Chapter 18: Collecting Firewood and Catching a Pheasant

After a month of such days, Song Qianqian finished cutting two baskets of pigweed at ten o'clock, returned to Zhiqing to go into the space to take a bath and change clothes, and went to the commune in a light blue bulaji.

Ji Mufeng took a half-day off today, he was going to the commune post office to get a package, his grandfather asked someone to send him something, and his father sent him a money ticket.

His stepsister Ji Xueyin has gone to the countryside, and his grandfather specially sent a letter over, his stepmother had a big quarrel with his father, and the remaining hundreds of yuan were given to his stepsister, and their husband and wife did not have any savings in their hands.

Moreover, his father will have to send half of his monthly salary to his two children in the future, and it is impossible for his stepmother to live a good life, and the money is estimated to be only enough for food.

Ji Mufeng rode his bicycle to the post office, and just saw Song Qianqian receiving the subsidy money.

"Comrade Song, please sign here." Said the staff at the post office.

"Okay, thanks." Song Qianqian signed and collected the money, and when she turned around, she saw Ji Mufeng.

She didn't say a word and smiled, and went directly to the state-run restaurant, ready to go back after she was full.

Song Qianqian ordered a braised pork, as well as white rice and spicy tofu, and after ordering, she saw Ji Mufeng again, holding a package in his hand, and found a place to sit down without speaking.

Ji Mufeng ordered a braised fish, as well as white rice and shredded pork with green peppers, he also found an empty place to sit down, and the two looked at each other and quickly dodged.

Song Qianqian: It's a pity that this face, the figure is also superb, but the temper is weird, and it is a little inexplicable.

Ji Mufeng: She was looking at me just now, this skin is so good, women will like it, why don't you look at it?

"Braised pork, spicy tofu is good; Braised fish, shredded pork with green pepper is ready. The waiter shouted loudly.

So, the two met awkwardly again, and left separately after eating, Song Qianqian went to the supply and marketing cooperative, and Ji Mufeng went to the scrap station.

Song Qianqian returned to the village after shopping, and returned to the educated youth point to meet Gao Chunmei, the two decided to go to the mountains to collect firewood, and they wanted to stock up more firewood for the winter.

Ji Mufeng went to the scrapyard to buy old books, the days were too difficult every evening, and seeing that Song Qianqian had been reading, he also wanted to read some books to pass the time.

Therefore, Ji Mufeng bought high school textbooks and a few illustrations of medicinal materials, thinking that there would definitely be ginseng in the back mountain, he wanted to dig up a few plants and give them to the elders.

"Qianqian, have you changed your clothes?" Gao Chunmei locked the door and asked.

"Sister Chunmei, I'll be fine right away." After speaking, Song Qianqian walked out and locked the door, still holding the basket in her hand.

Ji Mufeng returned to the Zhiqing Point and saw that the two of them had gone to the back mountain, pushed the bicycle back to the room, and also took the back basket to the back mountain.

Song Qianqian and Gao Chunmei walked halfway up the mountain, and they saw that there was firewood to pick it up.

Ji Mufeng ran directly into the mountains, he just glanced at the pictures of ginseng, and remembered in his mind that he wanted to find wild ginseng.

At this time, Song Qianqian was collecting firewood, and suddenly heard a cooing sound, and she immediately thought of pheasants.

"I'll go, there are several pheasants laying eggs here." Song Qianqian approached and waved her hand to put a few pheasants into the space, of course, those eggs were not spared.

Song Qianqian didn't plan to take it out, she was not stingy and afraid of causing trouble, she would open a small stove in the space if she wanted to eat, and she would be remembered if she ate outside.

Then, Song Qianqian picked up a lot of firewood, she collected most of it into the space, and continued to pick up and stuff the back basket.

Gao Chunmei also picked up a lot of firewood, she tied it up with hemp rope and carried it in her hand, and the two returned to the Zhiqing Point in this way.

