Chapter 25

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Of course Xu Nannan didn’t want to just live like this. Every day, she was thinking about how to leave this place, like an incentive for a better life. Apart from other things, there must always be a reasonable source of income to cover her Taobao.

It’s a pity that she thinks it’s useless, it’s too difficult to get into the city these years. Haven’t you seen Li Jing’s account and seen how she hasn’t entered the city in so many years?

“Uncle He, these are some things that I can’t just think of. I also want Xiaoman to go to school and live a good life in the city.”

Xu Nannan smiled helplessly.

He Qiusheng drank a glass of water and smiled, “Having thoughts is a good thing, and I can see that you can’t stay in this place for long. This place is only suitable for the likes of me and those people who provided for the elderly.”

After speaking, he stood up and smiled, “Next time you enter the city, can you bring me a letter?”

Xu Nannan was taken aback. Bring him a letter?

He Qiusheng looked at her with interest, “Why, are you worried about the charges of colluding with the enemy?”

“Uncle He, can I ask, who is the letter for?” You can’t bring this letter casually, if it’s really a bad letter…

“Give it to a student of mine. He should be in the city right now. He is also in the mine.”

Those who can work in the mine should always be people with innocent backgrounds, and that should be fine.

“Uncle He, you used to be a teacher?” Xu Nannan asked enthusiastically.

“You girl, it seems that I didn’t make it clear. I can’t send this letter today.” He Qiusheng smiled helplessly, a little bitter. But he didn’t blame the kid either. It’s not easy to do this for non-family and unreasonable reasons.

“Before I came here, I was a teacher at the provincial capital university, teaching English. You see, although I came here, there are still a lot of students.”

Hearing these things, Xu Nannan nodded and smiled, “Well, Uncle He, I will go to the city in two days. You have written it down earlier, and I will send it for you in time.”

If it had been before, Xu Nannan would not want to help He Qiusheng with this favor. However, Song Guihua and her fellow villagers had helped her before, which touched her very much.

When people have to encounter difficulties, they can also help as long as they can.

He Qiusheng’s letter was written quickly, and it was given to Xu Nannan the next day. The envelope was not sealed, and he didn’t seem to worry about Xu Nannan peeking.

When he did this, Xu Nannan was more embarrassed to look at it.

After putting He Qiusheng’s letter, Xu Nannan went to find Xu Gensheng’s letter of introduction to the city.

Xu Gensheng’s family has just finished eating.

When Xu Nannan said that she was going to enter the city, Liu Dahong was very happy. “Nannan, you are going to the city to find your parents?”

“Didn’t the mine leader asked me to report there before? I was thinking about going there early this month. I just happened to be separated, and there are some things I need to tell my parents.”

“You should go, you should go. Talk to your parents, why don’t you just leave your sisters alone like this?” Liu Dahong repeatedly said. He urged Xu Gensheng to open the letter of introduction as soon as possible.

“Nannan is still waiting, you go quickly.”

After Xu Gensheng went to write the letter of introduction, Liu Dahong turned around and whispered, “Nannan, when you are in town, can you help Auntie with something when you come back?”

“Auntie, what do you want? I’ll go look in the city for what you need.” This kind of easy thing is naturally agreed to. If it doesn’t work, she plans to look in her Taobao. There is nothing you can’t buy on Taobao.

If you can’t find it, then you must’ve searched it wrongly.

After Xu Nannan agreed, the smile lines on Liu Dahong’s face deepened. “It’s the rice noodles you brought me last time. My little Hutou loves to eat it. See if you can help and bring some back. I also asked your Uncle Gensheng to go to the city to find them. He is stupid and he can’t find it. If only he could, then I wouldn’t have to trouble you either.”

When Xu Nannan heard this, she disagreed and said, “Auntie, look at what you said, yesterday Uncle Gensheng brought your son Dadong and his wife to help me clean up the house. Why are you still considering this a trouble? If it’s just this thing, I will definitely help you find it.”

Liu Dahong smiled and took Xu Nannan’s hand, “I knew that you, child, is a good girl. We really didn’t help you much. If you have anything for us to do in the future, please come to your uncle. Don’t be shy to us.”

“Auntie, you don’t have to. It’s alright,” Xu Nannan followed her mouth. This is just to make Liu Dahong’s face look good. As for coming to Xu Gensheng for help, apart from the letter of introduction, she still planned to trouble Xu Gensheng’s family as little as possible.

The next day, Xu Nannan entrusted Xu Xiaoman to Song Guihua and set off for the City alone.

