Su Mo walked around the mountain again, picked some hazelnut mushrooms and dug some wild vegetables.
There were obviously many more people I met than in the past few days, and most of them were aunts or young wives. It should be that the autumn harvests of all the brigades have been completed, and the adults have begun to go up the mountains to harvest the autumn harvests.
There are many people on the mountain, which makes many things inconvenient. In addition, there are also a lot of mountain goods to be collected. Su Mo is not ready to wander around the mountain anymore. She still has many things to do, so she can take advantage of this period of time. Everyone ran to the mountains, and she went to do other things.
At almost noon, Su Mo went down the mountain carrying half a basket of weeds and mushrooms.
After returning home, Su Mo took out the rice she had cooked a few days ago from her space. She estimated that there was only enough for one meal left. Su Mo ate all of it and would cook new ones tonight.
After eating, Su Mo went to the well to fetch water, washed the newly picked hazelnut mushrooms and wild grass, and dried them.
While Su Mo was busy, she suddenly heard someone calling her from outside the yard: "Su Mo, are you at home?"
Su Mo looked over and saw that it was Ma Xiaojuan and Chen Lan. She thought to herself what a coincidence. She was just about to go find Ma Xiaojuan when they came.
Su Mo quickly stood up and said, "Here you are, Xiaojuan and Chen Lan. The courtyard door is open, so you can push it in by yourselves."
Ma Xiaojuan was very happy to see Su Mo at home. She quickly opened the courtyard door and went in. She was a little surprised when she saw the lush vegetable field.
"Su Mo, did you grow this vegetable? It grows really well."
"Yes." Su Mo said with a smile, "Maybe I am suitable for growing vegetables." As he said this, he put the washed hazel mushrooms into the bamboo sieve.
"Let's go sit in the room." After putting away the mushrooms, Su Mo welcomed the two of them into the living room.
This was the first time for the two of them to come here. After entering, Chen Lan's eyes were full of wonder and envy, while Ma Xiaojuan was more straightforward.
"Su Mo, your house is okay. Compared with yours, the Educated Youth Center is really inferior. Fortunately, I thought our brigade's Educated Youth Center was pretty good before."
Su Mo pursed her lips and smiled, joking: "Yes, thanks to my lover, I can live in such a good house."
Ma Xiaojuan smiled: "Sure enough, things are different after you get married. People are much more cheerful." Su Mo didn't like to talk much before.
Su Mo led the two of them to sit down in the hall, took two clean cups, and poured them two cups of boiled water.
"Were those hazelnut mushrooms you washed just now?" Ma Xiaojuan asked.
"Yes, I picked it on the mountain this morning."
"Where did you pick it? We went up the mountain this morning and just picked some pine nuts and dug a few wild vegetables, but we didn't see anything else."
"It's on the mountain. It's picked from the inside. I've been wandering around the mountain for several days." Su Mo said.
"No wonder I haven't seen you working these past few days. It turns out you've gone up the mountain to harvest autumn. You're smart." Ma Xiaojuan also went to grind corn these past few days. She worked six hours a day, and her hands were almost bald.
But it’s impossible not to go. It’s an easy job, and there are so many people in the brigade that they want to do it. The brigade leader considered that these new batch of educated youths don’t have many work points, so he specially arranged it for them.
The other young people in the brigade were all sent to raise wheat. It was not easy to do that job. At the end of the day, not only my arms were sore, but my whole body looked shabby.
The educated youth selected Ma Jianmin and Zhao Guoping and went to raise wheat. They came back gray every day.
Wheat, use the wind to blow away the dust and grass in the wheat, repeat it over and over again, until only the wheat is left (intrusion and deletion)
"Then what did you pick up?" Ma Xiaojuan was a little curious.
"Just chestnuts, walnuts and pine nuts, I also picked some hazelnut mushrooms and dug some wild vegetables." Su Mo said.
"Is it much?"
"It's okay. When you go back later, dress up and go back to the educated youth restaurant to eat."
