The next morning, the three of them got up early.

After washing their faces, they got out of bed and happened to meet a group of people coming back from work, making the road lively and bustling.

They left the large courtyard and Yang Xiaole went to push the cart.

Yang Guangchun looked at him strangely and asked, "Where did you get the cart?"

While unlocking the cart, Yang Xiaole replied, "I borrowed it from someone. It's the same cart I used when I saved someone near Xidan last time. I went with my brother. We have to return it later."

The eldest brother nodded beside them.

Seeing this scene, Yang Guangchun nodded slightly and went to the nearby shed to get a brand new bicycle.

He said to Yang Xiaogang, "Get on, I'll take you."

Yang Xiaogang hurriedly ran over upon hearing this.

The three of them rode their bikes and headed outside.

They arrived at the entrance of a nearby breakfast shop, and Yang Guangchun stopped the bike.

"Let's have breakfast first. It's still early, we have time. You guys eat, I'll go to the factory and explain the situation. I'll be back soon."

After saying that, he went to the master and asked, "What do you want to eat? And what do you want to drink?"

The two of them walked up and took a look.

The eldest brother looked around and finally said, "Give me a fried dough or a steamed bun! And a bowl of porridge."

Yang Guangchun nodded and glanced at Yang Xiaole, "What about you?"

"The same!"

After getting the answer, Yang Guangchun ordered four meat buns and six fried doughs, and paid with money and a ticket.

He also packed three meat buns.

Then he instructed the two of them, "Don't wander around while eating. I'll be back soon."

After saying that, he left on his bike.

The two of them sat down inside.

There were also many girls and a few boys having breakfast. Everyone was eating and chatting.

The eldest brother found an empty seat and sat down, avoiding the girls.

Soon, the food was served.

Yang Xiaole ate the fried dough with porridge and smiled at Yang Xiaogang, "Big brother, this won't do. Your face is too thin. How are you going to find a daughter-in-law in the city in the future?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiaogang looked around and became angry, "Say that again and I'll hit you!"

"Alright, alright, I won't say it anymore, okay?"

Yang Xiaole finished speaking with a smile and continued eating breakfast.

Soon, four girls came to their table and chatted there.

This made Yang Xiaogang even more at a loss.

He quickly finished his meal and fled the breakfast shop.

Yang Xiaole shook his head and ate his breakfast slowly. After finishing the last bite, he got up and left.

Yang Xiaogang stood on the road waiting for him.

Yang Guangchun also came back on his bike.

He bought three big buns, took a bite, and shouted at the two of them, "Alright, let's go!"

Yang Xiaogang quickly ran over.

The three of them rode their bikes towards the city.

Uncle ate while riding.

Yang Xiaole followed behind, muttering to himself, feeling like he wanted to turn back.

The road was crowded with people, and it could truly be described as a sea of people.

And at this time, there was no concept of going against the flow of traffic. People could walk however they wanted and take whatever route was comfortable.

They spent more than an hour walking a distance that should have taken thirty to forty minutes.

They arrived at their destination, where a signboard painted in white read "Yanjing Second Paper Mill".

Yang Guangchun talked to the security personnel and they called someone through the loudspeaker.

"Comrade Chen Dalin, Comrade Chen Dalin, someone is looking for you. Please come to the guard room if you hear this. Please come to the guard room if you hear this."

After a few minutes, a man in his fifties came out.

"Guangchun! You're here!"

"Dalin, I've brought someone for you. I won't go in."

The man laughed, "Alright, I'll take him in first. But let me make it clear, if it doesn't work out, I'll have to send him back!"

"Okay, no problem! If it doesn't work, send him back to me." Yang Guangchun finished speaking and looked at Yang Xiaogang, "Xiaogang, go with him and do whatever he tells you to do."

"Okay!"

Then he followed the man inside.

Leaving the two of them waiting at the entrance.

Yang Guangchun took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one, and smoked.

Then he thought of something and asked him, "Xiaole, have you stopped doing any more reselling recently?"

Yang Xiaole glanced at him and said, "No!"

Since they would eventually meet with their family in the future, he decided to tell the truth now to avoid future arguments.

As expected, upon hearing this, Yang Guangchun frowned, "You're still doing that? Have you thought about what would happen if you get caught? You're poaching from the government!"

Yang Xiaole pursed his lips and was ready to argue with Uncle.

Then he said to him, "Uncle, let me ask you, the Supply and Marketing Cooperative buys fish, and I catch fish. What's so strange about that? They haven't said anything about it. Besides, I haven't touched the fish from the production team. We catch fish in the deep pool in the mountains. Tell me, how is this considered poaching from the government?"Then let me ask you, even if you say that the mountains belong to the public, have you ever heard of anyone catching wild chickens, rabbits, wolves, or wild boars everywhere?

Every year, when the Supply and Marketing Cooperative comes, they collect some mountain products like mushrooms and wild vegetables, and they even encourage it. Every time it rains heavily, a group of us kids go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables and mushrooms. Is that also illegal?

