Back to the 70s: My Wife is Both Fierce and Crazy

Chapter 25 Going Up the Mountain to Gather Grain
Uncle Bai moved in step with his second brother. "Your second uncle is right. We have to be careful. But I also have to remind you that it's best not to let your father know about these things. I'm afraid my eldest brother will lose his mind."

Bai Jing was truly dumbfounded this time. She could accept her second uncle's behavior, but she never expected her third uncle to be like this.

However, she turned her attention to her two aunts, wanting to see what they thought.

The two smiled without saying a word, then met Bai Jing's gaze.

Bai Jing could only look at her mother, wanting to ask her what she thought.

Unexpectedly, her mother also said, "Keep it. Since your second and third uncles trust you, I trust you too. Keep all the money and things. You can decide all the household expenses."

She rarely leaves the village and doesn't spend much money, but now that the family has money, she should settle the children's tuition fees to avoid them losing face at school.

"But you have to go to the school tomorrow to pay your younger siblings' tuition fees; they've been in arrears for a long time."

She had planned to sell her blood after the autumn harvest, but now that the family has money, she doesn't need to go anymore.

"Okay, we'll go tomorrow." Bai Jingwen's eyes welled up with tears. She hadn't forgotten that she and her siblings had all been able to finish their schooling thanks to their mother selling her blood.

She finished high school ahead of everyone else, but unfortunately, she can no longer take the college entrance exam.

Otherwise, she would definitely bring honor to her mother and get into university for her.

"Speaking of tuition fees, our family also owes them. Since Xiaojing is going tomorrow, why don't you pay for your younger siblings' tuition as well?"

She attended primary and junior high school in the village. Her village is a large village, so it has its own school. For high school, she has to go to the town. So, apart from her, there is no one else in her family who has gone to high school.

My second and third uncles each took out five yuan from that stack of money.

The older child pays three yuan, and the younger child pays two yuan. This is the tuition for one semester, which is exactly five yuan.

Don't underestimate five yuan. People who toil in the fields can't earn ten yuan a year. If work points are deducted from money, they get less grain. So families with many children can't earn a single yuan a year.

The current method of exchanging work points for a fixed amount of food per person is no longer the same.

So if you want to make money, you can only exchange food for it.

This is the main reason why the three Bai brothers were so poor.

Of course, it wasn't just those three families who were poor; other families were also poor, just not as badly as those three.

Bai Jing didn't say she would pay the money; instead, she took the money they handed her and said, "Okay."

In the afternoon, Bai Jing took her uncle, aunt, and mother to the mountain to the right of her house.

When the villagers who were going to work saw them going into the mountains, a few of them asked curious questions.

Upon hearing that they were going into the mountains to pick wild vegetables and try their luck, everyone lost interest.

However, they all walked up the mountain chatting and laughing.

Few people come to this village, so the harvest on the mountain is quite plentiful.

"It's just that it's a bit dangerous here, otherwise we wouldn't have a chance to get all these mountain products." The three sisters-in-law chatted and laughed as they picked up a lot of good mushrooms.

Bai Jing didn't pick the mushrooms; instead, she went up the mountain and immediately spent money to buy a map of today's food cave in the system.

Below the mountain are fields, and there are many large trees, which naturally provide many homes for broomstick mice.

"Second Uncle, look! There's a broomstick mouse over there!" Bai Jing shouted to her second uncle, who was closest to her, as soon as she saw a broomstick mouse jump out of the nearest tree.

Bai Quanlu naturally also saw the broomstick mouse that had just jumped away from the tree Bai Jing was pointing to.

"Let's go over and have a look."

Uncle Bai was pleasantly surprised. Overjoyed, his voice involuntarily rose and his movements became more hurried.

Before he even reached the tree, he slipped and fell. If he hadn't grabbed a small branch in time, he might have been making intimate contact with the ground. "Second Uncle, don't worry, that tree hole isn't going anywhere," Bai Jing quickly helped him up, then teased him.

Uncle Bai, who was not far from the two of them, also laughed out loud, "That's right, Second Brother, don't be in such a hurry, I won't fight you for it."

He could tolerate his niece's teasing, since she was a junior, but his younger brother was different. "Ha, you talk like you're so capable. Don't fall down later." Falling down in the mountains is normal.

"That's not necessarily true, I'm on my own two feet." With that, he walked over to his second brother and reached out to help him.

But Bai Quanshou didn't expect that his second brother would be so uncivilized. He used force to make Bai Quanshou lean forward, lose his balance, and with a thud, Bai Quanshou ended up wishing his eldest brother an early Happy New Year.

Bai Quanlu didn't really let his brother fall to the ground; he caught him halfway down.

"Haha, don't be so polite, it's not Chinese New Year yet."

The two brothers immediately started playing around, leaving Bai Jing, who was watching from the side, looking helpless.

In her previous life, she knew that her second and third uncles were not calm and steady people. They were both lively, but they had been oppressed by life for too long, and it wasn't until their children got married that they returned to their true nature.

But the good days didn't last long. My second uncle passed away from illness. As for my third uncle, although he lived longer, he eventually died of anger because his daughter married a beast.

As she grew up, her second and third aunts became quite close to her, but even if they were close, they had their own children, so how much could they really take care of her?
They could only help her with all their might when she asked, and there was nothing else they could do.

She was quite happy to see her second and third uncles return to their true nature ahead of time.

"Oh, right, Second Brother, you're playing me."

While the two brothers were still playfully fighting, Bai Jing had already gone to dig into the tree hole.

The cave was quite deep; we pulled out a lot of grains and cereals, as well as some nuts from the mountains.

These are good things too. Bai Jing stuffed them all into her basket. "Second Uncle, Third Uncle, you can keep fooling around. I'll take some first."

Hearing Bai Jing's cheerful voice, the two brothers realized that their niece had beaten them to it.

"No, let your uncle see what good stuff you got." The two immediately surrounded him.

The three sisters-in-law, who were still picking mushrooms, also rushed over.

They had naturally gone into the mountains to forage for grain, but they rarely got anything good. In a month, they probably didn't get as much as Bai Jing had foraged for grain in a single day.

"How is it? Is the cave deep?" Aunt Bai asked excitedly, immediately addressing Bai Jing who had climbed up the tree.

Bai Jing nodded, her arm already reaching deep into the tree hollow. "It's deep; there's quite a bit inside."

After searching for a while, Bai Jing pointed to a tree branch nearby as if she had made an unintentional discovery, "Second Uncle, Third Uncle, come up quickly, this tree is big, and there are many tree holes on it."

Upon hearing this, the two did not delay any longer and climbed the tree. Fortunately, the tree was large enough to support the weight of the three of them.

"Yes, there really is, and there aren't any pebbles yet." Regardless of whether there was anything inside, Uncle Bai reached in and started scooping.

He grabbed a handful and immediately got excited.

Aunt Bai was also happy when she saw her husband touch something. "Quickly look for any more tree holes. My sister-in-law and I will come up too."

Bai Jing immediately pointed out several more places, some on a single tree and some on multiple trees.

Suddenly, everyone had a place to dig.

Seeing her family so happy, Bai Jing felt that the money was well spent.

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