The earth trembled, how could Ruan Jiaojiao not react, and woke up immediately.

She crawled up with sleepy eyes, lifted her blindfold and mosquito net, and saw a fleeting light outside the broken wooden door, followed by a loud roar.

Unscrewed the flashlight and looked at the watch, it was just after twelve o'clock.

Taking a picture of the window that had been closed by Ji Huai'an, Ruan Jiaojiao climbed into the quilt, pulled the quilt over her head, and prepared to continue sleeping.

She has long passed the age of being afraid of the dark and thunder, and no matter how violent the thunder is, it will not affect anything.

In a daze, she suddenly remembered something and tore off the quilt.

In Ji Huai'an's room, the roof seems to be full of small holes......

If you can't even block the light, how can you keep out the rain?

After only thinking about it for a moment, she changed her position and pulled on the blindfold again.

Ji Huai'an is not a child, the room leaks rain, and the hall definitely doesn't leak rain, don't worry about him.

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Listening to the wind knocking on the wooden door, Ruan Jiaojiao tossed and turned on the bed, and finally took a deep breath to turn on the flashlight, got out of bed and opened the door.

Hiss......

As soon as the door was opened, the strong wind carrying the rain and mist hit Ruan Jiaojiao's body, and goosebumps instantly rose all over her body.

Wrapping her arms around her, Ruan Jiaojiao hunched over to the end of the aisle and gently pushed the door open.

There was no one inside.

When the flashlight went on, the ground was wet with rain, and small puddles had accumulated in the depressions.

It belongs to the outside rainstorm, and the inside is a local shower.

She tugged at the doorknob and closed it, trembling slightly, and walked to the next hall.

Pushing open the door with a flashlight, Ruan Jiaojiao saw a neat quilt and pillow placed on the dining table, leaning against the worn-out bamboo mat.

As for Ji Huai'an, she quickly swept around with a flashlight, but she didn't see anyone at all except for containers full of water on the ground.

Suddenly, there was a movement behind the quilt, Ji Huaian stood up with half-squinted eyes, and asked in a dumb voice: "Jiaojiao?" ”

It turned out that he was covered by a quilt, but in fact, he was sleeping on the table, and there were red marks on the side of his face.

Ruan Jiaojiao was shivering from the wind, removed the light from the flashlight on him, and walked in quickly to pick up the pillow on the table.

"I'm freezing to death, come back to my room with me!"

With that, she hurriedly trotted back to her room.

Ji Huaian only hesitated for a second, and then obediently picked up the quilt and followed her.

When she returned to the house and closed the door, Ruan Jiaojiao's cold body gradually warmed up.

The two didn't light candles, so by the light of the flashlight, one climbed into the bed, retracted into the quilt, and the other shook off the quilt and slept on the Hsinchu mat.

Ruan Jiaojiao was blown by the wind for a while, and the sleepiness disappeared without a trace, and everyone was awake.

Ji Huai'an didn't feel sleepy, lying on the ground and smelling the faint fragrance of orange blossoms in the room, and the residual soreness in his waist was also relieved a lot.

"Are you familiar with Aunt Gong's son?"

Ruan Jiaojiao's voice was not loud, the heavy rain outside the house was very noisy, and with a layer of mosquito nets, it sounded even weaker.

But Ji Huai'an heard her words clearly, cleared his somewhat hoarse voice and replied, "Well, it's very familiar." He used to help me buy and sell on the black market. ”

Black market?

Ruan Jiaojiao came to her senses, lifted the mosquito net, and lay on the edge of the bed with a small head.

She really heard it right before, Wang Youkang's first reaction was to call his sister-in-law, but he suddenly changed his words as soon as he said a word.

Ruan Jiaojiao knew that they must have a good relationship, after all, in the original novel, Wang Youkang later became Ji Huai'an's subordinate, but she didn't expect Ji Huai'an to be so sincere and directly talk about their "great cause".

"What does the black market look like? On Taoyuan Commune? ”

"Hmm. There are communes, and there are also Shanghai markets. Do you know how to set up a stall? The black market is to make a tarpaulin in a small alley and spread what you want to sell on the ground. The market opens at almost 3 a.m. and closes at 5 a.m. Everyone covered their faces with things, not knowing the identities of the two parties to the transaction. ”

Ruan Jiaojiao's arm was across the wood on the edge of the bed, and her little face was leaning on her arm, "Is there a special sentry?" Or has the person in charge of the black market dredged up the relationship, and no one will catch it? ”

In the novels she had read before, there seemed to be a rough description.

"Yes. The person in charge of the black market is generally connected, and if there is a red armband that wants to arrest someone, they will receive the news in advance. When I first came here, I almost got caught twice. Because I don't have any money to give to the person in charge of the black market, I can only stay on the periphery and sell things, so no one will tell me to run. ”

"Later, I opened up a lot of relationships, and while doing business in Shanghai, I was able to transport the latest things in Shanghai to sell. I don't have to come forward, I just need to sell it all to the black market boss and make a difference. Later, Aunt Gong's son did everything to trade with the black market boss, and he was about the same age as when I first went to the countryside. ”

Ji Huai'an told his experience lightly, and brushed aside the difficulties and thrills.

Ruan Jiaojiao listened very seriously and said softly: "You think of yourself, so you want to help him?" ”

"There are reasons for this, but not all. He was very small and skinny at the time, even thinner than when I first went to the countryside. Seeing him and Aunt Gong relying on each other, I thought of how good it would be for me to live with my grandfather next to the public toilet in Shanghai at that time, and pray every day that someone could come and help my grandfather. I pulled him, most importantly because he was suitable. If he were a reckless and impulsive person, I wouldn't care if he was in the same situation as me. That would put me in ...... myself."

Ruan Jiaojiao agrees very much, it is good to have kindness, but it cannot be overdone.

"Then he shouldn't have made less money in the past few years, why is he so thin...... I know I might want to keep everyone out of sight, but it won't affect you if you secretly eat something good once in a while. ”

Hearing Ruan Jiaojiao's puzzlement, Ji Huai'an laughed sullenly, "He doesn't eat a lot at all...... Aunt Gong has good craftsmanship, no matter how much she hides it, she won't starve him. He is now smoking a long stick, and he doesn't eat fat in the first place, so he looks very thin. ”

"I see......"

"Well, Aunt Gong loves him very much, and wants to send him to Commune High School through connections. He used to go to elementary school, and I taught him some later. It's not okay to get into college, but it's okay to pass the high school exam. ”

Ji Huaian ended the business of the black market on both sides, and the brothers in Shanghai all spent money to buy the factory one by one, as for Wang Youkang, Ji Huaian originally asked him to listen to Aunt Gong's arrangement, first study high school and take the university entrance examination, and then go to Beijing to find himself.

But after Ruan Jiaojiao came, he found that Aunt Gong's craftsmanship was very appetizing to her, and he wanted to arrange Wang Youkang to go to school in Shanghai and let Aunt Gong cook for Ruan Jiaojiao full-time.

It's just that he has to arrange for Wang Youkang to be transferred to Shanghai High School, which is a bit troublesome, and he doesn't know the teachers at the school.

So for the past two days, he has been thinking about who to contact so that he can contact the right person to do things.

Ruan Jiaojiao moved the pillow to the edge of the bed, lay on it and chatted with Ji Huai'an, listening to the sound of the rain outside, and slowly fell asleep......