Chapter 13 Chapter 13 An unexpected surprise.
In the end, of course, the box was bought, and the old lady gave the money together with the newspaper.
Mu Mian blushed, "Thank you, grandma~"
Who could have thought that one day she would have to ask her parents for even three cents.
In her previous life, she became independent after graduating from high school. Because she didn't want to make her grandparents work so hard, she wanted to try any job that could earn money.
I learned a lot for this purpose, and the main idea is that it is always better to have many skills.
She did earn a lot of money at that time. Not only did she not ask for any money from her family throughout college, she also gave a lot to her grandparents.
Unfortunately, the two old people were too old and didn’t enjoy their lives for many years.
Zhao Meihua didn't know what her granddaughter was thinking. She sighed and said, "You're being polite to grandma."
Mu Mian smiled sweetly, "I will give it to Naihua when I make money in the future!"
She just looked around at the purchasing station and found that they also buy some dried goods from the mountains. She could go to the mountains and take a look around more.
A little bit adds up to a lot, live on the mountain!
Zhao Meihua smiled as if she had received a gift from her granddaughter, "Okay, I'll be waiting for you then."
The grandparents and grandchildren walked outside while talking, and when they arrived at the post office, Mu Fugui and Liu Shuangcui were already waiting there.
Mu Fugui looked at the newspaper in his mother's hand and said, "She went to sell the scraps. I was wondering why I didn't see her at the recycling station."
Mu Mian looked at his parents, "Where are my aunt and sister Taozi?"
Mu Fugui: "I went to Yangliu Brigade."
He took the box from his daughter's hand and looked at it. "Where did you get it from? Did you buy it from a scrap dealer?"
Mu Mian nodded and pointed at the pattern on the box. "Grandma bought this for me. Dad, don't you think it looks good?"
Mu Fugui admired it seriously, "It's beautiful, what kind of flower is this? Is it a peony? It looks very rich! Just like your father!!"
The father and daughter started chatting together. If you didn't know them, you would have thought that the flower was carved by them.
Liu Shuangcui was too lazy to look at it and went in with the package to send something to her eldest son.
After talking for a while, Mu Mian looked up at the sky and said, "Will it take another hour for my brother to call me?"
Mu Zhuo doesn't have free time. When he doesn't have any missions, he also has to train. So he wrote to call me after training at noon, but it's not lunch time yet.
Mu Fugui didn't have a watch, so he couldn't see the time, so he could only roughly estimate, "About the time. Are you tired of waiting? Then daddy will take you out for a walk."
In the end, it didn't take long, and they came back in about fifteen minutes. Both the father and daughter were afraid of missing the call.
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On the other side, Mu Zhuo, who was far away in Ningzhang City, was equally anxious. After the training, he ran to the communication room at the gate of the base without stopping. He didn't even have time to eat. He only asked his roommates to help him get some food.
He didn't know what was wrong. Since the past few days, he had been wanting to call home. He couldn't feel at ease without calling.
We agreed to fight last time, but in the end we didn't because of an urgent mission. Fortunately, there were no accidents this time.
When Mu Zhuo arrived at the message room, someone was fighting in front of him, so he could only stand aside and wait for a while.
There are a lot of people in their base, nearly 10,000 in total, and it is not easy to call their family whenever they want.
Most people write letters, and send telegrams when they encounter urgent matters.
He had no urgent business, he just wanted to talk to his family, especially his younger sister. When he left last year, his younger sister hugged him and cried for a long time.
I haven’t seen him for more than a year. I don’t know if he misses me or not. Anyway, I miss him very much, especially these days!
In these days, long-distance calls had to be transferred. Mu Zhuo went into the switchboard room and made the call. It was three minutes later when he actually heard the voices of his family.
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Red Star Commune, Post Office.
Mu Fugui just said "Hello" when he heard his son say, "Dad, where's my little sister? Let my little sister answer the phone."
Mu Fugui: “………………”
Brat! It's obvious at first glance that he doesn't think about his father, yet he still thinks about him from time to time. What a heartless boy!
