Sure enough, there were two big pairs of shorts. Ye Zhiqiu was quite happy looking at them. He thought Feng Xiaomei was really thoughtful. Even his cheap mother would never have thought of this.
He found the letter, opened it, and began to read. It was filled with longing and concern. But it was not like later generations, where people could say things like "I miss you," "I love you," or "I dream about you every day" to anyone.
The expression of emotions is particularly subtle in this era!
For example, Feng Xiaomei wrote: I don’t know if you are the same as the day we first met, but I still remember your focused look when you were cooking…
If this isn't about thinking about yourself, what else can it be?
After reading it over and over again twice, Ye Zhiqiu carefully folded the letter and put it back into the envelope to put it together with the previous ones.
When he looked up and prepared to stand up, he saw everyone looking at him with strange smiles. He asked curiously, "Why are you all looking at me? Aren't you guys going to read the letter?"
Shuanzi teased, "Xiaoye, do you know how much of a fool you were just now? You looked at the letter with a lewd smile, and then sighed."
Ye Zhiqiu rolled his eyes at them. He did not share the canned food sent by his family this time. In fact, the army had the most canned food.
After he put the letter away, he put away the things Feng Xiaomei had sent him one by one.
The things in his box are enough to make people jealous, because there are a lot of cigarettes and alcohol stacked up.
Ye Zhiqiu thought about it and decided to open a pack of cigarettes and give them to them. It was really not easy for these guys to save money to send back home.
"I'll give you a pack. I'm really scared of you. You've been staring at my box all day, but no one dares to ask me for it."
Fang Wenhai took the red peony that Ye Zhiqiu threw to him and said cheerfully, "That can't be done. You gave it to us out of kindness. If we ask you for it, we'd be being immature!"
"That's right, Xiaoye, when I get back from the army, I'll send you some Aoao Ya. I guarantee you'll boil some water and drink it, and your married life will be very harmonious!"
The person who spoke, Yang Shulin, was from the Northeast. Ye Zhiqiu didn't ask where exactly he was from. He just laughed and scolded, "What's going on? Aren't there people everywhere in your area who are yelling? Why don't you send me two ginseng roots or some tiger penis to make wine?"
Yang Shulin's eyelids rolled up, and he said speechlessly, "Then you'd better use mine to go to the bar! Good wild ginseng is hundreds of yuan a piece, and tiger penis! That stuff is so expensive, any one piece can sell for thousands of yuan. You know, even the official purchase price is six hundred yuan!"
Ye Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Forget about yours, but when I have the chance in the future, I really want to buy one to soak in wine and pass it down to my family. When the time comes, I'll ask Brother Yang for help and see if you can help me get something good."
"Hey, that's no problem. My hometown is in Changbai Mountain. As long as you have money, it's not difficult to get these things! But as for the tiger whip you mentioned, forget it.
"It's practically impossible to conceal the news of a tiger being killed these days. Tiger penis and bones are both valuable medicinal materials, so we have to sell them quickly."
Ye Zhiqiu didn’t understand. If a hunter killed a tiger, he wouldn’t force it to sell it, right?
So he asked curiously, "Brother Yang, what do you mean? You can't force the person who killed the tiger to sell all these things, right?"
Fang Wenhai explained with a smile: "You are still too young and naive! As long as the news leaks out, the commune will have a share of the prey on the mountain. Wouldn't they have to sell it before they can be distributed?
The mountain belongs to the collective, and the prey caught on the mountain can only belong to the collective. There is no possibility of taking it all by yourself.
And you can't overestimate human nature. If someone secretly kills a tiger and the news leaks out, someone will always take the risk. If those evil people can't kill the tiger, can they kill people?"
Ye Zhiqiu was stunned. It was the first time he heard such a statement. However, human nature really cannot be overestimated!
He vaguely remembered hearing a story at the factory before: someone sold gold bars on the black market, was followed home, and the entire family was killed.
So we should not overestimate human nature. There are evil people who want to get something for nothing everywhere.
Fang Wenhai suddenly asked, "Xiao Ye, what did your family send you this time? Your chief grandfather is so kind to you. He sends you things every month. He really loves you."
Ye Zhiqiu smiled bitterly and said, "Actually, I said I don't even know what my grandfather does. Do you believe me?"
Ye Zhiqiu had always been curious about Wang Fugui's identity, because being called the chief meant he was at least at the deputy regimental level. You know, in the army, there were only three people who could be called the chief!
Fang Wenhai was stunned. He had never thought about this before. How could he not know what his grandfather did for a living?
But since the other party didn't say anything, he naturally couldn't say anything. If they hadn't read the files, they wouldn't have known that Wang Fugui was the leader.
Fang Wenhai laughed and said, "Oh, I drank too much tonight, I have to go to the bathroom..."
After saying that, he ran away. Ye Zhiqiu looked depressed. He didn't know what was going on with these guys, and none of them were willing to tell him.
When he asked the company commander Huo Dazhuang about this, he just laughed it off and didn't want to reveal anything more, which made him feel itchy.
I really wish he was a high-ranking official so I could just relax and live my life away. Unfortunately, I don’t know when this wish can come true.
The third shift will be on patrol tomorrow, so they came here to ask about the exact location of the wild sheep herd. I don’t know how lucky they will be.
Because there was once a case where a group of wild sheep were migrating and they were hunted on the same day. The next day, these stupid sheep that had run away went back to their original place.
So tomorrow, the people on shift three will definitely go to the place where the wild sheep herd appears. No one would complain about having too much meat!
Not to mention them, the class monitor of Class 1, Tan Weijie, also came to join in the fun.
"Hey, you guys are discussing the location, right? Take me with you!"
Ye Zhiqiu joked, "Old Tan, your class will be over in a week, why are you here to join in the fun?"
"Have a cigarette, and I'll tell you everything!"
"Okay, let's just smoke some cigarettes together. You're so nice, Old Tan!"
Tan Weijie shamelessly said, "How about transferring Xiaoye to our class? You guys don't care about her, but we do!"
"Go away, Old Tan, you deserve to die! How dare you poach our good brother Xiao Ye!"
"Oh my god, you sneak attacked me..."
After a while of playing around, Tan Weijie finally lit a cigarette. Everyone was used to this kind of playfulness; it was a way to have some fun during these boring days.
Tan Weijie narrowed his eyes and said, "Actually, I have an idea. Should I apply to track down these wild sheep?"
Fang Wenhai shook his head and said, "Old Tan, we can't do anything extreme. We didn't even kill all the stupid sheep that came back last time. The battalion commander won't agree to this."
"That's true, I took it for granted..."
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