The next morning, Lu Fangfang got up very early.
After washing up and eating something, she took the letter she had written the night before, the money, and the freshly prepared cordyceps to Commissar Xiao's house.
Before dawn, Xiao Aiguo hadn't gotten up yet. Wang Shufen was in the outer room, so she simply gave the letter and money to Sister Shufen.
"Hey girl, are you sending money to Battalion Commander Zhuang?"
Seeing Lu Fangfang nod, Wang Shufen was a little confused.
She took the money and the letter and went to the inner room to find Xiao Aiguo.
After a while, Xiao Aiguo came out of the inner room wearing a coat. "Fangfang, Xiao Zhuang has enough to eat and drink over there. Why are you sending him money? You don't need to worry about him."
Forehead……
"Brother-in-law, I... I want Mingcheng to buy me some things, some local specialties or something, to bring back later."
As she spoke, Lu Fangfang seemed a little embarrassed.
"I see."
Xiao Aiguo shook his head, somewhat unable to understand why so much money was needed to send such a local specialty.
But that's their business, so he couldn't ask them anything.
"Okay, the letter and money will stay with me. I can mail them today, and Xiao Zhuang should receive them in a few days."
"By the way, the regiment is organizing the Second Battalion to train at the foot of Guona Mountain today. If you have any urgent business on the mountain, go find the Second Battalion Commander, Xu Jinbu."
After saying that, Xiao Aiguo yawned, put on his clothes, and went back into the inner room.
Lu Fangfang felt even more at ease after hearing this. With the army around, she had nothing to fear even if there were ten snow leopards.
After Sister Shufen finished packing her things, the two of them left the family compound together.
“Girl, let’s dig up a lot more today. I feel there are more cordyceps on the sunny eastern slope. Let’s go dig there today.”
Wang Shufen is still excited.
She sold seven yuan worth of cordyceps yesterday, which made her extremely happy.
"Sister Shufen, how are the vegetables in our newly reclaimed land?"
When she reached the riverbank, Lu Fangfang looked at the wasteland to the north, still feeling a little worried.
Now she leaves before dawn and doesn't return until after dark, so she doesn't have time to look after the fields anymore.
"Sister, I've already told my husband to go water the vegetables in the fields whenever he has time. I've also told him to look after your fields. Don't worry, my husband is watching over them."
Hearing what Sister Shufen said, Lu Fangfang was completely relieved.
With the political commissar watching over the vegetables, they definitely won't go dry, it's just a little embarrassing.
The two walked in the dark to the sixth team, and then took a horse-drawn carriage to the foot of Guona Mountain.
After two days of grazing by the horses, the sea of flowers in the valley had been almost ruined, but green shoots of grass had sprouted on the outer edges, and many flowers had bloomed.
If you look down from the snow-capped mountain, you'll see that starting from the valley, a sea of green flowers gradually spreads outwards. Before long, the entire grassland will be covered with wildflowers, so there's no need to feel sorry for it.
...
"Old Xu, Old Xu, come here."
Lu Fangfang didn't rush to the snow mountain. She walked to a secluded slope and waved to Xu Huayun.
"Comrade Lu? What's the matter?"
Xu Huayun strode over with a piece of grass in her mouth.
"Here's the money I got from selling cordyceps."
Lu Fangfang looked around and saw that the other Wranglers were far away and hadn't noticed her, so she took out the money from her pocket.
“Old Xu, your dried grass weighs three jin and six liang. The state-run pharmacy buys it as grade two, which is fifteen yuan per jin, so it's fifty-four yuan in total. The fresh cordyceps you dug up the day before yesterday is grade one, but I mixed it in. I don't know how much it is, so I'll just charge you one yuan.”
Xu Huayun was quite surprised to hear this.
He never expected that his cordyceps would be rated as second-class.
However, thinking of his right-wing identity, he smiled helplessly. He knew he couldn't get the grade two cordyceps if he tried to sell it himself.
Seeing the money Lu Fangfang handed over, Xu Huayun shook her head, "That's not right."
"wrong?"
Lu Fangfang immediately became anxious, "No, Lao Xu, I haven't shortchanged you."
Xu Huayun shook his head. He took the money, counted out eighteen yuan, and stuffed it back into Lu Fangfang's hand.
"Comrade Lu, I've given you a jar of cordyceps. No matter what you do with it, it's yours."
"You really gave me a fright."
Lu Fangfang rolled her eyes.
Looking at the money in her hand, she didn't hesitate and put it directly into her pocket.
Looking up into the distance, I saw that many of the people herding horses today were carrying long guns.
Lu Fangfang felt even more relieved. She called out to Wang Shufen, and the two of them climbed up the snow mountain together.
Once they reached the hillside, the two searched carefully and, finding no snow leopard nearby, began digging on the ground.
Sister Shufen is right, there are indeed more cordyceps on this sunny slope, and they are all large grasses.
The two dug for more than an hour and their harvest was more than what they had gathered in the entire morning the previous day.
The wind was howling on the mountain. Lu Fangfang had an old-fashioned yellow scarf wrapped around her head, with only her eyes showing.
As she lay on the ground carefully searching for cordyceps, she suddenly heard a crisp sound, "Bang!"
She shuddered and quickly got up.
"Hey girl, where did that sound come from?"
Not far away, Wang Shufen was also startled.
Lu Fangfang looked around, and finally gazed down the mountain.
Wang Shufen looked on and realized what was happening.
In the valley below the Gona Snow Mountain, the horses that were grazing all became restless.
Lu Fangfang squinted and saw the militiamen of the Sixth Team chasing something on horseback. She guessed it must be a snow leopard.
She glanced at the direction the militiamen were chasing; they were at the foot of the mountain next door, not far from her and Sister Shufen.
Lu Fangfang immediately became nervous and quickly reminded Wang Shufen.
The snow leopards are now frightened by gunfire and might attack people unprovoked, so we need to be careful.
"Sister Shufen, we need to be careful. Come closer to me, let's not stray too far apart."
Wang Shufen nodded and walked towards Lu Fangfang.
After waiting a while longer, it seemed that the people from the sixth team down the mountain had given up and all returned to the valley.
Just as Lu Fangfang was worried, she suddenly noticed another group approaching from a distance.
"Sister Shufen, look! Those are people from our group!"
Lu Fangfang excitedly pointed to the approaching cavalry.
Xiao Aiguo said this morning that the Second Battalion was coming to train, so these must be soldiers from the Second Battalion.
The soldiers, each on two horses, quickly charged into the valley.
I don't know what the horsemen of the sixth team and the soldiers of the second battalion said to each other.
Soon, the soldiers of the Second Battalion split into two groups: one group took care of the military horses, while the rest headed towards the snow-capped mountains.
Seeing this, Lu Fangfang was no longer afraid; instead, she felt sorry for the snow leopard.
"Who did you mess with? You really have no sense of propriety."
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