The next day, after breakfast, the three siblings excitedly took their home supplies to make coal briquettes.
First I dug the soil, then I broke the coal into pieces and mixed them together evenly. The steps were the same as last year, but why didn't the coal balls take shape?
Xu An asked in confusion, "Sister, what's going on? We did exactly what Brother Lu did last year, so why can't we do it?"
Xu Ning sighed and said, "Brother, if I knew what was going on, I would still be here staring at you."
In the end, Xu An said, since Brother Lu knows how to make coal briquettes, Uncle Lu should be able to do it too, so why not go and ask Uncle Lu.
Xu Ning had no other choice but to ask Xu An to see if Uncle Lu had finished his work and to ask him to come over and take a look.
Because Grandpa Qi asked them to help take care of Xu Mo, they often interacted with the cowshed. Everyone in the village and the Youth League Institute knew about it, so no one said anything when they asked them to come and help occasionally.
Uncle Lu and Father Xu came over and saw the pile of coal underground and the clown faces of the siblings. They felt both funny and sad.
After asking them about the production process, I realized that they used the wrong soil. I told them that clay should be used to make coal briquettes.
Xu An beside him suddenly realized, "I remember that last time Brother Lu made coal briquettes, he dug soil from the river. Today we are using soil from our private plot."
Dad Xu and Uncle Lu went to dig up some clay and mixed them together to make coal briquettes.
Xu An and Xu Mo also wrote to Xu Yang and Lu Xiaotang to tell them about this matter.
When this letter was sent out, the packages they sent to Xu Yang and Lu Xiaotang were also received by them.
Xu Yang took the package back to the dormitory. Several roommates stared at his package with green eyes and said,
"Xu Yang, our brothers and sisters have sent you something again, hurry up and open it to see what it is." They are still thinking about the smell of the pine nuts and hazelnuts they sent last year.
Xu Yang smiled and said to the greedy people who gathered around him, "Don't grab anything when I open it. Leave some for the company commander and other brothers. Otherwise, I won't care if you get beaten up."
Xu Yang opened the package and placed it on the table, then took out the letter and read it.
The letter was from Xu An, saying that he had gone back to school and was in the fourth grade. His family was doing well.
This year they collected more mountain products than last year, and they were given 100 kilograms more food than last year.
The last part was written by Xu Ning. The cloth shoes in the package were made by his mother, and he was told not to be frugal because there was enough food at home.
Perform well in the army, unite with your comrades, and strive for home leave as soon as possible to visit them in Yushu Village.
Xu Yang finished reading the letter with red eyes and thought to herself, little girl, if someone didn't know you, they would think you were my sister.
In a military district in Nanshi, Lu Xiaotang came out of the training ground and saw a young soldier running towards him with a package. He walked up to him, saluted, and said, "Company Commander, there is your letter and package."
Lu Xiaotang took it and saw that it was from Xu Ning. After thanking the young soldier, he took the letter and the package and went back to the dormitory.
After he walked away, several people coming out of the training ground asked the soldier who delivered the package, "Xiao Wang, who sent the package to Captain Lu? Where did it come from?"
The young soldier looked at them and shook his head, saying, "I don't know, Platoon Leader Zhang, if you want to know, go ask Captain Lu," and then he ran away.
Platoon Leader Zhang looked at Xiao Wang running away and said, "You little bastard, you're really tight-lipped."
Then he said to the people next to him, "Hey, is the one who writes letters to the company commander every month his girlfriend?"
The platoon leader of the second platoon said, "I guess it's because of the two pillars of the cultural troupe.
They acted so arrogant in front of us, and they would hang around our company commander every day, but the company commander never even looked at them.
"What are those people from the art troupe? Yan Yingying, the daughter of Brigade Commander Yan, is a broadcaster in the military region. She is so pretty. I have seen her come to our company commander several times, but our company commander didn't pay much attention to her," the squad leader of Class 1 also said with a wink.
The monitor of the third squad rushed to say, "Last time when our company commander was injured and hospitalized, the beauty of the military hospital, Yun Mengyao, who no one liked, ran to the company commander's ward seven or eight times a day, asking about his health and being gentle and considerate. Everyone in the same ward with the company commander thought she was his girlfriend.
You don’t know, I was there taking care of the company commander, and I was moved by Doctor Yun. I thought if there was such a beautiful woman who treated me like this, I would marry her immediately. But the company commander gave her a cold face and didn’t even look at her. In the end, he was so annoyed that he said to Doctor Yun expressionlessly, "
After that, he cleared his throat and imitated Lu Xiaotang's expression and said, "Doctor Yun, I don't have anything to do here. You don't have to come here all the time. Other patients need you more. Besides, you are not my attending physician."
Doctor Yun's face flushed after hearing this, but he still said to our company commander gently,
The squad leader of the third squad cleared his throat again and imitated Yun Mengyao in a shrill voice, "Captain Lu, it is the duty of every doctor to care for patients. Although I am not your attending physician, I understand your condition. You can come to me if you have any questions. You should have a good rest. I will go back first. If you have anything, you can ask this comrade to come to my office to call me."
The squad leader of the third squad finished speaking and shook his head, "How can girls in this city be so brave? If they were in our village, they would have been too embarrassed to go out after hearing what the company commander said."
Platoon Leader Zhang said, "That's because our company commander is charming. Last time, I accompanied Dunzi to the hospital to bandage his wound. The nurses were busy, so I asked Doctor Yun if he could help bandage it. Doctor Yun didn't refuse, but he had a cold face the whole time. He was so arrogant."
The monitor of the second squad also said, "Our company commander has such a great demeanor and looks that if I were a woman, I would also like to marry him."
"Fuck, with your looks, I wouldn't look down on you even if you were a woman, and you still want to be our company commander's wife."
Several people burst into laughter.
Lu Xiaotang returned to the dormitory and opened the letter first. The front was written by Xu An.
He said he went to school, his mother made him new clothes, and Aunt Lu made him two pairs of shoes.
This year's harvest was very good. We distributed a lot more food than last year, and picked more mountain products than last year.
It is said that Aunt Lu and his mother went to the mountains to pick up mountain products for a few days. There was no more space in the room, so they put a lot of them in Grandpa Qi's room.
The middle part is what Xu Mo said, and Xu An wrote it for him. He said that his seventh grandfather had made a small backpack for him, and he followed his sister up the mountain to pick up mountain products every day.
He was still picking up pheasant eggs in the mountains and asked Brother Lu when he would go back because he missed Brother Lu!
The last one was written by Xu Ning. The two pairs of cloth shoes in the package were made for him by his mother.
The dried wild vegetables and wood ear mushrooms were given by Aunt Lu to his aunt, and the pine nuts and hazelnuts were for him. Everything was fine at home, so he didn't need to worry and didn't need to send any more money, as there was enough money.
Lu Xiaotang opened the package and found two pairs of shoes, a large bag of pine nuts, a large bag of hazelnuts, and a bag of dried wild vegetables, fungus, and dried mushrooms.
He put the dried vegetables aside, found a bag and put some hazelnuts and pine nuts in it, put them together with the dried vegetables, and planned to take them to his uncle's house after eating in the canteen.
He took another bag and filled it with most of the hazelnuts and pine nuts, intending to give them to his brothers to try.
Before Lu Xiaotang reached the cafeteria with his things, he saw several platoon leaders and squad leaders under him talking about him there. The squad leader of the second squad was even saying that she wanted to marry him.
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