Chapter 157 Going to High School

When Li Xingtang and the others came down from the mountain, it was already past five or six in the afternoon.

Yunxi was extremely anxious while waiting at home, worried that they might not return soon and that there would be danger on the mountain, and also worried that it would be too late for them to get back to town.

Seeing them come back was a huge relief.

However, judging from their smiling faces, you can tell that they must have made some progress this time.

"Next time you come, you should come earlier. It's too late now, and it won't be safe to go back later."

Seeing Yunxi's worried expression, Li Xingtang was quite happy. "Don't worry about us, the young men will be fine. Today we caught two pheasants and about ten rabbits on the mountain. There's still too little prey on the mountain. It seems you've been catching quite a lot!"

“I go up the mountain whenever I have nothing to do, and I’ve caught quite a lot. Plus, other people in the village also go up the mountain to catch them. It’s already pretty good that you’ve caught so many. I’ll put them in a bag for you, and you can take them out and divide them up when we get back.”

He took out another burlap sack from inside the house, and found a small bundle of rope to tie up the chickens and rabbits so they wouldn't run away.

"We ate so much meat from your house at noon, it's not enough to take it all back, we have to leave you half."

Li Xingtang no longer worried that since he had eaten so much meat at noon, she might not have any meat to eat in the future.

If it weren't for the fact that she wasn't the only one who caught these prey, he would have loved to leave them all to Yunxi and not keep a single one.

"Yunxi, your cousin is right. You must accept it. It's a token of our goodwill."

Seeing his cousin's ardent pursuit, Yang Junhao offered a helping hand, hoping his cousin could win the heart of his beauty soon.

"No need, I have plenty at home. I'm going to high school soon, and I definitely won't be able to finish them all. You should take them back!"

Yunxi wasn't being overly polite at all. There was plenty of meat in the space, but it would take forever to eat it all, so why bother with those few?

It would be better to let them take it back to their families to eat.

In the end, Yunxi couldn't refuse any longer, so she left one rabbit at home and let them take the rest.

Each person carried a burlap sack, which was filled to the brim, because Yunxi hadn't told them beforehand what was inside.

They just assumed they were all vegetables, so they didn't think much of it.

When I got home and saw the meat and vegetables inside, I felt even more embarrassed.

I went to someone's house and not only caused them trouble, but I also had to take food and gifts. I'm not thick-skinned enough, so I feel especially embarrassed.

When the parents saw that their children had brought back a sack full of things, they assumed that the children had gone up the mountain to get something.

Upon hearing that the gifts were from Li Xingtang's classmates, they were told to bring more things from home next time they visited, as they felt they should reciprocate by giving back something for such a generous gift.

Although vegetables are cheap, the meat and yam powder inside are quite valuable.

Especially those beef jerky, a pound of beef, if you want to make beef jerky, you might only get three or four ounces left.

There's probably about two pounds of beef jerky here. Considering how difficult it is to get beef, it must have cost a lot of money to get it.

Yang Junhao stayed at Li Xingtang's house. The two of them brought two sacks with them when they returned, which made Li Xingtang's mother both happy and speechless.

No one would dislike free food, but with so much food, how long will it take her to finish cleaning it all?

After seeing everyone off, Yunxi felt a bit bored and had nothing to do while alone in the house.

There was a huge pile of meat, fish, and vegetables in the space, as well as some delicious wild vegetables. I wondered if I could process as much as I could this month.

High school students should be boarding students, and given the current standard of living, it's easy to imagine that the food wouldn't be very good.

We also had to bring our own food.

I can only cook more delicious food myself and put it in my space, and make more dishes that go well with rice, such as various meat sauces, beef sauces, chili sauces, mushroom sauces, and the like.

For the next month, apart from Li Xingtang and the others occasionally coming here, Yunxi spent the rest of the time making all sorts of delicious food.

Two temporary stoves were specially set up in the backyard. Not only were various steamed buns, dumplings, and rice being made in the kitchen, but various fish and meats were also being stewed on the temporary stoves.

I made all sorts of meat sauces, mushroom sauces, and so on—a lot of them.

For this reason, she secretly went to town and bought a lot of wooden buckets.

I bought quite a lot of things before, but because I bought too much this time, it wasn't enough to hold everything, so I went and bought a lot more.

They even went out of their way to buy one that was as big as a giant bathtub, one meter and one and a half meters tall.

Each bucket contained a specific type of sauce, and more than a dozen large buckets were piled up in the space, all of which were filled by her.

When it was time to stew the meat, they found that all the buckets were filled with various sauces, so they went to town and bought many more buckets.

That cost a lot of money to buy all kinds of buckets.

Knowing that school was about to start, Yunxi's busy life finally came to a stop.

I had arranged to go to school with Li Xingtang beforehand, so I didn't dare to put all my things into my space.

Even with the most streamlined approach, there are still several sacks left.

Before leaving, I went to tell a few of my great-uncle's to tell them not to worry about me.

All the great-uncles were quite nice; one would slip her five yuan, another ten yuan, and they ended up giving her several dozen yuan.

Yunxi was quite touched; they were really good to their granddaughter from another family.

The high school in the city is quite far from the town, but fortunately there is a bus that runs once a day, and it takes about four hours to get there.

There are also high schools that are relatively close by, but I think that my grades are so good, and I finally got into such a good high school. It would be such a waste not to go.

Yunxi also thought that after graduating from the city, it would be easier to find a job there.

At this point, she hadn't decided whether to find a job in the city or return to her hometown after graduation.

It's easier to find a job in the city; you don't have to work so hard.

If you live in the countryside, you can often go to the mountains to collect various medicinal herbs, and the money you earn each month is definitely more than what you would earn in a year if you worked a regular job.

So she kept agonizing over it.

After learning about Yunxi's thoughts, Li Xingtang told her to consider it herself and that he had no objection to where she wanted to go.

Yunxi silently rolled her eyes in her mind. Dare to object?