20demayo Chapter 416: Remarried Widow 9
Chapter 416: Remarried Widow 9
"Don’t worry about it. Anyway, Mom won’t let you go hungry." Yuan Chun picked up the bowl and drank all the cornmeal mush in one gulp, then took out a handful of preserved fruits, pinched two and threw them into her mouth, leaving the rest on the table. "These are fruits I picked on the mountain, all dried out, and still quite sweet when you eat them. You all eat a few after drinking the cornmeal mush.
In the evening, Yuan Chun came back early and went to the field to record work points for the villagers.
At dusk, after recording the work points, Yuan Chun went up the mountain again with a basket on her back.
When she returned, her basket was half full of mushrooms and thirty wild eggs. At night, she cooked a pot of egg soup for the children, stir-fried some mushrooms, and cooked a pot of mixed-grain rice.
After dinner, Yuan Chun said to Da Qiang, "Mom is going to trade for some food and come back. You boil some hot water and wash your feet with your siblings before going to sleep."
"Mom, it’s pitch dark outside. Let me go with you." Da Qiang was worried about his mother leaving alone and felt uneasy.
Yuan Chun patted his head, "Don’t worry about Mom. Mom will be fine."
"Mom, why don’t you forget about trading for food? It’s okay if my siblings and I drink cornmeal mush for a few meals."
"No, Mom wants you to eat solid rice. Alright, Mom is heading out."
Yuan Chun left with the basket on her back.
Naturally, Yuan Chun was not going to trade food in the small county town. After leaving the village, she entered the space, sat on a flying device, slapped an invisibility talisman on the flying device, exited the space, and flew towards Beijing.
Beijing at night was bustling and lively, with vendors lining the streets selling food, clothes, supplies... all sorts of things, everything you could need.
Yuan Chun dragged a pull cart and first went to a big restaurant, selling the two nearly thousand-pound wild boars on her cart.
When she came out, she had three hundred and eighty yuan in her hand.
Yuan Chun dragged the pull cart, strolling from one end of the department store street to the other. Her cart was now filled with two rolls of dark blue fabric, four cotton quilts, a fifty-pound sack of rice, and a thirty-pound sack of millet.
The rice and millet were taken from the space. The small vendors sold all kinds of things, but no food. Yuan Chun searched around and found only sellers of snacks like buns, fried dough sticks, and stuffed cakes, but none selling staple food.
Perhaps the country has opened up, but some things are still not allowed to be sold, like staple food.
At eleven o’clock at night, Yuan Chun returned home, pulling a cart full of supplies.
Da Qiang, who hadn’t dared sleep and was worried about his mom, hurriedly put on his clothes and came out to check when he heard the noise. "Mom, you’re back."
"Yes, let’s move everything inside the house quietly. Don’t wake the neighbors." After all, the small county town still didn’t allow private transactions. If anyone saw this cart full of goods, it would be trouble.
Da Qiang tiptoed and helped mom move all the supplies into her room. When he saw the mountain of good things piled up, his eyes widened, "Mom, how did you buy so many things? You must have spent a lot of money, right?"
"Yes, these things cost over a hundred yuan. Although it hurt to spend it, we need these to live. Luckily, we have quite a bit of compensation left from your dad, and I’m planning to buy a shop in the county town to open a business once it’s allowed. Then our whole family can move to the county town."
"Mom, if we move to the county town, no one will earn work points. What will we eat? We don’t have food vouchers to buy food. I’ve heard that buying food on the black market can get you arrested."
"You don’t need to worry about that. Maybe soon we won’t need food vouchers to buy food."
Yuan Chun said as she pulled out three bags of food and placed them next to the wardrobe. "These grains are enough for us to eat for a month. From now on, don’t be stingy when you cook. Once we finish them, Mom will buy more."