Why do they encourage us to pick?

Isn't it just to provide for the city?

Just go to the market and see for yourself. They allow selling there, so what does that mean? It means it's allowed. How come catching fish becomes poaching?

I'm not selling controlled goods or disrupting the market economy. That's illegal and I won't do it. Why can't I catch fish?"

On this side of the mountain, many people come out to sell these things at the end of the year in the market, and no one says it's illegal.

But it might not be the same this year.

Yang Guangchun frowned for a while when he heard this.

He didn't say anything.

He was contemplating.

Yang Xiaole looked at his expression and asked, "Uncle, let me ask you something. When you were in the army before, were you not allowed to take things from the common people?"

"Yes!"

Yang Guangchun was puzzled.

"Then did you give people money for the things you got from the mountains?"

Hearing this, Yang Guangchun glared at him, "Could it be the same back then?"

But he didn't ask further.

He kept pondering over Yang Xiaole's words, wondering if they were right or not.

Yang Xiaole didn't know which sentence of his had moved him, but it didn't make him angry.

But thinking about it, it made sense!

What he said was right!

The Supply and Marketing Cooperative encourages collecting things from the mountains, so why can't it be fish?

This was a turn he had never made.

After waiting for over an hour, Chen Dalin finally came out with his elder brother.

After coming out, Yang Guangchun quickly stood up and handed him a cigarette, "Dalin, how did it go?"

Chen Dalin took the cigarette with a smile and said, "There shouldn't be a problem. The little kid has strength. He can pass without even saying hello. But we have to wait for the notice. When the notice comes, I'll come to your place to find you."

Yang Guangchun breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "Alright, thanks!"

"Hey, why so polite? What's our relationship? Your nephew is my nephew. Alright, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go back in and get busy. Oh, if you and Hongying get married without inviting us, be careful we smash your pots."

After saying that, he punched Yang Guangchun's shoulder.

Yang Guangchun grinned, "I know, if I don't invite you, Hongying won't agree either! Alright, go and do your work. I'll wait for your notice."

The two chatted for a while, and then the other person went inside with a greeting.

Yang Xiaole watched from the side, thinking that if he hadn't used connections, he would have lost his head.

There's no such coincidence.

He probably fooled his uncle!

Yang Guangchun watched the other person leave and said to the two of them, "Alright, let's go home. We should know the result the day after tomorrow."

Elder brother got on the car when he heard this.

The three of them rode their bikes back the way they came.

"Uncle, I returned the car, so I have to go back."

Walking on the road, when they reached the lane where Hua's family lived, he told Yang Guangchun.

"Oh, you're going back so soon. Just stay and play for two days. I have a day off tomorrow, I'll take you two brothers out to play."

Yang Guangchun stopped the car.

"Forget it, I came to send my brother off. If it weren't for my brother not knowing anyone here, my mother wouldn't have let me come. I have to go back. We'll all be living in the school next week, so I have to go back and prepare."

When Yang Guangchun heard this, he looked at Yang Xiaogang behind him, wondering if what he said was true.

Yang Xiaogang nodded, "Yeah, Mom said I should send him off and not wander around."

It seemed like he forgot to mention that he wanted to go back immediately.

When he heard this, Yang Guangchun didn't doubt anymore. He looked at the road and said, "If you're going back, you should go soon. Let me take you to the bus stop over there. It's only about ten minutes away. Let's go together."

Yang Xiaole was delighted. This was the best.

"Alright, I'll return the car to the owner. It's in this lane."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"It's fine, it's very close. I'll be back in a moment."

After saying that, he turned the bike around and rode towards the inside.

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He didn't dare to let his uncle come over. Many soldiers didn't fall under gunfire when crossing the Yalu River, but rather succumbed to the infection of the black-hearted cotton.

If he knew about Hua's family's situation, he might start nagging again.

He lightly knocked on the door when he arrived.

After a while, Hua Yourong opened the door and was delighted to see Yang Xiaole, "Xiaole, you're here! Mom said you came last night, but I fell asleep."

"Yeah, I came yesterday to borrow the car. Now I'm returning it."Hearing the movement, Su Ling came out and said, "Xiaole, you're back so soon!"

"Auntie, I came to return the car. My uncle is waiting for me on the road, I have to hurry."

"Oh, you're leaving so soon. Let me give you the money for the fish."

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole quickly said, "No, let's wait a bit. I'll be back later! I'll leave now!"

After saying goodbye, he left.

Upon hearing that he had returned, Su Ling didn't say anything.

Running out of the lane, he came to the car and said to Yang Guangchun, "Big brother, sit inside, let me sit in the back!"

Sitting in the car, Yang Guangchun rode with the two of them towards Fucheng Gate.

After passing through Fucheng Gate and riding for a few hundred meters, they arrived at a bus courtyard. This was the final stop, with buses going to the city and the outskirts.

The two of them saw him off onto the bus.

