In a fit of anger, Du Yinan rolled up Jiang Manyue's bedding and threw it on the ground.

Luo Jingyan is formidable, while Jiang Manyue is a pushover.

Jiang Manyue was no pushover either; she grabbed Du Yinan's bedding roll, threw it on the ground, and stomped on it a few times.

Du Yinan also went to provoke Jiang Manyue, and the two started fighting.

Later, Shen Ruyi separated them.

Jiang Manyue slept in Luo Jingyan's original spot, while Du Yinan and Lin Shanshan moved their positions inwards.

Luo Jingyan moved into her own little house and was finally able to use the space freely.

She hasn't taken anything out of her space since she arrived so many days ago.

From now on, she and Luo Changtian will no longer eat with the other educated youth, and she will no longer be able to pick the vegetables that the educated youth ordered.

Winter is just around the corner, and it's time to pickle vegetables. She plans to buy some from her fellow villagers as a cover, and take the rest from her spatial storage.

Now that she's completely settled, she wants to raise some poultry and livestock in the space so she can easily eat meat.

By the way, her little black cat must be getting restless from being cooped up in the space for so long.

Black Tiger.

Master, I'm here!

Do you want to come out and stay outside from now on?

The kitten was suffocating inside. [Yes, I miss you, Master.]

Okay, I'll find a reason to let you out, but you'll have to wait two more days.

She went to a fellow villager's house and bought a cabbage for two cents. When Luo Changtian came home from school, she had already prepared dinner.

The aroma of Luo Jingyan's cooking filled almost the entire educated youth compound, and the educated youth couldn't believe that this was the smell of Luo Jingyan's cooking.

The food they ate from Luo Jingyan before was not good at all.

Song Yinglan even went over to take a look, and there was only Luo Jingyan in that house. Who else could it be but her?

At this moment, she seemed to have forgotten the ominous nature of the house and sat down directly in Luo Jingyan's room.

"Jingyan, I didn't expect your cooking to smell so good. I could smell it in the dorm just now."

"It was just something I did casually," Luo Jingyan said.

“It didn’t taste like this before.”

“My younger brother wants to learn to cook; he used to cook for him.”

"No wonder." Her eyes were fixed on the dishes on the table. Although the educated youth also ate cabbage at the educated youth settlement, Luo Jingyan's dishes looked much more appealing than those served at the educated youth settlement.

Luo Changtian smelled the delicious food and couldn't help but exclaim, "It's so good, sister, I can eat your cooking again."

Jiang Manyue helped her move today, and Luo Jingyan invited her over for dinner, which would save her a meal.

After Jiang Manyue arrived with the tableware, Song Yinglan still didn't say she was leaving.

Luo Jingyan ignored her and instead invited Jiang Manyue to sit down and eat.

All three of them treated her like she didn't exist.

Song Yinglan thought Luo Jingyan would be polite to her, and if she was, she would sit down and eat together.

But to her surprise, the other person started eating without saying a word.

At this time, the food ordered by the educated youth was ready. Several educated youth sat together to eat. Shen Ruyi casually called out to Song Yinglan and told her to eat, and then nothing more was said.

Over here, Luo Jingyan and the other two were eating their meal without inviting her over.

She deliberately raised her voice and said, "Jingyan, it's true, seeing you all eating makes me hungry too."

"If you're hungry, go back and eat. I think I just heard Sister Ruyi calling you. You should go back now."

Song Yinglan: That's not what she meant, okay?

But since they had already asked him to leave, she felt embarrassed to stay any longer and had no choice but to leave.

That evening, Luo Jingyan went straight into the space to take a shower, then cuddled her chubby cat and lay down on the soft bed to sleep—it couldn't be more comfortable.

The next morning, she got up feeling refreshed, opened the door, and saw a thin layer of frost covering the ground outside.

Frost is a sign that winter is coming. The male educated youths all went up the mountain to collect firewood, and she also needed to gather some firewood.

The villagers were also busy gathering firewood, and they couldn't borrow a wheelbarrow at all, so she had to carry it back by hand.

The firewood at the foot of the mountain had been almost completely collected, so she had no choice but to walk further up the mountain.

She put the collected firewood into her spatial storage, then went to collect more from other places, and finally carried a bundle of firewood down the mountain.

When she returned to the educated youth compound, she saw the female educated youth harvesting cabbages in their private plot. Shen Ru saw her and wanted to give her two cabbages, but Luo Jingyan refused.

"Sister Ruyi, Xiaotian and I can't eat that much, we can just buy some to eat."

Du Yinan didn't hear them talking. When she saw Shen Ruyi giving Luo Jingyan cabbage, she immediately objected and ran over, saying, "Sister Ruyi, she's already given away her vegetables, why are you still giving her vegetables?"

Shen Ruyi said, "What right do you have to speak? Did you grow these vegetables? Did you even water them? It's already a favor that you get to eat them."

Du Yinan was furious. Why was everyone siding with Luo Jingyan?

Luo Jingyan hadn't wanted the cabbage earlier, but she changed her mind. She took the cabbage from Shen Ruyi's hand and took out a handful of fruit candies from the house, distributing them to the five old educated youths and Jiang Manyue, but not to Du Yinan and Lin Shanshan.

Taking advantage of the fact that it hadn't snowed, Luo Jingyan had been going up the mountain for the past few days. When Luo Changtian didn't have to go to school, he would also go up the mountain with her to collect firewood.

They already have a huge pile of firewood at home, plus what they've stored in the living room, enough to last them all winter.

Luo Jingyan also wanted to raise some chicks in her space. She was afraid that the chicks would run around and damage the crops in the space, so she had to build some fences first.

She selected some sturdier wooden sticks from the firewood and arranged them in a circle around the space.

Farmers usually don't hatch chicks during this season because the temperature isn't suitable. Luo Jingyan thought she would buy eggs and put them in her space, where the temperature would be suitable, so the chicks might hatch successfully without a mother hen.

Alternatively, she has a cat. Cats and chickens have similar body temperatures, so having the cat hatch chicks for her would be a bit of a hardship for Black Tiger, as she would have to keep the eggs warm at all times and never leave their side.

She went to nearby farmhouses and only traded eggs with those whose chicken coops had both roosters and hens. If there were only hens and no roosters, she would only trade a few eggs, since she would eat eggs regularly anyway.

Finally, she traded for thirty-six free-range eggs at a farmer's house that had both roosters and hens. She put them in her spatial storage and made a chicken coop out of chopped wheat straw.

Black Tiger walked over with graceful cat-like steps.

"Master, what are you going to do?"

Luo Jingyan arranged the eggs in the henhouse, then put the cat inside: "Black Tiger, will you help me hatch the chicks from now on?"

Black Tiger shook his head. "Master, the temperature in the space is perfect for hatching chicks. There's no need to increase the temperature for them."