Not long after,

After getting on the bus, with the letter of introduction and the letter written by He Qiusheng in her arms, Xu Nannan felt very relaxed all over, feeling much better than the last time she entered the city. Even the bumpy feeling of the bus is not so uncomfortable.

When she arrived at the city, Xu Nannan did not rush to the mine, but went to the post office.

The Blue Army Post has been issued for too long, and it is estimated that it cannot be bought now. The country’s mountains and rivers will be red until 1968, but the current stamps are also quite valuable. Here you can spend a few cents to buy a stamp and sell it in a Taobao store. You can sell it for hundreds or thousands, and some can even sell for tens of thousands.

It’s just that this stamp looks too new…

No matter what, she must buy it first. Anyway, it won’t cost much. If you sell it, it will be thousands of times the profit. This transaction is really worth it!

Thinking of the huge profits, Xu Nannan’s face turned red with excitement. When she came to the post office, she went straight to the counter and said, “Buying stamps please!”

The people at the counter were reading books, and when they heard the sound, they raised their heads in unison, “What kind of stamps?”

“Bethune.” Xu Nannan said with bright eyes. This seems to be a commemorative stamp with hairstyles in the early 1960s.

“No.”

“The Great Hall of the People.”

“No.” The tone was a little angry.

“…Patriotic health movement?” This was also improvised.

“No.”

“Pig raising, goldfish?” She remembered this because the name is relatively short and special.

Seeming a little annoyed by the question, the teller raised her head and said impatiently, “I said, you, kid, is deliberately looking for stamps that aren’t here. Why are you buying old stamps now? If you want to buy stamps, buy the somewhat new ones, and I’m still busy here.”

Xu Nannan’s enthusiasm was suddenly extinguished by a bit. “Then… chrysanthemum?”

There are still some stamps in the back, but Xu Nannan can’t remember them clearly. When she was in this business, she rarely sold such things as stamps. This thing has high technical content and the acquisition cost is not cheap. After all, everyone knows that stamps are valuable. Not a few hundred pieces wanted to collect this kind of stamps, so it was a dream. This is rare, but she racked her brains to think about it.

Fortunately, there are still some chrysanthemums. The teller sullenly pulled off a stamp to her.

“I want to buy a few more. Are there other commemorative stamps and special stamps?”

“Why are you buying so many stamps?” The teller frowned and glanced at her, Xu Nannan smiled, “I like to collect this.”

“Are you studying stamp collecting?” This person seemed surprised. Some people collected stamps these days, but they were all doing it when they have plenty to spend. With this money, you can’t even buy more food, so what are you doing with these small pieces of paper?

If Xu Nannan wants to hear what she thinks in her heart, she will tell her, “Sister, you should take advantage of your work and save more stamps. In the future, your children and grandchildren will thank you for having such a large piece of property.”

Although the teller is not very happy, fortunately, there are still professional ethics to meet the needs of customers, so she found a few commemorative stamps for Xu Nannan.

Xu Nannan immediately paid out and bought ten of each.

In this way, it cost five yuan.

Alas, stamps are not cheap either.

However, it only hurt for a moment. Xu Nannan became excited, found an alley with no one, bought a stamp album from Taobao, and picked one of each stamp and pasted on it to form a set of 1960s stamp collection. And then she put it in Taobao.

She hopes to sell it at a good price.

After finishing the big business, Xu Nannan immediately went to the mine to find someone.

Seeing that Xu Nannan came back to the mine so soon, Wei Guobing thought that the family was going to make her marry again, so he hurried to find Zhu Liping.

Zhu Liping came soon, and when she saw Xu Nannan, she said anxiously, “Is the family letting you marry again?”

Xu Nannan shook his head, “No, it makes Aunt Zhu worry. I just want to talk to Aunt Zhu this time. I won’t come to the mine in the future to report.” She has left Xu’s house now, and she doesn’t have to come every month just to report here.

When Zhu Liping heard this, she felt something was wrong, “Your family wants to open it? How about waiting for a while? What if your family embarrassed you again?” She had seen it in Xu Jiansheng’s house last time. Even her mother did that kind of thing, so what about those grandma, uncles and aunts at home?

She really felt pitiful for this child.

“Aunt Zhu, the family can’t embarrass me now. I have moved out of the house and my hukou has been moved. I am not afraid that they will let me marry.” Xu Nannan smiled.

“Wait, you mean, did you move out? Even your registered permanent residence?”

Zhu Liping said in surprise. The Guarding Soldier next to her was also dumbfounded. This is really rare. With so many people in the family, they still let the children move out. This… This is simply inconceivable.

