There is a mountain in her arms

Early the next morning, after finishing their breakfast, the old couple prepared their sacks and backpacks and went up the mountain.

When Jiang Yichen woke up naturally, An An was alone with her big round eyes open, not crying or making a fuss.

So cute!

Jiang Yichen tidied himself up neatly, changed An An's diaper, fed him milk powder, played with him for a while, and only coaxed him to sleep after watching his eyelids droop.

The rest of the time is her own.

I ran to the kitchen, brought out the still warm breakfast, ate it, and did a few rounds of military boxing.

After thinking for a while, I carried An An into the space, placed him on my bed, covered him with a quilt, and pressed down on both sides to prevent him from turning over. Although he can't do it now, he will soon. Who knows when?

She started to train herself with the training programs outside the venue. This is how she did it step by step when she was a child.

Although I won't be doing this job in this life, it's always good to have some great skills.

Jiang Yichen estimated the time to come out and wait for her grandmother to come back and have lunch. As soon as she left, she took An An into the space.

After four days of hard work, the old couple finally piled up all the walnuts and persimmons at home.

They peeled all the walnuts in the mountains before bringing them back, otherwise there would be no place to put them.

After working for several days, his hands were all black and cracked, and Jiang Yichen felt very distressed.

He ran back to the room and took out his clam oil.

"Grandpa and grandma, rub this clam oil on your hands and the cracks will heal."

"No, keep this for yourself! Our hands, which are like dry tree bark, will be fine."

"No, I feel bad for you guys. Even my parents would feel bad if they saw me like this. I have money. I have pocket money saved, and I also have money saved by my parents. If you don't take care of yourselves and exhaust yourself, my brother and I will be left without any relatives."

"Woooooooo..."

The pain that I had deliberately suppressed for more than half a month was finally completely released this time.

Grandpa Jiang squatted in the corner with his head in his hands and cried silently. Grandma Jiang sat on a chair and hugged Jiang Yichen's waist and cried loudly. Even Jiang Yichen's face was covered with tears.

I don’t know if it was because they made too much noise, but An An, who was sleeping in the room, also started crying.

The howling voice seemed to pierce the sky, but it actually stunned Grandma Jiang and her husband.

Jiang Yichen quickly ran in, picked him up and coaxed him gently. The old couple also surrounded him worriedly, fearing that he was frightened by their reckless behavior just now.

"Grandma, An An seems hungry."

"Okay, I'll make him some milk powder right away."

"Ugh! He seems to have pooped!"

Jiang Yichen looked constipated. He could do anything except accept this.

"Haha, you're such a clever kid! Your grandpa is going to make the milk powder, and I'm going to change his clothes."

"Second brother, open the door!"

Before Grandpa Jiang could prepare the milk powder, he heard his eldest brother's voice outside the door. He ran over to open the door and quickly prepared the milk powder without saying a word, which made the two grandfathers and their husbands nervous.

"What happened?"

"It's okay! I'm making milk powder for An An!"

"Is the child okay?"

"nothing!"

"Then why were you crying at home just now? It made Da Wang's mother think something happened to you? Go to my house and tell me."

Grandpa Jiang was full of doubts. Jiang Desheng embarrassedly told him what had just happened, which put Grandpa Jiang at ease.

"It's good that you're okay. It's good to vent. We still have to look forward to the future. I've asked Yanhong to do the things you asked me to do. I was planning to send it over tomorrow, but when I heard that you were crying at home, your sister-in-law and I took it over. Here are five cans. Yanhong said that they also have a purchase limit, but she has a connection. If you want to buy more, just send her a message in advance."

"Brother, sister-in-law, thank you so much. Thank you Yanhong too!"

"Why are you saying that? They took advantage of you when they were little, and this is what they should do."

"I'm her second uncle!"

"Yes! She is also An An's aunt, right?"

Grandpa Jiang turned the tables and smiled foolishly.

"Oh, it's only been twenty days since I last saw you, and An An has changed a little." Grandma Jiang joked while holding An An's little arm that looked like a lotus root node.

"Yes! He is really different every day, and he is so greedy. It just so happens that his milk powder is almost gone, and I was thinking of going to the supply and marketing cooperative in town to ask tomorrow. I didn't expect you to come at such a good time, and I just got a restock. Thank you very much, sister-in-law."

"Hey! I'm tired of hearing you thank me all the time, we're all family. Just like your eldest brother said, Weiguo and his friends ate at your house a lot when they were young. It was thanks to your generosity back then, otherwise I might not have been able to support all four of my children. In fact, I should be the one thanking you!"

