"Mom, I'll find my own wife, so you don't need to worry about it. As for who she is and what her background is, as long as I'm sure of her, that's fine. If you don't like her, I'll take her to live further away and have less contact with her."
Yang Chunhua felt a chill run through her. "Fine! A son is no longer under his mother's control once he grows up. Since you're so opinionated, I'm not going to interfere anymore. Let's see what kind of good wife you can find!"
She arrived full of hope, only to leave disappointed. Yang Chunhua returned to the main room and sat silently in a corner, grieving alone.
Old Zhao, standing nearby, sighed and advised, "He served in the army for so many years, and his character is strong and unyielding. You can't control him. Try to be more open-minded."
"Who am I doing all this for! If he keeps dragging this on, he'll be thirty soon!" Yang Chunhua threw off the covers, sat up, and choked out.
Zhao Laoda patted her on the back, "I know you're doing this for his own good, and he knows it too, so just let him be. If he really needs our help, he'll naturally ask."
The once assertive Yang Chunhua suffered a major setback and deeply regretted her actions.
*
The moon sets and the sun rises, ushering in a new day.
Yang Shumei was fine now. She walked with Xie Yuyao to the threshing ground and asked her about her outing with Li Weidong last night.
After the crocodile crisis, Xie Yuyao's relationship with her was no different from that with others, so she told her everything.
Yang Shumei admired her boldness and said, "I also want to build a house."
"Go talk to the brigade leader tonight, he should be happy to see it happen." After a few days, Xie Yuyao also knew that she came from a wealthy family and was not short of money.
As for why she didn't want to switch to an easier job, one can only say that everyone has their own ambitions.
Just as I was thinking this, I heard Yang Shumei say, "I'm used to working in the fields. Once this period is over, there won't be any work left before winter. If I go to cut grass now, the villagers will say that I'm setting a bad example."
"Let them say what they want. These are harmless rumors, no need to worry about them."
Xie Yuyao knew very well that in the current environment, rumors could be used as a weapon. But as long as she didn't violate any prohibitions, she wouldn't be held hostage.
Yang Shumei, unaware of her ulterior motives, earnestly warned, "You don't know how terrifying gossip can be; sometimes rumors can ruin a person."
"Keep a close eye on yourself and wait for good news."
After Xie Yuyao finished speaking, the two looked at each other and smiled, everything understood without words.
Some of the educated youth who went to the countryside have integrated into rural society and become genuine farmers. Others remain steadfast, waiting for news of their return to the city.
Without a doubt, Yang Shumei was the latter.
She has high hopes and is fearless about the future. Her refusal to run away or give up has become a ray of sunshine in Xie Yuyao's life.
The corn harvest is complete; today we'll start harvesting soybeans.
The withered soybean pods hung on the stalks. The women used sickles to cut the stalks and piled them up, while the men shoveled them onto carts and pushed them back to the drying ground. The elderly and children beat the stalks in the drying ground to thresh the soybeans.
This harvesting was really tiring. Before long, Yang Shumei felt her lower back was aching terribly. She hadn't realized it before because of the difference, but now she regretted not asking the brigade leader to switch to an easier job.
Yuyao is probably mowing the grass and playing with the children right now.
In fact, Xie Yuyao had already completed her morning quota and was already deep in the mountains and forests.
In the past few days, she has learned a lot about medicinal herbs in the mountains from books. Now that the time, place, and people are all right, she went into the mountains to explore.
The ancient trees, thousands of years old, stood tall and straight, their branches and leaves so thick they blocked out the sun. In the dim light, Xie Yuyao stopped in her tracks.
Along the way, she saw many insects, ants, birds and beasts, but only found common and cheap medicinal herbs, which made her want to turn back.
Even though they had sprayed and applied a lot of insect repellent to their bodies, the visual stimulation was still inescapable.
I don't know how the heroines in those novels dared to venture alone into the jungle to find a thousand-year-old ginseng and then be attacked by wild boars.
She took out a mat, sprinkled insect repellent around it, sat down, and started reading a hunting book.
The idea of hunting in the mountains will be put aside for now. If we can catch one or two animals, the trip will not have been in vain.
Whether it was divine intervention or not, Xie Yuyao was just immersed in the world of the book when a commotion to her left pulled her back to reality.
What is it? A person or an animal?
She quickly activated her spatial perspective and saw a large wild boar strolling towards her.
This wild boar is completely different from domesticated white pigs; it has brownish-black fur all over its body, and its tusks gleam coldly and are exceptionally sharp.
This... I was just complaining about wild boars and here they are, where is the thousand-year-old ginseng?
Xie Yuyao shook her head, dismissing this untimely delusion.
As is typical, the male lead is usually nearby, waiting to stage a hero-saves-the-damsel-in-distress scene.
But she found that there wasn't a single person in sight within a hundred meters.
She doesn't want to be chased and bitten by the wild boar, but she also doesn't want to hide in a space and let it go. How can she kill the wild boar without leaving a trace?
Thinking that zoos in later generations used tranquilizer guns to control animals, she immediately took out a tranquilizer gun.
With ample funds, she purchased a considerable amount of both cold and hot weapons from the United States while stockpiling them, hoping to have the power to strike no matter what situation she fell into.
Using real guns to hunt wild boars would be more straightforward, but they couldn't explain the source of the firearms to the public.
After observing her surroundings, Xie Yuyao took out a smart climbing rope, climbed up a big tree, and prepared for battle.
The wild boar, enormous in size, approached step by step. Once a tyrant in the forest, it was completely unaware of the impending danger.
Xie Yuyao, perched in the tree, tensed all her muscles, steadily aiming at her target, and fired the bullet when the time was right.
"roar!"
The wild boar, shot in the back, let out a furious and painful howl, then suddenly raised its head and spotted the attacker in the tree.
It roared and stood on its front hooves, trying to climb the tree. When it realized it couldn't, it kept ramming the ancient tree, causing the branches to shake.
Xie Yuyao clung tightly to the tree to prevent herself from falling.
Seeing that it was still full of energy and the anesthetic had not yet taken effect, she braced her legs against the tree trunk and raised the tranquilizer gun to give it another tranquilizer dart.
No, let's wait a bit longer!
When the wild boar was defeated and intended to turn and leave...
Xie Yuyao fired two tranquilizer darts in quick succession. The wild boar swayed and fell heavily to the ground, its roar growing louder, a mixture of anger and fear.
After the wild boar stopped moving completely, several more minutes passed before Xie Yuyao climbed down the tree to check on it.
The wild boar, which looked to weigh two or three hundred pounds, had fallen into a deep sleep and was making grunting noises from time to time.
She looked around and saw some vines not far away, so she pulled a few and wove them into a rope.
Learn from the video and apply it immediately: tie tighter and tighter hoof clips to the wild boar's four hooves so that even if the wild boar regains consciousness, it cannot escape.
Xie Yuyao tossed a long vine rope to the ancient tree, disguising it as a climbing aid, and then lowered her head, pondering how to bring the wild boar down the mountain.
She tried to drag it, but unsurprisingly, she couldn't move it.
So she tidied up the scene and then walked back the way she came.
Emerging from the deep mountains and forests, the view suddenly opened up, and a group of people appeared in the distance, their shouts echoing: "Thank you, educated youth!"
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