A Slacker in an Era Novel

Synopsis: The leisurely diary of a retired big shot: daily life, human relationships, everywhere is full of gossip.

Ye Yu returns from the apocalypse to a courtyard in Sijiucheng. Here, there...

Chapter 69 Second Update: Ginseng and Deer Antler

Chapter 69 Second Update: Ginseng and Deer Antler

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Car? What car?

A four-wheeled car?

car?

Upon hearing this, Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi were filled with questions. Their family didn't even have a bicycle. They could find a few relatives who had bicycles, but the difference between bicycles and cars was too great. It was like one in heaven and the other in hell.

Is a car something that ordinary people can own? Their entire machinery factory only has two cars, and only the factory director, deputy director, director, and their driver can drive them.

When did they have such extraordinary relatives and friends? Why can't they imagine it at all?

Ye Yu frowned, as if he had some guess.

After walking a few steps, they saw a Chinese-made car surrounded by adults and children at the entrance of a small courtyard. They could not see the license plate or the driver.

No, it seems the driver wasn't in the car either.

"Ye Yu, here, here!" Another tall and thin man was seen waving vigorously in the crowd. There were three unfamiliar faces standing near him, two men and one woman?

The reason for the question mark is that the female one not only has a very avant-garde short hair, but also her behavior details are somewhat deliberately inclined towards the opposite sex. In fact, she does not look very heroic, but her fangs when she speaks are very memorable.

Ye Yu nodded in response and briefly introduced them to her parents: "Han Jing, the educated youth who went to Wangjiagou with me, and his friends."

Friends who were mentioned along the way: ...The logic of this introduction is correct, but it sounds weird. Ye Zhiqing's personality is indeed as unique as Han Jing said.

Han Jing, accustomed to Ye Yu's temper, greeted Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi warmly, "Uncles and aunts, Happy New Year!" He even greeted Ye Baoguo and Ye Weiguo, "Hello, my two younger brothers, too. Happy New Year!"

Then introduce your friends: "Ma Shengnan, Gao Xinliang, Song Kai."

The friends who were picked up quickly joined in the laughter, called out to others, and wished: "Happy New Year."

Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidie were so shocked by this action that they were stunned for a long time. It took them a while to react and they welcomed them into the main room with an awkward smile.

Even so, a bunch of men and women, young and old, would stick their heads out in the yard to gossip and command, "San Ya, what are you standing there for? Why don't you pour tea for Han Zhiqing and the others?"

Ye Yu: "Oh."

"No, no, no, Ye Yu, you sit down, you sit down, you sit down," Han Yu suddenly jumped up from the stool as if a needle had stuck in his buttocks. "I'll do it, I can do it myself, hahaha, it's this thermos, right?"

Ye Yu:

"The tea is behind the jar on your right."

"Okay!" Han Yu was busy running around. He was mainly busy for Ye Hongjun, Wang Laidi, Ye Yu, Ye Baoguo and Ye Zhongguo. In the process, he kicked Liangzi and others, and asked Ma Shengnan, Gao Xinliang and Song Kai to get busy as well.

Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi: “…”

The couple was so shocked that they didn't react at all, resulting in a very bizarre scene in the house: the host just sat there and the guests were busy running around. They had never seen such a situation in their entire lives.

It was not until Ma Shengnan took out the bags of gifts from the car that Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidie finally came to their senses and quickly waved their hands to refuse.

It can be seen that this time they are not being polite out of social conventions, but are sincere.

Putting aside the fact that the Ye family was unfamiliar with Han Jing and the others, let's take a look at the New Year gifts Han Jing brought. Some of these things were taken from home, and some were bought from state-owned stores.

The New Year gift packaging of White Rabbit milk candy was still unopened, and there was also a bottle of "Feitian" Moutai, which might be the national liquor Moutai. This bottle of wine alone is worth 5 yuan, and you need several wine tickets. To be honest, wine tickets are more valuable than money.

