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Chapter 201 Don’t ask what you shouldn’t ask

The adjacent beds trembled slightly and made a rustling sound. Realizing that Xu Shuhua and the others had already stood up, Si Ningning straightened her legs and stretched herself, then climbed up behind them.

After washing up quickly, it was still not bright yet, and the group set off through the dew.

They originally thought that they would not meet anyone else so early, but in fact, as soon as the group walked into the production team, they bumped into Chen Lianmi, who was carrying a basket of burdens.

"Auntie."

"Auntie."

The educated youths opened their mouths to say hello.

When Chen Lianmi saw the educated youth, she smiled and said, "It's so early, are you going to the town?"

"Yes, Auntie, haven't you been busy recently? We have two days off, and we all plan to go to the town to buy some daily necessities."

"Haha." Chen Lianmi smiled again and followed the educated youth with a load, "That's just right. I can walk with you for a while and chat while walking. Time flies!"

When he heard that his comrades were leaving, Li Lingyuan took a step forward and reached out to take the burden from Chen Lianmi's hand, "Auntie, let me help you pick a section of the road."

"No, no, no." Chen Lianmi waved her hand quickly, "There's nothing in it, just some soaked soybeans. It's light and not heavy. I can do it myself!"

Li Lingyuan chuckled and scratched his head without saying anything else.

Si Ningning was familiar with Chen Lianmi. Listening to Chen Lianmi's words, she slowed down and asked, "Auntie, what are you doing so early?"

"This year I planted some soybeans in my private plot. I harvested them a few days ago and there are still a lot of soybeans left for sowing. I thought about picking a plate of tofu for grinding in the brigade." Chen Lianmi explained with a smile.

Making tofu?

Si Ningning was stunned for a moment, and before he could say anything, Jiang Yue shouted from the side, "The side job of our team is making tofu?"

"It's not really a side job. It's just some simple items. Several production teams under the brigade, such as grinding tofu, shelling millet, and pressing oil from rapeseed in spring and summer. All these have to be done by the brigade. Generally, other things

There are also brigades and communes."

"So that's it!"

We were chatting along the roadside, and before parting, Chen Lianmi suggested that the educated youths should follow them so that they could learn the way to the brigade.

All the educated youths looked at Si Ningning in unison, waiting for Si Ningning to speak.

Si Ningning squeezed her crescent eyebrows and said, "Then go!"

If you follow along, you can know the way. If you need to ask the captain if you have any questions, they can come by themselves, saving you the trouble of having others show you the way.

It took almost fifty minutes and an hour's journey from the third team to the brigade. When Si Ningning and others followed Chen Lianmi to the brigade's tofu shop, someone was already grinding tofu.

According to Chen Lianmi, people who grind tofu should be in the same situation as her. They are afraid that the leftover soybeans will get worms if left for a long time, so they take them and grind them into tofu, then take them home and soak them in water. A plate of tofu can

Eat for several days.

Chen Lianmi pointed out to a group of educated youths which house was the home of the brigade leader Luo Daqing. Then, while the educated youths were watching the old farmer grinding tofu, Chen Lianmi winked at Si Ningning and waved, and recruited Si Ningning.

backyard.

"Aunt Lianmi, what's wrong?"

"You came out early and didn't have time to have breakfast, right?" Chen Lianmi leaned on the door frame and stretched her neck to take a look, then closed the door and brought a bowl from the window sill in the courtyard, "Now it's my turn to grind tofu.

An old sister, I begged her for a bowl of soy milk, please drink it quickly."

Chen Lianmi looked at Si Ningning with a smile.

Although Si Ningning's idea of ​​becoming her daughter-in-law fell through, Chen Lianmi's love for Si Ningning did not diminish at all.

Si Ningning looked at the soy milk that was handed over, feeling a little emotional and a little embarrassed.

Si Ningning glanced at the door and said hesitantly: "Auntie, isn't this..."

"Auntie knows what you are thinking. It's not that Auntie is partial. If you grind tofu at home, everyone in the other educated youths will have it. Now there is only one bowl. Auntie will definitely come after you first." Chen Lian pulled over to Si Ning.

Ning's hand pushed the bowl over, "Drink quickly, ah! You will save yourself from starvation for a while!"

They say they are not biased, but they are actually biased.

But it's also a bit embarrassing.

A group of seven educated youths came over, but only Si Ningning was fed... Chen Lianmi meant well, but if others knew about it, they would probably feel unfair.

After Wu Yong's incident last time, Si Ningning was not in the mood to do it again, but the words had already been brought to this point, and it would be unreasonable to shirk it any further.

