Qingshan Village Youth League Center.
Cao Yanfang walked out of the toilet with her hands blowing. The weather was so cold that she was numb from the cold in her hands and feet just from going to the toilet.
Not long after she became the person in charge of the educated youth site, it snowed heavily and the educated youth could not go out and had to stay at home. There was no need for her, the person in charge, to do anything.
But because everyone couldn't go out, they could only stay in the small piece of land of the educated youth site every day. As they lived together day and night, many conflicts occurred.
Especially with the two troublemakers Wang Yi and Liu Xiaowei around, the youth league office is in chaos every day.
Cao Yanfang said it several times, but they still did their own thing, so she stopped caring.
Yan Wei was originally planning to return to the city due to illness, but he was unable to go back because of the snowstorm and will probably have to wait until the beginning of next spring.
Because of his poor health, he had hardly left his room in the past two months, and even his meals were brought in by Zhu Hongye.
It was just dawn and everyone was still lying on the kang. Cao Yanfang walked into the kitchen to prepare the porridge in advance.
Otherwise, when everyone gets up, there will be a quarrel over using the kitchen.
When she entered the kitchen, Cao Yanfang found that someone was already busy in the kitchen.
Cao Yanfang grinned at the corners of her cracked lips: "Why are you up? Isn't it my turn to cook today?"
Cao Zi raised her head from where the fire was burning and smiled faintly, "It's too cold to lie on the kang. It's better to get up and cook. You can also warm yourself by the fire."
Because she and Cao Yanfang lived together, they also ate together, and of course, the three male educated youth Wang Yi, Qian Wen and Liu Daqing were also there.
The three of them were all educated youth who went to the countryside in the same batch as Cao Yanfang, so their friendship was naturally much deeper than that of others.
Originally, Wang Yi was reluctant to eat with Cao Zi. After all, everyone knew that she didn't have good food, only coarse grains. But later, seeing that Cao Zi only ate the food she brought out for every meal and didn't take advantage of everyone, he didn't say anything.
"That's true." There was only a little warmth left on the kang.
Cao Zi moved her butt toward the side of the stool and said, "Come over here and warm yourself by the fire."
Cao Yanfang didn't hesitate and walked over to sit down with Cao Zi.
Cao Yanfang opened her hands and placed them on the fire to keep warm, sighing comfortably.
"The weather doesn't seem to be getting any better. I'm worried it will get even colder. What do you think? Should we go to the mountain to collect some more firewood?" Cao Yanfang took a wooden stick and poked in the stove hole to make the fire burn more vigorously.
If the weather gets colder, the firewood they have now won't be enough.
Thinking of going up the mountain to collect firewood, Cao Zi’s face turned pale.
If Grandma Ge hadn't gone up the mountain last time, she would have been frozen to death on the mountain by the time Cao Yanfang came back.
Cao Zi didn't want to experience being surrounded and oppressed by snow, and frozen to the point of losing consciousness all over her body again.
When Cao Yanfang saw Cao Zi's ugly expression, she knew that she remembered the last time she was buried in the snow, so she had to lower her voice and comfort her:
"It's okay, don't worry. If we go again, we won't go separately. We'll stay together. At most, we'll make two more trips."
Cao Yanfang herself was also scared by the last incident. If anything happened to Cao Zi, she would not be able to escape the blame.
"When the time comes, call Wang Yi and the others to join us. They also need to collect firewood, and it will be safer with more people."
"Well, let's find some time to go together." Cao Zi replied with a smile.
She is not ignorant now. She understands that everyone has to contribute, otherwise no one will let you take advantage.
Seeing that Cao Zi agreed, Cao Yanfang breathed a sigh of relief.
She alone could not gather enough firewood for two people.
"You stay here and watch the fire. I'll go get some carrots."
There are not many green vegetables to eat in the middle of winter. We can only eat stored radishes and cabbages.
Add the shredded vegetables to the porridge every morning to avoid getting sick from not eating vegetables for a long time.
"Well, go ahead." Cao Zi responded.
The flickering flames from the stove hole were reflected on Cao Zi's face, and she stared at the boiling pot in front of her in a trance.
Last time, because of Grandma Ge’s illness, she was so anxious that she asked Village Chief Yang to give her a letter of introduction. She gritted her teeth and went back to the city alone to find her father.
She had no money on her, so she had to borrow two dollars from Cao Yanfang before she could take a bus back to the city.
It had only been a few months since she left Danyang City, but when she returned, she felt everywhere was unfamiliar.
She waited at home for a while, but her father didn't come back, so she had to go to his office to wait.
Fortunately, her hard work paid off and she finally got what she had been waiting for.
Her father knew why she came. He was silent for a while, then asked his secretary to give her the medicine.
In the end, the father and daughter didn't say anything. Cao Zi hurried back to save Grandma Ge's life and returned to Qingshan Village with the medicine.
Thinking back to their last meeting, Cao Zi felt sad. Was her father ashamed of her and didn't want her anymore?
Just when Cao Zi was immersed in her memories, Cao Yanfang walked in with a dark face.
"Cao Zi, our firewood and vegetables have been taken away, and your sweet potatoes, only two small ones are left, the big ones are gone!"
"What?! How is that possible?" After hearing this, Cao Zi no longer cared about being sad, because the loss of firewood and food would affect their future survival.
"I noticed it right after I entered. I check it every day, so there's no way I'm wrong."
Cao Yanfang shook her head and looked at Cao Zi with some sympathy.
Their firewood and vegetables were stolen, which was still a problem, but Cao Zi's sweet potatoes were stolen, which meant she would go hungry.
Cao Zi arrived late this year and did not earn many work points. The village only gave her some coarse grains and black flour, not much, just enough for her to eat.
Later, Cao Zi brought back a lot of sweet potatoes from somewhere, and they looked very good. Cao Yanfang didn't ask her where she got them from, but she was happy for her knowing that she could survive the winter.
Originally, everyone's food was stored in the house, but now we have to heat the kang in the house, and the temperature in the room is high. If sweet potatoes are placed in the house, they will sprout.
So Cao Yanfang asked Cao Zi to put the sweet potatoes in the firewood shed outside. Anyway, everyone's winter vegetables and potatoes were stored here, so there would definitely be no problem.
As a result, Cao Zi’s sweet potatoes were stolen, and Cao Yanfang was a little upset.
If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have given blind suggestions. If it sprouts, it sprouts. You can still eat it. But if it is stolen, you can’t eat it!
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