good old days

Chapter 69 The Thoughtful Chen Yi

Chen Yi took over the work, and Jiang Xinyu couldn't wait to rest, of course.She does not believe that there are people who are born to love labor.

After a busy day, I earned five work points.Based on the annual harvest of the brigade in previous years, her five work points are not worth much.Considering the more than [-] cents in her pocket, it is really a huge sum of money.

Walking home with a tired body, Chen Yi walked beside her with a hoe, took out a few nougats from his pocket and handed them to her.

After Jiang Xinyu took it, she divided Jiang Yuzhu into two.

On the way, each went back to each house. When the mother and daughter arrived home, Chen Xiuyun prepared to cook sweet potato porridge, and asked the two sisters to collect firewood and the other to dig wild vegetables before it was dark.

Comrade Chen Xiuyun specifically explained that more wild vegetables should be dug back.

Jiang Xinyu's face has already turned green. The wild vegetables she dug up must have been made into wild vegetable dumplings and brought to school to eat.

When they went out, they met Jiang Pandi who also came out with a basket, and they went south together.

Jiang Pandi is getting married soon, and Jiang Yuzhu said that she must be from the next village, and she may marry before she is on vacation this semester.

Jiang Pandi is quite thin, and her skin is as beautiful as a horse's, with red in the black. On weekdays, she not only goes to work in the field, but also washes the clothes of the whole family, digs wild vegetables, collects firewood, and feeds pigs.Except for the work on the stove, she can't touch it, and she basically does all the other work.

Why can't Jiang Pandi do the work on the stove?That's because when the family was not separated, Mrs. Li used the food at home, and there was a fixed amount of food for each meal. She was afraid that any daughter-in-law would go greedy for the food and control the stove, and the "big power" in the family Even if she holds it in her hand.

As for now, Mrs. Li and Mrs. Li live with Ma Meili's house and still hold the stove. As a daughter-in-law, Ma Meili often fights wits and courage with Mrs. Li because of the stove.Ma Meili was afraid that Mrs. Li would use the good things at home to subsidize Zhang Fengmei's family, so she had to keep an eye on her.

Jiang Pandi looked at the colorful headband tied on Jiang Xinyu's braid, and asked enviously, "Your hair rope is given by Chen Yi?"

Jiang Xinyu said casually: "No, my mother brought it back from the Shanghai stock market."

Jiang Pandi stopped talking, she was just thinking, why can Jiang Xinyu live so well without her father?

Jiang Pandi was getting farther and farther away from her digging wild vegetables, and Jiang Xinyu simply got up to find a place with more wild vegetables.

She carried two baskets, and waited until it was dark to fill them completely.When passing by the cowshed, thinking of the uncle who fell down last time, she turned around and knocked on the door.Those who live in the cowshed are a group of poor people.

After Zhou Shunyi opened the door, by the candlelight in the room, he saw a pile of wild vegetables pushed under the door, and Jiang Xinyu's back was immediately invisible in the darkness.

Zhou Shunyi knelt down and picked up all the wild vegetables and brought them into the house.

Physical fatigue will make you sleep more deeply and more fragrantly. Jiang Xinyu slept until dawn after eating, and was hungry in the middle of the night without waking up.

When she got up, Jiang Yuzhu was going home to fetch water.

The pond is not far from home. When I don’t do laundry, my water tank can be filled up, and it can be used for two or three days.

"When we move to the east of the village, how about we carry water?" Jiang Xinyu asked with a clean face.

Jiang Yuzhu said: "There is a canal over there, and people who live at the entrance of the village go to the canal to dig, which is a little closer than going to the pond."

The wild vegetable pancakes steamed in Chen Xiuyun's pot were already cooked, and when the lid was lifted, it turned out to be a large pot, which was enough for her to take to school for three or four days.

After dinner, the two sisters went to dig the private land, and happened to meet Mrs. Li who was also working in the private land.

Just when Jiang Xinyu felt that trouble might be unavoidable, Mrs. Li gave the two of them a sullen look, then turned and left with a hoe in hand.

The two sisters looked at each other.

"What's wrong with her?"

Jiang Yuzhu shook her head, "Grandma has been like this for the past few days. She ignores our mother and me, and doesn't scold or make trouble."

Jiang Xinyu sighed, "Sure enough, being educated by the Women's Federation is still useful."

The private plot was not very big, and the two sisters finished their work in the middle of the morning. When Jiang Xinyu was going to school, she gave Chen Xiuyun the mathematics knowledge she had sorted out in school.

Chen Xiuyun flipped through the notebook, and felt that the little girl's efficiency was quite high.

She didn't say anything, and packed wild vegetable pancakes and pickles for her, as well as the dry corn pancakes from Kang at noon, which also had a two-day supply, which was enough for her to eat for a week.

There is no fried noodles this week, because the white noodles at home are gone.

Jiang Xinyu went out wearing an old padded jacket and patched black trousers, carrying a rag bag cross-body, and saw Chen Yi waiting at the door.

"Auntie, I'll take Xinyu there."

Chen Xiuyun nodded, "Don't delay after sending it off, come back quickly, the road is difficult to walk after dark."

Jiang Xinyu is also convinced by this scene, she is still a high school student, does this count as falling in love in front of her mother?
Chen Yi sent Jiang Xinyu to the school gate, and gave her the cloth pocket hanging on the front handle.

Jiang Xinyu opened it and saw that there was a bag of crispy snacks, a can of malted milk, and a bag of nougat in the cloth pocket.

"Come out at noon on Wednesday, and I'll take you to the state-run restaurant for another meal."

It must be very conspicuous to take out to eat every day. Wednesday is exactly right. After two days of classes, there are two days before the holiday. Life will definitely not be difficult.

Jiang Xinyu felt that Chen Yi was more considerate than before, and she didn't seem to be in his eyes before.

"Thank you very much." Jiang Xinyu felt that she was going to sell it to Chen Yi because of these things, but damn it, she couldn't refuse.

Chen Yi nodded, and after explaining a few more words, he left on his bicycle.

It's been two weeks since school started.

All kinds of vegetables have been planted by Chen Xiuyun in the private land at home, including peppers, cucumbers, beans, eggplants, leeks...

The land is not big, and there are quite a lot of things to grow. There are also melon and watermelon seeds planted on the edge of the land.

When Jiang Xinyu came back this week, she and Jiang Yuzhu carried water to water the plot.

Today she came back by herself, and Chen Yi didn't go to pick her up. I heard that there was a movie in the town.

"Sister, why don't you go to the movies?"

Could Jiang Yuzhu be reluctant to part with the five cents?

Jiang Yuzhu just couldn't bear the five cents. The family ate wild vegetables every day, so how could she be willing to spend five cents?

After pouring the water and going back, Chen Xiuyun also boiled the bath water for her.

After washing, I changed it inside and out, and there was another pile of dirty clothes.

Jiang Xinyu sat on a small bench and washed clothes with a washboard.

The women in the brigade like to take the basin to the pond to wash, which is convenient to use, but Jiang Xinyu doesn't do it. It's still cold today, and if she washes in the pond, her fingers will freeze.Washing at home can also be mixed with some hot water, so it won't be too uncomfortable.

It was getting dark early, and when Jiang Xinyu finished drying her clothes, female comrades came to her door.

Jiang Xinyu was a little curious, why are there still people coming this late at night?

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