They took off. Tea Cake and Janie ran off to Jacksonville. Apparently they got married? When? I just know that later she said that they were already married. But anyways, Tea Cake leaves one morning and Janie notices her $200 is gone and she worries. She thinks he might have ran off but he comes back later saying that he bought a guitar and went to a party. She starts getting jealous that maybe he is seeing other girls but he assures her he isn't. She is jealous! She has found love. Anyways, Tea Cake takes some money to go gamble and get Janies money back but he comes back with a little over $300 and a couple battle wounds from a knife. He says that he wants to move down by the muck patch or something. Down there is where money is made. In the bean fields and gambling brings in bank. So they move and start working in the field. A girl named Nunkie starts trying to play her game on Tea Cake but Janie will not allow it. She breaks that up in a heartbeat but Tea Cake said she stole his work tickets and he was trying to get him back. They fight but they make up shortly after. Then Janie meets a lady that we come to know as Ms. Turner. She is racist against her own kind but she perceives herself as close to white. She doesn't associate with blacks except Janie because she is pretty light skinned. Tea Cake says that he doesn't want her around his house though so Janie tries to give her the cold shoulder. Sorry that this is so long but there was a lot of info to share. That would be so akward to be around somebody who was racist, especially of her own race!
This is what Tea Cake and Janie did in the muck patch to make money. They picked beans.
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