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"Eighty cents is a lot. Not everyone can go picking tea. We live close to each other, so I came here to inform you. When you make money, buy some meat for Sanlang. Didn't you just say that you wanted to nourish his body?" said Aunt Fat.

Li Yujiao understood that Aunt Pang came to inform her because of last night's pork ribs soup.

She asked, "Will it take a whole day? My brother is home alone and I'm afraid I can't get away."

"You can come back at noon. I'll cover you then. Come back after you feed Sanlang."

Li Yujiao agreed: "Then please call me when you leave tomorrow, Auntie Pang."

"It's just on the way!" Aunt Fat said and went home while wiping the sweat off her face.

Li Yujiao turned around and looked at Jing Qishan.

Jing Qishan rolled his eyes at her.

Humph, what a shameless woman, making such a joke in public, and she is still a virgin.

Li Yujiao ignored his rolling eyes, walked up to him and said, "I'm going to pick tea with Auntie Pang tomorrow."

"Go if you want to!" Jing Qishan said unhappily.

Li Yujiao said, "I will come back halfway, and I will buy you some big buns when I get my wages."

He wasn't very interested, so he didn't look at her.

Li Yujiao didn't say much to him.

In the current situation, we should make money quickly and start some small business when we have enough capital.

……

The next day, Li Yujiao got up early.

He moved the chickens and ducks into the fence in the yard and sprinkled grain on the ground, then came back to serve Jing Qishan and clean the house.

Then she went to the kitchen and made two pancakes for him to eat, and then fed him half a bowl of red date tea.

When Aunt Fat came over and called her, she went out.

Jing Qishan was the only one left at home again.

Because she was worried that it might rain, Li Yujiao did not carry him outside and just let him lie on the bed.

Lonely, lonely, cold.

He continued twirling his fingers.

This time, he was able to hold something!

What he held seemed to be the clothes she placed beside the bed, which she wore to sleep at night.

Li Yujiao is a particular woman who changes her clothes before going to bed at night.

The clothes felt soft in my hands, and it was as if I could smell the faint milky scent on her body.

Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem so painful anymore.

……

Li Yujiao had already followed Aunt Pang to the tea mountain.

The head of the village is the head of the village, and strictly speaking he is also a landlord. He has a lot of mountains and land, and he also has farmhands at home, but during the busy farming season, the family still has to hire people to work.

Aunt Pang took Li Yujiao to register first.

There was a person sitting under a big tree, and he looked familiar.

Before Li Yujiao could remember who this person was, he called her, "Yujiao!"

"Dazhu?" Li Yujiao asked tentatively.

Because the Dazhu she saw before was lying down with a haggard face, but the person in front of her had a rosy complexion and looked energetic, so Li Yujiao was not sure if it was him.

"It's me." Dazhu said, "I couldn't stay idle at home, so I came here to help. Are you here to pick tea today too?"

Li Yujiao said, "Yes, Auntie Pang asked me to come. I just happened to be short of money, so I came here because there was work."

Dazhu couldn't help but say, "But you have great medical skills, you should go practice medicine. Those useless doctors in town can earn six taels of silver a month!"

"If I save you, it's like a blind cat catching a dead mouse. It's not like I can do any medical treatment." Li Yujiao said with a smile.

She is a surgeon. If someone comes to see her for treatment, she won't prescribe Chinese medicine.

She couldn't specialize in surgery, as surgery required the use of operating room instruments, and she couldn't bring people into the space.

If surgery is required, people of this era generally cannot accept it, so her plan is to treat anyone who really needs it if she meets one, and not to deliberately open a clinic.

Dazhu then added: "You are really hard-working. You have to take care of your Sanlang and earn money to support the family. How about this, if you have something to do during your stay, just tell me and you can come back anytime you want. I will still pay you."

Then Dazhu gave Li Yujiao a tag, with which she could get her wages, and also gave her a backpack for picking tea and a pair of scissors.

