"Okay then. I'll leave my vegetable cellar to you."
The second girl patted her chest and assured, "Don't worry, I have a sharp eye. I can tell right away that there's a well in that patch of ground in your front yard near the kitchen."
"Then the vegetable cellar should be away from the front yard," the two men said as they walked towards the backyard.
After looking around the backyard for a while, the second girl pointed to the area in the middle of the backyard, next to the mountain wall behind it: "Ye Zi, if you trust me, you can't go wrong if you dig here."
Chen Ye glanced at the rocky mountain wall and asked, "Will digging that part only turn out to be rock?"
The second girl walked over to the spot, squatted down, and began to dig at the dirt with her hands. After digging for a long time, she said, "Trust me, this is definitely the right spot. You won't find any rocks if you dig deeper."
The second girl was naturally confident about this, as if she had a sense of something underground.
Chen Ye knew that Erya was a sincere person who never boasted. "Okay, then dig here. Wait for me to get the tools."
Digging a cellar is no easy task. Even if Chen Ye is very strong, he cannot do it without the right tools, even with just a shovel.
However, she didn't have such a complete set of tools at home, so she had to borrow them from her grandfather's house.
The second girl was not afraid of working at all. When she saw Ye Zi bringing back the tools, she rolled up her sleeves and started working with Ye Zi. Both of them were strong and used to doing hard work. After a short while, a big pit about one meter in diameter had been dug out.
At this time, the young grandfather brought the one-eyed grandfather over: "Hey, you two girls are quick, how long did it take?" He went to the other side of the river to find the one-eyed man and came back. How could they have dug so deep?
Chen Ye stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat off his face, and instantly turned into a little cat: "Little Grandpa, One-Eyed Grandpa, why are you two here?"
The one-eyed man glanced at the location they were digging and nodded: "Girl, why didn't you tell me you wanted to dig a vegetable cellar? If you don't choose the right place, won't it be all in vain?"
"Hehe, this is the place that Bu Erya showed me, and I thought it was good, so I just did it." Anyway, even if I was wrong, the most I would do would be a waste of energy.
"Don't tell me, this is a good spot. If you dig up your front yard, water might come out. This is the best spot in your yard."
The one-eyed man then looked at the second girl and asked, "Is this the second girl from Old Lu's family?"
The second girl greeted him innocently: "One-eyed grandpa."
One-Eye nodded: "You are quite capable girl, you have chosen a good place, come on, don't stop, let's do it together."
Chen Ye quickly put down his tools and stopped the people. Did these two old men forget that their legs and feet were not in good condition? What if they fell?
"No, no, actually I can do it myself. The second girl happened to come to see me today and work with me. No matter what, you can't ask the second girl to help me with the work tomorrow." It was not so busy anymore, and she was embarrassed to ask the second girl to help her with the work.
The second girl refused to do it: "What are you talking about? It's just a small job. I can do it faster with you. It's not a heavy job."
The one-eyed man looked at his own legs, then at his old friend's legs. Okay, let's not make trouble anymore.
"Okay, you two go across the street to eat later, and I'll kill a chicken for you two." He went home to get a chicken. It happened that one of the chickens didn't lay eggs anymore. It would be a waste of food to keep it, so it would be better to give it to the two children to nourish them.
Chen Ye didn't bother to be polite with the one-eyed grandfather: "Then we'll just wait and eat what's ready."
"Yes, just wait and eat the ready-made food, but don't complain if it tastes bad," their cooking skills are just a little bit poor.
"Hehe, no problem, no problem. As long as it's meat, it's delicious."
"Okay, you guys go ahead and get ready."
"Hey, little grandpa, one-eyed grandpa, you two should slow down a bit."
The second girl wanted to refuse but before she could open her mouth, she was interrupted by several people talking to her. Why did she feel like she was not here to help Ye Zi with work, but to eat meat?
After watching the two old people leave, Ye Zi picked up her tools and started working. She had a problem: she couldn't stop doing something in the middle and always wanted to finish it in one go.
But she also knew that digging a vegetable cellar, especially a large one, would take more than one day.
Only then did the second girl speak: "I don't want to eat. My family is waiting for me to go back and eat." She was embarrassed to eat Ye Zi's family's meat with just such a small job. It was not easy for Ye Zi to live alone!
"What are you talking about? How can you bankrupt me just by eating a meal?"
The second girl nodded honestly: "But aren't you very poor?" She felt that Ye Zi's life was even harder than hers.
Chen Ye choked up. Sometimes he felt really awkward talking to Shishi. "Don't worry, eat as much as you want. You know I can hunt rabbits and pheasants, so I'll have plenty of meat to eat."
The second girl didn't believe it: "Come on, there are a lot of rabbits and pheasants in the back mountain. Do you think anyone can catch them?" Anyway, she had never caught one.
Chen Ye was still not convinced: "That's because you haven't seen how good I am at hunting. Come with me." She pulled the second girl to the front yard and pointed at the chickens in her own small fence.
"See? What are those two?"
The second girl looked at it for a long time and said: "Why do I look like a pheasant?" But how could a pheasant not fly out of such a low fence?
"That's a pheasant, isn't it? I clipped its wings and it behaved itself. I can even catch a live pheasant. Isn't that amazing?"
Chen Ye only shows this childish side when facing people he trusts and is familiar with.
The second girl looked at Chen Ye with her eyes shining: "Ye Zi, did you really catch this?"
"How can I lie to you? That's why I'm so powerful. You can eat meat without worry." She knew that Erya's family was reluctant to eat meat. They were the kind of family that could only eat a little meat once a year.
The second girl looked at the four chickens in the fence and swallowed her saliva, her eyes full of longing. Her family also raised chickens, but they were reluctant to eat the eggs, waiting to use them to exchange for some needles and thread or something.
The second girl's dark red face was a little hot, but the color of her skin made it hard to tell that she was blushing: "Well, then you're welcome."
Chen Ye rolled his eyes and said, "Why are you being so polite to me? I've eaten a lot of your food too."
When Chen Ye was little, she would wander around the village as long as she didn't go home. She was afraid that if she went home, the two old people would cause trouble and kill her.
At that time, the living conditions of Eryatou's family were very poor. Every time Eryatou saw her, she would take out a small piece of cake or something she had saved from her pocket and give it to Chen Ye to eat.
During the three most difficult years, Eryatou never stopped providing her with food.
The second girl was so thin at that time that she looked like a big-headed baby. Everyone was thinking about saving a bite to feed her.
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