"No, no, no." Ma Xiaojuan waved her hands repeatedly, "I just asked, not wanted."
"I know." Su Mo smiled, "Anyway, you don't have the things I picked up on the mountain. I'll give you some to try."
Ma Xiaojuan felt embarrassed.
"By the way, Xiaojuan, you said you made quilts before, did you do it?" Su Mo changed the subject.
Ma Xiaojuan's eyes lit up, "I did it."
"How many beds did you make?"
Ma Xiaojuan gestured with three fingers, "Three beds."
"Then Director Qi didn't say anything?"
"When I asked, I said that my family heard about this benefit and wanted to see if I could do it. If I could, I made it and sent it back. Director Qi didn't say anything. He wrote an order and asked me to pay." Ma Xiaojuan said Straight music.
She called back, and her brothers and sisters were overjoyed when they heard that she could make cotton-womb babies here and send them back. Finally, she no longer has to cover herself with the quilt made by her mother. The cotton used to make quilts can also be taken out to make new cotton-padded jackets.
"What? You also want to make it and send it back?" Ma Xiaojuan asked.
"Yes, I called my relatives a few days ago and asked if I could make a bed and send it back. I have been busy harvesting the autumn these past few days, so I was delayed. I was planning to go and ask in the afternoon."
"Why don't you call me commune secretary... By the way, you are not interesting enough. The commune secretary is your uncle, and I haven't heard you say that."
"Yeah, I never heard you mention it." Chen Lan finally took the opportunity to interject.
She can support Su Mo now. Her lover is an officer, her father-in-law is the party secretary of the brigade, and the secretary of the commune is still her uncle. If she has a good relationship with her, her life in the brigade should be much easier.
She regretted very much that when Ma Xiaojuan told her to attend the wedding together, she did not do so together.
"I didn't know about it until the day the banquet was held. My family never told me that he was a secretary here. Leaders should pay attention to their influence. It's not even good to make cotton wadding for relatives. I'm afraid that people will say it's favoritism, so I have to I go."
"That's true. Officials all cherish their feathers." Ma Xiaojuan said.
The same goes for her uncle. When the street office mobilized people to go to the countryside, his uncle immediately responded positively and sent her cousin and cousin to the countryside. Her aunt was so angry that she almost divorced her uncle.
Seeing that Ma Xiaojuan didn't say anything, Su Mo asked, "Xiaojuan, you came here to see me today. What's the matter?"
"Hehe..." Ma Xiaojuan smiled sheepishly, "That's it. My family sent me money. I want to go to the county to buy a bicycle. I want you to accompany me to the county."
Because Hongqi Commune is closer to the county seat than other communes, it has not yet been assigned a shuttle bus to the county seat.
To go to the county town, you have to walk, ride a bicycle, or take a donkey cart or an ox cart. But now that the autumn harvest has just been completed, the cattle and donkeys in the brigade are almost exhausted and have not gone to the county seat at all.
It takes an hour to ride a bicycle from the Lujiacun brigade to the county seat, and at least three hours to walk.
Ma Xiaojuan didn't want to walk. Thinking that Su Mo had a bicycle, she came over to ask.
"Okay, then I'll go with you tomorrow." Su Mo felt relieved. It just so happened that she also went to the county town to buy some things.
"Good sister." Ma Xiaojuan stroked her hands and smiled, "I'll treat you to a delicious meal at a state-owned restaurant tomorrow."
"Okay, then I'll save my stomach and have a good meal tomorrow." Su Mo also smiled.
After a few people chatted for a while, Ma Xiaojuan and the others were ready to go back. In the afternoon, they wanted to go up the mountain again to see if there were any other mountain goods to pick up.
Su Mo took a straw basket and filled it with half a basket of chestnuts and walnuts for Ma Xiaojuan to take back. It wasn't much, probably only about two or three kilograms.
After the two left, Su Mo washed the remaining wild vegetables, squinted for a while, and then pushed the bicycle out.
