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Li Tingzhou also cooks for dinner, and he persuaded Tao's father and Tian's mother to take control of the kitchen with just a few words.

The dishes tonight are also quite good, fried meat with celery, scrambled eggs with tomato, and the wild shepherd's purse that Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou dug up when they were hanging out in the afternoon. Li Tingzhou chose cold salad without adding too much seasoning, trying to maintain the original flavor of wild shepherd's purse.

These shepherd's purses are picked from both sides of the small river flowing from Shennong Spring. After the natural irrigation of Shennong Spring, they grow strong and lush, but they are extremely tender.

What surprised Tao Ran the most was the tomato scrambled eggs. The tomatoes were sour and sweet, and the eggs were fluffy and tender. Compared with the tomatoes watered by Shennong Spring, the taste of the eggs was not inferior. together.

"Mom, where did you buy these eggs?" After tasting the eggs, Tao Ran inquired about the origin of these eggs. He didn't have chickens at home, so he usually bought eggs from the chicken farmers in the village.

The best chicken breeder in the village is Wang Chunmei, who is also married from Nantian Village.She is diligent and careful, and her husband is also very simple and honest. Unfortunately, when she was young, she suffered an accident on the construction site and injured her leg, so she could no longer do heavy work.He and Wang Chunmei raised chickens in the village. Because they were carefully raised, chickens and eggs were delicious, and many people in the village rushed to buy them.

Tao Ran's family usually also buys eggs from Wang Chunmei's house. When asked, Tian Yuxia, who hadn't tasted the eggs, replied: "I still bought them from your Aunt Chunmei's house. I finished eating a box of eggs I bought last time. I have another egg today." Went to buy a case."

After finishing speaking, Tian Yuxia took a bite of the egg, and she went to eat shepherd's purse, and she knew the difference after tasting it: "The egg has become more delicious, no wonder I think the egg looks pinker and tenderer than usual today. "

"I remember that your Aunt Chunmei often digs wild vegetables from the small river to feed the chickens recently. I guess the water used to feed the chickens is Shennong spring water." Tian Yuxia thought carefully: "That won't work, all the vegetables in our village have increased in price, it doesn't make sense for her If the price of eggs doesn’t increase, Miss Chunmei sold them to me at the previous price, so I have to go and replenish them.”

Seeing Tian Yuxia get up to get the money, and was about to leave as soon as she said it, Tao Shengwen stopped her and said, "Why are you in a hurry, you have to finish your meal before you go. If you don't eat, others will eat."

Tian Yuxia realized that she was a little too anxious just now, so she sat back in her seat and continued to eat.

When I was halfway through eating, I heard the loudspeaker shouting outside.The village head also informed everyone that a meeting was going to be held, and because he was afraid of delaying everyone's vegetable sales during the day and not letting people from other villages interfere with their village's decision-making, he arranged it for the evening.The notice asked to gather at Taowangxia before [-] o'clock, wear thicker clothes in cold weather, and take a flashlight on the road to pay attention to safety.

Looking at the clock on the wall, it was just seven o'clock.Now the weather is cold and dark early, everyone will have dinner very early.It was only 07:30 when the Tao family finished their meal and everything was cleaned up.Seeing that there was still time, Tao Ran took Li Tingzhou to look for things in the storage room next to the main room.

There are many memories of Tao Ran's childhood, all of which were tidied up by Tian Yuxia and neatly dressed.Tao Ran turned on the light in the storage room, and saw a large iron shelf on the far left, filled with wooden boxes of all sizes, and each box was labeled to clearly remember the contents inside.

"Fortunately, my mother is here, otherwise I don't know where I left these things." Tao Ran walked a few steps inside, searched carefully from top to bottom, and wiped the dust on the surface of the wooden box he found with a rag. Wipe it clean, open it slowly, and there are two exquisitely crafted wooden lanterns.

"My grandfather made this lantern for me for the first time. I lost it when I went out to play, so I pestered my grandfather to make another one. Later, I found the original one again." Tao Ran lost in memory, picked up Comparing the two lanterns, he handed the lantern on the left to Li Tingzhou, and then went to look for candles.

These two lanterns are rectangular parallelepiped, with hollowed-out patterns of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum engraved on all sides, and the design is even more ingenious.The side can be opened to put candles in, and the base of the lantern has slots, so that suitable candles can stay there safely without falling down and burning the wood.There is also a layer of tulle on the outside of the lantern, which is to prevent the candle from being blown out by the wind.

Tao Ran found a candle in a small box next to it. The candles sold in Taoyuan Village were always the same kind. Tao Ran was very glad that the candles had not been updated, and the candles that had been dug out were just stuck in the lanterns.Take out the lighter and light it, the lantern looks extraordinarily beautiful under the candlelight.

Seeing her son run out after tossing, Tian Yuxia complained to Li Tingzhou: "This kid has been running around with a lantern since he was a child. At that time, someone took the lantern home by mistake. He ran home crying. Every day He was unhappy with his mouth pursed, and then his grandfather made him a new one to comfort him."

Listening to her mother complaining about her dark history, Tao Ran felt extremely embarrassed, and quickly interrupted her mother: "Mom, Dad, I think it's almost time, we should go."

It was indeed getting late, and Tao Shengwen took them out with a flashlight and moved the stools away. Before leaving, Li Tingzhou thought about it and asked: "This is a meeting of people from your village. It's not good for me, an outsider, to participate?"

When he said this, the Tao family laughed, and Tao Ran comforted him: "Don't worry, I won't drive you out. Besides, the meetings in our village are not that serious. If you want to vote, don't participate and be a qualified audience." That's it."

