After dinner, Xu Ning packed the things that Xu Yang wanted to take away. He put the soybean paste in empty cans, four bottles of soybean paste and two bottles of meat paste. All the empty bottles in the house were used up.
He also collected some dried vegetables, mushrooms, a large bag of dried venison that he had roasted yesterday, a bag of pine nuts, a bag of hazelnuts, and two pheasants and two rabbits, which Lu Xiaotang had hunted in the mountains last time.
After thinking about it, he cut off half of the roe deer and prepared to wrap it in oil paper and put it away.
Xu Yang came back from the cowshed and saw that she was still packing. He also saw the half roe deer in her hand and hurriedly stopped her and said, "Sister, why are you packing roe deer meat? We can't open fire in our dormitory."
I also saw two pheasants and two rabbits in the bag and prepared to take them all out.
Xu Ning hurriedly stopped him and said, "Brother, you can take this back and ask the chef in the cafeteria to help you make it. Invite a few good friends to have a meal together."
Xu Yang said, "Sister, this is inappropriate. It will be too conspicuous to eat this meat in the army cafeteria. We are all soldiers training together, and it will be a problem whether to call someone or not.
Didn’t you prepare some dried meat for me? Just share it with the people in the dormitory. Take a pheasant and a rabbit. I will give them to our company commander together with the dried vegetables. Forget about the roe deer meat. ”
Xu Ning hadn't thought of this, so he took out the roe deer meat, but didn't take out the pheasant and hare, just taking two of each.
I put the sesame seed cakes and steamed cakes I had eaten on the road into a bag, and also put some pickled cucumbers and sour beans in it.
After packing the luggage, he started to chop the meat. Seeing that he was still busy so late, Xu Yang said, "Sister, why are you chopping the meat now? Go to bed early and do it tomorrow."
"Brother, it's okay, I'll be fine soon, you go to sleep first, I'm not sleepy yet,"
Xu An put the peeled green onions on the chopping board and said to Xu Yang, "Brother, this is the breakfast I prepared for you tomorrow."
"What kind of dumplings should I eat in the morning? It's so troublesome. Just eat anything casually."
Xu Ning smiled and said, "Brother, dumplings on the train, noodles on the train. You will be back to the army tomorrow, so how can you not eat dumplings? Besides, making dumplings is not a big deal. Just get up tomorrow morning and mix some noodles, and you can make them in a short while."
Xu Yang listened for a long time without saying anything, feeling very upset. In the past, his parents were the ones who worried about these things, but now it was inconvenient for his parents to come forward, and his sister was supporting the family. He was far away and could not help at all.
Xu Ning put the chopped stuffing in a bowl, added seasoning, and said, "Brother, go and have a rest. You have to get up early tomorrow."
In the morning, Xu Ning and Xu An accompanied Xu Yang to eat dumplings. Old Chen had not come yet, so Xu Yang began to remind the siblings not to let anyone know about their relationship with the cowshed and to be cautious in everything they did...
Xu Yang has said these words several times since last night, but the brother and sister still nodded in response obediently.
On the main road, Old Chen was calling out, "Xu Zhiqing, Xu Zhiqing,"
All three of them heard it and walked out with their luggage. As soon as they reached the ox cart, their eyes turned red and Xu An even started to sob.
Xu Yang put the luggage on the ox cart, turned around, hugged the two of them and said, "Don't cry! I will come to see you next year. Go back quickly, it's so cold." After that, he got on the ox cart.
Next to the cowshed, Dad and Mom were drawing water from the well. Xu Yang waved quietly over there from the oxcart and saw Mom wiping her eyes with her sleeve.
When Old Chen saw Xu Yang got on the cart, he drove the ox cart away. Xu An and Xu Ning followed the ox cart for a long way before they were persuaded to come back by Xu Yang.
The brother and sister both looked listless when they got home. Xu Ning saw that it was getting late, so he asked Xu An to wash his face and go to school.
