After picking up a full basket of dry firewood, Yi Qingqing and Qian Lailai headed home. Unfortunately, neither of them knew how to grow wild vegetables, so even if Yi Qingqing found a bush of wild vegetables, she didn't dare to pick them because she didn't know which ones were edible or which parts were edible.

Qian Lailai looked at Yi Qingqing's backpack which was packed tightly and piled high, then looked at his own backpack which was loose and not yet poking out. He had a deep understanding of Yi Qingqing's strength.

Yi Qingqing carried a basket of firewood on the old man's back, but her waist was not bent at all and she walked with a breeze.

An old sister-in-law who went up the mountain to collect firewood said: "Oh my God, this little Yi Zhiqing is almost a grown man, I really can't tell!"

A kid who ate her candy said: "Can Sister Qingqing split the brick with one palm?"

A member who just got off work said: "Our team wants this educated youth!"

The old educated youth who came back wiped his sweat and said: "We are all educated youth, why are there such big differences?

After practicing her cooking skills for so long, Yi Qingqing finally cooked for the first time when she returned to her own home.

It’s a good time to cook the meat I bought today so that I can get some nutrition for work tomorrow.

Just make Master Zhu’s specialty, braised pork.

Cut the meat into pieces and put it into the pot. Add the seasonings and cook it slowly in a clay pot. Then steam the rice in the pot.

The aroma of meat could be smelled throughout the entire back alley.

She was not the only one who cooked meat tonight, Li Mengxue also brought back some meat.

The new educated youth are doing better. Except for Liu Chunxing and Wang Lingling, everyone else had a good meal when they went out today.

Many of the old educated youth in front swallowed their saliva.

The day's work is tiring enough, and when you get home there is not much oil in the pot yet, so you can only eat while smelling the food being cooked. Those who are in a good mood can taste the aroma of the meat and the batter in their mouths goes smoother. Those who are in a bad mood will start to gossip.

Wang Lingling and Liu Chunxing cooked together, and the stove was set up in the front hall, where they had the most contact with the old educated youth.

Someone immediately asked them about the situation of the new educated youth.

Liu Chunxing was already resentful towards Yi Qingqing because her plan today failed and she had to give away some things. Now she was even more resentful as she was busy cooking alone.

Who made Wang Lingling unable to cook? She even needed someone to teach her how to light a fire. In order to dispel Wang Lingling's suspicion, she had helped her both financially and physically. Now that she was complaining, she could only endure it and comfort herself by saying that she would return the money to Wang Lingling when the letter from home arrived.

Since she couldn't vent her anger on Wang Lingling, she could only vent it on Yi Qingqing.

But she was not as eloquent as Yi Qingqing, so she couldn't win the argument in person. Now that she was not around, it would be nice to create some trouble for her.

So whenever someone asked her about it, she would tell her the whole story of borrowing the bicycle today.

"Alas, it was because I was delayed in the morning by building the stove and couldn't go to the county town. I couldn't make it in the afternoon, so I asked to borrow it. I wanted to bring her some brown sugar to thank her, but she refused before I even said it."

"You said that I didn't want to lend Lingling the money, so I could be with Lingling even if I didn't want to? And you lent her a dollar to send a letter without saying anything?"

"Fortunately, there is a supply and marketing cooperative in the commune, otherwise I don't know what to do today!"

"Her family is well-off, but you can't wrongly accuse her like this. Besides, her family is a dual-income family. She bought so many things today. I'm afraid her family gave her all their savings. I don't know how her family will make ends meet."

Among the people in the back hall, Tang Lan was the most excited. "Is Yi Zhiqing really like this? When I was at work today, I heard the team leader's wife and the village head's wife both praising her. She is such a person? You can't judge a person by his appearance!"

"I feel sorry for you, Liu Zhiqing. We are both educated youth, so how can you make malicious assumptions about others? It's hard enough to go to the countryside, and you don't help each other. Sigh!"

The two of them sang the same tune. Lu Zhendong had always been very attentive and admired Tang Lan, so naturally he also felt a dislike for Yi Zhiqing.

Cai Chunshan didn't think there was anything wrong. He was just thinking about the appearance and figures of these female educated youth.

Lu Xianjin, who had just returned after talking to the village chief's daughter, noticed that Yi Zhiqing's family seemed to be very rich, but he didn't know whether he had any power.

On the other side, Zhao Fang and Zhou Qiang ate in silence. They just wanted to live their own lives well and couldn't care too much about others.

"I remember you borrowed my car today, and I said we were not familiar with each other! Although Yi Zhiqing didn't borrow it, she at least told you that there was a supply and marketing cooperative in the commune. Why are you gossiping only about her?"

Yun Guyuan, who came out to fetch water, accidentally heard Liu Chunxing distorting the facts and giving the longest speech so far.

After Yun Guyuan went outside to fetch some water, walked through the front hall and disappeared into the alley, the stagnant and awkward atmosphere in the hall eased a little.

Tang Lan blinked her eyes. "Liu Zhiqing, is what this educated youth said true? Why didn't you say it just now?"

Liu Chunxing hung her head, not knowing what she was thinking. "But you are asking about Yi Zhiqing, so I can't mention anyone else!"

Yi Qingqing, who was eating meat with big mouthfuls, had no idea about the quarrel in the front hall, and her enthusiasm for eating was not affected.

Before Yun Guyuan entered the house, he looked at the tightly closed door opposite. He heard the faint sound of humming coming from inside, and his eyes softened.

After eating, washing the pots and dishes, boiling water and taking a bath, Yi Qingqing climbed into bed early.

There is a sign-in location in the county that requires 5 sign-in points, and there is another one at 3 points on the mountain to urge her, not to mention that there are so many sign-in locations that she has never tried. It is a bit difficult to sustain with just one sign-in point every day.

Now all she can think of is to study skills diligently and make up for it by relying on the sign-in points rewarded for skill upgrades.

After reaching level 2 in cooking skills, she had not made much progress under the teaching of Master Zhu, and her skill progress had also stagnated. But today, when she was making braised pork by herself, the progress bar that had not moved for a long time grew a little bit again, but the difference was not a little bit from the early days when she learned from Master Zhu.

This shows that skills can not only be improved under the skill teaching mode. After getting started, you can also improve through your own research, but the speed will be slower.

This makes sense. Both self-study and being taught by others are learning, and it is normal to have improvement.

Yi Qingqing, on the contrary, believes that this mechanism makes the skill level on her panel more than just a number. It is an ability that truly belongs to her. It is something she has acquired through hard work and no one else can take it away. Even if she loses this system one day, her ability will still be there.

In reality, you only have the opportunity to cook three times a day, so you have to work on it slowly. If the 5 o'clock check-in point at the state-owned restaurant is also a cooking skill, you may be able to quickly improve it.

Now she just wants to quickly upgrade her college entrance examination skills to level 2, which is only 10% away.