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Chapter 650: You guys buy me a car? Military green Dongfeng truck

The next day, the sky was just getting light.

Meng Ziyan got up energetically and went to the north kitchen to light a fire and cook rice, while Xu Ning lay on the kang, feeling a little tired and unwilling to get up.

After the battle last night, Xu Ning knew very well how much his wife wanted to have a child. He even disregarded his face and took down three cities in one go.

When the meal was about to be set on the table, Meng Ziyan came into the room, held his neck, pecked him on the forehead twice, and urged him to get up quickly.

Xu Ning grumbled a few words before he was willing to lift the quilt. While he was putting on his clothes, Meng Ziyan had already folded the bedding and put it in the kangqin cabinet.

This morning, Li Fuqiang and his wife, Wang Erli's family of four, and Wu Qiuxia did not come. Sun Lianfang went to Yang Shuhua to learn the craft. She heard that Yang Shuhua was going to steam buns this morning, so she took the opportunity to try what it tasted like.

So after Xu Ning washed his face, there were only a few of his family members in the restaurant.

As soon as he sat down, he said, "Yan and I will go to the street later."

Xu Laonian said nothing, but Liu Lizhen said, "Go to the market and see if there are any goose eggs for sale."

No one asked Xu Ning and his partner what they were doing on the street. Xu Laonian originally wanted him to buy something, but since they had everything they needed at home, he had no choice but to go back.

Xu Ning put down his chopsticks and rode his donkey to 17lengchang, found Yang Jun to borrow a car, then drove back and borrowed Meng Ziyan's car and headed straight to the street.

When they arrived at the street, it was exactly 8: and the supply and marketing cooperative had already opened, but Xu Ning chose to go to the market first.

At this time, there were stalls selling all kinds of things in the market, because today was the big street fair. The couple walked around the market three times, buying goose eggs and duck eggs. Xu Ning also saw someone selling hunting rifles, but unfortunately he didn't need them.

Meng Ziyan suggested buying two old hens for Wang Shujuan to nourish her, and Xu Ning certainly would not refuse. When they came out of the market, the two of them were carrying a lot of things in their hands. The people around them glanced at them and frowned, and it was obvious that they could not hide their jealousy.

Fortunately, no one was looking for trouble, and they arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative smoothly. Xu Ning got out of the car alone and asked Meng Ziyan to stay in the passenger seat to look after some things.

Lao Qian was not at the supply and marketing cooperative. The cashier said that he left yesterday and it seemed that he had gone to the provincial capital for some business.

Xu Ning returned to the car carrying hawthorn rolls, bags of calcium milk biscuits, nougat, popcorn, melon seeds, peanuts and other things.

"I want to go see Brother Liu. Will you come with me?"

"Let's go. We don't have anything to carry."

"What are you asking him to bring? He has everything he needs now."

Meng Ziyan seemed to understand, but not quite. In Xu Ning's opinion, the relationship between him and Liu Xuemin was no longer something that could be explained by the exchange of gifts. The relationship between the two was even stronger than that between Xu Ning and Hu Zhibin. Because Hu Zhibin often went out to the city, Xu Long and him got together more often. What did this mean? The circle had changed...

When they arrived at the agricultural machinery station, the guard told them that Liu Xuemin had asked for leave yesterday, and only the deputy station chief was on duty. Xu Ning asked, "Why did you ask for leave?"

"How would I know? Anyway, he left with Manager Qian of the Supply and Marketing Cooperative."

Did he and Lao Qian both go to the provincial capital?
Xu Ning smiled and threw half a pack of cigarettes to the guard, then returned to the car and ran straight to the village with his wife.

"Why did they all go to the provincial capital? I don't know how Aini and Beichuan are doing. They are a good match."

"If they get married, they will definitely give Xin'er a letter. What's the matter? Do you still want to go to the provincial capital for a stroll?"

Meng Ziyan blushed and said, "I'm thinking of going to the provincial capital to buy a gold bracelet for my mother and sister-in-law."

"When I have time, let's go in the spring of next year. After winter, the field will definitely be busier, and I have to go hiking."

The car stopped in the open space in front of Old Xu's house. After Xu Ning and Meng Ziyan got out of the car, Sun Lianfang, Guan Hua, Wang Hu and others who were sitting in the yard picking corn kernels surrounded them.

"Take them all inside. The bag of snacks with hawthorn rolls is for my sister-in-law. You can divide the rest among yourselves."

Seeing that there were quite a lot of things, everyone happily carried them into the house.

Sun Lianfang took Meng Ziyan's arm and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't you two wait for me? I have so much money at home but I don't know where to spend it..."

Xu Ning laughed when he heard this and said, "If you don't have any place to spend it, put it in my pocket!"

"Oh, brother!" Sun Lianfang said, stamping her feet.

Meng Ziyan said: "This bag is full of snacks, including melon seeds and so on. You have nothing to do, so why don't you just stay home and eat some melon seeds?"

