After swallowing, his little mouth opened wide.

However, Ning Shu only fed him one tangyuan and nothing more. Children have poor digestion, so they shouldn’t eat too much of this kind of complementary food.

After breakfast, Ning Shu gave the two brothers each two biscuits and a handful of dried bananas, then pushed the bicycle out, with a basket fixed behind it, finally not having to carry it.

As for whether the bicycle would rub against something, Ning Shu didn’t care. The bicycle was here to serve her.

Villagers in the fields along the road were busy sweating. When they saw Ning Shu riding past on her bicycle, a sour feeling emerged.

“Guo Dong’s wife is out again. I wonder what she’s buying this time.”

“Sigh, people have different fates.”                                                                         

“All the good men in our village were taken away by educated youth. Guo Dong’s wife is an educated youth, Zhen Zhong’s wife is an educated youth, and now Zhen Xing is settled with Qin Ya, an educated youth. Our village has become a nest for educated youth.”

“It’s because educated youth are good-looking and knowledgeable.”

“But those educated youth don’t have the happiness of Guo Dong’s wife. Look at how she lives every day. Even Guodong’s mother is working now. She’s doing well. She only works half a day all year round.”

“Your Lin Guodong’s dad doesn’t have Guodong’s achievements…”

Today, people from the old house also got a piece of land by the roadside. Although they were not close to the roadside, people passing by could still see them.

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Ning Shu hummed a song, feeling good today. October’s weather was suitable for going out. However, in this era, there was no entertainment, so resting on birthdays lacked a lot of fun.

However, she had an idea. She would invite Lin Mu and Lin Fu to lunch and then take the children out for a picnic in the afternoon.

In the past twenty days, Yi Bao and Er Bao hadn’t rested, and they didn’t want to rest. Today, they could relax a bit.

As for what to bring for the picnic, she would bring an iron pot, set up a stove outside, and cook some hotpot. Although there were no noodles, there were still rice cakes.

There was also sauce-flavored duck, oyster meat, and so on.

Ning Shu thought about it while riding her bicycle and unconsciously arrived in town.

She only had one jin of sugar coupons this month, with 24 households, each getting 6 pieces of sugar, totaling one jin and three liang of sugar coupons. Ning Shu thought for a moment and went to the post office.

“Zhang Jie…”

Zhang Min saw Ning Shu coming and warmly said, ” Sister Ning, why are you here? Sending something?”

“No, I want to ask if Zhang Jie has any sugar coupons. I can exchange them with industrial coupons or meat coupons.” Ning Shu said. If there were really no sugar coupons, it didn’t matter.

There were still some sugar coupons left from the chestnut exchange, which was enough. But that sugar was later eaten by the Yibao and Erbao, so she didn’t plan to use it.

Zhang Min: “I don’t have any sugar coupons on me. How much do you need? I’ll ask my colleagues.”

“I only need three liang. If the other party wants meat coupons, my meat coupons are half a jin, so I hope the other party’s sugar coupons are also half a jin. If they don’t need meat coupons, I can exchange one industrial coupon for three liang of sugar coupons.” She didn’t lack meat to eat.

There was meat on the app every now and then, so meat coupons could be exchanged. But it was impossible to exchange half a jin of meat coupons for half a jin of sugar coupons, she wasn’t stupid.

“Okay, I got it. Just wait a moment.”

Zhang Min turned and chatted with another colleague for a while. After a while, she came back, “Sister Ning, the other party has a jin of sugar coupons. They’ll exchange them for one industrial coupon and one half-jin meat coupon. Is that okay?”

“That’s fine, no problem.”

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After Ning Shu exchanged the sugar coupons with Zhang Min and thanked her, she went to the supply and marketing cooperative.

She only bought two catties of sugar candy and nothing else.

As she approached the brigade, she found a place at the foot of the mountain to rest. While resting, she looked at things on the app. In the end, she decided on the things she wanted to take out.

For snacks, she chose 12 catties of candy oranges, 10 lollipops, 2 watermelons, 2 catties of pig’s trotters, and 2 pieces of old tofu. She planned to stew the pig’s trotters with potatoes, braise the tofu, cook some cabbage, stir-fry some edamame, and add autumn thunder bamboo shoots and yams. That would be enough.

After selecting the items she wanted, she put them in a basket. The other items were not heavy, except for the two watermelons. However, one watermelon was only six catties, and it wasn’t too big.

The watermelon was very good. When she picnicked outside, she could simply split it in half and eat it with a spoon. She liked eating it this way the most.

After packing these things, Ning Shu looked at the time and it was not yet nine o’clock. So she thought, can she solve the pickled pepper bullfrog and durian here? She was really craving them.

However, she ultimately resisted the temptation, untied the sack, and took out a sugar orange to quench her thirst.

When Ning Shu rode her bicycle to the village gate, she saw Yibao and Erbao playing at the village gate. Playing with them were Lin Haicai, who was carrying Sanbao in a basket, and other children from the village.

