"My third aunt made hot sauce and chopped peppers, as well as mushrooms, black fungus, dried sour beans, and tribute vegetables dried before the New Year. These things are easy to preserve, so I'll send some more over."

"There are not many fresh vegetables in the desert area, and they lack vitamins. Go to the county town and see if Brother Shen has any leftover goods shipped from the south before the New Year. Send a package over to pick up some, such as longan, lychee, dried mango, coconut powder, etc."

"Oh, and there are medicines. When you get to the county town, find Grandpa Shen and ask him to help you buy some medicines, such as anti-inflammatory medicines, gastrointestinal medicines, medicines for injuries, and vitamins. You need to prepare them. I'll make a list for you."

Lu Baiwei and He Ting are not short of money.

In addition to the huge sum of money in the passbook that the old man from Beijing had given him, He Ting and Shen Junqian made another fortune from their partnership. The brigade's rabbit farm was also growing in size, and there would be dividends to be received at the end of the year.

There were too many things to prepare, so Lu Baiwei simply took out a pen and paper to make a list, writing down everything that the old man of the He family might lack.

He Ting felt warm in his heart when he saw Lu Baiwei writing the list seriously.

Only if you treat his family as your own would you consider it so thoroughly and carefully.

There are not enough dried goods and cured meats at home, so I have to ask the team members to buy some. After I have everything ready, He Ting can go to the county town as soon as possible to send things to the He family who are working hard in the northwest.

After making the list, Lu Baiwei rushed to Tang Yunling's house to find her third aunt.

With the help of Ye Hongying, the women's director, Lu Baiwei quickly gathered all the dried goods and cured meats to be sent. She asked He Ting to find time to go to the county town and ask the grandfather and grandson of the Shen family for medicine and supplies.

"By the way, after the Spring Festival, when the flowers are in bloom and it's time to collect herbs, go to the county town to find Grandpa Shen and ask him which herbs the county hospital wants to buy and what the prices are."

"Of course, if Brother Shen has a private channel, we can give it a try."

Because she was pregnant, Zhou Yueying had been helping at the brigade clinic.

Whenever brigade members came to the clinic to need bandaging or treatment for bruises or acupuncture, Lu Baiwei would do it for them. If someone went to the clinic to buy Chinese patent medicine, Zhou Yueying would usually not call Lu Baiwei, but would directly collect the money and get the medicine on her behalf and then record the bill later.

This saved Lu Baiwei a lot of worry and allowed her to free up time to study the knowledge in the high school textbooks.

Zhou Yueying helped on a voluntary basis and received no salary. Relying only on the salary and subsidies that Professor Chen Wen received from the brigade's rabbit farm, the couple lived a very tight life.

Zhou Yueying doesn't like to owe favors to others, so if Lu Baiwei gives her something, she will definitely return it.

If this continues, sooner or later we will be unable to make ends meet.

Spring and autumn are the seasons for collecting medicinal herbs.

Lu Baiwei began to think about setting up a base for purchasing medicinal materials in the brigade clinic, and taking the medicinal materials collected by the team members to the county hospital for sale.

They buy and sell, and use the profit in between to make money for the team.

In this way, she could use the excuse that the brigade clinic was too busy to get a welfare salary for Zhou Yueying.

In addition, if Shen Junqian has demand channels, he can also operate privately to make extra money.

After talking about sending things to the northwest, she thought of He Ting's brother and sister-in-law who were concerned about He Yunqi and Xiao Ranzi, so she gave He Ting some advice.

"You can bring the family photo we took at the commune before the New Year. We'll get the negatives developed ourselves. Just write in the letter that little Qi Ranzi is doing well and that brother and sister-in-law are still thinking about him."

"Send the photos of us, Xiao Qi and Xiao Ran together, so that my brother and sister-in-law will have something to rely on spiritually."

Although He Ting is also a very organized person, he really doesn't have the thoughtfulness to think of sending a photo of little Qi Ranran to his grandfather, brother and sister-in-law.

The old man and his brother and sister-in-law are not only concerned about Xiao Qi and Xiao Ran, they also probably want to know what his wife will look like. Coincidentally, in the family photo taken before the New Year, Weiwei was pregnant.

If the old man knew that he would have three great-grandchildren, he would be so happy.

No matter how hard life is in the Northwest, there is always hope.

His Weiwei has thought of everything!

The brigade's rabbit farm had a batch of rabbits ready to be sold. He Ting had originally planned to go to the county town after the 15th to find Shen Junqian and Tang Jinghai, and talk to the county garment factory and the channels controlled by Shen Junqian about supplying rabbit meat to the factory canteen.

In order to send things to his family in the Northwest, he simply went to the county town in advance.

"Wife, it's great to have you."

Before taking the dried meat to the county town, He Ting pecked Lu Baiwei hard on the face a few times...

The Yin family was deserted during the New Year, but became lively after the tenth day of the New Year.

Yin Yueping went to the county town and then to several neighboring towns to gather the sisters together.

Originally, Yin Yue'e had made up her mind not to take the initiative to care about Shen Guixiang and her son, but her uncle Yin Jiaming, who had disappeared for a long time, suddenly came back.

Her uncle was a late-born child. When he was still a teenager, he took her out to play when she was just a kid.

Yin Yue'e has some feelings for her uncle whom she hasn't seen for a long time.

Reluctantly, she brought her husband back to Xiangyang Brigade. Not only did she bring him back, she also bought a roast duck and weighed the meat and brought it back.

Yin Yueping's husband Chen Fugui was willing to spend a lot of money this time and brought a fish to his mother-in-law's house.

With the addition of dishes brought by the other sisters of the Yin family, the Yin family became lively and harmonious for a while.

Shen Guixiang directed the state-owned restaurant chef Chen Fugui and his daughters to cook in the kitchen, and called on Lu Jiaojiao to help with the fire.

She received five big unity tickets from Yin Jiaming as a gift, and this time she rarely ate the food her daughters brought for herself.

When the food was served, the table was full.

With the presence of the great chef Chen Fugui, the dishes served on the table were colorful, fragrant and delicious, including a bowl of braised pork, a plate of steamed fish with chopped peppers, and the roast duck cut into pieces and arranged on a plate.

There are also dishes like fried small fish and shrimp with dried chili peppers, stewed pig's trotters with red dates, etc.

Even the stir-fried bamboo shoots and cabbage are fried with lard. It looks greasy and very appetizing.

A large table of dishes was placed here, and everyone sat down at the table. Lu Jianguo, Liu Chunhua and Lu Wenhua came in.

It can be said that Shen Guixiang and her relatives Lu Jianguo and Liu Chunhua have an incompatible relationship.

As soon as she saw Lu Jiaojiao's family, she immediately frowned.

"Hey, aren't these the in-laws who came to steal our house?"

"How shameless! He came here just because he smelled the meat!"

"Mother-in-law, your words are too harsh. At least my Jiaojiao married Yin Zhihe."

Liu Chunhua argued: "Last time we were guarding the house for you, but you didn't even say thank you when you came back from the hospital, and instead you blackmailed my family for 100 yuan."

"Who is shameless?"

Liu Chunhua was about to use her shameless and rogue ways to argue with Shen Guixiang, but Lu Jianguo pulled her back from behind.

Ignoring Shen Guixiang's sarcastic tone, Lu Jianguo stood with his hands behind his back and looked at Yin Jiaming with a mysterious expression.

"Jia Ming, do you still remember me? I'm your brother Jianguo."