Chapter 226 225: Just get through tonight
In the mountains, Cai Ermei, four men and He Dakuan, who were originally happy, put on raincoats and huddled under a rock, looking worriedly at the rain flowing down the tree trunks.
Cai Ermei frowned, her face darker than the dark forest. "Damn it! Once we get the big piece down, plus the things we just found, this trip will not be in vain. Who knew it would rain heavily before we could do anything!"
One person said, "Second sister, the rain is so heavy. I'm worried that if it continues for a few days, we will be stuck inside."
Cai Ermei's cousin sneered, "It's been less than half an hour, and you see how much water there is in the ditch below. It's going to rain for a few more days, can't you say something nice?"
A few people looked out and saw that the large rocks that were originally exposed in the ravine had now been submerged by the mountain torrent. The water in the ravine was still rising and was almost reaching the rock where they were hiding.
One person regretted his decision. "I told you before I came here that the weather in June is like a child's face, it changes in an instant. My second sister also said that it wouldn't rain in the next two days. Now we are stuck here, and we can't even find a piece of dry firewood. We still have a problem where to stay tonight!"
He Dakuan regretted it very much now. He wore all the thick clothes he brought with him under his raincoat, but still felt a little cold. If he had known earlier, he would have listened to Zhou Laoyao's advice and not gone into the mountain.
"Yes, second sister, it will be cold even if we stay in the mountains until midnight. We have to find some dry firewood and start a fire. Otherwise, it will be troublesome if we encounter wild beasts."
Cai Ermei said in a deep voice: "If you want to find it, you can only go out after the rain stops!"
A few people looked at him and thought so too, but they all secretly cursed their bad luck and felt that they should not have been instigated by him to go into the mountains.
When the rain gradually subsided, the temperature in the mountains became lower and lower, and several people were so cold that their faces turned blue.
"Second sister, the rain has stopped. Let's go to the forest above to see if there is any dry firewood or a cave."
"That's right. The wind here blows against you, and it feels like it's blowing into the cracks in your bones."
"Yes!" Cai Ermei turned her head to look at He Dakuan and an uncle brother named Cai Lin, "Let's go up and take a look." After saying that, she walked towards the woods with a gun and a flashlight.
He Dakuan followed him up the rock and looked at the dark forest in front of him. He thought of the day when he, Zhou Yiding and Xu Erchun hunted wild boars in the mountains. He felt a chill down his spine. "Second sister, my stomach hurts. I'll go back and ask Cai Jun to go with you."
"You are such a lazy idiot!" Cai Ermei turned her head and glanced at him, "Hurry up and get off. I'll wait for you here."
"Yes!" He Dakuan held a flashlight in one hand and covered his stomach with the other and went over to call Cai Jun.
Cai Ermei handed the machete and flashlight to Cai Jun. The three of them swept the woods with the flashlights. Suddenly, there was a crisp "click" sound, and the two were startled.
"I stepped on a stick and broke it." Cai Lin, who was walking in front, bent down and picked up the stick. "It's not soaked yet. Pick up some more and dry them so we can burn them."
Cai Jun curled his lips, "There's no dry firewood at all, what can we use to dry it!"
Cai Ermei shone her flashlight into the gaps between the trees and saw the dead branches that had fallen inside. "These are dry."
"As long as we find some dry firewood." The three men picked up a bundle of half-dried firewood from the bushes, carried it back to the rock, and spent a long time to light the fire.
Cai Ermei looked at the fire and breathed a sigh of relief, "We'll be fine after tonight."
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Yang Chunyan and the other two were now gathered around an earthen stove with an iron plate on top. The plate was filled with sizzling pork belly that was oozing with oil.
In the colander next to it were leeks, broccoli leaves, lettuce tips, stunted eggplants, and thinly sliced potato chips.
Yang Chunyan took a dipping brush tied with gauze and smeared the sauce on the pork belly. "This way of eating is called teppanyaki. Grilled meat, grilled potato chips, tender tofu... It's the most delicious!"
Zhou Huaian picked up a piece of fried browned pork belly, wrapped it with tender broccoli leaves, took a bite, and praised it repeatedly, "Ba Shi! An Yi! It tastes so good when eaten this way!"
Zhou Yiding's mouth was full of oil. "Sister-in-law, this is a good idea. When I get better, we will go to Fangtian Brigade to buy a black goat, kill it, and roast it like this."
Zhou Huaian took a sip of cherry wine and took the brush from Yang Chunyan. "It's a good buy. The price is much cheaper than the wild goats."
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "Yiding, when my new house is finished, bring your girlfriend up to my new house and we will have a barbecue upstairs to enjoy ourselves."
Zhou Yiding looked at the two of them in surprise, "Are you going to build a building?"
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "No, we plan to build a fake second floor like a rammed earth wall, so that we can dry herbs on it in the future."
"That's good!" Zhou Yiding said, "My old house is a fake second floor with rammed earth walls. To be honest, although it's not as bright as a brick house, it's warm in winter and cool in summer, and it's much more comfortable to live in than a brick house."
Zhou Huaian nodded, "Yeah! I think it's a pity that your old house was demolished. It's much better than my old house."
Zhou Yiding curled his lips and said, "Almost every family of my uncles and aunts have borrowed money from me. Today, this one borrows ten dollars, tomorrow that one borrows five dollars, and some of them never pay it back. When I ask them for the money, they even say some sour words."
"It's hard for me to earn a little money. I have been in this forest for ten days and a half months without anyone to talk to. He was so angry that he said that instead of lending it to others and not getting any good back, he might as well use the money to repair the house."
Seeing that the two were talking animatedly, Yang Chunyan put the roasted meat into their bowls and said, "Do you want more? If you want more, I'll cut some more potato chips for you."
Zhou Huaian shook his head, "We'll be done once we finish the rest. You're tired and go to sleep first."
Yang Chunyan drank two sips of cherry wine and felt a little sleepy. "If you don't want to clean up after eating, just leave it there. I'll clean it up tomorrow morning."
Zhou Huaian: "Okay, set the alarm clock, and we'll go into the mountains tomorrow morning."
Yang Chunyan nodded, washed up and went to her room. Thinking about the heavy dew in the mountains after the rain, she set the alarm clock to 6:30 the next day and lay down to sleep.
The next morning, the sky had cleared up. After dinner, the two men said hello to Zhou Yiding and headed towards the woods in the north.
Zhou Huaian remembered that he forgot to tell his mother about buying a tractor yesterday, "Yan'er, if Huang Caigou really helps us buy a tractor, will mom and the old man scold me?"
Yang Chunyan smiled and said, "It's inevitable that they will scold you. But even if they scold you, they are actually the happiest. I'm just worried that when the tractor returns home, there will be more people in the village who will be jealous of us."
Zhou Huaian thought of Cai Ermei who had repeatedly snatched his business, and sneered: "Let them be jealous! We can't just not buy anything just because we're afraid of others getting jealous, right?"
Yang Chunyan stopped and looked at him, "I'm not afraid of others being jealous, but I'm afraid that you will get carried away!"
"Tsk~" Zhou Huaian said dissatisfiedly, "But I am so proud of buying a tractor? You are looking down on me like this, haha, I still want to make money to buy the car you mentioned!"
"Then you have to work hard to earn money. The cheapest cars can cost tens of thousands, the most expensive can cost hundreds of thousands, and even millions!"
"Oh my!" Zhou Huaian glared, "A few tens of thousands of dollars a unit is still considered cheap. Doesn't that mean it will be easy to make money in the future?"
(End of this chapter)
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