Chapter 44: Auspicious Snow and a Good Harvest
Outside Sijiu City, it was also snowing in Wangjiagou, even earlier than in Sijiu City.
When it was snowing, Ye Yu and his colleagues were working in the fields.
A cold wind blew, and without warning, white snowflakes began to fall from the sky. The first person to notice them exclaimed, "Look! It's snowing! It's snowing!"
"Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest."
Someone is asking for a good start.
Not long after, the team leader also sent someone to notify that, except for a few posts that required no one to be absent, everyone else could leave work early and go back to rest. They did not need to come this afternoon, and their work points would be calculated as half a day.
If the snow continues to fall tomorrow, not all people will need to be at work, so he will arrange for people to take turns.
The team members went back home.
Ye Yu was also there. Since Groups 2 and 3 had been working together recently, she went back to the educated youth site with Han Jing and Xu Fei.
When I arrived at the youth cadre site, I saw smoke rising from the front yard.
Since the New Year pigs were handed in, Hua Feifei has had less and less work to do. Every morning, afternoon, and evening, she would go to the pigpen to feed the remaining two pigs and check that they were not frozen to death due to hypothermia before returning.
Today too.
After returning to the educated youth site, Hua Feifei was not completely idle. She fed the chickens and cleaned the chicken coop.
Perhaps because witnessing the chicks hatching for the first time was so meaningful, Ye Yu's pre-hatching work was handed over to the other three people after the chicks hatched.
More than ten days after birth, the chick's light yellow feathers have grown out. The fluffy little yellow chicken is soft and looks great. It is much cuter than the sparrow.
sparrow:
“Chichi.”
"Chirp, chirp, chirp." The chicks, all looking the same but with unknown number, seemed to be responding to it.
A sparrow and a chicken, echoing each other, as if they were having a conversation.
It's snowing outside.
Hua Feifei walked out excitedly after seeing the snow through the window. It snows in Shanghai, but not every year, and even if it does, it is difficult to have a large accumulation of snow. She likes snow.
"Yawn—"
It's really cold outside and the wind makes my face hurt.
Hua Feifei walked towards the kitchen. It was not yet lunch time, but she still lit a fire and cooked a large pot of ginger soup. She also used the fire from the stove to roast a dozen sweet potatoes.
Hearing the creaking sound of the courtyard door, the voice rose two notches, full of joy: "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's snowing really hard."
"Yes...hiss, yes, yes." Entering the kitchen, Han Jing and Xu Fei shuddered at the warm air.
"Hurry up and drink the ginger soup to drive away the cold."
Hua Feifei filled three enamel cups with ginger soup and handed them over one by one.
When handing it to Ye Yu, he accidentally touched her fingers, which were warm. Her hands, which had been blown by the cold wind, were not colder than her hands that were burning the fire in the kitchen.
Is this scientific?
The villagers of Wangjiagou may not know this, but Hua Feifei and others who live with her know very well that Ye Yu still takes a bath almost every day, with a bucket of boiling hot water. She has even been seen pouring cold water into the bathtub when there is not enough hot water in the pot.
Ye Yu didn't wear sweaters or the like under her cotton-padded jacket like they did. Instead, she wore everything, mainly thin summer clothes. Some people even saw her wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt or shirt.
It's simply insane.
Hua Feifei asked three times a day: "Aren't you cold?"
"Is it cold?" Ye Yu asked back. The ginger soup tasted very spicy and overbearing. People who were not used to it would frown like Han Jing and Xu Fei, but she did not have this concern.
Drink it in one gulp.
"Of course it's cold, otherwise you can ask Jing Si and A Fei and the others." Hua Feifei couldn't help rolling her eyes.
"Oh, it's natural." Ye Yu sat down around the stove and reached out to take a fragrant roasted sweet potato.
"Why don't I have this kind of physique?"
Not only did Hua Feifei not have Ye Yu's same fear of cold, she also didn't dare to get too close to the fire when roasting it. She didn't feel it in the past when she was in Shanghai, but when she arrived in Wangjiagou, she realized that the air humidity in the north and the south was very different.
Especially easy to dry.
Not only does it cause dryness, but it also causes frostbite and ice cracking. Even Xu Fei, a man who believes that men shouldn't apply any cosmetics, has to apply clam oil with Han Jing to relieve the symptoms.
Ye Yu also applied clam oil, but the effect was completely different from theirs. No matter what time it was, her skin was as white and tender as a peeled egg, even the newborn babies in the village might not be able to compare with hers.
Hua Feifei was envious, but also dissatisfied.
She spent a lot of money to buy half of the clam oil that Ye Yu had used from her. After applying it on her face for a few days, the effect was not as good as the vanishing cream she brought from home.
Why?
"Innate."
Hua Feifei even had the urge to go back to the drawing board and be reborn. Wasn't Ye Yu really some wild monster? A pig spirit, a tiger spirit, or something like that?
"No." Ye Yu seriously rejected it. "It's a person. He has a shadow. He eats, drinks, defecates, and urinates. All of these are essential."
Hua Feifei then realized that she had complained out loud, and quickly covered her mouth. She looked around and saw that Han Jing, Xu Fei, and Ye Yu were all acquaintances. She breathed a sigh of relief. Such feudal and superstitious words should not be said.
Xu Fei made a "caution" gesture. Although he and Han Jing didn't care much about appearance, they were also very envious of the abilities displayed by Ye Yu.
