CHAPTER 62: CHAPTER 62: AM I GOING TO DIE?

In the time that followed, Aunt Guihua and the others talked endlessly about how girls should protect themselves.

Zhou Qiuyu and her friends listened intently, chiming in occasionally.

Yi Chichi remained silent throughout, not participating in the discussion.

After all, she was as weak as a chicken, just an average woman’s strength level. If she really encountered danger, she wouldn’t choose to resist helplessly.

Instead, she would fight poison with poison.

As long as she was careful not to poison someone to death.

Aunt Ma spent enough time on this gossip, she didn’t return until dark.

On their way back to the Youth Corps Courtyard from the team clinic, Yi Chichi and her friends encountered Liu Xiangqian returning with a horse cart.

The cart was piled high with bulging bags. As Wu Yongfei, who came to meet them, saw this, he approached and asked, "Uncle, what’s in those bags?"

"Wheat bran!"

Liu Xiangqian looked at him askew, "Why, do you want some?"

"I wouldn’t say no."

This was a shameless one; upon hearing this, instead of getting angry, he grinned and said, "It’s still better than eating Guanyin soil like before."

Liu Xiangqian, ... Look at the kid, craving so much he’d even want to eat wheat bran.

"Do you want me to pack some for you?"

"Sure..."

"Sure my ass!"

Bai Chen quickly covered his mouth, "Uncle, don’t listen to him. We aren’t short of food right now."

Surely not to the point of eating wheat bran.

Liu Xiangqian wasn’t at ease, "If you run short on food, borrow from the brigade. Don’t go hungry."

"The brigade doesn’t have much fine grain, but there’s coarse grain to spare and lend to you."

"...Okay!"

Bai Chen forced a strong smile, accepting the Secretary’s good intentions.

Then he changed the topic, "How is the pig?"

"It’s fine now."

Speaking of which, Liu Xiangqian looked at Yi Chichi, "Miss Yi, Old Lin said your saline solution was well done."

"It wasn’t my credit."

She waved her hand, "We must thank Mr. Lin. If he hadn’t arrived in time, that bit of saline wouldn’t have worked much."

This was indeed the truth.

But still, if it weren’t for her administering the saline initially to alleviate the situation, those two big pigs wouldn’t have lasted until Old Lin came.

It’s a pity that Miss Yi doesn’t want to go to the veterinary station.

Thinking of this, Liu Xiangqian couldn’t help feeling regretful.

As he opened his mouth to speak, Yi Chichi gave him no chance and swiftly changed the subject, "Uncle, Aunt Ma went to the neighboring Red Flag Brigade and hasn’t returned."

Bai Chen and the others suddenly widened their eyes, wondering why this topic was brought up out of the blue.

Liu Xiangqian was startled, "What did she go to the Red Flag Brigade for?"

"To gather information."

"What..."

Glimpsing Wang Nan from the corner of his eye, a light bulb went off in Liu Xiangqian’s mind. He suddenly understood, "Is it about Lin Zhiqing?"

"You know?"

In unison, bursting with gossip.

Liu Xiangqian twitched his mouth slightly, "I ran into it when I was sending Old Lin back to the commune."

That kid Lin Zhiqing was ruined.

Was it her fault?

Yes.

Her mind wasn’t clear enough, only wanting to take shortcuts, but bigger mistakes were made by others.

The bitter fruit still needed her to bear.

"Alas!"

He sighed with some sentiment, "Although you all seem to mess up everything you do, at least you have clear minds. Keep it up, don’t cause the kind of trouble like in the neighboring brigade, or I’ll whip you with this big stick!"

As he spoke, he waved the horse whip in his hand, making a sharp sound. If it landed on someone, it would surely leave a mark, possibly breaking the skin.

"Nice whip!"

Yi Chichi’s eyes lit up, and she unconsciously moved closer to the whip. Wang Nan and Ge Sujuan quickly pulled her back, speaking in Liu Xiangqian’s defensive gaze, "Chichi, calm down. It’s a horse whip."

"I know."

Yi Chichi, with a keen interest, smiled and said, "Uncle, is it hard to make this whip?"

Liu Xiangqian understood instantly that this troublesome girl had her eye on his horse whip.

"Don’t even think about it, it’s troublesome to make and I’m not giving it to you."

Before he finished speaking, he flicked the horse whip and drove off with the cart, "There’s going to be heavy snow tonight. Be vigilant and don’t get stuck indoors."

"???Okay!"

Sure enough, in the evening, snow began to fall heavily, not small flakes, but large fluffy snowflakes.

They fell in clumps.

The temperature was still fine, with no significant drop.

But the wind was strong.

Yi Chichi lay in bed, listening to the sound of the falling snow and the wind, half-asleep until around three in the morning when the cold woke her up. She crawled out of bed, added some straw into the stove hole, then added three logs of wood before climbing back onto the bed to sleep deeply again.

By morning, the snow on the ground had already surpassed calf height.

Shoveling snow became necessary.

Clearing the snow from the roof was the job of Bai Chen and the other male comrades, while shoveling the ground snow was the job of Yi Chichi and the female comrades.

After sorting out the Youth Corps Courtyard, they still had to clear the path at the entrance.

Apart from the elderly with poor mobility and the children like Niu Niu, it could be said that the entire village was out shoveling snow.

However, this snow was in vain because it snowed non-stop for the next few days.

Just after shoveling, more snow landed again, and in the end, they gave up shoveling the ground, only clearing the roof.

Even so, something happened.

That day, Yi Chichi was having a sweet dream when a hurried knock on the door echoed.

"Yi Chichi, Liu the Fourth’s roof has collapsed and people are injured. The team leader wants you to come and check on Liu the Fourth’s family."

Bai Chen shouted loudly, banging on Yi Chichi’s door with force.

In the next room, Wang Nan and the others woke up and were getting dressed to join the excitement when Yi Chichi, also awakened, replied that she was coming. She crawled out of her warm bed, dressed, and opened the door.

Before she could speak, the team leader anxiously said, "Miss Yi, quickly grab the medical kit and come with me."

"Let’s go!"

Saving lives was urgent, and washing up certainly wasn’t a priority.

Seeing the situation was the first move.

Twenty minutes later, Yi Chichi, who had first gone to the clinic with the team leader to fetch the medical kit, arrived at Liu the Fourth’s brother Liu Yonghua’s home, practically tumbling along the way.

Liu Yongbo’s roof had collapsed, and the family of four had to relocate to the neighboring brother’s house.

The entire family was injured, but luckily, after checks, there were no broken bones, just surface wounds.

"Is it serious? Can it be treated? Should we send them to the commune hospital?" Liu Chengqi asked worriedly, while Liu the Fourth and Liu the Third’s families stared at her, unblinking.

Their eyes full of concern.

"Yes!"

Yi Chichi nodded, reassuringly, "Don’t worry, they’re all surface wounds, easy to treat."

She wasn’t great at treating illnesses but quite experienced in handling superficial injuries.

"Then get to it!"

Liu Yongbo pointed at his youngest son, Liu Ze, "Treat him first."

This kid was crying up a storm, his face smeared with tears and snot.

Despite being told to stop crying, he wouldn’t listen, as if he intended to cry forever.

Seeing Yi Chichi approach with her equipment, the little boy blew a huge snot bubble and choked out, "Sister Zhiqing, am I going to die?"

"No, your injuries will heal in a few days. Can we stop crying? How about I tell you a story?"