Si Ningning had a clear mind and was afraid that if Xu Shuhua and the others were delayed, they would come over and everyone would be embarrassed, so she said nothing, raised her eyebrows and smiled obediently, and said her sincere thanks.

Then he held the bowl and drank "huhu".

The soy milk is freshly ground and boiled, and has been filtered. It tastes quite delicate, but there is no sugar added, so the taste is not very good, and the smell is a bit strong.

In this era, rations are expensive, even if it is just a bowl of soy milk, it is also Chen Lianmi's heart.

Knowing this, Si Ningning took four breaths and drank the bowl of soy milk with great effort. After a while, he raised his face and returned the bowl to Chen Lianmi. He also burped in the middle and said, "Hiccup, thank you Lianmi."

Auntie, I’m full!”

"I just drank a lot of water and the soy milk won't fill my stomach, but it can support people!" Chen Lianmi smiled and glanced at Si Ningning's little face that was red from drinking the soy milk, waved her hand and said: "Okay, go ahead.

Don't keep Xu Zhiqing and the others waiting too long."

Si Ningning smiled and thanked her again, then opened the back door and walked into the house, heading towards the front.

However, before taking two steps into the house, Si Ningning bumped into Xu Shuhua head-on. Xu Shuhua seemed not to have expected it and was startled, "Ning Ning, so you are here, and everyone is looking for you."

After saying that, she patted her chest and stepped forward to hold Si Ningning's hand. Xu Shuhua said, "I'm leaving."

Si Ningning nodded and quickened his pace.

Outside the door, Xu Shuhua shouted "Found it", and the others returned one after another, and everyone headed towards the town in the direction Chen Lianmi pointed when they came.

The brigade was not far from the main road to the town. They walked on the main road for a few minutes and walked for more than half an hour. They successfully arrived at Bahe Town. At that time, at 8:20 in the morning, the post office in the town had already opened.

Jiang Yue and Xu Shuhua both had letters and large packages to send, so they made a plan to go to the post office first.

Si Ningning listened for a long time and said: "You go ahead, I won't go yet."

I said the night before that I had sent a letter to my family before. Si Ningning was not going to send a letter now, so of course there was no need to follow him.

And if you think about it from her perspective, if there is a package sent from home at the post office, if she goes to sign for it now, won’t she have to take it with her later?

"That's okay."

Jiang Yue and the others also realized this and did not force Si Ningning to follow them. They only told Si Ningning when they parted: "We are going to go to the vegetable market with the male educated youths soon. If we can't meet each other during the period, then we can go to the state-owned store at noon."

Meet at the hotel.”

"Okay."

Si Ningning nodded in agreement, waved to everyone, and the group separated.

Si Ningning came to town for one purpose, and that was to buy things.

Today, I will definitely stay in town for most of the day. I can do shopping in a few minutes, so I have to find something to do to pass the time.

After thinking about it for a while, Si Ningning made up his mind to go to the black market!

He found a dead end in the alley and entered the space. When he came out of the space, Si Ningning was already dressed like a tall and lanky young man.

Picking up the empty basket, Si Ningning walked towards the ferry lighthouse.

When he heard people's voices near the lighthouse, Si Ningning confirmed that the black market was open today, so he moved the things in the space behind the sand pile into a backpack, then reversed the situation and carried the basket half in his arms and entered the black market.

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Just like the last time I came here, there were many people on the black market, and Houtou and others specialized in reselling. It was almost the same position as last time, and Si Ningning met him again.

Houtou had just made a successful order and was busy counting the tickets with his head down. He didn't notice Si Ningning at all. Si Ningning put the basket on the side of his booth. He even stretched out his legs and kicked the basket, "Oh, go, go,

Who is he? This is someone else’s stall, can’t you see it?”

However, the basket did not move at all after being kicked, and the owner of the basket had no intention of taking it away. The monkey's face wrinkled in displeasure, and he raised his head and was about to curse, but when he saw the person standing in front of him clearly, he

His eyes suddenly lit up: "His grandma's! It's you! Quick, quick, come in and talk!"

The monkey head pulled the sack on the ground to make room. Like last time, Si Ningning borrowed a snakeskin bag from him to lay on it, and then started to take things out.

The monkey kept nagging: "I've been looking for you for a long time, but I haven't seen you yet. I'm still wondering if you were raped by someone or if you were caught."

Si Ningning let out a "tsk" sound, and the strong face modified by the eyebrow pencil glanced sideways at the monkey head, and asked displeasedly: "Can you speak?"

"Yes, yes, it's my crow's mouth." The monkey smiled and slapped his mouth. He had been sitting on the pony just now. Now he suddenly moved a step and squatted next to Si Ningning, stretching his neck to reach towards the basket.

