant next to me.
This plant has red fruits hanging on it.
Yesterday, those female educated youth picked fruits here.
At that time, she was still wondering, if there really were fruits, why hadn't they been completely picked up by the children nearby.
Looking at this fruit again, it is clear that it is not edible.
Then why did Zhu Wanqin say yesterday that he saw the Jin family picking this fruit and taking it back?
Through what happened yesterday, she has realized that Zhu Wanqin is not as perfect as in the original work.
It can even be said that something is wrong.
She thought as she walked down the mountain.
If we put all these things together, we can conclude that there are three things wrong:
First, the biggest thing wrong is the relationship between her and the male protagonist Jin Chengren. In the original work, Jin Chengren has already begun to like Zhu Wanqin, so why is there no sign of it now?
Second, why did Zhu Wanqin keep getting closer to Meng Yuanzheng when she first arrived?
Third, in the original novel, there is no plot where Zhu Wanqin discovers the collapsed mountain.
And then there is this fruit...
Yesterday, Xu Liwen ate this fruit and said it was not tasty, so no one else ate it...
She had a vague guess in her mind, but it could not be confirmed.
When I arrived at the gathering place, I just heard Zhu Wanqin asking for leave from Xu Liwen, saying that she was accidentally bitten by an insect in the mountains yesterday and had small bumps all over her body, so she went to the clinic today.
Something in Lin Miaoyin's heart skipped a beat.
She was harvesting wheat as usual today. During the process, she found an opportunity to show the fruit to Jin Chengren's sister and asked her if her family had picked this kind of fruit to take back.
Jin Chengren's sister looked at it and asked in confusion, "This kind of fruit cannot be eaten by humans, and it can't even be fed to pigs. How can I pick this thing and take it back?"
Lin Miaoyin nodded and thanked her.
She seemed to understand a little.
After a few days of hard work, all the wheat was harvested and placed on the threshing ground to dry. The strong and middle-aged laborers held up the curtains and beat the wheat continuously to thresh it.
At the same time, someone was driving the only cow in the team, pulling a stone cart back and forth to thresh the grain.
The women separate the wheat stalks and grains from the beaten wheat and remove the dust with a winnowing basket.
What you get at the end is clean wheat grains, which are put into baskets and then need to be dried for a few more days before they can be stored in warehouses.
Lin Miaoyin was so busy following them that she finally finished the work on Saturday afternoon.
It was Sunday, a holiday, and before ten o'clock in the morning, Jin Chengren came with what Lin Miaoyin wanted.
He set out to queue before dawn and bought only fresh goods.
In addition to chicken feet, large intestines and chicken gizzards, he also bought some gifts as his parents suggested, to thank Meng Yuanzheng for his kindness to him in the mine.
He thanked Meng Yuanzheng solemnly and presented him with a gift. Meng Yuanzheng did not refuse and accepted it with a smile. The two of them started chatting like good brothers.
Lin Miaoyin prepared tea for them, served them some melon seeds, and asked Jin Chengren to stay for dinner.
Jin Chengren declined a few times and then accepted the offer.
Lin Miaoyin went to prepare lunch. It was natural for guests to eat something delicious. In addition, she had been busy these days and had only eaten casually every day, so her stomach was already empty.
A few days ago, I asked Lin Miaojun for help to nail the wooden door. She went into the kitchen and started working.
First clean the chicken feet, gizzards and intestines.
This thing is the most troublesome. It took half an hour to wash it.
Then prepare the ingredients while blanching. Fortunately, I bought all the seasonings at the black market in the county town.
After blanching, add the ingredients, stir-fry, then add water and start braising.
Jin Chengren brought a lot of things, including a pound of meat, brown sugar, eggs, and vegetables grown at home, which showed his sincerity. This pound of meat probably used up all the meat coupons in his family.
After stewing for about an hour, the aroma of meat filled the entire yard, not just the kitchen.
Jin Chengren sniffed, "It smells so good, sister-in-law's cooking skills are so good, Brother Meng, you are so lucky."
Meng Yuanzheng's eyes flashed with pride, "When you get married, let your wife do it for you."
Jin Chengren's mind flashed with the image of Yan Hongyue frowning and looking at him with disdain every time. He really couldn't associate her with gentleness and virtue. "I haven't even thought about getting married yet."
"You are twenty this year."
"yes."
"What are your plans for the future?"
"Alas, I have plans in vain, but my family background..."
"I do have some ideas and suggestions. Would you like to listen to them..."
Lin Miaoyin had no idea what they talked about in the room. She was taking out the braised food and letting it cool down, and the rice in the big pot was almost done steaming.
I washed the pot, fried two side dishes, cut the pig intestines and put them on a plate, then fried two taels of pork belly with erjingtiao.
Set the table, scoop out the rice, and help Meng Yuanzheng to the table.