"Okay, okay, I won't say it anymore. I cried today, and it can be considered that my fate as a mother and I has been fulfilled. From now on, I will focus on my two little grandchildren."

"You are right to think so. I have a lot to say, but you have to think it through yourself. If you have any worries in the future, tell me. I will be your listener, so that you don't hurt yourself."

"Haha! That's fine. I'm just afraid that you'll hide from me then."

"That's impossible!"

The two sisters-in-law chatted and laughed, and the atmosphere began to warm up.

Outside, Jiang Desheng was also telling his brother about the results of the past few days.

"Really, let me see."

Jiang Desheng took his eldest brother to the cellar. Seeing the dozen or so bags of things piled up, Grandpa Jiang was shocked.

"so much?"

"It's also luck! Thanks to Chi, some of the bags here are his."

"Didn't you save him first?"

"hehe!"

"Second brother, you two can get along well with this kid Chi. Maybe you will have great luck with him in the future."

"Brother, what do you mean? Did you hear some rumors?"

"That old Mr. Chi should have been a big shot in Beijing. When he was transferred to our place, someone came to say hello. And I heard from Weiguo that when he went to the commune for a meeting, it seemed that people like them had already begun to redress their grievances."

"So the situation is slowly getting better. It would be great if the lives of ordinary people like us could get better and better."

"Yes, that's right! Don't tell anyone about this. I figured it out on my own."

"Yes, I know. Brother, isn't Wei Ping working in the factory? Can you ask Wei Ping to help me sell these walnuts? I'll give him a share of the profits."

"You are looking for an opportunity to give him a subsidy. Why wouldn't he be reluctant? I will send him a letter tomorrow."

"Well, you can bring some persimmons back later to sweeten the little ones at home. Wild persimmons are still quite sweet at this time of year. After all, they are harvested from the mountains."

"That's great! I'd like to thank Uncle on behalf of the little ones at home!"

The two chatted for a while. Grandpa Jiang asked Grandma Jiang to give them the money for milk powder, and then he packed nearly 50 kilograms of persimmons for them before sending them away.

Lying in bed at night, Jiang Yichen listened to Grandpa Jiang talking about selling walnuts, and his heart was moved.

She wondered if she could sell the fruit in her space. Then she was worried that the matter in her space could not be exposed. How could she take it out without arousing suspicion?

After all, it was because she was too small. If she were a little bigger, she might be able to move on her own.

The next morning, Jiang Yichen was woken up early by his grandmother to have breakfast, and was dragged out the door while he was still dazed.

The cold wind outside touched her neck and woke her up in an instant.

When the two men arrived at the entrance of the village, an ox cart was already parked there.

Jiang Yichen was a little curious because she had never ridden in this kind of car before!

There were already a few middle-aged women sitting sparsely on the oxcart, chatting. When Jiang Yicheng and her grandmother got on the car, Jiang Yicheng instantly became the subject of their chat.

"Ah! Aunt Yu, your granddaughter is really good-looking. No wonder the head of my family said that the daughter in our family is ugly."

"Thank you! Your daughter is also pretty, each with her own characteristics."

"Chengcheng, this is Aunt Guihua from Uncle Baoyong's family."

"Aunt Guihua!"

"It's really rare. It's better than any other girl in the village."

"Chengcheng, this is Grandma Li from Uncle Dahe's family."

"Grandma Li!"

……

After being forced to call a group of elders, Jiang Yichen smiled with a stiff face for more than ten minutes before he was finally let go.

It's so noisy!

She had always been a loner in her previous life, and the few people she knew grew up together at the base. She had never encountered such a situation before.

At that time, people in the countryside traveled by ox-drawn cart, which cost two cents a trip and four cents a round trip. If you missed the trip, you had to rely on the No. 11 bus.

However, my great-grandfather's family had a bicycle, which was bought to make it easier for my great-uncle to go to meetings in the commune. It was the only one in the whole village.

At this time, every family is lucky enough to be able to fill their stomachs. Who would be willing to spend that spare money to buy these consumables?

Jiang Yichen heard from her grandmother that Jiangcha Village was more than an hour's drive from the town by ox cart, so she just happened to catch up on some sleep on this winding country road.

"Orange, we're here."

Grandma Jiang said something in Jiang Yichen's ear, and she woke up with a start.

It's full of rural flavor. Even the town doesn't seem much better than the countryside.

She remembered that when she first arrived, she sat in a small car and couldn't see anything outside. Now she has a personal experience of this.

"What are you standing there for? Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative, or we won't be able to squeeze in."

Jiang Yicheng was still in a daze at the sight when Grandma Jiang pulled her down. She looked around and saw that the people on the ox cart had already disappeared.

