NFBE Chapter 566 Daily Life (2)
Chapter 566 Daily Life (2)
After dinner, after helping to clean up and wash, everyone sat around on the kang and chatted. Liu Jingxue took the opportunity to mention that the ginseng wine was almost ready.
"The ginseng wine is finally ready. We have been out of it for almost two months. I've been thinking about it for a long time." Liu Weihua smacked his lips as if he missed the taste of ginseng wine.
Wang Xiulan rolled her eyes at him and said, "If I hadn't controlled the quantity, you would have drunk up the water after two months of suspension.
This is not ordinary wine. Xiaoxue has brewed ginseng that is more than 500 years old. How can she drink too much?
And even if there was no ginseng wine, you still drank a lot of alcohol.
Mingxuan and Junhao bring back some wine for you guys from time to time."
Old Wu shook his head. "That's different. How can ordinary wine compare to ginseng wine?"
"It's just a few children who spoil you and provide you with cigarettes and alcohol. Who can have a better life than you?" Wang Xiulan muttered.
"Grandpa, I've prepared 150 kilograms for you this time, which is enough for you to drink for a long time.
Haozi and I will get you some liquor on weekdays, so you won’t lose money.”
"That's great." Old Wu laughed.
Even Mr. Zou and Liu Weihua couldn't help laughing, but Wang Xiulan couldn't help rolling her eyes.
After enduring for a long time, she couldn't help but remind him, "Forget about the ginseng wine, it's good for your health, but it's better to drink less other wines."
"Don't worry, with you watching us, we will never drink too much," Liu Weihua coaxed.
Liu Jingxue looked at Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao. "Each of you has 100 kilograms of wine, which adds up to 200 kilograms of wine. How are you going to get it back?"
“It’s more than 200 kilograms of wine.
Last time we got so much bacon, we were worried that if we sent too much, the people at the post office would notice something was wrong, so we only sent a small portion, and now most of it is still at home." Zhao Junhao said.
"So how are you going to get it back?"
Zhou Mingxuan said, "Grandpa has been waiting for the ginseng wine for a long time.
I have spoken to him on the phone before, and he said that ginseng wine that is more than 500 years old is too expensive, and the quantity is too large. If something goes wrong by mail, he will lose a lot of money.
So he didn't plan to let us send it back, but planned to send someone to pick it up.
When the time comes, have someone bring back the ginseng wine and the bacon."
“After knowing Grandpa Zhou’s plan, I informed my old man, and he will send people to come with Grandpa Zhou’s people.
Anyway, the train from Beijing to here only takes more than ten hours. After getting off the train, they will get a car and drive to Linshan Town.
Mingxuan and I only need to find a way to transport the things to town.
If the road from Linshan Town to our production team had not been blocked by heavy snow, I would have asked them to come directly to my house to pick it up."
Elder Wu nodded, “That’s a good idea.
If you were to send these 200 kilograms of wine and that much bacon back, the postage would be enough to make three or four round trips to Beijing.
Besides, it’s a hole and not safe.”
"Then you have to agree on where to meet in town, otherwise it might be hard to meet.
It's icy and snowy here, and it's hard to find anyone there," Liu Weihua reminded.
"This will definitely be arranged in advance," Zhou Mingxuan said.
Zhao Junhao looked at Liu Jingxue, "Xiaoxue, do you want to send ginseng wine to Mr. Zhang and Brother Liu?
Do you plan to send it now or later?"
“I plan to send it in the next two days.
There is still some time before the Spring Festival, so we should be able to deliver it to them before the Spring Festival."
Liu Jingxue planned to put a good-luck charm and a reinforced Vajra Charm in the package to ensure that the package would not be damaged no matter how it was hit and would arrive safely to the recipient.
"Then let's go to town together tomorrow.
You go and mail the package, and we'll call home and tell them to send someone to pick it up." Zhou Mingxuan said.
Liu Jingxue didn't want to go out with them.
If I go to town with them, I won't be able to sit on the sled and use my spiritual power to ski and move the sled forward.
If I went with them, I would have to walk, dragging all the things I wanted to send on a sled.
It’s painful enough just to think about it.
Moreover, when I get to the town, I have to go to Old Lady Guo's house and bring her some more food. I am afraid that the next time I go there will be in February or March next year.
She quickly found an excuse, "You don't have to wait for me, go tomorrow. I have to go to instruct the team leader to mix feed tomorrow, so I can't go.
Since there is no snow in the past two days, you should call back and ask them to come and pick up the goods.
If we delay any further, I'm afraid that if the snow gets too heavy and the trains stop running, Grandpa Zhou and his friends won't be able to drink ginseng wine during the New Year."
Liu Jingxue kept praying in her heart, hoping that the two men would not reject her proposal and would call them tomorrow and not wait for her to go over together.
Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao discussed with each other in a low voice.
"Then we'll go to town tomorrow and make the call. We won't wait for you."
Liu Jingxue waved her hand quickly, "You go first, no need to wait for me."
“When you deliver goods to town, don’t drag them there by yourself; rent a bullock cart from the village.
You guys are dragging hundreds of kilograms of stuff, and you're freezing sick." Mr. Wu warned.
“Don’t worry, Grandpa Wu, Mingxuan and I are not that stupid. We can drag it over by ourselves.
We had already decided to rent the team’s ox cart.”
Zou Lao advised, "It's so cold, let people go out for a run, don't treat them badly."
"Don't worry, Grandpa Zou. I won't treat you unfairly."
The next morning, Liu Jingxue got up and went out of space on purpose, spreading her spiritual sense to search for Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao.
After failing to find the two people at home or in the cowshed, he swept his spiritual sense outside the production team and successfully found the two figures when they were some distance away from the production team.
Liu Jingxue breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, they went to town and didn't wait for me.
Then I can go to town alone to mail the package tomorrow."
In the blink of an eye, another day passed. Liu Jingxue got up early and left the village before the villagers left their homes.
After getting away from the production team, she released the sled, stood on it, and used her spiritual power to push the sled to slide, sending herself forward.
When she was almost at the town, she put away the sled, put on two backpacks, one in front and one behind, and walked towards the town.
Fortunately, as we got closer to the town, more people were walking and a path was created. After entering the town, the streets were specially swept, so it didn't hinder people from walking.
When they were almost at the post office, Liu Jingxue put the two packages she had prepared earlier into the backpack, plus the fresh meat and bacon that she was going to trade for Sister Jin.
After sending the packages to Grandpa Zhang and Big Brother and completing the transaction with Sister Jin, Liu Jingxue called the two again to remind them to check the packages.
After leaving the post office, Liu Jingxue ran to a deserted place, picked up an empty backpack, and put a lot of food, some meat and bones into the empty backpack, preparing to send it to Old Mrs. Guo.
Despite Mrs. Guo's repeated requests, Liu Jingxue refused to show any mercy and stayed to have lunch with Mrs. Guo and chat with her for a while before leaving for the production team.
Although she didn't want to let Liu Jingxue leave, Mrs. Guo knew that under the current circumstances, it would take her more than three hours to get home, so she didn't try to keep her.