coobybook Chapter 129 Return to the Capital
Chapter 129 Return to the Capital
Qin Hanyi clearly told Tong Jia that he would use gold and silver to exchange for food, but when he came back, he only brought back a cloth bag the size of a hot water bottle, which surprised Tong Jia.
After Qin Hanyi's explanation, Tong Jia felt that for people like Qin Hanyi who had a job, exchanging food coupons was indeed more useful than exchanging food.
She understood exchanging bills, but she didn't understand exchanging a bag full of needles and thread.
She looked at Qin Hanyi's hands, then recalled her previous memories, and seemed to have forgotten how good Qin Hanyi's handicraftsmanship was.
Qin Han saw that Tong Jia was staring at the needles and thread in the cloth bag, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
She said: “I know I’m not a great needleworker and these aren’t meant for needlework.
Your uncle said that he has friends in Shandong Province. There is no shortage of food there, but there is a shortage of needles and thread.
We can use these things to exchange for some dried sweet potatoes, dried apples and persimmon cakes.
These things don't take up space, can be preserved for a long time, and can supplement the vitamins necessary for the human body.
There seem to be other dried fruits as well. You can try them all when we get there.
We can change up what you like to eat.
These meat patties were made by your aunt herself and are still hot.
You eat one, and the rest are mom's.
After we finish eating, we will have a good rest and continue on our journey tomorrow."
Tong Jia nodded, and finished the still warm meat pie with Qin Hanyi, and then fell asleep in the car just like the night before.
The next day, just after dawn, when Tong Jia was still sleepy, Qin Hanyi had already driven to the next destination.
By the time Tong Jia woke up completely, the car had already entered Shandong Province.
Qin Hanyi first took Tong Jia to a state-owned restaurant to eat a bowl of vegetarian noodles, and then took Tong Jia to exchange needles and thread for dried sweet potatoes, dried apples and persimmon cakes.
The people in the village are very simple and honest. They think that apples and persimmons are grown on the mountain, and they don’t spend any effort on them and are not worth much money. It would be unfair to exchange them for such useful needles and thread.
Especially thimbles and threads, and threads of different colors, they are rare things.
Because most of them lived in mountain villages, where there were seasonal foods in almost every season, they kept packing dried sweet potatoes for Qin Hanyi.
Thinking that this is just the beginning of the difficult period and there are still two years of such days to come, it will become more and more difficult every year.
Tong Jia couldn't bear it.
She looked at the dried sweet potatoes, dried apples and persimmon cakes that the villagers brought to coax her.
After eating some of each one, he said to Qin Hanyi in a childish but loud voice: "Mom, can we just have dried apples and persimmon cakes?
The sweet potato was hard and dry, and it was very difficult to chew. Jia Jia's teeth and face hurt from chewing it."
After saying this, he used both hands to massage his cheeks.
Qin Hanyi originally came here for the dried sweet potatoes to fill her stomach, but now that Tong Jia doesn't like to eat them, she doesn't know how to react for a moment.
The villagers who were busy packing dried sweet potatoes for Qin Hanyi also stopped what they were doing.
Only dried sweet potatoes are grown by themselves and can be used as food.
No dried sweet potatoes, just some dried apples and persimmon cakes, which are not enough to exchange for the needles and thread needed for my family.
After being stunned for a moment, the villagers turned their eyes to Qin Hanyi at the same time.
Qin Hanyi was also a little troubled.
The needles and thread that were exchanged for gold and silver had already been given to the villagers. Everyone then took corresponding items from their homes as compensation based on the value of the things they took home, mostly dried sweet potatoes.
She was very happy because the dried sweet potatoes were dried very dry, which meant that they could be stored for a longer period of time.
She completely ignored the fact that her baby daughter was already five years old and couldn't bite with her baby teeth now, and would be even less able to do so in a few years when her teeth were replaced.
I originally exchanged these things to store snacks for my daughter. Since my daughter doesn't want dried sweet potatoes, I naturally have to listen to her opinion.
She squatted down and looked Tong Jia in the eye and asked, "Jia Jia, dried sweet potatoes are actually quite delicious, except that they're a little hard to chew. If you don't believe me, I can cook some for you when we get home."
It won’t be so chewy if you cook it…”
"No, I want persimmon cake, it's the sweetest. Dried apples are also fine, they're sour and sweet and especially delicious.
