When He Wan returned to the backyard house, she saw Duan Xiaoxi sitting by the stove in the kitchen. Upon seeing her return, he hurriedly stood up, looked at her anxiously, and asked the first question, "Did my parents make things difficult for them?"
"No."
"Did my parents ask me about it?"
He Wan opened her mouth, but suddenly didn't know what to say. Even now, the young comrade still held a glimmer of hope for her parents: "No, they said they just wanted to take you back to marry someone. Comrade Zhang said that your parents have already taken some of the cripple's grain."
Upon hearing this, Duan Xiaoxi squatted down and started crying.
He was definitely heartbroken, but He Wan didn't try to comfort her much; it was good for her to cry.
During this time, she went to the restroom, then ran to her online space and chatted with Lao Yun.
He talked about Xiaoxi.
"Anyway, don't worry too much. Help if you can, and we've done our best even if we can't."
Sometimes being too enthusiastic isn't a good thing.
“I know that, I know what I'm doing. I'll have her move to the front yard tomorrow, it's not convenient for me to stay here.”
The two chatted for a while, and since it was getting late, He Wan quickly logged off and went home.
That night, lying in bed, I tried to persuade Duan Xiaoxi a lot.
The next day, Duan Xiaoxi woke up as if nothing had happened, as if she had come to terms with it.
“He Zhiqing, could you talk to the aunties here and help me find a good family? I’m capable, I just need to be fed.”
"OK."
He Wan knew that this marriage was not a good idea, so she left the village alone.
For places that are a little further away, a letter of introduction is required.
Not to mention getting married, even if you don't ask for a dowry or anything, it still means adding another person to the family.
Without a household registration, the village can't give out work points. And it's also hard to say what will happen if the police station investigates.
Therefore, to get married, you still need to go back to the village to transfer your household registration and get the village's official stamp.
She'll run into her parents sooner or later.
The only solution was to meet her parents' demand for 500 jin of grain.
He Wan told Aunt Juhua about what she had found out yesterday. Aunt Juhua said, "She is a pitiful person, but her 500 catties of grain is a big hurdle. Even if a family is good and she is good-looking, no one wants to marry a girl who comes from too far away and wants so much grain. You can tell what kind of parents she has just by looking at her."
"Aunt Juhua, please ask around for me. What if someone is willing? Marriage is all about fate."
Aunt Juhua laughed and said, "Little He, you're so young, but you're so insightful. That makes perfect sense. Okay, I'll ask around for you in the next few days."
"Alright, then I'll be going now, Aunt Chrysanthemum."
When He Wan returned to the educated youth settlement from Aunt Juhua's house, she found that Zhang Deping had already brought Duan Xiaoxi to the front yard.
He Wan said, "Zhang Zhiqing, Comrade Duan doesn't have a quilt, does he? How is he going to sleep?"
Zhang Deping said, "That's easy. I'll give the one I'm using to cover Comrade Duan, and I'll use the one I'm using to cover the bed for now."
“That won’t do. It’s getting cold, and we haven’t started heating the kang (heated brick bed) yet. It’ll still be very cold at night.”
Duan Xiaoxi said, "I'm fine, I'm not cold."
“I have a set of blankets for summer, although they are a bit thin, but at night when I wear a cotton-padded jacket, it’s better than a quilt.”
As He Wan spoke, she ran back to get it for her.
Wang Xiaorong and her friends recently went hunting in the mountains and found quite a few good things.
So the group gave Zhang Deping a bowl of cornmeal and a small piece of meat.
He Wan also gave him a bowl of cornmeal and some vegetables from the garden.
This is what Duan Xiaoxi's meals have been like these past few days.
Even Qin Xuxiang and his wife were given some vegetables.
Everyone, please accept this small token of our appreciation.
Seeing this, Zhang Zhiqiang and the other two gave him some vegetables.
When they arrived here, the one thing they had no shortage of was vegetables.
The vegetable gardens allocated to the educated youth settlement were quite nice; everyone was given a plot.
The team leader helped them with planting vegetables this time.
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