“…”

Whose child is this? How can he be so wasteful?

Ye Hongjun didn't notice that he said it out loud because he was too surprised. Han Jing also answered his question. His grandfather, father and mother all knew about it, and his grandfather agreed.

Some of the New Year gifts were chosen by his parents, and his grandfather also donated money and tickets to express his gratitude to Ye Yu for taking care of him in Wangjiagou.

In fact, not only Ye Yu had gifts, but the forest ranger, Hua Feifei, and Xu Fei also had gifts. However, the gifts from others were not considered New Year gifts, so they were brought together after the Spring Festival. However, because they were not New Year gifts, they were not so grand, and were more practical items.

Han Jing simply piled the things under the sideboard in the main room because there was no room on the sideboard.

"I haven't thanked you for helping take care of Ye Yu yet." Ye Hongjun and his wife were overwhelmed by the New Year gifts that fell from the sky. It was really difficult for them to return the New Year gifts of equal value.

"Ye Yu is the eldest of us educated youth. She can live well anywhere. She doesn't need our care. We are the only ones who need Ye Yu's care. You don't know how miserable we were on the way to Wangjiagou. If it weren't for Ye Yu's help to hold the luggage... and..."

Han Jingchui appears again, and the story is described very seriously at the beginning, but becomes more and more bizarre later on, almost turning it into a martial arts drama or an anti-corruption drama.

Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi were stunned when they heard this. If Ye Yu hadn't told them, they wouldn't have known that Ye Yu's life in the countryside was so rich and colorful.

Fighting and punishing bullies are nothing. Some of them are closely related to their lives, such as the rectification of supply and marketing cooperatives and even many state-owned service industries.

The Ye Baoguo brothers listened with great interest. Ye Weiguo even raised his hand to ask questions actively. If he hadn't already set his sights on the World Championships next year and wanted to make a good living, he would have wanted to move to Wangjiagou as well.

“…”

Wang Lai Di finally regained her composure and, like a wooden man, took out snacks from the cabinet and placed them on the table. Turning around, she saw Han Jing pushing the food in front of Ye Yu and inviting her to eat, with very skilled movements.

“…”

Looking at Ye Hongjun who seemed to be hesitant to speak and Wang Laidie who was at a loss for words, Ye Yu put down his water cup, took out four newly folded red envelopes, and handed them to Han Jing and his friends. That's enough, this isn't too tiring for them.

Aren’t red envelopes given by elders to younger generations?

But Han Jing was so heartless that he was happy to accept the gifts. And his childhood friends, since they agreed to Han Jing's unreliable suggestion to wish a happy new year to strangers they had never met during the Spring Festival, had similar personalities to Han Jing and accepted the gifts one by one.

Okay, never mind.

Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidie went out to pay New Year's greetings, leaving all the household affairs to Ye Yu. Ye Baoguo's brother, who had originally planned to pay New Year's greetings to his parents, had completely given up the opportunity and wanted to follow his sister.

Okay, let’s just ignore it.

What's even more outrageous is that when she went out, she saw a group of people watching, and someone asked which young man came to give the betrothal gift and whether Ye Yu was going to get married too.

"What's going on? They have the purest revolutionary feelings." This sounded familiar. Wang Laidie had learned a certain fashionable phrase without any instruction. She didn't see any shyness between men and women at all. They looked more like five buddies.

After Ye Hongjun and Wang Laidi left, Ye Yu asked while cracking melon seeds, "How's your martial arts training going?"

"I dare not slack off for a single day." So far, Han Jing has not finished learning all the basic movements. If he wastes a day, won't his body flexibility go back to normal and he have to suffer the pain of stretching again?

By the way, when learning martial arts from Ye Yu, Han Jing did hope to become a martial arts master like Ye Yu and be able to kick wild boars away, but he was still far from it.

However, practicing martial arts was not as completely useless as he thought.

