The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

In the evening, Qi Feifei went to the study to read books.

She wanted to look for information on how to tan the leather.

Huo Sheng left, and she still had a lot of leather to roast.

Especially the white wolf skin, she was reluctant to sell it and had to make good use of it.

She searched the bookshelf for a long time, but couldn't find any book specifically about tanned leather.

Feeling a little discouraged, I sat on the chair rubbing my forehead, thinking.

Books about leather

Books about leather

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The book about hunting not only talks about hunting, but also about how to eat. Will it also talk about how to tan the leather?

Qi Feifei quickly found it and looked through it bit by bit.

Finally, at the end of the book, when I was almost done reading it, I saw a method for tanning leather.

Qi Feifei immediately took a pen and copied it down.

Just use wood ash, it seems you can try it yourself.

The next day, Pan Xiaowen said to Qi Feifei early in the morning, "Sister, can we go up the mountain today?"

Qi Feifei laughed, "You've been working for so many days, don't you want to take a break? Aren't you tired?"

Pan Xiaowen winked and said, "What? That time when we went there to pick mushrooms..."

Qi Feifei knew that he had always been thinking about her.

"Let's do it tomorrow. Let's pickle the vegetables today. Besides, the clothes are not dry yet!"

I had to wear ragged clothes when I went up the mountain. I only had a few decent ones, and they were all worn out.

Pan Xiaowen was a little disappointed, "Oh! Okay!"

Qi Feifei comforted him, "Don't worry, we will go up the mountain often in the future."

Pan Xiaowen was happy again.

They were busy pickling vegetables all day.

Wash the cabbage, carrots, radish and green onion leaves and drain.

Then cut the cabbage and carrots into thick strips, cut the green onion leaves into sections, mix with salt, put them in a jar, and marinate for two days. You can eat them when they are fully marinated. This is chopped pickles.

Another way is to cut the radish into strips thicker than chopsticks, use salt to kill the moisture, then squeeze it out, spread it on a curtain, dry it, put it in a basket, and when you want to eat it, soak it in water, add seasonings and steam it in a pot, or directly mix it with soy sauce and seasonings.

There is also another kind of pickled food. Tear the cabbage into pieces, cut the radish into strips as thick as chopsticks, cut the carrot into strips, blanch them with salt, and then mix them with minced garlic, salt, sugar, chili powder, and MSG.

After mixing, put it in the cellar and scoop a bowl when you eat.

Pan Xiaowen exclaimed, "I didn't know there are so many kinds of pickled vegetables!"

Qi Feifei smiled, "Next year, we will grow more vegetables. We can have more kinds of pickles. Potato pickles, gada pickles, pickled cucumbers, salted cucumbers, mustard pickles, garlic eggplants..."

Pan Xiaowen, "Then we will have something to eat next winter. You don't know, we wanted to eat dry steamed bread last year."

Qi Feifei, "Not this year!"

They are working very hard here.

In the village, Qi Feifei became the hot topic of rumors again.

In the morning, several old ladies were chatting at the captain's house.

Li Danni went there with a small bowl in her hand.

Cuihua asked her, "Why are you holding an empty bowl?"

Li Danni was a little embarrassed, "I want to borrow half a bowl of flour to make some batter."

It's a loan, but who can ask you to pay back half a bowl of noodles?

Cuihua smiled and said, "Didn't your collective household just get a bag of flour yesterday? Why do you have to come all the way here to borrow flour? Half a bowl is not even enough to make noodles."

Li Danni said in embarrassment, "Qi Feifei made the pulp yesterday, and she has pasted the cracks on the windows of the room where she lives and the room where the male educated youths live.

She didn't bring us any, so we didn't have the nerve to ask her for help again."

An old lady asked, "Why are you still painting the inner room of the educated youth? Didn't I just paint your room with my hands?"

Li Danni hesitated to speak.

Cuihuaer answered for her, "Wang Bin, Pan Xiaowen and Xu Zhiqiang are close to Qi Feifei, so they must be living in the inner room, right?"

Li Danni nodded and said, "You said I'm too embarrassed to ask for money, so lend me some first.

The weather is nice today, so we quickly sealed the windows. It’s getting colder, and we’ll have to close them.”

Cuihua, "Okay, if you ask, there's nothing wrong with that."

As he said this, he went to the box against the north wall and got half a bowl of noodles.

"Is it enough? If not, would you like some more?"

Li Danni quickly said, "That's enough, that's enough, just a crack through the window, that's enough."

She was not like Qi Feifei, who was silly and let the male educated youth slip through the window crack.

Li Danni is gone.

Several old ladies were curious about what was going on with Qi Feifei.

"Qi Feifei looks like a nice girl, why is she so stingy? How much starch does it take to fill the gaps in the window? Even if flour is precious, what can a handful of it do?"

An old lady said meaningfully, "This isn't called stingy, right? They even let the male educated youths to sew the window cracks, but they don't let the female educated youths in the same room to sew them. This is really! Tsk tsk!"

Li Guiying quickly replied, "Aunt, that girl is very nice. We have close relationships, so it's normal for her to help or not."

An old lady answered, "That's right. If there was a conflict, maybe he wouldn't help. I'm afraid he had a quarrel with that girl just now."

Cuihua interrupted, "It turns out that Wang Bin was very close to Li Danni. I saw her making a cotton-padded jacket for Wang Bin some time ago.

Recently, Wang Bin and Qi Feifei have been eating from the same pot.

You talk about this!"

Li Guiying and Cuihua, "Don't talk nonsense, what do you know about other people's affairs?"

Cuihua felt sorry for Li Danni, "Li Danni and Wang Bin used to have a good relationship, but ever since Qi Feifei..."

Li Guiying: You still don’t want to listen to this!

"Go check if the hen has laid any eggs. Pick them up quickly before they are stepped on and broken. Make some egg custard for the child later."

Li Guiying turned around and said to the old ladies, "I don't know what happened to this hen. After it laid the eggs, it stepped on the eggs. If I didn't keep an eye on them, they would break after a while."

The topic changed and a few old ladies started talking about hens laying eggs.

But that's how it is. Once the words are out, it's like opening a floodgate and there's no way to stop it.

In less than a day, the whole village knew that Qi Feifei did not provide food for the female educated youth.

There are also reports that Qi Feifei stole Li Danni's boyfriend.

Some even said that Qi Feifei was "close to several male educated youths"

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