Ning Shu: “…”

“Mom… Mom…” Erbao saw Ning Shu and ran towards her. “Mom, you’re back.”

“Mom…” Yibao also wanted to run over, but when he heard Sanbao’s cry, he didn’t run over. Sanbao was in the basket, and if he ran over, the basket would tip over.

“Third Aunt…” Lin Haicai also ran over.

There were no snails in the field, and his five-year-old child couldn’t go to work, so he played with Yibao and Erbao.

Ning Shu looked at Erbao running towards her and stopped. “Erbao… Haicai, you’re playing here.”

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“We’re waiting for Mom,” Erbao said. “Mom, can I ride the bicycle?” He looked at Ning Shu expectantly, his eyes shining.

Not only Erbao, but even Lin Haicai was eager. “Third Aunt, can I ride too?” After digging wild vegetables with Ning Shu for so long, he was no longer as afraid of her as he was at first.

In his heart, Third Aunt was a good aunt who would call him to eat.

Ning Shu replied, “Not now. After we get home, I’ll take the basket down, and you can ride then.”

“Okay, Mom. What did you buy today?” Erbao looked into the basket again. “Mom, what are these green things? And the small yellow oranges?”

Erbao didn’t recognize watermelon, but he did recognize oranges. Aren’t sugar oranges just small oranges?

When Ning Shu quenched her thirst with the sugar orange earlier, she untied the sack and didn’t tie it back up. Now the sack was still open, and Erbao saw the oranges inside.

So, Ning Shu took out three oranges from the sack and gave them to Erbao. “Erbao, you, your brother, and Haicai each have one. Give a piece or two to Sanbao, but no more than two pieces, okay? When you give it to Sanbao, hold onto it and don’t let him swallow it. Just let him taste it. The sugar oranges are small, so sucking on a piece or two for the juice is fine.”

“I understand, Mom.” Erbao took the three sugar oranges and ran to Yibao.

Seeing this, Lin Haicai also ran over.

Ning Shu rode her bicycle home.

At the village gate, Yibao, Erbao, and Haicai started to play rock-paper-scissors to divide the oranges. Other children watched them, envious. Someone asked, “Yibao, are these small oranges tasty?”

“Yibao, can I have a piece?”

“Erbao, I’ve given you wild fruits before. Can you give me a piece of fruit?”

“What’s so special? These oranges are so sour.” Zhuang Xiaopang was also there, feeling annoyed to see them surrounded Yibao and Erbao.

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The children surrounded them with their eyes fixed on the sugar oranges. Although it was already early orange season, the children had never seen oranges so small and yellow before.

Yibao and Erbao were well-liked by the village children because they were twins. Even though their mother was lazy, their father was an officer, and the Lin family was prominent in the village.

So, they were not excluded in the village, and many children liked to play with them.

Therefore, Yibao and Erbao were willing to share the sugar oranges with everyone.

Meanwhile, Ning Shu returned home and started stewing pig’s trotters and potatoes. Actually, pig’s trotters stewed with yellow soybeans tasted better, but there were no yellow soybeans at home.

Pig’s trotters needed to be stewed until they were soft, which would take at least two hours. While stewing the pig’s trotters, Ning Shu prepared other ingredients.

She laid out everything from the basket on the table, first arranging a plate of sugar oranges, then cutting open a watermelon and arranging another plate. The watermelon was about half, and she ate the other half directly with a spoon.

Wow…

Eating the watermelon, Ning Shu felt like she could fly. It was a taste she hadn’t had in a long time. She was very grateful that the app had followed her and improved her material life in this world.

The three brothers were happily eating sugar oranges outside, unaware that their mother was also happily eating watermelon at home.

Ning Shu ate a few mouthfuls of watermelon and continued setting the table. She cut the old tofu, cut the cabbage, picked the edamame, and then took out some autumn thunder bamboo shoots and yams.

She also started to open the coconuts. There were four coconuts, and she had to drink them all, or they would go bad.

While she was cutting the coconuts inside, the two brothers and Haicai came back carrying Sanbao.

“Mom…” Erbao’s loud voice reached the kitchen from the yard.

“I’m here,” Ning Shu replied from inside. Then she saw them coming over.

“Mom… Mom…” Sanbao was in the basket, sitting as if on a throne.

Yibao and Erbao’s eyes stopped on the coconuts. They knew this fruit; the juice inside was very tasty.

“Mom, did you pick these coconuts again?” Erbao asked eagerly, showing a desire to pick them.

“I saw someone pick them on the way back, so I exchanged the small oranges you were eating with them,” Ning Shu said.

She didn’t want the children to ask her to take them to pick them, as she didn’t have a place to provide.

Then she added, “We can eat soon. You go wait in the field, and when your grandparents finish work, call them over. Tell them it’s Third Treasure’s third birthday today, and Grandma has taken care of him. Also, Haicai is having lunch here today, so let’s celebrate your brother’s birthday together.”

“Okay,” Lin Haicai replied happily.

So, the three children carried Sanbao to the place where the people were working at the old house.