As the first batch of trained members went up the mountain, the brigade's work of purchasing medicinal materials officially started.

In previous years, there was actually a period of time before spring sowing, and this season was often a gap between the harvest and the harvest. This year, because the brigade ran a rabbit farm, we had to grow vegetables to feed the rabbits, and also set up a purchasing point for medicinal materials.

This made the brigade members busy at the beginning of the year, and the entire Xiangyang Brigade was thriving.

After a rain after the Spring Equinox, wild vegetables such as shepherd's purse and mugwort emerged from the soil in the mountains and gullies of the brigade and began to grow vigorously.

At the end of February and the beginning of March, Lu Baiwei was muttering about waiting until around Grain Rain so that she could eat Chinese toon.

Just two days after he started talking about it, He Ting came back from the rabbit farm and picked a handful of tender toon shoots.

Lu Baiwei was surprised: "There are Chinese toon trees to pick so soon?"

She remembered that in previous years, the season for eating Chinese toon was from mid-March to Grain Rain.

Lu Baiwei actually didn't have any particular preference for this.

The strange thing is that she didn’t like to eat it before, but after she became pregnant, she started to crave for it.

She had just muttered this once when He Ting picked the tender toon buds for her.

After the Chinese New Year, Lu Baiwei's belly became more and more obvious, and her figure became rounder and rounder. When she was thin, she had a thin beauty, and when she became round, she had a kind of round and smooth classical beauty, especially when she smiled, she showed two charming dimples.

He Ting placed a handful of Chinese toon sprouts on the table and poked her dimples with his hands.

"Professor Chen built a simple geothermal device in the rabbit farm a few years ago. In winter, he burned charcoal to maintain the indoor temperature in case the rabbits got cold. Maybe the Chinese toon tree was near a warm place, so it sprouted particularly early this year."

"You said you wanted to eat this a few days ago, so I've been keeping an eye on it for you. Now that the buds have grown so long, I'll pick some tender buds for you to satisfy your craving."

He Ting washed the toon sprouts and was going to make toon omelette for Lu Baiwei. Tang Yunling and Zhou Yanfeng came in carrying buckets.

"Look, Weiwei, my brother is plowing the fields for the team today, and he caught some loaches for you."

The team has been plowing the fields these two days, preparing to sow seeds and transplant rice seedlings.

The farmland was previously planted with sweet clover to fertilize the soil and fatten the loaches in the fields.

When Tang Yuanliang was plowing the fields, he saw some fat loaches, so he asked a few young Tang people to follow him and catch the loaches. He divided the caught loaches into a small bucket and asked Tang Yunling to bring it to Lu Baiwei as a snack.

"I just happened to buy tofu today, so I can make some loach tofu soup."

Thinking of the delicious loach tofu soup, Lu Baiwei drooled.

She called Tang Yunling and Zhou Yanfeng: "Let's have a meal together at my house today!"

Anyway, we drink loach soup when we go back to Old Tang’s house, and we eat the same thing at He Ting and Lu Baiwei’s place.

Moreover, Lu Baiwei is a good cook and can often come up with new dishes. Tang Yunling and Zhou Yanfeng simply took the opportunity to send loaches to stay at her house and eat for free.

He Ting not only knows how to cut vegetables now, but the gynecologist at the county hospital has also specifically instructed Lu Baiwei not to do heavy work. He Ting has taken on most of the housework, including cooking.

Lu Baiwei instructed He Ting to roast a loach with dried chili peppers and garlic, cut a piece of bacon and steam it, fry a Chinese toon egg, make mapo tofu, and stir-fry some vegetables.

Five dishes and one soup are enough!

"After dinner, don't go back to the educated youth camp. Take a nap at my house."

Shen Junqian came back from the south and said that he would come to Xiangyang Brigade in person to catch rabbits in the next two days.

I don’t know whether I will come today or tomorrow.

If Shen Junqian had come here today driving a tractor, the rabbit farm would have been busy.

He Ting asked Zhou Yanfeng not to go back to the educated youth site, but to rest at home for a while and then go to the rabbit farm to work together.