I won’t say more, the ingredients available for lunch today are rabbit, chicken, fish and deer.
Yes, you heard it right, rabbit, chicken, fish and deer are all available.
Ye Yu's hunting luck has been good these past two days, with good results every time.
Regarding hunting, at the beginning, when Ye Yu took out wild rabbits, wild fish, and pheasants, Hua Feifei and the other three were very surprised; but when Ye Yu took out wild rabbits, wild fish, and pheasants for three or five consecutive days, the three of them were no longer just surprised, but also worried that she would be in danger, especially when they heard from local villagers that there were wild boars and wild beasts in the mountains.
If days like this continue, everyone will become numb, envious, and admire.
Not to mention Xu Fei, even Han Jing and Hua Feifei were worried about whether their wallets were full enough.
Of course, the fact that the educated youth ate meat every day could not be completely concealed from the people of Wangjiagou Village. They finally understood why a young, beautiful and capable girl like Ye Yu wanted to go to the countryside. It seemed that she was eyeing the mountains in the village.
A natural born hunter!
It’s not that no one is jealous, especially Wang Laoer, Wang Laosan and their group.
But they couldn't catch Ye Yu in the act.
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San once secretly followed Ye Yu up the mountain after work, but they could not keep up with her speed at all. She was as fast as a rabbit and disappeared in a flash.
It’s even worse at night.
My nose was bubbling from the cold and I couldn't squat down to do anything. After two days, I had a fever and couldn't stand it anymore, so I had to go to the health center to buy medicine.
There was no medical insurance back then, and many Chinese medicine stores in the city were forced to close, and Western medicine was extremely expensive.
Moreover, the prey that Ye Yu caught was basically eaten immediately, or stored in a place that Hua Feifei and the others didn't know about. If Wang Laoer and Wang Laosan wanted to catch him, they could only come to his house at mealtime.
But facing the evil force of Ye Yu, do they dare to do so? Can they defeat him?
Wang Laoer has been domineering in Wangjiagou and even Pingquan Town for so many years, and he never thought that there was someone he couldn't defeat, and that was a young girl.
It's so embarrassing!
But facts are facts.
Without waiting for Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San to come to the door, Ye Yu, who was harassed by buzzing flies, was too lazy to wait any longer and decided to take the initiative and kill the flies.
About half a month later, when Wang Laoer and Wang Laosan's three sons were roasting sparrows in the yard, Ye Yu came to their door.
She swore that she really didn't take any weapons and walked alone into the enemy's lair.
!!!
The Wang family was as if they had seen a ghost.
Wang Laosan's wife screamed in fear; Wang Laoer's wife said nothing, huddled in the corner, clutching her clothes tightly with her frostbitten hands, like a young wife who had been bullied for years.
"Would you please be quiet?"
Ye Yu's goal had nothing to do with them. He passed over the two of them, glanced at the dirty child with a runny nose, and asked the two brothers who came out of the house: "At such a young age, you're digging into society. Did you learn this from your father?"
"Aren't you roasting them too? What are these sparrows compared to the hares and pheasants you caught?!" Wang Laosan yelled at the top of his lungs. If he hadn't been rooted to Wang Laoer's side, this sentence might have been more interesting.
Ye Yu:
"A big corner or a small corner is still a corner."
"you!"
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San were indeed brothers, and they raised their fists and rushed over just like Wang Lao San did that day.
Ye Yu did not retreat but advanced, grabbing Wang Laosan's wrist with one hand. Wang Laosan, a 1.8-meter-tall strong man, screamed like a pig being slaughtered and kicked Wang Laoer aside.
She added, "Besides, I really can't poach as many people as you guys. Is there anyone in this village who can poach more people than you guys?"
These words were said to the former village chief and the former former village chief who finally came out of the house.
"The village chief has been working year after year, and I think he's accumulated a lot of wealth. Do you dare to let someone search it?"
The former village chief and the former former village chief: "We are doing practical things for the village with a clean conscience."
"A rat hole? In the yard? In the vegetable garden? On the beam?" Ye Yu interrupted his nonsense impatiently, "Oh, it turns out to be on the beam." He thought it would be hidden deeper, but his eyes were inadvertently exposed.
!!!
It only took Ye Yu two seconds to climb over the eaves and walls, and he found a small box on the beam of the house that was the same color as the beam. When he opened it, there were not many bills inside, but about 800 yuan, a silver bracelet wrapped in red cloth, two silver rings, and a pair of gold earrings.
Not a lot, but not a lot either.
Ye Yu put the small box back, leaving only the gold earring. "If you continue to make trouble, I will return it to you at the appropriate time and place."
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San may not have understood, but the former village chief and his men were smart people. They knew that the female educated youth was threatening them. Hunting was a customary thing, and if they were caught, they would at most be severely criticized. However, these gold and silver jewelry would plunge their family into the abyss. They were also flexible and said all the nice things they could.
In fact, Ye Zhiqing only took one gold earring to threaten them. He didn't take all of them, which was enough to surprise them.
Ye Yu didn't take it because the amount didn't look like the stolen money obtained by Niu Da and his men in robbery. Besides, she was too lazy to deal with the red armbands unless it was absolutely necessary, and she didn't want them to disturb this peaceful little mountain village.
The two sides reached a "consensus".
Upon hearing the news, the captain hurried over, followed by a large group of onlookers. When they saw the scene in the Wang family yard, they were stunned.
Is the snow red yet?
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