Zhou Ruilan said, "When my second brother and his family came back during the Mid-Autumn Festival, my second sister-in-law said that she had a younger sister who was a nurse in the county hospital and she wanted to introduce her to my third brother."

Zhao Chunmiao listened and shook his head:

"You've seen the photo of her sister. She has a small nose and small eyes, and her complexion is not fair. She is not as pretty as her."

"Hmm..." Zhou Ruilan began to reflect, "Mom, do you think this problem of ours is not good? People say that judging people by their appearance is easy to be deceived by appearance, and we should look at the inner qualities."

Zhao Chunmiao rolled his eyes.

"If the appearance is not good, why would I spend time to understand the inner qualities?? Besides, am I a person who only looks at the appearance? I have paid attention to both the appearance and the inner qualities!"

"The previous Liao Zhiqing was handsome, but I don't care about anything and just say she's good?"

"Look at your little sister Shu, she is pretty, polite, dignified and generous. A girl from the city doesn't look down on us farmers at all."

"I just found out today that she is so much younger than your third brother. But even though she is young, she knows how to live. Look at her cave house, it is tidy and clean, and she also takes good care of the vegetable garden. I feel inferior to her after seeing it!"

After a pause, Zhao Chunmiao added: "The chickens she raises can lay two eggs a day!"

Zhou Ruilan was speechless. She felt that her mother seemed to have been bewitched by Sister Xiao Shu.

"Alas..." Zhao Chunmiao sighed deeply, "I'm just afraid that she doesn't like your third brother..."

From a mother's perspective, although her son looks average, he is good in every other aspect!

However, Zhao Chunmiao did not blindly think that his son was worthy of all women just because he was her son.

In terms of family conditions, Qin Hanshu came from the capital and did not look like an ordinary working-class family.

In terms of personal conditions, Qin Hanshu is also better than Zhou Weiguang - just in appearance, he is far ahead.

Zhou Ruilan couldn't help but speak for her brother.

"Marriage doesn't just depend on conditions, it also depends on being compatible. Third brother doesn't necessarily like Xiao Shu... I'm just saying there's a possibility!"

Zhao Chunmiao looked at Zhou Ruilan as if she were a fool.

"Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Why does your third brother have the right?!"

Okay...Zhou Ruilan shrank her neck and closed her mouth.

Zhao Chunmiao told Zhou Ruilan, "You have to insist on speaking well of your third brother in front of your sister Xiao Shu, understand?"

Zhou Ruilan nodded.

"As for the rest, let it be left to fate."

Zhao Chunmiao sighed.

The conditions she said were secondary. The main thing was that after a period of contact, she found that Xiao Shu, this woman, seemed gentle and polite on the surface, but in fact, her heart was always closed.

When we are together, I always feel like there is something separating us.

Although Zhao Chunmiao looks carefree, she is actually quite delicate when it comes to relationships. She feels that Qin Hanshu is very cautious when dealing with people and doesn't want to get too entangled with them.

For example, if you are nice to her once, she will remember it and will definitely find a chance to return the favor.

It cannot be said that this is wrong, but if you separate each transaction too clearly, the relationship will never be able to move forward.

A woman like Qin Hanshu is lonely and cold in her bones. She said she has never considered dating, so it is not easy for her to want to date.

After some analysis, Zhao Chunmiao no longer held out much hope.

She went through the names of matchmakers in the surrounding area in her mind, carefully comparing which one seemed more reliable...

***

The weather is getting colder day by day, and there is less and less farm work.

The vegetation on the Loess Plateau is gradually withering, the green is visibly decreasing, and the weather is often gloomy.

The small earthen slope next to Qin Hanshu's cave has become bare, and the leaves of the jujube trees have all fallen off, leaving only strange-shaped jujubes hanging on the branches.

Qin Hanshu tasted it and it was sweet and sour with a bit of astringency, and the taste was average. It was because of the material poverty in this era that it was eaten as a fruit.