"No, Yin Jiaming and the two guys from the Geology College are digging ditches. The educated youth site is a mess right now. I don't want to go back at noon."

"Ever since Yin Zhi and my uncle moved in with the provincial capital's Geological College, there has been no peace and quiet. Now the educated youth camp is full of drama all day long. Brother Ting, did you know that?"

"Yin Jiaming and He Yan were close. He Yan often went to his room to ask questions. Lu Jiaojiao came to the educated youth center to deliver food, and she was on guard like a thief, and she picked a quarrel with He Yan."

"Yin Zhihe and his uncle are both talented people. They are trying to please both sides!"

"I don't know what's going on with He Yan. She used to be a smart person. Apart from being obsessed with Brother Ting, she didn't have any other major problems. Now it's like she's been bewitched by Yin Jiaming."

Zhou Yanfeng complained: "The drama of two women fighting for one man will explode sooner or later, but I don't know when it will explode."

"Just wait, when the educated youths start fighting, there will be something interesting to watch."

Tang Yunling is afraid that the world will not be in chaos!

When he heard that there was a big show to watch at the educated youth site, his eyes lit up.

"Zhou Yanfeng, after work this afternoon, I will go with you to the educated youth center. You educated youths have moved to the former Yin family's house. I have never been there."

Of course, apart from secretly squatting under the window of Yin's house with Zhou Yanfeng at night to eavesdrop, it can be considered that he has been to the educated youth site.

Tang Yunling wanted to go to the educated youth center to watch a fight between Lu Jiaojiao and He Yan.

He Ting's focus was on digging ditches. He asked Zhou Yanfeng, "What kind of ditches are being dug at the Youth League?"

"The gutter!"

"That Yin Jiaming is sick. He insisted that the diagnosis showed that there is a problem with the drainage of the Yin family's old house. When the Dragon Boat Festival rainstorms occur in April and May, the house may not be able to withstand it. There is a risk of collapse. We need to dig a new drainage ditch in the yard."

Zhou Yanfeng didn't understand: "Just dig a drainage ditch, why dig it so deep? Dig a hole under our eaves. I almost stepped on empty air and fell into the ditch when I went to the toilet at night."

"The Yin family's old house is about to collapse. It would have collapsed long ago. Why are there so many things to worry about? They just moved in and said it would collapse after a heavy rain."

Lu Baiwei asked Zhou Yanfeng: "That house used to belong to the Yin family, but now it belongs to the brigade. Did Yin Jiaming report the ditch digging to the brigade?"

"Yes, the brigade asked us to dig it."

"What if there is really a risk of flooding and collapse? After all, Yin Jiaming and the other two are both geologists, so what they say is still very credible."

Lu Baiwei and He Ting looked at each other and felt that there was something fishy about this matter.

He Ting, who had been silent the whole time, said, "Then after work this afternoon, I'll go to the educated youth camp with you..."

Yin Jiaming's geological survey work in Xiangyang Brigade did not go smoothly.

Originally, during the spring ploughing and sowing season, not many people went into the mountains, but the brigade suddenly set up a medicinal material purchasing point, and people went in and out of Xiangyang Mountain to collect herbs from time to time, which increased the difficulty of their geological survey work.

With more people going in and out of the mountains, their work is exposed to the eyes of the brigade members.

Yin Jiaming and Zhao Xi were knocking on a rock wall with surveying tools, discussing whether or not to carry out a blast. Zhang Cailiang, who was watching the wind, came around from behind a large rock.

"There are people on the opposite hill."

Following Zhang Cailiang's line of sight, Yin Jiaming saw a group of people digging medicinal herbs on the opposite mountain. The group digging medicinal herbs included not only members of the brigade, but also people from the educated youth site.

Even the female educated youth Zhao Lingling and He Yan followed the team, looking for medicinal herbs among the thatch bushes all over the mountains.

"Here, here is some wild yam."

Someone shouted, and the voice echoed in the valley and reached the stone wall where they were standing.