Thinking about the period of time when Liu Xu learned to crochet shoes from her, she bought ten more pairs of soles.
When buying wool, I met Sun Hongmei, who was looking for her daughter Zheng Aihua to buy fabric.
Seeing Chen Tan, she couldn't stop smiling, "Xiao Tan, I haven't seen you for a long time. Auntie misses you."
"Auntie Sun, I miss you too. If I weren't so busy with spring plowing, I would have come to visit you a long time ago. Is this your daughter?"
Chen Tan looked at a saleswoman who looked very similar to Aunt Sun and asked.
"Yes, it's my daughter. Her name is Zheng Aihua. She is 26 years old this year. You can call her Sister Aihua." Sun Hongmei said with a smile.
Chen Tan called out to Zheng Aihua obediently, "Hello, Sister Aihua."
"Hello," Zheng Aihua smiled politely. Seeing her holding a net bag full of shoe soles, she was quite surprised. "Why did you buy so many soles? They'll need a lot of uppers."
"Oh, I don't need a shoe upper. I can just use wool to crochet the upper and wear it." Chen Tan smiled and pointed to the shelf behind Zheng Aihua. "Sister Aihua, give me a pound of that old red wool. I only have a ticket for one pound."
When Sun Hongmei heard that Chen Tan didn't have enough tickets to buy wool to crochet shoes, she pulled her to a corner and said, "Do you want some defective yarn that doesn't require tickets?"
"If you have it, that would be great. I use it to crochet shoes, and it would be a waste to use the good wool."
Chen Tan said with sparkling eyes.
"Yes, I'll talk to my daughter and ask her to sell you a few kilograms."
After Sun Hongmei finished speaking, she went to tell her daughter about it.
Zheng Aihua really didn't understand why her mother was so enthusiastic about people she met by chance.
She was not very willing to do so, after all, the defective lines did not require tickets, and they were reserved for internal acquaintances.
But for the sake of her mother's face, she still took out three pounds to sell to Chentan.
Chen Tan paid the money, thanked Zheng Aihua, and then took Sun Hongmei to the place where they parked their bicycles at the door.
She took a basket of strawberries from the basket and gave it to her.
"Auntie Sun, I was just worried that I didn't have enough tickets to buy much thread. You've really helped me out. This is something we grow ourselves. It's not something that can be put on the table. You can't despise it."
"Oh, kid, why are you so polite? Such nice strawberries. I don't know how to thank you."
Looking at the bright red strawberries, which weighed more than five kilograms, Sun Hongmei even said no. After she mentioned it, she smiled like a flower.
"Xiao Tan, next time you want to buy something, if you don't have a ticket, come to me and I'll buy it for you."
"Okay, don't think I'm annoying then," Chen Tan said, hugging her arm with a smile, "I'll go see you and uncle when I'm free. It's getting late, so I'll go back first."
"Okay, go back quickly, drive slowly and be careful."
"Okay, goodbye, Auntie!"
After bidding farewell to Sun Hongmei, Chen Tan went to the small courtyard where Li Qiong's mother-in-law lived.
The house was not small, made of blue bricks and gray tiles, similar to the shape of a courtyard, and the main house was two-story.
Perhaps because no one had lived there for a long time, after Chen Tan opened the door and went in, he stood in the middle of the yard, looking at the high roofs around him, and instantly felt the meaning of the phrase "deep courtyard".
Li Qiong told her that the things were placed in the two rooms on the east wing.
She opened the door and saw a simple wooden bed with sacks of different sizes and several wooden barrels piled on it.
All the sacks and barrels were opened and the herbs and oils inside were checked, and they were all of good quality.
She took out a clay pot from the space, filled it with fifty kilograms of oil, and took away ten kilograms of each herb.
On the surface, she packed half a pound of each item into the basket on the back of the bicycle, and then rushed to Yao Jianfeng to buy scar removal medicine.
On the way, she took out five pounds of strawberries and brought them over.
Yao Jianfeng was so curious that he was surprised when he saw her fully exposed face. "Tsk tsk, Qin Li really found a treasure."
Chen Tan, however, gave his bald head a teasing smile and said, "How about I make you a hair growth cream?"
"Haha, I can't even cure myself, so you should just forget it."
Yao Jianfeng raised his hand and pulled at the hair on the edge of his head, trying to cover the bald spot in the middle.
After all, he also needs to maintain his image in front of beautiful women.
However, he had too little hair to cover it up, and he even lost some of it, which made him very sad.
Looking at his funny yet sad expression, Chen Tan took out the small notebook he carried with him and wrote down a few names of medicinal herbs.
"Don't forget to help me find ginseng seeds. Clematis, Dendrobium officinale, etc. are also fine. In short, the more expensive the herbal seeds, the more I like them."
For the sake of strawberries, Yao Jianfeng would not refuse. "I'm asking someone to buy them for you."
"Thank you. Haven't you bought the grain seeds yet?"
Chen Tan often comes here and is not so reserved. She sits lazily at the examination desk and asks.
Yao Jianfeng and Qin Li had a good relationship and had a good impression of Chen Tan. He chatted with her while preparing the medicine for her, "It's the spring plowing season now, and we need seeds. It's not that easy to get them. Please wait."
"I don't necessarily need the high-quality seeds they cultivate. Can you find me some native seeds from all over the country? I'll cultivate them myself. It would be best if you can ask your friend to write down the seeds' origin and their characteristics."
If she waited like this, she would probably have to wait until autumn, and she couldn't wait any longer.
Yao Jianfeng handed her the selected herbs and asked with interest, "Do you want to study it yourself?"
"It's not that difficult. Isn't it just a matter of planting seeds from different places together and letting them cross-pollinate? Then the next generation will inherit all the advantages of their parents."
After Chen Tan finished speaking, he paid the money and left with the medicine.
Yao Jianfeng stood there in a daze. Cross-pollination? The advantages of his parents?
Is this possible?
After Chen Tan returned home, he gave the shoe soles to Liu Xu, and also gave her five kilograms of strawberries, and gave another five kilograms to Xie Junqian.
When she got home, she took out a large basket of strawberries, a small basket of cherries, and two net bags of oranges, bananas, walnuts, red dates, apples and pears from two baskets, weighing five pounds of each.
"Grandma, the cherries were shipped from the south and are very expensive. Together with these fruits, they cost me over fifty yuan. When my eldest brother comes back, I'll have him give them to Sister Zhiyan."
Looking at those fresh fruits, which still exuded a faint fruity fragrance, Qin Qiuniang's eyes became moist.
She knew that Tanier was the lucky star of their family. "Good girl, thank you. Grandma Dai Zhiyan thanks you."
Chen Tan's heart skipped a beat. Did he see something?
"Why are you thanking me? The money was given by my big brother. I just brought it back. There are so many. You can try some. It's delicious."
"Okay, okay, I'll try it." Qin Qiuniang couldn't say why she thanked her.
She just thought that it must be her good fortune that Chen Tan could come across such a good fruit.
"Let's go eat."
Qin Qiuniang tasted a strawberry, and it was so sweet that her eyes narrowed into slits with a smile.
She had already prepared the meal, but she thought that Tanier had not eaten yet and was waiting for her.
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