Chapter 77 Going up the mountain to collect firewood



When they were busy until noon, those who were supposed to cook today went back to cook. Tong Yiya looked at herself and saw that she had done almost half of the work, so she left the cornfield first.

She took the basket and cloth bag from Aunt Guihua's house in the morning, intending to return them at noon.

She first found an aunt in the field and asked about the land where Aunt Guihua worked. When she heard that she had gone back to cook, Tong Yiya thanked her and walked towards her home.

It wasn't long before they arrived at Aunt Guihua's house. Tong Yiya saw that the gate was open and called out from outside the yard, "Is Aunt Guihua home?"

After a while, Aunt Guihua heard a voice coming out of her kitchen, and asked, "Who's looking for me?"

When I walked out, I saw Tong Yiya standing at the door and continued, "Tong Zhiqing, it's you. I was just cooking in the kitchen. Come in and sit for a while."

As he spoke, he walked to the gate to greet her. Tong Yiya walked in and said, "Auntie, I'm just here to return the basket and bag. The educated youth are waiting for me to go back for dinner, so I won't go in and sit down."

Hey, you've had your meal at my house today, so don't go back." Aunt Guihua hurried forward and held the man back, saying

"No, auntie. I have already paid the food today. I will be at a loss if I don't eat it. I will go back first so as not to delay you from cooking." Tong Yiya said as she handed the basket in her hand to her. When she let go of her hand, she turned around and left in a hurry.

Aunt Guihua didn't stop her. After all, she had already handed over the food today, and if she didn't eat it, it would only give it to others.

Secondly, the family didn’t prepare any good food today, and she felt embarrassed to invite anyone to dinner. She thought that next time the family would prepare some good food and then invite Tong Zhiqing earlier.

Aunt Guihua likes Tong Yiya because she has a good personality and is not like other women in the village who favor boys over girls.

On the contrary, Aunt Guihua and Uncle Deng preferred girls, but after they gave birth to three sons, Uncle Deng was afraid that his wife would hurt her body by having too many children, so he stopped having any more.

But Aunt Guihua missed her daughter very much and had been thinking about adopting a goddaughter, but she had never met anyone she liked.

After spending a day with Tong Yiya that day, she felt that the girl was okay and quite pleasing to her eyes. She was not very old and was an orphan. She immediately had the idea of ​​adopting her as her goddaughter.

But later I thought it was too abrupt, so I decided to get familiar with her first and see how she reacted. If it really worked out, I would then bring up the idea of ​​adopting her as my godchild.

After leaving Aunt Guihua's house, Tong Yiya returned to the Youth League Home.

When she arrived at the yard, only a few people had returned. Lunch was not ready yet, so she went back to the house to rest for a while.

Soon the others came back, and she also left the house. She and a few others set the table for lunch, and then they began to eat.

After lunch, they went to the backyard to continue turning the soil, all in the hope of eating the vegetables they grew sooner.

The eight people used the lunch break to finally turn over the vegetable garden in the backyard and sow the vegetable seeds.

Before they had a chance to rest, the gong for the afternoon work rang, and they dragged their tired bodies to work again.

In the afternoon, Tong Yiya finished work early, returned to the yard, got a rope and a backpack, and went to the foot of the South Mountain around the village to collect firewood. She didn't want to go with other educated youth, so she went up the mountain alone early.

She soon arrived at the foot of Nanshan Mountain and went up the mountain along the path that the villagers had taken. There was very little dry firewood near the foot of the mountain, as most of the firewood here had been picked bare by the villagers.

She walked further into the mountain and a little further up, only then did she see more dry firewood. She didn't go any further up, but put down the backpack and started picking up the firewood around.

Soon she picked up a bundle of firewood, tied it up and carried it down the mountain. It hadn't rained much at this time of year, so she didn't see any mushrooms on the mountain.

Walking down the mountain, she met some villagers who were going up the mountain to collect firewood after work. A few of them greeted Tong Yiya, and she always responded with a smile.

On the way to the Youth League Home, she met other Youth League members who were going to collect firewood.

She didn't care. She had already picked up her share. She went into the yard, put down the firewood, and went back into the house.

Sitting on the kang, she wondered whether she should move out of the Youth League Home now. She also wanted to wait for an opportunity for the team leader to let her move out. What she didn't know was that the opportunity she was waiting for would soon come.

Life in the Youth League Home passed like this day by day. The educated youth still did the work of weeding every day, and they did it for almost a week.

After they became familiar with the job of weeding, the team leader assigned them other tasks, such as reclaiming wasteland.

It is now early July and the crops in the fields will not be harvested for more than half a month.

To reclaim wasteland means to clear away the grass roots, trees and stones in the ground.

The female educated youth were assigned the task of clearing grass and tree roots, while the men were responsible for the heavy work of removing and throwing away the stones they had picked up.

After the first day, all eight educated youth were exhausted, even Tong Yiya was not immune. She was now thinking about finding other work as soon as possible.

She was thinking about asking the team leader to change her job, but if she took the initiative to ask for a change of job now, the work points would definitely be very few, and her image would be ruined.

In the end, she gave up the idea. Now she could only drag her tired body back to the Youth League Home. After returning to the house, she fell on her bed and didn't want to move at all.

After a day of tiring, they were all in the same state. Tong Yiya was the most tired, but the four male educated youth were so tired that they felt like their arms were no longer their own.

They worked like this for another two days. At noon that day, Tong Yiya was struggling with the grass roots in her hands, and sweat kept streaming down her forehead. The weather now was much hotter than when she first arrived. She still wore long sleeves and long pants to work every day, and a hat on her head.

The weather was hot, and she was wrapped up tightly, which made her feel even hotter than others. Before she had time to wipe away the sweat that was about to flow into her eyes, she heard someone shouting not far away: "Oh no, Aunt Liu San has fainted from heatstroke."

As soon as Tong Yiya heard this, she knew her chance had come. She quickly stood up and ran over there. When she got there, she saw a group of people gathered in a circle. She squeezed in and saw a woman lying on the ground. It was unknown whether she was alive or dead.

She squatted down and sniffed the person's breath to confirm that he was still alive. She turned to the people around her and said, "Spread out a little, let some air circulate."

After hearing this, the people around hurriedly moved away to allow more air circulation. Tong Yiya then quickly took out her handkerchief and her water bottle from her bag.

He wet the handkerchief to cool the woman down, then rearranged her position.

After four or five minutes, the people on the ground slowly woke up. Tong Yiya hurriedly said to the people behind her: "The people are awake, someone quickly carry them back to rest, and remember to drink more water."

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