Chapter 81 Crafty Calculations
Luo Qiao actually had a bit of claustrophobia and only after scooping up a batch of fish and feeling it was enough did she find a safe place to enter her space.
She used the rag bag prepared in advance to pack about four or five fish at a time, weigh them, and then place them into buckets or basins. Luo Qiao had prepared fish weighing over one and a half jin each, and it took her about one hundred thirty or so fish to make up two hundred jin.
Luo Qiao even added a few extra large fish to ensure that even after accounting for water loss, the weight would still be two hundred jin, before she stopped, throwing all the smaller fish left over into the pond in the valley.
After completing all these tasks, she left the space and headed down the mountain.
Since she still had to go to school for half a day tomorrow, Luo Qiao made another trip to the village chief’s house, bringing along some shepherd’s purse she had casually dug up on the mountainside.
The shepherd’s purse was very tender, perfect for adding a dish to dinner that evening; it was a small token of her appreciation. Auntie Gao, seeing it was fresh shepherd’s purse, did not decline but thanked Luo Qiao directly.
The adults in their family were all out working and had no time to forage for wild vegetables, and their two grandsons and granddaughter were too young to have been let out to forage yet, so they truly cherished these shepherd’s purse.
After requesting leave, Auntie Gao also gave her some homemade soy paste in return. The two of them agreed to have Auntie Gao teach Luo Qiao the next time she made more.
When Luo Qiao left the village chief’s house, she happened to run into the Zhao couple.
Gao Suhua, reminded of serious matters, did not make any snide remarks this time and said to Luo Qiao, "Luo Qiao, the day after tomorrow is my Xiaotao’s wedding day. Remember to come over for the celebration."
Although Luo Qiao disliked the people of the Zhao family, it would be rude not to show face since they had invited her, especially with several gossip-loving village women standing nearby.