Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

Yao Yueting walked to the side of Gong Liang and said, "Among the new educated youth, only Yan Zhiqing, Su Zhiqing and the other two female educated youth are easy to get along with. The others are not easy to deal with."

Gong Liang said: "We just need to take care of ourselves. If we can get along well, then we can get along. If we can't get along well, then we can just say hello when we see each other, and it's OK as long as we get along on the surface."

When Yan Jiekuang returned to the educated youth camp, Su Zihui was still busy sorting out the wild vegetables he had dug. Yan Jiekuang put the backpack into the house, took a look at the vegetables in the basin next to him, and said, "Great! You're quick!"

Su Zihui said with a smile: "That's right! Don't you see who I am?!"

Yan Jiekuang said, "Take your time to clean up. I'll clean up the chicken. For lunch, we'll have roasted chicken with potatoes, stir-fried wild vegetables, and some pancakes."

"Okay!" Su Zihui agreed, and said, "I moved my rations to your room."

Yan Jiekuang joked: "What?! Do you really want to join me in this family?!"

"You are so beautiful! We are just partners living together! If you want me to be your wife, you have to see your ability!" After saying that, Su Zihui glanced at Yan Jiekuang with a proud look on her face. Yan Jiekuang smiled, went back to the house, poured the boiling water in the pot into the wooden basin, then brought the basin to the door and started to kill the chicken.

After lunch, Yan Jiekuang took a break and went to the backyard with the hoe he had just bought. Although there were only two acres of private land, it was enough for Yan Jiekuang. Soon, the two acres of land were cleared by Yan Jiekuang and the planting areas were divided.

"Brother Jie Kuang!" At this moment, Su Zihui's voice rang out. Yan Jie Kuang turned his head to look at Su Zihui, who was lying on the low wall separating the two courtyards, and asked, "Girl, what's the matter?!"

Su Zihui said with a smile: "Brother Jie Kuang, can you help me hoe the ground?!"

Yan Jiekuang handed over the tools and said, "Do it yourself! If you can't even clean up these two acres of land, what are you going to do tomorrow?!"

"Hmph!" Su Zihui snorted, pouted, and muttered, "I'm not going to pay attention to you!" Then Su Zihui went back to the house, took a pair of gloves and put them on, then picked up the hoe by the wall and started to hoe the ground, muttering, "Yan Jiekuang, you bad guy! I'll beat you to death! I'll beat you to death!"

Yan Jiekuang watched Su Zihui's movements and reminded her, "Girl, didn't you have enough lunch?! Try harder! It's only two mu of land, and it will be done soon!"

Su Zihui glared at Yan Jiekuang and continued to work. Yan Jiekuang saw Su Zihui's reaction, smiled, and ran back to his room. About ten minutes later, Yan Jiekuang walked to the low wall with a cup of brewed Lekoufu and said, "Girl, you must be tired! Come over and have a drink of water!"

When Su Zihui heard what Yan Jiekuang said, she stopped what she was doing, stared at Yan Jiekuang for a few seconds, walked to the low wall, took the small enamel pot from Yan Jiekuang, and smelled the fragrance wafting out of it. Her eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly opened the lid and took a sip, unable to help but shouting, "Comfortable!" Then she came to her senses and said, "I didn't expect you to bring so many good things?!"

Yan Jiekuang said, "I'll make you a pot of tea tomorrow when I go to work."

"You said that! I didn't force you!" Su Zihui took another sip. Yan Jiekuang said, "I have a pot of Lekoufu, I can still afford it. You continue to be busy! I'll go back first!"

"Damn Yan Jiekuang!" Su Zihui really wanted to throw the enamel cup in his hand away, but when he thought of the Lekoufu inside, he couldn't bear to do it. Su Zihui took another sip of Lekoufu, and suddenly felt happy.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Carpenter Wu came and delivered the two kang tables ordered by Yan Jiekuang. Yan Jiekuang kept one for Su Zihui and moved the other kang table into his own room.

Because he had to get up early to go to work the next day, after dinner, Yan Jiekuang walked around the room twice, then simply washed up and went to bed.

The next morning, Yan Jiekuang was awakened by the sound of the radio. He stretched, sat up, put on his clothes, got off the kang, opened the damper of the stove, put some firewood in it, took out a few semi-finished steamed buns from the space and put them in the steamer, then threw two eggs into the pot, and went out with his toiletries.

After washing up, Yan Jiekuang returned to the house. The steamed buns were already cooked and the eggs were already boiled. Yan Jiekuang fished out the eggs and put them on the table with the steamer. Then he poured out the water in the pot and took out some corn flour to make a paste.

After about seven or eight minutes, Su Zihui knocked on Yan Jiekuang's door. Yan Jiekuang turned his head to look at Su Zihui and said, "After the porridge is cooked, it can be eaten. You sit for a while."

"Oh!" Su Zihui walked to the table and sat down obediently. Having nothing to do, she started peeling the eggs on the table.

A few minutes later, Yan Jiekuang brought two bowls of porridge to the table and placed them on the table. Yan Jiekuang took out two small bowls, put some pickles and two pieces of fermented bean curd in them, returned to the table, sat down and said, "Don't look at it! It's time to eat!"

The moment Su Zihui saw the fermented bean curd, a look of surprise appeared on her face. She pointed at the fermented bean curd and asked, "You brought this too?!"

"Hmm!" Yan Jiekuang nodded and said, "This is good stuff!" Then he asked, "Don't you want to eat it?!"

"Eat it!" Su Zihui echoed. Afraid that Yan Jiekuang wouldn't believe it, he took a little fermented bean curd and put it in his mouth, saying, "Why does your fermented bean curd taste different from the one in Sijiu City?!"

Yan Jiekuang smiled and replied, "This fermented bean curd was brought back from the south by my brother."

"No wonder!" Su Zihui muttered and started eating with relish.

After breakfast, Su Zihui washed the dishes for both of them and went back to the house. After a while, Su Zihui, wearing a straw hat and holding gloves, walked to the door. At this time, Yan Jiekuang also came out and handed Su Zihui a kettle filled with Lekoufu. Su Zihui smiled and put the kettle on his back. After meeting up with the educated youths together with Yan Jiekuang, they walked out of the educated youth station.

When Yan Jiekuang and Su Zihui followed the old educated youth to the village threshing ground, most of the villagers had already arrived. Gao Junsong and Tian Dazhuang saw that most of the people had arrived. The two of them briefly exchanged a few words that were in line with the situation at that time, and then Gao Junsong began to arrange the work.

Qingshan Village, like many places in the Northeast, is vast and sparsely populated. There are more than a hundred households in the entire Qingshan Village, which sounds like a lot of people, but for the arable land in Qingshan Village, these people are not too many. Gao Junsong first assigned the newly arrived educated youth to various production teams. As the divisions were being made, Su Zihui was left out. Gao Junsong pretended to be embarrassed and discussed with Tian Dazhuang, and then announced that Su Zihui would go to collect pig grass. Yan Jiekuang was assigned to the first production team where Wu Mujiang was, in a team with Yao Yueting, Ma Yi and Shu Bo, who were among the old educated youth. The team leader of this team was Aunt Guihua's eldest son Gao Hu.

The first team's mission today was the same as yesterday. Yan Jiekuang followed the team members to the brigade headquarters to get a hoe, and then came to the land allocated to them. Gao Hu divided the land into several parts and gave them to each team member.