The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

The next day, the weather was gloomy and it looked like it was going to snow.

Qi Feifei led Pan Xiaowen and Xu Zhiqiang to prepare to build a pigpen shed early in the morning.

First let Xu Zhiqiang and Pan Xiaowen fetch water and moisten a few bundles of grass.

He picked up a few wooden poles as thick as a bowl from the pile of firewood and chopped off all the branches with a small axe.

Liu Yumei saw it and came out to help.

Liu Yumei helped to hold on, and Qi Feifei used iron wire to fix the wood into the shape of a horse rack.

Then several people lifted it to the pigsty, nailed it to the wooden stakes with big nails, and reinforced it with iron wire.

After breakfast, Wang Bin and Zhu Li also joined in.

Several people were making straw mats together.

Although Qi Feifei has to teach them one by one.

Everyone was very attentive, although the weaving was not all the same thickness and there were some flaws.

It's pretty much the same, both can be used.

The pigsty shed was built in half a day.

I plan to have stewed rabbit for dinner.

It snowed lightly in the afternoon, and the northwest wind was blowing hard, making people shiver.

Qi Feifei stood by the gate, hung the rabbit on the gatepost and skinned it.

Wang Bin stood by and watched, shivering constantly.

Qi Feifei, "Go inside and put on your cotton-padded jacket. I'll make dinner. Go ahead."

Wang Bin stood still.

Qi Feifei glared, "Go quickly! It will be hard to peel it if it gets cold. Hurry up. You only have one minute."

Wang Bin quickly ran into the house and came back without buttoning his cotton jacket.

Qi Feifei scolded him, "You are so old, but you are still like a child. Button up your clothes quickly."

Wang Bin smiled and buttoned his shirt carefully.

Qi Feifei carefully skinned the rabbit.

"You have to peel the rabbit skin while it's still hot. That way it's easier to peel. Pull the skin while you cut it with a knife. There's a layer of white film in the middle. See? You won't cut the skin."

If the leather is scratched it is worthless.

The rabbit can also be left unskinned.

Put water in a pot and boil it until it bubbles slightly. Soak the rabbit in it and pluck its hair.

If there are places that are difficult to pull out, you can scald them with water. There will be some small hairs after pulling out. Use a hemp stick to burn them until the rabbit skin turns yellow.

Rabbit skin is also delicious.

But it's cold here, so making a vest, hat or gloves out of rabbit fur is very warm.

I'd better keep the rabbit skin."

Wang Bin, "Is the collar of my cotton-padded jacket made from the rabbit skin you made yourself?"

Qi Feifei, "Yes."

A neighbor passed by and saw Qi Feifei skinning a rabbit, so he stopped to watch.

The eldest son of the neighbor Xiaojie's sister-in-law, Sun Dazi, who was lying on the windowsill, also saw it, and ran out wearing the fake shoes.

Her mother was working in the outer room. When she saw him run out, she quickly called out,

"It's freezing cold outside today, why are you running outside?"

The eldest son of Old Sun had already reached the gate and shouted,

"I'm going to watch the collective households pick rabbits."

Several families heard his shout.

People who have nothing to do also come out to watch the fun.

After a while, Qi Feifei was surrounded. With someone blocking the wind, it wasn't so cold anymore.

The eldest son of Lao Sun is only six or seven years old, but he is very curious and talkative.

"Sister Qi, your knife is really sharp! Won't it cut your hand?"

Qi Feifei, "Be careful, it won't happen again."

Old Sun's son, "Sister Qi, where did you buy the knife? How much is it?"

Boys love knives and guns the most. Their eyes light up when they see a good knife.

Qi Feifei: I took it from the courtyard.

"It's inherited from my ancestors. I really don't know where to buy it."

Old Sun's son, "Then your ancestors must be very powerful."

Qi Feifei laughed, "Just because you have a knife makes you powerful?"

She looks like a great general, well, very powerful!

Old Sun and his son were full of envy, "I wish I had a powerful ancestor too!"

A neighbor slapped the eldest son of Old Sun on the head and said, "You kid, you dare to despise even your ancestors. Go back quickly or your father will kick you."

The eldest son of Old Sun sniffed the clear snot from the frozen ground and said, "My father is at work. He is not at home."

Then he said to Qi Feifei, "Sister Qi, when you go hiking in the future, take me with you? I'm very strong, I'll work for you for free, and you can teach me martial arts, okay?"

