Chapter 78 Sisters Reunited 1
"I'm not an old woman, how can I be so delicate?"
“The road is slippery!”
"Another two-word jump. Can't you say one more word?" Yike pouted, unhappy.
“I’m afraid of falling!”
"Okay, I added one more word. I really lost to you." Yike pretended to stagger, and Ziyi quickly supported her with both hands and said, "Don't make trouble!"
Yike stopped, stood still, faced him, looked at him for two seconds, and suddenly grinned. This was a silly man. He was not the husband in the previous life who learned a lot of sweet words from Baidu. He didn't know how to coax her with sweet words. It was enough for her to know his feelings. In this life, it was her turn to say sweet words to him.
"I really want to kiss you like this! Muah!" Yike made a flying kiss gesture.
"Stop!" Ziyi looked around in panic, and after confirming that no one was watching, he said to Yike, "This is outside!"
"Oh! You mean we can do it at home, right? Then I'll kiss you when I get home." Yike looked at Ziyi's red ears and whispered in his ear. Ziyi's ears became even redder, as if blood was about to overflow.
"Hehehe!" Yike stopped teasing him and happily followed him down the mountain.
"Comrade Ziyi, Comrade Tang said that you killed a group of wolves and have a lot of wolf meat. Do you want to sell it? I can take it all, how about it?" Comrade Xue, who was wearing green clothes, saw Ziyi and immediately came forward to ask.
Ziyi looked at Tang Jianguo, and Tang Jianguo nodded imperceptibly.
"Yes, I do, but I'm afraid it will have a smell when it's transported out, and we don't have that much salted meat." Ziyi looked like he was being honest and telling the truth.
"As for the salt, no problem. I can give it to you for free. The meat is given to us anyway, so just treat it as our own pickled meat." Comrade Xue said generously.
"Thank you, Comrade Xue! I will send it out in a week. See you here." Although Ziyi still had a blank expression on his face, his tone was much kinder.
"Okay! It's a deal! Do you want to come with me to get the salt and today's money now, or do you want me to deliver it to Comrade Tang in the evening?"
"Give part of it to Ziyi first so they can go shopping, and give the rest in the evening," said Tang Jianguo.
"This is five hundred, count it."
Ziyi nodded carefully and put it in his pocket.
"Then I'll be leaving. See you tonight." Comrade Xue got into the car and drove away, raising a cloud of dust from the rear.
Yike was in a hurry to cover her mouth, but Ziyi covered her mouth and nose first. As a result, Ziyi didn't cover his own mouth and nose, so Yike hurriedly stood on tiptoe to cover them for him.
When the dust settled, they put down their hands and heard Tang Jianguo's strange voice: "Even if you feel sorry for your wife, you have to go home. We are all single here, please consider our feelings."
"Yes! Brother Ziyi, please help me next time." A group of younger brothers echoed the words of their "boss".
"Then you better find a wife quickly, otherwise you will suffer in the future." Du Qingcang also teased.
"Are you going to leave or not? If not, I will leave anyway." Ziyi pulled Yike and sat on the ox cart.
Yike got on the ox cart with a blushing face and found that the cart was quite clean.
The ox cart swayed forward. Yi leaned on Ziyi's shoulder, closed her eyes slightly, and listened to Ziyi and Tang Jianguo's intermittent conversation.
"Is there something wrong with my cow?" Cows are indispensable for farming in the mountains, so the last time Ziyi went out of the mountains, he asked Tang Jianguo to help him see where he could buy one.
"No, it was mainly due to the drought in those three years. Many of the production teams' cows were divided up and eaten, and they lied to the higher authorities that they died of disease. Some production teams had no mountains around them, and even the grass roots on the surrounding hills were eaten by people. There was no grass for the cows to eat. The cows starved to death because they couldn't cut the grass. That's why it was difficult to buy cows in the past two years."
"I want to cultivate more fields and grow more crops. But without cows and not enough manpower, my plan is going to be wasted again." Ziyi sighed.
"We are short of manpower. That's easy. You have found the right person. As long as you have money, I will find someone for you." Tang Jianguo almost patted his chest to make the promise.
"It's not as simple as you think. You know I don't want outsiders to know about this, otherwise I won't be able to call anyone."
"Don't worry, the people I sent in promised not to say anything outside. I'm afraid they won't want to come out after they go in."
"Okay! Since you are someone you can trust, then I feel relieved. How about you come in with me this time?"
"Okay! There just happens to be nothing to do in the black market recently. Let these guys go in with you. They are our right-hand men and left-hand men. You can trust them completely. Most importantly, they are all orphans."
"Brothers, there is good news. Do you want to hear it?" Tang Jianguo asked loudly. The group of young men sitting at the back of the ox cart shouted at their boss to speak quickly and stop keeping them in suspense.
"Your elder brother Ziyi is looking for someone to do some work, do you want to go?"
"Go, you'd be a fool if you don't go. You can eat meat every day. I, I'll sign up." Ma Shouze was the first to raise his hand to sign up.
