Chapter 1108 Stepfather 19
Yuanchun was a little disappointed that she couldn't borrow the meat ticket.
She closed the door, got some clothes, and blocked the gaps in the door and windows, not only blocking Yu Qing's peeping, but also preventing the fragrance from leaking out.
In the evening, she made spicy stir-fried pork offal, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and cooked sorghum rice. After eating and drinking, Yuanchun boiled water for a bath.
The next day, Yuanchun woke up at daybreak.
She dug out an old patched cotton jacket of the original owner and sewed sixty coins into it. After work at noon, she went to the back mountain again and found a small hole the size of a fist on the wall of the cave, which was her secret base. She stuffed sixty yuan into it and blocked it with a small stone so that the money could not be seen from the outside.
She divided the remaining money into three parts and buried them in three places in her backyard.
I only kept ten dollars on myself as a backup.
"Yuanchun, give me..."
In the afternoon, as soon as Yuanchun arrived at the field, Cao Hui came over and quickly stuffed a piece of wild vegetable cake into her hand. "My mother just made it. It's still soft. Come and eat it."
"Brother Huizi, my dad hasn't been home these past two days, and I've eaten so much. You don't have to bring me any more food. Just keep it for yourself."
"I've eaten it. I brought this piece specially for you."
After Cao Hui finished speaking, he pretended to pass by as if nothing had happened.
Yuanchun was holding a wild vegetable cake, looking helpless.
Cao Hui is a simple and kind person with a strong sense of justice and compassion. He gave her food out of pity for her and had no other intentions, but Yu Qing misunderstood.
Ever since Yuanchun traveled through time, Cao Hui had given her food, but she had always refused it. However, Cao Hui wholeheartedly wanted to help this poor little girl.
Not only was she beaten and starved by her stepfather every other day, but she was also forced by him to earn the same number of work points as men.
Cao Hui loved her, felt pity for her, and wanted to help her as much as possible. Helping her became a habit for him. Whenever there was something delicious at home, he would find an excuse to bring out one or two pieces for the original owner to eat.
If it were the original owner herself, she might have been hungry every other day and would have been grateful to Cao Hui, but Yuanchun was well fed every meal and didn't need Cao Hui to feed her at all.
But she will remember this favor from Cao Hui.
Yuanchun wrapped the wild vegetable cake in a new handkerchief, put it in her pocket, and continued to cover it with soil.
Every year, the team takes seven or eight days to apply fertilizer. By the time the fertilizer is applied, there is basically no activity on the fields, so the team leader will organize the villagers to dig a river.
The work of digging a canal is tiring and hard, but the work points are also high. A man can earn twelve work points a day, and a woman can earn ten work points a day.
Every year, Er Laizi would force the mother and daughter to dig a canal and earn a lot of work points.
This year, with her mother gone, only Yuanchun is left. Yuanchun will certainly not work like a slave for her stepfather anymore, doing hard labor that her body cannot bear.
In the afternoon, Yuanchun went to the back mountain and caught two pheasants.
She secretly gave one pheasant to Cao Hui as a way of repaying his favor, and she secretly made pheasant soup with the other pheasant in the mountains.
Even though Erlaizi was not at home, Yuanchun was cautious not to bring the pheasant back to cook, after all, there was a snitch living next door.
Yuanchun was not afraid of being in trouble with her stepfather, but her stepfather was in hospital and she was secretly eating chicken soup at home alone. It would not be good if someone found out and spread the news.
Yuanchun went down the mountain after she had eaten and drunk her fill. On the way, she stopped Cao Hui, who had just finished work, and stuffed the pheasant into his hand, saying, "I caught this, please take it."