"If you don't want to wear it, forget it. It's a waste of your child's filial piety. Anyway, I like it very much and will wear it out tomorrow.
Not only do I want to wear it, I want all the female comrades in our hospital to wear beautiful clothes.
Their men defend the country and guard the border, and they leave their homes and come to southern Xinjiang to live, raise children, and help you stabilize the rear.
After all the hardship and fatigue I've endured, it's not too much to wear nice clothes, right?"
Zhao Xiumei is indeed an intellectual woman and was once a progressive youth. She directly suppressed Cao Yongzhan in the conversation.
"Grandma Zhao, don't do this! Your intentions are good, but you can't really do this. It's like you're forcing others to be extravagant.
Besides, if all the female comrades in the hospital want to wear them, we won’t be able to supply them!
Whether it is Xiangyunsha or satin, they are all woven with silk.
There has been a shortage of food in the past two years, and wasteland has been reclaimed on a large scale across the country, with forests returned to farmland. Planting of other crops is not allowed in places where grain can be grown.
The former silkworm town has now become a major grain-producing county, with only small areas of mulberry trees still growing on the hillsides.
With fewer mulberry trees, there are fewer silkworm-raising teams, and the silk production capacity has also decreased.
There is only a small amount of Xiangyunsha and silk, and I don’t know where they got it from. Maybe it’s just the stock from before.
I was also lucky, because I got along well with the old tailor, and he was willing to sell me the clothes."
In order not to expose the system, Zhang Shuguang could only laboriously explain it with one lie after another.
"That's true. We can't do good things with bad intentions. I'll wear it myself. Xiaoguang, what do you say? What if someone asks Grandma Zhao?"
Just now, Zhao Xiumei was planning to promote it vigorously and let all the military wives dress up beautifully, but now she is afraid of causing trouble for Zhang Shuguang.
"You should wear it if you need to. If someone asks you, just say your son brought it from Quancheng. Can they also ask their son to mail it from Quancheng?"
Having just been verbally suppressed by the old woman, Cao Yongzhan now had the opportunity to show his clever side.
"Yes, Grandpa Cao's method is good." Zhang Shuguang gave the old man a thumbs up.
Cao Yongzhan is the highest-ranking officer in this garrison, and Zhao Xiumei is highly respected in the living area. No one would cause trouble for the leader's family for a piece of clothing.
Zhang Shuguang breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally over, otherwise he would have been forced to work as a buyer for the family compound.
It's not that he doesn't want to help. If an aunt or lady wants to go to the tailor to take a look and choose the material and style herself, he will have to find a way to fool her.
It takes countless lies to cover up one lie. How tiring!
"Grandpa Cao, I have something to report to you!"
After talking about the clothes, Zhang Shuguang looked at Cao Yongzhan seriously with a serious expression.
"What's up?"
Cao Yongzhan sat up straight.
"The story began a month ago when I had just arrived in southern Xinjiang and went into the mountains to hunt when I discovered a hunting group in the rain forest.
They were armed with primitive cold weapons and dressed in very primitive clothes. If they didn't speak Chinese, I would have thought I had met primitive people.
This hunting team is very skilled and can move quickly and swiftly in the rainforest.
They are skilled in archery and can hunt bears and leopards. They are also extremely good at coordinating battle formations, and even bison find it difficult to break through their encirclement.
Their outstanding performance aroused my curiosity. I wanted to know where they came from, so I followed them and came to a foggy and rocky valley.
"Is it the Misty Valley near Boundary Marker 79? Did you go in?
When our soldiers patrol the border, many of them stray into the valley and wander around, only to find their way back to the valley entrance?" Cao Yongzhan interrupted Zhang Shuguang.
"Yes, that's it. I went in. The valley entrance is not a natural formation, but a man-made illusion and maze.
After entering the valley, guess what I saw?"
Zhang Shuguang found the feeling of a storyteller.
"Could it be a military base?" Cao Yongzhan stood up from the rattan chair.
Being agile, skilled in archery, and good at coordinated combat, with the sensitivity of a soldier, Cao Yongzhan's first thought was the military base.
"Don't be so surprised. Listen carefully to what Xiaoguang says. How can there be so many military bases?
Besides, if it really was a military base, could Xiaoguang have kept it a secret for a month? "
Zhao Xiumei was anxious to listen to Zhang Shuguang's story and was very dissatisfied with the old man who interrupted her.
“What Grandma Zhao said was not a military base, but a huge tribe, and a Han Chinese tribe at that.
In the tribe, men and women have clear divisions of labor, the elderly are well cared for, the young are well educated, and everything is in perfect order.”
After saying that, Zhang Shuguang took a sip of water.
"Could it be that these villages were built by people fleeing the war? Now that everything is peaceful, why don't they move out?
Living across national borders is not only inconvenient, but also unsafe.”
Years of war left the Dragon Kingdom devastated. Many people hid in the mountains at the time, but most of them moved back to their hometowns after peace came.
Most people in Longguo have a homesickness complex, and there has always been a saying that it is hard to leave one's hometown.
"I used to think so too. This morning, I sent my uncle Zhao on the train, and on my way back, I happened to meet someone from that tribe. He was the hunting leader, the young patriarch of their tribe.
They were being chased out of town by several law enforcement soldiers, and I stopped them.
After talking with them, I learned that they were exiled to southern Xinjiang with their entire clan during the Ming Dynasty.
Later, the Qing army broke into the city. After they resisted but failed, they were unwilling to surrender and retreated deep into the rainforest.
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