Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Sweet and Sticky Sweet Potato
"Saya, do you have anything to say?" Ye Hongjun walked up the stairs to break the stagnant and gloomy atmosphere in the room.
"I want to sign up to go to the countryside." Ye Yu threw a landmine first, and before Wang Lai Di could get angry, he quickly comforted her, "Mom and Dad, don't worry, listen to my reasons first."
"First, I'm still young and don't want to get married at 18. Besides, I'm not even 18 yet."
Not only will he not want to do it when he turns 18, he probably won’t want to do it even when he turns 180.
Don’t talk about raising children to provide for old age. Ye Yu, like all the men and women surviving in the apocalypse, has no desire to have children.
People with special abilities generally have long lifespans. She didn't even know how long she would live, so would it be difficult for her to outlive her own children? Furthermore, if she gave birth to a child, there would be no heir to the throne, and her descendants would only be able to inherit the hellish apocalypse three hundred years from now.
Why bother?
"Second, it's hard to find a formal job."
Ye Yu was not obsessed with work. What he cared more about was living in a small space like a slum. If he roared, the whole yard would hear him because of the poor sound insulation. Moreover, he was short of food and clothing, so the aroma of meat he ate could spread throughout the whole yard.
It’s better to be free in the countryside.
Of course, the most important thing is that she brought back her special abilities and gained the ability to protect herself.
Metaphysics was prevalent in the last days, and some people proposed the dialectical relationship between superpowers and the soul. Ye Yu just thought it was a joke at the time, but he never thought that superpowers were actually related to the soul.
Ye Yu awakened spatial abilities at the end of the world. He often used three skills: space tearing, space teleportation, and space warehouse. Unfortunately, his awakening happened two years after the end of the world, and many supplies had been destroyed by natural disasters, making it impossible to store them in large quantities.
In the future, Ye Yu's spatial ability has been upgraded to level 7. Perhaps due to time travel or physical reasons, it has now fallen back to the initial level 1 when he first awakened. He can tear space continuously or 10 times, teleport within 10 meters, and have a space warehouse of 10 cubic meters.
The space warehouse is named by space ability users like Ye Yu. Inside the body of a space ability user, it is similar to the legendary portable space, but without the spiritual spring land in fantasy novels. It is like a portable warehouse where time has stopped and no living things can be placed in it. People cannot enter or exit.
Ye Yu's space warehouse had shrunk greatly, and many things inside had disappeared. Fortunately, more than half of the high-value items were left, including nearly a hundred exotic beast cores and more than a dozen mid- and high-level exotic beasts and plants that had not yet been processed.
As the name suggests, the beast core is the beast core in the body of a mutant plant. It is an indispensable aid for mutants to upgrade.
That is, if a psychic wants to upgrade, even from level 1 to level 2, he must rely on the assistance of the beast core of the corresponding level. However, to improve within the same level, he needs to practice according to the methods announced by the base. The two complement each other and can become strong.
Not to mention the upgrade, Ye Yu, who now has a level 1 supernatural power, has an extraordinary physical fitness and can live well in most places in Ye Country.
The countryside is freer than the city.
Not only is there living space, but there is also food. In the countryside with mountains and rivers, there is at least a place to have a bite to eat.
"So I have no choice but to go to the countryside, if not this year then next year," Ye Yu concluded. "Not only do I want to go, I also want to sign up early. Firstly, the school is getting more and more chaotic, with teachers being sent down, so it's better to finish school sooner. Secondly, signing up early gives me more choices, like choosing a more affluent village. If I have connections, it would be even better if I can live with my grandparents."
Wang Lai Di was able to marry Ye Hongjun as a rural person. Wang Lai Di's hometown is also near Yanjing, at the foot of Yanshan Mountain, and may even be incorporated into Yanjing in the next few decades.
Ye Yu chose this place not just for herself, she believed that she could survive anywhere, and this also provided another way out for Ye Lan.
