This action of hers attracted many aunts to tease her: "Lao Liu, why are you so generous all of a sudden?
Don’t you usually save money to prepare for your son’s marriage?
I just asked about this naan bread, but it costs 20 cents."
"That's right. I asked you to go buy some peach cakes with me before, but you didn't want to go."
You know, it’s Chinese New Year, who wouldn’t buy some delicious food to reward themselves?
Aunt Liu is very stingy and usually there is not much meat in the house once a month.
All the meat coupons were exchanged for money from others.
How could such a stingy person be willing to spend 40 cents to buy naan?
Just as everyone was surprised, Aunt Liu grinned, reached out and touched her hair: "Hey! I just suddenly feel that living like this is quite meaningless.
When you are young, it is for your children; when you are middle-aged, it is for your grandchildren.
I work hard for a year, so it's only right for me to spend some money to treat myself."
Her words made the aunts look at each other in bewilderment. Ningxia smiled and gave Aunt Liu a thumbs up: "Aunt, you have a high level of ideological awareness!
Leaders always say that we women hold up half the sky. When we work in factories, we do just as much as men.
Why should the good things be reserved for male laborers? We women should have something to eat too!"
These words made the aunts think deeply.
The hot-tempered aunt slapped her thigh and said loudly: "Yes, you see, we not only have to finish our work in the factory, but also have to cook when we get home.
After taking care of the old and the young, we women work just as hard as men.
I also went to exchange two naan breads to try. I heard from the team leader that their naan breads are added with sesame seeds, milk and eggs. "
"Oh, no wonder it's so expensive. Let's go, let's go, let's go buy one and try it out!"
As they were talking, several aunts walked towards the tandoor together.
Seeing them all walking away, Ningxia smiled with her eyes curved.
She quickly waved to the two children behind her and said, "Come here, I'll give them two each."
Her words stunned Li Qiang and the others: "This, this, Comrade Ningxia, this does not conform to the regulations."
Ningxia smiled and glanced at Wen Shize: "I didn't change these, but your battalion commander Wen asked me to change two for each of you."
Li Qiang and the others looked at Wen Shize with emotion, and a smile appeared on Wen Shize's cold face.
“Everyone has suffered during this mission, especially the two of you.
The wound has not healed yet, so you must take the anti-inflammatory medicine Comrade Ningxia gave you on time."
"Yes! Battalion Commander!"
Several young men happily surrounded the two children.
The hot naan bread was just taken out, it was so crispy and fragrant that it almost made you swallow your tongue.
In a short while, Li Qiang had finished half of the naan.
Looking at Ningxia's surprised look, he scratched his head embarrassedly.
"It's freezing cold, and we're all getting hungry."
Ningxia twitched the corners of her lips: "I'll have to work hard for you guys next, eat it while it's hot."
When the aunts came back, each of them had a few naan breads in their hands.
The packages behind Aunt Liu were all filled to the brim. From their conversation, Ningxia learned that Aunt Liu had heard from them that they would give one away for every ten they exchanged.
Eight more were changed...
The team leader and the branch secretary also came over happily.
He smiled and said to Wen Shize and the others: "Comrades, this road is not easy to travel, you must be more careful."
Wen Shize also showed a genuine smile on his face: "Okay, please also pay attention, captains, this year is a bit colder than previous years.
The animals in the mountains are not having an easy time, so be careful and take precautions."
The captain nodded repeatedly: "Of course, of course, we have already gone to the mountains to beat the gong more than ten times during this period.
Thank you for your reminder, comrades. This is a small token of our appreciation. Please accept it."
The men behind the captain each held a long string of dried meat.
It looks like specially air-dried beef. They had no choice but to accept it when we invited them to dinner before, but they must not accept these things now.
Li Qiang was most troubled by these interpersonal relationships and ran away as fast as he could.
The man with a crew cut next to him also ran towards the truck at the speed of light.
“Ah, this…”
The captain paused and held the dried meat a little stiffly.
I thought he had said something wrong and made these people unhappy!
Wen Shize quickly said: "We thank the captain for his kindness.
But there are regulations in the army, and eating so much food in the brigade before was already an exception.
If we take it again, I’m afraid the army will punish us.”
"Ah, this, this, we don't know.
I just think that even in this freezing cold weather, you are still serving the people. It’s really hard work.
We just want to do our best to make you eat better......"
The captain looked a little uneasy. He didn't expect that their actions would bring trouble to these people.
Wen Shize smiled and waved his hand: "This time the situation is special, we would like to thank the captain.
We appreciate your kindness, but we will not accept any more gifts.
Serving the people is the duty of every one of us.
The next mission is urgent, so we won't stay here any longer."
"That's it, that's it!"
The captain nodded repeatedly and moved aside to make room for them.
After the car left, the captain looked at the jerky in his hand and sighed: "Put the jerky away.
You guys go clean up the house..."
After saying that, he put his hands behind his back and walked slowly towards his home.
But before I had walked far, I heard a young man behind me exclaim.
Fearing that someone might have left something behind, the captain ran over quickly.
A few young men saw him coming and pointed at the food in the house and said, "Captain, is this what those soldiers left behind?
Should we send it to them?"
The captain looked at a bag of grain on the wooden board and fell into deep thought.
He turned around and saw a piece of paper on the table, and quickly took it in his hand to take a look.
After a long time, he said, “No need to send it off, this is what they left behind.
Alas, it’s not easy no matter where you are. "
On the other side, Wen Shize and his team had already deviated from their original route by two or three hundred kilometers, so at this time, they did not dare to stop on the road.
The people in the car took turns driving. Even at night, even if they were driving slowly, they still didn't dare to stop.
Although Li Qiang kept praying, hoping for a safe journey.
But something still went wrong. The two injured people suddenly developed a high fever in the middle of the night.
Even if Ningxia dealt with the situation promptly, there were not enough drugs on hand and there was nothing that could be done.
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