"Are you eating?" A deep, manly voice was heard, and the torn sack behind the kiln door was opened.

"Secretary Li is here?" Zhong Ziyan quickly put down the bun in his hand and stood up.

Li Dacheng came in holding a large package.

"I went to the commune post office today and saw your package, so I helped bring it back."

Zhong Ziyan came to wonder who sent the package and quickly thanked him, "Sorry for bothering you."

Li Dacheng is a simple man. He is old and his face is weathered.

"Don't be polite, it's just a piece of cake." Li Dacheng put down the things in his hands, clapped his hands and prepared to go out.

Zhong Ziyan had no intention of opening a house to leave him food, but he was short of money, and his family only had these two wheat buns for dinner, so they had no choice but to send him off awkwardly.

"Who sent this? When you wrote to me last time, you didn't say anything was sent?" Bai Jie looked at the huge package with curiosity.

Who could it be that has such a big bag?

"It was just those few people before. Who else would send us things now?" Zhong Ziyan squatted down, picked up the package and examined it carefully.

"Is it... sent by Qinghuan?" Zhong Ziyan was a little surprised when he read it. He thought it might be sent by his daughter, or his wife's family, but he never thought it might be sent by his niece.

In the past five years, my niece has rarely written to me, so it’s strange that she would send me something this time.

Of course he did not blame her, on the contrary he was very grateful to the girl.

He knew that she had a hard time, too, especially after going to the countryside, where she was already ill and had to take care of her parents and sister.

So he opened the package eagerly to see what she had sent.

A pungent odor came, and the two people quickly covered their noses.

Zhong Ziyan endured the stench and took out the small package. When he opened it, he saw two tattered cotton coats that were soft to the touch.

This length... Zhong Ziyan suspected that it was modified from a military coat, but he didn't know why it smelled so bad.

Sure enough, Bai Jie turned over the clothes and found a hole inside, which allowed her to take off the tattered coat on the outside. It turned out that there was a whole new world inside these two tattered cotton coats.

They were two brand new military coats.

This length can keep out the cold and can be used as a quilt in winter.

Bai Jie touched the two pieces of torn clothes and felt that they felt right. She checked them again and found some bulges in the corners.

She found a knife and gently cut it open, and found five dollars inside.

I did the same thing and found ten such bulges from two pieces of torn clothes, a total of fifty yuan.

The two men were dumbfounded when they saw the two military coats and fifty yuan on the kang.

Did this girl make a fortune? Why did she suddenly send so many good things?

Zhong Ziyan always has a good feeling.

"Ahem, is there anything else in the package? Take it out and see if there is any letter." Bai Jie instructed calmly.

"Yeah, I forgot."

Zhong Ziyan opened the package and took out two more bags, ten kilograms of black flour, ten kilograms of corn flour, and a bag of black "sticks".

Finally, I found a letter at the bottom.

Zhong Ziyan opened it and read it, with a knowing smile on his face.

Bai Jie thought there was some good news in the letter, so she quickly snatched it away and said, "Let me see what Huan Huan wrote."

Bai Jie was stunned when she saw it.

What does this mean?

If you want to help collect the fine grain, please reply to my letter.

even number.

"Would Huanhuan like you to exchange these for some grain?"

Zhong Ziyan shook his head and explained with interest: "No! This is the communication method I taught her when she was a child. I didn't expect that she would use it many years later.

You see, there are even numbers written below, which means only read even numbers, so the meaning of the letter becomes: If you collect the food, reply.

Even if someone gets this letter, they will probably understand what she means.

Huan Huan must have had some concerns, so she wrote a letter to test us. I'm afraid she deliberately made the clothes smell bad, and now she has put the bad things in our hands."

"Huanhuan is really pregnant, so...are we going to accept these things?" Bai Jie was a little nervous. She knew that her husband was very proud and would definitely accept that she was relying on her niece for financial support.

I touched the new military coat on the kang. With these two coats, this winter would not be so hard to endure.

Their old cotton-padded clothes and quilts had long since outlasted their warmth, and when winter came, the two of them had no choice but to put on all their clothes, but they were still shivering from the cold. They just huddled on the kang, reduced their activities, and saved food and firewood.

Water is scarce in this area, and even firewood is hard to find. We have to rely on the straw distributed by the team. This little firewood is enough for cooking, so there is no need to waste time on heating a kang.

Zhong Ziyan thought about it and gritted his teeth and said, "Take it!"

People are dying, so why should they care about dignity?

He would find a way to repay his niece for her kindness in the future, but if his wife didn't have these things, she would probably not survive the winter.

With this food and money, I can finally get by for a while and then find a way to cure my wife's cough.

"Here are 20 kilograms of food and this black stick. I think they are edible." After saying that, Zhong Ziyan took a bite and almost broke his teeth.

“So hard?”

Believing it, he tried it again, this time scraping off a layer of flour, and a wheat aroma filled his mouth.

It looks like a kind of dry food made from grain.

"This stuff smells pretty good, and tastes much better than black wheat buns. I'll save it for you." Zhong Ziyan packed up the things.

"Zi Yan, tell me, why did Huan Huan suddenly send so many things? We have already taken the money for food and clothing into consideration, and judging from what she said in the letter, she is planning to continue sending us things."

After all, there had been none before, and suddenly so many were sent, which inevitably aroused suspicion.

Zhong Ziyan was also confused.

"I will write a letter later and ask the Party Secretary to mail it to me tomorrow when he goes to the commune."

The two of them packed up their things and hid them.

He put a tattered jacket over his military coat and put it on the kang, which didn't look eye-catching at all.

"Huanhuan is such a beautiful girl. It's a pity that I loved her so much in the past." Zhong Ziyan said with emotion.

"Ahem, yes, I know how they are doing.

As for Xiaoxiao and Xiao Youran, they also knew that Xu Jianguo would make things difficult for them.

It’s been a long time since I’ve received a letter from Xingxing.”

Speaking of his daughter, Zhong Ziyan also sighed: "No matter how ruthless Xu Jianguo is, he would not harm them both. Even a tiger will eat its own cubs. Youran is his own daughter."

"Ahem, after having sex with Youran, Xu Jianguo injured his body and could no longer conceive. He said that he still wanted a son to carry on the family line.

In the past, he still kept silent for the sake of the Zhong family and us, but now that we are like this, how can he…” Bai Jie said the next words, and Zhong Ziyan also understood.

As a father, he helped his daughter; as a husband, he saved his wife. Sometimes he thought that it would be better if he died.

"well!"