It’s just dried sweet potatoes. I can’t bite them. I don’t want to eat dried sweet potatoes, wuwu… I don’t want dried sweet potatoes, wuwu…”
Qin Hanyi had no choice but to ask the villagers to take back all the dried sweet potatoes, leaving only dried apples and persimmon cakes.
But how could those simple villagers let Qin Hanyi and her daughter suffer?
If she doesn't like dried sweet potatoes but likes dried apples and persimmon cakes, then all the dried apples and persimmon cakes in the house were packed up for Qin Hanyi and her daughter. Originally, Tong Jia could sit in the back seat alone and lie down.
After the villagers finished loading, not only was the trunk full, but there was only room for Tong Jia to sit.
Qin Hanyi was worried that the piled-up things in the back seat would hit Tong Jia when she braked, so she let Tong Jia sit directly in the passenger seat.
Although Tong Jia had lived in the 1930s for several years, this was her first time bartering.
In her impression, fruit must be more expensive than needles and thread.
When she saw Qin Hanyi exchange a box of gold and silver for only a bag of needles and thread and thimbles, she thought that Qin Hanyi had exchanged most of the gold and silver for national bills, and there was only a little left. People didn't want to take advantage of Qin Hanyi, so they gave her some needles and thread. If they could be exchanged for food, she could exchange them, and if not, she could keep them for her own use.
Even before the villagers loaded the goods onto the truck, she thought it would be good to get ten kilograms of dried apples in total. She really didn't expect that they could fill up an entire truck.
But on second thought, people’s concepts nowadays are different from those in later generations.
Later generations used artificially cultivated ones to pass off as wild ones.
Nowadays, people generally believe that only things that require their own labor are valuable. However, things that are originally grown in the mountains and depend on the weather, except for medicinal herbs, are everywhere and are worthless.
At most, if you have eaten too much food, you can have some wild fruits to change the taste.
If there weren't two years of hardship ahead and there wasn't a lot of uneaten food in Tong Jia's space, she would definitely find a way to get Qin Hanyi to visit more villages and collect more wild food.
But at this moment, forget it. Those things are icing on the cake for me, but they are life-saving for the villagers.
Therefore, she did not order dried sweet potatoes that could fill her stomach, but only took away dried apples and persimmon cakes, which would cause diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating if eaten on an empty stomach. Persimmon cakes in particular could cause stomach stones if eaten too much.
Moreover, Tong Jia secretly left some compressed dry food in the homes of those who exchanged needles and thread with them.
She had observed carefully that any family that dried fruits at home had a very hardworking hostess who could manage the food at home. If they really couldn't find food in the mountains, the hostess would definitely distribute the compressed dry food properly.
Even if the distribution is uneven, Tong Jia can't do anything about it.
Originally, she kept these compressed dry food just to achieve inner balance after converting them according to the approximate prices of her own life in her previous life.
As for how it will be distributed in the future, that has nothing to do with her.
Now she has only one wish.
That is to return to the capital as soon as possible. She wants to sleep for a day and a night, and then go to the RV and wait for Tao Junle to appear.
But things in the world are never as we wish.
After a short rest in Lu Province for the night, Qin Hanyi drove on to the capital at dawn.
After passing Hebei Province and Tianjin, an accident happened when we were about to reach the capital.
It is not known whether Qin Hanyi was driving while fatigued or a passerby was so engrossed in walking that he didn't see the car, but the accident happened suddenly and unexpectedly when no one could react.
When Qin Hanyi saw that he had hit someone, he quickly got out of the car to check.
As a result, as soon as she got out of the car, two men rushed over from behind.
In addition, the woman who had been lying on the ground pretending to be unconscious also got up nimbly from the ground after hearing the footsteps, quickly took out a handkerchief from her trouser pocket, and covered Qin Hanyi's mouth with it.
Qin Hanyi didn't have time to struggle and collapsed in the woman's arms.
When Tong Jia saw this situation, before he had time to think, he started to act like a miser. While no one was paying attention, he put all the things in the car into the space.
When they put Qin Hanyi on the ground and looked back to check the things in the car, they found that the little kid Tong Jia was also in the car.
Just when they were thinking of knocking Tong Jia out like they had done to Qin Hanyi, Tong Jia raised her hand and the three of them fell to the ground one after another.
Tong Jia originally wanted to drag these three people away, but his small body was unable to accomplish such a task.
There was really no way to move these three people, so Tong Jia had to use the bicycle in the space and the electric hand-pulled trailer to get Qin Hanyi to the back seat of the car first.
