Chapter 72 Return to the Village

When the jeep was about a kilometer away from Qingshui Village, a group of children from the village were already waiting halfway. When they saw the car, they chased it from a distance, and then ran excitedly after the jeep towards the village.

"Car! Car!"

"Stupid! This is called a jeep. I heard from my elder brother that only soldiers can ride in it!"

"Really? Then when I grow up, I want to join the army too!"

Li Wen, Li Wu and Li Beibei were naturally among them.

However, the three of them did not chat or cheer together. The expressions on their faces were more anxious and expectant than excited. They ran while looking towards the window, trying to recognize if it was Xia Juanjuan who came back.

Xia Juanjuan's heart sank. She asked the guard who was sending her to stop the car, then she opened the door, jumped out, and immediately picked up Li Beibei.

"Beibei, do you miss your mom these days?"

When the three little guys saw that it was really Xia Juanjuan, they were all delighted, and then their eyes turned red.

Li Beibei put her little hands around Xia Juanjuan's neck and burst into tears: "Mom! Soo! We thought...we thought that mommy didn't want us anymore... Soo..."

Li Wu also hugged Xia Juanjuan's calf and cried bitterly. Although Li Wen did not cry out loud, he still stood aside, lowered his head, raised his hands and wiped his tears with his sleeves.

The guards were all shocked. They really didn't expect that Xia Juanjuan, who looked to be in her early twenties, actually had three babies that big.

Xia Juanjuan didn't explain, but smiled and said, "Comrade, I'll get off here. Please take care on your way back."

The guard was startled by Xia Juanjuan's turn, and his face instantly turned red. He quickly turned his head and coughed twice before saying, "We haven't reached the village entrance yet. Get in the car and I'll take you there!"

Xia Juanjuan was a little hesitant, but the children in the village nearby were already staring at the stopped jeep with starry eyes, saying, "I want to ride in a big car, too!"

"Stupid, I told you it's a jeep! Jeep! I want to ride in it too..."

Seeing a group of people wearing patched cotton coats and with red faces frozen, the guard couldn't help but feel a little soft-hearted. He smiled and said, "Let them all get in the car! I'll take you to the village entrance!"

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then smiled sweetly.

This little warrior has a good heart.

For a time traveler like her, riding in a car was almost a daily routine. But for those children in remote villages in the 1970s, many of them might never have the opportunity to ride in a car in their entire lives.

Therefore, she nodded and said with a smile: "Thank you very much, comrade!"

The military jeep was not small, but there were quite a few children in it, so the guards enthusiastically made two trips before they sent all the children back to the village entrance before driving away.

The children excitedly chased the jeep for a long distance, and only came back when they couldn't catch up with it anymore, feeling unsatisfied.

The three little guys were surprisingly quiet. They followed Xia Juanjuan closely and naturally did not chase the jeep.

Zhou Qiuhe and other people in the village heard the noise and rushed to the entrance of the village to see the excitement.

After all, it was rare to see a bicycle, let alone a big jeep!

Zhou Qiuhe came forward and said with a smile: "Juanjuan, you are finally back! If you hadn't come back, these three little guys would have gotten up before dawn and ran to the village to wait for you!"

Xia Juanjuan was stunned for a moment, then she raised her hands and rubbed their hair with some emotion and guilt in her heart, and said with a smile: "What are you waiting for? Can I not come back?"

However, she left in a hurry and indeed did not explain everything properly. After all, these three kids had been abandoned by their own mother, so it was understandable that they felt panicked.

Xia Juanjuan walked back with the three kids and Zhou Qiuhe. She turned to Zhou Qiuhe and said, "Third sister-in-law, thank you for these days!"

Zhou Qiuhe smiled and said, "What are you thanking me for? These three guys even asked me to call them Auntie. I'm not in charge of outsiders! Also, I'm giving this back to you. You're too polite!"

Seeing that it was the gift she had given to Secretary Zhao to pass on to Zhou Qiuhe, Xia Juanjuan could not help but decline, "How can that be possible? What they have been eating and drinking these past few days..."

Zhou Qiuhe interrupted her and said, "How can I be so poor? I'll take this ten yuan. How can I still hang around in Qingshui Village? You can't be so polite in the future."

Seeing this, Xia Juanjuan no longer insisted, took the ten yuan, and said with a smile: "Okay! Thank you, Third Sister-in-law."

When I returned to my yard, I saw a high pile of firewood on one side of the newly built fence. I was stunned.

Zhou Qiuhe explained with a smile: "These are all picked up by the three little guys who went out early and came back late these days. Oh, I don't know if there is a tiger in my house that wants to eat people. At night, I asked them to sleep in my room, but the big and small ones refused and insisted on running back to their own rooms to sleep, saying that this is their home. It's really infuriating and funny."

Xia Juanjuan glanced at Li Wen. This kind of thing must have been initiated by her elder brother, otherwise Xiaowu and Beibei were still so young, they must be afraid to sleep in a dark room without adults.

Li Wen turned his face away in embarrassment, not intending to admit his mistake.

Xia Juanjuan smiled and took out peanut nougat, donkey rolls, pea yellow and other specialty snacks bought from Beijing from her bag. After distributing them to the three kids, she gave Zhou Qiuhe a big bag and asked her to take it back for her two daughters.

Zhou Qiuhe gave it up for a while before finally accepting it, her face flushed with joy.

This kind of snack from Beijing is not something you can buy and eat casually!

In addition to the portion given to Zhou Qiuhuo, Xia Juanjuan also gave another portion to Xia Shuangshan and Lin Yuru, planning to give them to them when she went to Xia Village the next day.

After seeing Zhou Qiuhe off, Xia Juanjuan began to prepare dinner.

She took out white flour, mutton, radishes, wild mushrooms, etc. from the space.

In the middle of winter, it is more comfortable to drink steaming mutton soup. The three kids, who had been frightened for the past few days, finally felt relieved and ate the soup with their bowls in hand.

At night, Xia Juanjuan boiled some hot water, of course most of it was hot spring water scooped directly from the space, and washed the three little guys thoroughly, then put them into the warm quilt to sleep.

She waited until they fell asleep before entering the space.

First, I harvested the crops, vegetables, eggs, poultry, livestock, etc., and then I took a bath, washed clothes, and soaked in the hot spring to relax.

At the same time, I couldn't help but think about the space bug that happened a few days ago.

The reason why Li Zhan suddenly broke in was still unclear, but she roughly guessed that at least one important reason was that Li Zhan was seriously injured and in danger.

Perhaps the fact that she was married to Li Zhan created some special connection between him and Kong Zi?

Apart from this incident, there was also the fact that she was teleported directly to a barren mountain.

Xia Juanjuan wondered if this space teleportation function could be realized again...