When Zhao Jingmiao returned to the dormitory, the door of the dorm across was open, and Liu Miao's voice came from inside, "Tian Dan, I'm warning you again, hurry up and throw away all your bottles and jars, you country bumpkin. I'm covered in the smell of your stinky pickles."
Tian Dan said nothing, holding tightly onto her jars.
Her family was poor, and the reason she got a job at the transformer factory was because she was smart. Unlike Liu Miao and the others who could eat at the big canteen at the transformer factory, she had to save her food to send back home to feed her big family.
The pickles in these jars were made after she spent a long time every night collecting vegetable leaves to pickle them.
They were her food supply.
With these pickles and a little cornbread brought from home, Tian Dan felt much better off than her younger siblings at home.
