"You don't need to bring any food. There's no shortage of vegetables there year-round. There's also plenty of wild fruit in the mountains, and you can even catch a rabbit occasionally. The only problem is that around the autumn harvest, there's not enough food. Just save some money and go to town to buy food."

"Okay, I'll mail some money to my parents in advance in the summer."

Yan Jiuxiang didn't dare stay here for too long.

When Ying's mother heard that there wasn't enough food, she became very worried. "Your father and I are fine here. Look at this big vegetable patch. We have plenty to eat. Don't send us money in the future. Keep it for yourself, okay?"

"Mom, I'm different from them. I have food and wages. The ewes I herd have given birth to lambs, and I can drink goat milk. You can tell from my complexion that I have enough to eat."

Father Ying would not allow his daughter to refuse: "Listen to your mother."

"Okay, okay, I'll listen to you."

Seeing that her daughter was about to leave, Ying's mother became sad again and hugged her at night, reluctant to let her go.

Lian said that after leaving this time, he didn’t know when he would see her again.

Ying Han curled his lips, enjoying this hard-earned love, and wanted to tell them that they would meet again soon.

Next year, no, this year she must be admitted to university.

On New Year's Day, Ying's mother made some glutinous rice balls. People here don't eat them very often, so Ying Han asked Yan Jiuxiang to buy the glutinous rice flour.

Grandpa Pei hadn't eaten glutinous rice balls in a long time. Looking at the brown sugar inside, he sighed, "Actually, my favorite drink is the soy milk from our place. Hey, it's been three years."

"Grandpa Pei, Grandpa Liang over there is from the same place as you. He said that most people can't drink the soy milk you have there. He prefers dumplings and noodles."

Grandpa Pei was shocked. "Girl, the Grandpa Liang you are talking about, is he that old bastard Liang Yizhou?"

"His name is Liang Yizhou."

"I didn't expect him to... Everything is unpredictable, girl, is he okay over there?"

"It's fine. He herds cattle and I herd sheep, and Grandpa Liang often brings us some game."

"Haha, he's an expert at finding game. If you follow him, you'll definitely have plenty of meat to eat. Girl, when you go back, tell him that old bastard Pei Shangen is here. He'll definitely laugh and gloat over his misfortune."

"ah..."

Ying Han blinked and thought to himself that the two grandfathers had a very special way of getting along with each other. They must be friends who have risked their lives for each other, so they would call each other like that.

After the 16th day of the first lunar month, Ying Han carried her bamboo house on her back, said goodbye to her parents, and asked Yan Jiuxiang to take her out.

When passing by the village, someone looked at the unfamiliar Ying Han and asked Yan Jiuxiang who he was.

Yan Jiuxiang generously said that it was her distant cousin who came to see her.

In this way, Ying Han left the village and took a donkey cart to the town.

While waiting for the bus in town, Ying Han took out two bags of fruit from a bamboo basket. "Here are apples, goat milk apples, lychees, and red dates. I saved this for you. This bag is full of lychees. Please give them to the house on the far left of the village. Tell them these are for Zhao Bing. His name is Zhao Bing. Don't forget, we relied on his help that day."

"I'll give this bag to you, and you can take this bag to eat on the way. I don't want it."

"Take it, I have some left for myself, look?" Ying Han asked her to look inside the bamboo basket and saw the eggs her mother had cooked for her. She originally bought twenty eggs for her parents to nourish their bodies, but her mother only cooked half of them for her.

"Also, Aunt Pei told you not to just focus on work here, but also to study more. Maybe the college entrance examination will be resumed one day." Ying Han deliberately reminded Yan Jiuxiang.

"I'm just thinking about earning more work points every day, so I don't even think about studying. Besides, there's nothing to learn."

"When can you go to the scrap yard in town or the city? There should be some collected books there. If I really pass the college entrance examination, I won't have to work hard every day. We don't have anyone and can't recruit workers to go back. This is my only hope."

"You're right. When will this end? Okay, after I drop you off, I'll go to the scrap yard. I still have plenty of time tonight."

"Yes, my mother is also a university teacher. She teaches mathematics. If you have any questions, you can ask her."

"OK."

....

"Platoon Leader Deng, what are you looking for? You've been searching for over an hour. If you don't leave now, you'll miss the train."

"It's a crescent-shaped pendant, very special. It belongs to someone else. I have to return it to the owner if I see it again. It's very important."

"You don't even know where you lost it. It's been so long, someone must have picked it up."

"I'll look for it again, Comrade Cheng. Why don't you go first?"

"How can that be? Your hand is not convenient, and my superiors asked me to take good care of you. How about this, I can help you find it in the front."

"Thank you for your help, Comrade Cheng." Deng Chen and the younger brothers beside him came to thank him, lowered their heads and searched carefully, not missing a single gap.

Ying Han boarded a bus to City H, and then went from City H to City S. After getting off the bus, he headed straight for the train station.

"Grandma, look, I picked this up. It's so pretty."

"The things you pick up outside are not clean, throw them away quickly."

"I won't." The little girl put her hands behind her back, pouted, and quickly put the treasure she picked up into her pocket, fearing that her grandmother would throw it away.

It seems that Ying Han took the wrong road. I didn't pay attention to it when I came here. I remember that it was this road.

I saw an old woman with a little girl coming up ahead, so I quickly went up to her to ask for directions, and successfully interrupted the grandmother who was talking to her granddaughter.

"Auntie, please tell me how to get to the train station."

The grandmother turned her head and glanced at Ying Han, then pointed her in a direction and said, "You've passed it. Go back one intersection, turn right, and then go two intersections and you'll be there."

"Thank you, thank you, Auntie." After learning the address, Ying Han nodded to the grandmother, turned around and strode away.

Little did she know that not far behind her, her benefactor was anxiously looking for the pendant he thought belonged to Ying Han.

"I've already contacted the doctor and can have the surgery next month. What should I do? We're still 20 yuan short."

"Hey, let me think of a way. No, I'll go to the black market and sell our food first. I can't delay the child."

"What will we eat after we sell the grain? You're in the supply and marketing cooperative, so look for the most profitable ones. Let's trade some first."

"Fruits and meat from the supply and marketing cooperatives are in short supply, and the problem is we can't get them."

"Comrade, I have some fruit, do you want some?" Ying Han heard the couple's conversation at the corner.

He was so happy that he suddenly ran out, scaring Wu Liu and Liu Xuehua.