Era: A college student came to the courtyard house

The next morning.

Fang Yuan took a toothbrush and a towel and walked out of the room, only to find that Grandpa Cheng was no longer in the yard.

Meanwhile, the hunting dog named Big Yellow that guarded the gate had also disappeared.

After he finished washing up, he was just about to find something to do.

With a few barks, Grandpa Cheng returned.

"How did you sleep last night?"

"Don't even mention it, I fought mosquitoes all night long last night."

"How were the results?"

"How could I admit defeat? But I didn't win either; it ended in a draw. They weren't full, and I didn't get a good night's sleep either."

"Haha, you're not bad, kid. You've adapted to local customs. If you're hungry, go inside for breakfast. I'll take the twenty pounds of coarse grains you brought yesterday."

Fang Yuan nodded his thanks, then, seeing that Old Master Cheng was busy fiddling with something and hadn't even bothered to eat breakfast, he walked over and asked, "What are you doing, sir?"

Without looking up, Grandpa Cheng replied, "These are Chinese herbs I just picked in the mountains. I'll dry them in the sun all day, and you won't have to worry about mosquitoes tonight."

Fang Yuan asked in surprise, "There are Chinese medicinal herbs around here?"

Grandpa Cheng casually pointed into the mountains: "There are plenty in there."

Hearing that he was helping him make mosquito repellent bags, Fang Yuan quickly lent a hand. After they finished, the old man and the young man went inside to have breakfast together.

"Grandpa, I'm going to take a walk around the village first."

After breakfast, Fang Yuan rushed to wash the dishes, then slung his bag over his shoulder from the room, said goodbye to Grandpa Cheng, and headed towards Qin Family Village.

"I didn't expect someone so young to be so diligent." Watching Fang Yuan's retreating figure, Old Master Cheng exhaled a thick cloud of smoke and asked in a low voice, "Da Huang, do you think this kid can get things done?"

Upon hearing its owner call it, Da Huang excitedly barked twice at Grandpa Cheng as a response.

We arrived at the village chief's house.

Qin Youtian was the only one left in the courtyard. People in the countryside get up early to work, especially as the weather gets hotter, so they have to take advantage of the cool mornings to get as much work done as possible.

"Is Xiao Fang here?"

"How are you, Brother Qin? Are you alright?"

Since Qin Youtian was already fast asleep when he left last night, Fang Yuan wasn't sure if he was sober or not.

"It's alright, it's just a little bit of wine, it'll be fine."

Qin Youtian chose to deliberately forget his memory, completely forgetting the miserable state he was in last night when he couldn't outdrink Fang Yuan and had to admit defeat.

After the two finished smoking a cigarette at the gate, Fang Yuan, led by Qin Youtian, began to visit each person on the list one by one.

At first, almost everyone was a little impatient, constantly complaining that Fang Yuan was delaying their earning of work points.

These days, the number of work points you have determines how much food you can get; if you don't work hard enough, you'll really go hungry.

Fortunately, after Qin Youtian put ten catties of coarse grains on the table, the group started to chat.

After visiting each household, Fang Yuan gained some new insights.

Fang Yuan himself didn't have any great ambitions, and he knew that with his influence, he probably couldn't change much. He did have a lot of ideas in his mind, but sometimes being one step ahead makes you a pioneer, while being two steps ahead makes you a martyr.

Taking big steps can easily lead to trouble.

Some novels that constantly talk about transformation and technological innovation are simply unrealistic. If someone has such ideas, it just shows that they don't understand the realities of the land they live on.

He could only seize every opportunity and do his best.

Now that he's been assigned to this paired assistance program, he has to complete it, not just go through the motions as Li Jianye suggested.

Just as Qin Youtian and Fang Yuan were walking towards the home of the last interviewee.

As the two were chatting and laughing, they suddenly heard a shrill female voice coming from the village entrance: "Someone jumped into the water!"