Xu Ning sent Xu An to the door, sat on the kang and sighed. He really felt that sometimes family affection also depends on fate.
She had only been with Xu Yang for a week, but she felt that the relationship was as natural as having been siblings for many years, with no barriers at all. However, her father, with whom she had a blood relationship in her previous life, seemed like a stranger.
It was when Xu Ning felt the three hundred yuan in her pocket in the afternoon that she remembered what Uncle Lu and Aunt Lu had asked her to do.
He started to prepare Lu Xiaoran's dowry again. He first took out the suitable items in the space, including a complete set of bed sheets and quilt covers, a military coat, and two pieces of cloth suitable for making clothes for middle-aged and elderly people.
The wool that Lu Xiaotang brought over last time was more than two kilograms. She wasn't planning to knit a sweater anymore, so she sent it over. She also gave her one of the two military uniforms, a red scarf, and two pairs of work shoes, one in Lu Xiaoran's size. She didn't know what size her husband wore, so she gave him a pair in Xu Yang's size.
Xu Ning calculated and realized that she was still a long way from two hundred yuan. If she didn't buy anything big, she could buy a lot of things with this money. She had a lot of cloth stored in her space, and she tore off a few more pieces of cloth for her, so she could save them and use them slowly.
Lu Xiaotang and Xu Yang still had quite a few industrial coupons. Xu Ning didn't have anything to buy now, so she kept a few and sent the rest to her.
I also searched through the space for some things I thought she could use. I also picked up some dried vegetables, pine nuts, hazelnuts, etc. from home, took a big bag, packed all of them up, and put them in the space, planning to go to the city to mail them to her tomorrow.
After dinner, Xu Ning went back to her room to write a letter to Lu Xiaoran. Because these things were difficult to explain, she did not let Xu An write it this time. She talked about the things sent to her, which ones were for her parents-in-law, which ones were for her husband, and the rest were the dowry prepared for her by her family.
After telling her that her family could not attend her wedding and that they would visit her when they had the chance, and adding some words of blessing, Xu Ning put the letter in the envelope.
The next day, Xu Ning went to the post office to mail the letter and package, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to find Su Hongying. When she went to the city after the autumn harvest, she asked Su Hongying to help her get some coal.
The coal briquettes were already made when Lu Xiaotang arrived, so she just had to prepare some for Grandpa Wang.
He found a deserted place and took out 20 sheets and two military coats and put them in the backpack.
When Su Hongying saw her coming, she took her home directly. After the two of them completed the transaction at home, Su Hongying gave her another coal bill.
Said, "Sister, your brother-in-law only got 500 kilograms this year, you can take it back and use it first, and I will ask him to think of a solution after a while."
Xu Ning took the note and said with a smile, "Sister Hongying, you don't need to ask my brother-in-law to ask for help everywhere. These 500 kilograms are enough. My cousin came over to help me make some coal briquettes some time ago. With the help of my brother-in-law, we can have a warm winter this year."
"Okay, if it's not enough, come and tell me and I'll ask your brother-in-law to find a solution."
Su Hongying had to go back to work, so Xu Ning didn't stay at her house for long.
I took out the food, meat and vegetables that I had packed up yesterday and rode my bike to Grandpa Wang's place. Both of them were at home.
Xu Ning unloaded the things from the bicycle, asked Grandpa Wang to put them away, gave him the 500 kilograms of coal bars, and prepared to ride back. It was not so cold to ride a bicycle now that the sun was shining.
Grandpa Wang asked her to wait for a while, and she thought Grandpa Wang had something to do, so she stopped her bike.
After a while, Grandma Wang came out of the house with a piece of old cloth in her hand. She walked over to her and put the cloth into her pocket, saying, "Go home quickly while you're warm."
Xu Ning was about to take it out and return it to her, but Grandma Wang held his hand and said, "Don't take it out, go back!"
Seeing them like this, Xu Ning accepted it first.
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