"Sister-in-law, you are even more mean. Last time, you almost knocked my front teeth off while I was eating pine nuts, and now you want me to eat melon seeds instead."

"Then you've eaten too much sugar."

After entering the house, Xu Ning placed the goose eggs and duck eggs on the chopping board in the north kitchen.

When Liu Lizhen and others heard that the hawthorn rolls were bought for Wang Shujuan, they immediately exclaimed "Oh my God" and praised Xu Ning for his thoughtfulness.

Wang Shujuan said with a smile: "You are my dear brother. You always think of me. How did you know that I want to eat something sour?"

Xu Ning grinned and said, "I'm always careless, how could I know what you want to eat? Yan talked to me about it last night."

"My daughter is so considerate! What do you want to eat for lunch? Mom will prepare it for you!"

Meng Ziyan said with a smile: "I will eat whatever my mother cooks. I am not picky about food."

"Hahaha……"

Liu Lizhen was happy from the bottom of her heart. Seeing the harmonious family and the sisters-in-law getting along well with each other, she felt that this was better than having millions of taels of gold at home.

Immediately, Wang Shujuan, Meng Ziyan and others took bags of snacks into the east room, while Xu Ning, Wang Hu and Li Fuqiang watched TV in the west room.

"I just went to take a look and saw that Li Feng was sitting at the door and had fallen asleep. There were no people going to the door."

Xu Ning stared at the TV without looking away and asked, "Has my brother come home?"

"He and Uncle Jiang have both returned. They stayed up all night with Li Feng. I don't know how my uncle heard about it, but he also went to talk to Li Feng."

Wang Hu said, "I heard from Old Tang about the burial. Second brother, shall we go?"

"No, didn't Old Tang cover everything? Doesn't he cover digging the pit?"

"Of course he has to cover it, otherwise who would dare to ask him for help."

At this time, Liu Lizhen stood at the door and said, "My dear son, you three will put the grain mill under the shed later, and grind the grain after lunch."

"Grinding grain this afternoon? Have you asked Mrs. Zhang?"

"Oh, she said that it's okay to grind at any time. There's nothing wrong with that."

“Is the food dried?”

"I've finished drying them a long time ago. They're all piled up in the house."

Grinding grain is a very tiring and dirty job. When the machine is started, it makes a very loud noise, enough to make your eardrums vibrate.

Change to a grinding tool with large holes, do some rough grinding first, then use a grinding tool with small holes for fine grinding. It only takes a short while to grind out the small pieces.

The small grains ground out need to be soaked in water and then taken out before they can be finely ground into flour. The flour is a little moist and does not need to be dried after bagging, and can be directly stored in a cool place.

Xu Ning spent two days grinding grain at home. He was covered in dust and felt a little depressed. Why? It was mainly because it was too time-consuming. He had to grind it once and then twice. Who could stand such repetition?
Even the blue wolf, spotted wolf and other dogs in the kennel were sent to Li Fuqiang's house by Xu Ning. Because the noise was too loud, the dogs were stimulated and kept howling.

In the evening, Da Laba and Zhang Guifang came to the door, carrying silver carp and crucian carp seeds in their hands.

"Is everything done with my brother Feng?"

"I'm done. I'll be at home sleeping for a day and won't be up for long." Xu Ning asked, "Where did you get the fish?"

Zhang Guifang said with a smile, "Hu Zhiyong brought it when he came home, and asked us to pick it up on the way. He didn't come over."

"Is there something he needs when he comes down the mountain?"

The loud speaker said in a rather nonchalant manner: "It shouldn't be anything, maybe he's missing his wife."

Liu Lizhen asked: "How is Li Feng now?"

"Very good. He can eat and drink. It's a good thing that his father is gone. It relieves a lot of burdens for him. Otherwise, he would have to take care of the old and the young."

Liu Lizhen warned: "It's ok to talk to our family, but don't spread it around outside."

"I know, old aunt, just chat with us, I'll keep it to myself when I go out."

Liu Lizhen nodded: "Guifang, take some corn bran and cornmeal to eat before you two leave."

"Oh my god, are you done?"

Xu Ning rubbed his face and said, "The three of us have been working on this for two days, and my ears are still buzzing!"

"My brother is really capable. He can handle anything. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to handle it."

"If there's anything you don't understand, I'll teach you tomorrow, and you can just stay at home and work on it from now on."

"Okay!"

Liu Lizhen rolled her eyes and said, "Why are you trying to trick Guoxing? If you don't want to, forget it. I'll do it myself from now on!"

Da Loudspeaker said with a smile: "It's alright, old lady. I have nothing to do at home anyway, so I can learn a skill."

November 11th, the 20th day of the tenth month in the lunar calendar.

Six days had passed since Li San's death. During this period, Li Feng had not gone anywhere, which gave Da Laba and Lao Jiang some free time. The two of them used the grain mill to grind a lot of grain. After grinding the grain for one family, they ground all the grain from Chang, Du, Yu and other families.

