The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

Silly girl was eating at home, she tilted her head and listened.

"Big cat, looks great!"

Her second sister Fengxia glanced at her and said, "Don't go up the mountain today. Didn't you hear that it's dangerous? Be careful not to get scratched by a cat. We don't have money to hire a doctor for you."

The silly girl grinned, "Big cat, don't scratch it."

Fengxia said disdainfully, "Tsk, you won't scratch? You're lucky enough to have a face full of bruises!"

The silly girl wasn't angry either.

Aunt Li scooped a spoonful of egg custard for her youngest son.

"Eat quickly, we have to go to the fields soon!"

At this time, Li Youcai came into the room, "Hey, his uncle is here, shall we eat together?"

Li Youcai, "I've eaten. I heard that the two boys in Lao Niu's family were scratched by the cat. I came here to tell you that the children are young, so watch them and don't run out, or else something might happen."

Aunt Li: "I see. Eat some more. It's still hot."

Li Youcai, "No, I'm going to work."

After dinner, Li Dasha and Li Fengxia went to work, and their little daughter followed them with a basket to collect food.

Aunt Li looked at her youngest son and didn't allow him to go out. She found some homework books and folded piaji for him.

No one cared about the silly girl. She was very happy and went up the mountain with the basket on her shoulder.

Qi Feifei doesn't have to cook and just sleeps until mealtime.

I feel much more energetic than the previous morning, and I don’t pant heavily when working in the fields.

People in the fields were talking about the cat scratching incident.

Qi Feifei then realized that it was Boss Niu who stole the vegetables last night.

There is no good person in this family! They deserve it!

A lot of corn was harvested yesterday, and today the main task is to peel the corn.

Everyone took a trip, sat on the corn husk and picked the corn slowly.

It makes it convenient for everyone to chat while working.

The field is very lively.

Not long after, the team leader Zheng Xiaoquan came and said, "Women, stop picking and go over and chop the vegetables."

A woman asked, "It hasn't frost yet, so we can still go up."

Zheng Xiaoquan, "Why are you going there? Hurry up and pack everything up today, or else it will all be lost."

The woman asked, "Lost again? What do you watch Qing every day?"

Zheng Xiaoquan, "Five cabbages and a dozen radishes were lost yesterday. Don't wait to catch the thief, take them home quickly and keep an eye on them yourself!"

In this mountain valley, the only people who can steal are those who live near our homes. What can we do if we are caught?

Now that everything at home has been divided, I won’t steal anymore.

A group of women rushed to the vegetable field.

Those who pull radishes pull radishes, and those who chop vegetables chop vegetables.

The work was quick. Before noon, not a single vegetable root was left in the large vegetable field.

The team leader went directly to the field and divided the vegetables with a large scale.

Each family has to carry hundreds of kilograms of radishes and cabbages back home by themselves.

Now the production team’s trucks are busy pulling the fields and have no time to take care of these things.

Either you use a cart to push it, or you have to carry it yourself.

Qi Feifei and her friends didn't have a cart, so she could only wait for her neighbors to finish pushing their carts and then borrow one.

While others were pushing the vegetables home, she sat next to the pile of vegetables and looked at them.

Use a sickle to peel the root end of the radish, hold the radish leaves in your hand, and eat the radish.

When the silly girl came back from picking hazelnuts, she saw Qi Feifei and ran over to play with her.

He gave the hazelnuts he picked to Qi Feifei to eat.

"Sister, here, it's delicious."

Qi Feifei took the hazelnut and asked her,

"Do you eat radishes?"

The silly girl nodded, "I'm thirsty!"

Qi Feifei laughed at her, "Did you eat too many hazelnuts?"

The silly girl laughed, "Not much, I'll come back to eat in the afternoon."

Qi Feifei looked at this girl who had no idea what worry was.

I couldn't help but touch her head, and I really hoped that she wouldn't encounter those misfortunes.

Qi Feifei covered herself with clothes and took a glass bottle of spring water for her to drink.

The silly girl gulped down the drink in one breath.

"Delicious, sweet."

Qi Feifei peeled half a radish for her.

Two people sat side by side and ate a big radish.

