After a satisfying meal, Grandma Yan led Yan Daqiang to her room: "Daqiang, let me ask you, are houses expensive in Beijing?"
Yan Daqiang thought for a moment and said, "Mom, a small house can be bought for one or two hundred yuan, but a courtyard house would cost one or two thousand yuan."
Grandma Yan was delighted to hear this. Nan Nan should still have a few thousand yuan on her, enough to buy a house. However, this money cannot be used. She will need it for living expenses in Beijing. It would be more appropriate to take out the gold bars.
"Daqiang, should we buy a single-story house or a courtyard house?" Grandma Yan didn't know what a courtyard house was.
“Mom, are you thinking of having Nan Nan take the college entrance exam and come to Beijing? If so, we should buy a courtyard house. There’s a whole family here.” Yan Daqiang explained to his grandmother.
Grandma Yan nodded and took out five gold bars from the kang (heated brick bed) and handed them to Yan Daqiang: "Daqiang, these are what Nannan got from the mountains. Use these to buy a courtyard house, but the property deed must be in Yan Xiaonan's name, understand?"
Yan Daqiang was initially startled when he saw the gold bars, but then he remembered Yan Xiaonan's abilities and felt relieved. He wandered around the room, found a scrap of cloth, wrapped the gold bars in it, and hid them in the inner pocket of his military overcoat.
“Mother, I’ll handle this. But Nan Nan is a capable child. If she comes with me to the army for training, she should have a bright future,” Yan Daqiang said tentatively.
Grandma Yan shook her head. "Little fairy still needs to be trained. What kind of joke is this? No way. That's something you men do. What's the point of training a girl like you?"
Yan Daqiang~
My mother is so rude, but I really want to persuade Nan Nan to join the army. What should I do?
Yan Xiaonan lay on the warm kang (heated brick bed) with her eyes closed. She had gone into the mountains to retrieve gold bars today, and before leaving, she felt something was off. Now she had to take a good look. Her consciousness spread into the mountains and onto Zhongnan by the hot spring.
Zhong Nan sensed Yan Xiao Nan's consciousness, raised his head, and said that he was injured. Yan Xiao Nan was shocked and used his consciousness to carefully examine Zhong Nan's entire body.
Zhongnan had a gash in his abdomen, apparently from a bite by another animal. Blood was everywhere, but thankfully his intestines weren't ruptured. It was probably because of the cold weather that the surface blood was frozen, preventing the blood inside from flowing out.
There was also a wound on its neck, and the blood there had been frozen. The wound was quite frightening, and the wolf fur on its neck had turned into a hedgehog, with each hair standing on end.
Yan Xiaonan closed her eyes tightly, her consciousness extending into the opening. Zhongnan felt warmth in her abdomen, and tears of gratitude welled up in her eyes. Her abdomen grew warmer and hotter, and Zhongnan kept grimacing as she persevered.
Then the warmth moved to the neck, the frozen wolf fur softened, the frozen blood melted into bloody water, dripped into the ground, and the wound on the neck was slowly healing.
Fifteen minutes later, Zhongnan's injuries were completely healed. He rolled to his feet, and the wolf wife happily ran over, rubbing against Zhongnan's body to express her affection. The tiger king roared and turned to leave. Zhongnan was all better now and could go back to his quilt on the mountaintop to sleep.
Yan Xiaonan had used up most of her superpower. Fortunately, Zhong Nan's injuries were not too serious, otherwise she would have fainted again. Since losing her superpower last time, the recovery of her superpower has been unusually slow, but as long as it is not used to treat injuries, it is still enough.
Zhongnan came down from the mountain, crawled through the dog hole, and knocked on the door of the main room. Zhongzi quickly ran to the door, stood up, and opened the door with his mouth. The dog and the wolf whimpered a few times. Zhongzi closed the door and lay down by the door, while Zhongnan went to Yan Xiaonan's room.
That night, Yan Xiaonan slept very soundly and peacefully. As dawn broke, Yan Xiaonan sensed Zhongnan's presence, opened his eyes, and sure enough, a wolf's head was looking at him, its eyes filled with gratitude.
He communicated with Zhongnan using his consciousness, asking why he was injured. Zhongnan mumbled something, explaining that a pack of wolves from another mountain had come and wanted to take over the mountain as their king. Zhongnan naturally refused and fought a fierce battle with the wolf king. After all, Zhongnan was an old wolf of fifteen years old and was defeated.
At the critical moment, Tiger King appeared, scared away the wolf, and led the pack away. Zhongnan, however, was injured in the abdomen and neck and could only heal himself.
Yan Xiaonan realized that Tiger King had also entered old age and wondered how his health was. His consciousness spread again, reaching the mountaintop, where Tiger King was fast asleep. As people get older, they are easily startled and fall asleep even more easily.
Yan Xiaonan's consciousness circled around Tiger King. The guy was in good health; apart from being old and losing his looks, he was fine. However, Yan Xiaonan still used a healing technique to extend his consciousness into Tiger King's body, slowly circled around him, and then withdrew. Apart from being a little tired, he was alright.
Zhongnan was about to leave, and Yan Xiaonan asked him to find a smart and strong cub to inherit his position as wolf king. Zhongnan let out a howl and agreed. Then he mumbled something else, apparently wanting Nannan to go up the mountain to name the new wolf king.
Nan Nan was too lazy to go up the mountain, so after thinking for a moment she said, "Your name is Zhong Nan, so let's name the new wolf king Nan Feng."
Zhongnan let out a howl in agreement, turned around and left. Zhongzi had already opened the door to the main room, escorted Zhongnan to the dog hole, rubbed against it affectionately for a while, and watched Wolf Dad leave.
Soon, Cuihua and Yan Xiaoqiang got up. Aidang and his older brother would be leaving early tomorrow morning, so they needed to make more dried meat buns and other snacks for them to take on the road. They also needed to cook several kinds of porridge for breakfast, such as egg drop porridge and lean meat porridge, because Aidang liked to eat them.
Yan Xiaoqiang's nose twitched as he caught a familiar scent: "Zhongzi, Zhongnan has been here?"
Neutron ran over happily, wanting to howl like its wolf father, but all that came out was a woof. Yan Xiaoqiang gave it a disdainful look: "Don't bother trying, you won't learn it."
Zhongzi left sadly, walked to the pigpen, and looked at the pigs inside, slurping their food. He felt a little better; at least those two would be leaving before the New Year, and he could still live a good life.
After lunch, Yan Aidang arrived at the cowshed, while Ye Chen'er was busy in the kitchen. After Yan Aidang left yesterday, Ye Chen'er and Ye Chenming went to the mountains to set snares. When they went to check this morning, all those snares had only caught one pheasant.
However, they were quite satisfied. They quickly killed the chicken, made it into spicy chicken, wrapped it in oil paper, and waited for Yan Aidang to come so that he could take it with him on the road.
Yan Aidang held the still-warm spicy chicken in her hand, feeling a warmth in her heart: "Thank you, Chen'er, thank you, Chenming, you've worked hard."
Ye Huixian quickly poured some sugar water and handed it to Yan Aidang, saying, "Drink some hot water to warm your stomach. Be careful on the road tomorrow and make sure you get home safely."
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