Rebirth 1983: The counterattack started from hunting in the mountains

Everything became so beautiful, like a dream.

Zhang Yaoyang could never feel it was real.

Whenever it was late at night and everyone was asleep, when he looked at the woman sleeping next to him, the woman he had been begging for two lifetimes, a strange feeling would sometimes arise in his heart.

He always wondered if the system didn't exist at all.

I wonder if Yu Fengjiao was affected by something.

Why, when he couldn't hold on any longer and was about to give up on her, did she cross mountains and seas to run to him?

When he couldn't figure it out, he suffered from insomnia every day and his hair fell out in clumps.

But he didn't dare tell anyone because he didn't want to worry his family.

At the same time, in order to relieve this anxiety, he took on a lot of housework.

For example, today is the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, and they have the custom of making glutinous rice cakes.

On this day, a large steamer is used to steam dozens of kilograms of glutinous rice.

Then, put it in a stone nest, step on a long wooden board with your feet, and beat the glutinous rice cake up and down continuously.

Beat the glutinous rice until it is fine and free of particles, then dip it in soybean powder and start eating.

This job is very tiring, and it requires two people to take turns stepping on the wooden hammer continuously.

The other person is responsible for turning the glutinous rice cake over.

After every few hits, you have to turn it over.

If you don't cooperate well, you are very likely to be injured by the wooden hammer.

This job requires quick eyes and hands as well as strong physical strength.

Zhang Yaoyang's physical strength is naturally excellent. After all, he used to be a strong man who could carry thousands of pounds.

After the system disappeared, this ability seemed to have been greatly reduced. Now he can only carry a weight of 500 kilograms at most. If it is more, he will feel overwhelmed.

This took most of the day.

Yu Fengjiao felt so exhausted watching from the side, always worried that Zhang Yaoyang would catch a cold. After all, in order to make it easier to work, and also because it was really too hot, he took off his cotton jacket.

Not only him, but also Chen Ergou, who had been helping him, rolled up his sleeves and cooperated with him, wearing only a sweater.

Unlike Yu Fengjiao's dry persuasion, Lihua on the side was calmly eating melon seeds.

"Sister Fengjiao, you should stop worrying about these men. This is the custom in our village every year. You know it."

Yu Fengjiao is from Zhaojia Village, but their family is small and they have never made glutinous rice cakes by themselves.

In the past years, every time this day came, they would go to other people's homes to watch them make glutinous rice cakes, then help out a little and get a little in exchange to try.

Hearing Lihua say this, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed.

It was at this time that Xinghua brought two little girls to the Zhang family to join in the fun.

In previous years, she made glutinous rice cakes at her husband's house.

At that time, she was the one responsible for stepping on the hammer, and each step would cause pain for three days.

But if I don't step on it, I will be beaten by the people from my ex-mother-in-law's family.

This year, with the help of Zhang Yaoyang, she divorced that bad man.

She also has custody of her two daughters.

Zhang Yaoyang felt sorry for the orphans and their widowed mother, who had no one to rely on, so he placed them in the factory's staff dormitory.

Today, I learned that the mother and daughter were lonely, so I specially invited them to taste the delicious food.

Xinghua brought the two little girls into the yard, with a grateful smile on her face: "Brother Yaoyang, we are bothering you again. The three of us are smelling the fragrance of the glutinous rice cakes outside the house!"

Zhang Yaoyang stopped what he was doing, wiped the sweat off his forehead, and said with a smile, "Sister Xinghua, it's not a bother. Making glutinous rice cakes should be done in a lively atmosphere. You guys came at the right time so that you can eat the hottest ones later."

Yu Fengjiao also came forward, took Xinghua's hand and said, "Sister Xinghua, come and sit down. It's so cold, you must be feeling suffocated in the house."

The two little girls hid behind Xinghua timidly, but their eyes were fixed on the pounding glutinous rice cake. Zhang Yaoyang saw this and took a small ball of glutinous rice from the pot, rolled it into balls and handed them to them: "Come, girls, try this first, it will make your mouth sweet."

The little girls took the glutinous rice balls and ate them carefully, with satisfied looks on their faces.

Chen Ergou joked, "Yaoyang, you are so considerate. You will definitely be a good father in the future."

Zhang Yaoyang's heart moved when he heard this, and he subconsciously looked at Yu Fengjiao, only to find that she was also looking at him, with a hint of tenderness and expectation in her eyes. For a moment, the doubts in his heart seemed to fade a little.

Everyone continued to work while talking.

After a while, the glutinous rice cake was finally ready. Zhang Yaoyang divided it into small pieces, coated them with soybean powder, and distributed them to everyone.

Everyone sat together, eating steaming glutinous rice cakes, and laughter echoed throughout the yard.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden noise in the village.

Zhang Yaoyang had a bad feeling in his heart, put down the glutinous rice cake in his hand, and walked out of the yard quickly. He saw a group of people walking towards this side, led by an elder in the village, who looked quite solemn.

"Yaoyang, something happened." The elder said with a heavy breath, "I don't know what happened to the river outside the village. The water suddenly became much darker. I'm afraid it will have an impact on us if we use this water in the future."

Zhang Yaoyang's face turned serious. He looked at his family and fellow villagers behind him, took a deep breath and said, "Don't panic, I'll go take a look."

After saying that, he turned around and went back to the house to pick up some tools, then walked out of the village. Chen Ergou and several young and strong men followed him.

Yu Fengjiao wanted to stop him, but looking at Zhang Yaoyang's determined back, she knew she couldn't stop him.

She could only pray silently in her heart, hoping that this was just a trivial matter.

When he arrived at the river, Zhang Yaoyang was stunned by the scene before him.

The river water was indeed very black, and the originally white stones were also covered with thick black dirt.

He looked around, trying to find the reason why the river water was black.

"There must be a problem upstream. I'll go take a look."

Zhang Yaoyang said to Chen Ergou and others, then walked upstream carefully.

As he got closer, the black color of the river water became darker, and he had some vague suspicions that something was not so good.

After walking for about an hour, a coal pile appeared in front of him.

Someone actually piled up this kind of dirty stuff in this place, thus polluting the river water.

These rivers are still in the dry season, but have not yet frozen.

As the water rushes down, it picks up the coal ash from the shore, which is why the water turns black.

Since this concerns farmland irrigation and the safety of water used by livestock, Zhang Yaoyang naturally has to solve this problem.

"Is there anyone here? Who is in charge? Stand up!"