An old woman snorted with a hint of disdain, "You know, yesterday the girl from the Pan family went to the town to sell eggs."
Qingxi Village is remote and the people are simple and honest, but when there are so many people, there are always a few who are materialistic and mean.
These women are the most nosy people in Qingxi Village. Whenever there is any noise in someone's house, you can see them gathered together, talking about the gossips of either family.
After all, there is nothing good to say when a few people get together.
Just as she finished speaking, another woman's voice rang out, "What's so strange about this? Things have changed a bit these past few days. Pan Qingyou's leg must be hurting again. Pan Xiuxiu must be trying to sell eggs to buy medicine for her father."
The affairs of the Pan family are no secret in the village. After Pan Qingyou injured his leg, he worked hard in the fields. How could his leg not hurt?
Pan Xiuxiu is a filial girl and wants to get medicine for her father. There is nothing strange about that.
"Someone saw Xiuxiu going to town with the Lin family in Old Man Niu's ox cart."
These words made the people nearby stop cracking melon seeds and turn around to look at the woman who had just spoken.
Seeing that everyone was interested in what she said, the woman who had just spoken was even more proud. She raised her head and explained with a proud look on her face: "What I said is true. The boy from the Fang family also went to the town yesterday and saw it for real."
"When did Pan Xiuxiu become so familiar with the Lin family that they could bring her along?"
The Lin family rented Old Man Niu's ox cart. Many people in the village knew about this. Even if Old Man Niu didn't say it, it was not a secret.
Although many people were curious about how the Lin family had the money to rent an ox cart to go to the town, the Lin family was very tight-lipped, and after many people inquired for a while, the matter was dropped.
Everyone thought that the Lin family had made a lot of money, but their lives didn't seem much different from usual. Their clothes were still as shabby as ever, and people in the village often saw Lin's mother digging wild vegetables in the fields.
If the Lin family really made money, they could even eat wild vegetables. But it doesn't look like they made any money at all.
Everyone saw that Lin Wenshan took his two sons to work in the fields every day. If the Lin family made a lot of money, they wouldn't have to work so hard.
Therefore, many people were skeptical about the fact that the Lin family had made a lot of money, and as time went on, no one kept an eye on the Lin family every day.
After all, there is so much work to do in one's own fields, who has the time to stare at other people's family affairs like these gossipy women.
This was all thanks to the fact that Lin Yunchu didn't buy new clothes for everyone in his family immediately after he made some money. This was because the weather wasn't getting cold yet, so he decided to keep wearing the original clothes.
Lin Yunchu planned to wait until autumn to buy cotton clothes and quilts, so he just kept wearing his old clothes.
The Lin family has always been used to hardship and didn't think it was a big deal.
Coincidentally, because of this, the people in the village didn’t know what the Lin family was doing in the town so often. They just thought they were going to the town to find work.
"Who knows?"
The woman who was speaking spat out the melon seed shells in her mouth with a "Puh" sound, with a hint of disdain in her eyes.
There are only two people left in the Pan family now, Pan Qingyou and Pan Xiuxiu. Pan Qingyou has a broken leg, and Pan Xiuxiu, a girl, can't do anything big. No one in the Pan family is willing to get close to them now.
After hearing this, the women seemed to feel that there was nothing much to say about the Pan family's affairs, and they unconsciously changed the topic to other things.
When Lin Yunchu and Lin Changan came back, they could still hear the whispering conversations of several women as they passed by them.
Lin Yunchu was not interested in these things. After saying hello to a few women, he pulled Lin Changan back home.
Seeing this, several women curled their lips, turned their heads away in annoyance, and continued what they had not finished saying.
When Lin's father and mother saw that Lin Yunchu had returned and that he had not brought back the basket that he had originally taken to Pan's house, they knew that Pan's family had accepted the eggs and coarse noodles, so they smiled and asked Lin Yunchu and Lin Chang'an to wash their hands and prepare for dinner.
"Are there still many peppers in the back mountain?"
When Mother Lin saw that the peppers Lin Yunchu had brought back only filled half a basket, she asked about it. She said that the peppers grown by the Lin family would probably have to wait a while before they could bear fruit, and it was unknown how long the peppers from the back mountain could be picked.
Lin Yunchu put down the backpack, slowly drew water to wash his hands, and wiped the water droplets off his hands.
Then he turned around and responded, "It should be able to hold out for a few more days. The peppers in our backyard vegetable garden are growing well, so they should be able to take over."
Thanks to Lin's mother's attentiveness, she is most concerned about the peppers planted in the backyard every day. She goes to check on them every day, weeding, fertilizing and watering them without missing a day.
These peppers are to be sold to Yipintang. Mother Lin knows that the peppers in the back mountain will not last long. She will have to rely on the peppers planted in the backyard.
Hearing Lin Yunchu say this, she felt relieved. She finally got what she deserved for taking care of her own pepper garden so carefully.
The next day.
Lin Changting and Lin Changping went to the town together. Lin Yunchu said that he had something to do, so he asked the two of them to go to the town.
Now they are familiar with the shop assistants and Manager Zhou in Yipin Pavilion, so it doesn’t matter if Lin Yunchu doesn’t go with them.
After breakfast, Lin Yunchu picked up a bamboo basket and a long bamboo pole and walked towards the pepper field in the back mountain where he had gone yesterday.
Lin Changan was the happiest and kept running in front.
Yesterday, when the two of them were on their way back from picking peppers, Lin Yunchu found some fallen wild fruits on the roadside and said they were sour dates.
Today the two of them were going to pick sour dates, and Lin Yunchu said she wanted to make him a sour date cake.
"Okay, Chang'an, wait here for a while. I'll knock the sour dates off the tree and we'll pick them up together."
Lin Yunchu put down the bamboo basket and swung the long bamboo pole he brought with him, hitting the shorter branches hard.
The sour dates that were originally hanging on the treetops also fell to the ground one after another, making a "crackling" sound.
Lin Chang'an raised his head and saw that a lot of sour dates had fallen from the tree, and his mouth widened.
"Yunchu, Changan, what are you doing?"
A sound in the originally quiet back mountain was particularly eye-catching. Lin Yunchu and Lin Changan were startled and looked in the direction of the sound. They saw that the person coming was Pan Xiuxiu, and they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
"It turned out to be you, Sister Xiuxiu. You scared us."
Lin Changan patted his chest and let out a long breath.
Few people come to this back mountain, and the sound scared the two of them.
Seeing that she seemed to have scared the two people in front of her, Pan Xiuxiu said embarrassedly: "Yes...I'm sorry, I know I scared you."
Seeing that the harvest was almost over, Lin Yunchu threw the bamboo pole aside and explained to Pan Xiuxiu, "We are going to pick these fruits and make some food."
Lin Yunchu chuckled softly.
"You can't eat this. It's too sour."
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