Quick Wear: Passerby A's Daily Life of Eating Watermelons

Jiang Yue brought oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and other things into the house. Yao Ling was washing the vats and pots, and then washed the vegetables. Taking advantage of today's free time, they pickled the sauerkraut. While they were busy, the neighbors came over. A few aunties were watching at the door, but when they saw that Jiang Yue and the others didn't care, they ran into the yard.

After washing the pot, Yao Ling went into the house to make a few bowls of brown sugar water, and then brought a bowl to each of the aunties who were watching the show. After drinking Yao Ling's brown sugar water, they felt embarrassed to just stand by and help pickle the sauerkraut. After a while, they became familiar with each other while working and chatting. Several aunties began to share the village gossip with Jiang Yue and the others, and everyone felt less tired while working and listening to gossip.

As they chatted, more and more people came to see the new educated youth having fun. Yao Ling was not stingy and drank all the brown sugar she brought with her, and distributed some to everyone. With strength in numbers, the housework was done in a short time. The aunties also shared some life experiences with them and complained to them about the old educated youth, blah blah blah.

When they were heating the kang, he explained to them how it was heated. Seeing that they didn't have much firewood, he gave them some. This time he didn't even want money for it and said that if he had known they were such people, he would not have charged them for the first time they bought firewood and vegetables. This incident caused a lot of noise and the crowd slowly dispersed until it was time to cook.

After sending the people away, the three of them lay there and didn't want to move. As for Jiang Yue, it was mainly because she had taken some medicinal pills, so she didn't look very tired. After taking a rest, they all felt hungry.

"I bought a piece of tofu and some vermicelli. We also have some cabbage at home. Do you want to make a stew of tofu, vermicelli and cabbage? I wanted to buy some meat, but we only have two meat coupons, so let's save it."

"Okay, I have no problem with that, but I don't know how to cook this dish. Let's see who can cook it."

Seeing that none of the three of them were very good at it, Jiang Yue could only step forward and say, "Let me do it."

A dish of tofu, vermicelli and cabbage stew was a piece of cake for Jiang Yue. Today was the first day they had made a fire and cooked. They also took out some fine grains to make some steamed buns. However, they were not made of pure white flour. Some cornmeal was added to make steamed buns. When the pot was opened, the aroma came out immediately. When they ate, they gobbled it up and said it was delicious.

In fact, it wasn’t that delicious. The ingredients were there. The main reason was that they didn’t have a proper meal yesterday, and they were busy all day and hadn’t eaten anything. They had been hungry for almost two days, so what would not taste good? After the meal, they didn’t rush to wash the dishes. Instead, they went back to the room and lay down to rest for a while. Jiang Yue wasn’t that tired, so he washed the pots and dishes after lying down for a while.

They wanted to help Jiang Yue halfway but were rejected. The clothes they used were Yao Ling's, and the food and drinks were from the three of them. Jiang Yue had never been so poor before. Not to mention other worlds, at least he had food to eat. He himself had never been so tight on money in the doomsday world. He felt embarrassed to eat other people's food if he didn't do more work.

There were no entertainment facilities in those days, and it was too wasteful to light a kerosene lamp, so we went to sleep after chatting for a while.

In the following days, she followed the large group to cut down trees. She got blisters on her hands from the first few days. After returning home at night, she was too lazy to move. She was extremely tired. It took Jiang Yue several days to adapt to this intensity. After all, she had not done such heavy labor for some time.

Although they were tired, the four of them were not idle. They took this opportunity to pile up firewood in the yard. They estimated that there would be enough firewood for this winter. At the same time, Jiang Yue and the other three also changed the villagers' attitude towards the educated youth. People who didn't like to talk to them before were willing to talk to them after seeing how hard they worked.

It wasn't until the heavy snow came that Jiang Yue had some free time. She was finally able to take a break. During this free time, Jiang Yue remembered one thing. She hadn't arranged the predictive dream for Yao Ling yet. It was December now, and Jiang Yue and the others had been here for half a month. Jiang Yue remembered that Liu Xiaoyi would come after the Chinese New Year, so she should arrange it earlier.

Jiang Yue was just thinking about arranging things for Yao Ling when there was a knock on the door. After they got dressed and went out, they saw Hu Zi. After inviting them in, Hu Zi took out a few letters and handed them to them. The other three people each had a letter, while Jiang Yue had two. He took his own letter and touched it. Both letters were quite thick, so there should be banknotes inside.

"There are still your packages at the brigade headquarters. They were brought back from the village. The captain wants you to pick them up when you have time."

"Okay, thank you Huzi, I'll treat you to some candy after I buy some."

It’s not that they don’t want to give it now, but these people have no money left. The food they brought has long been eaten up, and there are only sauerkraut and sorghum rice at home. After sending Hu Zi away, several people planned to read the letter before picking up the package.

Jiang Yue opened the envelope and poured out the contents. She saw that there was more than 20 yuan in the letter, which should be Jiang Yue's educated youth subsidy. The rest were some receipts. Jiang Yue frowned and opened the letter. They would not think of returning her things that originally belonged to her, so she just pretended to be done with it.

After reading the letter, it meant that his brother had accidentally taken the wrong things, so he had bought them for her again. In fear that the money would be lost in the envelope, he had sewn 100 yuan and some bills into the quilt, asking Jiang Yue to be more frugal when spending. It also said that the family was in financial difficulty now and he would not be able to provide any help to her in the future, so she should take care of herself.

After reading the first letter, Jiang Yue opened the second one. This letter was written by her stepsister. There was very little content, mainly saying that she didn't know about this matter. She had saved more than 30 yuan of private money, and borrowed some national food coupons from her friends, and sent it to her this time.

Jiang Yue burned the letter after putting away the money and bills. There was no value in keeping them. If she severed ties with her family now, they would definitely not agree, because each family had to send one person to the countryside, and if she severed ties with them, wouldn't they have to give up one more person? Jiang Yue had hoped that she would not be given anything so that she could make use of the opportunity to make trouble, but unfortunately her stepfather and stepsister were not stupid people.

When Jiang Yue was looking at the bills, Yao Ling had also finished reading the letter. Jiang Yue saw that her eyes were filled with tears and thought it must be a letter written by her family. Looking at their normal family relationship and their tortuous life experience, Jiang Yue felt that she was the protagonist.

The wizard tower was put down some time ago, and the new cotton-padded clothes are also made. I can just find an excuse to take them out and return them to Yao Ling. It happens that everyone has money now, and someone will definitely go to the county town in the next few days. I have to think of a way to separate from Yao Ling. The disadvantage of living together is that it is difficult to take out things without a reasonable excuse.

"Do you want to pick up the package?" At this time, Wang Liang knocked on the door and shouted outside.

"Go ahead, we'll be right back once we get dressed."

"Okay, I'll sweep the snow in the yard first, don't worry."