Chapter 141 Dream

After setting everything up, I quickly ate some breakfast. After finishing, I tidied up the house and then moved a stool to sit under the eaves.

With the courtyard gate open, anyone passing by can see me sitting under the eaves of the main house. I wonder if any children will come here to wish me a Happy New Year.

After all, I'm still a child myself. But the kids in the village are quite mischievous, and they'll probably come in if the door isn't closed.

Sure enough, Yunxi guessed correctly. Less than an hour later, the children from the village arrived, and they all came running over in a swarm.

"Sister Yunxi, we've come to wish you a Happy New Year!"

Seeing that some children still had snot bubbles hanging from their noses and their cheeks were red from the cold, Yunxi quickly invited them into the house and poured them some hot water to drink, hoping it would warm them up.

Unfortunately, they didn't appreciate it at all. None of them seemed to feel cold. They grabbed a big bag of candy, nuts, and fruit and ran away quickly.

Yunxi felt that their New Year's greetings were in vain, how could it be so fast? But they were just kids, they were only after the food. Now that they had the food, they would definitely run to the next house.

Yunxi knew without guessing that they had definitely gone home by now. After putting the snacks in their pockets at home, they would continue on to the next store.

Three groups of children arrived in succession. Once it was confirmed that all the children in the village had come, the gate to the courtyard was closed.

With nothing to do at home, Yunxi started taking out the basins to freeze ice cubes again, and also tidying up the meat in her space.

All the hides in the space have been prepared, only the meat and internal organs remain. There's still some time before school starts, so I can get everything done without delaying anything.

In the days that followed, Yunxi would take out the meat from her space whenever she had free time. Occasionally, when she was tired, she would eat some snacks she made herself, whether it was fried fruit or roasted nuts, she didn't miss any of them.

These little creatures are actually quite delicious; you can't get tired of them at all. You just want to eat more after you've eaten them. While using your mental energy to deal with various animals in the space, your mouth never stops.

As a result, she hasn't had a proper meal in the past few days, and has only filled her stomach with various snacks.

She also tidied up the medicinal herbs in the space. Since there was no sun outside, Yunxi simply lifted up the kang (heated brick bed), using one half for resting and the other half to dry the herbs.

Yunxi didn't touch any of the ginseng, as she already had enough of the other medicinal herbs. Besides, she felt she wasn't short of money and there was no need to sell such precious herbs; she could keep them for later use.

To dry the medicinal herbs, the stove in Yunxi's kitchen was kept burning with a large fire, and water was even poured out every hour until it was all boiled. Yunxi also stocked up on a lot of boiling water for this purpose.

The whole room was very warm, but it always felt hot when sleeping. So she put several extra quilts underneath so she wouldn't have to worry about getting a sore back.

After the New Year, there were several more heavy snowfalls, each one heavier than the last. Yunxi collected all the snow on the roof into her spatial storage in the middle of the night.

The snow was exceptionally clean now, unlike when it first started falling and was a bit dirty. Now it was completely clean, and she even tried swallowing a large mouthful of snow. It was icy cold, and she thought it would be great to eat with fruit in the summer. So she took the opportunity to store it in her spatial storage.

March arrived quickly. The snow stopped falling, but it didn't melt either, piling up thickly. This made Yunxi frown deeply. How would she get there when school started?

There's no other way; it's the last semester of junior high, so I have to persevere no matter how difficult it is.

With only a few days left before registration, Yunxi has already started preparing meals, using all sorts of cooking methods: mutton, rabbit, pheasant, and wild boar.

Yunxi's cooking skills were originally just average, but after learning from several of her great-aunts before the Lunar New Year, she has become more and more skilled.

I cooked a lot of food and stored it in my space. I also stewed a lot of soup, including bone broth, lean meat soup, and meatball soup.

After five or six days of tinkering, Yunxi finally stopped. She felt that if she only ate lunch, the meals she cooked could last for more than half a year.

When it was time for school, Yunxi got up early, tidied herself up, and put away all the pots and jars in the yard so they wouldn't freeze anymore.

It takes longer to freeze them into ice blocks now than before. Anyway, I have a lot stored in the space, and I can continue to store more next winter. I have enough for now, so I'm not in a hurry.

After checking my backpack for notebooks, pens, and other items, I put an empty lunchbox in it. When it's time to eat, I'll swap it with the lunchbox that already contains food in my storage space.

After confirming that there were no problems, I locked the gate and headed towards the school.

Upon entering the town, Yunxi originally planned to take out the medicinal herbs and sell them for money, but unexpectedly, she saw Li Xingtang waiting for her there as soon as she entered the town.

Li Xue touched her chest, thankful that she hadn't taken out the medicinal herbs; it would have been embarrassing if he had seen them.

Fortunately, Yunxi originally planned to register at school and go to the pharmacy after cleaning. She really needs to be more careful in the future, otherwise she might be discovered by others if she is not careful.

Li Xingtang had been waiting there for a long time, and upon seeing Yunxi, he couldn't wait to come to her.

"Yunxi, it's been so long! How have you been? I... I... I miss you so much."

Li Xingtang spoke very softly at the end; if Yunxi hadn't had such sharp ears, she probably wouldn't have heard him. Turning her head, she noticed that Li Xingtang's ears and cheeks were red.

You could tell he was shy just by looking at him.

"Li Xingtang, long time no see. I've been doing well lately, how about you?"

As for what he said at the end, Yunxi pretended not to hear it. Anyway, he spoke so softly that if her physical abilities hadn't improved, probably only he himself could hear it.

“I’m doing well too. I originally wanted to come and visit you, but the snow on the ground was too thick. In some places, it could even bury me, so I turned back halfway.”

Li Xingtang spoke calmly, but Yunxi was shocked. She hadn't expected that he would try to find her without her knowledge.

Yunxi was somewhat touched, thinking that this person was a very good person, and she suddenly felt a little bit of liking for him.

"Don't do that again next time. If you really get stuck in the snow, and there's no one else on the road, it's easy for something to happen."

Sensing the worry in Yunxi's voice, Li Xingtang smiled broadly and looked at Yunxi, "Okay, I'll listen to you. I won't do it again."

Yunxi couldn't stop smiling, which made her a little embarrassed.

I never expected that my words of concern would make Li Xingtang so happy. Did I really treat him that badly before?

"Um."

The two walked together toward the school, and along the way, Li Xingtang kept trying to win Yunxi's favor.

Li Xingtang felt that Yunxi's attitude seemed to have softened a bit, so he decided to keep trying and win her heart, so that he wouldn't have to worry about losing her every day.

Ever since he fell in love with Yunxi, Li Xingtang has been plagued by anxiety, constantly worrying that she doesn't like him back and has fallen for someone else. Sometimes he even has nightmares in which Yunxi brings a man in military uniform whose face he can't see clearly to him and tells him that this is her boyfriend.

Because after getting a partner, I worry that they will be unhappy if they get too close to each other, and they will have to keep their distance from me, so we can't be friends anymore.

I was so sad in my dream that I couldn't bear it, and when I woke up the next day, my pillow was wet. I felt so pathetic, but when I thought about it the next day, I was still very sad.

Therefore, he was determined to work hard to increase his status in Yunxi's heart, so that even if Yunxi really appeared in front of him with a man in military uniform, he would make Yunxi reluctant to part with him.