Grandma Jiang was foresighted, and people really started to come to the supply and marketing cooperative. Grandma Jiang took her in quickly and bought the things they planned to buy first.

Grandma Jiang told her to follow closely, which made her so nervous that she didn't dare to look around. She just remembered running from one counter to another.

"Oil, salt, cotton, kettle..." Grandma Jiang took her to count all the things, put them in the basket behind her, and said with a smile.

"Chengcheng, everything else is ready. Let's go to the food counter to buy you and An'an some food, and then go get some cloth and go home. Is there anything you want?"

"Grandma, with you thinking of me like this, I have everything I need."

"You are such a good girl, grandma doesn't want you to be so sensible. Don't save us money, just tell us if you want something!"

"Ok!"

Jiang Yichen enjoyed this wholehearted love. Holding her grandmother's hand, she walked towards the food counter that she had not been able to squeeze into just now with a smile on her face.

"Girl, do you have any milk powder here?"

"Auntie, you came at a bad time. This milk powder is in short supply at the end of the year. We have been out of stock for more than ten days."

"Do you still have malted milk and egg cake?"

"I do have two cans of malted milk, and I also have some egg cakes. Malted milk is thirty yuan a can plus two industrial tickets, and one can weighs two kilograms; egg cakes are twenty cents a kilogram plus a pastry ticket. How much do you want?"

"Then I'll order two cans of malted milk, two pounds, no three pounds, of egg cake. Two pounds of White Rabbit candy, two pounds of glutinous rice sticks, and two pounds of peach cakes. How much is the total?"

"Auntie, wait a minute, let me do the math. White Rabbit candy is 50 cents a pound, no coupons required; glutinous rice sticks are 65 cents a pound plus 6 taels of food coupons; peach cakes are 60 cents a pound plus 5 taels of food coupons."

"Okay, Auntie, the total is sixty-four yuan and one cent, plus four industrial tickets, three pastry tickets, and one pound and one ounce of grain coupons." The supply and marketing clerk kept calculating, and seeing that Grandma Jiang showed no sympathy at all, he was still muttering in his heart, are all rural families so well-off nowadays?

"Oh! Girl, I want two more pounds of brown sugar."

"Auntie, brown sugar is 35 cents a pound plus a sugar ticket."

Grandma Jiang gave her the money and the ticket, and the salesperson was overjoyed. She could get a lot of commission just from this old lady's order.

"Okay, ma'am, please order the food!"

Grandma Jiang ordered the food and nodded, then took Jiang Yichen away. The supply and marketing clerk followed behind them and warmly saw them off.

"Auntie, please walk slowly!"

After Jiang Yichen and his grandmother bought the cloth and left the supply and marketing cooperative, they both breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but smile at each other.

"It's a rare opportunity for you to come to town, let's go buy two more pounds of meat, and grandma will make you braised pork."

"Braised pork! Um, grandma, let's go!"

Speaking of eating meat, Jiang Yicheng particularly likes it. After all, in his previous life, he trained every day and never ate meat. But eating meat here has become a luxury.

Oh no! We still need to find a way to get the meat in the space out.

The two bought the meat and the large bones that Jiang Yichen requested, and when they were heading to the ox cart, they happened to come across a state-owned restaurant selling buns.

Jiang Yichen excitedly ran to buy ten big buns, gave one to his grandma, picked up one for himself and took a bite, his eyes lit up instantly.

"Grandma, these buns are so delicious!"

"It's delicious, eat more. Grandma doesn't want to eat it, so I'll save this for you."

"Grandma, eat, why not? Have you forgotten what I said before, be nicer to yourself, An An and I are counting on you!"

"Okay, eat, grandma, eat!"

Grandma Jiang's eyes were sore, but she didn't insist. The old man driving the cart, also a member of the Jiang family, looked at them with envy.

"Sister Yu, your children and grandchildren are filial, and you will be blessed in the future!"

"Third brother, I'm sorry to show you a joke! Chengcheng, this is the third grandfather of the Jiang family."

"Third Grandpa, this bun is for you."

Mr. Jiang waved his hand to show that he didn't want it. He was embarrassed to accept such a precious thing for free.

"Third Uncle, I will ride your ox cart again in the future. Maybe I will have to ask you for help in the future! If you don't eat my buns, I will be too embarrassed to ask for help in the future!"

After listening to Jiang Yicheng's words, he thought of the little baby at home, and finally accepted it, wrapped it up and stuffed it into his arms. He thought that he would take care of them when they took the ox cart in the future, so it would not be a waste.