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

Chapter 77: Renting an Oxcart

The next morning.

Tao Qiuyi got up yawning. After traveling through time for a few days, she finally had a good sleep last night. After washing up, she looked energetic and radiant.

After breakfast, Tao Qiuyi called Li Zi into the room where they lived.

After a while, Tao Qiuyi came out carrying a sack.

Li Zi, who followed her out, was holding a small basket in her hand, looking very cautious, as if the basket contained something fragile.

Seeing Xiao Huai weaving a basket in the yard, Tao Qiuyi said, "Xiao Huai, you don't need to weave any more baskets now that you've finished weaving this one. You can weave two backpacks that are about the same size as the one we have now."

"Okay." Xiao Huai responded.

Tao Qiuyi added, "Li Zi and I will go to Fourth Uncle's house. You stay home and look after your eldest brother. Your eldest brother is not allowed to go anywhere today. Just wait for me at home."

"If anyone comes to carry him to treat someone again, tell them that they can carry him away without worrying about me coming to beat them up."

Someone had spread the news that she had kicked down the gate of Grandpa Wei San's house, but now everyone in Team Four knew about it.

She never avoided anyone when it came to beating people up, and she spread the news casually.

"I understand." Xiao Huai responded again.

Tao Qiuyi and Li Zi went out and were walking on the road. She caught a glimpse of Li Zi carefully protecting the basket and was speechless.

"Is it necessary to be so cautious?" Tao Qiuyi felt that there were only twenty eggs in the basket, and Li Zi protected them like treasures, which was too cautious.

"Absolutely," Li Zi said seriously, "there are eggs in here. What if they break?"

"Just crush it and fry it and eat it." Tao Qiuyi answered as a matter of course.

Li Zi suddenly stared at Tao Qiuyi with wide eyes, "Sister-in-law, didn't you say these eggs were for Fourth Aunt? It wouldn't be appropriate for us to break them and fry them ourselves."

"I think it's very suitable." If you don't eat the broken eggs, do you have to leave them and wait for them to go bad?

"What should we give to Fourth Aunt?" asked Li Zi.

Tao Qiuyi replied, "Of course I'll go back and get the unbroken eggs and bring them back to Fourth Aunt."

Li Zi was speechless. Instead of going back and forth like this, she might as well be more careful from the beginning and try not to break the eggs.

It was early in the morning and there were not many people on the road. The two of them talked as they walked and soon arrived at the door of Fourth Aunt's house.

After knocking on the door and waiting for a while, the person who came to open the door was the team leader, Uncle Wei. Seeing that it was Tao Qiuyi and Li Zi, he hurriedly opened the door and asked them to come in.

"Captain, good morning!" Tao Qiuyi greeted first.

"Fourth Uncle." Li Zi also greeted him quietly.

"Okay." The captain looked at Tao Qiuyi and the sack she was carrying. "Comrade Tao is here to look for your fourth aunt, right? She's in the main room cleaning up. You can go inside and find her."

"I'm here to see my fourth aunt, and also to see the team leader." Tao Qiuyi stated his purpose directly.

"Looking for me." The captain was a little surprised.

"Yes, I have something I want to ask the captain for help." Tao Qiuyi nodded, lowered his eyes to look at the captain who was wearing outdoor shoes, and asked: "Captain, are you going out?"

"Go to the brigade headquarters to work." The captain frowned. He remembered that she always called him fourth uncle before, so why did she call him captain today?

Besides, she said she wanted his help with something, so how could he go out again?

"It's cold outside, let's talk inside." After saying that, the captain turned around and walked towards the main hall, followed by Tao Qiuyi and Li Zi.

Fourth Aunt was wiping her sewing machine with a rag in her hand. Seeing the captain return, she frowned and asked, "Why are you back again?"

"Comrade Xiao Tao said he needed my help with something." The team leader walked to the table, reached out to pick up the kettle on the table, poured himself a cup of hot water, pulled out a long bench and sat down.

"Qiuyi and Xiaoli are here, come in and sit down." Fourth Aunt greeted them warmly, "Have you had breakfast? If not, I'll make breakfast for you now."

"Aunt Four, don't bother. My sister-in-law and I came here after breakfast." Li Zi replied while carefully placing the basket on the table.

"Yes, we came here after breakfast, Fourth Aunt. Sorry to bother you again." Putting the sack against the wall, Tao Qiuyi walked to Fourth Aunt and handed her the two rolls of blue and white thread without saying anything.

"This is the thread I bought yesterday. I hope it works."

Fourth Aunt lowered her eyes and looked at him, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "It's enough, more than enough. These two spools of thread are so big, they're enough to make more than a dozen quilt covers and dozens of clothes."

"I'll give you the remaining thread after I finish making your clothes."

"No need to return it." Tao Qiuyi quickly refused.

Fourth Aunt insisted, "You have to return it. You can use this thread to mend torn clothes."

"I don't know how to sew. I can't even hold a needle. It's useless even if Fourth Aunt returns the thread to me." Tao Qiuyi was telling the truth.

"You...you don't know how to sew?" Fourth Aunt was surprised.

The captain felt that his wife's surprised expression would make Tao Qiuyi feel embarrassed, so he coughed lightly to remind her.

Fourth Aunt came to her senses and felt a little embarrassed.

Tao Qiuyi had no shame on her face. She glanced at the captain sitting at the table. She didn't want to delay him for too long, so she said to her aunt, "Then you go ahead and do your work. I have something to say to the captain."

Fourth Aunt couldn't help but correct her, "Why call him Captain? He's Jing Yuan's fourth uncle, and you're Jing Yuan's wife. Just call him Fourth Uncle."

Tao Qiuyi smiled and didn't say to shout, nor did he say not to shout.

He walked to the table and looked at the team leader. "Fourth Uncle, I want to ask if the production team has any horse-drawn or ox-drawn carts going to town."

"Our brigade has an oxcart that goes to town. It goes every other day, leaving in the morning and returning at noon. A ride costs ten cents." The brigade leader said, looking at Tao Qiuyi strangely. "Don't you know you can take an oxcart to town?"

"I don't know." Tao Qiuyi shook his head.

She really didn't know that every time she went to the town, she had to go through the mountains. The mountain road was difficult to walk on, but she walked fast.

"Did the ox cart go to town today?" Tao Qiuyi asked.

The captain shook his head and said, "No, the oxcart won't go to town until tomorrow."

"Then can I rent a ox cart?" Tao Qiuyi asked again.

"You've picked so many mushrooms and wood ears in the mountains that you need to rent a bullock cart to go to town." The captain wasn't joking.

The day before yesterday, Tao Qiuyi went into the mountains and picked up a lot of mushrooms and fungus.

"No," Tao Qiuyi explained, "I wanted to take Wei Jingyuan to the town hospital today to check his injured leg. He has trouble walking with his crutches, so I wanted to rent the brigade's ox cart."

"What did you say?" The captain stood up in shock, and accidentally knocked over the water glass with his hand, and the water flowed down the edge of the table to the ground.

Tao Qiuyi reached out to straighten the water cup, glanced at the water on the ground, then looked up at the captain and the other two.

(End of this chapter)