Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

She gave Jiang Yanqiu twenty eggs. If she went to the grocery store to buy them, it would cost fifty cents a pound and she would need an egg ticket. She would have to make a trip herself. It would be better to do a favor for her neighbor, which would save trouble for both parties.

Then Aunt Chen used ten eggs to help Jiang Yanqiu exchange for five kilograms of buckwheat seeds and various other vegetable seeds.

As for the vegetable seedlings, Aunt Chen suggested that Jiang Yanqiu go and pick them up and plant them tomorrow morning.

The weather is hot now and there has been no rain recently. If the seedlings are planted in the afternoon, the survival rate may be lower due to the high soil temperature.

In comparison, the morning is more suitable for transplanting seedlings.

The next morning, Jiang Yanqiu had just gotten up when Aunt Chen came home with vegetable seedlings.

These seedlings are of high quality and are not the bad ones that have been thinned out. They are all carefully selected.

Jiang Yanqiu said apologetically, "Aunt Chen, why are you here so early? I just got up."

Aunt Chen smiled and replied, "We are used to getting up early! You probably don't know how to grow vegetables, do you? I happen to be free this morning, so I can teach you how to grow vegetables."

Jiang Yanqiu responded gratefully, "Then I'll have to trouble Aunt Chen."

In her previous life, Jiang Yanqiu was no stranger to growing vegetables. She was responsible for taking care of her own vegetable garden before going to high school.

However, the original owner did not know how to grow vegetables and had only grown onions and garlic in her own yard, so she had to pretend and learn from Aunt Chen.

Aunt Chen waved her hand and said, "It's no big deal, you're welcome."

The reason why Aunt Chen was so enthusiastic was mainly because she was worried that Jiang Yanqiu and the others would not be able to grow the vegetables well.

After all, they are neighbors. If Jiang Yanqiu's vegetable crops are not good, her family may be affected.

If you are proactive, you can give money or things in exchange. If you are selfish, you can just ask for it directly. Wouldn’t you give it to me? It’s not something valuable.

What's more, Jiang Yanqiu can exchange eggs from her at a high price. It's not easy for the little girl either, so I'll help her if I can.

It is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.

Jiang Yanqiu boiled three eggs in the pot, and steamed a few hot pot heads left over from yesterday. Then she went to her private plot to learn how to grow vegetables from Aunt Chen.

While Aunt Chen was teaching her, Aunt Qiao was planting vegetable seedlings in the vegetable garden.

Seeing Aunt Chen, Aunt Qiao secretly felt lucky that she had rejected Jiang Yanqiu yesterday, otherwise she would have become a sucker and had to help plant the vegetables without receiving the seedlings for free.

Aunt Chen didn't teach for long. She found that Jiang Yanqiu had a talent for farming and it became popular after she started teaching.

When Aunt Chen left, Jiang Yanqiu stuffed two steamed buns and a boiled egg into her hands.

It is summer vacation now and the fields are not busy. The men in Aunt Chen's family have gone out to find work, and their older children have gone to their grandmother's house to play. Only Aunt Chen and her five-year-old son are left at home.

Aunt Chen is not very old, probably only thirty years old at most.

I don’t know who started it, but everyone calls her Aunt Chen, but Lin Shaoyang and the others call her sister-in-law.

Over the past two days, Aunt Chen did not express any opinions on what happened to Jiang Yanqiu and the others, nor did she ask about the specific situation.

Jiang Yanqiu finally figured out why, in the book, after Qiao Lei wanted to change her image, the first person she wanted to win over was Aunt Chen.

Aunt Chen is a fair person and doesn't like to gossip with others. She has said good things about Jiang Yanqiu several times before.

Aunt Chen has a very good reputation in the village and is well-liked. If you have a good relationship with her, you can gain the recognition of most people in the village.

The small number of people who disagree must have had conflicts with Qiao Lei many times.

