That was Cao Qing, who lived in the large dormitory in the front yard. On the day the first snow fell, he resolutely decided to rent a single room and move out on his own.
Along with her, she also moved the firewood she had painstakingly collected and the winter vegetables she had stored.
Cao Qing's move caught Cai Xiaoyu off guard. She had been thinking that since they were all living in the same house, Cao Qing wouldn't rather freeze than light a fire.
So, for a while now, she's been dawdling all day, only managing to gather a small bundle of firewood each day, all in the hopes of getting a bargain.
She never expected Cao Qing to move out so suddenly. Now, Cai Xiaoyu is all alone in the huge house. Looking at the meager amount of firewood in the woodshed next door, she feels completely lost.
Cai Xiaoyu stood there blankly, the cold wind blowing mercilessly over her body, and she couldn't help but shiver.
Snowflakes fell in a flurry, as if mocking her foolishness and laziness.
It was only now that she realized how difficult this winter would be for her. Cai Xiaoyu's mood grew heavier, and regret and resentment welled up in her heart.
She, who already had a bad relationship with Cao Qing, blamed all her current predicament on Cao Qing, hating her insidious nature.
However, Cao Qing's departure served as a wake-up call for Cai Xiaoyu, making her realize that if she didn't want to freeze to death this winter, she had no choice but to start diligently gathering firewood now.
So in the days that followed, she got up early every day to collect more firewood on the mountain, and despite the biting cold and exhaustion, she could only grit her teeth and persevere.
Every day, besides going into the mountains to collect firewood, Cai Xiaoyu also has to arrange to buy winter vegetables in the village. Because at this time, most households have sold out of their vegetables, and the remaining winter vegetables are carefully calculated to ensure that they are enough for their families to eat throughout the winter.
If you sell them at this time, it's like saving food from your own family's mouth, so most people are unwilling to sell their winter-stored vegetables at this time.
So in the end, although Cai Xiaoyu managed to buy vegetables for winter storage, she ended up spending more money.
This deepened Cai Xiaoyu's resentment towards Cao Qing.
But she never thinks about whether what she does is right or wrong.
Before Cao Qing moved out, Cai Xiaoyu always had the mentality of taking advantage of others and would occasionally steal some vegetables from Cao Qing.
After all, it was just some common vegetables like cabbage, radish, and potatoes. Cao Qing wouldn't send her to the police station for such a small matter. At most, he would just verbally scold her a few times, without causing her any real harm.
However, to Cai Xiaoyu's utter surprise, Cao Qing was incredibly ruthless.
At first, Cao Qing let her take advantage of him without making a sound, but he used this trick after the weather turned cold.
Cai Xiaoyu is now certain that Cao Qing did this on purpose. She calculated that moving out during the cold weather, when it was difficult to buy winter vegetables and gather firewood, was a deliberate act to put herself in a difficult situation.
Cai Xiaoyu was filled with anger and resentment. She regretted her greed and cleverness back then, and now she had been tricked by Cao Qing and made to look so miserable.
She felt completely manipulated by Cao Qing, and this predicament made her feel extremely painful and helpless.
However, none of the other educated youths sympathized with her. On the contrary, they felt that Cao Qing should do what she did. Those who had not been on good terms with Cao Qing in the past became friendly with her after she moved out.
This made Cai Xiaoyu hate everyone in the entire educated youth compound.
She always had a gloomy face and looked at everyone with a sinister expression, which caused people to avoid her whenever they saw her, let alone speak to her or help her.
Of course, Chen Shuning only listened to these things as gossip stories; she didn't care who was right or wrong, good or bad.
At this moment, she was walking into the mountains, chopping down dead branches by the roadside with her machete, and secretly throwing some into her spatial storage when no one was around.
However, she only dared to collect small, withered branches. She wouldn't dare to collect larger ones because there were so many people gathering firewood in the mountains at this time of year, and she would run into them from time to time. If she wanted to hide something big, she would have to go deeper into the mountains.
Many families in the village now come out in droves to collect firewood, hoping to gather as much firewood as possible before the heavy snow closes the mountain passes.
Otherwise, when the weather gets particularly cold, not to mention the dangers of wind, snow, and wild animals in the mountains, the blizzards in Heilongjiang Province are quite frightening.
When the wind blows, even experienced hunters can easily lose their way, so at that time, the villagers would rather freeze than go into the mountains.
However, Chen Shuning didn't have these worries. She had already prepared coal for the winter, and she and He Chaoyang had also been secretly gathering firewood for a while. Even if she didn't go up the mountain, it would be enough for her to burn all winter.
She went up the mountain simply because she couldn't get used to living without He Chaoyang and wanted to find something to do.
So Chen Shuning didn't collect too much firewood; she only picked up a small bundle before heading down the mountain to go home.
However, as soon as she emerged from behind a large tree, she witnessed a shocking scene. The sight was so gruesome that Chen Shuning hurriedly hid back behind the tree. Now, she was caught in a dilemma, unsure of what to do.
At this moment, Chen Shuning was filled with remorse. Why had he been so greedy for those few pieces of wood and come to this remote place?
Now, things have gotten really messy, and I've run into something so troublesome.
What bothered her even more was that she knew the two people in front of her very well. The two people who were disheveled, tightly embracing and passionately kissing were actually old acquaintances. How embarrassing is that?
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