Inside, he asked, "What did you bring this time? Do you still have the rice and noodles from last time? I want them all!"

"I brought some..." Putting some rice and egg noodles on the snakeskin bag, Si Ningning covered the top of the basket with cloth. She pushed the monkey head back and continued: "Ten pounds of rice."

"Fifteen bundles of noodles, can you eat them?"

"Ten pounds!?" The monkey head quickly made a calculation in his mind, gritted his teeth and asked: "Is it still the last price?"

"Yeah." Si Ningning nodded lightly, and the monkey head immediately made a decision, "Yes!"

Surprise flashed in Si Ningning's eyes, but she didn't say much. It would be nice to sell it in one go, so she wouldn't have to wait here.

There was a scale on the Hericium stall, but Si Ningning didn't use his own space. He took out all the remaining rice and noodles in the basket and waited for the Hericium to be weighed.

After confirming that there was no problem, the monkey head neatly counted out a thick stack of bills and handed them to Si Ningning.

Even though the pile of notes was thick enough, they were actually only one cent and a dime, which totaled exactly eight yuan.

Si Ningning collected the money. Seeing that she had no intention of leaving, the monkey head immediately glanced at the basket on one side, "Your bamboo basket is so big, did you bring other good things?"

Si Ningning glanced at him sideways, raised her eyebrows and said nothing. Looking at the formation, Houtou knew that he had guessed correctly.

Before he could urge him, Si Ningning took out three strips of meat from the basket.

Big white fat meat! Sanjou!!!

The eyes of the monkey's head were straight. The meat was so many times better than the meat they had gotten when they begged their grandfather and grandma to get it!

"Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had meat!"

The monkey head stomped his feet very annoyed. When he thought of something, he stretched out his hand to grab the meat, but it was already too late. The merchants and passers-by who were going back and forth all came over in the blink of an eye, and the small stall was completely surrounded.

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"How much does this meat cost? How to sell it? I want it!"

"I want it too, I want it too!"

Someone noticed that the monkey head wanted to hide it secretly, and stretched out his hand to push the monkey head aside. The monkey head was so angry that he stamped his feet, "Everything must be done on a first-come, first-served basis! You are unreasonable! You are shameless, right?"

Everyone was only focused on grabbing the meat, and no one listened to what he said.

The monkey head was so angry that his face turned green. He clenched his hands into fists and continued to stamp his feet and roar: "That's my brother! My brother brought me the meat. You guys hurry up and take it away!"

As he spoke, he pushed forward.

However, the monkey head was not tall and he was still lean and lean, so how could he squeeze through those people? He was soon pushed aside again, and the messy man didn't know who it was, and even hit him in the face.

When Si Ningning finished selling the meat and was counting the bills in his hands, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw the monkey head with a livid face and a nosebleed. He was really shocked and said, "What's wrong with you? Who beat you?"

"Hmph." The monkey said angrily, and turned his head away. He didn't hesitate for a second before turning his face back again.

His wrinkled face was full of anger, and at the same time there was a hint of grievance, "I treat you as a brother, so I take care of your business. You see, I don't even tell you that you have meat..."

Forget it if you don’t tell him, just leave some for him!

It doesn’t matter if you don’t keep it, then don’t let him see it! Such good meat!!

The monkey's head and intestines were turning green. He shouldn't have spoken just now. He just grabbed the meat and weighed it. Now it's better. He didn't grab the meat. He didn't know how to give it back to his grandmother, but some shriveled calf bit him.

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Si Ningning was stunned for a moment. This was her first time selling meat on the black market. She really didn't expect it to be so popular.

However, Si Ningning is not ignorant of being grateful. Hericium has been used for her convenience, and she is naturally willing to use it for her convenience.

"No, I still have one in the basket, just give it to you." Si Ningning said, already reaching into the basket on his back to hook up the rope and lift the meat out.

The people around her saw that she still had meat and were ready to move forward. It was obvious that Si Ningning hung the meat on the scale hook and stopped halfway when he knew that the meat had been weighed down and did not come forward again.

Hericium looked surprised, and did not wipe away the nosebleed. He happily squatted in front of Si Ningning, "Okay, you are so loyal!"

"Same as them, two yuan a pound, this one is exactly one pound." Si Ningning said calmly.

It's convenient to travel and return, but the money still needs to be collected seriously.

The monkey head quickly took out the money and asked casually, "This meat is so fresh and so fat. How come you have a great background?"

I was able to obtain such good resources either because I was brave enough to raise them secretly, or because someone above me had a way.

After several contacts, Judging from Si Ningning's clothing and behavior, Hericium's guess is more towards the latter.

Si Ningning replied with a smile: "Each profession has its own rules. Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."

(End of chapter)