Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

The next morning, Jiang Sen was clearing weeds in the yard when someone knocked on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw two people dressed in telephone company uniforms who said they were there to install a telephone.

Jiang Sen quickly invited the person in.

He brought out some soft drinks from inside the house to treat them, and watched them string up the cables and install the telephone.

Yingzi sat on the stone bench, resting her chin on her hand and watching.

She couldn't get involved in this matter, nor could she help.

After working for an hour, the connection was finally established, and Jiang Sen was overjoyed.

He offered the two men some soda, then picked up the phone and called Luo Jianshe.

"Hey bro, guess where I called you from?"

Luo Jianshe seemed to be drinking water, but after hearing this, he choked and coughed for a long time.

Jiang Sen laughed and said, "It can't be that bad! I just gave you a phone call."

Luo Jianshe calmed down and cleared his throat. "I'm not saying this to be mean, but brother, you're really something else. I found the phone company for you, and we scheduled the installation for today, and you're asking me where I made the call? Judging from your tone, it's already installed?"

"It's installed!" Jiang Sen said. "Thanks! How much did it cost in total? Should I pay you or give it to the installer directly?"

"It didn't cost any money! You can pay your own phone bills from now on. Why don't you come over and drop by after it's installed?"

"I'm not coming. If you're free, come over. I'll treat you to dinner."

"How about roasted rabbit for dinner?"

Jiang Sen turned to Yingzi and said, "It should be...okay! You go first, I'll get things ready."

"You don't need to prepare anything. I just received a shipment today, which includes several live animals. I won't give you the roe deer; they're in high demand and expensive right now. I'll take the rabbit with you."

"Okay! Come on over!"

After hanging up the phone and seeing off the telephone installer, Jiang Sen said to Yingzi, "Luo Jianshe is coming over for dinner later. He said he sent some rabbits from Beidahuang and wanted to ask if you'd like roasted rabbit."

Yingzi's eyes lit up, "Rabbits from the Great Northern Wilderness?"

"OK!"

"Of course you can eat it!"

"What do we need to prepare? Let's go buy it right away."

Yingzi got up and walked into the house. "Wait here, I'll go take a look."

She went into the side kitchen and came out a moment later, looking troubled. "Everything else is fine, but can we build a fire in the yard?"

Jiang Sen hadn't thought of that either. He frowned and thought for a while before saying, "If all else fails, we can go to the market and buy an iron pot. At worst, we can ruin the pot and buy some charcoal!"

Yingzi felt it was a bit wasteful and said, "It's a waste not to use an iron pot. Let's go and see if we can find something else that can be used."

"Okay, let's go take a look!"

The two walked out while talking.

Yingzi asked, "Where can we gather firewood?"

"...It seems to contain only carbon."

"Charcoal... can be used to roast rabbit?"

"I think so..."

The two went to the department store next door, and on the first floor, Jiang Sen was pleasantly surprised to find something at the department store counter.

This is a round charcoal stove used in ordinary households. In winter, a copper hot pot can be placed on it for hot pot.

If you don't put a hot pot underneath, there's a recessed base to collect charcoal ash.

If you put charcoal on it, isn't that a barbecue grill that can be used to roast rabbits?

They spent an industrial ticket, five yuan, to buy this hot pot base, a bag of charcoal, and a few iron skewers for hanging things. The two of them happily went home.

There are always more solutions than problems; to find the right tools, you still need to use your brain.

Do it yourself and you'll have plenty to eat and wear!

In the courtyard, Yingzi fiddled with the stove and then ran to the kitchen to look for seasonings.

A short while later, Luo Jianshe arrived, carrying a box in his hands. "Come, come, I saw you were quite lively this morning, but you've wilted a bit now."

Jiang Sen hurried over, opened the box, and saw that it was a gray rabbit, a common sight in the Great Northern Wilderness.

The two big ones were alright; they ate the wild grass inside and pooped all over the bottom of the box.

The smaller one looked listless and didn't seem to want to move.

"Yingzi!" Jiang Sen called out, "Come see the rabbits!"