“This matter is also my volition. That family makes me feel insecure and uneasy every day, so I might as well go out to live. So Aunt Zhu, I won’t have to come here every month in the future. Thank you for helping me. Otherwise I wouldn’t have been so well last time.”

“It’s nothing, it’s just you… Oh, do your parents know this?” Zhu Liping asked in a mixed feeling.

“They should know, my aunts came to the city to look for my parents two days ago. They should have said this.”

The Guardian suddenly realized, “It’s no wonder that last time I saw your two aunts come to the city together, and I was thinking about how they came together because they are not together in the previous years. It turned out that it was to talk about this. Also. I don’t know how they talked to your parents. Your dad didn’t seem to go back either.” After the two women left, Director Xu didn’t ask for a leave.

Anyone who understands will know that Xu Jiansheng doesn’t care about it. Otherwise, if you heard the news, you would have to go back and make it clear.

This is really not his daughter anymore.

Wei Guobing wanted to understand, and Zhu Liping wanted to understand too.

Zhu Liping said, “Your dad will regret it later, you are a good girl after all.”

Xu Nannan smiled and did not answer. She didn’t know if Xu Jiansheng would regret it, but she would never regret leaving this home.

Zhu Liping still has to go to work. Before leaving, she wanted to give Xu Nannan money, but Xu Nannan didn’t ask for it. “The village can’t spend money, and the team also distributes food. Auntie, I remember your kindness, but I really can’t ask for more. I have to rely on myself now.”

Xu Nannan’s words are sonorous and powerful, and Zhu Liping can only put her mind off, “That’s okay, if you have something you need in the future, you can still come to us. Your dad doesn’t recognize you as a daughter, but we recognize you as a worker’s son.”

Xu Nannan smiled and responded politely.

When Zhu Liping left, Xu Nannan took the Wei Guobing to inquire about the person who was going to deliver the letter.

“Li Chengwen is our deputy mine manager. What are you going to do with him, ready to talk about your dad?”

Wei Guobing asked in surprise.

Deputy mine manager?

This time Xu Nannan was surprised. She thought it was an office worker, but she didn’t expect that the office worker was not too small, it turned out to be a deputy mine manager. Don’t underestimate the deputy head position in the city. For the entire Nanjiang City, this Nanjiang Iron Mine is a chicken that lays golden eggs, and the workers at the mine account for almost half of the city. Because this iron ore is important, it is directly under the jurisdiction of the province, and even the country’s government cannot reach it. It is conceivable that the power of this deputy mine manager is so great.

The person who will send the letter turned out to be the deputy mine manager, and Xu Nannan felt a little nervous. Can this letter be sent in? Uncle He’s network is too wide.

But she’s already here, and she couldn’t have come in vain. Xu Nannan took out the letter in her pocket and said, “Uncle Wei, someone from my home village asked me to bring a letter to this mine manager Li, can you send it in?”

“It’s for mine manager Li? Who wrote it?” Wei Guobing looked at the envelope Xu Nannan took out, curiously. He saw that mine manager Li’s name was actually written on it, knowing that Xu Nannan wasn’t lying. He was just wondering how Xu Nannan knew Mine Manager Li.

“It’s someone I know, upon knowing that I’m coming to the mine, so I brought it on the way. Uncle Wei, do you think this letter can be delivered?”

“Yes, but you can’t go in, I’ll take it in for you.” The mine is strictly managed, and even the children of workers can’t run around inside.

“Okay, Uncle Wei, then I’ll be here waiting for your news.”

The rest of the Wei Guobing looked at the gate and ran a trip by themselves to help Xu Nannan send the letter to the mine manager’s office.

Unfortunately, there was a meeting in the mine and there was no one in the office. The Guardian could only put the letter on Mine Manager Li’s desk, and hurried back to find Xu Nannan.

“The letter has arrived, but Mine Manager Li is in a meeting. I guess it will take a while to see the letter. You have to wait.”

After all, the Guardsmen were only guards here, and they didn’t dare to disturb the leaders’ meetings.

Xu Nannan smiled, “I won’t wait anymore. Anyway, the letter is delivered. Uncle Wei, thank you so much for helping me. You don’t know how grateful I am to you.”

“What’s the matter, kid? It’s just polite. Uncle Wei, you don’t understand how good children can be wronged.” Wei Guobing said with a smile.

After the matter was finished, Xu Nannan no longer stayed there, and bid farewell to Wei Guobing. She carried the cloth bag diagonally, left the guard room with steps, walked a few steps, and then turned around and waved goodbye to the Wei Guobing.

