Chapter 20 Moving to a New Home
The animals in the space were fed once in the morning, but I forgot to feed them today. I fed all the animals in the space again. Tang Yue felt that it was too troublesome to feed the animals every day. It would be better if they could be fed automatically.
The flowers in the orchard have all withered, leaving small fruits. When the fruit trees bloom next time and there are more flowers, you can pick the extra flowers and try making wine or drying scented tea. You can separate the bees into boxes again and give them some of the honey in the boxes.
Sitting on the stool, drinking the spiritual water, I suddenly felt a little lonely, especially in this space, the feeling that you are the only one in the world is too uncomfortable.
Tang Yue was going to sleep on the kang outside. She lay on the kang in the space, listening to the frog sounds outside. She calmed down and the feeling of loneliness also disappeared. It seemed that she should sleep less in the space in the future and spend more time outside feeling the atmosphere of life. Tang Yue fell asleep slowly.
The next morning when Tang Yue got up, it was a little after 12:00. She quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face, then took a steamed bun from the space and ate it with hot sauce. She was in a rush all morning, feeling quite a bit of chaos. She no longer had the feeling she had last night. This is how she wanted to live her life.
Hearing the bell for work, Tang Yue gathered all her equipment and went to work. The team leader was assigning tasks. The task these days was to weed. The autumn harvest was coming soon, and the weeds in the fields had to be cleared so that it would be easier to work at that time. As usual, she was assigned one acre of task field first.
Tang Yue was now well-trained and could weed one acre of weeds in the morning. After that, she did not plan to take on any more work and went to the brigade to borrow a hoe to reclaim the backyard of her new house. She would only reclaim a small portion of the land reserved for her new house and not more.
It took about an hour to reclaim the wasteland. I didn't rush to return the hoe. I went back to cook a bag of noodles. After eating, I went to the backyard and dug up all the vegetables in the back and put them in baskets. I dug two baskets and took them over to plant. Almost all the vegetables were planted before going to work. I went back to return the hoe and continued to work in the afternoon to earn work points. I spent so much money on building the house, and I must earn it back.
Tang Yue worked in the afternoon and pulled out weeds for one mu. Today she had completed two mu in total and asked the scorekeeper to calculate her work points before she went back.
It was still early when she returned to the dormitory. Tang Yue carried the basket up the mountain again. There were wild vegetables everywhere on the mountain behind the new house. She felt like she was bleeding if she didn't pick them all. She picked basket after basket and even picked some to plant in the space. When the sun was about to set, she filled the basket and walked down the mountain.
The door to the backyard was locked from the inside and I couldn't get in, so I had to go around to the front door, open it and go in, get two wooden basins from the kitchen, sort them out while washing, put the dustpan on the side, and when a dustpan is full, put it on the drying rack, first on the bottom layer and wait for the water to drip off, then put it on the upper layer. After washing all the wild vegetables, there was not enough dustpan to put them in, so I put it in the space first, and ask Uncle Li to make two more tomorrow.
Put the wild vegetables outside to dry them, so that they can be dried in the sun tomorrow. Take a small handful of wild vegetables that I have specially reserved, lock the door, and return to the dormitory for the educated youth. Stay there for another day. On the 20th, take a morning off, move all the things over, chop the wild vegetables in hand, throw them to the chickens in the backyard, take a tomato from the space, and make a bowl of tomato and egg noodles. Even if my homemade ones are not delicious, they are still tasty.
After boiling water and taking a bath, I instantly entered the space. I remembered that the ice maker from last time was still working, and I had forgotten to take out the ice cubes. After taking them out, I unplugged the power cord, then controlled my mind to feed all the animals, poured a cup of spiritual water on the table, and left the space after drinking it.
Every time Tang Yue entered the space, she would drink a cup of spiritual water and lie on the bed, thinking that she would start moving little by little from tomorrow. She would lie on the bed for half an hour before she fell asleep in a daze.
I got up at 4:00 in the morning and steamed two sweet potatoes and an egg in the pot for today's breakfast. I quickly brushed my teeth and washed my face, filled the kettle with water, took today's breakfast, went out the door, walked to Uncle Li's house, ordered two drying racks and ten winnowing baskets from Uncle Li again, then ran to the new house, turned the wild vegetables over, and hurried to work.
Tang Yue worked hard to earn work points these past two days. It can be said that her work points were quite high. The rest of the time she was busy moving. Today she got off work early and had only a few things left.
I returned to the educated youth site, took my things and lifted the chicken coop. Since there was nothing else, I locked the door and carried my things back to my new home. I opened the yard and found the drying rack, which had been set up and placed in the yard. I also placed the wild vegetables that couldn't be dried last time in it. After putting my things down, I quickly ran to the brigade headquarters, returned the key, and then returned to the yard.
There were still a few sticks left from the last time she chopped off after building the bridge in the space, so Tang Yue planned to build a small yard to house two chickens. She cut all the sticks into one-meter lengths and first built a small shed against the wall to shelter the chickens from wind and rain. It shouldn't be too high, one meter would be enough. She nailed the top and sides with sticks, leaving only a small door in the front for the chickens to pass through. She then covered the top with tarpaulin, leaving an extra 50 centimeters so that the chickens would have a corridor. She then used sticks to enclose a yard of about the same size as the square, forming a square. She didn't need to enclose the two sides that were adjacent to the wall, but only the other two sides, leaving a door in the middle so she could pick up eggs or something. It was done quickly, and it was small and pretty.
