Educated Youth in the Countryside: She is the Village's Embroidery Queen!-Chapter 471: Imparting Everything

Yi Chichi was silent for two seconds, "Urgent?"

"Not that urgent."

That answer left her rather speechless.

"Since it’s not that urgent, why not buy it at the procurement station then."

She paused as she spoke, "If that doesn’t work, have Aunt Mu get some centipedes from the pharmacy."

"Their hospital doesn’t have centipedes."

No other choice but to head to the procurement station.

Unexpectedly, Yaozi seemed to know what she was thinking and added, "There aren’t any centipedes at the procurement station either."

Lang Hong couldn’t hold it in anymore, "I’ll go and get you some centipedes tomorrow."

Huh?

Yi Chichi and Yaozi looked at her simultaneously, "You’re going to get centipedes?"

Where could you find centipedes in this weather?

They’re not even appearing; you can’t catch them even if you wanted to.

Lang Hong’s lips curled up, "I have a fellow from my village, working as a youth corps member in the forestry center, who’s collected quite a few centipedes."

Got it, they must have encountered centipedes while logging, caught them and just didn’t have the time to sell them, so ended up keeping them.

"Your fellow villager is quite bold."

Yaozi remarked.

Lang Hong’s lips twitched, "He’s not bold, his family’s old master used to be a doctor but unfortunately, none of the descendants inherited any medical talent, they only learned to recognize and handle medicinal herbs."

These words were quite piercing, like a sharp knife stabbing directly into the hearts of Yi Chichi and Yaozi.

No other reason, both of them come from families with rich medical traditions, yet neither has any medical talent.

It’s an utterly frustrating feeling.

Yi Chichi wanted to escape, but couldn’t; Uncle Yaozi insisted she finish slicing the Du Zhong before letting her go.

He was determined to squeeze the labor out of her.

Helpless, she could only sit on a small stool, wielding the knife aggressively to slice the Du Zhong.

After hacking for more than two hours, her fingers were almost cramping, finally, the Du Zhong was all sliced.

She immediately put down the knife and stood up, "Can I go now?!"

"You can!"

Yaozi waved his hand as if shooing away a fly, "Hurry home, before your mom thinks you got lost and comes out looking for you."

Yi Chichi, "..."

You can’t reason with Uncle Yaozi.

So, even if she felt choked up, she still quietly left like a mute.

When she got home, Wen’s mother and Qin Jiu were not there, but Da Li and Big Orange were present.

Seeing the two, she was pleasantly surprised, "When did you come back?"

Da Li meowed and approached her, biting her pant leg and tugging towards the back door.

Not to be outdone, Big Orange led the way in front, stopping every few steps to meow back at her, signaling her to follow.

So, Yi Chichi followed them to the back door.

Then, arriving at the spot, the two cats made a quick dash and started digging at a couple of snow mounds, uncovering two plump snow hares.

The two stared at her after digging out the snow hares, their big eyes full of expectation.

As if worried she wouldn’t understand, they even lifted their paws to pat the hares’ bodies, and then licked their mouths.

Clearly, they wanted her to skin the hares, so they could eat them.

Pretty clever.

Yi Chichi’s lips twitched, "I don’t know how to skin a rabbit."

As she spoke, she picked up the two hares to have a look; the fatal wounds were at the throats, and comparing the wound traces, it was easy to judge that these two snow hares were targeted by Da Li and the others and fell prey before they could escape, with their throats locked off.

The death wasn’t too miserable.

The fur integrity was quite good too, skinned and processed nicely, they’d make two good rabbit skins.

But she couldn’t skin them, so she had to find outside help.

The two didn’t care about any of that, they only wanted to eat rabbit meat.

With a creak, Yi Chichi opened the back door, about to say she’d take them to find help, when Wen’s mother’s voice came from the front.

"Chichi, are you back?"

"Mom, I’m in the backyard."

Yi Chichi was delighted, the outside help that knew how to skin rabbits has arrived. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"Come over quickly."

"What’s up?!"

She called anxiously, causing Wen’s mother to think something had happened and sprinted over in a flash of speed. Seeing the two snow hares in her hands, her gaze fell on the two cats, "You two came back from hunting rabbits?"

The two couldn’t understand but knew that the kind human who often fed them was here.

In an instant, the aloof cats transformed into clingy cuties, rubbing against Wen’s mother’s legs and changing their meows to a high-pitched babble.

Yi Chichi tutted, "Truly society has gone downhill, even cats choose the quality of their masters by what they feed."

Wen’s mother instantly realized her daughter was jealous but ignored her, casually picking up the rabbits, "I’ll handle this, you go do whatever it is you need to."

"Don’t you need my help?"

"Can you skin them or handle the rabbit skin?"

Yi Chichi shook her head, so Wen’s mother replied, "Then what use is there for you staying around besides being in the way."

This is indeed her real mother.

Not considerate at all, but she wasn’t wrong.

"Alright, I’m going back inside then."

"Go ahead."

So, while Wen’s mother stayed to handle the rabbits in the kitchen, Yi Chichi returned to her room, lit the kang, organized the materials, pulled out the disassembled small embroidery frame, and began assembling it.

Ten minutes later, the embroidery frame was put together, and the hand board was also installed.

She spread out the kang seat, moved the frame onto it, then attached the silk fabric, pulled out the embroidery thread, and got to work.

As her wrist danced, the needle and thread traversed the silk fabric, adding color to the initially blank and nearly transparent silk canvas.

The shape wouldn’t emerge that quickly, it would take time.

She wasn’t in a hurry, stitching thread by thread, each needle confidently placed, creating tight and even stitches that blended seamlessly with the silk, so much so that it seemed like the silk’s original color.

Just then—

"Auntie, Auntie, something’s happened!"

Qin Jiu’s shouting voice came through, followed by the sound of hurried footsteps and a blast of cold wind.

She looked up as Qin Jiu blew in through the curtain like a gust of wind, rushing to the side of the kang, "Gou Dan’s house collapsed."

"...Collapsed?"

Yi Chichi’s face was shocked, "How could it collapse?"

"Gou Dan’s dad got lazy last night and didn’t clear the snow, it piled up too thick on the roof and caused it to collapse."

That left people at a loss for words.

Ever since the second snowfall began after the initial one, the village leader had been broadcasting reminders daily about clearing snow and not slacking off.

And yet, some people still went against the grain, that’s quite something.

"Is everyone alright?"

"Yep, they’re fine."

Qin Jiu replied a bit exasperated, "It happened half an hour ago; every household had people at home. After the loud crash, everyone rushed in to dig people out."

"As long as everyone’s alright."

But, "The Youth Corps Courtyard and Gou Dan’s house are so far apart, how do you know all this so clearly?"

She seemed to realize something and glared at him, "Did you skip class?"

"No!"

When it comes to protecting his reputation, Qin Jiu left no room for sloppiness.

Lowering his voice, Qin Jiu explained, "I took Mr. Ouyang to meet Grandmaster Song and the others."

Yi Chichi perked up, "How did it go?"

"Mr. Ouyang wanted to apprentice with Grandmaster Song and the others, but he was turned down."

Understandable, considering the elders’ current reputation isn’t great.

And as for Ouyang Yu, a completely innocent youth corps member, not taking him on as a student for now is actually for his own good.

"What did your Mr. Ouyang say?"

"He said that persistence will turn an iron rod into a needle, and he’ll definitely use his perseverance and determination to impress Grandmaster Song and the others, winning them over to pass down all their knowledge."