Wei Guobing smiled and beckoned to her, feeling melancholic, even though Director Xu didn’t like the child. This is Director Xu’s daughter, a sensible good girl, much more sensible compare to his own daughter.

The sooner he thought about it, the Guardian turned his head when he saw Xu Jiansheng coming out of the mine. He said faintly, “Director Xu. You got off work so early?”

“Just after the meeting, some materials are left at home, i’m going back to get it.” Xu Jiansheng didn’t see the change of Wei Guobing’s attitude, so he came over to sign at the guard room, and left.

When Wei Guobing heard that the meeting was over, he suddenly remembered Xu Nannan’s letter, and didn’t know if Mine Manager Li had seen it.

Meanwhile, at the mine manager’s office ~

Li Chengwen has just returned from the meeting room in the office of the head of the iron mine in Nanjiang City. Today, the meeting was because of the supply of food and distribution, and the mine’s opinions are disagreeable, but he is in charge of this area, and it is a headache. There is also the distribution of family rooms in the mine, and recently those old employees are also making noise. It’s really a day with lots of worry.

He was not forty, and he felt that his hair was going to be white in a hurry. He began to miss the days when he was young and full of spirits.

The classmates made a revolution together, chic and reckless, lashing out at Fang Qiu. In a blink of an eye, he came to the mine and ran over to take care of the logistics. He can never find the same feeling in his life again.

He sighed, picked up the teacup to drink some hot tea, when suddenly saw the yellow envelope on the table. He was instantly stunned.

His name was on the envelope, which is not unusual, but the key is the handwriting…

With a bang, he immediately put down the teacup, hurriedly picked up the envelope, opened it, and took out the letter inside. The letter is very short, and he read it after a few glances. Then he stood up hurriedly and ran out.

“Old Wei, did you send this letter?”

“Ah, mine manager Li.” When Wei Guobing saw Li Chengwen coming, he stood straight, saw the letter in his hand, recognized that he had just sent it, and immediately said, “Mine manager Li, I just took this to your office. Aren’t you in a meeting just now? So I just put it on your desk.”

“This is not from the post office.” Li Chengwen affirmed. There is no stamp on this envelope, nor is it sealed. It was definitely not from the post office.

“This is from a child.”

“Where is the child?” Li Chengwen said anxiously.

“She just left.”

Li Chengwen heard this with a disappointed look on his face.

Seeing Li Chengwen’s appearance, Wei Guobing was a little worried, afraid that this letter might have problems, and Xu Nannan would be affected by that time, “Mine Chief Li, is something wrong?”

Li Chengwen let out a sigh of relief and shook his head, “It’s okay. Aren’t you busy?” After that, he turned and strode away.

Coming and going in a hurry made the Guardian soldiers puzzled.

Meanwhile~

When Xu Nannan left the mine, it was already late. It’s about two o’clock. At this time, it was too late to rush back, and there was no bus service. It would be fine if she walked back, but Xu Nannan still did not dare to take the risk of walking the night.

Although the law and order is pretty good, there will be some trouble if the security is not tight. She did not miss the two yuan she spent, and found a guest house in the city town.

After taking out the letter of introduction and registering, she went to a state-owned restaurant to buy a bowl of dumplings. It was stuffed with cabbage.

Looking at the dumplings filled with green cabbage, Xu Nannan felt a little wronged. She thought that people with money and tickets would be able to eat meat, but these years, even those with money and tickets could not buy a bowl of braised pork, or even meat dumplings.

Alas, it’s been a long time since she had a hot braised pork meal.

This dish that Xu Nannan once hated the most, and felt the most unfavorable for maintaining her figure, is now the food she missed the most.

Of course, there are also fresh meats in the omnipotent Taobao. But it was inconvenient for her to take it out when she was in the village. And… the pork fed from industrial feed is not as delicious as the natural and non-polluting soil pork at this time. With jewels in front, Xu Nannan really didn’t want to leave it alone.

Xu Nannan took a bite of dumplings, and then remembered the fat pigs on the farm.

Hearing Uncle Gensheng saying that the pig that she takes care of will have her rewarded with a large portion to take home while the small portion will be left for the villagers to eat at the end of the year. With any luck, the average person can divide half a bowl of meat.

Xu Nannan has thought about it, and when she waits for the end of the year, she must pick the thinnest piece of meat. Well, everyone seems to like fat at this time, so no one should compete with her.

After eating a bowl of Chaos and the braised eggs bought from Taobao, Xu Nannan burped contentedly.

