Today is a good day, but Xuemei did not sleep well at night and had strange dreams all night.
Xuemei dreamed a lot and woke up, but when she woke up she only remembered a voice saying: You have a lover now. In order to prevent your space from being discovered by your husband in the future and then using the space to do bad things, the space has automatically shrunk to 0.25 cubic meters. In this way, even if it is discovered, he can't do anything. Of course, the space will not change or disappear in the future.
When Xuemei woke up, it was just daybreak. She wanted to take out her watch from the space to check, but found that the space had really become smaller, and the things Xuemei had put in it were squeezed together. Fortunately, Xuemei had put relatively few things in it, otherwise some things might be lost if they were lost.
Xuemei was so frightened awake that she quickly put on her clothes and got up. In the yard, Liu's father was already exercising with Qingya and her two siblings. As soon as he saw Xuemei coming out of the main hall, he called her to join them.
Xuemei waved her hand. Since she started working, she rarely exercised in the morning. Usually she would exercise with Liu's father when she was free.
Xuemei went to the kitchen and lit a fire, washed some sweet potatoes and steamed them, and boiled hot water in a large iron pot so that the family could use it for washing later.
After Xuemei finished eating the sweet potatoes, she looked at the time and saw it was already seven o'clock. Xuemei was really nervous and didn't care that Liu's mother was still asleep. She pushed open the door of Liu's mother's room and went in.
Throughout the year, Liu's mother can only sleep in for two or three months.
Liu's mother had woken up but had not yet gotten up. She saw Xuemei come in and closed the door from the inside.
Mother Liu put on her cotton coat, sat up from the bed and leaned against the headboard. She looked at Xuemei in confusion and said, "Xuemei, why are you looking for me now?"
Xuemei told Liu's mother about the dream she had last night and the changes in space after she woke up this morning.
After listening to this, Mother Liu was silent for a while before asking, "Have you not had any prophetic dreams since what happened at your grandparents' house?"
Xuemei nodded and replied, "I haven't had any predictable dreams!"
"It's actually quite good this way. While precognitive dreams and large spaces are nice, one should be content with what they have. We're just ordinary people going about our daily lives.
Besides, I was going to remind you to stay in the same room with Xiaochen and not use the space in front of him. Now that the space is smaller, you'll definitely use it less often. So, try not to use the space, except for things you only use once every few years or months. Got it?" Liu's mother said soothingly.
The mother and daughter chatted for a while, and then Xuemei returned to her room and, as Liu's mother had requested, placed the contents of the space—two jewelry boxes, a passbook, and nearly three hundred yuan in cash—into her own wooden box for clothes. She then locked the box and kept the key.
In fact, Xuemei felt that it was okay to keep the space in it. Her intuition was always quite accurate, but Liu's mother was more cautious. She asked Xuemei not to use the space for the time being and to use it again after a while. She also persuaded Xuemei to reduce the use of the space.
Anyway, she was at home during this period. If no one was at home, she would lock Xuemei's door and the main room. This way, she would have multiple layers of security and nothing to worry about.
Liu's father and Han Chen continued digging for a few more days of winter bamboo shoots before leaving the mountain. The village had already stopped digging, and the remaining shoots were to be kept to grow into bamboo. The village organized a total of eleven days of bamboo shoot digging. Liu's father earned 12.53 yuan, and Han Chen earned 9.87 yuan.
On the second day after digging the winter bamboo shoots, Liu's father took Han Chen and Liu's mother to start laying the floor. Before they started, Zhou Bing came to ask Liu's father for leave to visit his family. A few days ago, Zhou Bing's aunt wrote in a letter saying that she had been feeling unwell recently and wanted to see Zhou Bing.
Zhou Bing plans to go back to Heilongjiang Province in the next two days. Liu Xiu's attitude has become much more relaxed recently, and the same is true for Zhou Bing's aunt. He plans to go back to see his aunt and convince her to settle the matter between him and Shengnan as soon as possible. Their relationship will not be kept secret in the village for long.
This year, the educated youth at the Youth Institute have home leave, which can last up to twenty days, including the time for traveling back and forth. Although He Wenting is pregnant, her pregnancy is in good condition. After three months, she can eat and drink without any stomach nausea.
So after discussing with Mingwen, we decided to go back to Hai City with He Jing on the second day of the Lunar New Year next year, and be back before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. School usually starts on the sixteenth or seventeenth day of the first lunar month.
He Wenting's uncle and aunt will not come over at the end of this year. If they come over, they can only stay for two days at most and then have to leave. They can't take that long a leave.
It took Liu's father and his two companions more than four days to lay the floor of the room where Xuemei and Han Chen would live. They also hammered the mud floors of the other rooms firmly and leveled them.
Han Chen and Liu's father then went to the county power supply office to apply for a power line. The power supply office then sent an employee to install the electricity and meter for the new house. This trip cost about ten yuan.
The day after the electrical installation was completed, Han Chen moved out of the educated youth residence and moved all his belongings in. However, the villagers felt that the compensation given to the two female educated youths last time was too much, so this time they only gave Han Chen ten yuan.
Han Chen moved the furniture from the Youth League Institute to a 15-square-meter room in the new house and is sleeping there temporarily.
When Han Chen moved in, it was already the third day of the twelfth lunar month. Father Liu and Grandpa discussed it and decided to hold a wedding banquet for Xuemei and Han Chen on December 12, as that would be a good day and Qingya and her two siblings would be on winter vacation at home.
The clothes that Liu's mother made for Xuemei and Hanchen had already been made. This time, in order to make them more fitting and better-looking, Liu's mother did not make separate cotton-padded coats. Anyway, there were ready-made coveralls at home, and she could just put them on over the cotton-padded coats while working to avoid getting them dirty.
Liu's mother made this based on the army's winter uniforms, making slight changes to it to make the waist look more defined and save more fabric.
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