Su Ziling patted her head and said, "Okay, thank you, girl, you're really good at it."

"My grandma also said that I can do massage, but she always said that I am not strong enough, and sometimes she would ask me to step on her back for her," Niuzi said with a lot of words in a soft and sticky voice.

Seeing that she was tired of raising her hands, Su Ziling simply sat on the stool and turned to look at her, "Can you reach it?"

"I can reach it," Niuzi nodded, then took a small step forward and whispered in Su Ziling's ear, "Sister, you must eat at home later."

"Ah? Why?" Su Ziling blinked.

Niuzi first glanced at Mr. Zheng, then lowered her voice when she saw that he wasn't looking at her. "My grandma specially cooked a big pig's trotter and boiled red beans. The pig's trotter was roasted with fire, and the skin was golden yellow. It was delicious when cooked with red beans. The red beans were sandy, and the red bean soup was delicious with rice. The pig's trotter..."

She pouted and said, "Pig's trotters are delicious too." It's just that she hasn't eaten them many times.

It seemed like this pig's trotter had been hanging for a long time, and her grandmother couldn't bear to eat it.

After she finished speaking, she didn't hear Su Ziling's reply, but she didn't care and continued, "Sister, sister, I like you so much."

"Ah?" Su Ziling was really confused. If she remembered correctly, this should be the first time she met a girl, right?

Su Ziling thought: Do you like me? Is it because I get to eat pig's feet when I come?

"My grandma just gave me half a bun. It's delicious, soft, and the stuffing inside is also delicious, with a meaty taste."

"My grandma said that you gave the buns to grandpa. She steamed them and gave half to me and my eldest brother. This is the first time I have eaten such delicious buns. Grandpa also bought me some buns once when he went to the county. They were also very white and delicious, but not as good as the ones you make."

"Sister, you are so awesome. I want to be as awesome as you in the future!"

He talks a lot, but he's also really cute.

While the two were talking, the person holding the flower basket came back. Old Master Zheng waved and said, "Girl, come here quickly. Don't block your sister from working."

After hearing what Mr. Zheng said, Niuzi walked to his side reluctantly.

Su Ziling continued to pick and weigh mushrooms. She was so focused on picking that she didn't notice when Niuzi squatted next to her.

Until she pointed at a mushroom and said, "Sister, can we not have this one?"

Su Ziling was stunned for a moment, "Yes, this is bitter boletus, it can't be eaten, girl is awesome."

"I've remembered everything. This one and this one, I don't want any of them!" She raised her chin and picked out two mushrooms.

"Yes, not just these two, we don't want this kind either," Su Ziling said with rare patience.

The girl nodded and continued to squat beside her to watch, occasionally helping her clean up the pine needles.

"Sister, yours weighs a total of 25 kilograms," Su Ziling was a little bit unbelievable. He looked at the sticks next to him and saw that there were indeed five of them.

Each basket weighs five pounds, and five baskets weigh twenty-five pounds.

She couldn't find paper and pen, and was afraid that she might have made a mistake, so she asked Mr. Zheng to bring her a stick and break it into ten pieces, one for each basket.

"Twenty-five pounds, a total of two hundred coins, here you go."

"Oh my god, who is this? So strong, twenty-five pounds, two hundred coins!"

"Let me see, let me see, oh, it's her, that's not surprising."

"Who?"

"Xiuhe."

"Oh, that's not surprising. She is a well-known hard-working woman."

Everyone said a few simple words and then changed the subject. This scene made Su Ziling very curious, and he couldn't help but look at the girl a few more times.

She had the most money among everyone at the moment. Everyone was very happy after receiving the money, except her. She looked indifferent. After counting the coins and making sure the number was correct, she was about to step into the rain with the basket on her back.

At this time, Mr. Zheng called her, "Xiuhe, wait a minute. I'll give you the money for the umbrella mushroom."

"Uncle." She said in a faint voice, just standing there waiting.

"Alas," Mr. Zheng sighed, "Don't be too tired. If you collapse from exhaustion, your family will really be gone."

Xiuhe was stunned for a moment, then said "hmm" faintly, and then said: "I'm not tired."

Thinking of their family's situation, Mr. Zheng didn't say much. "The price of umbrella mushrooms is fifteen cents per catty. Your family's is five catties, so the total is seventy-five cents. Here you go, take it."

She nodded, "Uncle, I'll go first."

Mr. Zheng nodded, looked at her back, and said, "If you have any difficulties, tell me."

Xiuhe didn't look back. She nodded, but didn't take it to heart. These days, it's not easy for anyone.

After she left, Su Ziling vaguely heard a few words about how she is really a hard-working woman. This day's earnings are almost equal to our monthly wages.

He then said a few more words, but she couldn't hear clearly.

There is no sun on rainy days, so it gets dark especially quickly. Normally, the sun would not have set at this time, but today it is raining and it is slowly getting dark outside.

Su Ziling was weighing mushrooms while looking at the sky outside. She felt a little anxious. She didn't expect it to rain, otherwise it would be no problem for her to rush back later.

She hasn't returned yet, and I don't know if Grandma Su and the others will be worried.

Seeing that she was looking outside, Mr. Zheng also knew her worries. "Don't worry, Miss Su. Just stay at my house tonight. My girl lives alone in a room. You can stay with her. When the rain stops tomorrow morning, we will pick mushrooms and send you back."

Before Su Ziling could say anything, he heard several heavy knocks on the door. Mr. Zheng was stunned.

While he was distracted, someone had already run to open the door, "Who are you looking for?"

"Is Miss Su here? I'm here to pick her up."

"Oh, oh, oh, you're looking for Miss Su. Come in, she's inside."

After a moment, "Uncle, he said he was here to look for Miss Su."

"I remember him. It seemed to be him who came with Miss Su last time. He was said to be the eldest brother."

Hearing the voice, Su Ziling looked up and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Grandma was worried about you, so she asked me to come over to check on you. When are you going back?"

Su Ziling pointed at the mushrooms beside him, and then pointed at the people waiting next to him, "Those haven't been weighed yet. I guess we can't go back tonight. There are so many mushrooms, and the road is slippery."

Twenty looked at the sky. He wanted to say that it wasn't raining where he was, only here. But seeing that she had been busy all day, he swallowed his words back.

He squatted down, "How do I do it?"

"Help me take the pine needles and grass and clean them up. By the way, when did you close the stall? Have you sold all the rabbits?"

"I collected it at 3 p.m., and the rabbits are all sold out."

Shen Shi?

Su Ziling muttered, "So you didn't go back at all? You just closed your stall and came here?"

"Well, big brother is worried, and grandma and the others will feel more at ease with me around."

Speaking of grandma, Su Ziling thought of tea leaves again. "I don't know if anyone is frying tea leaves. There are a lot of tea leaves now. I'm afraid I won't be able to fry all of them after picking them today. I have to continue frying them tomorrow morning. I don't know if my mother and the others have remembered to pour them out. If they keep them overnight, they might go bad."

She muttered to herself, worrying a little too much.

Twenty sighed, "Don't worry, they've done it so many times, they know it."

"Do you have money?" Su Ziling counted the copper coins on him and found that they were not enough to give him.

"I brought it. It was given to me by my elder brother. I was just worried that you didn't have enough money." Twenty said as he directly handed her two strings of copper coins.

"Here you go, one hundred and twelve cents."

After weighing this, she breathed a sigh of relief, and looking at the few people waiting, she had to cheer herself up again.

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