Xu Yan brought out the steamed pastries.
Red bean cake, mung bean cake, purple jade dumplings, and fragrant rice dumplings.
Xu Nuo had a small appetite and only ate a piece of red bean cake and half a meat dumpling. Xu Yan packed the goods to be sold into a bamboo basket, covered it with a cloth, and waited for Duan San to come back to pick them up.
Xu Nuo squinted her eyes and praised, "Delicious."
To be honest, the food, clothing, housing, and transportation in this era are completely different from before. Food is scarce and the variety is limited. Clothing is mostly blue, black, and gray, and the styles are very limited.
However, she adapted quite well.
After eating and drinking her fill, she propped her head up with her hand and pondered how she could make money.
Even though her older sister and brother-in-law will become very wealthy in the future, she can't rely on them entirely.
With her cheeks puffed out, she was thinking about how to sell the herbal water when Duan San returned. Seeing her, he blushed and became somewhat flustered.
To be honest, he had seen quite a few girls in the city, but Xu Yan's younger sister was the most beautiful. Duan San said, "Comrade Xu Nuo."
Xu Nuo smiled at him. Luo Chen was eating zongzi and said contentedly, "Yan Yan made zongzi today."
Unlike usual, Duan San seemed somewhat distracted. He said, "I can't deliver today; it'll have to be the day after tomorrow."
Xu Yan was taken aback, but everything was already prepared. The red bean cakes could be kept for two days, but the meat dumplings could not. However, she quickly smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll make a new batch the day after tomorrow."
There were just enough materials left.
Let's save what we made today for Xu Nuo.
Duan San nodded, walked back to his room, his brows still furrowed.
......
In the afternoon, Xu Yan went back to work at the commune canteen and took Xu Nuo back to the brigade leader's house.
The tractor will be heading to Luxian tomorrow, and she should go back then.
midnight.
In the stillness of the night, the surface of Youlongtan shimmered, as if something might burst forth from the water at any moment.
Duan San, holding the rope, lost his usual nonchalant air as he counted the time, waiting to pull the rope.
"Splash." A figure emerged from the water. The man was shirtless, thin but not weak, with old wounds scattered all over his body.
He had a very handsome face, and when he stretched out his long arm, Duan San quickly pulled him up.
After being pulled up, he looked strangely at the thing tied to the other rope.
Upon seeing it clearly, they were so frightened that they took several steps back.
It turned out to be two rotten corpses.
He looked at Li Xian, whose face was equally frightening.
He took out the sack, preparing to put the body inside, when Duan San, with a serious expression, asked in a low voice, "Brother Li, did you kill someone?"
Li Xian shook his head and pointed to the corpse, saying, "This is the Lian family, the old landlord who jumped into the pool thirty years ago."
If it were anyone else, Duan San would have thought this person was joking, but he knew what kind of person Li Xian was. He looked at the corpse in disbelief and turned pale with fright.
Only skeletons remained of the two corpses; the flesh had almost completely dissolved.
One of them had a tag around its neck made of some unknown material that read "Lian".
But the Lian family drowned thirty years ago, so there's no way they could still have any bodies.
This was exactly what Li Xian thought. When Xu Nuo mentioned "collecting the body," he decided to go into the water to take a look.
If it's fake, just consider it a nightmare.
If it really was a Lian family member's body, he would help her with the burial.
He packed the two corpses up, went down twice more, and found three more. Duan San felt more than just unlucky. When he saw Li Xian was about to go down again, he quickly grabbed him: "No, Brother Li, you can't go down anymore. Your body can't take it."
Li Xian shook the water off his hair, glanced at the two large sacks, and silently untied the ropes binding him.
"Let's try again tomorrow."
With that, he shouldered two large sacks and started walking up the mountain. Duan Sanbai was puzzled: "Brother Li, why are you doing this?"
It's impossible to be a good Samaritan and offer to bury someone for no reason.
Li Xian didn't answer him, but only said, "Go back quickly, thank you. I'll help you find the ginseng your grandma wanted."
Duan San knew he was unwilling to talk about it and that he would never get an answer from him, so he sighed.
Li Xian climbed the mountain in the dark, water still dripping from his clothes. He carried five corpses, but he didn't even frown; his gaze was colder than the night.
He found a clearing in the mountains and buried the body there.
Five mounds of earth sat beneath the moonlight before he sat down in silence, slightly out of breath.
He imitated the man's posture, hugging his knees and burying his head, and unknowingly fell asleep.
He was jolted awake and realized it was almost dawn. He glanced at the grave mound, his eyes filled with a cold and dark look, and said in a hard tone, "I will retrieve the rest. Do not disturb her any further."
After saying that, he turned and walked down the mountain, remembering the question Duan San had asked him.
Why do this?
He gave a self-deprecating twitch at the corner of his mouth.
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