Chapter 34

At noon, Jiang Yan made herself some egg noodles and then did the usual lottery, as she was too busy to think about it yesterday.

Today is another two draws in a row.

Switch out the system panel and silently recite your daily check-in in your mind.

Soon, the system sent a message, this time it was 1 pound of high-quality flour and 1 cold pill.

They were all daily necessities, so Jiang Yan did not check the detailed information.

Thinking it was troublesome to draw the lottery every day, she decided to save up for ten draws. So she studied the system panel and found a small reminder function on the panel.

When the number of check-ins reaches the upper limit of ten, the system will issue a reminder, and Jiang Yan can decide the time and frequency of the reminder.

She booked two times. Once at 8:00 a.m. and once at 12:00 p.m. If you don’t sign in in the morning, the system will remind you again at 12:00 p.m.

I will never forget it throughout the whole day.

Seeing that sister-in-law Hongxiu had not arrived yet, Jiang Yan took a nap on the recliner until He Hongxiu came to wake her up. Then the two of them walked towards the village where Li Jingui was.

The village is not far away, it is right next to the military area and can be reached in about ten to twenty minutes on foot.

However, the military area is a military stronghold and no one is allowed to approach it casually. Even the wives of soldiers in the family compound are not allowed to approach the place where the troops usually train.

At this time, the villagers were already busy working in the fields. It was a huge group of people and the scene looked very lively.

According to He Hongxiu, this village is called Nanqiao Village, which is a village under the Fifth Brigade of Shanglin Commune.

Like most villages, the villagers of Nanqiao Village are basically in a state where they are not starving to death, but they cannot live well either.

The villagers in the fields saw two people coming from the direction of the military area from afar and became curious.

Li Jingui happened to be in the field and hurried to greet the two of them.

“Comrade He Hongxiu, Comrade Jiang Yan, are you here to catch chicks?”

Jiang Yan smiled and nodded, “Is Comrade Li Jingui available now?”

“That’s convenient.” Li Jingui looked at a boy and shouted, “Goudan, take the two military wives and aunts home and ask grandma to catch two chicks for you.”

“Okay.”

The thirteen or fourteen-year-old child hurried out of the field, patted the dirt in his hands, looked at Jiang Yan and the others and said, “Aunts, my home is not far ahead.”

After saying thank you, Jiang Yan and her friend followed the child towards the village.

As they got closer to the village, Jiang Yan saw the situation there.

to be honest.

poverty.

It was so poor that it was unimaginable. The whole village was made up of mud-brick houses.

Some houses are no longer habitable and are about to collapse. If it were before she traveled through time, these would have been dangerous buildings!

But judging from the things placed in the courtyard, it should be someone living there.

Jiang Yan looked at the child leading the way, pointed at the dilapidated houses that would collapse in a rainstorm and asked, “Goudan, are there people living in these houses?”

“Yes, I have.”

Goudan didn’t understand the implied meaning of Jiang Yan’s question, so he just answered it literally.

Jiang Yan sighed in her heart. He Hongxiu sensed the compassion in Jiang Yan’s heart and explained in a low voice: “Except for the city, the villages across the country are almost the same. Before I was transferred to Zhanchuan, I followed Lao Sheng in the Great Northern Wilderness and it was hard to describe.”

Jiang Yan is not a cold-hearted person, but seeing such a situation, she couldn’t help feeling a little emotional.

After a while, the two came to a yard. Compared with the dilapidated houses before, the house in front of them looked better, but it was only better.

In the yard, there was an old man with a hunched back and snow-white hair, who was feeding the chickens and ducks in the pen with a wooden basin.

Goudan ran into the yard and said a few words to the old man. Then the old man walked to the hen, picked up two chicks, slowly walked out and handed them to Jiang Yan.

Jiang Yan had asked around and found out that an egg costs two cents. Chicks are more expensive, so three or four cents should be about the same.

So Jiang Yan grabbed a handful of candy from her pocket and gave it to the grandmother. “Grandma, can I exchange this handful of candy for these two chicks?”