Catch the chickens in and feed them a handful of rice, letting them have a luxurious meal. Don't worry about it. Go to the kitchen to get a bucket, fetch water from the well, and rinse the vegetables. After finishing the work, go into the room to cook. Today is the first day living here, so eat something delicious, make braised pork, make a seaweed and shrimp soup, and have two bowls of rice. Tang Yue found that she has been eating less and less since going to the countryside, but she has been exercising more.
After eating and taking a shower, she entered the space to feed the animals, drank a cup of spiritual water, and left the space. It was too early to fall asleep, so Tang Yue took out a sack of defective cloth from the space and put it on the kang. The kang was really big. After placing three kang cabinets, there was still three meters and two meters of space.
Tang Yue was going to make a quilt that was three meters by three meters. The kang cabinet would press on the quilt, so it wouldn't move easily. Bring the cloth. There were all kinds of colors and sizes. The most common one was black. I didn't like black and put it in the kang cabinet. Actually, there was nothing wrong with it. I put pieces of different sizes together, put each color together, and put them in the kang cabinet. Then I took a bag of cloth from the space, poured it on the kang, sorted the colors, and took each piece to look at.
Finally, I chose sky blue. Now I still have a mat for the cushion, but I can prepare it in advance and use it in winter. I tidied up the cloth and put it in the cupboard. Since it was getting late, I was ready to go to bed.
The next day, Tang Yue was awakened by the noise outside. A bunch of children were carrying baskets up the mountain. Tang Yue seldom saw children before, unless they were babies in her arms. Where did the children go before? She would ask Aunt Guihua when she met her later.
I got up, washed up, and went to the space to feed the animals. I didn't want to cook in the morning, so I just had a bun for a meal. I took some vegetables from the space to feed the two chickens in the yard, and turned over the wild vegetables in the winnowing basket. It looked like I would dry them in the sun for another day before harvesting them.
I packed my gear for work, locked the door and started to go. On the way, I ran into Aunt Qiu Ju and asked her, "Aunt, I saw a lot of children going up the mountain today. I never see them normally. Where do they usually go?"
"You mean the children? They also have to earn work points. There are dozens of pigs in Xishan. It's not enough to feed them with food, so the children have to cut grass for the pigs. For example, the sweet potato vines planted in the yard were pinched some time ago, but it's not enough to eat. So the children at home are also very busy."
Tang Yue really admired them after hearing this, "Such young children don't know how to earn work points, they are really hardworking." Then she looked at the seven people who came with her, they were so lazy.
Aunt Qiuju said that the children in the village are used to helping with housework since they were young, and even the families who spoil their children will not ask them to work.
Today's task is to continue weeding. We have been weeding for more than a week and earned more than a hundred work points. Today the team leader announced that we will take a week off starting tomorrow, and then prepare for the autumn harvest. There are too many things in the farm, and some of them can be harvested in advance, so we will harvest them first. The autumn harvest lasts for one or two months. I will take advantage of these few days of free time to go to the black market to trade. I won't have time to go during the autumn harvest.
After work, I come home, pick up my backpack, and go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms. If I don't pick them now, they will become old. Now there are some old ones, so I pick the young ones.
Today they changed to a method of picking wild vegetables. Few people had been here before, and the wild vegetables grew particularly well, with a lot of old ones. Tang Yue picked a few baskets of tender ones, and when the basket was full she put it in her space. Seeing that it was almost dark, she quickly picked up a few bundles of firewood and carried them down the mountain.
After returning home, Tang Yue cooked the rice first, then took a large basin and poured all the wild vegetables into it. The wild vegetables in the winnowing basket were dried and put into a sack. The winnowing basket was emptied and the old ones were picked out when washing, to be chopped up and fed to the chickens later, and the fresh ones were put on the winnowing basket. After washing the wild vegetables, they were fed to the chickens and a handful of wild vegetables were picked out to be stir-fried with meat later. It was difficult to cook for one person, so Tang Yue planned to cook a little more each time so that she wouldn't have to cook for the next meal.
After dinner in the evening, I remembered that the firewood in the yard had not been sorted out, so I took out the hatchet, sorted the coarse and fine firewood into bundles, and brought the firewood to the firewood shed and put it away.
After washing up, Tang Yue went directly from the kang into the space, took out the oil press from the warehouse, took out all the soybeans, put the oil barrel under the machine, and started to press the oil. After three hours of pressing, only half of the soybeans were used, and about 100 kilograms of soybean oil were squeezed out. The remaining residue from squeezing the soybean oil would be fed to the pigs later. It was said that pigs would gain weight after eating it.
Tang Yue plans to fry more oil during this period, and squeeze some sesame oil next time to see if the freshly squeezed oil is fragrant. Put the oil into barrels, and put ten barrels of ten kilograms each.
After packing up all the things, she fed all the animals with all her heart. Seeing that the grass in the orchard had grown very tall, Tang Yue drove the cattle and sheep into the orchard, so they no longer had to be fed. She also drove the chickens, ducks and geese into the orchard. The orchard had a total of 200 mu, of which the chickens, ducks and geese occupied 100 mu, separated by a fence so that they would not be afraid of their eggs being crushed by the big animals.
I looked at my space, took the watch from under my pillow, it was already past 12 o'clock in the evening, and quickly prepared to go to bed.
I plan to dig a cellar in the room tomorrow. Every household here has a cellar. Tang Yue is generous and although she has never dug a cellar, she has seen her own secret room, so it should be no problem. It can also serve as a cover for the space.
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