Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 215 A blessing in disguise
The next morning.

Because he was going into the mountains to look for herbs, Tao Qiuyi got up early, washed up, and went to the next room to have breakfast.

Li Zi and Xiao Huai saw her come in and brought her warm breakfast to the table: two steamed buns, a boiled egg, and a bowl of porridge with less soup and more rice.

After taking a sip of the porridge, the soup disappeared, leaving only the rice in the bowl. Tao Qiuyi looked up and asked Li Zi, "Li Zi, you didn't pack the porridge I left for me today, did you?"

Li Zi, who was about to go back to study, stopped and answered truthfully, "Big brother was pretending."

She knew it was him, Tao Qiuyi curled her lips. She said that Li Zi and Xiao Huai knew her preferences, so how could they possibly give her so much rice.

"Next time when you leave steamed buns and porridge for me, if it's still your elder brother who packs the porridge, remember to remind him to leave more soup. I like to drink soup." Tao Qiuyi reminded Li Zi.

"Okay." Li Zi nodded in agreement, then asked, "There's still porridge in the pot. Can I go get my sister-in-law a bowl of soup now?"

"Not today." Speaking of Wei Jingyuan, Tao Qiuyi realized that he hadn't been there since he entered the room, so he asked Lizi again. "Lizi, why are you and Xiaohuai the only ones in the room? Where's your eldest brother?"

"After breakfast, my brother rode his bicycle to the next brigade to study medicine with Mr. Jiang." After answering, Li Zi came in front of Tao Qiuyi and smiled with her eyes curved.

"Sister-in-law, when my brother left, he said it was you who told him to go study medicine with Elder Jiang today. Have you forgotten?"

I really forgot about it. Tao Qiuyi couldn't admit it and pushed Li Zi's head. "Go study. I'll check it when I get back."

"Sister-in-law." With a wail, Li Zi turned around and went to study at the desk.

He peeled the egg, took a bite, and drank a mouthful of porridge. Everything was so bland and tasteless. Tao Qiuyi couldn't eat it. If only there were some pickles to go with the porridge.

After finally finishing the eggs and porridge, Tao Qiuyi looked up at Li Zi and Xiao Huai.

Seeing that they were studying seriously and not paying attention to her, she quietly put the two buns into the ring space.

"Li Zi, Xiao Huai, I'm going out. Remember to close the door." After instructing the two teenagers, Tao Qiuyi picked up her backpack, took her axe and went out.

When passing by the big bamboo forest, I saw many people busy in the open space in front of it. Of course, there were also many people who were not working but just joining in the fun.

Unexpectedly, Huang Hao is a man of action. He just discussed the details yesterday and hired people to do the work today.

Not bad, not bad, it was worth her effort to help him prepare the medicine for asthma. Tao Qiuyi felt that Huang Hao did not lose face for the old branch secretary and was someone she could deal with.

As soon as she entered the outskirts of the mountain, Tao Qiuyi ran into a few aunts who came in groups to chop wood. The aunts took the initiative to greet her, "Qiuyi, you are here to chop wood too!"

"You are so strong, you need an axe like us to chop wood?" An aunt looked at the axe in Tao Qiuyi's hand in surprise.

"Qiuyi is strong, but she is just strong. Why can't she use an axe to chop wood?"

"That's right, look at how embarrassing it is for you to ask that question."

"How are you all talking? I'm just asking out of curiosity. Qiu Yi didn't say anything, and you're all meddling in other people's business."

"Are you asking out of curiosity? Are you jealous that Qiu Yi can drag two dead trees home at once?"

"I'm not jealous, I'm envious. Do you understand? Don't you envy me?"

The aunts who were about to start arguing were suddenly speechless.

Tao Qiuyi had no intention of trying to intervene. She didn't want to leave, she just wanted to see how far the aunts could go.

In the end...it ended without much of a quarrel.

Tao Qiuyi said, "Aunties, I'm not chopping wood today. I came up the mountain to look for some herbs. I brought the axe just for self-defense."

"After all this fuss, you're not here to chop wood." The aunts were visibly relieved. "You came up the mountain to look for herbs. Do you know any herbs?" one of them asked.

Before Tao Qiuyi could answer, another aunt answered for her. "You're being silly, aren't you? Wei Jingyuan is the village doctor, and Qiuyi is his wife. She's with him every day, so it's not surprising that she knows a few herbs."

"So it was Jingyuan who taught her. That's great." A mean-looking aunt said, "Qiuyi couldn't read a single word when she was at the Huang family, but after marrying Jingyuan, she even knows about herbs."

"Qiu Yi can be considered a blessing in disguise this time."

"What's a blessing in disguise? It's Qiu Yi, it's obvious that surviving a great disaster will bring good fortune in the future."

"Yes, yes, you're right, Qiuyi means that those who survive a great disaster will be blessed in the future. Qiuyi, are you going to take the herbs Jingyuan taught you to dig up and sell them at the pharmacy in town?"

"I heard the herbs are very expensive."

“Ginseng is the most expensive.”

“But we don’t know what ginseng looks like!”

"Qiuyi, why don't you teach the aunties how to identify herbs? After they know the herbs, they can help you find them."

"Yeah."

Seeing that things were not going well, Tao Qiuyi quickly left.

As he walked, he thought, one woman is equal to five hundred ducks, and several women are equal to thousands of ducks. Tao Qiuyi quickened his pace and walked deeper into the mountains.

In a flash, the person disappeared, and several aunts were talking excitedly, as if they had found the herbs and sold them for money.

"Hey, where is Qiuyi? Why is Qiuyi gone?" an aunt suddenly asked.

"You were here just now, why are you gone now?"

"Did anyone of you see which direction Qiu Yi went? Can we catch up if we chase her now?"

"I didn't see it." The others shook their heads.

"I didn't see it either."

Elsewhere, Tao Qiuyi had already walked deep into the mountains, not disturbing the birds or other animals. She concentrated on finding herbs, picking mushrooms and wood ears, and if she came across pheasants or rabbits, she would catch them and throw them into the space in her ring.

Time flies when you are busy. After one morning, Tao Qiuyi has gained a lot.

Whether it was looking for herbs, picking mushrooms, or catching pheasants and rabbits, it was all physical work. Tao Qiuyi's breakfast before leaving home was quickly digested, and her stomach began to growl.

She found a stone to sit on, took out a big meat bun and water from the ring space, and ate slowly.

Suddenly, a noise came from deep in the woods, accompanied by the sound of animals fleeing.

"Run, run, those humans have guns."

"Everyone, run for your lives! Human guns are very powerful. One shot will kill you."

"Little squirrel, just hide in the tree hole and don't come out."

Tao Qiuyi narrowed his eyes, quickly finished the big meat bun, drank a sip of water, and threw the kettle back into the ring space.

The people coming were coming quite fast, and the noisy sounds were getting closer and closer.

Tao Qiu thought it would be easy to leave, but she didn't leave immediately. Instead, she stayed to see what was going on. She found a bush and went right in, disappearing without a trace.