Courtyard House: Passing through the Silly Pillar, Activating the Blessed Cave Heaven

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He also found more than a dozen cotton seeds in a cotton-fluffing workshop.

To his delight, the blessed land would experience a light drizzle every three days, with a rainfall of about 15 millimeters, which solved the irrigation problem.

What's remarkable is that the core area of ​​the cave remains dry, presumably due to a water-repelling barrier set up by the creators.

Over the course of the past two weeks, He Yuzhu gradually became familiar with the main characters in the Love in the Courtyard.

The neighbors living in the same courtyard included Jia Zhangshi and her family of three, who were not yet widowed; Yi Zhonghai, who worked as a fitter at the steel rolling mill; and an elderly deaf woman and Xu Damao's family who lived in the backyard.

The second and third uncles who appeared at the beginning of the TV series had not yet moved in. There were still some scattered residents living in the courtyard, but they did not interact much with each other.

During the cold winter months, after the men go out to work, the women mostly stay at home with their doors closed, doing needlework to supplement the family income.

He Yuzhu, who dropped out of school and stayed at home, usually avoided the children in the yard from doing their activities at the same time. Jia Xudong, who was a little older, always liked to play outside, while his old rival Xu Damao was still in elementary school and the two of them could only meet occasionally.

Xu Damao's mother was a servant in the Lou family and was not usually at home, so he lived with his father, Xu De, in the backyard.

The two are still young, and their relationship has not yet developed to the point of being irreconcilable like in TV dramas.

On the third day after recovering from his illness, He Yuzhu followed his father, He Daqing, to the canteen of the steel rolling mill outside Dongzhimen to begin learning knife skills.

During breaks in practice, he would find an excuse to sneak into the Blessed Cave, sit on the Enlightenment Stone, and ponder the essentials of swordsmanship.

With the help of this mysterious stone, his knife skills improved rapidly, which made He Daqing very gratified. He felt that his son was born to inherit the He family's culinary skills.

One evening in December, after finishing his meal, He Daqing instructed, "Zhuzi, take good care of your sister. I'm going out for a bit." He Yuzhu then stayed at home with his sister, He Yushui, to wait.

About an hour later, He Daqing returned carrying a bulging cloth bag, from which he took out fresh meat and flour and placed them on the table.

"Dad, there are still many days until the New Year. Are you already preparing for the New Year? Are you going to make dumplings?" Upon hearing this, He Yushui immediately rushed to her father's side and cheered, "I want to eat dumplings! Dumplings are the most delicious!" He Daqing picked up his daughter and said with a smile, "Okay, we'll make dumplings for Yushui tomorrow."

"Unlike your brother, who just eats and drinks all day long." He then turned to his son and explained, "Since there will be many people at the market before the New Year, let's make some steamed buns with these ingredients first thing tomorrow morning. You can take them to the street to sell, and we can earn some money to supplement the family income."

He Yuzhu was stunned. He had clearly transmigrated and changed his original destiny, so why was there still a scene where his father made him sell steamed buns? The inertia of history was too strong.

He recalled the butterfly effect mentioned by later experts—a butterfly flapping its wings in the South American rainforest could cause a hurricane thousands of miles away.

The original owner no longer exists, yet some things continue to develop according to the established trajectory, which is truly alarming.

It seems that even if we know the general direction of the future, we cannot let our guard down, after all, there are still too many unknown variables in the details.

He Daqing instructed him to go to the cellar and fetch four cabbages, chop them up, and set them aside.

He Yuzhu quickly chopped the cabbage and poured it into a basin. Then he began to process the pork, skillfully removing the skin.