All the way, I kept chatting with Uncle Xiao, talking about all sorts of things.

"You are all children from the city. How can you bear the hardships in the mountains? When the first batch of educated youth arrived, they couldn't even hold a saw steadily."

"Our Liuxi team has the most difficult living conditions and the most tiring work. Few people who come here can stand it. They all want to run away. Guys, you better hold on."

"Don't worry, Uncle 꺶, we firmly believe in the direction our motherland is leading us. No matter how bad the environment is, we will not retreat."

Sun Xiangqian was still thinking, how bad can living conditions be? They are all the same.

The thoughts of several female educated youth were even more sincere. "Uncle, I think the scenery here is pretty good, but it's a bit cold. I think we can handle it if we wear more clothes."

"You'll know when you go there. It's not the coldest time yet. This is just the beginning."

Uncle 꺶 was still thinking in his heart that these children had never experienced the hardships of life.

Once you join the Liuxi team, you will know how difficult those days are.

By the time we arrived at our destination, it was already dark.

Jiang Wanwan felt like vomiting after the bumpy ride.

The other two were not in any better condition either. They were all blown silly by the wind. They were on the road for four or five hours, which seemed to last only four or five hours.

Captain Wu was ready to go to bed and hug his wife, but Uncle Wu called him up, "Captain Wu, the new educated youth are here, please make arrangements for them!"

Captain Wu shouted toward the window, "It's so late, what arrangements are you making? Let us spend the night together at our fellow villager's home! We'll talk about it tomorrow!"

The oil lamp in the room was blown out instantly.

It was pitch dark, and the few people couldn't see what was going on in the team.

When the educated youth first went to the countryside, Captain 꺶 was very polite and admired these people.

As batch after batch of educated youth came and went, Captain Wu became numb.

Uncle 꺶 slapped his head and said, "Captain Wu is really... forget it."

Seeing this, Lu Qingyang was also very interested. It was too cold outside and they wanted to find a house to keep warm.

"Uncle, how many people live there?"

"Two people at most."

"Well." He pulled Uncle to one side, "Uncle, I'll give you a few cents based on the price of a hotel in the city. Please let us two brothers stay for one night!"

When he heard that he wanted to give money, Uncle immediately agreed, "How can I do this? You are quite knowledgeable, young man."

"Of course, we came to the countryside to help you. The rules are written in it, and we won't treat our fellow villagers unfairly."

Uncle 꺶 was beaming with joy. It was originally a matter of convenience, and he wanted to take them into the house first, but then he remembered that there were three girls outside.

Jiang Wanwan was a proud person to begin with. When she came here, she felt extremely disgusted, but she didn't say it out loud.

"So what do they do?"

"Yes, yes, Lu Qingyang, you are a man, you should give in to us women! Look at us, we are all frozen to death, look at Wanwan, such a pretty face is also frozen."

Liu Chunhua deliberately pushed Jiang Wanwan out in order to win the man's sympathy.

Lu Qingyang yawned, "When there's nothing to do, you guys are the ones who take care of half of the work, but when there's something to do, do you guys need to be treated with pity? I'm sleepy, so I'm going to take a rest first, you guys should solve your own problems!"

Obviously, judging from Lu Qingyang's attitude, he will not help them.

Even Jiang Wanwan frowned. She was obviously used to men giving in to her, and couldn't understand why Lu Qingyang said such words.

She hesitated for a while before speaking, and her voice was naturally very pleasant: "Lu Qingyang, please help us!"

Other men would certainly go through fire and water to accept her words without hesitation.

But Lu Qingyang had seen her character and had long been immune to her attitude of begging for help.

Lu Qingyang still looked indifferent.

The atmosphere between the few people began to become tense.

But Uncle 꺶 couldn't bear it, "My sister's house has an empty house, you can live there!"

"Thank you, Uncle!"

"Uncle 꺶, you are so nice."

Jiang Wanwan smiled and nodded to express her gratitude, then turned around and gave Lu Qingyang a cold look, asking how there could be such a man who didn't know how to be gentle with women and didn't open up to others.

When she smiled like this, Sun Xiangqian's legs almost weakened, and Lu Qingyang had to support him.

There was no way. Jiang Wanwan was set up in the book to be a fangirl. Perhaps, except for herself, no man could resist her temptation.

Sun Xiangqian lowered his head and whispered in Lu Qingyang's ear, "Qingyang, why don't we help them?"

"Have you heard the story of the farmer and the snake?"

Sun Xiangqian shook his head, "No."

It seems that when I have time in the future, I will explain such stories to Sun Xiangqian, so that he won't be foolishly fooled by others.

…

We came to stay at Uncle 꺶's house for one night. Uncle 꺶's surname was Tie.

Uncle Tie is a hunter. His wife died early, so he lives alone in the house.

Last year, one of our sons went hunting in the mountains and disappeared. He never came back since then, so one of the rooms became vacant.

"This room is not clean at all, you guys just have to make do with it!"

Uncle Tie had already burned some firewood and lit the stove.

The original owner had no connection with this Uncle Tie. Lu Qingyang knew that he was quite similar to the protagonist in the book "To Live". Everyone in his family died and he was the only one left.

"There's nothing to eat at home, but here are some corn cobs. Would you like to steam them for you?"

Lu Qingyang put down the sack, which was his luggage, and saw that his uncle's house was bare and there was indeed nothing good in it.

"By the way, I hunted a wild rabbit earlier. I might as well cook it for you to warm up."

Uncle Tie stood up slowly and prepared to get the rabbit.

Lu Qingyang was tall, so he helped 军 get it down from the beam, but he said, "Uncle, I'm so embarrassed."

Uncle Tie thought of his own son. If he were still alive, he would surely be the same as Lu Qingyang. He couldn't help but feel a little more intimate in his heart and started chatting with them again.

"When the weather gets cold, the animals in the mountains will hide. When it's warm, if you're lucky, you can hunt three wild rabbits in one go."

"Autumn in Anling is almost over. It will be freezing cold soon. I advise you to store more food. Many people die of freezing and starvation every year."

놛 slowly prepared the rabbit meat while talking about the local situation.

Sun Xiangqian's scalp tingled when he heard this. He knew it was hard here, but he never thought it would be so hard.

Lu Qingyang was thinking about how to make rabbit meat delicious.

It should be spicy, tasty and can dispel the cold.

Thinking this in my heart, I have already started to cook, "Uncle, just sit and wait, I can cook, let me do it!"

Sun Xiangqian glared at him, "Qingyang, you can cook, that's amazing, is there anything I can help you with?"

"Help me chop the rabbit meat while I get something from my bag."

"Okay! I got it."

Lu Qingyang returned to the room and secretly took out the chili peppers, dried peppercorns and seasonings he had bought from the space.

It still took me a lot of effort to buy it, but I don't have any other shortcomings except that I have high requirements for food. Even if I go to a poor place, I still can't make do with a bite of food.

Besides, we are not without conditions. We have stockpiled a lot of seasonings, spices, peppers and so on in the space.

"Qingyang, you also brought some dried chili peppers."

"Yeah, I heard it's cold here, so eating chili peppers is the way to keep the cold away."

Sun Xiangqian said in a silly and cheerful voice: "I like this too."

Lu Qingyang has already started preparing to roast the rabbit meat. First, fry the chili peppers until fragrant, then add ginger and green onions, and then add the rabbit meat to stew.

Uncle Tie brought some dried mushrooms from somewhere, "I picked these from the mountains before, they smell really good, I was thinking, why don't you put them in and roast them together."

It seems that there are a lot of treasures in this mountain. Lu Qingyang is already eager to try.