Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

"I don't know them!" Su Zihui replied instinctively, and then said weakly: "I guess I know them! Although I haven't seen them in person. But I have seen photos of them and my grandfather."

Yan Jiekuang asked, "Do you want to go to the cowshed?!"

Su Zihui shook her head and said, "I wanted to go there originally. But when I thought about how crowded it would be, I gave up."

Yan Jiekuang said, "There is basically no work to do now. Even if there is, it is just weeding and fertilizing. It can basically be done in one morning. I will take you up the mountain in the afternoon and find a chance to visit the cowshed."

Su Zihui's eyes suddenly lit up and she asked, "Really?! Are you really willing to go with me?!"

Yan Jiekuang said, "Everyone at the educated youth camp knows that we are close. If something happens to you, I will be fine?! It is better to prove it than to bear this crime in vain."

Su Zihui said: "Yan Jiekuang, I am sorry for getting you into trouble!"

Yan Jiekuang said, "It's good that you know it! If you feel bad, please take care of me when we return to the city."

"Go back to the city?!" Su Zihui was stunned for a moment, then a bitter smile appeared on her face and she said, "Can we still go back?!"

Yan Jiekuang replied: "Of course you can go back. Do you want to stay here forever?!"

Su Zihui replied: "It's not impossible to stay here for a lifetime."

"You girl!" Yan Jiekuang chuckled, urged Su Zihui to eat quickly, and also quickened his eating pace.

After breakfast, Su Zihui washed the dishes and followed Yan Jiekuang out. Today's task was just as Yan Jiekuang expected. The female educated youth followed the women in the village to weed, and the male educated youth followed the male villagers to pick fertilizer. Most fertilizers in this era were organic fertilizers, and they all had a strong smell. Even if you don't want to, there's nothing you can do. Everyone has to do it.

Yan Jiekuang was very strong and could walk very fast. In just over two hours, Yan Jiekuang completed the task for the day. After returning to his residence, Yan Jiekuang boiled water to take a bath, washed his clothes, hung them up, and then left the educated youth site with a backpack on his back.

More than ten minutes later, Yan Jiekuang appeared at the foot of the mountain closest to the educated youth point. Yan Jiekuang saw a group of children surrounding Su Zihui. Su Zihui handed out candies to them one by one. Seeing this, Yan Jiekuang couldn't help but laugh. After a while, when the children left, Yan Jiekuang walked up to Su Zihui and asked, "Is there any for me?!"

Su Zihui looked around, peeled a candy quickly and put it into Yan Jiekuang's mouth, and asked, "Have you finished your work?!"

Yan Jiekuang replied, "I've finished it!" Then he asked, "Have you finished your work?!"

Su Zihui kicked the backpack at his feet and said, "Aren't you going to take me into the mountains this afternoon? I finished all the work ahead of time. This is the last basket. I just need to send it to the cowshed later."

The original cowshed in Qingshan Village is now inhabited by people. Cows can only move to another place, but in order to distinguish them, the villagers call the place where people live a cowshed and the place where cows live a cowshed.

Yan Jiekuang said, "I'll go up the mountain first to see if there's anything in those traps. After I'm done, I'll go back and cook."

"Oh!" Su Zihui responded, picked up the backpack, and turned to leave. Yan Jiekuang ran up the mountain. After running for about a quarter of an hour, Yan Jiekuang came to the place where he set traps. Yan Jiekuang set a total of five traps on the mountain. Although these traps were not big, they were still enough to trap a wild rabbit or something.

The bait in the first trap was still there, and the trap had not been damaged. Yan Jiekuang disguised himself again and went to the second trap.

The second trap had signs of being damaged, but there was nothing inside. It was probably because the prey had escaped. Then Yan Jiekuang checked the two traps. The conditions inside were similar to the second trap. Just when Yan Jiekuang thought he would get nothing today, the last trap gave him a surprise. Yes, there was a hare trapped inside. The hare looked lively. It was probably that the hare had just been hooked.

Yan Jiekuang unceremoniously caught the hare, found a vine to tie it up, threw it into his backpack, then repaired the trap, put the bait again, and quickly left the scene.

More than half an hour later, Yan Jiekuang returned to the educated youth point. Yan Jiekuang had just finished dealing with the hare when Wang Liqing and Xu Yun appeared in front of him. Yan Jiekuang asked, "What do you want?"

Wang Liqing pushed Xu Yun, and Xu Yun pushed Wang Liqing again. Neither of them was too embarrassed to speak. Seeing this, Yan Jiekuang said impatiently, "If you have nothing else to do, I'll go back and cook first!"

Wang Liqing hurriedly said, "Yan Zhiqing, can I discuss something with you?!"

Yan Jiekuang asked: "What's the matter?!"

Wang Liqing said, "We would like to exchange two kilograms of fine grain for half a wild rabbit. Is that okay?!"

Yan Jiekuang thought about it and agreed, "Okay! I'll give it back to you." After that, Yan Jiekuang walked into the house, chopped half of the rabbit, took it out, and gave it to Wang Liqing and Xu Yun.

Wang Liqing and Xu Yun took the hare back to the house, and then Xu Yun took out two kilograms of rice and gave it to Yan Jiekuang. Yan Jiekuang took the rice and said, "If you want to eat meat in the future, just come to me." After that, Yan Jiekuang went back to the house, poured the rice into a clean lunch box, and returned the rice containers of Xu Yun and the others.

At the same time, Gao Junsong and Tian Dazhuang were sitting in the office, smoking with sad faces. After about three or four minutes, Tian Dazhuang put out his cigarette and said, "Old Gao, when something happened to the Xishan Brigade, why should our other brigades help them share the burden?!"

Gao Junsong said, "Their brigade has a bad reputation." After that, Gao Junsong put out his cigarette and said, "I will go to the commune for a meeting this afternoon and check the situation. If the commune really transfers the educated youth from Xishan Brigade to other brigades, I will talk to the commune director and ask him to send some of the people in the cowshed away."

Tian Dazhuang reminded: "Lao Gao, don't mess around!"

Gao Junsong said, "Don't worry! I know what I'm doing. But now I want to ask that kid Yan Jiekuang to borrow a bicycle." After saying that, Gao Junsong hurriedly left the office.

Tian Dazhuang looked at Gao Junsong's back and thought to himself, "What the hell is this?!"

"Is Zhiqing Yan here?!" More than ten minutes later, Gao Junsong arrived at the Zhiqing site.

Yan Jiekuang, who was stewing a wild rabbit, heard the shouting and came out of the house, asking, "Who's looking for me?!" When he reached the door, Yan Jiekuang saw Gao Junsong and asked, "Uncle Captain, are you looking for me?!"

Gao Junsong said, "Yan Zhiqing, I have to go to the commune for a meeting this afternoon, and I would like to borrow your bicycle."

"Okay!" Yan Jiekuang responded readily, went back to the house, pushed the bicycle out, and handed it to Gao Junsong. Gao Junsong took the bicycle and stared at it for a while as if he was looking at a beautiful woman, then came back to his senses and chatted with Yan Jiekuang for a few words, then pushed the bicycle away.

Not long after Gao Junsong left, Su Zihui came back. Su Zihui smelled the fragrance floating in the air and asked, "Brother Jie Kuang, what are we going to eat for lunch today?!"

Yan Jiekuang replied: "We were lucky today. We caught a wild rabbit. We will have braised wild rabbit and pancakes for lunch."

"Okay!" Su Zihui walked to the well, drew a bucket of water, washed his hands, and asked, "Is there anything I can do?!"

Yan Jiekuang replied: "I have done everything! Now I just have to wait for the right time."