Time Travel: My Comfortable Life After Going to the Countryside

When Liu Xiangyang returned from drinking at Zhang Tiejun's house, Xue Bingbing was wiping her hair with a handkerchief.

Liu Xiangyang walked over, took the handkerchief, folded it in half, wrapped the ends of his hair inside, and used the towel to absorb the moisture from his hair.

"I might be going to Harbin for training in a few days. I haven't said when the training will end. You can ask Zuo Qingqing to come and keep you company. I'll feel more at ease if she has someone with her."

"Hmm," Xue Bingbing said, feeling a little down. She had thought she would be able to spend some time alone with Liu Xiangyang, but she didn't expect him to go to Bingcheng again, and she didn't know how long he would be gone.

"I'll come back to be with you as soon as the training is over, and then we can have some quality time together," Liu Xiangyang said quickly, sensing Xue Bingbing's feelings.

"Okay, I'll wait for you to come back." Xue Bingbing shook her head, banishing Zuo Qingqing's face from her mind.

"How much did you drink with Village Chief Zhang? You reek of alcohol. Go wash up."

"Then you can wait for me on the kang (heated brick bed)."

Two hours later.

Xue Bingbing snapped out of her daze, turned on the hot water, and used a towel to clean Liu Xiangyang first before wiping away the stains he had accidentally gotten on her. Looking at Liu Xiangyang, she said, "I want to have a son for you."

Liu Xiangyang understood what Xue Bingbing meant, sat up, looked into her eyes and said, "Bingbing, when we can go home to visit our families next year, I'll go to Suzhou to see my grandmother."

"Really? Grandma has always wanted to meet you."

"Really, we can leave after the autumn harvest next year. Didn't many former educated youth go back shortly after the harvest this year?"

Liu Xiangyang hugged Xue Bingbing and said, "I'll go with you to Suzhou to see Grandma and let her know that her granddaughter has found a place for her in life."

"Yes, love me."

Silent all night.

......

November 5th arrived. In the past four or five days, the rabbits that Liu Xiangyang raised had suffered terribly. He used them to train their healing abilities, cutting them off, healing them, cutting them off again, healing them again, it was practically a cycle of cutting and dancing.

His proficiency had caught up with his decomposition ability, but those rabbits, after being tortured by Liu Xiangyang, although they had no external injuries and were very resilient, were all found dead when Liu Xiangyang went to feed them last night.

He used his mental power to observe and found that the rabbits had all died of fright. It could be said that the small ones sacrificed themselves for the greater good. Even after they died, they contributed rabbit meat to Liu Xiangyang, gave one to each of the three bigwigs in the village, gave one to Roland, one to Zuo Qingqing, and kept three for himself and Xue Bingbing.

At noon, Xue Bingbing cooked a special rabbit dish. These past few days, she had been dealing with Liu Xiangyang all by herself, and she always had to sleep until almost noon before she could get up.

After lunch, the two were playing checkers when they heard the postman calling their names.

The two men came out and saw the postman wrapped up like a seed, his heavy bicycle propped up: "Comrade Liu Xiangyang, this is your salary, and there's also a notice I need to give you."

"Thank you, mailman. It's so cold, and you still have to run around like this. Here, have a smoke and come inside for some hot water to warm up," Liu Xiangyang said, handing the mailman a cigarette.

"It's all revolutionary work, what's so hard about it? I just added hot water to this kettle, it's full." The postman handed Liu Xiangyang two envelopes.

Liu Xiangyang took the envelope and saw that one was a thick envelope containing his salary. He opened another envelope, which contained a notice that he needed to go to the Bingcheng City Bureau for training the day after tomorrow.

Back home, Xue Bingbing picked up the admission notice and looked at it: "So you're leaving for Harbin tomorrow, so I'll pack your things for you today."

"I estimate the training will only last a month at most, and I'll be back soon. If you miss me, just write to me," Liu Xiangyang comforted Xue Bingbing.

"I really don't want you to be gone for so long," Xue Bingbing said, hugging Liu Xiangyang.

"I'll go talk to the village chief about this first. Just wait for me to come back and find you, hehe."

"You're so annoying, in broad daylight!"

Liu Xiangyang went to Zhang Tiejun's house, showed him the notice, and asked him to write a letter of introduction for him.

When she left his house and returned to the educated youth settlement, she saw Luo Lan walking out of the settlement alone. When she saw Liu Xiangyang, her eyes lit up, and she walked up to Liu Xiangyang: "Where have you been?"

I told her that I was going to Harbin for a period of training.

Hearing that Liu Xiangyang would be gone for so long, Roland became anxious and moved closer to Liu Xiangyang, saying, "What if I get hungry?"

Most of the former educated youth at the settlement had returned. Luo Lan originally wanted to go back as well, but she was afraid that if she went back, Liu Xiangyang would be seduced by someone else, so she didn't go back. She thought that since she was in the village, she could keep an eye on him nearby.

Liu Xiangyang looked at Roland with a half-smile and said, "Then come to my office later. I'm leaving now."

After saying that, he left the educated youth settlement, went to the office, lit the stove, brewed a pot of tea, and sat down to wait for Roland to come to him.

Soon the room warmed up, and Roland pushed open the door and came in. She saw Liu Xiangyang beckoning to her with his finger, turned around and locked the door, then swayed her hips as she walked towards him.

"You heartless bastard, you haven't come to see me for so long. I didn't see you today. Do you think I'll only find out in a month?" Roland said, sitting in Liu Xiangyang's lap and hugging him.

"How could that be? I went to the educated youth settlement to find you, and I just happened to run into you at the entrance. Stop talking nonsense and hurry up."

Liu Xiangyang pushed her up and took out a piece of red sausage: "This is the roe deer blood sausage I made on this trip into the mountains. Here you go."

Roland: "It's rare that you still remember me."

The sun had already set and it was dark. Roland returned to the educated youth settlement in an odd posture. It was already past five o'clock.

Roland felt like all the bones in his body were about to fall apart, but he felt completely refreshed. He returned to the educated youth settlement with a full stomach, climbed onto the kang (a heated brick bed), wrapped himself in a quilt, smacked his lips, and fell asleep, skipping dinner again.

"You're back. Sit down for a bit, dinner will be ready soon." Xue Bingbing saw Liu Xiangyang come in and quickly poured the dishes into the pot.

"Sizzle"

"It smells so good! What did you have for dinner?" Liu Xiangyang said, fanning the air with his hand.

"Stir-fried roe deer meat, everything's packed for you, go check if anything's missing," Xue Bingbing said, tiptoeing to kiss Liu Xiangyang.

Liu Xiangyang went into the inner room and saw that everything had been packed up: a quilt, a pair of leather shoes, and a change of clothes. There were also several pieces of smoked roe deer and wild boar meat placed next to it.

"How much meat and vegetables do we have left at home?" Liu Xiangyang asked.

"There are still two pieces of smoked meat, that's enough for me. There are also so many vegetables in the cellar." Xue Bingbing poked her head out from the kitchen.

"That little bit of food isn't enough. From now on, you can keep my salary. Buy whatever you want to eat in the city. Here are some coupons, take them all. From now on, you'll be my housekeeper." Liu Xiangyang took out his salary and some coupons and handed them to Xue Bingbing.