Chapter 23 Chapter 23 Chaos
Ye Yu waved to Sister Guihua, then returned to the educated youth site carrying a large bundle of firewood on his back, holding the coarse grains and twenty kilograms of flour he bought from Carpenter Zhang in his left hand, and dragging a huge dead tree trunk with many branches in his right hand.
Han Jingsa had returned from work. Seeing her from a distance in the yard, he hurried out to help.
Rejected by Ye Yu.
The firewood was temporarily piled under the eaves, and the backpack contained some miscellaneous small items, as well as three or four cucumbers that Sister Guihua had grown herself and given to her.
We have fresh vegetables for tonight.
Hua Feifei, Han Jing, and Xu Fei have not yet adapted to life in the mountain village. They don't care whether they are vegetables or not, and are still in a state of uncertainty.
Xu Fei told Ye Yu that the three of them had successfully applied for leave.
The captain did not make things difficult for the educated youth. He also wanted to reduce the number of those who could not work. However, he was not optimistic about this, just like Han Jing. It was not because he had Han Jing's information channels, but because his judgment came from his experience. Few of the new recruits in the army who cried and wanted to go home were actually able to go home.
If you don't let them make trouble, they might make a big fuss instead. It's better to let them do what they want. It's a good thing for those who can leave to leave early, and those who can't leave will have to stay sooner or later.
Hua Feifei didn't know what the captain was thinking. She only knew that her request for leave was successful, and maybe she would be able to pack her bags and return to Shanghai in a few days. Her hands and feet ached after a day, but at least she felt mentally comforted and could smile.
He was also very generous and brought out the smoked fish, pickled duck and roasted gluten he brought from home to treat everyone to the celebration.
Han Jing and Xu Fei hurriedly stopped him: "You can't go back right away. It would be a waste to eat all this in one meal."
With Ye Yu around, they fully believed in Ye Yu's abilities and were like a bottomless pit in their stomachs.
"It's a pity." Ye Yu thought that the cucumbers tonight could be exchanged for so many meat dishes.
Hua Feifei obediently put away the smoked fish and roasted gluten, but still left half a pickled duck, saying that it was for everyone to try. She emphasized that Ye Yu added it because of the firewood instead of the cucumber, because she didn't like eating cucumbers without any other ingredients!
"Yes, yes, yes."
Ye Yu doesn't care about firewood or cucumbers, she is happy to have meat to eat. The skin of the braised duck is black and the meat is tender. Because it is soaked in soy sauce, it is salty and fresh, and the marinade is very tasty. Not to mention the meat, she can even chew the bones.
"tasty!"
Hua Feifei saw that she had punched the cotton, "...", ahhh, she was so angry that she was about to die -
Humph, I’ll grab it.
Han Jing also ate like a fool, but Xu Fei thought too much. At home, he ate meat more than ten times a year. Now he came to the educated youth site and ate meat every day. People who didn't know would think they were celebrating the New Year. This was too extravagant.
Don’t think about it anymore. If you don’t grab it now, it will be gone. Only a fool will refuse to eat meat!
After dinner, Ye Yu took the sweet potatoes and corn to grind flour. They didn't have much food per person, and she could carry all the grain that four people needed to grind with one hand.
Seeing that they could not help, Han Jing and Xu Fei stayed behind. Hua Feifei was really helpless.
However, when they met people, they couldn't help feeling a little awkward. All the work was done by a female comrade, and Han Jing's ears turned red with shame.
It wasn't that Ye Yu had to rush to do the work. It was mainly because the two people had been busy all day and had already exerted too much energy. Their hands were shaking from carrying the bags. It would be worse for her to carry the food alone if she asked them to carry it step by step with heavy effort.
It is faster and saves more time.
The team leader's family lives on the hillside at the foot of the mountains on the west side. It is relatively humid here because it is not far from the confluence of two streams at the foot of the mountain, but it is still acceptable in the north. Because the terrain is flat, more than one family lives here. Each household has a large homestead and a spacious courtyard.
The stone mill was placed in the middle of the captain's yard.
Nowadays, wheat, rice, sweet potatoes, soybeans and other grains often need to be ground after drying. Not only the team leader's family has a stone mill in the village, but the village community also has one, which is bigger and heavier than this one, and often requires a donkey to pull the mill. A hundred pounds of grain is too little, so that is not needed.
The brigade's family uses a small, human-powered mill. The stone mill weighs about 100 pounds. When pulling the mill, one person pushes and pulls it, while the other puts the material into the millstone. The two of them work together the fastest.
Han Jing and Xu Fei finally felt that they were of some use.
When the three of them arrived, the team leader was still busy with team matters and had not returned yet, so they were received by the team leader's wife.
The captain's wife's surname is He, and most villagers call her He Saozi. He Saozi looks very blessed, with a round face and a slightly plump figure. She was originally scolding her two little mud kids, but her face changed immediately when she saw them.
Become super enthusiastic.
She poured hot water and taught them how to use the stone mill. She was a good wife who knew how to help others. Maybe she was more popular than the team leader.
After Ye Yu got the hang of it, he pushed the mill very quickly and finished everything in a short while.
Normally, the payment for borrowing a millstone would be an egg or a bunch of onions grown in one's own fields, but they haven't started planting yet.
Ye Yu was about to use money as an excuse, but Han Jing took out a few pieces of red shrimp crisps from his pocket before her. They were a kind of crispy candy that was very popular in that era. They were more expensive than fruit candies but cheaper than White Rabbit milk candies.
Mrs. He refused several times, but when she saw two children, one tall and one short, gathered around her, she took the food without hesitation and handed them some vegetables before leaving.