Qin Hanshu let the kids in the team pick all the fruits.

The water in the space is not omnipotent. Watering the plants outside the space can make them survive easier and grow better, but it cannot completely resist natural changes.

The chives also died as the weather turned cold, but the roots in the soil were still alive, and new ones would grow again when the weather warms up next spring.

After the beginning of autumn, the vegetables in the small vegetable garden were replaced with radishes and cabbages.

These two kinds of vegetables are the main vegetables stored in the north for winter.

However, Qin Hanshu did not plant much cabbage and radishes. The team planted a lot. If it was not enough, he could exchange it for work points from the team. If he did not have work points, he could get money to supplement it.

She set aside a piece of land to plant coriander and celery, both of which are relatively cold-resistant vegetables. They can still be grown for now, but if it gets colder and there is heavy snow, they will not be easy to survive.

During this period, Haowan Village has built a number of biogas tanks one after another, and all the energy used for cooking, lighting and heating have now been replaced by biogas.

Everyone no longer has to collect firewood, which saves a lot of trouble.

When people from other production brigades came to Haowan Village for advice, Zhou Changan directly sent Lin Zhiheng to help with the construction.

Every household in the team began to prepare for winter.

The educated youth were no exception. They found a place next to the courtyard and built a public cellar, where they stored potatoes, cabbages and radishes.

Qin Hanshu's cave was big enough, and when it was built, an extra hole was dug at the back, so there was enough storage space and no public cellar was used.

The educated youth also learned to pickle sauerkraut like the locals.

There is no need to learn it specifically, Zhang Yao knows how to do it, and everyone just needs to follow her instructions.

Remove the old leaves of the cabbage, wash and dry it, and then put it in a jar. Add a layer of salt to the cabbage, and finally add the water boiled with pepper, fennel, ginger and garlic.

Finally, put a big stone on the jar and you can wait to eat.

When they were collectively making pickled vegetables, the educated youth were divided into two groups, old and new. Qin Hanshu's group, Zhang Yao and Xue Xinrui were one group, and the old educated youth who came the year before last were another group.

However, the old educated youth was unwilling to take Liao Yujie with him, so Liao Yujie went out alone.

Liao Yujie's work points were ridiculously low. She could not even earn enough to feed herself. The few cabbages and radishes she was allocated would probably not last her half a winter, so there was no way she would have any left to make sauerkraut.

No one wants to let her take advantage.

What if you want to eat sauerkraut?

When a cunning, lazy and slippery person encounters a problem, the first thing he thinks of is definitely to use cunning, lazy and slippery tricks.

One day, before dawn, when the educated youth were fast asleep, a scream was heard from the courtyard of the educated youth settlement.

"Ah - Qin Hanshu - help -"

Qin Hanshu was woken up. He got up, put on some clothes, and opened the door of the cave with a grumpy look on his face.

When the flashlight was shone towards the yard, Liao Yujie was seen crying while clinging to a sauerkraut jar with a cat hanging on her butt.

It turned out that Liao Yujie wanted to steal some sauerkraut and stir-fry vermicelli before dawn when everyone else was still asleep.

Unexpectedly, just as the action started, a tiger suddenly jumped out from somewhere and bit Liao Yujie on the butt.

The tiger is not even half a year old, but it is kept in a space every day. It is much bigger than cats of the same age, and it is naturally fierce. Liao Yujie is usually afraid of it.

Her butt was hurting but she didn't dare to move, so Liao Yujie had to shout for help.

She cried and snotted towards Qin Hanshu, "I was wrong, I was really wrong, I won't dare to do it again! Please take it down."

What the hell is this cat! It's scarier than the local dog raised by the team!

Qin Hanshu stood there speechless for a long time.

In the cold late autumn, I got up before dawn to steal pickled cabbage... If you use this perseverance to earn work points, you won't be unable to afford pickled cabbage...