Reborn in 1977, starting with severing ties with family.

Upon hearing the voice, Jiang Sen frowned.

It was Lu Xiu.

Jiang Sen gestured to Hu Zhiqing.

Ho Chi Thanh said, "It's too late, he's asleep. We'll talk about it tomorrow."

"Okay! I'm off then!"

Once there was no more noise outside, Hu Zhiqing gently opened the door, glanced outside, and then closed it again.

He turned to look at Jiang Sen and said, "I'm leaving."

Wang Haiyang asked with a smile, "They came to you of their own accord, why don't you go out?"

"Annoying her!"

Hu Zhiqing smiled, "Alright, go to sleep!"

He could guess what was going on.

This kind of thing can't be kept secret, especially since Shao Jiajia and Sun Guohong came along too.

This Lu Xiu is no pushover.

They said they were too weak to dig potatoes, and they said they couldn't carry the basket.

When asked to husk corn, everyone else had to change their baskets twice, but she didn't even fill one basket.

Originally, everyone's work points were recorded based on the amount of work completed.

On the first day, her work points were almost zero.

Seeing her crying, Hu Zhiqing couldn't bear it and shared half of his rations with her.

For the next two days, for reasons unknown, two male educated youths took turns helping Lu Xiu with her work.

Seeing her smiling face while eating, Hu Zhiqing didn't know what to say.

If someone is willing to help him and steps in to stop him, he will become the villain and still not get a good reputation.

Soon, it was Sun Guohong's turn to cook.

He had just heard the truth about how a few people had come here.

He had no choice; with so many people and so many mouths to feed, he was just the team leader of the educated youth.

To put it nicely, they're willing to let you take care of organizing everyone's work, cooking, and keeping track of work points.

But if you meddle in other people's business, regardless of whether it's for the good of the educated youth, he won't get any credit, and people definitely won't be happy about it.

When Jiang Sen and the others came over today, Lu Xiu actually worked much harder than usual, picking two more baskets of corn.

The next morning, the person cooking in the canteen was replaced by a thin male educated youth.

In front of everyone, Hu Zhiqing explained the food rations of Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang.

They brought more food than everyone here receives each month.

Therefore, when it was suggested that Jiang Sen and Wang Haiyang not have to work but go to the mountains to dig wild vegetables and pick mushrooms for everyone, almost no one objected.

“Captain!” Lu Xiu suddenly raised her hand. “Can I go with them? I also know wild vegetables and mushrooms.”

Hu Zhiqing looked at Jiang Sen with some difficulty.

Jiang Sen didn't say anything. After finishing his meal, he took Wang Haiyang's lunchbox with him and asked the educated youth who cooked to bring them lunch.

After finishing, he grabbed Wang Haiyang and left.

"Captain!" Jiang Sen said, "We're leaving!"

Lu Xiu's face flushed red, her eyes reddened, tears welled up in her eyes, and she lowered her head.

Some people, seeing her like this, secretly gestured to the people next to them, "Look, she's crying again."

In this era, there are no cell phones or computers.

All that's left is idle gossip.

As the saying goes, good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels a thousand miles.

Lu Xiu's actions at the forest farm quickly became common knowledge.

On the surface, people get along with her, but no one is willing to become close to her.

Oh, except for some male educated youth with ulterior motives who liked to work with her.

The two left the educated youth settlement and slowly entered the mountains.

The village is nestled against the mountains, and once you go in, you'll be deep in the mountains.

After the two reached the mountains, they stopped to rest and lit cigarettes.

"You have no sense of chivalry at all. Look, you made her cry in front of so many people. You're so disrespectful."

Jiang Sen looked at him and said, "You'll die from a woman sooner or later."

Wang Haiyang laughed heartily, "To die under a peony is to be a romantic ghost!"

"Fine, you're a womanizer! Let's go!"

Jiang Sen stubbed out his cigarette and walked deeper into the building.

The snow here isn't as heavy as in the mountains; it's just ankle-deep.

