Yi Qingqing and Wang Lingling’s return tickets were on January 3rd.

After New Year's Day, the two of them began to prepare to go home.

Yi Qingqing had asked the team leader about taking leave to go home for the New Year.

This is the good thing about being an educated youth in Northeast China. In the middle of winter, there is nothing to do in the team. As long as the educated youth has money and can buy a ticket back home, no one will stop them from going home to visit their families. As long as they come back before the production team starts work, it's fine.

In this era, it was difficult for educated youth to go home for the New Year mainly because they felt sorry for the money or simply could not afford it.

Yi Qingqing and Wang Lingling took a month and a half leave. If they want to stay at home longer, they can stay longer. One and a half months is enough, and they also have half a month of flexible time to avoid any accidents.

The reason why we decided to go back on the 3rd was mainly because there was an important event on the 2nd.

The team is going to kill the pig and distribute the meat!

When distributing grain, it was mainly based on population and work points, but when distributing meat, it was mainly based on the number of people.

The educated youth may have received much less than those large families with more than a dozen people, but they still got a share.

Even Wang Lingling planned to take the newly divided pork back to show her family. Although it was only a small amount and not enough for a family meal, it was meat that represented the fruits of her labor during her time in the countryside.

On New Year's Day, the two of them went to the team leader to get a certificate.

The No. 2 Big Head Team went together to watch the team slaughtering a pig, and each person was given a small piece of lean meat.

The fat meat with more oil and water did not get the share of the weak educated youth, and the old educated youth got slightly more than the new educated youth.

But it’s good to have meat, they have only been in the countryside for half a year!

On this day, the aroma of meat wafted through every household.

After Yi Qingqing took the meat back, she stored it in the food room.

I'm going to go home tomorrow, and I need to pack up the things I plan to take home.

She wandered around her food room.

I took a piece of fresh pork, a smoked chicken, a dried rabbit, a ready-made duck with soy sauce, and then some homemade pickles such as salted duck eggs, pickled sauerkraut, pickled radish, and some mountain products that I exchanged with fellow villagers.

I really want to take out a portion of everything I have and bring it back to her parents to try.

But not only were there too many things to carry, the most important thing was that it was difficult to explain to her parents.

She made up a story and told her parents that she had learned hunting from someone and was able to catch some small prey sometimes, so it was understandable that she brought back smoked chickens and dried rabbits.

She was a little afraid that bringing the wild boar meat from the space back would scare her parents, so she specifically bought this fresh pork from Li Mengxue.

There are so many things, and before I knew it I had collected a lot of things, and it was quite a lot.

This is not like the luggage I brought when I went to the countryside. I could just tie a bundle with a large piece of coarse cloth and carry it with me.

Some of these things are heavy, and many of them cannot be packed directly, so they have to be placed in jars or cans, which makes them even heavier.

She wrapped it with cloth because she was afraid it would not be able to bear the weight and fall out halfway.

After thinking for a long time, she went to the utility room and got her big backpack.

I have been working in the countryside for so long, and this backpack is always with me. It can hold everything, is easy to carry and is very sturdy.

She wrapped all the meat in oil paper, put a layer of cloth in the backpack, and then put the things in one by one. She also crumpled up some old newspapers and stuffed them in the gaps. Finally, she gathered the cloth and tied a tight knot.

Even after loading it like this, there is still an empty space about a finger deep in the backpack, so it doesn't look like there are a lot of things.

But once you pick them up, you'll know how heavy these things are.

However, Yi Qingqing, who takes the Dali Pills continuously, is not afraid of this.

Looking at her tidy and clean backpack, Yi Qingqing felt much more satisfied. It was troublesome to carry large and small bags, but she could solve the problem with just one backpack.

The things to take home are prepared, and then there is the dry food for the train.

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There's nothing to think about. Just make a few pancakes. There's no need for anything fancy. She made herself the same pancakes her mother made for her when she went to the countryside. They're hard when cold, but they're good when eaten with hot water. They're also very filling and easy to hold.

After the pancakes were made and cooled, she was wrapped up and put aside. Then she packed a few sets of clothes, made a small bundle and put it on top of the backpack.

This bag was used by her to deceive others.

If the time comes and I want to take something from the space, this bag will serve as a cover. I also have a cloth bag on my body that contains my identity card and other documents, as well as some change.

On the day of departure, after getting up, she rolled up her bedding, covered it with coarse cloth, and placed it on the suitcase.

Then she checked the things in the house. Except for the food distributed this year, all other edible things were put into the thatched hut.

If she wasn't afraid that there would be no food left and she wouldn't be able to explain herself if someone really came in, she wouldn't have kept even this little food.

Finally, I locked the doors and went out without pushing my bike.

Today, all members of the Big Head Squad went out to send Yi Qingqing and Wang Lingling to the station.

Seven people rode only five bikes.

Zheng Xiaolong drove Chen Zhihe, and Li Mengxue drove Qian Lailai, leaving two cars for Yi Qingqing and Wang Lingling who were carrying luggage.

When they come back, the five of them can just ride one each.

In the icy and snowy weather, five cars staggered onto the road at dawn.

The main reason for getting up so early, besides to catch the train, was to go to the state-owned restaurant to have breakfast together.

Have a good meal to store up some energy for the next few days on the train. You may not be able to eat or sleep well for several days.

I was lucky today as the state-owned restaurant served meat buns and egg drop soup for breakfast.

A few people ate in the restaurant, and after finishing breakfast, they felt warm all over.