"Qianqian, after we finish beating pigweed, we will go into the mountains to collect some firewood." Gao Chunmei proposed.

"Okay, Sister Chunmei." Song Qianqian also wanted to go into the mountains to harvest some game.

Ji Mufeng is looking for it in the mountains, and now the ginseng has not yet produced red seeds, so it is indeed not easy to find, but he was lucky to find two plants, and he accidentally fell and found them, and he was really blessed by him.

It took a lot of time to dig these two wild ginsengs, and when Ji Mufeng returned to the Zhiqing Point, it was dark, and he was afraid that he would lose his medicinal properties for a long time and ask for leave tomorrow morning, so he went to the post office early in the morning to send the ginseng to his grandfather, and wrote a letter to his grandfather by the way.

After that, Ji Mufeng went to buy ten large meat buns, went to the supply and marketing cooperatives to buy a few pastries, and lined up to cut a piece of pork belly and return to the village.

Song Qianqian was busy cutting pigweed, and smuggled some pigweed into the space, the two went to collect firewood after handing over the pigweed, and acted separately to fill the back basket with firewood, and met pheasants and hares into the space.

"Sister Chunmei, I'm hungry, let's go back." Song Qianqian has to go back to translate foreign books.

"Okay, I just caught a pheasant, go back and kill the stew and eat it together." After Gao Chunmei finished speaking, she also put the dead pheasant into the back basket.

The two returned to the educated youth point, each went back to the room to rest for a while, and waited for the other educated youths to go to work, Gao Chunmei boiled water to kill chickens, and Song Qianqian was translating books.

"Qianqian, the chicken soup will be stewed here for you." Gao Chunmei wanted to stay with her.

"Sister Chunmei, I took over the job of translator, don't talk about this matter." Song Qianqian didn't plan to hide it from Gao Chunmei.

"Wow, Qianqian, you are so good, you can actually speak foreign languages." Gao Chunmei saw that the books were not in English.

"Shhhh Song Qianqian said in a low voice.

Gao Chunmei covered her mouth and nodded, Song Qianqian continued to translate, the book will be translated soon, and it will be sent to the city tomorrow afternoon, and you will be able to get the money ticket soon.

Song Qianqian enters the space every night and translates foreign books before going to bed, it takes two or three months for ordinary people to translate, and she is fast for only about 20 days.

Gao Chunmei closed the door, then blanched the pheasant, cleaned it and stewed it in a pot, added ginger, shallots and rice wine, Qianqian said that it was fishy.

After boiling, turn to low heat and simmer slowly, Gao Chunmei stuffed two sticks of firewood, and then went to the kang and began to read, she was very careful about reciting politics, and Song Qianqian was very satisfied when she saw it.

In the afternoon, the two of them ate all the pheasants, and the rest of the chicken soup was noodles, and the days were very pleasant.

"Sister Chunmei, I'm going to the post office tomorrow, what do you have to buy?" Song Qianqian asked with a smile.

"I'm going to buy two bars of soap, and I'm going to ask for peach crisp malt cream." After that, go to the room to get the money and tickets.

At ten o'clock the next day, Song Qianqian handed over the pigweed, came back to the space to take a bath, changed her clothes and went to the commune.

I walked to the post office, first sent the package, bought ten stacks of stationery, saw that it was time to eat, and went to the state-run restaurant for dinner.

Song Qianqian ordered beef noodles and packed another beef, but unfortunately everyone has a limited amount, otherwise at least ten servings will be bought, after all, beef is rarely supplied.

After eating, Song Qianqian went to the supply and marketing cooperative, helped Gao Chunmei buy good things, and walked back to the Zhiqing Point.

"Sister Chunmei, take your things." Song Qianqian shouted loudly.

"Okay, thank you, Sister Qianqian." Gao Chunmei took her things back to the room.

Song Qianqian drank a glass of spiritual spring water and rested for a while, then took out the letter paper and began to write a novel.