In the next few days, in order to avoid embarrassment, Li Mengxue went to the city to resell supplies every day, leaving early and returning late. She was not seen all day long, and Zheng Xiaolong did not follow her closely this time.

His attitude towards Chen Ruru was still not very good, but he took out his own food for her to eat, taught her how to use the earthen stove and heat the kang, and then stayed in Chen Zhihe's room and seldom went out.

Chen Ruru supervised the renovation of the empty house very seriously. She found someone to get the tables, chairs, kang mats, and even the dust-proof newspapers on the walls, and prepared them bit by bit.

She strictly followed the layout of Li Mengxue's house that she had seen before, striving to make the place where Li Mengxue moved in similar to or even better than her previous home.

She seemed to be only too paranoid about matters related to her engagement. The rest of her daily life and even her interactions with others were quite normal. She was even a kind girl.

The educated youth site returned to a brief period of peace.

It was very cold and everyone stayed indoors with nothing to do. Yi Qingqing was the same and spent most of her time learning skills.

Occasionally, I would do something else in the thatched hut to change my mood.

She started using the things in the New Year gift package.

Her painting skills have improved a lot now. When she is not studying, she sits in front of the easel in the thatched house and paints to relax.

The image of two figures running together in the rain has begun to take shape on the drawing paper.

“Boom boom!”

The knock on the door pulled Yi Qingqing out of her memories. She put down the pencil in her hand, wiped the dirt on her hand, and returned to the house with one thought.

Although she was not in the room, the kang was still burning and the room was warm.

When she walked over and opened the door, she saw a large wooden box in front of her. She was startled and she stepped on tiptoe to see Yun Guyuan behind her.

Yi Qingqing quickly made way, "What is this?"

Yun Guyuan walked in with a box in his arms, and Yi Qingqing quickly moved the table so that he could put the box down.

"I was idle in the house during the winter, and thought that when the weather gets warmer, I would have nowhere to put my thick clothes, quilts, and blankets, so I made two boxes for you."

He opened the big box and found a small box inside: "This small one is made of extra scraps, and can also be used to hold small things."

"For me?" Yi Qingqing was surprised.

Yun Guyuan nodded.

Although what he said made sense, if her personal space was not taken into account, her original large wooden box was indeed not enough, and she also needed a small box to store money, so the gold-painted lacquer box was not enough.

But these two boxes were better made than any sold by the old carpenter. They were polished very smoothly and painted with a layer of tung oil paint. They were very beautiful. It was too precious to just accept them.

But she had no choice but to accept it. After all, it was a token of her love. Although they had an agreement, it was normal for them to give each other gifts given their current relationship.

Before he could say anything, Yun Guyuan said, "Can this box cover the tuition for a while longer?"

"Tuition?" Yi Qingqing was confused.

Suddenly, he glanced at the washbasin rack behind the door, then looked at the kang table and the rocking chair and stool at the back door, and suddenly remembered a long-standing agreement.

It seemed like someone used these things to lure me into teaching him how to cook step by step, right?

Now she has made it a habit to cook with him once a week, so where was the final extension deadline?

Yi Qingqing couldn't quite remember, maybe it was after the New Year? No wonder he was thinking about renewing his tuition!

The making of these two boxes is not a matter of one day or one night. It must be prepared in advance. Maybe it has to start before winter. Is that when you think about extending the deadline for teaching how to cook?

"Can it be extended for half a year?" Yun Guyuan was worried, "How about three months? One month is also fine."

If it's just a short time, he still has to think carefully about what to do next time.

Yi Qingqing looked at him and suddenly smiled.

Her Ayuan is so adorable. If she still believes that someone is just trying to learn how to cook, then she is a fool. Learning how to cook is fake, and being with her is real, right?

"Well, I think that changing this box for only half a year is too short. I can't figure out the exact time for the moment. Let me think about it first. Every week in the future will be the same as before! Well... let's start from today! Let me think about what to cook for today..."

Yun Guyuan understood what she meant, and the joy in his eyes seemed to become real: "Yesterday I found a rat snake hiding in the woodshed and hibernating there. I remember you said before that snake meat stewed in clear soup is delicious, how about making this today?"

Yi Qingqing's eyes lit up: "Great! Then I will have a treat too!"

She really wanted to eat snake for a long time.

It was probably during the winter of last year that Yi Qingqing learned how to cook snake from Master Wen. After tasting it, the delicious flavor made her salivate for a long time, and she has already indulged in the cooking skills teaching mode several times.

It's not that she had never encountered snakes before, but she didn't know that they were so delicious. Unfortunately, by the time she found out, it was already winter and the snakes had all hidden in their caves. Once buried in the snow, she couldn't find any trace of them at all, so she had to give up.

I just mentioned it once when I was cooking with Yun Guyuan.

I didn't expect a snake to crawl into his woodshed. I guess it was because the weather was cold. After all, the woodshed shared a wall with the house, and sometimes things were smoked in it, so it was warmer than the ice and snow outside.

I don’t know if there is any in my woodshed.

It was not time for dinner yet. After the two agreed to cook together in the evening, Yun Guyuan went back, his steps brisker.

Yi Qingqing placed the large box against the back wall on the sleeping side of the kang, and took the small box into the thatched hut, where she transferred all the full banknotes from the gold-painted lacquer box.

This box is much larger than the gilded lacquer box and is big enough to hold the money.

After putting the two boxes away, Yi Qingqing took his stuff and went into the woodshed in his backyard, hoping that a snake with foresight would choose this place as its hibernation nest and give him a meal.

Unfortunately, she searched the woodshed thoroughly but couldn't find the little cutie, so at least she gave up.

Next year, next year she must store seventeen or eighteen snakes in the food room!

Section 131

Yi Qingqing swore secretly.

Once upon a time, she was a girl who was afraid of long creatures, but since she had eaten loaches and snakes, long creatures suddenly became cute and more delicious than fish.

By the way, this incident reminded her that she had to find Master Li to learn how to catch snakes. She had skipped this part before. At that time, she thought that snakes only had a few pounds of meat and did not look tasty, so she only learned some methods to identify poisonous snakes.