As soon as Shen Yaowu's wedding passed, the next day was the eighth day of the third month, which was the day of Shen Lingling's marriage.

Shen Erdan's family and Ma Daniang's family were busy and had no time to visit relatives, He Daoxing stared at him for a long time without making meritorious contributions, and he was extremely depressed.

If Shen Yaowu's wedding is relatively normal, and he does not accept gifts or banquets, then Shen Lingling's wedding is extravagant and grand, and the Ma family and Shen Erdan's family both accept gifts and banquets.

As the parents of the newcomers, they are not the ones who pick up their relatives and break their legs, they are in command at home, and other things such as buying vegetables, washing vegetables, and picking up relatives are sons, close houses and others, all relatives and friends have to be notified on the seventh day of the new year, and at ten o'clock at noon, the Ma family set up a suona class, blowing a red song.

Originally, it had nothing to do with Qi Shufang.

Although the He family, the Shen family, and the Ma family are not one family, but based on the reason of a production team, everyone goes to help with the work, and the same is true if other people's families hold banquets, Qi Shufang was embarrassed to break away from the masses, so she stood at the Shen family and talked to Shen Yaowu, borrowing tables, chairs, benches, dishes and chopsticks, pancakes, steaming nests, washing vegetables, etc.

He Daoxing suddenly ran in from outside, pulled Qi Shufang and walked out, "Third aunt, third aunt, I saw Grandma Ma wandering around at your door for a long time, her eyes lit up, she must have a bad idea!"

"What?"

Qi Shufang frowned, and without waiting for her to ask, she heard Zhang Cuihua, who was washing dishes, say: "Shufang, go and see at your house, the Ma family is married to a daughter-in-law today, and they are busier than here, how can they have time to go to your house." ”

Qi Shufang nodded: "Got it, second sister-in-law, I'll go back." ”

said goodbye to Shen Yaowu, who waved his hand, "Go quickly, Lingling, this old woman has always been crazy, and she has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing." Her previous marriage was about to be settled, and she got along very well, but as a result, Aunt Ma publicized her backward thinking and criticized everywhere, and the other party immediately asked the matchmaker to repent of the marriage.

Fortunately, Zhao Tiezhu is very good, Shen Yaowu turned his head to look at Zhao Tiezhu who was building the stove, Zhao Tiezhu seemed to be aware, raised his head, and saw his wife smiling at him, he scratched his head and blushed.

Qi Shufang grinned and left with He Daoxing.

As soon as they left on the front foot, Shen Erdan's wife came out of the hall with the back foot, looked left and right and couldn't find Qi Shufang, and asked Shen Yaowu angrily: "Where is Shufang? ”

"When I went home, Lingling and her mother-in-law were wandering around in front of Shufang's house, and she went home to see what was going on. ”

My mother didn't have a good face for herself, and Shen Yaowu didn't have a good voice, she and Zhao Tiezhu came to help with the work in the past two days, just to see if the new shirt and new pants were burned by herself, what clothes Shen Lingling wore to get married!

Hum!

Shen Erdan's wife glared at her, and hurriedly went out to chase Qi Shufang.

Qi Shufang didn't let go of her spiritual power, she didn't know what was happening in the Shen family, she looked down at the six-year-old He Daoxing, "Sandan'er, how do you know that your grandmother Ma is wandering around at my door?"

He Daoxing looked triumphant: "Third aunt, don't be afraid, I take people to stare at Grandma Ma every day, as long as she is out of the production team, I will definitely know, my mother said, I have to prevent her from saying bad things about the third aunt." Third aunt, if she says bad things about you, I will scold her. My third aunt is good, she is the worst. ”

"Three eggs are so good!"

Qi Shufang quickly understood Zhang Cuihua's intentions, and hurriedly praised it, so that He Daoxing's tail was about to be cocked, "Third aunt, if I make a meritorious service, can you give me something delicious? The cream cake is delicious, fragrant, sweet, I have never eaten such a delicious cream cake in my life, it is better than meat." ”

When He Daoxing spoke, he couldn't help but lick his lips and think about the deliciousness.

"Cream cake is more expensive than meat, of course it is better than meat, and now I don't go to Shanghai, and I don't have any money in my hand, so I can't buy cream cake." Qi Shufang couldn't help but laugh, seeing He Daoxing's disappointed expression, she changed the topic, "However, there are still a few sugar cubes in the third aunt's house, which can reward you." When He Jianguo sent wild meat for the second time, Li Lao and Granny Qi gave them a lot of edible candy and assorted candy and white rabbits, and there were still some Harbin brand assorted candies left to eat.

He Daoxing cheered, and followed Qi Shufang to the door of the house.

Seeing Qi Shufang's figure, Grandma Ma greeted her cheekily, "Shufang, you didn't lend me a dime last time I came to borrow money, this time I came to borrow some game, you can't say you can't borrow it anymore, right?"

