Doubao put down the teacup and glanced at Huzi, then stiffened his neck and said, "Are you asleep? Aren't you working overtime? I wonder what you are doing? You woke up Brother Sanyong first. I went in, didn't I make sure the room was lighted?"
"Come on, forget it. I knew you would come again in the middle of the night. I didn't blow out the lights. It's just that you have been coming back to hide your two dollars in my house since yesterday, and you have been making trouble again and again."
Lian Xiaomin covered her mouth and laughed: "Brother Doubao, you didn't give the money to your mother, why did you keep it for yourself?"
Doubao chuckled and continued drinking tea while saying, "I'm afraid my mother would find out that I went hunting in the deep forest of Yulong Valley. She would be worried and wouldn't let me go. I just need to pay her less money, otherwise she'll be scared."
"What if you want to build a house, buy a bicycle, and take out that much money?"
"Of course I'll borrow some more from Brother Sanyong and Brother Xintian as well. Just say that. It's easy to fool my mother anyway." Doubao raised his eyebrows.
Hu Zi added some hot water to the jug and said, "Forget it. Don't buy that car. It's not enough for you to show off. Now every household can't get enough food. You build a house and buy a car. Gaojiatun will show you off. Brother Xintian has a bicycle, right? It's enough for us to exchange."
Doubao nodded. Hu Zi was right. Look at Xiaomin's ability. Isn't she more low-key than anyone else? There is no decent furniture in the room, just two kang cabinets and so on.
Zhang Wenyong said, "You two should just stay quiet during the winter. We made a lot of money hunting this time with Xiaomin's help. Don't go into the mountains this winter. I won't go with Sandagou's hunting trip to Yefengling. Food is getting more and more scarce now. My father said that there is no news about the relief food he applied for. Maybe there will be chaos. If we come across food on the black market, we can exchange some and take it home. Otherwise, don't go out too much."
The others nodded.
Lian Xiaomin thought, today is December 5th in the Gregorian calendar. It seems that people who are out of food will have a hard time this winter. There is nothing wrong with Yufang stewing the chicken in the middle of the night, but she must not let anyone know. She must be extra careful in the future.
"Brother Sanyong, I plan to bring some food to my aunt's house. When the time comes, I'll tell them that I asked you to exchange it outside. But they won't ask you easily when they see you."
Zhang Wenyong drank the tea in the cup in one gulp and said, "Don't worry, if someone asks me in the future whether I bought the plane and the cannon for you, I will answer yes."
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After seeing the three people off, Lian Xiaomin started to eat dinner. She ate very early today, around 4:30.
I gave Xiaofu lean meat porridge and scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and I ate rice and fried meat with peppers, but it was too spicy for him to eat.
I fed Xiao Ya with milk powder. Recently, the amount of milk powder this baby drinks has been increased a lot. She is growing very fast. After two months of feeding with milk powder, she is already chubby and looks like a child. Her arms and legs are white and tender. She is no longer like when she first arrived in Sandaogou after fleeing famine. She was so thin and small and looked very pitiful.
Xiaofu also ate every meal with relish. Children grow up the fastest. Looking at the changes in the two kids, I saw time flying by.
Lian Xiaomin knew that her original birthday was on the eighth day of the first lunar month, which was February of 1969. She was one year older, fourteen years old. People at that time liked to talk about virtual age. Last time, her aunt casually said that Xiaomin would be fifteen after the new year, which really scared her. The modern old lady's thinking jumped out on the spot: No, I want to use the actual age, I am still young...
So when Lian Xiaomin traveled to this time and space to live, she also calculated according to the solar calendar in her mind. The middle of February next year would be the Chinese New Year, and her aunt's due date was also at that time. She always remembered this and would take good care of her relatives in this world.
At five o'clock in the evening, when it was just getting dark, the meal was ready. After cleaning up, Lian Xiaomin brought the two children into the space. She put Xiaoya in the stroller, and let Xiaofu sit on the carpet in the bedroom to play with toys by himself, saying to him: "Xiaofu, you play here by yourself first. Sister is working in the next room, it's quieter. If you have any questions, just call sister loudly."
"Well! Sister goes to work, I'll be good." Xiaofu lowered his head and began to struggle with the toy, grabbing the tin frog with one hand and placing it on the body of a big fish doll. Lian Xiaomin touched his head and got up to go to the next room.
Lian Xiaomin changed into a black men's cotton coat, put on a black mask, a black hat, a black scarf, and a pair of black sneakers. Then he left the space, left the house, and locked the gate.
She still did not go to the village entrance, but took a small path from the foot of the mountain to leave Sandagou. Fifteen miles to the east is Gaojiatun, and from there, another fifteen miles is Chengjiazhuang. Although Lian Xiaomin has never been there, she will definitely find it if she walks in that direction.
It was already dark, and there was no one around, so she took out her electric bike and rode away. After a total of thirty miles, Lian Xiaomin soon arrived at Chengjiazhuang, the easternmost village.
In the afternoon, while eating apples in the west room, Zhang Wenyong mentioned that the Cheng family also had a puppy. Cheng Baoru also thought the little yellow-haired dog was interesting, so she asked Xie Xuwei to take one more for her family. The big yellow dog of Mr. Xu's family gave birth to five puppies, so Xie Xuwei was allowed to take two away.
Lian Xiaomin found Cheng Baoru's yard easily based on this information. When she got close to the farm, she hid in the woods, put away her electric bike, and walked all the way there in the night, using her mental power to find out which house had a puppy.
She walked past the courtyards of each house at a very fast pace. After searching the more than 60 households in Chengjiazhuang, she quickly locked onto her target and came to the courtyard of a brick house.
Lian Xiaomin was standing quietly at the foot of the courtyard wall. At this time, the barking of a puppy came from across the wall. This little guy was not raised in vain. He knew immediately when someone came outside.
Because it was still early, only around six in the evening, everyone in every household had just finished their meal and was at home, so even though the puppy barked for a while, the people in the yard didn't pay much attention, and there were no guests knocking on the door, so they just thought that the puppy was just having fun in the yard.
The people standing outside the wall were not worried at all about this clever guard dog, because she had gradually mastered stronger abilities under the subtle influence of the space!
Lian Xiaomin's mental power continued to improve. During the past two days in the space, she discovered that she could now use her ability to release mental power to control large animals and people, not even a puppy. This kind of control was similar to hypnosis.
Not until she withdraws her mental power will the other party wake up from the hypnotic state and return to normal.
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