Grandma’s hearing was not very good, so she couldn’t hear Jiang Yan clearly, but she understood what she meant. She nodded, accepted the candy, and then went back to grab two more.

“Your candy is expensive, so you won’t lose out if you catch two more.”

Jiang Yan did not refuse.

It is difficult to tell the gender of the chicks. If they are all roosters, she will have to replace them with a few more when the chicks grow up.

After putting the chicks into the bamboo basket they brought and covering the basket with cloth, Jiang Yan and the other person prepared to go back.

From the yard behind him, Goudan’s happy voice came, “How sweet! Thank you grandma, you are the best.”

Jiang Yan didn’t expect to buy the chicks so easily, so she asked He Hongxiu for advice on how to raise the chicks.

He Hongxiu explained: “These chicks that grow up with hens are in good health. If they keep warm at night and avoid getting caught in the rain, there will basically be no major problems.”

“It’s a pity that I already have five chickens at home, otherwise I would buy two to feed them.”

Jiang Yan was curious, “Is there a limit on the number of chickens each household can raise?”

She kept two simply because she had no experience, and had originally planned to get a few more after she had them up and running.

He Hongxiu didn’t think much about it and explained to Jiang Yan: “It’s not allowed to raise chickens in the city, so you don’t know that each household in the countryside can only raise five chickens at most. The hens in the Li family’s chicken coop just now were also level five hens.”

Jiang Yan really hadn’t paid attention to this, but now food is in short supply and even people’s rations are not enough to eat, so it is understandable that there is such a rule.

“Who stole your things? Who stole your things?”

“You only eat food and don’t work, and you still have the nerve to say that you are so great from the city. Everyone has to accommodate you.”

“I’m telling you, no one is allowed to leave until this matter is explained clearly. Our Qian family has been poor peasants for three generations, and I, Tian Yuzhen, have never stolen or robbed anyone.”

“If you continue to slander me, I will never let you go.”

After leaving Li’s house, Jiang Yan and her husband returned along the same route. When they passed by the big locust tree at the entrance of the village, they saw people arguing.

It is human nature to join in the fun.

There was no entertainment project at the moment, so such an opportunity naturally could not be missed, so the two of them got together.

Before I got close, I heard two familiar voices.

“If it wasn’t you, who else could have stolen it? You were the closest to us today, and you passed by the place where I rested. If it wasn’t you, who else could have stolen my money?”

“Lulu, don’t worry. Everyone in the village knows that your family is rich. You brought so many good things with you. Some thief must have been eyeing you.”

Upon hearing this, the woman who had spoken before became angry again, her voice became louder, and she put her hands on her hips and cursed.

“Zhao Chunhua, who are you scolding? Don’t think I can’t hear you. You follow Yu Lulu like a dog all day long. I think you stole the money, right?”

“Now you want me to take the blame, why don’t you go to the village to ask if I, Tian Yuzhen, am easy to mess with?”

It turned out to be Yu Lulu and Zhao Chunhua. I can’t miss this good show, so Jiang Yan quickened her pace.

He Hongxiu hadn’t seen such a scene for a long time. She was very excited and trotted over, even faster than Jiang Yan.

The storyline here is still going on.

When Zhao Chunhua heard that Tian Yuzhen was going to bring disaster upon herself, she immediately said pitifully:

“Sister Yuzhen, how could you think like that? I didn’t say you were a thief. It’s normal for Lulu to be targeted by thieves since she’s so rich. I didn’t say it was you.”

“Besides, Lulu and I grew up together, how could I possibly steal her things? If I wanted to steal her money, I would have stolen it a long time ago. Why would I wait until now?”

With just a few words, Zhao Chunhua cleared himself of all blame.

When Jiang Yan heard this, she understood that Yu Lulu’s money was stolen and she suspected it was the sister-in-law across the street.

But my sister-in-law refused to admit it, so the three of them started arguing.