"No, I'm used to running around outside. I have to deliver a letter later. Oh, this is a letter from Comrade Xu's family. Can you please bring it in for me?"
"Okay, I'll give it to him right away."
"Come in quickly, you are a kid from the south, you can't stand the cold."
He Xiaoyou wanted to say that his hometown did not belong to the south, but in the eyes of these people, perhaps only the three northeastern provinces belonged to the north.
Just shut up, take the package and go into the house.
The new and old educated youth lived in two rooms, and both male and female educated youth lived in collective dormitories.
Six people shared a room and slept on the same kang, which was very inconvenient both for living and sleeping.
It’s not that no one wants to move out and live alone, but it’s just too cold in the winter. If you go out, you have to consider the lack of firewood, the need to fetch water and cook every day, and the need to heat the kang before going to bed, among many other issues.
It would be better to live together and keep each other warm, so that no one would freeze to death in the house without anyone knowing.
A group of grown men lived together, and the smell in the room was unimaginable due to the heat from the kang.
He Xiaoyou wrinkled his nose subconsciously, put the package in the area where he slept, raised his hand as if shooting a basketball, and the envelope fell accurately into Xu Shuo's hand.
It felt quite thick, and he guessed that the Xu family must have given him some money, otherwise he would not be able to wear the new cotton-padded jacket.
He Xiaoyou actually didn't intend to open the package.
But Zhao Meng had previously been promoting how well-off his family was and how much his family loved him, which aroused everyone's curiosity and made them want to see what his family had sent him.
Especially the educated youth from Beijing, who claimed to be the richest among the group.
Zhao Meng followed him around all day, flattering him and trying to sow discord between them. He thought He Xiaoyou was a person who was just trying to show off his wealth, and he looked down on him even more.
Amid the commotion, He Xiaoyou opened the package and found that the outermost layer was a thick cotton jacket.
He recognized it as his father's set, which was filled with three pounds of bacon, two pounds of sausage, and many canned goods.
This time, everything was homemade, diced bamboo shoots and minced pork, roasted pepper beef, diced chicken with mushrooms...all his favorite flavors.
He Xiaoyou sucked his saliva. Just by staring at the bottle, he could imagine the craftsmanship of his third uncle.
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