Yingzi ran out, looked at the rabbit inside, and nodded, "It's alright, it hasn't lost weight."

Luo Jianshe said, "Then I'll take it to the market and have someone kill it!"

“No need!” Yingzi reached out and picked one up. “This thing is easy to handle. You can peel it and take it back to make a pair of gloves.”

Yingzi deftly hung the rabbit on the tree, took a small knife from the house, made a cut, and pulled it down forcefully with both hands...

Luo Jianshe stared in disbelief, and Jiang Sen helped him close his mouth.

"Never seen this before, have you? This is nothing to the Oroqen people!"

"Alright!" Luo Jianshe shut his mouth. "I'll just wait to eat."

In the afternoon, the sun was quite strong, but the courtyard was still cool due to the shade of the trees.

Jiang Sen and Luo Jianshe sat at the stone table drinking tea and eating melon seeds, while Yingzi roasted a rabbit next to them.

She had a habit of hanging the tin can on her waist, with a thin rope slung across her back.

Twist the metal skewer, make a couple of cuts on it with a knife, sprinkle some salt on it, and then add some seasoning from the metal can.

After grilling for a while, she asked Jiang Sen to watch over it, and then went to the kitchen to make a large mixed salad.

The mixed salad, a specialty of the Oroqen people, is somewhat different from what ordinary people in Northeast China eat.

In any case, they completely won over Luo Jianshe.

"This is even better than the chef's cooking at the Grand Hotel Kyoto!" He ate with gusto, his mouth greasy, and took a sip of wine. "If I opened a restaurant here, it would be packed every day, with long queues!"

Yingzi smiled.

Jiang Sen said, "I can't bear to let her go out and work so hard."

Luo Jianshe asked in a low voice, "Has she ever been to school? Don't you plan to let her go out to work in the future? If you want to go, talk to your buddy."

Jiang Sen shook his head, "I've never been to school, so I can forget about working. Let's focus on getting used to life here first!"

Luo Jianshe nodded, "That's true. It's okay for men to work a little harder, but we can't let our wives work hard too! Come to my place tomorrow, and let's get the company up and running as soon as possible."

Jiang Sen nodded, "Okay! We'll talk about this again tomorrow. Let's have dinner today."

They started eating in the afternoon and the three of them ate until evening, but they mostly just chatted.

Luo Jianshe was very talkative, chatting about all sorts of things, and he often made Yingzi laugh.

There are many other things that Yingzi would ask out of curiosity. After hearing the explanation, she would nod and smile, not knowing whether she understood or not.

That evening, when Luo Jianshe left, Jiang Sen saw him off.

Luo Jianshe said, "I really envy you! Your wife is so sensible and capable."

"Then keep envious!" Jiang Sen said with a smile. "Don't you have a girlfriend?"

"Yes!" Luo Jianshe said, "She was introduced by my family. She has a bit of a temper, and sometimes I don't even want to take her with me when we go out. Thank you for your hard work today, wife. If you need anything in the future, just let me know. I'm going back now, let's talk again tomorrow."

Watching Luo Jianshe drive away, Jiang Sen couldn't help but think, "Drinking and driving seems to be ignored these days. I might accidentally kick myself into Houhai Lake."

Turning back, Jiang Sen thought again that Luo Jianshe's girlfriend was introduced by his family, which must mean that the two families had some kind of vested interest in each other.

You can tell from his statement that he sometimes doesn't even want to take her with him when he goes out that he doesn't really like her.

That's why I said I envy myself.

Rich people have their own troubles.

I'm so lucky to have a wife who's beautiful, kind, sensible, and can even fight! Hehe...

That evening, Jiang Sen pestered Yingzi for a while longer, but was still locked out.

He looked at the sky resentfully, "Damn it, I'm dragging her to worship the mountain god tomorrow!"

The next day, Jiang Sen told Yingzi and then went to find Luo Jianshe.

Little did he know that no sooner had he left than people came to his house.

"Knock knock!" Someone knocked on the door.

Yingzi came out from inside and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's us! Is Jiang Sen home?"