Yang Xiaole looked at them waving at him and said, "Alright, you can go now. Who knows when this bus will leave!"

Yang Guangchun nodded and asked, "Did you bring the money?"

"I did, my mother gave me money."

Hearing this, Yang Guangchun nodded and said, "You should have told me earlier. If I had known, I would have brought you something. Anyway, when I take Hongying to see our father in a while, I'll bring you some delicious food."

"Alright, thank you, Uncle."

After saying goodbye, Yang Xiaole saw that they didn't leave, so he walked into the carriage.

Seeing this scene, Yang Guangchun rode away with the two of them.

Yang Xiaole sat in the car and saw that they didn't leave but instead went to the dispatch room to inquire before leaving.

He felt that something was not right.

He didn't rush to leave.

He waited for less than two minutes. The bus arrived on time, and the driver and ticket collector got on.

After waiting for another two minutes, the bus slowly left the courtyard.

"Old fox!"

As expected, the two of them were standing by the wall outside the courtyard and couldn't see the outside situation.

"Uncle, you should go back!"

He waved at them through the window.

"Go home quickly, don't wander around."

Yang Guangchun waved back and saw the bus drive away before he left with his brother.

After driving for a while, they couldn't see his brother anymore. Yang Xiaole quickly said to the ticket collector who came to collect the fare, "Comrade, I'm getting off, sorry!"

"What took you so long!"

The attendant complained and then the bus stopped and let him off.

Yang Xiaole quickly hid in the bushes and then entered the space.

It didn't matter if he was at Fucheng Gate or not!

After coming in, he saw that the crops in the space had ripened, so he quickly harvested them.

He didn't know how much corn he harvested from two fen of land, but after drying, it was estimated to be around two to three hundred jin.

Peanuts, melon seeds, and sesame seeds together weighed about a hundred jin.

It was enough to eat.

As for the cotton on one fen of land, it was estimated that it could be harvested last night. The small cotton plants next to it had already bloomed.

He harvested about seventy to eighty jin of cotton seeds, and after removing the cottonseeds, there were about twenty-four to twenty-five jin of cotton.

This would be enough for now.

Later, he would find a place in the city to process the cotton and make two thick quilts for Big Sister.

As for the ones at home, they could wait since they had heated beds, and this stuff could be harvested again in ten days, so there was no rush.

The most abundant crop was the sweet potatoes on one fen of land, with over 600 jin of ripe sweet potatoes.

After harvesting them all and removing the straw, he replanted another batch of sweet potatoes by directly planting the vines.

After finishing, he watered them and didn't pay much attention to them.

He stored the chicken eggs and duck eggs in the thatched house.

Then he looked at the two fat pigs in the pigpen and wondered how to slaughter them!

Using a kitchen knife would be too difficult, so he had to go to the hardware store to buy a pig-killing knife.

He also needed to buy a few basins, large wooden basins and the like, as pig blood was a good thing and shouldn't be wasted!

Looking at the five pregnant rabbits in the rabbit nest, he wondered if this was considered inbreeding.

He didn't bother with it.

Feeling some movement outside, he waited for a while.

When he was sure there was no movement outside, he quietly left the space.

"Hey, don't come over, don't come over, there's someone."

Just as he came out and took a few steps, he heard someone's voice behind the dirt slope.

Yang Xiaole heard the other person's anxious voice and wondered if someone was having a secret affair here!

Out of curiosity, he took a look.

He saw a half-sized kid wiping his butt with toilet paper!

The other person naturally saw him too.

Seeing that he was a man, the other person breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Hey, I thought it was someone else! You're also here to take a dump? Didn't you see the bike parked by the road?"

Yang Xiaole took a glance and lost interest.

He didn't pay attention to him and turned around to leave.

There was a bicycle parked by the road.

Turning his head and seeing that the other person didn't come out, he quickly took out the bicycle and walked out of the bushes.

After a while, the other person climbed up from under the slope and walked out.

"Aren't you going up? Go ahead! I'm done."Yang Xiaole glanced at the other person and shook his head, "No, I think I'll hold back."

After saying this, he sized up the other person.

The person was about his age and slightly overweight.

What caught his attention was the beige uniform the person was wearing.

In those days, it was said in the Capital that one's audacity could be judged by the color beige.

Those who could wear beige military uniforms were usually the children of high-ranking officials from the Large Courtyard, as ordinary people were all in the military camps!

Just like his Uncle, who only returned home once in many years.

Because this kind of fabric was not for sale, only the military issued it. Therefore, in this era of supporting the military, wearing a beige uniform was a matter of great prestige wherever one went.

In the Capital, the area was vast, but the circles were small, each place and each group of people had their own circles.

There were children from the Large Courtyard, children from the government compound, and children from the mixed compound.

The three areas were hard to merge together, with almost no intersection.

After the other person came out, he cursed in the direction of the city outskirts, "These bastards, they didn't even wait for me."

After saying this, he was about to ride away.