I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

After eating the New Year’s Eve dinner, Cao Dongfang went to Chen Xueru’s house. He returned home before 6:30 in the morning of the first day of the new year and started the new year’s greetings again.

At Mr. Wei’s home, I didn’t hear that he went out on the first day of the new year. Just take a rest, the country has tasks to do.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Cao Dongfang and his mother went to the home of Uncle Xie and his two friends again. No one was at home. They had gone out to pay New Year's greetings. They put down their things, said a few words, and then went home.

On the second night of the New Year, Uncle Xie and his two companions came and also sat for a while before going back.

On the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Guan Shu and his four companions came to the house to pay New Year's greetings. They returned without having lunch. In the afternoon, Cao Dongfang received a call and was told to go to the southwest to transport grain the next morning.

I went to Uncle Guan's house in the afternoon to say hello, and had another big meal of mutton there. There were so many people who liked to eat mutton in the middle of winter.

After leaving Chen Xueru's house on the night of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Cao Dongfang headed straight to the southwest and arrived there at six in the morning.

They began to transport grain according to the requirements of the State Council. The distance was not too far, and just like last time, it was at the big station granary, and Cao Dongfang was only responsible for the transfer.

Two hundred million jin of grain is not a lot, so Cao Dongfang managed it in two days and went to the northwest to transport the grain, also transporting grain from big cities to some places without railways.

Familiar with the road!

Cao Dongfang was quite familiar with this. Three hundred million kilograms of grain were delivered in three days and in the required quantity to where the grain was needed.

About 100 million kilograms a day is now Cao Dongfang's standard. With the help of airplanes, Cao Dongfang's personal speed is also fast, which also saves time.

Cao Dongfang didn't know how much grain was left, but he kept sending grain at the request of the country, all the way to Shaanxi Province in the northwest.

Cao Dongfang went to Xiancheng, the capital of the unified Qin State. Uncle Yue's home was here, not in the provincial capital.

.......

Cao Dongfang borrowed a truck from the city and filled the truck with various supplies!

All the upper echelons in Xiancheng know this person. Now that Comrade Cao Dongfang has arrived, everything must be done according to his orders. This is an order from the State Council!

Don’t need to know why?

Just follow the commands!

"Hello! Are you Aunt Yue, Uncle Yue Shanhe's lover?" Cao Dongfang came to the address given by Yue Shanhe!

The place he lives in is nice, next to the municipal party committee residence, very close, less than 100 meters away. Although Uncle Yue is not at home, his rank is no lower than that of a city-level official.

Uncle Yue didn't ask to keep it a secret either, because my parents have always lived in Xiancheng and have never moved, so everyone in the city should know about it.

"I am, young man, and you are..." A woman in her forties, with an ordinary appearance and no signs of being weathered.

"Aunt, my name is Cao Dongfang, and my father's name is Cao Dashan. I met Uncle Yue a few years ago. He was worried about you, so he asked me to come and see how things are at home." Cao Dongfang said.

"Cao Dongfang, I know you. I saw you in the army when you were only three years old. Shanhe also wrote to me a few days ago saying that you would come, but I didn't expect it to be so soon!

Come in quickly, I'm fine too, the children have all gone to work, only my parents-in-law are at home! "Aunt Yue said.

"Hello, Grandpa and Grandma! I am Cao Dongfang." Cao Dongfang said.

"Come and sit down. I met you and Dashan in the army more than ten years ago. What a pity for your father. We also received Shanhe's letter.

My family is doing well. I heard that there was famine in the whole country, but no one died here. Some people went hungry. This is much better than before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Yue Shanhe's father is an old man in his sixties from Shaanxi Province who looks very healthy and is very talkative.

"Dongfang, how is home? How are your mother and your sister?" Yue Shanhe's mother is also from Shaanxi Province.

"Thank you grandma for your concern. She's fine!" Cao Dongfang stood up and replied.

"That's good. You've grown up and can help the family. What job do you do now?" Yue Shanhe's father asked.

“Transporting grain to the northwest, southwest, and central plains. I am responsible for transporting part of the grain because Uncle Yue is always passing by here and is worried about what happened at home.

Let me take a look at your family's living standards and see if there is anything you need. "Cao Dongfang said.

“I don’t have any demands. Life is OK. Even in a disaster year, I have no problem getting enough food.

The city takes better care of us. Although we are not here, we have enough food. We don’t have to queue up to buy food. It is delivered to our homes.

Maybe there is only less meat, and the same is true for the families in the municipal government. They don’t have more than a pound of meat during the New Year. It is much better than before the founding of the People’s Republic of China. "Mr. Yue said.