I don’t know what he just said to Jin Chengren. The child looked weird and absent-minded.
It was not until Lin Miaoyin called him twice that he came to his senses.
After dinner, Lin Miaoyin filled a large bowl with braised dishes, put it in a basket, covered it with a cloth, and asked him to take it back for his family.
There was half a pot of braised food, and if it wasn't finished today it would go bad tomorrow. Jin Chengren accepted it embarrassedly.
After sending the person away, she filled another large bowl and sent it to the Lin family.
Lin's mother caught her and gave her a lecture, telling her to spend money frugally and keep the delicious food for herself instead of sending it to her parents' home.
I finally got home, but an uninvited guest came.
Zhu Wanqin.
Zhu Wanqin was dressed very beautifully today and said that she came to express her condolences to Meng Yuanzheng on behalf of the educated youth.
She brought two cans of food and some other things. The two cans were sent by her family from Shanghai, and there was also a small jar of toffee.
Placed on the table, it looks very tempting.
She had a gentle smile on her face. When Lin Miaoyin entered the room, she saw her standing in front of the bed, talking gently to Meng Yuanzheng.
Meng Yuanzheng had a calm expression and was very frugal with his words, basically answering one word for each question.
"Zhu Zhiqing is here, welcome, welcome."
Lin Miaoyin greeted with a smile, walked in and pretended to accidentally stand in front of Meng Yuanzheng, so that he could only see her buttocks and his view was completely blocked.
Seeing her protective look, Zhu Wanqin's smile froze a little, "I'm here on behalf of the educated youth to express my condolences to Brother Meng."
Lin Miaoyin nodded, as if waking up from a dream, and said, "Oh, Yuanzheng, you are so stupid. You didn't even ask Zhu Zhiqing to sit down with you."
After that, he brought a stool over and said, "Please sit down."
Zhu Wanqin sat down with a smile and was about to ask about Meng Yuanzheng's condition.
In fact, apart from the fact that his leg was in a cast and was recovering, Meng Yuanzheng had no other problems.
Zhu Wanqin's eyes showed worry and self-blame, "It's all my fault that I didn't find out the mountain was going to collapse earlier. If I had called everyone out earlier, you wouldn't have to go in..."
As she was talking, she couldn't continue because the two people opposite her were looking at her quietly.
Lin Miaoyin suddenly laughed and said, "Hey, Zhu Zhiqing, your shirt is so nice. Did you buy it at a big mall?"
Zhu Wanqin smiled shyly, "I brought it from home."
Lin Miaoyin added, "Hey, your hairstyle looks great. How did you style it? Can you teach me?"
Zhu Wanqin: "Uh..."
"Oh, I made some braised food today, and Chengren helped me buy it. Come, come, let me give it to you to try."
Zhu Wanqin: "Uh..."
"Come on, come on. Yuanzheng takes a nap at this time every day. The doctor said he needs to rest more. Have you finished asking all your questions? Let's let him rest. Let's go for a walk and try the braised food I made."
Zhu Wanqin: It’s three o’clock in the afternoon and you’re still taking a nap?
Lin Miaoyin: "What's wrong? Is there anything else you want to say? Oh, you've really wasted so much money bringing so many things. Our Yuanzheng always lets me eat delicious food, and he even lies to me that he doesn't like it, but in fact he just loves me. Really, he gets unhappy when I say I don't want to eat it..."
Meng Yuanzheng: ...
Zhu Wanqin...she couldn't stay any longer, she wanted to shut this woman up.
"I remembered that I have something else to do, so I have to go. I'll come to visit Brother Meng another day." Zhu Wanqin stood up and said.
"Are you leaving now? Why not stay for dinner? You've finally made it here." Lin Miaoyin said with a look of regret.
Zhu Wanqin forced a smile and said, "I'm leaving now, don't see me off."
Lin Miaoyin stood at the door and watched Zhu Wanqin walk away.
In a good mood, he went to the kitchen to move the braised food into the room, started to eat chicken feet, and dragged Meng Yuanzheng over to eat with him.
"What's wrong with you today? Are you happy?"
Meng Yuanzheng looked at her happy expression and asked with a smile.
“I feel happy because I am against people I don’t like.”
"Why don't you like her?"
"Because she wanted to hook up with you." She took a bite and rolled her eyes.
"Ahem..." Meng Yuanzheng choked on his tea. "How did you know that? Don't talk nonsense."
"I'm not talking nonsense. Women are the best at judging other women. Don't worry about it. Leave it to me. Just ignore her."
She has now vaguely begun to confirm the guess in her heart.
"I ignored her. I'm not familiar with her at all," he said honestly.
"Well, you are from Shanghai, can you tell me about the Oriental Pearl Tower?" she asked casually.
