Traveling between the 70s and the modern world

After moving into the new house, Lin Qingyan cooked her first meal in the kitchen on the porch.

Using the vegetables in the space, I made cold cucumber salad and a plate of scrambled eggs with tomatoes. The eggs were the ones I had exchanged at the village chief's house a few days ago and had not been used up.

I also cooked myself some vegetable and rice porridge, which was very hearty except that there was no meat.

During the autumn harvest days, she took the opportunity to get some corn and rice seeds and planted them in the space.

Perhaps due to the problem of directly using the space well water, the rice, corn and sweet potatoes had already grown and ripened, and Lin Qingyan put them into the storage room after a few nights.

Now she has no shortage of food, but only oil and water.

The vegetables and grains grown in the small yard could satisfy her food and drink needs, but she still had to light a fire in the kitchen to hide it, even just to boil some hot water.

After washing, she lay on the kang, thinking about finding an opportunity to go back to the modern era. She always felt that there were many things in that era worth learning.

The next morning, while I was having breakfast, I heard a knock on the door.

"Qingyan, are you up?" It was Ye Yi's voice.

"Here you come!" Lin Qingyan opened the door and let Ye Yi in.

"I cooked breakfast, eat something before going."

"No, I cooked it too. I was afraid you would be late, so I came to call you."

"I cooked some corns. Please help me eat some." Lin Qingyan took a corn and stuffed it into Ye Yi's hand.

Ye Yi didn't bother to be polite with her and just took a bite.

"Then eat quickly. I'll come to see if Fang Yunxing and the others are awake." Ye Yi walked towards Fang Yunxing's house while biting a piece of corn.

After breakfast, several people carried a large backpack each and left the educated youth site and went to the back mountain. They started picking up firewood while chatting. Some of the branches were larger, so they dragged them together.

Lin Qingyan and Ye Yi were responsible for collecting firewood and piling it aside.

Gu Yizhou rubbed the grass on the roadside into a rope and tied up the larger branches.

Fang Yunxing was ordered to transport the bundled firewood back to the educated youth site first.

"Why am I always the one running errands?" Fang Yunxing shouted unhappily, but he still sent the bundle of firewood back first.

"While we can still find firewood these days, let's collect some every morning. Last winter, we almost didn't have enough firewood, and we had to use it sparingly. When it snowed heavily, it was so cold that we couldn't get out of bed." Ye Yi suggested.

"Okay, the autumn harvest is over, but it's not time to stay indoors every day. When Comrade Fang Yunxing comes back, we will transport the firewood back and go to the mountains to see if we can pick up some mountain products to send back home."

After the firewood was sent back to the educated youth site, the few of them walked deep into the mountains.

"Let's not get separated. This mountain is still very dangerous, especially for you two girls. Don't get separated."

Gu Yizhou, who usually doesn't talk much, gave a difficult reminder this time.

"Okay, let us go to the mountains by ourselves. We don't dare to do that."

Ye Yi is actually very timid. Lin Qingyan is quite timid, but she doesn’t go into the mountains alone.

As they walked, they picked up some matsutake mushrooms and pine nuts, and found a wild persimmon tree.

"Fang Yunxing, come quickly. There are so many persimmons here." Lin Qingyan was picking matsutake mushrooms when she heard Ye Yi's loud voice.

"Persimmon? Where?"

"Here, come quickly!"

Lin Qingyan and the others walked quickly to Ye Yi's place, and sure enough, there was a persimmon tree. This place was very far away from the village, close to the edge of the mountains. Ferocious beasts often appeared in the mountains, and usually the villagers would not go too deep into the mountains.

Because there are rarely people, this persimmon escaped the net. The tree is full of persimmons, which are golden and beautiful.

"There are really a lot of persimmons! I have never seen so many persimmons." Fang Yunxing's eyes lit up.

"They say there are a lot of persimmons, could it be fake?" Ye Yi rolled her eyes at him.

Gu Yizhou walked under the tree, with his long legs, reached out to pick one, took a bite, and it was sweet.

