"Where are you going?" Qin Xianglan is one year younger than Xu Ning, but her height is about the same as Xu Ning.
"Go take a shit."
"I'm going too. Wait for me."
Xu Ning: ...
Xu Ning was just looking for an excuse to digest her food, but she didn't expect that Qin Xianglan would follow her when she said she wanted to go to the toilet.
In fact, Xu Ning doesn’t like to go to the toilet with others. She feels embarrassed. Usually, she can’t go to the toilet comfortably if there is someone next to her.
"I'm not talking about taking a shit, I'm taking you to the toilet!"
"No." Xu Ning's hiccups had just stopped, and she didn't want to vomit, even though the steamed buns were not very tasty.
As expected, the toilet here is the kind made of two pieces of wood, which requires both caution and holding your breath.
When Xu Ning was a child, she lived in the countryside with her grandparents. Every time she went to the toilet, her grandmother would wait outside, for fear that she would accidentally fall.
What Xu Ning still remembers vividly is that there was a heavy rain once, and the toilet leaked, causing half of the toilet to collapse. The wooden boards were soaked by the rain and not only became slippery but also corroded. Then, as soon as she stepped in, the wooden boards broke.
Her grandmother quickly carried her out. Although she did not fall into the water, she remembered the soft touch under her feet deeply.
So, even after that, even though the wooden boards of the toilet were replaced with cement, she still didn't dare to step in easily.
Besides, let’s just forget it here.
"Then I'll take you for a walk on the beach? I'm familiar with this place." Qin Xianglan said enthusiastically. Xu Ning looked at her twice and nodded.
Qin Xianglan had a smile on her face, which made her teeth look particularly white.
Xu Ning discovered that none of the people in Xianyu Village were white. They all had a healthy wheat color and looked like they had been exposed to the sun a lot.
"Where are you from? From what you say, are you from the north?" Qin Xianglan looked curious. The farthest place she had ever been to was the town, and she really wanted to know what places outside the town were like.
"It's in the north, with endless plains and few mountains. You have to walk a long way to get to the mountains. Wheat is mainly grown there and it's far from the sea..." This is Xujia Village in Xu Daya's memory. Xu Ning herself is not from the north, she grew up in the south.
"Is wheat a grain? Is it delicious?"
"Flour is made from wheat."
"I like noodles, but we can only eat them on our birthdays."
"So you usually eat steamed bread?"
Qin Xianglan shook her head. "Usually we eat wild vegetable porridge, and rarely eat steamed bread."
There are endless wild vegetables in the south all year round. Steamed corn bread is usually only eaten when there are guests at home or when there is a happy event.
Qin Xianglan didn't say the rest of the words, but Xu Ning guessed it.
"Why don't you grow crops?" The yield of sweet potatoes is not low. Logically speaking, if you grow sweet potatoes, you won't have to eat wild vegetables all day, right?
"Grandpa doesn't dare to plant. Grandpa said that if we plant the grain, we have to hand in half, and the other half will be taken away."
"Who would rob it?" Xu Ning didn't expect that the Daqing Dynasty's taxes were so heavy that they had to collect half of it!
"Pirates! I heard that in the past, when we planted crops, the pirates would come right after the soldiers harvested the crops." It turned out that this was the reason why Xianyu Village did not plant crops. Although there were few flat lands in the south, there were many fertile lands in the south. Even planting fruit trees was better than planting nothing.
But the people in Xianyu Village refuse to grow anything, fearing that whatever they grow won’t be enough for their own consumption, so it’s better to leave the land to waste.
If this continues, unless the people of Xianyu Village leave this place, it will be difficult to maintain food and clothing for the whole family by relying solely on fishing.
The sea is rich in resources, but you need the ability to get them.
Xu Ning's mood became heavy. She was so focused on settling down and building a house and farming that she forgot to find out everything first. Now it was too late to regret.
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