Li Yujiao took it and was about to leave when she heard someone behind her complaining indignantly: "Brother Dazhu, we are all here to work. Today one person has family matters to attend to, and tomorrow another person has someone to take care of at home. If everyone goes back halfway, how can we continue to do this work?"

Li Yujiao turned around and saw Wang Erhua.

Dazhu couldn't help but complain about Wang Erhua: "This is my family's tea plantation, and the wages are also mine. I give it to whoever I say it to."

Wang Erhua took the sign and the backpack and left angrily.

Li Yujiao also followed Aunt Pang into the tea mountain.

It is now the end of May and the weather is starting to get hot, but there is wind on the tea mountains. Moreover, the tea mountains are terraced, and the women picking tea among them are like the scenery in the movie "Liu Sanjie".

Auntie Pang started singing folk songs when she got to the mountain:

"In May, tea picking and dragon boat racing are in full swing. The drums of dragon boat racing are beating in the air. The elder brother drinks three cups of wine and the younger sister drinks two. Three cups and two cups of wine, we watch the dragon boat racing..."

Picking tea only requires cutting the tip of the tea tree. It is purely manual work. Repeating the same action over and over again will easily make your hands sore. However, Li Yujiao thought that eighty-one days is not a short time, so she worked very hard.

While I was cutting the tea leaves, I suddenly heard Wang Erhua's voice: "Don't walk around when you're picking tea leaves. You've come to my side, cutting here and there. How can you let others cut the tea leaves?"

Li Yujiao heard from A Ping that Wang Erhua was also a poor girl, so she didn't bother with her. Since Wang Erhua told her not to move around too much, she would just stay away from Wang Erhua.

When Wang Erhua saw that Li Yujiao still disdained to pay attention to him, she became even angrier, "You think you saved Brother Dazhu, so you come here to make up the numbers. Others have already picked half of the basket, and you haven't even paved the bottom of the basket!"

Li Yujiao didn't understand, but she still said calmly: "Erhua, why are you always targeting me? Do you want to marry Jing Qishan?"

Wang Erhua's face instantly turned red. She said angrily, "Marry him? Who cares?"

"Then what did you do to me?"

"I'm not targeting you, I just can't stand you using the back door and thinking you're so great!"

Li Yujiao couldn't help but shook her head: "I think you need to see a doctor to check your brain!"

"You should see a doctor for your brain!"

Auntie Pang was also nearby. When she heard Wang Erhua targeting Li Yujiao, she wiped her sweat and said to Li Yujiao, "Erhua, don't target Jiaojiao just because you can't get married. Jiaojiao is also a poor person. Why should women embarrass women? If you are still angry, talk to your parents and ask them to find a match for you. Once you have a man, you won't always dislike others!"

Wang Erhua was also strange. She could target others, but when others made a joke about her, she would start crying, "You are all bad people, bitches!"

Then he carried a bamboo basket and went to another place to pick tea.

Auntie Pang said to Li Yujiao, "Ignore her. She just wants to get married but can't, so she is jealous of young married women like you."

Li Yujiao: …

Is marrying Jing Qishan worth being jealous?

At noon, the tea pickers all go to the foot of the tea mountain to eat.

The head of the village provides meals at home, but they are only grain porridge, pickles and a steamed bun.

Li Yujiao thought about Jing Qishan at home and decided to go home first.

At this time, Dazhu called her: "Yujiao!"

Li Yujiao turned around and saw Dazhu stringing three steamed buns with chopsticks: "You still want to go home to feed your Sanlang, right? Why don't you just take a few steamed buns from here and go back to make them again."

Then he stuffed the steamed bun into her hand.

"How can this be so embarrassing?" Li Yujiao said with a smile

"What's there to be embarrassed about? We still have these steamed buns at home, and they're not worth much. Besides, you're my savior," said Dazhu.

Dazhu's wife was there too and also advised her to take it.

Li Yujiao took it generously.

Steamed buns are filling and convenient, so take them if you can.

Wang Erhua saw this scene. She looked at Li Yujiao's back with an angry look in her eyes.