Chapter 404: Chapter 403: One Dares to Boast, Another Dares to Believe
Great Northern Wilderness.
“Yafei, there’s a package for you!”
“Ah, coming!”
Sun Yafei put down her pen, donned her hat, and scurried out.
Before long, she dragged a big hemp sack back to the room with effort.
Several girls imdiately gathered around, their eyes full of curiosity looking at the sack.
“Eh? What’s inside such a big sack?”
“Is it sothing sent from your family?”
“Open it and see…”
Sun Yafei laughed as she took scissors to open the sack, revealing it to be filled with brown glass dicine bottles.
“This…” the girls looked at each other, “why is it all dicine?”
“Right, let look for a note.”
Sun Yafei was also confused. The sender’s address is from the provincial city, but she didn’t recognize anyone from there. So why would soone send her a package? Plus, the recipient’s na is hers, and the address is correct too.
She searched and finally found an inconspicuous slip of paper.
“Entrusted by Lin Nianhe, 150 bottles of vitamins are sent to Comrade Sun Yafei. This dicine is helpful for the recovery from night blindness and should be taken daily even if there are no symptoms now.”
Sun Yafei held the note, and her eyes turned red instantly.
She just casually ntioned it in her letter, mainly talking about how she and Guan Manling had to assist all the girls in their dorm to the toilet every night, just a funny snippet really. Yet, Nianhe took it to heart and sent them dicine.
“Yafei?”
A girl next to Sun Yafei nudged her shoulder.
“It’s my sister back ho. She heard that so comrades here are suffering from night blindness and specially mailed us vitamin pills, saying it’s very effective for the condition.” Sun Yafei wiped away her tears and turned to Guan Manling, “Squad leader, it’s Sister Nianhe.”
“Oh, it’s her.” Guan Manling was sowhat surprised and asked imdiately, “Did she say anything else?”
“It must have been her who asked soone else to buy it; the note was written by soone else.” Sun Yafei sniffled and said to Guan Manling, “Squad leader, please give it to the company commander so he can distribute it.”
Guan Manling looked at her for a while, then bent down, took out two bottles from the sack, and stuffed them in her hand, “This was sent by Nianhe for you. Regardless of how it’s shared, you must have so.”
“But I’m not sick…”
“If you wait until you are sick to take them, it’ll be too late.” Guan Manling ruffled her hair, “Co with . Let’s take this chance to ask the company commander to let you use the phone.”
Sun Yafei was imdiately cheerful, nodding vigorously, “Okay!”
“This batch of dicine ca just in ti. We were actually hoping to get so kelp from Qing City to help, but the comrades over there said that the harvested kelp was all turned in, and there wasn’t much left at ho to support the family, so they probably wouldn’t be able to send any… Comrade Sun Yafei, we’re truly grateful, you’ve solved a big problem for everyone!”
Sun Yafei listened to the company commander’s praise absentmindedly, her gaze unconsciously drifting toward the telephone.
Guan Manling didn’t wait for her husband to finish talking and interrupted him, “This dicine is provided by Yafei’s sister. Regardless, we have to leave enough for Yafei. She already eats so little, if she doesn’t take so vitamins, she’ll end up with night blindness too!”
“Right, right, of course,” the company commander nodded repeatedly, “Comrade Sun Yafei, you must take your dicine on ti and take care of yourself.”
“Okay… okay.” Sun Yafei glanced at the phone again.
Guan Manling nudged her shoulder, speaking to her husband, “We’ve received the dicine, it’s only right that we let Yafei make a call back ho.”
“Ah, sure, sure.” The company commander touched his nose and sat down.
Sun Yafei’s family issues, although not severe, did exist, and she couldn’t be unaccompanied when making a phone call.
Sun Yafei didn’t care about these things. Her lips curled up in a smile as she hurried over and pressed the series of numbers she had morized by heart countless tis.
In her dreams, she had dialed this number many tis, but this was her first actual call, her hands trembling slightly, almost misdialing several tis.
The phone rang twice before she finally heard a “click”.
“Hello, Ten Miles Team.”
The voice on the other end of the phone was that of the Team Leader from Ten Miles Team, and Sun Yafei recognized it.
As soon as she opened her mouth, her eyes reddened, and she choked up, unable to speak.
“Hello? Hello? Who is that?”
“…”
Sun Yafei gasped for breath, trying to calm herself down to quickly respond, but she feared that Uncle Team Leader would hang up in his impatience, which only made her even more incapable of speaking.
While she was anxiously feeling a tightness in her chest, she heard Uncle Team Leader tentatively ask, “Is that… Sun Yafei?”
Tears fell, splashing on the table.
She uttered a “Mhm” and finally spoke, “Uncle Team Leader, it’s .”
“Hey, hey… what’s wrong? What happened?”
“Nothing, no… nothing happened…”
“What do you an nothing? Why would you call if there’s nothing, do you have money to burn?”
“…”
“Ay, really now… is that Yafei? It’s , Lin Nianhe.”
The phone was snatched away.
“Sister Nianhe…” Sun Yafei called out, her tears flowing more fiercely, “I’ve… I’ve received the dicine…”
“You’ve already got it? Keep two bottles for yourself, don’t give them all away, take your dicine on ti every day, it can prevent… If it’s not enough, you must tell , I’ll get more for you,” Lin Nianhe said soothingly to Sun Yafei, while at the sa ti making faces at Li Dahe, who was clearly worried yet refused to speak properly.
“Okay, okay…”
“Why are you crying? Who bullied you?”
“No, nobody…”
Sun Yafei’s tears kept dropping relentlessly, blurring her speech.
Guan Manling, observing from the side, helplessly took over the call and said, “Nianhe, this is Guan Manling. Yafei is alright, she’s just missing you all. She starts crying as soon as she’s on the call.”
“Ah… Sister Manling, huh.” Now it was Lin Nianhe’s turn to be unable to speak.
She harbored so resentnt towards Guan Manling.
Although she was in favor of freedom in love and understood the joy of Guan Manling marrying soone she loved, sending wedding candies to Sie Yufei from afar was sowhat an overstep.
Guan Manling seed unaware of Lin Nianhe’s discomfort, saying, “Let Yafei calm down before she talks to you. Nianhe, thank you for sending the dicine, it really helped us a lot. You have no idea, half of the Educated Youth in our company got night blindness, and it makes so work especially inconvenient.”
“If it was a help, that’s good. If there’s anything else you need, just let know.”
“Okay, will do… Oh, did you get the wedding candy?”
Guan Manling asked in a relaxed and natural tone.
Lin Nianhe frowned slightly and chuckled, “Received them, and even Sie Yufei ate so, but…”
“What happened?”
Lin Nianhe looked down for a mont, then said, “But Sister Manling, don’t do such things again in the future, please consider Fourth Sie’s feelings.”
“Hm?” Guan Manling paused, glanced at her husband, and said, “But… Sie Yufei wrote back to saying that I must send him wedding candy when I get married.”
“Ah?”
Lin Nianhe was astonished.
“Exactly, he replied, saying that after going to the countryside, he t a girl who shared his ideals. They quickly beca a couple and have already inford both families about settling down for marriage… Nianhe, is he lying to ?”
Lin Nianhe: “…”
A girl who shared his ideals?
There were no such young unmarried girls, but the village aunts certainly fancied him…
Sie Yufei, you really have a nerve to brag!
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