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"Um...um...Dongfang, can you buy eggs?" Grandma Yue asked cautiously.

"Old woman, Dongfang is delivering food, how could he have eggs? And he doesn't live in Shaanxi Province." said Old Man Yue.

"It's okay, let Grandma Yue tell us what happened." Cao Dongfang said.

“It’s not a big deal. The eldest brother’s wife is pregnant, and there is no meat or eggs, so the nutrition is not very good.

I am worried about the nutrition of the baby in my belly and the lack of milk after giving birth." said Grandma Yue.

"This is a small matter. I have eggs. I brought them this time. I will go and move the supplies from the car first. Can you see if anything is missing?" Cao Dongfang said.

"You brought eggs, that's enough. We have no shortage of other supplies." Grandma Yue said happily.

"There are a lot of things. You can keep them and use them slowly. I will pass by Xiancheng once every one or two months this year and I will drop off some supplies." Cao Dongfang said.

"No, it's too troublesome. You just started working and your salary is not high. You should save more money. Do you have a wife?" asked Grandpa Yue.

“Grandpa Yue, I don’t have a wife yet. I’ve been too busy these past two years. My salary is very high, higher than Uncle Yue’s, and I have more supplies.

These are my own supplies, not the country's. You can use them with confidence. The country knows about it. If you don't believe me, you can ask Uncle Yue.

If anyone wants to investigate, let them go to the State Council or the Central Military Commission to find me," Cao Dongfang said.

“Thank you so much!”

"Grandpa Yue, Grandma Yue, please sit down. I will move the supplies down first. You can see if there is anything missing and I will make up for it." Cao Dongfang said.

It took Cao Dongfang six trips to move all the supplies, which took up a large area in the main room. The flour and a little rice and millet piled together were 2/3 the height of a large wardrobe.

There were twelve boxes on the ground, all filled with various supplies, and two pieces of cloth for each man and woman.

"Dongfang, there are too many of these things. We can't use them all! We can't use them all!"

Mr. Yue said.

"Not much, mainly for food, 350 kilograms of flour, kilograms of rice, and kilograms of millet. Mainly, I don't know whether you like rice or noodles!

Millet is good for health. My grandparents and sister-in-law who is pregnant usually drink some of it. Here is a big box of sugar, 30 kilograms of white sugar and 20 kilograms of brown sugar.

This is a box of eggs, there are about 150 eggs, I didn’t count exactly, and this box contains kilograms of cooking oil.

This box contains thirty kilograms of pork and twenty kilograms of mutton, which I have eaten in the past few days.

These are two boxes of bacon. Fresh meat is difficult to store, so eat more bacon to replenish your body.

This is a box of milk powder. Everyone drinks it in a cup every day. I buy the amount on the milk powder box. It should not exceed 300 ml per day when mixed with water. Any more is useless.

These two boxes contain fruits but no vegetables. Eat more fruits!

The last three boxes are all canned food, two boxes of vegetables and one box of canned meat. You can eat them with confidence. The canned vegetables are from abroad, and the canned meat is national military canned food.

There isn't much of these things, so we'll try to use up all the food except grain and sugar.

I'll bring some more next time. Sister-in-law is pregnant, so she should eat more. Don't worry about the supplies!" Cao Dongfang said.

"Dongfang, there are too many things here. It will cost so much money. I can't do this! I can't do this!

No, you take it back. We will just keep some millet and eggs. We can’t let you spend so much money.

This won’t do! "Grandpa Yueshan said firmly.

"Grandpa Yue, these things are free, none of them. I exchanged the bacon, domestic canned food, and eggs for them.

I got the fresh meat from hunting, and the rest is free, they are all foreign goods.

I have more supplies at Uncle Yue's place, so don't worry. If you don't believe me, just give Uncle Yue a call or write a letter to ask him!" Cao Dongfang said.

"Is that so? Dongfang, you really didn't spend any money?" Old Man Yue was still worried about the supplies that Cao Dongfang bought with his own money.

"Don't worry, Grandpa Yue, these things are free, you can use them without worry, it's not that the conditions here are average and the electricity supply is not good!

I want to give you another set of electrical equipment, and send it to you in a few years when the power supply is resolved." Cao Dongfang said.

"It's okay, that's enough. I dare not use anything that uses electricity. There are power outages every day, and I can't use those things when I'm old." Grandpa Yue said.

“I put the things down, I remember the door, next time I pass by, I’ll come over, I’ll go back first.

There are still tasks!" Cao Dongfang said.

"Come and have dinner before leaving!" said Grandpa Yue.

"No way!"

National grain transportation mission!

Grandpa Yue, Grandma Yue, Aunt Yue, goodbye! "