The Siheyuan of the Young Educated Youth

These days, Qi Feifei goes to the mountains every day to trap rabbits, pheasants, and sand pheasants. The harvest is quite good.

The little ones also had a lot of fun, and they accompanied you to run around in the mountains every day.

I was so excited about catching things that I didn't want to do anything else.

For several days I didn't think of going to Huo Sheng to get the vermicelli.

Qi Feifei saw that it was too easy to catch.

She picked a few beautiful and strong pheasants and half a pound of sand and put them on the back mountain. There were still a lot left. She didn't want the mountain to be filled with pheasants and eight pounds of sand in the future.

I sawed a lot of trees of similar thickness in the mountains, cut them into pieces, and placed them near the stream, planning to build a cabin there.

In addition to hunting during the day, she would cut trees. At night when everyone else was asleep, she would go into the courtyard and, in addition to the daily chores, build a wooden house.

First clear out a piece of turf, and then compact the ground with a roller.

Scrape the bark clean and then chisel grooves into the wood near the ends.

Lay the logs in parallel, place the third log horizontally, and buckle the grooves at both ends onto the two parallel logs to form three walls.

A door needs to be left in the front, so two shorter pieces of wood with a groove at one end are used to buckle onto the logs on the walls on both sides.

In this way, layer by layer, the walls of the wooden house were built.

After the wall was high enough, a roof should be built, but Qi Feifei just wanted to store things, so he decided to save trouble and build a flat roof.

Place a large beam across the middle of the house.

The logs are then sawn into planks and laid on top.

Chisel out small holes at the joints between the wooden boards and logs, and hammer in small wooden strips to secure them.

A simple wooden door was made using planks of wood.

If there is no hinge, just nail a wooden stake into the ground on both sides of the door outside the wall to block the wooden door there.

When entering or exiting, just pull the wooden door left or right.

It took a week of continuous work to completely build the wooden house.

Although the cabin is very simple, Qi Feifei feels a great sense of accomplishment.

I stood outside, looking left and right, then went around the back of the house, then around the front of the house, then inside the house, then outside, I liked it very much.

I am reluctant to let go of my prey.

The ground was covered with a layer of wood ash, and on top of it was a mat made of cattail.

She placed the wild rabbits, pheasants and sand that she had killed on the table in different categories.

You're done!

Qi Feifei has collected all the tree stumps on the grass these days.

Every night when I went back, I would pull a tree stump with me.

Everyone thought she was going to collect firewood.

Autumn is indeed the season for collecting firewood.

Many families have started going up the mountain to prepare firewood for the winter.

Usually, several families would work together. With more men and greater strength, they could complete a truckload of goods in a day and drag it to the foot of the mountain. In the evening, the production team would help send out a truck to pull it back.

Collective households are in trouble when this happens.

When I first came, the production team helped me prepare.

The next year, I asked a few villagers to help me pick up the firewood for two days. Later, it was not enough, so I went to the mountain to collect it several times in winter.

If you ask someone for help, you should wait until they have solved the problem themselves before you help them.

Everyone was working, but a few people from the collective household were wandering around, standing out.

Several male educated youth felt ashamed when they saw Qi Feifei dragging tree stumps back every day.

They discussed getting the firewood themselves this year.

Wang Bin suggested, “We don’t know how long we will have to live here, maybe for a lifetime, so we can’t rely on others for everything.

Should we also find a partner to collect firewood this year?"

Pan Xiaowen responded positively, "I think it's OK. We can cut grass and catch fish now. We can also collect firewood in the mountains if we are careful.

Let's ask my sister to come over and find some fellow villagers. When there are more people and more noise, any animals will be scared away.

Let's not go to the side, there shouldn't be any problem."

Li Bing: "Then shall we take the female educated youth with us? Do they dare to go?"

Every year, everyone burns firewood together. Now when the male educated youth go to collect firewood, will they be given firewood to burn?

They probably didn't dare to go up the mountain. Even if they did, how much work could they do? Only Zhu Li and Liu Yumei could do the work, but Zhu Li also had to watch the cooking.

Wang Bin: "Do you want to take them with you?"

Li Bing didn't say anything. He naturally didn't want Su Fangting to get tired, but he also didn't want other female educated youth to take advantage of her.

Pan Xiaowen: "If you want to feel sorry for Su Fangting, then just do more and do her part, that's all."

Li Bing felt a little embarrassed. He wanted to do it, but he was not good at doing these jobs. It was good enough that he didn't hold back.

Xu Zhiqiang: "Okay, those who want to go can go, and those who don't want to go can forget it. We are grown men, so we won't suffer any loss if we work a little harder."

He was born into a working-class family. His parents were both hardworking and he himself was not spoiled since childhood. He was strong and healthy, and he didn't care about working for a day or two.

Seeing that everyone agreed to go up the mountain, Ji Hongbing followed the crowd and did not raise any objections.

In the evening, when Qi Feifei came back, they told Qi Feifei that the most important thing for them was to get Qi Feifei together.

They had never done this kind of work before, and they had to listen to Qi Feifei's instructions on how to go to the mountain and do the work.

Qi Feifei did not refuse. In winter, more firewood would be needed to keep the house warm.

Some families are reluctant to burn firewood in winter, and even the water tanks freeze.

It’s better to do more work than to have your hands frozen in the winter.

Qi Feifei always chooses to work rather than endure.

Qi Feifei agreed, and everyone went to talk to the female educated youth, and sure enough, only Liu Yumei said she wanted to go.

Liu Yumei despises people who are incompetent at everything. Naturally, she cannot fall behind.

Now that the collective household has been decided, we just need to look for fellow villagers to form partnerships.

Ji Hongbing and Li Bing have been going to Li Dasha's house to eat sand apples recently, and they have become quite familiar with each other.

Li Dasha is quite strong and simple-minded, and he won't do anything sneaky or cunning.

Just say you want to go to his house and take a look.

Ji Hongbing and Li Bing came to Lao Li's house.

Li Dasha is not at home.

Li Shanniu sat on a small stool in the yard and ate sand apples.

The clothes and pants were a little small. I didn’t know if they were left over from her younger brothers and sisters or if they were too small for her own clothes. They were too tight on her body.

She had the same figure as her mother, with two big, plump breasts and a big, perky butt.

But her clothes are too tight and small.

Any man would get angry when seeing this.

She sat quietly, smiling at everyone she saw, but not saying a word.

If I wasn't stupid, I don't know how many matchmakers would come to propose marriage.

Ji Hongbing and the other man turned away and didn't look at her, and went into the house to look for Aunt Li.

Aunt Li is not as tall as Li Shanniu, but her short stature makes her curvy figure more prominent.

Her facial features are not particularly pretty, but they are round and plump, and her smile is very friendly and amiable.

There was another man sitting in the room, a distant cousin of Li Dasha, named Li Youcai. He was also in his forties and a bachelor.

When Ji Hongbing explained his purpose, Aunt Li looked at Li Youcai.