"What do you mean?"

"Didn't my family marry a daughter-in-law? My family went to various supply and marketing cooperatives and non-staple food stores in the city for several days in a row, and they began to line up in the middle of the night to finally buy a little bit of meat skin. My family runs eight tables of banquets, and the meat skin is not enough for eight bowls of stir-fried vegetables, so I want your family to dry so much game, and borrow me ten catties and eight catties to support the scene. ”

Borrowing game? For the first time, someone came to borrow game.

Qi Shufang didn't plan to borrow it, she smiled slightly: "It's really unfortunate, Aunt Ma, the wild meat I dried before, except for what Jianguo ate at home, the rest were taken away by him, and there was only one pheasant and one hare left......"

Aunt Ma immediately interrupted her: "Two is fine, it's better than nothing!"

"Don't be too busy interrupting. Qi Shufang then spoke, "The remaining two weigh five catties, and I have never been willing to eat, and I plan to exchange food with others." When we first distributed the rations, our family only had mine, and there was no one for the founding of the country, but after returning from the founding of the country for more than ten days, I ate my month's rations, and it was time for me to run out of food, and there was not enough food at home, so I couldn't go hungry, right? In the non-staple food store, the air-dried chicken is more than five cents a catty, and a catty of cornmeal is nine cents, and I exchange one catty for five catties here, and whoever sends me twenty-five catties of cornmeal or forty catties of dried sweet potato noodles will take these two game. ”

It's a good deal to exchange game for food!

It is too difficult for rural members to eat meat compared to those in the city, and they can't buy it if they have money, so they will publicize one or two sentences in the production team in the future, or ask Huo Jianfeng if someone is willing to change it, and they are afraid that they will have no business at that time? People in the city are better than in the countryside, but they are also very short of meat. She also heard Aunt Ma's words and suddenly came up with this idea.

The state prohibits the private trading of goods, but does not prohibit the exchange of goods, and in Shanghai she has seen people exchange fine grains for coarse grains.

Aunt Ma's face sank suddenly.

Qi Shufang looked at her with a smile, "Aunt Ma, do you still want it?" If you don't, I'll ask Lingling about her father." The Shen family will marry their daughter tomorrow and hold four or five tables of banquets, I see that their family killed two roosters and two male ducks that have been raised for more than a year today, but there is not much meat skin washed today, and it is estimated that it is not enough. ”

When she first saw someone in the Shen family washing the meat skin, she felt very strange, why didn't she buy meat or pork ribs to cook, but bought a bunch of white and grease shaved clean meat skin? Later, I learned that the meat skin does not need a meat ticket, I heard that which non-staple food store has meat skin supply, the whole family in the city will go to line up in the middle of the night to rush to buy, can buy meat skin for a banquet, whether it is in the countryside or in the city, it is a first-class banquet, not to mention that Shen Erdan's family also killed chickens and ducks, I don't know how many people envy it.

Before Aunt Ma could answer, Shen Erdan's wife hurriedly came over and shouted: "Yes, yes, yes, Shufang, I came to you for this matter, and I can only exchange grain for game?"

Qi Shufang nodded.

Aunt Ma said unhappily: "My in-laws, I came first." ”

"I know you came first, but didn't you agree? Shen Erdan's wife glanced at her in-laws strangely, "My family has a large population, and there is not enough food to eat, so I am reluctant to exchange cornmeal and sweet potato dried noodles for meat, Shufang, how about you exchange flour and rice for me? ”

"Yes. Three catties of flour or three catties of rice can be exchanged for one catty of game. Qi Shufang said this very generously, because although flour and rice belong to fine grains, black flour and cornmeal are equivalent, and the prices of wheat and corn in the staple food are not much different, but fine grains are extremely rare and have a good taste, so they are still a little more valuable.

"No, I'll come first, I'll change!"

Aunt Ma didn't lose the battle, gritted her teeth and responded, if she couldn't get the game, her family's banquet really couldn't be compared with the Shen family, and her son would have to be crushed by Shen Lingling in the future.

"First come, first come, sister-in-law Shen, I'm sorry!" Qi Shufang smiled at Shen Erdan's wife, "Sister-in-law, wait a minute, if Aunt Ma doesn't change it, or can't bring food, how about I give you the game?" If Aunt Ma wants it, I'll go to the mountains for a while to see if there is any fresh prey in the trap I dug." ”

When Shen Erdan's wife heard her say that Aunt Ma came first, her heart was cold, and she was worried that she would enter the mountain when she heard her say later, and she immediately smiled, "Okay, okay, okay." ”

Aunt Ma went home and carried twenty-five catties of cornmeal, Qi Shufang weighed it and knew that it was one catty, and poured it into her own noodle bag and found that there was no quality problem, so she didn't care, and it was boring to force Aunt Ma to jump over the wall in a hurry, so she gave her two air-dried game. On the other hand, Aunt Ma actually carried a borrowed scale with her, weighed it, and found that the game was five and a half catties, so she left in a hurry.