He picked another larger one and handed it to Lin Qingyan: "Very sweet!"

Lin Qingyan was a little surprised when she saw the persimmon handed to her, but she didn't think much about it. She just took it and ate it directly.

"It's really sweet, crispy and sweet. I didn't expect it to be a crisp persimmon. It tastes much better than the usual persimmons that need to be baked." Lin Qingyan praised the persimmon while eating it.

"Who can climb a tree? Fang Yunxing, you climb up the tree and pick the persimmons. Drop them down and we'll pick them up." Ye Yi instructed Fang Yunxing to climb the tree and pick the persimmons.

"I... I can't climb trees." Fang Yunxing scratched his head awkwardly.

"Ah?" Ye Yi looked at him with her mouth wide open, then shook her head, rolled up her sleeves, spat on her hands twice, rubbed them, hugged the tree and climbed up.

Lin Qingyan was startled by the quick action. She quickly ran under the tree and dragged Ye Yi with her hand.

"You stepped on my shoulders."

"Comrade Ye Yi, please come down and let me do it!" Gu Yizhou also came under the tree.

Ye Yi hugged the tree with great effort, and looked at Lin Qingyan who was struggling to drag her, and sighed in frustration.

"Qingyan, you go first, I'm going to jump down."

As she said that, she jumped down, and Lin Qingyan hurried forward to help her up.

"You are too impatient. What if you get hurt in this big mountain?" Lin Qingyan looked at her angrily.

"Okay, okay, I won't show off next time. I'll leave this kind of work to the male comrades. But some people are really not capable enough!" Ye Yi said while glancing at Fang Yunxing.

Fang Yunxing snorted in anger. "I don't know how to climb mountains. I told you directly. I'm not like some people who insist on climbing up even though they don't know how to climb mountains."

"I'm not bad at climbing mountains, but at least I climbed up."

"Yes, you did climb up, and you couldn't get down by holding onto the tree."

Lin Qingyan looked at the two quarreling people speechlessly, shook her head, walked to the side and looked up at the tree, only to find that Gu Yizhou had been standing on the tree without her knowing when.

"Gu Yizhou, be careful and don't climb up anymore." Lin Qingyan reminded.

"Well, I'll pick some and throw them aside. You can pick them up later. Don't get hit."

Swish, swish, swish, the persimmons fell down. After a while, all the persimmons around Gu Yizhou had been picked by him.

Lin Qingyan found a thin long stick and shouted to Gu Yizhou: "Here's a stick for you. Use it to hit the place far away."

After more than half an hour, all the persimmons on the tree had been knocked to the ground, and Ye Yi and Fang Yunxing, who were joking, only reacted belatedly at this time.

"Have you picked all the persimmons?"

"By the time you two have finished discussing who can't climb a tree, the sun should be setting."

Lin Qingyan was picking persimmons with her head down, without even raising her head, and spoke lightly.

They both scratched their heads in embarrassment, and quickly took the backpacks, picked up the persimmons on the ground and put them in the backpacks. Fortunately, the four of them brought four backpacks.

Including the mountain products picked up on the road, everyone's backpack was full.

"Persimmons can't be kept for too long. Who among you knows how to make persimmon cakes? I heard that persimmon cakes are also very delicious and can be kept for a long time. This way, we will have a snack to eat in winter."

Fang Yunxing asked Lin Qingyan and Ye Yi.

"You should ask Ye Yi about persimmon cakes. She is very good at making them." Seeing that Ye Yi didn't want to pay attention to Fang Yunxing, Lin Qingyan had to answer.

"Hey! Can these persimmons be used to make persimmon cakes?" Fang Yunxing said to Ye Yi again.

"I have a name, and it's not Hello!"

"Okay, Comrade Ye Yi, do you know how to make persimmon cakes? Can you help me make these persimmons into persimmon cakes?"

"Since you are so sincere, I will help you with it. However, you will need to do a lot of detailed work to make persimmon cakes."

"Okay, no problem. Work is just a small matter." The two talked and made up.

Lin Qingyan and Gu Yizhou looked at each other, feeling helpless.