After going back for lunch, Lin Lan rested at home for a while before going to work.
When we reached the foot of the mountain, we saw piles of cow grass piled neatly there.
"Did Lao Chen cut it for me?"
Lin Lan turned her head and glanced at the hay shed not far away, but didn't see Lao Chen's people. She took a sickle and looked around, but found nothing, so she had to go back and put the cow grass into the basket and carry it back.
When she came back from the drying yard, she saw Lao Chen standing by the fish pond, as if he was waiting for her.
As soon as Lin Lan walked to the fish pond, Lao Chen stopped her and whispered: "Xiao Lin, you finished your work at noon and left. A man came to cut the grass. I told him that this was a large group of cattle grass.
He said that he knew and that you were his friend. He thought you were working too hard when you were alone, so he came to help you."
After Lao Chen finished speaking, he glanced at Lin Lan and stopped talking.
Lin Lan looked at him: "I have no friends here."
Lin Lan received a ten-dollar bill and secretly hid it in a small sewn bag.
"Okay, after selling the orchid beans, I will go to Sister Liying's house."
Lin Lan looked at her with a grateful face: "Sister Zhou, you have helped me a lot."
Lin Lan took the orchid beans they had cut, rinsed them, and poured them into the basket. Then she saw Xiaodouzi walking in from the back door carrying a broken earthen pot: "Mom, I caught a lot of earthworms to feed the chickens."
Wu Shufen smiled with folds on her face: "If you have some money, you will spend it lavishly. You don't know how to save at all."
My daughter is good-looking and has become a widow at a young age. She must be trying to take advantage of her with malicious intentions.
Xiaodouzi looked at her and hesitated: "Mom doesn't like it, so Xiaodouzi poured them for the chickens to eat."
Today's beans were fried in two pots. After being packed, there were nearly 80 bags, and the urea bags were almost full.
Then a few more customers who had eaten orchid beans came to buy them and left.
"I'll go take a look with you tomorrow morning." Wu Shufen looked at her worriedly.
Half an hour later, the orchid beans were sold out, and Zhou Xiaohong came over and whispered: "Xiao Lin, there will be fewer people tomorrow, so you should do less."
She has two daughters, the older one is called Zhao Xiaoyun, who is nine years old this year, and the younger one is called Zhao Xiaoli, who is seven years old.
Zhou Xiaohong nodded cheerfully: "Okay, I won't be polite. We sisters take care of each other."
Wu Shufen raised the meat on the table and glared at her angrily: "This child just ate meat, why do you buy meat?"
Lin Lan smiled and said: "Okay, Sister Zhou, my mother-in-law is here. I'm going to buy some meat and go back."
Zhao Dehai was honest and kind to her, but he was a bit stingy.
She walked several times before finishing loading the cow grass and mowing it for a while. The cow grass she carried back filled the brigade's drying area.
Lin Lan hurried to the eucalyptus forest. When Zhou Xiaohong saw her coming, he smiled at her and continued busy.
Zhou Xiaohong nodded: "Go quickly, they will be sold out if it gets later."
Wu Shufen nodded after hearing this: "Yes, with her aunt as a witness, people will not say that Yang Laoyao found someone just after Xiaolan left."
Lin Lan took the meat and put it into a bag, then bought three yuan worth of eggs and walked back.
"Okay, let's go with mom." Lin Lan said with a smile.
Xiaodouzi hurriedly took her hand: "Mom, I want to go to the third aunt's house."
Lin Lan pinched his little cheek: "Yes, go back, earthworms loosen the soil for us, so that the taro and vegetables can grow big." Seeing him holding the door frame and stepping over the threshold, she warned, "Remember this."
Go to the well!"
Lin Lan bit her back teeth and said, "Girlfriend, if my aunt catches you and doesn't tear your mouth to pieces, I'll write the word "林" upside down."
Lin Lan nodded and took two dollars from his pocket and handed it to him. The handsome man took the money and handed the wrapped meat to her.