Qi Feifei, "Why do you want to practice martial arts?"

The eldest son of the old Sun family said with sparkling eyes, "I also want to be able to kick the door down with one foot."

As he spoke he gestured.

Qi Feifei frowned and looked at him.

The eldest son of the old Sun family, "Hehehe, I can hear it even when I'm lying on the screen."

Zheng Fushun, the father of neighbor Zheng Dazhu, said, "You are naughty enough in one day. If you practice martial arts again, you will definitely make a big fuss!"

The eldest son of the old Sun family said, "No, no, I learned martial arts and became a soldier when I was young. I carry a gun and wear a big cap. How cool is that?"

Zheng Fushun, "You are the only child in your family. Will your father let you join the army?"

The eldest son of the old Sun family was not convinced. He tilted his neck and glared, "I will definitely be able to join the army when I grow up."

Anyway, no matter what, he can be a soldier.

Qi Feifei had just finished peeling,

"My dear boy, go back quickly. You can't be a soldier if you wear fake shoes and wet your bed."

When the eldest son, Sun, heard this, he ran home as fast as he could.

Like a cannonball, he rushed onto the kang, sat on the head of the kang and covered himself with a small quilt.

I shivered for a long time before I recovered.

"Mom, Mom, can you give me another brother?"

Xiaojie's sister-in-law scolded him in the outer room, "What nonsense are you talking about? Shut up!"

The eldest son of the old Sun said, "I want to join the army. If you give me another brother, my father will agree."

Xiaojie's sister-in-law, "You are not even as good as a gun, which army would want you?"

Old Sun's son said, "I will be as tall as a gun when I grow up. Mom, please give my dad another son."

Xiaojie's sister-in-law, "What birth?"

The eldest son of the old Sun family continued to nag, "Mom, mom, can you just have another child?"

Xiaojie's sister-in-law didn't say anything.

The eldest son of the old Sun family continued to nag, "Mom, mom, can you just have another child? Other families have a lot of children, but our family..."

Before he could finish his words, his mother came in with a fire stick and measured it.

"Are you a sissy again? Are you a sissy again? Are you a sissy again? I will chop you to death."

The eldest son of the old Sun family was so scared that he shrank his neck and hid in the kang, looking at his mother warily. Why did his mother suddenly lose her temper?

Xiaojie's sister-in-law sighed and went out to continue working.

Did she not want to have a baby? She had been looking forward to it for many years, but she couldn't get pregnant since she gave birth to her first and second sons. What could she do?

Fortunately, the first child was a son, otherwise I would not be able to hold my head up in my husband’s family.

I have tried a lot of folk remedies and soup medicines, but they didn't work.

After Qi Feifei skinned the rabbit, he returned to the house and everyone left.

In the evening, Qi Feifei stewed rabbit, potatoes and carrots, using the male educated youth's big pot and stewed most of the pot.

The big pancake on the side.

In the evening, I invited Zhu Li and Liu Yumei to have dinner together.

Liu Yumei was flattered. She didn't expect that he could take her along.

Zhu Li always eats Qi Feifei's food, and she feels a little uncomfortable about it.

"Qi Feifei, whenever you want to go up the mountain, go ahead and I'll help you feed the pigs. Just tell me how to do it."

Pan Xiaowen was very happy. "That's great, Julie. You are such a good person. Thank you very much."

Qi Feifei glanced at him and said, "You are really good at ordering people around!"

Pan Xiaowen quickly added, "I'll bring you something delicious later so that you don't get tired in vain."

Zhu Li: "It's nothing. There won't be much work to do in the future. Feeding pigs is nothing."

Liu Yumei also said, "If you need any work in the future, just tell me, we can all live together. Don't tell others."

Zhu Li and Liu Yumei both ate at Qi Feifei's place.

Zhang Chunxiang went to Li Dacheng's house.

Li Danni was alone and had no one to cook for her at night, so she had to do it herself. Fortunately, there were some leftover pancakes from the morning, so she made some cabbage soup for herself.

But since she went to the countryside, Zhu Li has been cooking. When Zhu Li is away for some reason, Liu Yumei will cook.

This was her first time, so you can imagine how she cooked.

Listening to the laughter coming from the other room and smelling the aroma of meat.

She really wanted to smash the bowl!