The weekend passed quickly, and it was time for Wen Ruan to return to school. The two of them would be very busy in the coming days. It seemed that there was some big move going on above, and Song Yan's unit needed to cooperate and respond actively, keeping them extremely busy.

Wen Ruan also needs to prepare for the upcoming midterm exams. Someone in the class had previously inquired and learned that all kinds of exam results are very important. Tsinghua University offers various internship opportunities during the holidays, including recommendations from professors to various organizations. Exam results are undoubtedly one of the most important evaluation criteria. Everyone in the department who has ambition attaches great importance to this exam.

When Wen Ruan returned to the dormitory with Song Yan, her roommates were still in the library and had not yet returned. Only Dong Ya was in the dormitory, who seemed to have just returned from home, just like Wen Ruan, but her eyes were a little red.

Wen Ruan thought something bad had happened to her and wanted to check on her, so she sat down next to her and asked, "Ya Ya, are you alright?" Her face showed obvious concern.

Dong Ya was sent to the countryside with her father when she was a teenager. She didn't have any close friends of the same age. Her only playmate since childhood was her younger sister, Dong Yan. However, Dong Yan and her mother's abandonment of her father and her a few years ago broke her heart. After being sent to the countryside, she had no close friends at all.

However, Dong Ya had met Wen Ruan through Song Yan, and the two got along quite well. By fate, they ended up in the same university, the same major, and even the same dormitory after the college entrance examination. Dong Ya would often sigh and marvel at how wonderful fate truly is...

Gradually, in Dong Ya's heart, Wen Ruan also gradually became a close friend with whom she could share her innermost thoughts.

Seeing Wen Ruan's concerned expression, Dong Ya could no longer hold back her tears and hugged Wen Ruan tightly, crying, "Ruan Ruan, what should I do..."

It turns out that recently, Dong Ya has been busy "entangled" with Chen Jianwei. That's right, it wasn't him entangled with her, but rather Dong Ya actively sought out Chen Jianwei...

When Dong Shuangqun was criticized and sent to the countryside, several of his students, including Song Yan, tried to find people to help him get to a relatively better place. After much effort, Dong Shuangqun was sent to a production brigade in a rural area of ​​Haishi.

The climate wasn't too harsh, and the conditions in the production brigade were decent. As long as you worked hard and earned work points in the fields, you wouldn't go hungry.

And so, Dong Shuangqun and Dong Ya were sent to Haishi for relocation...

However, although the conditions in the production brigade there were not bad, for people like them who needed labor reform, they had to do the hardest and most tiring work every day, but they received the fewest work points!

No matter how frugal the father and daughter are with their food rations, they still struggle to have enough to eat by the end of the year.

When the weather was warm, things were fine. The cowshed where she lived was backed by a mountain, and Dong Ya could sneak into the mountain to collect wild vegetables and mushrooms to store and improve her meals while the other members of the production brigade went to work.

Logically speaking, the wild vegetables, fruits, and game on the mountain belong to the public. Going up the mountain to pick and collect them on your own is considered an act of undermining the "socialist foundation." However, everyone tacitly agreed to this, and people from the brigade went together.

But this only applies to people in the brigade, not to those like them who were sent down to the countryside.

Therefore, winter is a very difficult time for Dong Shuangqun and his daughter. The cold weather and hunger make it extremely difficult for them.

Although Song Heng, entrusted by Song Yan, would sometimes try to send some winter supplies and food, due to their special status, Song Heng could not come to help them often. In addition, his tasks were heavy, so it was still a drop in the bucket for them. Therefore, they had to find most of the supplies and food themselves.

Dong Ya couldn't quite remember the exact date, only that the winter that year was exceptionally cold, and the snow was falling very heavily. The father and daughter were running out of food, and Dong Shuangqun, already exhausted from long hours of heavy labor, fell ill during the long winter with a persistent high fever.

Dong Ya was terrified at the time, fearing that Dong Shuangqun wouldn't make it through.

With no other option, Dong Ya braved the heavy snow and trudged deeper into the mountains, hoping to find some medicinal herbs or food to combat his hunger.

That day, Dong Ya was determined to either find medicinal herbs to cure Dong Shuangqun and save her, or stay in the deep mountains forever and go down to the underworld to join her father.

Dong Ya didn't know how long she had been walking. She felt her limbs gradually stiffening, and her walking movements were very mechanical. Just when she felt she was about to collapse, she suddenly saw a relatively hidden cave.

Perhaps due to the geographical location, the cave was very warm, and some fern shoots even grew inside!

This is precisely the medication that Dong Ya urgently needs to reduce Dong Shuangqun's fever.

At that moment, Dong Ya's heart was filled with hope of escaping a desperate situation. He didn't care about warming himself up in the cave for a while. All he could think about was his father, who was still down the mountain with a fever and needed the medicine in his hand to bring down the fever and save his life.

Dong Ya ran quickly down the mountain. The mountain path was covered in snow, and she felt that her toes were so cold that she couldn't feel them. Suddenly, she slipped and fell heavily.

She struggled to her feet from the snow and limped down the mountain. Suddenly, she heard a rustling sound. Dong Ya was frightened and tried to quicken her pace, but the pain in her ankle prevented her from doing so.

"Get out of the way!" Dong Ya suddenly heard a male voice shout.

Before she could react, a young man appeared in front of her, wielding a sickle. He slashed at the hungry wolf in front of him, then fought with the wolf for a while before finally killing it.

Wen Ruan listened with great interest; this man must be Chen Jianwei.

Fortunately, Dong Ya was alright, and Wen Ruan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief...

"And then?" Wen Ruan asked impatiently, not expecting such a dramatic encounter, a classic "hero saves the damsel in distress" scenario.