There are not many vegetables, but there are several kinds, including radishes and cucumbers, and even wild rice stems.
When seeing water chestnuts, the first thing Ye Yu thought of was dumplings stuffed with water chestnuts. She had Fuqiang flour in her space, but no pork. So dumplings stuffed with water chestnuts and pork would taste better. No, she almost drooled.
When I returned to the educated youth site, Hua Feifei had already taken a shower and was washing clothes in the yard with wet hair.
She actually didn't want to take a shower, she just wanted to lie in bed and sleep, but the cleanliness obsession she brought from Shanghai still overcame her tiredness. However, when she was washing clothes, she began to regret it. Thinking of the hardships she had endured in the past two days, she couldn't help but start to tear up.
Maybe because there was no one around, Hua Feifei cried louder and louder, much more unrestrained than usual, with tears and snot all over her face.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, she quickly wiped away her tears with her sleeves.
Little did she know that Ye Yu, who was walking in front of her, walked silently and just happened to see her miserable appearance.
"Well……"
Hua Feifei's brain was filled with the word "囧" in capital letters. She had no time to find an excuse. She saw Ye Yu ignoring her as if he didn't see anything and walked towards the kitchen.
“…”
"We are so familiar with each other, why don't you ask?" After Ye Yu came out, Hua Feifei asked very aggrievedly, and her voice was full of tears.
Ye Yu asked: "Is it cooked?"
"We, Han Jing and Xu Fei have already eaten five meals together and live together. I treated you to smoked fish and braised duck, and you...you treated me to kimchi and cucumber. Isn't this enough for us to know each other well?" Hua Feifei looked resentful. From childhood to adulthood, she had never seen Ye Yu, a stubborn and difficult person to get along with.
Han Jing, who was called, wanted to say something but was stopped by Xu Fei. Based on their previous experience at home, it was best not to get involved when women were quarreling.
Okay, Ye Yu kindly suggested this for the sake of the smoked fish and duck sauce:
"Cut your hair short so it dries faster and you won't catch a cold easily in winter, so that—"
"Ahem! Ahem!" Han Jing and Xu Fei interrupted Ye Yu's next words. However, Han Jing's words of persuasion didn't seem to be on point. He only heard him say, "Short hair is indeed easier to wash."
Is this a problem with short hair?
Hua Feifei was completely overwhelmed by their ability to ask twisted questions. Besides, she had a big face and short hair was not suitable for her at all. It would look ugly if she cut it. She liked long braids, two long braids!
"It's not ugly, it's super cute." Ye Yu felt that she had a wrong perception of herself. Her apple face was not big but round. If she cut her hair right, she would look better than now.
Hua Feifei:
...The topic is off topic again.
...But what if I'm a little happy?
Hua Feifei decided not to bother with Ye Yu, and Ye Yu also went to fetch water with a wooden bucket.
Xu Fei and Han Jing looked at each other in surprise:
"They seemed to have had a quarrel?"
"But he didn't seem really angry."
"Fei Fei has a good personality. Her temper comes and goes quickly, and she forgets about it after a while. Ye Yu is very capable. She doesn't really hold grudges and has been secretly helping us all the time! There's no way they can fight. Even if they do, we can't stop them. Ye Yu can suppress us with just a finger."
"…Well…"
They are so useless.
Ye Yu did not go to the back mountain that she had been thinking about that night. She was a quick-moving person and was busy plowing the land in the yard, planting some potatoes and vegetables, and the other part of potatoes and soybeans in the more than one acre of private land on the downhill side.
It was also at this time that Han Jing, Xu Fei and Hua Feifei learned that she had done this in the afternoon.
Hua Feifei couldn't get angry anymore, but she still didn't want to cut her hair short. She felt bad about it. Even though she might leave next week or next month, no matter how tired or unwilling to move she was, she would do what she could like Han Jing and Xu Fei.
Ye Yu did not stop them this time. As long as they did not make things worse, it was fine to lend them tools and water the plants, especially the fertilization later.
The main thing is to give them something to do.
Yes, that's it.
It started raining in the middle of the night, and when I got up in the morning, the temperature had dropped a few degrees.
Breakfast was made by Hua Feifei, who was quite good at cooking. She mixed a little bit of flour into the whole grain porridge, and added the chopped green onions she brought from the team leader He Saozi's house last night, and spread it into whole grain pancakes.
It tastes surprisingly good.
In addition, Hua Feifei also cooked a big pot of steaming sweet potato porridge, which was just right for this weather. She paired it with multi-grain cakes and some pickles and kimchi brought from everyone's home. It was the best meal with limited ingredients.
Hua Feifei was very proud, especially after looking at Ye Yu. Ye Yu's weakness was eating, so she naturally applauded the "kind-hearted Feifei" without hesitation.
"...Okay, we might not be back for lunch today, so you can heat up some multi-grain bread."
Hua Feifei knew that if she took out the food, Ye Yu would eat it all like a glutton no matter how much it was, so she only took out the amount that Ye Yu had prepared yesterday morning, and locked the rest in the cabinet, which she only opened now to show her.
Elm leaves: 6.
Although the autumn rain has not stopped yet, it doesn't seem to be heavy. Han Jing and the other two borrowed old raincoats from the village and prepared to go to the town. After all, it is not easy to ask for leave, and they can't keep asking the captain for kindness.
The three of them staggered away.
Han Jing looked tall and thin, but he was actually quite strong. After a busy day, his hands and feet didn't feel any muscle stiffness, probably because he also exercised regularly at home. Xu Fei and Hua Feifei were in an awkward position. Their knees hurt when they bent, and the background when they walked looked like zombies in a future movie.
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