On New Year's Eve, when Han Jing was fighting with his cousins, he unexpectedly found that he had become much more flexible and powerful. He had learned military boxing, and the effect of the same set of military boxing was now two levels higher than before, making him almost able to beat his peers.

Mr. Han is knowledgeable and experienced. There were more than one or two civilian masters in the army before the founding of the People's Republic of China. There is definitely no outrageous plot like hiding a bomb in the crotch of pants, but there really was a 10-year-old assassin who had already learned martial arts and shooting.

Just told Han Jing to study hard.

It's not that Grandpa Han doesn't trust his grandson, but for the sake of the country, he still asked the guards to secretly check the backgrounds of the forest ranger and the Ye family. They were indeed of good origin, and they were excluded from being spies with ulterior motives.

Although it is not known which master the forest ranger and Ye Yu learned from, the forest ranger had experienced war and Ye Yu had to flee from famine for three years. It is entirely possible that they met folk masters and learned from them.

It’s a pity that the current situation is so chaotic that many masters have chosen to retire, and only those who emerge are stubborn people.

Han Jing was able to drive out to pay New Year's greetings, which must have been with the support of Mr. Han.

Ma Shengnan raised her hand high: "Comrade Ye, can I learn from you?"

She also brought tuition fees, including food and a military green coat, and said that it would be a New Year's gift whether she taught or not. She also said that the black soil in the production team where she was staying had a relatively high grain yield, as well as famous treasures such as ginseng, sable fur, and deer antlers, which she could pay regularly.

Ye Weiguo: "And me!"

Ye Baoguo: "Me."

Gao Xinliang and Song Kai also raised their hands silently.

Ye Yu replied: "Teaching you is not a problem, the problem is that there is not enough time."

Everyone said they would learn as much as they could.

Brothers Ye Baoguo and Ye Weiguo may not think so, but Ma Shengnan, Gao Xinliang and Song Kai were surprised and delighted at how easily Ye Yu agreed. You know, even carpenters and masonsmen need to test them for three, five or ten years before accepting disciples. Who would show off their abilities so openly?

Ye Yu:

...Supernatural powers cannot be learned, they have to rely on the sun. As for martial arts, spreading them will help the evolution of humans in the last days, and it can also be considered a merit for rebirth, right?

Ma Shengnan also asked: "My mom and uncle both work in pharmaceutical companies. I heard that some medicines can reduce the amount of time spent studying?"

Although traditional Chinese medicine has been hit hard now, it is impossible for Chinese medicine to disappear completely. Hospitals in cities still use half Western medicine and half Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine is the main medicine in towns and rural areas.

Ye Yu listed a series of medicinal herbs, including a small number of precious herbs and most of the common herbs. If they were all precious herbs, it might not be possible to collect a few of them in the end times.

Ma Shengnan suggested that they could go directly to the medicinal materials factory outside the suburbs of Yanjing City. She, Gao Xinliang, and Song Kai took the initiative to share some of the medicinal materials with themselves, the Ye Baoguo brothers, as well as Han Jing, Hua Feifei, Xu Fei, and Wang Danniu.

As for Ye Yu, she can just tell her what medicinal herbs she needs and they will do their best.

Ye Yu was not polite and seriously reported a long list. This time there were more medicinal herbs, more precious medicinal herbs, and more demand for medicinal herbs than the last list.

"It may take a while, or we may have to wait a year." Ma Shengnan answered honestly.

Ye Yu:

"It doesn't matter."

Medicinal herbs are indeed useful for the cultivation of people with special abilities, but they are not that useful. What is more important is talent and hard work.

Whether going to the suburbs or the bustling alleys and courtyards, it is not suitable for screaming, as it may attract many enthusiastic people to call the police.

Ye Yu glanced at Han Jing.

Han Jing was pretending to be calm. The purpose of his coming here really had nothing to do with the pharmaceutical factory, but there were other surprises. But since it was a surprise, hehe, Comrade Ye Yu had always been very calm, and he hoped to see her surprised.