Li Xiangyun laughed and said, "Look how sensible my grandson and granddaughter are. They even know how to say thank you. Some people just take advantage of others!"
Yao Qingqing and Huo Changlan were so angry that they went straight back to their room.
Huo Junshan and Yun Ningyan did not stay long and returned to their own homes.
Wang Cuihong hurriedly opened the red envelopes of the two children. One of the red envelopes contained one yuan, the same as the one for the brigade leader's grandson.
Each person gets one dollar.
Yun Ningyan received two red envelopes, one from Aunt Guihua and the other from her mother-in-law.
She went back inside, lit candles, and opened the red envelopes.
Aunt Guihua gave 10 yuan, and her mother-in-law gave 20 yuan.
Yun Ningyan didn't expect these two to be so generous. Nowadays, the amount of money given as New Year's money is usually one or two cents, or even five cents, or at most one dollar.
They actually gave one ten yuan and the other twenty yuan.
At this moment, Huo Junshan mysteriously took out a red envelope from his pants pocket.
"Yanyan, this is my New Year's money for you!"
Yun Ningyan opened the red envelope Huo Junshan had given her, inside which were ten neatly arranged ten ten-yuan bills.
It's one hundred yuan.
She asked in surprise, "When did you prepare this?"
Huo Junshan: "It's been prepared for a long time, just waiting for the New Year to arrive."
Yun Ningyan put all the money away.
Huo Junshan took her into the space to wash up.
Yun Ningyan wanted to send him away, but he insisted on taking a bath with her.
She knew perfectly well what he was thinking.
Yun Ningyan said seriously, "Huo Junshan, this won't work in the spatial dimension!"
Huo Junshan smiled and said, "Yanyan, I didn't mean anything by it. I was just waiting for you to take a shower. I wanted you to be able to see me all night on New Year's Eve. How about we go to the mountain in the space later?"
Upon hearing that they were going to the mountain, Yun Ningyan exclaimed with delight, "Then let's not wash now, otherwise we might sweat later."
Huo Junshan!
He just made up an excuse!
It seems I've gotten myself into a mess.
He had no choice but to lead his people up the mountain in the space.
But the mountain was bare and there was nothing there.
There was only one mountain, with all kinds of trees, and many of them were unfamiliar even to Huo Junshan, who frequently traveled in the mountains.
Yun Ningyan was even more confused. How did this mountain appear in space?
And I don't know what kind of tree that is by the spring.
The two walked all the way to the top of the mountain, but found no trace of animal activity.
I couldn't figure it out, so I stopped thinking about it.
The two walked down the mountain together. Huo Junshan couldn't understand how such a big mountain could be devoid of any living creatures.
"If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it anymore. We'll talk about it later. Maybe you'll get out of there sometime."
The two walked and talked, and soon descended the mountain. Yun Ningyan then kicked Huo Junshan out.
She then washed up in the space.
After she left, Huo Junshan came in to wash up.
This night was bound to be another hectic affair.
In Huo Junshan's words: "I have nothing to do tomorrow, so I don't have to get up early, go to the front for meals, or visit other people's homes. I can sleep in."
The two of them shamelessly messed around until midnight.
The next day, Yun Ningyan slept until 11 a.m.
The two did not go to the front to eat.
Huo Junshan cooked it at home: steamed rice, pork rib soup, and a stir-fried dish.
The pork rib soup contained goji berries and red dates, to nourish Yanyan.
Yun Ningyan got up to eat. Looking at the rice, she sighed, "Finally, I don't have to eat dumplings anymore. I've been feeling nauseous these past few meals."
"I made pork rib soup, just in time to change things up."
Yun Ningyan took a bite and couldn't help but praise, "Huo Junshan, your cooking is getting better and better! Even your soup is so delicious!"
But it was at this moment.
Huo Guodong came over and knocked on the door.
Huo Junshan got up to open the door, and Huo Guodong's voice came through: "Hurry to the cowshed, Ma Lao Er and Ma Da Niang are dead!"
"What? Dead?"
Yun Ningyan's heart skipped a beat. Aunt Ma and Ma Lao Er were dead?
Her first thought was that Song Pandi had killed the two of them.
Huo Junshan went to the kitchen and said, "Yanyan, don't go. I'll go see what's going on."
Yun Ningyan shook her head: "No, I have to go and see what happened. How could someone die during the New Year?"
The group quickly walked towards the cowshed.
When the group arrived at the cowshed, Song Pandi was crying her eyes out.
She cried and screamed.
But no one offered to help her up.
The brigade leader, the secretary, and the accountant were all standing there.
I've already sent someone to call the village doctor.
The brigade leader has already sent someone to call Ma Da Niang's daughters.
The person died suddenly, and the village had no money to bury them.
Only her daughter can pay for it.
A group of people surrounded the cowshed, and the brigade leader rubbed his head in frustration.
It's really bad luck that something like this happened during the Chinese New Year!
Why!
No one dared to go in and look, since Aunt Ma's daughter hadn't returned yet, and they couldn't move the two bodies.
The captain yelled at Song Pandi, "Stop crying, tell me what happened!"
Song Pandi sobbed, and she choked out, "Last night my mother cooked porridge, but when she took the corn, the corn fell on the ground."
“A couple of days ago, she said there were rats here, so she asked me to buy a bag of rat poison. It was dark at night, so I couldn’t see them.”
"As a result, she and Ma Lao Er ate some porridge and went to sleep that night. In the morning, I thought they were still sleeping and didn't call out. It wasn't until noon, when they still hadn't made a sound, that I dared to call out..."
The captain looked at her sternly: "You didn't drink the porridge?"
Song Pandi shook her head: "I didn't drink it. They only give me two cornbreads a day, and sometimes they let me have some porridge. Last night they didn't make enough porridge, so they didn't let me have any."
The captain didn't say anything, he just kept staring at her.
Yun Ningyan stared at her too, but her face was dirty and her body was also very dirty.
The village doctor came over, examined the body for a while, and said, "It looks like he died from eating rat poison."
The captain looked at Song Pandi again, but Song Pandi kept crying, and he couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Furthermore, what Song Pandi said was logical and without any flaws.
He was also at a loss for what to do.
Yun Ningyan was also observing Song Pandi.
But Song Pandi kept crying, glancing up at the brigade leader every now and then. She looked pitiful, saying she didn't have a single penny. What could be done?
He didn't seem guilty at all.
Just then, the man who went to call Aunt Ma's daughters returned, but he said, "None of her daughters wanted to come back. They gave each of them a dollar and that's how they got me to come back!"
The captain sighed heavily.
Someone said, "What a tragedy! Ma Daniu sold her own daughter, and now that she's dead, her daughter won't even come back. What a tragedy!"
Song Pandi cried even louder, pleading with the brigade leader, "Brigade leader, this person must be buried! Please, brigade leader, help me!"
Her tears were so sincere that many people were moved.
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