Chapter 562 A Hole Burned in the Quilt
All the clothes were placed at the bottom, the puzzle pieces in the middle, and the canned White Rabbit candies were placed on top and in the bags on both sides, so that the little one could easily grab them whenever he wanted.
I arranged everything neatly and orderly, managing to bring all the things I wanted to bring.
Helian Jiao had already taken off her clothes and crawled into bed, saying in a slightly nasal voice, "Grandma, I want to sleep."
"Okay, go ahead and say it. Once my sweet baby falls asleep, Grandma will go to sleep too." Ma Xiulian smiled involuntarily as she listened to her baby's soft, sweet voice.
After her granddaughter fell asleep, she got up, turned off the light in the room, and closed the door.
After returning to the room, she murmured, "Tomorrow, my baby will be going to the capital with Manyun and the others. It will take more than half a month for them to go there and back! This is the first time my baby has been away from us for so long. I wonder if she will suddenly cry and want to go home. We are so far away that we can't even get there in time."
Chen Dazhu was leaning back on the bed, cracking his pipe. Hearing this, he felt a bit uneasy. He took a big drag, and a spark flew out and landed on the quilt, burning a hole in it.
He quickly reached out and patted her, but it was too late. He then glanced furtively at his wife with a guilty look on his face.
Fortunately, Ma Xiulian was preoccupied with her granddaughter at the moment, and only glanced at him without scolding him as usual.
Moreover, she had the foresight to put the new quilt in the closet and take out the old quilt to cover herself after her baby started sleeping alone.
This old thing is all pitted and uneven; it's all the old man's doing!
Chen Dazhu coughed twice, his voice deep and muffled, "Don't worry, Manyun will definitely take good care of Guaibao. It's good for her to have a chance to go out and see the world. How many people in our village can leave the capital?"
Let alone the capital, the vast majority of people in the commune had never even been to the city.
"I know!" Ma Xiulian knew this all along, otherwise she wouldn't have agreed in the first place, but she just couldn't stop worrying about it.
Seeing that she couldn't reason with the old man, she said impatiently, "It's getting late, go to sleep. If you burn another hole in the bedding, you won't be able to cover yourself with it tonight!"
Upon hearing this, Chen Dazhu awkwardly stubbed out his pipe and lay down in bed.
Knowing that his wife was upset because she had to be separated from their child for a while, he didn't want to upset her.
Moreover, although it wasn't snowing, it was still very cold that day. If he didn't cover himself with a quilt, his old body wouldn't be able to withstand the cold all night.
Let's go to sleep!
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The next morning, Ma Xiulian got up early to prepare breakfast, and also boiled about ten eggs and a few sausages.
"Mom, why did you make so much? We can't finish it all," Chen Jianjun asked, seeing the pot full of food.
Ma Xiulian said, "This is what I planned to cook and have my baby take with him."
They were worried that their granddaughter wouldn't have enough to eat on the way.
Then he suddenly put down his chopsticks and walked out: "Bring Brother Gu another bag of wild mushrooms that we dried ourselves. He loved them last time he came."
The old man often sends food to the baby, so this time when he goes to the capital, he has to bring some gifts himself.
Chen Jianjun quickly tried to dissuade her, saying, "Mom, you've prepared too much. If Battalion Commander Gu doesn't go back, Comrade Jiang, a woman, can't carry all this stuff!"
His tone carried a hint of helplessness.
He lifted that military travel bag; its weight was definitely not something Jiang Manyun, an educated person who didn't do farm work, could lift.
(End of this chapter)
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