A Time Travel Effort in the 70s

Chapter 36 Going into the Mountains to Collect Firewood

Shen Jiaren stood at the back of the team, watching Aunt Zhou being dragged away, and Chen Jiaojiao's increasingly ugly expression. She didn't know whether to cry or laugh, because the two of them gave Shen Jiaren a feeling that enemies would always meet, and she didn't know what kind of trouble the two would cause during the autumn harvest.

However, Shen Jiaren watched as Aunt Zhou's husband dragged Aunt Zhou away while scolding her for embarrassing him in front of so many people in the village. She didn't know whether to say that evil will be punished by evil, or that there must be something hateful about pitiful people.

The rest of the educated youth, Xu Hongxia and Song Xiangxue, were assigned to harvest wheat in a field. The educated youth leader Zhao Yuanchao was assigned to carry wheat from the field to the wheat field in front of the brigade warehouse. Liu Weijun and a male comrade from the village were assigned to harvest wheat in a field.

Shen Jiaren watched as her acquaintances and educated youth all drew lots to determine their tasks, and she didn't know whether to relax or be nervous.

I feel relaxed because everyone I know is an educated youth and we all know that they are all the same. The old educated youth are better and can be guided, but the new educated youth are really hard to deal with and I can't blame the villagers for looking down on them.

I am nervous because both the familiar people and the educated youth have been confirmed, which means that I will be working with a stranger. There is a 50-50 chance that this stranger will be good or bad. At the moment, the good chance is really like picking a general from a group of dwarfs, which is a bit difficult.

Shen Jiaren waited for a while, and then it was her turn to draw lots. Shen Jiaren took the number she drew to the scorekeeper to register, and found that the number was already registered in the area where someone else had registered. The name was written as Auntie Zhou. Shen Jiaren was very curious when she saw the name of this person. What was the relationship between Auntie Zhou and Auntie Zhou?

Could they be some kind of direct relative, with similar temperament and traits?

Shen Jiaren thought about it and decided, forget it, there will always be a way out when you reach the mountain, she will know the situation tomorrow.

Shen Jiaren didn't think too much about it and went straight home. After all, she would start working hard tomorrow. Even if she took a rest today, she also had to prepare some strategic materials and be ready to work hard. After all, she was not used to farm work yet and the peak season of farm work was about to come.

After Shen Jiaren returned to the yard, she looked at her kitchen and the coal stove in the outer room. She decided to go into the mountains to pick up the pine needles and firewood she had been going to collect. This way, when the autumn harvest comes, she can add firewood to the coal stove and then simmer some chicken soup or bone soup in the casserole. When she comes back, she can cook some noodles, vegetables, vermicelli, etc. It will be delicious and nutritious. She won't have to worry about being too tired to cook when she comes back from farm work and eating whatever she wants.

Who knows, maybe because I can eat well, have a regular schedule, and do a certain amount of work, I won’t look so pale and thin after this period of time.

Shen Jiaren sat on a wooden bench, looking at the bare yard, eating apples from the manor, and thought this was a good idea. She waited until she finished eating the apples, sat for a while, and then went into the mountains to collect firewood and pine needles.

After eating the apple and throwing the core into the toilet, Shen Jiaren went into the manor, took out the sack, locked the door and went up the mountain.

Before going up the mountain, Shen Jiaren set a goal for herself. The main purpose of going up the mountain today was to pick up pine needles and firewood. Of course, if possible, she could pick up some other mountain products, but the main goal was pine needles, which would be convenient for starting a fire and burning firewood later.

Shen Jiaren took the sack and started going up the mountain to look for pine needles. This time, she found a pine tree not far away.

Shen Jiaren started to pack pine needles, preparing to work hard.

As a result, the mistake was that the pine needles would be more prickly when they were dry, and Shen Jiaren did not wear gloves when going up the mountain. Secondly, when the pine needles were put into the sack, the tips of the needles would protrude and prick people, making it inconvenient to carry the sack.

The problem of gloves is easy to solve, but the trouble is that the sacks are difficult to replace.

Because I didn’t know if anyone saw Shen Jiaren carrying the sack up the mountain, it was difficult to change it.

Shen Jiaren thought about it and decided to do it this way. This time she would fill it up and drag it down, and this time she would carry the backpack up the mountain after going down.