Wild vegetables were mostly exposed, and mushrooms grew in patches.

"I just don't understand, with so much food, why don't they come and gather it?"

While picking mushrooms, Wang Haiyang couldn't help but voice his question.

Jiang Sen also found it strange.

"Never mind, we'll find out when we get back."

The two didn't go far; they were only a short distance from the mountainside when their two baskets were full.

It's a pity we didn't see any pheasants.

I'm not willing to go back like this.

Jiang Sen made a makeshift trap out of tree branches and put some steamed buns inside.

They pulled down a long branch from the tree, carefully weighed it down with a stone, and placed it in the very center of the trap.

If any small animals come along and try to eat the steamed buns, they will step on the trap, causing the branches to spring up and the animals to fall in.

It doesn't work well with slightly larger animals.

"Let's wait over there!"

The two walked to a tree not far away, sat down and began to eat.

"Are we just waiting for a rabbit to run into a tree stump?" Wang Haiyang kept looking back at the trap.

"Let's eat, it won't be that quick."

"Can you catch a rabbit?"

"I don't know! No matter what it is, even a field mouse is meat."

"You eat rats?"

Jiang Sen glanced at the startled Wang Haiyang and asked, "Didn't you receive any wilderness survival skills training when you were in the army?"

Wang Haiyang blushed, "They all follow them, I don't have to lift a finger."

Jiang Sen smiled.

After the meal, the trap remained untouched, and Wang Haiyang grew increasingly anxious.

Jiang Sen said, "Come on, let me take you a little further in! This place is too close to where people live, so rabbits and pheasants rarely come here."

Following Jiang Sen inside, Wang Haiyang asked, puzzled, "Then why did you set up that trap?"

"Let's kill two birds with one stone, catch one if we can, just in case!"

Wang Haiyang was very interested in this kind of thing and was particularly curious about it.

When they reached the depths of the forest, Jiang Sen looked at the snow on the ground and saw rows of small footprints leading further in, with another row extending from the middle to the side.

"Right here!" Jiang Sen waved, signaling Wang Haiyang to follow.

"How did you know?" Wang Haiyang, ever the curious child, kept asking questions.

"Those are rabbit footprints."

Soon, a thick patch of grass appeared, and the footprints disappeared.

Parting the grass, a small hole was revealed.

Jiang Sen said, "You wait here!"

He walked a few steps diagonally opposite, found another hole, grabbed a handful of wild grass, and blocked the hole.

After walking a distance to the other side, we saw another hole.

He plucked a handful of grass and placed it at the entrance of the cave, beckoned to Wang Haiyang, and after he came over, said, "Listen to my instructions later."

After saying that, he returned to the first cave entrance.

"Command what?" Wang Haiyang asked, his voice hoarse.

Jiang Sen held up one finger, "Shh!"

He emptied the wild vegetables and mushrooms from the basket, covered the hole with it, and said to Wang Haiyang, "Light the fire!"

"what?"

"Tsk!" Jiang Sen had no choice. "Come here."

Wang Haiyang walked over, and Jiang Sen asked him to hold the basket on his back, saying, "If the rabbit comes out later, be sure not to let it get away."

"what?"

"You big-toothed bastard, huh? Huh?!"

As Jiang Sen spoke, he walked to another cave entrance, took out a match, lit some wild grass, and stuffed it into the opening.

A plume of smoke rose up, then more and more, and soon, there was movement on Wang Haiyang's side.

"It's out! It's out!" Wang Haiyang was so nervous that he gripped the basket tightly with both hands, sticking his butt out and not daring to move.

Jiang Sen walked over quickly and placed his hand on the opening of the basket.

Suddenly, a gray rabbit head popped out of the smoke and jumped into the basket.

Jiang Sen reacted quickly, reaching his hand under the basket and, after a few struggles, finally grabbed the rabbit's ear.

"Hey, there's one more!"

Wang Haiyang repeatedly slammed the basket down, and with a final thud, he collapsed to the ground.

He looked up and exclaimed, "Hehe, I caught him!"