Yunyi, who always disliked owing favors, said, "I’m truly grateful for your help today. My cooking is decent. Please invite the others who helped out, and let’s all have a simple meal at my place tonight. Consider it a housewarming."
Wei Zijia hesitated. "How about another day? You just arrived today and you’ve been busy for most of it. Shouldn’t you rest first?"
Yunyi waved her hand. "It’s fine. Once I get this settled today, it won’t be on my mind anymore."
Qiao Wenyu had seen Yunyi’s belongings—vegetables, meat, eggs, and grain. This is good, he thought. It will help her integrate into the community more quickly.
So he didn’t refuse. "Alright, then it’s settled."
The meat, vegetables, grain, and eggs were, of course, deliberately displayed by Yunyi. After watching the two leave, she closed the courtyard gate.
She had taken note earlier. Aside from the health clinic, the group headquarters’ storage and the material management station were not far away.
The collective dormitory and family residences weren’t in this area, which was just as she preferred—quiet and peaceful.
She fetched water and wiped down the inside of the house again. What satisfied her the most was the floor—it had been paved with construction bricks, which was much better than a dirt floor.
What she didn’t know was that the house originally had a dirt floor. Ji Rongjia, who had lived there before, was from the city and had paid for the bricks out of her own pocket, hiring help to pave the floor.
Not only the floor, but the heated wall in the house had also been renovated by Ji Rongjia a few years ago, paid for out of her own pocket. Yunyi had indeed stumbled upon a great bargain.
After looking around, the only downside she noted was that fetching water required going outside, though fortunately, it wasn’t too far away.
Luckily, she had moved all her belongings over, so there wasn’t much else she needed to buy.
I’ll make smoked chicken stewed with radish and Chinese cabbage, potatoes stewed with smoked rabbit, and for the salted fish I prepared earlier, I’ll stir-fry it with sauerkraut. A pot of brown rice to go with it all. Perfect! It’s modest, but it won’t seem meager.
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