Niu Feifei didn't understand what he meant at first, but then she realized he wasn't a pushover. "Some people who are blind should go to the clinic and get their eyes treated. It's wrong to finish the work first according to the assigned area. What's the matter? You're born disabled, but you still need help. I'm not your mother, so why should I spoil you?"
Xu Bingshuai's face turned blue, but he couldn't refute a word. He could only blame himself for not understanding the situation and standing up for others, but ended up hitting a wall. It was also the first time he realized Niu Feifei's temper. She would not tolerate any grievance at all.
He Yuzhen is eighteen years old this year. She has a long face, a sweet smile, and a thin figure, which makes her a delicate type. In addition, her health is not good and her face is always pale, which can arouse men's desire to protect her.
Since she was fifteen or sixteen years old, male classmates kept showing interest in her. Whatever she wanted, she only needed to hint at it a few times, and someone would give it to her.
She was originally feeling slightly proud of Xu Bingshuai's special regard for her, but now, seeing him standing up for her without even considering the formalities, and even offending him so bluntly, her face darkened for a moment before she quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Brother Xu was just being kind and looking out for me. He just arrived and didn't know we were separate shards."
Xu Bingshuai looked at He Yuzhen with love in his eyes.
Niu Feifei was too lazy to talk nonsense with the two of them. She just snorted and continued working.
Liu Yanlin didn't say anything. She went straight to her sister and helped her level the ground.
By dusk, all the grass roots in the yard had been cleared. After recovering from her previous frustration, He Yuzhen began to play tricks again. She looked at the uneven ground and sighed, "It would be great if this had a stone floor like Doctor Tian's! Otherwise, when it rains, every time I walk across it, I'll get my feet covered in mud and it's easy to fall."
Xu Bingshuai responded tactfully, "I'll ask the villagers tomorrow, and if I find out, I'll find someone to lay the pavement."
He Yuzhen immediately looked at him with great admiration, "Brother Xu, you are really amazing!"
Xu Bingshuai was so intoxicated by the goddess's adoration that he couldn't help himself. He directly took over the yard of the male educated youth as well. "Then the land of both yards will be contracted to me. Anyway, the money I brought is enough for me to spend, and my mother can send me more if it's not enough!"
Liu Yanqing couldn't bear to look at this idiot, so she took her brother to a fellow villager's house for dinner. The others also left tactfully, leaving only He Yuzhen and Xu Bingshuai.
The educated youth's food, like Tian Cai's, was bought on credit from the brigade. They had to pay it back after the autumn harvest and the food was distributed. If the food was not enough by then, they could pay it back with money.
On the male educated youth side, everyone seemed to think Yan Xudong was the leader. I don't know if it was because he was the oldest among them or because he had that kind of leadership aura in him, but even Li Sheng, who talked the most, was willing to listen to him.
A few people cleaned up the yard in the afternoon. Yan Xudong asked Xu Bingshuai and Liu Yanlin to go and help the female educated youth, while the remaining three continued to repair the yard wall.
Yan Xudong did not plan to dig up the vegetable garden in the backyard this year. He asked the team leader, and he learned that the weather would get cold in November and it would soon freeze. It would be impossible to grow any vegetables in less than a month. It would be better to buy some from the villagers this year and grow some himself next year.
Yan Xudong went into the house and added two split tree roots into the kang hole. It is said that this is more fire-resistant, and the kang can be lived in after burning for two or three days.
In the next two or three days, he planned to divide the work among everyone. Both rooms needed kang mats, and iron pots had to be bought, as well as some necessary daily necessities. It should not be a problem to prepare everything in two days.
As for the issue of cooking in the future, none of the men knew how to cook, so he needed to discuss with a few female educated youth to see if they should eat together.
The educated youth were busy cleaning up the house, and the team members who had finished their farm work here did not rest either, but joined the army of people collecting mountain products.
Tian Cai was the same. As long as the weather was good, he would go up the mountain early with a wicker basket on his back. Later, he took Luo Xiuyan to the hill where the crooked chestnut tree she had been targeting was located.
Tian Cai felt that the chestnuts fell too slowly and he couldn't reach the treetops by knocking them from below, so he simply climbed up the tree with a bamboo pole and hit the tree with a few crackling sounds. Luo Xiuyan, who was watching from below, almost laughed out loud.
"Cai Cai, it's so great to go up the mountain with you! You're so awesome!"
"Hurry up and pick it up!" Tian Cai jumped down from the tree, picked up his bamboo basket, put on coarse cloth gloves, and started working. "Hurry up and fill it up soon so you can come back again."
Luo Xiuyan thought so too. This place was quite far away and it would take a lot of time to go back and forth, so she also used both hands to paddle.
Luo Xiuyan was originally from the country and had been used to doing farm work since she was a child, so she was very skillful. Tian Cai was no less capable, and the two of them filled the bamboo baskets in a short while.
He stuffed chestnuts in again and again, and finally kicked it. When it couldn't hold any more, he carried the bamboo basket back.
"If you can't eat the chestnuts, you can save them and exchange them for other things. Moreover, chestnuts can be used in cooking. People say that stewing chicken with chestnuts is good for the body. Young wives who are in confinement like it!" The heavy bamboo basket made Luo Xiuyan's shoulders ache, but her face was full of joy of harvest. When she thought of the value of this basket of chestnuts, she smiled.
"Well, the key is that it tastes good! But even the most nourishing foods have different benefits for different people. From a medical perspective, chestnut stewed chicken is more suitable for people with weak spleens and stomachs. If someone in confinement has a damp-heat constitution, it won't be a tonic, but rather harmful." Tian Cai explained to her, "Many so-called tonic foods shouldn't be taken carelessly."
"Then what constitutes a weak spleen and stomach?" Luo Xiuyan was also a very studious girl. In her opinion, Tian Cai cured her eczema better than any other doctor in the county. Besides, at this time, no one had the money to treat the disease, so it would always be good to know more.
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