Today is Tuesday. Gao Xiaoan stayed at home in the morning, waiting for Zeng Jingcai to come to the door.

She came over to Lin's house last night and said that a salesperson from the supply and marketing cooperative wanted to buy a sewing machine. She came over today to see if it was good or not before negotiating the price.

Before going out, Lin Qian wrapped a handful of fruit candies and a handful of White Rabbit toffee in two square pieces of paper, intending to give them to Li Mulan.

When I arrived at the sub-district office, I successfully received the acceptance letter stamped with the resettlement office stamp from Director Deng, as well as two honorary certificates for educated youths going to the mountains and countryside.

Director Deng put the things into a document bag and said to her: "I asked the people at the Resettlement Office. The Heilingtun Brigade is under the management of the Beijiang County Commune. It is very cold in Beijiang County in winter, so I haven’t taken over a few educated youths yet.”

"After you take the train to Harbin, the Educated Youth Office of Harbin will pick you up and take you to the Beijiang County Commune. The commune will then arrange for you to go to Heilingtun."

When Director Deng said this, he looked at Lin Qian with some worry and continued: "I heard that it takes a day to get there by car from Harbin City to Beijiang County. There are eight brigades under the Beijiang County Commune, and Heilingtun is the farthest. that."

Lin Qian's scalp felt a little numb after hearing this. She knew before that the Northeast was vast and sparsely populated, and that it was a bitter cold place in ancient times, but she didn't expect that the conditions might be more difficult than imagined.

A long road means inconvenient transportation. Inconvenient transportation basically means difficult conditions. Otherwise, if you want to get rich, you should build roads first.

But there is nothing we can do. Do we have to watch two almost 60-year-old men suffer? You can't be sorry for your own conscience!

"My mother and I will prepare more things to bring over. Thank you, Director Deng."

Lin Qian put the document bag away into her crossbody bag, and then went to the next office to find Li Mulan.

After calling Li Mulan out of the office on the pretext that she had something to say, Lin Qian stuffed the two packets of candy in her pocket and whispered to her: "It's candy!"

Li Mulan looked at her with bright eyes and did not refuse. She happily took Lin Qian to sit under the persimmon tree in the backyard and asked her if everything at home was packed.

"Everything is packed. I will go to the post and telecommunications office in the afternoon to send the packaged quilts and quilts to the commune."

Li Mulan felt a little reluctant to leave her. Although Lin Qian was a few years younger than her, she always felt as if she had met her too late and had to leave soon after meeting her.

Thinking of this, Li Mulan whispered: "I went to my uncle's house yesterday to ask around. Recently, they have all gone south. No one will take the car with you, otherwise they can take care of you again."

"You have helped me a lot!" Lin Qian turned to look at Li Mulan: "Although it may be difficult for us to meet each other in the future, we can write letters to keep in touch."

"Yes! You can also contact us by writing letters. My home address is here. No, you still have to send letters to the subdistrict office. I live in the railway bureau, and they receive a lot of letters every day."

"Okay, I'll tell you my address in the letter when the time comes." In this way, Lin Qian made her first friend after coming to this world.

Li Mulan stood up suddenly, climbed up the persimmon tree under Lin Qian's dull eyes, picked two persimmons near the top of the tree, and then returned to the tree neatly.

"You scared me to death!" Lin Qian exhaled. This person climbed as fast as he wanted, and climbed so high, it was really a headache.

Li Mulan carelessly handed Lin Qian a persimmon, "Our friendship will be as prosperous as this persimmon!"

Lin Qian laughed happily after taking the persimmon.

The two sat back under the persimmon tree to eat persimmons. While eating, Li Mulan asked her: "Hey, Sissy, do you know what my dad and the other railway workers are most worried about when they travel all over the world?"

"What is it?" Lin Qian asked curiously.

"I'm worried about getting sick. One of my father's colleagues went to the southwest and failed to come back. He had appendicitis. There was no good medical conditions on the train. When the train arrived at the station, there was no one there."

Li Mulan looked at Lin Qian and told her seriously: "You should find a way to go to the hospital to find a doctor and get some common medicines such as metamizole ready. Didn't the great man say that the body is the capital of revolution!"

Lin Qian nodded in agreement. She really didn't take this into consideration. It would be best to prepare some medicine for injuries such as bruises. Farm work in the countryside is not easy.

After returning home, Gao Xiao'an told her that the sewing machine had been replaced, and he had exchanged it for three meat stamps worth a pound, five sugar stamps worth a pound, and five oil coupons worth a pound, plus some extra money.

The family who bought the sewing machine also had to replace it. After all, Gao Xiaoan said that he only needed a nationwide ticket, so he made an appointment to come over at eight o'clock tonight to deliver the ticket, and then they took the sewing machine away.

"Your great aunt also said that she wanted to buy our bicycle for Qiu Yuan to use. In fact, I know that she was kind-hearted and wanted to help us. Where can Qiu Yuan stay in the senior year of high school and use the bicycle? I confiscated the tickets she gave."

Gao Xiaoan looked a little sad and continued: "Your Uncle Song has not been home for a long time, and the current situation is not optimistic. Your great aunt will take her nephew to the train station at six o'clock tomorrow morning."

After a pause, Gao Xiaoan said softly: "I plan to leave 200 to the Song family."

"Okay." Lin Qian nodded, but said, "My aunt is very strong, so I'm afraid she won't accept it."

"After we walked out of the fork in the road, you made an excuse and said you still had a bag you didn't bring, and then you ran back and hung the little bag on their jujube tree."

He took out a palm-sized bag and handed it to Lin Qian, with money already in it.

"Mom, we need to prepare some medicine..."

After listening to Lin Qian's story, Gao Xiao'an realized that he had not prepared in advance. If his daughter hadn't reminded him, he would never have thought about it.

She has read books on traditional Chinese medicine, and has also learned about medicated diet and acupuncture from several experienced traditional Chinese medicine practitioners. She can be regarded as a half-traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, so she naturally understands the importance of medicine. Now the family is old and young. If she gets sick, it will be really difficult. It's a big deal.

Gao Xiao'an stepped forward and hugged Lin Qian, sighing: "Qian Qian, fortunately you are by my mother's side." Fortunately, you support me, accompany me, and help me, otherwise I might have collapsed long ago.

In the afternoon, the mother and daughter sent Maomao to the Song family for Grandma Song to look after. They also sent the remaining half bag of rice, a sausage, half a piece of bacon and some oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to the Song family.

After making an appointment with Grandma Song to have dinner at her house in the evening, Gao Xiaoan and Lin Qian went home, hung the three packages on their bicycles, and pushed them to the post and telecommunications office to mail them.

After mailing it, I hurried to the hospital and asked a few familiar doctors for help, and got some commonly used Western medicine from them.

Finally, Gao Xiaoan took Lin Qian to the home of an old Chinese medicine practitioner by bicycle and bought some prepared Chinese patent medicines.

The prices of these medicines are not cheap, but they all have good reputations for their efficacy, and the most important thing is that they can kill people.

As the sun set, it was Lin Qian who drove Gao Xiaoan to Song's house to catch dinner when she returned home.

"After we go to Harbin, let's see if we can take the time to go to the Chinese medicine store to buy some commonly used medicinal materials. We have too much luggage now and it's inconvenient to carry it." Gao Xiaoan said while sitting in the back seat.

"I heard that there are a lot of ginseng over there, running all over the mountains." Lin Qian rode her bicycle nimbly through the streets and alleys.

Gao Xiaoan smiled and replied: "Those ginseng pickers' families have been passed down from generation to generation..."

The mother and daughter walked back into the sunset, ready to face the unknown future.

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