"Thank you for your concern. I stayed at a friend's house in the commune for the night."
Xie Yuyao told a lie and then asked if Shumei was there.
Aunt Tian said, "She went to the educated youth settlement early this morning. Your houses have been built and handed over. Go and take a look."
Xie Yuyao looked pleasantly surprised. "Okay, Aunt Tian, I'll go now."
After all her misfortunes came true, her house was finally completed!
"Honghui, I'm going to the educated youth settlement!" Xie Yuyao returned next door in high spirits to tell Zhao Honghui about the house.
Zhao Honghui, who was chopping wood, threw down his axe and said, "Let's go take a look!"
Before long, the two arrived at the educated youth settlement.
The first thing that catches the eye is the mud-brick house of the educated youth compound under construction. With many people working together, the walls of the house are already being built, and it will be completed soon.
Zhao Honghui greeted the community members who were working, and the two went around to the backyard, where they saw a house with blue bricks and gray tiles. Yang Shumei and Zhao Jianbin were cleaning up construction waste in the main room.
After winter sets in, the wild grass withers and turns yellow, and the sweet potato vines become the food source for the pigs raised by the brigade. The grass-cutting team has already taken a break and will not start work until the grass sprouts again next spring.
Therefore, Yang Shumei has been busy preparing for her new home these days.
When she saw Xie Yuyao, she went up to her and said, "Yaoyao, you're finally back! Where did you go last night?"
She worried all night because Yao Yao hadn't returned.
"There was a slight accident, but everything's fine now." Xie Yuyao didn't say much more.
On the way there, Zhao Honghui had already told her about the aftermath and checked the details with her again, omitting the part where she fought back with a gun.
To avoid retaliation from those who escaped the net, he couldn't tell anyone about last night's events. That's why Kuroko came to call him invisibly the night before.
Yang Shumei saw that she had glossed over the matter and knew there was more to it than met the eye, so she considerately didn't ask any further questions.
Xie Yuyao and Zhao Honghui's attention shifted to the newly built two-bedroom apartment.
The doors and windows are all installed; it's ready to move in after a quick clean.
Zhao Honghui had mixed feelings. "When do you plan to move in?"
"There's no time like the present, let's do it today!"
"..." Zhao Honghui felt very reluctant, but he also knew that this day would come sooner or later.
Moreover, once Yao Yao moves back to the educated youth settlement, he can then tell his parents about building a house.
He silently recited to himself: If love between two people is meant to last, why should they be together every day and night?
Seeing his gloomy look, Xie Yuyao laughed: "Just kidding. It's not cleaned up yet, and there are still a lot of things to buy. We definitely won't have time today."
Zhao Honghui then realized that his concern had clouded his judgment, causing him to overlook even such a simple matter.
That morning, the four of them cleaned the house together and then went to the carpenter's house to move the wooden furniture, such as tables, chairs, cabinets, wardrobes, and bathtubs, that they had ordered a few days earlier.
The matter of Xie Yuyao and Yang Shumei building a house naturally drew a lot of sarcastic remarks from the villagers. Some said they didn't know how to manage money, others said who would dare to marry such spendthrift women, and some even said they were too thin and obviously couldn't have children.
They both ignored the slanderous words. Xie Yuyao was thick-skinned; she couldn't bring herself to wrong herself just because of someone else's jealousy!
Furthermore, one side knew the future trend, and the other firmly believed that returning to the city was only a matter of time; naturally, they weren't afraid of the gossip circulating in the brigade. Even if it was extremely insulting, its destructive power wasn't too great.
Seeing that the two men didn't seem to care at all, the older women naturally lost interest and changed the subject to other people.
Now that the house is completed and the furniture is in place, it has a real sense of being a new home.
The not-so-small bedroom was bright and airy, with two windows, one at the front and one at the back. Zhao Jianbin had brought the glass back, and Xie Yuyao specifically thanked him for it.
"It's a pity we haven't bought an iron pot yet, otherwise we could have a proper meal together."
As soon as Xie Yuyao finished speaking, Zhao Honghui said, "I've already asked someone to buy the iron pot. It's with the transport team, and we'll pick it up this afternoon."
So in the afternoon, the four of them rode two bicycles to town and bought a lot of kitchen utensils, tableware and personal items.
After a busy day, Xie Yuyao and Yang Shumei tallied up the costs and concluded that the house had cost around 100 yuan so far, not including the various receipts for furniture.
The joy of decorating the new home overshadowed the harrowing experience of yesterday's life-or-death ordeal, and the gunshots and the smell of blood gradually faded away.
As Zhao Honghui said, time heals all wounds. And Xie Yuyao, who experienced time travel, compressed this period of time to the extreme.
That night, even though she was still pleasantly surprised by her nightmares, she was no longer as terrified as she had been the night before.
Her heart felt at peace whenever she thought of Zhao Honghui, who lived under the same roof.
She was able to escape unscathed entirely because Zhao Honghui was positioned in front of her.
This man not only didn't report her, but also sheltered her from the storm and protected her.
With him by her side, she was afraid of nothing!
At this moment, Zhao Honghui was resting with his eyes closed in the room. He was worried that Yao Yao was having another nightmare, but because of his large family, he could not stay by her side. He could only wait silently in his room.
As dawn breaks once again, medical training resumes as normal.
Xie Yuyao and Zhao Hongqin packed up the collected herbs and went to the village entrance with Zhao Honghui, who was pushing a bicycle.
Zhao Huixiu had been waiting by the oxcart for a long time. When she saw Zhao Honghui, she took the initiative to talk about her trip to the mountain to collect herbs the day before, and even asked him for praise: "I collected the most!"
Zhao Honghui ignored them and waited until everyone arrived before riding his bicycle alongside the oxcart, instead of leaving first.
He was afraid that something might happen to Yao Yao while he couldn't see her.
Upon arriving at the training room of the health center, many people were exchanging information about the medicinal herbs collected by other teams.
In the Lijia Gou team, Li Hongmei proudly raised her head: "Our team has Jiang Minzheng, and we've collected quite a few medicinal herbs!"
Jiang Min was smiling and shaking her head, her gaze secretly fixed on Xie Yuyao, but she didn't even blink, let alone look over.
Shortly after, Director Tian and all the doctors from the mobile medical team walked in.
Director Tian looked around and said, "Put out all your herbs."
The trainees open their packages or bags so the doctor can examine the results.
Dr. Zhuang observed that among the twenty-odd people, some wanted to win by quantity, collecting a large quantity of medicinal herbs. Others wanted to win by variety, finding seven or eight different kinds of herbs.
Two of them are rather special.
One of them was Jiang Minzheng. The medicinal herbs he displayed were all high-priced and varied, clearly demonstrating his extensive knowledge and careful selection.
One is Xie Yuyao. Her medicinal materials have been processed, although it has not been long and the processing is not yet complete, but the processing method is meticulous and professional.
He called on each student individually, examining their knowledge of the herbs they had collected, in order to assess their level of understanding.
Jiang Min was well-prepared and answered fluently and thoroughly, his eyes gleaming with keen interest.
Needless to say, Xie Yuyao was no challenged by any subject matter.
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