Mr. Luo said, "These are special times, and the child can't stay here for too long. Let's not talk about it now. If others see Jingyan with us, it will affect the child. Let's talk again another time."
Mrs. Luo nodded: "It's all because I didn't think things through."
Mr. Luo said, “Jingyan, there’s an old lady living next door. She gave us the firewood we were burning earlier. She seems like a good person. But the world is too chaotic these days. You can’t completely trust someone just because you’ve met them once. You should go now. We’ll meet again when we have the chance.”
Luo Jingyan stood up. "Okay, I'll go back first. By the way, since you just arrived, do you have anything to eat?"
"The brigade leader said that we should go to the brigade to get some grain in a while, and we can use the work points we earn next year to offset the grain cost."
Luo Jingyan was planning to send something over here, but she couldn't take it out directly from her spatial storage right now.
Her parents are now almost skin and bones, but you can still see some resemblance to her parents from her previous life. This may be one of the reasons why she transmigrated here.
"I'll go back and get you some food."
"Jingyan, we're alright, don't take any risks."
"I will be careful."
Grandma Zhang was warming herself inside with the door closed. Luo Jingyan only dared to go out and leave after seeing that no one was around.
Luo Jingyan returned to the educated youth settlement and called out to Luo Changtian outside the men's dormitory. Luo Changtian quickly came out and asked, "Sister, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, come to my room and talk to me."
"good."
Luo Changtian followed his sister to the small house.
Luo Jingyan said, "Xiao Tian, I have some amazing news for you. Your parents have arrived. I just saw them in the cowshed."
"Really!" Luo Changtian was extremely excited, his eyes wide open and his voice unconsciously rising.
Luo Jingyan was afraid he would make too much noise, so she reached out and covered his mouth, reminding him, "Keep your voice down, don't let others hear."
Luo Changtian lowered his voice: "Sis, I'm so excited! I'm really going to see Mom and Dad! I'm so happy. Sis, where are Mom and Dad? How are they?"
"It's not too good. They've been put up in that abandoned school on the north side of the village. The buildings there haven't been repaired for years and are rather dilapidated. However, they've just arrived and haven't settled in yet. To avoid attracting attention, you shouldn't go see them. I'll try to go over tonight to deliver some things to them. You don't need to worry about delivering the things, and don't mention it to anyone else. I'll let you know when you can see them, and we'll go together then."
Luo Changtian resisted the urge to run to see his parents and nodded: "Okay, sis, I'll do whatever you say."
Since his parents were arrested, his older sister has taken on the role of his parent, and he has gotten used to listening to her.
After a while, she told Luo Changtian to go back to the men's dormitory, while she went to deliver some food to Luo's parents first, and would deliver the rest later in the evening.
When Luo Jingyan arrived outside the cowshed, she saw that her father had already returned with a bag of grain on his back. He must have gotten it from the brigade, and it was probably all coarse grain.
It was not easy for villagers to get fine grains, let alone those who had been sent down to the countryside.
It was so cold during the heavy snow that almost everyone stayed indoors to hibernate, and you couldn't even see any passersby outside.
She hid in a corner, and her father didn't notice her. After her father went inside, she went to the side of the house, took out five catties of rice and five catties of flour from her spatial storage, put them in small snakeskin bags, and carried them into the cowshed.
Mr. and Mrs. Luo were inside the house, worrying about half a bag of sorghum seeds with the husks still on. They had to remove the husks before they could cook them.
Luo Jingyan knocked on the door, and her father opened it. Luo Jingyan placed the cloth bag she was carrying in front of her father and mother: "Dad, Mom, I knew the brigade wouldn't give you good food. This is rice and flour. You can eat this first."
Mr. Luo asked, "Jingyan, you brought so much. Is it enough for the two of you?"
"That's enough. Dad, before we came, I found the family savings book and withdrew all the money. This rice and flour were bought with that money. You can eat without worry. I'll go exchange it again after we finish eating."
“Jingyan, you said you bought these things on the black market. The black market is too dangerous.” Mother Luo frowned with worry.
Luo Jingyan said, "I met a friend in the black market. He's very reliable, so you can rest assured." She asked her parents, "Should you keep that money, or should I continue to keep it?"
After all, they are the elders in the family.
Both Luo's parents agreed that their daughter should take it.
Mr. Luo stood up: "I'll go make some food."
When they first arrived, they didn't even have water to drink. So, Mr. Luo took an iron pot to a clean-looking spot outside and got a pot of snow. He put it on the fire and boiled the snow into water before cooking.
Luo Jingyan stayed for a short while before leaving, telling her parents that she would come back that evening.
After nightfall, Luo Jingyan went to the cowshed one more time.
Since her parents had no vegetables to eat, and the pickled cabbage and kimchi she made were ready to eat, she found a small earthenware jar in her space, filled it with pickled cabbage, and put it back in her space.
All the other educated youths had gone to sleep, and both dormitories were pitch black. She climbed over the wall and left the educated youth settlement.
When we got outside the cowshed, it was pitch black inside my parents' room. I didn't know if they were asleep or if they didn't have any kerosene to light a lamp.
She took out a ceramic jar filled with sauerkraut from her space, carried the newly made quilt on her back, and gently knocked on her parents' bedroom door.
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