Jiang Mengxue felt a little embarrassed by the teasing: "Director, this is what I should do. As for the bonus, why don't you treat the doctors and nurses in our department to a meal together after the salary is paid? I'll pay for the difference. I'm getting married soon, so you can let me take a combined vacation."

Ma Juanlan smiled and shook her head. "What's yours is yours. Vacation is easy to deal with. Getting married is a good thing, and our hospital supports it. You'll get three days of wedding leave, plus your monthly rest days, for a total of six days. I heard your husband is a soldier, so I'll give you an extra day. You two should spend time together and come back to work when you've had enough sweet time."

This one sentence made Jiang Mengxue blush. Usually, whatever she fantasized about or what she did with them was all fun, but she was a little uncomfortable when someone suddenly spoke to her in such an intimate way.

"Thank you, Director. We plan to set up two tables in the city after we return from the countryside. We hope you and your colleagues in the department will come and have a look."

Ma Fengjuan readily agreed: "Okay, everyone who is free can go when the time comes. But you also know that our department has been very busy recently. If everyone is too busy and doesn't go, don't mind."

"How could that be? Nothing is more important than curing illnesses and saving lives. I'll bring you wedding candy when I get to work."

After get off work in the evening, Jiang Mengxue took great pains to carry the things home. The people in the yard seemed to have become accustomed to the couple's extravagant spending. If Jiang Mengxue had not run fast, Aunt Cao's eyes would have fallen into the cloth bag.

After entering the house and closing and locking the door, Jiang Mengxue took out the things in the cloth bag one by one.

He took out the cakes and fruits on top, a piece of braided cloth, a dark purple scarf, two bottles of Fenjiu, and a piece of meat. It weighed about two or three pounds.

Jiang Mengxue didn't expect the other party to spend so much money. In comparison, meat is the cheapest. Fenjiu is now three yuan a bottle, and a gauze scarf would probably not be less than three yuan. If she had known what was underneath, she would never have accepted it.

Their wedding date was set for the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, which was October 20th in the Gregorian calendar. Gu Qingbei had been home for several days, and the two met in the space every day, with no feeling of being apart at all.

Jiang Mengxue left work a few hours early on the afternoon of the 17th and took the bus back. When she arrived at the commune, Gu Qingbei told Jiang Dachun in advance and asked him to pick her up.

They have a tradition of not seeing each other for three days before the wedding. Jiang Mengxue doesn't quite believe it, but Gu Qingbei cares about it more. Now he writes down messages on pieces of paper if he has anything to say. Jiang Mengxue doesn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she just lets him do what he wants.

As soon as Jiang Mengxue got off the bus, she saw Jiang Dachun waiting at the station with a bike.

The bus's arrival time is not certain, and if a lot of people get on and off the bus along the way, it will delay the bus.

"Brother, have you been waiting for a long time?"

Jiang Dachun noticed it when his sister got off the bus. He kept staring at the arriving bus, afraid that he would miss the person.

He stepped forward and took the things from Jiang Mengxue's hand: "I didn't wait long, just a few minutes ago, mother and your sisters-in-law are already waiting at home cooking, let's go back quickly."

In fact, he had been there for half an hour, of course, this was the result of Gu Qingbei's constant urging.

Early in the afternoon, Gu Qingbei came to the threshing ground and asked him to pick someone up. He even took over his work, for fear that he would come late and his wife would have to wait at the station. Jiang Dachun really wanted to say that he was his real brother and not so unreliable.

Jiang Dachun put the things in the car and said, "What are you bringing? Keep whatever you have. Don't bring everything back. We have everything we need at home."

"Some things sent by the patient's family, including cotton. I heard from my mother that cotton was hard to get, so I brought some tickets back last time, and my mother asked me to see if I could buy it in the city. I happened to come across a batch of defective products, and I knew the salesperson, so I used my connections to buy some more."

This is absolutely true. The female salesperson selling fabrics in the department store was called Feng Songxue. Jiang Mengxue was responsible for her sister-in-law giving birth in the hospital. The baby's umbilical cord was wrapped around the neck, and the baby's face was purple and he was not breathing when he was born. Jiang Mengxue and other doctors tried to save the baby for half an hour before he was resuscitated.

The next day, Feng Songxue came to give Jiang Mengxue a dozen red eggs and stuffed a red envelope into her hand, but Jiang Mengxue refused to accept it. At that time, the two joked that they were destined to be together because both of their names contained the character "xue".

So when Jiang Mengxue went to see the cotton, Feng Songxue took her to the warehouse to see the bag of cotton. Only a little bit of the whole bag was wet by the rain. In fact, after it dried, you couldn't see anything, but they still treated it as defective products.

Feng Songxue only kept a little to make a swaddle for his newborn nephew, and gave the rest to Jiang Mengxue. Knowing that she was getting married and wanted to make two quilts, he asked his colleagues to help him share some of the cotton, and a total of ten kilograms of cotton were collected.

After returning home, Jiang Mengxue took out some compressed cotton from the space, bringing back about 30 kilograms in total.

On the way back, Jiang Dachun kept asking her about her life in the city: "How is your work going now, little sister? Are you adapting well? Why didn't she come back with you?"

"I didn't ask my younger sister to come back early. She just went to work and it wouldn't be nice to ask for leave. She'll be back by bus tomorrow afternoon."