Xiaoyue also climbed out of the trap and into the yard. She found that there were holes everywhere from the nails used to pitch tents, but the house was cleaned up very well, and the front and back of the house were the same as before.
Liang Qi lit a fire, and Xiaoyue stumbled into the east room, lay down on the kang (a heated brick bed) and fell asleep without a blanket or clothes. She slept in her dirty clothes.
After Liang Qi finished heating the kang (a heated brick bed), he went to Xiao Yue's side and lay down fully clothed.
They slept until noon the next day, when the two were woken up by the cold kang (heated brick bed). Xiaoyue lit a fire to cook, while Liang Qi went up the mountain to chop firewood. The two tidied up the house and the front yard.
They shaped out the quilts and mattresses, took apart the sheets and blankets, washed them in the kitchen in the front room, and hung them outside to dry until they were frozen solid during the day. At night, they spread the sheets on the kang (heated brick bed) in the west room.
The next morning, everything was dry, and Xiaoyue sewed the bed sheets and mattress pads back on.
At noon, Li Lei took Shuiyue, Xiaodouding, Lu Xiaomei, along with blankets, quilts, and grain back home.
Xiaoyue hurriedly came out to greet them and carried the items one by one into the storeroom. Then, she took apart the quilts and mattresses that Lu Xiaomei had brought back and took them to the kitchen in the front room to wash them.
Li Lei had kept the meat on the donkey cart, while Lu Xiaomei went to the kitchen to cook for her family. This time, she also brought the meat back from the donkey cart. Lu Xiaomei chopped off a piece of meat, scooped out a head of pickled cabbage, and cooked millet and half a bowl of yellow millet rice on the stove in the west room. On the stove in the east room, she cooked pickled cabbage, pork belly, and vermicelli stew.
Then Li Lei drove to Qixing Mountain again, loading another car with tableware and useful items. Li Qianqian and Chunyue also returned, bringing back four rabbits. After putting everyone home,
Li Lei drove the car to Xiaomahushan again, loaded up the chickens, ducks, and geese he had left there, and brought them back. The only downside was that he had to kill the rooster. Xiaoyue's eyes lit up when the animals were brought back alive.
Before they knew it, it was the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and a matchmaker came to Xiaoyue's house to propose marriage.
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