It was not known whether it was because Mu Zhuo’s voice was too loud or the phone quality was bad, but Mu Mian heard everything his eldest brother said.
Mu Mian, who was not even as tall as the counter, stood on tiptoe and barely saw the phone base on the counter.
Mu Fugui handed the phone to his daughter and picked up the little girl. The phone line was not that long and it was very tiring to stand on tiptoe all the time.
Mu Mian held the phone in both hands, "Brother~"
A very young voice came from the other end of the line, sounding very excited and happy, "Little sister! How are you doing recently? Have you grown taller? Are you not sick? Do you miss your brother?"
"When I was on a mission last week, I exchanged some dried fish with a fellow villager. I'll mail it to you in a few days when I have time. Tell Dad not to forget to pick it up when the time comes!"
"besides……"
Mu Zhuo is still the same as before. His younger sister is a man of few words, so he is used to talking to himself.
Mu Mian held the phone, opening and closing his mouth for a long time, but couldn't find a way to interrupt.
After Mu Zhuo had been talking for more than a dozen sentences, Mu Mian slowly replied, "Brother, I have grown taller.
, my mother measured it for me during the Chinese New Year! Grown seven centimeters in one year! Isn’t it amazing? ! ”
When asked if he was sick, Mu Mian paused and replied selectively, "I'm not seriously ill. I'm in good health! I just had a fever a few days ago, but I'm completely well now!"
"Mom just sent you a package. Mom said it will arrive in three weeks if it's late. Inside are shoes made of milk, pine nuts, and..."
On the other end of the phone, Mu Zhuo, who was talking a lot in one breath, didn't expect that he could actually hear his little sister talking to him as well.
In the past, he would say ten sentences, but my little sister might not be able to reply even half a sentence.
Mu Zhuo held the phone and stopped moving for a moment, just listening quietly to the childish voice coming from the other end of the phone line.
He has been away from home for more than a year, and his little sister seemed to have grown up quietly while he was away.
Mu Mian, who hadn't heard any sound since then, looked at the phone base on the counter in confusion. There was nothing displayed on it, and she couldn't tell whether the line was disconnected or not.
Mu Mian called out twice more, "Brother? Brother, did you hear me?"
Mu Zhuo wiped his eyes and quickly replied: "I'm listening!"
Mu Mian remembered what his neighbor’s grandmother said in his previous life, and warned him worriedly, “Brother, you must be careful when you go on a mission!”
Mu Zhuo said in a very relieved tone, "I know, I know, your brother..."
The young man quickly recovered and started bragging again, with the same tone as his father.
Mu Mian heard her brother say that he had made great contributions during a mission and was now the squad leader! They said the allowance was five dollars more, and they said...
The brother and sister, who were thousands of kilometers apart, held the phone and talked to each other, one kept calling "little sister" and the other kept replying "brother, brother", and they were very close.
Finally, Liu Shuangcui couldn't stand it anymore. After all, answering the phone also costs money, just like making a phone call, it is extremely expensive.
Liu Shuangcui took the phone and said a few words to her son, then let her mother-in-law say a few words, and then hung up the phone.
Mu Fugui, who only said "hello" from beginning to end: "………………"
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Ningzhang City.
Mu Zhuo had completely forgotten that he hadn't said a word to his father, and his heart was still happily immersed in his little sister's repeated calls of "brother, brother".
The little girl has grown up without anyone noticing and now knows how to worry about and give instructions to her brother.
When Mu Zhuo pushed open the door of the message room, he still had a smile on his face, and he felt that the worry he had been carrying for the past week was finally at ease.
Everything is fine at home, he doesn't need to worry! !
Mu Zhuo had only taken two steps when he ran into his platoon leader Dong Qie and the platoon leader of the next platoon Wen Zhan. Before the smile on Mu Zhuo's face faded, he immediately stopped and saluted the two of them.
After Dong Qie returned one, he smiled and said, "I saw you smiling from a distance. Has your family introduced you to someone?"