Walking on the road with a lantern, Tao Ran and Li Tingzhou were particularly conspicuous, especially the children on the road who couldn't bear to take their eyes off the lantern.The shy children secretly tugged on the sleeves of their parents, expressing that they also wanted a lantern.There were even more daring children who ran over directly, raised their heads and looked at Tao Ran pitifully: "Uncle Ran Ran, where did you buy this lantern?"

The parents on the road looked at this scene gloatingly, and a young man in the same age group as Tao Ran couldn't help it: "Tao Ran, you made us envious because of this lantern when you were young, but now that we have finally grown up, you have grown up again. Come to harm the next group of children."

After finishing speaking, the young man waved to his niece: "Quiet, we also have lanterns at home. I'll find them for you when I go back after the meeting." After persuasion and persuasion, I reluctantly agreed to go home and play again.

The children next to me became anxious when they heard it, and ran to ask their parents if they had it at home.In fact, when Tao Ran first got a lantern when he was a child, he showed it off in the village, and the children in the village ran to Nantian Village enviously to ask someone to make it. Now history is repeating itself.

At that time, almost every household in Taoyuan Village had a lantern, but after so many years, there were almost no lanterns that were as well preserved as Tao Ran's.Seeing the crying little princes and princesses, the parents agreed to look for them at home, and if they couldn't find them, they would ask someone to make one the next day.

For being the focus of everyone, especially the envy of all the children in the village, Tao Ran didn't feel uncomfortable at all, and walked forward with Li Tingzhou with his head held high.

When I got to the peach king tree, I saw many small light bulbs twined around the tree for lighting, which illuminated the venue very brightly.After a closer look, it is the wires pulled from the nearest house, and a lot of LED lights are used.The village head had been waiting here for a long time, and the villagers came one after another to find a place to sit down.

As soon as [-]:[-] a.m. arrived, the village chief gave a speech with a loudspeaker on time: "It's cold now, so I told you to go home early. I came to you today because the principal of No. [-] Middle School came here this morning and wanted to buy our village's Vegetables. He also proposed that the price of vegetables could be cheaper, preferably similar to the market price, so I would like to ask if you can accept it.”

As soon as the village chief finished speaking, there was a commotion below.There are three middle schools in Yuanshan Town, and No. [-] Middle School is the closest one to Litaoyuan Village among the three middle schools, and its teaching quality ranks second among the three middle schools.Because of the proximity to home and other reasons, most of the children in Taoyuan Village go to No. [-] Middle School, basically live in school, and go home once a week.

In fact, the taste of the food before No. [-] Middle School is still good, but it is a pity that I encountered Taoyuan Village.Ever since these middle school children ate home-grown vegetables, they were dissatisfied with the meals in the cafeteria when they returned to school.Tao Ran had heard that these middle school students would bring a few bottles of pickled vegetables from home every week and eat them with rice at school.

Today happens to be Friday, and all middle school students have returned to the village after school.Some students who knew some reasons ran to the stage and directly told everyone about their experiences in school.It turned out that when they brought pickled vegetables to school at first, the students in the class thought that something happened to his family and he ran out of money.This week, the people in the class were still thinking about inviting him to dinner, so he took out his pickles for the students to taste, dumbfounded.

This taste was incredible, everyone in the class was overwhelmed, and the cans of pickles were quickly divided up, and everyone was still unsatisfied, trying to find out where they bought the pickles.It just so happens that the vegetables in Taoyuan Village are gradually becoming famous, and many students have guessed the taste after tasting them at home.

Therefore, many boarding students suggested to the principal that the school buy vegetables from Taoyuan Village. They would be more motivated to study if they ate delicious food, even if the price of food increased.It is estimated that the principal of No. [-] Middle School listened carefully to the students' suggestions and came here today while the students were on vacation.

Therefore, the village chief personally supports the sale of vegetables to No. [-] Middle School.It's just that the price still depends on the wishes of the villagers.

"Everyone be quiet, do you want to supply vegetables to the No. [-] Middle School? There are two issues now. The most important thing is the selling price that everyone can accept. If this point is discussed with the No. [-] Middle School, enough vegetables must be provided. " Seeing that everyone is discussing almost, the village chief said.

"Village Chief, I agree. At that time, the No. [-] Middle School will also use our vegetables, and my son doesn't have to bring pickles every day. It's not good to eat too much pickles."

"That's right. Anyway, the cafeteria is for the students to eat. It doesn't matter if it's cheaper. Our dishes are all delicious because of Shennong's blessing. Doing some good deeds is considered a blessing."

There were voices of approval one after another from the crowd, and Tao Ran suddenly thought of a question and reminded everyone: "There are still No. [-] and No. [-] Middle Schools in Yuanshan Town. If you promise to sell vegetables at a low price for No. [-] Middle School, No. [-] Middle School and No. [-] Middle School may also agree." Come and ask."

The village head thought for a while and made a suggestion: "In this way, it is only one month before the middle school's winter vacation. Let's provide the food for this month to the second middle school and see if it works. If people from the first and third middle schools come Well, we have to wait until the beginning of spring next year, when everyone will open up more vegetable farms."

"Then let's vote now. If you agree, put a checkmark. If you disagree, put a cross. Tao Ran, come and help me count." Tao Ran went up to help read the votes, and was not surprised by the result of all the votes.

"Since everyone agrees, I will discuss the price of vegetables with the No. [-] Middle School tomorrow, so as to ensure that everyone will not suffer." After speaking, the village chief asked everyone to go home and rest. He and several village officials gathered together , it seems that they are going to discuss the pricing of vegetables again.