Lin Lan looked at her with a smile and whispered: "I sold eighty bags today, which cost more than ten yuan!"
She planned to buy some fruit candies for Yang Liying's children.
When she arrived at the consignment store, Lin Lan bought two pieces of fruit candy for one cent, and then grabbed a few more pieces and put them in Xiaodouzi's pocket.
Lin Lan closed her eyes and shook her head: "Mom, I don't dare to look. It's too disgusting to have so many earthworms twisted together." She felt goosebumps all over her body just thinking about it.
Lin Lan put the orchid beans specially reserved for Zhou Xiaohong into her pocket: "Sister Zhou, take them back and give them to the child to try."
Lin Lan walked up to the meat seller and said, "Boss, I'll cut a pound of meat."
Old Chen waved his hand and walked towards the fish pond over there.
"Orchid beans are best with wine."
He whispered to the people who came to buy vegetables: "Lanhua beans, delicious and inexpensive orchid beans."
"Okay." Xiaodouzi smiled and narrowed his eyes, holding Lin Lan's hand and jumping forward.
Zhou Xiaohong said with a smile: "Hey! You are so polite, I didn't even get it for you."
When I returned home, I saw my third uncle's grandma at her house. I thought about it and told her about the pasture at the foot of the mountain.
Lin Lan turned around and saw the handsome butcher selling meat cutting meat in the vegetable field, then opened the sample bag and stood under a tree not far from the stylish man.
When they got home and saw that their third uncle had gone back, Wu Shufen and Xiaodouzi happily greeted her: "Mom is back!"
"Good boy, can you give the other candies to Sister Xiaoyun and Sister Xiaoli?"
The man who bought the meat came up with the meat wrapped in ginger and taro, tasted two pieces and nodded: "Well, it goes well with wine. I'll take five bags."
When she met a big buyer at the store, Lin Lan picked up four bags and gave them to him with a smile.
The old lady patted Wu Shufen's hand: "My mother-in-law, don't worry. When Lin Lan comes back after selling the beans, she will go to Liying and ask her and Lin Lan to go to Niubei Mountain early tomorrow to see what kind of monster it is."
Lin Lan smiled, picked up twenty eggs and put them in the vegetable basket, broke off a few vegetable leaves to cover them, carried the eggs and Xiaodouzi and walked eastward for more than twenty minutes, crossing the stone bridge.
Went to the brigade headquarters agency store.
The handsome man nodded, stood up, turned around and went to the foot of the field. He opened the straw mat and cut a strip neatly. He took off the scale and weighed it: "Give me two yuan!"
Then Lao Chen said: "He said you are his girlfriend. I don't think that person is a good person. You should be careful."
The old lady came in to help Lin Lan light the fire, and Lin Lan began to fry orchid beans.
"Yeah!" Lin Lan took the meat out of the bag and put it on the table: "Mom, I cut a piece of meat and came back. You can fry an extra plate and ask your uncle to eat it together. I'll go to Liying's house."
Lin Lan pretended to be angry: "Little rascal, mother is ignoring you."
Seeing her scared look, Xiaodouzi smiled proudly: "Xiaodouzi is not afraid."
Yang Liying’s lover’s surname is Zhao, called Zhao Dehai. Except for the only children in the family, most people here are separated by their parents to live on their own after they get married.
She also saw that she was widowed at a young age and it was not easy to raise a child, so she was willing to take the initiative to help her.
"Thank you, Uncle Chen."
Xiaodouzi turned around with a smile: "I know."
The mother and son arrived at Yang Liying's house. Her five rooms were all built with earthen walls and wheat straw roofs. There were no walls. The private land at the door was fenced with bamboo pieces. Yang Liying watered the vegetable field.
Xiaodouzi ran over: "Third Aunt, I'm here."
Yang Liying looked up and saw the mother and son stunned for a moment, then smiled faintly, "You are here!"
Lin Lan walked to the fence: "Third sister, you are busy!"