Xu Ning, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu did not go hiking, but studied farming at home. The three of them made 10 wooden boxes, filled them with black soil, buried the sprouted vegetable seeds in the soil, and placed all the wooden boxes in the second west room.

This way of farming is more common in later generations, because everyone lives in buildings with heating and floor heating. Some people use foam boxes or milk tea cups to grow peppers or cabbage...

Liu Lizhen asked, "Shouldn't we light a fire wall? Otherwise, the west room will be very cold."

"Well, we have to cover the fire wall with plastic sheeting."

Han Fengjiao said, "Erning, the second west room and the second east room of my house are both empty. You can plant some vegetables there so that you can have fresh vegetables to eat in the winter."

Xu Ning said, "Okay, I'll get some more wooden boxes tomorrow."

The next day, when Xu Ning and two other people were arranging wooden boxes, they heard the roar of a car outside the yard.

Sun Lianfang stood on the platform and looked outside the yard, saying, "Brother, it seems someone is driving over here."

Xu Ning put down the work in his hands, walked to the door, turned his head and looked, then smiled.

This car is an old Dongfeng, that is, the first generation of Dongfeng. It should have been produced after 70, because its exterior color is military green and it is specially supplied to the military.

Sitting in the driver's seat was Lao Qian, and the co-pilots were Chen Hedong and Liu Xuemin. When the three saw Xu Ning sticking his head out, they quickly waved their hands to signal him.

After Lao Qian turned off the engine, the three jumped out of the car, and Chen Hedong shouted, "Did you miss me?"

"Hahaha, how can I not miss you? It's just that we live far away, otherwise I would have gone to the provincial capital to play with you."

Old Qian said with a smile: "It's no use for him to stay in the provincial capital, so he followed us here."

Liu Xuemin said, "Did you go to the agricultural machinery station to see me a few days ago?"

"Well, I wanted to chat with you. Didn't you go to the provincial capital with Lao Qian? Did you go to hang out with my brother Dong, or did you think about opening a repair shop?"

"Just some random research. How are you these days?"

"I've been working at home, and there's nothing to do. Come in and stop talking."

Chen Hedong said, "There's something in the back compartment, Qiangzi and Huzi, come and help."

Wang Hu asked with a smile: "What good things did Brother Dong buy for me again?"

Chen Hedong laughed when he heard this: "Hahaha, what good things can there be? They are still those toys."

At this time, Liu Lizhen and others came out and exclaimed when they saw the three people: "Oh my god, Hedong, why didn't you three tell me in advance that you were coming so that I could prepare food!"

"Aunt, it's all the family members who prepare the food. Besides, they prepared it before the three of us came here."

There were meat, vegetables, rice, noodles, and basically all the necessities of life in the back of the car.

"My brother Dong has spent money again."

Liu Xuemin laughed and said, "He really spent a lot of money this time. What do you think of this car?"

Xu Ning looked at it without thinking too much and nodded: "Isn't this a military vehicle? It must be quite old. It looks like it's in good condition. Whose car is it?"

Lao Qian and Liu Xuemin smiled at each other. Xu Ning asked, "Did you two buy it?"

Lao Qian waved his hand and said, "How can we spare that much money? Hedong paid half of the money to buy this for you."

"Buy it for me? Stop talking nonsense. Why are you buying me a car?"

Liu Lizhen and others standing nearby were also a little stunned, and their reactions were similar to Xu Ning's.

Chen Hedong said, "You've opened a business, haven't you? I see that your family has everything except a car, so Lao Qian, Brother Liu, Lao Jin, Brother Chai, Brother Bin and I will pool together the money."

"Raise money to buy me a car? Oh my god, Dong Ge, what are you doing? You guys are all speechless."

Liu Xuemin said: "Why can't you talk? Since I bought it for you, just drive it!"

Liu Lizhen hurriedly patted Xu Ning's arm and said, "You can't take it, my old son. This toy is not a small item. It must be very expensive."

"I know. I asked them to buy a car... No, Brother Dong, what are you thinking? Is it because I took you into the mountains? Lao Qian, Brother Liu, are you two doing this because of the donkey riding backwards? Why? There's no need to do this..."

Chen Hedong walked over and said, "Erning, listen to me first. I really want to thank you, but I can't find a good opportunity."

"No need to thank me! I took you to Wanye to sell the mallet for more money."

Chen Hedong shook his head: "That's different, Erning, you not only led me to Wanye, but you also taught me a lot of things. We two brothers get along very well. I came here for you."

Lao Qian said, "Erning, we brothers really don't mean any harm. Brother Liu, Brother Bin, and Lao Jin all feel that we owe you a lot. You said that we made so much money using your methods, but when it came to you, we got nothing. We feel really bad about it."

Liu Xuemin nodded: "Just keep it, you've already bought it, can you return it?"

Chen Hedong stuffed the car keys into Xu Ning's hand and said, "You can't return it. Besides, there's not much money in total."

Xu Ning frowned and asked, "How much did it cost?"

(End of this chapter)