Chapter 117: Mountain Goods

It sounds great, but Xia Zhizhi is not particularly confident in their cooking skills, so she quickly persuaded them, "Let's wait for Tang Zhiqing to come back and cook together. It will be more fun with more people."

Cui Zijin saw that she had spoken, and her heart finally settled down.

He felt that the cooking skills of these two girls were not so bad in the beginning. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but recently their cooking skills seemed to have been cursed by someone, and the food they cooked became worse and worse.

This is definitely not an illusion.

Their cooking skills are average, but at the beginning they are willing to add seasonings, whatever they have. As long as there are enough seasonings, even a shoe sole can be stir-fried and it won't taste bad, as long as the seasoning tastes good.

Later, Tang Mingli cooked for a while. He didn't like to add seasonings. Except for oil and salt, he would save on other things as much as possible.

The two female protagonists observed for a while, but they didn't learn the cooking skills. If they did, they would not add seasonings, and the food would be neither tasty nor flavorful...

The team leader came to the educated youth site to look for Han Youran the next afternoon.

Xia Zhizhi glanced at his expression and suspected that he had really chatted with Da Huang all night, and must have gone to catch up on sleep in the morning...

The commune approved the village's application to set up a medical center before the autumn harvest.

But I was busy with the autumn harvest at the time and had no time to do this. After the autumn harvest, I had to distribute the grain and hold a meeting, so I was so busy that I finally had time to do this.

The team leader and the village party secretary discussed where to place this medical center, but felt that no place was suitable and they had not made up their minds, so they decided to ask Han Youran for his opinion.

If you ask if there are any dilapidated houses in the village right now, the answer is definitely yes.

But what use is there for a house that is drafty on three sides and leaks on the roof? I don’t know how much work it will take to fix it up so that people can live in it. It would be better to tear it down and rebuild it.

The Northeast is different from the South. The houses here are too shabby to live in. Not to mention the summer, the coldest temperature in winter can be as low as minus 40 or 50 degrees Celsius. If you dare to live in a shabby house, when you go to look for someone the next day, you'll find that they're frozen solid in bed.

Han Youran already had his own plans.

She also wanted a single room, but as a girl, she didn't dare to move out of the educated youth site alone. If something really happened to her, she would be helpless.

Even if she doesn't care about her reputation, isn't the loss just a waste?

Pointing at the house of the female educated youth, he suggested to the team leader: "Team leader, why don't we build a small room next to the wall here? This way we can save a wall, build a kang and set up a shelf in the room, and if I pick some herbs or something, I will have a place to store them after they are dried."

"Build another room..." The team leader frowned and calculated in his mind. Building a house and making a kang would cost a lot.

In fact, he was more inclined to set up the medical center next to the brigade office, but it seemed a bit crowded. At this time, the barefoot doctors in the village all knew how to get some herbal medicine. After all, western medicine was expensive and the quantity was small. If the case was not serious, they would generally not prescribe western medicine. The herbal medicine had to be dried after being brought back, and it would not look good to have a mess of it left there.

Forget about the summer. When winter comes, we can’t let the Korean educated youth run back and forth in the snow every day.

Han Youran added: "I will pay for the kang myself when the time comes."

That's not impossible.

There are still some bricks and tiles in the village, enough to build a room. If that is not enough, we can just use earthen bricks to build a kang. The money contributed by the Korean educated youth is just enough to cover the labor costs and consumables.

The team did not suffer any loss, it just moved the bricks from the west wall to the east wall. Everything still belongs to the team, and it can also bring some extra income to the members.

The captain agreed and discussed the details with Han Youran.

It just so happens that I have some free time during this period, so I can build it before it snows.

Jiang Xiurong's eyes lit up as she listened to this. She also wanted to live on her own. It would be great to build a house at the educated youth site. She would have her own private space and wouldn't have to worry about safety issues.

But the captain said: "There are no extra bricks in the team. Besides, it's so cold in winter. It's much warmer if we huddle together."

She had to give up for the time being.

The captain arranged for people to build another house, and Han Youran only paid 20 yuan and ignored the rest.

If it was before, she would have thought about making something delicious to reward everyone. People are attracted by the company they keep. After spending so much time with Xia Zhizhi, she was unconsciously influenced by her and would be lazy whenever she could...

During the period after the autumn harvest, villagers who had time and were able to run would run in the mountains all day long.

The Changbai Mountains are rich in products. This season is the time to harvest all kinds of dried fruits, fruits, and medicinal herbs. Pheasants, rabbits, roe deer, etc. are also at their fattest. As long as you have a good eye, you will have no trouble finding food.

After so many years of exploration, the members have already memorized exactly what is produced within a radius of 50 kilometers. When the time comes, they go to the mountains to pick them on time.

Pick what is edible and eat it, pick what is sellable and sell it.

There is such a thing as the educated youth just strolling in the mountains and encountering a tree full of fruits. Don't even think about it. Just take a shower and go to bed early, and you will encounter it in your dreams.

The seventy-year-old master who drove the ox cart would go into the mountains with a backpack and a hatchet before dawn every day. He could run at least thirty kilometers a day. When he came back in the evening, he would carry a basket of Schisandra chinensis and a load of firewood. When he was lucky, he could even find a wild rabbit under the backpack.

From 69 to just learning to walk, everyone is the king of the roller.

Jiang Xiurong and Han Youran also wanted to take Xia Zhizhi to the mountains to play, but Xia Zhizhi was reluctant to go, so they just followed the other children into the mountains.

After running all day, their legs were almost broken, and each of them picked a handful of mountain red fruits.

This was done out of consideration for Xia Zhizhi, as he was taking special care of them.

The child who brought them into the mountain was Lin Beibei. Thinking that they had a good relationship with Xia Zhizhi, it would be a bit awkward for them to go back empty-handed, so she specially took a branch of mountain red and left two for her to pick.

The two of them could never compete with the children in digging wild vegetables on the plain. Last time, they worked hard for a whole afternoon and dug up half a basket, but the children still didn't want them. The old and bitter wild vegetables were almost useless for Cui Zijin to see his grandmother, not to mention in the mountains.

The children had very sharp eyes. They could see where the fruit trees were from afar and run over as nimbly as little monkeys. By the time Han Youran and Jiang Xiurong arrived, only leaves were left on the trees.

After all, this thing is not like a mushroom. There are only a few fixed trees there, and it won't grow into a large patch overnight.

The two of them chased after the child and couldn't even pick up anything warm to eat.

After working hard all day, they still couldn't make two strings of candied haws. The next day, they lay on the kang with sore bodies that they couldn't get up, so they had to give up the activity of climbing the mountain.

In fact, if Xia Zhizhi wanted to, she could use her mental power to cheat and compete with the kids.

But now the grass near the village has been pulled out, and if she wants to get something, she has to cross mountains and ridges. If she is nearby, she will want to go out and play on a whim, but if she runs too far, she will really be too lazy to move.

Climbing this mountain is completely different from climbing the mountain in the scenic area by stairs in the next few decades.

Besides, she doesn't need the food, so why should she compete with everyone else for it? She can just buy from the other members when she needs it.

So, thinking that everyone’s mountain products should have been dried enough, she took out a few jars of sugar and prepared to exchange some for mailing to her dear friends.