Fang Yuan reacted the fastest, running towards the direction of the sound. A thin man of about fifty years old ran towards them, panting, and said to Fang Yuan and Qin Youtian, "Village Chief, something bad has happened! Xiangye jumped into the river!"

Qin Youtian, who was following closely behind Fang Yuan, changed his expression and said angrily, "What happened? Didn't I tell you to persuade her to wait at home? How could she jump into the water? Why aren't you calling people to go in and rescue her?"

"Village chief, it's not my fault. Who would be here in the middle of the day? And I can't swim."

The man in his fifties was pale and inwardly groaning. He hated Qin Xiangye so much that he gritted his teeth. They were talking just a moment ago, and now she was drowning herself. If she died, wouldn't he become the scapegoat?

Fang Yuan didn't have time to care about anything else; his ingrained habit made him rush to the riverbank where he had entered the village.

That day he discovered that the water under the stone bridge was very shallow, but it got deeper the further west he went.

When Fang Yuan arrived, there were already two or three women on the shore gesturing and one or two men taking off their clothes in preparation to go into the water to rescue the person. However, after hearing the women next to them say that the person who jumped into the water was Qin Xiangye, they immediately stopped taking off their clothes and showed no signs of going into the water.

Without thinking of anything else, Fang Yuan hurriedly asked the middle-aged man who was following behind him, panting heavily, where he had fallen into the water. After receiving a reply, he immediately took off his trousers and shirt and leaped into the water.

Fang Yuan has always been a good swimmer; otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to save Wu Jinxi's daughter all by himself in Beihai Park.

With several dives, thanks to the excellent water quality and crystal-clear depths, Fang Yuan quickly located the person who had fallen into the water, named Qin Xiangye.

However, because some time had passed since she jumped down, she had already fallen into a coma. Fang Yuan struggled to get close to her and grabbed her waist, only then confirming that the person named Qin Xiangye was a girl.

Finally, with the help of Qin Youtian and the thin man, Fang Yuan managed to carry the other person onto the embankment.

"It's over, there's no hope, he's not breathing!"

"Sigh, that girl, why can't she think straight?"

Fang Yuan never expected that after going through so much trouble to save someone, he would be met with such words, but at this moment he had little mind to think about anything else.

He did a quick check and found that the young girl lying on the ground seemed to have stopped breathing and her heartbeat due to being drowned for too long, but he estimated that it hadn't stopped for long and that she could still be saved.

"Xiao Fang, how is it?" Qin Youtian asked anxiously, "Is there any hope?"

"I'll give it a try."

With lives at stake, Fang Yuan immediately began performing artificial respiration and CPR without hesitation.

Fang Yuan performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on the girl who had stopped breathing, while simultaneously massaging and pressing on her skin.

This caused the onlookers from Qin Family Village to gasp in surprise, with many of them whispering and pointing at Fang Yuan and Qin Xiangye.

After three or four consecutive breaths and continuous chest compressions, the girl finally coughed up water and began to breathe, and her heartbeat gradually returned to normal.

Fang Yuan then got up and told someone to quickly call the doctor.

"doctor?"

"Where would we get a doctor from in our village?"

Hearing what everyone said, Fang Yuan realized that barefoot doctors were far from being a thing of the past, and only the larger communes nearby had health stations.

Grandpa Cheng, who was strolling around the village, suddenly stepped out from the crowd: "Come on, I still have some Chinese medicine. A few of you can help carry it."

Fang Yuan was surprised to find that Old Master Cheng actually had quite a high reputation in Qin Family Village.

The few people who hadn't gone into the water earlier immediately started helping when they heard the call.

"Me too! Me too!"

With a crisp sound, a girl with a pure and innocent appearance squeezed out from the crowd.

While helping Qin Xiangye up, the girl suddenly introduced herself to Fang Yuan: "Brother Fang, my name is Qin Jingru. My cousin Qin Huairu lives in the same courtyard as you."

"Are you talking about Sister Qin?"

Fang Yuan asked casually, and Qin Jingru nodded happily.