Chapter 172: Packages

Chen Xun curled the corners of his lips, "Mm, it's my wife making meat sauce."

Zhang Qian let go of his hand, looked at Chen Xun from a distance, and then let out a long sigh, "Men, oh!"

"Not eating?" Chen Xun asked coldly, glancing at him sideways.

Zhang Qian immediately caved; with delicious food in front of him, everything else was just a passing cloud, "Eat, how could I not eat! Must eat."

The two returned to the Xiao Yuan, and An Yinan looked at them with a smile, "Wash your hands, time to eat."

Just like when they were in Quanshui Village.

Zhang Qian was stunned for a moment, then came back to his senses.

The two went to wash their hands together, Chen Xun helped bring the rice over, and Zhang Qian served himself rice without standing on ceremony.

"This is the taste." The mushroom meat sauce was ladled over the rice, the fat fully absorbed by the rice, and the savory fragrance hit the senses the moment it entered the mouth.

Zhang Qian shoveled the rice into his mouth without any restraint, then said to An Yinan, "Is there any extra? Pack some for me in a bit."

An Yinan smiled, "Yes, yes, yes, it's all prepared for you."

"What a resilient bond from the countryside! So moving." Zhang Qian joked in his blunt, goofy way.

Chen Xun picked out the meat bits and put them all into An Yinan's bowl.

Eating the meal, An Yinan suddenly felt her stomach filled; this was what one called living.

It wasn't that the food made by the Comrades in the Mess Hall wasn't good, it just felt like it lacked a bit of emotion.

Eating the meal, she was full, but it lacked the sense of happiness that came from cooking for oneself.

"Do you have anything to do tomorrow?" Chen Xun asked An Yinan.

An Yinan thought for a moment; the new translation project had arrived, but it wasn't an urgent task, so she had plenty of time. She would arrange a fixed time every day to translate, which would allow her to exercise and also make some delicious food, giving her time to accompany Chen Xun.

"No, why? Do you have something to do?" An Yinan asked.

Chen Xun smiled, "I'm off tomorrow, I'll take you out for a stroll."

Since his wife arrived at the Camp, she had basically been busy. He had saved up all his compensatory leave, just waiting for when his wife had time so he could take her out for a stroll and wander around.

"Okay." An Yinan nodded with a smile.

Zhang Qian suddenly felt that he had eaten a bit too much, but his stomach still felt a little hungry...

He didn't understand yet; there was a kind of fullness that wasn't really being full, it was being stuffed with dog food.

In the afternoon, An Yinan opened the remaining packages and saw that one was sent by her godmother, containing two new cotton quilts and cotton mattresses, and even a red bedsheet.

They had written to tell their godmother about their situation, and she had replied very excitedly, talking for a long time, and even specifically called Chen Xun.

"Chen Xun, as your mother, I can tell you very clearly, I can do without a son, but I must have a daughter. You understand what I mean, right?"

Thinking of when Chen Xun mimicked those words, An Yinan laughed until she rolled on the floor.

Between the two cotton quilts, there was also an envelope containing six hundred yuan.

"Nan Nan, our Chen Family will be splitting up starting from the day Chen Xun gets married. The previous family savings have been divided into three parts. The Chen Family's share has already been given to your sister-in-law, your father and I are keeping one share for our old age, and this share is yours, so I'm giving it to you."

"Our old Chen Family doesn't have a tradition of men managing the household; the money must be held in the woman's hands. You must keep that in mind."

"After this, every month, your brother and Chen Xun just need to mail five yuan each as support money for your father and me."

"By the way, when will Chen Xun's marriage leave be approved? Everything that needs to be prepared at home is ready, just waiting for you both to return."

Besides these, there were also some domestic trifles, which An Yinan took to heart and felt warmed by.

She never expected that when she first asked for help, she would be forever bound to such a family.

Later, after going to the countryside, she also treated them as family.

And now, she had even married Chen Xun.

The fate of life is truly wondrous.

An Yinan opened another package, which was filled with dried goods: dried eggplant, dried mushrooms, dried green beans, as well as hazelnuts, hawthorn, walnuts, and so on. There was a wide variety, not too much of any one kind, but a large number of types.

Most importantly, there was actually a large bag of frozen pears.

An Yinan found a note inside.

"Educated Youth An, these are the villagers' heartfelt wishes, please don't mind them."

This package actually came from Quanshui Village.

And judging by the speed of the mail, this package had already been sent half a month after she left.

An Yinan rubbed the corners of her eyes, feeling even more moved.

Quanshui Village, rather than saying it was the place she went to the countryside, it was more like her hometown.

There, she met friends and met Chen Xun.

There, she established a home, took on tasks, and earned the first bit of money of this era.

The emotion in her heart was beyond words; she could only keep these feelings firmly in her heart.

There was another package from her friends: Li Xiu'e brought dried rabbit, Qiu Hua made rice cakes and roasted chestnuts, and Xie Yuanyuan's cooking skills were truly lackluster, so she could only send canned goods and milk powder, along with a large bag of White Rabbit creamy candies.

One could see the scene of the three of them scrambling to write the letter; every bit of handwriting didn't last two sentences before it quickly changed to another.

Relying on her understanding of them, An Yinan carefully distinguished the tone of the three.

The most unreliable one was Xie Yuanyuan, who wrote about things in Quanshui Village and also wrote about her and Xie Shuyang's affairs.

Li Xiu'e's handwriting was relatively elegant, writing about things between them, fully expressing her longing for her, and saying that she would pick more mountain goods this year and would definitely mail them to her.

"Nan Nan, let me tell you, Comrade Xie Yuanyuan is about to take off now. This time, her exam actually reached an excellent level; having someone to teach her really makes a difference." Needless to say, this could only be Zhao Qiu Hua's tone.

Seeing the letters from the three of them, An Yinan laughed until she clutched her stomach.

Her friends were too cute, what could she do.

There were two more packages, one from her elder sister and sister-in-law Yun Qin, who sent An Yinan a pair of cotton shoes; with that thick fur, she would never be cold this winter again.

There was another package that surprised An Yinan; it was actually from Liu Mei.

To be precise, it was from Liu Meijie's mother-in-law, Mother Wang.

Mother Wang put a lot of cloth in the parcel and stated that no matter where An Yinan was, the cloth would always be wrapped for her.

There were many patterns among the cloth in the parcel, and each pattern could make two sets of clothes; there were actually eight patterns in total.

An Yinan was deeply moved as she looked at them.

Looking through the eight parcels one by one, everything from clothing and food to housing and transportation was the heartfelt intention of her relatives and companions.

An Yinan organized the items one by one, then silently walked to the desk, took a stack of white paper, and wrote out a prescription for Anti-freeze Ointment.

This prescription was told to her by a friend in her past life; in her past life, her skin was very unique, and it would develop frostbite if it got even slightly cold, so later her friend specifically told her this prescription, and after she went to the pharmacy to get the medicine, she brought it back and made it into Frostbite Ointment herself.

After applying it, the frostbite on her hands really did slowly dissipate, and furthermore, her skin also improved, gradually getting less and less frostbite.