He only said to Zhu Xiaomin:
"It's okay, I'm just tired after a long day of work. Let's eat something good; health is the foundation of everything."
Zhu Xiaomin thought she was absolutely right.
"What you said is the same as what my mom said. My mom said, 'Don't push yourself to the limit.'"
Even if others earn twelve work points a day, we're not envious.
Many of the educated youth in our area ruined their health. What was the point?
Jiang Wenwan felt that she and Zhu Zhiqing were kindred spirits—no, it was more like birds of a feather flock together!
"You're right, so I've decided to take a day off tomorrow."
"It wasn't that we educated youth were entitled to one day off per month, so I used it first."
"Ah! Hahaha, you're quite health-conscious. Okay, you take a day off tomorrow, and I'll take the day after tomorrow."
That evening, the two of them ate noodles with dried radish.
Even the most delicious dried radish can't be eaten every meal, so she decided to go to the city tomorrow and then to the mountains.
She always wakes up startled when she tries to sleep at night.
Especially since there are five people in this room, they can't enter the space at all.
So she noticed as soon as Hu Qinghua got up.
When Hu Qinghua secretly got up, walked to Jiang Wenwan's bundle, and reached out to start rummaging through it...
What are you doing?
Jiang Wenwan suddenly spoke up behind her, shining her flashlight directly at her own face, her eyes fixed on Hu Qinghua with a sinister look.
"Ahhh!"
"Thump!"
Hu Qinghua screamed in fright at her sudden outburst.
Jiang Wenwan sneered. It seemed she should get a cabinet made and lock all her things inside.
To save you from having to worry about thieves all day long, and it would be best to also install three padlocks, so she can't come to steal in the middle of the night!
"Jiang Wenwan, what are you doing? You're scaring people half to death, don't you know that?"
Jiang Wenwan's ears twitched. She glanced out the window, then looked at Hu Qinghua and sneered.
"What did I do? You were the one who stayed up all night trying to steal my things, and you're asking me?"
"Who said I was going to steal your things?"
I just got up to go to the toilet!
Who cares about your stuff? It's not like I don't have money; I can buy it myself!
As Hu Qinghua spoke, he turned around and was about to get back onto the kang (a heated brick bed).
Jiang Wenwan pointed to the door and said:
"The door is over there. You're going to the toilet, aren't you? Go ahead!"
Looking at the door, Hu Qinghua suddenly felt a little afraid to go out to use the restroom.
Just then, a shadow suddenly darted up the door.
"Ah! A ghost! I'm not going to the toilet!"
Startled, she screamed and ran to the kang (a heated brick bed) to crawl back into bed, trembling with fear.
The people inside had been woken up by her shouting, but Zhu Xiaomin remained fast asleep.
Feng Chunzao and Tan Yumiao glanced at the two people on the ground and listened to their conversation. They looked at each other but remained silent.
Their family stopped sending them things a long time ago.
Even Feng Chunzao's family needed her to send grain back home to supplement their income!
In the past two days, they have figured out the situation between the two sisters with different surnames, so they went back to sleep.
Seeing Hu Qinghua suddenly dart back into bed, shouting about ghosts, Feng Chunzao looked up at Jiang Wenwan, who had turned off the flashlight, and said:
“Jiang Zhiqing, come up quickly. It must be Ma Debi and the others trying to scare us again.”
Jiang Wenwan responded.
"Okay, I'll go to the restroom outside first."
“Jiang Zhiqing, we used to keep the chamber pot inside the house so we wouldn’t have to go out to relieve ourselves at night, especially since it was too cold in Dongtian.”
"How about we bring a chamber pot and put it inside tomorrow too?"
Jiang Wenwan was taken aback by this unexpected turn of events.
"Okay, that works!"
She planned to do as the locals do, but she was worried that the chamber pot would smell at night if it was in the bedroom.
Thinking this, she pushed open the door and went out.
Then a figure ran back into the hut.
There was a weasel scurrying around on the ground. In Northeast China, this creature is known as the Weasel Immortal, right?
Jiang Wenwan took a few steps after it, but the weasel ran too fast for her to catch up.
I turned my head to look at the small house, and then glanced at another four-person house.
Standing in the courtyard, he said coldly:
"Don't let me find out who's being so silly, or I'll make them pay tomorrow night."
After saying that, she turned around and went back into the house.
Hu Qinghua didn't even eat breakfast that morning before running straight to the brigade leader's house to ask for leave, taking one day of his holiday this month.
When Jiang Wenwan rode her bicycle there, Hu Qinghua had just finished taking leave. He gave her a disdainful look and turned to leave.
She parked the car at the brigade leader's house, and the brigade leader sat in the yard smoking his pipe, watching her get the car.
He tapped the pipe on the sole of his shoe.
"Are you here to ask for leave too?"
Jiang Wenwan smiled and took out a handful of White Rabbit candies from her pocket, about three in total, and handed them to an eight or nine-year-old boy who had run out of the brigade leader's house.
The boy's eyes lit up when he saw the candy, and a little girl of about four or five years old followed behind him.
Look at him, hesitant to go forward, glancing at his grandfather with his small eyes.
Jiang Wenwan looked at the cola, then stuffed the candy into his arms and said:
"Take it. I didn't bring much this time, just this much. If you don't take it, I won't have any left if you want to eat it after I've finished eating."
Seeing that his grandfather didn't object, the boy happily accepted it.
"Thank you, Jiang Zhiqing."
Jiang Wenwan nodded and said to the captain:
"Yes! I want to buy some things. Also, I wanted to ask if there's a carpenter in the village. I'd like to have a cabinet made."
There are too many people and too many eyes at the educated youth settlement, so I'd better manage my own things well and not cause you, the brigade leader, any trouble.”
The captain found her words rather pleasant to hear and said:
"Ge Lao Er's family is making cabinets. Let Suan Miao take you there."
Garlic is the grandson of the brigade leader.
As soon as the garlic sprout puffed out its chest, a sense of mission immediately arose within it.
“Sister Jiang, I know where Grandpa Ge’s house is. I’ll take you there.”
Jiang Wenwan, Yue.
In just a short while, the way this kid addressed Jiang Zhiqing went from "Jiang Zhiqing Sister" to "Sister Jiang," and now he's simply calling her "Sister."
He looks like a small-time shrew.
"Alright, let's go, lead the way!"
After Jiang Wenwan went out, she pushed her bicycle and followed him, taking the opportunity to ask about the situation in the mountains next to the village.
"Garlic sprouts, do you think there are any pheasants or rabbits on the mountains around here?"
"Yes! I've even seen my grandpa go hunting in the mountains with a hunting rifle before!"
My grandfather was an incredibly accurate shot; he could take a single aim and kill them all. With a bang, the roe deer and the wild boar fell to the ground.
It seems that boys have an innate love for guns.
As he spoke, he gestured as if his grandfather was firing a gun.
"What do you do with the wild boars you hunt? Do you sell them?"
Garlic Sprouts looked at her with surprise and said:
"My grandpa said that whoever can get their hands on chickens and rabbits gets to keep them."
Wild boars are such big animals that once they're killed, they belong to the village and are to be divided equally among all the households.
However, apart from my grandfather and Grandpa Zhao Si, who each had a hunting rifle, no one else in our village owned one.
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