"Aunt, you're so thoughtful. I didn't think of this," Sun Lan said. "Yuanyuan is sixteen now, right? She's a grown-up girl. Beggars love to kidnap girls this old. If you take them deep into the mountains, there's no shortage of buyers. It'll be hard to find them later. You're not taking Yuanyuan with you for her own good."
Sun Lan praised Feng Juan implicitly and implicitly.
Feng Juan felt a little embarrassed. In fact, she didn't think so much at all. She just felt that it was troublesome to take care of Yuanyuan and she would have to be distracted to take care of her all the time.
She and Yunqiao went to the commune's main store to buy some serious things for the New Year, so it was not appropriate for them to bring Yuanyuan along.
Two military trucks, carrying two trucks of military dependents, drove all the way to the commune.
As the New Year approached, the commune became busier and bustling. The crowds spread all the way outside the commune, blocking every road leading into the commune.
When the military truck was about a mile away from the commune, it could no longer move forward. It moved as slowly as a snail, not even as fast as a person walking at foot.
The driver simply stopped the car on the side of the road and asked the family members to get out and walk over.
This was Yun Qiao's first time traveling on the commune's annual tour, so she was quite familiar with the road conditions. Sun Lan herself was a local native. She had met Chen Ying at a social gathering organized by the commune over a decade ago and later married him, becoming a glorious military wife.
The commune is where Sun Lan grew up, and she is very familiar with it. When she talks about the origin of the commune, she knows it like the back of her hand and talks endlessly.
She took Feng Juan, Yun Qiao and several other military dependents to the most central and lively place in Dayi Commune with ease, introducing them as they walked. Soon, everyone's hands were filled with large and small bags in their net bags.
"It's hard to carry all these bags. How about we drop off our things at my parents' house first? Then we can continue shopping?" Sun Lan suggested. "My parents' house is in the alley behind the state-owned restaurant, not far from here."
Sun Lan's words were like a timely rain in the scorching summer, and they really touched the hearts of the family members.
The family members nodded in agreement.
"Okay, okay. Let's put the things over there first and pick them up when we leave. Otherwise, our wrists will break if we carry all this stuff all the way here."
Feng Juan and Yun Qiao also followed Sun Lan and walked towards her parents' home.
Sun Lan's parents' home is in the third alley behind the state-owned hotel. Walk into the alley next to the state-owned hotel and it will be there in two or three minutes.
The two-meter-wide alley has courtyards with red brick and tile houses. There are also drainage drains at the base of the courtyard walls. In that era, this was considered very good housing conditions.
Sun Lan was also quite pleased with herself. She introduced the place to Yun Qiao and the others, saying, "This area is occupied by cadres from the commune. It was just built and allocated to us a few years ago."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone asked her, "Are all the members of Sun's family cadres?"
"Only my brother is," Sun Lan said modestly. "He works at the commune's forestry bureau. My parents used to be teachers at the commune's middle school, but they've been retired for several years now."
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