Time Travel: My Comfortable Life After Going to the Countryside

Liu Xiangyang said, "You guys divide the firewood into one large bundle, and then get three more bundles that you can carry. Come back with me first. I'll take the firewood back to the yard first, and then come back to get this large bundle. Luckily, it's not far from the yard."

Liu Xiangyang carried all the firewood back to the yard. It was already completely dark. While Liu Xiangyang went back to move the last bundle of firewood, Xue Bingbing and the other two stayed at the educated youth settlement to cook.

The next day, the carpenter installed the doors and windows of the courtyard and house. Zhang Tiejun also delivered the various cabinets, chests, kang mats, kang tables, and kang cabinets that Liu Xiangyang and his group had ordered.

Liu Xiangyang and his group were eager to move their things in and move in.

Zhang Tiejun stopped them, saying that the new house couldn't be moved into so quickly. The kang (heated brick bed) was still soft, and they needed to heat it up first. The sun was strong, so it would take at least two or three days.

Don't worry about this. After all, they enjoyed such a good meal from you, so you should go all the way. Luckily, you have firewood in your yard, so someone will come and help you heat the kang (a traditional heated bed).

After hearing Zhang Tiejun's words, Liu Xiangyang and the others gave up their idea of ​​moving in immediately.

Three days passed between work and rest. Every day, two or three villagers who had eaten at Liu Xiangyang's banquet would come over to heat the kang (a heated brick bed). On the third day, after work, Zhang Tiejun also came over and touched the kang. He found that there were no hot or cold spots, and the heat was evenly distributed.

"Xiangyang, your kang (heated brick bed) is heated up, you can move in today."

Upon hearing Zhang Tiejun's words, Xue Bingbing and Le Yao jumped up with joy. Even the usually composed Le Qi was excited, showing how much the three of them had been cooped up at the educated youth settlement.

Liu Xiangyang and the other three quickly returned to the educated youth settlement to move their belongings, including their luggage and food, into their new home.

Liu Xiangyang took out the kerosene lamp he bought in the county town and lit it, illuminating the whole room. He then laid out the kang mat, arranged the kang cabinet and kang table, and stacked the quilts.

Liu Xiangyang lay on the kang (a heated brick bed), feeling the lingering warmth from the stove. This would be his home for the next one or two thousand days. If he didn't pass the college entrance exam, he would have to stay for another year.

I need to make up for all the knowledge I've lost during this time, and I'm determined to become the top scorer in the college entrance examination to fulfill my dream.

Having finished his dream, Liu Xiangyang, a southerner in his previous life, hadn't eaten rice for almost a month and was really craving it. He took out a bag of rice from his spatial storage and started cooking rice over a wood fire in an iron pot.

I went to a villager's house and exchanged two cucumbers, two tomatoes, and a bunch of cilantro. I also got some chili powder. I slurped my saliva, thinking about the taste of cucumber salad with cilantro and chili powder.

When I got home, I smashed the cucumber, added cilantro and chili powder, poured in vinegar, mixed it well, picked up a piece to taste, and it tasted just right.

Heat oil in a wok, add beaten eggs, stir-fry until 80% cooked, then transfer to a bowl. Add diced tomatoes, and once they release their juices, add the remaining eggs, a little salt, stir-fry, and serve. The aroma is irresistible.

As soon as the lid was lifted, a burst of steam, a mingled aroma of rice and smoky flavor, billowed out. Beneath it was a pot of shimmering, pearly white rice, the grains translucent and glistening with a pale golden hue at the edges, like a pot of warm, cast jade, with a delightful crackling sound hidden at the bottom.

After finishing his long-awaited meal, Liu Xiangyang patted his stomach contentedly, let out a satisfied burp, and then began to inspect his room to see if he needed anything else to eat.

The walls and ceiling need to be covered up. We'll put up wooden boards when we hibernate, but for now, we'll just paste some newspaper on them.

The kitchen has two stoves, and we need to buy another pot so that cooking rice and other dishes can be done at the same time. We also need to buy a large water tank.

There's also the issue of bathing in winter. We need to build another bathroom, but we can't ask the villagers for help. We'll have to bring back some mud every day after work and make the adobe bricks ourselves. This will also help us develop our ability to decompose and blend.

Build a bathroom right behind the bedroom. It doesn't need to be big, just big enough for three or four people to take a bath together. Open a door in the bedroom wall and cover it with a cabinet so that the temperature from the bedroom can still get in, and you won't need to put a window in the bathroom.

Liu Xiangyang came to the yard and wanted to build a road. Otherwise, when it rained or snowed, his feet would be covered in mud. He needed to bring back some big stones and build a few small paths.

Next to the kitchen, we need to build a firewood rack with a roof to prevent the firewood from getting wet when it rains.

With his spatial ability as a cheat code, Liu Xiangyang won't lack meat. But he can't keep buying vegetables from the villagers every day; he needs to plant winter vegetables like cabbage and radishes.

We also need to dig a cellar. Thinking about all this, there's so much work to be done at home, I'll be busy.

Liu Xiangyang took a handkerchief and soap to the river to bathe. When he returned after bathing, he happened to see Xue Bingbing knocking on his courtyard gate.

"Xue Bingbing, is something wrong?"

"Liu Xiangyang, we're still missing a lot of things at home. I'm planning to take the day off tomorrow and go to the county town again. Do you want to come with me?"

"Aren't the two of them going together?"

Xue Bingbing blushed and said, "They're on their period and can't move around much, so I brought them back for them."

Liu Xiangyang was originally planning to go to the county town. Besides, he had been there for almost a month, so he should visit Lu Dajun's family.

"I've just figured it out too. We're still missing a lot of things, but we should be almost done with them. So let's go to the county town together tomorrow. Let's go ask Village Chief Zhang for leave now."

"I need to go to my Uncle Lu's house tomorrow morning. We'll check everything we need to buy on the way. You can buy it first and wait for me at the supply and marketing cooperative. Then we'll come back together."

The two went to Zhang Tiejun to ask for leave and then went home.

Liu Xiangyang took out a lantern, lit it, and released the ten trees he had collected last time. He broke the trees into firewood pieces 50 centimeters long. He used it a total of 12 times before he felt so dizzy that he couldn't take it anymore, and the progress bar increased a little more.

After a short rest, he took out the hoe he had borrowed from Zhang Tiejun's house and started turning over the soil. He worked until almost 10 o'clock. Looking at the sweat all over his body, he could only go to the river to take a bath and then go to sleep.

The next morning, Liu Xiangyang and Xue Bingbing waited at the village entrance for Old Wang's horse-drawn cart to arrive. It was just the two of them going to the county town that day. Liu Xiangyang took out a pack of Zhongnanhai cigarettes that he had prepared, opened it, and handed one to Old Wang.

"Uncle Wang, you've worked hard. Here, have a cigarette."

"I haven't smoked a filtered cigarette in years," he said, taking the cigarette Liu Xiangyang offered and lighting it. "The last time was after we came back from the Korean War, when my squad leader gave me a pack of American cigarettes."

Old Wang, puffing on his cigarette, recounted his experiences in India, eventually getting injured and discharged from the army, and returning to his hometown.

"Uncle Wang, you're a veteran hero of the Korean War. This pack of cigarettes is my way of showing my respect for you." He then stuffed the pack of cigarettes into Old Wang's clothes.

"What kind of bullshit hero am I? Those who sacrificed themselves are the real heroes. I was just lucky. I was just bitten by a bullet and sent back."