The ordering of breeding chickens and chicks went smoothly. Qin Jiefang said that they would give 10% more chicks for free because the chicks were too weak and would suffer from acclimatization problems after the long journey, and some of them would die, so they would give more chicks.
Moreover, a car can be arranged to take them there the day after tomorrow.
He also enthusiastically suggested that if Chen Chunhua and the others needed anything, they could buy chicken coops, chicken frames, manure boards, stove fan mixers, sand feed nutrients, and anything else related to poultry farming that they wanted.
At that time, they can be sent to their village along with the chicks. After all, the carriage fare has been paid, so they will definitely fill the carriage as much as possible.
Chen Chunhua thought what he said made sense, so she went out to visit those shops. Lin Guoqing was planning to visit a hardware store, so he made an appointment with them to meet at the door of the guesthouse, and then they separated.
Chen Chunhua took Liu Ni for a stroll on the streets of this small town. It must be said that as long as a door is opened for the Chinese people, they will work hard to create a life with their own hands.
In this small town that was reclaimed from the sea and has been around for more than 30 years, it has everything. Chen Chunhua and Liu Ni bought some cages, wires, and feed, and asked the store to help deliver them directly to the breeding chicken farm.
When it was time for lunch, Liu Ni suggested going back to the cafeteria at the guesthouse to eat, as she felt the prices there were quite affordable.
Chen Chunhua thought about solving the problem nearby. There was a small restaurant nearby anyway. Since she was already here, there was no need to save a little money.
There was a Meidong restaurant just up the street, with signs outside advertising vegetable rice and fried dumplings. They were still thinking about the meal they had yesterday after getting off the train, so greasy and fragrant. Without a second thought, Chen Chunhua pulled Liu Ni inside.
"Boss, two bowls of rice and two taels of fried dumplings." She shouted like Lin Guoqing ordered the dishes yesterday, but Liu Ni quickly pulled her back.
"Aunt, a bowl of rice is enough for me." The Shengjian was really expensive. Although there was a lot of meat in it, she felt that there was no need to eat meat every day!
Chen Chunhua sighed, "Didn't you enjoy your meal yesterday? Don't worry, your aunt will treat you!"
Then he turned around and shouted again what he had just said. Through the door and the glass, a woman's voice came from inside.
"Hey! Okay! Wait a minute!"
Then there was the sound of boiling oil in a wok. Perhaps they had arrived early, and besides the two of them, there was only one other table of customers eating. Chen Chunhua chose a corner near the door and sat down, still talking to Liu Ni,
"You've already made it out of this, but you're still thinking about saving a dime or two. Is that even meaningful? If you do that, I'll have to wonder if you're not getting enough in dividends."
"No way! Aunt..." Liu Ni hurried to explain, but she was interrupted by a voice coming from the inner room before she started talking.
"Two taels of freshly baked shengjian!" A woman wearing a headscarf and a skirt came out with a plate of shengjian and walked towards the table where Chen Chunhua and the others were.
Chen Chunhua was sitting with her back to the kitchen and facing the door. When she heard the woman's voice, she turned her head involuntarily to look. When she saw this, both of them were stunned.
"Winter...flower?"
"Third sister!"
***
Liu Ni was silently munching on a shengjian at the table in the back. The two taels of rice dumplings were all hers. She felt that she would not be able to finish them all. However, the proprietress of Meidong Restaurant waited until one table had finished eating, then closed the door and decided not to do business today. After serving the two bowls of rice and vegetables that had been ordered, she chatted with her aunt.
Oh, this is my aunt’s sister. Liu Ni thought while eating rice and fried dumplings, should I listen to gossip or should I just close my ears?
…
"You, how did you get to Guhua? It's so far..." With the food in front of her, Chen Chunhua didn't even think about eating.
Chen Chunhua never thought she would see Donghua again. After all, the two sisters hadn't seen each other since they were in their seventies in their previous life. She thought Donghua had either run away very far away or...
Unexpectedly, she was actually in Guhua, a place less than 200 kilometers away in a straight line, but I never saw her again in my entire life!
When they parted ways that year, she was only 15, the age of a flower bud. Sixteen years have passed in a flash, and now wrinkles are all over her eyes and eyebrows. But she looks energetic, so she must be doing well.
Donghua grinned, her smile gentle and warm. "How else can I get here? Walk, swim, take a boat, use an ox cart. At that time, I had no idea where I was going, I just kept walking."
My face is covered in ash, my hair is tangled, and my shoes have no soles. Even beggars wouldn't want to steal my clothes. When people see me here, they say I was probably like this when I fled the famine in the 1960s.
Wrinkles danced on her face, but there was peace and tranquility. No matter how hard or difficult it was, it would all pass, right?
"I wasn't originally on this farm. The small fishing boat I took took me to a few towns away, and I almost got caught. But... due to some strange circumstances, I was thrown onto the farm.
It was quite chaotic here at the time, with a huge crowd of educated youth and intellectuals sent to the countryside. I could do all the farm work required, and there weren't many people with a bad accent. Someone helped me get an identity, so I stayed.
Donghua obviously didn't want to talk to Chen Chunhua about the past events in detail, so she just brushed it off and only mentioned the five yuan note that Chen Chunhua had lent her.
"I still have that note! I haven't spent it! Back then, to fill my stomach, I kept searching for food in the mountains and in the water. When I was really starving, I would touch the five dollars you gave me stuck in my underwear and think, 'I still have five dollars, so I can survive, right?'"
However, from her smile, Chen Chunhua seemed to see the 15-year-old girl running alone on the dark road, with a strong will to survive bursting out of her.
"...Do you remember the father and son who butchered the pig? Last year, they were sentenced to death."
"I know." Shen Donghua said without the slightest surprise, "That day they were paraded through the streets and shot. I took the train there specifically to watch."
Chen Chunhua's eyes widened instantly, so she was not mistaken at that time, that figure was indeed Donghua!
"Then you, then why don't you come to see me? You know my home address!"
Speaking of this, Donghua also sighed, "I was planning to come to you after seeing what happened to that pair of beasts, but my husband's aunt suddenly fell ill, and his uncle and cousin were anxious to come back, so I took my husband and his family back to Guhua first."
Chen Chunhua didn't quite understand. Why do you have to bring your family along to see a death row prisoner?
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