Xu Ning got up at 5:30 in the morning. Seeing Xu Mo's little face flushed with sleep, he pulled down the quilt for him. He felt the kang and found it was not very hot, so he added some firewood into the pit.
Xu Ning served two bowls of noodles and planned to make some dumpling soup in the morning. While Xu An was kneading the noodles, she got up and started to light the fire immediately after seeing Xu Ning cooking. While lighting the fire, she said to Xu Ning, "Sister, I'll send Xiao Mo to the cowshed and go get some firewood. Yesterday I heard from Jianmin that we have to keep the kang heated for five or six months in winter here. It takes a lot of firewood to burn day and night. Let's store some before it snows."
Xu Ning thought about it and realized that it was true. They had a lot of firewood and it would burn quickly. It would be good to pick up more firewood before it snowed. He said to Xu An, "Then send Xiao Mo to the cowshed after dinner and let him follow Grandpa Qi. We can pick up some firewood by the Daqing Mountain in the morning. When I come back from the city in the afternoon, we will go together to pick up firewood."
After saying that, he put the shredded cabbage in the pan and stir-fried it, added water, and when it boiled, put the noodles in, and then beat two eggs.
Xu Ning walked to the place at the entrance of the village where Old Chen parked his carriage and saw that there were already three people in the carriage, the heroine Lin Miao, Li Fengjiao, and a girl he had never seen before. Judging from her dress, she should also be an educated youth. She should have come with the hero. I heard that there were five people in total that time.
Several people looked at her. She looked back without saying anything and put the backpack on the carriage. She asked Old Chen, "Grandpa Chen, when are we leaving?"
Old Chen saw that she was carrying a large backpack with a large bundle in it, and said to her with a smile, "It's almost time, Xu Zhiqing, we are going to your relative's house." Now everyone in the village knew that Xuning had a relative who worked as a public security officer in the county.
Xu Ning said, "Grandpa Chen, I'm not going to my brother Jianshe's house today. Xiao An and I picked up some mountain products in the mountains and sent some to my eldest brother. He is serving in the army in Jinshi, and there is no such thing there."
Old Chen said, "It's good to be a soldier, it's good to be a soldier, to defend the country, and I heard there are a lot of allowances every month."
Xu An replied, "Not much. My eldest brother is reluctant to spend it, so he sends it to me and Xiao An every month." Xu Ning just wanted others to know that she has a brother who is a soldier and sends her money every month, so that she will have a source when she spends money to buy things in the future. Otherwise, others will see you often bringing home big or small bags, and wonder where the money comes from?
Lin Miao, who was sitting next to him, suddenly said, "Xu Zhiqing, I see your brother is still a child, and you are not that old either. Why did you go to the countryside at such a young age? Where are your parents?"
Xu Ning deliberately said to Lin Miao angrily, "Lin Zhiqing, my family is all building the motherland. We listened to the Chairman's call and went to the countryside to build the countryside. Although we are younger than you, we work just as hard as you do. Don't look down on us because we are young."
Working in the cowshed is also a part of building the motherland.
Lin Miao explained awkwardly, "Xu Zhiqing, that's not what I meant," and then tried to speak again.
Xu Ning was afraid that Lin Miao would ask about her parents again, so she snorted, pretended to be angry and turned her head away and ignored her.
At this time, two loud-mouthed aunties from the village got on the oxcart and resolved the awkward situation. The oxcart arrived at the county town amid the gossip of the two aunties.
Xu Ning went to the post office to mail the things first. After leaving the post office, he remembered that he had not mailed the letter yet, so he went back in, intending to buy a stamp and put it in the mailbox at the entrance of the post office. When he saw the stamps with the words "The whole country is red" in the hands of the staff, his heart started pounding and his face turned red with excitement.
When she saw the comrade at the post office about to tear off the stamps for her, she immediately shouted, "Comrade, comrade, no need to tear them, I want all of them."
The man looked at her and said, "There are more than a dozen of them. What do you need so many for?"
Xu Ning looked at the stack in his hand. Only the top two had the "The Whole Country is Red" stamps, and the rest were ordinary stamps. He said, "Comrade, I want those red ones. I think they look good," and then he smiled embarrassedly.
The staff didn't say anything, thinking that these little girls all liked these bright things, so they gave her the rest.
Xu Ning walked out of the post office and touched her still pounding heart. Even though she had never paid much attention to stamps, she knew the auction price of "The Whole Country is Red" at that time. Thinking that decades later she could live a carefree life with these stamps, she smiled like a dream. When she came to her senses and saw the people passing by her looking at her as if she was crazy, she immediately put away the smile on her face, replaced it with an expressionless face, and walked towards the supply and marketing cooperative.
What Xu Ning didn't know was that not long after she left, Lin Miao came into the post office. Lin Miao had just heard Li Fengjiao say that she wanted to send a letter, and then she remembered that the stamps with the whole country red seemed to have been issued in the past two years. When she arrived at the post office, she saw that the postal comrades were showing her ordinary stamps, and she left disappointed.
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