It is not good to marry randomly, especially for women who are still in a vulnerable group, unless the woman can use her fists. But Ye Lan can't, and relying entirely on the other party is like gambling.
If Ye Lan doesn't want to get married, she can choose to go to the brigade near Yanjing.
You don't have to take the train to go home.
Ye Yu also did not approve of Ye Lan going to remote areas. It was not an empty saying that poor and remote areas produced unruly people. The beautiful female educated youth could not protect herself and it was very dangerous in the harsh environment. She had seen a lot of this in her previous life.
In peacetime, human nature is more good than evil, but one evil is enough to destroy a lot of good.
After all, being destroyed is 100%.
Moreover, Ye Yu had a very shallow impression of Li Wei. It would be better for Ye Lan to follow him to the countryside than to go with him. At least he had the ability to protect her safety. When cooking a pot of meat, he could at least let Ye Lan drink half a bowl of broth.
I guess so?
Not very confident... ahem.
At the end, Ye Yu added: "The same goes for my second sister. We can be together."
Ye Hongjun and Wang Lai Di immediately thought that this was a good idea. The sisters could be together and look after each other. They could also look after the brigade near Yanjing.
It would be even better if I could go to her parents' home.
Before Wang Lai Di got married, her relationship with her parents' home was average, probably because the closer the better, the more smelly they are, and the farther the better, the closer the worse. But after she got married, her relationship became better, and she went back there several times during the Spring Festival.
She immediately said enthusiastically, "I have a day off tomorrow, so I'll go ask your uncle, third aunt, and brother-in-law to see if there's anything I can do."
Ye Hongjun's parents have passed away. He has two brothers and two sisters. However, one of his younger brothers died of illness when he was young, and one of his sisters married and moved away, so they rarely visit each other. The remaining brother and sister live in Beijing, and they visit each other during the holidays.
At that time, Ye Hongjun's father was a senior technician with a higher level than him. Ye Hongjun and his brother learned their skills from the old man. Ye Hongjun's elder brother was two levels higher in skills than Ye Hongjun, and Ye Hongjun's sister's family environment was better.
Ye Yu's elder sister Ye Xing was gentle, good-looking, and a technical secondary school graduate. After graduation, she went to work as an officer in an office in an electromechanical factory. She also married well. Her husband was a worker in the same factory, and her father-in-law was the factory director. Their family had a wider network of contacts.
Nowadays, the society values human relationships more, and with multiple fronts advancing, one can always get involved with the Youth League Office.
"Dad, Mom, let's help you find...that person." Ye Lan's face flushed and her voice was as soft as a mosquito. What was strange was that her attitude seemed even more determined than before.
Ye Lan was embarrassed to say that her impression of the countryside mostly came from Wang Lai Di's hometown. It wasn't that the place was bad, but her most profound impression came from the three-year terrorism period, when she saw dead bodies for the first time, more than one person starved to death, which had become a shadow of her childhood.
"Okay, I'll ask Auntie tomorrow too, and if she does a careful calculation, she's been a pretty good matchmaker in the past two years." Wang Lai Di didn't understand what childhood trauma was. She just thought Ye Lan was very reluctant to go to the countryside. Ye Lan was almost 19 years old, and if she really found a suitable family, she would be suitable for marriage.
There are many families living in every courtyard in every alley in Yanjing City. Each courtyard will vote to elect two to four uncles and aunts to assist in management and assist the street office in managing the courtyard, including notifying each household in a timely manner of any news. Usually, people of high moral character or enthusiastic people are elected.
The aunt is one of the administrators of their courtyard. She is retired and has a lot of free time. She is very keen on all kinds of things in the courtyard, including matchmaking.
Since Ye Lan was determined not to go to the countryside and would rather get married, Ye Yu did not force her. As a sister, she respected her personal choice. However, she still wanted to go to the countryside herself. She emphasized: "Mom, I won't go to the countryside, but I still want to find a good place as soon as possible."
