When Yang Dahua ran to the educated youth site in a panic, she saw Shi Xiaoli talking and laughing with Lu Juanjuan, and there was no sign that the two of them had ever had any conspiracy.
She quickly asked Shi Xiaoli to go home. Doesn't she need help at home during the New Year?
Lu Juanjuan smiled as usual: "Auntie, are you here?"
"Oh." Yang Dahua forced a smile. Her scalp was tingling when she saw this woman.
"Auntie, since you're here, let's chat for a while." Lu Juanjuan said generously: "Xiao Li, go wait for her over there first."
Shi Xiaoli nodded and walked away like an obedient puppy.
Yang Dahua had no choice but to stand there, waiting for Lu Juanjuan to approach her. Still smiling, she asked softly, "Aunt, have you thought of a way? How can you get the medicine from Uncle Tao?"
"Juanjuan, I..." Yang Dahua felt a chill on her back.
"Why, you don't want your daughter's lifelong happiness?"
Yang Dahua wondered, does she have any way out now?
I could only bite the bullet and say, "If it's poison, why would Mr. Tao give it to me? I heard from Shi De that there is a veterinarian in the Third Commune."
"Shut up right there! Are you familiar with the veterinarian at the Third Commune? If you go ask him for medicine, won't that make you more vulnerable?"
Lu Juanjuan's voice suddenly turned cold, startling Yang Dahua: "Juan, please let me go. I don't dare."
"Alright, I'll go tell Shi Zhentang right now that you were the one who gave him the medicine the night before yesterday." Lu Juanjuan was about to leave, and Yang Dahua was so scared that she quickly grabbed her: "No, no..."
Gritting her teeth, Yang Dahua made up her mind: "Then I'll go ask Uncle Tao and tell him I need to poison the rats in my house."
"That's right!" Lu Juanjuan patted the back of her hand with a forced smile. "Then I'll wait for your good news, Auntie. By the way, I've already told Xiaoli to come to the educated youth center after eating the New Year's Eve dinner. We're having a small get-together tonight for all the young people. I'll ask her to come join in the fun."
After saying that, she winked, as if hinting to her that there were many male educated youth in the evening, and Shi Xiaoli could come over and spend time with them.
If this happened under normal circumstances, Yang Dahua would be overjoyed, but now she has such a big thing on her mind, how can she be happy?
He just agreed perfunctorily and quickly turned and left.
…
Starting at five o'clock in the afternoon, people in the village began to set off firecrackers one after another.
Firecrackers cost only three cents a pack, and even the poorest family would buy one to set off, to make things lively and auspicious. As the old saying goes, if you drive away the Nian monster, your family will have good luck all year round.
There are three packs of firecrackers in the hut. I plan to set off one on New Year's Eve and one on the morning of the second day of the New Year to welcome the God of Wealth.
Shi Zhentang opened the other letter at the request of Chengcheng and Doudou. The two little guys didn't dare to put it down. Each of them had a few in their pockets and had already shown them off to their friends in the village.
At half past five, after setting off firecrackers, the banquet began in the hut.
The dishes included exploded rabbit, wild pheasant in clear soup, dry-fried wild boar meat, big buns stuffed with cabbage and smoked pork, cured pork ribs cooked with white radish, a plate of fried shredded potatoes, and a plate of peanuts.
Shi Zhentang, Shi Weimin and the old lady all had a drink.
Su Zhen and Tian Yuzhu didn't know how to drink, so they just poured a small sip symbolically, and the two little ones drank the sweet water in the can of oranges as a drink.
As she raised her glass, the old lady was filled with emotion, and her thousands of words condensed into a blessing: "I hope that everyone in our family will be safe and healthy in the new year. I hope that you two brothers will have more children in the future, and our family will become more and more prosperous."
"cheers!"
"cheers!"
Outside the window, the sound of firecrackers echoed over the small mountain village, and heavy snow fell in the silent night sky, gently scattering and covering the sky.
Even the black wolves in the mountains howled several times, as if envying the hustle and bustle of the world.
Compared to the small house, the big house is heartbreakingly simple.
Listening to the laughter coming from the hut, Shi Weiqiang looked at the two or three dry dishes on the table and wanted to get up and go to the hut immediately.
A small bottle of red sparkling wine, not much meat, but she was willing to use some cabbage and cooked a big pot.
But her mother, Yang Dahua, saw through everything and stopped him with one sentence: "Third brother, when spring comes, I'll ask someone to find you a wife. Do you have any girls you like?"
Shi Weiqiang immediately sat down obediently like a little pug: "No. Mom, are you serious? Then you have to pay attention to it. I'm waiting for your good news."
"Don't worry, as long as you listen to your mother."
…
Snap!
In the small warehouse of the educated youth site, Kong Xingbai was fiddling with the old-fashioned gunpowder gun.
He heard the sound of firecrackers, and even more so the discordant howling of wolves amidst the bustle, and his narrow eyes grew a little colder.
This beast even comes to join in the fun during the Chinese New Year.
At this time, Doctor Wei came in and called him: "It's time to eat! I said, why are you messing with that gun again? Hurry up."
"Didn't you say you wanted to go home?" Kong Xingbai turned around and put the gun in the cabinet.
"What are we going to do when it snows so heavily? Besides, isn't Uncle Lu emotionally unstable?"
"They're all excuses. I don't know what you're thinking." Kong Xingbai smiled at his comrade. "There's a get-together for the educated youth tonight, and the female educated youth are going to perform. You just want to find a girlfriend, don't you?"
"Go away." Doctor Wei adjusted his glasses, his thin face flushed red.
Suddenly, Kong Xingbai, who was locking the cabinet, asked, "By the way, we've known each other for so long, but I still don't know where you're from."
Doctor Wei suddenly looked proud: "Then guess what my name is."
"Your name? It's not Wei Xinyi."
New meaning?
Kong Xingbai suddenly realized: "Your hometown is Xinyi Town?"
"Yes, my hometown is Xinyi Town, where you held the commendation meeting not long ago." Doctor Wei felt that Kong Xingbai was an educated youth from outside the area, so it was necessary to give him some popular science knowledge.
As the two of them walked and talked about Xinyi Town, they naturally talked about the avalanche that day.
Dr. Wei recalled the letter his family had sent him: "I heard that after the avalanche, a rumor spread quietly in Xinyi Town. It was said that a female bodhisattva had foreseen the avalanche that day and saved many lives."
"You believe this too?"
Kong Xingbai wondered how a medical student like you could be so idealistic. "I was there that day. There was no female Bodhisattva. The cows had escaped from the cowshed, so everyone went looking for them. It was just a coincidence. Everyone who was there at the time knew it."
"Then I definitely don't believe it. I just think ordinary people are so easy to fool. This is something I can only imagine."
Dr. Wei himself felt embarrassed. It was a different era now, and his family still believed in this.
In fact, what he didn't know was that at this moment, dozens of kilometers away in Xinyi Town...
Not only do the common people believe in it, especially those who have escaped death, they also burn incense and worship the female Bodhisattva before eating the New Year’s Eve dinner!
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