Dong Qie usually gets along well with his soldiers, so Mu Zhuo is not afraid of him. He scratched his head with a smile and said, "No, I'm calling my little sister."
When people are happy, they talk a lot. Even if the other party is his superior, Mu Zhuo can't stop talking. "The little girl has grown up. She kept calling me brother. I couldn't help but talk a little longer."
Except for the time he left home, my little sister would only call him when she needed him.
Wen Zhuan was from the next row, and he didn't know the family situation of the monitor of the other row. He subconsciously said according to his own understanding: "He can speak now, that's worth being happy about."
Mu Zhuo: “………………”
Mu Zhuo scratched his head. Were his words just now so ambiguous?
Dong Qie actually didn't know the family situations of every soldier under his command. He understood the same as Wen Chen, "Did your parents give you this child after you came here?"
He remembered that Mu Zhuo was almost twenty years old, right? There's quite a big age difference.
Mu Zhuo smiled awkwardly and explained: "No, my little sister is eight years old."
Dong Qie heard the two people: "………………"
They thought it was eight months.
Dong Qie laughed and patted Mu Zhuo on the shoulder. "You haven't eaten yet, have you? Go eat quickly."
Having made a fool of himself, Mu Zhuo also wanted to leave quickly. He responded and ran away, mainly because he was really a little hungry.
After Mu Zhuo left, Wen Chen smiled at his childhood friend and colleague, "You are an interesting soldier."
The two came to the mail room to pick up a package. Dong Qie took the signature book handed over by the soldier on duty and wrote as he spoke, "Indeed, it can be seen that he dotes on his sister."
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Mu Mian, who was far away in the Red Star Commune, had no idea what was happening with her brother. At that moment, she was sitting in a state-owned restaurant with her parents and her grandmother.
Today's main course was cabbage and meat dumplings. The restaurant was packed. Our family of four didn't arrive early and almost missed it.
In the end, Mu Mian relied on his small stature to dart swiftly through the crowd and rushed to the window to grab the last two plates.
The chef at the state-owned restaurant has great skills. Each dumpling is round, plump, juicy, white, plump and very fragrant.
Two plates were definitely not enough, but they didn’t want to be full, so just tasting the food was good enough.
The father and daughter shared one plate, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law shared another. Mu Mian ate until his cheeks were bulging. “It’s so delicious!!”
Mu Fugui pushed the dumplings towards his daughter and said, "Eat more."
Mu Mian shook his head, "Dad will eat the rest."
Her father's work was also tiring. It was true that he could occasionally make some money from working in the slaughterhouse, but it was also physical work every day.
Mu Fugui had an expression that said 'Wow, my daughter is so filial, I'm so touched.'
Liu Shuangcui said she couldn't bear to watch it, and coughed, "Stop being so bored, eat quickly, and go back quickly after eating, there's a lot of work to do in the house."
Mu Fugui tilted his head towards his daughter with a sly expression on his face, "Your mother is jealous."
Mu Mian was amused by her own father and giggled. Facing Comrade Liu Shuangcui's speechless eyes, she picked up one for each of her mother and grandmother, "Mom, eat more, and grandmother, eat more too."
The main focus is to keep things equal.
When the family came out of the state-owned restaurant, Uncle Wang had already gone home.
The ox cart waits for no one. If you can catch it, you can sit on it. If you can’t catch it, you can leave.
After walking for more than an hour to get home, the dumplings had long been digested. Mu Mian followed her parents' example and ate a raw sweet potato.
They have been stored in the cellar for a winter, so they are a bit dry, and you can even smell a faint damp and moldy smell from being stored for a long time.
Although it doesn't taste good, it's still good enough to fill your stomach.
After eating, Mu Mian poured the peeled skin to the old hen.
There was a slight leak in the ceiling in the backyard of her house, so her father, Comrade Mu Fugui, set up a ladder and started repairing it. He had to repair it because the old hens were underneath and they would get sick from the wet.
This old hen that can lay one or two eggs a day can be exchanged for four or five yuan outside and is very precious.