"Okay, okay, I can't forget you. If you insist on going out to suffer, I can't stop you."
Wang Lai Di was also impressed. Of her three daughters, the eldest was the most worry-free, gentle, and quick to act. After studying, she found a good job and married into a good family. Within three years of her marriage, she had already given birth to two big, fat boys.
There are two daughters left. One is homesick because her original son-in-law left and she doesn’t know what the gossips in the yard will say about her. The other one insists on going to the countryside. She is so young, but her heart has already left her.
"Mom, you are so democratic and awesome." Ye Yu coaxed her decisively, not caring about getting a cold shoulder.
The family meeting for tonight is over.
In the 1960s and 1970s, there was little entertainment, the slums had no electricity, and oil lamps were expensive. The rest of the time was basically spent sleeping, and it was natural to go to bed around 7 or 8 o'clock.
Ye Yu followed Wang Lai Di to the toilet at the end of the alley. On the way back, Wang Lai Di thought Ye Yu had some little secret to tell her mother, but it turned out to be -
"Mom, I'm not full."
I’m hungry, I want to eat.
Wang Lai Di was completely surprised by what she said. She was shocked for a second before replying, "...Did you eat those two pancakes tonight for nothing? You ate them, pooped, and then ate again. You pig."
"I'm growing, and my digestion is fast." Ye Yu defended herself, and she was not wrong, she was indeed growing.
The average height of people in this era is not tall, and many girls are under 1.6 meters. Ye Yu is now 1.594 meters tall, rounded up to 1.6 meters. She is only 18 years old now, and there is still room for growth.
Coupled with the cultivation of supernatural powers, he can grow at least another 0.11 centimeters, reaching a height of 1.7 meters, and may even be taller.
Wang Lai Di: "You talk as if I've been deprived of food and drink since I was little."
Although the Ye family was not wealthy, they did not starve their children, and they still had enough coarse grains.
Ye Yu just informed them and after getting permission, he ran to the small kitchen in the backyard, followed by a little tail that was very excited when it heard the word "eat".
Both of them were jumping around with light steps.
Wang Lai Di looked at the backs of the two identical figures, one big and one small. No wonder they said that 18 was too young to get married. The third child was still a child at the age of seventeen.
She was reluctant to let any of her children leave, but it was difficult for the whole family of non-only children not to go to the countryside, especially since there were four minors in their family. If none of them went to the countryside, they would be reported. Erya didn't want to go to the countryside, and it was a good thing that Sanya was willing to go. Alas, Sanya had to bear the brunt of this matter...
Ye Yu had no idea that his parents were discussing in a low voice in the bedroom. He went to the kitchen, took out five sweet potatoes, and stuffed them into the stove which was still burning.
"Huh? Sweet potato." Little Tail Ye Weiguo was very disappointed.
Sweet potatoes are eaten with every meal in this era, whether in rural areas or cities. Eating too much can cause heartburn. People who grew up in this era basically do not like sweet potatoes.
But Ye Yu likes it.
The natural disasters of the end of the world are absolutely devastating to agriculture. In the end, only mutated creatures can survive. Edible mutated plants are difficult to kill but not necessarily delicious. Many people have to eat them no matter how unpalatable they are. If they don't, they will die.
Sweet potatoes are so cute and delicious.
The sweet potatoes picked out from the stove are particularly fragrant. When you peel off the skin, they are golden, soft, sticky, sweet and delicious. Before you know it, Ye Yu has taken the fifth bite.
Ye Weiguo didn't know why, but when he saw his third sister eating the most common and ordinary sweet potato, he actually felt hungry. He couldn't help swallowing his saliva and said, "Hey, leave half for me."
Ye Yu denied three times:
"Impossible, I've eaten it all, there's no more."
Ye Weiguo: “…”
"Stingy!"
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