Chapter 44: First Update: Auspicious Snowy Year
Outside Sijiu City, it was also snowing in Wangjiagou, and it was even earlier than the snow in Sijiu City.
When it was snowing, Ye Yu and his friends were working in the fields.
A cold wind blew, and white snowflakes floated in the sky without warning. The first person who saw it couldn't help but exclaimed: "Look, it's snowing, it's snowing."
"Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest."
Someone is asking for a lucky draw.
Not long after, the team leader also sent someone to notify that, except for a few posts that could not be left alone, everyone else could leave work early and go back to rest. They did not need to come in this afternoon, and their work points would be calculated as half a day.
If it continues to snow tomorrow, not all workers will need to be at work, so he will arrange for people to take turns.
The team members went back to their homes.
The same went for Ye Yu. 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 we arrived at the educated youth site, we 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 center, Hua Feifei was not completely idle. She fed the chickens and cleaned the chicken coop.
Perhaps because witnessing the chicks breaking out of their shells for the first time was very meaningful, Ye Yu's pre-hatching work was handed over to the other three people after the chicks hatched.
Ten days after it was born, the chick's light yellow feathers had already grown out. The fluffy little yellow chick was soft and very good-looking, and much cuter than the sparrow.
sparrow:
“Chichi.”
"Chirp, chirp." Two chicks that all looked the same but whose number seemed to be replying to it.
A sparrow and a chicken, one agreeing and the other responding, as if they were having a conversation.
It's snowing outside.
Hua Feifei walked out excitedly after seeing the snow through the window. It also snows in Shanghai, but not every year, and even if it does, it is difficult to accumulate a lot of snow. She likes snow.
"Yawn—"
It's really cold outside, the wind makes my face hurt.
Hua Feifei walked towards the kitchen. It was not yet lunch time, but she still lit the fire and cooked a large pot of ginger soup. She also roasted a dozen sweet potatoes using the fire on the stove.
Hearing the creaking sound of the courtyard gate, the voice rose two notches, full of joy: "It's snowing, it's snowing, it's snowing really hard."
"Yes...hiss, yes, yes." Han Jing and Xu Fei shuddered at the warm air when they entered the kitchen.
"Hurry up and drink the ginger soup to drive away the cold."
Hua Feifei filled three enamel cups with ginger soup and passed them over one by one.
When handing it to Ye Yu, he accidentally touched her fingers, which were warm. His hands that had been blown by the cold wind were actually no colder than her hands that were burning in the kitchen.
Is this scientific?
The villagers of Wangjiagou may not know, but Hua Feifei and the others who live with her know very well that Ye Yu still basically takes a bath 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 under her cotton-padded jacket like the others. Instead, she wore everything, mainly thin summer clothes. She had even been seen 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 taste of ginger soup was very spicy and overbearing. People who were not used to drinking it would have wrinkles on their faces like Han Jingxufei, but she didn't worry about that.
Drink it in one gulp.
"Of course it's cold, why don't you 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 was Hua Feifei not as afraid of cold as Ye Yu, she also didn't dare get too close to the fire when warming herself. She didn't feel it in Shanghai before, but when she arrived in Wangjiagou, she realized that the air humidity in the north and south was very different.
Especially prone to drying out.
Not only does it cause dryness, but it also causes frostbite and cracks. Even a man like Xu Fei, who believes that men shouldn't use lotions, 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 better than that of a newborn baby in the village.
Hua Feifei was jealous, but she was not convinced.
She spent a lot of money to buy half a bottle of clam oil that Ye Yu had used, and applied it on her face for a few days, but the effect on her face was not as good as the vanishing cream she brought from home.
Based on what?
"Born."
Hua Feifei even had the urge to go back to the furnace and reinvent herself. Was Ye Yu really not some wild monster? A pig spirit, a tiger spirit, or something like that?
"No." Ye Yu seriously rejected it. "It's a person, with a shadow, eating, drinking, defecating and urinating, all of which are indispensable."
Hua Feifei then realized that she had said something complaining, and she 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 equally envious of the abilities displayed by Ye Yu.
I won’t say any more. The ingredients available for lunch today include rabbit, chicken, fish, and deer.
Yes, you heard it right, rabbit, chicken, fish and deer.
From Ye Yu's hunting, she has had good luck in the past two days and has reaped rewards every time.
Regarding hunting, in the beginning, when Ye Yu took out wild rabbits and wild fish, Hua Feifei and the other two were very surprised; but when Ye Yu took out wild rabbits, wild fish and pheasants for three or five days in a row, the three of them were no longer just surprised, they were also worried that she might be in danger, especially when they heard from local villagers that there were wild boars and wild animals in the mountains.
If days like this continue, everyone will become numb, envious and admiring.
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 hidden 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 hunter!
It’s not that no one is jealous, especially Wang Laoer and Wang Laosan and their group.
But they couldn't catch Ye Yu now.
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San once secretly followed Ye Yu up the mountain after work, but they could not catch up with her speed at all. She seemed to have turned into a rabbit and disappeared in a flash.
It’s even worse at night.
My nose was bubbling from the cold and I didn't do anything. Two days later, I had a fever and couldn't stand it anymore, so I had to go to the hospital to buy medicine.
There was no medical insurance in those days, and many Chinese medicine stores in the city were forced to close, while Western medicine became 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 Lao Er and Wang Lao San wanted to catch it, they could only come to the house at mealtime.
But facing the evil force of Ye Yu, do they dare? Can they defeat him?
Wang Lao Er had been dominating 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 disturbed by the buzzing flies, was too lazy to wait any longer and decided to take the initiative and attack 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 house.
She swore that she really didn't have any weapons and walked alone to 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, and 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 by the two of them, glanced at the dirty kid with a runny nose, and asked the two brothers who came out of the house: "At such a young age, they are digging into the corners of society. Did they learn this from their 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. This sentence might have been more interesting if he hadn't been sticking to Wang Laoer like a root.
Elm leaves:
"Big corners and small corners are all corners."
"you!"
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San were indeed brothers. 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 slaughtered pig and kicked Wang Laoer aside.
She added: "Besides, I can't dig as hard as you do. Is there anyone in this village who can dig as hard as you do?"
These words were spoken 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 has accumulated a lot of wealth. Do you dare to let others search your family property?"
The former village chief and the former former village chief: “We are doing good things for the village with a clean record.”
"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 of the same color as the beam on the roof. He opened it and found 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 a gold earring: "If you make trouble again, I will return it to you at the right time and place."
Wang Lao Er and Wang Lao San might not have understood, but the former village chief and his men were smart people. They knew that this female educated youth was threatening them. Hunting was a customary thing and if they were caught they would at most be severely criticized. But this gold and silver jewelry would plunge their family into dire straits, so they were flexible and said all the good things they could.
In fact, Ye Zhiqing only took one gold earring, and in order to intimidate them, he did not 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 that Niu Da and his gang had robbed. Besides, she didn't want to deal with the red armbands unless it was absolutely necessary, and she didn't want them to disturb this quiet little mountain village.
The two sides reached a "consensus".
Upon hearing the news, the captain rushed over, followed by a large group of onlookers. When they saw the scene in the Wang family's yard, they were stunned.
Is the snow red?