Shen Erdan's wife looked at Qi Shufang: "Shufang, do your words still count?"

"Count, of course count. Qi Shufang said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, I won't go to your house to work, I'll go into the mountains, and send the prey to your house immediately." ”

"Then I'll go home and wait, Shufang, you have to have a snack, this is the first happy event for our family. ”

Qi Shufang opened the drawer and grabbed a handful of sugar cubes and gave them to He Daoxing, "Sandan'er, I'm going into the mountains, you can play by yourself, don't run around, even if you play, you have to be in a place where there are adults." ”

"Got it, Third Aunt!" He Daoxing ate a piece of candy, hid the rest in his pocket, and rushed out with his cover.

When Qi Shufang entered the mountain and didn't find anything, she hit six male pheasants and three male hares, caught two carp, kept two pheasants for herself, and sent the rest to Shen Erdan's family.

The game was not cleaned up, according to the gross weight of one pound of game, two pounds of noodles or two pounds of rice, a total of 20 pounds of noodles and 12 pounds of rice.

Shen Erdan's banquet was extraordinarily sumptuous and highly praised.

Qi Shufang took a closer look and found that the visitors were all the same as Huo Jianfeng and the others who came to be guests, they all brought their own rations and gift money, and the price paid by the Shen family was food. She also found that Shen Yaowu was very unhappy, and when she asked the reason, she learned that Shen Lingling was still married in new clothes, and the clothes were made of cloth with the cloth tickets that Shen Erdan and his family had saved.

Tasting the sweetness of exchanging game for food, on the weekend, Qi Shufang carried a live pheasant to Huo Jianfeng.

Huo Jianfeng knew Qi Shufang's hunting ability, and slapped his thigh, "Okay! There must be someone willing to change! Now it is not easy for every family to eat meat, everyone has a time when they need to do things, and there are also family members who need to make up for their bodies." Guohong, you and your younger siblings are talking at home, I'll ask if someone wants it, if someone wants it, it's settled, and my younger siblings will send wild meat over, saving you a trip in vain. ”

Last time, I got a box of cakes and two handkerchiefs, and this time I got a pheasant, this is not a poor relative who came to fight the autumn breeze, Zhou Guohong's distress about ten catties of white rice and ten catties of white flour has also been reduced a lot, and Qi Shufang is particularly enthusiastic.

Huo Jianfeng soon brought good news, and several families were willing to exchange grain for game.

Qi Shufang sent a batch of game meat every two days, and exchanged more than 50 catties of fine grains and more than 100 catties of coarse grains.

In the next few days, Qi Shufang went into the mountains every day in the name of collecting firewood, continuing to hunt on the one hand, and taking care of the land she opened on the other. As the weather gets hotter, the straw mats on the flowering ridges are lifted, allowing the grown peanut seedlings to see the light of day. Peanuts are delicate and must maintain the temperature of the soil when planting, as well as retain moisture, so cover them with a straw mat, or cover them with a thick layer of thatch or straw, and wait for the seedlings to grow before the straw mat can be lifted.

All the grass mats are opened, three ridges are a total of six peanut seedlings, lush, stretching the leaves freely, the green looks very gratifying, but unfortunately the germination rate is only about seventy percent, and there are many bare seedlings at the sowing place.

Looking at the corn ridge again, there are also vacancies that have not sprouted, which look uneven.

Qi Shufang looked around, re-strengthened the trap, and today found in the deep ditch a wild goat that had been pierced by a sharp branch and bled to death, a drowned hare, and a number of large and small fish swimming from the stream!

Wild boars? There are wild boars nearby? I haven't found any hoof prints of wild boars every time I came before.

Qi Shufang, who had just fished up the wild goats and hares, suddenly came to her senses, this is the rhythm of making a fortune!

Recently, as long as she enters the mountain, she does not cook at home, but carries bowls, chopsticks, oil, salt, iron pots, clay pots and other things, piles soil as stoves in the mountains and forests, scoops water to make soup, eats and drinks enough before going down the mountain, saving the aroma from spreading to the neighbors and attracting people's eyes.

She also built a small but sturdy tree house on the thick branch of a towering tree nearby.

Here, it's almost her second home.

In the busyness, Qi Shufang did not forget to learn by herself, she did not receive a systematic education, so she started to study by herself from scratch, the primary school textbook is extremely simple, and the junior high school is not difficult, although it is a little difficult in the future, but she can still understand it. Since she has made up her mind to take the college entrance examination, Qi Shufang does not plan to give up studying, and when she is tired of studying, she will find famous books for recreation.

In a blink of an eye, when the acacia flowers bloomed, the half-opened locust flowers hung on the treetops one by one, the leaves were green and white, and the faint fragrance was wafting all over the production team.