Chapter 457: Picking Up Aunt Liu

"So you still know how to make a phone call?" the Captain asked without even turning his head.

"Ahem!" Aunt Li felt a bit awkward!

Nan Nan's Big Aunt is right here, what kind of temper are you throwing?

The Captain turned his head to look, and it wasn't just Nan Nan alone; it was a whole group of people!

The Daduibu couldn't even hold that many people.

"I only saw the letter this year; I had been at the Southern Front the whole time and couldn't get in touch," An Yinan explained.

The Captain looked at her.

"Go to my house first! The Daduibu is too small," the Captain said nothing else, signaling for Aunt Li to attend to the guests.

Aunt Li had a brisk personality, "I'll take everyone to look around the village first, so you can all get familiar with the environment of our Quanshui Village."

"Have you been here before?" Professor Feng nudged Hua Wensheng with his arm.

Hua Wensheng shook his head, "No."

He didn't know before, but looking at it now, this girl had been doing quite well here.

"This right here is the house for those few; this room is for Educated Youth Xie, and this one used to be for Educated Youth Zhang, but later Educated Youth Zhang left, and Educated Youth Xie moved in," Aunt Li said, pointing to the two houses to introduce them.

"This one is Nan Nan's house, and that one over there is the courtyard for Educated Youth Zhao and Educated Youth Li," Aunt Li often came over to clean up.

No matter who came later, no one else had ever lived in these houses.

One by one, they were all kept for them; whenever they wanted to come back, there would always be a place to stay.

"This big vegetable garden was started by Educated Youth An and the others; the soil is so fertile, and every year it produces quite a bit more vegetables than other gardens," Aunt Li said with a chuckle; she was the one tending this garden now.

On ordinary days, it was impossible to finish eating them all.

She would just give some to this neighbor and some to that neighbor.

In the past, they relied on the garden to make a little money, but now that every household wasn't short on that bit of cash, everyone had become generous.

"Over here is our village's factory, the soap factory; the soap produced is supplied directly to the Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and many people from outside come to buy it!" Aunt Li said with a face full of pride when mentioning the factory, and finally added, "This was the formula Nan Nan gave us, and it was also Nan Nan who taught us."

Big Aunt and Second Aunt looked at each other, also feeling proud of Nan Nan.

Was Nan Nan already this capable back when she was so young?

"Over here are the village's fields; they have already been divided among the households now, so it might not be easy to see the scene of the production team working the land together anymore," Aunt Li said while introducing, and told some interesting stories from when those few were still here.

"Those girls! Every one of them had a different personality," Aunt Li couldn't help but smile every time she thought of them.

"Our Huzi and Beibei played well together, and Huzi always called Nan Nan 'Fairy Sister'."

"He still can't break the habit now," Aunt Li thought back to the beginning, when Huzi was only eleven years old.

In the blink of an eye, so many years had passed, and Huzi was already in university.

"Aunt Li, how come I don't see Huzi?" Qian Zhao asked.

Back then, he had even helped Huzi with his schoolwork; the kid was blockheaded and honest, living up to his name perfectly.

"Him! His studies weren't great, so he got into a junior college, and he's in the provincial capital; I expect he'll be on break and back in a few days," Aunt Li said with a face full of smiles when talking about her grandson.

"If the child is successful, you can rest easy, sister-in-law," Big Aunt saw Aunt Li's expression and knew where her heart lay, so she quickly offered a compliment, and a subtle one at that.

"Yes, if the child can get out of this mountain nest, us old folks can feel at ease!" Aunt Li said with a chuckle.

On the other side, only An Yinan and Chen Xun remained.

"How is the village?" An Yinan asked.

The Captain didn't answer, but instead looked at her, "Did you go to negotiate in Nanhou?"

He had always known she was an interpreter.

But to go to Nanhou for negotiations now, what a massive achievement that must be?

"Yes!" An Yinan nodded; it had already been in the newspapers, so was there any need to hide it?

"Are you planning to go into diplomacy in the future?" With such good foreign language grades, going into diplomacy was a reasonable thing.

An Yinan shook her head, "I won't."

"My going on this mission was just a coincidence!"

She couldn't explain the details, but her answer was very firm.

"What is your major?" The Captain suddenly realized he had never known what An Yinan's major was.

It wasn't until Huzi started university and came back that he said universities were huge, and if you only wrote the name without the major, the letters couldn't be found.

He used to think that as long as the university's name was written, it would naturally be delivered to the student.

He hadn't expected there to be so many twists and turns.

But An Yinan hadn't told him her major either, so it wasn't easy for him to find her.

An Yinan smiled, "Economics."

"In the future, making money will be my main stage."

The Captain looked at her deeply; he didn't offer any opinion.

After all, this child was different from others; when she was just over ten years old and had just arrived in Quanshui Village, she was already someone with her own ideas, and once she had a thought in her mind, no one could sway her.

"What made you think of coming to the village this year?" the Captain asked.

This girl was carefree; after she went to the Camp, she only came back once, and after she left, she never returned.

"Captain, I want to take Aunt Liu away," An Yinan said very straightforwardly, and this matter had to go through the village.

It wasn't as if she could just take someone away as she pleased.

"The household registration probably can't be changed," after all, they weren't biological parents, so it was impossible to move the household registration along with the children.

An Yinan shook her head, "That's fine, I'll just take her with me."

Chen Xun spoke up at this moment, "Captain, please rest assured, I will definitely take good care of Aunt Liu!"

"From now on, I will be her son."

For so many years, he has always done exactly this.

Even when busy, he would always set aside a portion of his wages to mail to Auntie Liu.

During those two-plus years of the Southern Monkey Campaign, however, it stopped, and later when he returned to the Military District, he heard that Auntie Liu had called the Military District to specifically ask about this matter.

Afterwards, every month, she would ask about his safety.

"I can approve this, but whether you can take the person away is something the two of you must discuss yourselves," the Captain said, finally wearing a smile.

Looking at it from this perspective, these two children are not people without feelings; it is just that they are both too busy.

Being busy and not understanding feelings are two different things.

"Okay," An Yinan smiled.

"By the way, here are two formulas; I suggest the village could clear a plot of land specifically for growing flowers," An Yinan said, handing the formulas to the Captain.

One of the formulas is for extracting floral dew, and the other is for making floral-scented soap.

With these two formulas, Quanshui Village can make soaps of various scents.

"This..." the Captain was somewhat silent.

The kindness they showed her was something she deserved.

But the things she was giving back to the village were far, far too heavy.