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

Chapter 31: Keep a low profile

It was getting dark.

Tao Qiuyi went down the mountain and folded a large leaf on the way to cover his backpack to hide the mushrooms and wood ears in the basket.

While picking mushrooms and wood ears, they also caught a goat, a hare and two pheasants. The goat was placed in the space, and the hare and two pheasants were tied by their feet with a vine and hung outside the backpack.

When he walked into the Wei family's courtyard, he saw that the door of the room that should have been closed was open. Tao Qiuyi's face darkened. What was going on?
"Sister-in-law, you're back." Li Zi's voice came from the side.

Tao Qiuyi turned her head and saw Li Zi walking towards her with a bowl of steaming water in both hands, followed by Xiao Huai, who was holding two bowls of steaming water in her hands.

"What are you two doing? Why don't you stay in the house?" Tao Qiuyi asked.

"The old Party secretary and my fourth uncle came to visit my eldest brother and are talking to him inside. We don't have a thermos of hot water in the house, so Xiao Huai and I went out to boil some for them," Li Zi replied, her eyes widening at the sight of the hare and pheasant hanging from her backpack. "Sister-in-law..."

Reaching out to cover Li Zi's mouth, Tao Qiuyi stopped her scream in time and whispered in her ear, "Keep a low profile."

Li Zi nodded vigorously, her eyes sparkling.

Xiao Huai also glanced at the wild rabbit and two pheasants hanging on her backpack, and the corners of her mouth twitched. If she wanted to be low-key, why didn't she hide them in the backpack? She had to hang them outside the backpack to show off.

"So it's the old branch secretary and the team leader who are here. Okay, let your elder brother talk to them for a while. I won't go into the house to disturb them." Tao Qiuyi asked Li Zi and Xiao Huai to bring in some water.

She didn't go into the house herself, but put down the backpack under the eaves near the door.

Li Zi came out quickly, and Xiao Huai stayed in the house.

"Li Zi, let's separate the mushrooms and fungus in the backpack first." Tao Qiuyi peeled off the large leaves on the backpack and put them aside. He poured the mushrooms and fungus on the ground and spread them out, and covered the hare and pheasant with the backpack.

"Sister-in-law, where did you pick so many mushrooms and fungus?" Li Zi widened her eyes in surprise. It was the first time she saw such a large pile of mushrooms and fungus.

How many ripe pears would there be? I couldn’t imagine.

"In the mountains." Tao Qiuyi sat down on the spot, and his small hands quickly picked up the mushrooms and fungus and sorted them.

Li Zi stopped asking and sat down opposite Tao Qiuyi, waving her hands on a pile of mushrooms and wood ears.

Suddenly thinking of something, Li Zi leaned forward closer to Tao Qiuyi and whispered, "Sister-in-law, my brother is no longer feverish."

"Yeah." Tao Qiuyi nodded to indicate that he understood.

She knows best how effective the pills she made are.

Li Zi sat up straight and continued working.

The conversation between the two was heard in the house. The old branch secretary came out and saw them sitting on the ground sorting mushrooms and wood ear mushrooms. He was not surprised at all.

"Tao girl, have you gone into the mountains?" The old branch secretary asked. He had lived in the village for decades and knew very well what was in the mountains.

"Yeah." Tao Qiuyi responded lightly, picking non-stop with his hands.

"Shenshan is full of dangers, so be careful." The old branch secretary warned, looking at the mountains in the distance.

Hmm! Tao Qiuyi stopped and looked at the old branch secretary. He knew that there were many dangers in the deep mountains, but he didn't persuade her not to go into the mountains again, but instead told her to be careful.

The old branch secretary retracted his gaze and looked at Tao Qiuyi, and said earnestly: "If I advise you not to go into the mountains again, you will definitely not listen to me. You are smart and capable. If you dare to go into the mountains, you will definitely be able to protect yourself in the mountains. Why should I be annoying?" Tao Qiuyi felt a little embarrassed after hearing this big truth.

With a hum, Tao picked up the large leaf he had just thrown aside and tore it into two pieces. He grabbed a few handfuls of unsorted mushrooms and fungus and put them in the leaves, wrapped them up and stood up.

"Take it back and sort it yourself. I won't help you." Tao Qiuyi stuffed the bag of leaves into the old branch secretary's arms.

The tone was extremely arrogant, and the arrogant little expression made the old branch secretary laugh.

"Okay, okay, I won't be polite with you." Knowing that Tao Qiuyi was giving it to him sincerely, the old branch secretary did not refuse and walked away slowly with the leaf bag.

Tao Qiuyi smiled, sat down and continued to pick mushrooms and fungus.

After a while, the team leader and Xiao Huai came out.

Seeing a pile of mushrooms and wood ears on the ground, the team leader stopped. He heard the conversation between Tao Qiuyi and the old branch secretary in the house. He knew that Tao Qiuyi had gone into the mountains, but he did not expect Tao Qiuyi to pick up so many mushrooms and wood ears.

Looking at such a huge pile of mushrooms and wood ears, Xiao Huai was surprised in his heart, but did not show it on his face.

"The deep mountains are very dangerous. You'd better be careful when you go into the mountains alone." The team leader said something similar to the old branch secretary.

"I know, thank you for the reminder, Fourth Uncle." Tao Qiuyi thanked him politely, picked up the other half of the big leaf and grabbed mushrooms and fungus from it.

"It's good that you understand." The team leader nodded. "When I left at noon, I saw that Jing Yuan wasn't doing well, and I was a little worried. I thought about coming to see him after work. Coincidentally, the old branch secretary was with me, so he came along, too."

"I just spoke with Jing Yuan for a while. He seems to be in good spirits, so I'm relieved. Since the rubbing alcohol is effective, Xiao Huai, come back with me to get some more. If you need anything in the future, just ask Xiao Huai to call me at home."

"Okay, thank you, Fourth Uncle." Tao Qiuyi didn't explain, nor did he ask Xiao Huai what was going on. He just glanced at Xiao Huai, then handed the packaged mushrooms and fungus to Xiao Huai.

Xiao Huai knew that it was for his fourth uncle, so he took it obediently.

Tao Qiuyi didn't ask his fourth uncle about the medicinal wine in front of him, which made him secretly relieved.

The captain did not refuse. Firstly, there were indeed a lot of mushrooms and black fungus under the eaves, and giving him some was nothing. Secondly, if the family was too polite, it would feel awkward.

After he returned, he asked his wife to prepare some food for Xiao Huai to bring back.

The team leader and Xiao Huai walked out of the yard, and Tao Qiuyi sat down to continue sorting mushrooms and wood ears.

"Li Zi, after I left, did Comrade Li Hongying, the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law come to trouble you?" He worked and talked at the same time without any delay.

"No," Li Zi said, "Grandma and the others were busy building the kitchen and toilet, so they didn't go to work this afternoon."

Busy building a kitchen and toilet? Tao Qiuyi looked up and looked around the yard. There was nothing. "There's nothing in the yard. They just built it all in one afternoon."

Li Zi didn't understand what "built a lonely place" meant, but she understood the previous sentence and said, "Grandma said that the land in the yard should be used for growing vegetables, so she built the kitchen and toilet in the back."

It turned out that the house was built at the back. No wonder there was nothing in the yard. They were reluctant to occupy the vegetable garden and built the kitchen and toilet at the back of the house. Tao Qiuyi had to praise Comrade Li Hongying for being really thrifty.

At this time, the pheasant covered under the backpack flapped its wings a few times, and the backpack fell over. The hare and pheasant could only flap their wings in place because their feet were tied.

(End of this chapter)