Looking at the two of them with their bags and bags of things, and then at Lu Chen's demeanor, Uncle Liu guessed that things had gone well.
Lu Chen and Ye Zhiyu exchanged a smile. "We'll invite you to our wedding candy in a while."
Uncle Liu smiled broadly: "Good, good, good." As people get older, they just want to see something joyful.
Sitting in the familiar oxcart, Ye Zhiyu felt a strange sense of familiarity with it, making her wonder if she had masochistic tendencies.
This place, covered in snow, is still incredibly cold.
As we slowly entered the main group, there were still some scattered people along the way, carrying baskets, either visiting relatives or on their way to visit relatives.
The roads are slippery and difficult to walk on. We can only visit one family a day, and some relatives are so numerous that we can't possibly visit them all.
"Lu Chen and Ye Zhiqing are back."
"Hey, Auntie's back! Visiting relatives?"
"right."
I greeted everyone from this village.
At Lu Chen's instruction, Uncle Liu drove the oxcart to the educated youth settlement and sent Ye Zhiyu back first.
Liu Shengnan's shouts could be heard from inside.
"Li Yuzhe, where are you sweeping? You've gotten it on me, these are my clothes."
"I don't have eyes in the back of my head, how would I know you were behind me?"
"You're talking back, aren't you? I'll move the ladder away and make sure you can't get down."
"I'm not coming down either, the snow hasn't been cleared yet."
Ye Zhiyu laughed as she unloaded things from the car; what a pair of bickering lovers!
It snows frequently here, and the temperature is low, so the snow doesn't melt and just keeps piling up. If it's not cleared in time, it could collapse the houses.
The educated youth had all gone home, and the villagers were busy preparing for the New Year. Besides, there was no obligation to help them. The snow on the house was almost a meter high.
This is why their newly built houses are so sturdy; the mud-brick houses behind them, which were somewhat dilapidated before, have now completely collapsed.
Hearing the door open, everyone in the courtyard looked over.
"Ahhh, Ye Zhiyu, you're finally back! You have no idea how angry I've been these past two days because of Li Yuzhe!" Liu Shengnan rushed over and hugged Ye Zhiyu tightly, her voice filled with undisguised joy.
Ye Zhiyu pushed her away, "Isn't that good? It'll save you from getting bored."
The yard was piled high with swept snow, and the roof was divided into two parts: one part was piled directly outside the wall, and the other part fell into the yard.
I pushed open my room door. Before leaving, I packed up my bedding and everything. Now all I need to do is wipe the dust off the table and change the bedding.
Lu Chen went back after everything was settled.
"I'll go home first and come back to help this afternoon. Don't do anything."
Liu Shengnan and Li Yuzhe arrived yesterday morning and only started shoveling snow this morning, so the two of them were moving rather slowly.
With so much snow piled on the roof, it's too unsafe.
Seeing that Lu Chen had left, Liu Shengnan leaned over to speak, winking and asking, "Did you book it?"
Ye Zhiyu: "Well, in a few days, when the weather here is better, the parents from both sides will meet."
"I never expected you to be the first among us to get married," Liu Shengnan exclaimed with great emotion.
Li Yuzhe climbed down to get a drink of water, and upon hearing this, he said, "What, you want to get married too?"
Liu Shengnan rolled her eyes: "You're everywhere. I don't want to get married. I'd be revolving around a man all day long, not only serving him but also taking care of the whole family. If the conditions aren't good, we'd be struggling to make ends meet. Why am I not a man? You guys have it too easy. It's so unfair."
Sheng Nan, Sheng Nan. When her mother named her, she was thinking that she herself was weak-willed, didn't know how to refuse others, suffered a lot, and suffered a lot of injustices in silence. She hoped that her daughter could be more assertive.
As her mother had hoped, Liu Shengnan was somewhat assertive, but this also led to her not understanding why every family had to sacrifice the mother's self in order to achieve a stable life.
Li Yuzhe hesitated, wanting to say he couldn't, but that would sound fake. In the end, he could only say, "But Lu Chen doesn't let Ye Zhiqing do anything, does he? There are still good men in the world." Like him.
Liu Shengnan: "Ye Zhiyu is so good, it's outrageous that Lu Chen doesn't treat him well."
Ye Zhiyu looked up at the sky and nodded silently. Indeed, if he dared to bully him, lightning would probably strike him down.
"Hey." Liu Shengnan waved her hand in front of Ye Zhiyu's eyes: "What are you looking at?"
Looking in that direction, there was only the sky, not even a single bird in sight.
There's nothing there.
Ye Zhiyu shook her head. "It's nothing."
I went into the kitchen, started a fire, and wanted to heat up the braised meats I brought from home so I could eat them with bread later.
"There's one thing you're wrong about. I'm not the first among our group of educated youth who went to the countryside to get married."
Some of the firewood was quite large, so it was turned over from time to time.
"Huh?" Liu Shengnan, who was watching Li Yuzhe's feet closely from outside the kitchen, afraid he might slip, asked, "Who got married? How come I didn't know? They got married in just half a month?"
Ye Zhiyu kept it a secret for now: "It's a secret for now."
Liu Shengnan: "......"
"Ye Zhiyu, do you know that keeping people in suspense is a very immoral thing to do?"
"Oh, it'll only take half a day. You'll understand once the person arrives."
Liu Shengnan was very dissatisfied. If she didn't want to say anything, she would just figure it out herself.
There were only a few people Ye Zhiyu didn't want to talk about at this educated youth settlement, and Xu Fen was one of them; she had already been imprisoned.
Then there are those few who used to be sarcastic and sarcastic with Li Xi, but it's not that bad.
Then there's Fu Tingshen and Li Xi, their story... um?
I think I've discovered the key point.
Forgetting all about Li Yuzhe, she peeked out from the kitchen doorway and asked, "Those two?"
Ye Zhiyu smiled but didn't say anything.
Liu Shengnan: "Tsk tsk tsk, awesome." That was fast.
Ye Zhiyu invited them to eat lunch with her, since there was so much food they couldn't possibly finish it all.
Liu Shengnan took the steamed buns, and Li Yuzhe took the noodles.
Ye Zhiyu's bread seemed out of place, and she didn't want to eat it, so she put it back and picked up a steamed bun to eat.
With Lu Chen's help, things went much faster in the afternoon. Wu Wenwen, Lin Yueze, and Liu Yuan also returned one after another and joined in.
The men shoveled snow on top, while the women built a snowman below. In this weather, the snow wouldn't melt no matter where it was placed, so they might as well build a big snowman.
"Huff~ Huff~"
Their hands were frozen red, but that couldn't dampen their enthusiasm.
As they were piling up snow, they started having a snowball fight. Their silvery laughter rang out, and several men turned around to look.
"They seem quite happy, but I'm exhausted," Li Yuzhe complained, but his eyes never left Liu Shengnan.
"It's so beautiful," she murmured unintentionally.
Liu Yuan, who was closer to him, leaned in a little closer and asked, "What did you say?"
Li Yuzhe pushed him away: "I said it's freezing cold."
Liu Yuan looked at him suspiciously, making up a random excuse: "Are you slacking off? I'm sweating and want to take off my clothes because I'm so hot. Are you cold?"
"I, I just have this constitution."
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