Then she found 502, the sneakers with the thinnest soles, and the No-Qiu Itch Scratcher from the space.
Use 502 to mix the scratching soil and 502 together, and fix it tightly on the soles of sneakers.
He took out a lot of cushions from the space and put them on the driver's seat.
After that, she began her most fantastic adventure on the way back to the capital - driving like an acrobat.
Because the seat cushion is too high, sitting on it is still a bit shaky even with the seat belt in place.
This means that when you stand on the Itchy Scratcher and press the clutch, brake and accelerator, there is always a certain delay.
Tong Jia drove so hard that his forehead was covered in sweat and he was extremely nervous. He finally drove the car to the junction of Beijing, Hebei Province and Tianjin.
After arriving here, the car ran out of gas and she could no longer drive it.
The steering wheels of later generations are all power-assisted when turning, so driving is not difficult.
But the steering wheel is too heavy now. Tong Jia didn't drive for long, but her arms felt sore as if she had lifted fifty dumbbells in one breath.
My legs were almost numb from having to press down hard to ensure that the clutch, brake and accelerator, which were controlled by scratching, were all pressed to the bottom.
She put all the cushions back into the space, changed back into her original shoes, and took out an army green cross-body bag from the space. She filled it with compressed dry food that had been unpacked, leaving only a layer of transparent film inside.
Just as she was about to get off the car, she remembered that she had just put the jewelry box and the small box containing gold into the space.
He hesitated before opening the car door.
Should I take those things out? It's nothing now, but what about later? They'll all cause trouble.
It’s safer in your own space.
So, she took out another army green crossbody bag from the space, this time filling it with half compressed dry food and half Russian milk powder in retro packaging.
The production dates on the milk powder packaging bags were all wiped off with alcohol.
After carefully observing that there was no information that would reveal any flaws, Tong Jia opened the car door and got out.
When she jumped out of the cab, the moment her feet touched the ground, she lost her balance and fell to the ground.
Even though it was winter, Tong Jia's knee, which was the first to touch the ground, was hurt so much that you could tell it was purple without even looking.
She stood up and brushed off the dirt on her body. She raised her head and looked around. Finding that there was no one around, she walked to the side of the road and found a cliff. Tong Jia then released Tong Simin from the space.
As soon as the man came out, he fell off the cliff.
After hearing the muffled sound, Tong Jia opened the back door of the car, shook Qin Hanyi, and filled an empty can with cold water, sprinkling the water on her temples, hoping to stimulate her to wake up as soon as possible.
Perhaps the effect of the medicine had indeed reached its limit. With Tong Jia's two-pronged approach, Qin Hanyi slowly opened his eyes.
After she calmed down for a while, she immediately sat up and looked around for Tong Jia.
After seeing Tong Jia, he immediately carried her into the car.
After checking that her daughter was not hurt, she realized that her trunk and back seats, which were stuffed full, were empty, and even the two boxes containing gold and jewelry were gone.
Qin Hanyi asked in a trembling voice: "Jia Jia, do you know what happened when Mom was unconscious just now?"
Tong Jia nodded and said, "Those three people were very mean. After they knocked my mother unconscious, they emptied our car and wanted to take my mother and me away as well.
Fortunately, someone came at this time, the servant uncle in my grandmother's house.
He chased away the three men and drove us here.
The things on the front seat were also left by him. He said that when he was taking Tong Simin back to his hometown, he accidentally let Tong Simin run away, and he felt very sorry.
I left those things as compensation, but I couldn't face your trust, so I said I was going to find Tong Simin. When I found him, I would definitely bring Tong Simin to the capital to meet us."
Qin Hanyi felt like something was wrong, but he couldn't find any fault at all.
He just said weakly: "He is our benefactor, how can we blame him?
Tong Simin ran away. Maybe it was not his destiny. He would eventually suffer the consequences of his evil deeds. He would get his retribution sooner or later.
These things are too valuable, we can't accept them.
Jia Jia, which way did he go? Let's chase him now."
Tong Jia pointed in all directions and said, "I forgot too."
"Well... that's all we can do, let's go home first.
Jiajia, you must remember, if that uncle contacts you again in the future, you must remember to tell your mother."
Tong Jia nodded and urged Qin Hanyi to cheer up so that they could leave here quickly.
Qin Hanyi was also worried that the night would be too long and might cause more trouble, so he quickly filled up the gas and drove back to the capital.