A pot of chicken stewed with mushrooms and a pot of green rice dumplings were eaten by four people.
Chu Xun drank half a bottle of wine he brought, but his expression remained unchanged. Li Xiyue's cheeks were red, but she was not drunk, her face just flushed from drinking.
After Xiaobai finished chewing the bones, he took the rest to the vegetable patch in the yard and buried it. When he came back, he was so excited that he knocked over the earthworms that Li Xiyue had placed in the yard, and the earthworms crawled everywhere.
Huang Xinrui complained bitterly, "Xiaobai, please be careful, he's been knocked down again."
Wang Jiaxing broke off two branches to pick up the earthworm and sighed.
"Did Xiaobai get knocked down several times today?" Li Xiyue asked.
Huang Xinrui complained, "That's right, Yueyue, when did you deal with these earthworms? They're so scary."
"I'll do it when I'm free tomorrow." Li Xiyue also felt that leaving it in the yard was not a big deal.
"These earthworms can also be used as medicine? How should we deal with them?" Chu Xun asked.
Li Xiyue thought he was just asking out of curiosity, so she just answered it casually. Unexpectedly, when she woke up the next morning, Chu Xun had already processed all the earthworms.
Looking at the dried earthworms neatly laid out in the dustpan, Li Xiyue gave him a thumbs-up and said, "Brother Chu, you are so proactive."
"Tell me if you have any work next time." Chu Xun felt that this little thing was not worth mentioning to him.
Li Xiyue smiled and replied, "Okay."
It turns out that men become more stable when they are a few years older. Chu Xun gave her a very reliable and reassuring feeling.
"I have to go back to the commune to do some things today and come back in the evening." Chu Xun said.
Seeing that he treated this place like his own home, Li Xiyue asked, "Isn't it bad for you to live in the educated youth camp all the time?"
"I'll go say hello to your team leader." Chu Xun said, picked up his coat and left.
What do you mean? Are you really going to live here permanently?
The call to go to work rang, and she didn't have time to think too much. She quickly washed up and went to work.
After a few more busy days, the spring plowing finally came to an end. The next step was to plant vegetables, fruits, weed, fertilize and spray pesticides, and there was no need to rush.
Li Xiyue formally submitted a certificate of leave of absence to the team committee. Like Uncle Xu Liu, he paid eight yuan every month to the team committee, and no longer had to work in the fields even during the busy farming season.
After the spring plowing was over, Xu Guoqiang gave the production team a day off so that everyone could have a good rest.
After two months, Huang Xinrui finally had a vacation and was extremely excited.
"Yueyue, let's go up the mountain. Let's go early. There should be a lot of people in the village going up the mountain today. If we go too late, all the good things will be gone."
Huang Xinrui specially found a thin long-sleeved shirt to change into, and thin trousers. She also wrapped a scarf on her head, filled the kettle with water, and put it in the backpack.
Li Xiyue answered while looking for clothes, "Okay."
It's already May and the weather is getting hotter. Thick clothes should be washed, dried and put away when you have time, and you should change into thinner ones.
But she had very few thin clothes, but she did have quite a bit of cloth.
"Xinrui, do you want to make new clothes?"
"Yes, it's getting hot, and I want to make some thin summer clothes." Huang Xinrui also went to the cabinet to take out the cloth.
Li Xiyue said, "I heard that Aunt Sun Xia is very good at making clothes. Let's take the cloth to her and ask her to help make it."
"OK."
The two were busy in the house when Wang Jiaxing called out from outside, "Li Zhiqing, someone's looking for you."
Li Xiyue put down her things and went out to see that it was Chen Chunlai, the branch secretary of the Hongqi Production Team, and his daughter.
"Secretary Chen, sister-in-law, why are you here?" Li Xiyue invited them into the yard and quickly made two bowls of brown sugar water.
Chen Chunlai said, "I said I would come to your house to express my gratitude, but I haven't been able to finish my work. Li Zhiqing, oh no, I should call you Doctor Li now. Doctor Li, don't blame us for being late."
"Yes, we have always been thinking about you, but we just can't get away. Doctor Li, thank you for saving my Maodan. Please accept this little gift. Don't think it's too little."
After drinking the water, the father and daughter said a lot of words of thanks and then left in a hurry.
Leaving a table full of things.
There is fish, meat, sugar, and cloth.
It’s really a generous gift.
"This piece of floral fabric is so beautiful, Yueyue. It can be made into a top." Huang Xinrui picked up the fabric on the table and gestured to her, "It suits you very well."
Li Xiyue said, "Take it later and make clothes together."
She gave the fish and meat to Wang Jiaxing. The weather was getting hot, so they had to be salted quickly. There was no refrigerator, otherwise they would go bad.
Wang Jiaxing took it back to the kitchen, sprinkled some salt on it, put it into a wooden barrel, and hung it in the well.
The well is warm in winter and cool in summer, making it a great place to keep fresh food in the summer.
Pack up and go out quickly.
They first went to the team leader's house, found Sun Xia, and gave the cloth to her. Sun Xia measured the sizes of the two of them before letting them leave.
When the three of them arrived at the mountain, there were already quite a few people there. The originally deserted mountain was now filled with voices, and it was quite lively.
"I'm late." Huang Xinrui pouted.
Wang Jiaxing just laughed.
Li Xiyue said, "Don't worry, with Xiaobai here, there will be no shortage of good things for you." Then he touched Xiaobai's head and said, "Take us to find good things."
Xiaobai barked twice and ran in one direction.
Li Xiyue and others followed and after walking for half an hour, they arrived at a hilltop they had never been to before.
"So many ferns!" Huang Xinrui was so happy to see the dense ferns in front of her that she rushed over with a basket on her back.
Wang Jiaxing found a lot of mushrooms under the pine trees on the other side. "I'm picking mushrooms here."
Li Xiyue continued walking forward and found a water source. Following the source, she found a small pond. The pond was covered with water plants and wild vegetables were growing around it.
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