Chapter 47: Changes

When Ming Kangjian and his team came out of the cafeteria, they were followed by many people, including Luo Wei, Sanya, Hongmei, Qiuyan, and others who were familiar with Lin Qi, as well as some who were not so close to her and knew her but could not name her. In addition to these team members, the team leader and deputy team leader also came to the educated youth site.

There was no way, they were really curious about how Lin Qi caught so many mice.

The arrival of these people packed the educated youth site to capacity.

"No one is seen." Everyone looked around, but there was no sign of Lin Qi.

"I'll go to the room and check." Gan Tian said.

In fact, everyone at the educated youth camp knew that at this time, Lin Qi was either in the mountains or on her way back from the mountains. But none of the six of them mentioned this matter.

Gan Tian was just talking casually, but she didn't expect that Lin Qi was actually in the room and fell asleep.

"Lin Qi, wake up." Gan Tian pushed Lin Qi.

Lin Qi opened her eyes dazedly, "What's the matter?"

"I don't know. Maybe everyone is curious about how you caught so many mice, so they come to ask." Gan Tian said.

"Smoke and dig holes." Lin Qi said and fell asleep again.

Seeing that she looked tired, Gan Tian felt embarrassed to continue calling her and turned to leave the room.

"She was in the room, but she fell asleep. I woke her up and asked her less than two questions, and then she fell asleep again. She must be very tired." Gan Tian said.

"Did she explain how she caught so many rats?" someone in the crowd asked.

Using the word "explain" is not a polite tone.

Gan Tian looked at the man, and it was Luo Laizi.

Gan Tian glared at Luo Laizi, then said, "She said it was smoke and digging."

"We have also used smoke to smoke rat holes in the mountains and dug rat holes, but we have never seen this!" Luo Laizi didn't believe Gan Tian's words.

Not only him, but everyone else present also didn't believe it. Harvesting a dozen or so a day was considered amazing at best, and more than a thousand was something they had never even seen or heard of.

"That's because you don't have the skills. How can you be as good as our Lin Qi?" Jian Tongyi looked at Luo Laizi with contempt. "Let alone more than a thousand mice, even hundreds of kilograms of fish, has anyone here ever caught such a thing?"

Everyone was silent. They really couldn't look at Lin Qi with normal eyes.

"Okay, I've asked all the questions and my curiosity has been satisfied. Let's go back and have a rest. We still have to work hard tomorrow, so everyone should keep their energy up." Luo Feng spoke at the right time.

"Captain, will there be any rats to eat tomorrow?" a team member asked loudly.

Luo Feng shook his head, "I don't know either. Who knows what Lin Qi can catch? Even if she doesn't catch anything, that's normal. Just like when we go into the mountains, don't we often come back empty-handed?"

Everyone nodded. That’s true.

On the other side, Xu Hexiao took two meals and returned to the straw hut. Old Man Xu had just heated up the leftovers from today's meal in the cave. In addition to the dishes, there was also a plate of wild grapes on the table.

"Grandpa, did you and Lin Qi go catching mice today?" Xu Hexiao never thought that Lin Qi caught so many mice by himself.

"Grandpa was smoking fish in the cave and blocking the cracks and crevices in the cave. He also helped you fill the ground with stones. He didn't go to catch mice." Old Man Xu said.

Xu Hexiao frowned, "She caught more than a thousand mice by herself?"

"Yes." Old Man Xu recalled how he was terrified when he saw two large backpacks full of rats.

If so many rats rushed up at once, they would eat a person to pieces, leaving not even a bone.

"I never knew there were so many rats in the mountains." Old Man Xu said, "Don't think too much. If you are really curious, just ask her one day. Let's eat first. The mountain rats smell so good that I am drooling at the smell."

"Did you eat any rats in the mountains today?" Xu Hexiao was curious. In the Anliang Brigade, mountain rats were considered a delicacy and no one disliked them.

"No, I ate some smoked wild boar meat and pheasant, and there is still some left. You can eat more later. In addition to the vegetables, there are a few yam cakes left. You should finish them. You can't keep them in such a hot weather." Old man Xu didn't know his grandson's appetite before. It was not until Lin Qi appeared and they no longer lacked food that he realized that his grandson could finish five bowls of rice in one breath.

