Just as Lu's mother and her family finished their meal, Lu's father rushed over to eat as soon as he got off work. Seeing that his wife had finally returned, he hugged Lu's mother and said, "Wife, you're finally back. You don't know that these days have been very hard without you. I miss the food you cook so much. Although your daughter-in-law cooks well, I still like your cooking."

Seeing him pretending to be pitiful, Mother Lu rolled her eyes at him and said, "This is still your son's home. The elders and the younger generations are still watching. Let's talk about it when you get home."

When the twin grandsons saw their grandfather’s expression, they said innocently, “Grandpa, shame on you.”

Father Lu left his daughter-in-law's arms and pretended to be angry and said to the twins: "You will understand when you grow up. Now you don't understand the hardships your grandfather has gone through."

Mother Lu stopped Father Lu from saying anything further and told him to eat and rest quickly as he had to go to work in the afternoon. Mother Lu had slept on the train all day and was very tired, so she had to go upstairs to take a shower and change clothes before going back.

1970年8月12日上午9:00

A City Army Family Compound

Bai Zhizhi's daily life has been similar since Lu's mother returned to Beijing. She gets up in the morning to eat breakfast, then washes clothes (washing machine) and sweeps the floor (sweeper), then stays in the system space and makes a few sets of clothes every day. When she is tired, she takes a break, eats something, and takes a bath. Now Bai Zhizhi's belly is slowly showing, and she waits until she is bored to make clothes. Anyway, the time in the space is long, and Bai Zhizhi can make a few sets of clothes every other day. But Bai Zhizhi doesn't want to do that, so she has made a set of clothes for both sides' family members in three days, and the other set was selected from the stockpiled goods in the previous life. She also gave an extra bra to the female compatriots on both sides (her mother's family also gave each person 3 bras to change).

She also sent two pairs of old Beijing cloth shoes, local specialties, and homemade food (shaqi ma, small bread, small twisted dough sticks, spicy strips, squid shreds, five-spice melon seeds, and five-spice peanuts) to both parents and Grandpa and Grandma Lu, as well as milk powder from both sides. Although she didn't send any fruit this time because she was afraid it would go bad, she also sent a can of middle-aged milk powder to each person, and sent it after they had finished eating. She packed the packages and put the letter she wrote in her space yesterday in it, marked the address for each person, and put them in the parcel bag. As both packages were very large, Bai Zhizhi thought about asking the guard to help carry them. Thinking that the tractor from the village next to the military region hadn't left yet, she quickly carried herself to the guard and asked the soldiers to help carry them. One of the guards helped carry them and followed Bai Zhizhi home. When she saw two large packages by the door, she asked in surprise, "Sister-in-law, are you sending these two large packages to your family?"

Bai Zhizhi responded: "Yes, we just arrived here not long ago, and when I saw that the things here were not available in our place, I bought a little more to stock up. I'm pregnant now, and I can't eat a lot of things, so I can only send them back home. Comrade, there will be a tractor from the next village going to the city later, can you help take it to the platform at the door, thank you."

The soldier was not reluctant and was rather happy that Bai Zhizhi asked him to help. He had heard from other comrades before that Captain Lu's wife was very beautiful and had even given him wedding candy. She was indeed a beautiful person with a kind heart.

Bai Zhizhi put the small bag on her back, took the key, locked the bag, and followed the soldier out. After they went out, they heard the sound of a tractor. They both knew that it was a tractor coming. The soldier put the package on the car. Bai Zhizhi was very grateful for the help, and grabbed a handful of Swiss candy from her "pocket" and gave it to the soldier, then got on the car.

Along the way, someone was cautiously complaining to others about Bai Zhizhi's wasteful spending. She bought so many things, and shipping them would surely be expensive, but Bai Zhizhi ignored them.

When they arrived at City A, Bai Zhizhi did not leave early. Instead, she asked the tractor driver: "Comrade, can you help me take it to the post office? If you can take me back, I'll give you 5 cents."

The tractor actually didn't want to agree, but he was worried that he would be like some people and might be punished by God if he didn't do good things. So after hesitating for a moment, he drove the tractor towards the post office.

After some tedious operations, I finally managed to mail the two large packages successfully, and bought some more precious and collectible stamps. The total cost was 6.9 yuan, of which 2.6 yuan was for the mailing items, and an additional 5 cents was given as transportation fare.

Since Bai Zhizhi thought there was nothing else she needed to buy, she went straight to the meeting point to wait. However, not long after she sat down, she felt her stomach growling, so she told the tractor driver that she had to go eat first, and agreed to return to the meeting point before 3 pm, then got off the car and walked to the state-owned restaurant for dinner.

In the restaurant, she ordered a plate of boiled dumplings, which cost her 1 yuan and a two-jin food coupon. After eating and drinking, she slowly walked towards the tractor assembly point.

When we returned at 6:8 that afternoon, we found that there were only people left on the bus, while there were people when we set out.

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