The silly girl took out a handful of peeled hazelnuts from her pocket.

Passed it to Qi Feifei, "Eat slowly."

Qi Feifei was very happy and took it. "Thank you."

This silly girl is silly, but she has a good heart.

"If you are unhappy in the future, you can come to me and I will take you out to play."

Silly girl, "I will be unhappy if my mother doesn't give me candy. Can I play with you?"

This is unexpectedly unpleasant.

"Okay, you can go to the collective household to find me, don't go to the mountain, understand?"

What if she gets lost while looking for me? That would be a sin!

Silly girl, "I know, I went to get wild grapes."

Qi Feifei, "Yes."

The two of them played for a while, and only left after Qi Feifei reminded her to go home for dinner.

Pan Xiaowen and his colleagues got off work at noon and pushed their neighbor's cart to transport the vegetables. Qi Feifei and others packed some in sacks and carried them back. It took them two trips to finish.

We took the radishes and cabbages back and placed them in the yard to dry.

You need to remove the moisture before going to the vegetable cellar.

The vegetable cellars of the collective households are not big, and basically all the cabbages are pickled into sauerkraut.

There are cabbage and radish.

You must eat fresh vegetables at noon.

Qi Feifei taught Wang Bin how to make a cabbage and potato soup. The big pancake was made in the morning.

After working all afternoon, I took a quick break after eating and then went back to the fields.

For several days in a row, I peeled corn during the day and cut hazelnut trees (people in Northeast China call them hazelnut gai) at night. Both jobs were very demanding.

After a day of cracking corn, her wrists would be sore, not to mention that she did it day and night.

Fortunately, I took a hot spring bath in the morning and evening.

The swelling on my wrist went away and then subsided.

It took more than ten days to finish peeling the corn.

In the production team, all the work on the land was done.

The corn is placed in the yard to dry.

Everyone took a day off and pickled sauerkraut at home.

Everyone, remove the wilted and damaged parts of the cabbage and chop off the roots.

Some families also cut the cabbage leaves.

Then blanch them in boiling water, put them in a large jar, press them down, put two layers of cabbage in, and sprinkle a layer of coarse salt.

Then fill it with boiling water.

There are only two big pots in the collective household, and the two groups of people each have a big pot.

Qi Feifei decided to use cold water instead of boiling water.

She asked Wang Bin and the others to stack the cabbages layer by layer while she went to fetch water.

Her explanation was that everyone can fetch water, so if they learned to cook vegetables, they would be able to do it every year.

She didn't fetch water from the well, but instead used cold spring water from the courtyard.

Their process is simple and they finish it very quickly.

A total of two large jars of sauerkraut were pickled.

A large, clean stone was placed on top of each cabbage jar, and the work was completely completed.

Not even half a day’s time was wasted.

Qi Feifei must go up the mountain.

This time I brought all three.

She is still thinking about Feilong!

Several people were holding baskets, sacks, noose...

People carrying baskets and backpacks went into the mountains.

The three of them had no idea what to do, so they just went wherever Qi Feifei told them to go.

You are not allowed to pick up mushrooms you see on the road.

Pan Xiaowen, "Sister, sister, don't you want any mushrooms?"

Qi Feifei, "We are in a hurry, we will pick more when we come back."

Pan Xiaowen, "Oh!" He looked back several times.

Qi Feifei smiled and said, "As long as you dare to go up the mountain, there will be mushrooms for you to pick in the future."

It was not until they reached the mountain that Qi Feifei stopped and taught them how to set the trap.

Wang Bin learns the fastest. He can learn it after Qi Feifei teaches him once.

There were more than thirty traps set near the foot of the mountain.

Pan Xiaowen, "Sister, are you trying to trap a rabbit?"

Qi Feifei: "Well, whatever gets stuck in, we'll put it in."

Pan Xiaowen, "When can I get it?"

Qi Feifei, "Come and see in a few days."

Pan Xiaowen, "Ah? That long? I thought I would take it back soon!"

Wang Bin, "Are you stupid? If you stand here, will the rabbit come out?"

Pan Xiaowen was not convinced, "We can hide. Besides, we have a sack! What else can we pretend to be if not a rabbit?"