The old lady took two new diapers to Mu Xinglong's place. Mu Mian originally wanted to go and see her twin cousins, but when she saw her mother carrying a basin and preparing to go to the river to wash clothes, she simply followed her.
Carrying my dirty shoes and the small box I just took out, I need to wash them.
The side of the box was stained with something black, and she thought it was dirty to put it directly on the bedside.
As soon as the mother and daughter went out, they met Liu Guizhi, who was also going to wash clothes.
Mu Mian greeted warmly, "Aunt, where's Lele?"
Liu Guizhi nodded her chin and said, "She ran up the mountain with her third brother."
It is impossible for children living next to the mountains not to go up the mountain. If they can be restrained for two or three days, they are already considered obedient.
On days when there is no work, you can see people everywhere in the team. Many are washing and scrubbing by the river, and some male comrades are fishing in the deep water.
Mu Mian followed her mother and cleaned her box and shoes obediently, and listened to a lot of gossip at the same time.
When they got home after washing, the sun had moved a little further to the west, so Mu Mian put the boxes and shoes on the wooden rack to dry.
Today's dinner is very simple. We just steamed some sweet potatoes and cooked some cornmeal porridge. Liu Shuangcui also steamed some for tomorrow morning, so we can heat it up and eat it when the time comes so we can go to work.
When it was completely dark, the team also fell into darkness. There was rarely any light, and everyone went to bed early.
Mu Mian had originally planned to go to bed at this time, but she tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep. She didn't know if it was because she ate too many sweet potatoes tonight, or if the raw sweet potatoes she had eaten in the afternoon had been left for too long and something had gone wrong, her stomach was very bloated.
When his stomach growled again, Mu Mian propped himself up with his arms and sat up, then went out in the dark and found the kerosene lamp on the dining table.
The matches were not nearby, so Mu Mian went to the kitchen to look for them. She was really afraid of stepping on empty air if she went to the bathroom without lighting the kerosene lamp. If she fell and got covered in dirt, she might be so disgusted that she would throw herself away.
The couple in the main room were not sleeping very soundly. When they heard the rustling noise, Liu Shuangcui opened the window and poked her head out, looking at her daughter. "What are you doing? Do you have diarrhea?"
Mu Mian touched her stomach and said, "No, I just feel a little uncomfortable. Mom, go to sleep."
Liu Shuangcui responded and said nothing more. Her daughter was eight years old, not two or three years old, so she didn't need to accompany her to the toilet.
It was still a bit cold in the morning and evening this month. After all this running around, Mu Mian felt better in the stomach, but the cool wind made her feel better.
After the breeze, I felt a lot more sober.
When passing by the wooden rack for drying shoes, Mu Mian saw that the small box on it had already dried up, so she picked it up and planned to take it back to the house. It was just the right size for her hairbands, small handkerchiefs, and her ten-cent savings!
It was quiet all around. Mu Mian held the kerosene lamp in one hand and the lid of the box with the other. The small box swayed as she walked, making some noise, as if a stone had entered it.
The sound was very small, but in the night when it was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, this tiny movement was particularly clear.
Mu Mian looked inside the small box in confusion, but did not see any pebbles.
After returning to his room, Mu Mian placed the kerosene lamp on the table by the window and brought the small box closer. It was clean inside and outside, but the noise was still there when he shook it.
When I shook it hard, the noise was quite loud.
Mu Mian looked around the box in confusion, touching and pressing here and there as he looked.
Then, when I pressed the bottom plate inside the box, there was a "click" sound, and the bottom surface on the right side... dented!
Mu Mian's eyes widened like bells, "!!!"
No way, no way? ! Such a small box actually has a mezzanine? ! !
She hadn't noticed it before! !
Under the little light, the round eyes appear even rounder.
Mu Mian used her small hands to dig hard at the dented small board, and then she pulled out a few melon seed-like things, which sparkled with golden light under the kerosene lamp.
Mu Mian: “!!!!”
Golden melon seeds! !
gold! of!
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