Looking out the window, well, it’s still early. But it was too early to go to bed at this time. Thinking of a rare visit to the city, it is better to make some extra money. There are not a few dollars left from the last time she sold things for when it gets cold, it will be inconvenient for her to come to the city.

It is better to be cooked than raw. Xu Nannan found out the address left by the old man whom she met in the hospital last time, “No. 42 Gongye Road.”

In Nanjiang City, there are not many people who own their own real estate. Most people have divided houses.

On the industrial road are dormitory buildings of some factories.

There is no cement on the exterior wall of a house worthy of red brick. This kind of house is really amazing at this time. Xu Nannan sought for the house from the address, knocked on the door, and quickly heard the response inside.

It was Grandpa Donglai who opened the door.

Seeing Xu Nannan, this man was shocked, his face was a little dazed, as if he didn’t recognize her. Soon after, there was a look of enlightenment again, and he said, “Oh, aren’t you the little girl in that hospital?”

Xu Nannan smiled, “Uncle, didn’t you say that if you have milk powder or something, you would take it? This time there is no milk powder, but I have kudzu powder and sweet potato powder.”

These things are also one of the supplements at this time. But it’s not as difficult to buy as milk powder. Unlike last time, she didn’t dare to take out milk powder to sell it so soon.

“Oh, what you want? You can come in first.”

Yu Donglai was very happy to let her in.

Xu Nannan entered the door and realized that this was still a small two-room house. On the wall is a picture of a young man who looked like a soldier.

But this kind of photo is hanging on the wall… If she didn’t think too much, this young soldier would already…

“This is my son, he was gone very early.”

“Uncle, I’m sorry.” Xu Nannan looked at Yu Donglai’s sad look, feeling a little uncomfortable. No wonder only two elderly people were seen in the hospital last time.

Yu Donglai seemed to have gotten used to it, but he recovered his expression after being sentimental. He smiled and said, “It’s nothing, it’s been many years. By the way, how many things do you have this time? Let me see first. Our wife has a bad stomach and can only eat these liquid foods.”

Xu Nannan quickly took out the things in her cloth pocket, which were all simple kudzu powder and sweet potato powder. There is one catty of kudzu powder and two catties of sweet potato powder.

When Yu Donglai saw these things, his eyes lit up. He also asked someone to buy it in the provincial capital a few days ago, but these things are not very easy to buy, and it will take them a few days to return. So these days, his wife just kept eating millet porridge. If she eats too much porridge then she would have no appetite.

“I want all of these, and just like last time, i’ll be giving you tickets and cash, what do you think?” He looked at Xu Nannan with a smile, unspeakably happy.

“Okay!” Xu Nannan also readily responded. When asking the price later, it was not so high. The old man said they took them together, and gave five yuan, but she didn’t counter-offer.

When the old man gave the tickets later, he gave a few more work tickets and oil tickets.

These tickets are all good things. Food is now refined and expensive, not to mention meat and oil. As far as she knows, when the old Xu’s family was cooking, they took a cotton ball soaked in oil and brushed it in the pot, and then they cooked the vegetables directly. It can be seen how expensive oil is.

If it were before, Xu Nannan would have accepted it cheerfully, but today she didn’t want to pick it up. “Uncle, the money is enough, you can keep these tickets at home, I don’t want them.”

Yu Donglai didn’t expect that there would be people who don’t want meat tickets and oil tickets these days.

“These are all good things.”

Xu Nannan smiled, “I know that they are all good things, so I don’t want them. You just paid, and I can’t collect these things. We are not in business and can’t be greedy.” The point is that do not want to make money from a lonely old man.

Yu Donglai looked at what she said and said, and was still happy, “You child, you are pretty straightforward.”

Seeing that the children insisted, Yu Donglai took the things back, “Okay, if you have something to send next time, I will give it to you. I also want these liquid foods, so I can digest them. My wife is not in good health.”

“Very well,” Xu Nannan nodded her head.

On the way back, Xu Nannan wondered if she would change her target next time. She still has to send things to exchange for money, but she can’t make too much money. She still has to cast the net widely. Next time, she can’t just sell rare things, but also noodles and flour. By the way, she wants to bring some flour back tomorrow and cut another pound of meat. Then she can eat pork dumplings. And it’s fresh pork dumplings. If Aunt Guihua and Xiaoman asked, they would say that the leader of the mine knew that she had moved out, and pitied her and so they gave it.

Xu Nannan was happily planning to go back to the village tomorrow, and Li Chengwen at the mine was also thinking about whether to see He Qiusheng tomorrow.

TL Note: That end of chapter 25

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