Thursday, September 18th.
The day after tomorrow, the 20th, is Mid-Autumn Festival. Yan Shuhe's family and Yan Shulian's family will go back to the man's family to celebrate the festival, and will not come back to Yan's family.
Old Mrs. Yan originally planned to give a chicken and some vegetables and eggs to each of her two daughters.
But he had no time for the autumn harvest recently, and Yan Ning was idle at home, so she suggested that she deliver these things.
A little after nine in the morning.
After Yan Ning and the rest of the Yan family went to work, he went to the kitchen and put the two holiday gifts prepared by Old Madam Yan into the space.
Then she took her bicycle into the space and appeared near the Tongshi Food Factory.
It was working time, and Yan Ning went straight to the guard room of the food factory carrying his things.
She stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the doorman's pocket and said, "Uncle, please help me find Qin Limin. I'm his niece and I need help with something."
The security guard put the cigarette in his pocket with a smile, picked up the phone and dialed Qin Liming's office.
"Hey, Chief Qin, your niece is here to see you. She's waiting at the gate.
Yes, yes, yes, it’s the girl you came with last time. Okay, okay, I get it.”
After a few minutes, Qin Liming trotted to the gate.
He looked at Yan Ning and asked, "Yan Ning, why are you here? What do you want to talk to me about?"
Yan Ning picked up the things in his hand and said, "It's almost the Mid-Autumn Festival. My grandma knows that you won't be going back to celebrate the festival that day.
Let me give you a little holiday gift, which includes a chicken and some vegetables and eggs, to nourish Bingbing and Haoyuan."
Qin Limin took a few bags and said with a smile: "We have to trouble our two elders to care about us. We are really unfilial.
Yan Ning, please thank your grandparents for us and tell them that we will go back to visit them when we have time."
Yan Ning smiled and nodded, "Fourth Uncle, I'm leaving now. You should go back to work!"
Qin Limin: "Okay, then be careful on your way. I'll take these things home first and then come back to work."
Yan Ning waited until Qin Liming entered the gate of the food factory’s staff building before she walked towards the nearby anchor point.
After entering the space, she appeared in the woods of Qinghe County pushing her bicycle.
When Yan Ning was riding her bicycle and was about to go to Yan Sangu's house, she suddenly remembered that she didn't know where Yan Shuhe lived.
She forgot to ask Mrs. Yan for her address last night.
She thought about it and realized that Xiao Xue worked at a movie theater, so she might as well go there to find Xiao Xue.
Yan Ning rode his bicycle to the cinema in the center of the county town.
It took more than ten minutes to ride to the entrance of the cinema.
Yan Ning left his bicycle in a nearby parking lot and walked into the cinema carrying his things.
After entering the cinema hall, she looked around. There were not many people in the hall and no one was buying tickets at the ticket office.
Yan Ning walked to the ticket window, looked inside the counter and smiled.
The next second, she lowered her voice and said, "Contract seller, does your boss know that you are secretly knitting sweaters during work hours?"
Xiao Xue, who was knitting a sweater, was startled when she heard the sound and looked up suddenly.
"Cousin Ning, why are you here?" Xiao Xue put down the wool in her hand and stood up in surprise.
Yan Ning smiled and said, "Grandma asked me to send some Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to your family. When I came to the county town, I remembered that I didn't know where your family was.
Isn't that why I came to the cinema to see you? By the way, is your home close to here?"
"It's very close. It's only a four or five minute walk. Cousin Ning, please wait for me for a few minutes.
I'll find someone to take over my shift and take you to my house to get familiar with the place.
Then I'll treat you to a movie this afternoon. There's a new movie showing around 5:00 this afternoon.
I heard from my colleague that it’s really good, but I haven’t had the chance to watch it yet. It just so happens that we can watch it together this afternoon.”
After Xiao Xue finished speaking, she put the wool and the half-knitted sweater on the table into the bag.
She carried her things out of the ticket office and went to the lounge next door.
Yan Ning was waiting in the hall.
After a few minutes, Xiao Xue came out with a bag, "Cousin Ning, let's go!"
The two of them left the cinema and the distance was not far, so Yan Ning did not ride his bike.
The two chatted along the way and walked for four or five minutes before arriving at a large courtyard.
The houses in the slum are all semi-Siheyuan structures.
Some courtyards are home to seven or eight families, while others are ancestral homes where a whole family lives.
Three generations of Xiao Xue's family live together in the Xiao family's ancestral home.
Yan Ning followed Xiao Xue into the Xiao family yard and looked around.
The yard and the house are not very big, and the structure of the house is similar to that of the Yan family.
There are three main rooms and three side rooms on each side.
Xiao Xue's grandparents, her uncle's family of four, her second uncle's family of four, and Xiao Xue's family of five.
The whole family squeezed into eight rooms in this yard.
There were not enough rooms, so two boys lived in one room and two girls lived in another.
Meals are usually cooked in the main hall kitchen, and then the three families eat separately, with the two old people taking turns eating at the three families.
Xiao Xue took Yan Ning into the main room and locked all the things Yan Ning brought into her own cabinet.
"Cousin Ning, I'll take you out for lunch. There are too many people at home at noon, and I'm worried you won't feel comfortable eating here."
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