I don’t know how much time had passed. Jiang Cong came back after washing up, turned off the lights and lay down next to Qin Man.

Jiang Cong was a little stiff, his body stretched straight. It was a different feeling. Before, he could treat it as if there was just a child lying next to him, but now the woman next to him was no longer a child, she had the consciousness of an adult.

Qin Man hadn't fallen asleep yet. She could feel Jiang Cong's nervousness. He was far away from her, with enough space for another person to sleep in the middle. The bed was not very big, so could it be that he was sleeping on the edge?

I don't know when I fell asleep, and when I opened my eyes the next day, there was no one around me.

Qin Man stood up and stretched. The sunlight had already shone into the room. Jiang Cong had already gone to the county. The two children were playing in the yard, and Jiang's mother was washing clothes with a washboard.

"Oh, you're willing to give it up. The sun is shining on your butt!"

Qin Man had just come out when she heard her sister-in-law Song Mei starting to act weird.

Qin Man rolled her eyes slightly, too lazy to argue with her.

"Get up. There's some rice left for you in the pot. Wash up and go eat!" Jiang's mother instructed.

In her eyes, she still treats Qin Man as a child!

"Thank you!"

Qin Man said politely and turned to get some hot water to wash her face.

There was hot rice, hot dishes and a boiled egg in the pot. Although there was no meat, Qin Man ate it with relish.

Last night, she heard Jiang Cong say that he was going to save some money to go to the city to work. She thought that since she was here, she couldn't sit idle every day. She still had to have a job and a stable income in the future. A woman should be independent!

It is now August. She remembers that she, Xiaoyu and Xiaoli often went to the back mountain to play. There are several persimmon trees in the back mountain. The fruits have already borne big and beautiful fruits. They will not mature until September. Now is the beginning of August. The persimmons are not fully ripe yet and still taste very astringent. But she has her own way to make them ripen early.

When the time comes, I'll take the persimmons to the county market to sell. Two persimmon trees can sell persimmons at five cents apiece, so two hundred persimmons can make ten yuan. According to current prices, a few dozen yuan on hand is enough to find a place to live and keep warm.

Qin Man did whatever she thought of. She found a large backpack at home and prepared to go out to the back mountain.

Seeing this, Xiao Li and Xiao Yu quickly threw away the stick in their hand and followed.

"Mom, Mom, wherever you go, we want to go too!" Xiaoyu came up and held Qin Man's hand and acted coquettishly.

How could Qin Man refuse such a cute little girl, so she agreed immediately.

"Mom is going to the back hills. If you want to go, come with me!"

He patted the two children's heads lovingly, then held one in each hand and walked out of the house.

When we arrived at the persimmon trees on the back mountain, some of the persimmons had already begun to turn red, but most of them were still green, alternating between green and red.

These wild persimmons were exposed to plenty of sunlight and were very large in size. Even though they were astringent, they tasted much better than the persimmons of later generations. The children in the village often came to pick persimmons to satisfy their cravings, but now was not the time yet, so she took the initiative and took the initiative.

"Mom, do you want to eat persimmons?" Xiao Li asked, looking up.

"Mom is going to sell persimmons to make money. You two should wait downstairs and don't run around. I'll go pick them!"

As she spoke, Qin Man started to climb the tree, and the two children stared at her intently from below.

"Mom, be careful. Come on, Mom!" Xiaoyu encouraged in a baby voice.

Qin Man suddenly felt full of strength. She climbed up the persimmon tree in a few steps and started picking persimmons. Soon she had picked a basket full of persimmons.

One basket can hold forty or fifty pieces, which weighs more than thirty kilograms. It's a bit difficult for her small body, but she can still carry it.

The mother and her two children went back and forth like this for several times. Xiaoyu and Xiaoli could not help much, and they only helped to carry four or five children back each time.

Xiaoyu was walking and dropping something, and when she dropped something she went back to pick it up, but after walking a few steps she dropped it again. Qin Man couldn't help laughing when she saw this, she was so cute.

They picked about 200 apples in total and piled them all in the corner of the house. Jiang's mother didn't quite understand what was happening.

"Manman, why did you pick so many wild persimmons? They are not ripe yet, they taste terrible!"

"You are such a grown-up, but you are still as greedy as a child. These raw persimmons are just taking up space here!"

Sister-in-law Song Mei was very disgusted and actually started to criticize Qin Man.

Qin Man was not happy to hear this and immediately sneered back:

"Is it your business? Is it your business?"

With her bad temper, she won't tolerate humiliation. I gave her face and didn't argue with her before. She really thinks I'm easy to bully!

"You two, be friendly and don't quarrel!"

When Jiang's mother saw that her two daughters-in-law started to quarrel, she hurried over to act as a peacemaker.

"You are my elder sister-in-law, I should give you face. You are always so gloomy and weird, which is not suitable!" Qin Man ignored Jiang's mother and walked straight to Song Mei.

She was a head taller than Song Mei, and her aura was overwhelming, so Song Mei didn't dare to say anything.

She is the type who bullies the weak and fears the strong. Before, Qin Man was stupid and would never talk back no matter what she said. Who would have thought that this person is not stupid anymore and is actually a tough guy.