Jiang Yanqiu didn’t know how much vegetables she could eat in one winter, after all, winter lasts for half a year.

So he planted five hundred cabbages and two hundred radishes and mustard greens.

Aunt Chen thought it was the whole educated youth camp and didn't pay attention. Before, the educated youths all planted cabbage and radish, so it was normal to plant some this year.

In the rest of the time, Jiang Yanqiu would pick up some firewood on the mountain behind and occasionally pick some mushrooms to bring back.

Winter is coming, so she has to prepare early. She doesn't dare to go to the distant mountains alone.

On both sides of Jiang Yanqiu's private plot, one belongs to Qiao Lei and the other belongs to Gu Qingqing.

The private plots for the educated youth were in a fixed place, a little far away from the educated youth site. They had six or seven mu of land on the leveled land at the back, which they gave to the three newly arrived female educated youth as private plots.

Because Jiang Yanqiu and her friends paid to level the slope, except for Qiao Lei and Gu Qingqing's private plots, the rest was given to Jiang Yanqiu.

Excluding the area around their backyard where they had a wall and where they dug a septic tank and stored wood ash, there was still nearly three acres of land.

Jiang Yanqiu didn't want to have anything to do with Qiao Lei. After seeking consent from Lin Shao and others, Jiang Yanqiu used tree stumps dug from the ground to surround her private plot with a 1.5-meter-high fence.

No one thought much about it. The private plot was at the foot of the mountain. If it was not fenced in, wild animals would come down the mountain and destroy the vegetable fields.

After a week, Jiang Yanqiu quite liked this mountain and water village.

There are mountains and water here, and the land is flat and fertile. It is much better than the countryside where she lived in her previous life!

Jiang Yanqiu's hometown in her previous life was a real mountain valley. Their home was halfway up the mountain. They had to go downhill to go out and climb uphill to come in.

The land is not barren, it is not even as barren as the Loess Plateau. It is all mountainous, most of which is rocky and sandy, and the ground is full of stones.

In the winter when there is no farming work, I go to the fields to pick up stones. I pick them up from small to large, and the ground is still full of stones.

If you don't master the skills when working in the fields, and you use brute force to dig with a hoe, your hands will become numb.

The key problem is the lack of water. The water for drinking all year round has to be fetched from the bottom of the ditch. The road there is a steep slope of 45 degrees, and it is full of zigzag paths. The resting places are fixed.

If you accidentally fall, you may roll ten meters.

By spring, there is no water at the bottom of the ditch, and we have to go to other places to collect water.

When the rainy season comes, the crops in the fields will be washed away by water.

In comparison, the conditions here in Shanshui are much better. The mountains are not high but are covered with continuous forests, and there are all kinds of mushrooms on the mountains.

Even without the golden finger, she could live a pretty good life with her experience from her previous life.

There is strength in numbers. In just a week, Jiang Yanqiu and her family's house has been built, and even the kang has been set up. They just need to dry it for two more days before they can move in.

Jiang Yanqiu's house has a bathroom, a kitchen, and a bedroom. It is a little bigger than expected, with a total area of ​​more than 20 square meters.

The apartment is the same as the one at the educated youth camp, and the size is about the same, except that the bathroom is smaller and the kitchen is more spacious.

Lin Shaoyang and his family divided the bedroom into two rooms, one for each of them. There were windows in the front and back of the bedrooms, so both rooms had good lighting.

The house will be completed today, and Jiang Yanqiu and the other three have started to settle the accounts.

After counting the bill, Yanqiu saw that including the food and pots, pans, and utensils she had spent, it was only 150 yuan.

After carefully examining the bill, she asked, "Did I make a mistake? How come the tiles are only ten yuan? Even at the cheapest, they should be ten yuan a side. And the bricks can't be that cheap."

Jiang Yanqiu had originally planned to lay bricks only a few centimeters below, but now they have already been laid above the windows, and the wall is fifty or sixty centimeters thick.