Daily Life in the 70s

Yang Peimin heard the knocking at the door and quickly stuffed her little notebook into a cabinet in the room.

Then, she went over to open the door.

"I didn’t expect you to come back today. Isn’t it you alone at home since Shen Ying went for training? I was thinking of coming over to ask if you need to buy groceries. If not, why don’t you come over to eat at my house later?" Luo Dahua said with a smile.

Yang Peimin politely declined with a smile; she wasn’t quite comfortable eating at someone else’s home. "No thanks, we still have eggs and potatoes at home. If worse comes to worst, I can just go downstairs and buy something. I don’t want to impose on you. Anything happening today? If not, why don’t you come in and sit for a while?"

"What could possibly happen? You know me. At this time of day, if I’m not tidying up at home, I’m checking on the vegetable patch. Oh, speaking of your vegetable patch, alas, I saw it and it’s become overgrown with weeds. The seeds you sowed earlier have sprouted but weren’t thinned out; they’re all crammed together. I did do some weeding. I went back to my family home for a bit, didn’t I? Now it’s just all grass."

Only then did Yang Peimin remember that she had indeed started cultivating a plot of land and sowed some vegetables. Ever since she started school, she had completely forgotten about it, so she simply said to Luo Dahua, "I really don’t have the time to tend to it now. Sister, you take it over and plant whatever you want."

Luo Dahua agreed cheerfully, "Sure, we’ll share what comes out of it."

Yang Peimin nodded somewhat absent-mindedly.

"What’s the matter with you? Something on your mind?"

Yang Peimin shook her head; some things were hard to discuss even with a close friend as it felt awkward.