After Shen Jiaren took out a pair of gloves from the manor, she began to pack the pine needles.

Shen Jiaren was busy with formal wear. She felt that there seemed to be pine cones in the pile of pine needles. When she grabbed the pine needles and put them into the bag, she felt something hard and round. Before Shen Jiaren could dig through the pile of pine needles to see, she heard the task reminder sound of the manor system.

"Ding dong, ding dong, ding dong, a random task has been triggered. Edible pine cones have been found. Please collect them. Please collect them. Please collect them."

After Shen Jiaren opened the task description in her mind, she discovered that the red exclamation marks for collecting plants were scattered all around her. In some places, the red color was almost turned into black and red because of the large number of plants. In some places, the red color was so large that it almost turned into black and red. In some places, there were only sporadic exclamation marks because of the small number of plants.

For example, the place where I am now is just scattered exclamation marks.

Shen Jiaren was afraid that after she picked up all the pine cones and put them in the manor, she would no longer be able to see the geographical map after the mission was triggered and completed.

Shen Jiaren put all the pine cones around her into her sack and did not put them in the manor, nor did she see the manor collect the pine cones.

When Shen Jiaren saw this, she happily picked up the pine cones around her. After picking up most of the pine needles, she pulled the sack down the mountain, ready to change for the backpack.

Shen Jiaren half carried and half dragged the sack, and after returning to the yard, she poured out the contents of the sack.

After pouring it out, Shen Jiaren separated the pine needles and pine cones and spread them flat. Then she went to the east room to get a backpack and a small rake, ready to go up the mountain again.

As soon as Shen Jiaren got up the mountain this time, she began to pick up pine cones according to the geographical map of the mission. After picking up most of the pine cones, she covered them with pine needles. After filling the backpack 80% layer by layer, Shen Jiaren began to add pine needles on top.

Shen Jiaren used this method, going back and forth between the mountain and the yard over and over again. However, after each of her returns, she could not distinguish between the pine needles and pine cones, and fell first in the yard.

Shen Jiaren carried the pine cones two or three times and then rested for a while. After carrying the pine cones two or three times, she rested for a while. That's how it was. When Shen Jiaren was starving, she finally discovered that there were no scattered red spots on the mission's geographical map. After that, Shen Jiaren never picked up large quantities of pine cones again.

Instead, he picked up one or two pine cones, brought them to the manor to complete the triggering task, and then went down the mountain with a backpack full of pine needles.

After going down the mountain, Shen Jiaren poured the last basket of pine needles into the yard. Looking at the scattered pine needles and pine cones on the bluestone tiles in the yard, forming a pyramid-like hill, Shen Jiaren felt that the joy of harvest was really so happy.

After putting the backpack in the east room, Shen Jiaren returned to the manor, took a bath, changed her clothes, and then left the manor and returned to the house.

Shen Jiaren went into the outer room, took the coal stove outside the kitchen, got some pine needles from the yard, and some thick firewood from the kitchen, then started to make a fire and cook.

You know what, the pine needles catch fire quickly, and with the addition of firewood, the water in the casserole boiled in a short while. Shen Jiaren took some pork ribs, an egg, some vegetables, and some noodles from the kitchen, and cooked some pork rib noodles.

After cooking, Shen Jiaren sat in the yard, eating pork rib noodles on stools of different sizes. While eating, she looked at the pine needles and pine cones she had picked up, and instantly felt that today's noodles were really delicious.

After Shen Jiaren finished eating, she stood up and walked in the yard for a while. Then she took a chicken from the manor, put it in a casserole, and started cooking it on the coal stove. This way, when Shen Jiaren woke up in the afternoon, she would have ready-made chicken soup to drink.

After Shen Jiaren packed up and prepared all these, she prepared to go back to the main room and go to sleep.

After waking up, start separating the pine needles and pine cones for drying separately.

In this way, by the afternoon, the pine needles and pine cones will be in their respective drying areas, and the chicken soup will be cooked. You can eat chicken soup noodles in the afternoon, or steam rice with chicken soup and eat it with cold chicken.

Shen Jiaren lay on the kang and thought about this scene. It was so nice.

Then Shen Jiaren began to take a nap contentedly.

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