Crossing 70: Fish in the Pond Have Good News

Chapter 117 Small Wooden Box

"Sister, why are you standing at the door?" Lin Anna said in a soft voice.

He Yuanchao blinked, and for a moment she even doubted whether she had seen things wrong. She said "oh" and put the kettle on the long table against the wall. "It's okay, it's okay. Aren't you going to the brigade headquarters to get rations?"

Lin Anna shook her head, "Huang Ranbo hasn't come to call me yet."

Huang Ranbo is one of the two new male educated youth, the other one is called Lin Si.

He Yuanchao didn't say anything more and walked out of the room leisurely.

Jiang Yu wrote the swastika pattern under the light for an entire afternoon, and finally stopped because his neck couldn't take it anymore.

Taking the opportunity to go out and relax his eyes, he quietly ran to find Yi Chi.

Yi Chi had just returned from his third uncle's place and was packing up. He opened the door for Jiang Yu and went back to continue sorting.

Jiang Yu sat on the bench and moved his head. "Are you going out? I'm going to town tomorrow, and I wanted to ask you if you wanted me to bring anything."

Yi Chi grabbed a handful of toffee and stuffed it into her hands. "These were all sent by my little grandma. I just went to get them back. What are you going to do in town tomorrow?"

"Picking up junk." Jiang Yu peeled a candy and put it in her mouth. The sweet aroma made her happy.

Yi Chi glanced at her and said, "Nonsense, how can you call that scavenging? You call that turning trash into treasure. I heard that there are new educated youth coming today?"

Jiang Yu nodded, "Three people came, two men and one woman."

"How is it? Do you seem easy to get along with?" Yi Chi put all the clothes and other things in the box. These clothes cannot be worn in the short term. The new clothes are too eye-catching and are not something he can wear now.

Jiang Yu blinked, "I don't know, but the new female educated youth is very enthusiastic about Chen Jinghan."

"? Wouldn't Xue Li feel uncomfortable?" Yi Chi stopped what he was doing and asked curiously.

Xue Li and Chen Jinghan's relationship is almost made clear, but both sides feel that they are still young, so there is no rush and they just let it go slowly.

However, even if they don't make it clear, men and women in the ambiguous period must be very concerned about the opposite sex around each other, and they will definitely feel a sense of crisis when other people approach each other.

Jiang Yu smiled. She heard the noise from the next room in the afternoon and knew that Xue Li must have been eavesdropping on the door. However, this was a private matter between good friends and she couldn't share it with Yi Chi. "Chen Jinghan will handle it." If he couldn't handle it well, then Xue Li would definitely be able to handle his.

Yi Chi nodded, "That's right, the key to this matter still lies with Chen Jinghan."

As the sky gradually darkened, the two chatted for a few more words. Yi Chi asked Jiang Yu to come back to his place tomorrow night to drink soup.

Jiang Yu nodded in agreement, then went down the mountain and went home.

The next day, Jiang Yu rode his bicycle to the town.

When we arrived at the scrap yard, the old man and his colleagues had just started work.

"Girl, long time no see!" The old man asked her to put her bicycle into the house and greeted her with a smile.

"Happy New Year, uncle~" Jiang Yu also grinned and greeted him happily.

"Happy New Year, Happy New Year." The old man laughed so hard that his eyes disappeared. It has been many years since any of his juniors came to celebrate the New Year with him. Ever since his son-in-law was demoted... forget it, forget it, it's better not to think about it.

The old man's daughter came out with a cart. When she saw Jiang Yu, she smiled and said hello, "Come here, girl. Auntie has some good stuff."

Jiang Yu greeted the old man and hurried over to take a look.

The aunt took advantage of her status and left a lot of metal products for Jiang Yu, including both iron and aluminum.

These things should have been sorted and sent to the corresponding factories for reprocessing, but the aunt knew that Jiang Yu liked to fiddle with these things, so she left a lot of them for her.

"Come here." Auntie quietly took Jiang Yu to the innermost part of the warehouse, took out a wooden box from the scrap pile and handed it to her. "It's not a good wood, but this box is a bit interesting. You can play with it."

It was a wooden mechanism box with a mortise and tenon structure. Although Jiang Yu had copied the roof based on the mortise and tenon structure of the old building in the village, she still didn't understand other deeper and more detailed things. Now that she had this box, she could figure it out on her own. "Thank you, Auntie! This thing is rare, thank you for keeping it for me."

Seeing her smiling face, the aunt knew that she really liked it and felt happy in her heart, "It's just a toy. Although it's rare outside, we can still find it here." There are no good things, but some useless and ordinary waste materials basically flow to their side, so she was able to pick up this box.

Jiang Yu took out two pieces of toffee from Yi Chi's pocket and stuffed them into the aunt's pocket. "Give aunt some candy~"

She didn't know how to express her gratitude, so she could only share her favorite things with the other person.

Auntie took the candy and subconsciously clenched her palms. The smile on her face became warmer and warmer. "Thank you, girl. Let's go. Go pick the things. Auntie still has to work."

She turned her back and walked out first, raising her arm to wipe her cheek, and then a gentle smile appeared on her face again.

Jiang Yu followed behind with the wooden box in his hand, fiddling with the wooden strips from time to time, thinking about how to make up for the previous mistake if necessary.

The last time she entered the house at the door, Jiang Yu realized that all the waste here was registered. So she took some silver at first, and later took metal plates and jewelry boxes. These things disappeared inexplicably. She didn't know if the uncle and aunt would be criticized.

She was thinking about something, so she wasn't so focused on picking up junk today. However, she had been mainly tinkering with the ill-gotten gains in her own space recently, and hadn't even had time to rub a bicycle, so it didn't matter that there were fewer things.

At noon, Jiang Yu was asked by the old man at the door to have a free lunch. She felt even more ashamed and decided to give the old man a rabbit to eat next time! Giving money would definitely not work, but since he was kind to her, she should give him some meat as a reward, which should be okay!

After saying goodbye to the uncle and aunt, Jiang Yu rode his bike to the supply and marketing cooperative.

It was a little after 1 p.m. and the supply and marketing cooperative was sparsely populated. Several sales clerks were sitting behind the counter, yawning.

Jiang Yu bought two towels, soap, clam oil and other things. She had calluses on her fingertips from playing with small things. The thick calluses would affect her ability to touch those treasures, and her sense of touch would not be as sensitive. So she thought that if she washed her hands more often and applied clam oil more often for maintenance, it should be better.

After paying, she picked up her things and rode her bike back to the team.

The temperature at this time is obviously higher than in the morning. Even if you pedal at the speed of Hot Wheels, your ears will not feel cold, and the sun will warm your body.

Jiang Yu's bicycle turned into the main road. There were many people moving around in the village.

When people saw her passing by, some greeted her, while others remained silent. After a winter, some things had quietly changed.

Lin Anna brought Old Liu's son into the house and put the boxes and other things on the end of the kang. When she saw Jiang Yu coming back, her eyes flashed, and then she greeted him with a smile.

Jiang Yu has keen senses, so she naturally wouldn't ignore the weirdness in her. Does this person seem to have something against her?