It is true that teenagers can eat their father into poverty.

Lin Qi slept from before dark until dawn, and didn't even go to the canteen for breakfast. She didn't get out of bed until the gong rang to signal the start of work.

Yesterday, she used her special powers to catch mice, and her special powers were completely exhausted, not a trace was left.

I haven't been this tired in a long time.

However, although she was tired, after sleeping for more than ten hours, she felt that her supernatural powers had increased a little.

Lin Qi didn't go to the cafeteria. She ate two tomatoes by herself. After eating the tomatoes, she ate two boiled eggs before walking towards the straw hut.

She left the backpack containing mice in the cafeteria yesterday and didn't plan to take it back, so she went out empty-handed today.

Old Man Xu was waiting for her in the straw shed. When he saw her coming, he observed her face. He felt relieved when he saw her face was pale and rosy. "You looked so pale yesterday. I was scared. The captain didn't say how much prey you must hunt. Don't overwork yourself. It's not easy to recover from a broken body."

He has exhausted himself and is getting worse day by day.

"I understand." Lin Qi responded obediently.

Seeing that she listened to his advice, Old Man Xu liked her even more and asked softly, "Where are we going today?"

"Let's go back to the place where we went yesterday. I found pheasants and rabbits yesterday. Let's try today to see if we can catch them." Lin Qi said.

"Do you need my help?" Old Man Xu was curious about how she hunted, but he was worried that he would be clumsy and hold her back.

"No need. Just cook for us." Lin Qi refused. She was worried that Old Man Xu would be scared when he saw those animals.

Old Man Xu was not upset at being rejected. "That's fine. Besides preparing food, the stone floor I laid yesterday is not finished yet, so today is a good time to continue."

The number of pheasants and rabbits in this area seems to be increasing every day. It is not known whether it is because they have eaten the vegetables and crops grown by Lin Qi's supernatural power, but these pheasants and rabbits are growing very fast, and even their fur is smoother and shinier than that of ordinary pheasants and rabbits.

Lin Qi quietly used vines to drag away twelve hares, fifteen pheasants, and killed more than a hundred sparrows. These sparrows were also full of food, and rested on the trees after eating, without any vigilance.

"For lunch, I'll have a chestnut stew with mushrooms, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, a cold-mixed black fungus, and a mushroom soup. For dinner, I'd like to have roasted rabbit and roasted chicken. Roast two rabbits and two chickens each, and we'll take them away." Lin Qi came back with two rabbits, two chickens, and some vegetables.

Old Man Xu agreed, "No problem."

"I'll go outside and find some stones for you." Lin Qi said, and went out of the cave again.

The meal in the cafeteria today was the most sumptuous in recent days, with dry-pot rabbit, braised sparrows, and pheasant stewed with potatoes.

"Mom, is it New Year's Day?" The ignorant child swallowed hard and asked his mother.

Mom shook her head, "No. Even during Chinese New Year, we don't have that much meat."

"Three meat dishes came at once, Lin Qi is so awesome!" Zhao Yi ate without even raising his head.

"Every day is getting more abundant than the last. I'm starting to wonder what I'm going to eat tomorrow." Mo Mingyang suddenly felt that the autumn harvest was not so bitter after all.

"At first I thought she was a burden." Ma Guizhi whispered, feeling a little ashamed.

She has not said anything bad about Lin Qi for a long time.

"Thanks to her family for sending her to the countryside." Jane Tong added.

“.......”

The Anliang Brigade had a more satisfying dinner than yesterday.

But after the meal, everyone's face looked not very good.

"The weather has suddenly become extremely hot and there is not a trace of wind. I'm afraid it's going to rain." said the experienced old man.

Not only the old man, everyone noticed that something was wrong.

"The crops in the fields are ripe. If this rain continues for three or four days, the crops will probably sprout."

"What should we do? We still have a lot of food left in the fields."

"Maybe it will rain tonight and stop tomorrow."

“What if the rain doesn’t stop?”

“........”

Everyone expressed their own opinions.

The next second, the gong sounded and the captain shouted, "Everyone be quiet, let's have a meeting now."