Chapter 214 Sending Things

Standing outside the door was a young man, tall and thin, wearing an army green uniform.

Liu Yinyin had seen this young man before. He was a rural postman and often delivered things to several nearby villages.

Thinking of something, Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "I am Liu Yinyin."

The postman nodded, took out a letter from his bag and handed it to Liu Yinyin: "There is a telegram for you."

"Comrade, thank you." Liu Yinyin took the envelope and glanced at the address on it. It was sent by Gu Cheng...

Liu Yinyin took out two White Rabbit candies from her pocket and handed them to the postman with a smile: "Comrade, thank you for your hard work."

As a woman living alone, it was not easy for her to invite anyone in to have a cup of hot tea.

Liu Yinyin often went to the Liu family, so she developed the habit of putting a few candies in her pocket and sharing them with her nephews and nieces.

The postman didn't expect Liu Yinyin to be so polite. He grinned and said, "Serving the people."

After the postman left, Liu Yinyin opened the envelope. The telegram was brief and to the point, saying that he had already arrived at the army, submitted a report on his application for a house, and would have a result soon.

After putting away the telegram, Liu Yinyin was thinking about going to the county town tomorrow to send some dried pork to Gu Cheng.

There are also photos taken by the family before, and it’s time to pick them up.

The next day, Liu Yinyin dropped Gu Yanyan off at Liu's house and went to the county town carrying a backpack on her back.

The back basket was filled with two and a half pounds of pork jerky. After five pounds of tenderloin was dried and turned into pork jerky, it only weighed a little over three pounds.

Liu Yinyin left some five-spice jerky pork for Gu Yanyan, and sent the rest to Gu Cheng.

The house in the county compound has been returned to the steel plant and we can no longer go there.

After arriving at the county seat, Liu Yinyin went to the photo studio first. Fortunately, the photos had already been developed, and she took in three freshly developed black-and-white photos.

Liu Yinyin found the post office...this was also her first time here.

The post office worker was a young girl, wearing the same army green uniform as the postman yesterday.

"Comrade, I want to send something." Liu Yinyin said.

The young girl asked without even looking up: "What are you sending?"

"...pork jerky and a few photos."

The young girl suddenly looked up, glanced at Liu Yinyin, and then took the things from Liu Yinyin's hand and weighed and packed them.

Liu Yinyin saw her movements and suddenly reminded her: "Comrade, I want to send two packages."

She was afraid that some of the photos would get wrinkled if they were packed together with the pork jerky.

The young girl paused and asked suspiciously, "...Wouldn't it be cheaper to send one package?"

Liu Yinyin insisted: "My husband is a soldier. These photos are very important to him. Comrade, please help me send two packages."

After hearing that they were military relatives, the young female comrade said nothing more.

Liu Yinyin bought an envelope to put the photos in. She also borrowed a piece of paper from a young female comrade, wrote a letter and put it in the envelope.

Handing the envelope to the young female comrade, Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Thank you for your help, comrade."

"No trouble." After knowing that the other party was a soldier's family member, the young female comrade became a little more polite.

After Liu Yinyin sent the things, she was about to leave, but was stopped by her again.

The young female comrade was named Zhang Mingjuan. When she saw Liu Yinyin had sent so much pork jerky, she couldn't help but ask, "...Comrade, do you have a lot of meat coupons?"

She was thinking that Liu Yinyin's husband was a soldier and his treatment was probably good. She wondered if he had any extra sex tickets to sell to her...

There was no way, the supply of pork in the city was getting less and less.

Natural disasters have occurred for two consecutive years. Whether in the city or in the countryside, there are very few pigs left, and everyone is running out of pork to eat.

Even on the black market, pork is only available once in a long time, so if you go too late you won’t be able to buy any.

However, for workers like them who have formal jobs, it would be harmful if they went to the black market too much.

Liu Yinyin paused and told her: "Someone in the village killed a pig, and I bought the pork in the village."

Zhang Mingjuan's eyes lit up immediately when she heard this: "Are there many people in your village who kill pigs?"

How is that possible!

Liu Yinyin asked back: "You want to buy pork?"

Zhang Mingjuan smiled shyly: "Who doesn't want to buy meat nowadays?"

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "Next time if someone in the village kills a pig, I'll bring you two pounds of pork."

"Really?" Zhang Mingjuan was surprised and surprised. "Will it be too troublesome?"

The two had just met, and Zhang Mingjuan was embarrassed to ask others to buy things for her, let alone pork.

Even though...she really wanted to buy pork.

Liu Yinyin smiled and said, "It's not a big deal. It's just something that comes naturally."

Zhang Mingjuan couldn't wait to say, "Okay, thank you, comrade. Next time you send something, I'll give you a discount."

Liu Yinyin smiled and nodded. She didn't care about that little bit of money.

However, transportation is inconvenient these days, and only the post office can be used to send letters and other things.

And making phone calls... Liu Yinyin thought that she would have to go to the post office often in the future, and it would be much more convenient if she had acquaintances.

Therefore, she was happy to be friends with Zhang Mingjuan.

Anyway, it’s not a big deal to just carry two kilograms of pork.

After finishing her work, Liu Yinyin went straight home.

In the past few days, the temperature has dropped a lot, estimated to be only about minus ten degrees Celsius.

It was freezing cold outside. When the wind blew, it felt like a knife cutting my face and my body was freezing cold.

It was such horrible weather that Liu Yinyin didn't meet anyone along the way.

When she was almost home, Liu Yinyin smuggled out two kilograms of shrimps, two kilograms of mutton, a bag of oranges, and a bag of apples from the system.

Cold weather is suitable for eating mutton. Liu Yinyin carried two kilograms of mutton and half a bag of apples to the Liu family to take care of Yanyan.

When Jiang Cuihua saw her daughter coming back from the county town, she couldn't wait to ask, "How is it? Did Gu Cheng write to you? Did you get the house application?"

Liu Yinyin told her about the telegram she received yesterday: "It said that a report has been sent to the army."

Jiang Cuihua heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this: "That's good."

It's quite contradictory. If the girl goes to join the army, Jiang Cuihua will be reluctant to let her go, but if she doesn't go...it will also make her worried.

The weather was cold, and Gu Yanyan was dressed in a round outfit, like a ball.

On the way back, the young man held Liu Yinyin's hand, looked up and asked her: "Mom, Dad... come home."

I guess it was because he heard Jiang Cuihua and Liu Yinyin talking about Gu Cheng that the little guy started thinking about looking for his father again.

Liu Yinyin said to him, "Dad can't come home for the time being. Next time, Mommy will take you to the county town to call Dad, okay?"

When the weather gets warmer, she will take the kid to the county seat and call Gu Cheng so that the kid won't feel insecure.

"......Okay." Gu Yanyan heard the satisfactory result and nodded happily.