After Xie Yun finished cleaning up in the morning, she went to work as usual. Aunt Yang and the others came to ask her how she was doing. Xie Yun answered them one by one. After talking to the aunts, she carried her backpack and went up the mountain to collect grass for the pigs.

When I got to the mountain, I saw Wang Qing there. Wang Qing was having a hard time. Widow Chen and her son were pestering her every day, and there was no news from her father.

Wang Qing saw Xie Yun and said to her, "You're back."

Xie Yun said, "Well, it's been almost a year. Have you ever thought about going home to visit your family?" In fact, Xie Yun also wanted to help her, but she also had to be able to stand on her own. She helped her this time, but if she didn't stand on her own, then the widow Chen family would pester her again. Now, as long as Xie Yun was with her cutting grass for the pigs, the widow Chen's son didn't dare to come and pester her.

Once, Widow Chen's son came to bother her but was chased away by Xie Yun, and he never came again. Widow Chen's family knew that she was not easy to mess with because she had many backers and her friends were not easy to mess with either, so they would not come when she was not around.

But whenever Wang Qing was alone, he would be harassed. Wang Qing also found the village cadres, but the village cadres said that he did not do anything to her nor did he say anything bad, so there was no way to deal with it.

Xie Yun said this to remind her that she could go home to visit her relatives. Then she could talk to her father about the matter in person and let her father find a solution, thus preventing her stepsister and stepmother from doing anything bad.

Xie Yun sometimes doubted whether the letters she wrote could reach her father's hands, as many of the letters in the novel were intercepted by others.

After Xie Yun finished cutting grass for the pigs, he went home, ate something, and then went up the mountain to pick mushrooms. He also filled a basket with pine needles from under a tree to start a fire.

When everyone went home for dinner, Xie Yun took the food and started delivering it to each house. She didn't sit for long at each house before moving on to the next one. When she finished delivering, it was already dark, so Xie Yun hurried home.

In the evening, after taking a hot spring bath, Xie Yun started to harvest the vegetables and fruits she had planted. This time in Beijing, Xie Yun also found a place selling seeds and bought a lot of seeds.

However, Xie Yun didn't dare go to the black market. Even in the hot weather, her disguise wasn't as good as it was in winter. She felt she was too timid. Others who had traveled through time had become bigwigs in the black market, but she was the most useless. She had the resources but didn't dare go. She was doomed.

She did dare to go to the scrap collection station, though, and did pick up a few scraps, but not many. The good stuff had all been taken, and it wasn't her turn at the collection station.

Xie Yun returned to her space and tidied everything there. She also washed some fruit and ate it. After washing up and doing her skincare routine, she went out to sleep.

The weather is very hot now. I put an ice basin in the corner of the room, and the temperature dropped a lot when I went to bed.

Xie Yun now collects grass for pigs every day, goes up the mountain to dig wild vegetables, picks mushrooms, collects firewood, and collects pheasants and rabbits when he sees them.

The vegetables grown at home are now edible, and Xie Yun buys some food every month when she receives her monthly subsidy, but she has not spent her other coupons, as she has no immediate need for them. Villagers still exchange her coupons for them, but Xie Yun still only exchanges them for mountain products.

Qin Minghao, on the other hand, was being pestered. Xing Fang hadn't seen him in the hospital, and after he was discharged and returned home, Xie Yun was with him during the day, so Xing Fang didn't approach him. As soon as Xie Yun left, she came to make her presence felt, offering him fruit and chicken soup. Qin Minghao refused to see her and wouldn't let her in.

The neighbors in the compound saw this and started gossiping about them. Qin Minghao felt annoyed and didn't listen to Xing Fang. Another time Xing Fang came knocking on the door, Qin Minghao opened the door and said to Xing Fang, "Can you please have some shame? I still have shame even if you don't. I don't know you well, so please don't keep knocking on my door. If you do, I'll call your boss and sue you for harassing me."

As he said this, he closed the gate and walked back, saying, "I've never seen such a shameless person. She's a grown-up girl, and I don't know how her parents raised her. She has no manners at all."

The military families who were watching the excitement outside were pointing and talking to Xing Fang.

Soldier A: "I used to think he was a good person, but I didn't expect him to be so shameless."

Military Family Member B: "That's right, Qin Minghao already has a girlfriend, she's fair-skinned and pretty."

Military dependent C: "She doesn't even consider how she compares to others"

Military dependent Ding: "That's right, Qin Minghao's girlfriend just left and she came to show her affection."

Soldier A: "This is clearly destroying people's feelings."

"The Xing family couple doesn't care either."

“People nowadays…”

Xing Fang stood at the gate, holding a basket. Her face turned pale, then red, in anger as she heard these words. She had never been so embarrassed before. It was all Qin Minghao's fault. If you don't know what's good for you, don't blame me.

Xing Fang went home angrily, with viciousness in her eyes.

Qin Minghao has recovered quite a bit now. As long as he doesn't do strenuous exercise, he looks like a normal person. Furthermore, his transfer procedures are already being processed. He will be transferred to the city where Xie Yun went to work, so that he can be closer to her.

Qin's mother is also making preparations. Xie Yun will be able to get married next year. Her son said that he would get married when he reached the required age, so she has to prepare everything in advance. She is happy just thinking about having a grandson.

Xie Yun had no idea what Qin Minghao was planning, and she had no idea that Qin's mother was already preparing wedding supplies.

She is now making air-dried rabbit and air-dried chicken, and plans to mail some to Uncle Wang and Mother Qin after they are finished.

That day, Wang Hong from the educated youth point came to invite her to her wedding. Xie Yun was a little surprised that Wang Hong, such a proud person, actually agreed to marry Wang Dazhu.

Xie Yun smiled and agreed, "I will definitely go then."

After Wang Hong left, Xie Yun thought about it. She had heard that in the past, when educated youth got married, some gave gifts, while others gave money as a gift. The better ones gave one yuan, while the average ones gave fifty cents. She might as well give fifty cents. Their relationship could only be described as average.

On the day of Wang Hong's wedding, Xie Yun went to the educated youth camp early in the morning. Everyone greeted each other when they saw Xie Yun, and Xie Yun went directly to the house where the female educated youth lived.

The room was very clean. Wang Hong was sitting on the kang. She was wearing a red shirt, two braids, and a pair of black leather shoes.

Maybe he was happy that he was getting married today, so he didn't look down on them anymore.

Xie Yun gave the gift money to Wang Hong and said, "Happy wedding!"

Wang Hong took the money and said "thank you"

There were some pine nuts, hazelnuts, and melon seed candies on the plate on the kang table, but no one took too much. Everyone just took a little and ate it to share the joy.

These days, although these things, except for sugar, are all produced in the mountains or grown at home, no one eats too much of them. After all, they are all good things. Usually, people are reluctant to eat them and use them to exchange for things.

After everyone chatted and waited for a while, they heard someone outside shouting, "The groom is here, the groom is here!" Everyone quickly closed the door.

When the groom stood at the door and knocked, someone in the house asked questions. The groom answered two questions and sang a song, and then the people in the house opened the door.

Nowadays, weddings are simple and no one asks for red envelopes.