Meng Yuanzheng was puzzled when he heard this, "What Oriental Pearl Tower?"
"You really don't know?"
"I don't know." He said frankly.
The Oriental Pearl Tower was built in 1994, but he didn’t know that. Could it be that his suspicion was wrong?
Lin Miaoyin calmed down and thought.
…
In the blink of an eye, a month passed and the corn was harvested, leaving only the rice to be harvested.
Lin Miaoyin goes out early and comes back late every day. She has to do housework when she gets home. She is so busy that she has lost weight.
But she was happy in her heart. She earned nine work points every day and was praised by everyone in the team. She thought that the food she would get this winter would be enough to get her through the winter.
In addition, Meng Yuanzheng's legs recovered very well and he began to review systematically.
Every time she saw him reading quietly, she felt like her son had grown up.
I guess those women who accompanied their husbands to take the imperial examinations in ancient times had this kind of mentality.
After dinner in the evening, she would tell him some interesting things that happened during the day, and he would tell her some stories he read in books.
Sometimes when they had different opinions, she would act like a spoiled child, saying that a good man should not fight with a woman. He would smile helplessly and sometimes even reach out to scratch her nose.
There are many mosquitoes in the summer, so she goes to the mountains to cut mugwort to smoke out the mosquitoes. She also goes to catch crabs and eels with the girls in the village in the middle of the night, and secretly picks a few lotus pods to make stew for Meng Yuanzheng.
He didn't allow her to go, saying what if she mistook the snake for an eel and caught it. Lin Miaoyin was not afraid, because she went with an experienced man and became proficient in the technique within a few days.
If he threatened her with anger, she would fry the eels she caught until they were fragrant, eat them while standing in front of him, and even put some meat in his mouth, which made him laugh.
The days passed simply and peacefully.
That weekend, she went to the Lin family early. Lin Miaojun was already waiting for her. The two hurried to the commune and then took a bus to the county.
Lin Miaojun felt inexplicably nervous and expectant because Lin Miaoyin was going to take him to the black market today. Although he knew of the existence of the black market, he had never had the courage to go there and didn't know where it was.
The Lin family was not particularly short of money, but they were short of tickets, and their lives were very tight. He was tempted to think that he didn't need tickets on the black market and could buy things directly with money.
Lin Miaoyin first took him to the same courtyard they had been to last time. When the two aunts saw her, their eyes lit up and they greeted her with great enthusiasm.
"Sister, you are finally here!"
Lin Miaoyin smiled and said, "There are still some clothes that haven't been taken away. The deposit has been paid, so how could I not come?"
She winked at the two aunts, and they understood. One of them led Lin Miaojun inside to look at the fabrics and clothes, while the other took Lin Miaoyin to the back room.
Lin Miaojun knew that his sister had some plans, but he pretended not to notice.
In the back room, the aunt took out two skirts and showed them to her. "These are made according to the two sample drawings you drew last time. We let some old customers try them on. They all like this style very much. It sells very well."
Lin Miaoyin looked at the finished product carefully. The workmanship was very fine and the fabric was very soft. She smiled and said, "It's very well done. Your craftsmanship is great."
The old lady smiled with wrinkles on her face, "Sister, can you..."
"Cooperation?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Our superiors have seen it and said they want to cooperate with you. If you come up with the design, we will give you this amount of dividends."
She held up three fingers.
"30%?"
"right."
The three-component profit margin is actually not low. After all, the customers for the sales of artificial fabrics are all from the other party. But in modern terms, the most valuable thing about a brand is its design, and processing and sales are lower-level costs.
"I want 40%." Lin Miaoyin said.
"This... you see, we provide both labor and fabric..."
"Think of it this way. If my design is better, the clothes will sell better and everyone will make more money. Your workmanship won't change much, so the design is the decisive factor. If you only give me 30%, I can give you the design and sell it to others. If you give me 40%, I can guarantee that only you can use the design. Think about which one is more beneficial to you."
Lin Miaoyin said calmly.
The aunt thought for a long time, went out to discuss with another aunt, and finally came back to reply, "Okay, then 40% is 40%, but we have to make an agreement. You have to design at least one piece every month."
"No problem." She had a lot of ideas in her mind anyway.
"Okay, let's write a written document. I'll find someone else to write it. It will be ready in a moment. Why don't you go shopping first?"
Lin Miaoyin readily agreed and took Lin Miaojun to the black market to purchase.
The two bought some meat, eggs, flour and some daily necessities. Lin Miaoyin also found a small radio at a second-hand stall, and it was battery-powered, not plugged in.
I gritted my teeth and spent twenty dollars to buy it, wrapped it in cloth and put it in a backpack.
The two began to walk back. Lin Miaojun looked at her with a complicated expression and asked, "Sister, what did you do? Can I help you with anything?"
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