"Going to the mountains? Okay! I'll go too. But who will run errands for you after we leave? Do you want to stay with someone? How about Ma Shouze?" Liu Bing said with a grin.
"No, if anyone wants to stay, it should be you. Why should you keep me? You are smart, it would be best if you stay to run errands. Brother Ziyi, take me with you. I want to go eat meat with you."
"It turns out that you are not going there to work, but to eat meat. Then your brother Ziyi can't take you there." Brother Tang said jokingly.
"Work, work! We can work and eat meat. Hey, brothers, what is the most abundant thing in the mountains?" Ma Shouze asked loudly.
"There are the most animals!" everyone answered in unison.
"Whose martial arts is the most powerful?"
"Of course it's Brother Ziyi!"
“Who are animals most afraid of?”
"Brother Ziyi!"
"So, it's definitely right for us to follow Brother Ziyi and eat meat. Eating meat will give us more energy to work, don't you think so, brothers?"
"Yes!" Another unanimous answer.
"Puchi!" Yike finally couldn't hold back his laughter anymore.
"Look, look, just showing off and making your sister-in-law laugh." Tang Jianguo also said with a smile.
"You can all go, but don't run around by yourself once you get in. There are not only wolves, tigers and blind bears in there, but even more terrifying are poisonous snakes and insects. One bite from them can kill you instantly. Those poisonous insects and snakes are difficult to guard against. Even people like us who often hunt in the mountains have a high level of vigilance, but some of us can still get caught by accident. You can go if you can guarantee your safety." Ziyi said a long speech this time.
"Brother Ziyi, we promise not to run around. But you have to give us meat to eat."
"There's plenty of meat," Ziyi said.
"Wow! Plenty of meat! That's great!" A group of guys and girls danced like children.
The ox cart entered the city amid everyone's cheerful voices.
The streets in the city remained the same, but the gray dust finally returned to dust on the ground, walls and roofs. This should be attributed to the fact that the heavy rain did a thorough cleaning. The washed-out streets look cheerful, and would be even better if there were no red armbands occasionally passing by.
"Are we still going to the black market?" Yi Ke asked in a low voice.
"No need. There's nothing to sell on the black market right now. Let's just go buy some seeds. Do you want to buy something?"
The three of them arrived at a shop selling seeds. Actually, it cannot be called a seed shop. It should be called a grocery store. Anything related to farming can be seen here. Farm tools such as hoes, sickles, dung buckets, bamboo backpacks, rakes and plows were placed in a corner in a mess.
"Comrade, what do you want to buy?" A man in his thirties, dark and thin, wearing a faded blue suit, with a pair of bright eyes, looked at the three people's clothes and did not look like they were short of money, so he became more enthusiastic, "We have everything here. Comrade, what do you need?"
"Seeds, seeds suitable for planting in this season, take them out and let me see them."
"Comrade, do you want much?"
"A lot. I want a lot of all kinds of seeds." Ziyi said.
"Okay, comrade, wait a moment." He rummaged under the counter and took out eight or nine cloth bags. He then untied all the bags to show Ziyi, saying as he untied the bags, "These are corn seeds, these are sorghum seeds, these are edamame seeds, these are peanut seeds, and these are..."
"Do you have vegetable seeds?" Yi Ke also stretched his head to look at the seeds in the bag. None of them looked very pretty, and some were shriveled. She took a quick look and stopped looking, instead asking about vegetable seeds, which was what she wanted to buy.
"Yes, what kind of vegetable seeds do you want?" asked the thin and dark man, without stopping his hands.
"The more the merrier!" one could answer.
The dark-skinned man untied all the bags on the counter, then took a large cloth bag from the wooden shelf next to him and placed it on the counter. He untied the bag and took out several small cloth bags from it, saying, "This is celery seeds, green beans, pumpkin, loofah, cucumber, black fungus, lettuce, dry vine, Chinese kale, summer radish..."
"Take one of each of these." Ziyi said to the dark and thin man.
"Okay, comrade, let me take a look at the letter of introduction." The dark and thin man said happily.
Ziyi took out a piece of paper with a red seal on it from his jacket pocket and showed it to the thin and dark man. Yike took a glance and saw something like "Beishan Village purchasing...seeds" written on it.
"When did Ziyi make this thing? How come I don't know about it?" Yike thought to himself, and when he turned around, he saw that his godfather was also confused, hehe! It turns out that this is hidden from everyone.
All the seeds were bought, and also several hoes, sickles, plows and harrows for working the land.
The three of them happily took their things and went out. As soon as they reached the door, they saw someone they had always wanted to see coming in - Han Guihua.
Han Guihua lowered her head, her hair was dry and yellow, and she was wearing a patched floral dress. There was also a patch on the knee of her pants. She was clutching a cloth bag tightly with both hands. The skin of her hands was like dead tree bark, rough and dry, like the hands of an old man in his seventies or eighties.
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