Chapter 7: The Legacy of Yang Mu

  Finally, it didn't go as Yang Wei had thought. It wasn't that the young friends weren't particular about hygiene, but mainly because he forgot there were girls among them, 11 or 12 years old, who already knew how to be bashful. Although they all slept on a big kang together, this was a Northeastern family custom.

  But in front of a group of boys, this is not possible. Finally, on the suggestion of the girls, first make a pair of shorts for each boy, and one pair of shorts and a short-sleeved summer jacket for each girl. Soon, the ingenuity of the girls was revealed, and even Yang Wei's thirteen people, these clothes were completed by three girls in just one day.

  The boys had nothing to do, so they went out to catch birds. In winter, it's not a bad thing to catch these things. After catching them, they immediately plucked and disembowelled them. After cleaning the small birds, pheasants and whatnot, they put them in the courtyard where they would freeze in no time. This was a natural refrigerator.

  Because everyone had learned how to catch birds, and there was only one sieve in the house, Yang Wei did not go out with his companions to catch birds, but instead sorted through some of the items they had collected.

  In the only trunk in the house, Yang Wei found some books and some deeds.

  Yang Wei was most concerned about these books, not those land deeds. In this era of the Northeast, as long as you have strength, you won't starve to death. Moreover, Yang Wei discovered those weapons and even deep mountains where he could go hunting, which made him very confident, especially when he found that his own strength was great, then he felt even more at ease.

  But this is just a good pastime, perhaps these books can find something that makes their lives better, and life will be more colorful.

  This is a mechanical book without cover and incomplete, the contents are all Japanese characters, but some pictures Yang Wei can still understand, this seems to be a mechanical textbook.

  Simple mechanics, Yang Wei himself would know, after having this book, Yang Wei can openly teach his little friends some mechanical knowledge, you know in this era, unless you are always in the mountains, otherwise one wrong step will bring disaster.

  This is a dictionary, an older one, but also without a cover and missing many pages. This is the foundation of Yang Wei's livelihood, not something to be used as an excuse. It's a truly useful thing. In his past life, Yang Wei could recognize some complex characters, but he couldn't write them. He naturally wouldn't be able to teach his younger companions simplified characters yet, since they hadn't appeared at that time. Moreover, deep in his memory, he recalled that his mother had taught these young companions a few characters, though not many. He would naturally be able to continue teaching from there.

  This dictionary is the only Chinese book here, the others are Japanese and English, and some are in unknown languages. At first, Yang Wei was suspicious of his mother, but later Wang Shu explained that these books were picked up by Yang's mother from a junkyard in town a few years ago when she went to town with Wang Shu and found a pile of waste paper being processed. Yang's mother spent some money to pick them up, mainly because she thought the pictures might be useful.

  There were diagrams of mechanical electronics in these books, and naturally Yang Wei couldn't understand them. However, Yang Wei really knew some basic electronics and mechanics knowledge, so he carefully put the books back into the box.

  Looking at those land deeds again, there were self-owned, Wang's, Li's and Yang's. Yang Wei counted them one by one, exactly the number of people they had. It seemed that these were all brought back by their mother for these little friends, which was the foundation of their survival in Yang Mother's eyes. In Yang Wei's memory, his mother always told them what to do next and never let others know about these land deeds, it can be seen that Yang Mother was thoughtful.

  "Uncle Wei, Uncle Wei, I also listened to Auntie's words and brought a piece of paper from home. My uncle put this paper under the kang, and it took me a long time to find it."

  Yingzi has now become Yang Wei's little shadow, basically not leaving his side. "En, good, Yingzi is awesome." "En, Yingzi is really awesome." This little girl also nodded and echoed Yang Wei's words, without being modest at all.

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  "Is Wei Ge'er at home? Auntie has come to see you."

  "Ah, Wang Auntie, why did you come out on such a cold day? I'm fine."

  "Wei Ge'er, I was worried that you hadn't cooked anything, so I made some mantou for you to keep and eat."

  "Auntie, look, I have food, you should take it back home instead."

  "Mom, mom, I want mantou, I want mantou."

  Yang Wei pushed the bundle in Wang Shu's hand, Yang Wei knew that Wang Shu's family was not doing well either, otherwise her son would not have followed behind crying. It is estimated that these children had not eaten the steamed buns yet.

  "Queen aunt, look, Junzi is hungry, you'd better take him back." "Little brat, don't mind him, Wei Ge, you'd better stay."

  "Brother Jun, look, Yingzi is giving you some meat to eat." Yingzi opened her dirty little hand and was holding a bird's leg in it. Yang Wei thought that Brother Jun might be disgusted by Yingzi's dirtiness and wouldn't want to eat it, but before he could think more about it, he saw Brother Jun snatch the bird's leg from Yingzi's hand, "Yingzi, you're really giving this to me." "Yeah, for Brother Jun to eat, Wei brother's house has a lot more too."

  "Junzi, what are you doing? How can you snatch food from Yingzi's sister?" Wang Shu was unhappy on the side, this child is really disobedient. "Ah, got it! Wait a minute, Wang Shu." Seeing the chicken leg in Yingzi's hand, Yang Wei suddenly remembered something and immediately went home to fetch two wild chickens for Wang Shu.

  "Aunt Wang, I've left your buns behind. These two wild chickens are the ones I caught. You take them back and have your brothers cook and eat them." "Elder brother Wei, how can Aunt accept your things?" "Aunt, just take it. I'm good at catching birds. This is nothing." "Yes, Aunt, Elder Brother Wei can catch a lot of birds. Just take them back."

  "Alright, Wei Ge, I won't be polite then. If you don't have anything to eat, come find Auntie." This is truly a kind person, as can be seen from Junzi following behind her. Junzi was only two or three years older than Yingzi, and naturally when Wang Auntie steamed a bun, he wanted to eat it. However, this was for Yang Wei, and Wang Auntie was afraid that Yang Wei would go hungry in the next few days. The bun wasn't made of white flour, but rather corn flour, yet Yang Wei truly appreciated the thought.